ABSTRACT OF PEKING GAZETTES, Juno 2Mth,—(1) Lu Oh'-kuang ($GBE appointed protect of Teng-chou Fu A Memorial from Chin Shun, Governor of Ili, The Memorialist and his colleagues are, he reports, very busy prepaving for their approaching expedition to the frontier to mark out the boundary line, and settle the people in their various loca. tions, Shing Lai, Military Assistant Governor of Ili, and O-erh-ching-o, Assistant Governor of Kobdo, have been deputed to aoleot the civil officers and the military force, with the linguists and attizaus, that are to accompany the expedition. A large num-Ler of pack animals will be required to carry the provisions, forage, cooking-utensils, tents, baggage, presents and other paraphernalia'of the mission. On the occasion of the expedition of Kuei Ch'ang, a former Governor of Ili, these animals Wore raised by coreée throughout the Kobe region, but of late there has been a getovols murrain amongst the carlo, which carried off such large numbers that not more than twenty por cent, are left. The people, too, are reduced by drought to the extreme of poverty and distress, and appeal for aid are daily pouring in from every side, so that they are quite unable to meat a demand for beasts of burden or porterage, while the purchase oven of animals would be a matter of extreme difficult; Officers have accordingly been sent in dif ent: directions to hire animals wherever they are to be found, and to purchase fodder and sheep at market prices. return of the amounts expended will be submitted Wvlion the boundary question has been set Hled.—-Rescript; Let the Board concerned take note. is occupied with a voluminous report from the Governor-General and Governor at Canton on the result of their enquiries into a series of indictments against Hai K'éng-pi, an expectant Sub-prefect, who was charged anonymously with a series of crimes committed while he was acting as magistrate of Lu-feng Hsien. Amongst other enormities, he was accused of throwing numbers of people charged with piracy into the sea with their hands tied without going through the form of a trial of burying an old man of over seventy years of ago alive, and, when he was half buried, ordering a soldier to gash him with sword. The executions he was credited with having held during his temporary tenure of office were said to be several hundred in number, and, in addition to his barbarities, he was accused of accepting bribes to the amount, in one instance, of Tls. 40,000, and to have permitted gamble ing to go on within his jurisdiction for a pecuniary consideration. A committee of Officers was appointed by the Memorialists to go carefully into these charges seriatim, and after a most searching and thorough enquiry, the only one that can be brought home to the Acting Magistrate is that of burying an old man alive. It appears that when he was out on a grain-collecting round, the son of a certain man Ch'en Ch'éng-wang, who was wanted for some offence not being forthcoming, the Magistrate called on the father to produce him on pain of severe penalties. The old man invited the Magistrate to do his worst, whereupon he ordered him to be buried. This story was elicited from a soldier who accompanied the Magistrate on his round, and he added that there was a wound on the old man's neck, He refused, however, to admit that he had inflicted the wound or to give any further evidence. As 80 grave a crime as this cannot be allowed to pass by without a searching enquiry into the authenticity of its details, the Memorialists would request ti Keng-pi be cashiered and placed upon his trial for the offence. The request is granted by Rescript, and the Momorialists are charged to use extreme measures to elicit the true facts of the case.
exception, the whole of this day's Gazette ung 26th,—(1) With one unimportant is occupied with the Memorials from the Censor Wan P¥ei-yin suggesting certain modifications in the arrangomonis at present in fore for the advancement of officers in the Six Boards, with a view accelerating emotions, which are at present extremely low. His Memorial opens with the usual high-lown discourse that characterises all ypers of this class, and concludes with propositions which are submitted for His Majesty's consideration. The proposals refer to matters of a purely technical nature.
Tune 26th.—(1) A Memorial from Vu Po-chuan, Special Commissioner for the survey of the Yellow River, and the Governor of Shantung, praying His Maj grant a title to a certain Deity whose manifestations in times of danger from floods have been most marked. The Memorialists have received reports from the officers engaged in the repair of the breach at Ch'ing-ho Chen in the Hui-min District to the effect that the deceased high officers who have been canonized as Saints of the Yellow River have appeared in different shapes on the surface of the water at times when the condition of affairs was imminently dangerous in consequence of a rise in the waters, and that protecting influence was most benefici in crises of a serious nature. While the work of repairing the breach at Ch'ing-hho Chen was going on, the decan worthy canonized as Pai Ma chiang chun was constantly present. On the day upon which the breach was closed, a storm of wind and rain arose which raised the water to such a height that the embankment began to crumble away, whereupon the Pai Ma chiang chun came to the surface, and the waters at once calmed down, giving the workmen an opportunity of ro-pairing the damage done, to the great joy of myriads of people, The Memorialists would therefore pray that a further hono ary title may be bestowed on this spirit recognition of his services to mankind.—Referred to the Board of Ceremonies.
Governor of Kirin. Some eighteen months (2) Postscript Memorial from Yi-liang, and more ago, the Deputy Lieutenant Governor at Ninguta having reported that four criminals had arrested the executive in resisting the attempt on the part of the other prisoners to break out of jail, His Majesty was requested to allow the sentences of these four prisoners to be mitigated. The matter was thereupon referred to the Board, who ruled that the men should first be tried on the charges for which they were awaiting sentence, when Board would be in position to give an opinion on the subject. The trial of t four men was accordingly ordered to be hurried forward, and a report submit of the sentences passed upon them, The first of the prisoners, Chiang Kung-shan by name, was charged with having buried an old man and his son alive; but it trans pired at the trial that his only connection with the crime was the fact that in his capacity of head of the trainband, he failed to save the two victims from their fate, or to report the outrage to the proper author He is therefore heavy bamboo for not taking steps to pr vent a murder of the intention to commit which ho was aware, and afterwards retraining from reporting the crime. ~The Memorialist would suggest that as the offence was committed previous to the Act of Grace the prisoner would have been entitled under any circumstances to ar omission of the penalty had the judicial officer not delayed his trial antu' witnesses could be found. While in prison he aided the executive to resist an attempt on the part of other prisoners to break out, and received injuries in the course of the struggle. Ho hag now bail ponding His Majesty's d the three other prisoners the second prisoner pleads guilty to kick i the stomach, whereby ho died, been sentenced to strangulation. The third has been convicted of having knocked hia rival in the affections of a certain into the water and of having atabbo to death as ho was struggling ther: has been sentenced to decapitation, fourth, in a fit of lunacy stabbed death, and has been sentenced to atrangulation, The Memorialist would request that the proper Board may be instructed to decide to what, if any, mitigation of their respective penalties these men are entitled for the service they rendered on the occa sion referred to.
Tune 27th.—(1) A Decres consenting to an application from T'u Tsung-ying, Governor-General of the Hu Kuang Provinces, to vacate his post on the ground of ill health.
(2) Pion Pao-ti is ordered to act as Governor-General, his post as Governor of Hunan being imporarily filled by P'an Ting-hsin, Both atticers are to take up their acting appointments at once without coming first to Peking for audience.
(8) Tetng Ho 059) is appointed Grain Taotai of Shansi, (4) Ting Cheo-to, Censor of the Chdkiang circuit, brings to the notice of Hi majesty @ flagrant case of forcible abduct tion that has recently occurred in the streets of Peking. About midnight on the 22nd June, as Chang Kuan-chun, a Censor who has been recently cashiered, was passing down the Nan-hong street the outer city, his cart was stopped by a number of ruffians armed with knives, who awed him into silence, and having shut
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