| Show reformation FOR CHINA the foreign ministers at peking are impressing upon the chinese court the folly of the false dignity which has heretofore caused a never broken by an outsider yesterday lest erday the representatives of the different which took part in the pacifying of amna marched through the inner moat gatea of ane forbidden city and hold an audience with the emperor thus breaking down ages of superstition and fear and forcing the chinese court to come out in the open and stand responsible directly for all acta committed in misname lis name the dispatches state that the emperor sat upon a daia behind a table there were four princea at the back of liia chair and a dozen officials on each eida the dowager empress was concealed by a screen according acco ruing to th 0 of the attendants and remained invisible the audience chamber wai furnished ornately in contrast to the dingy rooms which served tor these audiences under the old regime the secretaries ret aries translated the addresses of the ministers copies of which were handed to alie emperor the replies were delivered by prince ching ahe emperor eilent throughout the audience and remained stolid and impassive formerly the emperor replied to the ministers in manchu and alio prince interpreted what he eaid yesterday he appeared ax an and the secretaries of the foreign ministers who were present report that he looka weaker loss intellectual and milder than previous io the siege the ministers of alie foreign powers entered the forbidden city at the main gate leaving their military escorts outside at the second gate they entered yellow chairs like those alfor the princea and JS i aa secretaries they walked through ali inner court of tha forbidden city and their cortege retired from the city by the cast gate dowager 19 bitterly but the real power in chinese affairs the young mail acting as emperor ia loo weak intellectually to enjoy his royal prerogatives otherwise there would bo a fair prospect of reform being brought about by the foreign ministers pointing the way to a higher plane for the government of hina and leading alie young monarch to attempt to modernize his country the empress dowager ia too thoro steeped in the mysticism and hatreds of her benighted empire to be purified eventually death will bring to the throne a chinaman of ability say like minister wu ling fang having the opportunity as now presented of seeing and talking with the foreign ministers the coining emperor of learning will havo support in the foreign assurances eliat will certainly be to cause a reformation in the empire such as japan lias enjoyed since perry landed his marines on the Mi domani |
