A Foochow dispatch reports that the ement and direction of the Foochow Dockyard and Arsenal at Pagoda Anchorage, which for the past 18 months had been in the hands of H.E. Hsu Yin-K'uei, scray of the Min-Che provinces, was on the Sth ultimo ordered by Imperial Edict to be tured over to En Shou, Tartar General of Foochow and Superintendent of Customs. Tt appears that the money to pay the monthly salaries of the foreign and native aff' and incidental expenses of the Dockyard and Arsenal has to come out of the Tartar General's Custom revenues to the amount of Tls. 240,000 per annum, or Tis 20,000 a month. Since En Show took charge of the Foochow Customs Viceroy is said to have experienced considerable difficulty in getting this Tls. 20,000 per mensem promptly, causing thereby much discontent amongst the Dockyard inployees. This caused a breach of friendly intercourse lately between the Viceroy and the Tartar General, insomuch that they severally memorialised the Throne charging and countercharging one another with various misdemeanours, although it must be said that the right lay with the Viceroy in this matter. HE. Hsii finally resigned the charge of the Arsenal, with the result of the Imperial edict of the 26th August as noted abov
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