The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-28
4 NEW THING II cEINA.
The Emperor Receives the Foreign
NJ nisters.
FIom The chicago Tunes, Maroh I.


FJonl the Chicago Times, March :.
Day before yesterday all the foreign min
isters, with their secretaries, interpreters
and attaches, left the different legations,
all in green chairs, for the Tzu Kuang no
Comment was provoked by this indiscrimi-
nate mode of progression, for nobody knew
which was the minister ard which the
subordinate, the green chair, mark of
| tue highest distinction, being used even by
young and quite inconsiderabls per-
sons not officially attached to the
Legations. When the procession reached
the North gate leading into the garden near
the mar BILE bridge, the ministers and others
/ left their chairs and proceeded on foot % a
kind Of small pavilion, wLere a collation.
was served, AMI where the party waited an
hour surrounded by mandarils and a crowd
of rOughs, chair coolies mot those of the
legations who had cen left outsids work
men, gardeners, porlers and coolies, who
peered IN at the windows and even
GilOwel themselves to make digltai
examination Of the uniforms and dc
orations Of tie ministers. After the lapse
OF au h UT the party we're conducted into
three tents erected at the foot of the steps of
the Tzu Kueng Ko, where, divided into
three groups-ministers, attaches and in
terpreters-they remained half an hour.
! hen the emperor arrived, and NJ. Won
Brandt as the first TO enter the presence,
where he remained exactly five minutes,
all ceremonies included. He was followed
by the other ministers in turn, the audience
occupying barely five minutes for each.
Then the suites of the ministers entered, in
three ranks. Three salvOs were given Oh
entrance and three on retiring, backward.
The audience itself was conducted as fol-
lows: Mr.. Won Brandt delivered a very
short speech in English, which M. Popoff
translated into Chinese; Prince Ching re-
peated it kneeling, in Manchu, at the foot
of the throne. The Emperor said few pre-
pared words In reply which were translated
in the reverse order, and the ministers re-
tired. the Emperor was at distance of
seven or eight yards from the Europeans,
raised on dals with a table in front of him.
Behind him stood the Pao-wang ard the
KO-wang; at the foot of the dais Prince
Ching, and on the other side soldiers with
side arms. The hall was not large one /;
the Europeans were placed near the center,
between two pillars. The rabble crowded
uD the steps of the TZu Kuang Ko, and no
ORDER was kept.
From the North China Daily News, March 6.
The audience that was announced as
having actually taken place on Tuesday was
postponed at the last moment for two days
and the foreign ministers we're received by
the emperor yesterday. The reception was
held. after all, in the Tzu Kuang Ko the
Tsungh Yamen having succeeded in
convincing the minis ers, no doubt, with
such arguments as we mentioned en- Feb.
26, that there was nothing derogatory
TO their dignity in their being re-
celved where the previous audience
was held, and having made some other
concessions in compensation. The Yamen
had wished to follow the last precedent ex-
actly, to receive all the ministers together,
and to have IA table between the ministers
and the emperor, on which the ENJOYS were
TO deposit their credentials. On the repre-
sentatiOn of the ministers the Yamen con
sented that they should be separately re-
ceived, and that the table should be absent :
small matters of this kind are very impor-
tant in such functions. The ministers were
presented to the emperor singly by Prince
Ching, president of the Tsungl Yamen,
who acted as introducer Of ambassadors and
each minister i'll turn handed his letter to
the prince, who presented it to the empe-
ror who placed it Oh table. Although the
ministers were presented singly, the charges
d'atfalres were presented together. Mr.. P.
Popoff, first interpreter of the Russian
legation, the dOyen of the interpretorial
body at Peking, acted as interpreter. The
ministers, we learn, are perfectly satisfied
with their reception and with toe attitude
of the Yamen and all who.took part in the
ceremony, and it may be concluded that a
decided step to ward the Improvement OF the
relations between the court and foreign
powers has been taken by the young en-