Nov. 7.
At a meeting of the National Assembly to-day twenty of the members again advocated, in vigorous tort the immediate opening of Purliament. They pointed out that the recent Edict had recognized that the position was critical, and they declared that the crisis could not be put off for three years. " What can save Mancbaria in the meantime?" one speaker asked. The members who addressed the Assembly also decried the mandate that had been issued ordering the members of the Provincial Assemblies, now in Peking, to return to their homes.
A solitary member who spoke in support of the Edict was shouted down amid tumult.
The President of the Assembly agreed to assist in the demand for
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