ADSTKACT OF PEKING GazEtTEs, Maieh 220d—(Court.) The Prine of Tun avd others returned thanks this day for the gift of copies of the day.
(1) The Governor of Kiangsu reports the despateh of Use 1 bute due from that province for Peking for the current year, The entire ame i been collected at SI been laden, as the firat squadron to be despatched, with the following quantities of grain, viz First and second quality rice 307,173 Waste allowance. 26,013
The junks were despatched on their 18th February. In addition 80,000 piculs of rice, with 6,400 piculs waste allowance, are handed over to C. M. S. N. Company for transport in their vessels to Tientsin, tendent of the arsenal steam gunboats, Wu Ta-ting, has been ai to detail " vessel to convoy the squad March 23ed—(Court Cireu! a Prince of Yi and others returned. thanks this day for gifts of copies of the Military Record. (See Gazelte ut yesterday.)
(1) Lin Chang-yeo, "newly appel Governor-General of Yunnan and Kweichow, memorializes returning thanks for his appointment, the decree conferring which, bearing date the 2ud December, reached him on the 9th January, sated in a despatch from Ci Ellice. He consequently handed er his seal of ofice ne Governor of Kw gsi to his appointed successor on the January. With reference to his new appointment he enlarges, in the proper steam of humility, on his own w worthiness, expecially when reflecting that during up view in the ca paci General and Governor, he has been unable to fulfil his duty of xtoning for fault in refer dismissal in 1 the the past by present servi is with
or-General of Chibli) Being ce more charged with the higher otics, it behoves him to reflect 1 important inferents committed to his care, cen only now bey to recover sets of rebellion the Yi present a qu affects foreign relations, As his native pluck is on the border of Hunan and Kuwangsi, through which it is necessary for him fo pass on the way either to new post or to Peking, he submits a request for leave to take one month's congo for the purpose of visiting his home and the tombs of his ancestors by the way. He propones setting out on his journey on the 18th January.—Rescript:—We have already issued es i Lin Oh'ang-y Peking. We taking a congo of one month, for the purpose of revisiting his home and'the tombs of his ancestors, At the expiry of his congo let him proceed without delay to his post.
March 24th.—(1) A decree in answer to 'a memorial from Yen Shu-shen, Governor of Kwangai, who us reported ihe prompt suppression of an insurgent tempted by the heads of the Tan clan of aborigines (probably in connection with the recent abolition of their feudal privileges—see Gazette of 2nd instant.) It tated that Ts'én Jun-tsing A jo] Fy, chow-plan or assistant magistrate of the department of Yang-wan Chow, organized on the tribal footing, had instigated a revolt, and had induced Ts''én Yao-tsing al clan (of Mino-toze descent), in "Pien Chow, to league themselves with him and to raise a Ivcal rebellion, They took poxsen ney villages and market-towns; but o Tu San being despa the fowlers, Tx'8u Jun-thing and others, were at once captured, and executed after due examination, Houours are hereupon awarded to the offi guished themselves i Brigadier General Ta San is promoted from the rank of fu-tsiang (Colonel) to U (Brigadier General), and la the roster for ive vllice, He is also awarded the brevet rank of ti-tuh (General,) A mumber of other promotions are likewise awarded, chang, Governor-General izes ith reference to lotion of the great Sin Civéug (New City), on the river Peiho, between Taku and tien tsin, which have been executed by the troops constituting Ue corps designated by the characters Sheng BX, Jen FE, ete., under the command vf Brevet-General Chow Sheng-chan Jk] Be fi. present memorial is laid befure the Theo in pu we of the Imperial ea issued in reply tow al presented on the 4th January last, soliciting honours and rewards on bebait of the officials why have carried this undertaking into effect, Sanction having been given to the proposals nid before the Throne, General Chow deen called up; a'report, which la to the effect that the soldiery of upwards of twenty viny (battalions) of horse and foot, to the number of ten thousand men and upwards, have laboured for clos upon three years at this work, and that the labours they have endured are not ensily be distinguished from actual service on the battle field, The entire work hus been achieved, moreover, at the expense of the troops themselves, ne well as by Uheir own hey have consented to submit to wels 500,000, for the purchase of the materials requisite, in timber, stone, brick, and thus, without " single disbursement a the Luperial treasury, or culling unpen the people to supply a single labourer, this fortress, of extraordinary size and strength, haw been successfully completed, Lists of the oticers of all grades on whone behalf rewards are solicited, are appended, March 25eh.—(1) Lin Kw'éu-yih, newly. appointed Governor-General of the two Kwang, reports his having arrived at Can-nid taker the 16th Jan Ho la oppr a sense of his own incapacity to discharge as he should do the important duties of post, including not only the control of and military administration and cement of the revenue, but also questions connected with foreign offal calling for treatment in accord with the pulley of the State, All that he can do to devote his undivided energies to. the fullilnent of the task before him, taking with two Gor (in Kw and Kwangai), with a view to anti results, to the end that tranquillity may i toad ers be ut pence some slight tary officers of the province of igsi, where they have served under own orders for many years, whom he p poses to transfer to Kwangtung for ployment, the condition of the military forces there being such, he has learnt, as to enquire acerinin dexree of active reform. He has commissioned two of the oticers in questi y with them a picked force of tity mon exch, from the ular troops they have been Military Governor of the proviner of Hel -kiany (the Amur) memorializes as follows with reference to the courier-posts of his administration,
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