A Poking dispatch reports that HE. Chang Pei-hsi, President of the Board of Civil Appointments, and Chinese Chancellor of the Peking University, has been promoted to be a Minister of the Dopartmeat of State Affairs and that this puts His Excallency into ne for another promotion into the Grand Cornell. H.E. is a progressive official and the Empress Dowager could not have selected a wor-their officer for such a very important post as member of the Department of State Affairs (Chénwu Oh'n) which now a great part of the work generally given to the Grand Council.
The New Ministry of Education or as was the other day stated in Notes," the Grand Council had to form out of the Peking University is, according to a Peking letter, to be soon an accomplished fact. It will take over the functions of the Board of Rites which having in consequence no reason for existence will therefore te abolished as soon as the new ministry is fairly started.
To Quiet the Imperial Nerves of the Empress Dowager, H-E. Viceroy Tsen of the Two Kuang provinces, telegraphed the other day to Peking declaring that he had as a matter fact restored order in Kuangsi province, and that the bands now wondering about in certain portions of that. province are merely remnants of the larger bodies of rebels whom he had already crushed. Such being the case H.E. asked the Empress Dowager to put away all anxiety about the safety of the Two Kuang provinces and bend her sole attention and energies fo opposing Russia in Manel The Viceroy further declares that if necessary he could lead at once an army of 60, well-armed men. to reinforce the Imperial forces in the North.
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