Asa result of the coup d'état of 1898, it will be remembered that beside the late murdered Vice-President of the Board of Revenue, Chang Yin-huan, there was also Li Tuan-fen, ex-President of the Board of Rites, who was banished that year with Chang Yin-huan to Chinese 't turkestan "for Reform Proclivities." A recent telegram to the Tientsin "Jéh-jh Sin-wen," from Pinglisns, Kansu, now announces that the ex-President Li Tuan-f¢n has been recalled from banishment by the Empress Dowager, and had passed through Pingliang from Kashgatia on the 22nd inst., bound for 2nd December.
The Chinese M.nister to Great Britain, etc., BLE. Chang Té-yi, who is at present in Peking, will, according to 2 Peking dis-pate, start for h'aiféng for an audience of the Empress Dowager on the 4th inst., after which HE, will return to Peking, take rail to Chinwangtao, and then come South by steamer to catch the English mail for London about the end of January next.
The Introduction into Shanghai of the new ten-cash pieces, noted in these columns the other day,' took place on Thursday, some 60,000 of them having arrived from the Soochow mint the day before. These new coins have been sant to the various local pawnshops, banks and cash-shops to be tentatively circulated, and from what has been reported of them seem to have rather struck the fancy of the masces—whether as curiosities, or otherwise, remains to be seen, The Insurrection in N.E. Chihli.
As already reported in these columns, the Tsaili of Chaoyang and their allies, the Boxers of North-eastern Chihli, have been quite successful in their operations against the Government troops sent against them, and later dispatches to hand from Kinchou, outside Shanhaikuan, confirm the news, adding, moreover, that the Government troops have been so badly defeated that thes dare not leave their entrenched positions, being content to watch without daring to intercept the insurgents a they march past them with fiving banners and waggon3 loaded with booty raided from the country on the other side of the lines supposed to be patrolled by the troops. As the insurgents are reported to intend break ing through the Government lines and penetrate south of the Great, Wall as soon as they collect enough supplies and more modern firearms—they have apparently plenty of men—the mandarins at Kinchowt are getting thoroughly scared and have besought the Board of Government. Affair> to send reinforcements immediately. Tu this connection it is reported from Peking that Generals Ma Yi-kun and Chiang have been ordered to send at least 12.000 men between them, with instructions to bring the insurgents to fight a pitched battle and so end the insurrection at one blow.
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