No little sensation has been caused by the extraordinary article on China and the Boxers" which has just been published in the Fortnightly. 'The Re Now itself is not ye' in the hands of the general public, but advance copies have been revived at the newspaper offices, and summaries and criticisms of the article appear in some of this morning's papers. t Hart, it appears, regards the a Spurely patriotic volt movement" desizued to strength-China and to uphold Chinese G He believes that the more went will go on growing, thst the Boxers of the futare will possess the bist weapons that money can buy, and in fifty yours' time there will be millions of drilled and armed Boxers at the orders of the Chinese Government who will "imperil the wont's future." tion, ora miraculous spread of Christi might avert this result; but these measures being impracticable, he has come to the conctus that the only way of controlling the movement is to condone the lawlessness of the present rising an support the Manchu dynasty. So far Sir Robert's article seems to have produced wonder rather than conviction. The remarks that it had long been had cist its spell ov sympathies to an uncommon extent, but the present article will startle most people as to the length to which thab proce-s may be carried.
Known before, tore is little doubt that improvements will be effected. The elections are for the must part being run on party lines. The parties most of the boroughs evil themselves "Progressives" and "Moderates," on the County Council and School Board; but the "Progressive" is nearly ways a Liberal and the ' Moderate" a Conservative, Sriilit isa remarkable fact that London, which is intensely Conserv tive and Unionist in i's Imperial polities, is decidedly" Progressive" in muniepal its. Bach on the London County Council and the School Board there isa large Progressive Majority, and ever since the Comnry Council was' croated by a Conser-Government t Moderates " have yet succeeded in yelting the upper hand, though one election resulted in what was practicn'iy a tis, How the pretios will get on at the borough elections we shall not know fur another week, Thes contests witl be followed at brief intervals by ths Schoo! Board and County Council elections, s" we shall have a surfeit of elec pioneering.
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