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Show Iralh of The SUn-im Tvny. A Peking dispatch sajs that the llarquls Tseng, the well-known Chinese statesman aud former minister min-ister to the crurts of Ixrailon, I'arl.', ' and L Petersburg, is dead. The Marquis, Tseng, says the Philadelphia I'reti, was the bead of -one of the few' Chinese families Svhlcli according to the Ideas of the .west would be termed arltocrallc. ! TheTsengs trace their ancestry back to old Tseng tzu, who was not only one ot the four disciples of Confucius, Confu-cius, but also the author of tlie classic book called the "To-heo." Tseng TCwofan, the father of tho statesman whose death it, now announced, an-nounced, was elevated to the hereditary hered-itary rank' or nobility called "hou," which has been generally translated trans-lated as marquis, for rallying the fighting men of central China for the siege of .Nankin. Until his death In 1372 he was the fore-'jnost fore-'jnost nndmot Influential bfllclal In Chins. The Just deceased manmls, w hose "Christian" name of Cnltse It Is Indecorous, according to- Chinese etiquette, to so much as mention, was LoruDtC-inberT, 1S39. In accordance accord-ance with a mage prevalent In Chlnf, which accords to the sons of all ofllclals of the third rank snd upward this, privilege-, he was admitted to study In tlie Kwo-tiu-chlan prjlraperlal cqllcgpad- I mission to which confer", after a stated Interval, buxjwlthout examln-ation. examln-ation. a certain ofllclal rank. hen, the Taeplnjr hcrd-s loured across the pUlns of Jioouau to th great river lio accompanied his father during the whole of the military operations which followed for a period ortwelve years. lTpon the death of his father the emperor gav e him, as a special mark of Ids esteem, the right to assume at once the title of marquis without waiting ns usual for tho conclusion of tlie tierlod ormournlng. After passing five yean in retirement retire-ment mournlns the death of his fattier and brother the marquis went bvl'eklnjr, w hereupon he was elevated to the dignity of tang kwan, which may be rendered as brevet or expectant secretary of state. It was while waiting for some substantial appointment of sutiiei-cntly sutiiei-cntly high position that he was selected se-lected iu 1879 to succeed hit relative, KwoSunglao, as tnvoj extraor-l dinary and minister plenipotentiary I to the capitals of England find I France. Notwithstanding his uu-Iqueposltion uu-Iqueposltion among Chinesoofllcials derived from tho signal services tf his father, he was In his fortieth Jear before he obtained a postemal to his natural capacity and afTordlng scope for the talents he had cul tivated. In 1SS0, on the failure of CbuDg How's mission and the repudiation of the treaty of Uvadia, the Marquis Mar-quis Tseng was appointed, in addition addi-tion to his other missions, ambassador ambassa-dor and cuvoy plenipotentiary to the court of St. Petersburg, and Instructed In-structed to proceed without delay to Russia In order to reopen the negotiations nego-tiations on the suljlect ,of the prov. luce of Kuldja. lie proceeded In the task with such tact and decision that not only did he succeed Iu inducing in-ducing the ltusslin foreign ofllcuto reopen the question, but even to make a new treaty, by which China secured the whole of tho province of III, Willi the exception of a small and unimportant district on the west of tliat region. While living In London the marquis mar-quis attracted much attention. At btate affairs he appeared in gorgeous array, with a purple cap from which depended an enormous tassel, a heavy dark silk petticoat, and ajel-low, ajel-low, wide-sleeved Jacket. (Altbougb Tseng was reported to have a fortune for-tune of $100,000 a J ear, he lived without e tenia tion.and his revenues were devoted to the supoit of his elan in the province of HouCv'aui . Since his return to China he .has been engaged in the battle for rail -roads and other public Improvements. Improve-ments. He carried home with him fiom Europe progressive Ideas which havo since been felt In the modification of Chinese policy. The marquis was brilliantly el-ucated. el-ucated. He was a great Chinese etymologist and an au hor and poet of skill. He married the daughter ofXIu Ting, the governor of Shang hal, and leaves three sols and two daughterr, lho Joungest of whom was born in Ixiudon ten jeais |