ABSTRACT OP PEKING oAzENTES, October 29th,—(Court Circular.) Tso Taung-tang, in a special memorial, returned thanks for his appointment to the Governor-Generalship of the Two Kiang Provinces.
(2) A decree, bestowing donations of grain upon eight charitable institutions i the Chinese quarter of Peking, to be in the shape of soup to the d upon six warm refuges in the of the city, and one similar establishment outside the walls; and upon a Mohamm dan temple not far from the Chang-yi Men, The donations vary in amount from 150 to 300 piculs, and the issue of the soup will commence in every instance on the 22nd of Novembe A decree upon the subject of the recent extensive embezzlement of Imperial bounty money. The Mongolian Superintendeney have now, in obedience to an earlier decree, compared their archives with those of the Board of Revenue, and it has been found that a number of claims have been sent in to the latter office, and paid by it, which have not been dealt with or approved of by the former. It is now aufliciently clear that a series of frauds on a large scale, and extending over many years, has been perpetrated; Chu Ch'ing-yin, the clerk in the Board' of Rites who has already been cashiered and is now in custody on charges of embezzlement in other quarters, is to be rigorously examined as to is complicity in these transactions, A strict inquiry is also to be instituted as to the identity of one Kao Chen-thing, who must be apprehended without loss of time. The Political Agent at Urga is directed to despatch to Peking at once, under arrest, Ch'ang Lin, a corporal implicated in tha frauds; and Ch'uny Hui, a captain in the Boarded White (Mongolian) Banner, is bound wer to appear and give evidence when required.
(8) Tseng Kno-ch'tian again begs to be allowed to retire from office. His memorial is couched in the usual stereotyped terms, and the memorialist after thanking His Majesty for the leave that has been so frequently accorded him, proceeds to deplore the fact that the symptoms of his illness still continue unabated; the
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