The crusade against the evil practi of feet binding seems to be most flourishing in Hunan province according to a Chang. sha dispatch. The other day, iv respon to a numerously signed petition (amon the signers of which were a large number students of the Changsha Militar en, Governd practice amd exhorting all wuts of Hunan province to stub binding daughters' feet as it i against the laws of Hi Not contented with the have proclamation in the public places of all the and_hamlets of Hunan province, Governor Chay t the instance of a dumber of petitioners, instructed the Provincial Treasurer to send orders to all} prefect, sub-prefects, department and district m and directors of studies frequently to visit. the hamlets and i stop to the udign punish. published by the We had receives our Northern corre that although the 8th instant is the d cod upon between the Govermnent Chine and Russia for the pprchended tha the recently. upon China, should the latter not con-tite the demands of the former} Sth instant will pass without m the parc of the Russ Manchuria. It is al another joint coi of the Russian Ministers to Peking, Toki and Seoul." peace of the soco! according to yesterday rth, expect ud joint conference Proposed Railway between Hankow and Chengtu.
A Peking dispatch states that Viceroy Hsi Liang "of ised" the the Governme lway between Chengtu, and Hankow, he has the promi thy Chinese merchants furnish the necessary without Central 8th October.
Native Gunboat captured by Pirates.
A Canton dispatch dated Sth inst., states that a native gunboat, with a crew of twenty men, while cruising in the East River came across a piratical craft, whereupon a fight immediately ensued. The Government boat first began the fight by volley of rifle shots into the Which lost no time in returning the' compliment. Within a quarter_of an hour the commanding officer of the gunboat and second in com mand were killed, together with five of the crew, while eight lay wounded. The rest of the crew immediately deserted the gunboat when they saw the pirates making for it and left to their mercy all the rifles, ammunition, and four small cannons on board. The military chest of a battalion near Sheklung, containing some Tls. 5,000, which the gunboat was carrying, was also captured by the pirates, who of course also took possession of the belongings of the gunboat officers and crew.
Secret Societies t Work in Pukien Province.
Dispatches received lately from Fuochow, Changchou, and other cities Fukien province all report secret brings in a number of villages called together by agents of secret societies from both Yangtze provinces (Kolao Hui) and Kuangtung and Kuangsi provinces (Triad, or Sanbo Hui). The officials in ove named cities are said to be greatly disturbed at these disquieting and have asked for troops from the Viceroy at Foochow to break up the gatherings.
The New Commercial Treaties with the United States and Japan are to be signed, as already mentioned in these Notes," to-day. The present arrangements are that the Treaty with the United States shall be signed in the fore-}nuon, after which the Chinese Treaty Commissioners will entertain Minister Conger and members of the U. 8. Treaty Commission at luncheon. In the afternoon will take place the signing of the Treaty with Is With reference to is sated that The Proposed Peking-Kalgan Poking letter states that. Taotai Tun-ho has been appointed bead of proposed Peking-Kalgan Railway and that he will shortly be engaged in superintending the construction of that line.
were in hopes that. Mr. Shém woul be appointed in the near future Taotai of Shanghai in succession to Yuan Taotai, but. it is probable that the latter will continue here a year more, after which we trust. to sve Taotai Shen Tun-ho the next Taotai of Shanghai-
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