Oct. 18th-14th-—(1) A Decree in reply to a memorial by the Imperial Commissioner King-lien (commander-in-chief of the army of Turkestan), who has denounced a tso-ling for remissness. The offending functionary is stripped of his rank, and left with the army, to redeem his fault by further services.
(Zand 3) Deoreos conferring a series of rewards on military officers for their services at the Hunting Park, and money donations to soldiers of the guards and musketeer brigade, Two degrees of honorary rank are also conferred on the Prince of Cl'un, Wen-siang, Te'ung-lun and other high officers, as titular directors of the musketeer briga (4) A Decree expressing the Imperial sorrow on learning the news of the decease of Ch'éng-ki, the Resident in T In addition to the regulation sum of Taels 300 payable on behalf of his funeral rites from the treasury at Lassa, a further payment of Taels 300 is ordered to be made from the same quarter, and permission is given for the performance of the obsequies at Peking. Sung-kwei is nominated a brevet Fu Twtwng, and appointed to the vacant post of Resident.
(5) A Decree in reply to an appeal case from Yunnan. The Governor-General and Governor are directed in the usual terms to have the parties to the case and the records of previous proceedings brought before them, assisted by the Judicial Commissioner, and to enquire into the circumstances with minute care. After pronouncing a decision they are to report to the Throne, The man Hiung Shun, who appears as representative of the female appellant, T'éng Wang-she, a woman of oficial rank, is to be sent' back to Yunnan. under guard, as the law provid (6) The acting Governor-General of Yunnan and Kweichow memorializes reporting the resulta of his second scrutiny into the qualifications of the civilian functionaries of the Province (see Gazette of June 21). Ashasalready been reported, the civil service of the province was filled up, during and after the recent period of disorganization, with persons who hed ined their ' appointments either by purchase or by military service, and the degree of education attained by many of these is inadequate to the proper of their duties as administrative and judicial officers, with moreover the position of the district examiners to fill. Although practical ability and natural capacity are not solely to be looked for among the lettered class, yet, for access in the conduct of government, the memorialist states, there is no standard apart from the canon of literature. In the examinations which have boon instituted for the purpose of weeding the civil service of the. province, 21. Department; District, and assistant Magistrates have been ranked in the second order of merit, 21 in the Srd order, and 3 as unclassed. A number of minor functionaries have milerly examined and classed, and who have failed to reach a place in ird order are required to resign their positions and devote themselves to study, A number of those who are rejected appear tohave been unable to write out the official statement of service which every functionary is required to produce.
(7) In o postscript memorial, the same official reports that on the' 25th April last a brevet General named Liu Ch'ung-king had murdered his wife at his residence in Yinnan Fu, and that on an inquest being held on' the remains of the deceased, she was reported an aged 26, and was found to have pregnant at the time of the murder Vounds had been inflicted on the forehead and the throat, and the sword with which these had been inflicted was taken into keeping. On Liu Ch'ung-king being arraigned on the charge of murder, he deposed that his age is 37; that he has fought through the rebellion as a leader of braves, and that, having loot his first wit, he married deceased in 1867. The usual agency of a marriage-broker was employed, and deceased, the daughter of one Chang Shen-yen, was represented to him as an unmarried girl, whereas, in fact, she had been already married. Her conduct, after becoming his wife, was extremely un-absence from home on the 23rd April, she becoming, and, taking advantage of his
went to a place distant 20 li from the city, where she spent two nights in amusement, and, as he was informed, had joined a party of gamblers. Ho sent for her repeatedly before she at length returned home, and, inflamed with indignation at her conduct, and. the reflection that during his absence from home for six years previously she had probably been guilty of the most dingracetul conduct, he drew his sword as she alighted from her chair, and killed her. According to law, the penalty he has incurred for the murder of his wife is death by strangling, and the confirmation of a sentence to this effect is applied for.—Rescript referring the case to the Board of Punishments.
Oct. 15th.—(1) A Decree, The horse presented to {Us by Yung-ts'tian, We have ridden and found suitable. Let the name of Iron Dagon Colt be conferred upon it and let by special grace donation be made
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