Inarometer wind. BEET mormeret prefer lin shade. b., bine sky: ©. clouds; f. fog misty (hazy); 0. orcreast (dull); Wunders z, calm. Fores from i to THERE has been no more hopeful proof of the poste that in not many years the world will be surprised by a regenerated China than the public meetings which have been held recently in Shanghai and their immediate consequences. The existence of bodies of reformers and of individuals not affiliated with any organised body but conscious of the necessity for and anxious to promote reform has been known now for some years. Dr. Yung Wing may be credited with being the father of reform in China, for it is the young men whom' he persuaded the Government to send abroad to be educated who there saw for themselves the necessity for reform. If the Government had treated them fairly when they returned to China, reform would not have made the progress it has dune. If, as they expected, they had been given office when they came back. they might have sunk into the official rut, and contented themselves with the loaves and fishes of mandarindom, making another example of the tendency to reversion to type. But the ignorant officials of the old school would have none of these young Chinese daws, as they regarded them, in foreign feathers. We remember not many months ago a Consular official re-
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