T hear that the Prince has decided to recognise the police force, bub seems in some doubt how to proceed, being overwhelmed and somewhat confused by the countless suggestions poured upon him by his friends. "He appears to hold at stated intervals a sort of levee of would-be experts, who in their own estimation are quite capable of advising him on all and every subject. One budding youth, who spent a few months in America and professes to have throughly studied municipal affairs in that country, advises police administration similar to that of New York. Doubtless this youth, while in America, proved an apt pupil of the Tammany Boss Croker, and fancies that the Tammany tactics, if transplanted to Peking, would find a congenial soil.
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