August 3ed.—{1) The Grand Council were honoured with the receipt of His Majesty's bal commands that the Board of At the recent meeting of the Colonial monies should be called upon to consider Tuatitute at which paper on Britich North what token of Imperial favour should be Borneo was roud, mich stroke was laid by bestowed upon a lady called Shen who the several spoxkers' on the probability of the Governor of the Metropolitan Prefecture Britich Government eventually taking over reports to have attained the age of one the country. We have little doubt that hundred years. no long time Sarawak as well xs Bri directing the Imperial Col-North Borneo will be under the Qi loge of Inscriptions to prepare tablets for Government, and that the British Fly fly over a flourishing province exten emmples to the Queen bot Heaven, Kuan-Hu Wei, or Tam-from Sibuko on the ust to Taniong Datu Formosa, whi ave promptly on the West. led. to prayer jor aid offered in tin It is seldom S-ndakan Bay has boon 20 of drought, flood, full of shipping xs on the 16th ultimo, (3) A' Sub-Memorial from Tang Eh when the barque F. H. Drews of 624 tous hain, Director of the Court of State Cer the Buen, barque, 499 tons; the steamer Banet, 235 tone; and the four steam Iaunolies Kimanis, Sabine, Growler, and The Memorialist has read in the Gasette Thistle were all in the harbour, besides that the Board of Civil Office have only many large native prahus. In addition to awarded Ch'en Pao-ching, Financial Com-which it was aremarably pretty sight to missioner of Fuh fine of niue months'
bout 4 o'clock in the after pay as the result quiry into forty or fifty boats entering the Bay under conduct by 'Tso Tsung-t' g and the Gov-full' call, this latter contingent being ernor-General. composed of people who had arrived from caused great surprise at the Capital. A Booloongan en route for Labuk, where they perusal of the re) the two high officers intend to settle under the protection of the above named les it impossible to say British North Borneo flag.—North Borneo whether other offences of the Financial Herald, Commissioner have or have not been suppressed, but they themselves say that NAGASAKI, hie Vie popularly "credited with, havin removed his wife and family from his Gon, A. C. Jones, U. 8. Consul, was yamen at a time of panic, and that the officially informed by Governor Ishida, on Governor General and, Governor of the the ist inst, that ho had received a Province are unable to stal ely telegeain from the authorities at Kagos-that this was not the case. Thus thers ims; reporting the American barque is testimony from two sources in support iat_ the per denial of the Commissioner himself, which lias been most improperly accepted as evidence, The two high officers in question tempt His Majesty's forbearance by choosing the lightest of all the charges against the Commissioner upon which for. the tained against him. The ious enough," but how does it accord with the laws of the realm? Moreover, the Financial Commissioner has in the most bare-faced manner courted the bestowal of distinguished rewards for the defence of Formosa (where he never was). To raise him to honour when he never fought, and to heap rewards upon: when peace is made, because: his family ran away: if merit and wrongdoing are adi & system of rewards and ill-defined, can it be said that the Court
punishments?
It becomes the duty of the Memorialist to request that Shen Puo-ching, Financial Commissioner of Fuhkien, ayrinet whom there is actual proof that he was the firat to remove his family at a time of panic, may be forthwith cashiered. As regarde the provincial high authorities who one quired into and reported upon this case, and the heads of the Boards who decided the penalty, they have screened the guilty person and tempered his punishment respectively. Whether or no they should be committed to the Board for the determina. ion of a penalty must be left to His Majesty to decide. (Seo Gazettes of July 22ud and 28th.)
August 4th.—(1) A Decroo:—In the 4th
special authority to jung-churly to con mou of Iast_yenr (May 1884) Wo yare sider and determine with the Feouch tain, Fournier, the conditions of trade in Anam. In 80 doing We had no other motive than to put aside the sword and give tranquillity tu the people, Afterwards, when the affair at Langson occurred, We had no reavurce but to employ Our troops, and Annam being an intensely hot and uncultivated region, many of the officers and mon died frou malarious discuses. Moreover, during the six mouths' struggle, both sides lost ma n, and even the people of Our border tributary wore involved in the horrors of war; whereat We were moved with great compassion, Ever since the twelfth moon, the Englishman Hart, Inapector Geuvral of Customs, on the ground that the two countries had practically no cats of quarrel, exrnest ly requested that the ivntein Treaty might be reverted to, and acted as inter me diary between the two parties with a view to the establishment of friendly relation Paying respectful heed to the Divine quality of love fur human life, and revers entially bearing in mind the policy of One Forefathora, wire, when they sunt their armies into the field, had regard to the condi+ tions of scaser id of place in the matter of prompt or deliberate Fetion, of advancing or remaining stationary, and did not adhere to preconceived opinions ut their own; guided too, with all deference, by the various Decroes issued in the 54th that of thie Inter date,—WVe gave special sanction to these requests, and called upon Li Hung-chang and others to conclude with Patendtre, French Envoy, a second and fresh Treaty, in ten article wherein are determined places for trade on the Tonquin frontier, and a good g understanding is arrived at. France has now withdrawn the whole of her troops from Keelung and the Pescadores, and we have recalled our Yi gates, while all been restored in full ty either
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