Tientsin.
The Universal Gazette learns from the North that the Allied commanders have consented to hand back the Govervment of Tientsin and vicinity to the Chinese clu the month of April or the beginning of May next.
A Similar Rumour Regarding Manchuria.
The same payer also learn that the Russians are reported to have consented to return Ma churia, namely. the three provinces of Fengtien, Kirin and Heilungchiang, to China in March or ae next, Ace to an Imperial Rescript toa Memorial of the Foreizn Ministry (Waiwa mo, ELE. Tseng recently promote! exoticer of the 5th ran 1 official footing vincial Judge) and substantive Secret has been commanded to join the Forei Ministry, where a man of H.
ry and brilliant attainments is urgent]; led. H-E. is perhaps better known to igners as Lord Kins son of the late Marquis nephew of the famous First Marquis Tseng Rue-fan. HE. sistance to the late Viceroy Li Hung-chang during the recent peace negotiation at Peking.
Just as Overridden with Officials as Ever.
It would seem chat the Waiwa Pu, or ign Ministry, is being made, like other anent_yaméns of the old regime, ~linto a prolific rece for sinecures where men "recommended from influential quarters" who cannot prudently be denied, em be dumped "any how and any way." In addition to "a Comptroller General, Vice Comptroller-General, two Presider recent Peking letter "more yet to follow, 10"—whatever duties that signify—two assistant " ti tine"; and two assistant "chunz-pan"! A special vid very ing must be construct ssof these thousand d_one sinecures. The new Foreign Ministry was the first attempt at so-called "reform," and was intended to represent city itself. The above shows the that is actuall ing in Pesi sand overt jealousies existing among foreigners in the capital.
Illness of a Good Official, Much regret is being felt amongst the more enlightened Chinese throughout the country at the receipt of news' from the North of the serious illness of the en-itened Gi Secretary, Sun Chia-nai, X-Imperial Tutor of the late Emperor ing Chih, and Chancellor of the Pekin; University befure the Boxer Outbreak of 1900. Those who have read the ' Narrative of a Peking Refugee," which appeared asaserial in this paper in the autumn of 1909, will perhaps remember the attack of Tung Fochsiang's Kansu savages and Boxers on the Grand Secretary's house, they stripped of everything valuable and incidentally injured "BLE., that ever since H.E. had been aiilicted with occasional" bloodspitting. the latest news, however, is serious, for it is reported—ti EH. has been attacked with constant blood vomiting and that his condition is critical. The demise of such an enlightened and popular statesman will be a real loss to China and true reform.
Manchu Officials in Honan, iféng dispatch to hand states as The notorious acting Governor Usi- Liang (Manchu) and his Manchu colleagues in that city seem to be feverishly active in manufacturing firearms and warlike stores, and have sent to Wuchang for machinery to manufacture magazine rifles and \ges, and to Nanking for heavy machinery to cast field artillery. What this is for time will soon show.
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