Owing to a memorial from certain Police Censors at Peking having been recently presented to the Throne complaining of a series of armed robberies by Manchus and certain members of the Imperial Clan on peaceful citizens in the Cxpital, and the inability of the Censors her police ofticinls of Chinese descent to arrest and punish these desperados of noble families, an Imperial Rescript was the other telegraphed from Hsian sternly reprov' Imperial darism-n who forget their high descent to become robbers and making themselves amenable to the criminal ows of the Empire. The Rescript finally gave permission to all officials entrusted with the duty of preserving the peace in the Capital to arrest all who are guilty of robbery and other acts of violence aul sentence them according to the regular laws of the country, irrespective of family, descent or position. The consequence was that on the 20th ultimo the Commandant of the Peking Gendarmerie sent to the execution ground ten robbers to be decapitated, amongst whom there were no less than three members of the Imperia Clan—one an heir to a Dukedom and the other two younger sons of an Earl—aud a Manchu soldier belonging to the Imperial Guards. This summary puni: thought will do much in striking terror into the hearts of rowdy members of the Tmperial Clan and other Bannermen of the more privileged classes, who until then thought themselves beyond the reach of (ne ordinary laws of the country which were meant only for those of Chinese des: ent.
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