Show commission to prepare for parliamentary government peking aug 29 the foreign ministers attended a banquet which prince chang gave la bidding farewell to tho commission starting from china on a tour of the world the principal object of this mission Is to study the parliamentary proceedings 0 the governments ern ments abroad as the dowager empress intends to issue a decree with the new year for th establishment of a parliament twelve years hence in the meantime the government will maintain a body of students abroad for the purpose of preparing the country tor parliamentary government the commissioners will spend a month in japan proceeding thence to europe the proposition was discussed of traversing canada avoiding america on account of its exclusion laws but the idea was abandoned because of the rigor bof the canadian climate the commission will be accompanied by a large retinue |