MIXTURE.—"The™ most searching Blood Cleanser that science and medical skill have brought to light." Sufferers from Scrofula, Scurry, Eczema, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood Diseases, Pimples, and Sores of any kind are solicited to give it a trial to est its value. Thousands of wonderful cures have been effected by it. Sold everywhere at 2s. 9d. per bottle. Beware of worthless imitations and substitutes. acting under advice of course, of Tsai Taotai, will it is to be hoped put a stop for a chile to any farther anti-missionary propaganda in Hunan.
14h October. Viceroy Yuan of Tientsin, according to a dispatch from that port, is reported to have received the permission of the Throne to take his long-desired three months' leave of absence to return to his native town in Honan province to look after the graves of his ancestors.
view of the permission above-noted, Viceroy Yuan, it is said, intends to leave for Honan on or about the 23rd instant, his post of Viceroy to be temp: taken by H.E. Wu Ch'ung-hsi, Provincial Treasurer of Chibli, As regards matters relating to foreign affairs it is stated that they will be administered ad interim by Tang Taotai of Tientsin.
Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, Acting Viceroy of the Liangkiang, whose Geparture to Nanking was delayed the other day, will, according to a Wuchang dispatch, probably be able to leave on the 22nd instant. The actual date of HLE.'s taking over of the seals will not he decided until after H-E.'s arrival at Nanking. In the meantime the Kiang-ning Treasurer, Li Shao-fen, remains as acting Viceroy ad interim, while the duties of the Treasurership have been taken over by Mr. Hu, Grain Intendant of Nanking, by instructions of Governor En Shou of Soochow.
A Propose Happy Interchange, A Peking letter states that there is an intention amongst: members of the Grand Council to make H-E. Chang Pei-hsi, Chancellor of the Peking Univers interchange posts with HI chi, President of the Ministry Affairs. It is generally conceded that if such an interchange should take place it would be the most intelligent step taken for many years by the Grand Council. H.E. Chang Pei-hsi is well-fitted in many respects to be President of the Chinese Foreign Office, being the most liberal-minded and enlightened of the officers of the Court of Peking, whilst, on the other hand, Chu Hung-chi is just the opposite.
New Arrangements have been recently ordered from Peki with respect to the Army organisation of the forces of the Liangkiang provinces. Instructions have been received at Nanking to raise all half-battalions, of 360 men each, which since 1900 constituted the Army unit of the Nanyang Ad-ration, to their full strength of 500 men to the battalion, each province of the Liangkiang Viceroralty to organise fan Army Corps of fifty battalions, or 25,000 men, to be drilled and armed after modern armies of the West. Each Army Corps is to be divided into five brigade: of 5,000 men each, the whole to be under a high official, probably of Viceregal or Governor's rank. The now arrangements are to be completed by the end of December nest. lath October.
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