A CORRECTION.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Permit me to remark that you are mistaken in identi- fying General Tao, the present opponent of Field-Marshal Count Yamagebta, with the Marquis Tao, generally known as Tso Teung-Vang, the conquerer of Ya,koob Beg. The latter of the two died many years ago at an advanced age. That the capture of Moukden would shake the dynasty, and that of Pekin destroy it, is eminently likely, considering the -centres of sedition, in the form of secret societies, with which the Chinese Empire is honeycombed. At the same time, we must remember that Pekin has been sacked and looted by foreign armies within the last half-century, when the Emperor fied ignominiously to Jeht) ; and if the Tsings survived one such terrible humiliation, it is at least possible that they might outlive a second. It would be a strange and wonderful thing were it ever the lot of Japan, acting with the five great Powers of Europe, to place a pure-blood Chinese sovereign upon the throne of China.—I am, Sir, &c.,
FREDERIC H. BALFOUR.
Grosvenor Club, Bond Street, W., September 24.
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