14th Jan.
'THE Taotai has officially announced that Kung Chao will be sent to the Mixed Court. We understand that BLE. Liu Kun-yi regards the matter as of no importance, and only pro-secures the reformers to please his colleague H.E. Chang Chih-tung, who thinks to keep in the favour of the Empress Dowager by showing himself an implacable foe to the reformers. He may have the idea, too, that the more reformers he can put out of the way now, the fewer there will be to accuse him to the Emperor when the latter becomes again the ruler of China,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.