OnSaturday at 0.30 p.m. His Highness, accompanied by Vice-commissioner Wang Kai-kah, the Chinese Treaty Commissioner "Lit Hai-huan, Director Yang Shih-chi, Taotai Chu Pao-fay, the Shanghai Taotai, and several' other officials, paid a' visit to the Ching Chang '(Ch'un Chung) School, North Seward Road—established by the late Mr. Yeh Ching-chong—where after inspecting the various schoolrooms and witnessing the students at physical drill, the party sat down toa sumptuous foreign-style luncheon provided by the Committee of the School and prepared by the well-known Foochow Road Yih Ping-shang Restaurant. At 3 o'clock the Prince visited the Huashun Cotton Mill (Sheng Kung-pao's) at Yangtsepoo, whose manager, the eldest son' of Sheng Kung-pao, performed the duty of showing the party around the premises, Sheng Kung-pao, being unwell was absent. His Highness then returned to the Bureau of Foreign Affairs and subsequently at a little past 7 o'clock proceeded to the Chang Gardens to partake of a recherche Chinese banquet provided by the Chinese Treaty Commissioner Lit Hai-huan, Wu Ch'ung-hsi and Yang Shih-chi, Vice-Directors-General, res) tively, of the Chinese Government Tele-grabs and China Merchants) 8. 8. Ca taotai Chu Pao-fay of the Chinese Telegraph Administration andthe Shanghai Taotai as joint hosts. day evening the Prince and his party dined with Mr, Odagiri, the Japanese Consul. General, to which banquet amongst others were also invited the members of the Consular Body, the Commissioner of Customs, as well as the chief mandarins residing in Shanghai. His Highness has also been invited to visit St. John's College at Jessfield to-day, but having an engagement to inspect the Woosung Forts as the guest of General Li Ch'an-chun, Commander-in-Chief of this part of Kiangsu province, whose new headquarters are at Woosung in consequence of the present hostilities between Japan and Russia, there is some doubt whether His Highness will be able to go to Jessfield to-day, which in view of his intended journey to the United States, will be a pity, as undoubtedly St. John's College approaches nearer to the ideal of an American Seat of Learning than any other large school or college in this port. His Highness, it is stated, will not return to Shanghai, but proceeds to Japan early to-morrow.
The Disarming of the Mandjour.
A couple of large cargo boats were alongside the Russian cruiser Mandjour on Saturday and yesterday engaged in unloading that warship of her breechblocks, rifles, ammunition, torpedoes and others munitions of war, as well as certain portions of her steering-gear. Thus ends a disagreeable business. It is understood that as soon as the completion of the Mandjour's disarmament is reported by the Commissioner of Customs, the Japanese cruiser Akitsushima will leave Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, according to a Tientsin telegraphic dispatch, arrived at that port yesterday from his native city of Nanp'ihsien,, which also belongs to Tientsin prefecture... It is yet uncertain whether His Excellency will come south by steamer or travel by the Lu-han railway to Hankow. It is reported that the line, with its present limited means, is just now fully occupied with transporting troops and warlike materials from the Yi provinces destined for! North Tungehou and Shanhaikuan.
The New Mixed Court Magistrate, Mr. Huang, who is a sub-prefect in rank, will take over his seals of office from the Acting Magistrate, Mr. Kuan Chun, on Friday morning next. Mr. Kuan Chun, on the other hand, will then take up the duties of Official Translator and Inter-prefer to Yuan Taotai of this port, a post for which he is well-fitted.
High-handed Acts at Moukden.
It was recently reported at Tientsin that a detachment of the Moukden Tartar General, Tseng Chi's, foot bodyguards, while marching through the Western suburbs of Moukden, the other day, came across a body of Russian soldiers who suddenly attacked the Manchurian " braves" and wrested from the latter all their rifles, and cartouches, namely, twenty-six of each, Following this the Russians proceeded to the Moukden Drill Barracks and seized all the fodder stored there by Colonel Chang Kuo-ching, commanding the same Tartar General's mounted bodyguards. In both instances the Manchurian mendi simply had tle* for "to wh employ, but who had deserted en masse owing to the cruel treatment reosived by them. Many refugees were armed and numbers declared that, although most desirous of doing so before, they could not get away from their taskmasters, "as some who tried to leave previous to the war were pursued by Cossacks and massacred: The continued successes of the Japanes magnified moreover by rumour, 50 founded and demoralised their Russian guards and employers that tne latter were the first to make a movement to secure their own safety. Russians therefore sought safety in flight northwards, towards Siberia, while Chinese gladly seized the opportunity to get away, and started for Chinese territory, west' of the Liao river.
Denounced by Censors of Censors a Peking have been denouncing A Nanking dispatch states that a couple the civil and military mandarin of this province of Kiangsu by—wholesale amongst those accused of dereliction of duties, nepotism, avarice and the like being Viceroy Wei Kuang-tao himself; Huang Chien-kuan, Provincial Treasurer at Nan-King; about a dozen to fifteen expectant Taotais and Generals, and a similar numder of mandarins of lower rank. Te ig reported that Viceroy Li Ming-cheng of Foochow has been ordered by the Throne to investigate the charges against the higher officials, property.
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