The Emperor states in a Decree which appears in to-day's Gazette that having reverently perused a Treatise from the pen of his Great Ancestor, the Emperor Shun Chih, he found that the exhortations to good' works which it inculcated were directly inspired from Heaven and were transmitted in such cogent, clear, and exhaustive terms as to form n suitable instrument for reforming a degenerate world and leading it back into the paths of virtue, The original being composed in Manchu, the Translation Department wax instructed to make a Chinese version which was to be printed in the Wu-ying-tien. The work has now been completed and a copy of it has been sent to the high authorities of each province in the Empire with instructions that it should be re-issued and supplied to all seminaries and seats of learning to be publicly read twice month along with the Sacred Edict. Copies of the book have been presented to Li Hung-chang and " number of high officials in Peking.
1th September.
No papers of interest.
12th September.
APPOINTMENT, Hsueh Fu-ch'éng, Director, Grand Court of Revision.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.