We sympathise with the recent article on foreign protection to the Reform party. Merchants, missionaries, and diplomats, have taught young China to seek for something better than they have had, The riperer, who was very. neatly called ithe Great? is at its head. These m seek to elevate their race, why should they be pursued by blood-hounds?
The party is no doubt largely represented in thiseity, The statesman who was the first to say to Kuang Hsii, " Look out for the old Empress," has been" retired for some years When the Empress Dowager's 60th birthday. was so magnificently celebrated, some years nae, had foreigners taken in the thought that there was still x power bel ind the throne it would have been better for their interests. ree to secure their rights, so clearly set forth a few weeks since by you Weihsien correspondent; at the same time ware regarded as woefully eastern powers, inion seems to he native atfsirs, the German are by no aqua while the fter must in turn yield the palm to the panese,
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