th Oct:
No Government Lottery. dispatch fr reliahi urea ft ates th Jy advocated the Metropolitan and 1 has of received the support at first anticipated 1 thy powers that be. On the contrary, ach a scheme is considered derogatory to the dignity and latent resources of "the Empire, aid the upshot has been that this been rejected and German Consulates in China. the diguitch Viceroy Lin of Who int ohta ned Ue inform us bel tex of thix dispatch re auber of German Constilates in the ports of China at the present wid the limits of their j hinese subject vain subjects in the whole province of ili; the six prefectures and two in-at sul-prefectures of Shantung Wating. Chinan, Tang its Tehou, and Ts'avchout ud Lints'ing and Chining dent sul-prefectures; the provinees and Honan; Outer and Inner Mongotia; the three Manchurian provinces and the regions North and South of the Tienshan (Celestial Mountains, Kuldja and Chinese Ti "an, respectively) -General at Chefoo, Shansul-General, having juris diction over the four prefectures of Shantung, mamely. Téngehou, Laichou, Ts'ing-chew. and T eneral at Shanghai, pro-rst: under Consul-General, never the four provinees us, Anhui and Kiangsi.
sulate at. Amoy, Fukien Province Consol, Inaving jurisdiction over the whole of Fukien province.
—Consulateat Foochow; under Consul, This oticer has no judicial powers vested in him, 6.—Vico-Consulate at Swatow, Kuangtung province; under Vice-Consul, with jurisdiction over the two prefectures of fuichou and Chracchou and the indepen: ichoufu), Provine under Vice-Consul, having juris all the prefectures' and sub-pref Ku ince, with the excep the three provinees of Kuang: and Kueichou, and the Island of Hai Sonsilate at Hankow, province of under Consul, with jurisdiction peh, Hunan, to Germin subjects.)
Some of the Negotiations at Peking.
The © Sinwénpao™ states that, accord ing to a correspondent at Peking, ELE. Viceroy Li Hung-chang called on the new Russian Minister, M. Lessir, on the 7th three hours' conference latter, the tenor of the negotiations being stated to be concerning the re-tum of the Newchwang Railwsy. to the inese "Anothe: dispatch received by another local vernacular paper, in ment e sune conference, appears lea that Viceroy Li was successful in his negotiations.
18th October, The Nanking Contingent to Japan. aking dispatch states, in reference the officers selected by Viceroy Lin Kun. " to Japan to witness the army avrex there in response to an in-from the Japanese Governmen Viveroy Lin has appointed the follow: ing officials, namely, the Taotais Tao and eral Yang and Colonel Lung, and ials left. Nanking for 11th inst., to catch the that country Governor in for the same purpose Reform Measures in Lower couriers the nticated official copy of the recent Inpezial decree commanding the abo ment of Wénchang and the turning of all public colleges of the old regime into school shout the Empire. In obedience to the instructions contained in the authenticated copy of the above decree, without spite of the. telegraph, the pro-h officials dare not feel authorixed vil authorities under his juri pf Kiangnan, or Lower Kiangsu, command-Jag all to obey the decree in question and inaugurate the necessary reforms without delay.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.