The Imperial Princes are as usual commanded to repair tu the various other State temples, both tarand near, to make similar sacrifices, (2) Sung Kwei, Resident in Tibet, memorinlizes as follows:—A petition having been received from Nepal requesting infor-with regard to period for bute, Your slave has informed himself that, according to regulation, the King of Nopal should send a person once every five years to Peking, to make offering' of a Fespectfnl address and tribute, A mission was due in 1872, with reference to which a Rescript was received from his Majesty, granting exemption on that occasion Another period of five years will expire 1877; and as the Rescript of his Majesty {issued after the death of the late Emperor) commanded that a period of 27 months should expire before offering: are laid before the Throne, the proper period will be reached in the Sth moon Of next year. On perusal of a translation of the letter received from the King aforesaid, Your slave finds it couched in language reverentially submissive and expressive of the most devoted loyalty. He accordingly makes report thereof for the Imperisl information, and, loo! upwards, he would ask of the Celestial grace whether permission may be granted to send the tribute offerings at the regular date, or whether there shall be a postponement of ints, upon which nature to take the responsibility of decision, he prostrate awaits instructions. He has to add that King aforesaid makes mention of the birth of a grandson, his first, (or, the child of his eldest son), which he thinks it his duty to report. Your slave has expressed congratulations in reply, and has sent back an Imperial donation of two rolls of embroidered satin, to which he has added on his own account a roll of wide satin, by way of congratulatory largesse, in fur therence of ry that knows no bounds.—Rescrip issued to the Grand Council in reply.—tribute be forwarded at the proper period.
May 2ist—The Manchu Command in-chief, the G neral, and Governor of Fuhkien, jointly memorialize ting the apprehension, trial, and ser tence of the leading criminals in' a case in which certain foreign traders have been murdered. They have to report that on a communication havi time ago by the board of Foreign Itelatio" at Foochow, in which the fact of the master and mate of the German vessel called the Anna having been murdered xt sea was made known by the officiating Consul, ai-lan-no, a delegate was at once appointed to proceed with the said Consul on board a gunboat from the Arsenal, to the coast in the neighbourhood of and Fub-ning, where, as it hap gunboat which the Cons crew, headed by one ward was offered for by the Board, and the Min and Ch'ang-loh districts, acting under instructions, effected the arrest of three of guilty parties, viz., Yang Si-si, Wong mei, and Yang K' Previously Moreover, certain villagers of the Hin-p'n district had surrendered a quantity vf the cargo, consisting in sugar, wh had been lodged with them by Yang Si After a trial held by the Prefect of Foochow, Your servant (the Governor)
h'ang sent a gunboat "en Wei-han and others to scon the coast and to take ud military authorities i pursui have now recovered [cert of] the property that was can off, which has) been handed to the Board; and the prisoners have been subjected to a further trial before the Judicial Commissioner and the Prefect of Foochow. These off reported that the evidence fully establishes the facts of the case, but that the prisoner Yang stubbornly refused to confess his guilt. On receipt of the report of this trial, submitted by the Board of Foreign Relations, the high authorities themselves caused the to be brought Lefore them, and personally examined them in a stringent manner. as follows:—Yang i, Wong Cheng-mei, and Yang Ki-sin, are.all natives of Foochow, Yang Si-si had for a number of years followed the sea.asa sailor on board foreign vessels and in the autumn of Inst year he, with the other two prisoners, was on shore at Amoy, unemployed, as they were unable to find security for their character, In September last, the German schooner Anna was loading for Tientsin. She was officered by two Europeans, whose names the prisoners did not know, One of them was the master, and the the mate. were also employed on Cho Li and Ci'én A-Eh her cargo of sugar at Amoy, her former crew of six men had go north in her, owing to the tant maltreatment they lind expeced at the hands of the master. hose men having taken their discharge, the covetousness of the foreigners led them to engage Yang Si-si, owing to the cheap rate of waxes he was willing to accept, og Teadman of the crew; and. ho thereupon hired the two remaining prisoners now in custody and three others who are as yet uuapprehended, viz., Ch'én A Peh, A King, liang (surnames unknown.) security was given for the prisoners are ignorant of ti cargo taken on board, completed by a different Th el sailed hardest blow: to Yang to take the foreigners' should cost them thei Yang himself hud also bee! rick on several occasions, and in the rotation thus eccas sioned he conceived 1 design of taking ce by murdering the foreigners, id, thereupon, that whoever was bold enough to strike the first blow should have a reward of one hundred dollars the deed max dons. OW'én Poh in rotation, with and Ch'én A-Chu, who kept no watches night, At midnight on the tember, the vessel was off the Pil Tnlands, the mate, with Yang A King, and A Liang, being sound asleep, and the master keoping watch on deck with i. Wong Cheng-mei, an last-named of the thre ing the master fat unawares, atelo upon with an axe, and struck him dead, A were then ro a to come and help to despatch the Ch'én A-Peh was still armed with a chopper. 7 a bar of iron in their hand forward to complete iesign, but, owing to the darkness, Wang Cheng-mel Riy out A Liang in the left hand bya misdirected blow. Onan exclamatic from A Liang, the mate awoke, and pettit up in his bed shouted for help, upon which Yang Si-si struck him several blows with his mallet, which finally killed him, Who else may have dealt blows at the mur dered man, and what wounds wer inflicted, it was impossible to guise, Yeug K'-sin was waked up by the shouts, but was ordered by Yang Si-si to hold his tongue; and he assiste A-Peh and Wong Cheng-mei in throwing the bodies overboard. On the
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