The Peking Gazette of Sept. 10th opens with the following announcement
it made known to all the Princes and A Decree in the Vermilion (Peneil.] Be isters in the Court that from the time when We assumed the Government on the 26th day of the first moon of Inst year (23rd February, 1878) until now, whenever speech has been held by Us with the Prince of Kung, his language has been marked by manifold shortcomings in do-carum. We ordain that as a special act of grace [for his punishment] "there be substituted deprivation of his Imperial Princedom with hereditary succession for ever, and that he be reduced to the rank of secondary Prince (Kun Wang intend of 34 Et 6 still continuing todo duty in the Grand Council. Let also Tsai-cheng (eldest son of the Prince of Kung) be stripped of hi rank as Beileh Kin Wang, a8 a punish ment and admonition, [Trai lated from the Peking Gazette of
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.