A Tientsin dig reporied that a body of mounted bandits sudden peared on the 20h instant in the. vieiol ap
Of Hsiianluafu, Northern Chibi, and surprised a number of ani there. The "Iraves" were and compelled to arms and amuunit aummunition—to the bandits w also pillaged the country for the highlands on the 'SI horde re reported to have made their irruption into Hsi hua fu, [tis believed to hes well-organise sand widespeat i f li while their also said to bel number of whom he funds for sul ters of and, finally, that he be permitted to purchase a quantity of rice from Kiangsi province where he is at present still acti wwernor—xnd take the foodstuit with him to Kuan.si for distribution there, when he goes down South. The memorialist further asks to be allowed to take with him as members of his suite, when be leave Kiangai, the following expectant Taotais of that Wang Chil-hsiang, Ting i i. also three some forty military elficers.
30th July.
The Russian Minister at Peking.
The Tientsin "Takung Pao" states that although since his return to Peking from Port Archur M. Lessar, the Russan Minister, up to the 23rd instant tempt to call upon Prince latter has sent a confident observed, only a_ single bein ut besides the Ruster, speaking of Vice appointment to the ver that HE. has been real disappointment. to every friend of ud H.E Chang Instead scheme of modern studies. in reported that Vic been insisting upon the addition into the curriculum of the study of the five classics, poetry and sundry books of the old style which, when Wénchang held sway, were of course indispensable to the student. The difference between Viceroy Chang's ive measures prior to his coming to ing and his present conduct is regarded not a few to he a sign of senile decay—it not long 9 accused him of tu the Throne.
The Reported Arrest at Peking. The "Ref arrested at_ Peking recent] upposed to be the well-known i Liang Eh' 'i-chao, according to a Pekin, by Yuan Shih-kai upon his dispatch, turns out to be a man name assumption of the Chibli Viceroyalty is Shen K'¢.wei, a native of Tungting Island, said to have put a large number of yood Taihu Lake, Soochow, and is said to be atticers out of employ, who had seen plenty the correspondent of a certain Tientsin of service during the siege of Tientsin and native newspaper and also of a Japanese the severe fighting that ensued between newspaper published in Osaka, Japan, Tt is further reported that his frequent unfavourable criticisms of Viceroy Chang Chih-tung had obtained for Shen K'é-wei tha'enmity of that powerful satrap with the result that Shen was accused to Prince Ssu, who is Commandant-General_of. the Peking Gendarmerie, as a revolutionist and a member of the Fuyu society, which was concerned in the abortive attempt against the man-janns in Hankow in the autumn of 1900. This led to the man's arrest by Peking gendarmes and he is now languishing in the gaol of the Board of Punishments ting sentence of some sort.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.