It should be noted that for one whole week we have heard no new report as to the possibility of that Institution being in 8 " precarious condition." I am informed by competent authority that these reports" are solely the invention of "space-writer" and " moss-backs." Meanwhile the President of the University affirms that it is going on most satisfactorily.
THE GERMAN MINISTER, Baron Heyking, is leaving Peking, and Baron Ketteler, who has been stationed at Mexico, is expected to succeed him.
'THE ITALIAN AFFAIR, I am told that "Italian affairs are not even mentioned at the Tsungli Yamen." Surely this is too peaceful to last, Sometimes a Jull precedes a typhoon.
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