January 4th.—The Board of Admiralty recently drew up a set of -ules introducing certain changes in the suluties and wages ined to the officers and men in the Northern Fleet, a copy of which was fur-warded to the' Viceroy Li with a request that they should be enforced. The Vicer y now proposes that they should take effect from the beginning of next year, and states that their esther enforcement would lead to much confusion, as payments have up to the press ut been wade on the old cal For the sake of uniformity, he suggests that all promotions which have been made since the promulgation of the new rules should, as far as salary is concerned, date from the beginning of the ensuing year, when a new system of accounts based upon the rules will be adopted. The Admiralty regulations give merely an abstract of miscellaneous expenditure, and the distribution of the total allowance under this head will be arranged by the Viceroy as cireumstances may require.
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