Talbot, a young and popular officer, died on Swturday. He had been ill with touch of malaria, which was followed by peritonitis, He was being brought up a launch to the Shanghai General Hospital when he was seized with a violent attack of vomiting, and died. On Sun-/ Gay afternoon he was buried with full honours at the new cemetery in Bubbling Well Road, and over two hundred officers, petty officers, and men attended the funeral, Awoxcst the passengers who arrived at Shanghai on Wedne-day afternoon by the N.Y-K.S, Saikio Maru was Major General hima, who, it will he remembered, took a conspicuous part in the movements of the Allied Forces in the North during the troublous times of last year. General, who is accompanied by Livuten: Koyama, will only stay in Shanghai a few days and intends spending the time in making observation son thelvealsituation, It j might be interesting to some of our readers to know that the distinguished Japanese soldier is also a student of Chinese lit-rature, on which subject he has written books.
We have to thank Mr, Noah Fields Drake for a pamphlet of ten pages, a short description of Tientsin, with a large and very clear map, executed by him for the Provisional Government, and {number of excellent collotypes. They give, with Mr. Drake's description, an cellent idea of what Tientsix is, and hat it promises to become; and to those who do not know Tientsin, the frontispiece, showing the Gordon Hall, Victoria ark, and the Astor House Hotel, will be revelation.
3 private letter, dated Chefoo the 19th linst., says thst the famine at Hsianfu is reported as very severe, human flesh selling at 180 cash a catty. The distress in the i south of Shansi is also very great. Of the money brought by Mr. Allen of Shanghai, it was decided to send Tls. 10,00) by Major Pereita and Messrs. Duncan and Smith to the south of Shansi, where isolated cases of want in other districts, but mostly in mountain villages ditticult of access, and they were deserving enough for local needs. The O.L.M. patty were leaving Pingyao for the south on the 6th inst. The writer of the letter says that he had received a copy of a proclamation by the Governor of Shansi, in which, after stating the famine news, he mentions that Drs, Atwood and Eiwards have received from the U.S.A. a large sum of money (the "Christian Herald" fund) which they are impartially distributing to Christians and outsiders, which is highly praised. Reference is also made to the work of Dr. Timothy Richard more than tiventy years ago. This proclamation must be beneficial in dissipating prejudice. News had just been received of the dispatch from' New York of a third sum of twenty thousand dollars, gold, to be applied us before.
Tae Wai-wu-pu, the new board of Foreign Affairs, which has been constituted to replace the impossible Tsangli Yamen, is merely the Tsungli Yamen over again, It has taken over the same premises and the kame staff, und there is little doubt that it will continue the sume policy. The latest_ member of it is a Conservative of the Conservatives, utterly ignorant of Foreign Afirs, having never even been a Customs' Tavtai, whereby he would have been brought into some contact with foreigners; but he has the reputation being a very clever wan, which means that he is a past master in the art of obstruetion, Ina very few months we shall find that the more Peking changes, the more it is the same thing, We understand that H.E. Liu Kun-y', Viceroy of these provinces, is thoroughly convine: d of the necessity of immediate steps being taken to improve and conserve the Huangpu and its approaches, nor hax objection to the ce-operation of ers in the work; but by insists very Ly that the sovereignty of China shall be respected and maintained, 1 proper swfexwirds axe secnved that the work shall he done, and efficiently done, thre is nothing unreasonable in the Viceroy's contention; but thera must be sufticien' foreign control to ensure thit the work shall not end in such a fiasco as the previous attempts were to dredge the Woosung Bar.
2, the Manchu ex-Boxer Chief jand. special' Ambassador to Japsn_ to apologise for the murder of the law Mr. Sugiyanm in June, 1900, arrived here lay by the Haea from Tangku, Tung was received by the local man-dums ar Kinleeyuen, where the stil arch or temporary "gate" decorated with red bunting and covered lanterns had been erected in honour of the new arrival, Th's notorious Conservative disdained to drive in the brougham and pair which had been prepared for him to take him to the quarters prepared for himself and his staff, but rode in a four-bearer sedan-chair. Quarters had been prepared for the Mission, Doth at the Bureau of Foreign Affuirs on the Bubbling Well Road, as well Ambassadors' Hull in the rear of the Temple of the Queen of Heaven at the four of the North Honan Road Bridge, Hongkew, so that the special Ambassalor might take his choice of where to reside while in Shanghai. As a matter of fact the former named house, furnished in the modern styles of East and West represents Reform or te New Régime, whilst the usual old-time furniture and appointments at Ambassadors' Hall represent Conservatism; what more natural for Nw Tung than that his choice should full on Ambassadors' Hall? Weare further informed Na Tang's suite is a' very small one"—only twenty-six, all told, The mission will leave by the Japanese mail steamer Saikio Maru for Yokohama to-morrow. We understand
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