ABSTRACT OF PEKING GAZETTES, April 16th Lin Wei-pitau paid his _ro-apr cts previous to his departure, for For-
(1) The following are the subjects for essays etc. st at the first course of the examinations now in progress for the degree of Metropolitan Graduate a.—rii-chang asked how a man should conduct himself so aa to be everywhere appreciated.
The Master said. "Lot his words be sincere and truthful and his actions honourable and ful: such conduct may be practised even among the rude tribes of the south or north, If his words be not aincero and truthful and his actions not honourable and careful. will he, with such conduct, be appreciated oven in his own neighbourhood "When he is standing, let him two rules, as it wore, fronting he is in his carriage let see them attached to the yoke; then he may be able to carry them fiito practice."
"Taii-chang wrote there counsels on the and of his cash."
'.—"'the coarse of the Mean cannot be attained to."
"Po take example from others to practise virtue is to help them in the same practice, Therefore there is no attribute of the superior man greater than his helping men tu practise virtue."
a—8 composition red is harbinger of (2) A Sub-Memorial from the Governor of Kueichow, after the devastation of this province, poor and remote at the best of times, during the rebellion, the various charitable establishments earlier founded, such aa refuges for the aged and orphans, and asylums for widows, etc., could be to be merely existent and nothing more. After the pacification of the province, Li Pei-ching, the then Governor, instituted fund which was placed out at interest, and the proceeds devoted to assi the families of indigent officials who died in the province with money, or furnishing them with food. This was their families were left stranded under circumstances of a most pitiable nature.
Kueichow being a frontier province, dif-fors in some r-spects from other provine-s, 2 the earlier yeara of the reign 1 Feng, the Commitice of Reorganishas been called upon to ses to the jes of those officers who have died at their posts which had been left i province from the absence of means to the task of govern return to their place of domicile. The number of persons thus relieved, who-e claims to charity are rietly ascertained by the Committee, is limited to fire hua deed, and whenever the Memo it went out, hia chair besieged by applicants for relief tensely painful to of the year he and isto accordingly e the issue of relief in the form of money and food to sufferers, As matters, however, could not go for ever in this manner, he determined to found a charitable tablishment called the Kuang with which the other viously existing, and of an endowment formed by letting out cor tsin government land in the neighbourhood of Kuvi-yang Fu as allotments to the regular soldiery.
Meanwhile, until the routs which it is thus proposed to secure come in, the Me-begs permission to borrow the 1s, 20,000 from certain miscall nds in hand in order to keep the institution going.
Request wranted by Rescript.
April 16th.—(1) The Governor General at Fvochow reports the reappearance at that city of ten Loochooans who had previously been shipwrecked on the China coast, and, after having been lodged for a time in t tera provided for foreign 3, hnd been sent back junk, called the Chin-chia-shan, encountered a gale off Formosa, and after landing one of their number, who was sick, upon one of the islands newt Formos, where he died, they drifted back to the Chekiang coast and were picked up off Tai-chow.
(2) A Memorial from the same high officer reporting the receipt of a petition from the yeutry of Fu-tien Hsien in the Hsing-hua Prefecture of Fuhkien, praying him to solicit from His Majesty the bestowal of Tablets upon the Temples to the tutelary deity of that town, as well as upon that to a deity known as Chen Wu (? the ins of the constellation Ursa Major.)
he following manifestations on the part of the tutelary deity are quoted in support of the application In 1854, when the town was attacked by rebels, prayers offered to thie deity turned danger into peace.
In 1862 a typhoon occurred, and suddenly ceased when prayers were offered.
In the summer of 1883 there had been no rain for " long time, and drought had already manifested itself, when prayer to this deity brought down abundant raiv, and scarcity was turned to plenty.
Similar services on the pact of the other deity are recorded in the petition, and the application is supported by the Memorialist.—Reqnest granted by decree earlier issued.
April 17th.—No documents of importance.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.