March 7th.—Li Tuan-fen (ae #8 $f) in appointed Chief Supervisor of Instruction.
There are no documents of interest in this day's issue, March 22nd.—The Grand Secretary Li paid his respects upon arrival in Peking and was received in audience.
(1) The following members of the Imperial nobility are granted the entree into the inner precincts of the Palace, Shih-to, Prince Li, Thuan, Prince Ching.
Teal-tee, noble of the 12th degree, BB) la appointed senior tot the Mongolian Superintendency.
(B).A Sub-memorial from P'ei Yin-sen, Judicial commissioner of Fuhkien, recom: mending, one Wo Chung-liang, an expectant Taotai, as Superintendent of the Foochow arsenal in the place of Chou Mao-chi, the present Superintendent, who has been appointed Director of the naval sladents abroad.
(4) A sub-memorial from the same officer.
By the old regulations in force in the Foochow Arsenal the students attached to the school, who wre appointed by test examination and are taught mechanical engineering and 5 yi tung, or studer and receive from the date of their entry uto the school a daily fuad allowance of Ts. 0.0. monthly mit of Tis, 4 for the mui nce of their The students in the draughtsman's office receive a similar allowance and grant. There is another class of more muscular and hardy students who serve as apprentices in the workshops and who sre termed yi ttt, or apprentices, These roceive x duly food and wage allowance of Tia. 0.1.5. Most of the students three department school, the school for app ting ofice have learned their pro-the number of fresh students who have joined of late has been gradually increasing. 'The school fur ap) some time ago abolished, but it re-established, under the Mei gime, and more students' quarters have been' added. A new rule, too has been introduced from the beginning of last year under which the science studei and those receive 10 been three ave, after been regularly admitted us the apprentices now commence jowance for food and wag 0.0.7.5 per diem only, this being increased in proportion to they may subsequently exhibit.
March 23rd. Grand Secretary Li was received in audi (1) A auh.
General of The memorialist states that it used to be mongan Department and District to borrow money from their gatekeepers and servants upon appointment to @ post, these individuals, urn for the loans made, being given the post of head gatekeeper or allowed to have the tot lawsuits, They were known tai tu tz or individuals hows, and having hold upon their chief, they were able to kind of iniquity.
abominable system has been rigorously prohibited of Into years by the 1 morislist, but he has never succeeded putting atop to it altogether. the kind has recently notice by the Provinei of which were discovered by that officer his way to the provincial capital to assume office, and it becomes the duty of the memorialist to denounce the delinquent, who is the magistrate of the Ho-chia District, and request his immediate di missal from the public service.
The same memorial denounces several other local officials on other counts, all of wh d by a Rescript appended to the memorial.
Barch 24*h.—A Sub-memorial from the Governor-General of Szechuen reporting i the attack upon the jail of the town of Ta-i Hsien in that province by some forty and more of the confederates of a criminal confined there while under trial. These set their confederate free as well as a number of other prisoners, The Magi trate, aided by the military and the prison warders, tried to arrest tie off-riders but they made a fierce resistance, and threw han grenades, which set the whole street blaze, The Magistrate had then the fire and the rioters to contend with, but he got the former under after it had burnt some score or so of chien, and snccoeeded in accounting for forty-one of the rioters, some of whom were killed and others taken prisoner, amonget them the ringleader of the gang, though at the cost of a considerable number of wounds, the Magistrate himself being one of the sufferers, Ts. 8U0 ver was also lost from the Magistrate's Yamen.
On receipt of the nowa the Memorialist sent troops to the spot, but the rivers had already disappeared, 80 he left a company of men there with orders to patrol the environs of the town, Subscriptions ha been raised by the Magistrate and others in wid of the sufferers by the fire, and all the prisoners who were sot free have either returned and given themselves up or have been re-taken.
While commending the energy and promptitude displayed by the Mugistrate after the raid had commenced, and viving him credit for announcing his willingness to refund the Tis, 800 of public money lost out of his own bucket, ho cannot ne quit him of the want of the most ordinary care, inasmuch as precisely the same thing happened in the town only a year before. He therefore requests that he may forthwith be dismissed the public service. Granted by Reveript.
March 25th.—T.ti (ZE$K) is appointed Director of the Court of Imperial Entortainment, March 26th.—No documents of importance.
March 27th.—Tho greater part of this day's issue is occupied with a joint Memorial from the Governor-General and Governor at Canton strongly supporting an sition from Lhe Judge of the Province to impose more severe punishment in cases of faction fights in Knangtaug, which ary becoming " serious Judyo makes the following stutements in support of his application.
'The people of the Canton province are by nature violent and choleric, and for anangey look, some petty grievances, or a trifling dispute about land, they will' hire ruffians to fight for them and appeal to the arbitration of arms without waiting for n legal decision of their dispute, In most ivatances the ruling spirits in these fights are the heads of the clan, the more disreputable of its gentry, oF custodians of the ancestral temple, and, though nominally the fight is between the two clans at enmity, it ix, as a matter of fact, waged by local ruffinns, salt smugglers, pirates and a certain class of vagrant desperadoes versed in the use of the "long musket" who are hired by occasion, The number of may be several hundred, or over a thousand, some few or some score of villages being dragged into the fight, Foreign weapousof offence being every where purchaseable, every kind of arm, from foreign artillery or foreign muskets down to avoids, is employed, while stockades uro erected or farls constructed, behind which the fight goes imes for four oF fiv years without coming toan and, and often when peace is made the feud runs #0 high that the contest begin again, When these fights commence, a large flag hoisted and an artillery duel takes place, a successful attack upon the i being followed by incor riy murder and pillage, as many as several hundred houses being destroyed in one such raid, Even graves are rifled and di these occasions, and men and mi off us captives. Troops sent againat them are resisted by force and often killed, and every sort of atrocity is committed worthy.of savages rather than civilised beings. 'The conquering villagers not infrequently dulge in a wanton destruction of th enemies' crops of corn or sugar cane, acres upon acres being Laid waste, while trees and fruit orchards are ruthlosely cut down,
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