It is reported from Peking that, owing to rumour current in the capital that the worship of Confiteius in the new Western Learning College in Taiyuanfu, Shansi, has been abandoned, a large number of the conservative portion of the Hanlins and Censors of Peking have recently agreed to present a joint protest to the throne on the subject.
The New Site of the Peking University.
According to a Peking dispatch, a place called Wayao, or "Tile Kilns," outside the Chényang-gate of the capital, has been recently purchased for the new site of the Peking University, and work on the new buildings will be begun at once. 'The new University will be very favourably situated, it is said, asit is only a ten minutes' ride by rail from the Chényang-gate.
The Rebellion in S.-W. Chihli.
received at Paoting, and thence tele-Telegraphic dispatches from Tamingfu the districts immediately south-east of Chen-apiied to the local mandarins, report. that ting and to the north of Taming have since the 12th inst. been entirely' cleared of rebels, and that it is reliably reported that the chief leader of the reber army, Ching ''Ping-pin, who was defeated on the 9th instant by Viceroy Yuav's foreign-modelled troops, has fled with nearly 3,000 well-armed and devoted followers across the Chihli borders into northera Honan, amongst the hills surrounding the prefectural city of Changtéfu in the latter province. the Government troops and summarily beheaded by them, in consequence of which the insurgents had dispersed. It was then thought that no further fear need be entertained of the insurgents, but according toa Kaifeng dis pave named three tricts were greatly enraged the news of the decay Hsi Siao-fa, and have acco ingly risen gain in greater numbers than before. So formidable is the size of this second rising that on the 15th instant it was variously reported in K'aifong first, that Piyanghsien, 'T'anghsien and 'T'ungpehhaien were closely besieged by the insurgents, and subsequently, that they had assaulted and captured the three cities As these three districts are close to the north-eastern borders of Hupeh province Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, upon receipt of the news of the second rising, forwarded to the Hupeh frontier city of Tsaoyang on the 15th and 16th inst, two brigades of his troops, numbering about 5,000 in all, by train as far as a place called Kuangshui, and thence to the Hupeh-Honan borders, to prevent not only th: Honan insurgents from crossing "into Hupeh, but also to overawe the des-radaes who generally congregate in der towns, and who are reported to be in sympathy with the Honan insurgents, and getting restless. As there is no telegrap! Communication between the Hupei frontier city of Teaoyang_and Wuchang, the provincial capital, Viceroy Chang Chil-tung has ordered the Chinese Telegraph Administration to lay a line with all haste to connect the two points. It is thought in K'aiftng official circles that this second rising in Piyang, etc., is a note serious one than the first and that the insurgents were encouraged to rise by the report then current of the success of the Chihli rebellion.
Alleged Movements of Foreign troops.
The "Sinwénpao" published yesterday a Peking telegram on certain movements of Foreign troops in the north, which we are informed on good authority is unreliable. We translate the telegram in question as follows:—* A joint body of German and Japanese troops to th: number of over 4400, and also some 2,300 French troops, have left the Chényang-gate of Peking and entrained at the H-ichengkéng railway station for Ch'ichou—S.W. Chihli—and vicinity, to assist in suppressing the insurgents of Kuangtsung."
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