In telling Li Hung-chang not te mind any opposition of the Southern Viceroys and Governors, but to go ahead and finish the lations with Russia eoncerni telegraphed to the recommending war against Russia s she persist As this. w mid_reactionaries the Empress was made to ask whether Vie Liu gould depend upon the activ of Great Britain and Japan "If Lin K'un-yi can this, then Tet it he war snubbed, with the result that the chief Russophiles—Yung Lu, Li Hung-c aul certain other Manchus of high' 1 are eagerly hurrying the new Mane churian Convention with Russia wh makes the ancestral territories of the Manchu dynasty a tributary of Russia for ever. Tt is to be feared that ax soon a the truckling of the Empress Dowager and her advisers with Russia is known in the Southern provinees it will produce a serious aversion to the dynasty.
The new Minister to Great Britain.
Avcording to the "Univ it, would xcem that the transference of the Minister at Washington, HE. Wu 'Ting: fang, to London in place of HE, In ix not certain after all. "According to paper's Peking correspondent the ernment, it i the sending' of a
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