The Commander-in-Chief will have two residences; one at Wei Hai Wei, the other at Port Arthur. The two taring pings will have command of the iron-clads Ghen Yuen and Ting Yuen, and have no Yaméns or residences on shore,—H Pao.
About the beginning of August the Board of Revenue was notified by the Tsungli Yameén that in compliance with the official request of Mr. Coumany, Russian Envoy at Peking, who had represented the excessiveness of the duty on brick tea which Russian merchants at Foochow and Hankow have to pay, two taels and a half for 100 catties, the Yamen desired to lower the duty to one tael and a half, and asked the Board to instruct the Superintendents of Customs at the various ports to take the necessary steps.—Shén Li Han-chang, (elder brother of the Viceroy Li Hung chang), hes been appointed, by an Edict dated 8th August, Viceroy of' Kuangtung and Kuangsi, and Chang Chi-tung whom he replaces at Canton, is made Viceroy of Hupeh and Hunan, Yilu, the late Viceroy of Hupeh and Hunan, goes to Shingking as Military Governor tice Ch'ing Yui, retired.—Shén Pao, Tung Kiang, an lately appointed to hold the important post of Tsiang-kun at Hangchow but on leaving Peking he was attacked by sun-streke, or heat apoplexy. His state excited such apprehension that his boat was on the way back towards Peking in tow of steam-launch, when on the night of 4th August he died. As Governor of Urumtsi and Heh-lung Kiang he had gained a high reputation, and is much regretted.
The new Governor of Kiangsu, Kang, left Peking on 12th August for his peat the late Acting Governor Hwang, is expected shortly at Shanghi On 10th August Imperial Edicts appeared appointing Sung Ch'un, ex-Tressuter of Chihli, to the post of Director General of Grain Transport, vice Li Han-chang, who fe, Canton as Viceroy of the Two uang Provinces. The Taotai Sil Wen-tah acts as Director General of Grain Transport until Sung Ch'un arrives, Ch'ang is appointed Treasurer of Chihli,. The death of Kung-tang, ex-Military Governor of Leger Kiang, on hi way to take up the post of Tsiang-un at Hangchow, much affected the Emperor, and his son, who was second class assistant, Secretary in the Board of Punishments at Peking, has received & promotion in recognition of his late father's merits, The wife of Ch'éng Fou, late Director of the Yellow River, was so affected by his disgrace and banishment in consequence of the breach at Cheng Chow, that she contracted an illness, of which she died on Ist August.—Shén Pao.
A foreign friend of ours who is fond of a joke was observing that the action of the Shanghai Magistrate in punishing the women who walked in an idol procession lately, dressed as condemned criminals, to fulfil a religious vow, was rather inconsequent, as the Tutelary God of the City in whose honour the women were walking in this indecorous attire when the magistrate popped out of the Temple and caught them at it, was in this life, before he was deified, a former District Magistrate of Shanghai, and therefore Mr. i might have expected to take his deified predecessor's part, and not interfere with devout women. paying honour to the Ch'eng Hieang Shin, We shut up our facetious friend with the following veracious story from a certain good old collection The Tutelary God of the prefectural ing in Szechuan, is very ting cacicus and clever), and in the 7th moon the people who come to his Temple to burn incense and candles are reckoned by tens of thousands, streaming in and out for side the West Gate was a itr, Wang, who nearly a week day and night. Now out-
kept little tea-house, very little patronised owing to its remote and secluded situation although it was in a delightful grove of oval green bamboos by. stream of clear running water. Mr. Wang's customers were so few that he could remember them if he saw them again, and he could not help being struck by the fact that for three successive years during the five days' josapidgin of the 7th moon the same guest, and he the only one during those five days, had sat placidly sipping his tea and chatting agreeably to hia host like gentleman at peace with himself and with all the world. So Wang's curiosity being aroused, he made bold to ask the gentleman his name. My name is Tang," replied bod arog And where is your honourable abode?" "TI live at.... south of the City Wall." "Why, that is where the Temple of the Tutelary God is," said Wang.
When everybody is bustling there to burn cense, men and women in their best toilettes, I can't make out why you always come here all alone to this dull place, where you miss all the fun of the fair." J am the the guest. "i Rather than be jostled by a Tutelary God," was the startling answer of
perspiring and unsavoury crowd of the great Unwashed, do I not well in coming to this
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