From a Correspondent, Robbers there are, robbers there have been, and robbers there. will always be until China is ''born again." The revolution brought a new order of things: but revolution is not regeneration, and under the new order of things the old persists. That is persists in some; ways is not always a matter for regret; for, whatever the revolution has brought in its train, it has not brought in the new heaven and the new earth. There are times when one Iaments the passing of the old Manchu days, not because the Manchu rule was otherwise than puerile and corrupt, but because it was effective. The Manchu system was the sport of nations. A mere globe trotter could drill holes through its frame wi A joke was enough to lay bare its pretensions. To the Chinese it was the imposition of a foreign yoke.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.