"Tue Eastern Times" comments on Assembly's work in the—When the Assembly began its session, taking a day's work as an instance, its discussion was most painstaking, word was carefully weighed and considered. Bat of late every question as been hurriedly carried and passed and every member has risen to depart in baste. We presume it would be just the same work for a y the session it was frequently the case that a whole day was occupied in the discussion of a single question, and peri sometimes several days were epent and still without arriving at any satisfactory decision. But now, in one day and one night, more than a hundred clauses of of the New Codes and the Estimates of numerous yamens are passed.
"Tax China Times" criticizes the reductions in the Estimates by the National Assembly thus Tux expansion of our national defences could not be disregarded, nor could the reduction of the expenditure be avoided. What should really
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