THE majority of the advisers of the Court, not only during the troubles of last year, but during the negotiations for peace in the present year, have been supposed to be Reactionaries rather than Progressives. This was specially true immediately after the flight of the Court, when Prince Tuan was appointed to the Cabinet, and General Tung Fu-hsiang with his Kansu troops held the military pre-eminence.
If difference there has been in the nature of the counsels in the Central Government, is has been reaction in the Western capital, and progress and peace, under the leadership of Prince Ching and Li Hung-chang, in Peking. And yet reform has again come to the front; certainly it is much talked about, The' prime movers are the two Yangtze Viceroys, {Liu K'an-yi and Chang Chih-tung, Some weeks ago these two able and powerful advisers in the provinces sent a very long memorial on-reform to the Throne, recommending many changes. heir advice has begun to take effect. To them is the credit, first in the temporary but important
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