of this port, who went to last week, concerning whose absence there was considerable conjecture, returned to port on Tuesday evening. It if ix now reported that his Honour went to 1 ly to report to acting Ch'uan-lin the great difficulty 1 the recent Imperinl decree com-he arrest of a_large number of ities of the Cosmop tan Settlementand the refus: the Britis!
United States, and other Consuls to permit the serving of Chinese warrants in this connection within the limits of the Foreign Settlements. As without this permission it is impossible to arrest anyone inside the Settlements, and owing to the wide publicity sivan by the foreign and native newspapers of the intended arrest of Ri formers by the Government, which prevented the local authorities from inviting the Reformers wanted 10 Chinese jurisdiction, the probability will he that long time—years, perlaps—must elapse before there will be any possibility of executing the warrants issued, if ever. This conference resulted, it is stated, in ting Viceroy Lu Ch'uan-lin telezea the substance to Peking objections and structions, With reference to have decree, mews hash ceived from Canton that Viceroy Li hang has also sent word to Pek nearly the same subject, He stated thi 0 long as the Reform Party revive the sympathy of foreign Stated and those who visited their countries were protected ly local Governments, so long would it be impossible to effect the arrest of any Reformers, regardless of the status of the man, Viewroy Li ¢ was, therefore, that after punishing those who had been caught as a warning to others, the Empress Down-ger_ should "proclaim an amnesty to the Reformers on the understanding 1g that they ref in in the future from criticising the ent and eschew the doctrines of and Liang Chi-chao, A similar" immesty" it will be remembered was issued in September, 1897, after the execution of the six martys to Reform at
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