A Poking dispatch states that Prince Ching has obtained the consent of the Throne to send abroad a certain number of youths belonging to the Imperial Clan and other Manchu banner organisations for the purpose of entering the military and naval academies of Europe and the United States. In the meanwhile it Peiyang and Nanyang feste, so. that reposed to reorganise at once the when the young Manchus have finished their education those who have studied for the Navy may be appointed Commanders and executive officers of ships.
H. E. Tang Shao-yi, Special Commissioner to Tibet, returned to Tientsin from Peking on Monday, and will remain about a week before returning to the Capital. There is still some uncertainty about his proceeding to Tibet.
The Remains of His Excellency Li Hsing-jui, late Viceroy of the Liangkiang provinces, wore placed in their coffin yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock with solemn rites in the presence of all the hig er mandarins in Nanking. Woe understand that his late excellency was actually eighty-four years of when he died, he having deducted six years from his actual age when he first purchased official rank forty years ago.
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