SUBVERSION. OF THE EMPRESS-DOWAGER.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Suz,-zIt should be borne in mind that the watchwords of principles of the " Boxers " were twofold,—(1) the subversion of the Manchudynasty ; (2) the expuisien of foreigners from China, &c. The Chinese Government adroitly seized upon the second of these; and worked it through the " Boxers 7 to the exclusion of the first. But the time will come for the first to be brought to thefront, especially if an attempt is Made to exterminate the ," Boxers:" In the private letters from my brother, Bishop Scott, who has been in China over twenty-five years, and nearly twenty years in Pekin. occur such passages as:" We have all been waiting for this [crisis] for at least a year pest." " It; is the sort of crash which seemed inevitable." "If the foreign authorities could have been brought -to believe all that they were- plainly told, the present stale of things would, have been prevented, but those whose foresight had prevented it would have: bean denounced as panic-mongers without doubt."---I am, Sir, &c.,
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