It is stated from Moukden that the Rassian Chief Engineer-in-charge of the construction of the Russo-Chinese Ra through Fengtien province. 1 fied the Tartr-General, Ts Moukden that the former intended to e: the railway thro the Western harriers with Tichling and K'siyuan. against all the sacred tradi dynasty to allow a foreign invention mnetrate through the capital the g dynasty, the Tartar General declared his inability to consent to the innovation without instructions from the Court. It is however, to be feared that the Russians will not take nay to their request."
Decorating a Chinese Official.
A Canton dispatch states that Viceroy Tao Mu of that city has received a French decoration from the French Consul there, with a request to transmit it to the prefect of Lienchou, Kuangtung province, Li Chih-hsiang, who was instrumental in. saving the lives of three Catholic priests last year who had fled from Yungchou Boxers in Honan and had come for refuge in disguise to Lenchou. Here, however, the moh Was just as hostile, and' the priests would have been murdered had it not been for the stid prefect, who came to their rescue, took them to live in his yam and subscquentsent them under an escort to the seacoast in safety. This humane and kind treatment. by the prefect Li Chi -hsiang was reported to the French authorities at home, with the result that a decoration has deen sent to that official as a recognition of his services, 16th November.
A Cause of Wonder among the li Chinese n this year ngsi, where there have been internecine sectarian conflicts between native professors of Protestantism and Roman Catholicism and their sympathisers. urally, Chinese non-converts, sceptics in. their way, seeing the peace always existing between Budahists and Taoists, are astonished to see the vindictive enmity shown by some portions of the followers of the Foreign religions it h other, and cannot make out plausible reason for all this hitter feeling The Governors of Kiangsi and Chekiang, especially the latter, are also at a loss to explain this religi in answer to the enquiries of the Throne, and have therefore, we learn, sent con: fidential deputies to Shang) other treaty ports to seek for some sort. of planation. One of these confidential deputies. int prefect of Chekiang, named Hsit -li, is now in Shanghai, whither he was preceded a fortnight by an official of similar rank from chtang, the now quietly utes for an exhaustive report on the subject to their superior officers. A hasty glimpse at the rough draught of an intended report by one of these deputies shows that that gentleman has begun it with a sketch the Reformation, beginning with Martin Luther, in Germany, and John Knox in Scotland, and so' on step by step, through En sh, Dutch, and Spanish history, down to the present era. With this as a basis to go on and the trite remark that human nature is the same the world over," it became easy for the writer of the report to show the ich has produced this bitter feeling between the followers of the two religious sects in this country, coloured by local conditions.
Mr. felham Warren's visit to Nanking.
The Universal Gazette" in reporting sit of Mr. Pelh m Warren, C.M.G., -General of this' port, to the other day, to ha miference with BLE. Viceroy Lin K'un-yi, rethe there were several reasons for (1) Because Mi Warren had owled upon the Viceroy since the sumed the Consul-Generalship of this port. (2) A discussion on the Woosung Bar question. (3) The persistent breaking of the Settlement regulations by its of taxes and likin collectors seizing ud exacting likin and other duties, two instances of which had happened within a month, and brought before the Mixed Court by the Municipal police of Shanghai namely, the ease of the Flour farmer who was fined $1,000, and the case of the Tallow farmer whose collector, a clerk named Sun, was fined $300 and imprisoned two months—all for illegally detaining and collecting duties. within the settlement limits of Shanghai. The object of Mr. Warren's visit, concludes the above-named paper, is to tty and arrange with the Viceroy as to what steps to take to put a stop te these constant breaches of the settlement regulations, The Telegraph at Ch'angshu.
A Ch'angshu (near Soochow) dispatch to hand states that city is now connected, at last, with the outer world by telegraph. In response to a general request from the gentry and notables of Ch'angshu recently, ILE. Sheng sanctioned the laying of a line connecting that city with Soochow and a telegraph office was opened, for the first time Jin the history of Ch'angshu, on the 14th instant. Asa sort of "education" to the people of the city they have been allowed to send free telegrams for three days, Changshu has been made famous as being the native city of Wong Trung-ho, ex: Imperial Tutor to the present Emperor.
The Assistant Plenipotentiaryship, It was reported in local mandarin circles yesterday to the effect that the Empress Dowager is quite favourable to the memo-shao, the newly appointed Plenipotentiary, rial of the Grand Secretary Wang \sén-
asking for the snpointment of H.E. Sheng to be Assistant Plenipotentiary at Peking to help him, and that it is quite likely that a special edict will soon be sent from Kaifeng making the appointment and commanding H.B. Sheng to start for Peking within a specified period of his receipt of the edict in question.
18th November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.