AN IMPERIAL DECREE, will be without powers, t not dare to k ile the criminal classes will re i nity. What a atate of things would that be! The Memorialist, considering that, while the official and literary classes are certainly above the countryfolk and common people, they are also lower than His Majesty's ins men, who have always been kept in hand by' successive Emperors, prays that regulations for proceeding in cases, such as this of Ku Hsiany-ch'én's, which may hereafter arise, may be concerted by the Censorate, the office of Gendarmerig, the Prefect of Shun-tien Fa, the Metropolitan Censors and the Board of Puvishments, or that, in future when the Board of Revenue, or of Punishments, wishes to call up a Banuerman, on their communicating with ti proper Banner, a Sergeant may be sent to enforce their request; that, if the person wanted be a Chinese official on duty, on communicating with the proper Yamen, he may be summoned by it. But expectant officials and graduates of various kinds belong to no office, and, consequently, the administrative bureaux just summon them by warrant as if they were ordinary common people—which is contrary to law. How this is to be arranged, should be included in the proposed regulations. The whole question should be discussd and the decision submitted to the Emperor, so as to ensure obedience to the regulations. For Decree see Gazette of 16th July.
August 4th,—(1) The Governor of Hupei reports a serious disturbance at Tzu Pei Yuan in the Chien-li District, fo suppress The Peking Gazette contains the following edict dealing with the case of the Qurean rebel Corea is a dependency of China, Ita princes have for generations been Our feudatories, and have ever been known to be reverent and respectful, the Court sympathy joy sand sorrows. Some regards thi its near kindred and We
time sines Chang Shu-sheng reported to Us that the Corean army lad mutinied, and stiddenly in the G: h moon surrounded the palace of the Prince; that the Pri had come to a untimely end, and Minister vf State had been slain; hat the Japanese Legation also had suffered from their viol-We forthwith ordered Chang Shu-sheng t send land and naval forees to put down the rebellion; and, as Li Hung chang's period of leave had expired, We summoned hit to Tientsin to assist in the settlement of the effuir, Shortly after, the Generals Wu Ch'ang-fa and Ting Ju-ch'ang, and the Intendant Ma Ghien-chung, crossed to Corea at the head of an army and muking their way into the capital, over 100 of the rebels. They 6x the ringleaders, but pardoned their follow-and in the space of ten days the trouble id disturbance were allayed and general confidence restored. Juquiry into the common talk of the people showed that the cause of the outbreak was the soldiers' clamouring for pay, and that it was Li Ch'éng Ying-ying, (25 32 (FR) who the arch-plotter in inciting them tq
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