ews brought here by the R. V. F. steamer Saratov from Vladivostock states General Keller, the Director of the Vssuri 1 Manchurian rally burnt to d few days ago i car whilst on his w: y from Vi to. Habarovsk, The unfortu General, who was 41 years of age, hi motion as Genera only ved his pro-last year.
The followi telegrams are from the Masampo. 25th March. The Russian ships which set sail for few days ago erept into hour after sailing round Quel-now gceasionally seen off 26th March.
The vessels of the Standing Squadron loft here yesterday afternoon a night. The cruiser Matsushima and six other warships are still Tying here, in addition to three torpedo-destroyers "and sixteen torpedo-boats.
Tokio, 26th March.
The Russian attitude onthe Corean and Manchurian questions is reported to be determined and that of the Government is equally firm. The indications are that the condition of affairs is critical. The Foreign Department We can only regret that the Emperor meeting of hig! {was induced to resort tio step, which, tment is now taking place. whilst it puts an end to the "ficulties of sui (Field-Marshals) the day, inaugurates a departure from ture of the Ist-class constitutional government that would have South are looked been impossible in England, and we cannot upon indications that something bur look upon const rational government serious is pending.
Yushin." in England as the standard by which it Peking, 27th March. must be measured elsewhere.
Mr. Komura, Japanese Minister to Pe-'Marquis It" has now his course clear for king, called on Li Hung-chang and inform-the immediate future, but it is the fate of ed him that the Japanese Government has extraordinary measures to produce extrilodged a protest against the Russo-Chinese ordinary results that cannot be brought treaty with the Russian Government. The agree With the ordinary course of events. Minister also advised Li that it would not In the meantime Jacques Bonhomme will be advisable to ratify a treaty with one have to pay the piper. country and thereby sacrifice Manchuri Tax "Pioneer" alludes to the strange ewo The Chinese Emperor forwarded a tele-of John Ford, an Eng'ishwan, who died graphic message to Peking directing the recently at Nynee, near Allahtbal, at the Ex: voys not to hasten the conclusion of the age of about sixty, Ford was a gen'lenran Russo-Chinese treaty affair.—Mainichi." by birth and education, belonging to a good io, 27th March. country family in the centre of England.
Mr. Komu Japanese Minister to Pe-At one time he was railway engineer, but king, 1 red to the Foreign Depart-afterwards took to brickmaking. He marment stating that the Hsianfu Government ried a Hindu woman of the brickmaking telegraphed to Prince Ching and Li Hung-class and lived with her for many years in instruct Yang Ju, Chinese a native hange in which he recently dies. Petersburg, to decline to said his wife initiated him into the the Russo-Chinese treaty.—" Yutrade of brickmsking and by the knowledge he thus acquired he was able to make The Japanese garrisons in Corea are realage fortune. He owned considerublo ved some time in April or early in May extent of land in the neighbourhood of his year; but it is reported that one house, and it is believed that when n from the Third Division (station-estate ix realised it will come to over six Nagoya) will be dispatched thither lakhs of rubers, He seems to have been ar, in fact as soon as the deeply attached to hin wife, who died some necessary preparations cam be made. This eighteen months ago, and almost. the uni: is understood to be due to the unsettled article in a will mad" before her d-nth condition of affairs in North China and to provided for her in case of her surviving the somewhat disturbed outlook in Corea. him, Before her death also he was engaged Three Staff officers will accompany the in plans of n large house in English fashion troops. It is also reported that one regi-and had bought a quantity of English ment of the First Division (stationed in furniture, but he gave up these plans when Tokio) will shortly be sent to North China, his wife died and took to. building an to relieve the Japanese troops there. elaborate tomb for her remains, Hy was While it is true that these troops are to quite collected up till the day of his death, orth China with the and talked intelligently on English aff ug the Japanese garrisons, Though the old msn's end way nece-sunly they may have to act ima certain affair lonely, it is satisfactory to know that he with the troops already there if the Ras-covered by Europeans before his sian movements regarding Manchuria and death and carefully tended during his lust an render it necessary His fortune, it is understood, hws been left to a niece resident in England, Tae destruction caused at Baku by ths Tue Spectator," in a recent issue, after recent fire has evidently been much ex-mentioning that "a part, at least, of aggerated. A Reuter's telegram dated St.
French dislike of England is founded on Petersburg, the 10th Feb., which appears the conviction that Englishmen dislike in the Standard," says Telegrapbing from Baku to-day, the sion can be more complete or Governor of that place states that' only wore wischierous. Evglishmen are fully about eight million boods of naphtha and aware how valuable the fiendship of naphtha refuse were burnt in the three France would he to them. There is no naphtha depots, and that the losses amoun!- country which they visit so often, no ed to only about one million two hundred literature which they know so well, no thousand roubles, The number of corpses found now amounts to ten. Besides the language which they are so anxious tq, no Navy which comes so yenr,, representatives of the firms engaged in the their own, no Army which mi naphtha industry who have been appointed conceivably do them so much harm. to serve on the Committee, there have also been nominated an inspector of factories, a surely are all the materials of friends, ernment official, and a local police a friendship of reason, at all events, '<1. of affection. Is it conceivable that cer. The Committee has nearly com-all these motives for being on good tort pleted its task.
The number of persons suffering from with France we should wilfully and with) out provocation cherish ill-feeling agains burns will probably be limited to only a her? Isitnotobvious that if there be such! few. Seven of them have died; all the ill feeling it must be founded on our mis others are on the road to recovery. understanding of something the Freue Tae Eastern World" of the 16th have done, or, at all events, of somethin we suppose them to have done? We regret On the 14th ult. Prince Kunoye, the this profoundly, because we have no wish President of the House of Peers, read the see our foreign policy shaped, as it ines, Imperial Mestage to the House, and after must be shaped, by the convirexi brief recess, as we learn from the "Japan France is an itreconeilable foe..*Yjost Times," the following reply was adopted: not Frenchmen equal cause for ea:
May it please Your Imperial Maje: English foreign policy she.
"In view of the gravity of the position dominated by this consideration MY. of affairs at home and abroad, Your to their interest any more than eneral Imperial Majesty has em descended to that the two mations should: foral de favour us with a gracious message wherein such constant autagoniam thati<'i1eq and Your Majesty is pleased to reveal to us a less multitude on each side of profound Imperial policy. We humbly are coming to think that this to signify to Your Majesty our intention of discharging our legislative function part of as permanent natur' we dead can be but one answer. Sponnd urely this is a question to in obedience to the Imperial will."
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