The "Univeral Gazette publishes the following letter from a correspondent, which we translate as description of thi charmed circle of the hnperi The most powerful sit bye inoment is the restored fay nephew of the Empress in charge of everything, and the present ite Yung fan, gir. He is power at Taotais, prefect magistrates desirous of getting a sulstantive post need only pay a price" f and purchase the privilege of serving under the banner of the all-powerful Yung T also ata certain price. So despa honest officials of any change for the bette in the present Goverment have left and are leaving the under all sorts of pretences.
Court official was heard the othe declare publicly: "*T ain of of our comity comet Inst auch Iomger hence the only way leit to us_is to rake in all the money we can and ret live the rest of our lives on the competence we have yamed. This is the best for all of us." With this as the keynote one need not be'suxprised to learn that posts are he: ing sold constantly ly anyone who is abl today for them. A Taotai need spend only a couple of thousand taels to hare his name inserted in the Grand Council books for immediate preferment, whilst any expectant metropolitan official can wre of from Tis. al the proper Board, a ty the provinces expectant offi the recent edicts on Reform every Court knows that the Empress ger and her Coun one not at all in the matter and have issued ose edicts to throw dust inthe eyes of Foreigners and. Chinese. Indeed the heantitul platitude expressed in several of the Ennpress D: 's edicts, which filled the hearts of t people with joy at the time, that Mother and Soa (ie.
press Dowager and Epernx), are one in hewt in desiring Reform and agree in cor aut Experor jer—thiat is all! has improved energy, and what he car for his las! he has no power knowledge of this inexpr sibly sad" whenever misters who he e faithful to him and: sympathise with his helpless condition, approach his Majesty on any topic of Suite. But the Finperor can be stern on occasion, for one day hearing certain eunuchs who attend Majesty's ps had been ove and kaw it conduct outside the temporary. his Majesty at unco adop order to have isreants summarily: beheaded. Dowager's favourite Mistress's aid in rep eanuehs. OF course he" was attecessful, nuichs were ordered to leave the Eimperor's apartments and, transferred to her own Tang Fads still inthe vicinity of Cin Ube capital of Kansu, at-the head ay. all of whom have been tlacklo his banners. He pays then ten pockets and) lias also horses and annies for his army, are kept of, but they vous in the:
Alt many as ta brave: without riy knowledge of stret one not to be feared, at he has been doi Tate, less ax he may perhaps' be made in the end, the harm which he will do at the beginning will be diswstroas to the coniry and be the means of the hundreds of thousands of innocent lives.
The Chekiang Military Forces, according to a Hangchow dispatch, by ant tobe immediately, a considerable town of the roll, and out fuinutining will Ie formed th eid buadies of amen, 1 the pre Vineial Suinding Army, the Reserve, and the Mi The basis of organise.
Police. tion will be after Japanese methods, Strike at Kashing.
AK dispatch reports that when that city the other thorities at Hangchow 1 of an addi-tael weight dealers, the prepared drug went on sir Sau protest ay Fang, however, equal. to the occasion, and atone had the premi sealed up, pendi tions fra Hangehon ined. and people ave an sions to the result of the contre Cth November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.