The same Vicere stinnes the Universal Gazette," considering that the demand of the Allied Powers for a cha of etiquette in receiving Foreizn Representatives by the Emperor in future, causes great inconvenience to the constitution of China, has asked the Imperial Court at sian to instruct H.E. Li Hung-chang to persuade the Foreign Representatives at Peking to have that demand cancelled, Li Hung-chang on receiving the suggestion, smiled at it and sarcastically remarked that, in spite of the fact that the said Viceroy had had deslings.with foreigners for many years, he was still full of the conservative ideas that enslave ordinary Citinese scholars.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.