Confirmation, Readers of this paper will perhaps re-riber in these columns. several graphs over three months ago having rence to the movements of the notorious nee Tuan and his lieutenant Tung Fu-ug. They were reported to be birsy at that tine im organising an invasion from Mongolia and Show: respectively, int Shansiprovinee with the intention of capturing the provincial capital Tai and using that wealthy and_ strong' city axa base for rudy into Chili, the capture of Peking, and either the extermination of foreigners or their banishment from the North of China, Further that the Prince with " horde of Mongols had then already passed Ninghsia, a city on the northernmost confines of Katsu and bordering the country of the Alashan Mongols, matching eastwards for an opening m the Great Wall so ax. to descend Emperor, to take Lo eng-lu's place, retaining Wu Ting-fang another tei mat Washington, 20th October.
A Proposed Government Lottery.
According to news received from Wie chang, the provincial capital of Hupeh, the high authorities there being hard pushed fay money for the proscentions0 itis said-—of reforms, have recently come to the determination of establishing a Lottery under the auspices and guarantee of the Provincial Government of Hupeh. As the matter is in an embryo state it has not vet been decided how many tickets are to' be istled monthly: at what rate per tic! et or how large and how veto be offered to tempt the cupidity of investors. This leads {o the opinion that the Peking Tottery, although at present squashed, will eventually be an accomplished fact in a Year or tivo at most.
A New Departure, A Hangchow, capital of Chekiang, di patch states that a member of the genti of that city, nained T'1o, has lately obtained permission from Governor Jen Tan-yunsz to establish a School of Western Learning in that city. For the support of th school it is proposed to levy a tax of forty cash per daclweight of prepared opium sold inside Hangchow city, one-half of said tax to be laid by solely for the expenses of the proposed school, while the other half or twenty cash goes into the Provincial treasury. month for Kaifeng to meet the Courtthere. Itis however, now stated that H.E. not go, after all, to Kaifeng, but that "if the Gourt leaves that city immediately after the celebration of the Empress Dowager's birthday anniversary, which falls this year on the 20th of November next, and continues until the 23rd idem,' His Excellency will leave Shanghai' for Tien-sin in time to meet the returning Court jat a price about sixty miles from the present. Tks 'Terminus at Chenti west of Paotin rining this duty it is finally stated HE. will return at once to Shanghai to conduct on behalf of the Chinese Gosernmont the negotiations on the new tari' and the Commercial clauses the Peace Protocol. Apropos of the egoliations in question it is stated that E. has obtained the consent of the Throne to send for the former Customs' Taotai of Tientsin, Huang Chien-yuan—the same official who had to abandon his post in July lust year owing to the attack of the allies on the native city of Tientsin—to come to Shanghai and assist HE, in the approaching negotia The Chinese Public School. reported that a site of some ten mow jof land haa been selected fur the proposed Chinese Public School and that the Chinese subscribers to the fund have appointed Messrs. Tong Kid-son and Chun Oi-ting to Teprerent them in the negotiations with the Municipal Council on the subject.
A New Departure has recently been inaugurated, under the joint auspices of Viceroy Chang Chih-southwards into Shansi territory. This had been vehemently denied by both Shensi and Shansi officials and, for a couple of months, there seemed to have been movement either in Kansu or Mongolia, News has now been received by some of the local native papers confirming our news of several months ago, with the addition that Prince Tuan and Tung Fu-hsiang have been energetically buying up all the_ pon s available in that part of Me i niust the foreigue! otod war of revenge ind the ye papers have it that horse dealers who annually supply the southern mar unable this summer to make th In further confirm: ity of Tuan mnstt, correspondent reports that the best mobs north of Kansw and Shansi prs bought up or bespoken on behalf an and Tung, but their agents have actually swept the Shensi and Kanstw ina kets clear of alnest all the mules—fe which these two provinces are famous—, so that a good, strong mule that used to sell for Tls. 50' cannot now be purchased une less at three times the usual price. These mules are to be used to draw baggage and commissariat carts as well as to serve a5 pack animals. Of course Tung Fu-hsiang is the chief paymaster of these large war. like undertakings, whilst Prince Tuan by is influence furnishes the extra modern arms and ammunition required to arm the 100,000 additional Mongol and Kansu levies that have joined their standard. But, in addition to Tung Fu-hsiang, a Mongol
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