portance, October 25th.—Nu documents of im-
tuber 26ch.—(1) A Decree ordering Chao Vu-ch'én, Tao-t'ai of the ta Shun Kuang civeuit in Chili, to vacate his po and come to Peking t0 do duty in the Imperial schoolroom, (2) Sung-kuei is appointed to" similar post in the Ya Ching Kang or Imperial (8) Hai Tang and Chang 0 appointed leading Tutors to His (4) The remainder of this day' la occupied with reports from Sun and Wa Lapa, the High Com appointed to investigate sori already been announced in w Deer September 26th, acquitting the Gov of the charges brought against li details of the reports sent in by t Commissioners are uninteresting.
October 27th.—(1) A Memorial from the Governor of Kiangsu submitting a list of traders, and others, who have successfully carried out the transport to Tientsin of the winter instalment of the Kiangeu tribute rice for the year 1882. By regulations which have received the Imperial sanction, any junk owners or others who successfully Fry out a contract for the conveyance of igo in quantities from 10,000 piculs uls, or upwards, are granted ficial status or brevet rank as the case those who have already obtained of the Sth trade by purchase, the highest rank obtainable by such persons, being rewarded with steps of commutative rauk. The Memorialist is now receipt of a joint report from the Financial Commissioner and Judge at Soochow, with the Grain Commi-sioner and the Tao-t'ai at Sha: informing him that they have Jearned from the officer in charge of the Shanghai forwarding agency that the winter instalment of Kiangeu tribute rice for the year 1882 has been ut forward without mishap or delay, and they have been furnished by that elficer with a list of the traders who undertook the contract as well as the officers and ay chants Ca., engaged ig for the despatch of the various consignments. In submitting this list to the elficers above mentioned exp the names of those merchants whose delivery has fallen short of the proper amount by reason of accidents of wind and weather eliminated. The Memoriali y's atten the fact that the winter consignment ut Kiangeu tribute rice for 18:2, forwarded lust year to T-ung Chow amounted to upwards of 745,000 piculs, all of which was sent forward either by junk or the steamers of the China AMerchaite' Ov,, and he can bear testimony to the alacrity and zeal with which the juukownors set to work to repair and cauld their vessels directly they were chartered, and the care with which' they navigated' their vessels, 'I'he ollicera and clerks, too, who carried out the rangements for the conveyance of the por-flow carried by the Chinn Merchants Co.'s steamers, did their work carefully and well, The list in question is herewith submitted for His Majesty's perusal in the hope that Ho will be graciously pleased to ence the repetition of this laudable geal an dustry by the bestowal of appropriate rewards.—Referred by Rescript to the cun-sideration of the Board concerned.
October 28th.—Tho whole of this day's Gazette is taken up with reports from Sun Yi-wdu and Wu La-pu recording the result of their enquiries into a number of charges brough! nat the protect of Kuang. they rooted to examine into with the oth hich formed the object of th mission upon which they were sunt. are only two matters of interest revealed by the investigations of the Memorialiats, whose report goes minutely into each charge brought against the prefect. This officer was accused, amongst other offences, of ing appropriated to his own rises some 80,000 out of a total of is. 100,000 had been il pulsion by diffe orphanage real {nels of the cua the Memorialists find to be as follows:—In the year 1876 the Magistrate of the District attempted to raise subscriptions forthe establishment ofa foundling hospital, but without anacess, The attempt was renewed by his successor, who collected altogether upwards of Tis, 20,000, 1882 a third Magistrate of the District took matter up and raised the total of th sums contributed to tls 70,000. On th arrival of a fourth Magistrate ho found that the registers of this fund would not balance, and that the nocounte had got into confusion, and having represented the fuct to the Financial Commissioner, that officer directed Tung Chao-kuei, prefect of Kunng hsin Fa, in whose jurisdiction the Di lay, to audit the accounts and put them in order, dra code of ru tion of the fu was done, 10 revised bal 10 shoot showed collection of is, 747,000, of which Th 62,800 had been expended in the pure of land as an endowment for the tution, and the remainder, with the exception Of a balance of sume 'i's, 1,100, ad been expended in the maintenance of the fondling. Hence it appears that the brought against the by his unauthorised modes of examination of criminals, sucht as beni backs of persons examination with lighted jose-stick, makin them kneel upon bricks sat up on end, an employing the processes known as the Pa Wang I, or Prince's Chair," ani Chiang Chun Chu, or "General's Pillar." From idence of the clerka who wok down the depositions of the prisoners examined by the prefect, although it would appear that this ollicer did not employ any of the
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