(Court Circular.) The Governor-General Li Hung-chang had audi-
A Decree, On our departure from on the 16th of thie month, i company with Their Majesties the Empresses, to follow the remains of Their ies to the Mausolea, let the Prince of Tun, the Grand Secretary ang and the Presidents Mao Ch'ang-i, Tung-Sun, and Tsao-pao, remain Capital to administer affairs. Let Prince of Tun and the three Mini Jast-named severally take it in turn to remain on duty in the Palace. Those whose turn it is not to sleep within the Palace, shall go off duty at three p.m., each day, and may be relieved from duty at noon at each day.
(2) A decree conferring the temporary command of the Peking gendarmerie on Wen-siang, during the absence of his jetty from' Pekin, ud "eng are respectively appointed as act jeutenaute-General of the two divisions of the guards.
The Court of Censorate memorialize presenting an appeal lodged by Wang Chih-kung, a native of the Li-tsin district in Shantung, who complains that his cousin, having been brought before the district is connection with some litigaig the title to some land, had been s0 cruelly beaten, receiving @ bastinado of 100 blows, that he died in consequence. Complainant's father had also a baatinado of 200 blows, and 100 blows on the palms of his hands inflicted upon him, Complaint had been lodged with the Provincial Judge, who merely deputed another district magistrate to enquire into the case, and nothing has been done in the matter.—Referred in the usual manner, Chinkeang, an officer named Ming-who has accomplished a three years' tenure post for period. His duties involve the adjudication of suits between the Bannormen and Chinese, and his experience and ability particularly qualify him for his post, more especially in view of the fact that ab Chinkiang there is a foreign community resident side by side with the Chinese, and that a state of settled order has but lately been restored (after the rebellion.)—Roferred by reeript to the Board of Civil office. h, acting Military Governor realizes representing in this province scarcely one locality where shelter is not afforded to banditti, who find expecially aafo harbouring places in the small and remote country hamlets. In the towns and larger villages, moreover, the members of the imperial lineage (tsung-shih and givro), as well as other Bannermen, habitually pernicious course, thus terofficers of justice, who are dread of being themselves \d_invelved in_ trouble. to the effect that pots fort to banditti, whi on the trial of captured offenders, shall be dealt with as actually gullly of the crimes they have encouraged, without respect of persons. For rescript seo Gazette of September 16th, Oct. 7th. captor of ty, to the list of worthies enrolled in he 'Temple of learning (the Confucian Temple). Hu Shen, ho represents, came forward at a time' when the words of the sages of antiquity had begun to be obscured under the commentaries of later writers, to establish the true mea of their language. At about the en of the second century of the Eh writers of learning; and literature compiled in the reign of K'i Jung (in the last century), the value of his work is fully enlarged upon, It is, indeed, chiefly under the present dynasty that his merits have been fully blazoned forth. work has been made the subject of critical exposition by writers such an wei Tung, Chu Yin, Tsien Ta-hin, Wang Nie 'Twan Yii-te' and Kwei-fub, great master of all learning, Cheng K'ang-eh'éng, has been fully admitted. Cheng K'ang-cheng was restored in AD. 1724 to a place in the sacrificial canon; and the admission of his contemporary and fellow worker to like honours is now besought. Referred by rescript already published for the consideration of the Board of Cere-
1) The Prince of Kung and hin colleagues in the Yamen of Foreign Affairs memorialize setting forth in detail the conditions existing in the relations
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