The Guceltes of yesterday and to-day contain a series of papers in connection witha charge brought by one of the Censors, En-lin against the son of Hsing-lien, the Superintendent of the Peking Granari The substance of the charge was that Hsing-lien's son, Ling Chun, an Assistant Reader of the Grand Secretariat, had entered into arrangement. with one of the weighers attached to the Imperial granaries whereby the tribute rice of the year as it came in was to he saturated with water, the price of thedifferenes in weight which would necessarily result when the grain was weighed out to he divided between the two. This information was conveyed by En-lin to Hsing-lien in a letter which likewise contained a request for money. Hsing-lien on receipt thereof had the beaver of the letter arrested and at once forwarded the original to the Emperor, who directed that the matter be strictly investigated.—Deerees already published,
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