your Tientsin correspondent after claim made by BIN.
to aripplement the ort Arthur, the plans et, who knew nothing pera thur,—but he had at second here' knowledge jonounced gineora as "dot thereby hang many tale ving no practicable plun of 4 reed to adopt these plans in their integrity and en bloc, at the same time offering to contract to complete the works for Tis, 1,160,000. From this sum the Syndicate fina to pay the cortof the quaranty which it obtained from the Comptoir d'E compte, a ridiculous guaranty for 10 yeara only; which will reduce the sum to be ro ed by the French Syndicate to somewhere about Tls. 1,100,000. Ihe Chinese Commissioner, Chow, being well Inclined to Bf, Thevenet, at once accepted his tender, and in reply to all comments of political cogency, and on BIN, Th gence from but. medical mission by Chamber under s guaranty, and ded, decide, through the medium of thi jo work, and the medic:
Republics, and let corruption of all kinds in,. one of th eat out the vitals of the State. I hope medical miami ey should peat the head lig), follows with an article argue better things of China and ber rulers, and though I know that Li Hung-chang has igelistic as well as th 1 boon hauled over the coals at Peking for ubi tres.medici, duo thei, "He sum:
not daunted by. the old prov of his mission, and
hia reasons in the four statements that, first, he un boat influence his own patients; second is assistants will be, under God, largely what he makes them; thied, unless ttouds, to it, the full value of the last claim of HI, Theveuet's, and is to have pledged hia word that the had "not "been admitted, even it had been made, I am not yet li that the astute Frenchmen will not gain their end. To help to prevent th I beg for sufficient space in your valuable columns to give in sume detail the history Port Arthur offs to say that no one who kuo thirg about what was to be don Arthur could pay for the work. I am in " position to any that a rigid lih was made by the gentleman who tendered for Tis, 1,300,000 proved to him that many items, for which, owing to the want of time for Verification, arbitrary estimates had to be made, had iyeen a0 ewelled by the outlays beyond firat calculations that not one tael could be cut from the amount of ten It was sccarteined then beyond doubt thi the French Syndicate must lose heavily by its first contract, aa it was of course for-hidden to suppose' that the French gineers would adopt Chingse ways of conatruction—making walls of short lengths, using bad materials, lime eked out with abundant mud for no doubt of great
occupied by som ra of the Society. rand votes iand queries followed by another introductory ity or explain th sofious charges which dre made agai him. How.grave these are and how they individually, your readers will see.if they refer to the L.
I hopes that vindicated himself before so I am Shak be cannot, The tacts of this affair English Civil Engineer, Mr. Chambers, fare: Lait year the Viceroy Li sent an
ce-and talent construction, sui-Evglish war por, In short, such work as would satisfy European Government cetiid not be tained for Taels 1,100,000.
It appears ow that Chow has in a beries dent manner come to" U cite of thy Azthur, This cus, aho will not despoil Fraue, and inch Syndicate, China isto be Bee. la
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