The Bishop of Metz is dead.—Le Saigonnais, M. Kraotzer, Consul-General for France, rotor from Peking ichord Rennie, Chief Justice, returned to Shanghai on Wednexday it the 1 Kennedy tag kindly placed at al the following telegram, with ico to the earthquakes in Anterica, Snday morning non good authority that the authorities have admitted that the not to blame in the The Acting Governor of Chékiang's annual report on the spring cotton crop and the out-turn of silk in his province appoare in a recent Peking Gazette, The averages furnished him are five-tenths and upwards of a full crop for cotton and the same proportion for silk, In reference to the late alarms in Seoul, a private letter from that capital says "The Chinese Minister at Seoul made demands on the Corean King as soon as he found that there was no foreign naval force at Chemulpo, and among other things he demanded that a small steamer recently purchased by the Corean Government, should not fly the Corean flag, and that the men who made the purchase should be beheaded. The foreigners were afraid that a riot would be started, that they would all be killed, as the Chinese Minister seemed capable of any atrocity to accom plish his purpose of re-establishing the
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