A Decree issued to-day notices the decease of the Tartar General at Ch'engtu Fu, Ch'i Yuan, who had formerly been Vice-President of a Board and Manchu General in the lower province of Manchuria. The deceased officer had served the State with zeal and ability, for " long number of years, and the Emperor expresses pian his death. He fs to be accorded eat grid at receiving the unexpected
all the, posthumous honours due to his-high rank, and as an additional mark of the esteem in which he was held by his Imial master, his remains are allowed to enter the city of Peking. His eldest. son P'u Liang, who is now an expectant writer in the Imperial Clan Court, is promoted to be a secretary ina Board and his second son Li Fang is to become an expectant, writer.
FIRE IN ONE OF THE PEKING GRANARIES, The two Vice-Presidents who are in charge of the Peking granaries report another of those po fires which now occur at such regular intervals in these establishments. The present one took
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