New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-22
M. DE GIERs BRINGS CHANGE.

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M. DE GIERS BRINGS A CHANGE
But it is only fair to state that with the arrival
at Picking of M de Giers and his charming
wife matters changed for the better. In fact.
M. de Giers was VIGOROUSLY appointed by the
Gear personally in token of his disapproval of
the methods of NJ. Pavloff. De Giers, son of
| the former Russian Chancellor, had spent the
greater part of his diplomatic career the
banks of the Seine, where he had acquired diplo-
matte methods, social ethics and, above all,
principles less Oriental than those for which
| Count Cassini and M Pavloff were distinguished.
| He ceased to make common cause with the En-
press and Prince Tuan against the non-Russian
| foreigners. In fact, the Empress and Prince
| Tuan ere long became convinced that they could
no longer rely upon the execution of the prom
| Uses made to them by Count Cassini and by
Pavloff and it, as asserted, Minister and Nine.
de Giers have been made the object Of particular
| vengeance and cruelty the part of the Chi
| nese. it is because the latter manifesty believe
! that they have been to a great extent betrayed
| by Russia.
| Needless to add that Count Cassini is of
| Italian origin the founder of his family having
migrated from Rome to Paris, where he APP
pointed Astronomer Royal by King Louis XIV,
His son distinguished himself not altogether en-
viably by maintaining in opposition to Sir Isaac
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oblong spheroid. His in turn completed the
general survey of France, while his grandson.
| Alexander, Count Cassini, died as a Judge of the
| Supreme Court of France after acquiring much
| fame a naturalist The of the latter
migrated to Russia and secured letters of natu-
raliZation a Russian citizen. and it is his son
! in turn who now holds the office of Muscovite
Ambassador to the United States.
| PRINCE TUAN'S CLEVERNESs
1t was through the influence of Prince Tuan,
by the by. that Count Cassini when he made
| his memorable journey from the Chinese capital
| to st. Petersburg gained the altogether unique
! privilege of travelling from Picking TO Kiakhta
! by the route which is reserved exclusively for
members of the Imperial family and for man
darins of the first c;ass The real name of the
Prince in question, l may state incidentally, is
! Tue Lo Tsai Y, and he is Prince of Toan or
| Tuan No greater mistake cCud be made than
| to set him down as an igngiant savage. He is,
| on the contrary, one of the cleverest men in
! Picking, and possessed of an extensive ac-
quaintance concerning every thing connected
| with foreign matters. In fact, it must thor
| oUghly be borne in mind that the ringleaders of
! the present movement against the Europeans
are not mere ignorant fanatics but some of the
/ foremost men in the Chinese nation many of
them men who have received their education in
! Europe and in the United States. Indeed it is
| a matter of common knowledge to all those who
have spent any time in China that it is pre-
! cisely those natives who have received a Euro
| pean education who the most bitter and
| lentless in their luminosity tow ard everything
| foreign.
There two points IN conclusion which call
! for special attention and consideration. In the
| first place, the .ant-foreign movement is
| tain to extend throughout the length and
| breadth of China and it will not be long before
! the scenes of blOOdshed and of horror that have
| taken place in TienTsin and Picking will be re-
peated, aye and with interest, in Canton. For,
| although the Chinese of the North, who up to
| of the Boxer forces, straPping big men,
whose average height is over six feet yet their
more diminutive countrymen in the South nOtO-
riously excel them in savagery and in ferocious
luminosity toward the foreigner Sir Henry
Blake, the clever ex-Irish police magistrate of
coercion times, who is Governor of Hong
Kong in fact considers the situation in the
South critical that he has asked for large
Inducements. for the purpose of enabling him to
hold the British territory the mainland OPP
posite Hong-KOng, which virtually commands
the latter. Sir Henry has informed the Colonial
Department in London that within the last six
or seven months less than fifty thousand
Mauser rifles, with the necessary ammunition,
and a quantity of. quick firing guns have been
disembarked at Canton, consigned not TO the
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