Chinese Commission to the St. Louis Exposition, accompanied by Mr. Wang Rai-kb, Vice-Commissioner, arrived at Woosung frum the North yesterday afternoon by the China Merchants" steer Anping. The Tuotai, narine prefect and district" magistrate el Shanghai, wid the Lieutenant-Colonel ce manding the local native garrison went dose Woosung on Tuesday afternoon the Chinese gun-boat Chunho to meet his Highness and" to escort him to Shanghai. For some unexplained reason his Highness did not come up from Woosung yesterday, although many native shops on the Nanki Road were decorated with the national dragon tug in honour of the occasion, toat being the route which his Highness and party were to take on their way to the Bureau el Foreign Affairs, on the Bubbling Well Road, which has been prepared by the Taotai for their residence during their stay her 'Prince Pu Lun makes the fifth' brit the Imperial Blood who has visited this port within the space of at least two centuries. Previous to that period one or two Amperial princes visited Shanghai while engaged in Tonquering this part of the Empire to the Manchu rule. The first within our time was, as. will be remembered, Prince Chun, Jounger brother of the Emperor. His Highness passed through Shanghai ix July 1901 While on his way to Germany to apologise Yor the murder in 1900 of the late Baron Ketteler, German Minister at, Peking; he also called here in November of the same year shen returning to Peking upon the fulfilment of his mission. The second was his Highness Prince Tsai Chen, son and heir of Prince Ching, when on his way in May 1902 Speciil Ambassador to England to congratulate, on behalf of the Emperor Kuang Hsi, King Edward VIL on his Majesty s Coronation. The third and fourth princes of the Mancha Imperial House who visiter Shanghai were two sons of his Highness Prince Ssu. They passed through here in the summer of 1902 on a trip to the Straits Sev tlements and the Osaka Exhibition in company with the Mongol Prince of Kharachin, A short sketch of Prince Pu Lun may be of interest to our readers. His Highness was born in 1874 and is therefore exactly thirty yours of age. He is the fourth surviving son of the lite Prince Tsai Chih (originally named Tsai Chung), great-grandson of the Emperor Chien Lung, who reigned from 1750 to 1794. When the late Emperor Hsien Feng (who was the fourth surviving son of is lather, the late Emperor Tao Kuang) succeeded to the Throne in 1851 he had no son, nor did he have any during the first five yours of his reign. To provide an heir to the Throne therefore the above named ince Tsai Chih, the great grandson of Lung, was made adoptive heir to I Wei, the fist son of the Emperor Tuo Kuang and eldest brother of the Emperor Hsien Feng; I Wei died many years before, or he would have been peror bad he survived his father the Emperor Tao Kuang. In 1856, however a son was born to Hsien Feng (Tung Chih, who succeeded him in 1861) and so an adoptive heir to the Throne was at the period unnecessary. Prince Tsai Chih, adopted heir to the Throne in 1855, had four sons born to him, only the fourth, or the present Prince Pu Lun, having survived him. Since the late Emperor Tang Chih, who died in the winter of 1874, had no male issue, nor yet the present Emperor Kuang Hsii, there sre those who consider that Prince Pu Lun should have been the heir to the Throne on Tung Club's death, and that since Kuang Fish succeeded the latter, Prince Pu Lan should now be Kuang Hsi's heir in default of any issue.
Pillacing the Mongols.
A Peking dispatch states that, the Chinese Political Agent at Urga, East Mongolia, has formed the Central Government that the mongols are greatly exasperated against the Russians in the vicinity of Urga, owing to recently pillaged a Mongol Prince and driven off by force a longe portion of his herds of cattle, sheep and horses. numbering muy thousands. 'The Monyo} Prince has started on an appeal to his brother prince ud nobles to combine and attack the Russisns wherever they may be found, and the Political Avent wants instructions' from Peking what to do in the matter.
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