Mr. Lo Feng-lo—we cannot take to that hybrid name, Sir Chi Chén—has been expected daily from Peking for some time past. He is to winter in Foochow and start for London in the Spring. Folk here think his Excellency will miss his ge, but he is an old hand at escaping from 'Tientsin by sea after the closure. He trains it up to Shanhaikuan and embarks there by sampan. The constitution of his suite is not yet known; it is a matter of some importance to the many young progressives' who of course want to rally round the one man among them who is now clearly bound for high office.
Mr. Wilkinson from Canton replaces Mr. Sundius, transferred to Hankow, as cur Vice-Consul. We are to have a third man here, and extra assistance in the native staff, unmistakable signs of the general prosperity of the port. Mr. Bristow retires in March or April: speculation is of course rife on the interesting subject of his successor: the names of Messrs. Warren and Scott are most freely mentioned. By the bye, no British official here knows a word about the Mixed Court which the Tientsin correspondent of one
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