December 17th.—Hsi-ching is_gazetted Senior Vice-President of the Board of Revenue, Ching-hsin Junior Vice-President of the same Board, Hsit-ch'ang is appointed Senior Vice-President of the Board of Ceremonies, and Wen-hsing is transferred to the latter Board as Junior Vice-President.
Ting Ju-ch'ang is appointed Commander in-Chief of the Naval forces in the North, and Lin T'ai-ch'ang and Liu Pu-chan are remoted to be Captains of the right and left divisions of the Fleet.
RISING IN KIANGST, December 18th,—Some months ago an attempt at insurrection was detected in the Prefecture of Jui-chou in the province of Kinngsi, and three of the vingloadore were arrested and decapitated. A number of other arrests have now been made in connection with the movement, including that of the leading member of the confederacy. whose evidence elicited the following facts. This man, whose real name was Chih Hua-lung was a native of K'ai Hsien in Szechuan whence he had come many years ago to Kiangsi, where he was engaged as a school teacher at Kan Chou, and came to be known as the "Kan Chou'Philosopher." His next appearance was in the role of fortune teller in the provincial capital, after which he went to Yén-ping Fu in Fukien, and strolled about from place to place selling medicines for a number of years. Last summer he returned to Fu Chow in Kiangsi, and met there one day in an eating house, a Kao-an man named Liu-chuan. In course of conversation with this man he gave himself out as a Bre, great chief-: in whose head quarters ince and high military officer appointed
were on the Feng-feng hill in Fukien, and he held out the promise of a similar appointment to his companion if he assisted in gaining over adherents to the cause. Liuchuan promised his support, and both
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