ABSTRACT OF PEEING GAZETTES, August 26-h.—(1) A Memorial from the acting Governor of Shansi acknowledging the receipt fom the Board of Revenue of their scheme of fivaucial reform in t articles While fully appreciating the motives which induced the Board of Revenue, on the principle that wealth is power, to consider general schemes for the consolidation of the foundations upon which the france of the Empire is built, avd improving the sources frm whence it is derived, an aim which should be furthered by every servant of the state, the Memorialist regrate ti the condition of the province of Shansi is not 80 favourable for the introduction of reforms suggested, xs are U southern provinces of the Empire.
Poor, however, as Shansi may be, and impossible as it is tu raise funds of any magnitude therein, this should nut be reason for venturing to refrain from putig forth every possible effort to further the end in vi d the Memorialist, dealing only with asi, and regarding the question from a local point of view, will give each item in the scheme of the Board his careful consideration, aided by his provincial committes of adi lov, Those which are not injurious will be adopted in their entirety, and all superfluous and I be cut down, continue to delay settlement of accounts in which remittances are due from them to the Treasury, will be denounced in the manner required by la Lastly, any portions of the Board' which cannot be applied to pointed out, with an explauati reasons why they are not feasible.
(2) The same officer reports that the weather since the early summer has been wet, with unseasonable alternations of heat and' ould, Reports having reached hi authorities of hail, and that the whole of the summer wheat crop had sustained injury, he ordered a personal inspection of the datuage done to be made by the Prefects and Magintrat ed. From the reports 0 officers, it would with the exception of y villages in the Yang-ch'ti District, the damage done by hail, though curtailing the harvest in a greater or less degree, was not snflici to amount to actual disaster. In the above named District, however, the case was different, the crops having first suffered from frost and th from provi them, that they may at once purchase seed corn and sow a late crop, and further action on their behalf will' be taken when the autumn harvest is gathered.
(8) The Imperial Resident in Tibet and his colleague report that they held the mi-annual inspection of the Til nese troops on the 27th of Apr and following days, and distributed the usual rewards, i of nominations to vacancies to th t deserving, and 8 of silk and satin, pouches, medals, knives, etc. to others, in accordance with their merits.
(4) A Memorial from Heir Ch'éng-tsu, Chinese Minister to Japan.
In @ previous Sub-Memorial the Memorialist reported that he had selected two of Legation,: Lu Yung-ming, a tung the students lear: e in his
sheng, or student holding a certificate of merit from his District Magistrate, and Liu Ch'ing-feu, a fu sheng, or graduate of the third grade, to fill the post of Student He finds that in the echod of foreign languages at Canton all students of three years standing are examined by the Tartar Geveral, Governor General and Governor, and those who pass are recommended to the Throne for the position of Interpreters, those who are sheng yuan or students holding literary certificates being treated as chien sheng or students of the Imperial Academy, which gives them the privilege of competing at the triennial exai for the degree of provincial graduate at Peking.
Lu Yung-ming and Liu Ching-fan been pursuing their studies abroad for more than three years; and, Memorialist that more credit is the due to them than to atudeuts who remain in China. They have been repeatedly examined by himself since he took over the Legation, and he finds that they havea thorough conversance with the language, both written and spoken. He therefore ventures to request that they may treated as chien sheng and allowed to ce pete at the Examinations for the degree of provincial genduate.
Referred to the Yamen concerned, August 27th,—A Joint Memorial from the Governor-General at Ganton and the acting Governor of Kuangsi giving details of the effects of the recent fouds in various portions of the province, They state that there had been a great deal of rain in the eastern prefectures and districts of Kuangsi ment of ssu known as the Heiang Chiang, Li Chiang, Behn Chiang, and Liu Chiang rose simul: tance On the 14th of June the water in the river outside Kueilin Fu, the provincial capital, suddenly rose over twenty and poured into the town from three destroying public buildings drowning certain of the Mattora were worse at two places the city, and numbers of depart-the same prefecture simultaneously flooded, by, as the ists loam, a sudden eruption of
-cliow Prefecture were similarly springs, Certain districts in flooded on the 16th and 17th of June by a sudden rise of over thirty foot in houses bei flooded. The city of If is the contre to which rivers converge, and on the 18th the flood poured into the town and covered the level geonnd to a depth of carrying away public and pri rafts along the river's hak and drow umber of people, At Hu in Wu-chou Fu, too, great damage of gean dost, sly in
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