hears from Peking that, just previous to to the demise of the late Viceroy Li Hung-chang, at secret conference between the Jatter and the Russian Minister M. Lessar, at Li's residence, the latest Manchurian Convention of four clauses was signed by the two, and that, i from Li, the Exmpri of Yung Lu and script consenting tothe ratification of the terms of that convention. The sume paper remarks that it docs not know whether the news is correct or not; but according to enquiries made by this paper from reliable sources in touch with both Peking and the Court, it is emphatically denied, saying that the broaching of such a et must be a tentative attempt on the part of Russia to see how far the world can be guiled and the desire to probe for a mani-testation of the public feeling on. the subject in China, The feelings of the official classes, asa rule, are put aside, as the majority of them under the present can be bought over; what the Manchus and their partisans want to find out is the feeling of the literati and enlightened people of the empire. The Late Viceroy of Canton, H.E. T'ao Mu's death on the 17th inst. must have been very sudden and quite unexpected, for according to a Canton dispatch to hand H.E. called personally on the Mth inst. at Shameen to return the ts that had been paid him on the 5th inst. by the Consuls for Great Britain, the Cnited States, France and Germany. On that day (9th) H.E. was seen to be quite well and bright, and didn't show any sign that in a short week's time he of the Into V! will doubtless en uso would he no more. The great popularity general mourning, not only in Ruangtung but also in Kansu his previous place of The Director-General designate of Grain Transport and the Grand Canal, H. E. hou (Manchu), whose promotion from the Provincial Treasurership at Nanking was recorded er last reported, will not: leave that city for Tsingk: on the Grand Canal, ire of Viewroy to help him to put into force the reform measures agreed upon between them since the Empress Dowager's Reform deere Viceroy Liu has t asking for permis Shou for the nonce hence there is no knowing when HE.
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