The Empress Dowager showed a little temper recently in the Grand Qouncil when asking Prince Ching, the patron and sponsor of Liu. and Chfing, the secret emissaries to Tokio, what had become of them and why she had received no personal report from them upon their return to China. 'Prince Ching was unable to give a satisfactory reply and so a secret decree has been sent Viceroy Liu Nanking to expedite the two envoys' departure from Shanghai for Peking, on pain of the Empress Dowager's high displeasure. There has, of Jate, been a truce between the Censors of Prince Ching and Jung Lu's parties. The latter seem to be waiting "for the two envoys arrival at Peking before resuming the strife. Jung In stands alone now, with scarcely a Manchu of influence on his side, and considers the envoys a powerful weapon of offence -J/egainst his rival.
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