2nd February.
The Intended Rebellion in Canton, With reference to the projected rebellion in Canton, to be preceded by a general massacre of the provincial and local authorities of that city, as announced by our correspondent at Canton, it will be, perhaps, remembered our readers that a similar thing was to have been attempted on Chinese New Year's Day in 1900 when the late Li Hung-chang was Viceroy. News received here from Southern mandarin sources states that several regiments of the Canton territorial army which had been corrupted by the Triads were to have formed the guards of the high officials. But the regiments in question were late in coming up to the yamens of the various high provincial authorities, and when they did appear on the spot, at last, ther found the various places strongly guarded by their enemies, the Tartar troops. and cer-
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Hunan battalions who were not in the Under Russia's Influence. rongly Htablishment by the imper gold basis the deela ration estre "the Rus ment would be only: ito China for the piper The Liangkiany Vie Ku -designate of the Liangkians province: has notified Viceroy Chang. Eh iting that he will arrive Nanl ug from the South on tke 19th inst and take over his seals of office from the latter at noon, the next day. Viceroy Chang Chih-tung will the fore have very little time left to decide whether he will go up to Peking for special audience or resign the public service altogether, since he has received no instructions to return to the Huxuang 4th Felruwy, Some time has clipsed since these columns Jast chronicled the ravages of Boxer bands in Szechuan, This silence may be explained by the fact that the new Viceroy of Szechuan, H.R. Tsen Chéun-en, although at first greatly handicapped in his efforts of suppression by the apathy of the majority of the Szechuan mandarinate, on the one hand, and on the oth " smallness of 1 of his army which he bronzht down with him from ces of Szochuan less), evens finally: sue a deter mined personality and the devotion of his own troops in defeating and overawing a large portion of the malcontents, so that for some weeks as wz peace had been restored over a picea of territory hitherto teeming with Boxers and their adhe: rents, whose acts of vandalism and anarchy more than once been chronicled in these "Notes." A dispatch red 15th ultimo. from Chungking now states that the followers of the notorious Yii Man-tze in the districts of Tatsuhsien and Anyaohsien suddenly rose up in arms in the mid-"dle of December last and declared themselves for the Boxers "whose propaganda calling for the ex: ition of the Wes-barbarian: coincided with it own feelings." In consequence of General Huang, commanding a force of some 1,200 men, under instructions of Viceroy Tsen, immediately marched upon Ansaohsien, in the neighbourhood of which he foolishly got his troops into an ambush. The soldiers eventually succeded. in extricating themselves, but not without much loss. This success of the fol-'Towers of Yi Man-tze has inflamed the whole region in the vicinity of the two districts above noted, and dispatches have [been received from Tungchoufu notifying the authorities of Chungking that another body of malcontents had raised the standard of revolt in a market town called Taihochén, belonging to Tungchoufu, to which prefecture Anyaohsien also belongs. district, belonging to Chungking prefect Tatsuhsien, we may state en passant, is a
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The New Manager of the Kiangnan Arsenal, Cheng Taotai, who succeeds Mao Taotai, arrived from Nanking on Monday and took over of the Arsenal yesterday. Mao Taotai goes up to Ticntein, having been transferred to the Peiyang Administration by Viceroy Yuan Shih-k'at
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