llassia.—The Emperor has issued a ukase ordering that his Ministers
shall meet as a Cabinet Council, and consider 1. The pro- positions and plans of organization and of amelioration of the various branches of the service entrusted to each of the Ministries and superior Administrations. 2. The informations on the progress made in the works relating to the organization and amelioration of the various branches of service directed by the Ministers and superior chiefs of the Administration, and the proposals of which the object is to remove the difficulties which might arise in the course of these works. 3. The preliminary propositions which may be brought for- ward in the Ministries and in the superior Administrations as to the necessity of abrogating or modifying some one of the laws in force, obierving always that the projects of laws drawn up after an ex- amination of these propositions in the order indicated hereafter shall be submitted to the Council of the Empire by the Minister, or by the superior Administration whence they shall origi- nate. 4. Measures requiring the concurrence of various Ad- ministrations, and which from their essence ought not to be submitted to the examination of the other superior institutions of the Empire. 5. All information respecting the most important administrative acts in each Ministry or superior Administration which might demand a collective consideration. Such information is laid before the Cabinet Council in order that each Minister and Chief of Administration shall be informed' of the principal acts and arrangements emanating from the other Ministries and superior Administrations. 6. The conclusions of special commissions instituted by superior order for the examination of accounts furnished by Ministers and superior Administrations. 7. In fine, the affairs which, by special order of his Imperial Majesty, shall be submitted to the prehnunary examination and to the Council of Ministers."
.Le Nord states .that the greater Council will be immediately in- creased by the addition of non-official persons, and will be invested with a legislative authority. Its debates will also be made, to a certain extent, public through the press.
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