It is the intention of the Empress Dowager to pay frequent visits to the Summer Palace during the coming summer, and orders have been given to have the place entirely renovated. Six hundred thousand taels is the sum to be spent, and of t! half has been given by two of the princi al Ministers of the Imperial Household apartment, and the other half by a dexraded official whose generous gift has been rewarded by reinstatement. to his former rank. The work has been given to four different contractors and is expected to be finished within forty days.
A Memorial has been sent in by Hu Yii-fen and others petitioning the Court to appoint Prince Bo Governor of Peking, ando give him jurisdiction over the Chinese city, which has hitherto been under the control of the five Censors. This is thought to be a move on the part of his enemies to get the Prince into disgrace, a favourite trick of the Chinese being' to memorialise the throne to place the individual they wish disgraced in an impossible position. Stil if this appointment were made we might, hope to sce some improvement in the streets and sanitary condition of the city.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.