We are very glad to hear that Dr. Martin has been honoured by Viceroy Chang Chih-tung. He was shabbily treated here, though even his friends acknowledged that he was hardly of the age and make up to direct the Imperial University. We are a little surprised to learn from Shanghai that he has turned around to praise the Empress Dowager. Still, he is following in the footsteps of the Ministers, who have been induced to take a position which they repudiated half a year ago.
The Bureau of Mines and Railways.
The Bureau of Mines and Railways has prepared regulations for the future con-
The Chinese officials, finding the Foreign Powers have been enabled to bind China, are now adopting the measure of weakening th: influence of individual foreigners, whether educationalists, merchants, or missionaries.
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