20th July.
Tue report of the sixth annual dinner of the A. A. A, at which ILI. Prince Pa Lun was the guest of honour, naturally fills "a large space in the June issue of this always readable monthly... Mr. Foord speaks very highly in his "Current Comment" of the young Prince. He spent six days in New York ani he seems in that time to have been taken everywhere and seen everything. "In -New. York" says Mr. Foot, "as in other parts of the country which he has visited, the manners and. deniéanour of the Prince won. him golden - opinions. His exquisite tack was as generally recognised as his intelligent curiosity and inexhaustible good-nature. 'The Prince unquestionably. succeeded impressing. on' the minds..of., those yyho met him a new respect for the capacity of the younger members of] the governing dus of China, and in encouraging the hops that the future destinies of the Empire might be controlled: by such principles and guided by such practice as he had so ably expounded." Sir Liang Cheng, the Chinese Minister to the U.S, comes. in for his full share of praise. and is duly commended for the resourcefulness and tact he is display~ ing in his efforts to arrange a new treaty of immigration which, shall avert some of the soreness caused by the present exclusion policy of the States; while the only bios on the Prince's visit to New~ York was the conspicuous discourtesy of the mayor, Mr. McClellan, who was hopelessly perverted by the diligent pursuit of pany politics as to fear the criticism which might be evoked in certain quarters by "his paying the proper meed of respect due to a royal visitor, b.cwse he happened to be a Chinaman." Mr. Foord notices that the feeling is grow: ngin the country that the U.S. must be prepared iw sp ak with authority when the time comes fur permanently se tling the Far Eastern question, It is becoming universally recognised that the U.S. hus every: thing to gain- by the supremacy of japanese influence in East Asia.
As compared with' the influence of Rassia, it means the substitution of economic light for darkness; of administrative capacity for imbecility; of official hone-ty for systematic corruption."
The following' comprrat've table shows the value in gold dollars of the ox porte of the principal staples, from the U.S. to China and Hongkong during the ten months ending, on the 30th of April, 1903 an 1904
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.