The State Council in China has legislated for the creation
of a special body to decide a few weeks hence the question of monarchy or republic. The two thousand nominated persons will telegraph their votes from various centres. The Peking correspondent of the Times says in Monday's paper that, as all the nominated voters are tumbling over one another to earn the favour of officialdom at Peking, the voting is certain to be agreeable to officialdom. Officialdom, however, is all conests trated in the person of Yuan Shih-kai. Yuan disc .s deprecates the movement, but has, nevertheless, given esss kind of authority to the Act. From all of which we may dists our own conclusions, and we must not be surprised ifY111.1, before long should become the Son of Heaven and be seen sacrificing at the tombs of his Imperial adopted ancestors.
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