31 MAY 1902, Page 3

The Roman correspondent of the Daily Mail sends to the

Thursday iss,,e of that journal a very striking item of news. It appears that Mgr. Passerini, Vicar-Apostolic of Southern Shen-si, who has arrived in Rome after thirteen years' absence in China, entertains the most pessimistic views on the situation in China. " He anticipates a vast anti-European rising, all the more terrible because it is being patiently and systemati- cally prepared." There may be a little Southern exaggeration in the view, but we confess that nothing sounds more probable, or agrees more closely with observed facts in regard to China, than this silent but ceaseless working for a new movement, this time to be final, against the "foreign devils."