The Viceroy and Governor in Yunnan send in a list of names of officers to be rewarded for their exploits on the frontier of the province the year before last. The successful termination of the expedition having been already reported in a previous memorial, very few details are now given. But one gathers that the Incality was in the Lohei Mountains, in the district of Chenpient'ing. A number of newly subjugated Lolos seem to have revolted against the Chinese, and killed an official of some rank, cutting him off upon the read when travelling, after which they fortified their mountain villages and refused all submission. The expeditionary force, consisting of three thousand men, foreed the passage of the Black River, and after a few weeks of hard fighting reduced the insurgents to subjection again. The troops were not only engaged in numerous hand-to-hand conflicts, but met with great difficulties from the nature of the country which is covered with forest, while the mountains are so precipitous that they can hardly be scaled. 'The expedition tuck place in mid-autumn, which is. a healthy time of year but still deaths occurred from malaria' every day. The memorialists call special attention to the quickness with which the campaign was concluded, thus causing " great saving both of men and money.—Keferred to the Board.
INSPECTION BY CANTON ADMIRAL, ChengShao-chung, Admiralof theKuangtung province, reports that he has inspected the forts, vessels, sailors and marines in the central district of the province of Kuangtung. Everything is satisfactory, the junks in good condition, and the men well drilled. He would also have personally visited the eastern and western districts; but he was desired by the Emperor, at the Viceroy's request, to undertake the task of capturing the Ch'ing-hsiang banditti. He therefore established tempera headquarters at Chut'oushan near Hsinbui, and directed the local commanders to hold inspections in his place. The reports sent in by them show that the forces in the east and the west are all in good condition.
22nd March.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.