President of the Office of the Imperial Juno 8th. a The Prince of Tun, as Genealogical Record, memorializes soliciting instructions on subject upon which the Prince does not venture to act on his own responsibility. The Yi Rich (Tablet of Jade) or Genealogical Register of the Imperial family, the Prince remarks, of which he and his colleagues have now been commanded to undertake a revision, is subject to rules determined by the precedents of successive additions, the principle followed, from the period of Chao Tsu Yuan Hwang-ti (the most remote acknowledged ancestor of the ing dynasty), to his Majesty the Emperor Muh I, (Tung Che), bein; the assignment of a separate page to ead Sovereign, whose name occupies the central station, and from whom the line of descent of each of his offspring, denoting the derivation of each on the mother's side, arranged according to the order of seniority of birth, is duly set forth. The scions of the Imperial line, from his Majesty the Emperor down to descendants below the twelfth degree, with the sons and daughters born to them within [each] period of ten years, and the adoptions that have taken place, are farther exhibited in tables of columns and cross-columns, Lin-ngan-fu in Yinnan. (N.B.—Hit T'ing-that he was ready to die in the effort kawai is the official whose memorial, pre-to avenge himself. In a momentary fit sented by him as one of the Censors, of anger, To Lun called upon some of denouncing the irregularities of the lekin his men to help him, and they strangled tax, was published in the Gazette of 18th the prisoner to death between them with January, 1875.) ropes. On being brought to trial for this June 10th.—(1) The acting Governor of act, To Lun was sentenced by the late Chekiang memorializes reporting the com-acting Governor-General Lin Kw'én-yih, in pletion of the grain shipments from that concert with the Manchu General-in-chief, The total amount of rice of various qualities rrovinee for Tientsin for the current season. to death by strangulation (9s the penalty for homicide in the second degree); and to be supplied by Chekiang is 420,700 the persons who had aided and abetted piculs, including an amount of 10,100 him to bastinadoing, according to the pro-Piculs' which the regulations require to be visions of the statute in the case of such Kam the province, for issue as ration purchased at Tientsin with funds supplied accessories, but with benoist of any ensuing Act of Grace, On the sentence allowance to the boatmen, etc. Of the being laid before the Throne and referred entire amount, the late Governor has to the Board of Punishments, it was already reported the despatch of 166,000 nashed by the Board on the ground that piculs (see Gazette of 24th April); and' the the act could not justly be considered one Temainingshipmentshave been as follows of homicide committed in the discharge.-piculs 76,600 of a public duty. The offence for which the prisoner was in custody, the The above, constituting the second batch Board remarked, was not a serious' one, of shipments, have been followed by a third and the proceeding resorted to by To Lun and final batch, as follows was actual murder, though without pre-piculs 52,000 meditation, $% $Y in gratification of 48,700 the passion of anger and unconnected with The lading and despatch of the last public considerations. A revision of the sentence was consequently required. The Ss easels was completed at Shanghai by the proper authorities having been required to Governor of Honan memo-take action accordingly, report has now reporting the sentence and execution been received that, the' condemned man, by ling-cl'e (the "slicing" process) of a To Lun, died in prison from the effects of criminal guilty of the murder of three illness on the 11th January last. A special individuals belonging to the same family. commission appointed to hold a fresh trial The criminal, Chang Che-teh by name, of the case has now brought in a sentence, held certain lands on lease from a pro-in obedience to the ruling of the Board of prietor named Kiang, and the murders, of Punishments, in accordance with the statute which two daughters-in-law and a grand-relating to the murder of distant_kinsmen, son of the landlord were the victims, were the penalty for which is decapitation an committed in consequence of notice to quit the accessories are sentenced to 100 blows having been given to Chang, accompanied apiece. After a further recital of the facts by abusive used toward him by of the case, the memorialists submit that the women of the family, who suspected as the guilty person is dead, no further him of theft. He entered the family proceedings need be taken in respect of dwelling by night armed with a sword, his sentence; and the accessories are shown and hacked all the sleepers in succession, wounding four persons besides the three to be within the scope of the Act of Grace passed subsequently to the commission who died from effects of the injuries Hie cuna: Refored by, rescript for the infieted consideration of the Board of Punishments,
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