La foreign circles hero the latest news from Peking anent the forming Chinese cabinet is regarded as the gravest step that has been taken since the Revolatioa began. Koowing the temper of these poole as we do, we feel that the vigorous carrying out of the government policy to the capture of Wachang wil 2 months of warfare and upheaval in these sonthert provinces, The quarrel is not the academic one to which, la our school-boy days we were all used, of " Monarchy tereus Repablic." What these folks mean to end is the Mancha court and all for which it stands. It is not at all impossible th yearchical form of government may finally be adopted, but never a bolstered-up cha. dynasty. Rightly or wrongly, they are one and p" all persuaded that the Manches have betrayed their country and oppressed their people and the Mancha dyassty must go.
From the northern ranks desertions, afew each day, continue to go on. Many of the troops when they reali fight, thong! a ndonbtedly the mass of stomach for
tees welldieciplioed troops will ontinue to obey orders.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.