March 22nd.—In reply to a Decree of the Empress, (published in the Gazette of the 4th instant), the Board of Censors proposes penalties to be inflicted on the President and Secretaries of the Boatd of Civil Ofice for their action with regard to the case of Tu Jen-shou. The Memorialis find that the offences committed are stigma. tised by Her Majesty as favouritism and deceiving the Throne. For the first-mentioned the legal penalty is the deprival of three grades of rank and removal to another post. For the second it is dismissal. But where two offences in reality form but one act, it is the rule that cognisauce shall only be taken of the more serious one, and the other passed over entirely. This rule applies in the present instance. The proper punishment for the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the Board is therefore that of dismissal from the public service. The Memorialists were instructed by Her Majesty to find a severer Bunisliment for the Secretaries of the rd_actually ensployed in the case; but dismissal being the heaviest penalty which the Memorialists have power to propose, they can only name that for the secretaries also. They desire also to note that one of the Vice-Presidents was on leave of absence at the time of the presentation of the offending Memorial: but as they have ascertained that his signature is appended with the others to the draft, this will not make any difference.—Decree issued previously.
APPOINTMENTS, March 23rd.—Yo-chi is gazetted Com. missioner of the Office of "Transmission Liao Shoushéng is transferred to the Vices Presidency of the Board of Ceremonies, Hsit Yung-i is appointed Senior Vice-President of the Board of War, and No Huan becomes Junior Vice-President of the same Board.
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