Aug. 27th.—(1) A Decree in reply to a memorial by the Censor Yuan Ch'éug-yeh, who has impeached two Superintendents of the Peking Granaries for dilatory action and careless exposure of the grain. - The ico-Presidents of the Granaries are ordered titute a stringent enquiry into the conduct of the two impeached officials, who are suspended from their posts pending the result.
(2) A Decree commanding that the biography of the late Governor of Honan, Te'ten Ting-ming, as requested by Kwoh-ts'iian: in a memorial extollit public services, be included by the Imperial jiatoriographers in the national annals, (8) Chang Chao-tung, Governor of Kwangtung, memorializes against the attempt lately made by the Governor-General Ying-han to restore the system of Wei Sing lotteries at Canton. On receipt of the Imperial Decree of the 26th Feruary last year, he writes, he gave immediate orders for the suppression of the Iuttery agencies, and when the Governor General Ying-han subsequently arrived and took office, on his referring to the subject, the Governor -tated to him that
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