The management of the question of
ations, been hardly up to. the stander Securing adiels has, all through the negoti the past. Heretofore, when certain edicts have been demanded, the precise form has been pretty well determined beforehand between the Ministers and the sungli Yamen. Now, with the Court at a distance, this previous understanding is diflicult." Hence the Throne issues an edict according to its own will, and, if hard-pressed, issues another one later on, to the Foreign Ministers, In some cases the first one has been published, and the latter one has merely been handed to the Ministers.
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