General Boulanger's seconds insisting on continued firing, and those of M. Ferry consenting only to one shot each at twenty paces, they have all withdrawn, and it is now doubtful if the encounter will take place.—Straits Times, We have a letter from Peking dated the 9th inst., which has no doubt been delayed on the way by bad roads between the capital and Tientsin, The writer says:—'There will be much commotion throughout the Empire when the Viceroy Li's concession to the American syndicate becom known and understood. The begun of strong opposition are already' vi ible here. It is said in official circles that the Marquis Tseng disavows complicity rumour formerly said that he had promised Mr. Butler, while in London, that he would give his support to the American capitalists, but if he ever did so it was probably with limitations far inside of the Viceroy Li's wild concession, A well-known Chinese official told a foreign diplomatist yesterday that the Viceroy had become very agitated and that both of the Taotais concerned were much alarmed at what they had done. The game will be played out in Peking and not in 'Tientsin, Lam told on Food authority that one of the ost pointe of the concession which will be acted upon will be to place the China Merchants' Ca, in the hands of Messrs, Russell Ca., probably a good thing for the shareholders, We hear that the opposition in Peking to the Mitkiewiez concessions was rapidly growing stronger and more general. among all official classes, and the high Manchus and army, A correspondent writes that he can clearly make out that all these classes and the eet are opposed to the formation of a bank; to the coinage being in foreign hands; to railway, mining or any concessions being given to foreigners, or that foreigners should be permitted' to have shares or partnership in them. The mo: napuly in contracts is objected to, and also the presence of a foreign element in Government or finance. The excitement about these concessions has greatly strengthened the anti-foreign party in the capital which for some time had been quiet. There seems to be an increasing expectation that the concessions will not be ratified, and that Li has risked his position, if he has really assented to such terms, as those connected withthe American Syndicate assert he has, But he has, we pier, been most cautious and left loopjoles of escape. Probably the Taotais, who are said to be seriously alarmed for themselves, will be sacrificed, though one corres pondent says that Ma is to be the victim as there is a black mark against his name in Peking on account of the active share he took in the transfer of the China Merchants' Ca. three years ago. loss of the steamer Pautah was delivered this The finding of the Court of Inquiry into the afternoon. The Commissioner of Customs, Captain Waddilove of the Sin Nanzing, and finding, and say:—that we feel bound to Ceptain Symons of the Pekin sign the give it as our opinion that the Pautah was proceeding at 10 knots in a dense fog, when she should have been going Dead Slow; that she was unduly hauled up to the Westward before it was certain she was to the Northward of the Py I Moreover no cast of the deep sea lead was taken at any time during the fog, although the soundings thereabouts are trust and the Book of Directions distinctly recommends, on page 469, the constant use of the lead to vessels bound to the Northward and who are rounding the Promontory without seeing it,
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