A Taiyuanfu dispatch the Empress Dowayer arrived xt Taiyuan the other day, seme 30 or 40 members of the gentry and notables of the city presented a petition to the notorious Yii Hsien, their Governor, requesting him 10 memorialise the Throns on their behalf, Praying for the immediate punishment of all those high Ministers of the Court who had been guilty of originating and directing the disturbances in Chihli, bringing the Court to its present pitiable condition, and placing the Empire on the very verge of destruction.- It is vouched for that when Yii Hsien read the petition he was in such a great rage that he stamped about th-room and actually tore the petition into pieces in the face of the petitioners, who wore afterwards almost driven out of his presence by the yameo guards, when the former began to argue with the Governor protesting at his inconsiderate conduct in tearing their petition to pieces. It is uow intended by the ioners to et gather all like: minded people together in that city and adjacent prefectures of Shansi and present themselves on a certain day before the Empress Dowager's temporary Palace—the Governor's yamen—and personally appeal against the conduct of Ya Hsien, while earn astly demanding the immediate panishment of the authors of the—present troubles with the Foreign Powers. We cannot, perhaps, blame Yi Hsien for refusing to memorialise the Empress Dowager on the above question, especially as he himself is one of the authors of Boxerdom and directed their ow in Shantung and then in his presnt_province of Shansi. In other words, Yii Hsien would have ce condemn himself also and pray for his own punishment, the legal result of which would have been capital punishment. We commend, however, the Tesolution and earnestness shown by the Taiyuanfu gentry, an example which ought to be imitated throughout every province similar to the ware of public opinion which Jast January stopped the same Conservative Patty which tried to depose the Emperor and put the country under further Regency of the Empress Dowager, with Prince Tuan as Prime Minister.
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