Peking, Dec. 3.
In one of his letters arguing that the Manchus should be restored to the Throne the old scholar Lao Nai-hsuan remarked that s the moral corruption is worse than in the times of Liu Chan (Six Dynostics) and Wu Tai (Five Princi-polities) it is certain that there will be longer and worse ca'amities, and the troubles will last for' tens of hundreds of years." The' old man is a pessimist so far as Republicanism is concerned, but:-e overlooked one thing—and that is that the Government is certainly exhibiting a desire to knock seme sorts of corruption violently on the head, The revival of laws for ~he punishment of corrupt officials nas gone a little way, even if it has not gone all the way that many might deem proper, and while some high officials have been executed for corrupt practices others are now under trial or threatened with ur-
Among those at present trial is Ying Teh-hing, whilom Civil Governor of Nanking, and coupled: with him is the erstwhile Tutuh of!
Kiangsu, Chen Teh-chuan.
Embezzlement of Military Bonds.
The charge against these officials is one of embezzlement of what are known as eight per cent. mili bande. Chen Teh-chuan, who is really ill, is not in Peking, but be has expressed his willingness to abide by the decision of the Court as made in the case of Ying Tehhing. The latter declares that there is nothing in the charge preferred against him, and he earle sly enough came to the Capital to stand trial, All the same his prosecutors assert they have sufficient evidence to convict him, and it will be curious to see if the ex-Tutuh will make any particular haste to reach Peking if the Court decide *|that Ying shall, some fine morning, be placed at the business end of a set of loaded rifles,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.