A private telegram from K'aiféng was recently received by a retired Chinese oficial residing in this port, which we have been courteously permitted to translate. The message ran as follows:—" There may be danger lurking in the air threatening the future safety of several of the high provincial authorities in your part of the country. Yd Yinin, ex-Governor of Hupeh, has presented 'A Secret Report of an Eyewitness' to the Empress Dowager, giving a highly hostile and prejudicial recount of the occurrences last year in the {Yangtze Valley; denouncing in rabid terms the authors of the Yangtze Com-Pact; and declaring that unless the principal ones be executed there can be no Peace for the dynasty or the Empire."
30th November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.