The "Hupao" publishes the followi letter from Peking dated 18th inst., which we translate:—As soon as the Government received news from Kuangsi reporting the presence of French troops within the Kuangsi borders there much excitement, amounting to panic, amongst the members of the Government, as it was feared that the French were bent on pursuing a policy in the South si of Russia in the North.—The i Consul in Kuangsi having recently telegraphed to the French Minister in P king asking for a company of Freuc' troops to be sent into Kuangsi, we hear, an unexpected reply' from his The Minister censured the Consul for sug ting the matter and said tha the latter ought not to have acted so reek-lossly in allowing French troops to cross in to Kuangsi Russia in Manchuria.
The same paper states t tthe Tartar General of Moukden has. telegraphed to the Government to the effect that: he been told by the Russian General that China is only cutting her tin refusing the latest Russian demands concerning 3 that if China ix determined not code, Russia will have no other w am from Yunnanfu. the of Yunnan provin three battalions of troops with tions to proceed with all haste to Lingan, a mob of miners had murdered the prefect of that city. We may here state the disturbance at Lingan has noth= to do with the rebellion in Kuangsi pro 27th May. Death of the Dowager Marchioness Tseng.
regret, to have to record the death on Sunday at her late re sidence in Shanghai of the Dowager Marchioness Tseng. wife of the late Marquis Tseng, "the well-known enightened Chinese Minister Plenipotenflary to the Court of St. James and the Louvre. Her late ladyship was the mo: ther. of the present, or third Marquis Tseng, who during his father's tenure of office in England had made himself most proficient in both English and French. A very large company of the local and other high mandarins attended the sad ceremony of the laying of the remains of the Marchioness in the coffin on Manda afternoon, upon the conclusion of which each official having poured out a libation to the manes of the deceased lady and made the usual kowtows before. the company seponed,
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