When H. B. Chang ug was! received by the Majesties on the 3rd instant, the anvlience lasted for aver hour ands reported that his Excellency has been doing is bust to get out of the Grand neil and to return to his Vi royalty after trans: acti his business in the Capital. Tt will, however, the Imperial decree translated issue that H. E. Chao Erly corny of Szechuan, has been appointed substantive Viceroy of the Haknang provines, which shuts Chang Chibtung, as it were, out of the appoint ment. The Viceroyalty of Chihli, to which G vernor Yang Shih-hsiang of Shantung has been appointed in another decree, is only an acting one, which is fan indication that Viceroy Yuan will return to Tientsin after a tine. thousand of the bandits on the 24th ulti at a placed called Héngtaohotze, toll north of Ninguta,—\ desperate lo ensued, resulting in the eomnplete y of the Government—troops, After the fight a hundred and ten dead Hunghutze lay on the field of battle, while fifteen were captured. A number the wounded got away into the hills, The troops lost five killed and twenty-three wounded, No less than thirty-two villages Welonging to. the Hannighutze were destroyed by the troops, the inmates having already fled in the meantime. This hand was until the fight the most powerful body of bandits in Kirin,
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