To-morrow after breakfast and the transaction of public business, the Emperor wil proceed to the Chien Fu' Kung, where he will perform the usual rites before the Imperial Portraits.
IMPERIAL DECREE, A few days ago Sung-Sen, President of the Mongolian Superintendency, presented Us with a memorial in which he stated that the appointment to the post of Deputy Captain-General of the Cherim League was irregular. Instructions were accordingly issued to En Ch'eng, Comptroller-General of the Colonial Office, to go into the matter. The latter has now furnished Us with a memorandum pointing out that the appointment is quite in accordance with former precedents. Assistant administrators of the affairs of a League take rank after
General, and the supreme chief of all the the Captain-General and Deput Captain-banners' when compared with the single chief of one banner naturally takes pre-cadence. There have moreover been several precedents; what necessity is there then for making any change on the plea that the regulations aren't sutticiently explicit The appointment as proposed by Ku Cheng is one to which riv exception can be taken, whereas Sung-Sen in rigidly adhering to his own opinion and taking upon himself to present @ meuiorial in his own name alone has displayed his obstinate stupidity and the Board is directed to consider what form of punishment shall be meted out to him, MISCONDUCT OF A MILITARY OFFICER, Reports reached Chang Chih-tuny that the appointment in the eleventh moon of last year of Chi Kay-hui to the Yiinyang (Hupeh) Brigade, many changes in administration had been troduced and that things generally were in an unsatisfactory state. It was stated that many soldiers had been disbanded while pay and allowances continued to be drawn on their account as before; further that the Brigadier had taken over into his own hands the management of a fund raised out of the rent of a piece of ground at Yiinyang, which fund had hitherto been administered by the Military Secretary and the proceeds of which were devoted to the payment of sundry expenses in connection with the General's yamen. The result was that others were now forced to make contributions and that the state of things in the camp was the subject of universal comment.
Memorialist remembersthat inthe fourth moon of the present year the Brigadier made representations to him, asking for permission to amalgamate the horse and foot soldiers, to decrease the number of Tieutenants and increase some salaries, proposals which to outward appearance seemed to be made with a view to reorganisation, but to which it was not expedient to assent until the matter_had been more closely guna into. Read by the light of meworialist's subsequent
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