THE EMPRESS OF CHINA.
• •The deorees in which the Empress' of China from time to time commends, upbraids, 'of warns the officials of the Empire (says the "Pall Mall Budget"), are among the most amusing state papers issued by any Government. State papers, it is true, are not amusing as a rulo; those published lately by Lord Granville, for example, cannot be said to have caused in lich hilarity among his country- • men. The Empress of China, like some other sovereigns, and statesmen, advantage of his lordship. An unftaWnat.e. officialjiaving recently been puniffiM for. a memorial which he presented, another official, one Fan, ventured to acquaint the Empress his fate would probably deter- others from offering their criticisms in future, and prayed for explanation. He got it in a right royal fashion.Aß'fliiyu. evidently is not deterred, says her Mawitftfv by the punishment of a previous petitioner; why, then, should he think others would be 1 He evidently does not appreciate the motives of the Court'; he is exceed-
ingly presumptuous to address an improper and abrupt representation to the throne, and, pour enmmger les autres, he is accordingly handed over to the Board, of Punishments. Party government would evidently not suit Pekin, for this; is how the Empress talks of the palladium of English liberties "Tho creation of parties aud factions, and tho support of their own party and the villiiication of opposing ones, was a vicious habit that prevailed among officers of Government in the days {of the Ming dynasty; but this evil propensity is-not tolerated now, and it is our dutjfrto punish offences of such a nature |Ssba ' warning against indulgence therein,"c Party Government, then, like tho mariner's compass, gunpowder, and printing, was known in China before we ever thought of it. Chinese party men are now promptly handed o\or/ Ifaifc,; Board of Punishments. There people in England who would very sorry to see some of our party nHH treated likewise. fIH
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2050, 24 July 1885, Page 2
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324THE EMPRESS OF CHINA. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2050, 24 July 1885, Page 2
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