We have received a copy of the Translation of the Peting Gazette for 1875, reprinted from the North-China Herald, and published at the office of that paper, Shanghai, This
several years, is always useful for reference, work, which has now been published for being an excellent compendium of Chinese official proceedings, bat the present volume is especially valuable, because it contains 20 much matter of unusual interest. The whole series of edicts in connection with the death of the Emperor Tung-chi and his Impe Consort, together with the appointment of the Empresses Dowager as Regents during the minority of the present Emperor appeared during the year, and will well repay a second perusal, as throwing light on the manners of the' Chinese Court, During the a year, too, the presence of foreigners in ina has been, for the first time, noticed officially in the Gazette. One of the conditions exacted by Sir Thomas Wade, during the late negotiations on the Yunnan Outrage was that tle leading features of those negotiations should be published, and the real position of foreigners in the country properly Fecognised, The appointment of Li Bane chang as High Commissioner to in the crime; his first report after arriving at fi; with certain edicts on the treaty the Telations of Foreign Mine reigners, and placing on
heads of the Chie? Depart. ments of State at Peking are to be found in tthe pages of this handy little book. Its val is still further enhanced this year by an a} bendix in which is given a genealogical ta of the Chinese Imperial family, together wi an interesting, commentary S00 it explana atory of the rather int te relationship and the rules of adoption and succession observed, These volumes are records of important events—the one for the Poet year more particularly ao—and should find a place on the book shelves of every one who takes an interest in Chinese questions. The volume
got tp—Daly Prev. for ere is aatioeee bayntry rest of the aacies, is Tegibly printed on good. paper, and neatly
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.