AMONG the terms of peace and of; reparation for the outrages committed in China last year is the suspension of the examinations for degrees for five years in all places where injury was 3 done to foreigners. This is intended as a punishment that will come home to the literati and gentry from whose ranks most of the candidates for degrees are recruited. That it wil have this effect is proved by the fa that the reactionaries still with the Court at Hsianfu whose names have been omitted from the b'ack lists drawn up by the Allies are endeavour-to nul it—supported, we believe, by Director-General Shéng's organ, the "Sinwenpao"—by suspending the examinations all over the giaua found that ihe thieves had put Empire for five years. When Mor-
a mark on her master Ah Baba's door so that they might readily identify it when they came to attack it, she frustrated their plan by putting a similar mark on all the doors in the neighbourhood; and this example the renetionaries propose to imitate; the plea being that this delay will give time for a new scheme of examinations suitable to the altered circumstances of the time to be drawn up. But who is to teil which was a guilty town or city if all the towns and cities in the Empire are treated in the same way letter to the London "Times" last autumn, the well-known old China hand who signs himself" LIK." advocated the transfer of the m-: tropolitan examinations from Peking to Nanking as a measure of reparation calculated to make ® lasting impression on the literati, Considering the outrages perpetrated in Peking last year, it must be presumed that the examinations at the capital for the degree of LED. (chang yuan) are to be suspended for five years [0 his recent book on the necessity for reform in China, H.E. Chang Chih-tung sagely ascribes the differences between Chinese and foreigners to ignorance and he is unquestionnb y right, for ignorance is also the source of misnn-{ders: andings between nations outside China, It is by no means nnreasonable to hold that it wou'd have produced a more lasting effect on the Chine-e, if the metropolitan examina
had been transferred to Nanking, instead of being suspended, Veking is the anti-foreign centre and Wil remain so unless and until a great change comes over the Government and it wu not come 30 quickly as we once hoped, owing to so many' of the worst reactionaries having been spare by the Aties. At Nanking the iverati woud have been brought into near relations with the grees foreiga centre, Shanghai, and they would almost have imbibed Western ideas with the air of the Examin Mat.
Tels o be feared thas the p cuniary reparation which the Powers have determined on exacting wil no make much impression on the anti-tr gen literati un ess they are persona ly mote to fee and und that 1. is a punishment for ast year's outrage s.
indemnity hus been exne od at never be knowe ww a large portion of the influential icerary cass, nor will they fee the pinch of taxation for war as the unhappy taxpayers do in the West; fur the money
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