YEWS OF THE WEEK. .
THE abdication of the throne of China by the Manchu dynasty, which, when we wrote last Friday, was hourly expected, has not taken place. At the last moment evil influences, from the same quarter which made the late Empress Dowager side with the Boxers, persuaded the Empress Dowager to abandon the promise, or virtual promise, of immediate abdi- cation. A telegram from Peking in Friday's Times states that an Imperial edict issued on Thursday gives effect to a decision come to by the Manchu princes and the Empress Dowager on Monday, when they agreed not to abdicate at once, but to await the decision of the National Convention, as provided by the edict of December 28th, for determining the future govern- ment of China. The Times correspondent adds that, though one month has thus been lost, "presumably every effort will be made to hasten the convocation by adjusting the differences regarding the constitution of the Convention and the place and time of its meeting."
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