A Kvaiféng dispatch states that Goyernor Hsi Liang of Honan has recently appointed a number of expectant officials to visit various parts of the province where there are Christian Churches and missions. These deputies of the Governor are each given thirty taels (sic) for travelling expenses and they are to got the local authorities of the districts they shall visit to accompany them to the various towns and villages where there are churches, and summon before them the headmen and elders to give bonds guaranteeing that they will do their best to protect all missionaries, converts and church property in their vicinity. This scheme of Hsi Liang is not expected to be of much use.
The Insurrection in Changchou, Fukien.
An official dispatch received here from Amos reports that Taotai Yung (Manchu), Intendent of the Changchou Taotaiship, the official whose exactions recently caused the people of that prefecture to rise up against the authorities, has been removed from his post in order to soothe the insurgents. In spite of this, however, the insurgents are still in strong force in the vicinity of Changchou which is in a state of semi-siege. News had also been received from Foochow that Viceroy Hsii Ying-kuei of that city had ordered a large force under a well-known general to proceed to the rebellious districts, when the operations against the insurgents are to be vigorously prosecuted.
The Insurregtion in Ssechuan.
The local mandarins have received a dispatch from Ch'éngtu, capital of Szechuan, to the effect that the head of the Treyang insurgents, named Ji, who in May last, with a body of insurgents, had besieged the city of Tzeyang, was subsequently forced by the Government troops
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