(2) A Memorial from Pien Pao-ch'iian, the Governor of Honan, asking for permission to retire from the public service on the score of ill-health.—The Memorialist had anted a month's leave of absence, which spent in making ey effort to regain his health, but he is sti troubled with a recurrence of his old com-to be a steward, and Yung-plaint, the symptoms of which are impaired han, and Pai Yulin to be digestion and frequent attacks of fever. He official writers in the Board of Revenue, lies awake the whole night through, and Li Ching-hsi to be Intendant of the Yung: ro! of a cathartic nature has been the relief which he has obtained from drastic ning Circuit in Szechuen, Té-yin to be Censor of the Kiangnan Circuit." Fu-shan purchased at the expense of an undermined to be Secretary of the Grand Secretariat. constitution. The palpitation has grown (2) A Memorial from Kuo Lé-min-pu 80 serious that he forgets the contents of official papers the moment he has perused applying for permission to vacate. the post them. "He is obliged to receive ts sub-of Director of the Court of Imperial Entertainments, on the ground of impaired eye-ordinates in his bedroom, and the least sight.—Tho Memorialist has previously had ing on a prolonged conver-short leave on several occasions, and though in a hopeless state of jhe has tried all remedies to effect a cure, mental confusion and nervous debility. His the film which covers his eyes no sooner position is one of vast responsibility, and disappears than it returns again, and he has were he to attempt to struggle through his oat difficulty in distinguishing objects, work in his present enfeebled condition, His medical advisers tell him that the affec-and anything go wrong in consequence, the result would be very serious.—Autograph and that any attempt to get well hasty tion of the eyes arise from mental anxiety,
Rescript: Let the applicant take another may bring on inflammation, and not only month's leave; he need not vacate his post, retard a cure, but aggravate the original mischief. His ambition was to make some
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