To-morrow being the first day of the festivities ordered in honour of B.ILM. the Empress-Dowager's birthday auniversary, H.LM. the Emperor and Court will Bake Palace at 9" o'clock to-morrow roceed to the Imperial Theatre at ube
morning, to see the plays arranged for the occasion. There will be no transaction of State business during the four days' festival.
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13th November.
IMPERIAL DECREES, President (Manchu) of the
President (Manchu) of the' Mongolian vil Appointments, Ch'i Hsin, Superintendency; Chang Ying-huan, Senior Vice-President (Chinese) of the Board of Revenue, and Wén* Lin, Junior Vico-President, (Manchu) of the Board of Punishments, are hereby granted, by special grace' of the Throne, the privilege of riding on horseback within the Precincts of the "Forbidden City," i.e., Imperial Palaces. couRT CIRCULAR.
His Majesty will return to Peking Zrom the Lake Palaces at 7 o'clock to-morrow morning and at _9 o'clock will proceed to the Tzening Palace to pay congratulatory obeisance to H.LM. the Empress-'Dowager on the occasion of H.I.M.'s birthday anniversary, after which His Majesty and Court will return to the Lake Palace to attend the Imperial Theatre there.
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