A private telegram has been received in London which seems
to prove, what we suspected last week, that the object of the recent intrigues in Pekin was to confirm Prince Kung and his colleagues in power. The Emperor having died "of small-pox," much power would have fallen to his widow, who accordingly "committed suicide." A child of three was then acknowledged Emperor, and the "Empress Mother "—that is, the mother of Toungchi—who was nominally reigning from 1860 to 1872, has been replaced in the Regency, and will exercise her powers, doubtless, as before. In fact, Prince Kung triumphs all along the line. We shall see his real drift by and bye, and meanwhile we must demur to one statement of the Times. That journal says the Chinese Army only exists on paper. We hope it may prove so when we are next driven to invade, but the Chinese Moham- medans of the West have found that Army a real entity, so real that they are all dead.
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