News has been received from Hsien reporting the appointment of Chany Pai-tsi, Chinese President of the Censorate, to report upon the condition of the roids and resting places over the route to be! taken throw: h Shensi, Honan and Chilli provinces by the Court on its proposed return journey to Peking. H. E. is also to investigate en passant into certain charzes made by " Censor against the Governor of Honan, Subsequent dispatches report that Chang Pai-hsi was expected to have left Hsian for Peking on or about the 20th inst.
AN OBJECTION, The "Universal Gazette" learns that Sir E. Satow, British Minister at Peking, recently wrote to Li Hung-chang objecting on certain grounds, not yet made public, to the presence in Peking of Kuei Ch'un (Mela) and Ho Nai-ying (both Vice-Presidents of one of the Six Boards) in an official capacity. This objection has been forwarded by telegraph to Hsian by Li Hung-chang and " reply is now waited for. the notoriety gained by both Kuei Ch'un and, especially, Ho Nai-ying, last summer at Peking as strong Boxer sympathisers and followers of Kang Yi, Yung Lu, and Prince Tuan, is probably the reason for the above objection.
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