BROKEN CHINA.
It is curious to observe the attitude of Western Powers towards the life-and-death struggle going on in the far East. We of course regret the loss of life, but are mainly interested in observing the effect in actual work of ships and guns identical with our own. It is a sort of gigantic test got up for our benefit at somebody else's expense. That an ancient empire seems tottering to a fall moves no emotion. "Yes," said the Member for Sark, to whom these recondite remarks were addressed; "Pope wasn't far out of it when he very nearly said 'Europe is mistress of herself though China fall.'"