10th April.
Peking as a Treaty Port.
We translate the following from paper:—For some time the Foreign Repre-Sentatives at Peking have been press the Chinese Government to declare the city of Peking " Treaty Port. To this, howerer, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with its customary dalliance, has given no dogided Ministers of Great Bri apa, States, France and Germany reintroduced the question, making the Chinese Foreign Office understand d were determined to Port. The Represent has kept aloof and mai position, and seeing awager onmmanited the Grand: Secretary Wang Wen-shao to personally ask the representative to obstruct the other Powers in their demand, This that official did try to do, but evidently to no purpose, as the ive Powers above noted Still remained firm." With regard to the above, it is not at all unlikely that the press Dowager and her adi make the opening of Peking as a Treaty n excuse to desert the capital St. Louis Exposition, has obtained from Government the sum of hal for the ce ing of a number of type residences, the laying out of galens, ete the Exposi Besides this amount grant of Tis.
100,000 is made for salaries ant 1 ete., of the Comm rsa 150,000 to Hart to procure native-made things to send to the Exposition. In all the Commission to the St. Louis cost the Chinese Government quarters of 4 million taels. position wil least three This is quite out of the way, and shows a desire to manifest the gratitude of the Empress Dowager to the United States for favours received in 1900 and 1901.
The New Railway to the Western Mausolea is about twenty-six miles in length and star la couple of short wooden cost Tls. 600,000 to build, including four
bridges, there being no time to construct, steel ones. Six months were granted by is line, but y was the work pressed that it afew four months to complete Owing to this and the looseness of ti soil the Imperial train took nearly two hours to accomplish its journey of twenty-six miles from Kao-ition i tation, of which the Imperial mau: soles rated.
The Fear of the the defence of Manchuria against Russian vernment to
encroachment and dedan a perfectly, equipped modern army of 200,009 should be speedily raised and organised for erforning garrison dutioy in the three Manchurian prov this memorial was first ordured to be handed to the for report, decree of the Empress Dowager wax issued commanding the matter to be deferred sine ther the fear of the Muscovite or the Russophile Ministers caused this last decree tu be issued.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.