The native Press here has kept its readers well in touch with the movements of the four delegates who have been selecte to travel abroad in search of light and knowledge. Probably in Shanghai you are more conversant the doings of the offici-is xt. the ex pital than we are here, but it is " hopeful sign that, even here, intelligent revelers om be-some acquainted with facts which aforetime were hidden from their eyes. Reports tell us that those selecter mandarins huve been busy paying visits to the foreign plenipotentiaries, who have returned these calle, and at the came time have furnished the travellers with letters of introduction to the various Courts whither they are bound. In the party, which it is said will comprise not Jess than fifty persons, will be some representative army officers of high rank, and others who dream of a future navy for Chine. On the whole a eral preparation has been made, and if the embassage does not profit by the experiences through which they will pass, and by means of the new knowledge which they will gain, it will be their own fants. 1t will be iweresting to watch their movements; mor still if we could read their reports their diaries; most interesting of all to trace the practical results.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.