Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay.
(Mr. Conger reports that a conference was held on the 5th instant by the foreign ministers with the Chinese plenipotentiaries, who presented the difficulties in the way of executing Prince Tuan, Duke Lan, and Tung Fu-hsiang. They promise death of Chuang and Yü Hsien, but urge leniency for the others, and beg that they and the court be not placed in too difficult a position. Subsequently the foreign ministers agreed to demand capital sentence, to be immediately commuted to exile, for Tuan and Lan, and death penalty for the others mentioned in the decree, adding Yü Hsien, Chi Hsiu, and Hsü Cheng-yu, the two latter being now prisoners of the Japanese in Peking. Posthumous honors for the members of the Tsungli Yamen, executed last summer, are also to be demanded.)