Gendarmerie reports that his men captured yesterday " number of m-n red-handed, with arms in their hands, while engaged in broad daylight in abducting ayouns girl belonging to the people and whose parents are honest but poor. The girl was rescued and seven out of the eight desp-rades em cerned were caught. We hereby command tint the malefactors be handed over to the Board of Punishments for trial and sentence according to the laws of the land, and that strict search be made for the remaining desperado still at Inege (2) We have received a memorial from the Censor'Ting Chih-shih stating that he has found a serious flaw in the Lint of Deserving Officers "*handed in by the Viceroy of the Shen-Kan provinces and his colleagues soon after the pacification of the Mahommedan rebellion in the prefecture of Gsining, Kansu province. The me-monalist gives ay un instance, two persons, namely, Chang Hsin-t'ai, " former deputy sub-prefect of Pingyang, Shansi province, and sub-equantly cashiered for cruel treatnen' of the inhabitants under his jurisdic. tion; and Yang Mao-yunn, a chigjén and expectant district magistrate of the 4th class of Shensi. 'These two mon, declares the memorialist, were never neat the scene the fighting' against the Kansu rebels and, moreover, the character borne by them was by no means savoury, henes ther" should be an investigation into the case of these two men to find out how their mes cue to be included in the lis "deserving officers" noted above, We agree with the memorialist that an investigation ought to be made into this affair and hereby command the Board of Civil Appo ritments to do so.
4th January.
Contains a number of edicts appointing various "ficers of the Imperial Household to sacrifice at certain temples during the pinese new year festival inthe Intter part the present month, No other pupers of interest, 21st January.
No papers of interest.
28rd January.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.