to the Chinese, after the death of Brigadier Yang at Laishuai last week, are seen in the Edictof the day before yesterday. Although the Government still" wobbles and tem-parises with the I-ho Chuan, it asserts that bad men lave now joined the self-denying patriots, and are corering their nefarious designs by its wis. This cannot be, therefore the Society is taboo, and maj are to act severely when such found, ete., ete.
stated on excellent authority here that the Ministers presented a united front to the Chinese, and plainly intimated (1) That if the Imperial Government refused to put down the Boxers, the Powers would do it themselves, (2) That the ultra-reactionaries, to whose advice all the indecision is due, must be perpetually banished from office.
need hardly state that corroboration of such news is as dificult as the news itself is improbable. It clearly originates, how-very serious situation, viz., the ued unwillingness of the Peking officials to act decisively after the astound-i lents of the last te collusion with the Boxers in a gigantic anti-foreign crusade, or they fear them. Tt is probably the latter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.