According to news receive it by us yesterday it appears that the people of Kiukiang had very narrow escape from being attacked and burnt out of the port on Friday, 17th inst. It seemed that the Kolao Hui society-men, who have long had numerous body of sympathisers in Kiu-Kiang and vicinity, had decided to attack the port on the 17th inst., to be commenced by simultaneously setting fire to the port at three different places, viz: at each end and in tha centre.
Seven men volunteered for the jub and entered the town for the purpose on that day. Their acti-us were, however, so mysterious that they aroused the suspicions of the native milittury patrol, ending in the arrest of four of the gang, who confessed the plot and were subsequently summarily decapitated by the local native authorities.
'THE EMPRESS DOWACEE, in her fight from Peking, according to late dispatches received by the local mandarins, carried with her, a personal bag-
than one half of her retinue having had to accompany her on foot owing to the sear-city of horses and mules. The Manchus seemed to have been taken altogether by surprise by the rapidity of the victorious match of the Allied forces to Peking, they having been made to understand by Kang Yiand Tung Fu-hsiang that the Foreign Helief Force would never be allowed to further than Tungehou, The notorious li Hsien, Gowernor of Shansi, is now at Changehiak'ou waiting with a' large force of Boxers to escort the Empress Dowager through Shans. The celebrated temples at Wataishan, Shansi, have been turned into a temporary Paluce for the Empress Dowager.
THE DEFEATED ORNERATS, News has been received irom the North by local mandarins to the effect that the notorious Li Ping-hong, who was wounded at the battle of Peitsang, as already re ported in these columns, died the next day from its effects Farther that in " battle near Tungehou, two other well-known Generals, namely, Chin Tse-lin and Chang Chun-fa, were killed. Chen Tsélin was Inst year Provincial Judge of Kiangsi, but of Commander-in-Chief of the Vanguard resigned last December 0 take up the post Corps of Jung Lu's Grand army of the North (Wuwei Army) numbering nearly 000 men recruited in the Yangtze p who went through the whole recent campaign, commencing from the siege of Tientsin, and ending at Tungchou. General Chang Chun-fa was second' in command of the above Corps. News has also been received that General Ma, second in command to General Sung Ching's Corps, was also severely wounded before Tungchou on the 12th inst.
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