ADSTRACT OF PEKING GazerTES, March 23rd.—Governor-General Tso ssu 1g memorializes, reporting the fuct elicited on an enquiry held into the conduct of the late acting Magis the Yt-men district, who was accuse levying a surreptitious tax on the opium poppy FI S KA BE. Although the Magistrate himself contended that all he had' done was, to issue a proclamation warning the people that he would impose a fine on any future cultivation of the poppy, having discovered on his accession to ellice that the cultivators had gathered in their crop for the year, and being fearful lest they should plant for another harvest,—it is evident that he is merely seeking to eteape under cover of a misrepresentation of the actual facts; an 1r-Gonoral asks that he be stripped in order that he may be regularly brought to trial,—Granted by rescript.
March 24th,—'Tho Governor-General Tso ug-ang memorialize, denouncing an ofiicor of the rank of Taotai, named Ho Vuau-tain, whom, after he' had been degraded for improper conduct in 1868, at the instance of the Governor-General of Hu Kwang, ho took under his orders on the recommendation of that high funetionary, military command was given him, snd after a time the restoration of his original raul was solicited of His Maj, Having been appointed acting Taotai of the An-Suh [utendantahip, with the special function of providing for the. military requirements of General SQ Chan-pino's force, when operating against Suh-chow, Ho Yan-tsin not only altogether neglected duty, but actually threw every possible "difficulty in the way of the commander he was required to support, The Governor General confesses, with a mortification, that he has be timate of the delinquent officer auited for frontier and requests that be atripped of sank and office, as also that he himself be adjudged a penalty for employing an improper person, (Vor rescript see Gaselte of Ath March 25th.—No documents of import-see, March 26th,—The Governor of Shi Shao Hong-vil, memorinlizos reporting penalties allotted to certain petty oft for their participation in a gambling party, the result of which was the suicide of one of their number, as previously recounted last year, Maveh A Decree, Her Majesty the Empress Kin Shun, from the line when in the 11th year of the reign Pang Che (1872) she Became consort to is Majesty now departed; to be the distress of the Imperial halls, shewed her-welf pattern of virtuous demeanour
td a Dusity and diligence, the gentleness Dowager with deference d, rejoicing in the filial "devotion which was never interrupted. When ulled upon, in the twelfth moon of last ear, to Lamont the departure upon the dragon of His Majesty the late Emperor open guest on high, Her grief was 60 Xeessive that it took the proportions of a Mtal illness, This day, to our most pro-distress, at the hour of four a.m., he has departed this life. Let She-toh, Prince of Li, Wang Ts'ing-li, the sident of the Board of Ceremonies, Kw'eiling, Comptroller of the Household, and Kwei-tsing, Vice-Ps of the Board of Works, arrange with reverence the funereal rites, Let the proper depart. ments attend according to precedent to all other ceremonies befitting the occasion, (2) A Decree in the name of the two Empresses, expressing their profound sorrow at the calamity which has occurred so unexpectedly, in the decease of Her Majesty the Empress Kia Shun, before even the hundred days of mourning for her late Imperial consort have expired. Her Majesty's remains are to be temp ratily deposited in the Show K'ang Kung (a building within the palace), until'a time be fixed for their removal to Tien (in the park where the remains of the late Emperor are temporarily reposing.) The Prince of Kung is directed to join the commission appointed for the arrangement of the funereal rites, (3) A Decree, expressing the imperial sorrow on receipt of intelligence of the decease of the Governor-General of the Yellow River, Kino Sung-nien, (4).—A Decree appointing Tseng Kwoh-tun to the vacant post of Governor-General of the Yellow River.
vacancy as Governor of Shen filled by the promotion of the pro cial Commissioner of Finance, T'an Chung-
March 28th.—(Court Circular). The Prince of Ch'an and his colleagues paid their respects on their return from the Wester Mausolea
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