Besides the 10,000 Manchu troops, i cluding the Imperial Guards, which accompany the Court on the return journey towards Peking, a private K'aiféng telegram of the lith instant states that the Army Corps under the octogenarian, shal Sung Ch'ing, numbering some 23,000 men of all arms, will march about a mnile's distance on the right flank of the Imperial cortege, and the division of General Hsia Yii-hsin, about 8,000 strong, will guard the progress of the Imperial Court on the left flank, keeping a regular distance en route from the vicinity of the The Treasurer of Hupeh, H.E. Chu Ting-shao, according to a Wuchang dispatch, is shortly to be promoted to the Gorernorship of Honan, vice Sung Shou, who, it is reported, is to return to Peking with the Court, where a post in one of the Six Boards will be his reward for making almost perfect arrangements for the comfort of the Empress Dowager during her recent journey through his province.
Lith December.
Wang Chih-chun, who was ordered by Imperial decree to resign the Governorship of Anhui the other day and await some other appel has, according to a Nganking Anhui province) dispatch an urgent telegram from Prince Ching to give up his seals of office ud hasten with all possible speed to Peking. The dispatch further states that when the Imperial decree removing Governor Wang Chih-chun from his post arrived at Nganking. without any reason therefor set down the edict, it_ was gener Governor's friends and partisans that H-E. had been found guilty of certain mis- a demeanour of which it' wasan open secret a couple of vindictive Censors had charged his Excellency a couple of months or so ago. Inanswer to enquiries made at Peking, it however turned out that Governor Wang Chih-ch'un's services were required by the Chinese Plenipotentiaries at the Capital to assist in the anticipated negotiations with Russia about Manchuria, on account of H. E.'s alleged greater Knowledge of the manners, customs, and modes of thought of the Muscovite." BLE. acted some twenty years ago not only as Secretary of Legation, but_ also, for a time, as Chinese Charge d'Affaires St. Petersburg, during which H. E. was quite well-known at the Foreign Office there; and he has also visited Russia a second time in 1894, when he was ap-Hf. 1. Bf, Roang Hat's condolences to the linted Special Ambassador to carry resent Czar on the occasion of the late var Alexander's death.
The Lung Fu Tse Temple, one of the two principal Buddhist monasteries in Peking which, according to our correspondent, was almost destroyed by fire on the night of the 3rd inst., was a Lamaist temple, built during the reign of the Emperor Chien Lung, about 1745, in commemoration, og alleged by tradition, of the acknowledgment of the suzerainty of the Manchu dynasty by the Dalai Lama or Buddhist Poutitl of Tibet. The first character—Lung"—of the name of the temple is the same as the" last one of the Emperor Chien Lung's name, which is another indication of the connection between the Royal builder and the temple. This was a very large and spacious building, consisting of nine long rows of houses one in front of the other with broad open courte between each row. Seven of these rows of houses were destroyed by the recent conflagration. Besides the large grants of flourishing wheat fields made to the temple by its originator, Chien Lung, and many of his successors—the wheat fidds measuring over 20,000 mow of land—the Lamaist priests obtained large revenues in hard cash by throwing open to the public the temple, courts and grounds six times a month, namely, on the 9th, 10th, 19th, 20th, 29th and3Oth day of each month. On those days merchants, traders of all degrees, and the more humble hawkers, with their stands and stalls, turn the place into an immense bazaar, where costly mer chandise, curiosities, precious stones, high-priced pearls of all sizes and quality may be purchased, as well as the most' inexpensive articles of daily use. These merchants and traders pay rent to the priests for the space occupied by each of them, and in proportion to the value of the trade of each... It is stated that these shrewd Tibetan Lamas are adepts at "gathering in the shekels"
Tls. 2,000 a their wealth it will be an easy matter to rebuild the Lung Fu Tse.
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