Dispatches from North ' kinchou, Jeho Territory, report the presence of large bodies of mounted bandits North of Mukden and Ssuth-west of Tiehlng The hands of thave bandits are against every man and every waw's hand is against th In consequence of this the region between Mukden and Tiehling is being swept. clear by the bandits while they do not hesitate to tack or ambush any body of Cossa patrolling that vicinity. In Tiebling there are said to by only 8,000 Russian holding the plnce, over a-tonthof whom are lying sick in the hospitals there. Moreover there are nearly a thouse: d Russinn non-combatants, women and children who have taken refuge in Tichlins. Tt is further reported that the Russians at. Ch'ang-tu, a prefectural city not far from Tiehling, are purchasing and laying up large stores of grain and fodder and that the Russian garrison protecting this important post numbers only 500 men, The Coming of the High Commissioner, BLE. Tieh Liang, who arrived yesterday reminds us of the coming of the notorious Kang Yi in 1899, the forerunner of the Boxer War of 1900. Like Kang Yi, the object of the prevent High Commissioner, who is olson Manchu, is to " raise funds for a Grand Army" and like all Manchus he may be expected to squeeze the Mandarin lemon of the rid: Central proces as dry as possible by hook and by crook, as the caying goes This ix what Kang Yi as Lord High Exiortioner of the Masterful Lady in Peking, did in 1899, when he came down south to "raise funds."
Agreat many Chinese officials of all ranks are fearful that this second special igh Commissioner is coming to do The likewise. fands also in 1899 went a) great Ber DE eae aaa"
towards paying the " Boxer heroes"
or drive them into the sea in 1900. There is a further similarity, remark intelligent Chinese. When Kang Yi came from the North he gave "'strict injunctions suite wi ay for e i took and ie 2 pecan of his or ato, and forbade the authorities of each visited, daring his scraping together funds, to with entertainment for man or beast. The comin; it i missioner, has issued similar injunctions to the local man-ins. Hence comes the question Chinese are naturally asking one another "Is this to catch is however, to be hoped be the precursor of Boxer that these prognostications will turn out. untrue and that the lesson dealt by the Allies in 1900 in the North will not be forgotten so quickly by the reactionaries and Conservatives in Pekin, Some Chinese officials here, who have been in the Capital since last year seem to see] many similarities between Kan; and the present Commissioner and have hinted as much to their friends. It is, however, to premature to write with any decision on the matter. One can only hope for the fature prosperity of the Imperial House und this Empire.
"The 'Saviour' of theijImperial House."
Yung Ching, Grand Councillor, President of the Boatd of Civil Appointments and Manchu Chancellor of the Pekin; University, has in his own estimation an the opinion of superstitions believers Féngshui in Peking, recently saved the Imperial family from calamity and destruction, La other words, his Excellency was the other day, while visiting the Peking University, suddenly struck with the dangerous elevation and position" of the principal lecture rooms building, a three-storeyed house built in the foreign style, tin that it faced the Imperial Palaces thereby dominating by its occult influes.ces the inmates thereof, from their and' Empress down to. the lowliest scullion Imperial Majesties the Empress peer attached to the staff of the Royal Kitchens." Such being the case this Wise Grand Councillor ordered that the offending building should be forthwith pulled down "tin order that sh _propitions influences envel"ping the sacred domiciles shall not be dominated by the foreign influences typified by the lecture rooms building." The consequence has been that Tls. 50,00) aside for the destruction of the foreiga-styled building and the construction of more Chinese and modestly elevated houses to take ite place. Thus has Yung Oh'ing saved the Imperial House from destruction," say the friends of that wise and learned official, and doubtlessly he will be suitably rewaded by a grateful Mistress. Yet thi Chasonlloe declares that there bs no members" of thee University abroad to to send promising young undergraduate
study, nor money to purchase nec-sary text books and all that relate to the equipment of a complete chemical laboratory and other things urgently needed by that Institution.
The Arrival of Tieh Liang.
Tieh Liang, Vice President of the Bowrd of War. and of the Army Reorganisation Department, and Special High Commissioner of Investigation, arrived here by the China M-reliants' steamer Anping yesterday morning from Tientsin: His Frcellency was met at the Kinleeyuan Wharf by all the local civil and military mandarins after which he was conveyed to Ambassadors' Hall, in the rear of the temple of the Quesn of Heaven, North onan Road, where he will reside during his stay in Shanghai.
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