July 20th.—(1) The Licutenant-Governor of Joh-ho reports the dispersion of a band of brigands who, under the command of a notorious leader, have for months past been infesting Pting-ch'iian Chou. The capture of the rebel spy gave the first clue to their movements. Through him it was discovered that they had taken up a strong position at a place called Sa-la-paying-tzu, where they were engaged in re-cruising their nuni and making preparations for resisting the Imperial troops. The next information that reached the authorities was that the band numbered over 200 men, and that they were entrenched in a fort of their own construction under the command of Yang Pu-yun. The troops that were sent to operate against them reached the locality on the 18th June, and on attempting to reach the rebel encampment, which was situated on a precipice and well defended on every side, they were received with a cannonading from the fort, and found a swarm of the enemy drawn' up in regular battle array prepared to offer resistance. The Imperial troops could not get up the hill to return the attack, but marching round its base they advanced upon them from different directions and hemmed them in, The enemy flung away their lives in the most reckless way, and made a determined struggle until their camp was fired by a shot and became a scene of general conflagration. This, while damping the ardour of the enemy, inspired the Imperial forces, who pressed onward with sword and spear, those behind cheering on those in front. At last the rebels, finding thei position no longer tenable, broke up in utter confusion, and fled helterskelter in all directions, hotly purs rious forees. The leader but otherwise the victory was complet Forty of the rebels were killed, ten were taken alive, the number of the wounded was past reckoning, ten pieces of ordnance were captured, twenty camps and seventy stables were burnt down, the fort wi demolished, and an endless quantity of arms, clothing, ete., became the ape victors, After a time the ringleader hin self was discovered in anot! and closely invested. Driv tion, he mounted his horse, shouldered his musket, and firing right and left, charged wildly through the opposing mass until he was overpowered and captured. His statement confirmed and supplemented the above account. A Shanting man by birth, he had to flee his native province for a murder committed thirteen years ago. He had spent the interval in moving from place to place, sometimes seize ing travellers them to ransom, both of which brought him it collision with the authorities. Early th found himself the elected ch large band of followers duly ofheer disciplined. They had two flags, one which bore the device, "Slay the rich and succour the poor," while the other announced that they' were commissioned by Heaven to spread civilisation upon earth. His men were armed with foreign firearms and were all mounted. A great part of his following was, it is found, composed of disbanded soldiers from Fen; tion, and as they have gone home and may, it is feared, hark back to their old ways, the Military Governor at Moukden has been measures for their apprehen-
REMITTANCES TO PEKING FROM CHEKI, (2) The province of Chekiang was called upon to forward to Peking during the 13th year of Kuang-sil the following sums fro: itssaltrevenue: Contribution to metropol tan expenditure, Tls. 220,000; contribution to Imperial Household, Tls. 50,000 one half of which sums was to be forwarded before the end of the 6th month, wd the remainder early in the 12th month of the year. Tls. 60,000 of the first, and Tls. 15,000 of the second item have been already forwarded, and the governor now reports the transmission of further instalments of Tls. 50,000 and Tls. 10,000 under the respective heads, together with a sum of Ts. 5,000 for the purchase of ginseng dur the year under review.
tatous zo cermuany perms, July 21st.—(1) The Governor of Chekiang having reported that the Palladium deities of Ningpo and Hsiang-shan, whose divine interposition was strikingly displayed during the Taiping rebellion, again vouchsafed a speedy response to the prayers of the people during the droughts and_floods of 1883 and 1884, the Imperial College of Inscriptions has been commanded to prepare a couple of tablets, which are to be awarded to the governor and to be rever ently suspended by him in the temples of the deities in question as a token of the Imperial gratitude, (9) Tung-chi is gazetted Superintendent of the Imperial Manufactory at Hangchow. Lo Chin-wen is appointed Intendant of the nun Kuang Circuit in Chibli.
MOSTER MEETS HIS DESERTS, (3) The Governor-General of the Yun Kuei Provinces reports the decapitation of ian who has been trading on the creming himself off i distinction pacify he force in Chay Chou, and levied heavy contributions from the neighbourhood for its support. He had a false seal manufactured, and sold for his wu benefit the property of rebels that had been confiscated by the govern: ment. Tu fact, there was mo species of fraud or villainy which he had not practised. At first. the people were afraid to inform him, but after his arrest crowds of Lolos flocked to the city and bogyed to be rid of the man from whom they had suffered so much. The late governor had applied authority to degrade him, but on ture ther ing it was found that the man was not an cial at all, and that his commission He represented himself as en part in the re-capture of and Ta-li Fu, but. the list of ged on the occasion in question s no such name, He has himself now fully admitted that his docunients were forged. © Memorialist remarks that in Yitnnan, where the population is a mixture of Chinese and aborigines, the seeds of serious disturbance have often been sown by allows such villainies as this to and the man has accordingly been treated a common brigand and summarily decapitate:
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