August 26th—(1) A Decree granting hal€ a month's extra pay and rations to the troops and their officers in Peking, with the Imperial clansmen, Gioro, and widows and arpiians belonging to the Imperial clan tho are in receipt of Government support. This compassionate i sideration of the distress caused by the high rate of prices prevailing in Peking which result from the excessive rain The same Decree orders that the congee kitchens in the Metropolis shall be open two mouths before the usual time, (2) A Decree expressing the Imperial anxiety for the safety of the autumn harvest in consequence of the heavy
threaten to fall, Hi jesty intends to that have raceutly falln and til the Ta Kao Tien in person on the 28th inst, to pray for fine weather. Simmlvices are to be conducted at ate temples by princes and high (3) A Deorei by the Censor Liu Eu-po, who expresses doubt as to the universal probity of the Censors as a class, and sug-gents the likelihood of some amongst them aparing denunciatory memorials, rafts of which they show to the person attacked, and threaten to send in unless the Decree, which enunus the importance of thouses any a draft Person to whew extorting mor to hand him there, with territorial official, wh Jaw allows will be inflicted up him (4) A Dectoo in answer to the same Censor, who states that Manchu women are in the habit of keeping opium dens and opening establishments fur gaming and immoral purposes, a practice which ils at Shanghai, Soochow, Hangchow, places, where kidnapped women that the que 0 punishable by prisonment may be taken into ration. The Buard of are directed to draw up Regular subject, and to submit them to the Throne for approval.
(8) A Decroo revoking the peri given for the despatch of Hung Tu-kéuel, a cashiered Grain Commi 74 to Canton for service under Chang Shu-ahéug. Lhe permission is cancelled at the fnatance of two Memorialists, who point out that a request for the re-employment of adi official cannot be submitted by any servant of the State. They further allege that upon the release of the ex-optical in question he went to Tientsin and be. haved in a most argumentative manner, (See Gazette of 8th August).
(6) O-lo-ho-pu and Chang P% lun are seted to proceed by govern post to jussi, to conduct an enquiry that provines. Their sta' to have the privilege of travelling by government post, (7) A Memorial from the Governor-G: eral of Min Ohé and the Governor of C Kiang reporting the submission of one Huang Chin-man, a rebel of many years standi in the prefecture of T'ai-chow, and his gang ofa hundred men, which was accepted by an Imperial Decree published in the Gazette inst. two months ago the attention of the Memorialists was directed thin matter by a Deer information submitted by an individual whose name was withheld, and a report was called for, which was' duly sent in. They have now further to report that the prefect of T'si-chou states that a certain literary graduate in command of the central battalion of the Chekiang forces, on the expression of a wish by the said Chin-man and his gang of a hundred men submission and amend their wish lad been endorsed by large, had enrolled them as a talion, with the said tin command. They expreseod their gratitude, the protect said, with tears of joy, and protestations of their desire to show their appreciation of the clemency that had been extended to them, The Memorialist Ping-chang, Governor of the province, accordingly gave orders that they should' be formally enrolled, which has now been done, and the company has already testified its zeal and sincerity by the arrest of an important criminal, I¢now and in ple that the Topentance of this hardened jer, and, guided by those benevolent instincts which have always made the Throne reluctant to take away life, to exercise a clemency which is beyond and above the law, and allow these individuals offences by service to the State. They may add that the men are sturdy and active, and will be required to assist in th mn of brigandage Also that P'éng urges strongly th yy of not breaking faith with them been accopted. (Seo Guzette of 16th August).
August 27th.—(1) Jui Lien (fig Hf) is appointed Superintendent of Customs and octroi for the city of Peking, and K'o-meng-o (HEME AE) his Deputy.
August 28ch.—(1) A Memorial from Pi Tao-yuan and Chou Chie-mei, Governor and Governor-Adjoint respectively of the Metropolitan Prefecture, giving a general summary of th int have reached and Di tricts the damage done by the recent heavy rain After expressing their reverential admiration of the benevolent impulse that prompted His Majesty to order the whole of the tribute rice forwarded by Grand Canal that remained from appropriation alloted to Shantung to be devoted to the of the sufferers in Chihli, the Memor-ref general report on th hat has already been submitted and the Governor-General Li Hung:
conjointly, Further reports that hare to hand shew that the Shun-differed the most. Thirt t the the heavy rains last month the river at T*ung-chou suddenly rove more than ten feet, and overflowed the embankments, as did also Peking canal. At San-ho, the mani tain torrents came down with rich violence as to turn the whole distri ict into a vast lake.
The same occurred at Chi-chen, 1 _villoges were submerged, i Haiang-ho Hsien, known Yitu-ho, broke its bor joined the overflow of the river Wu, which, being too much for the town moat to hold, flooded the country to a varying width of from two to eight li, forming a huge lake which extended as far as the eye could reach. The same thing occurred at Wu-ching ome hundred feet or 80 of hed aay, and the whole district was converted into' a sea of water, terrible stories of suffering and distress from village after village. At Pao-ti Hsien, the numerous rivers which converge at that point all rose above their embankments, and carried them away in apito of strontions efforts to atop the gaps, the overflow laying numerous under water. So also at the Yung ching, Range an, and Mi-yun districts, with the partments of Cho-chen, Ch'ang-ping and others, the waters have overflowed the country and ruined the crops. Enquiries made "by: agents of the Momorialiata reveal sad cases of distress; ruin, not only of crops, which are hopelessly destroyed, but the wholesale collapse of numbers of buildings with injury and loss of life to the occupants, Stories are told of whole families of scores of people lashing themselves one to another with rope, to avoid being separated, and all being drowned together. Exrnest and piteous appeals for aid pour in on every side; some ask for food, others for shelter, others for aid to bury' their dead, while others are waiting for the waters to subside to ford the flood and get away, and are asking for means to do no. Others, again, claim assistance to repair the embankments and drain off the water from their fields in the hopes of saving a fragment of th Tu short, 60 disastrous a state of things has not be for past fifty years, 'I!
ry is confirmed by the Taotai ang, Yung circuit, Hsueh Tue who having recently had occasion to outsin on public business, returned.
ung-dion by boat He started on the 6th of August, and reports that the water was then so high that it was impos: sible to tell whether he boat was in the channel or not. Hundreds and thous -out villagers congregate Ho-hsi-wu and other plac river, besieging the Tuaotai's boat, which was stopped more than times, and appealing for aid The river, they said, had suddenly risen and flooded all their land, along the line of route was, said the Tnotai, a vast sea, and flooded buildings were to be soon wherever the might roam The pitiful sights he witnessed and the stories of woo he heard re than he could bear, and he nit in an application for permission to tribute a certain amount of government grain ren y of ug prompt measures of relief, for unyme sneans enn be found' of pro viding for the wants of the sufferers on the the capital runs a risk of other invasion of starving refugees similar to that which took place seven years ago, when refuges will again have to be established and the people given ey to return, Subscriptions wore then raised to the extent of Tis, 65,000, and sent by the Governor-General of Chihli to the Memorialist's Yamen. A certain balance of this and other charitable funds remain in hand, which the Memorialists have now for di in the afflicted di August 29th.—(1) A Memorial from the Comptroller of te Imperial Household, ts of the Board of Punishmenta, and other Courts forming a judicial tribunal to pass sentence upon a eunuch who has been guilty stealing some shirts belonging is Majesty. On the 12th of last month the Memorialists were honoured with His Majesty's commands to pass sentence upon this individual, who had already confessed his crime; they were
investigations beyond the individ instructed to refrain from yuraing In obedience to these commands, the eunuch being forwarded to the Board of Punishments, his deposition was taken, and he was finally brought before the Memorialists to have his statement verified. They find, upon his own evidence, that his name is Wang Lai-ho, and that he a native of Pao-ti Hsien in the Shune ('lew prefecture, He came te Peking five
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