We translate the following from the Tientsin '"Joh-joh Sin-wen":—When their Majesties arrived the other day at Chénting, the Grand Council presented to their Majesties a secret telegram in the joint names of Liu K'un-yi, Viceroy of Liangkiang; Chang Chih-tuny, Viceroy of Huktang; and Yuan Shih-kai, acting Viceroy of Chihli, urging the necessity of decapitating Tung Fu-hsiong, Japan-and China.
A Peking dispatch states that their Majesties were exceedingly pleased, upon entering the Imperial Paluce on the 7th inst ut, to be informed by Prince Ching that a' telegram had been received from their Majesties the Mikado and Empress of Japan congratulating the Emperor and Empress Dowager on the return to Peking. This mark of the Japanese Emperor's friendship for his brother Sovereign is greatly appreciated not only by Chinese Officials alone but by those of Manchu descent also, 21st January.
The Empress Dowager's Gratitude.
There appears to-be considerable disappointment amongst the numerous deputies of the various Viceroys, Governors
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