THE PEKING LEGATIONS 5 offended public feeling by deserting Chinese for foreign oults,next they irritated their fellow- villagers by refusing,as Christians,to take part in or share the expenses of village festivals, and lastly,as Christians again,they shocked the official mind,and popular opinion also,by getting their religious teachers,more especially the Roman Catholics,to interfere on their behalf in litigation.This state of affairs became specially talked about in Shantung,the native province of the Confucius of over two thousand years ago and now the sphere of influence of one of the Church's most energetic bishops.The arrangement by which missionaries were to ride in green chairs and be recognized as the equals of Governors and Viceroys had its special signification and underlined mis- sionary aspiration,telling people and officials in every province what they had to expect from it.On the top of this came the Kiao Chow affair and the degradation and cashiering of a really able,popular,and clean-handed official,the Governor Li Ping Heng,suoceeded by the cessions of territory at Port Arthur, Wei-Hai-Wei,Kwang Chow Wan,eto.,eto., ete.,and these doings,followed by the successful stand made against the Italian demand for a port on the Coast of Chekiang,helped to force the Chinese Government to see that concession had gone far enough and that opposition toTHE PEKING LEGATIONS 5 offended publio feeling by, deserting Chinese for foreign oults, next they irritated their fellowe villagers by remsing, as Christians, to take part in or share the expenses of village festivaJs, and lastly, as Christians again, they shooked the official mind, and popular opinion also, by getting their religious teachers, more especially the Roman Catholics, to interfere on their " behalf in litigation. This state of affairs became specially talked about in Shantung, the native province of the Confuoius of over two thousand years ago and now the sphere of influenoe of one of the Churoh's most energetic bishops. The arrangement by which missionaries were to ride in green ohairs and be recognized as the equals of Governors and Viceroys had its speoial signification and underlined mis￾sionary aspiration, telling people and offioials in every province what they had to expect from it. On the top of this came the Kiao Chow affair and the degradation and cashiering of a rea.lly able, popular, and olean-handed official, the Governor Li Ping Heng, succeeded by the oessions of territory at Port Arthur, Wei-Ha.i-Wei, Kwang Chow Wan, etc., eto., etc., and these doings, followed by the suocessful stand made against the Italian demand for a port on the Coast of Chekiang, helped to foroe the Chinese Government to see that oonoession had gone far enough and that opposition to