Liverpool.
Sim,—T am commanded by Secretary Thomas to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 20th instant, regarding the prevalence of piracy im the waters adjacent to the Colony of Hongkong, and to irform you in reply that it has been arranged that when the report for which the Governor of Hongkong has been asked, is received, the whole matter—including the r2- presentations which have been made by the China Coast Officers' Guild and the Marine Engineers' Guild of China—will be considered by a committee of the representatives of the Departments of His Majesty's Government which fare concerned in the matter.
Tam, ete, Your obedient Servant, The undoubted admiration of many non-Christian Chinese for the missionary and his solf-sacrificing Inbours for the suffering poor is testified to by the tribute paid recently by Swatow Chinese to the late Dr. G. Duncan Whyte.
In recording the memorial service to Dr. Whyte at Swatow, the "Presbyterian Messenger" saysi—Of both non-Christian and Christ-fan speeches the one note was Sacrifice. "He gave himself to save others." His life effectively witnessed to this central Christian truth, and the Christian speakers wore able to ask whence his eapacity for sacrifice came, to point to hhis upbringing, and to explain how came to leave home and kindred, jand to serve in China.
An incident that struck the Chin-jose imagination, and which became emblematic in the speeches of his life's devotion, was his offering, as student of 18, to have strips of his own flesh grafted on to the head of a baby, whose life*he thus saved.
One of the non-Christian speak-lors said that the meeting marked new departure in the relations of the Church and the non-Christian community in Swatow, and one felt how deep and abiding was the influence of the life they were remembering—a life spent to the uttermost for this people, and laid down at the threshold of the land, in a last effort to reach the folk hho loved and admired.
Other speeches followed, and finally the gratitude of the sorrowing widow was voiced on her behalf.
Two Christian friends of Dr. to the "Shanghai Journal of Commerce" three Russians who were Imprisoned in the' gaol used by the Special Police Ad-_ ministration at Harbin, broke out! on July 1, killing their gaders and throwing his body over a wall. Two were recaptured, but the third made his escape, Whyte, desiring that his relatives Home should know the drift of the inscriptions, made their own in English: "Beloved Doctor! Why ihave you left us so soon?" It embraces the ery of the heart for ro-newed sight of him who has gone, and the sense of premature loss of one taken in the strength of his years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.