A K'aiféng dispatch to the Universal Gazette" states that Prince Ching left that city on the 17th instant for Peking. News from another source reports that the Empress Dowager was very much pleased with the Prince who was evidently able to gain her ear and confidence in. spite of the secret intrigues of Yung Lu, Li Lien-ying (the eunuch), and Lu Ch'uan-lin, who in the Prince's presence treated him with flattery and adulation amounting to fulsomeness, and behind his hack did their best to poison the Empress Dowager's ears against their rival for her favour. From present appenrances, however, it would seem that the Tiger Triad have not been very successful. Mourning for the Deceased Statesman.
The Tientsin Joh-ich Sin-wén™ states that when news was received of the death of the late Viceroy Li Hung-chang at Tieutein, H.E.'s sudden demise came upon hi friends and partisans in that city like the shock of acute personal bereavement. BLE. had been so often reported seriously ill and had as often revived that his parti-suns felt almost certain that there was still left to their powerful Patron another lease of, at least, ten more years of life. Hence, near' as Tientsin was to Peking people' in the former place were just as much surprised to hear of the late Viceroy's demise as those in the furthest confines of the Empire approachable by tne telegraph. There was universal mourning amongst the late Viceroy's friends and partisans, merchants and officials, at Tientsin and so great was his influence over them that trade was suspended amongst the former for three days, during which the latter postponed all dinners and festive celebra~ tions that had been arranged to take place at that time, due, of course, to ignorance that the end of their Leader was so near. At Peking, also, it is stated, the number of people who called at the private residence of the late Viceroy at Chungpu Btreet, as soon as it became known that FLE. was dead, amounted to over 800—these were personal friends and prote whilst those who presented themselves at Hesienliang temple—the official headquarters of the Viceroy—for the same purpose, namely, to offer condolences and helo to the bereaved family, numbered it is reported up to a couple of thousand. This is only a native way of expressing to friends that those who mourned for their Patron at Peking numbered a very considerable party.
Apropos, this must not be taken as an example of general mourning throughout the empire for the late Li Hung-chang's death. The mourners and pathisers above noted were those under his late Excelleney's immediate influence in the Nori.
In H.E-s native city of Hofei, and province of Anhui, the mourning for a lost Patron and Protector may be as acute and general as that shown in Tientsin and Peking: but except amongst his protézés scattered throughout the Empire, the mourning for the late Li Hung-chang was ly nil in the other provinces.
an eloquent enough testimony of how Li has been considered during the past decade amongst the masses of this country; but it also speaks eloquently of the estimation his partisans and proteees hold of him, for whatever sins may be Tnid at. th provincials next and friends and profi after them, cannot be attributed to him.
To complete Negotiations.
Owing to the death of the late Viceroy and Plenipotentiary Li Hung-chang and the consequent ten stoppage of all negotiations with the Ministers of the Foreign Powers at Peking, the new Chinese Plenipotentiary Wang Wen-shao was to have left K'aiféng for Peking immediately after his appointment to take up the negotiations where his Into pre-Accessor had left off; but it is more probable that H.E. will wait and travel to Peking in company with Prince Ching, his colleague, whose departure for the capital has been chronicled in these columns this morning.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.