London, (date doubtful) July.
The Premier, Mr. Gladstone, replying to question, said that in the event of war being declared between Russir. and China, the British Government would avail itself of Russia's offer to enter into communication respecting British interests.
The Chinese have captured a Russian explorer, Mr. Prjevalsky, and pillaged a Russian caravan.
'14th July.
The Greek Government are making warlike preparations under an amnesty.
Suefort has returned to Paris and been enthusiastically welcomed.
Mr. Garfield has accepted the nomination for Candidate for President. ties are still engaged in operations against the transaction of Chinese business by foreigners. We understand that the seizure of the books of two of the compradores now in confinement has resulted in the arrest of several petty mandarins and lekin officials who are said to be implicated in alleged irregularities with regard to the transit of goods into the interior.
Colonel Gordon left for the North on Friday morning by the C.MS.N. Co,'s steamer Fugshun, On his arrival at Tientsin he will be the guest of Li Hung. chang, and we hear that he is not going to Peking. There is no doubt that the Colonel has no intention of entering the service of the Chinese Government, though he will doubtless lay before Li Hung-chang a scheme for the reorganisation of the military and naval forces of the Empire.
From a letter we have received from our Tientsin correspondent, it would appear that the news of the remission of Ch'ung How's sentence was not known there until the 13th inst. Sir Thomas Wade's name was freely associated with the supposed cause that had brought the decree about, natives alleging that at one of his interviews with Li Hung-chang, he had "intimated his willingness to act as mediator if asked to do so."
A correspondent writes that recent letters from the capital evince a more conciliatory spirit on the part of the Chinese Government in the Russo-Kuldja affair. It appears that His Excellency Liu, the Viceroy of the Two Kiang, took the opportunity of his visit to Peking to impress on the Imperial Court the inadvisability of going to war with Russia, both on the ground that China is unprepared, and also that the cost of such a war would be a most serious charge on the resources of the Empire. The result has been that matters are allowed to remain dependent on the report expected from the Marquis Tseng, the Chinese Ambassador at St. Petersburg. Since the remission of Ch'ung How's sentence, however, it is stated that Russia will i.e confirmed in possession of that portion of Kuldja assigned to her by the treaty of Livadia, and that no further interruption
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