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(From the Anglo-American Times)

One of the show places in Peking is an Observa-
tory erected on the giant wall enclosing the Tartar
city. Tastefully mounted instruments stand there
exposed to the weather, as well as bronze globes,
on which are raised brass stars to depict the
heavens. Curious and complex as some are, ex-
quisitely finished as is the workmanship, some years
ago no magnifying glass was there in use, although
telescopes had attained a high degree of perfection
in the neighbouring island of Japan. Beneath this
Observatory stands the Han-lin College, where the
students live in long rows of low buildings enclosed
by a high wall. It now appears that the Chinese
Government are taking vigorous steps to obtain a
more perfect observatory, and a university on a
comprehensive scale, with the view of introducing
into the empire the science and inventions of the
West. An account is given in the Transactions of
the German Oriental Society, derived from the
Peking State Gazette, showing the steps taken by
the Emperor's advisers to attain these ends. When
the father of the present monarch, who is a mere
boy, fled from Peking to Jehol, on the approach of
the Allies, the man who assumed power was Prince
Rung, a member of the royal family, to whose
liberal views and statesmanlike policy the sal-
vation of the empire is mainly due. A man
of his intellectual capacity coming into official
communication with the ambassadors of the Great
Powers formed the best channel for conveying
Western knowledge into the young Emperor's
mind. Recent events have shown unmistakably the
bent of Prince Rung's policy, and its effect on the
Government of his Sovereign. Almost immediately
a Chinese embassy will arrive in England, with an
intelligent member of the American diplomatic ser-
vice at its head. This mission is doubtless some of
Prince Rung's work ; and although with a narrow-
mindedness which no education can wholly eradi-
cate, the spirit in England is to regard it with sus-
picion as a Chinese dodge, the very terms of the
treaty with the United States, which we last week
published, as those to be proposed to the Western
Powers, ought to dispel so mean and ungenerous an
interpretation. The Peking Gazette gives facts which
might correct these unworthy surmises, as they
mark a new epoch in Chinese history. It appears
that Prince Rung, who is at the head of the Foreign
Ministry, addressed a petition to the Emperor from
his Board, embodying several proposals, chief
among which were the foundation of a mathemati-
cal and astronomical college. The Emperor received
this so favourably that the plan was at once adopted,
and the buildings, including an astronomical ob-
servatory on a large scale, commenced. The
petition reached the Emperor in December, 1866,
and in the following February the Prince's memo-
rial and proposals were published in the Gazette. In
it the employment of foreign professors is insisted
on, and the reasons urged with great art, so as to
meet the turn of the Chinese mind. It is well
known that the pride of civilization has been in-
herited by China through generations, while Em-
pires have grown up, culminated, and passed out of
record. To break down a pleasing vanity trans-
mitted through countless ancestors among those
who highly venerate the opinions of their fore-
fathers could be no light task, and Prince Rung
must have had rare courage and determination thus
to face the inborn prejudice of the nation. While
adhering to his declared intention he manages to
soothe and even to administer a fillip to Chinese
pride. He asserts that instead of their being dis-
ciples of the West, it is the West that derived the
sciences of astronomy, mathematics, and many
others from China carrying them to higher perfec-
tion, and what the Chinese now desire is not only to
pull up to a level with the Western nations in the
studies they gave them, but to carry their knowledge
further. Anticipating an objection that in the
matter of steamers and machinery they might be
bought from the European makers without this
trouble and with less expense, the memorial thus
replies :—" people, in the first place, do not
know that China has to learn a great deal more
than how to make steamers and guns; and further,
even with regard to these, what they propose is a
temporary measure, whilst we propose to go to the

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foundation of the matter, and have a thing of
et ernity. We intend not merely to acquire
th,3 secret how to make these present machines,
but others, better ones of higher, more perfect
com.truction that any that now exist, or shall exist."
But the great stumbling-block evidently, was the
employment of foreign teachers in the new schools,
and the memorial is directed to refuting those who
considered it a dangerous innovation :—" There is
only nnc thing which is really disgraceful, an ,1 thAt
is ;tot learning from strangers, but bein2 bAind
other people in culture. Now, it is not only the
Western nations who vie with each other in trying
to be foremost in all sciences, but there is even
little Japan, lying in the Eastern Sea, sending men
to England to learn the literature of that country,

and to exercise themselves in mathematical com-
binations, so as to create a fleet of steamships
after the European pattern. Verily, the fruits of the
movement will soon be apparent. Let China look
to her own, and leave such retrograde people who
object to innovations and expect everything to
come by itself to their own sloth and indolence, but
not drag the country with them into their disgrace-
ful state. One more objection we must meet—viz.,
that of its not being seemly for a learned man to
apply himself to practical manufacturing and build-
ing, and plying instruments of architecture, &c.
Now in the chapter Kackung of the Chou-li, which
is the third sub-division of the classical work Li-
Chi,' this will find its full refutation, for this
chapter treats exclusively of workers in wood and
of wheel-wrights. Let the scholars be the pos-
sessors of the theories, and may the common
mechanics work out their ideas. There is no
difficulty about that. Every learning must have
some practical bearing if it would be useful."
The memorial contains the following six proposals,
each accompanied with an elaborate argument to
show its advisability:—" 1. Only such graduates and
employes are to be admitted to academical classes
who, by a previous examination, have shown them-
selves sufficiently advanced to profit by the instruc-
tion. 2. The candidates shall live in the university
itself, so that they shall not only have the advan-
tage of being constantly within easy reach of their
masters during their private studies, but also in
order that they themselves may yield less to the
temptation of neglecting their work. For this pur-
pose also their absences shall be strictly noted down.
3. Every month there shall be an examination
on some one special subject, by way of testing
the proficiencies of the single students, so that pro-
per distinctions and encouragements may be
conferred. These examinations shall take place
in the presence of the Prince himself. 4.
Every three years there will be a great general
examination. The successful candidates shall be
recommended to the Throne, and shall at once be
suitably employed in the lower grades of the State
service. The unsuccessful ones shall continue their
studies till the next examination. 5. The students
shall be properly remunerated in order that they
may apply themselves to their work with undivided
attention. Apart from the free living it is pro-
posed to give them ten taels monthly in order that
they might not have to indulge in melancholy
reflections.' Generosity is above all things the
fittest stimulus for those who apply themselves to
science and learning. 6. The progress made by the
students is to be properly and liberally acknowledged
and-rewarded, not merely in token of satisfaction
with their labours, but also as an encouragement for
those within and without who might not otherwise
use all their energies for the purposes of study, since
it is in the interest of the State and the commonweal
to fire the ambition of study in every possible way."
This document was followed by another two months
later, as it appeared in the Peking Gazette, April
24, 1867, in reply to a counter-petition by Wo-Jen,
principal member of the Imperial Council, who
headed the opposition, and who had set forth the
arguments against the employment of foreigners
and the other designs of the innovators. 'He
considered that in their great empire there
were a sufficient number of able men proficient
in mathematics, astronomy, and the other sciences
to select as teachers, adding, " You need only
to look for them." The skill with which
Prince Kung is playing his cards can be seen in the
way he met this opposition. Taking Councillor
Wo at his word, an Imperial decree instantly
charged him to look for them himself, and
he was commissioned to form a rival institu-
tion 'to try the competitive system. The effect
was immediate; for in two days the Gazette
published an official communication :—" That
whereas
.Wo-Jon had been charged with point-
ing out men of proficiency, of whom be said
there existed ample numbers in the empire, the
same had now sent in an immediate report, stating
that he had not had any special men in his eye,
and that he would never dare to propose this one
or that one at haphazard—the said Wo shall not
for all that be freed from the obligation he has thus
undertaken. He shall go on seeking for such indi-
viduals, and shall bring them under official notice,
in order that they may receive their further
education in the institution he will found in
friendly rivalry to that of Prince Kung." And
Wo was promoted to a seat in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. Several known European pro-
fessors have been invited to some of the new chairs,
and members of the learned professions have arrived
at their destinations. Two years are allowed for
mastering the Chinese language. It is not easy
for Western nations fully to appreciate the re-
form Prince Kung is working. It will be in-
ternal far more than external, although the
latter reform is in truth prodigious. China
is so enormous in population that whatever
really affects the Empire has an importance great
in proportion. The system of appointments in
China has long been by competitive examination,
and it is but reasonable to suppose that the men
educated in the new• University will reach the
highest dignities, and the Government virtually
pass into their hands. This is clearly what Prince
Kung aims at, and if he succeeds he will in a few
years placearound the Emperor men skilled in West-
ern science, with a knowledge of political economy,
and the rules upon which good government is based.
Although the Chinese repel barbarian innovation,
they are highly imitative, and will speedily adopt
the new system when it is made to flow from
their own fountain of honour and promotion. In
this university we' see one of the wisest and boldest
steps ever taken, and destined, we doubt not, to
produce an effect in the highest degree important.

A new line of steamers between Bremen and
New Orleans will be opened on the Ist of October.
THE BROKEN ATLANTIC CABLE.—On Monday
night Mr. Willoughby Smith, the eminent electrician, left
for Valentia, County Kerry, in pursuance of instructions
from the joint committee of the Atlantic and Anglo-Ame-
rican Telegraph Companies. He was followed on Tues-
day morning by Mr. Latimer Clark, who will verify his
tests, which at present show that the fault lies at about
eighty miles from Newfoundland, in water not exceeding,
if it reaches, 100 fathoms in depth, and that the interrup-
tion of communication is so complete as to put it almost
beyond doubt that the injury has been caused by the
grounding of an iceberg. Communication will,- it is ex-
pected, be restored in less than a month ; but meanwhile
the other cable is fully equll to the work required of it.
Talking of the cable, it is stated that fully eighty per cent.
of the receipts come from the American side. The sums
paid for messages by the Atlantic Cable by the English
press for a year, amounted to a total of £1,400, against
exactly as many thousands paid by the American news-

papers.
The newspapers have been lately teeming with refer-
ences to economy in tea by co-operation. Horniman and
Co. have for 30 years co• operated through Agents to
supply tea on more advantageous terms than by the ordinary
channel; their tea reaches the consumer in the same pure
state as it leaves the grower; as it is secured in packets.
Williams College, Massachusetts, is to have au
art, gallery, with two largo halls for the open literary
societies, to be erected west of the gymnasium ; and the
frame building now on that site is to be removed and
converted into a college boarding house on the commons
Mtera.

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