To the Editor of the month-CHINA Day Nuss."
Sin—This letter is not intended to reopen the discussion on the sub-Ject, but to place before your read~ fers the best definition of the word Extraterritoriality the writer has come cross and which he unexpectedly discovered in a little volume published in Shanghai 10 by A, P, Hill—"Broken being a vocabulary of Pidgin English:
"Eztratervitoriality, oF Exterritoriality.— accurate and terse definition should once for all dispose of the myth assiduously disseminated by certain section of the Chinese that That Committee accordingly con vened a testing of representative Scotemen, which was held in Edinburgh on June 25 last, under the presidency of The Hight Hon. Thomas B. Whitson, Lord Provost of The City of Edinburgh. On the motion of Lord Elgin, seconded by Sir Tain Colquhoun, Bart, it. was unanimously resolved that steps be taken to acquire the Battlefield as} Scottish National Memorial. Na-and Executive Committees wore appointed to prepare a scheme {and issue an appeal for the neces: sary funds, and a list of the members of these Committees is annexed hereto.
The Committees have now.set tol work, and have secured options to purchase a considerable ares, form {ng the essential parts of the traditional Battlefield." To carry out the purchase and to lay out and main-{ain a suitable portion of the ground at Toast foreigners under the exercise of Jurisdiction "enjoy special privilege
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.