Americans are as much displeased over Colonel Denby's eulogy of the Empress Dowager and the odious comparisons made in it as any Englishman could be.
HAUPENINGS IN THE CAPITAL, Sir Claude Macdonald has been quite ill at the western hills but is now reported emvalescent and rapidly impro M John Mateer, in charge of the printing establishment of the A. B.C. Foreign Missions, died after a painful illness of a nouth's duration, on Monday last, and was buried on Wednesday in the English cemetery, west of the city. His brother, Dr. C. W. Mater, was telegraphed for from Téngchowln when ie was known to be low but arrived too late to take a farewell.
In spite of the constantly, repeated rumours that the Imperial University about to "shut up shop" we have Dr. Murtin's assertion that the Empress Dowager hits promised to grant the institution a three years' further trial, New students have recently joined and the faculty are
make the University permanent. Last hopel that the increasing interest' may week we were using fires, this week we lnve to tuke ice, Next week the birds will be migrating to del Peituiho, Thanks to the energetic txin committee and the Peitaiho Ice Ca. an_ abundance of ice is prepared—for: subscribers at Tis, 40 each.
26th April.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.