provi og the establishment of We learn from private sources that our
chinese legations and consulates at foreign capitals and ports is likely to be even more speedily veritied than we ourselves had pposel. As most people conversant with Chinese matters know, everything in the shape of an innovation must be brought to official notice in a stereotyped way. In acconlance with this custom, Li Hung-chang, Ting Jit-chang, and Ying Ya-jeu have presented a memorial asking that Ministers "ud Consuls may he appointed to reside at foreign cities; wud, as might be surmised ing anything fathered by the all-powerful Li Hang-chang, it will very short y receive Imperial sanction." One of our Chinese contemporaries goes so far ay to say that nine officials for Consular posts have already
tung provines, It further adds that one leon selected two being from the Kuang.
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