The "'Cungwén Hupao" has the following which we translate:—The Russian General commanding a force of Cossacks at Antunghsien, Fengtien province, near the Yalu river, a few days ago posted proclamations throughout that town ordering all native shops and hongs to hoist the Russian flag at. their doors, on pain of Tls. 70 fine for first offence and imprisonment if persisted in. Antuvghsien is about fifty miles west of Fénghuangcheng.
Viceroy Tsen Chin]
A Canton dispatch sta Viveroy sen has only arrived at his new post but nine or ten weeks, H.H. has de-1 to the Throne and succeeded in ing and dismissing from office no less than seventy-one civil and military mandarins of Kuangtung province and no less than eighty-nine belonging to Kuangsi province, the last named province including, as may be remembered, the Governor, the Provincial Treasurer, the Commander-in-Chief, three Taotais and several general officers. In so great fear is Viceroy Tsen-held by dishonest and incapable officials in the South that the slightest hint that H.E. had been heard making enquiries about them recently caused a ridiculous panic, resulting, in at Toast one case, in the death by suicide of one of these dishonest mandarins.
The Canton-Fatshan Railway, which is a part of the Canton-Hankow Railway, according to a Canton letter, is to be completed by the middle of November next. The distance is about twelve miles and the line is to be opened to traffic soon after completion.
More Reinforcements for Vi ey A Nanking dispatch reports that Viceroy Wet Kuang-t/ao of fiat city, in obedience to special commands of the Throne and in response to an application for reinforcements from Viceroy Tsen, hes detailed 2 fores of even thousand Bug all armed with modern pons of precision, to proceed south to Kuangsi.
Of this number 4,000 are to go by the sea route from Nanking to 1 Canton, then vid West river to Wuchow and Hsiinchon, while the balance will proceed to Yochou, Hunan province, going down South overland, in order to prevent, if possible, any further irruptions into Hunan province from the Kuangsi horde The Ki; TLE. Huang Chie through this city the other day for king, took over his seals of office Ti Yii-fen on the U6th instant. uh wording of the law, and close the schoo! which held such revolutionists on pain of being denounced to the Throne at smpathisers of the Aikuo Hui."
Manager of the Arsenal A Nanking dispatch to hand states that Viceroy Wei Kuang-t'ao has sent orde to Shanghai dismissing Chao Taotai, Manager of the Kiangnan Arsenal, and tobe Acting Manager. Chao Taotai onl ppointing the Assistant Manager, Tanz,
joined the Arsenal a few short months ago, but he inaugurated an era trenchment as soon as he took over his seals of office to such an extent that he must have made many bitter enemies for {himself with the result mentioned abore. It does not "pay" to be too honest or economical in mandarindom. sin West Szechuan. j A Chungking native dispatch states that there is such a scarcity of rice andj cther cereals in the Western portions of Szechuan province, notably in the vicinity of hienlu, on the Szechuan-Tibetan frontiers, that the majority of the inhabitants there have taken to pillaging trading caravans and also forcibly carrying off any. resorre. stores of rice, ete from the richer and more provident sections of their own community. OF course all this has not been done without some opposition on the part of the robbed—the officials are powerless as well as incapable—with the result that lives have' been sacrificed on either side while di content and distress amongst the inhabitants, both Chinese and Tibetan, are daily spreading wider and wider. To cap evers-thing a Tibetan imitator of the notorious Yii "Man-tze," by the name of Pa Wa, has lately also started an insurrection at a place called Napa in the. Patn hill range, rom whence he and his savage looking and uncouth followers, many said to be well armed to boot, have begun of late to; sally into the low country to rob and plunder Chinese and Tibetans alike. 1 this respect, at least, Pa Wa may be sai id to exercise the utmost impartiality.
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