Theadministration of Public Worship has been transferred back to the Minister of Public Education.
The new Cabinet has laid programme before Parliament endeavour will be to effect economies, and it will maintain the military laws at present before the Chamber, An interpellation was made in the Chamber of Deputies on the Home policy of the Government. The Chamber refused to pass an order of the day imputing censure, and the interpellation resulted in an order of the day pure and simple, accepted by the Government, which was voted by 384 against 156.
The Ministry has obtained a coalition majority composed of Conservatives and Moderate Republicans.—ranslated from L'Into-Chinois of 4th June, _A contract was signed, on the Queen's birthday, by H.E. Liu Ming-chuan, ernor of Formosa, and Messrs. Jardine, latter of rails, rolling-stock and bridge for a Matheson & Ca. for the supply by the narrow gauge light weight railway of eighty miles in length. 'The line is to be from 'Tamsui to Changhua, the future capital of the island, and' presents no natural di culties, except the Taikia river, which is to be spanned by a lattice girder bridge in two sections of a joint length of 1, feet.
We hear that the speech of the Marquis Tseng, at the luncheon after the laying of the foundation stone of the New Cathedral at Peking, has been much commented on in the capital, He is reported to have said that he wished M. Constans, the French Minister, could continue the protection to missionaries which he had extended to them heretofore; which is quite opposed to Chinese policy on the subject. But it is understood that the Marquis was displeased with Li Hung-chang's having sent the mission to the Pope to procure the appointment of a Nuncio to China, and this and other matters have led to unpleasantness or something more in the relations between Li and the Marquis, and this feeling is itter does not seem to have got on very well to have inspired the speed
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