Copies of the 1872, 1873, 1874 and 1875 Editions can also be procured, We acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of the "Translations of the Peking Gazette" for 1876, from the W.-C. Herald Office. It is got up like its predecessors, and is a most valuable and excellent compendium of Chinese matters—ineluding Court affairs, judicial and revenue administration. civil and military aper, the most ancient medium of current business, instruction, worship, usages, external nce on record, is the oldest news relations and provincial matters, So far we existence, and known to foreigners have nothing but praise to offer. We fail to above title, "The ordinary Ohi-understand, however, why the compli should persist in assuring us that, as yet, no eto designation for the pape," according to Mr, W. F, Mavens, of the British Legation at issue has been vouchsafed to' the young Poking, "is 'Afetropolitan Announcements,' sovereign, Seeing that the present i and also, Copies from the Capital and Court is only. five years old, and that Announcemenis,'" The latter was its original ye remark was originally we think that the very valuable appendix in for nearly two years anda half, designation, and the earliest mention of it is in the Annals of the Emperor taiyuan (A.D, 713-741.) Several other similar instances of which the sentence occura might have boon early references to it are quoted by Mr.
the prosont condition of affairs, Mayers from a Chinese collection of mis.—Shanghai Courier. cellaneous notes on The Explanation of Common Thin is issued in two official In continuation of similar publications in forms, the earlier edition in INS and thelattor previous years, the translations of the Peking printed from wooden types. There is also Gazette for 1876 have just been published in another impression, struck off from plates of book form by the proprietor of the.V..C. wax, often very illegible. This, however, is Daily News, through the columns of which a private enterprise, and not recognized journal the translations are originally given to the Government. The North-China Herald the public, We so often have to refer to
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