HE. Li Hung-chang is expected here in about a week. He has sent in a report, in which a "permanent control plan" and a "temporary relief plan" are embodied. Lhe "thorough" scheme is estimated to cost 40,000,000 taels and the "patch and patch again" method less than half that sum, This second plan has antiquity on its The report that a grand review is to be held of all, or of most of, the troops in North China is confirmed. We may expect therefore, that in June some 200,000 braves" will' assemble in the South Hunting Park to "Dent the air"—and any foreigners who may happen to make their acquaintance. It should be noted that among these rowdies will be at least 10,000. of Tung, Fu-hsiang's Kansu men—sho "raised Cain" when they visited Peking Inst year, Note, too, that they will be within Jour mites of this city, and that the British and American Legation guards are gone away. I detest alarmist Feports, but the whole condition of Government affairs here is unsatisfactory, A. good many screws sre loose, and an tinustial proportion of ignorant and reckless men are in office. Prudence and vigilance are specially required, and "prevention is better than cure."
YAO PING-JES, Literary Chancellor of Shantyng, has been dismissed for ever "—ostensibly for " violation of the ancient rules of his office," but really for official corruption of a serious type. His successor is a Manchu—Jung Ching, and in the face of recent statements, we assert that a large majority of the appoint ments to high positions since the coup @ crat {have been given to Manchus, This does
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