A private telegram from H: n received on Saturday by a Chinese noble of high rank vresiding here temporarily, reports that there is, after all, no present likelihood of "the Court returning to Peking Ireactionaries wish the Foreign believe.
The reason is due to the malicious impeachment of the late Ching Sing, Manchu President of the Board of Civil Appointments, by the notorious eunuch Li Lien-ying, Lu Chtuan-lin, and their clique of Censors and Board Secretaries, who charged Ching Sing with having been bought by Foreigners and tie Reform rut of the Board of Civil' Appointments in that city."
Apropos of the telegram which we have translated above his' Exeellency's death may not indeed have actually occurred, ut al the same time there is not the lightest occasion to doubt the news of Ching Sing's attempt at suicide, for reasons already given in these columns obtained from perfectly reliable sources. 'That he did not succeed in his desire of dying by his own hand "to prove his faithfulness and loyalty to his Sovereign" was really not any fault of Ching' Sing, for we have been assured by intimate friends relatives of his Excellency that he wished to commit suicide even as early as Tune of Inst year, when to his dismay ho found the Empress Dowager and, her favourites completely ignoring his earnest ings against affijating with the Boxers, merely'becacse the latter had displayed on
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