An Important Decision: A Triumph for Sir Robert Hart, A. dispatch from Peking reports that the Boards of Revenue, War, and Commerce are drawing up a tothe Throne recommending the abolition of the old Courier Post Department and the handing over of the transi of all Government and official dispatches throughout the Empire to the Chinese Imperial Post established by Sir Robert Hart. The funds hitherto paid out for the support of the old Courier Post are recommended by the me-monalists to be handed over to Sir Robert Hart for the extension of the new Postal Department in order to meet the requirements of the case. The abolition of the old courier regime will be one great important step towards the handing over of the entire official and private mails to the Chinese Imperial Post, to the exclusion of every other mode of transmission that has been in practice in China for nearly twenty centuries.
Nothing Succeeds like Success.
The military officers commanding troops in the Liangkiang_provine: Anhui, and Kiangsi—have recent! ceived instructions from Viceroy Kuang-tao to organise and drill their regiments entirely after the Japanese system to the exclusion of every other foreign method. One of the reasons given for the adoption of the Japanese system is its adaptability to the Chinese and because the number of military officers and students who have either been in Japan or studied Japanese methods in China is nine-tenths greater than those who hare studied military tactics, etc., in other foreign countries.
The Neutrality of the Western Banks of the Liao.
A northern dispatch states that the Russians are reported to have consented at last to the neutralization of the western bank of the Liao river, and in consequence Russian troops hitherto roaming about there have received instructions to cross over to the eastern side.
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