Two items in the day's new deserve to. be shown in juxtaposi-! tion, for by so doing one may! observe what appears to be almost! a hiatus in the mental processes of a certain section of Chinese The! first from a northern contemporary is as follows Spiking of the satisfaction expressed in Peking at Sir Francis Aglen's coucurrence in the issue of the new $10,000,000 loan, Dr. Wang Chung-hui politicians for the recovery of Chinese says, in spite of the clamour of the national rights from the hands of foreigners, yet in monetary questions, cextain classes of people regard a foreigner's signature as a better guarantee for payment than a Presidential Mandate!
The second appears in a Chinese paper, a translation being as follows The Commission for the Discussion of the Judiciary has decided that more officers should be added to those already serving in the Law courts, with a view to the abolition of extraterritoriality. All expenses will be paid from the Salt surplus.
Quite so, but it may be pertinent to inquire where this thrice blessed surplus would bq but for the benevolent oversight—interference, if any one likes to call it so—of the very foreign Powers whose exercise of extraterritoriality is in danger to-day? And equally, were that oversight to be withdrawn would there still be a surplus? Judging by Dr. Wang's above quoted remark, there must be a great many Chinese who think not. Presuming that they are correct, these additional officers of the courts are likely to make a thin living of it when their services are really required.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.