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. , A telegram from the Shanghai correspondent of the

Times published on Thursday announces that Sir Robert Bredon has resigned his membership of the Shni-wu-chu (the office of Controllers-General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs). Sir Robert Bredon, it will be remembered, was Deputy Inspector-General of the Maritime Customs, and when Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector-General, returned to England, Sir Robert Bredon acted in his place until the British Foreign Office obtained from the Chinese Government a promise that Sir Robert Bredon should not be appointed Inspector-General. But by appointing him a member of the Shui-wu-chu the Chinese Government took another step in the intrigue by which they have been apparently trying to rob the Maritime Customs Service of its independence.

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