The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-19
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A CATHAR|NE OF CHINA
More Piracy Near Canton Railway
Matters travelling Digni-
taries--G Hung Chang.

HoNGKONG. March 24.-Ths Hong
kong Weekly Press says:
We give below the text Of the I'm
perial Edict OF the 9Th inst. against
the Hanlins. We are indebted 20 tho
North China Daily News for the trans
lation and comments: 2,
Q) We have received a memorial
from the Chancellor of the Hanlin
Academy and his colleagues, denounc-
ing the conduct OF certain members of
this learned body OF literates. The
Hanlin Compiler Kuei Tu (Nanchn) IL
charged with having pocketed Govern
ment money granted to him TO sncour-
age internationG1 commerce.. 2 task
which. .;sp 70 :the spresent pq@ent, ,tAe
accused Compiler can show nothkG
f5r, thereby ewaAtAfe the. pubifc. a IL!
The said KueE tn II .hdreby handed to
the Board or Civil Appuinyments for
the determination. of an adeQOtee pen
atty. The Hanlin Compiler, Chou Hsi-
en-, now on leave of absenes ct. his
home Tin Soochow) is charged 4Hh
having been boastful and arrogant In
conduct and speech, regardless Of the
dignity due to his high rank. He N
hereby commanded to send In his resig-
nation and he Is further ordered to be
| placed under the strict surveillance OF
the local authorities OF his native town.
The Hanlin Compiler, Chen Ting, a
| native Of Human, Is accused Of being
crafty low and false; man addicted to
unorthodox and pernicious doctrines.
A book, OF which he was the author.
commenting on the government, In
charged with containing many treas
enable ideas. He Is hereby ordered TO
be cashiered, and the Hanlin Academy
is further commanded to hand the ac-
cused to the Board Of Punishments to
be sent under guard to his native prov
ince, the Governor OF which shall i'm
prison him for life in the provincial
jail. The same sentence is hereby
awarded the Hanlin graduate, Wu
Shihtsao "a native OF Yunnan) whose
nature is charged with being the same
as the cashiered Haniin Compiler
Chen Ting aforesaid. With reference
to the Hanlin Compiler Shen Peng who,
| after making his extraordinary and
crazy charges against Jung Lu and
Kang Y) ieft PekIng for his native city
| of Ch'angshu (near Soochow) and who
has been reported by acting Viceroy Lu
| Ch'uan-lin to have already been arrest
ed, We hereby command that the said
Shen Peng be also imprisoned for life
in the provincial Jail in Soochow. The
three Haniins last mentioned especial
| ly deserve their punishment owing to
their disreputable and ungentlemanly
conduct. Finally we command the
Chancellor OF the said academy to care
fully watch the conduct and characters
OF the other members OF the academy
and denounce such as deserve to be
punished.
Tne Empress Dowager.
The failure OF her long contemplated
coup of the New Year has not improv-
ed the temper of the Dowager Tze Hsi,
and a condition which may be best de-
scribed as a reign of terror prevails
through the Empire. Seen far above
the ignoble crowd of paralyzed satel-
lites who form her ministers. the hgure
of the woman TIE Hsi stands out as
that of some savage but noble beast or
prey, surrounded by a hungry pack Of
parasites, whom one roar of the grand
er beast is sufficient to send packing In
mortal terror. II. however, the physi-
cal aspect Of the Dowager Empress be
that OF beast Of prey. her mental at
| titude Is on a similar level; and she
! has been recently seeking to extend
her instinct OF terrorism into quarters
| where. from the nature Of the case, It
must recoil on herself. She has taken
stock of the craven crowd OF intriguers
who constitute the bureaucracy OF Chi
ma. From them she knows she has
nothing to fear; they have been 80 ac
customed to be led that they have for
gotten how to think for themselves.
besides, they are ready to sympathize
with her in her reaciionary policy, more
especially In her hatred TO foreigners
and foreign institutions, for have they
not In their own persons felt the bitter
sting Of the foreigner, who would de-
prive them OF those little perQuisites OF
Office which ever since the days NJ the
Master himself have ever appertained
TO the holder? The dislike OF the for
eigner. which was at first a mere senti-
ment, has lately grown into a halluci-
nation, which haunts the Empress
waking. and disturbs her sleeping
hours; and II is sufficient that any one
. OF her retinue should have had deal
ings, however innocent. with an out