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TIENTSIN DAY BY DAY.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

TIENTSI, October 23rd.

SIR ERNEST'S SCORE A very interesting little contretemps occur- red in Peking the day just before the Audience of the 18th inst. On the 15th or 16th despat. ches in connection with the murder of the two British Missionaries in Hunan were sent up by the local officials there to Peking, and the For eigo Affairs Department either in carelessness or of deliberate intent sent a copy of these documents to the British Minister without troubling to change the flattering native characters referring to him. I am not sure whether the characters used were the Y tabood long since or some equally offensive onés, but the Minister very properly returned the dispatch and demanded an explanation and apology for the insolence of its tone. The explanation was apparently very little more to his taste than the offence, and in consequence no representative of the British - Legation attended the audience. I have not heard yet what is the upshot, but all will applaud the attitude of the Minister and express the hope that his firmness will prelude other strong expressions of determination not to tolerate Chinese insolence. Sir Ernest has, scared heavily in the estimation of his national by his attitude.

A GREAT SPREAD.

The Viceroy, who leaves here in two or three days on his 40 days' leave, gave a great spread to the civil and military officials. of Tientsin, and a few specially honoured guest at the Yamen on the 1st Just why he should have troubled to do this seeing that he has already entertained the military is not clear. It was a magnificent spread, every- thing being carried out on the best foreign lines. There is a feeling in some quarters that Yuan will not come back. It may be so. I should think quite probably..

GOVERNOR'S DETÉRMINATION. The Governor of Shensi and Kansuh has

recently sent in dispatches to Peking saying that after Tung Fu-htinng was degraded be first lived at Kung Tung-shan, but he is now at Hochentze, where he has established him-

self, fortifying the place with a mud wall and a mast all round it. He has gathered about 60 battalions of his old troops around him, and announces that the only conditions on which he will give up his position are :--

1. That it must be explained to the Court that he only attacked foreigners by order of Prince Tuan and a certain Viceroy, and he therefore considers his punishment unjust.

2. That all his subordinates must be given positions to keep them contented.

3. That a man named Ma Um Liang who is his enemy must be sent to Eli,

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4. That ten battalions of his men, who have never been paid since the order caine to dis- *band, receive all their back pay.

My opinion is that these conditions are a Chinese figure of speech to signify that Tung cannot be dealt with and is in a position to dictate terms.

Apropos of my remarks above, I was speak- ing to a well known and much respected Chi- nese to-day, and be said, "Yes, Yuan is feeding the people there (Peking) and they think you will soon forget, eh ? Yuan will tell the E.D. that he has you all completely in his power, and that in spite of 1900 he can make you come and eat at his table because you are afraid of him. Bah! I tell you the Government's thought is all to fight, to fight, and while.you eat and

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smile they are talking and planning how to LIFE ON A RUSSIAN CONVICT make fight you."

I give the old gentleman's remarks almost verbatim, but I cannot convey the emphasis with which he always speaks on these matters. Suffice it to say he is the man, who helped to save Tientsin in 1900 and he knows what he is talking about..

Tactal Song (Customs Tuotai) continues been dealt with easily by a simple operation, very ill and weak. His malady could have

but he will not have it. Instead he has reverted to native mediclues again and in reported

much worse

The "Sherwoods" arrived this evening, and so far as I could judge of them in the dusk look a smart set of men. Quite hall have gone to Peking I fancy.

We are without any foreign police on the streets now, and presumably the arrangement is permanent, but unsatisfactory.

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EIGHT THOUSAND MURDERERS.

Reuter's representative has had ap interview with Mr. Charles H. Hawes, who is believed to:

be the last Englishman to visit the Russian

of the island. Mr. Hawes had been travelling penal settlement of Sakhalin, and the only one to explore the interior and north-eastern coast

in Korea, when he decided to visit the island. From Khabarovsk he proceeded with a convoy of exile barges, and was landed at Nicholaevsk, The following is an opposite Sakhalin. extract from Mr. Hawes's narrative:–“

My object was to proceed to the extreme north-east part of the island to study some un- known tribes there and to see for myself the real condition of the convicts. There are

FIVE GREAT PENAL ESTABLISHMENTS in this convict island, and, with the exception of the clearings round these, practically the whole of Sakhalin is covered with forest so deuse that even the natives cannot penetrate it. I spent several days in Alexandrovsk where, as in the other settlements, murder goes on Sir Christopher Furness, head of the great with impunity. Daring my stay four people ship-owning and ship-building company of Fur- whom I met were murdered. Almost every ness, Withy & Co, is having six 2,000-ton one in the streets is a criminal, for, with few steamships built for the Guif trade, which will exceptions, only the wort type of prisoners use oil exclusively. If the results attained are

are sent to Sakhalin-certainly besides con- as expected, the 125 steamships of the Furness victs, ex-convicts, their wives and children, line will be fitted with oil-burning apparatus.

and the officials, there are probably not a The trip of the British tramp steamship of murderers alone there are an east eight dozen, free-born individuals "on the island. Clam in January last affords an idea of econo- thousand, and one morning 1 passed a man. my of oil as fuel. From Philadelphia to Grave-in the street of whom I was send only 450 tons of oil were consumed. The 2,000 ton steamship. Tanglin, chartered by the German antarctic expedition, only consumed as he had already killed eight people. It is no 350 tons of oil in the 5,500-mile trip from exaggeration to say that the majority of the Singapore to Sydney. It took exactly forty-officials are the dregs of the service-in too five minutes to pump all the oil required for the many cases drunken and brutal. I went over voyage into the ship's bunkers.

some of the prisons. Despite continued con-

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fifty persons. While I was on the island nearly 1,800 fresh prisoners arrived, mostly for this prison, so its subsequent condition can perhaps be imagined.

The oil was paid for at the rate of 30 shillingsradictions that such a thing exists, there are coal, was over 27 per cent.. The differences in day to wheelbarrows. In Alexandrovsk prison a ton, and yet the saving per day, as against still two wretched prisoners chained night and

freight that the ship might have earned was there were six hundred convicts packed in four represented by the differences between thirteen | apartments, each constructed to hold about tons oil and twenty tons coal at dead weight of daily consumption. The saving in firemen was as one to five. The Muser of the Shell line made the trip from Singapore to Cape Town to Thames Haven in seven weeks, with a daily consumption of oil of seventeen tons, whereas her daily, consumption when using coal had averaged twenty-eight tone. Instead of carrying twenty-four stokers, she made the trip with three. Whereas the time for coaling of the Spreckels liner Enterprise occupied two days, the shipping.of oil only took six hours.

The advantage derived from the use of oil as fuel on the fast Atlantic liners would be many. For instance, the space used on La Torraine for coal, is approximately 171,000 cubic feet; the same amount of fuel in oil would only occupy 129,200 cubic feet, leaving 41,800 cubic feet to be applied to cargo. If instead of carry ing the oil in bunkers it were to be carried next the skin of the ships, or in the water ballast tanks, 100,000 cubic feet more of space would be saved. Nor in the matter of saving cargo space would this be all, as with oil there would be needed below decks in the fireroom and with the machinery only fifteen men, instead of 320. The shipping quarters of these 105 unnecessary men would yield more cargo space, and the economy of wages and food would amount well up into the thousands.

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As the result of inquiry, I found that the

THREE-THONGED WHIP WITH

LEADEN ENDS, known as the "plet," the use of which is for bidden in Russin and is dying out in Siberia, is in general employment here, and also the hirch-rod dipped in salt. With this instrument two women were flogged in February last. The convict's term of confinement in Sakhalin is followed by six years' enforced residence in the island as "exile settlers," and a further six years in Siberia as "peasants," after which they are free to return to Russia, but as a matter of fact nine-tenths of the convicts never leave the island. The one bright spot on this island is the pr sence of an hernic woman, Eugene de Meyer, a young, attractive, and enthusiastic lady who is working alone amid terrible surroundings. She has no regard for danger, and lately spent a long time in the far interior with a band of 200 convicts. It is known that the Czarina is greatly interested in her work, and probably this is the reason why she does not meet with as much active hostility from the officials in Sakhalin as might be expected.

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ARUMOURED MARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN- MOTHER OF SPAIN,

Writing by the last mail, our London cor- | respondent says "According to a usually re, liable correspondent in Madrid, Cupid is mak- ing great trouble in the Spanish Royal family.

"The young King Alfonso bas discovered that his mother, Queen Maria Christina, while on her recent trip to Austria, secretly married her Master of the Horse, Count Escosura.

"A Spaniard of high social and political connections assured me that there is nothing improbable about this, as the Queen before her marriage with Alfonso X., was in love with the Count. She would have married him, but such pressure was brought to bear, on her that she accepted the State marriage with the King,

"The affection of the couple did not die out, however, at the bidding of State officials, and it was generally understood at the time of the recent Coronation at Madrid that the Queen would soon marry the man who had remained faithful to her for so long. Such, at least, is the romantic story.

"The only jarring note to the pretty tale is the report that the young King, on learning of the marriage, had a violent scene with his mother, in which he upbraided her severely, There is but little harmony in the Royal Palace at present.

"On the other hand, Alfonso's own love affairs are the subject of many themes. He has declared his intention of martying a South European princesses. American he 'ress, regardless of the charms of

"In the first place, he says, he would rather do this for personal reasons; and then it would be a good State move, for.it will increase the good feeling between the Latin countries of South America and Spain.

"An offer is said to have been made of the hand of Princess Louise of France, and this

proposal is favoured by the Court officials,

who are horrified at the notion of a plebeian marriage. The Cabinet, however, is disposed to help the King in his South American whim in preference to the French proposal, as the latter would not in all probability help the relations between the Governments of France and Spain.

"Moreover, the King has shown a good deal of stubbaraness in running his own affairs, and he is not likely to give up his Idea very easily."

[It will be remembered that a few days since the Hongkong Telegraph published a brief summary of the above.-Ed., H.K.T]

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