ABSTRACT OF PEKING GAZETTES, hn 12th.—(1) I Jung, Tartar-General at Niug-hsia, is permitted to retire on the ground of ill-health.
(2) A Memorial from Chang P'ei-lun, Acting Director of the Fouchow Arsenal, reporting the receipt of " petition from certain officials employed in the Arsenal ing him to solicit His Majesty's per-erect a Memorial Temple to Kao Teng-yun, Ch'én Ying, and other naval officers who lost their lives at the engagement at Pagoda Anchorage by the strategy of the French, who attacked an ferior force of old and lightly armed ships upon the top of the tide. Should His Dajesty be pleased to sanction thia
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