The Officials in charge of the above-named Oitice, which fortunately for the records of the present Manchu dynasty suffered the least during the Roxer disturbances as well xs. since the entranes of the Allies into Peking, have, according to a Hsian dispatch, recently sent up to the Throne detailed report of what has happened in the Capital since the fall of the city. The is of the report are considered, cially," the truth and nothing but the truth and will, therefore, be embodied into the history of the dynasty. Ie will doubtlessly be interesting reading to anyone who may be so fortunate as to peruse this Report; but the law of the nnd dem:
that documents intended for the historical records of a dynasty must be deposited in an Tron Box and kept. sacred from the eyes of the people of tue dynasty in question, and can only be opened for compilation into the general history of the country by the Historiographer' of the succeeding dynasty. The Chief Historioapiier of a dyne-ty is always chosen for his probity and integrity and no one is allowed to question or see what he writes for deposition in the Iron Box, He is allowed to write and comment, freely on the action: of the Sovereign, nob! Ministers, "officials, and people of time, and write daily on the politic condition of the country. Once deposi within the Iron Box, which has only a thin slit on top, sufficient to admit only a sheet or two of paper, the writings are secure The present Chief Historiegrapher is the Grand Secretary Wang Wen-shao.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.