A dispatch from our native correspondent at Hangchow reports the decapitation in that city on the Sth instant of thirteen ut the principal murderers of the missionaries at Chuchou in July last year. Amongst the thirteen was an ex-licentiate, named Lo, who had been previously stripped of his literary degree. It is stated that no less than 105 men had been arrested suspected of having been implicated in the massa-eres, their ow-es being tried by the acting Provincial Judge, H.E. Hsti Che very able and en ight-ned official, these 103 men 57 were afterwards proved innocent of the charge. Of the remaining 48 men 15 were found guilty in the first delayed; this time clyding Chou Chih-te, the cashiered Senior Captain of Chuchou, who was executed jour ten days. or so before the others. One of the don-d men died in prison and the other thirteen were executed on the 8th inst., as above noted. The remaining thirty-three it is allege! are to Lo either strauzled or sent into perpetual exile. OF this last class belongs the notorious Pao Tsu-lin, the cashiered Taotai hou, who by rights ought to have Deen decapitated at the same time xs his sanguinary Leutenant and right-hand-man the ex-Captain Chou Chih-te The Health of Li Hung-chang.
The Universal Gazette" learns that Hong-chang was taken very the night of the signing of the Frotecul, and that since then the aged statesman has taken litle nourishment.
rs attending the Vicorvy state that to the feeble condition of his HE. is unable to take much medicine, and this delays the Viceroy's convalescence.
Sufferings of the Flood Refugees.
A Wuhu dispatch states that a body of food refugees from Kiangpeh, numbering Thundred, odd, funilies who had been accorded temporary refuge in some sheds at a place called Huangebinshan in the immediate vicinity of Wuhu city, experienced still worse sullvrings the other day, through the destruction by fire of their matsheds. Carelessness, of course, was the cause, and the result was that ning of the unfortunates were burned to death in the conflagration.
The New Admiral of the Yangtze.
According to news received from pinghu, Anhui, H.E. General Ch'sng pin, took over the seals of Admiral of the Yangtze in that city on the 1st instant from his predecessor, Marshal Huang, who is transferred ty the Commander-in-chiefship of Fukien province, previously held by the former officer. 'Tins change of posts is stated to have been due te the iuteigttes of the Reactionaries at' Hsian, who think that Viceroy Liu Ktun yi is to" powerful th a fellows provincial Hive Marshal Huang command of the Naval forees of tive of yangtze provinces, i.e., Linngkiang and provinces," which placed the military power of the Yi Valley in the hands of the Honanese faction. It should he remembered that when the order for an exchange of posts was made there was a proposition of aking either Hsiangyang in Hupeh or Nanking in Kiangsu the fature capital of China, and the Reactionaries who have a wholesome fear of the fearlessness and brusytte manners of jimmy Hunanese were chary themselves within the power of This therefore led to the put-eneral Ch'eng Wen-pin (" Hupeh place, which it was thought would clip somewhat the power of the Huvmese element in the Central proviners. 2
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