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CHINA. 



Chinese languages expressing the regrets of the 

 Emperor of China for the murder. 



" II. () The severest punishment for the persons 

 designated in the imperial decree of Sept. 25, 1900, 

 and for those whom the representatives of the 

 powers shall subsequently designate, (ft) The sus- 

 pension for five years of all official examinations 

 in all tlie cities where foreigners have been massa- 

 cred or have been subjected to cruel treatment. 



" III. Honorable reparation to be made by the 

 Chinese Government to the Japanese Government 

 fur the murder of Mr. Sujyama. 



" IV. An expiatory monument to be erected by 

 the Imperial Chinese Government in every foreign 

 or international cemetery which has been dese- 

 crated or in which the graves have been destroyed. 

 \ . The maintenance, under conditions to be 

 determined by the powers, of the interdiction 

 against the importation of arms as well as of ma- 

 terials employed exclusively for the manufacture 

 of arms and ammunition. 



" VI. K(|iiitable indemnities for the governments, 

 societies, companies, and individuals, as well as for 

 Chinc-e who during the late occurrences have 

 sii tiered in person or in property in consequence 

 of their being in the service of foreigners. China 

 to adopt financial measures acceptable to the 

 jM>wers for the purpose of guaranteeing the pay- 

 ment of said indemnities and the interest and 

 amortization of the loans. 



" VII. The right for each power to maintain a 

 permanent guard for its legation, and to put the 

 diplomatic quarter in a defensible condition, the 

 Chinese having no right to reside in that quarter. 



" VIII. The destruction of the forts which might 

 obstruct free communication between Pekin and 

 the sea. 



" IX. The right to the military occupation of 

 certain points, to be determined by an understand- 

 ing among the powers, in order to maintain open 

 communication between the capital and the sea. 



"X. The Chinese Government to cause to be 

 published during two years in all the subprefec- 

 lures an imperial decree: (a) Embodying a per- 

 petual prohibition, under penalty of death, of 

 membership in any anti-foreign society; (ft) enu- 

 merating the punishments that shall have been 

 intlieteil on the guilty, together with the suspen- 

 sion of all ollieial examinations in the cities where 

 foreigners have been murdered or have been sub- 

 jected to cruel treatment; and (c) furthermore, 

 an iinjH-rial decree to be issued and published 

 throughout the empire, ordering that the gov- 

 ernor-- general (viceroys), governors, and all pro- 

 vincial or l(M-al ollicials shall be held responsible 

 for the maintenance of order within their respec- 

 tive jurisdictions, and that in the event of renewed 

 anti-foreign disturbances or any other infractions 

 of treaty occurring- and which shall not forthwith 

 be suppressed and the guilty persons punished, 

 they, the said oMicials. shall be immediately re- 

 moved and forever disqualified from holding any 

 oflice or honor-. 



" XI. The Chinese Government to undertake to 

 negotiate amendments to the treaties of commerce 

 and navigation considered useful by the foreign 

 [H>wers. and upon other matters perta'ining to their 

 commercial relations, \\iih the object of facilitat- 

 ing them. 



" XII. The Chine-e < Jovci nmeiit to determine in 

 what manner to ret'oi m the Department of Foreign 

 Affairs and to modify the court ceremonials con- 

 crmiiL' the reception of foreign representatives, 

 in the manner (,, I,,, indicated by the powers. 



" Intil the Chinese Government has complied 

 with the above conditions to the satisfaction of 

 the powers, the undersigned can hold out no ex- 



CHRISTIAN ARCHEOLOGY. 



pectation that the occupation of Pekin and the 

 province of Chih-li by the general forces can be 

 brought to a conclusion." 



CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, CONGRESS 

 OF. The second Congress of Christian Archae- 

 ology met in Rome, under the patronage of the 

 Holy See, April 17. The Abbe Duchesne presided, 

 and in his address spoke of the science of Christian 

 archaeology as relating to the study of the mate- 

 rial monuments and memorials of the Christian 

 past. The literature of Christianity and its litur- 

 gies were also to be subjects of study in two 

 additional sections of the congress. Communica- 

 tions were presented by Cardinal Rampolla con- 

 cerning an ancient index of the Christian ceme- 

 teries of Rome of the first half of the fourth cen- 

 tury and a document concerning St. Melania 

 which he had discovered. 



Pere Delatre reported on the Christian anti- 

 quarian remains visible at Carthage. Prof. Botti 

 commented upon a papyrus containing a letter of 

 a priestess of Alexandria, written during the third 

 century, which was thought to relate to a priestess 

 of Petesuchos who had become a Christian, but 

 having lapsed in the persecution under Decius, was 

 seeking a certificate that she had offered sacrifice 

 to Petesuchos. Among the many other papers 

 read by the ecclesiastics composing the congress 

 were those on the discovery of the names of early 

 teachers in the Christian schools of Alexandria; 

 on three Roman edifices which had been preserved 

 by the Church, viz., the tomb of Hadrian as the 

 Castle of St. Angelo, the meeting hall of the Sen- 

 ate as the Church of Sant' Adriano with that of 

 Santa Martina, and the Pantheon as the Church 

 of Santa Maria ad Martyres; a statuette in the 

 Berlin Museum, formerly part of a Roman lamp, 

 supposed to be identified as St. Peter's; a re- 

 cent supposed identification of the burial place 

 of St. Peter and St. Marcellinus at the Tor 

 Marancia, with the valuable paintings contained 

 therein; catacomb and basilica remains at Monas- 

 tirine, near Salona, with inscriptions having an 

 important relation to the history of dogma ; the 

 origin of the columns of the altar of St. Mark 

 in Venice; the substitution of Christian worship 

 for the shrines of the gods on the Roman Cam- 

 pagna ; two ancient Christian libraries recently 

 found in Egypt; and a review of the progress of 

 the study of Christian archaeology of late years 

 in papal Rome. 



The discovery, by Prof. Hebardy, of a Greek 

 inscription in the Doric dialect on the gateway 

 of the old palace at Ephesus was reported to the 

 Archaeological Congress at Rome by Prof. Bohr- 

 nean, of the University of Vienna, and a facsimile 

 of the inscription has been published. The in- 

 scription purports to comprise copies of a letter 

 from Abgarus, King of Edessa, and an answer from 

 Jesus Christ. The letter is as follows: "I have 

 heard of thee and the cures wrought by thee with- 

 out herbs or medicines, for it is reported tluni 

 restorest sight to the blind, makest the lame walk. 

 cleansest the leper, raisest the dead, easiest out 

 devils and unclean spirits, and givest health t<> 

 those tormented by diseases of long continuance. 

 Hearing all this of thee, I am fully persuaded 

 that thou art very God, come down from heaven 

 to do such miracles, or that thou, the Son of God, 

 performest them. Wherefore I have sent the-e 

 few lines, entreating thee to come hither and cure 

 my diseases. Besides, hearing the Jews murmur 

 against thee and continue to do thee mischief. I 

 invite thee to my city, which is but a little one. 

 and beautiful and sufficient to entertain u- 

 both." 



The pretended answer from Jesus is: "Blessed 



