Our correspondent at Hsianfu sends us 8 curious bit of news, the political importance of "which, he says, it is hard to guess—that the Mghommedans in Russia have sent special messengers to their ce-religionists in China, advising them not to go to Mecca this year as Turkey will be at war with England, and so travelling will be unsafe. This may merely mean that the Mahommedays in Russia have heard that England wes contemplating coercing 'I'arkey into doing justice to the Armenians, but it is significant in the light of the statement in the blue book on the Armenian question lately published, that the Czar had informed Lord Salisbury that he could not look with equanimity on any forcible coercion of Turkey, Russia will only allow verbal attacks on her present friend the Sultan, and we have
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