We have been allowed to translate the following letter from Hsian giving the reasons which led to the alleged death by suicide in that city of Ching Sing, Mancha President of the Board of Civil Appointments, which seem rather credible.
Tu the first place, Ching Sing brought with him from Peking for presenta tion to the Throne a long memorial signed by a numerous body of Manchu nobles, zentry and olticials of the capital earnestly praying for the speedy return of the Court. To this Ching Sing also added an almost similarly worded memorial supporting the "appeal of his Maachu fellow citizens. All this was taken by the Empress Dowager, personally, as "the usual thing" and gave her noumbrage.at all. It followed, therefore, that when Ching Sing was given his first audience on his arrival at Heian from Poking, the reception
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