Ir there were any who doubted of the success of yesterday's meeting, their misgivings must have been wholly dispelled by the result. No so great and ° representative an assembly has ever met before in Shanghai; the speeches were of the highest order, in every way worthy of the occasion; and if we may say so, it would be impossible to have a meeting more admirably managed than as it was done by Sir Skinner Turner. Further than this, not only in the speeches but somehow in the whole temper and feeling of the meeting, there was an evident desire that it should prove helpful in the rebuilding of China. We are justly angered by the.outrage of Lincheng and the long series of misdoings that preceded and made it possible. But of that anger has been born a fine wish that somehow this disgraceful thing should be made a turning-point in China's history. For this reason the letter from our Chinese fellow residents, read by the chairman at the close of the proceedings, was specially welcome. For, in the long run, it is the Chinese and nobody else that must rebuild their country and the evidence afforded by this letter that they burn under an intolerable sense of wrong and are determined to right it, is of the best augury. We believe that the Chinese are ready for the foreigner's help and there are many reasons for believing that without it they cannot bring order out of the tremendous chaos in which all their institutions have collapsed. The difficulty has been that, although this belief is as common to the Chinese as to foreigners, no just opportunity has yet appeared for offering help. It has come at last in the Lincheng affair, and if advantage can be taken of it, yesterday's meeting will have been no small factor in that great consummation.
A Reuter telegram from' London says that the late Mr. R. E. Belilies of Hongkong left £51,834.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.