A Hsian dispatch states that a number of Censors and Hauling in that city have been Jately handing to the Throne memorials strongly denouncing Viceroy Li Hung-chang of all sorts of misdemeanours under the mun, It is also stated that so far, at Jenat, a hundred denuucintory memorials have' already been handed in; but for obvious reasons have been Inid on the shelf and reserved for some future occasion, On the other hind it is stated that Viceroy Li Hung-chang has secretly denounced four high provincial officials, one of whom is said to be the present mediocre Governor of Honan, Yii Lien-san, THE NEW MINISTER TO RUSSIA, Kuei Ch'un (Manchu) who was appointed in January of last year to succeed Yang Ju Chinese Minister at the Court of St. Petersburg, left Hsian for Peking on the 17th ulti, eu route for his uew post. As Kuei Ch'un is not a persona grata to most of the Foreign Ministers at Peking owing to his intimate and active connection with the Boxers last year in the Capital, it conjectured in local mandarin circles that he may not go abroad after all.
12th Jul.
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