TION, A Nanking despatch dated the 26th instant, states that the ex-Captain Wan Sung-ting, the Koluo Hui **ider" who introduced the late Li Hsien-mou to the Koluo Hui chiefs two years ago at Chine ichang, was docu drated on the sfesrnwn ut the 25th inst. near the western entrance of the Nan Viceroy's yunan in ne obedience tu an imperial Decree received the day before, Although the punishment recommended by Liu Kun-yi was death by the "shameful and slow process"—liny-chih, it may be yathored from the above that H.LM, graciously remitted the sentence to two degrees lighter, looking at the disgrace of the sentence, which tu the superstitious also means that the spirit of the sufferer will be disembodied for genera. tions without the hope of transmigration according to the Buddhist faith, Before is death, Wan Sung-ting, who exhibited not the slightest few and kept quite cvol while he was being bound with ropes preparatory to being led to the execution yround, told "the Viceroy who read to him: his sentence from the Imperial Decrev, that (Wan) lad an only son three years of age, who he begged should not suffer for is father's sins but be allowed to grow to manhood without the trammels of governent, The Viceroy consented, which would not have beet: the case had Wan been executed by the other mode, as his unbending judge had suggested, the law being that the young off dor five years of age, of 8 revolutis fering death by this pros cess, must be sent up to Peking, there to be titted to Gill the duties and life of a eunuch in the Palaces. Li Hsien-mou, K*uang Shényming, Wan Sung-thing, and tive or six others who were connected with the tragedy having gone to their last account, the leaser lights, the servants of Mason, xnd Tseng Ming: kau, the principal witness against Li Hsien-wou and Wati-mow only rena ely they will follow the of and Ceéng Min count of his evide
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