coxpucr.
The Tartar Lieutenant-General at Ch'ing-chou Fu in Shantung represents that last. month, when one of the Captains in the garrison was issuing to his men their spring pay, a widow lady, the mother of one of the subalterns, came into the office and asked that she might be given five taels out of her son's pay. In reply the Captain desired her to wait a minute, While she was so doing, a great noise was heard. The cause of it turned out to be the subaltern in question, who came into the room and began to abuse the Captain in a loud voice, apparently on account of the request which had been made to him. As it was impossible to pass over such behaviour to an officer occupied in the ublic discharge of his duty, the matter was laid before the memorialist in order that he might deal with it as seemed proper. The memorialist. finds that dismissal from the public servic ie the penalty lad down by law for the employment by a subordinate officer of abusive language towards his superior, and he begs that this punishment may be inflicted in the present case, in order to deter others from similar misbehaviour in the future. The rank of the subaltern was that of Yun-chi'-Lyi,—Approved.
14th April.
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