he Tientsin "Jéh-jéh Sin-wen" states that it learns that when the retired Imperial Tutor Sun Chia-nai was recalled last Winter to Court at Hsian—that city being his native town—H.E, memorialised the Empress Dowager to take the route vid Hsiangyavg, down the Han River, to Hankow, when the Court returned to Peking. ' From Hankow the Court could inspret the fortifications alo g the Yangtze River and visit Shanghai, from which port steamships can be made realy for rheic Majesties to go up to Taku and from thence by rai¥ to Peking. It is further stated that H.R.'s good alvicw was at once rejected by the Empress Dowager under advice of Yung Lu, Lu Ch'uw-lin, and other reactionists on the ground that thei Majesties could easily be captured by any Foreign fleet desiring to do so!
2rd March,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.