ABSTRACT) OF PEKING ausherta:
Jan. 10th.—An edict is ismuod regarding memorial from Tu-hsing-ah, commander in-chief of the Manchu forces in Shéngking, accusing Lt.-General Yuh- of neglset of duty. This officer had been sent to, operate t the bandits (or rebels) at Ku-shan, but he took no offensive against them, they were allowed to roam about at pleasure. ' For this neglect of duty the commander-in-chief deprived him of his command' and ordered him to return to head-quarters, but such was his wilful dilatoriness) that more than ten days elapsed..before ho put in an appearance. He was on a former occasion deprived of his button, but it was afterwards returned to him at the request of the commander-in-chief Tu-hsing-ah; let it be taken from him again, and let him be dismissed from the battalion altogether. Tachsing-ah is ordered to, send. troops and told to si officers in oan nat the of rebels at Ku-shan,
do not deceive him with. specious re} or delay the execution of the work trusted to them.
(2) Ho Ting-chien, literary chancellor of Kwang-tung, reports having held examinstions at Chao-ching, Lo-ting, Nan-hsiung, Shao-chow and other Race has always occupied a high literary position but ital ieee an unenviable notoriety for ita literary forgeries." The memorial took every. possible precaution to prevent frauds, but, failed. "At the Chao-ching B. A. examination five persons were detected writing essays for some of the other dates; at Shao-chow and Kwang-chow (Canton) two candidates were discovered per Sonating other people, and four more at the Kwangtung eir! snd military B.A-examin-
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