University, has been indisposed for some time. Three times he asked for leave of absence and it was granted. Then he requested ther month's leave, and also that an official might be appointed to tem-attend to his duties in connection Both requests were granted, and Hsi Ching-ch'tng, late Minter to Gécmany, Obief: director of Northern and member of the Tsungli amen, is to be Acting Chancellor of the University, until Sun Chia-nai can resume his post." This, however, is not likely to occur. He has been tormented almost in-lutly by the obstructionists, and "burnt ren dread the fire." Meantime Hsii Ching-ch'éng is reputed to be the most pro-Russian of all the officials in Peking. Let those concerned take note, Yii Keng, the uew Minister to France, left Peking with a great train on the 18th inst. Thus he will escape—at least partial-Ty—from the wearisome and dangerous intrigues of this city, and be able to train his children in the accomplishments of Western civilisation amid the brilliant, but possibly not less dangerous, environment of the gay Freud capital.
returning thanks for his promotion to the Vice-Presidency of the Board of Works, General Yuan Shih-kai managed to show his hostile feeling toward the Emperor in a way that would have exe posed him to censure, if not to danger, if it had occurred a year ago; but as he took care to accompany his insolence towards Kuang Hsii with "well-lubricated" flattery of the Empress Dowager, he will probably gein and not lose by his meanness,
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