Copies of the 1872, 1873, 1874 and 1875 Editions can also be procured.
We acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of the "Translations of the Peking Gazette" for 1876, from the W.-C. Herald Office. It is up like its predecessors, and is a most Valuable and excellent compendium of matters—including Court affairs, judicial and revenue administration, civil and military business, instruction, worship, usages, external paper, the most ancient medium of current relations and provincial matters. So far we Ina ce on record, is the olde have nothing but praise to offer. We fail to journal in existence, and known to for understand, however, why the compiler under the above title, "The ordi issue as been vouchealed to" the" young Mr. W. & Mavens, of the Bri ould persist in assuring us that, as yet, no nese designation for the pay sovereign, Seeing thatthe present sovereign Peking, "iis +dferopoitan Announcement? is only. five years old, and that the one of and also, Copies from the Capitat and Court whom the above remark was originally demo fter was its original has been dead for nearly two years and. half, designation, and the earliest mention of it la we think that the very valuable appendix in in the Annals of the Emperor Kaiyuan (A.D, which the sentence occurs might have been 713-741.) Several other similar instances of revised to suit the present condition of affairs. early references to it are quoted by Mr.—Shanghai Courier.
Mayers from a Chinese collection of m cellaneous notes on "The Explanation of Common Things." It is issued in two official La continuation of lar publications in edition in INS and the latter previous years, th ions of the Peking codon types. There Gazette for 1876 hi just been published in another impression, struck off from book form by, the proprietor of the wax, often very illegible. This, however, is Daily News, through the columns of w a private enterprise, and not recognized by journal the translations are lly given to the ment. The North-China Herald Nie public. We so often have to refer to
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.