A WRITER in Harper's Weekly is impressed by the unmistakable signs of a great awakening in China, as evidence of which he cites the following:— One of these signs is the re-purchase from American citizens of the franchise for building a railway from Canton to Hankow. Another is the fact that of late scores of thousands of Chinese soldiers have been organized, trained, and officered by Chinese educated in Japan or by Japanese officers. Now an edict has gone forth from Peking that an army of forty thousand men, similarly disciplined and equipped, shall be raised in each of more than twenty provinces. Five years ago there was not a single Chinese studying in Japan. Now there are upward of a thousand Chinese young men of the higher or governing class attending military or naval schools or other educational institutions in the island empire. Almost all the British, French, and German military instructors were dismissed five years ago. There is also reason to expect that, backed by the moral influence, if not also by the material power, of Japan, the Peking government will speedily insist on the withdrawal of the foreign intruders from her soil. The Orient is darkened by the shadows of mighty coming events.