It is interesting to note that one of the last acts of Li Hung-chang has been to write an introduction to Dr Martin's latest trans. lation of International Law.
6th November.
Death of Li Hung-chang.
prophesied yesterday, the Great Grand Secretary anil, for many years, practically Prime Minister of China, Li Hung-chang, has passed away. He died about eleven o'clock this morning. He was unconscious since Tueslay night. Foreigners and Chinese alike express their feeling of loss. Who is there to take his place? He was a unique personage. There is no one who can be, ode, like him. We learn that one thing which hastened his end was the information that the different Viceroys and Governors were intending to make valuable presents to the Empress Dowager on her birthday. Having failed to do this himself, he began to worry and became for a while delirious.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.