With reference to the telegram published in these columns yesterday morning, under the caption "Danger in the Air," threatening the principal authors of the yangtze Compact, through the denun-\ciations of the notorious Yi i the reactionary ex-Governor of Hupeh, jwe have been further informed from a reliable local source in communica ition with certain high Ministers at Court, that this scheme of Yi Yin-lin had been fortunately blocked, due to the action of the Grand Secretary and ex-Generalissimo Yung Lu. In confirmation of the news previously published in these columns of the possibility of Yi Yin-lin coming South as High Commissioner and Inspector-General of Yangtze Defenc similar to the post held in 1900 by Yii's ype, Li Ping-hong of execrated we now further learn that the Empress Dowager was lately actually much influenced by the representations of Yii Yin-lin, backed by ce-reactionaries of the type of Lu Ch'uan-lin, Wen T'i, the Manchu x-Censor, and other rabid Hanlins, and s indeed on the point of giving the above post "in order to allow Yi Yin-lin to ko @ clean sweep of traitors and pro-n officials in the region round about Long River' "—Yangtzekiany. Fortunately for the officials and inhabitants of these provinces, Yung Lu saw the danger of introducing such a firebrand into an already discontented country, and used all his influence against the' appointment. Even then Yung Lu might possibly not have succeeded, as the influence of the reactionary Empress Dowager, had he not enlisted to his aid, prayers and promises of future pecu-prizes, the eunuch Li Lien-ying, Still Uncertain.
With reference to the news previously Published in these columns, that it is pro-used by the Board of Rites to hold the Metropolitan Examinations for the Doctor or Chinshih degree at Nanking, " dispatch from Peking states that there has been nothing settled as yet, and that the Court is at present deliberating whether them at K'aiféng (Honan province) (Shantung province), or Nanki province). Furthermore gal the suggested abolition of certain cure yamens at Peki 3 motion of others with the Six Boards, news has also arrived from the North to the effect that not a single step has been made towards that end and that everything is still uncertain and doutstful.
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