August 27th. Court Circular has, among other notices, the following announcements: The Prince of Ch'un made report of his examination of the horse and foot archers from Kirin, The Brigadier General of Yun-yang in Hupeh, Ch'ny Yii-king, paid his respects on arrival at Peking. Audience was granted to the Privy Council, the Miniaters of the Presence, and Ch'éng Yii-king. The route to be followed Uy his Majesty in going to the Show Hwang temple in the Imperial Park to offer worship is set forth.
(1). The acting Governor of Shantung reports the particulars of a judicial case referred from Peking for rehearing on appeal (with the usual stereotyped result), 'The appellant, named Si 'Teing lien, was a farmer who, in August, 1871, was engaged with his uncle Si Loh' in getting in his crop of kao-ung (millet), his grandmother, Si Kia-she, being also on the spot to look after the crop. In the course of the afternoon the two men carted off the millet that ad been cut, leaving Si Kia-she behind to glean up the fallen heads of grain, She was missed as evening drew in, and on going in search of her, Si Te'ing-lien found her dead body lying in the field, where she had been stabbed to death. Report was made, an inquest held, and a warrant issued for the discovery and apprehension of the murderer. Si Ts'ing-ien having called to mind that he had had a lawsuit with a neighbour named Li Sze-ya, and his brother Li, Wrymouth," about boundaries, he suspected these men of having murdered his grandmother, and accordingly denounced them for this crime, dragging in a cousin of theirs, named Liu Hu-tsin, as a witness in the case. Ona trial being held, no evidence was forthcoming, the prisoners steadfastly denying their "guilt, and they "were eventually released on the security of a man named Kia Teing-yin, As Ssu Ts'ing-lien was aware, however, that this man was on terms of intimacy with Cheng Sin-tung, a clerk in the judicial department of the Magistracy, and as, moreover, he was for the time deeply grieving over the thought that there was no one to atone with his life for the murder of his grandmother, he became possessed with the idea that the prisoners had been corruptly relented from custody through collusion between the law-clerk and the man who gave bail, Upon this he ladyed a complaint with the Judicial Commissioner, who directed the Magistrate to investigate the case, which was done, but Si Ts'ing-lion did not put in an appearance. He went, however, to Peking to lodge his appeal. The case brought forward by him having been me vestigated and found groundless, he is sentenced to receive the mitigated equip valent of 80 blows under the status against "doing that which should not be done," and the charge is dismissed, Magistrate being further enjoined to keep a lookout for the actual perpetrator of the crime.
(2). Kin-shun, (commander of the army of Kansuh, which is under orders to take the field against the Mahommedans of Eastern Turkestan) reports the arrival of 1,000 horses from Ch'ahar, which have been brought in to his camp across the Mongolian steppes in good order and in full by the ten officers and 82 Mongol soldiers' who were sent last year for this purpose. Honorary rewards are applied for on behalf of the officers' and soldiers in question.
August 28th.—Li Hung-chang, Governor General of Chibli, reports the result of the trial of Kis Hien-tiao, a prisoner committed on the charge of presenting a supplication to the Emperor by tne roadside, during his Majesty's progress to the Western Mausolea in April last, Due investigation having been held, it is found that prisoner is owner of three mow of land in the ShéutaGh District, where, in 1871-72-73 the harvests suffered to some extent from floods. The District Magistrate having caused surveys to be held, reported on the hat should be taken for either the land revenue in full or tin part, aa the case might be. Prisoner's Ind was wholly flooded, and he was unable to pay anything. Happen ing to see a man exposed in the cangue outside the Magistrate's gateway in April last, he was erroneously informed by the bystanders that this man was undergoing punishment for failure to. pay up. arrears; and believing that the Mayistrate was compelling everyone to pay up his taxes irrespectively of remissions on no-count of floods, he went off to hand a supplication to his Majesty on the subject. His charge having now been investigated, it is found that according to law, "when his Majesty proceeds on a journey beyond. the capital, any one who forces his way past the Imperial suite, and wrongfully presents a complaint to his Majesty, shall receive one hundred blows and be sent into penal servitude at the nearest front The allegation presented, whether its state ments be true or false, should be placed on record and no further action shall be taken upon it." In the present case this enactment is to be applied, and Kia Hien-sino, after receiving 100 blowa, will be deported to penal servitude.
(2) Li Hung-chang further memoriulizea against the proposition advanced in a memorial from the Censor Teng K'ing-lin that henceforward the power of summary execution for acts of brigandage and
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