March 16th.—(1) A Decree, granting the request of P'an Wei, the Financial Gomlioner of Fohkien, for permission to retire from the service on the score of ill health, He is succeeded by the Judicial Commissioner, Pao-hong, whose place i taken by Kwoh Sung-tao, now at Peking.
(2) A Decree, stating that, in the present year, military inspections are due in the Provinces of Chilli, Shansi, Shei ch'wan, and Kansuh. The Gov General, or Governors of these provinces, including Li Hung-chang and Tso Tsung Vang, are severally commanded to hold those inepectious in person.
(Band 4) Memorials by the Court of Censorate, forwarding two appeals i der cases, from natives of the province of Chihli—one with reference to i i nation of a peasant in a village squabble, the other the complaint of the widow of a tty military officer, who denounces her rother-in-lay for the alleged murder of her husband and son, and for indirectly the suicide of her son's The authorities, she implies, are in Jeague to deny hor justice, and she especially charges the district Magistrate of Tient: endeavours to hush up the ease.
Referred in the usual mamer.
March 17th,—(1) A Dect sor Wang hao-lan outing that an excer ple among the anishments, and requesting that pending disposed of. Inasmuch as the om of incarceration is a question affect
have been repeatedly been laid upon the ing the lives of the people, injunctions Board to dispose of pending cases with diligence; and it is scandalous, ind that no less than ten deaths from exha tion should have taken place in one month, during the period when the Censor was acting, the mouth before last, as visitor of the prison. Let the chief authorities of the Board at once prescribe a limit of time within which all cases before them, whether already adjudicated or still undetermined, shall be definitely disposed of, in order that there may be no further delay. Compassionate regard should Jikewise at all times be extended to the prisoners in custody, and the jailers be stringently prohibited against showing them ill-treatment. It is imperative that all abuses be done away with, in furtherance of the sovereign's determination that wisdom and sodulouis caro hall direct the administration of justice,
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