London, March 28. Sir Robert Hart, Director of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, has advised Li Hung Chang to provide the indemnity de manded by the Powers by means of stamp duties and taxes on houses and on native opium. Britain opposes any increase in the tariff at the Treaty ports. A Reuter message that China has not yet rejected the Manchurian Convert)™ She objects to many clauses, which are being discussed. St. Petersburg, March 28. The Novosti newspaper says that a Russo- Japanese alliance is desirable,-even if it cost the partition of China. H.M.S. Terrible has been ordered from Amoy to Taku. March 23. The Berlin correspondent says that Count Waldersee’s action in connection with the disputed railway siding at Tien-Tsin will be limited to the prevention of military conflict. Diplomacy between Russia will have to settle the ownership of the land. The text of the Chinese decree has been published. It says that a powerful warning was given to China on xßth February of the extreme danger of making secret treaties involving territory without the approval of all parties. Several newspapers and New York mer chants complain of the recent refusal of Col. Hay, the American Secretary of State, to protest against Russia's action in regard to the Manchuria. An Imperial edict published at Singan-fd, orders that the convention be not signed on the day fixed by Russia. Enthusiasm is shown by the Hankow notables and gentry in protesting against the convention and rising funds to oppose Russian aggression. Six viceroys and sevenfgovernors protested against the Manchurian Convention. The Shanghai correspondent of the Ttmu states that the Chinese Court seriously contemplates the removal of the capital from Pekin. The murder by brigands of Mr Stonehouse of the London Missionary Society, in the country eastward of Tien-Tsin, took place while he was engaged in distributing relief. LATER PARTICULARS. London, March 30. The Viceroys of the Yang-tse provinces, who are backed by the whole of the central provinces, have memorialised the throne in the strongest terms not to sign the Man churian Convention. The correspondent of the Times at Pekin states that nothing is authoritatively known there, though there are persistent reports that China has rejected the Convention^ Reports received at Washington state that Sir Ernest Satow (the British Minister a- Pekin) has protested against China negotiat ting territorial or financial concessions until the present crisis is settled. 