There is as yet no communication to Hankow direst. The foreiga superintendent at Hankow has gone to try to effect repairs, and a repairing party has also been dispatched from Kiukiang to assist i the work.
At the opening of the National Asoembly, which took place yesterday, and to which all members of the Cabinet, with the exception of Prince Ching, the Premier, who was ill, and all other Ministers of State were present, Ne Tang, the Vice-President of the Cabinet, read an Imperial Edict which mentions the present difficult situation of the Empire, and announces that the opening of Parliament will soon take place, which, reached in s pescefal way and after thorough preparation and deliberation, will guarantee the consolidation and the peace of the Empire.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.