It is stated in native official circles that BLE, Sheng received on Monday an Imjerial Edict from Hsian—at which city, by the way, the Court arrived on the 26th of Octobrr—ordering his instant departure from Shanghai for Pekin; REVERTED DEATH OF A FRENCH Distr, According to a letter received by a native R.O. convert from Tientsin it is stated that the French Bishop Pu (i) who was with a mumber of his flock besieged at Hochienfa by Boxers last summer. and subsequently delivered by an allied force, died on the 23rd ultimo from sickness.
AN AUDACIOUS CENSOR, A Hsian telegram states that a Censor has hud the audacity to memorialise the Throne declaring that it will not be right for the Emperor to punish his own near relations and strongly urging that Prince Luan shoul be forgiven and saved.
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