June 23rd.—(1) The Governor of Hunan reports the trial of a student who was imlast year during the exami opes in the disturbance which took place chou Fu. The accused, Li Fu: tive of the Chih-ch District, and was a fellow student of Yang Ch'un-pei and Sun; Ho-ling, who have already been sentenced to detail for their part in the riot, as also of several others who have suffered minor degrees of punishment. In June last the Prefect of Yuan-chou commenced to hold preliminary examinations, and on the Lith of that month the students of the entire district of Chih-chiang, numbering over 900, presented themselves for examination, Four hundred of the number who showed some proficiency in, composition were passed, and when the list appeared, Yang Ch'un-pei and others, dis appointed at not finding their names on determined to coerce the Prefect into add: ing their names by making " united effort to stop the continuance of the examination. They loudly proclaimed that the selection was quite unfair, and demanded back their essays from the official clerks. Li Fu-hua had passed, but as he was at the bottom of the list, he too felt aggrieved, and at first joined the others in urging that the transmissions of the papers for the higher examination should be impeded. Subsequently, however, he returned to his lodging; With a view to reinforcing their num!, the malcontents got Yang Jui-tang, one of the principals of the college in which they had studied, to draft a proclamation stating the grievances under which they, 400 poor students, labour rod in being debarred from proceeding to the higher examination, and calling a general meeting to createa disturbance. Copies of this document were widely posted, and their ranks having been recruited from various quarters, they marched in a body of over 100, and made a rush for the examination booths. The examination of the districts was being held at the time, and taking an opportunity of the doors being open for the issue of tickets to the eandidates, the rioters rushed in in a body and created a frightful disturbance. The Prefect's desk was overturned, the ofiicial seal, the lamps, hangings, ete., were all smashed and destroyed. and the debris pitched into the guest rooms. The Prefect himself, who went with his retinue to suppress the disturbance, was hit on the forehead with a stone and received a fracture of the bone. The military was then called out, and succeeded in arresting some of the ringleaders and in dispel the remainder. "Two of inci ters were beheaded others sentenced to strangulation or banishment. Li Fu-hua's sentence should, in accordance with the law applicable to the case of a person who joints in a riot of this kind, be strangulation after. the autumn assizes, but as he only incited to the commission of the riot and did not participate in it, his sentence will be commuted to 100 blows and banishment to a distance of 3,000
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