will be established by the visit to Peking. Itis said the Dowager is to receive the Prince without the medium of a screen. Some queer stories are in circulation as to the great of Heaven's personal indignation when the humble suggestions of his advisers re his august behaviour to Prince Henry were submitted. There were loud cries of " Who suggested this?" "Who proposed that?" "How dare you depart from ancestral cus-&e., &e. There.was the usual palace crimination and recrimination, but no matter, the leek will have to be eaten or worse will happen. Even the Palace in these times knows something of the outside world, and has its doubts that the Imperial wi If after all the hub of this subluaary world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.