The "Universal Gazette's" Kaifeng correspondent confirms our Peking correspondent's telegram of tue 6th instant concerning the four suggestions of the Foreign Ministers which Prince Ching was asked to present to the Empress Dowager when he arrived at K'aiféng the other day. The correspondent states that when the Empress Dowager asked what the Foreign Ministers desired Prince Ching burst into tears and exclaimed, " Your slave dare not say it." After a pause the Prince began with tae third suggestion, namely, the disinheriting of the Heir-
Apparent. The Empress Dowager appeared displeased but eventually said quiet! "Well, I have always felt that the young, man does not deserve suck a high destiny." When Prince Ching gave the fourth stg-gestion, the decapitation of Tung Fu-liang, he received the reply, "This, at any rate, will be easy to enact." Finally, Prince Ching mustered up courage enough to present the first and second suggestions, namely, "the restoration to power of the Emperor, and the removal of Yung Lu and Lu Ch'van-lin from the Grand Council." The Empress Dowager remained silent and thoughtful and made no reply. Prince Ching was then dismissed from audience for the day.
As a comment on the relations between Prince Ching and the notorious Lu Ch'uan-lin, the same corres.
dent remarks: "Prince Ching arrived at K'aiféng from Peking on the 12th of November. On that same day Lu Ch'uan: lin sent in an application for sick leave, asking to be excused from attendance at the Grand Council. On the 17th idem Prince Ching obtained permission to return to Peking—whieh he did that forenoon—and on the evening before Lu Ch'uan-lin reported himself well and ready to attend to his duties at Court.'" Further comments are needless.
The Governor-designate of Kiang-
En Show (Manchu), is expected here from Nanking to-morrow, en route to Soochow to take over his seals of office from H.E. Nieh, who will pass through this port next week bound for Nanking, after which H.E. proceeds to Nganking to take over the governorship of Anhui from H.E. Wang Chih-chun, 21st December.
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