The mission cases connected with the Hriots in Héngehou prefecture, Hunsn, have now already been settled, but Yil Lien-san, the Governor of Hunan, has been Heuilty of procrastination and refusal to jaccopt responsibility. Although Sung Shou (Manchu), lately transferred to the 1 onan Governursh'p, while Governor of ang si, may be said to have been earnest in protecting the missionaries and missions in that provinces, so that there have beea no lives Ist. still the list of cases in that connection is very long and has not succeeded in settling all of them, Both the above-named Governors are therefore culpable and they ate there fore cashiered of their rank but slowed to retain their posts, 21st April.
(1) Ko Shao is appointed Literary Chancellor of Hunan. Renee (2) Yi Yin-lin is ordered to resign his post of Governor of Kuangsi and await Harther appointment. Li Ching-hsi, Provincial Treasurer of Yunnan, is promoted to the Kuangsi Governorship instead of Yinelin, "Lin Shao-nien is appointed Prov' Treasurer of Yunnan vice the said Li Ching:
(3) On the 29th of January Inst We issued special instructions to the various provincial high authorities to memorialise hss to what they considered necessary for the reformation of the Empire and we gave two months to them to report upon the matter to the Throne. Most of these memorials have since arrived, but there seems to be so much in them and in many stances entirely opposed to one another that it is impossible to wade through every one of these papers within a reasonable time, especially in view of the extreme importance and gravity of the subject. We
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