30th Jaonary.
The Wily Li Lien-ying.
It is reported from Peking that, fired by avarice and the remembrance of the exceedingly rich "hauls," in money and precious things that wore extorted from mandarins en route by himself and his brethren around the person of the Empress Dowager during the journey of the Imperial Court from Hsian to Peking in 1901, Li Lien-ying, the notorious favourite eunuch of the Empress Dowager, has een trying his utmost lately to persuade his Imperial mistress to abandon Peking once more and again go over the same wealth-producing ground she took a couple of years ago, when mandarins, high and low, and gentry and notables of wealth from the four quarters of the empire who had axes to grind, and cashiered officials, seeking to purchase the Imperial favour, once more hastened to pour thei riches' at Her Ma; their loyalty to her and the Manchu dynasty. Of course Li Lien-ying's object is to profit once more by this and make another big haul.
The Chinese Legation at Seoul.
According to a Tientsin dispatch, Viceroy Yuan Shih-K'ai has consented at last to send a detachment of a hundred onl to serve as a guard for Legation there. It will be re membered that H. E. refused to do so at first as being "unnecessary," but it is stated that H. E. Hei Tai-sheng, the Chinese Minister, was so importunate in quests for a guard, since the Leg other Powers were having them, that the Viceroy was forced at last to accede to the Minister's request.
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