It is nex taken for granted that the Court will retura, as an edict is announced to that effect. The season of the year is the coldest, but careful and elaborate preparations have on made for a safe and comfortable The Manchurian question.
Vrinee_ Ching has opened negotiations with M. Lessar, -but the result is not known to outsiders. Wang Wen-shao is expected the next few days to assist Prince Ching.
7th December.
The new edicts from the Enipress Dow. ager in recognition of the officials who have helped in the peace negotiations indicate who are the meu of power in the present transition period. The first one in rank is Prince Ching, and next is the late Grand Secretary, Li Hung-chang. Prince Ching, besides having a lange salary as head of the Foreign Office, now has his salary as Prince doubled. More money will be agreeable to him. Next in the list of those mentioned is Yung Lu who, to the amusement of all who were in Peking last year, is mentioned as having protected the Legaisons. the bandits, and helped in the work of reconstruction, El friend! whose—soldi under orders fired upon us in the awful months of 1900! Oh reformer who proved traitor to the reforming Emperor in What are we to think of thee Humbug, is about our only Still, it is due to him, that so far as we can learn the facts, he at. heart was opposed to an attack on the Legations, knowing well enough the principles of International Law, but. was, favour of war on all foreign nations. Being a trimmer, he sometimes issued orders to General Tung Fachsiang to fire into the ations, and at other times he sent melons and flour to relieve the Miniaters and Sir Robert Hart.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.