Our acting Taotai has, not yet returned from the capital whither he went, it will be remembered, to assist the Viceroy in his interview with the indefatigable Bf. Haas. A rumour is abroad—how much truth there is in it, it would ba difficult to say—that the new Tuotai, who owes his appointment to Peking influences, has arrived at the capital, and has been ordered by the Viceroy to fill tentatively the office of Provincial Judge, owing to the promotion of the former official to be Provincial Treasurer. The former Fantai, H.E. Wang, has returned to Peking and the current story is that he and the Governor-General were so much at loggerheads that for both to remain in high office in the game place was sheer impossibility. Wang has no very good reputation here whatever he may have elsewhe spoken of as a man utterly selfish callous. One gentleman in describing hira, said that he was " both: blind and deaf to all-important matters," and according to the testimony of certain missionaries who passed through the late troubles at the capital, this description of -his character would seem tr he on the whole accurate. Meanwhile, it is further rumoured that owing to the uew Taotai having been promoted, the acting Chungking Tsotsi, who'was about to take permanent leave of the place; will be retained here for some time longer. He is said to be la high
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