The London "Times" of the 7th ult.
the following very able letter from its Shanghai correspondent Shanghai, 2nd July.
Iv is difficult for Europeans to form any permanently satisfactory opinion in regard to the attitude of " Young China" (or the Reform party) towards the established form of government, its influence on current events, and the real sentiments of the rulers of the country rewards the would-be reformers. So many complicated factors are met with in considering these questions, so rapid and frequent are the changes of opinion and policy on both sides, that definite con-asians are rarely justified. Most for-suers in China regard the Reform party sly as somewhat ludicrous and politically insignificant manifestation of the eternal strife between the " Have nots' and the "Haves"; they see its I representative in the somewhat unprepossessing product of missionary educational establishments, filling humble clerkships in their service pending the regeneration of the Cele: Empire, and they scorn the suggestion that any good thing come such material. Nevertheless, there is more in" Young than the Babu clerk and the ionary school student, and even these and esercie throughout the influence which is generally unappreciated by those who sce in them ofice drudges and nothing more; for hich reason certain recent manifests-Viens of the ests nice of the Reform party
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