Besides the extra examination, Her I. M. the Empress Dowager's 60th birthday has been celebrated by the release of a number of prisoners from the gaols of the province. One was a man who had killed a woman in quarrel. He had been imprisoned for life but is now pardoned. Another was a woman who had ter-in- The daughter-i and so her mother-in-law killed her in a fit of rage. The latter now goes free. A third ease that has come to my notice is that of a son who had killed a man in defence of his father. For this act of filial piety he was sentenced walk forth as another monument of imperial to imprisonment but. he is now selected to grace.
13th October.
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