Fu-kun and his colleagues in the Gen+ darmerie Office have represented that they are urgently in need of funds to defray the expenses of the Ewperor Specceskiog visit to the Easter Tomb: have re+ quested that the Liang Huai Salt departs ment should be directed to at least a portion of the arrears due on this head. The interest remaining unpaid alone amounts to Tls. 590,000, and of this the Emperor orders that at least Tis, 40,000 should be remitted to the Gendarmerie Office, Should the Salt Commissioner find himself unable to raise such a large amount at once, he is auth d to borrow it from the Financial Commissioner, who is to draw upon what+ ever louey he may be possessed of for the purpose.
ENNOBLEMENT OF EMPEROR'S ANCESTORS, In connection with the festivities with which the Emperor is to celebrate the attainment of his twentieth birthday during the present year, His Majesty has been pleased to confer titles of hon+ our of the first class upon three generations of the ancestors of his grand+ mother, the Lady Chuang-shun, who was Secondary Consort of the Emperor Tao-kuang and mother of the Seventh Prince. The deceased officers who become the recipients of this honour are: Ning-te formerly Brigade-General of Pa-li-kun, the lady's great grandfather, her grandfather Pou, who held the post of Prefect, and her father, Ling-shou, who was clerk in a Government office. The adopted son of the latter, Yen-hui, who is still alive, is to receive a hereditary title of the seventh grade.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO WU Ta-cH'éNG, THE
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