As nearly as one can make out the rebels were repulsed from Nanning some time ago. Avyway the city is perfectly safe now, and is in daily communication with this place. The rebels then seem to have retired west towards Lungchow, In that dis: riet they are doing pretty much ax they like, and matters are corta rious. A' few days ago the Commissioner of Customs xt Lungchow is said to have wired to the Governor saying that more troops must 1. sent. Also the French Consul there has been wiring home representing the gravity of the situation, which has led to enquiries at Peking, and naturally to no small stir here. There is an urgent demand for more troops to be sent to that district, but Ido not know where they are to come from. Certainly not from here, for there are only about " thousand troops in all Jeff in the plies, Ea-fistment seems to drag. Perhaps Canton may be able to supply the defi-iency, but whatever plan is adopted it takes a' good many weeks for troops to reach the extreme western limit of the ' Broad West." I also hear that French aid has been offered Lut naturally, and perhaps wisely, has been declined.
The Rebellion in the south-east.
About the other rebellion around Yulinchow in the south-eastern section of Ruangsi Ido not know much. This has been more or less elxonic for some years. In the past it has been temporarily settled either by guile or by payment, never by complete defeat, hence it has become quite hardy annual. In reading the reports of it is necessary to carefully distinguish between these two sections, Ide vot know that there is any connection between the two. The back-hone of that in the west is composed of deserters from Marshal Su's army. That in the routh- ast consists of mountaineers and marauding bands, A Chinese College.
To tun to more peaceful topics I may mention that the Tiyong Hsiontang has taken on a new lease of life. It was open: ed three years ago in very commodious buildings just. outside the Wen hang Men, at the junction of the Little River with the main stream of the Cassia River. From the commencement English of sorts has been taught and mathematics, as well as Chinese literature. Last year the institution sufferrd the loss of its English master through drowning, and its mathematical master through death, It therefore was under cloud and so the number of its pupils dwindled. Now however a distinct advance has been made, More students are to bs taken, in fact up to tivo hundred and tarenty, selected from the whole province by competitive examination. This has lately been held, when over a thousand students presented them-solver, One hundred and sixty were selected. The remaining sixty places are reserved for applicants from the four Western Prefectures, at present prevented from coming by the disturbed state of the country. Anew staff has been engaged, all Chinese, and the College is to open in a day or two. The students are divided into three grades and receive one, two or three taels per mensem necording!y, and their food from the Government.
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