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Show THE CELESTIAL NEWS BUOCET. Th. I'lftaiWd Knip.r.ir Will llara to b. ltruua'it to 111. . t Kor. Sah Fhancisco, Sept. 14 The British steamer China arrived yesterday from Hong Kong and Yokohama, having Ween about thirteen days from the latter port. Advices from China to August 150th Bay the British minister has protested strongly against the dilatory manner in which the Chinese government has dealt with recent rioters, and has asked the government three questions: Why an edict on the subject of the riot was not dispatched through the empire by telegraph; why the YVuhu niacin: rate who tried to stop the riots was degraded, while his superiors who did nothing were not punished, and why the punishment of the guilty at Wusuth was delayed. 1 1 is Excellency Li Hung Chang answered that it was not the custom to send an edict by wire. The magistrate was degraded for other reasons, and third, the rioters hud hecu punished, two being executed and others otherwise punished. The North China Act-., commenting editorially on the answers, says the lint was a mere subterfuge, because the ran: was too serious to admit of the de lay caused by the use of messengers. As to the second, reply, the magistrate whs degraded as a concession to the natives, wbo had deuouoced him for doing his duly in the ailair. The reply is a palpable evas'on. and only shows that China cannot be depended upon by tho foreign poueis. As for the execution execu-tion of two of the culprits, this is uu satisfactory, as coining far short of the reiiii'ehieuts of Chine.se law in casbS of murder among themselves. The murderer of a foreigner must not be punished more lightly than the murderer mur-derer of a Chinese. Lord Salisbury has demanded that Uutian, which is the hot-bed of anti-furcigu anti-furcigu sentiment in China, be opened to trade. The demand is coupled with I the thruni. that if China could not eon- trol her owu people, the toreigu power would take the matter iu hand. To this the. viceroy replies thai China is perfectly per-fectly able to control her own people. '1 tie A' . adds: The conclusion is that, if able, she must bo unwilling to control them; meanwhile the powers do not intend to be satii-licd with what ha been done by the Chinese government so far in the way of punishment and reparation, and that they have sent China what is virtually an ultimatum and will not take any inadequate reply. Kngland's action is understood to be backed by the other powors, and it is thought that lorce will be used if China is not conciliatory. Advices from japan ou August 10th say that an American vessel, name unknown, un-known, was wrecked in Kan-No-Wa bay. The crew of seventeen were all drowned but two. The captain's wife was also drowued. j The last division of the Nippon company's com-pany's road has been opened, making the the total length operated 4l.r) miles. Six hundred Ktono cutters iu Tckio struck last week against a reduction in wages. Their demands were acceded to. By the recent Hoods in tho Tokush-nn Tokush-nn prefecture 851 houses were de-' de-' troyed aud thirty-one vessels lost. Two persons were drowned and over 00(! injured. : Mr. l'ethiyk,. American vice consul at Tienstin, has been made assistant manager man-ager of the extension of the Tienstin railroad. Viceroy Chang Chihtung recently re-cently opened some iron mines in Hu-tel, Hu-tel, and claims that he can manufacture all the iron needed on the road by next July. Tho olTer has been accepted and '-MOjlOO tons of foreign ore ordered for use meanwhile. Gold mines have been discovered in the Cheng Chen district of (.Jiiang Tun. Adventurers Hocked to them in crowds, and greatly damaged the fields and grades iu digging. The magistrate finally fin-ally prohibited mining there. There seems to bo no foundation for the report that Son Hough, minister to F.ngland, has been arrested as a member mem-ber of a secret society. There was a serious landslide on the bault of the Yang Tze, opposite Ching Tang. The people were warned by premonitory tremblings, and lied in their night clothes. A large tract of ground slid into tho river, carrving about S00 buildings with it. No lives were lost. The news is received of the death in Perak of V. Mactalnish and J. M. Nelson, Nel-son, two well-known mining men. Cholera is said to have been the cause, but poisoning is suspected. There is serious trouble in Sentnn, Dutch West Cores, between the Drakes and Malays. Taxes are the cause of the trouble. Three thousand Dvajs are in arms against the Malay rajahs. Several fights have taken place, several persons being killed. The country is sutVering from famine. Twenty thousand people assembled at Lungchow, in Hunan, to prevent tho putting up of telegraph lines. Ten thousand poles were burned and the workmen driven over the boundary. A society has been forruod to keep the telegraph out. At Nemchnng, Dr. Grei, a missionary doctor, has been assassinated by soldiers. sol-diers. The matter was placed in. the hands of the British consel. It is thought not lo be the work of the secret se-cret societies, but a local matter. The reports from Foo Choo telling of the killing of three missionaries in the country have been proved false. The German Catholic bishop of Shan-burn Shan-burn has returned from Peking to Tien-tsien Tien-tsien and said his excellency, Li Hung Chung, told him that the late riots were only lorerunuers of moro serious 1 trouble. Thu Italian corvette Nolluna has been under orders tj leave for Italy, but was stopood an. I ordered to remain indefinitely fv the Italian minister at Peking, wiio tears trouble. |