We have received a memorial from Sheng Yun (Manchu), Governor of Shensi, denouncing the conduct of Hsia Liang-tsai, district magistrate of Lingtunghsien, the first stopping place of the Imperial Court after leaving Hsian, and asking that he t) himself may also be pereception of the Court at that place. seeing to the proper aid Governor declares that when he went in advance of the Court on the 6th instant, to Lingtunghsien, the first stage of the Imperial journey, he found the whole place in want of even the ordinary necessities of preparation, such as food, etc. Further, that on the next day arriving at Hsinféng, the place where the Court was to stay for the midday meal, and at Lingk'ou, where the Court was t" stay over for the night, the Memorialist found that the houses destined for the temporary stopping of the Court were exceedingly bad and hastily built, besides wanting in suffi of food, ete., insomuch that even Memorialist's staff' and retinue had to go with fed without permission.
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