sense as citizens, and we wish to be considered as law-abiding. We do not wish to unnecessarily stir up

strife, but do everything we can to avoid it. Let all then pray heartily for the success of the Petition.

-Rev. J. Macintyre writes :My wife and I are here in Moukden with our two little girls, as I have a course of lectures to deliver to the students. It may interest friends of the cause to hear that we are apparently living in peaceful times and are having the good will of the authorities. The officials have indeed given us "face" in every way in their power. In all my time in China I have not seen a clearer token of their desire to stand well with us than that just given in recalling from the seat of war "I" ta-jên and some of his underlings for punishment.

-Rev. D. McGillivray, writing from Chang-tê Fu, Aug. 10th, 1894, says:-The Canadian Presbyterians in North Honan, not satisfied with a station in one of the eastern

districts of Chang-tê Fu (#), viz., Ch'u-wang (E), have recently acquired a 50 years' lease of a large property within half a li of the North Gate of the Fu itself. No opposition from any quarter whatever was offered, though it is now four months since the lease was signed, and they are now in possession. This is no doubt due to these brethren seizing the opportune moment when the Hsien and Fu magistrates had both issued proclamations in the city exceedingly favorable to the preaching of Christianity. The Divine leading was most apparent, because the proclamations were not only unexpected but even unasked by the mission,

Mr. O'Connor, H. B. M.'s Minister, Peking, had got wind of some placards in Honan about the time the Sung-pu refugees were in Peking, and with praiseworthy energy put the machinery in motion with the above gratifying result. Changtê Fu is believed to be the first Fu city in the province captured for the "Religion of Jesus." "I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it."

Whitehouse,

-Mr. S. Frank writing from Chinkiang, 22nd Sept., 1894, says: Your readers will rejoice with us in the goodness of God as recently shown at the distribution to the students at the

Nanking Triennial Examination. There are one or two points that seem to me to call for special praise.

The first feature of this whole thing, for which we are most grateful, is its unity. 4100 New Testaments, over 40,600 portions and more than 15,000 tracts formed the grant of the three Bible Societies at work in China, with a private grant from a second tract society. A committee of missionaries worked together with the representatives of two of the Bible Societies and natives from all churches combined. These 60,000 publications were put up in over 10,000 packages, each packet having on the outside a red band with printed congratulations.

The second feature for which we are very thankful was that God ever made it possible at all. The war-feuds between soldiers and

students and

between different

battalions of soldiers-the absence of many foreigners giving rise to rumours of our having run awayofficial opposition and other matters all combined to make this a very exceptionally hard time. By what seems to us simply a miracle God at the very last inclined the hearts of the officials to not only promise countenance but really to help us, putting us right up at the great doors and providing table and bench.

A third feature which greatly cheered us, and whch speaks well for the future of Chinese Christianity, was the noble help rendered by the native brethren. Helpers came

forward in greater number than we could use, from school boys of 14 up to a venerable white-haired brother of 65, and they stood by us right through the night and all the following day, often repulsed and sometimes beaten by the soldiers, but never giving in. God bless these dear volunteers and the work they and we did.

So now some ten thousand packages full of Scripture and Christian truth are on their way to many parts of several provinces and in the hands of the educational élite. What may we not hope from this wide and wise seed-sowing? Praise with us, pray with us.

September, 1894.

1st. A meeting of missionaries of all denominations, who are United States citizens, or who belong to missionary societies of the United States, held at Union Church, Shanghai, to take action with regard to petitioning the United States government to define more clearly the right of missionaries to reside in the interior, and to secure full protection from the Chinese government for all missionaries.

-Telegraphic information from Hongkong that four hundred flower-boats were burnt, and five hundred lives and three hundred thousand dollars lost in a fire at Canton on Friday morning.

-The Chinese at Ningpo are so afraid that the Japanese will pay a hostile visit to their city that in addition to the forts and torpedoes they are still further strengthening the entrance to the river, by driving down piles in clusters of five where there is a depth of 13 feet at low water. Between the piles there is sufficient room for junks to pass through, but these spaces can be closed at short notice, two old lorchas loaded with stones being in readiness to be

sunk in the apertures should the Japan. ese appear.

3rd.-Beginning of the winter session of St. John's College, Jessfield. The new building is now completed and ready for occupation. About one hundred students have been admitted.

6th.-Final meeting of American missionaries in Union Church to accept the revised petition to the United States government, asking for an additional clause being added to the Treaty with China to define the right of the mission. aries to reside in the interior. A committee of five resident missionaries was elected to get the petition put through, namely Revs. G. F. Fitch, E. H. Thomson, W. P. Bentley, E. F. Tatum and Y. J. Allen, D.D.

10th.--A London telegram referring to Russian trade in Central Asia says: "The Russian Custom Houses in Central Asia are to be opened on Thursday, the 13th inst."; also with reference to the Trans-Siberian railway that "the OmskUral Railway has been opened for general traffic. The work on the central section of the Siberian railway is progressing rapidly."

16th. The telegrams reporting the battle at Ping-yang are very contradictory, but a despatch from Kobe, 18th September, seems reliable :

"Huang-ju fell on the 10th instant. Ping-yang was invested at dawn on the 15th, and fell after several hours' fighting on the 16th. The city was occupied on the 17th. The Chinese troops were totally defeated.

The western column under General Oshima from Chung-hoa, and the eastern column under Major-General Tachimi from San-têng, converged on Ping-yang on the 15th. General Nodzu wiring from Chung-hon on the 16th confirms the report of a complete victory. The column from Yuen-san under Colonel Sato le ft Yang-têk on the 5th with orders to make its stand at Shun-an on the 15th. The estimated loss to the Chinese is 6,600. Large quantities of arms and cereals fell into the hands of the Japanese. Isolated bands of Chinese escaped northward."

17th. The following despatch from Kobe, 20th September, gives particulars of the naval engagement near the Ya-loo River:

"A great battle has taken place, in which the Japanese fleet is reported as victorious, off Ha -yuen-tao, Thornton

Haven, on the 17th of September. The fleets sighted each other at 11.45 a.m. The Chinese commenced the action at a quarter past twelve. The Chinese fleet comprised the Chenyuen, Tingyuen, Chingyuen, Chihyuen, Laiyuen, Kingyuen, Weiyuen, Yangwei, Chaoyung, Kuangchia, Kuanghai, Pingyuen, and six torpedo vessels, against eleven Japanese. The Chihyuen and another were sunk. The Chaoyung and Yangwei were run ashore. Three Japanese were destroyed. The Saikio Maru and Hiyei Kan had a very narrow escape. The Matsushima was seriously damaged and put back for repairs, Fire broke out on board the Hiyei Kan, and she had to be withdrawn. The fire was extinguished by means of her own pumps; several lives being lost. Very little satisfaction is to be obtained from the fficial de. spatches, which are palpably incomplete."

According to a Japanese official despa'ch the Chinese fleet at the battle which took place at the mouth of the Ya-loo River consisted of eleven men-of-war and six torpede-boats, of which four men-of-war were sunk and one burned. The Japanese deny having lost any ships, but they admit that their loss was heavy, and claim the v.cto.y.

AT Kobe, Japan, on the 31st Aug., JANE, the beloved wife of the Rev. J. E. Cardwell, aged 57 years.

AT Chefoo, on the 31st August, Mr. THOMAS EYRES, of the C. I. M. AT Double Island, Swatow, on the 12th Sept., the Rev. W. H. BRADT, of the American Baptist Mission. AT Huchow, Chekiang Province, on the 18th Sept., STEPHEN EDWIN, the son of Rev. and Mrs. E. N. Fletcher, of the American Baptist Missionary Union.

AT Hankow, on the 22nd Sept., Mr. P. E. HOLMAN, of the C. I. M.

ARRIVALS.

AT Shanghai, September 16th, 1894, per Empress of Japan, Rev. JOHN MATEER and wife, of the A. B. C. F. M., returning to Peking; Mrs. L. J. WHITING and family, of the Am. Pres. M., returning to Peking; Rev. W. F. WALKER, D.D., wife and family, of the Meth. Ep. Mission, returning to Tientsin; Rev. J. A. INGLE and wife, of the Am. Prot. Ep. Mission, returning to Hankow; Rev. J. W. LowRIE, Mrs. A. P. LOWRIE, Rev. J. A. MILLER and wife, of the Am. Pres. Mission, all returning to Pao-ting-fu ; Rev. W. M. HAYES and family, of the Am. Pres. Mission, returning to Tungchow; Mr. DODD, M.D., wife and child and Miss L. N. DURYEE, of the Dutch Reformed Mission, for Amoy; W. L. HALE, M.D., wife and family, of the A. B. C. F. M., for Shansi; F. A.

WAPLES, M.D., wife and child, of the A. B. C. F. M., for Kalgan; Miss S. F. HINMAN, of the A. B. C. F. M., for Peking; Miss CRUMMER and Miss WARD, of the Am. Prot. Ep., the latter for Wuchang; Rev. E. B. KENNEDY, of the Am. Pres. Mission, for Ningpo; also Rev. J. P. and Mrs. IRWIN, of the same Mission, for Tungchow; A. L. GREIG, of the National Bible Society of Scotland, for Tientsin.

DEPARTURES.

Sept. 8th, per Empress of India, Mis E. E. MITCHELL, of the Meth. Ep. Mission, Nanking, for Chicago; Mrs. J. WALLEY, of the Meth. Episcopal Mission, Wuhu, for Liverpool, Eng. ; Revs. R. A. HADEN and W. B. WHITE, of the South Pres. Mission, for California.

FROM Shanghai, on Sept. 13th, Misses M. FORTH and A. MICHELSON, of the C. I. M., for England.

VISITORS.

Bishop GALLOWAY, of the Meth. Ep. South; Rev. S. BARING-GOULD, C. M. S. Foreign Secretary, visiting Japan and China; Pastor OTTO STOCK MAYER and wife, of Hauptville, Switzerland, and Mrs. M. BAXTER and Miss C. C. MURRAY, of Bethshan, London, were guests at the C. I. M. The last two visited Hankow, Chinkiang and Yang-chow. They left for Hongkong and Ceylon on their way home.