We translate the following notes published in the Universul Gazette and other vernacular papers regarding affairs in confirming the news sent us by our native correspondent in the capi The rivalry of Jung Lu and Prince Chin; has become so bitter that all disguise now thrown away and whenever the two meet they never fail to abuse each other, charging one another with disloyalty and treachery. So great is the rivalry now and so anxious are the rivals to ain friends to their side that when officials from the provinces xo to Peking for audience and, as in duty bound, call upon the two most powerful Ministers of the Imperial Court, they are confidentially advised not to call upon the chief of the other party. It seems that Jung Lu icularly energetic in this The head Censor of Prince Ching's Chung-yi and that of Jung u's, Yi Cheng-kd. Since July last these Censors have been constantly denouncing the opposition chiefs. So frequent have their memorials been that they have actually bored the Empress Dowager, who recently showed her displeasure by' commanding the Ministers of the Grand Council publicly reprimand Yang Chung-yi, Prince Ching's hea: Censor. " Little tinie, however, was given to the friends of Jung Lu to rejoice at this proof of the Empress Dowager's leaning towards her nephew's Sung' Ian' before the Kaopress Dowager in arty, for, not long after, at an audience of
the Grand Council Chamber, she pointedly asked him who Yii Cheng-kd was. Knowing that his aunt knew the antecedents of this Censor Jung Lu boldly confessed two years ago when the Reformer Kang Yii-wei went up to Peking from Canton, for his Doctor's degree at the Triennial Examinations, Yi Che charge of the ward in which Kang was writing his essays, and that he it was
strongly recommended the bestowing of the who passed the Reformers papers and Doctor's or chin shih degree upon the candidate. When Jung Lu had explained this the Empress Dowager simply smiled at her nephew, and although she said nothing every one in the Champ-r knew perfectly well that she nieant Jung Lu to feel that since he was the chief instrument in destroying Kang Yii-wei's party, there was no love lost between them and their destroyer, and that, itt struck her as odd that her nephew should keep at his side one of Kang Yii-wei's friends—the very man who had brought Kang into prominence by being the primary cause of his getting his high degree and so introducing his reform ideas to the ug (Kang) the opportunity of Emperor. Although both parties have received a rebuff from the Kmpress Dowager people seem to think that Jung Lu is really more in favour than his rivaL—A new arrival from Peking who had been received in audience in the Grand Council Chamber lately, reports that he found his Majesty Kuang Hsit looking very well, and that the Emperor asked him' several questions about the province from whence he had come. The impress Dowager, however, looked worn and thin, This is explained by the fact that, ever since the coup d'état last year, she has been in constant fear of assassination, confining herself constantly within her Palace and never leaving it until a few days ago to pray for rain at the Temple of the Most High. Close confinement inside the Palace and hard work day and night in reading memorials and writing out Rescripts in the Emperor's name, witl the feeling that she is standing on a vol-cane, have had their etfect.—A correspondent writing from Peking states, in connection with the various rumours of unrest in the capital, that all Manchu officials he has met and questioned on the subject are unanimous in predict great upheaval in the government near future, whereas amongst oft mire Chinese descent this is not generally believed. The surface seems calm enough bribes are still being given and recei for help in procuring posts in the government; Metropolitan officials wear anxiety in their cou.tenances, while others are buying, peacock feather' decorations etc., as if they expected perfect pence to reign in the Empire for the next two deies.—Chang Yen-inno, Director-General of mines in Chili and Jehd, who is a protege of Jung Lu, has been denounced by Prince Ching's Censor, Yang Chung-yi, on eight counts, as regards the mines tinder him. It is feared that mining-work in these regions will be sot back in consequence, although it is not known as yet who is to be appointed to investigate the charges.
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