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lives. It will have cost her still more dearly, for everlasting dishonour is, the lot of Albion." We may note the curious fact that the name Albion" seems to be the deadliest of insults, thongh we do not know why. The amiable sheet which distorts affairs for the Haiphong residents continues by saying that " Chamberlain” (not. Mr., nor even Sir Chamberlan ") "made no answer to those who pointed out that pesce. negotiations were entered upon at the very moment when the enemy had first won his most startling successes," etc,
etc. This silence," says the Courrier, "leives us room for hope. There will be no absolute independence. That was not existent before, and the Boers did not claim in the strict sense which we attach to the word. But we wish to believe that from this peace will spring at last the recognition of died for liberty.' the right to live of a people which has almost “L. G.", the writer of the article in question, will no doubt rejoice to see that the Boers are apparently quite reconciled to the idea of living-as members of the British Empire, renouncing that "liberty" for which L. G. has been so willing to shed his ink.
The N.-G. Daily News says that, as it has already noted, the insurrection in several cities of Honan, touching the Hupe frontiers, has also penetrated across the border and that a brigade of Viceroy Chang Chih-tang's troops unexpectedly fled before the insurgent banners. It now transpires from official sources, says our contemporary, that the reason of this cowardly conduct of the Chienwn Brigade was owing to the fact that the majority of the men were natives of Honau and hence refused to shoot their fellow-provincials,, many of whom were their relatives and kinsmen. Viceroy Chang is, however, quite alive to the danger of the orisis and has ordered General Têng, the Provincial Commander-in-Chief of. Hupeh, to mobilise a large force in all haste and lead the troops in person to Tsaoyang and Snichou, the region invaded by the Honan insurgents.
Chang Chih-tan recently telegraphed to Lin Kung-yi to the effect that, as he had to send a regiment of the Hupeh troops northward to drive out or suppress insurgents who are -reported to have intruded int Hupeh from South Honan, he was obliged to apply to H.E. Liu for a supply of fire-arms and ammnuitions THE POSITION IN MANCHURIA. from the Kiangnan Arsenal. In compliance with the request Lin despatobed the Chinese gunboat, Tengyingchou to Shanghai to get the required supply from the Arsenal and convey it to Wuchang,
PEACE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
VARIOUS OPINIONS.
According to a Berlin telegram, the entire European Press is rejoicing at the suspension of hostilities in South Africa. All exchanges show a rising tendency.
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According to the Echo de Chine of the 5th inat, Colonel Valette will depart for France by the next mail leaving Shanghai. General Lefebvre replaces General Sucillon up north;
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A letter from Peking published in the Mainichi gives the following as the remarks of a gentleman who is credited to be well informed regarding affairs in Manchuria, having travelled extensively in the country
One might imagine oneself in Japan, he says, when passing villages in the neighbourhood of railway stations between Port Arthur and Har- bin, so many Japanese are there to be seen. At Harbin the number of Japanese residents ex- ceeds five hundred, and most of these are en- gaged in superintending their own businesses. Many of them are gentlemen The Japanese have their hospital, club, and other social and public institutions, and the condition of the Japanese settlement is in no way inferior to that where Englishmen or Germans reside. There are at least ten villages where the Japanese. number from 100 to 30 of the population. The Russian army and the railway service are chiefly obtaining their supplies of daily necessaries, such as wines, tobacco, boots, washing and all provisions from the Japanese. Laundry-men receive the cost of fuel from the Russian Government Office and the Railway Office, and thus are able to under- take the washing of the Japanese residents very cheaply. The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha at Port Arthur has contracted to supply a large quantity of coal to the Russian squadron for number of years to come, and the extensive works undertaken at Dalay afford a good field for Japanese contractors, while lumber required for the construction of the East China Railway is being supplied by Japanese. As to the trade with the Chinese in Manchuria, oil-cake, one of the principal products in Manchuria, can be had at low price, as the Chinese there are not so much advanced in methods of trade as their brethren of Kwang- tung or Fakien in South China. Asfor the Rus- sians they are chiefly unproductive soldiers and Government officials At present very few Bus- sians have come from European Russia who can cope with the Japanese merchants in business. A Russian recently remarked that it will take a hundred years before the Russians from Europe will settle in Manchuris. While this cannot be taken altogether as accurate, there is some truth in the statement. Manchuria furnishes the Japanese with a paradise in which to live. The antipathy of the Japanese for the Russians has a political origin, but the Russian people themselves are sociable and free of guile. It is strange (concludes this traveller) that Japanese, alarmed at the rapid increase of On the other hand, the Courrier d Haiphong, population in Japan, the increase of ad- as might have been expected of such a journal, ministrative expenditure, and the depression of takes refuge in abuse of Great Britain. “This trade, do not remember the existence of á Peace," says our southern contemporary, "ands paradise where they can make their fortunes, the most thameful of wars, which has caused the land of Eastern Siberia, and Manchuria, Chamberlain's England to be banned by all the separated only by a small gulf from the Japanese nations. Undertaken on a contemptible pre-island! It is (he urges) a serious mistake” on* text which disguised the lowest desires, it has the part of the Japanese to be avere to the at last reached an end, after having flooded Russians and neglect to make friends with with blood for the space of three years the socially and economically, so as to whole of South Africa. It will have cost England interests of the empire,,
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The Echo do Chine, Shanghai, published an able editorial article on the Pesce news. The writer, while still holding to his opinion that the war was one of unjustifiable aggression, says, that all Frenchmen are united in preising both British and Boers for their bravery and courage throughout the conflict, and that in France there will be all the greater pleasure nd rejoicing over the Coronation of King Edward VII on account of the part the King has played in the final settlement of the terms of peace.
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