July 16th.—(Court Circular.) The Governor of Ngan-huei, Yit-lu, had audience.
(1) A Decree. The Governor-General of Szechuan, Ting Pao-chen, has presented a momorial'in which he requests that a Major, serving in his province, who has permitted the men under his command to eject the people from their land and levy unlawful contributions, may be deprived of his office and submitted to judicial examination, ete., ete. The oticer in question has allowed his men to indulge their rap-city to such an extent as to seriously endanger the peace of the District (San-plan Ting on the North of Szechuan); let him be deprived of his rauk, tried, and punished according to lay.
(2) A Decree. The Board of Censors has presented a memorial in which our attention is called to the case of a woman belonging to the official class in Fuhkien, named Lin, who states that her son Lin Wen-ming has been wrongfully put to death, and that although she has appealed to the capital three times and waited several years, she cannot obtain justice. Further, the nephew of the above complainant, Lin Weén-luan, states that his father Lin Tien-kuo, and' his elder brother Lin Wan-te, although innocent have been dragged into the case, &c., &e. In August, 1871, his late Majesty issued a Rescript com: manding the Governor-General of Fuhkien and Chekiang to enquire into this case again in February, 1876, and also in
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