tated in mandarin circles that resignation of Lu Ch'uan-lin, ty Will issue. a Rescripti om-manding that "from henosforth no "one beyond the.age of-sixty can be eligible for the post of a'Grand Councillor, as the average metropolitan: official who gets beyond th. is usually so frail and fall of bodily. infirmities, due perhaps to' youthful follies or a strenuous life "in the lower.grades of officialdom, that they are generally: unable to bear long the fatigue.and hardship of irisin in the small hours of the morning aut going-through'the incessant kneeling and Hrising, and kneolingagain whenever addressed by, or addressing, their Majesties in; the Council Room, where members have to be-in attendance many hours a day from year's.end to year's end.
ELE. Tsen-Ch'an-hsuan, according to.skoxekings correspondent Viceroy:0? the: Two'sKuang provinces, recently memorialised the Throne''stating
Europe, in view of which he is determined to resign and go'abroad'to' seek skilled surgical advice: in some Western city: The Empress Dowager, on: reading the memorial, was. quite' willing to" grant' the Viceroy's request, intending 'o appoint him special Commissioner to study fo governments like. the - four- officials already selected for. the purpose. "Unfortunately for the Vicoroy's: ambiti abroad, a certain Grand Councillor "pposed the' idea of allowing him to leave the Two Kuang Viceroyalty just now, as Kuaegsi is still unsettled, and Li Chin-hsi, the Governor of that province, has not the ability, to maintain' Viceroy Tséu's. stern policy of repression. 'In view of this, i was decided in Council that as Viceroy 'sGa's presence is so necessary in the South and there is'no one to take his place there, -he should beardered to remain at Canton for the' present until some one could be selected to take his place, 10th August.
A Warning, The "Universal Gazette": published yesterday morning* in' its leading' article warning to its readers' that although Chinese are within their rights to inaugurate a boycott on American' goods asa moans of showing the spirit of the nation: to -outsiders there must be a limit, and. it fora that the decision to forbid the purchase' or sale of American goods that have'already been contracted for will do a groat deal of harm to the Chinese; on the other hand, it will not hurt the Americans in the least for the present. In other words, it has been estimated by: well-known business mon that there are not less than between forty and' fifty. million taels! worth goods of all kinds that wore contracted for by Chinese merchants prior to the 23th of July last from the' United Si which according to' previous' decision must be taken delivery "of us: the' goods strived in China. This! buge..amount must therofore—if the decision not to purchase or sell: be carried out—be, as it were, "shelved" (to uso the Chinese expression) and what will than be the result to the pockets of dealers in "American goods and the. Chinoso at large by the locking-up, evon for'a short, time, of these several" tons of millions of taels, if the sale or purchase of the goods representing them, and for which ready cash has been paid, be prohibited? American merchants cannot lose' on, the transaction; for they have boot paid, but what will: Chinese do with: the- goo their hands The-Shanghai Taotai, Mr. Yuan Shu-hsia left'for' Nanking on*Tuesday morning. " It ated that his hono visit. to' Nanking to sea the H. E. Chou: Fu, is in—conn tion with several matters, instruction: to what action to take concerning them gneib required by Yuan Taotai. These matters, according to local mandarin reports are: (1) regarding cotton belonging to Messrs, Ibert & Ca:, which has been stopped by the likin office at Haimen; (2) the extension of the Municipal road to the hills; and (3) regarding the division of expenses between the Shanghai Taotaiship and'the Kiangnan Arsenal authorities' relating to the disarming of the'Russian vessels interned "here.
Anti-Christian: Disturbance in Honan.
News has been: revived by the local mandarins'ifrom: K'siféng; the capital of Honan province, tothe: effécti-that two permission.
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