The following alleged "Imperial" decrees said to have been issued from Peking, 4 Chinan, through Governor Yuan ai, of the last-named city. We give a translation of them, but cannot, "under the present state of affairs, guara tee their bona fid-s as, ever since the 20th of June last, some high provincial officials in the empire have made it x point to accept all that have been issued after that date xs genuine orders from the Peking Government, while others again have refused to obey' many of them on the ground that they are so contrary to instructions hitherto issued as to raise the suspicion that they must have been the product of a different author. The following two decrees which we translate below are supposed to have been issued on the 17th instant
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