a th June.
TuE reproach conveyed in a letter from 'A simple meriaher of the China ial to which we gladly ive publicity in our to-day's issue, is, we think, unmerited. Such ssu, portas the Press can give, we have ever afforded; if we have not writly of the proceed as we have of th that to us the London Association appeared leas in evidence and we heard less of its work, esp: cially since the time when the President, Mr. Gundry, laid. down the office of Honorary Secrery. The expressed dissatisfaction of the Shanghai Association with the apparent dilatoriness of their London colleagues, likewise tended to lessen interest in the proceedings of the Association and even led a fow extreme pessimists to withdraw from membership altogether. Kightly considered, however, it is precise-it ly this expressed dissatisfaction with London that should shew its China members ti the Associa-i li there" and that the h-dog is awake: for it is obvior that the members resident in China feel where the shoe pinches more acutely than do old China residents at home, who dwell more or less apart from the scene of conflict, being necessarily more absorbed in home affairs, and so require the waking up that the China Aesocintion exists to bring about.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.