The situation excites little me terest among the Chinere, but it vides: quite a burlesque Yor for-entertainment. And there is the added spice of a problem to be solved. Will Feng beat the record set by Tweng Kuo-fan, the famous Viceroy in Taiping days, 15 resignations? There ly ication of un answer yet: will be none until Feng consider hax liven enough epistolary sops to hix conscience, or to his m New Testament fellow 4
1 laeantinie, one cen pay the benefit to China that accruing from his active nonsae~ ceptance of hix post as Tupan of the Nortawestern Frontier, complaint is evidently a peculiar nialady that energies and does not incapacitate. If Feng docs really recover, and if perchance he ever feels fit enough to take up the duties of Tupan, little more could ye done than is being done at present. Which ix all very strange,
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