ABSTRACT OF PEKING GAZETTES, April 15th.—(Court Circular). The former Governor of Kiang-ssu, Ting Jihch'ang TI GA, paid his respects on rival at Peking, and had audi The remainder of this day's Gazette is occupied with the report of the rehearing of an appeal case in Chibli. A villager named Hu Sze had been apprehended on a vague suspi being imply in a case of high-way robbery, lodged overnight the persons supposed to have been guilty of the crime, and, on being brought before the Magistrate of district, he falsely confessed the charge, in dread Of being put to torture. further called upon to acknowledge himself guilty of complicity in a previous cas which was on record, hie refused to confess, whereupon the Magistrate, believing him to be wilfully prevaricating, ordered hia to be beaten with a stick on the palms of his hands and the soles of hi relative named Hu Urh, who ha the same time, pleaded for on his behalf, whereupon he himself as beaten, and both were then locked up in prison. "Hu Sze, being deprived of the opium to which he was accustomed, succumbed abortly afterwards to an attack of dysentery, and died on the 30th January, 1873, On report being made to the Prefect of the department, he sent another district Magistrate to verify. the decease, and he, in company with Hu Urh, inspected the remains and attested the fact that the sores left by the hosti doing were in process of healing and that deceased had died from natural causes. The appeal which was lodged at Peking grew out of a tumult raised in the Magistrate's Yamen by the idow of deceased, her sister, and two male relatives, who, in consequence of their unseemly behaviour, were committed to prison. Upon this some more of the relatives assembled and carried off the prisoners by force, together with the cetin containing the remains of the deceased. More arrests were made hereupon, and the case was removed to the provincial capital for trial, when it was traversed by the appeal to Poking. The culprits of the Hu family are now pronounced guilty in various degrees, and the ringleader of the disturbance would have been sentenced to death by atravgling had he not already died in prison, Several others are sentenced to flogging and banishment. 'The Magistrate who gave rise to the whole affair is pro. nouvesd to have acted indefensibly' by bastinadoing a prisoner in a manner and with an implement unwarranted by lay, and he would have been dealt with had he not already been dismissed from the service on a separate charge.
April i6th.—(1) The Governor-General of the Grain Transport, Wen-pin, memoizes, referring to the recent appoint.
ent of Wen-lin, superintendent of Eu On the arrival of hia relative at his post, Weéu-pin has exhorted him most earnestly to discharge hia duties with all possible vigour and uprightness; but he has now to ask whether, his own official residence being within a'fow miles of that of the Superintendent of Customs, although thors is no connection between the two and the regulations do nut in 80 1 words forbid the employment of rela at the same time in the two posts in question, (the junior] should not still be removed from proximity to the oficial jurisdiction of his relative,—Rescript: There is no occasion for removal, (N. Therale of vei-pi ZA BE, or " withdrawal," is desired for the purpose of guarding collusion between relatives in who might authority one over the other. In auch cases, the junior is bound to "get out of by exchange into some other lotion or otherwise).
(2) the same functionary memorializes with reference to the Intendant of the Hyai-Yang t, Lin Hien, whos period of service having expired, should according to regulations proceed to Peking for audience. "As acting and afterwards as actual 1) Liu Hien has occupied his present post' for nine years, and itis solicited that he be allowed to remain in to proceed to Peking, on the grout of without being required for the prevent his presence being valuable in the conduct of the works in progress for the repair of the Grand Canal, and notably of the great Hwrei-tei Look FAR [Ai], which ie about to be proceeded with.—Granted by re-
April 17th.—(1) The Governor-General of Chilli reports the execution of two criminals, mother and son, for the mur-dor of their husband and father. The victim, aman named Wei-Urh Lien-ch'sng, was n small farmer, and aman of dissipated habits, who was gradually disposing of property consuming the proceed drink.
wife consequently took counsel with her son, Wei-ta Nan-k'an, for the of the family, to which uted; and one evening, on Wei-Urh returning homo in liquor, he was beaten to death with a club by the mother and son. As soon as life was extinct, the son took his father's body on his back and carried it out to a cemetery in aneighbouri where the mother dug a hole in vere put out of Dotection subsequently ensued, and mother and son, having been found guilty of crime, have been subjected to the po of ling-chih according to law.
(2)—The Governor of Shantung reports the execution by ling-ch'th of a man the murder of his aunt and his first cousin, by putting arsenic in the millet from which their food was prepared, in revenge? for being required by his aunt to give up to occupy for a time, One half of the 8 house which ie had been allowed by ler criminal's property is to be awarded tothe family of his victims; and as his cousin left no issue to become his heir, the Magistrate of the District is to direct the heads of the clan to which he belonged 9 select a person, qualified in order of birth and seniority, to be recognized as heir to the murdered woman, in order to continue the family line and ancestral sacrifices.
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