The Taot'ai Sit Ch'en ssu, ex-Minister at Tokio for the Chinese Etapire, has been. formally impeached for corrupt practices during his term of office in connection with the purchase in Japan of metal for cash for the Chinese Government. He had already been lying quietly at his native place, Luh-hol, near Nanking, for nearly ayeer, when an order from the Emperor arrived at Nanking, in accordance with which the Viceroy Tseng sent a deputy to Luh-hoh to place his property under seal and official embargo. On 30th January the ex-Envoy accompanied the deputy to Nanking, where he was consigned to the reillance of Assistant District Magistrate Tsiang. On 2ist February his-trial commenced in the Provincial Treasurer's Ye imén, where were seated at two tables Hi Provincial Treasurer, and Ts'ai Salt Intendant, to hear the charge, the Prefect, Di trict' Magistrate, Colonel Kao, and Mr. Tsiang, the official above mentioned, being seated to the right and left of the judges as Assessors, The arraigned ex-Minister, having been conducted into the room, still in official dress, knelt and knocked head three times before the tribunal, and then gave his evidence standing, handing in a written statement or petition containing his defence. The judges narrowly scrutinized this document," comparing it with his ae-counts, and asking many searching questions.' When the proceedings were over, the accused returned in his sedan-chair to the house assigned him. When his property in his house was put under seal_on 80th January, it was found to consist simply of 18 boxes of clothes, with nothing of rent value; but he was also proprietor of two pawn-shops, which were found to contain $12,000, and these have also been sealed. The above is a brief account of the first stave of the trial,—which is not cuncluded.
In the Siang-shan Hiewin the Prefecture of Ningpo, Chekiang Province, is @ little mountain hamlet called Chu-k'i, containing some 100 cottages. About China the snow fell, until the 8th Februai was two feet deep. That evening a child named Chang, just nine years old, playing with its companions, was carried off by a tiger, the other children falling down with fright. The tiger running up the hill with the boy in its jaws, met the child's uncle, a grasscutter, returning with his bundle on his back. The man shouted, and received blow from the tiger in return, which will render him a cripple for life. "The people all say the tiger was driven to prowling near the village by the deep snow and the impossibility of finding any game to eat vut on the mountain,—H pao.
The Foreign Envoys at Peking, seeing that on, occasions Of State rejoicing in foreign Courts, the Chinese Envoys averedited to those Courts always proceed in person to offer their congratulations, and are present at Royal or Imperial entertain ments on such occasions, consider that on the occasions of the Tu Hoang-ti'smarriage, and accession te the throne of China, they should be admitted to gaze on the Celestial countenance and to tender their felicitatious. They therefore wrote a joint letter to the Tsung-li Yamen, requesting that august body to convey the expression of this friendly desire to His Majesty. It is known that the Ministers of the Yamen held a consultation with Prince Ch'un on the subject, but it is not yet known what reply was returned.—Shéu Pao.
The Imperial Bride's trowsean was packed in 600 boxes, each taking two or more coolies to carry." Those of the Emperor's two wives next in rank, took each 200 boxes. The K'in-tien Kien, or Board of Astronomy, selected the 22nd to 26th days of the Ist moon, (corresponding to 21-25 Feruary) for the paraphernalia to be carried through the Tung Ch'ang An Gate into the Palace, the first three days being occupied
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