9th October.
Taat the Grand Council at Peking fully appreciates the temper of the Chinese in the Yangize Valley is shown by the appointments it has made in connection with the lamented death of H.E. Liu Kan-~ HE, Chang Chih-tung, as Liu's faithful colleague in the conduct of affairs in the valley during the last two years anxiety, and in the negotiations which resulted in the Treaty of Shanghai, is fittingly sent to Nanking, and a better man to succeed Chang for the time at Wuchang could not have been selected than TLE. Tuan Fang, who saved the lives of so many foreigners in Shensi in 1900. It is not generally believed by Chinese here that H.E. Chang Chih-tung will remain long at Nanking, where, as we have already said, it is almost imperative that the Viceroy should be a Hunanese; and it is expected that the. substantive apointment will be given to H.E. Wei Kuang-tao, Viceroy of Yunnan and Kueichou. Meanwhile, it will be seen with great satisfaction that the Throne has conferred the highest pos-humous honours on the able and honest servant, who never truckled to his rulers, whose loss we are all, Chinese and foreigners alike, deploring.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.