The Shanghai Taotai has recently issued a proclamation to the effect that the Freach Consul-General in Shan, bai had asked the Viceroy at Nanking to forbid the circulation of ru as to foreign partition of China, which canard if left unchecked, would lead to serious trouble. The Consol declared that the ramour had been spread in Asking, Chinkiangpa and in Chekiang, Kiangee and Yionan province, and he asked that proclamations should be issued to forbid its circulation, in order to preserve peace for foreigners and missionaries, The Consul-General also referred to the unfounded statement by the " National Herald" that the French would take Yiionan, and explained that the French hed obtained railway rights in that province under treaty with China, and that France had no idea of violsing the agreement. He, therefore, requested the issue of proclamations to probibt such ramours. The Taotsi, in compliance wits the Viceroy's instractions, issues " proclamotion, wareing all' classes of the public against inventing rumours, on pain of rigorous banishment,
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