As will, perhaps, be recalled, the Dalai Lama, or Buddhist Por called to Peking for special audience with the Throne last spring and- was expected to reach the Capital at the end of the present month. The Bud-diiist Pontiff has been residing in the celebrated Temple of Wutaishan, in Shansi province, for nearly a year, ever since leaving Mongolis, whither he had fied as soon as he learned that Thassa was the objective " f the Indian forces in 1904. Preparations on an extensive scale have been commanded by Edict to be made in Peking, and en route between that City and Wutai shan, to welcome the Dalsi Lama and 's Special Commissioner was appointed to escort the Pontiff from Shansi to the Capital, If he arrives in Peking the Dalai Lame will be the first Buddhist Pontiff to have done so. But soording to a dispatch from the North there are indications that he will not, after all, go to Peking, but that prepartions are being made in Shansi for the Dalai Lama's immediate return to Lhassa, instead. To outsiders this may, perhaps, seem strange, but it would seem that a Censor, a native of Sha province, has recently handed up secret memorial to the Throne in which the followers and retainers of the Dalai Lama are charged with having been gouty of a number of serious outrages in that province and their conduct and treatment of the unfortunate country people ronnd about Wataishan have been painted in the blackest. colours. Special emissaries sent by the Ministry of Dependencies (Lifanpn) appear to have confirmed the Censor's charges; in consequence of which, peremptory orders have been issued from Peking requiring the speedy departure of the Tibetans to their homes, instead of giving them farther opportunities of victimizing the country-side between Wutaishan aod Peking. It also appears that the authorities in Shansi found themselves handicapped io performing their duties of maintaining order on account of the religious character of the Pontift's retainers, which made them immune from the laws. Doubtless the people of Shai will be glad to see the last of the Dalai Lama and his train, whom, at first, they deemed it an honour to welcome and entertain,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.