as one of the "Reform" measures of the steamers with one funnel, and three tiers or At the Navy Teague been prepared for the candidates this year columns. They are four-macts, Empress Dowager and her Grand Coun ere: guliong who had the courage to go to masts, Their deal-weight carrying capacity {Mansfichl, COLE, deck-houses between the main snd imizzen Supreme Court ur Tuesday Mr ROW, meeting at
Kaifeng "to try luck" were is 28,000 tons, while that of the Cedric, the General) presided, The following ieee, agreeably surprised to find that, w exception of the usual ess were now drawn up in the style, the whole affair was as like vote as any previ competition—a great and bitter ritment to those who did not go. The fact seemed to have escaped would-be candidates that the Special Exam appointed by the Throne to go to feng to conduct the examinations were tone and all stout Conser hitter enemies of Reform, and that a "Reform" measures of the Empress Dowager and her advisers have so far been ficant merely to throw dust in the eyes of the easily: gulled foreign The upshot rian. of the Doctor Examinations at K'a feng seems to show therefore that those who stuck to the old form of thoughts and ideas have managed to get: their degree while those who had primed themselves up with "New Learning" topics found themselves at the examinations entirely loft in the lurch and bitterly cursing their own folly in having put "faith assurances of the Centra pnent. According to telegraphic news from K'ai-nye yesterday there were three hundred and tivelve successful ates out of the {wo thousand five hundred competitors mentioned or about one-eighth of the whole, Another Eh: that Kuang: t'a0, who was expecting Nanking on the 9th instant. for an inspeetion of the arsenals and forts of kiang, Woosung and Shanghai. had defer the tour owing to sudden pressure of important. hi Tt appears that HE. has been now able to leave Nanking for his tour of inspection. He started on the 12th inst. and is expected to reach Woosnmg to-day when an inspection of the Chinese troops there is to be held. -hsuen,' the Two from, bauded over the healy of the Se ravinees, erding to a Chengtu t
hua one o'clock st. to Ch'inng, recently raised from vincial "Judgeship to that of Provineial Treasurer, and interim. tines the tolezram, after lia the seals left on the afternoon of th same for the south, travelling by be:
There Highness the Mongol Prince of Alatsi A Princes Hsien She-chih and Hsien Yun-chih, the eldest_ and third sons of Prince Sri, left Shanghai for a short visit to Hangchow afternoon, before returning to
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