TRANSLATION
OF
THE PEKING GAZETTE
FOR
1892.
SHANGHAI： REPRINTED FROM THE ‘ ‘ NORTH-CHINA HKRALD AND SUPREME COURT AND CONSULAR GAZETTE.” 1 8 9 3.
ABSTRACT OF PEKING GAZETTE.
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1st January. oil this day. The prisoners, who numbered 99 and comprised a number of ringleaders, fu k th er successes against th e rebels were all decapitated, and 30 women who IN THE KOBIH-WEST. were rescued were sent back to their homes The last report on the above subject in the neighbourhood. An immense quan from tha high authorities in Manchuria tity of booty of every description fell into was despatched on the 10th of December* the hands of the Imperialiats. General On the two following days further news Nieli Kuei-lin reported that he overtook a arrived from the generals in command of body of the insurgents numbering over 200, the troops operating against the rebels. encamped at a place called Tachangtze, General Feng Sheng-a stated that having who immediately arranged themselves in ascertained, by the examination of the battle array and began to fire upon the rebel chieftain P ‘an Yo-lin, that a formid Imperialists. In an engagement which able band of the insurgents had seized the lasted over two hours the rebels were town of Heicl?engtze, he marched at once worsted and were obliged to retreat into a in that direction. He found the rebels had Buddhist ball. The Imperialists set fire fortified the place so as to render it to the building and killed over 100 of the strong enough to withstand attack. In rebels, capturing alive some 30 others, 'vho the neighbourhood there were several were instantly decapitated. large buildings used as rent offices in con General Chang Yung-ch4ing, iifter captur nection with the establishments of the ing the rebel leader Li Lo-tao at Chaoshu- Mongolian Princes, and these two had kou, scoured the surrounding country been occupied and placed in a state of with his troops and seized six other ring defence by the enemy. The attacking leaders, all of whom admitted that they army was marshalled into three columns, bad taken part in the plunder of the Aohan and was opposed by a party of the rebels Prince’s household. They were executed drawn up to receive them outside of the and their heads exposed in the usual way. mud wall which surrounded the town. A Remarking on the foregoing reports, the dash was made for this division of the memorialists observe that Heich‘6ngtze is enemy, and two or three hundred of them only about 100 li distant from the CIVingho having been instantly cut to pieces, the gate in the palisade separating Manchuria remainder were obliged to retire into the from Mongolia. The operations, so far, town. Joining their companions within have, they consider, been conducted with the walls, they continued the struggle marked success, and now that the troops until the place was stormed by the Im from Chihli have arrived on the scene, they perialists who put 500 more of them hope by a combined effort to stamp out the to the sword. They then retreated to I rebellion* a large and spacious public building on j 2nd January. the estate of the Mongol Prince where I No papers of interest. they put up two large pieces of ordnance and maintained a life and death strug 3rd January. gle for eight hours, during which time ECCLESIASTICAL LANDS IN MONGOLIA. they were closely invested by the Im During the Governorship of Liu Chin- perialist troops. At last they were com t (ang certain lands at Payingkou in the pletely overcome and slaughtered in hun Kinkarausu district were with the sanction dreds. In the town itself the buildings in of the Throne allotted to the Kunka Cha- which the rebels had secreted themselves latsan H ut(ukhtu for the use of his disciples. were fired by the Imperialists and the In the 10th moon of last year, however, the number that thus perished is beyond saidHut‘uklitu came to the provincial capital calculation. Altogether it is estimated and at a personal interview represented to that over 1,000 of the enemy were killed Wei Kuang-t/ao that these lands were 2 [J an. 3—5. insufficient to afford pasturage to his re three others slain in battle. The captives tainers and requested that ail additional were released and great quantities of military grant might be made of a tract lying stores fell into our hands. The cheers who in the same district, but adjoining the have distinguished themselves on these borders of the Suilai Hsien. Memorialist expeditions are worthy of great praise, directed the Kinkarausu Sub-Prefect and and we hereby bestow the following re the Suilai District Magistrate to hold a wards on them in accordance with the list joint survey and report. This has been that accompanies the memorial. Nieh done and a communication has been re Shih-ch‘eng’s name will be noted by the ceived from the Hufc‘uklitu to the effect Council of State, and he is to be recom that after surveying the land with the two mended for the first substantive appoint above named officials he lias found a tract ment as Commander-in-Chief or Brigade with good pastures and plenty of water General that may have to be filled up. The and which does not interfere in any way distinction of the Yellow Riding Jacket is with the settlements of the common people. also conferred on him. Chiang Tzu-k^ng's In the Kinkarausu district ib extends name is to be similarly noted and he will from Payingkou in an eastward direction receive a button of the first class. Other for about 50 li as far as YUehyat'ai. In promotions and rewards follow for officers the Suilai district it extends from the of less distinguished rank. borders of Yuehyat‘ai for a distance of 70 li (2) On the 29bh of Dec. we proceeded as far as Taliangfc‘ou. Its total length from to the Takaotien to pray for snow ; bub our east to west is about 130 li and its breadth prayers having so far proved of no avail, from north to south from 50 to 60 li. This it is our intention to again proceed to that he seems to think would suffice for his shrine on the 8th instant for the same waiiis, and as in the report of the Sub- purpose. Prefecb and the Chihhsien no objection is DEATH OK CH‘I-YUAN. entertained to this land being allotted to The Governor-General of Szechuan re him, memorialist proposes to hand it over ports the death of Ch (i-yiian, the Tartar to him and will send deputies to mark off General stationed at Ch'engtu, in the 63rd the limits and set up boundary stones.— year of his age. On the 5th of December, Noted. . the deceased officer visited memorialist to 4th January. discuss with him some missionary cases. No papers of interest. In the conversation his limbs suddenly became numb and lie found great difficulty 5th January. in speaking. On returning to his yamm IMPERIAL DECREE. he at once took to his bed and got gradually worse, departing this life on the 9th. The Yeh Chih-chao has presented a memorial day before he died he handed to memorialist stating that the Imperial troops have recap his last memorial to the Throne and ex tured Peitzufu and completely driven pressed regret and shame that he had in so all the rebels out of the Aokhan and small measure requited the great favour he Kharchin districts. Peitzufu and Hsia- had enjoyed. He held his post as Tartar ch‘angkao in the Aokhan district were General for eleven years and during the great strongholds of the insurgents, and five years memorialist has been associated Nieli Sliih-eh‘eiig decided to attack the with him he has always considered him a former place on the 18th of December. man of great ability and it has ever been a He divided his troops into four detach pleasure to work with him. He has died ments and completely surrounded the in extreme poverty, leaving two sons, the city. After a stubborn resistance the rebels elder of whom is a writer attached to gave way and Peitzufu fell into our hands. the Imperial Clan Court. —Decree published About five hundred were killed in the storming of the walls and some three separately. hundred more were disposed of by the FIRE AT HANKOW. cavalry who pursued the flying crowds. Chang Chih-tung reports that about 5 After this the victorious troops turned p.m. «»n the 26fcli of Septeinher a fire broke their attention to Hsiach*angkao, where out in the Meijen street, Hankow, owing they likewise met with a most determined to the carelessness of a man named Hsii resistance. The superior nature of our I-su, while preparing his evening meal. artillery, however, soon broke the rebel As Hankow is only separated from Wuchang ranks and they were defeated with great by the river the great extent of the lire slaughter， Kung Ching-kuang, one of could be clearly discerned from the latter their principal leaders, was taken alive and city. Memorialist, mindful of the fact that J an. 5—7.] 3 the greatest care has at present to be ex Magistrate, however, refused to entertain ercised to restrain the bad characters along the charge, on account of insufficient evid the rivev from taking advantage of any ence. He met with similar rebuffs when opportunity to cause a disturbance, at once he tried to institute proceedings iu the despatched civil and military o伍cers in Courts of the Prefect and the Taotai, and. launches to transfer the naval troops at eventually concluded to go to Peking and Hankow and Hanyang to the scene of the prosecute his suit there. The Censorate conflagration and preserve order in f e sent him back to Anhui and wrote to streets. Notwithstanding the fact that fare the Governor asking him to have the engines were at once on the spot, the case enquired into. This was done, and crowded and narrow state of the streets, according to the report published by the and a high wind, rendered it impossible to Anch^ng Prefect who tried the case, ample •get the fire under until some 1,890 houses evidence was forthcoming to prove that; had been burned. Fortunately the neigh Sheng Hu-shih committed suicide on ac bourhood was not a very sfelect one and the count of the shame she felt owing to her houses destroyed were of the lower class. illicit connection with Li-ao having been The inhabitants, who are miserably poor discovered, whereas the plaintiff had ab and who have lost everything, are being solutely no evidence wherewith to support looked after by the Acting District Magis his case and endeavoured by means of pre trate and a sum of Tls. 5,000 has been set varication and other expedients to defeat apart by the Provincial Treasury to relieve the ends of justice. Had he succeeded in the distress. The Shanghai Taotai Nieh establishing this false charge, there is no has forwarded a sum of Tls. 1,000 in aid doubt that Li would have been condemned of the sufferers. to death, in which case Sheng would he 6th January. have had to suffer a like punishment should it have afterwards been proved CASE OF BRINGING A FALSE CHARGE. that he had fabricated the evidence. But Sheng Hsi-chen, an artisan in Tingyiian- as he has failed the punishment due is only lisien, Anhui, was on friendly terms with one hundred blows and banishment to a Li-ao, one of his neighbours，who was'con distance of 3,000 li. As the events more stantly coming to his house. In 1887 Li, over took place prior to the Act of Grace taking advantage of Sheng’s absence on a published in the 3rd moon of the XV year, business trip, seduced his wife Sheng his punishment may be condoned. Hu-shili. The intercourse on for The punishment due to Li-ao need not be some time until in the 4tli moon of considered as he died while the charge was the following year the woman gave birth being investigated. to a daughter and the secret leaked out. Sheng, who was greatly enraged, drowned 7tli January. the infant and severely upbraided his IMPERIAL DECREE. wife. A short time afterwards he went Ping-an and Yii-lu report that the troops away to look after some work lie had in the Chaoyang district Jiave gained re on hand, and during his absence Sheng peated victories over the insurgents and Hu-shih, overwhelmed with shame, twice that the larger bands of the rebels are attempted to commit suicide by hanging all but exterminated. The Fengtien troops herself. In each instance, however, she dislodged the insurgents at Heichlengtze was cut down by some neighbours and and Tsopaokuei, and Feng Shleng-a gained restored to consciousness. Li*ao gut to repeated victories at R ait‘aiiniao and hear of this and secretly visited her and other places between the 9th and 22nd .tvied to dissuade her from such a course ; of December. Ch‘ienkoutze and Ershih- bub she declared that she could not survive chiatze, other strongholds of the rebels, were the disgrace, and after he left took some taken one after the other, the rebels being in opium and succeeded in accomplishing each instance defeated with great slaughter, her object. Sheng was at once informed their leaders being either slain or taken of her death and hurried back, but as he alive. All in all the Government troops was too poor to pay for her interment a may be said to have gained six distinct sum sufficient to bury her decently was victories and they have so crushed the raised by the neighbours. After the funeral enemy that it will be impossible for him to )vas over the idea occurred to him of lodg- reform into organised bands. When a ing a charge of murder against Li-ao and junction has been effected with the Chihli accusing him of having forcibly compelled troops on the east it will be a very easy the deceased to commit adultery with him matter to dispose of the remnants of the Hiid thus caused her death. The District rebel forces; and Ping-an and Yii-lu are 4 [J an. 7—9. hereby directed to impress on those concern The remainder of the gang numbering over ed the necessity of bringing matters to a 1,000 gave in their submission to the final conclusion with the leastpossibledelay.' Imperial cause after another leader and They are at liberty moreover to recom live of their confederates had been put to- mend for promotion such officers as may death. Great praise is bestowed upon the have distinguished themselves, as we are Imperial commander for the promptness of highly satisfied with the services they have liis action which has resulted in restoring rendered. complete tranquillity amongst the native No papers of interest. tribes. The magistrate of the district 8th January. although acquitted of having in any way fomented the disturbance is neverthless RECALL OF A GENERAL OFFICER TO HIS held to have been guilty of gross negligence PROVINCE. in not discovering the extortion that was- Chang Chih-tung some time ago made being practised by his o伍cial underlings- application that the newly appointed Com- and is ordered to be cashiered forthwith. mander-in-Chief of the Hunan province, The commander of the expedition and the Lou Yiin-ch‘ing who is at present serving acting Intendant of the Kueitung Circuit in Kuangtung, be directed to lose no time are both considered deserving of high in repairing to his post and that he be also rewards, the nature of which is to be instructed to bring with him 750 men of I determined by the Board concerned. the ‘ Ch‘ing Tzu ’ battalion whom he has ! there under his command. Li Han-chang REMOVAL OK A. TAOTAI FROM OFFICE. points out that the soldiers in question are (Jh‘eng Chang, the Taotai at Wuliu, lias* stationed at the Tiger Island Forts and been ordered to vacate his post and to that it would be extremely inexpedient proceed to Peking for presentation at to move them. He gathers, however, from Court. The appointment of Taotai at the copy of Chang’s memorial which Wuhu has been conferred upon Yang Ju, lie has perused that affairs in Hunan who was formerly Taotai at Chinkiang, are in a very critical condition, and that it and who was a few weeks ago gazetted is quite intelligible that Lou should wish to Taotai at Wenchow. His successor at the have tried men under him. He has accord- latter place is Chao Shu-ch‘iao，a prefect ingly issued orders that new men be at : in Anhui. onqe enlisted for the Humen and Shachiieh Forts to take the place of those who are WRECK OF THE BRITISH STEAMER P a la d h l. leaving. Of the latter he proposes to retain REWARD TO A CHINESE OFFICER FOK forty to instruct the new levies. The RESCUING THE CREW AND PASSENGERS, Con）mander-in-Chief has also applied for a The Viceroy of the Two Kuang states loan of rifles, etc., and memorialist, know- j that he has received a communication from ing that few facilities for obtaining muni- i Wen Tzu-shao, the director of the torpedo- tions of war exist in Hunan, lias consented j establishment at Canton, respecting th& to give him some. A list of the articles 1 services rendered by Lieutenant Wei Chen- supplied has been made out and will be ' sheng in connection with the wreck of forwarded to the Governor of Hunan.—: the British stennier Paladin，which took Let the Board concerned take note. place off the south coast of Hainan in October, 1882. Wei Chen-sheng was at 9th January. that time in command of the gunboat OPERATIONS AGAINST THE MIAOTZE OF /Suitsivf/, and having been despatched KUEICHOW. to the south of the island in connection The Emperor acknowledges the receipt with a rising amongst the Li tribe, lie of a memorial from the governor of Kuei- I encountered a violent typhoon duringwhich chow in which he reports the result of ' he descried in the distance a vessel which certain military operations which were ; had run upon the Paracels and appeared recently conducted against the Miaotze \ to be in a sinking condition. The com in the Hsiachiang department of that ; mandant at once manned his boats, and province. Ting Huai, the general in com- ! braving the fury of the elements went to the mand of the Imperial force, succeeded in rescue of the distressed ship. Altogether killing a great number of the insurgents : he succeeded in saving fifty persons, two aud captured a ringleader named Liang i of whom were foreigners. The incident Lao-te, who was instantly executed. The : was duly reported to the Taotai at Kiung- Imperialists subsequently proceeded to chow who addressed a letter on the subject attack another stockade held by the : to the British Consul at Hoihow. The Miaotze and killed over 20 of their number. Consul took charge of the men and had J an. 9—11.] 5 them forwarded to Hongkong. Weil uit was maintained for 10 U and some sH within their stockade, were prepared to Princess establishment situated at the base resist to the uttermost. After a desperate of a hill and consisting of 100 chien of struggle lasting over six hours the rebels buildings. In the immediate proximity at last gave way and the Imperialists car there were about 100 Mongolian house ried the place with a rush. Over 500 holds. The place was attacked by the of the enemy fell during tlie assault, insurgents on the 12th of November last, and 300 more were killed in the pur aud had been occupied by them for suit which was maintained for more than 10 forty days, during which all the Mongols li. The booty comprised 254 horses, eight in the vicinity had been butchered. pieces of ordnance, 24 carts and an endless The whole neighbourhood presented an quantity of flags and clothing. Altogether, inexpressible appearance of devastation the number of tlie killed did not fall short and desolation. People who were question of a thousand, and not one of the rebels ed on the subject expressed their belief escaped unhurt. Owing to the great bravery that the Prince and his sons had made displayed by the Imperialists and the their escape to K'ulun, but as the story gallant manner in which they risked their was not credited, search parlies were sent lives in the thick of the fray, seven men out in all directions. The murdered body were killed and forty-seven wounded. of the eldest son was found in a ravine and Having left a force sufficient to hold the arrangements were made for having it place, General Nieh hurried back to Hsia- buried. The memorialist observes that ch'angkao. The rebels took the return of the four prefectures and departments of the Imperialists as a sure indication that P ‘ingchang, Chiench‘ang, Ch‘ihfeng, and their confederates at the Mongolian palace Ch‘aoyang occupy a region extending for had suffered a defeat and were thrown into more than 1,000 li3 all of which has been great consternation in consequence. They pillaged and devastated by the adherents of had already stood a siege for eight or nine the new sect whose ostensible object lias days and their supply of fodder and provi been the exhortation of people to practise sions was running very low. There 'vas virtue. In less than a month they succeeded therefore a probability of their evacuating in mustering a following of 10,000 people the place unless they were attacked at once. and spread devastation wherever they went. The Imperialists without enjoying a It is calculated that the number of people moment’s rest commenced the assault on killed during the present campaign cannot three sides and the commanding officers fall short of 10,000. took a solemn vow not to withdraw their troops until they had dislodged the enemy. 12fch January. As the sun was sinking in the west a breach was made in the wall of the rebel REBEL MOVEMENT IN THE NORTH. IMPERIAL encampment and the soldiers rushed in DECREES ON SUBJECT OF. amid a storm of bullets. Over a thousand (1) The Emperor acknowledges the re of the enemy were put to the sword and ceipt of a memorial from Yeh Chih-ch {ao of the remainder a considerable number in which he reports the capture of a noted threw themselves into wells or met with rebel leader, and states that all the Aohan death by jumping down from the wall of country has been restored to tranquillity. the enclosure. The explosion of their Yang Yiieh-ch'un, the leader in question, powder casks which was caused by the fire of the Imperial troops accounted for the was the founder of the chin tan death of many others. About a thousand religion and by working upon the feelings who tried to make their escape by running of the ignorant masses, succeeded in ex up a hill were intercepted and cut to tending the insurrectionary movement pieces The loss on the Imperialist side throughout the four districts and depart was 21 killed and 147 wounded. The booty ments of PAngell (iian, Ch‘aoyang, Chicn- consisted of 12 cannon, 30 stands of arms, ch*ang, and Ch‘ihf6ng. Having a feud 40 horses, and an immense quantity of with the Mongolians, he pretended that guns, spears and other arms On the receipt lie wished to wreak vengeance upon the of this report the memorialist started on Catholic establishments, and under this the 21st December for the scene of the pretext, assembled a band of adherents recent engagement, and passed by Hsia- who spread devastation far and wide ch'angkao on the way. All along his route and brought ruin upon thousands of house the country was stained with blood and holds. He himself, his son, and four other strewn with corpses which gave unniis、 members of his family were captured by takable evidence of the work done by the Nieh Shih-ch‘eng，and rewards are to be Imperialists. He found the Mongolian conferred upon all the officers and men who J an. 12—15.] 7 assisted in the operations which led to this enemy comprising 300 cavalry and 800 result. . infantry had arrived at Paokot£u with the (2) A second memorial has been received object of coming to the rescue of their from Yeh Chih-clVao reporting the capture confederates at Aoerht(upan. They were of the town of Wutan and of several of the attacked in front and rear by the Imperial leading spirits of the insurrectionary move forces and lost four hundred men during ment. About four or five thousand of the tlie battle, besides 100 more who were insurgents under the leadership of Li Kuo- killed during the pursuit. Those who t ‘ien devastated the Aochi region and the escaped encountered another party of the tract of country occupied by the Ongniod Imperialists who slew fifty of them and League. On the 13th of December last made a score or more of prisoners. The they were attacked by an Imperialist army latter stated that another division of the under Captain P ‘au Wan-tsfai and after rebels was posted at Meiyaokoutze, to a couple of hours hard fighting were obliged which place the Imperialists continued to retreat with a loss of 500 men. Li Kuo- their march. The rebel detachment num cheu and a number of his leading confede bered about 100, of whom thirty were killed rates were captured and beheaded. In and twenty made prisoners,amongst the lat recognition of his services in suppressing ter being the so-called leader of the vanguard the rebellion, Yeh Chih-ch‘ao lias been Li Hung-ts^ai, who was instantly de awarded the distinction of the Yellow Riding capitated. A still larger force of the Jacket and has been further granted a enemy was posted at Ch(ienkoutze, in the patent of hereditary nobility of the eighth Chiench*ang district, where they had an grade. encampment with guns fitted up in the 13th and 14tli January. loopholes of the wall. The surrounding No papers of interest. villages all contained churches of the ne'v creed which served as outposts of the rebel 15th January. army. An onslaught was made upon their FURTHER VICTORIES AGAINST 1HE :REBELS IN position and after an engagement lasting THE NORTH. over two hours 800 out of a total of 1,300 Ting An and Yu Lu forward a report of were put to the sword. About 500 of the further successes gained against the rebels rest were burnt alive, and including strag in the north. A body of the insurgents glers, it is estimated that not less than numbering about 300 was overtaken by the 1,400 of the enemy were killed on this Imperialists at a place some 60 miles occasion. A great number of the adher distant from K ‘ulun. Over 100 of them ents of the new creed were captured, in were killed and three of their leaders cluding three leaders who were instantly made prisoners. An examination of the decapitated. About 100 men and the same latter elicited the information that a still number of women who were proved to have more formidable force of the rebels was been forcibly made to join the movement encamped at Aoerht*upan, for which were released on bail and sent back to their place the Imperialists immediately started. homes in the neighbourhood. The troops On the 13th of December they arrived from Chihli had already reduced the country at Yamenyingtze, eight li from their in the west and had retaken the Mongolian destination, and at once made prepara Prince's residence. A combined attack was tions for attacking tlie foe. In the en planned on Erhshihchiatze where there gagement which followed over fifty of the was a formidable contingent of the rebels. enemy were put to the sword, and the The enemy had posted an ambuscade of remainder finding it impossible to continue seven or eight hundred n）en on the slope of the combat were obliged to retire into a hill who made an attempt to outflank our a pawnshop, the strong walls of which made troops. In a series of conflicts which ensued it an admirable place to defend. The about eight hundred of the enen)y’s cavalry Imperialists closely invested the building and a still larger number of their infantry and killed over 150 of the inmates. During 、vere killed. The bead of the religious the firing a hayrick at the edge of the sect a great number of his adherents premises was ignited by a spark from the including about 300 from the church at guns of the assailants and the pawnshop SHannan were captured and beheaded. having taken fire all the surviving occupants The captives stated that amongst those perished in the flames. A number of killed on thia occasion were some of £he ringleaders were captured alive and the close followers of Yang Yueh-chJun suffered immediate execution. Early on the soi-disant founder of the kingdom. the morning of the 14tli, intelligence Altogether, this makes the sixth victory reached the camp that a force of the , which has been gained oyer the rebels, and 8 [J an. 15—17. although great havoc lias been wrought in in hiding by Li Hung-ts^i at Meiyaokou. their ranks and an inimeuse quantity of My foot afterwards was amputated.” Some booty captured, the total loss of the troops others of the leaders who were examined from Manchuria is only live killed and at the same time stated that they luid all forty wounded. More than half of the been led away by a man named Yang Ssu rebel leaders have been slain and their or Yang Yiieh-ch(un, who had induced them bands have been broken up and dispersed. to become members of the Chintan H s iie h On the 22nd December, General Tso Pao- Hao sect. He invested them with fictiiious kuei, of the Manchurian army, had an titles and got them to join in bis enterprise interview with Yeh Chih-ch*ao, the Com- against the. Mongols and the Government mander-in-Chief of Chihli, at the late resi troops. Memorialists, Ting Au and Yu Lu, dence of the Mongol Prince. They con considered that these rebels stood convicted certed plans for scouring the country with on their own confession of the greatest pos a view to exterminating the rebels that sible crimes and that no leniency should be may still be at large. displayed towards them. They accordingly had them at once put to death and tlieiv 16th January. heads exhibited on poles as a warning to CAPTUKR OF A. REBEL LEADER. others. Ch‘i Pao-shan, ctJias Ch‘i Feng aZ/ad'Ch‘i 17th January. Lao-tao was one of the most noted leaders RISING OF THE MIAOTZE. of the insurrectionary movement in the The Governor of Kueichow gives an Ch‘aoyang district. It was reported at account of a rising of the Miaotze in the one time that he had lost hi] life in »n Hsiachiang district which had been pro engagement at Peiyingtze, but this in- voked by undue interference on the part formHtion was proved afterwards to be of some yamcn underlings with the public inaccurate, as it transpired that he had granaries of the Miaotze stockades. An only been wounded and had been carried attempt was made to soothe their ruffled off the field by liis confederates, who kept feelings, but it was ineffectual and they him in hiding at Meitoliou. Acting on in had the audacity to issue out on marauding formation received, Colonel Ch‘eng Han-sen expeditions into the surrounding country. effected his arrest and forwarded him fco They eventually were overawed by the the provincial capital for trial. When ex force brought to bear against them and amined he gave the following evidence :—UI voluntarily surrendered all their arms. am a native of Chienclicang Hsien, resident The official who was more or less respon within the banner of the Aohanpeitze. I sible for the conduct of the yam芭 runners am a member of the Chintan sect otherwise has been degraded and an enquiry will be known as the Hsiieh Hao ( 學 好 ) sect held into the grievances. and endeavoured to obtain disciples on its ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE IN KUANGSI. behalf. In the 11th moon of last year and Ma Pei-yao brings forward a proposal the 5th moon of the present year I, my that Shangsu Cliou be changed into an brother and my nephew were engaged in independent Sub-prefecture under the illicitly cutting firewood on the Black control of the Intendant of the T ‘aip‘iug Mountain. We were however arrested Kueishun circuit. The trade of Shangsu and punished by the Mongol banner officials has greatly increased of late and situated and as a consequence bore a deep grudge as it is on the border it has become a place towards the latter. When the Cliintan of some importance. The change would sect broke into insurrection in the 10th be of great advantage in many ways, and moon of the present year I and my friends, memorialist trusts it will be approved of.— remembering our feud with the Mongol Befen ed to the Board for consideration. banner, got together over a thousand of our co-religionists and on the lltli of the 10th MEDICINAL ROOTS FKOM ANUUI. moon proceeded to the residence of the Shen Ping-ch*eng reports that in the 10th Aohan Beileh, burning, robbing, and moon of the 13th year lie received telegra slaughtering all Mongols we came across. phic instructions front the Tsungli Yamen This course、ve pursued with great success directing him to furnish for the use of the until we fell in with the Imperial truops at Imperial household the roots of the Chu Peiyingtze and sustained a severe defeat at their hands. A musket ball went plant. (Airactylodcslaucca—Williams.) through my right ankle on that occasion, He has already done so on three separate and falling from my horse, I was carried occasions and has now again to report that off the field by my confederates and kept he instructed the acting Huichow prefect J an. 17—22.] 9 to make further search for these roots. Ex under the pretext of killing the Roman perienced men were sent into the Huang- Catholic Christians, he broke into rebellion slian to dig up the plants, and any roots on learning that the Mongol Prince intended that might°be in the possession of private about the first of the 10th moon to collect individuals were purchased. The result is together some thousand soldiers ostensibly that 57 ounces have been. procured ayd for a great hunting expedition, but really these memorialist is sending up to the for the purpose of extirpating the Chin- capital by a special messenger who w ill tan sect. He accordingly took advantage deliver the two small boxes in which they of the opportunity, before the Beileh could are packed to the Heiwu Fu. get his soldiers together, and made an attack on the Beileh’s residence which lie 18tli January. took and burned. Countless numbers of the The whole of to-day’s Gazette is taken up Mongols, young and old, male and female, with a memorial by Yeh Chih-cl^ao relating were slain and in the course of a score to the capture of the city of Wutan and to or so of days he bad induced tens of thou the various other successes he obtained sands to follow his standard. Since he over the rebels, which has been epitomised had come in contact with the Imperial iu the decree already published. troops, however, he had been repeatedly 19th and 20th January. defeated and all his noted leaders killed. IMPERIAL DECKEE. Memorialist would add that in addition to Pien Pao-ti has prayed that as his term the fact of his being head of this Chintan of office has expired, he may be permitted sect, he has slaughtered the Mongols, de to visit Peking and be received in audience. secrated their graves and dug up their We grant this request and during his corpses. Hia crimes are of the greatest absence the Governor-Generalship of the magnitude and myriads of spirits owe Minche provinces will be administered by their disembodiment to him. Had it not Hsi Yuan. been for the fact that large rewards were issued for his arrest and most active CAPTURE OF YANG YCEH-CH‘UN. steps taken to、effect the same, it would Yell Chih-ch‘acr reports that ever since have been extremely di伍cult to stamp he undertook his campaign against the out the root of the rebellion. His having rebels all Mongols and Chinese to whom fortunately been secured alive by fclie he spoke on the subject declared that a Imperial troops is a manifestation that man named Yang Yiieh-ch‘un was the Heaven was determined nob to let him leader of the movement; and all captives escape unpunished, and the news of his who fell into his hands designated the said arrest has caused rejoicing in the heart of Yang, Supreme Pontiff and Founder of a mankind. A list of officers recommended new State. On the 27th December memor for promotion is appended. ialist received information that Yang Yiieh- ch4un had fled to Selihu, Chinch‘angkou, 21st and 22nd January. and was hid there in one of the mountain APPOINTMENT. caves, waiting for the withdrawal o f the P ‘an Wan-ts(ai, General of the Hui- government troops when he would again yang Brigade, Kiangnan. sally forth and fan the smouldering tires [P‘an is one of the officers who distin intu flame. Nieh Shih-ch‘eng was accord guished themselves in assisting to put down ingly secretly instructed to proceed with the recent disturbance in Manchuria.] the utmost speed during the night and surround the P^islian at Cliinch'angkou THE JEHO DISTURBANCE. on all sides and make a thorough search Yeh Chih-ch*ao, in a memorial that has for the insurgent chief. This was done already been commented upon in ono of and lie, his son, his father, his younger the recent Imperial Decrees, reports the brother and his nephew were all captured final settlement of the Jeho disturbance. in one of the caves. They were at once He attributes the successful conclusion of brought under strong escort into the camp the campaign to the prudent and rapidly and examined by memorialist in person. executed plans of Li Hung-chang, and Yang Yiieh-ch‘un confessed to having bestows unlimited praise on the trottpa originated the Chin tan Taoist sect and under his command who displayed un acknowledged that great numbers of the wearied activity although fighting under common people in P^ingchHian, Chicn- great disadvantages in a mountainous ch‘ang, Chihfeng and Ch‘aoyang had beon country where provisions and supplies of led away by hiui. He had a long out- every sort were must difficult to obtain. sUnding feud with the Mongols and Their sufferings from cold were extremo 10 ^Jan. 22—28. but they never faltered, and memorialist 14th of January he proceeded in person, expresses his intention of drawing up accompanied by his Secretary, to the Pei- a list of promotions and rewards, after lisin Granary, and drew a ticket for the consulting with the Grand Secretary. Al department of the building from which he though the rebellion is virtually extinct it and his men were to receive their allow would not be expedient to denude the ance of rice. The Superintendents of the newly tranquillised districts of troops all establishnientsfurnishedthem with a sample at once, and memorialist has distributed a of the rice and it seemed fit for consumption. certain number of infantry and cavalry at When the grain had, however, been actually the more important points to guard against drawn, it proved to be all musty and any further outbreak and to hunt out any mildewed and so full of dirt and grit as to of the rebels who may yet be at large. be quite uneatable. The inspectors on With the return of spring and the con being questioned on the subject stated that sequent attention the people will have to with the exception of the rice reserved for devote to their agricultural labours, it is commutation silver payments, all the sup hoped that they will peaceably settle down ply was old rice of the quality issued on and resume their ordinary course of life, the present occasion. The Censor charged with the surveillance of the granaries 23rd and 24th January. certified that the rice was unfit for human THE RISING IN THE NOKTH-WEST. consumption, and the memorialist now A Decree. We are in receipt of a me begs to submit a sample of it for the morial from Ting-an and Yii-lu in which inspection of the Emperor, together with they report the steps they are taking for .the specimen first furnished to him by the withdrawing a portion of the troops sent granary o伍cial.—Decree already published. to the relief of Ch‘aoyang and for leaving a sufficient force to ensure the safety of 27 th and 28th January, the district. The memorialists likewise submit, for the bestowal of rewards, the PUNISHMENT OF OFFICIALS FOK NEGLECT IN names of a number of officers who specially CONNECTION WITH THE INSURRECTION distinguished themselves during the cam IN THE NORTH-WEST. paign. The troops sent from Fengt(ien Decree. We are in receipt of a memorial in connection with the recent rising, gained from Li Hung-cliang and K ‘uei-pin de a series of complete victories aud put to nouncing, in pursuance of Imperial in death a large number of the insurgents. struction, the District officers responsible The country has now been reduced to a for the capture of Ch‘aoyang and other state of general tranquillity and the officers towns. The recent rising was first set on who commanded the troops are deserving foot at Ch‘aoyang by marauders from Jeho ; of commendation for their zeal and activity the department of P ‘ingch‘iian and the in contributing to this result. Lieutenant- district of Chieuch‘ang encountered the General Feng Sheng-a, and Commander- brunt of the rebel movement, and the in-Chief Tad Pao-kuei, have shown them Mongol country suffered very severely. In selves competent leaders and on both of addition to all this, the chapels of the them We confer the yellow riding jacket. Catholics were burnt and their converts Feng Sheng-a is further to receive the murdered. The magistrates of the two Batum distinction and Tso Pao-kuei is departments in question were uniformly granted a button of the first grade. General remiss and careless in the execution of Nieh K*uei-lin is placed on the list for their duty, with the result that the cri promotion to the rank of Commander-in- minal element in the community got an Chief and is given the Batum distinction. opportunity of inflaming the popular feel A long list follows of the other officers ing and bringing about a grave catastrophe. who took part in the campaign a n d 、vlio Were the letter of the law touching official receive rewards for their services, responsibility applied to their case, no mercy could be extended to them. The COMPLAINT REGARDING THE QUALITY OF THE inquiry which has been instituted into the MICE SUPPLIED TO THE BANNER TROOPS case of the Ch'aoyang Magistrate, Liao AT PEKING. Lun-ming, shows that although he did not, The Beitzu，I-mo, aa Lieutenant-General as was alleged, make his escape as soon as of the Plain Blue Banner force, addresses he received intelligence of the rising, a formal complaint direct to the Throne lie habitually neglected the interests of respecting the quality of tho rice served the people and spent liis time in tip out to his troops by the Granary officials pling and verse-making. He had also for the last quarter of tho year, On the on frequent occasions contracted loans J an. 28—F eb. 1.] 11 the wealthy people in his dis the purchase of stones and other materials. trict and was deeply embarrassed. So If the present system is continued for a depraved was he and so unworthy of public I number of years, it is confidently pre trust that when be was transferred from dicted that the stability of the works Ch^hfeng to Ch'aoyang, the people of the will gradually improve and the expend former place tried to prevent him from iture thereon be gradually reduced. An leaving in his insolvent condition. alteration is likewise to be made in Chang Tsou-kcai, the Magistrate of Cliien- the system of rendering the accounts. ch cang, did not take the slightest precaution At present they are forwarded by the to avert trouble when the feud tirst broke River departments to the Taotai and out, and later on he failed to furnish an passed on by the latter to the Governor accurate account of the circumstances con who transmits them to the Board. The nected with the pillage and massacre which Board offers little objection to the items took place at Sanshihchiatze. His object as long as they conform to old precedents. was to evade responsibility by adopting a The items are for the most part fictitious, policybasedupoucraftand deceit. The acting and a sum of considerably over Tls. 20,000 Magistrate of P £ingchliian, Wen Pu-nien, goes as perquisites to the o伍cials through is notorious for his trickery and is an whose hands the accounts pass. The adept at making out a plausible defence Director General intimates his intention of when he gets into trouble. The Catholic having them made up hereafter in his premises were in a street in the town and own office, and expresses a hope that the yet he failed to make any real effort for Board will overlook any irregularity in their protection. He exaggerated enor consideration of the honesty of the items. mously the number of the rebels and gave 一Rescript: Aiiproved. hasty credence to false rumours in connec tion with the outrage upon the missionary 30th and 31st January and 1st February. establishment. Hisreportswerefalseandhis ASTRONOMICAL. proclamation had a most disquieting effect Forecast for the year given out on the on the minds of the people. Tliethreeo 伍 cials first day of the 1st moon by the Ch‘in above mentioned have by their grasping, Tlien-chien. deceitful and utterly depraved conduct The wind is blowing from the region of brought the most grievous harm upon the district. The memorialists recommend that the 7th diagram,( 民 ) which will cause Liao Lun-niing should be cashiered and men to be blessed with longevity and the never again employed in the public service year to be crowned with prosperity. and that Chang Tsou-kcai and Wen Pu-nien should be degraded and their services dis DISTRESS IN THE JEHO DISTRICT. pensed with. This sentence we consider Li Hung-cliang states that according to too light and we hereby command that all information he has received from K*uei- three be cashiered and banished. The pin the greatest distress prevails in the other proposals contained in the memorial districts lately ravaged by the rebels, with are approved. the result that the people are driven by hunger to form bands for the purpose of REFORMS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE violently laying hands on anything that YELLOW RIVER. may go towards keeping them alive. This The Director General of the Yellow River state of things is greatly to be deplored submits some additional reforms which he and unless prompt and effective measures proposes to introduce in continuation of are taken to relieve them the weaker will those which he inaugurated some months succumb and the stronger permanently ago. His previous proposals did not go adopt their present occupation of higlnvay- far enough, and he now intends to take men. The Mongol districts which suffered the whole responsibility of the River con during the late insurrection have already trol into his own hands. The fixed sum been awarded out of the Privy Purse a allotted for the maintenance of the River sum of Tls. 30,000 and the sufferers at works is Tls. 600,000 a year, and of this Pingch^ian, Chieiich’ang, Ch’iwyang, and he does not consider that more than Tls. Chihfeng are no less deserving of aid. 480,000 need be expended in ordinary re As however some time must necessarily pairs. Last year the River Board was elapse before the matter can be placed assigned a sum of Tls. 120,000 to execute before the Throne and the case is one of the work with which it was charged, and urgent necessity, memorialist has taken at the end of the term there remained a upon himself to direct the Relief Com- balance of Tls. 60,000 which was used in I mittee to at once set apart Tls. 30,000 and 12 [F eb, 1—5. 10,000 suits of wadded clothes for dis Gth and *7th February. tribution by properly qualified o伍cers in The Viceroy Li Hung-chang brings to the distressed districts. the notice of the Emperor the services rendered by a Hanlin Compiler named OUTBREAK IN THE SOOCHOW GAOL. Huang Ssu-yung, in connection with famine Hu-yung, Chao-yu and several other relief in the province of Chilili. The me prisoners all under sentence of death and morialist observes that during the summer temporarily retained in the Soocliow jail, before last a very large portion of Chihli whither they had been sent after trial in suffered from destructive floods and that their respective districts, took it into their the whole country in the vicinity of the heads on the 14th of December to make an capital was converted into an open expanse attempt to regain their liberty. of sea. The people took refuge for the They had made arrangements to effect most part on the housetops or on trees, their escape on the evening of that day bub and their appeals for relief were of a most one of their number, afraid of the conse heartrending description. Huang Ssu-yung, quences, divulged their intention to the who is a Senior Wrangler and was not from warders, who were thus enabled to take his position called upon to exert himself in measures to oppose them. Certain of the the matter, at once threw himself into the gaolers went to inspect the irons of the work of relief with great enthusiasm, pro prisoners, and found that they had been curing large supplies of food and engaging removed. Hu-yung and his fellows then he services of expert swimmers to rescue kncnv that their plana had been dis the sufferers. He collected subscriptions covered and rushed for the kitchen. There amounting to Tls. 37,800 and saved the they took the coals from the fire and set the lives of about 10,000 people. For these woodwork and matting in flames, hoping services the Viceroy asks that he should be in the general confusion to make a dash specially commended in an Imperial Edict for liberty. In this they were again and the Emperor has been pleased to accede disappointed, as they found the gaol to the proposal. surrounded by troops brought up by MURDER OF AN AUNT. the Prefect and the Provincial Judge who The Viceroy Li reports the following repaired to the scene immediately they case. In the WuclPiang district there heard of the intended outbreak. Hu- lived a mason named Li-lin. He had yuiig, on seeing that all was losb, rushed an uncle named Li Lo-bsiang, whose wife back into the flames and perished there. was a woman of the maiden name of After a short time the fire was extinguished, Ma. When the Li family broke up into ■and all the prisoners secured. An enquiry separate establishments, the grandmother was at once held when it was found that Li-k‘uo 'yent to live with Li Lo-hsiang, none of the gaolers had lent the prisoners who received on this account 10 mozo of any assistance. The officer in charge of ground more than his share. Li-lin bore the gaol however displayed carelessness in a grudge in consequence and accused Li not taking measures to prevent the inmates Lo-hsiang’s wife of being the promoter of having such intercourse with each other as mischief. Some time later Li-Iin’s mother would enable them to concoct a plan of had a quarrel with the woman Ma about this sort, and he lma accordingly been the produce of some ground which they removed from his post. All those who farmed in common. Li-lin took his mother’s took part in the attempt were at once part in the quarrel and rated bis aunt for excuted, and their heads exhibited as her meddlesomeness. The result was that a warning to others. The case of T’ang the nephew and the aunt never niet with Shao-yii, th e（*nc who gave evidence ngaiust out abusing each other. Li-lin being has fellow conspirators, is reserved for the greatly incensed by his aunt’s treatment consideration of the Board. determined to have her life, and hi I him Seeing that the Prefect took such prompt self one night in an outhouse with the view steps to check the outbreak and that he of carrying out the deed. The husband of was so eminently successful in effecting his victim was a watchman, and a** soon as his purpose that not one of the prisoners he had started on his nightly rounds, Li got away, his carelessness in not looking lin entered the apartment of his aunt and better after those under his charge may be stabbed her while she was asleep. He was pardoned.一Let the Board of Punislunents apprehended shortly afterwards and has consider and report. been sentenced to death by the slow and lingering process for compassing the death 2nd to 5th of February. of a person related to him within the No papers of interest. degrees of mourning. [F eb. 8—11. 13 8th and 9th February. deposed to the robbery having been com mitted by a band of seven men, only one LOSS OF MEMORIALS. of whom has been arrested. The magistrate The Director General of the Grain Trans is to be temporarily suspended from office port, Sung-ch‘un，reports that during the and an officer appointed to conduct an ninth moon of last year he despatched •inquiry into the case. three memorials by a special messenger to The Viceroy remarks that the province of Peking. On his arrival in Peking the Chihli embraces a wide tract of country in messenger took up his quarters at the which crime is specially rife on account of Kao-sheng inn not far from the Ch‘ien the distress caused by the recent floods. Men in the Chinese city. In due time Every winter detachments of soldiers are he presented the memorials and received posted on all the highways to co-operate them back carefully packed in covers with the Imperial rescripts attached. with the local authorities in repressing Copies of the documents were furnished crimes of violence. The occurrence on to him in the usual manner by the which the memorialist has been directed Grand Council. Two days later he went to report took place before the usual out at midday to have his dinner in a arrangements had been made for the pre restaurant and before doing so he gave the sent winter. Circular instructions have inn people injunctions to look after the been issued to the authorities of all the post premises. On his return in a little more roads directing them in future not to fur than a hour he found that the window nish carts to couriers bearing memorials of his room had been broken open and that or official despatches. the memorials were gone. A search was 10th and 11th February. maintained for three days，but without discovering any clue to the robbery. The The Military Governor of Kirin and the case has been placed in the hands of the Deputy Lieutenant-General at Ninguta re police authorities of the Metropolis who port the result of operations which have are making active inquiries in the matter. been conducted with a view of exterminat The memorialist comments severely upon ing the sectarian insurgents in the Prefec the negligence shown by the corporal in ture of Ch‘angcl】‘un and of suppressing a charge of the documents and iiVimates his rebellious movement which occurred in the intention of having him cashiered, and an Prefecture of Kirin. In a previous report investigation held into the truth of the the memorialists stated that troops had statement he made with reference to the been sent to these places to conduct a circumstances connected w ith'the loss of campaign against the insurgents. At the the memorials. head of the movement in the district of Kirin there was a Buddhist priest named A GOVERNMENT COURIER ROBBED. Su An-hsiang, who was captured in an inn The Viceroy of Chilili reports the action at a place called Chuchiatat‘un on the which he has taken to carry out instructions borders of the Prefecture. His evidence which he recently received from the Throne tallied exactly with the statements made with regard to a robbery committed within by Hsieh T*ien-niing, another of the lead- his jurisdiction upon an official courier members of the sect, who was captured despatched to Peking by the Director- beheaded. Both averred that one of General of the Yellow River. The courier their faith, a man named K ‘uai】g, was at in question， Liu Ts‘ai-ch‘6n，arrived at a place called Pamiench^ng, in Feng- Tinghsing late on the night of the 30th t ‘ien, with a following of several hundred Octobe r List, being worn out with fatigue drilled men. At Yent*ungshan in the he asked to be supplied with a cart Prefecture of Kirin the rebels made their and travelled until near morning when he appearance when the local military official was surprised by robbers and forcibly de happened to be absent, and burnt and pil prived of some money and clothing. The laged over 20 households. As soon as Ai- magistrate of the district happened to be hsi-ming-a, the officer in question, received absent at the moment on public business, intelligence of what had happened, he im and the courier, being anxious to deliver mediately returned, and with the assistance his memorials in due time at Peking, con of the local levies, he succeeded in inflicting tinued his journey, and did not report the a defeat upon the marauders, killing ten of incident until he waB returning a month their number and capturing a field piece. later. The magistrate immediately issued The rebels retreatedin a southerly direction, warrants for i he arrest of the robbers and and were largely reinforced by the criminal showed considerable activity in the matter. classes in the neighbourhood. They The driver of the cart was examined and eventually took up a position at ft place 14 F eb. IL—17.] called Hsiaoch 冶ngtzu where they threw is headed by the name of Feng Sheng-a, up a rampart of earth and made prepara- | who is leconimeiided for the Yellow Riding tions for making a decided stand. Ai-hsi- I Jacket, and that of Tso Pao-kuei who it ia ming-a and his small force maintained a j suggested should receive a button of the stubborn fight with them during a whole first class. The memorialists state that night until they were joined by a further Ii until the country entirely settles down force of the Imperialists. The rebels, certain of the troops from Manchuria .will however, practising thoir magic by waving occupy the district north-west of Chaoyang a small yellow flag, caused our guns to while that to the south-west will be patrol burst in large numbers. At last the led by the Chihli troops. They also re Imperialists loaded their guns with filth commend that some steps be taken to and frightened the rebels, who broke relieve the distress amongst the Mongols up in utter confusion. Our troops who were the principal sufferers and who pursued them for a distance of 10 li and in addition to being robbed and murdered killed some 30 of, them. Some ten more themselves had the mortification of seeing were taken prisoners, a number who were the graves of their ancestors desecrated by wounded made their escape, and the booty the rebels.—Decrees already published. comprised three large carts, 20 horses, and one apricot-coloured flag, besides a large 16th and 17 th February. number of weapons and heterodox publi DECREE. cations. Amongst the rebels some 50 or Hsii Ch(ang, Senior Vice-President of the 60 persons were discovered with their Board of Revenue has asked for permission queues cut off, who, having been con to vacate his post, the leave granted strained by force to join the movement, him on account of illness having expired were released on giving satisfactory and his health being still in a very unsatis surety for their future behaviour. In factory state. He is hereby granted an quiries which were made amongst the extension（»f leave for two months and need villagers elicited the fact that the man not vacate his post. who waved the yellow flag was the self- styled Generalissimo Sun Kang, who cut DETAILS OF THE CH‘AOYANG DISTURBANCE. his throat when he saw the battle was Li Hung-chang and K*uei-pin, Military going against him. The examination of Lieutenant-Governor of Jeho, present a the prisoners proved that the movement joint memorial reporting the results of an was designed to support the rising at Chlao- enquiry they were ordered to make into the yang in the north-east of Chihli. The conduct of the territorial officials within insurgents had made use of paper horaea whose jurisdiction the recent disturbances and paper men, but their magical arts not originated. On the 11th of January, 1892, proving effective, they had been obliged the following edict was published : “ The to surrender. Fifteen of them were im outbreak of the rebels, accompanied as it mediately decapitated. The memorialists has been by the burning of missionary estimate that the number of desperadoes chapels and a murderous spirit of hostility in Kirin who were prepared to support the against the Mongols, is not the unpremedit rising in Ch‘aoyang did not fall Bhort of ated outcome of a day ; and the conduct of 1,000 men, and they consider it fortunate the civil and military o伍cials who prior to that the movement was crushed before it the outbreak saw nothing of what was assumed formidable proportions. They going on, and who after the outbreak dis conclude by soliciting permission to recom played such laxity in maintaining their mend for the bestowal of rewards the names authority, with the result that the rising of the officers who specially distinguished was allowed to make headway and that a themselves on the occasion. great evil visited the people, ia most severely to be condemned. Li Hung-chang 12th and 13th February. and Kuei-pin will make enquiries into the No papers of interest. matter and impeach without mercy each officer who may be proved guilty.’’ 14th and 15th February. Memorialists would observe that of late The Gazette for these two days is taken years in the Jeho district Mongols and up with a memorial by Ting-an and Yii-lu Chinese, the ordinary people and Christian recommending for promotion and rewards converts, have slowly been accumulating those officers of the troops under the com- I grievances the one against the other, and mand of the Governor of Fengt*ien who the o伍cials concerned having grievously took part in the late expedition against the * neglected their duty, we have aa a conse rebels in the Ch4apyang district. The list quence to deplore the late losses. [F eb. 17. 15 Having been entrusted by law with with about 200 of the scoundrels of the responsibility for maintaining order in their place and immediately set to work to respective districts the conduct of these destroy the chapel, All in all they burned Chows and 丑siens admits of no excuse. down about 68 chien, but none of the con The disturbance first of all originated at verts, who all fled, were harmed. The Ch‘aoyang; Pingch(uan and Ghiench‘ang crowd, which in the meantime increased in suffered very severely at the hands of the numbers as it went on, like a flock of crows, rebels, and the calamities with which the until it became impossible to estimate its Mongols were afflicted proved to be of even number, next plundered the Chih-chung-ho a mure disastrous nature. Added to all this store and the Li-i-tseng grain shop. While is 匕he burning of missionary chdpels and this was going on Chang Ch‘i-ch‘ang, one the killing of Christian converts, which raises of the gaolers in the yaznen, got together that thorny question which causes so much several of the runners and endeavoured to recrimination between China and foreign put a stop to these proceedings ; and as nations. notwithstanding their numbers the rebels On first arriving at his post K ‘uei-pin at were as yet unarmed, they all took their once made enquiries with regard to the departure in the direction of Puhoyen characters of the Gkihchow W6n P^-nien and Niehmentze, slaughtering and burning and the Chihhsiens Liao Lun-ming and the Christian converts as they went along. Chang Tsou-klai. They were all found On the 21sfc when they heard that a large unsatisfactory, so those three officers were body of troops was moving against removed from their pos（s pending further them, they fled to Sansbihchiafcze. This action. proves that the report of the Chihchow Some time previous to this the following was greatly exaggerated, and as he further edict of the 26th of November was com asserted that amongst the ruins he saw municated to Li Hung-chang : “ Tfe-fu in a cellar full of the corpses of young children his memorial states that the rebels made without eyes or hearts, memorialist (Li the way into the street wherein the yamen Hung-chang) bearing in mind the troubles of the Uhihchow was situated, and burned about missionary converts which lately the chapels on the 17th day of the moon. arose in the Bouth owing to baseless rum If as he alleges they numbered over several ours spread by evilly disposed persons，at thousand, how is it that the gaols, the once made it his duty to send ^veiyuu'im to public buildings, private dwellings and enquire into this matter. They have re shops all escaped unmolested? If further turned and now state that they were only the number of soldiers was inadequate able to discover three bones of children to carry on a pursuit, how is it that and that no extraction of eyes or hearts these “ thousands” of rebels dispersed had taken place. This totally disagrees without fighting ? His statements are in with the Chihchow’s original report, and every respect contradictory and bear on clearly proves that he lent too ready an the face of them evidence that they are ear to idle rumours and fabricated a series mere fabrications. Strict enquiry is to be of misleading and inaccurate st tements. made and the result carefully reported.” An enquiry into ihe conduct of Wen When Li Hung-chang first received the P ‘o-nien has brought to light the follow report of the Chihchow in question he ing facis. He has for many years held immediately detected the discrepancies in office in the Jeho district and is over his narrative and instructed the Taotai sixty years of age. He has long enjoyed the and Chihfu concerned to make a most reputation of being a very slippery indivi careful enquiry in regard to the truth of dual but no actual delinquencies have ever his statements. When the edict appeared been brought home to him, as he possesses Te-fu was still in command, but on his being in an eminent degree the faculty of making superseded by K 4uei-pin the latter received up a plausible story. The fact that the the following statements from the u*eiyuans chapel was situated in the same street as of the Tactai and the Prefect who were the o/amen, and that he did not do his investigating the matter. “ This sectarian utmost to protect it, renders it extremely band of robbers has an outstanding feud di伍cult for him, however, in this instance with the Roman Catholic c His statement that he was wounded whilst ceeding. The result was that they quar fighting with the rebels is dj伍cult fco believe relled and Hsii-yung was speared on the and it looks as if he had at once taken to spot by the Roman Catholics. Liu Yii-shan his heels and then endeavoured by false ho we v er made his escape, and as the Catholics representations to conceal his [crime. Li knew him to be a member of the Tsai-li Hung-chang is hereby directed to enquire in sect they were afraid he would come with to his conduct. ” Memorialist would observe his confederates and exact revenge. In the that when Ch‘aoyang was first captured he 7th moon they accordingly took to casting received several telegrams from Chinchou cannon in their chapels and otherwise pre stating that the whereabouts of the District paring against the expected attack. Chang, Magistrate was unknown, but when on the who was wtold of all this, went to inspect 22nd the FSng-tien troops arrived there they their premises but failed to take any pre found Liao had returned, so that he cannot cautionary measures, with the result that have fled very far. Moreover as Ch‘aoyang this great calamity arose. is not a walled city the phrase to ‘‘hold ’’ He also sought to shift the responsibility and to “ lose” do not apply. for the outbreak on to the Ch‘ienan hsien and did not give a true account of events As regards the delay in reporting I he matter that took place at Sanshihchiatze. The it has to be borne in mind that ChSngtefu three o伍cials in question having so clearly is 600 miles away from Ch'aoyang and been proved guilty of misconduct must be with the whole intervening country in a shown no mercy, and memorialists after due state of rebellion it was most difficult to consultation have to suggest that Liao convey news. The statement that he him Lun-ming, the Ch(aoyang haien, be degraded self was wounded whilst lighting with the and dismissed the public service ; that rebels may not be true, but there is no Chang Ts<>u-k‘ai, the Chiench^ang/isien, be doubt that one of his subordinates was deprivedof hisoffice, and that W enP‘o-nien, struck by a cannon ball and it would really acting Chihchow of P ‘ingch‘Lian be com seem as if they had had a fight with the pelled to retire.—Decree published separa enemy. Under ordinary circumstances, con tely. sidering that the town was out of our possession for such a short time, that he 18th February. had only lately arrived at bis post and had (1) Hsii-ch‘ang having been granted a very inadequate number of soldiers at his leave, Sung-kuei will temporarily take his disposal, it might have been possible to as Senior Vice-President of the Board somewhat mitigate the punishment of venue, and Foyu will act as Deputy degradation that is his due, but an in Lieut.-General of the plain white banner vestigation into Liao TLun-ming’s previous (Manchu). 、 history is not very satisfactory It is (2) Wang Wen-shao and T‘an ChUn-p‘ei ed that instead of devoting him- report the successful suppression of an out to his official duties lie occupies him break of the newly subjugated Lo ‘‘savages’’ self with the composing of poetry and the who during last year offered armed resist- imbibing of wine, and although no special ance to the local authorities. The revolt cases of extortion can be laid to his charge was taken in hand by the Inan Taotai it is on record that he throughout his pre Liu Ch‘un-lin，and in course of time over a vious career was constantly in the habit of hundred the rebels were captured alive borrowing money from those who had it ; and summarily punished, after which the and on his transfer from Ch‘if6ng to Ch‘ao- others seeing resistance to be hopeless yang his liabilities were so great that it voluntarily submitted. Over five hundred was only on his successor's becoming security families who had been detained in captivity for him that his creditors allowed him to wer© released and a tribe hitherto “ un* leave the place. Conduct such as this is civilised ” at Sanfuchu has been brought most unbecoming in a public officer. to acknowledge the imperial authority. A With regard to the lack of precau long list of rewards and promotions for the tion exercised by the Chiench *ang hsien military officers who distinguished them， Chang Tsou-k*ai, it has been discovered that selves is appended. the primary cause of the disturbance there can be traced as far back as the 4th moon. THANKS OF LT HUNG-CHANG. In that month a Roman Catholic convert Li Hung-cliang in two elaborately worded sought to borrow grain from the various and florid memorials, bristling with classical shops. Two of ths heads of the village, Liu quotations and recondite allusions, renders Yii-shan and Hsii-yung went to remon thanks to the Emperor and Empress Dow strate with him in consequence of this pro ager for the gifts which they bestowed on F icb. 18—20.] 17 him on the occasion of his seventieth birth settling down into a state of compara day. Those from the Emperor, who dared tive tranq uillity, and the memorialist not send a greater number than the Empress, has been in communication with the as he being a junior had in a manner to Cominander-in-Chief, Yeh Chih-ch‘ao, give way to his senior, were as follows :— respecting the withdrawal uf the troops. (1) One manuscript tablet, i.c. a tablet The Commander-in-Chief stated that al engraved with characters written by the though the rebels had been completely Emperor himself. exterminated and the people who had (2) A pair of scrolls likewise in the im ioined them offered a free pardon on- perial handwriting. giving a promise of reforming their (3) One scroll with the character fn. character, still he was afraid that the smouldering ashes of discontent might ⑷ ” ” ” ” ” 5,藝 . 、 (5) One small Buddhaftot Hany shoufu), in be fanned into a flame of rebellion, (6) One ju-i inlaid with jade. had accordingly made arrangementa (7) One dragon robe "(/-p‘((rce of 160 men was (11) Twelve pieces “ ta chuan ” Chiang sent during the disturbances to protect the satin. Roman Catholic establishments at Laohu- These various gifts were sent to Tientsin kou and P ‘iench‘iaotze and it has been in charge of the Grand Secretary’s nephew decided to leave one half of their number Li Ching-yii, a Hanlin compiler of the 2nd for the peif rmance of this work. class. 19th February. DEATH OF A BRIGADIER-GENERAL. The Viceroy of the Shen-Kan provinces No papers of interest. reporta the death of Shen Yii-sui, Brigadier- 20th February. General of the Ilochou division in the pro vince of Shensi. The deceased officer caught DISPOSITION OF TROOPS IN THE JEHO a severe chill towards the end of last year REGION. which brought back an old complaint. K ‘uei Pin, the Military Governor of Jeho, Numbness of the limbs and di伍cult respira reports the arrangements which he has tion made his condition so serious that he made for withdrawing a portion of the was on the point of banding over charge of troops which were sent to suppress the bis duties when his illness took a turn for recent insurrection and for leaving a suffi the worse and lie succumbed to the disease. cient force to garrison the places where Sheu Yii-sui had seen much active service there is a danger of renewed disturbances. and bad been over 20 years in the post After having experienced all the horrors of which he held at the time of his death. an insurrectionary rising for a period <>f His administration had combined firmness over two months the country occupied by with gentleness and had exercised a very the four districts of P^ngchMian Chien- salutary influence over the mixed tribes ch(ang, Ch'aoyang and Ch*ihfeng is now bliroughoui his jurisdiction. 1ft [F kd. 21—23. 21st February. of the Antichainber from which he rose to MEMORIAL TEMPLES TO P ‘ENG YU-LIN. he first a Lieutenant-General an enemy. After a short rnel^e the rebels afterwards being placed in charge of war took to flight, rushing headlong over the steamers. He was once dismissed on some rocks. Yungp^a was thus taken, and Niu- charge, but was afterwards reinstated. shihtui fell only, three days afterwards. REWARDS FOR YELLOW KIVER WORKS. The result of the victory was the submis Some while ago, in the time of the late sion of two thousand persons, and the Governor of Honan, the town of Wenlisiang rescue of five hundred families, Chinese in the far 'vest of the province was in the and others, who had been carried away. very greatest danger from the Yellow River, The principal chief of the insurgents was which runs along its north front. All tlie killed in the fight, and one or two other houses outside the wall were carried away leaders were executed. by the river, and those of two streets in On the 4th December Liu Chcun-Iin side the town were washed down, as well encamped at Menglang. While there he as part of the yamS）i. At the same time a learnt that, besides the live “fo-fang” large sand bank appeared on the northern above mentioned, there was a tract of land half of the river’s channel just opposite the called Siniengsanfochu, of which the town. Ifc became a matter of extreme chief was a Lolo priest named Li T (ung- urgency to check the further encroachment ming. The said tract was a hundred miles of the water. Funds were procured, the across and contained 4,000 families. The officials and people laboured and assisted priest had been in doubt which side to take with the greatest spirit, and the danger during the rebellion ; but on the arrival at was successfully surmounted. The Go Sanfochu of an imperialist brigade, he gave vernor now asks that those who most dis his submission and surrendered his o伍cial tinguished themselves may be recommend seal. At the same time search was made ed for rewards.一Granted. for the chiefs who had been guilty of killing the Chinese colonel at the beginning of the 3rd March. rebellion. Four of them were caught No documents of interest. through the agency of spies, and were put 4th March. to death together. A fifth, it was ascer REWARDS FOR DREDGING AT WUSUNG. tained, had escaped into the country of The Governor of Kiangsu some time ago the Ch(ia\vas, by whom he had been plun sent in a list of officers whom he wished to dered and murdered. With this the have rewarded for their services in con expeditions were terminated. In recom nection with the dredging operations afc mending the officers for rewards, the Wusung. The list was referred to the memorialists remark that the rebellion was Board of War, which represented that as owing to the leniency with which the Lolos the number of names exceeded ten，some concerned had been treated when their of them must be struck off, before the country was first brought uuder Chinese matter could be considered. The Governor government. They had submitted so has now reduced them to thirteen, and he readily that no compulsion was used ; cannot in justice go any further. A great by the recent display of force, however, deal of work was done at Wusung, and the they had one and all been completely awed. superintending officers endured unusual Secondly, they add, a wide tract of country, hardships. It is therefore hoped that the that of Simengsanfochu, has been brought list as amended may meet with approval.— for the time within the bounds of civilisa lief erred to the Buatd of War. tion.—Decree issued separately. precautions a t 、vuhu and tatvng. 2nd March. Last summer an official, whose name does NEW GENERAL XX NORTHERN KIANGSU. not appear, addressed the Emperor with Wu An-k‘ang report's that lie has taken reference to the numerous anti-missionary up his post as Acting Major-General of tho outbreaks which had recently occurred. H uaian and Yangcliow Brigade, having for He drew attention to the numbers of that purpose vacated the command of a memberfi of unlawful societies in the division of the steam fleet a t Wusung. He valley of the Yangtze and mentioned gives a slight sketch of his history, show- a number of busy places, where the dense that lie was a native of Hunan, entered population facilitated the concealment of army as a volunteer in the year 1855, evil doers. The remedy which lie suggested • and fought in Kiangsi, Kueichow, and Sze was the enforcement of the well-known chuan, after which he was transferred to i system of mutual protection (pao chia), Chekiang and Fukien. He had also served under the superintendence of an officer of long in Kiangsu, holding the military com high rank. The Emperor highly approved mand of fhe country round Shanghai and I of the proposal, and in a decree dated the [M au. 4—5. 23 31st of August desired the Governor of to preserve order by day, and to prevent Anhui to introduce the scheme at Wuliu robbers from moving about at night, and Tatung, which were two of the important points must be occupied and populous towns above mentioned. He must barriers placed at the mouths of creeks. take care that it be carried out in earnest, The cost of all the above measures must but at the same time not let it be made an be met not by subscriptions but from the occasion for the practice of extortion by public funds. Afc one or two populous yamSn runners. The Governor now reports spots on the river bank deputies should be the measures which he has adopted in appointed to aid the local authorities in obedience to His Majesty^ commands. At executing thoroughly the prescribed meas both places he found that the said system ures. Afc Wuhu a body of trainbands has of protection was superintended by local been supported by the merchants, though officials ; but, being ordered to appoint a of late it has become useless through high officer, he nominated an expectant neglect. This should be reorganised to Taotai Yuan Ping-clien, who would work in gether with the^ao c/iia, and the wealthy concert with the Taotai at Wuhu. These merchants who receive protection from ifc officers have laid before the Governor a set will gladly find the needful funds; for of regulations, which seem excellent and will which honorary rank might be conferred be put in force at once by a special board. on the contributors, if real success be Persons who live on shore may be divided achieved.—Approved. into three classes, gentry, merchants and CHANGES IN THE SOUTHERN FLEET. common people. All three sections must According to a memorial from the Viceroy display a notice on their doors giving a at Nanking it has been determined by list of the inhabitants of the house. The himself and the Board of Admiralty ta places where bad characters are most likely reduce the number of men or officers in to be concealed are in public inns or in the the Southern Fleet in order to provide straw huts built on vacant spots by funds for the building of additional vessels. strangers who have come to work for In consequence of this the Admiral in com their living. The landlords of the former mand, Kuo Pao-clVang, has suggested that must keep registers, and enter the par his own post might be abolished. He repre ticulars of those who lodge with them. sents that there are only six men-of-war The latter must be interrogated as to exclusive of transports, and moreover ifc their business and antecedents, and has been determined that for the next few must have their good conduct guaranteed years they shall not be sent to make an by their neighbours. Buddhist and annual cruise with the Northern Fleet. Taoist priests must report the number Under these circumstances the Vice-Ad of inhabitants in their temple?, and give miral of the left wing will be able to take notice of all tenants and lodgers. Gambling charge of the whole fleet. In endorsing houses and opium dens must be closed this suggestion the Viceroy pays a tribute without mercy as the source of mischief to the distinguished merits of the Admiral, and resort of the depraved. On the water to whom he proposes to give a post in the there is an innumerable boating population Military Secretariat with an allowance of engaged in carrying passengers or cargo ; Tla. 100 per month. — Approved. and cases of tlieft or other misdeeds are not uncommon amongst them. Their boats 5th March. must be registered, there must be head REMOVAL FKO^I FLOODED DISTRICTS. men to ensure their good conduct, and Along the lower course of the Yellow they must stand surety for each other's River, says the Governor of Shantung, behaviour. There are in addition the there are tracts where there are no private sailors on board foreign cargo-boats, many embankments and the land is now inun of whom are not good characters and dated all the year round. The inhabitants, rely on their position to give trouble. homeless and landless, are living in straw These men must be dealt with through huts on the river wall in a pitiable state of the Consuls and hong compradores. They destitution. The late Governor obtained should be required to register their boats permission to transfer these poor people to and find guarantees. Also, the landing other homes, but he only succeeded in and embarkation of crowds of passengers removing about seven thousand families. from the various river steamers afford In the districts of Ch‘ingch‘eng, Pinchow, constant opportunities for the commission P ‘ut‘ai, Lichtng, and higher up stream in o f thefts. To keep a check on these it will Licheng, Changch‘iu and Chi-yang there be necessary to station guard boats at the remain twenty thousand families and more, landing places of the steamers. Further, dwelling in villages surrounded by water 24 [M ar. 5—7. and in the most urgent need of help. Af accordingly sent Tls. 50,000 from the funds ter most anxious deliberation, the memo in the hands of the Board of Relief. The rialist has determined to establish three Governor of Anhui has since written to beg Bureaux at central points in this region. for more, as further sums are urgently The officials in charge will make lists of required. The Charity Fund in Chihli is the distressed families, and select places not a large one, and there is a call on it afc in high-lying districts where land will be the present moment for the unfortunate bought and houses built for them. The people who have suffered so seriously at the money required will be provided from the hands of the insurgents in the neighbour “ four-tenths charitable contribution fund.” hood of Jeho. It is therefore really not rich The sums to be expended will be so large, enough to help other provinces ; but, the that a high official must be placed in charge distress in Anhui being so severe, the of the scheme ; and a Taotai named Huang memorialist has ordered the payment of Chi has been selected for the task.— another twenty thousand taels, io help Approved. meet the most pressing needs.— Approved. 6th March. FAILURE TO CAPTURE INSUKGENT CHIEFS. MILITARY CANDIDATES IN SZECHUAN. The Governor General at Foochow l）n& The Literary Chancellor of Szechuan calls received a despatch from Sun K ‘ai-hua, the attention to the number of candidates at Provincial Commander-in-Chief, in which the examinations in thatprovince, especially that officer regrets liis inability to capture of those for military appointments. Thus, Ch‘en Kung and his brother Ch{en Chung, at Ch‘engtu Fu there are more than ten the principal leaders in the insurrection at thousand competitors, at Chungking and Tehua. The Tehua district is so moun Paoning nearly that number, and in other tainous and at the same time so intersected Prefectures from six to seven thousand. by roads running in different directions, Indeed the numbers may be said to double that it has been found impossible to track those of any other province. The conse， these men successfully. The soldiers have quence of the assembling of such vast exhausted themselves with their ineffectual crowds is first that the examiners find endeavours. He can only beg that he may themselves unable to prevent fraud, of be punished for his failure. In represent which the most usual form is the reappear ing these facts to His Majesty, the Gover ance of unsuccessful candidates under fresh nor General says that in view of the small names, and secondly that there is great number of the insurgents, the inability to trouble in preserving order in the towns discover and arrest their leader in a space during the time of the examinations. The of three months is a proof of the unskil memorialist! proposes that in future all fulness of the Comtnander-in-Chief'a ar candidates shall be examined, first in foot rangements.—Decree : The Board concerned archery and secondly in drawing the strong will determine a penalty for K ‘ui-hua. bowj and that all who fail in this second 7th March. competition shall be disqualified for the rest of the examination. This weeding TOO 15ANY OFFICIALS IN HUPEH. out of the candidates will simplify the According to a memorial presented by proceedings and facilitate the detection of the high authorities of Hupeh, there is a fraud. The course is in accordance with great surplus of officials in that province. some regulations issued by the Emperor The same state o f things prevailed about forty-two years ago, and a nearly similar twelve years ago, when it was in some system was instituted not long ago in degree remedied by none being sent there Fukien.—Approved. for a couple of years ; but now the trouble is as great as ever. The memorialists state FAMINE FUNDS SENT TO ANHUI. that from the rank of Taotai downwards, The Viceroy of Chihli, Li Hung-chang, including the very lowest, there are three represents that some time ago his colleague hundred and odd posts in the province. at Nanking telegraphed to him for help for At the present moment there are more the people in northern Anhui, where the than a thousand expectant officers waiting harvest failed last year and consequently for vacancies, irrespective of those tempo much distress prevailed. As the provinces rarily absent on leave or in mourning.. Of of Kiangsu and Anhui have on former occa these gentlemen only from ten to twenty sions come forward in a spirited manner to cent, can obtain either a real or an render assistance when parts of Chihli have g appointment every year. Very been inundated, the Viceroy felt bound to few also will find themselves detailed for do what he could in return ; juid he special work. The consequence is that M ar. 7—10.] 25 very many are in great pecuniary want, possessed in his native home at Tungchow. and under such circumstances it is useless Should a sufficient amount not be thus to hope that their conduct will be what it forthcoming, the memorialist gives a list ought. There have always been a great of about a dozen officials from the rank of many o伍cials in Hunan who have gained Provincial Treasurer downwards, who were their rank on account of their military all formerly superior officers of the de services, and now there are a large number ceased, and should be liable to make good who have been appointed on account of whatever sum is wanted, each in a certain their subscriptions to the Yellow River proportion as the law lays down.一Decree Works or the Coast Defences. Moreover issued as desired. the Province is a favourite with those who 10th March. obtain the right to select their locality. The memorialists pray that for one year no RELIEF FOR MONGOL SUFFERERS. o伍cials whatever may be sent to the Pro The Viceroy Li Hung-chang and the vince, except those to whom it is allotted Manchu General at Jeho were recently after the examinations in the regular way. commanded by the Emperor to take mea When the year has expired, tlie prohibition sures for the relief of the Mongols whose inight be withdrawn or continued, accord lands and homes were devastated in the ing as it is found that the existing pressure recent rebellion in the North. According has been relieved or not.—BeferTed to the to a report now presented by them, the Board of Civil Office. principal sufferers among the Mongols were those o f eight Banners, the Aokhan, Nai- 8th March, man, Ongniod, three Karachins，and two d e c r e e . Tumeds, all belonging to the Chosotu and Chang Lien-kuei is appointed to the post Chao Uda Leagues, established in Ping- of Governor of Kuangsi. ch4iian Chou and the three adjacent dis 9th March. tricts. Of these eight Banners, one, the Right Wing of the Karachins, has received OFFICERS TRANSFERRED TO TIBET. Tls. 30,000 from the Mongolia O伍 ce at K^ei-huan, Chinese Resident in Tibet, Peking. This liberality the memorialists calls attention to his need of Chinese offi regret they cannot imitate in the case cers to aid him in the transaction of business of the others, as the expense thus incurred in that country, where foreign trade is just would be too vast. Before receiving the commencing in addition to the ordinary Euiperor’a commands the memorialists had affairs between Chinese and Tibetans. already apportioned a sum of Tls. 50,000 When passing through Szechuan（»n his way for the relief of the four districts above to his post, lie made the acquaintance of mentioned ; and after much careful thought two officers of satisfactory acquirements they had determined that the neighbouring and physical constitution, and of a third, Mongols should share in it as well as the wlio, having been formerly a student at the Chinese. All had suffered ; and if the military school at Tientsin, was acquainted Mongols were left out, they would feel with foreign methods of drill and foreign themselves neglected and be deeply dis matters generally. It would be greatly in satisfied. As His Majesty has now given the public interest if the Emperor would special orders for the bestowal of charity permit these three officers to be transferred upon the Mongols, the memorialists make to Tibet for service under the memorialist’s bold to ask that the Treasury may be orders.一Granted. ordered to set apart a further sum of Tls. RECOVERY OF A DEFICIT. 50,000, which shall be sent to the distribut The Governor of Shansi reports that the ing o伍ce in the said districts.—Granted. late Magistrate of Wuchai Hsien, since DONATION BY LADY LI. deceased, left a deficiency in the grain The Governor of Anhui states that he under his charge of 431 bushels of rice has received a representation from Li and 637 bushels of beans. The family of Ching-shu, Second Class Secretary of a the deceased have failed to replace the Board at Peking. The petitioner’s mother missing corn within the limit of time allowed is the wife of the Viceroy Li Hung-chang, to them. The memorialist therefore asks with whom she is living in the Province of permission to seize all personal property of Chihli. Economical in her household the deceased, left either at his late post or expenditure, she delights in relieving 卜t his temporary places of lodging ; and it the distressed, and in times of want is further requested that the Governor of distributes among the sufferers all her Peking may be directed to distrain on any means. Hearing of the failure of last property which the deceased may have year’s barveab in her native district of 26 [M ar. 10— 12. Northern Anhui, she has given the the Nanking Treasury. In conclusion the petitioner a thousand taels to be sent memorialist says that every effort will be to the Anhui relief fund. At the same made to secure that the poor and destitute time she disclaims all wish of reward, receive the full benefit of the gifts intended The Governor uf the province, through for them.—Approved. whose hands the contribution has passed, LEAVE GRANTED TO HUNAN GENERAL. feels that he ought to bring the matter to the Emperor’s notice, and suggests that an Chang Chih-tung presents a memorial on arch with a suitable inscription should be behalf of Lou Yun-ch‘ing，newly appointed erected in honour of the donor at her Commander-in-Chief for the Province of home in Hofei Hsien.—Granted. Hunan. The General represents that he is a native of Liu-yang in Hunan and has follow 11th March. ed a military career for more than thirty THE DISTRESS IN NORTHERN ANnUI. years. In his early days lie commanded a Great distress, says the Governor of body of men and fought against the Taiping Anhui, prevails in the Northern part of rebels. Afterwards he was transferred to that province, especially in Luchou Fu the Canton province where he waa employed and Ch‘uchow，the cause being the in in the defence of the coast, and latterly sufficient rainfall last summer and a commanded the troops at Ch‘aocliou Fu. consequent deficiency in the harvest. It During his long period of service, he has being plain that the distribution of charity been always on the move and has never would be necessary this spring the Viceroy had time to pay due attention to the graves at Nanking provided a quantity of grain, of his ancestors. On his way to his new and the memorialist himself set apart a head quarters at Ch‘angt6 Fu, his route sum of money from the funds in his passes near his old home, and he begs for treasury. This lie has already reported to a month’s leave of absence in order that the Throne, and has at the same time called bo may visit the graves of his family.—— attention to the possibility of relief being Granted. required in other prefectures also. The 12th March. severity with which the drought was felt RETIREMENT OF GOVERNOR OF KUANGSI. was due really to the bad state of the ponds The Governor of Kuangsi reports the and water-courses. The spending money death of his mother by adoption, which on repairs to these will be a most useful necessitates his withdrawal from the public way of giving relief. Again there were vast service for the period of mourning. The swarms of locusts last summer and autumn, venerable lady could not live in the climate especially in the riverine district. Though of Kuangsi, and therefore the Governor the efforts of the authorities to destroy was unable to personally to take care of them and their eggs prevented their be h e r; but. he left her in the charge of his coming an actual plague, still it is to be son, who remained at home in order to feared that in remote and little populated attend upon her. localities they could nob have been quite thoroughly extirpated, and enough have REWARDS FOR ARRESTING KOLAO IIUX. been left to be a danger in the future. The Viceroy and Governor of Yiinnan The local officials will therefore be re present a memorial asking rewards for quired to employ destitute persons in certain officers concerned in the capture of digging for them, thus finding support for important criminals. The memorialists those who need it. Some peasants also an Imperial Decree issued on the will be found to be without ploughing of July last year, in which mention cattle or seed corn, which should be provided was made of the danger to the public so that they may be able to till their lands caused by the members of the Kolao this spring. The old, the weak, those in and the provincial authorities were short who cannot labour, must be sought desired to spare no efforts in discover out and be given donations in actual money ing and arresting them. It was further or food. A Taotai named P ‘eng Lu^hui declared by His Majesty that o伍cers has been appointed chief superintendent of who distinguished themselves in effecting the relief operations and he is instructed the capture of such niembers of unlawful to visit and inspect every district in person. societies might be recommended for rewards Aa to funds; in addition to what lias on the higher scale. But everything must been mentioned above, the Viceroy Li be done on indisputable evidence, and there Hung-chang has sent Tls. 50,000 from must be no unjustifiable airests mad^. the Chihli relief moneys, and the Viceroy Respectable people who had been seduced Liu K*un-yi has promised Tls. 20,000 from into purchasing protection papers from Mak. 12—14.] 27 these societies, — should be pardoned on only yielding after a hand to hand combat. surrendering them to the authorities ; and They conclude by making a statement of forgiveness should even be extended to proposed rewards.—Approved, actual members of the societies themselves, OFFICERS FOR MANCHURIAN AKMY. avIio would give secret information leading to the discovery of their leaders. If the Ting-an represents that the new system tatter were detected and punished it would of organisation introduced into the Man be enough that the rest should be dispersed. churian army haB caused a want of o伍cials Yunnan, say the memorialists, has often for miscellaneous duties. At the present suffered from the-misdeeds of disbanded moment there happen to be two Peking soldiers, who collect followers and establish officials passing through Fengt‘ien, the themselves at places in the mountains. Here one a hereditary Baron named T^-lan-t^i, they form sworn gangs and issue tickets to the other a Mancbu Interpreter, Clii-lan- those who become members. They prey upon t ‘ai. They are both Manchus, who are the poor and weak and commit every kind returning to Peking after having paid a of crime. Their victims are afraid to com visit to the graves of their ancestors. As plain against them, and in self-protection they have volunteered for military employ sometimes even buy their tickets, finding ment and appear to be vigorous young that to plunder others is preferable to be men, the memorialist proposes to retain ing plundered themselves. This lawless them for service with the army.一 Approved. ness is especially prevalent in the Prefec tures of Ch‘iiching，Chaotung and Tung- 14th March. ch‘uan on the frontiers of Kueichou and EXPENDITURE AT NANKING ARSENAL. Szechuan. Even before the receipt of His The Viceroy at Nanking, the Viceroy of Majesty’s recent Decree, measures were Chihli, and the Governor of Kiangsu constantly taken against these. Indeed present a statement of receipts and year by year some of them were caught expenditure at the Nanking Arsenal for and executed ; but they never could be the sixteenth year of the Emperor’s reign thoroughly rooted out. Last December (1890). The income of the Arsenal is the Magistrate of P ‘ingi reported that, derived principally as follows :—The acting in concert with the Kueichou local Shanghai Customs “ two tenths n fund gives authorities across the frontier, he had Tls. 50,000 ; the Provincial Defence Board, arrested a Kolao Hui chief, one Li Hsiao- Tls. 30,000 ; the Anhui Troops’ Treasury ping, and with him nine other important at Yangchow, Tls. 20,000; to which is criminals. A number of compromising docu added from different sources Tls. 14,000 ments were discovered, and the prisoners for shot, practice ammunition and the confessed to having formed a society, bound like ; and in years of thirteen months the themselves with oaths, appointed leaders, Custom house supplies another Tls. 10,000. and issued some hundreds o f tickets. They During the year in question the total also acknowledged that they had committed receipts came to Tls. 124,531.9, in addition numerous acts of violence and other serious to a balance at the beginning of Tls. 103.4. crimes. For these manifold offences they The expenditure was, for purchases of were all executed and their heads exposed. articles and materials of all kinds Tls. The Magistrate then issued a proclamation 54,931.1 ; workmen’s food and wages，Tls. calling attention to the promise of pardon in 48,095.7 ; superintendence, management the Emperor’s Decree, and in consequence and guards Tls. 12,197.6 ; freight by native four hundred and twelve tickets were deli boats and steamers, and advances of money, vered up to him and destroyed without the Tls. 6,620; repairs 2,752.3; total, Tls. infliction of any punishment. Also, in the 124,595.9, leaving a balance of Tls. 39.4 month of November the Magistrate of Nan- which will be duly accounted for next year. ning arrested a man named Niu Chen-hsin, —Referred to the Tsungli YamSa. who confessed that he had twice formed unlawful societies, swearing in the mem RIVER WORKS NEAK HANKOW. bers and issuing oaths, and that he had The high authorities of Hupeh report eighty or ninety adherents. This man the completion of certain river works at also was executed and his dupes allowed Hanyang and the repayment of the sums to go. advanced for their construction. It ap *fhe memorialists consider that the two pears that five years ago the river magistrates are specially worthy of com embankment gave way at certain spots mendation, because in both cases the ban to the east of Hanyang and adjoining the dits were provided with firearms and made town of Hankow. Its immediate re a most vigorous resistance to the troops, construction became urgently necessary j 28 [M ar. 14—15. and there was at the same time some AN OFFICIAL COMPULSORILY RETIRED. dredging to be done in the Yiitai River. Hsii Chen-i reports that an officer named The magistrate made his o伍cial inspection Chu Mou-lan is incapacitated by bad health in company with a number of leading gen for the proper performance of his duties. try and merchants, when it was estimated Chu Mou-lan is the sub-prefect in charge that the work which must be executed of the Huangch‘int‘ing，a river works would cost 147,000 strings of cash. After post. Last summer, as his district had considering the matter, the merchants and long been untroubled by dangerous floods men of business of all classes declared that he omitted to secure a proper supply of they were ready to undertake the task millet stalks and stones. However, ab themselves, levying for the purpose a tax midsummer there was an extraordinary of one and two-tenths per cent on all rise of more than ten feet in the Ch‘in their goods and other property. They River. The breaking of the embankment wished to be free from all official inter was imminent，and had it happened, the ference ; but at the same time, in order to people of Mulantien, some thousands of allow them to proceed at, once with vigour, familes， would instantly have been all they begged for a loan from the govern afloat. The sub-prefect was ill in bed and ment of TIs. 40,000, which they would incapable of doing more than giving orders repay in instalments. This having been for carts to transport himself and family oved by His Majesty, the money was elsewhere. But he was prevented from over to them as desired. The under moving by the people of the place, who taking has now been completed, and the surrounded him and would not let him go. whole of the money returned. There is Fortunately the Taotai hurried to the more work however of the most important spot and with the aid of the inhabitants character to be executed at Hankow in the pecured materials by pulling down houses shape of repairs to the northern and and tearing up paving stones, with which southern embankment at Chichi itsui, and he succeeded in strengthening the embank to the jetties by the river side. It is pro ment. When the memorialist himself posed to leave these also to the people of arrived, the sub-prefect excused himself the place and the merchants frequenting from appearing on the score of ill health. it, who have always shown themselves The memorialist put other officers in charge most ready to do all that is necessary for of the works in hand, but in spite of this the protection of themselves and their im the sub-prefect sent in monstrous bills for portant trade. expenditure supposed to be incurred The memorialist withdrew him from his REWARDS FOR CAPTURING ROBBERS. post and was on the point of reporting him In the prefecture of Kuangchou Fu to the Throne, but finally accepted his (Canton), says the Viceroy, the officers of excuses and gave him another acting ap the Imperial Navy are charged with the pointment. The next thing that was heard duty of dealing with robbers. In the four was that he was ill again. As it is abso teen months ending with January last year lutely necessary that officers of the river they succeeded in arresting more than three department should be active and energetic, hundred offenders. Robbery with violence the memorialist proposes that the sub has always been extraordinarily rife in the prefect in question should be compulsorily province, and it was much more than the ret ired. — Approved. civil authorities could cope with. It was 15th March. never dealt with successfully till the late Admiral Fang-yao took the task in hand. EFFICIENCY OF OFFICERS IN SZECHUAN. Even for military forces the duty is a most Viceroys and Governors are required difficult one, as the robbers when pushed ev^ry year to investigate the conduct and bard, fight most desperately, and, if not capabilities of the lieutenants and such pressed, make their escape outside the coun officers under their orders. The names of try. The officers employed therefore those who do not pass successfully through deserve marks of distinction or rewards, the examination are immediately communi and in accordance with the permission cated to the Board of War. If these names granted by His Majesty some months ago, do not amount to two or three per cent, of the memorialist has the honour to present the whole, a special report < J the fact must a list of the most meritorious among them. be made to the Emperor. The Viceroy of The names of those from the rank of Szechuan now reports that in the course Lieutenant downwards will be sent direct of the year every lieutenant, excepting ko the Board, as the regulations require.— those away in Tibet, has been broughfc bo Jteferred tc the Board of War. the provincial capital and subjected to a M ar. 15—17.] 29 scrutiny by himself and the C east side of the meeting place of the Four two years mentioned the losses had been Waters, to the Ta-wang Temple at Sinza, estimated at sixty per cent, and eighiy the total length being 125,520 feet. The per cent, respectively. The Emperor had amount of earth carried away was 859,375 sanctioned a reduction of one half in the fang (fang is a hundred cubic feet); and the rents of the land in the locality belonging cost for labour and materials, including to the Imperial Household, and had desired embankment making as well as dredging, the Princes and Pukes who owned property was Tls. 160,095. there to make enquiries for themselves and give such abatements as might be neces FUNERAL CEREMONIES IN MONGOLIA. sary. The Magistrate discovered nothing Some time ago the Military Governor at to imply any necessity for charging full Tarbagatai reported the death of Ch‘e-lin- rents in the case of temple lands ; and he la-pu-tan, retired Prince of the Tourgouth considered that the tenants had done all Mongols, and requested permission to per in their p(，'ver in offering one half, as form the same funeral ceremonies for him as they had suffered greatly by the cover for a Prince still holding his official post. ing of the land with sand which pre The Emperor was pleased to assent to this ; vented the cultivation of their crop. The and shortly afterwards the Mongolian office Imperial Clansman, however, whs utterly at Peking forwarded to the memorialist an without feelings of mercy, and forced his elegy written in the Mancbu language. way into the office of the Magistrate, The General commanding the Eleuth troops treating him with great disrespect and and the Superintendent of the Horse and endeavouring to force him to give an order Camel Yards were thereupon directed to for the payment of the whole amount of visit the Prince’s tomb, where they duly rent. The Viceroy having been informed performed the appropriate ceremonies, by the Magistrate of the above particujars, reading the elegy and offering a calf, sheep, begs to suggest that the Imperial Clan nine bottles of wine and a quantity of gold Court be directed to deal with the case in and silver paper. The deceased’s son, now order to prevent the repetition '、f such con Prince of the Tourgouths, and the chief duct.一Decree published previously. tains of all degrees expressed with the liveliest demonstrations their joy and their CHANGE IN MILITARY APPOINTMENTS NEAR gratitude to the Emperor for liia bounty. JEHO. The mission returned to Tarbagatai after Under the Colonel at Pakou, says Li having been absent for a space of ten days. Hung-chang, are three captains command The cost of the articles purchased for the ing companies stationed afc Chiench‘aiig， ceremony will be defrayed from the memo Ch‘ihfeng and Chaoyang, all very import rialises contingency fund. ant posts. Chiench‘ang is close to the CONVEYANCE OF TRIBUTE RICE. pass called Hsifengk‘ou, Ch‘ilifeng is on With the exception of o »e hundred the edge of the Imperial Hunting Ground, thousand piculs which are sent by the canal, and Chaoyang, which touches the Man all the tribute rice from southern Kiangsu churian frontier, may be said to cover and will be despatched this year by sea. The protect Jeho. The three districts together Soocbow and Sungkiang Grain Tiiutai has cover an area seven hundred miles in already gone north to receive it on its circumference, and as they are frequently arrival. infested with mounted banditti, it is no easy task to preserve order there properly. 19th March. Moreover of late years there has been much MISCONDUCT OF AN IMPERIAL CLANSMAN. ill-feeling between the Mongols and the As appears from a memorial presented Chinese. From this cause sprang the out by Li liung-chang, just at the end of last break of last winter, which actually brought year a member of the Imperial clan, Shu- such great suffering to tens of thousands ying by name, left Peking on leave of of people, and, had it not been pub absence. He went to Luancliou to col down at once by the troops, must have lect the rent owed by the tenants of certain spread and occasioned incalculable mis luids which had been dedicated to the chief. There will remain much to be support of his family temple. For the done by the military oflicers in concert years 1886 and 1893 the tenants would with the civil authorities, and if they be only offer half the rent, and he therefore not men of wisdom and capacity， they will prosecuted them in the Magistrate^ Court. nob be equal to the duties of their posts. After examining into the case the Magis The existing rule is that the three captain trate found that the lands in question had cies above mentioned must be filled up beeu constantly flooded ; and that in the from Manchu officers. It happens that Mar. 19—21.] 31 the gentlemen thus selected are generally 20th March. wanting in either experience or local knowledge ; while officers are heeded who CHEKIANG GOVERNOR WISHES TO HAVE can adapt themselves to changes of circum AUDIENCE. stances and act as special conditions re The Governor of Chekiang represents quire. Formerly the civil authorities in that lie has held his post now for fcbre© the District Cities outside the wall were years ; and therefore it is his duty according all taken from the Manchus ; but on ac io law to proceed to Peking in order* that count of the constant li' igation between the he may be received in audience by the Mong- la and Chinese, it became necessary Emperor. At the present moment the to make Chinese officials eligible also. country under his jurisdiction is tranquil Again at the present memorialist’s request and the people are contented. The grain a similar change was made with regard to tribute of the province has all been sent the three capHiincies at Lama Miao, be to Shanghai and is ready to go noi'tli at cause of the solitary position of the city the beginning of spring. The brigands in and the prevalence of brigandage round Wenchow and T'aicliow have become about it. The difficulties of the military quiet since the capture of their chiefs last officers at the three districts first mentioned year. The military and naval forces, the are far greater than at Lama It vessels and foi ts are all in a state of readi is therefore requested that any Chinese ness. All matters of importance are officers in the army of the province may be receiving proper attention. As a special eligible for the said posts, which will be reason why he should present himself at filled by transfers if possible, <>r if not by Peking, the memorialist states that three promotions.—Referred to Hce Board oj Waw years ago lie was sent direct to his post without visiting the capital, so that it ia SENTENCES PASSED ON PRISONERS. now seven yeara since he has been received by the Emperor. He proposes to entrust The Governor of Kiangsu reports the the duties of his office to the care of sentences which he has passed on a number the Provincial Treasurer.—Decree issued of prisoners who had been guilty of house separately. breaking with violence. All the cases took place in the turbulent region round Heii- 21st March. chou Fu at the extreme north of the province. In the first case ten men were A TEMPLE FOR ANHUI SOLDIERS, concerned, a servant of the house was The Viceroy of Chihli addresses the killed, and the booty consisted of cattle Emperor on behalf of the Provincial Com- and other iliings. One prisoner was after mander-in-cliief and other officers, all wards arrested. In the second seventeen belonging to the “ Army of tho Huai,” as men took part, and seven were arrested. the Anhui troops, which were raised to In the third, there were eleven robbers, fight against the Taipings, are called. The and a neighbour was shot and killed. applicants represent that tlie Huai army One of them was arrested. In the fourth, lias had a most distinguished career, iu twenty men took part. They shot and early days fighting numberless battles wounded, bub not mortally, the owner of against the Taiping and Nienfei Rebels^ the house attacked and some other people. and since then keeping guard upon the Two of them were arrested. It was elicited coast. At Wusi near Soochow, at Paoting at the trials of the prisoners that in each Fu and at Wucli'ang, all places where it ease one or more of the robbers were had done good service, temples have been armed with foreign firearms. Under such built and service is periodically performed circunistances, by a recent law, every in honour of those who died in action or member of the party, whether leader from exhaustion or disease ; bub nothing or follower, whether himself armed or not, of the sort exists at LUcli(，u Fu, where is liable to be decapitated immediately. To the force was first raised. Last year the this fate, therefore, all the prisoners are Acting Brigadier General at Ninghsia was condemned, with the exception of one at home in Liichou Fu on leave ; and after mftn, who was prevented by illness from consulting with the gentry of the place ho taking actual part in a robbery, but received arranged to build a temple f（»r the Huai part of the plunder afterwards. Also, one army on the shore of the Ch‘ao Lake near of jhe condemned men has already died in the city. prison ; but it is proposed nevertheless that The Viceroy remarks that in the his head should be struck ofl’ and exposed beginning of the reign of Hsien Feng, with those of the others.―Approved. when the Taipings invaded northern 32 [M ar. 21—23. Anhui, and effected a partial union with 22nd March. the Nienfei, Liichou became a point of the HONOURS FOR AN OFFICER KILLED BY THE utmost strategic importance. The Viceroy’s REBELS. father, a Senior Secretary of the Board of The Viceroy Li Hung-chang reports that Punishments, and the Viceroy himself he has been informed by the provincial were ordered to return home to LLichou commander-in-chief of the death of an and enlist a local force for the defence of officer named Li Tseng-shou. The deceased the district. A number of since distingu was the commander of a squadron of ished officials, Chang Shu-sheng, Liu Ming- cavalry belonging to the Kupaik‘ou ch*uan, Chou Sheng-po and P ‘an Ting-lisin, force. Last November when the rebels aided them by enrolling bands ; and the attacked Chaoyang he was stationed in valour displayed by these troops struck that town, and at the head of his men terror into the Taipings. In the first year bravely contested their advance. He of Tung Chili (1862) the memorialist was met them in several engagements, and made Governor of Kiangsu, and ordered to slew large numbers of them. In the march towards the east. He was accom course of these tights, he received several panied by the above-mentioned officers lance thrusts. Binding up his wounds and their men, and was afterwards joined he continued to pursue the enemy with by Liu Ping-chaug and Wu Ch‘ang-eh‘ing， out taking thought for himself. In who had collected similar troop； in the January, however, while still in camp, adjacent diatricts. Thus was formed the he died of the injuries which bad been Army of the Huai, by which Kiangsu was inflicted upon him. The Viceroy thinks reconquered and both the Nienfei armies that the manner in which the said officer were destroyed. From first to last the met his death is most worthy of pity, and prowess of these troops was seen in Ch6- prays the Emperor to confer upon him kiang, Fukien, Kiangsu, Anhui, Hupeh, some distinguished marks of the Imperial Honan, Chihli and Shantung. Many bounty in accordance with rules in force honours have been granted to those who concerning those who are killed in action. fell and chapels have been erected to 一Appr（ned. their memory. In Hunan, at Hsiang- hsian Hsien, Tseng Kuo-fan built a temple REMITTANCES FKOM CHEKIANG. in honour of the troops of that province, The Governor of Chekiang reports that and when the war was ended obtained per last year he was ordered to remit to the mission for the performance of official Peking Government a sum of Tls. 40,000 services. It is hoped that a similar favour from the receipts of the native customhouses may be granted for the army of the Huai, in Ins province. About the month of June which, though but few of its veterans are he forwarded Tls. 20,000, as he at the time left, still remains a valuable force, guarding reported to the Emperor. The Customs the approach to the Throne and defending Taotai at Ningpo has now informed him the coast as far as Foochow and Canton. that he has got together the balance of The memorialist therefore prays that Hia Tls. 20,000 with Tls. 300 for extra weight Majesty will be pleased to allow that the and Tls, 580 for food money. He is also building now constructed in honour of the required to furnish Tls. 2,500 to the Huai troops be enrolled among the official Imperial Household for the purchase of temples of the Empire, and that the local ginseng, with Tls. 62.5 for difference of authorities may offer sacrifice there in weight, and Tls. 20 for porterage, bags and spring and autumn every year.—Granted. petty items. The whole of the above has been entrusted to ft iveiyuan who will GINSENG FOR THE PALACE. convey it to Peking and hand it over. Ch *ang-sliun reports that he has collected 23rd March. a further supply of ginseng for the use of the Emperor. It consists of twelve large NEW TAOTAI AT WUHU. and twelve medium-sized sticks, of a total The Governor of Anhui was informed weight of ten ounces and eight-tenths. some time since by the Board of Civil The cost incurred in getting it was Tls. Office at Peking that on the 11th of January 2,133.45. It lia9 been packed in two boxes last an officer named Yang-ju had been :uid entrusted to an officer for conveyance appointed to the post of Taotai at Wuhu. to Peking. The season for gathering the The new Taotai has now arrived at the ro'»t being now past, it will be necessary to Provincial Capital, and the Governor has wait till the surnmvr before looking for any directed him to proceed to bin post with nu）ro. as little delay as possible. M ar. 23—25.] 33 FUNDS AND WORK AT KIRIN ARSENAL. strained to ask permission to throw up his Every year, says Chang-shun, the Arsenal appointment and return to hishomeat Tung- at Kirin received from the treasury of the liu in Anhui. After nursinghimself there for Board of Revenue a sum of TIs.97,500 fur its ten years and more he now finds his health general expenses. After the Arsenal came returning, and he has therefore begged the under the jurisdiction of Chang-shun, the Governor to make known his desire to return directors were ordered by him to make to his duties. The Governor dwells upon reductions amongst the items of fixed the ability and experience of the General, expenditure to the amount of Tls. 20,000 who fought long and courageously against per annum. Of this sum they were desired the Taipings and Nienfei, and consider? to devote one half to the repayment of a that as his health is restored and he has loan received from the Board of Revenue, only passed his fiftieth year, he will be able and the other half to the manufacture of again to render good service. The Governor munitions of war. When the debt was ought to send him at once to be presented paid off, the whole sum should be employed to the Emperor, but begs for certain reasons in the purchase of materials and the to detain him temporarily in Anhui. Of manufacture of articles, and it should never late the members of unlawful societies have be diverted to any other use. Afterwards, been unusually active along the valley as there was a difficulty in supplying funds of the Yangtze, endeavouring to cause for ammunition and the like expended by trouble and disturbance. The General’s the army of the province, it was arranged home is at Tungliu on the banks of the that the amounts required should be river, and he is perfectly acquainted with furnished from the stock of articles manu the people and the country. In his desire factured as above mentioned. The Taotai to protect his home he has constantly been in charge has now presented a schedule of aiding the local authorities in keeping munitions manufactured between the watch and preserving order. In the desire summer of 1888 and 1890, that is to say of to avail himself of these gratuitous services those remaining in hand and exclusive of the Governor proposes to retain General those served out to the troops in Kirin Huang at the provincial capital where he and Heilungchiang. They consist of 7,000 can be most usefully employed.—Approved. ds of foreign gunpowder; 169,000 PATROLLING THE CANTON COAST. hkiss bullets (or cartridges ?); 3,713,000 The Rear-Admiral at Namoa is required large caps ; 968,000 rifle bullets ; also a to put to sea in the first half of every year sufficient supply of shells, copper fuses, to visit the portion of the Canton coast rifles, cannon and torpedoes, and a number which is under his charge, and similarly in of other smaller articles. The above list, the second half to visit liis portion of the in the memorialist’s opinion, is sufficient to coast of Fukien. Liu Jung-fu, the old show that the Taotai in charge has displayed Black Flag Genera^ who now holds the both economy and efficiency in the perfor post at Namoa, reports that he is pro mance of the duties entrusted to him.一 ceeding in accordance with the regulations Approved. to perforin his duty of patrolling the Canton 24th March. coast. RE-EMPLOYMENT OF A GENERAL. 25th March. According to a memorial presented by EXECUTION OF NORTHERN REBELS. the Governor of Anhui, fourteen years ago Li Hung-chang reports the execution of an officer named Huang Ping-chiin held the fifteen rebels in the north-east. Orders for post of General in coinniand of the troops the decapitation of four of these were issued at T(aiyuan Fu. His term of three years some time ago, but it was determined being completed, lie asked and received to delay their death till the Aokhan Prince permission to come to Peking to pay bis returned to his home. The officer in charge respects to the Emperor. While on the of them afterward reported that nothing road to the capital he was attacked by a was known of the whereabouts of the fever, which brought on an old nervous Aokhan Prince, moreover, there was always complaint. He returned to P ‘ingyang Fu a danger that the prisoners might escape and submitted himself to medical treat- from the camp, and also they were sick nieut，but failing to get better he applied and refusing fen d. Orders were therefore for two uionths’ leave of absence. At the issued that they and eleven others who end of this time lie was again desired to were taken later should be executed with proceed to Peking in order to be presented out delay, some at the Mongol Prince’a to His Majesty. After this, as his health Palace and the others at a place called She- 、vas steadily growing worse, he was con libu.—-Noted t 34 [M'r: 26‘ 26th March. nearest to the place of production, and the whole sum w* uld be paid there, labsla NATIVE OPIUM TAXATION IN KANSU. buing affixed to show that it had been done. Some time ago the Government of Kansu There would be no further taxation on it in received a communication from the Taungli the province of Kansu ; hut on passing into YamSn saying that the high authorities of other provinces it would be liable to the all the provinces were required to send in charges enforced in each of them. As a report to the Emperor on the taxation of regards opium from other provinces :—nono native opium in the districts under their of late years has been introduced into jurisdiction. Having made enquiries with all Kansu, excepting indeed that traders from possible speed, the Kansu Viceroy has now Turkestan bring a little with them. This the honour to address the Throne on ihe it is proposed to treat in tlie same way as subject. He finds that the rule established the local drug. some time ago, as in other parts of the The memorialist begs to endorse the empire, was that raw native opium, whether above recoinmendatiotis. He is str<»ngly local or imported, should pay a charge of of opinion that raising the rate of duty Tls. 50 per picul; and prepared opium, Tls. would only lead to increased smuggling, as 60. Though the law was enforced with all the trade routes are all land, n"t water possible strictness, the receipts proved very roarls, and there are no special points at small. According to the general opinion the which a check can be kept upon the bnittic. reason for this is to be found in the peculiar —Approved. tnoistness of Kansu opium, which dimin ishes so by drying, that by the time it reaches WEAVING COTTONS IN FUKIEN. a distant consumer it only weighs ab*»ut a The Viceroy at Foochow says that the third of wliat it did when it was originally people of the province are very poor, owing bought and paid duty. The charges on it to the rocky country and sterile soil. They thus are treble what they are nominally have never been accustomed to grow cotton estimated at. Apart from this there is or weave cloth, and consequently have been freight to be paid; and if it is carried compelled to purchase wliat they need at a, through three or four provinces, the total great cost from Chekiang and Kiangsu. of the likins and duties will be something Two years ago the memorialist with tho like Tls. 100, so that it has very little ad aid of certain gentry started a weaving vantage over foreign opium. Consequently establishment at Foochow. Artisans are there is no regular trade in the drug with taken in as pupils and supported for three other provinces. What little business there months while learning their duties ; after is, is carried on by petty traders, who which they are sent home with a loom, and transport it secretly, avoiding the duty- it is found that in a few n）onths, time stations. It is said that nine-tenths of it they are able to weave twenty or more thus escapes taxation. For the last few pieces a month. The cost o f this suc years it has been the custom, while still cessful experiment lias been provided charging Tls. 50 likin, to allow three pounds for partly by funds found by the me to be passed as one pound ; and this prac morialist and partly by genilemen who tical reduction in the duty has had a bene have taken shares. Similar enterprises ficial effect, the receipts having risen to have been organised in the neighbourhood Tls. 20,000 per annum. Being now in by private parties ; and the out-turn fro m structed to frame rules for the taxation of all the factories together is estimated as the drug, the likin authorities have given not less than 400,000 pieces per annum. the subject their most careful considera Not only is a livelihood already provided tion. They state that what has been said for a large number of people, but it is about the character of the article is quite hoped that in the future the system may true ; moreover it it poor in taste, and far be far more widely extended. But taxa inferior not only to foreign opium but also tion causes a difficulty. The cloth is of a to that produced in other provinces. A cheap quality, which only fetches a l<*w hundred taels’ weight of it is only worth price. Moreover it is woven from foreign seven or eight taels of silver. Further re yarn which has already paid an import duty. duction in the taxation id impracticable at Aliy further duties or charges cause it to bo the present moment, and to increase it unfairly weighted. There was granted a year would be no use. But they propose to ago a remission of six-tentlis transit likin do away with tho system of rating three to the cloth of the native factories and pounds as one, and to charge a likin of total freedom to that of the Government of Tls. 16.6 according to the real weight. establishment. The latter has since thriven This levy would be made at the barrier a goncl deal, while the other makes but M e. 26—29.1 35 little pro gress. The memorialises account I to liis health, lie proposes, as soon as he is of what lias been done aucl what be wishes able to travel, to proceed to Yangchow and to be done in the matter of remitting taxation submit himself to medical treatment there- is very far from intelligible ; but he con —Approved. cludes by asking that the native cloth, of 28th March. which the yarn has already paid import No documents of interest, duty, may be freed from further import 29tlv March - duty or likin, and on being exported may only be charged 40 per cent, of the regular FUNERAL OF PRINCE CH*UN. sum.—Granted, The Emperor publishes a Decree relat ing to the funeral of Prince Ch‘un, which IMPERIAL FACTORY AT HANGCHOW. is fixed for the 17th of May. The Enipercn，’s The Superintendent of the Imperial Silk own share in the ceremonial has been Factory at Hangchow reports the manu arranged by the Empress Dowager. He facture of a number of the articles and will be present and make obeisance to his pieces of silk ordered for the use of the fa'her’s remains on the 15th and the 23rd Emperor. The cost of them comes to of May. Tls. 150,000. 27th March. DEATH OP YEN CHING-MING. An Imperial Decree laments the decease SILK CULTIVATION IN KUANGSI. of Yen Ching-ming, for many years a well In the early part of last year the Governor known and highly respected figure among of Kuangsi asked leave to recommend for the statesmen at Peking. In the reign of rewards the officers 'vho had taken part in Hsien Feng he was sent from Peking to the introduction of sericulture into the Hunan to take charge of the Commissariat province. Tlie Emperor in reply desired Department in ilie army there. Having him to wait till general success had been risen to the posts of Provincial Chief achieved throughout the whole of his juris Justice and Treasurer, he wns made diction and then to send in the names of Governor of Shantung. From this office the most deserving officers. The Governor lie withdrew on account of illness, and now returns to the subject. He finds that afterwards when nominated to the Vice up to the end of last year 206,180 pounds presidency of a Board excused himself on of silk had been produced ; and that in a tlie same grounds. Later, the present large number of districts which he names, Emperor summoned him to Peking, where the art of silk weaving had been introduced he Avas appointed President of a Board and and 2,690 pieces of silk goods had been Member of the Council of State. Finally turned out. He considers thia a manifest lie retired on grounds of health. The proof of success ; and he urges that if Emperor, having now heard of his those who brought it about are not re decease, speaks in the highest terms of his warded, it will discourage others from character, bestowa upon him the rank of persevering. The introduction of the silk * Junior Guardian/ and desires that the worm was essayed by previous Governors, customary honours be paid to him. but failed as often as it was tried, the lack of funds being the great difficulty. The last PEKSONATION AND FALSE TESTIMONIALS. attempt was successfully inaugurated three The Viceroy at Foochow addresses the years ago by Shen Ping-cheng, now Go Emperor with reference to the presentation vernor of Anhui, and was continued and of forged credentials or testimonials by completed by the memorialist. In con persons seeking appointments aa officers in clusion a list of officers to be rewarded is the provincial armies. The subject, it ap given.—Referred to the Board of Civil Office. pears, was recently brought to theEmperor^ notice by the Conunander-in-Chief of the VICEROY AT FOOCHOW LEAVES HIS POSr. army in Kansu. The Viceroy represents Some time since the Viceroy at Foochow that since the time of the Taiping rebellion represented that the time had arrived for the very large number of officers seeking him to repair to the capital and pay his appointments has led to much confusion respects to the Emperor. Leave to do this and a difficulty in distinguishing the true was granted, and in accordance with Ilia from the false. But, aa far as possible, instructions he has handed over charge of he has been most careful to enquire into his vai'i（»us duties to his colleague the Tar- all cases coming under his notice. Last tar General. In reporting this lie says that year a Brevet Captain, Liu Wei-mei, ap, liis home at Yangchow is on the r<»»d to plied to him for an appointment. He Peking. As his weakness after his illness thereupon wrote to enquire of the Com- requires him to pay immediate attention : mander-in-Chief in Kansu, who replied that 36 ah. 29一31. there had been an officer of that name dinate officers and the other from the local in a certain battalion, but he had died of Chinese authorities. It seems that one his wounds at a place in Shensi twenty- day in February there was a theatrical per three years ago. The memorialist there formance in a temple at T‘saoshih, and a fore arrested the soi-disant Liu Wei-mei, number of the Manchus went to see it. who was tried before the Chief Justice Early in the afternoon a disturbance took and the truth concerning him discovered. place on the stage. The Mancliu story Cases of this kind, continues the memo gives no reason for the trouble ; but the rialist, are of frequent occurrence, and are Chinese one says it was caused by the di伍cult to prove when suspected. The Manchus trying to mount on to the platform cause lies in the fact that in military against the wish of the other spectators. testimonials no sufficient particulars are The most serious discrepancies however inserted so as to facilitate the identification occur in the account o f what happened of the holder, and they therefore c m easily afterwards. The one side avers that be handed from one person to other. about twenty local rowdies, taking advatage What is needed is that in all cases they of the excitement, armed themselves, beat should contain an account of the recipient’s gongs and assembled a large crowd, with birthplace [and parentage together with which they invaded the Manchu quarter of bis age and personal appearance. The the town, and robbed and assaulted all memorialist suggests that general orders they found, men, women and children. to this effect should be issued by the Forty-seven Manchus were afterwards Emperor.—Referred to the Board of War. o伍cially examined and found to have re ceived wounda on their persons. The 30th March. Chinese on the other hand declare that DEPAKTURE OP GRAIN JUNKS. after the disturbance on the stage, the Manchus collected an armed force and The Governor of Kiangsu reports the made an onslaught on the Chinese. The departure of the first fleet of grain junks latter defended themselves with such carrying tribute rice from Shanghai to weapons as they could procure, but two of Tientsin. The whole amount from Soochow them were so severely wounded that they and the rest of Kiangsu south of the died a day or two afterwards. Yangtze is sent this year by sea with the The Emperor’s rescript regards the exception of 100,000 piculs which go by affair as of great gravity and desires that -a the Canal. The junks employed belong to thorough enquiry be held by the Manebu Shanghai, Shantung,'and Tientsin. The fleet authorities in conjunction with a high now despatched consists of sixty vessels, officer deputed by the Hupeh Government. and their cargoes of 143,271 piculs of grain with 3,800 piculs for food and 11,461 31st March. piculs for waste in transit. Payment of freight has been made in advance; and the DISTRESS IN YUNNAN. junkmasters have given receipts for their The Governor of Yunnan requests that cargoes and have become sureties for each the land taxes may be remitted in two other. The names and homes of the crews districts on account of the loss of the har have also been registered. The junks began vest. In neither case fortunately does the to leave Woosung on the 3rd March, pro suffering appear very wide-spread. Last ceeding to Taungming where they would year at Shih-p*ing Chou there was no rain wait for a fair wind. When delivery of the in spring. When it came in June, the rice is taken at Tientsin the Grain Taotai farmers planted out their rice as well from Kiangsu will himself asaume charge as they could ; but it was too late, the of it and forward it to Tungchow. Accord plants rotted and the summer crop was r ing to custom the Admiral of the southern complete failure. In July a sudden freshet steam fleet has been requested to send occurred, by which the land on the two some vessels to sea to protect the junks banks of the local river was flooded. The during their voyage. area over which the crops were lost consists of 45,631 mow assessed to contribute 547 QUARREL BETWEEN MANCHUS AND CHINESE. bushels of grain and 3,174 taels of silver. The officers in command of the permanent In the district o f Hsiintien, tho other Manchu garrison at Chingchou Fu in locality where a remission is desired, 400 Hupeh report a serious affray between their mow of land were flooded by the river’s soldiers and the people of the country. Two overflowing after a violent storm. In this stories of the affair are given by the memori case the tax is 4 bushels of corn and 14 alists, oue coining from their own subor taels of silver.—Granted. M ar. 31—A pril 2.] 37 REMITTANCE FROM KIANGSI. struck to have his wound inspected. The Magistrate noted the facts, and then pro Last year’s grain tribute from the pro ceeded to try the four pi'isoners who had vince of Kiangsi is as usual being sent to ） Peking in silver instead of in kind. Eleven been arrested. l y the Lieutenant. He instalments amounting to Tls. 550,000 have found that th ey 、vere all honest men, re already been forwarded ; and the Governor turned to them their buivl】es and dis ne'v reports that he is despatching the charged them. The charge against the twelfth lot, consisting of Tls. 50,000. It Lieutenant came before the higher author will be conveyed by the official post x*oads ities. In the indictment there were various through the provinces of Hupeh, Anliui, counts of plundering and exbovling nioney ， as well as one of unlawfully wounding. Of Kiaug.su Shantung and Chilili. all the funner he was acquitted; but, WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM MONGOLIA. with regard to the latter, it was found that Kuo-chiin reports the withdrawal of the lie had wrongfully arrested the man on cavalry stationed temporarily in the coun suspicion of being a robber, without making try of the Karacbin Mongol Prince on proper enquiry, and had wounded him account of the recent, rebellion. They are with a blow of a sword. He was therefore returning to their permanent quarters at guilty of unlawful wounding, and was Miyun Hsien north of Peking but inside sentenced by the Governor to the legal the Great Wall. penalty for that offence, namely eighty AN OFF；CEU PL'NISIIED FOK VIOLENCE. blows and two years1 penal servitude.—lie- A Lieutenant in the ariny, named Ou ferred io the, Bo 4th April. elapsed the rising statesman had been ap SMUGGLING GUNPOWDER. pointed Governor of Shantung, and then Kuo Chiin represents that, though the transferred to the Vice-Presidency of the restoration of order in Mongolia has allowed Board of Works ; but he retired on account the withdrawal of the troops there, he of illness and did not take up his post. In has nevertheless thought it better to 1877, Shensi was ravaged by wide-spread keep a vigilant watch over the people famine. Yen Ching-miug was unwearied passing in and out at the Kupeikou gate in his efforts to aid his fellow provincials, in the Great Wall. The guards there have braving all sorts of hardships and ex recently arrested a man who was convey posure, and giving advice to the Governor ing forty pounds of fore'gii gunpowder out; concerning the distribution of relief. through the pass. On being questioned, Afterwards he was appointed chief adminis- lie said he did not know it was a contra trator of relief in Shansi. He and the band article, and he was taking ifc to Lama Governor Tseng Kuo-ch4uan worked toge Miao for a friend named Sung, who had ther, with intelligence, forethought and already preceded him thither. The memo harmony in all things. By their efforts, rialist thinks the case requires a thorough thousands of lives were saved and their investigation. fie is therefore sending names still remain in the affectionate re the man to the Board of Punishments, membrance of the people. In 1882 he was which he begs may be ordered to enquire summoned to Peking as President of the vigorously into the matter.—Approved. Board of Revenue, becoming also a Minister of the Tsungli Yanien and a Member of the 5th April. Council of State. He was in addition RESTORATION OF TEMPLE AT TIENTSIN. nominated first Assistant,、and then full Li Hung-cliang reports that a gentleman Grand Secretary. The memorialist thinks named Huang, of the honorary rank that the deceased’s career speaks for itself of Taotai, has expended a sum of 30,000 and there is no need for any further strings cf cash, or more than 10,000 taels, eulogy. The illness which caused his in restoring the Temple of Literature at' death was due in part to affliction on Tientsin. He suggests that this generosity account of the loss of his eldest grandson, should be rewarded by the bestowal of a who died last year in early manhood. button of the third grade.—Granted. Yen Ching-ming had two sons, both of whom achieved the high distinction of DEATH OK YEN CHING-MING. being appointed to the Hau-lin College. The Governor of Shensi reports the One predeceased his father ; the other is decease of Yen Ching-ming, wh® was a is at the present moment living at home.— native of Chao Hsien in that province ; Deciee published previoualy. though, since his retirement three years ago, he had been living at Yiilisiang April 6th. Hsien in Shansi. The cause of his death is said to be a bowel complaint brought on A SUSPICIOUS INQUEST. by the cold weather last winter, aggravated A curious and complicated case is reported by an affection of the lungs which attacked to the Emperor by the high authorities in him at the beginning of the spring. the Manchurian Province of Heilungchiang, Shortly before bis death lie indited a last Towards the end of last year an army clerk memorial to be forwarded to the EmperoT, died, and his sons requested that an in 、vliicli lias been delivered to the Governor to quest might b- held, as there seemed to bo be forwarded. The deceased was "riginal- I something mysterious in his illness. Au ly a member of the Han-lia College, ! en（iuiry was ordered ; and when it took but was afterwards transferred to the \ place, the expert employed declared that Board of Kevenue. In the the year 1859 ; the deceased bad been kick el in the lower the Taiping Rebela were e tablished in j part of the body. The sons thereupon Nanking and were trying to overrun j prayed that action might be taken upon Hupeh. In urgent need of s"me one to this finding. They pointed out an officer help him in raising troops and money, the I as known to have been on unfriendly terniR Governor（»f Hupeh obtained permission to i with their father, and designated certain inake use of Yen Ching-miug, and appointed ■ of his soldiers as the persons actually liead of the Coinmiss >riet Departmenr. guilty of tlie assault. AV hen the case was In the follt>\viiig yeur the Governor ex heard, the widow behaved with reckless pressed to the Emperor in the strongest violence, but it seemed that she and her terms his admiration for the qualities of sons had nothing more than hearsay his assistant. Before many years bad to go un ; while the incriminated persons 40 [A tril 6—9. strenuously maintained their innocence. the Board of Revenue and Tls. 50,000 for At the same time it was pointed out that the use of the Palace. One half of the- the expert’s statement was not iu accord nioney must reach Peking by the middle of ance with what is laid down iu the 4 Guide the year, and the rest before the end. The- for Coroners’. Orders were given Governor is now despatching Tls. 60,000 therefore for the holding of a new inquest. for the Board of Revenue and Tls. 20,000 To this the widow would not consent, for the Palace. The officer in charge of resisting by* force and violently protesting the money will travel by steamer from the accuracy of the former examination. Shanghai to Tientsin. • Her conduct indeed was such as to raise a 7th April. presumption that there was something REMITTANCE FROM SZECHUAN. wrong. Then the expert was called upon The Governor General of Szechuan reports to explain the discrepancies between liis statement and the instructions contained that he is sending to Peking a portion of in the Coroner’s Guide. After severe cross- the subvention required from him for the examination he finally confessed that lie present year. He was required to supply Lad been bribed to make his statement and for the Peking Government a sum of ） Tls. 340,000, of which Tls. 150,000 should l ad received fifty strings of cash from the come from the salt duty, Tls. 120,000 from family of the deceased. Under the circum extra funds, and Tls. 70,000 from the stances the authorities think it best to hold Chungking Foreign Duty; also for tlieNorth a fresh investigation, enquiring into the East Frontier Defence, Tls. 30,000 from conduct of all the parties concerned in the the K^ueiKuan Custom House, Tls. 150,009 case, the accused, the accusers and even the from salt tax, and Tls. 80,000 from extra officials who took part in the previous funds, total Tls. 260,000. Of the above hearing.—Apjyroved. Tls. 600,000 lie has now got together A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR. Tls. 190,000，which lie is remitting by The Governor of Chekiang lias been means of bills on mercantile firms A informed of the public spirit and weiyuan will proceed to Peking, cash the generosity displayed by a licentiate of Yii- bills there, and hand the money to the yao Hsien, Huang Chiin-hsuah by name. proper authorities. At the same time the This gentleman in accordance, as he de memorialist will forward Tls. 20,000, being clares, with the wishes of his deceased four months’ regular contribution to the father, has founded a school in his native cost of the Manchurian army. village, where a free education will be 8th April. given to the poor children of his cHn. REWARDS FOR TSUNGLI YAMEN CLERKS. The surplus from the school’s endow Prince Ching and the Ministers of the ment will be expended in providing for Tsung-li Yatnen represent that they are the poor and aged who have no one authorised very alternateyear to recommend to support them. Also, hid village is for rewards a certain number of the officials on an important high road between the two forming their staff. They now beg to cities of Yiiyao and Tz‘uch‘i, and the present the names of eighteen Tsungli bridge which crossed the river there has long Yamen clerks, eight clerks from the Coun been broken down. He has therefore cil of State, who are employed jointly afc established a ferry for the convenience of the Yamen, and three officials of tiie Peking passengers. The cost of building the school College.—J p戸 red. iintl providing the ferry boat has come to 9th April. Tls. 950 ; and a permanent endowment lias been provided by the purchase of one KEWAKDS FOR GOOD SERVICE IN THE NORTH, hundred vww of land at a coat of Tls. 1,750, An Imperial Decree replies to a memo the rent derived from which will be devoted rial from Li Hung-cbang, presenting list to the maintenance of the above-mentioned of officers who distinguished themselves in charities. The memorialist thinks that the suppression of the rebellion last winter perhaps the Emperor would be pleased to near Jeho. His Majesty has already be reward the doner of these large sums by stowed mnrks of his high approval upon permitting the erection of a memorial arch the victorious commanders and most dis in his honour.—Granted. tinguished officers in the campaign ; but he thinks that rewards should be conferred on C hek ian g salt r e v e n u e . the other officers who have done good During the present year the Chekiang service, whether in action or in the for Government is required to remit to Peking warding of supplies nnd munitions. His from its salt tax receipts Tls. 220,000 for Majesty nccoidingly confers the title of A pril 9—1():] 41 “ Baturu” upon about twenty different who had asked him to trael in company officers, and desires the Board of War to with him, and that he had no idea of what report wliat it considers appropriate honours 'vas in the hold o£ the boat. His story was to be bestowed upon the remaining names accepted, but his presence on a smuggling on the list. boat was considered to merit the depriva tion of his rank and the further punishment A SMUGGLING STUDENT SHOT. of a flogging. The members of the crew The Viceroy at Nanking represents that were also sentenced to different punish when candidates are travelling to the pro ments, banishment or flogging, and orders vincial examinations smuggling is frequently were given to search for those o f them who carried on either by them or under their had escaped.—Approved. protection. These malpractices were made the subject of a special decree in 1870 ; TEMPLE IN MEMORY OF K ‘UE1-YU. and only last year the memorialist was In the early year^ of Hsien Feng, Chin- desired to give special attention to the kiang, as well as Nanking, fell into the suprressiou of sale smuggling, which was hands of the Taipings. Chii^kiang was declared to be extremely prevalent in the afterwards recovered, and by its position province of Kiangsu. When the exami on the Yangtze and the Grand Canal, ib nations were about to take place last became one of the most important strategic autumn, barriers were established at con points held in the possession of the Im venient points for overhauling boats, perialists. In 1861 the Chinese army there and gunboats were sent to cruise up and was commanded by Peng Tzu-ts^i, while down the rivers. The literary examina the Manchu Garrison was under the orders tion passed off without any trouble ; but of K*nei-yu, the Deputy Lieutenant-Gene when the military ones were coming on, a ral. The latter with great public spirit cruiser in the neighbourhood of Yangchow requested that his troops might be united discovered some suspicious looking craft, to those of Feng Tzu-tlaai, and take their anchored against the shorthand very deeply share in all military movements. This was laden. An officer was sent to examine approved by the Emperor, and thence the-ni, but those on board would not allow forward. the two Generals acted together. any search to be made, a military can They were constantly exposed to attacks didate coming out and resisting violently. from the enemy, and funds and necessaries Finally they resorted to fire arms ; and the were altogether wanting. Still they held officer and three men were wounded. The out for two or three years and + in the end latter were forced to return the fire in self- were able to advance and press the enemy defence. One of the smugglers was shot, in the direction of Tanyang. K ‘uei-yu and a number of the people on board were afterwards rose to the high position of Tar arrested, among them being two students. tar General in Szechuan. He is now dead At the same time twenty-two thousand but the memory of his services still lives pounds of contraband salt were dis in the hearts of the people of Chinkiang. covered. An enquiry was held, at which They have therefore requested that a temple it was elicited that the man who was may be built in his honour in their town, shot was a military student, and further 9，nd services be officially performed at it that he died of his wounds. Some in spring and autumn every year. The of his relations presented a petition to petition is presented through the Viceroy the memorialist giving a false account of at Nanking, who testifies to the accuracy the affair and full of veiled threats. The of its contents.—Granted, memorialist sternly refused to take any notice of it, and instructed two officers of 10th April. high rank to deal with the whole case. ROBBERY AND BRIGANDISM IN KIANGSU. The death of the student who had smuggled The Viceroy at Nanking reports the trial the salt and fired Qn the o伍cer, rendered and conviction of a number of robbers and it unnecessary to take any further notice of banditti. In one.case the prisoners, who him. Of the two students captured, one belonged to the neighbourhood of Hsxi- declared that he was merely carrying dried chou，confessed that they have set up their turnips and pepper to Nanking to defray standards and had portioned outi the his expenses there, and that it was by adjacent country between themselves for accident that he was anchored in the same the purpose of plundering. Their offence p ace aS the deceased. He was therefore thus must be classed as treason. In another lsnnssed with only the l（»ss of his official case, four men were convicted of using fire JU on, other student Siiid that he arms and committing n burglary in the av to the scene of action by Shihmen and -memorialist has been careful to select only Hsifengk ‘ou. The General-in-chief for those who have deserved them, and he the province was at the moment inspecting has arranged their names according as their troops at Kupeik*ou, so orders from the merits were greater or less.—Decree already throne were obtained directing him to take published. the chief command in person. At the same 16fch April. time the memorialist desired the General at Hsiianhua Fu to occupy Lama Miao and A LONG STANDING CASE DECIDED. Ch‘ihfeng, attack the rebels where he The Governor of Anhui reports the result could, and prevent them from spreading of his enquiry into a long standing and very westwards into the interior of the country. complicated case which has occupied the As the numbers of the enemy were greater attention of the courts of justice in that than these troops could cope with, more province for many years past. Indeed it regiments were ordered up from Peit‘ang is more than six years since the Governor’s and other places, some being sent direct predecessor was ordered to investigate the to the front and some told to occupy P ‘ing- affair himself, because the magistrate before ch‘iian Chou. Also, that the Imperial whom it had come was accused to the Em Grounds at Jeho miuht be quite safe, a peror of being guilty of grave miscoi'ducb special force was told off to occupy that in his treatment o f it. - It appears that in city and operate in the neighbourhood. a village of Hoshan Hsien lived a number Thanks to the zeal with jvhicli the troops of persons named Huang, all descended were animated, a succession of victories originally from the same ancestor. There were gained, and after little more than a 、vere six separate branches of this family m outh（»f hard fighting, all the chief rebels who were joint owners of a common grave were killed or captured and the whole of yard, to which eich of them had a common, their armies dispersed. Such celerity as right. In 1867 it was thought that there this in the employment of troops was never were as many graves as the burial ground achieved in former days. Two things to could hold without injuring the fengshui； be noticed in these troubles, were the and it was therefore determined by common rapidity with which the disturbers of the consent that no more interments should peace assembled, their numbers mounting be permitted in it. Twelve years later one in a few days to tens of thousands, and of the parties to the agreement, K ‘ung-p‘u secondly their attitude of open rebellion, by name, buried his mother there in spite aa distinct as possible from an ordinary of the prohibition, because he could find outbreak of banditti. In a country travers no other suitable place. A meeting of ed by a network of mountain roads, and the clan was therefore called, and he constantly haunted by mounted brigands was forced to take up the coffin and and other freebooters, had not the danger move it elsewhere. This made him very been nipped in the bud, no one can say angry, and he brought an action against how widely it would have spread. Not those of the clan who bad most actively only would Jeho have been overrun, but opposed him, alleging that he had been alarm would have been felt in the vicinity assaulted as well as illegally deprived of of the capital. The troops from the coast his rights. The case was fought in several had move than a thousand li to travel courts, and in every instance the decision before reaching the scene of action, but was given against him. In 1881 when the each battalion hurried to the front with all affair Was still fresh, he and a nephew possible speed. In the intense cold of the named Chih-ch‘iang were working together winter outside the passes, they suffered in the fields^ One of his opponents, Pen- terribly from the frost: but this deterred lang, happened to come by and taunted them no more than did the showers of him with the failure of his false charge. bullets from the guns of the enemy. In K ‘ung-p‘u became infuriated and attacked the more hard-fought battles the carnage Pen-lang with the handle of his hoe. The was very great: as is proved by the reports latter tried to close, but was knocked of tho officers engaged in restoring order, down and severely injured. As he rolled who state that they have buried twenty on the ground unable to rise, he cursed thousand corpses. Nor is all the praise du^ his assailant, threatening both to have to those who were in the thick of tho tights, the law on him and to get him ejected from for that they were able fco advance as they the clan. K ‘ung-p‘u became infuriated did was due to the energy and labours of and conceived the idea of killing Pen-lang their comrades, who were bringing up the by burying him alive. With this view he necessary supplies in the rear. In nmking culled upon his ncplie'v to assist him. The his recommendations ft-r rewards the latter was very reluctant to mix himself up Apkil 16—18.] 45 in the affair ; but finally yielding to the movements，coming upon the enemy before menaces of his uncle, he tied together the the latter had time to establish themselves. hands and feet of the wounded man, who Their prumptitude in the memorialist’s continued all the time to cry lustily for opinion prevented the trouble from spread help. To stop his shouts K ‘ung-p‘u tied ing to the borders of Szechuan, which his queue so tightly round his tliroafc that he would have been a very serious matter. could not speak. Then with th^ s:ill un- The leaders of the brigands, who escaped wil ing aid of the nephew, he carried his at the time，were afterwards discovered victim to the hole in the ground made for and captured without a single exception, Ms mother’s co伍n. A relnfcive came up at all possibility bein劣 thus prevented of the the moment and expostulated, but he chased smouldering troubled bursting out again. him a'vay with blows of his hoe. The nephew —Referred to the Board of War. availed himself of thia opportunity to go off ; 18th April. and k'ung-p‘u alone raked in the earth HONOURS FOK DECEASED OFFICERS IN THE upon his victim and killed him. The NOKTH. murderer having been arrested, the case was tried and decided ; but when it was re The Viceroy Li Hung-chang represents viewed by the higher authorities, partly on that in the engagements against the Jeho account of the extraordinary nature of the rebels there were twelve officers killed, two evidence, and partly because the prisoner belonging to the troops stationed at Ch‘ih- kept changing his statements, it was re feng, and ten to the army inarched up from mitted back to the lower courts to be heard Tientsin. There was also a sub-prefect again. Then the witnesses could not be sent up there to distribute relief who found when wanted afresh, which caused died from the effects - of fatigue and exposure. The memorialist humbly re more del，ys. This led to an unfortunate occurrence. The police who were told to quests that His Majesty will be pleased ， to bestow upon these thirteen officers the suinmon the murdered man’s father being posthumous honours usually granted in unable to lind him, laid hands on a brother such cases.—Granted. of the deceased instead. The b o. her suffered from lits of madness and, one of BECOMMENDA.TION OF A TELEGRAPH OFFICIAL. these c< »ming on, he became so frightened After referring to the rewards granted to at the police tliat he went and hanged officers who distinguished themselves in himself. This fatal act being considered the suppression of the Jeho rebellion, Li to be *the result of his insanity, the Hung-chang proceeds to call attention to magistrate allowed the matter to be hushed the good service rendered by the head of up, and thus gave rise to the serious the telegraph department. This officer, charges which were uttered against him. an expectant Taotai named She Chcang-yu, The Governor declares rliat all the above was employed ten years ago to construct facts are fully proved. But the murderer the line of telegraph between Shanghai and had died a year before in prison ; and the , Tientsin. He was afterwards entrusted magistrate complained of has already been with similar tasks in Chekiang, Fukien, cashiered on account of some other affair. Kuangtung and Kuangsi, in the last pro Otherwise, his conduct was such as to vince moreover being charged with the require punishment for. dilat<>riness and transmission of important military tele not keeping a check on his police ; though grams. Then he was ordered to superintend he had n«»t comniitted the grave faults for the erection of the Corcan and Manchurian vhich lie was accused to the Tbrune.— lines. In the space of five years he travell licfei'i ecl to the, B *ard of Pnitiahmeiitu ed twenty th- usand li and was subjected l?th April. to unusual hardships. After that he was made superintendent of the Northern PETTY HEBELL ON IN YUNNAN. System of Telegraphs, with charge of all The Viceroy of Yunnan requests rewards the branch offices on the coast of Chilili for the officers concerned iu the recapture and Feniztien. Under his care the receipts of two towns which were seized by brigands from messages largely exceeded the ex in the spring of la«t year. The towns in penditure and caused a great saving "f question are called Furain and LuclVvian, money to the Government. Last winter ^nd are situated not very far to the north it was the telegraph afc Cliinchow that of the provincial capital. It seems that first gave ne、vs of tl）e rebellion and they were attacked and taken by the enabled the memorialist to send troops to banditti without any warning being given. the spot at once. During the campaign tlio The troops sent to the rescue displayed ollices concerned all remaiiicd working day yreat gallaniry, as well as rapidity in their I and night, by which means the memorialist 46 [ArRiL 18 一20. was kept informed of the rebels’ move a special body of troops has recently been ments, and could issue his orders promptly raised in that province, supplementary to to the commanders in the field. The the regular army and known as the Fron memorialist thinks that the Emperor would tier Defence Force. It consists altogether be pleased to reward Sh& Taotai, and sug of eighteen battalions; of these ten are gests that this could be done by allowing cavalry the enrolment of which was com him to be presented at Court, and then pleted two years ago, and six are infantry put on the roll for employment.一 Approved. dating from the beginning of last year. 19th April. There are in addition to the above a naval battalion for general service, and DREDGING THE GRAND CANAL. another called the Mo River battalion, A memorial was recently published giving which is apparently also a naval force. The an account of the dredging operations re object of the Governor in his memorial is quired this year to allow the passage of the to obtain the Emperur’s sanction for a rice junks along the portion of the Grand system of promotion and rewards among the Canal which runs through southern Shan officers of the said force. He quotes certain tung. The Governor of the province now regulations established a few years ago by gives an estimate for the work to be under the Board of Admiralty for the Provinces taken for the same purpose in the northern of China situated on the coast, and in part of his jurisdiction, that is to say from special cases for inland Provinces, where the Yellow River to Linch‘ii】g Chou where there were important roads to be guarded. the canal enters the Wei River on the It is in conformity with these regulations, borders of Chihli. The estimate is based as lie shows, that the scheme which he re on a report made by the Prefect of Tung- commends has been drawn up. The initial ch‘ang Fu. This section of the canal, says work in instituting this frontier force has the Prefect, is over two hundred ll in length. been more than usually severe. In addition A great deal of dredging is required all the to the ordinary practising and drilling, way along it, because of the quantity of there was the fortification "f camps and tlie deposit left by the Yellow River water breaking up of land to be used as military which is allowed to enter it. Also, at farms. The cavalry are charged with the T‘aoch‘engpu，where the Canal leaves the duty of patrolling the whole province, and Yellow River, there is an embankment of have already proved their usefulness by the many years’ standing, which has given way number of important brigands that they in several places because the materials of have captured. The naval brigade is hu On being transferred to his new post he drawn. from his post on account of his brought with him a body of seven hundred failure to prevent the burning of the Roman and fifty men, who had been previously Catholic Mission. On his arrival at the under his orders and in whom he could provincial capital he was employed in， put great confidence. But it is the desire various matters of public business in all of the Board of War at the present moment of which he showed himself most careful to efFect economy wherever possible by and competent. He is moreover a man of diminishing the strength of the army rather great honesty of character. But, as he than increasing it. The Governor of the does not appear io be a very suitable per province has therefore found great di伍culty son for WuhUj it seems better that、he ill providing for the expense occasioned by should definitely vacate that post and be this addition to the local forces. The plan given another aa soon aa there is one at which seems to him the best is to disband liberty.—A pproved. one of the existing battalions, which num bers five hundred men, and to discharge POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH IN FORMOSA. two hundred and fifty more from three It is now some years since the island of other regiments. The new comers will be Formosa was formed into a separate formed into two battalions of three hund province. But still the Governor had never red and sixty men each, and the remaining received the power of executing criminals thirty men will make a personal guard for without reference to Peking. The insignia the General, As the GeneraVs headquar by which this power is conferred are ters are at Ch'angte Fu, the new tioops called the Wang Ming, or Death Warrant. will be stationed in the vicinity of that place The Wang ing formerly belonging to the and of Li Cliou ; while the troops formerly Governor of Fukien llavie now been sent guarding those regions will replace the across to the Governor of Formosa. disbanded battalion in Liling, Liuyang, Hsiangt‘aii and Yuhsien.— Approved. THE AFFRAY WITH MANCHUS IN HUPEH. A memoiirtl was published recently des RETURN OF TROOPS Tu HEILUNGCBIANG. cribing a fracas, attended by loss of life, The Governor of Heilungchiang states between the Chinese and the Matichu that last December at the request of the garrison at Chingchou Fu in Hupeh. A Kirin Government a regiment of cavalry memorial from the Manchu authorities at belonging to the Frontier Defence Force Chingchou informs the Etnperor that a was marched with all possible speed to complaint has been l"dged against a certain Potuna to assist in guarding that part of captain in the garrison with reference to the country. As soon as the rebellion was this affair. Tt is alleged that he was one of crushed the Kirin authorities had n（» more the audience at a theatrical performance need for services of these troops ; and where the riot took place, and that he about the middle of January they were hired a certain Chinese to assist in esc（»rt- sent back again to their own province. ing his wife and family back to his home. 21st April. The man while doing this was attacked by the Manchua and beaten so severely that TRIBUTE RICK SENT TO TIENTSIN. he afterwards died. But when the assault The Governor of Kinngsu has already was being made on him, the Captain stood reported the departure for Tientsin of the looking on without attempting to piotecb fleet of junks conveying the first instal him in the least. The memorialists offer ment of tribute rice from his province. no opinion as to the truth of this charge, On the 8th o f March the second fleet put which has been laid by a brother of die to sea, consisting of 40 junks, laden with deceased ; but in any ease they think it 90,264 piculs of tribute rice, and 9,628 ought to be investigated, and therefore piculs on account of various extras. On the they ask leave to withdraw the Captain 23rd of the same month the third and last temporarily from his post.—Appruved. fleet sailed. It consisted of 29 junks, and the cargoes amounted to 61,598 piculs, 22i.d April. with 6,569 piculs of extras. The China ENTHRONEMENT OF T^SHILUMBO LAMA. Merchants Company^ s eamers this y' ar The Imperial Resident in Tibet, reports carry 309,000 piculs of ordinary tribute rice to the Emperor the satisfactory aconiplish- and 72,000 piculs of white rice, o f which ment of the ceremony enthroning the they have already taken 2"4,000 piculs. Pnnshen Erdeni Lama, or Gieab Pontiff（«f TRANSFER OF WUHU MAGISTRATE. Tashilumbo. Some time ago the memo The Governor of Anhui reports that last rialist was instructed by the Emperor that summer the Wuhu magistrate was with I wlien the day t f the ccremcny arrived he 48 [A pril 22—23. should be present to witness it with the Su- necessity of taking the greatest care of the lo Nomenhan, nr Raja. The Emperor Pontiff at all times anl in nil matters.— would send from Peking a letter of authority Approved, 、 and certairf presents for the Pontiff, while the Governor-General of Szechuan 23rd April. was desired to forward a sum of Tls. 10,000 THE QUARREL BETWEEN MANCHUS AND as a further gift from His Majesty. On the CHINESE. appointed day the Tirnu Hutukhfcu, or The Viceroy Chang Chih-tung and the Saint, with a number of Djassaks (chief Governor of Hupeh address the Emperor tains) and Lamas repaired to the Kuangyu with reference to the lighting between the Temple, where the u re-embodiment,n as Manchus and Chinese at Chingchou, of the young child is called, was residing which mention has already been made in With an escort of Tibetan soldiers and these papers. accompanied by several Chinese officers The original reports which the memo the child was ^conducted to the foot of rialists received from the local authorities Mount Tasliilumbo, where more troops, concerning this affair were both wanting in Chinese and native, were arranged to clearness and differed greatly from those receive him. The Resident, having placed presented to the Throne by the Manchu a copy of the Emperor^ Decree upon a officers. They therefore desired the »aid yellow stand, mounted the hill in company authorities to give a full and complete ac with the child. First they visited the count of what had really happened, and they picture of the Emperor Ch‘ien Lung, further sent a special officer to the spot before which they prostrated themselves, to make enquiries and deal with the case. kneeling thrice and kotowing nine times. The memorialists have now received further Then they entered the Great Hall, where statements from the Chinese authorities, the Imperial Decree was read aloud to the who, it may be observed, evidently show, re-embodiment, who turning in the direc no desire to favour unduly the Manchu tion of Peking knelt down and gave thanks. side. On the 25th of the first nionth there This being accomplished he was placed was a theatrical performance in a temple upon the Throne. The Resident exchanged at Ts‘aoshih about two miles from Chang- gifts (hata) with him, and then priests and chuw. A number of Manchus went to see laymen, all in turn, performed their it, and one of them, Hsiao Fu by name, obeisance to him. Next he sang a hymn, insisted on getting on to the stage. He the lamas joining in, and then came was accompanied by a number of his the customary banquet. At the time companions, and when the man in charge of the enthronement the sky was cloudless, tried to stop them, they beat him and the air clear, and everything most pro pushed him down. His cries brought the pitious. The good looks and inrelligeuce Chinese spectators to bis assistance, and of the child called forth general admiration as they numbered a thousand, while the and wonder. He performed his part with Manchus were only a hundred, the latter out the slightest fault, and though less were ejected from the temple and driven than ten years old, he appeared possessed away. On the road home they met a of the wisdom of a full grown man. donkey driver belonging to Ts‘iu)shih and The Emperor’s gifts have not yet come ; beat him severely to revenge themselves. but they will be presented as soon as they When they reached their quariers they arrive. Tlie memorialist concludes by re armed themselves and accompanied by a questing that, as the ceremony of the en number of their friends went back to thronement has been pei formed, in future Ts‘rt"shih， vowing vengeance. By thia the Potitiff may be officially styled the Pan- time the Chinese spectators had all de slien Erdeni and nut the Panslien Ei'deiii’s parted, and a Munchu officer who had been re-embodiment.—Approved. at the play with his family hired some Chinese to escort his family home, as he EXCHANGE OF GIFTS AVITH LAMA. was afraid of their being insulted oi- ill- The same memorialist narrates that after treated. They had hardly started, when the enthronement the new Pontiff sent him they met the Manchu party who fell certain presents, consisting of an image of upon the escort with their weapons Buddha, Tibetan incense and Tibetan cloth. and dangerously wounded one of them, Uaving after duo consideration accepted named Kao. The inhabitants of the place them, tho memorialist in return presented beat their gongs and mustered in force to a sceptre of jade, some satin and tea. defend themselves, after which the Manchus Me has desired the superior of the departed. In a short time the authorities Lamasei'y to enjoin upon the priests tlio appeared on the scene, and the Manchu A pril 23—25.] 49 soldier who had been the origin" 1 cause *of Li Hung-chang, who was desired to present the riot was given into their charge by the a report concerning them. The Viceroy tipao of the place. S'-me days afterwards has iu»w framed six articles parbiady the two Chinese mentioned above as embodying the ideas of the Censor. wounded, died of the injuries which they 1. — The. pay of the military Lieutenant- had received. Four other wounded men Governor and other officials ought to were inspected ; and a number more re be augmented. The practice o f re ceived slight hurts, but preferred not to ceiving presents has been very rife come forward. On the side of the Manchus among the Jeho officials, high and low. it was reported that forty-seven men had Money is accepted both from subordinate been examined and found injured, some officers and meichants, the cause o f ih e more, some less severely. In the mean cusiom being undoubtedly the insufficient time the Manchus remained in a state salaries of the o伍clals，and not any specinl of ferment, assaulting the people from corruption in their natures. Thus the Ts‘aoshih, and sometimes other Chinese, Lieutenant-Governor receives only abuut when they came into the city ; and it was Tls. 2,300 for pay and expanses. This even feared that a free fight might occur in ought to be increased by an allowance o f the Court where the matter was being Tls. 6,000，which money might be taken investigated, as both paries came in large from the Tientsin Foreign Customs re numbers to witness the proceedings. ceipts. A piecedent f<>r such a course is The Viceroy and his colleague find that affi)rde4 by wh"t was dune in Manchuria forty-six years ago a quarrel arose from some years ago under similar circumstances, a small beginning between the Manchus when Chungshih obtained a large addition and the people of Ts‘aoshih, and went on to the pay of the high authorities there. till lives were lost ; after which the High The other officials fnun the Taotai down Authorities obtained leave to move the wards ought all t（> receive allowances. case to the Provincial capital so as to They should be required to state exactly be able to settle it. In the present case their in-comings and out-goings. The latter they think that it is absolutely necessary should be reduced as much as possible, to put a stop to the ill-feeling by dealing and whatever cannot be done away with out punishment to those who deserve it on should be charged to the public funds. both sides. The men guilty of homicide on 2. —The Tautai and the Prefect should the one side must be found and arrested, be selected from officers who have and on the ol her side it must be discovered, already held such appointments else who were the leaders of the general attack where. The former has the duties to which was manifestly made upon the perform of a Provincial Treasurer and Manehus when they were driven from the a Provincial Chief Justice, while the theatre. For the present the memorialists latter is charged with the litigation of propose to leave the affair in the hands of seven separate districts. In both cases an the officials on the spot ; but, if the latter able and experienced officer is required. are unable to bring it to a satisfactory It has been the rule always to appoint termination, they will follow the precedent Manchus to these posts, and in practice mentioned above, and request permission tiiey are generally promoted for the pur to transfer the case to Wuchang. pose ; thus they come without experience, The Emperor's I decree desires the Man- and by the time that they have gained it* chu authorities to join the Chinese officials their three years are up, and they are in investigating and terminating the case, transferred elsewhere. It is proposed that without showing partiality or favouritism. Chinese should be also eligible, that the posts should be posts of transfer and not 24th April. (»f promotion, and that, when the o伍cers have served their term, their names should No papers of interest. be recorded for promotion, but they should 25th April. remain where they are till they obtain it. It was for the sake of the Mongols in the PROPOSALS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE region round about that the appointments JEHO COUNTRY. were limited to Manchu officers. But One of the Censors recently laid before now-a-days the latter do not know anything the Emperor certain proposals f（»r altera of the Mongol tongue, so that they are no tions in the adininiatratioii of Jelio and the more fit for the posts than Chinese. Besides adjacent country where the recent rebellion it is difficult to find Manchu o伍cials touk place. These proposals were by the of the required rank to be transferred to Emperor^ command handed to the Viceroy , the posts; and a precedent of admitting 50 [A phil 25—26. Chineae in such cases has been set in the of violence, plundering homesteads of grain Manchurian provinces. and cattle. Thia has caused unlawful sects 3. —Changes are required in the rules to flourish among the Chinese, as the ad for the appointment of District Magistrates. herents of such sects combine to protect In theory they should be transferred from each other; and here is to be found the other parts of the province ; but in practice origin of the late outbreak. Rent and the the posts generally go to special appointees trading debts are the great cause of trouble or to petty officers on promotion. I l is between the two nationalities. In future desired that they should really be trans all land let by Mongols to Chinese should ferred ; and when their term is fulfilled be registered, and the rent paid to the they may be transferred back again. Only Chinese authorities, who will hand it over they should retain their Jeho posts till a to the Mongol Chiefs. A request to this vacancy for them occurs, instead of retiring effect has been made by the Karachin and being put on the expectant list. So, Princes themselves.. Debt cases should be officers to be used as deputies should be heard and determined in a just manner brought in from the rest of the province, by the regular tribunals, and the Mongols instead of allowing a few petty officers on must be punished if they take the law into the spot to monopolise all such temporary their own hands. positions. ' (6) Additional troops are required. The 4. —The Custom houses should be placed Manchu battnliori already there is ill in the charge of the District Magistrates, armed, ill-drilled and numerically weak.. instead of bei"g under the care of special The Chinese troops are even more worth superintendents sent from the Mongolia less. In seven days they were unablu office. These superintendents come for to march sixty miles in the direction of the two years only, and leave before they have enemy. The cavalry in the Hunting Ground learnt their duties thoroughly. Tlie con- alone seem of any value. They might be ence is that peculation and smuggling left where they are ; but in the south and abound. The Customs stations are East two battalions from the coast should four in number, Jeho, Pakou, Santsota and be stati ned They would remain under Wulan Hata. At all except the last men the administration of the Provincial Com- tioned deficient receipts are constantly re mander-in-Chief; but the Governor at Jeho ported. The assessments were determined would have the power to employ them when nearly one hundred and fifty years ago, required.—Refeired to the Mongolia Office. sittce which time there have been great changes in local conditions. New assess* 26th April. nients should therefore be made not ab the BURIAL OF REBEL CORPSES. present moment just after the rebellion, The number of rebels slain in the various but when things have had time tu settle actions in the Jeho region was so great that down again. Whatever those rates be, the it was feared the unburied corpses might sum fixed on must always be forthcoming, "ccasi<，n a pestilence. Besides these, many or the officers in charge should be punished persons who had been deluded into joining without fail. These revenue officers had the rebellion, when it was crushed were also judicial functions, sitting with the afraid of the vengeance of the Mongols and local authorities whenever cases were heard Christians, or of punishment at the hands in which one party was Mongol and the of the authorities. They tkd away into other Chineae. The system did not work the recesses of the mountains where they well, as the two judges would often take pet islied o f c Id and hunger The niem（»- different views, and the cases 'hen would ria-list, Li Hung-chang, therefore sent a drag on for ever. Under the new plan, special officer to take part with the tro<>ps these suits would of course be heard solely and local officials in finding means to inter by the regular courts. these unburied remains. This officer now 5. —Means must be found to put an reports that he has been thrmigh the 'vhole end to th • quarrels between the Mongols country and lias buiied ”11 the corpses and Chinese. The Mongols in the Julio that be could find, s< me twenty thousand territory originally knew nothing of fci“de and more. For this purpose he employed or agriculture. Many Chinese therefore the destitute people of the district, thus flocked into the country for the purpose of giving them relief in their necessities. The trading with them or hiring their lands. cost of the undertaking, two thousand taels, Their simplicity at first led them frequently has been defrayed from his private means by to be cheated by these Chinese ; but they the Commander-in-Chief, Yeh Chih-cli‘ao, have now themselves learnt to be crafty who gave the sun) as a charitable contribu and fraudulent. T h e y te n are also guilty tion for which lie disclaimed all idea of Apkil 26一28.] 51 reward. The memorialist thinks, however, LARGE SUMS SUBSCRIBED AT HSIANGSHAN. that it should be brought to the Emperor’s The Viceroy and Governor at Canton notice, and begs that some mark of favour report that large sums of money have may be selected for him by the Board been contributed for public objects by concerned.—Granted. a number of persons at Hsiangshan, the district in which Macao is situated. 27th April. The magistrate of the place himself has MUNIFICENT DONATIONS. given Tls. 11,000, of which Tls. 5,000 have A gentleman of Ching Hsien in southern been placed at interest, and Tls. 6,000 Anhui, ChuP‘u-san by name, has forwarded devoted to the purchase of 200 of a subscription of Tls. *10,000 to the Jebo land. The annual receipts from these Relief Fund, saying that it is a contribution suma will be employed in giving instruc from himself and his brother Chu P (u-ko, tion in classical learning at the Fengshan given in accordance with the wishes of their College A number of persons have sub deceased father, ChuTa^yung. The Viceroy, scribed Tls 14,000，to which the magis Li Hung-chang, states that Chu Ta-yung, trate has added Tls. 900 for the purpose of though a man of only moderate fortune* erecting additional buildings to be used at was distinguished for his great liberality. the local examinations, so as to do away Aftey the ravages of the Taipings he with the inconveniences and abuses hit herto provided a public cemetery for his native caused by overcrowding. There have also place and helped the poor with funds to been collected Tls. 20,000, and presented bury their dead. He founded free schools by the magistrate Tls. 1,200, with which and free granaries for the members of sums 1,152 rtioio of land, and 102 .mow his clan. He spent some thousands of have been purchased, to form a fund for taels every year in gifts to hospitals, providing for the expenses of students soup-kitchens and the like in Hankow, attending examinations ; also Tls. 24,500 Shanghai and elsewhere. He subscribed have been subscribed and invested, as a very largely in his mother’s name to the means of furnishing allowances to members Chihli Relief Fund ten years ago, and did of the district serving as o伍cials at Peking. the same more recently for the sufferers Lastly, as the official servants and police of from floods in Shantung, in no case being the magistracy only receive something less willing to receive any reward. His sons than a tael a month for pay, the magistrate have now come forward and shown a similar has given and placed at interest Tls. 3,500, liberality. The memorialist would humbly from the proceeds of which the pay of those request that an account of Chu Ta-yung men will be increased, in order that they and his works should be recorded in the may not be tempted by their extreme local histories of the province, the prefec poverty to act fraudulently. As the ture and the district to which his family magistrate has disclaimed any wish for belongs. —A pproved. reward for himself, the memorialists do not make any request on his behalf. But A CORPS OF GUIDES RAISED. as regards the other subscribers there are When, says the Viceroy Li Hung-chang, three whose contributions exceed Tls. 1,000; General Nieh Sliih-ch’eng marched into and the Emperor is requested, in accor the district occupied by the rebels last dance with custom, to allow memorial winter, it was of the utmost importance that arches to be erected in their honour at his force should advance with great their own expense.~Granted. rapidity. This * it was difficult to do on 28th April. account of his ignorance of the intricate roads traversing the mountains. He there PERSONATION OF AN OFFICER AT FOOCHOW. fore collected a number of local men who Last year, as has already been mentioned were well acquainted with the country, in these papers, a man calling himself Capt. and picked out sixty-five of them, intelli Liu Wei-mei presented certain credentials gent, sturdy fellows, who could ride well, to the authorities at Foochow and on the and formed them into a corps of guides, strength of them applied for a military drilling them and mounting them on cap appointment. On writing to the Govern tured horses. They proved at the moment ment of Kanau, the Viceroy learnt that the of great service, and are still making them applicant could not possibly be the man selves very useful. The memorialist there that he represented himself to be. Orders fore asks leave to enroll them permanently, were therefore issued for his arrest and in accordance with the regulations.— trial. When examined, he confessed to the Approved. court that his real name was Liu Yu-shan 52 [April 28—30. and that he was a native of Ch4ang ha in the c"rpse，and in consequence of the Hunan, Being without occupation at li<>nie complainant’s allegations，the Viceroy Li he wanted to enter the military service. Huug-chang was requested to send another The head of his clan therefore gave him expert, who would command confidence the credentials of a relative, Captain Liu by his skill and by the fact that he wag Wei-mei, who had died some years before, unconnected with .the place. The man nnd in the hopes of .uetring empl（»y- came, being brought all the way from nient through them, lie had presented them Chihli under ihe escort of an officer ; and as belonging to himself. Beyond tliis after inspecting the bones he decided that the Court found that lie had not committed the death had been caused hy poison, not any crime nor been guilty of any extortion by a blow. This was the crucial point or fraud. The Viceroy finds that decapita in the affair ; bufc there were still two tion is the legal penalty for the crime of important witnesses to be examined, the buying another man’s papers and taking up Adjutants （»f the Sunicl Mongol Prince. a post to which that man has been appoint The memorialist has repeatedly commanded ed. But that is a graver offence than the their appearance, but they refuse to come. one of which the present prisoner has been As he has no power to compel them do so, convicted, and in a similar case which he humbly prays that the Mongolia Office occurred some years ago there was a at the capital may take measures to enfore smaller penalty inflicted. Following this their attendance.一Approved. precedent, the memorialist condemns Liu Yu-shan to receive a hundred blows and to MINING WORK IN YUNNAN. be banished three thousand ll. The head Tcang Chiung reports with reference to of the clan who gave him the documents is the mines near Ch‘ionchia and Hsuanwei reported to be dencl ; but the truth of this in Yunnan that at the request of the should be found out by 'the magistrate of miners, the company ha undertaken the Ch4angsha.—Referred to the Board of supplying them with food, and that the Punishments. shafts opened have proved a great success. If the water c 'nies early enough in the 29th April. summer, the output this year ought to POSTHUMOUS HONOURS TO AOKHAN PKINCE. be well over a million pounds. There The Emperor issues a Decree with are two difficulties at the : resent moment, regard to the death of the Aokhan Mongol one the high price and scarcity o f food Prince who was murdered by the rebels and other necessaries, and the other the last winter. The circumstmces under absence of sufficient transport. The which the said Prince met his death are pack animals which carry the copper very sad and pitiable. The Board of Rites to Yenching Fu, are so often unable to is desired to determine what marks of the obtain return freights, that the fixed imperial fav“ut should be bestowed upon tariff, for the copper does not repay him. His grandson will succeed to his them for conveying it, and consequently title and honours. The Prince's eldest their owners have taken tbem away to son was killed in protecting Ilia mother. look for. other employment-. The road to In order that his devotion may be reineni- Weining in Kueichou is one that is always bered, a memorial arch will be erected in badly supplied with means of transport ; his honour. The third son and a faithful and if both lead and copper are sent forward servant exposed themselves to great hard at the same time the trouble necessarily is ships and danger in carrying away the increased. The lead sent by the company grandson to a place of safety. The Board last year to Peking amounted to 1,500,000 will further decide what distinguished pounds of white lead and 400,000 pounds reward should be conferred upon each "f of black lead. them. 30th April. A MURDER CASE AT URGA. REWARDS TO MANCHUKXAN OFFICERS. The Imperial Agent at Urga addresses An Imperial Decree deals with an appli the Emperor with reference to a murder cation that has been made for rewards to case which appears to be giving a good be bestowed on officers in the army "f the deal of trouble. Last autumn a decree was Manchurian provinces who took part in forwarded to him, saying that a complaint the campaign against the rebels in. the had been made to the Censorate at Peking Jeho country last winter. Those who by the deceased’s brother, and he was de most highly distinguished themselves have sired to sift the matter thoroughly. There already received marks of honour. Of the bad already been two inquests held on names in the present list, three received A pril 30一M at 4.], 53 the coveted title of B turn. In the case high appointments at the Capital and in of the rest, the Board of War will propose the Provinces. In conclusion the Emperor appropriate rewards. gives orders that any penalties to which he might be liable should be remitted, and 1st May. that he should receive the honours usually No documents of interest. accorded to Governors of Provinces at 2nd May. their decease. FLOODS AND FIRES IN YUNNAN. GRAIN TRIBUTE FROM SHANTUNG. The year 1890 seems to have been The Governor of Shantung reports that marked by an exceptionally heavy rain the first fleet of boats with tribute rice fall in Yunnan. The Governor of that from that province started on their journey Province reports that it was necessary northwards upon the 3rd April. to distribute relief from the public 4th May. funds in no less than sixteen differ ent sub-prefectures' and districts which WIFE-MURDDK BY AN OFFICIAL. had suffered from inundation. The sums The Governor of Honan reports the sen so expended varied from Tla. 2,000 to Tls. tence passed by him on an official who has 120. In three districts the Government been convicted of murdering his wife grant was not large enough and was sup during a fit of madness. The prisoner plemented by subscriptions from the whose name was Lien-ying, was magistrate of the district of Linchang, and lived in pockets of the o伍eials. In three districts also about Tis. 1,600 was devoted to the perfect harmony with his wife, by whom relief of sufferers from tires. The total he had children of both sexes. In the amount drawn from the public funds on month of July last year he was attacked these accounts was Tls. 11,529. by madness and became a raving maniac. His father-in-law called in medical advice, PROMOTION OF HSIANGSHAN MAGISTRATE. and the lit passed away. Five days later The Viceroy at Canton recommends the he was sitting quietly with his wife, when Magistrate of Hsialngshan to the favoura a fresh attack came on. Seizing a fire ble notice of the Emperor. This officer, shovel and a knife he stabbed his wife in whose name is Yang Wen-chun, is distin the ribs, and felled her to the ground. guished by his learning and conduct. His Hearing the noise bis father-in-law rushed administration at Hsiangshan has beeu in and found him dancing about with the marked by the reform of abuses and the knife in hia hand. With the asuist-ance of institution of useful works, so that he has the servants he was disarmed and secured. become an example to the whole pr"vince. On the next day his wife died of the Last year he collected contributions for the wound which she had received. A new relief of distress in Chilili to the amount ui Magistrate was sent to take over charge of several tens of thousands of taels ; and this the post and investigate the unfortunate year he has himself given more than ten aflair. He reported that he found Lien-ying thousand taels to local undertakings for the looking and talking like a madman, and a advancement of scholarship and the benefit doctor, whom he called in, certified from the of the poor. Though he has distinctly swelling of the man’s veins that the malady disclaimed all idea of reward, it eeen）s to was not feigned. The Governor would not the memorialist that his acts should be accept this report without question, and brought to the notice of the Emperor. sent a deputy of higher rank. He too The Emperor^ rescript desires that the certified to the truth of the insanity. The Magistrate be given a post of prefect, as prisoner, having been formally degraded, soun as one be vacant. • was then conveyed to K ‘aifeng Fu for trial. .， 3rd May. When he was brought before the judge, his madness had by that time passed away. DEATH OF LIU JUI-FEN. He wds able to plead, and acknowledge The Emperor is much grieved to hear of the truth of the story as told above. It is the death of Liu Jui-fen, who at the time the law that if any one kills another in a fit of his death was holding the post of of madness and is mad when he is brought Governor of Canton. Being in early li「e before a court, but can give rational evid-* a licentiate by purchase, he sought and ence at the final hearing, in such cases, obtained military employment. Having with the acquiescence of the friends of the thus served \vith much distinction he be person killed, the finding may be that of came in succession Taobai, Chief Justice, causing death in a brawl. Also, if any and Provincirtl TreHsurer. He was after- one beats hia wife with the result that wardy sent abroad as envoy, and given ' she dien from the etFecta thereof, the 54 [M ay 4—5. punishment to which he is liable is that of they secretly set about purchasing arms for strangulation after the usual period. Lien- treasonable purposes. Fortunately they ying has therefore been sentenced to the were frustrated by the vigilance of the last-mentioned penalty.—Heferred to the Shanghai and Chinkiang Qjjstom houses. Board of PunisJunents. About the same time the memorialists REMOVAL OF AN OFFICIAL’S RELATIONS. learnt from the Hupeh Government the Should any o伍cer hold a Taotaiship confessions made by Kao Te-hua and other which has official jurisdiction throughout prisoners, who said that they had formed a the whole province, then, if there be any union all along the river, and as the watch lower officials in the province who are fulness maintained down stream gave them related by marriage to the said Taotai, no opportunity of gathering together there, they must be transferred to some other they had fixed on a day for a ris adjacent portion of the Empire. An ex ing at Sha-shih (near Ichang). While the pectant Prefect in Honan reports that his plans of the society were thus confounded, son was betrothed a year ago, though he the officers of the Government continued has not yet been actually united, to the their efforts to trace the offenders, and daughter of a certain Wang Taotai, who has many important arrests were effected, of just been appointed Grain and Salt Taotai which mention is made below. Two men, for the whole province. The Prefect ought Tsa" I-hsiang and T‘ang Yii, were taken therefore to withdraw elsewhere. As he at Nanking. They confessed both to re is an officer who originally obtained the cruiting members for the society and to right to select his own province, he there- plotting the destruction of chapels. At f<»re begs that he may still be able to Kuachou an officer arrested one Liu K ‘ai- exercise that power of selection and choose t ‘ai，and on him were found books and Chihli as the province to which he shall be badges of the society. Another prisoner transferred.—Referred to Board of Civil was Ch‘en Chin-lung, who、was Number office. One of the three I/ttug of the Yangtze, anH had opened lodges of the society called REWARDS FOR ARRESTING KOLAO HUI. Lung-hua and Yu-hutg at Shanghai and The Viceroy at Nank ing, the Superintend Woosung. Another man arrested at Nan ent （*f the Grain Transport,and the Governor king had with other articles a seal, on of Kiangsu recommend certain officers for which was cut “ Chief Leader of the Tai- rewards on account of their success in pings.0 Another man was taken with a arresting Kolao Hui. The memorialists box of badges, flags and a copper seal. rofer to a Decree issued on the 11th of In addition to the above the memorialists July last year，in which mention is give the names of othet offenders who were made of the harm done by the Kolao convicted of taking part in certain robberies Hui who secretly pervade many parts of with violence. They request that, as the Empire. They are constantly allying promised by the Emperor, the o伍 cers themselves with disbanded soldiers and concerned in th,e arrest of these offenders others, forming bands and creating dis may be rewarded, in order to encourage turbances. They even deceive the public others in similarly exerting themselves.— by false rumours and secretly aim at ex Approved. citing rebellion. The Emperor does not 5 th May. know what harm may not happen*if these evil-doers be not rooted out. He desires REWARDS FOR HSUANHUA FU FORCE. that they be traced and arrested, and the The Viceroy Li Hung-chang requests officers who distinguish themselves in so that rewards may he given to the officers doing may be recommended for rewards. of the Hsuanhua Fu troops, who took part In commenting upon the Empetor’3 in in the suppression of the Jeho rebelJiun structions the memorialists call bis at last winter. When the Viceroy despatched tention to the fact that the province of an army into the interior last winter, he Kiangsu with its central position, its many was afraid that the rebels might endeavour water routes, and its busy treaty ports to escape westwards into the centre of thronged with steamers, is peculiarly ex China. He therefore sent instructions to posed to the action of unlawful socie the General at Hsuanhua Fu (an important ties. The religious disturbances which military p（>Et just inside Kalgan), desir took place last year along the Yangtze ing him to move upon Lama Miao and originated in the false reports which were Ch'ihfen^, and to act against the rebels as spread by these men in the hope of find opportunity offered. The General, proceed- ing opportunities for action. Even while by the way <'f Lama Miao, occupied energetic search was being made for them, most important points in the Aok-han May 5—G.] and Barin M onels’ country, while other greatest enthusiasm. A long list of places troops were sent，into the same region is given where they fought successfully in by the way of Chingp‘eiig at Petclia. the districts o f Chaoyang and Chiench*ang. But on the receipt of alarming reports The officers of the Mongol Banners, the from the Ch‘ihfeug magistrate, the General bunas from tlie temples and the military turned back with his aimy. About the c >lonists al«o did good service, fighting by 15fch of December in the neighbourhood of the side of the regular tro"pa，or acting as Ch‘ihfeng, he came upon several thou spies and guides. Mention is also made sand rebels commended by Li Kuo-chen, of the local authorities in the districts of defeated them in numerous engagemenis Chinchi.u, Ichou, Hsinmin and Kuangning, and drove them south again, where they were all within forty nr fifty miles of the scene met by some of the troops from the coast of the rebellion. These places were filled, and utterly cut to pieces. Ch^ihfeng was with fugitives, and alarming rum<»urs were from this moment freed altogether from current at every moment. The o伍cials danger. The cavalry were then despatched and gentry worked must zealously, keeping into the districts of the Keshikteng, Bavin wateii for traitors, succouring the helpless and Ongniot Mongols, where they acted as strangers, raising forces of volunteers and a flying column and checked any attempts fortifying the cities. They too therefore of the rebels to pass in that direction showed themselves not without merit.— unperceived, thus preserving jthe tribes Deaee in ppi oval issued separately, in the north and west from all harm. In recommending the officers for rewards, the A HIGH OFFICIAL CASHIERED. Viceroy dwells upon the success which they The high authorities at Kobdo have achieved in their engagements with the reported that the Assistant Resident there, enemy and the unusual hardships bo which Ahsinga, having obtained leave of absence they were exposed during the whole of the from the Emperor on account of a wound campaign.—A pprov^d. in his leg, has been going about amusing MILITARY INSPECTION BY NANKING VICEROY. himself in pl iin clothes, and walking just as well as any one. The Emperor is very The troops in Kiangsu should have been indignant at this, and orders tliat Ashinga inspected last year ; but the Acting Viceroy be cashiered forthwith. obtained the Emperor's sanction for the postponement of the duty till the present PUNISHMENT OF KOLAO HUI. Viceroy should have taken up his appoint ment. When the latter arrived at his poat The Viceroy at Nanking reports that he he was at first occupied with the provincial has ordered the execution of two Kolao examinations. But he is now able to re- Hui leaders. In the first instance he poi'fc the programme which he haa arranged was informed that a man named Tseng T'ien, who had volunteered his services for the general inspection. On the 14th as a npy, was really an important member April he will review the troops in the local of the society. The Taorai at Cliinkiang capital and its vicinity, on the 16th lie will was desired to subject him to a severe proceed to Yangchow and Ts(iugikang, at examination, but 'the truth could not be which latter place the troops from Hsuch（»u will meet him. He will then proceed by elicited from him. Afterwards when Hsii Chinkiang and Ch‘angchou to Soochow, Ch‘un-shan and Hsii Ch*un-t*ing were and thence through Sun^kiang to Woosung. arrested, they confessed that he had acted Ordinary matters o f business will be trans with them as an agent in the.matter of the acted during his absence by the Provincial Englishman Mason's being admitted into Treasurer ; but any letters of special im the society and his purchasing arms portance will be sent to himself； wherever for Li Hung. This was plainly the same lie may happen to be. as if he were a leader of the society ; but he fell sick and died before further 6th May. proceedings were taken. Two other men REWARDS FOR MANCHURIAN OFFICERS. were arrested at Yangchow, Tseng T‘ung The Governors of Kirin and Fengtien and Chfcen Chai-kung. The former was present a list of civil and military officers the person mentioned by Kao T6-hua (tho 'vlw distinguished themselves in the sup man executed by Chang Chih-tung, after pression of the Jeho rebellion last winter. confessing the intended rising at Sha-shih). The memorialists remark upon the sud He acknowledged to having entered the denness of the outburst and the rapidity Ngankin branch of the society and to with which it spread to the neighbouring dis having become one of Kao TS-hua’s band. tricts. The Manchurian troops which were Also he took part, as a watchman outside, ordered to the aceno marched there with the in a burglary committed near Chinkiang. 56 [M at 6—P. Ch‘en Chai-kung acknowledged having tunity in order to break out into open war. joined another branch of the society where The two officers above mentioned, who he acted as manager and admitted mem were well acquainted with the people and bers. He further said that Tsfing T‘ung the district, by their energy and earnest was one nf Kao Te-liua’s subordinate advice stopped the trouble and restored officers. The memorialist has ordered the harmony.—Approved. decapitation of both these men ; while a look out will be kept for the other criminals LEAVE GIVEN TO GENERAL AT PESCADORES. against whom inforniati »n has been given, The Governor of Formosa reports that and those who have already been arrested, Wu Hung-lo, General in command at the such as the “ Kiukiaug Prince，’’ Ch‘en Pescadores, has applied for permission to Chi-huai, will be tried as soon as possible.— retire into private life in order that he may Approved. take care of his mother, who is more than 7th May. ' eighty years old and has no other son. He was nominated to his present post by the POSTHUMOUS HONOURS TO A GENERAL. late Governor Liu Ming-ch‘uan ; and when General Hsii T‘ao-k’uei, Commandant he wished afterwards to retire, the Gov at Taming Fu in Chihli, having died last ernor felt unable to spare him. He there winter, the Viceroy Li requests that a fore brought his mother to the Pescadores ; record of his services may be entered in but as she could not support the climate, the official history, and his name be added she was obliged to return home. Such to those who are honoured with sacrifices tranquillity exists at present that the at the temples of the Army of the Huai. General feels emboldened to renew his The deceased was a gallant officer, who request. In view of the importance of the marched with the memorialist into the post the Governor does not like to lose the neighbourhood of Shanghai in 1862, and General’s services, and therefore suggests afterwards did good service in Chekiang that he should be given six months’ leave and Shantung.—Granted of absence to visit his mother.—Approved. 8th May. 9th May. DEATH OF HSU CH‘ANG. ALTERATION IN PAYMENT OF LAND TAX. The Emperor regrets the death of Hsii Ch‘ang, who was formerly a Minister of According to a memorial presented by the Tsungli Yam§n and Vice-President of the Governor of Kirin, the payment of the Board of Revenue. He is granted the land tax or ground rent in that province usual honours and remission of penalties. used always to be made in copper cash. After a time, as this medium of exchange HONOURS TO MANCHURIAN OFFICERS, became scarce, payments were allowed to Certain marks of distinction or other be made in cash notes instead. Later, the rewards are requested for a few Manchurian introduction of drafts drove out these notes, officers who did good service during the and therefore the use of silver was permit recent troubles, although they took no part ted, the rates being fixed at Tie. 0.18 for in the actual fighting. Among these were the rent of 600 cash charged on a shang of the General at Chinchou Fu close to the six mow, and Tls. 0.018 for the additional disturbed districts, who greatly exerted low rent of 60 cash. The sycee received himself in maintaining order. Next, was paid into the treasury and issued again General Kuo-ch(uan of the Manchurian for military disbursements. But, though army, who was sent to preserve order in this innovation was intended for the bene the K‘angp‘ing district and the Karchin fit of the public, only the rich got the Mongol country, which were exposed advantage of it, and the poor were wnrse to danger from the rebels Also, General ofl, than ever. For, great as was the want SuluHai, who on the news of the rebellion of cash for general purposes, there was travelled back day and night from Kirin a still larger demand for silver, which was and Heilungchiang, and assisted in send carried away into China by large merchants ing forward supplies and reinforce who had purchases to make there. The ments. Also, a Taotai and a colonel, poor landholders, therefore, who had no who were sent into the Suluko country on stock of silver in hand were obliged the frontier of the province, where matters to procure it on purpose when the time for were in a very critical state. The Mongols paying the tax came, and were in conse and Chinese there, bring full of distruKt quence severely mulcted in so doing. This and ill-feeling against each other, bad was the case merely in the ordinary course formed themselves into armed b<»dio* and o f business ; but- often they were cheated were only looking for a favourable oppor I b«»th by trad era and clerks. The remedy M ay 9—12.] 57 which the memorialist proposes is that missions were preserved from destruction. where the landholder has to pay tax on as When the present Governor assumed much as twenty aliang, he may give cash charge of the district, the rebellion indeed or silver.at his option This will prevent had been crushed, but much remained to the price of silver being run up by the be done in the way of searching for con demand for it. —Referred to the Board of cealed traitors, pacifying the Mongols and Htve^cue. Chinese, and relieving those who were in distress, all of which duties were duly SUCCESSFUL ENCOUNTEKS WITH MOUNTED performed by the Jeho officials. In conclu BRIGANDS. sion the memorialists present a list of The Governor of Heilungchiang gives names of officers whom they recommend an account of the defeat of a number of for rewards.—Referred to the Boards con mounted brigands in the province under cerned. his jurisdiction. In one case a large band Lad plundered the Government station of FOUNDATION OF A PUBLIC CHARITY. Poerlito Chan, a"d several other places. The District City of Kushih in Honan is The troops sent after them killed fifty- distant more than a thousand li from the seven of them in open fight and captured provincial capital, and is of course very one hundred and two, all of whom were much further from Peking. Candidates afterwards executed. In another case a from it therefore have much difficulty in baud (>f over twenty were pillaging the attending the public examinations. As is country round Hulan. The troops sent reported by the Magistrate, a gentleman after them killed eleven and took three of the place named Weng formed the in more. tention of establishing a fund to assist 10th May. poor students in making their journeys on these occasions. He died before he could No documents of interest. carry out his scheme, which ho'vever is now undertaken by his son and widow. 11 th May. They have given 127 mow of land, cal REWARDS FOR JEHO OFFICERS. culated as worth 2,686 strings of cash, which will bring in an annual rental of 138 The Viceroy of Chihli and the Military strings. This revenue will be employed in Governor at Jelio request rewards for the officials, civil and military, who did good providing carts aud paying other travelling service at the time of the recent troubles. expenses for poor students from Kusliih, When the rebellion broke out, Jeho who are going to the examinations at K ‘ai- ■was in great danger. Though it was feng Fu or Peking. Asa reward for this guarded by rroops, their number was very act of public spirit the Governor requests small compared with that of the enemy that a memorial arch may be allowed to be and the number of roads which approached erected in honour of the deceased gentle the town made its defence very difficult. man and his widow.—Approved. It was a place moreover of the very biuhest 12th May. importance, because of the imperial resid ence which it contained. However, the SHANSI GOVERNOR DENOUNCED. General and the other officials made the The Emperor issues a Decree from 'vhich best arrangements which they could, while it appears that a Censor named Hsii Cliili- applying to the Viceroy for assistance. So hsiang has denounced Akotachun, the newly successful indeed were their efforts, that appointed Governor of Shansi, saying that the enemy wer? deterred from essaying when he held the post of Provincial any attack upon the town, and, being Treasurer in Anhui liis greed for money unable to move in that direction, fell was a matter of common notoriety. The consequently into the hands of the army Emperor observes that the Censor, when from the coast. At the same time the sent on o伍chd duty some time ago, in going civil authorities were most assiduous in and returning passed through the whole collecting and forwarding supplies and pro length of the province of Anhui. Why visions. Their efforts in this direction did lie not denounce Akotachun when caused the army to be well supplied with he got back to Peking some months necessaries in spite of the poverty-stricken ago, instead of waiting till that officer liad character of the country in which it was been promoted to a Governorship ? He is operating. To this may be ascribed the desired to present a further memorial fact that it accomplished its task in the clearly explaining his reasons for doing as brief space of two months, and all the he has done. 58 [M ay 12—14. THE QUARREL BETWEEN MANCHUS AND the Taotai is still affectionately retained CHINESE. in the hearts of the people, and begs that The quarrel between Manchus and they may be allowed to erect a tern pie in Chinese at Chingchow Fu in Hupeh has his honour, where services will be held in already been mentioned several times in memory of himself, his son and his servant. these columns. None of the men guilty of —Granted. actual homicide have yet been discovered ; 14th May. but two or three of the original causers of DENUNCIATION OF SHANSI GOVERNOR. the disturbance have been arrested ; and The Emperor observes that the Censor permission has been obtaiued to cashier Hsii Chih-hsiang in his further memorial the officer Ai-jen, in order that he may be concerning Akotachun, says that his de properly tried. Ai-jen is the Manchu. Major, who hired a Chinese to escort his nunciation of that officer^ covetousness family home and permitted him to be was based upon what lie had heard re beaten to death by a party of Mancliu ported, and that lie cannot formulate any specific charge. The Governox'-Geueral afc soldiers that they met on the way. Nanking is therefore desired to make SPRING FRESHET IN YELLOW RIVER careful enquiries （in the subject and to The Governor of Shantung reports that furnish a truthful report to the throne he visited the Yellow River at the time of without any concealment or favouritism. the Spring freshet at the end of April last. TEMPLE TO DECEASED GENERAL. The water rose gradually except on one The Governor of Anhui presents a n day when ifc made a sudden jump of one application made by the gentry of Ningkuo foot five inches. The embankments on Fu, who beg that they may be allowed to both sides of the river stood well and are erect a temple where services will be held in good condition. in honour of the late P 4an Ting-li, formerly 13th May. General in that district. The deceased was a native of Liichiang in northern TEMPLE IN HONOUR OF A DECEASED OFFICER. Anhui. An uncle of his having been killed The Governor of Chekiang reports that by the Taipings, he and Jiis well-known be has received a petition from a number brother P ‘an Ting-hsin raised a body of of gentlemen. They say that in the tenth irregulars to fight against the rebels. In year of Hsieii Feng (I860) and the second 18G2 they accompained Li Hiin<<-chang into month, the provincial capital of Hangchow the Shanghai country, where P ‘au Ting-li was besieged by、a n army of the Taiping from a partisan leader becaine a general, rebels. Among the officials who took an and was made famous by bis daring and his active part in the defence of the place exploits. The next year he forced the was a Taotai of the name of Yeh K*un. rebels in P'inghu /and Haipen to surren Heavy rains continued for more than ten der, The year after he fought a three days, so that the men could not let oft their days’ fight in the neighbourhood of Hucliow. pieces. No help came from outside, He was severely 'vounded ; Lug the losses and the utmost alarm prevailed through of the enemy were so great that they the city. On the 27tli of the mbnbh at retreated from Huchow, wlncli was soon early dawn the rain ceased to fall. Just captured by him. Following up his success as the ranks were being marshalled for the he recovered Clianuhsing in Chekiang and fight, a mine under one of the、gates Kuangte in Anhui. Joining the other exploded. Yeh Taotai descended into the imperialist forces lie swept tho rebels oufc street with his men and carried on the of Southern Anhui and cleared Ningkuo fight there, many of the enemy falling by Fu of them for ever. Having been made his own hand. The battle continued from and appointed General at Ningkuo morn till eve, when the starving and out Fu, in 1867 he was despatched against the numbered soldiers could hold out no longer. Nienfei in Honan and Shantung, where Seeing that further resistance was useless, his successes won liim fresh distinctions. he retired to his dwelling. Having declared Peace now came ; his own army was dis to his household that it was the duty of an banded, and he took up his appointment at officer to perish with all his people when a Ningkuo Fu. This post had been instituted city fell, he drowned himself in a well in twelve years before ; but it had never been the courtyard. Iu this he was followed by filled, so that it was left for liun to make a son and a servant, the form er（）f the two all the necessary arrangements and dis having first written a few sentences on the positions, which lie did after carefully in wall to say what they had done. The specting the country. The disbanding of memorialist, declares that the remembrance I troops at this period caused the country t o M ay 14—15.] 59 *be much infested by robbers, whom he J denouncing Akotachun, the newly appoint hunted down with wonderful success. In ed Governor of Shansi. He states that 1871 came an insurrection, headed by Kuan Akotachun. who was formerly an officer of Wen-kuei, who seized the town of Chien- the Board of Works,' had even then an p fiing. P'an Ting-li marched through the indifferent reputation, and when ho obtain night to the place, put down the rising and ed a provincial appointment he became the •executed the leader. Ningkuo Fu had subject of a great deal of talk. . The suffered severely during the Tiiiping rebel memorialist had occasion twice last year to lion. Its population was gone, and its pass through the Province of Anhui from lands were waste. Many settlers cam© end to end. Akotacliun was the Provincial from other parts and united in ill-treating Treasurer there, and his greed for money the remnants of the people. The General had become a matter of public notoriety. went about the country summoning the There was a general 'feeling of indignation headmen whom he carefully admonished, against hiu, because he neglected public and thus reformed. He kept order while business and left it to be managed by his a census was taken and the lands registered. private servants. But through the goodna- In 1879 a plague of locusts spread over the tured assistance of the Governor he was country. Every day, and all day, his able to hold his post in quiet In Shansi, ■soldiers were in the fields catching the where he has been appointed Governor, insects, which in a month or so were all the people have recently experienced a exterminated. He ajso employed his men severe drought-, which lias caused them ill repairing the roads and restoring bridges to be in such a state of excitement along the great thoroughfares of the dis that they have cut down the telegraph trict, doing the work both cheaply and poles. They want a strong and kindly well. To the east of Ningkuo Fu the land Governor ; and if a corrupt and worthless is very low and constantly flooded after one be sent there, trouble will assuredly heavy rains. Year after year, when this arise.—Deaee alreadtj published. happened, he sent out men and boats, ACTING GOVERNOR OK CHEKIANG. bringing in the suflerers and finding them Liu Shu-t‘ai】g，Provincial Treasurer of food and lodging places. In 1884 there Chekhiug, reports that on the 16th April wan danger upon the coast. P ‘au Ting-li he assumed charge of the government of was ordered to raise fiv« battalions of troops the province, in the place <»f Sujig-chiin, .and take them into Kuangsi. Proceeding with his force by sea to the south, he 'vho has gone to Peking to be received in caught an attack of fever from the heat. audience by the Emperor. An old wound re-opened, and he died at WIFE MUKDBH IN TURKESTAN. Canton ; when lie was granted the honours ■ The Governor of Chinese Turkestan accorded to generals who die from hard- reports the sentence passed on man sliips and fatigue. convicted of killing his wife. The prisoner In forwarding this application, the is a native of Honan. In 1875 he accom ■Governor remarks upon the exceptional panied the Chinese army into Turkestan. nature of the favour, which in an ordinary Eight years later he obtained his discharge, case he would not dare to ask for. But he and settled in the neighbourhood of can testify to the reality of the' public Ununtsi. In 1888 be was married to his affection for the deceased, ancl the sincerity wife, with whom lie lived happily. Last of the wish to do him lmnour.—Granted. year lie moved his residence and went into DEFICIT LEFT BY DECEASED MAGISTRATE. partnership with another man, growing The Governor of Chek-iang reports that melons f<»r the market. One day in the magistrate of Anclii Hsien, who died the autumn he came hopie after selling some time ago, left a deficit in his treasury his melons. Being thirsty he thought he of Tls. 0,700. His family have been desired | would like a melon. Just as be was to make good the money, but have failed cutting one up and eating ir, his wife came altogether so to do. The memorialist along, and asked him for some money to therefore requests tliafc the deceased magis buy cloth with fur making stockings. He trate may be cashiered, ancl stringent refused, but she put her hand into his measures be adopted to recover from his pocket and took out two small pieces of family the aniount of his debt.一 Granted. silver. He ba mountains, and a man named Ch‘eu Chuan inclusive there have been handed over was kil ed. But CIilen Kung himself by the headmen, or arrested by the escaped among the precipitous rocks. It troops, thirty-three more offenders, all is now proposed to withdraw the greater of wh» Moreover the money waa not furthc- ming take part in a robbery where any one of the when due, because it had been employed robbers is armed with a foreign tire-arm. by the Magistrate in matters of public But as they have all died in prison, it has utility, which is diftereiit from hia hav only been possible to strike their heads ing diverted it to liis own use ; and the from their corpses. Two of the prisoners, reason of his not repaying it was the however, who are still living, were among poverty of hia family, combined with liis the three men who stayed behind t«> watch having been obliged to go into mourn the horses, and did not actually participate ing on account of the death of his mother. in the attack on the house. For them the Lastly the complaint made against his penalty laid down in the law is that they character by the late Governor seems not should be sent into penal servitude iu to have rested upon any specific charges. Turkestan, where they will be employed as Under all these circumstances the meiuo- slaves for the soldiers. An active search rlalisfc begs that the magistrate may be will continue to be made for the remainder allowed to return to the public service, in of the gang.—Keferred to the Boar<.c of which case he will be sent to the Board of •Punishmeuta. Civil d 伍ce for presentation to the Em peror.—Approved. SHIPMENT OF RICE BY GRAND CANAL. 25th May. The Superintendent of the Grain Trans HOUSEBREAKING IN MONGOLIA. port reports the departure for the north According to a report from the Military of the grain junka carrying tribute rice by Governor of the Chahar country near Kai- the Grand Canal, from the Province of gan, a serious attack was made last year Kiangau. About the middle of April all upon the house of a chief herdsman named the boats had arrived at Tsingkiang from Yunglungtorchi. The originator of the their various starting places. From nor outrage was a Mongol called Shalenm. thern Kiangsu there were ten fleets, iu all four hundred and fifty-one boats, carrying Meeting one day a Chinese, a native of 115,800 piculs of rice ; and from the part Shantung, but living outside the Wall as a of the province south of the Yangtze eight labourer or a horaekeeper, he told the fleets, or three hundred and seventy-six Chinaman of the chief herdsman’s wealth ; boats, with 105,700 piculs. When tl）e and the two agreed that they would rob boats had been examined and their cargoes his house. The Chinaman, according tc their arrangement, was to find assistants ; found to be in good condition, they were and he got together seventeen men, all ordered to proceed northward without Chinese, but living in the neighbourhood. delay. On the 8th April the whole string One evening about the beginning of had passed over the four locks in the neigh- November the party met together, some bourhood of Tsingkiaug and was making on horseback, some on foot, and its way towards Haiichou. armed w ith. foreign fire-arms or other 26th May. weapons. At about half a mile from the place they left the horses in the charge RESTRICTIONS ON SALE OF SULPHUR. of three of their party ; and the rest It appears that a little while ago some guided by Shalema entered the village. one addressed a protest to the Emperor Yunglungtordhi’s house was not yet closed against the practice recently instituted of for the niuht. The gang therefore easily sending officials from Kueichou into Sze burst in, tied up the proprietor, took a chuan and Yiinnan to sell sulphur from the quantity of money and clothes, and carried government mines. The Emperor accord it away on the backs of seven horses which ingly desired the governments of these they stole from the stable on purpose. three provinces to consider the question They then picked up their companions and and report on it. Tlie Governor-General went off with them to a safe place, where of Szechuan now sets forth his views on they divided their b^joty, Shalema receiv this subject. He says that six years ago ing a double share. Six or seven of the when the Kueieh"u goverumenfc obtained robbers were afterwards arrested and a part permission to mine for saltpetre and sulphur, o f the plunder was recovered, the owner as well as for other minerals, lie wrote to identifying it and receiving it back. Those the Governor to state his objections against of the prisoners who were present at the the introduction of these articles into commisbion of the robbery have all been Szechuan. Governor P ‘aii Wei replied to sentenced- to immediate decapitation and him that at any rate sulphur for fumigating exposure of the head, under the law which was an article in popular use which could decteeii that punibhinent fut thuse who not be made coutrabaud. Asa precaution, 66 [M ay 26—29. however, an official should be sent in charge 28bh and 29th May. of it to a depot at Pengshan (in Szechuan), where it would only be sold to purchasers INVESTIGATION OF CHOU HAN’S CASE. who had permits to buy issued by their own The Governor-General Chang Chih-tung authorities. On account of the great desire and Governor of Hunan report that they of the Kueichou o伍cials to develop the have investigated the charges made against natural resources of their province the me Chou Han of issuing libellous placards and morialist felt constrained much against his forging o伍cial documents. In the first will to yield. But he made the proviso instance a despatch was addressed io them that each purchaser must only have one by the Tsungli Yani&n, which mentioned permit for an amount not exceeding one the offence which had beeu committed hundred pounds. But, as a matter of fact, against the laws of the country, the mani of late years people have often been found fest desire to cause disorder, the horrible with three or four thousand pounds at a indecency of the songs and pictures in ques time, and the Kueichou o伍cials have pro tion, and their dangerous effect in stirring tected them, saying that it was government up the people to commit outrages. Both goods. Finally a month or two ago the in the interests of international comity and Liicliou sub-prefect seized a lot of 32,000 as a matter of internal administration, it pounds. This quantity is so immense as was necessary that the offenders should to raise the suspicion that it was meant be sternly dealt with. Later telegrams for traitorous purposes. The Kueichou from the same department indicated Chou o伍cials say that the Szechuan people Han and three booksellers at Changsha must have sulphur fur fumigating ; but, as the issuers of large numbers of these that being granted for the sake of placards, and dwelt on the fact that the argument, why should not the Szechuan late riots were all caused by the dissemin merchants go and fetch it from Kueichou ation of false reports. The matter had for themselves, and from some depot well already been put into the hands of the in the interior of the province, not from Hunan Chief Justice, when a.further tele one just on the frontier. The memorialist gram in March was received from the begs that this may be made the rule, and Yamen urging promptness. The Governor- moreover that each merchant may be General then, through the Yamen, obtained allowed only a permit for ten pounds. the Emperofs permission to send the He would further urge that there is no Hupeh Grain Taotai to join the Chief Justice real difference between this sulphur for in dealing with the affair. These two fumigating and ordinary sulphur. Both officers have now presented tlieir report. can be used for making gunpowder. The Under their orders the Prefect of Changsha people of the province are not in a very ascertained that Chou Han was a tranquil state. There were two little Taotai on the Shensi staff，promoted rebellions last year in both of which fire on account of military service. He had arms were used. Lastly, he would remark belonged to Ninghsiang Hsien，but was that, while Kueichou is doing what is often in Changsha, where he published harmful to Szechuan, for a very small virtuous books under the name of ‘The profit, it is receiving from the latter Hall of Precious Goodness? The three annually a very large subsidy.一 Granted. men mentioned by the Yamen， Cheng Mou-hua, Tseng Yii-wen and Ch‘en 27th May. Chii-te, all kept print shops, but Tseng Yii-wen died during the past year. Cheng PRESENTATIONS TO THE EMPEROR. Mou-hua on being interrogated, said that The Emperor has verbally instructed the he knew Chou Han. The latter had Grand Council that the successful candi never been his partner, but had stay dates at the recent metropolitan examina ed with him a few days last year ; tions shall be presented to him in four at times his talk was very wild detachments on the 7th of June and three and he was like a madman. Deponent following days. had heard that the blocks for liia books were cut by Tseng Yii-wen and Ch‘eu Chii-te. The last mentioned was then INSURRECTION SUPPRESSED IN KUANGSI. examined. He had cut blocks for Chou An Imperial Decree confers rewards on Han for good books such as f The Sucess- the officers concerned in suppressing an ful Rearing of Foundlings * and others insurrection which broke out at the be similar. The printing was done by the ginning of this year in Kuangai, at Shang- purchaser. There were many workmen in lin Hsien and Pinchow. liia shop ; they knew nothing uf books ; M ay 29.] 67 they did the work brought to them and mentioned. If so, the order had been took the money, without enquiring any taken without his,the proprietor’s, know thing about the customer. Deponent could ledge. The other printer Cheng Mou-hua not remember if any of them had cut blocks persisted in denying that he had executed for the books and pictures of the author work for Chou Han, but spoke again o f his ship of which Chou Han was accused. fits of madness. The Connnissioners being Finally a man from Tseng Yii-weifs shop aware of the gravity of the case, were was questioned. He said that his master lnid determined to spare no trouble, and there cut blocks for Chou Han. They were for fore had private enquiries made by the good books. He could not remember if any local aui horities. It was established beyond of them were abusive of foreign religions. doubt that Chou Han bad gone away from When liia master died the shop was closed Changsha ; and those who knew him, while and the workmen dispersed. In the mean denying that he had published anti-Clnis- time the two Commissioners had sent depu tian books, all sp（»ke of his fits of madness, ties to Ninghsiang to find Chou Han and which had of late been worse than be bring him to Changsha. They returned with fore and accompanied by great irascibility. the information that Chou Han had come Indeed it seemed to the Commissioners, back to his home eight years ago, but he soon from the evidence as to bis state of afterwards went off with his wife and chil mind, that if found he could not usefully dren and had not been there again. They have been subjected to examination. brought with them, however, some of his Oil the strength nf the general evidence, relations and neighbours. The evidence the Connnissioners ascribe both the libel of these witnesses was to the effect that lous publications and the forged letters to Chou Han had not been at home for six or persons who made unauthorised use of seven years ; but of late he had been sub Chou Han’s name, and they mention that ject to temporary illnesses which bad an the supposed letter to the Governor of effect ©n his brain. He talked nonsense Hupeh never reached that officer at all- and had spiritualistic fancies, being a great But the evidence from all parties as to believer in divination by the plrmchette. the wildness of Chou Han's mind and He had never believed in foreign religions, behaviour is such that the Commissioners but he did not publish songs and placards. think lie should be reported for punish They thought that both in this matter and ment. Cheng Mou-hua is blameworthy in the forging of public depatches designing for admiringly consorting with a man whom persons must have made use of his name, lie acknowledges to have been mad. The as that of a person in high position, in same is the case with Ch‘en Chu-t& who order to attract more attention. The kept no check upon his workmen, and Coinniissioners, though they failed to permitted them to execute orders wilhout ascertain who was the writer of the supervision, thereby allowing trouble to placards, felt it their du，y at ar.y rate be caused. It is therefore proposed that to secure the destruction of the blocks. these two men should be punished for Rewards were therefore offered to any their improper conduct by a flogging of one who would bring them in, and a eighty blows and three months’ wooden promise given that the bearers of them collar, and their shops be closed in per should not be punished. By this means petuity. At the same time the local thirty-one blocks were secured, many of authorities have been desired to institute them much defaced, evidently by people a strict search through all the province for who fmrsd that they might get into the real authors of the libels and forged trouble for possessing them. The wit documents. nesses from Nin写hsiang were then re The memorialist represents that the examined, but their evidence was to the preaching of Christianity is permitted by same effect as already stated. Then the treaty, and it is of their own free will that printer Ch‘en Chii-te was summoned again. Chinese become converts ; that if there He declared that bis shop was one of be anything improper or against treaty in long standing. He had many workmen the missions it should be reported to the and many customers. In the accounts authorities for joint action ; and that a customer’s surname alone would be baseless reports should not be spread. entered, or very likely work would be Chou Han, though acquitted <»f the offences ordered through a third party ; and charged, still by the conduct above des so nothing could be traced by looking cribed has enabled others to make use o f at the account books. He really could not his name for bad purposes. They there say whether some of the workmen in the fore propose that lie should be temporari shop bad cut blocks for any of the books ly cashiered, and kept at home under (,8 [M ay 2J—J une 2. surveillance, without being permitted to work the mines there, so as to get more visit the provincial capital. If his mental copper for the same purpose. In the space state is improved and his conduct becomes of fourteen months from the end of the exemplary, his case might be after a time year 1887 there were cast altogether 19,800 taken into consideration again. The strings. The stock of copper having then memorialisra further rec.»nimend that the become small and there being difficulties sentences passed upon the booksellers be in the way of purchasing more at Shanghai, confirmed. The thirty-one blocks which permission was obtained to stop fur the were discovered have been destroyed by time the manufacture of the coins. Since the Hankow Taotai in the presence of the then, not only has more foreign copper Consul at that port. —Referred to the Tauuyli been purchased, but the Chenan mines yameii. have been worked with increasing success ; THE TSUNGLI YAMEN’S MEMORIAL. and the supply of metal has thus been Prince CliSng and the Ministers of the greatly enlarged. On the other hand the Tsangli Yamen present a report on the quantity of cash in public use has become above matter. Their memorial, except for insu伍cieut for the demands on it. The a few lines, is simply a recapitulation of memorialist therefore proposes to resume Chang Chih-tung's statements, and an casting operations. According to the old endorsement of his proposals. The Prince rules, which indeed worked very satis and Ministers state that their attention factorily, the cash were made of sixty per was called to the printing at Changsha by cent of copper and forty per cent of a letter fiom Mr. Von Brandt in Novem spelter, one fourth of the copper being ber, and by Sir John Walsham in January, taken from the Chenan mines. As now who said at an interview that a copy of the the supply from the latter source is the productions had been sent by the Consul larger o f the two, and as with the at Hankow to the Secretary of State for improved skill of the smelters its quality Foreign Affairs in England. They remark has become much better than before, it is on the freedom of any who wish to become proposed to use five-sixths of this and one- Christians, and on the gravity of the case sixth of the foreign article. This change in question, because of the troubles which will make no difference in the coins and spring from the dissemination of false tales. will eftect a considerable economy. A trial They beg that Chang Chih-tung’s report has actually been made and the result is may be adopted.—Dea ee issued previoItaly. eminently satisfactory. As before, there will be ten workings of the mint in the 30th May. year, and .the furnaces will be tilled four MILITARY OFFICERS ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION. times at each working,—Approved. The Governor of Kueicliou states that ROBBERY AT THE IMPERIAL TOMBS. he has been informed fr"m more than one source that two colonels and a major, who The o伍cers in charge of the Eastern have lately been promoted, owed their Mausolea report that a box was found advancement to the secret assistance of a broken open and from it had been certain captain and hereditary o迅cer： abstracted one hundred and six silver These two latter forged documents in favour plates used in making sacrificial offerings of their clients and took money from them at the tomb of one of the Secondary in return for the services rendered. It is Consorts. As the memorialists have no requested that all five may be cashiered power to inflict corporal punishment, .they and placed on their trial, and that the two asked the sub-prefect of Tsunliua to come colonels may further be deprived of the and investigate the matter ; but he declined title of Baturu which they hold.—Granted. on the score of illness. They then applied to the magistrate of Chi Chou ; but lie was 31st May. engaged with river works. They have now No documents of interest. sent all the guards to Tsunhua to be ex amined there. The Emperor publishes 1st June. a Decree expressing his indignation against COINING CASH IN SHENSI. the carelessness of those responsible, and The Governor o f Shensi states that generally dealing with the matter. He orders to coin copper cash having been finally desires that a penalty be inflicted received from Peking, his predecessor set on the sub-prefect and magistrate who apart Tls. 30,000 from the likin receipts refused to come to the tombs when asked. and sent an officer with it to Shanghai to buy foreign copper and spelter. He a’so de 2nd June. sired the magistrate of Chenan Hsien to No documents of importance. J une 3—4.] C9 3rd June. 4th June. LOSS OF AN OFFICIAL SEAL. INSUKEECTION SUPPRESSED IN KUANGSI. The Sub-prefect in charge of the North A memorial from the Governor of ivuang- Bank of the Yungting River waa kept very si states that last March the authorities con busy this year attending to the embank cerned reported to him the existence of an ments at the time of the freshets. As he insurrection in the district of Hsilin, which was forced to travel about a great deal, he is in the extreme 'vest of the province near carried bis official seal with him in order the frontiers of Yunnan and Ivueichou. to be able to send oft* despatches wherever The matter was of special imporrance be he might be. While he was attending to cause of the proxihiifcy of the place to some one place that was threatened, he was of the Miaotze country. But the local suddenly sumnioned. away to another on troops were at the moment all engaged at the opposite side of the river. He jumped Pinchow and other places where outbreaks into a boat; but when in mid-stream it had previously occurred. The memorialist was upset by a violent storm. He was therefore telegraphed to the * Yuchiang3 rescued after being carried a long way by General, Chang Ch‘un-fa，to proceed at the current, but his servant and the petty once with his men to the scene of action, officer in charge of his seal were drowned. and asked the Provincial Conimander- The Viceroy thinks that the loss of the seal in-Chief to send a force from the army under these circumstances was a pardonable stationed on the frontier. It appears that matter ; but he is obliged by law to report the trouble commenced with a man named the Sub-prefect for a penalty. He further Lu A-lung, who went mad and called him begs that a new seal may be made and self the Almighty King. His mother asked issued.—Approved. a priest Wei Pu-cheng to exorcise him ; but this Wei Pu-cheng who was a Miaotze YUAN RETURNS TO COREA. of Kueichou origin declared that Lu A-lung The Chinese Resident in Corea, Yuan really was divinely inspired. Wei Pu- Taotai, was given two months’ leave of cheng and several others then made a absence last October, on account of his pretence of worshipping the saint, and mother’s illness. In November he reported induced a number of the neighbouring her death and asked permission to go into Miaotze to believe in him and follow him. mourning. The Viceroy Li Hung-chang Before anything had actually occurred, the thereupon telegraphed to the Tsungli gentry reported the matter to the petty Yamen that the Corean post was a very civil and military authorities, and they important one, and he had no one who in their turn requested the inagistrate could satisfactorily replace Yuan. The of Hsilin to employ force against the fana Emperor thereupon issued a Decree desir tics. The magistrate being ill could not go ing Yuan to resume his duties after a himself, but lie desired his informants to hundred days’ leave of absence. This take the local militia and arrest tlie law period having expired, Yuan came to Tien- breakers. But Wei Pu-cheng and his fcsin, where the Viceroy discussed business friends assembled between one and two matters with him, and then sent him to thousand Miaotze, calling each other Corea in a gunboat. On the 10th of Generalissimo and such names. The pre May he telegraphed that he had arrived fect therefore sent Captain Liao, with a at his post. force of regular troops. When approaching the place he was met by the insurgents, LARGE GIFT OF CHARITY. who opened fire upon him ; but his men replied and gained a slight success. An expectant Taotai, Ch{en Jih-hsiang, Three days afterwards lie was surrounded a native of Tengahan Hsien in Formosa, on all sides by Wei Pu-cheng and more has given ten thousand taels for the relief than a thousand men. The weakness of of the distress caused by the Jeho re his force prevented him from assuming the bellion. Though he has disclaimed any oflensive ; but he sent information to his wish for reward, the Viceroy Li Hung-chang superiors, and General Chang Ch‘un-fa, thinks that such an act of generosity with the prefect and magistrate, hurried should not be left unnoticed, and there to the rescue. After trying in vain to fore lays the facts before the Emperor. induce the insurgents to submit, on ^ ^ e J niperial Rescript desires that Ch‘en the fifth day they determined to divide Jih-hsiang^ name be placed among those their force into four and attack them on destined to receive appointments imme all sides. The enemy met them with as diately. iwany bands, and the fighting went on 70 [JUNE 3 from early morning till nearly evening， loop-holes in the walls and erected a stage when the victory was at last won. Thirty of in front. The people of the neighbour the insurgents were killed and twelve were hood were fleeing in alarm. The magis taken, the loss to the troops being nine trate got together as quietly as possible men wounded. Wei Pu-cheng himself a number of treops and militia. After escaped ; but lie was tracked to the Napang endeavouring to induce the brigand’s Hills, whence he fled to the Kueichou followers to surrender themselves, he frontier. There however lie was discovered occupied the adjacent passes and then and captured. ordered an attack to be made upon the The memorialist remarks that in these house on all sides. This went on for a remote districts in the neighbourhood of the day and a half, when the brigands burst Miaotze, the preservation of order depends out of the back door and fled. They were on the skill with which the authorities keep closely pursued and three were taken, the the people quiet. The two petty o伍cials who rest, some scores in number, escaping into sent for troops before they were needed, the cliffy of the Nungchili Hills. The therein manifestly failed in their duty, and pursuit was kept up by torchlight, the therefore it is proposed1 that they should brigands rolling down stones and throwing be cashiered. The magistrate who was grenades from above. An attack upon the - ^ick when his presence was wanted, dis rear of the soldiers by twenty brigands tinguished himself by his energy after was repulsed with loss ; and at last Mo wards, though the ill success of his adminis Tzii-hsien himself and a dozen others were tration demands that he should be punished captured. Next day a search among the in some way. It is proposed that he be rocks discovered several more, bringing removed from his post and be eligible for the total number of prisoners up to twenty- a hew appointment. With regard to the six. At the same time many weapons and officers who took part in the fighting, it is flags were taken. The soldiers had eleven requested that the most deserving may be of their number wounded. recommended for promotion. 一Decree issued Before the above proceedings were previously. terminated, another and more serious 5th June. t affair occurred. In the month of February the magistrate of Pinchou heard that a INSURRECTION AND^ INTENDED KEBELLION number of men in his district were fasting . IN KUANGSI. and singing hymns, issuing pretended The insurrection described in the Gazette commissions，enrolling followers, and mak of the 4th, of June is rot the only one ing flags and uniforms. The military with which the Province of Kuangsi was officers were desired to act, and they troubled in the spring of this year. In arrested a prisoner with a document to-day’s Gazette the Governor describes purporting to be a rebel commission. The two more affairs, the latter of which looks prisoner, Huang I-feng，was taken into like a very serious attempt at deliberate the town and examined. He said that rebellion, though fortunately for the the commission was given' him by one country it was nipped in the bud. Jn the Nung Fu-kuo, who desired him to raise middle of last winter the magistrate of five hundred men and have them ready Shanglin reported that a man named Mo tp act on a certain day. Nung Fu-kuo Tzu-hsien had collected a band of brigands kept moving about secretly from place to and was robbing travellers on the high place. The society called itself the Lung- roads near the market town of Lankan. hua Hui, it had many adherents in It was afterwards made known to the Shanglin, Wuyuan, Hsuanhua and other magistrate that Mo Tzu-hsien had formed districts round. They had agreed to effect a secret society at a place called Kuping. a rising together, while they pretended Before the troops sent could reach Kuping, . that they were enlisting men to go in the middle of January M(、Tzii-hsien, and attack the i barbarians beyond the collected his men, and after swearing them frontier， The magistrates of these dis with blood and wine he attacked and tricts being thus pufc on the alert, several plundered a neighbouring village. The of them discovered traces of the. society ; tro<>ps hurried up, the brigands met them and Mo Tzu-hsien, whose capture has and began firing, but were repulsed with already been narrated, confessed to the the loss of two killed and five taken, dark Magistrate of Shanglin that he had been ness preventing a prolonged pursuit. The commissioned through another person to next news of Mo Tzii-hsien was that he raise from one to two thousand men for bad occupied a hnuse in the thick woods, Nung Fu-kuo. The wide ramifications of with precipices in the rear ; he had pierced the rebel association made it necessary J une 5—7.] 71 that precautionary measures should be garrison at Chingchou for purposes of taken without delay ; and as some of the ordinary drill. For this there are requirep local troops were still occupied at Kuping, 8,123 catties of saltpetre, costing Tls. reinforcements were brought up from 389 ; 1,015 catties of sulphur, costing Tls. Hsiinchou and Nanning, and stationed at 47; and Tls. 71 for willow wood charcoal, different points of importance. Also, as instruments and labour. Thepe is also an there was an o伍cial who had formerly allowance of 3,533 catties of lead, costing been in change of Pinchou and was much Tls. 133, withxTls. 12 for labour, etc., and liked by the people there, as well g.s being Tls. 6 for freight. These various items intimately acquainted with the country, he amount to Tls. 660. The money has all was sent to join, the local authorities in been advanced from the surplus account in dealing with this particular danger. The the Hupeh Treasury ; but the cost of the people of Pinchou remained in a state saltpetre ancl sulphur will be recovered of great uneasiness, many of them even according to custom from the Board for retiring elsewhere ; and it was ascertained the Restoration of Order. that die arch-conspirator Nung Fu-kuo 7th June. kept secrectly moving about in the district. One day at the beginning of PETTY REBELLION IN CANTON. March an important prisoner was arrested. According to a memorial presented by He confessed that he had received a the Viceroy at Canton, near Yang-chiang commission from Nung Fu-kuo and had on the west coast there is a mountainous been desired to raise five hundred men. tract of country densely wooded and little Nung Fu-kuo, he said, was extremely frequented. It was recently reported that active at the moment, making arrange this region was infested by a number of ments for a rising as soon as possible, brigands, who had formed themselves into because of his plans having become known a secret society. The authorities, having to the government. The very next day been put on the alert, arrested a spy, who Nung Fu-kuo had the boldness to visit a confessed to being one of the leaders of village close to the city in order to get the band. He said that there were five news of what was going on. His presence principal chiefs. They had formed an there was betrayed to the authorities. A imitation of the old Triad Society, had party of troops setting out immediately ided flags with the word 4 Hung/ surprised him and in spite of his resistance had fortified their hiding place in the captured him alive with his followers, who mountains. The strength of their band were four in number. On his person were amounted to more than a thousand men. found books and papers whose treasonable This fact rendered necessary the immediate nature was such as to make one’s hair suppression of the brigand?. But a good stand on end. When examined he con deal of care was required, as the surround fessed that his agents had been enlisting ing country was such that when pursued the adherents in all the districts mentioned fugitives might escape into any one of the above，and his statements generally agreed two or three districts on the east, or into with the information already . obtained. the mountains of Loting Chou, when they ，The public feeling of alarm was entirely would have access to Kuangsi, or again dissipated by his arrest, and his deluded 、they might descend to the coast and get followers were allowed to, escape, efforts away by sea. The only satisfactory plan only being made to discover the chiefs. therefore seemed to be that of approaching Several prisoners were made in different them on several sides at once. It was districts ; but the only noteworthy one arranged that five hundred soldiers should was a man in Lungchou, who had been march straight upon them, while another commissioned by Nung Fu-kuo to cub force was posted on the frontier of Enping down the telegraph wires. The memorial and Hsinning to the East, and the coast concludes by stating that orders had been was watched by steamers with boats in given for the immediate execution of Nung tow. Further, the local authorities of all Fu-kuo, and by applying as usual for the surrounding districts were desired to rewards for the officials.-• Decree issued be in readiness with their, soldiers and separately. train bands, and each to block the way through their own country. On reaching Gth June. the fort, the attacking force found it gunpowder for chingchou garrison. already deserted. Having destroyed, it，' The Governor of Hupeh represents that they continued the pursuit and came up an annual supply of gunpowder, amounting with the brigands on the 11th of March. to catties 10,154, is allowed to the Manchu The latter fought desperately, and while 72 [J une 7—8. losing many of their numbers, killed mg Liang Hua to live with them, and. three petty officers and wounded six men. demanded back all the presents of money The troops then went at them again with and other things Avhich he had given. redoubled vigour，driving them several Liang Hua in the outer appartnient heard miles and taking several prisoners. In the the conversation, and being filled with meantime there had been an attempt made jealousy determined to take the life of his by a part of the rebels to break through rival. Drawing a knife he entered the the circle on the side of Yangch‘un ; but room and began to strike him about the the Magistrate, aware of their intentions, head. The woman screamed and the hus met them, and after a sharp struggle took band attempted to seize the knife, but the twenty prisoners ancl drove the rest back. infuriated man stabbed his victim in the The band was now dispersed, and no more side and killed him. The murderer then resistance was made, but a search in the compelled his companions to aid him in. surrounding country by the troops and changing the clothes and washing the body the adjacent district authorities resulted of the dead man. He also sewed up the iu the discovery and capture of several wound, in his side, replacing the bowel more 'prisoners. Of the five chiefs, four which had protruded. They then carried had been killed or taken; but the head the corpse and threw it into a ditch near one of all managed to elude his pursuers. the deceased’s house. Returning home, Search for him was continued unremitting they cleaned up the plaice and destroyed all ly, especially on the sea coast. After six traces of the struggle. The tnjth however weeks he was tracked to the borders of was discovered and the above facts were Hsinning; where, however, the naval forces elicited at the trial. The murderer, being kept so strict a watch that he could not found guilty of premeditated homicide, is escape by sea. At length he was betrayed sentenced to decapitation after the usual by a fisherman and taken prisoner. A com period. The husband will receive sixty mission was then appointed by the me blows of the bamboo for assisting in the morialist to try the captives. The chiefs throwing away of the corpse, and will be and hardened rebels were condemned and cangued for one month at liis own door for executed ; those who had not joined them permitting his wife’s shame. The woman, of their free will and had voluntarily sur has died in prison. It will therefore not rendered themselves, were lightly punished be necessary to pass any sentence upon or pardoned. In conclusion.tlie memorialist her.—Referred to the Board of Punishments. asks for rewards for the military and civil officers who distinguished themselves, and REMITTANCES FROM CANTON. recommends the three officers killed for The Canton Government reports the some marks of the Emperor*s benevolence. despatch of its remittance to Peking for 一Decree issued separately. the present year. The annual demand, as fixed by, the Board of Revenue for this 8th June. year, is, from the Foreign Customs Duty MURDER THROUGH JEALOUSY. Tls. 100,000, with the additional amount of The Governor of Turkestan reports the Tls. 60,000 ; from the Six Tenths Customs sentence passed upon a man found guilty Fund Tls. 120,000; for the Frontier of murder. Three years ago a man from Troops, Tls. 120,000 from both the Four Kansu, named Liang Hua, came to Tihua, Tenths and the Six Tenths Fund ; Tls. where he worked aa a journeyman carpen 58,000 for increased salaries and allow ter. Here he formed a criminal connection ances ; for the Imperial Household, Tls. with a married woman, whose husband 300,000 from the Native Custom house. permitted the intercourse for the sake of The Canton Government is now despatch the presents given. Afterwards the woman ing an o伍cer with bills to the amount of entered into similar ^relations with another Tls. 196,000 which he will cash in Peking, lover, Shu Yii-ch^ng. The two men often and pay the money to the treasuries con met in the house but never spoke to each cerned. The bills have been given as other. Last spring Liang Hua agreed to usual by certain Shansi firms, who will be work with the husband, and moved into his repaid as the funds in the Custom liouse house. The very first evening the second allow. lover, Shu Yii-cfi‘eng, came to the house DEATH OF GENERAL IN SHANSI.. and saw the three people sitting in the The Governor of Shansi reports the death outer room. He went past and lay down of General Lin Ch^ng-hsing, who was in on the kang in an inner room, where first command of the Brigade at Tatcung Fu. the woman and then her husband followed There has been much distress from the want him. He began to upbraid them for allow- of rain last year in the north of the province,. J une 8—11.] 73 and the danger of disturbances was aggra Hupeli, and both her father .and grand vated by the presence of many disbanded father were officials who attained the rank soldiers and mounted robbers. The com of Tnotai. When she was little more than plete preservation of order may be ascribed ten years old her mother fell ill. The to the soldierly qualities of the deceased child cut flesh from- her body and mixed it General, of whom the niemorialist speaks with the medicines, and thus cured her ill terms of the highest admiration. The parents. The year before last she was cause of his death was a climatic disease married to an expectant magistrate. Last which was followed by the reopening of an autumn, just after he had obtained an old wound.—Decree issued separately. appointment, he avas taken violently ill. She mixed her flesh with the medicine^; 9th June. but it was in vail：, and he died shortly TRIPLE HOMICIDE. afterwards. Overcome with grief, and The Governor-General of Yunnan recent without parents or children to tVeinand her ly received a report from the magistrate of care, she determined that, she would not Wenshan to the effect that a petty offieial, live. Only waiting till she bad completed formerly in charge of a post station had the arrangements for her husband’s inter been shot by an unknown hand in a country ment, she switllowed gold and powder of village through which he was passing, and lead. She handed her to her a few days later some one lmd buried in the relations to defray lier funeral expenses, same place with him the corpses of two and made presents to the younger members women who had also been shot. The case of the family and the servants, aft^r，which appearing extremely grave, the Governor- draped in her state robes she sat waiting General instructed the magistrate to in her end. The poison began to work, and vestigate it and to send all the witnesses to soon all was over. The memorialist thinks the Provincial capital for examination there. that the case is one which should be It was afterwards stated by a sergant Lu recorded by the erection of a memorial that the General in command at K*ailiua arch, and he asks the Emperor to had a private cottage in a certain hamlet, accord that honour to the deceased lady.— where he rested when travulliug and Granted, where two of his concubines resided. REPAIRS TO MEN-OF-WAR AT FOOCHOW. The post officer formed an illicit con nection with these women and persuaded The steamer Cl^enyuan, says the Viceroy them to run away with him. The at Foochow, was built and fitted out a good Generals younger brother, a captain in many years ago, and her boilers and the army, ordered the informant to pur engines had become much the worse for sue them. He followed them up and found wear. The Viceroy’s predecessor therefore them all together in a countryinaiVs house. ordered her into dock, so that she might He thereupon shot the seducer and buried be fitted with new boilers, have fresh copper him, after which he brought the women on her bottom, and her engines be repaired b«ack to the General’s cottage, and went to in various ways. The work was finished report matters to the General at K'aihua. last December at a cost of Tla. 25,400. The latter thereupon despatched him and Also the Tsinyipiait^ which had been kept a soldier to the cottage, where they shot at Pigocla anchorage as a drilling ship, the two women and took their corpses to besides being sent occasionally to sea as a the grave of their lover for burial. The despatch vessel, was found to want various Governor remarks upon the dissolute con repairs, which have been accomplished at duct of the General in having concubines the cosc of Tls. 6,900. 一 A improved. scattered about over the country, apart from his unbridled violence in the particular Iltb June. act narrated. He begs that the General, INTERCHANGE OK OFFICIALS. the captain and the sergeant may all be The Viceroy at Foochow represents that cashiered, with a view to their being tried the post of magistrate at Fuan in one in the regular way.―Granted. which it ia very difficult to fill. /Fuan is on 10th June. the Chekiang frontier. It has a population drawn from all quarters, and there are SUICIDE OK A WIFE. l constant lawsuits going on, besides which The Governor of Shansi narrates the there are a great many mission chapels in story of a virtuous wife, who destroyed the district. The present magistrate is ft herself after the death of her husband. good officer, but is wanting in the decision The lady was a native of T'icnmen in Iof character re（iuived fur such a post. It 74 [J une 11 —12. is therefore proposed to exchange him for less rumours of ill-doing and of preventing another magistrate who is more - suitable the possibility of inaccuracies in the ac^ for the particular locality.—Keferred to counts. The memorialist does not believe Board. tlmt there is any method by which the river could be set to rights for ever, and 12th June. the vast annual expenditure be saved. N q servant of the present dynasty has ever NEW SYSTEM AT THE YELLOW RIVER. succeeded in discovering such a scheme, and The Director-General of the Yellow the feeble abilities of the memorialist are River, whose jurisdiction extends through certainly incapable of any such a thing. the province of Honan, reports the ex When the new system was introduced, two penditure which was incurred last year in remarks were made. It was said that the repairs and protective works along certain cutting down of so much useless expendi sections of the part of the Yellow River ture would cause unpopularity and accusa which is under his jurisdiction, as well as tion of self-sufficiency. This the memoria in the purchase of stone to be stored on list could afford to laufjfh at. It was also the river bank for use whenever it might urged that no one could fix a proper sum be required. It appears that the autumn f?r such uncertain things as repairs to before last the memorialist obtained the river works. There is a great deal of truth Emperor’s sanction to a proposal that there in this, but the memorialist felt it his duty should be a fixed allowance of Tls. 480,000 to do his best in the matter. He protests per annum for river works in the seven against its being said that he recklessly sections under his charge ; and he further incurred the risk (，f causing a great disaster, set apart Tls. 120,000 for the establishment and on the other hand he is quite unable o f an office of works which would superin to believe in the uselessness of care tend all operations. After a year’s trial ful forethought combined with thorough the system has been found to work well, and economical work. It has been his and thanks to the good fortune attendant object to carry out the Emperor’s orders upon the Emperor’s reign the river con and to take every precaution beforehand. tinues to along the middle of its On this account lie has dealt most sparing channel. The 13s. 480,000 were intended ly with the special fund, reserving it for to be spent in ordinary repairs, and the extraordinary occasions. The fact is that Tls. 120,000 for use in meeting special the river is never still. If one bank is occasions. The first mentioned sum seem made secure, the current is thrown against ed* small in comparison with the demands the other. From the beginning of time it made upon it, and indeed would not have has always been thus. It never happens been sufficient without the additional allow that both shores are safe at the same ance Such a low figure was taken only moment. Last year the throwing in of addi because the memorialist knew that the tional stones at Yungtse forced the stream state of the imperial exchequer required into mid-channel. But if a little more him to exercise the greatest economy had been done, the north bank would have even in matters of the utmost importance, been in imminent danger. Again there are and he was bound to take care that every many points on either shore where one can penny issued should not fail to reach its foresee peril in the future. But if protec proper destination. Under the new system tive works be executed now when the water the officials have worked admirably, there is low, they will be undermined and carried has been a vast quantity of material stored, away when the flood comes. One must and old abuses have been entirely banished. wait till the pressure of the torrent arrives， The Office of Works, as was arranged in and then use the utmost efforts. Thus， the rules, has had no money under its though there are supplies of stone at hand charge. As funds came in they were sent they cannot be used at the moment. Also direct to the works or were given to the the issuing of funds and the purchasing of officials to take to the mountains for pur materials cannot be postponed until the chasing 8tone. The supervising offices on the time when they are required. This would river bank have been established merely cause a month’s delay at the critical instant. that the officers may have a roof over their The current would b«re holes a hundred heads at night while they remain on the feet deep, and the expenditure would be spot to watch the water or determine upon multiplied many times over. This is why the measures to be taken. Notifications the office of works and supervision de have been posted stating the exact sums partment were necessary. In conclusion paid for labour and material, with the the memorialist gives a long list of expenses double object of putting a stop to groun4 incurred.—Approved. ' J une 13.] 75 13th June. Secondly, the Board wishes to have report EMPEROR PRAYS FOR RAIN, ed to it the names of the officers belonging to the special River Works Office. This is with a The prayers previously offered for much view to compelling them to make good sums needed rain having been followed only by wasted by their misconduct. But really small showers, the Emperor announces the two matters are not collected with each that on the 15th of June he will again other. If there is money to be refunded, burn incense in the Ta Kao Tien Temple, the officers are all known, even if their and deputes certain high officials to visit names have not been sent to Peking. Such other shrines for the some purpose. a rule lias never been in force with regard Y ellow r iv e r expenditure . to the regular staff of River Officials. The Director-General of the Yellow The memorialist hopes that the Board will River comments upon a meniorial presented not consider itself so much bound by red by the Board of Works. The Board pro tape rules, and will spare him this useless poses that as last year there was a surplus labour. If he thinks less than the Board of Tls. 60,000 in the funds set apart for does of rules and more of having good men Yellow River Works, the appropriation and doing good work ; still his object in for the current year should be reduced the end is the same as theirs, namely that by a similar amount. The memorialist fully of promoting carefulness and economy.— appreciates the Board’s laudable desire to Approved. promote economy, but he thinks that saving should not be effected at the expense of EXECUTION OF KOLAO HUI. efficiency. When he proposed that the The Governor of Kiangsi quotes the Im annual allowance should only be Tls. perial Decree issued last July, in which 600,000 ; small as was the sum, he arranged orders were given to the provincial autho that it should cover any extra expenditure rities to search actively for the Kolao Hui, of an ordinary character ; and he was only who were causing great harm to the coun emboldened to undertake the post by his try. Rewards would be given to officers trust in the hard work, economy and who arrested important members jf the honesty of himself and Ins staff.，which society ; and special care was to be taken would enable him to take the necessary pre that innocent people were in no way cautions before hand. Last year, the first harassed. In the following month three of the new system, what has of late been Kolao Hui were arrested at Kiukiang ; and very rare occurred. The river was kept after a full trial were executed and their entirely within bounds ; and all the heads exposed. Orders were afterwards money saved could be spent in purchasing given by the memorialisb that a sharp stone to throw into the river. The look-out should be kept in the districts of river works have been so long in a bad P*engtse and Huk‘ou ; as, being places on state, that they can only be put right the river bank traversed by important by repeated and constant efforts. The thoroughfares, they were very likely to be employment of stone is dearer in the first frequented by the people in question. I t instance than fascines, but by its greater was afterwards reported to him that three durability in the long run it effects economy. Kolao Hui had been discovered. He imme But so many are the places that require diately bad them arrested and brought to attention, that funds to deal with them all Nancli‘ang Fu, where they were tried could not be asked for at once ; and at by the Prefect o f the place. The first many points the work can only be done prisoner, Wen Yuan-ho, was a Hunan when i he stream has actually impinged man. He had once been a soldier at upon tlieni. The memorialist’s intention Jaochou Fu in Kiaugsi, where he was dis is to keep steadily hammering away at his charged. In 1886 he went to Fukien, where task ; and, as stone is gradually substituted he again enlisted. While there lie was for fascines, so it will be found that the ex initiated into the Kolao Hui Society. The penses are lessened. With the changeable head of the branch was one P ‘an，who was nature of the river, and the ever incurring found out and executed by the Foochow dangers of the three seasons of freshets, Government. The next year Wen came back Tls. 120,000 is a very small sum to meet a11 to Kiangsi, where he kept an opium den, special needs. If it be lessened, what will first at P ‘engts6 and then at Huk‘ou. He left to take precautions with beforehand? I maintained bis connection with the unlaw Should a great disaster occur, the blame ful society, hoping to And an opportunity which will fall upon the nieniorialist is a for an outbreak. In the course of time small matter ; but what of the millions of lie was chosen as a headnimi. At the human lives which will be in jeopardy ? beginning of last year, having lost money 76 [J une 13—16. iii gambling, he got into a government be necessary, however, to have a certain powder magazine at Huk‘()u and stole two quantity of materials at hand in case kegs of powder. He carried the stuff away any accident should happen. The inetuo- in a bag, and sold it in small quantities to riiilist therefore begs that lie may devote different people. The second prisoner, Li to the works another Tls. 10,000, bringing Cliia-tou, also a headman in the the total amount up to Tls 100,000. He -society. He was a native of Hupeh and at the same time recommends for rewards gained a livelihood as a boatman on a lfirge the officers concerned in the execution of river boat. He was a kind of naval chief the works, and begs that some distinguished for a number of places on the Yangtze and marks o f the Emperor’s compassion may the Poyang Lake. The third prisoner was be bestowed oil a certain Major who waa a native of Huk‘ou. He had been seduced appointed assistant Superintendent on into becoming a Kolao Hui, but on hearing account of his experience in river works, of the search for them, he had burnt his and who died from a sickness caused by certificate. The first prisoner lias been severe weather.—Heferred to tJ（e Board of executed and his head exposed. The second died in prison, but bis head lias been 15th June. struck from his body. The third, says the No papers of interest. memorialist，is a much less serious offender than the other two ; and without deciding 16th June. on his punishment，lie proposes to retain RETIREMENT OF PIEX PAO-TI. him in gaol for some time, in order that he An Imperial Decree grants the request may be confronted, if necessary, witli other of Pien Pao-ti, who begs to be allowed to prisoners. The soldier who was in charge of the magazine has been examined. He retire from the Governor Generalship at confessed that last year he discovered two Foochow on the ground of ill health. bags of powder to be missing. They con KIVER DREDGING IN KIANGSU. tained together about twenty pounds. He The Governor at Soocho'v remarks that did not mention it to his commanding agriculture in the province of Kiangsu officer for fear that he should be punished depends entirely on the state of the water for negligence. This man has been dismis courses. Bearing this in mind he some time sed from his post and sentenced to wear ago had the Woosung, Paimao and Wenfcse a cangue for one month. In conclusion rivers carefully dredged. Afterwards he certain rewards are asked for the officers found that there were a number of other by whose activity the above arrests were rivers which were of great importance to made.—Approved. the various districts all the way from 14th June. Soocho'v to Kiangyin. It has been the custom for these rivers to be cleared out YELLOW RIVER WORKS IN SHENSI. by the people themselves, either from their The Governor of Shensi reports the own resources or with the aid of loans from spending of Tls. 90,000 on river works in the provincial government. Aa they had his province. On the east side of Shensi now become badly silted up, be sent an the River Lo runs into the Yellow River， experienced officer to make estimates of with the district city of Ch‘ao-i standing in w h a t、was required to be done. After the peninsula between the two streams. inspecting the liver： in company with the Both rivers were encroaching upon this local gentry, he found that the various- peninsula, and threatening to join each river beds must be cleaned out for a other. This would have been a very length altogether of 160,000 feet, and the serious matter, particularly a9 the Yellow cost for everything, including dam making, River was at a higher level than the Lo. pumping, and office expenditure, would The memorialist thought it best to do the come to Tls. 38,000. Tliis sum was work throughly once for all and therefore advanced from the charity funds still in- lie spent the large sum above-mentioned the hands of the Government. In the case on substantial river walls of stone and of the Fusban and Hsiilinching ereeks, the brick. The work has been throughly well advance will be recovered by a half yearly done, and strict economy has been practised. rate on the land in the districts which reap There was a rise of six or seven feet at the the benefit. But with regard to the Kaopu: spring freshets, which did not injure the and other rivers, the local gentry have walls in any way. If they pass as well requested that the money may be raised through the critical moments in summer by a tax of four cash a picul on all rice sold and autumn，their permanent stability may in the locality. These points having been be considered as established. It will settled, operations were commenced in the J une 16—18.] 77 middle of February, and before rhe end of recently given by by him in another memo April they were entirely completed. The rial of the troubles which result from the memorialist himself went to inspect the dealings of the Mahommedans with Chinese work as soon as he heard that it was finish money lenders. In the third month last ed, and found everything had been done year a Mahommedan at Kashgar named in a most satisfactory manner. The cost， Paosak, through the medium of a friend which was moderate, had not exceeded the called Shamir, borrowed five hundred large original estimate. The people of the coun cash from a Chinaman, promising to repay try, both farmers and merchants, expressed the sum in the 8th month. On the 2nd themselves as highly contented with the clay of that month Paosak, who had been result of the undertaking.—A pproved. away on business, returned home. The Chinaman repeatedly pressed him for pay 17th June. ment, and Paosak promised that he would - ARTICLES FOR THE PALACE. raise the money by selling a sheep. On The Governor of Anhui reports that he the 19th day of the month, the China has procured a number of articles fur the man once more demanded the money, use of the Emperor in accordance with a and on being again put off with promises requisition forwarded to him by the Head called his debtor a cheat. The latter o f the Imperial Household. The indent attempted to explain，but the Chinaman in Cimsisted of six hundred squares of bright a passion seized his coat, threatening to red silk gauze with dragons in the corners tear it off his back and take it instead of and the character for 4 happiness/ each the money. The other man after trying in square measuring one foot nine inches ; two vain to 王ree himself drew a knife and made hundred sheets of glazed paper, six feet by a thrust with it, hoping to frighten his three, of difterent colours and spotted with assailant into letting go. But the China gold ; two hundred sheets the same as the man only held to him the tighter. The above, but without gold spots ; and six hun Mahominedan in his excitement then made dred cakes of Huicliou ink, each weighing a real thrust which took effect in the two ounces. It was desired that the silk Chinamaifs side. The wounded man drop gauze should be of very'fine quality, and ped to the ground, and died an hour or the articles were all required as soon as two afterwards. The murderer has been possible. The funds for the purchases found guilty of killing in a brawl, and were provided from the Fengyang Custom sentenced to strangulation after imprison house ; but officers were sent, to Huichou ment.—deferred to the B^ard of Punialb- Fu and to the province of Kiangsu to pro vients. cure the various articles. As the cakes of 18tli June. ink are packed in parcels of sixteen, six hundred and forty of them have been pro- RELIEF OP POOK IN ANHUI. cured. As appears from a memorial presented by the Governor of Anhui, there has re REMITTANCE FROM HONAN TO PEKING. cently been a great deal of distress in that The Honanpoverninent was required this province, the harvest in many places having year to furnish a subsidy of Tls. 2,000,000 been injured or destroyed last year first by for the Peking Government, The money was the want of rain, and then by the ravages to be taken from the land tax receipts. of locusts which always give most trouble Half of it was to be sent in the fifth month, in dry seasons. The area affected seems to and the remainder by the beginning of the have extended over a large portion of the twelfth month. None of it must be retain north shore of the Yangtse and to have ed or diverted to other objects. The Go reached for into the valley of the Hu&i. vernor, however, represents that he had Large sums of nioney have been spent in the already obtained the Emperor’s sanction relief of the sufferers, some coming from the to his taking, according to annual custom, provincial treasury, some from Nanking Tls. 1,300,000 from his funds for Peking and the remainder from the Chihli Relief and forwarding them for the use of a cer Fund. Help was given to the poor by tain division of the army (the Hsieh I the distribution of seed corn, payment There thus only remains Tls. for the destruction of locusts eggs, 700,000 to be remitted to the capital, of and the institution of public works, 'vliich sum he is forwarding Tla. 400,000 as such as the digging or deepening of the first of his two instalments.一Approved. water courses. Thus public works were m urder of a cred ito r. instituted, and seed corn distributed, in The Governor of Turkestan reports a Hofei, Ch^ichou and Laian. In the first murder case which illustrates the account mentioned place, where way the lurgest 78 [J une 18—20. number of distressed people, soup kitchens down on the mound by the side of Shun were established as well. Public works Chili’s tomb. The offenders were never and digging for locusts’ eggs were carried discovered, and the General did not report on in Luchiang, Hoch‘iu，Tingyuan, Sliou the occurrence at the time ; but he did so chou, Hochou, Hashan, Wuhu and T‘ien- three months later, as the affair had come ch‘ang. Digging for epgs and distribution to the knowledge of the newly appointed ■of seed, in Liuan and Ch(iianchiao. Public high o伍cer in charge. The Board wanted works only, in Ch‘ao hsien, Huaining, to know the names of the officers responsi Fengt‘ai and Hsii-i. Digging for eegs，in ble ; upon which the General gave that of Tangt‘u, Shunch‘eng，Hoshan and T‘uiig- the petitioner and some of his staff, in ch‘eng. Last year the weight o f l"custs’ spite of their remonstrances against his so eggs collected amounted to 192,000ft）s. doing. For, as the petitioner avers, these and a further search this spring for those trees were in the charge of the servants of which had escaped brought in as much the imperial household, and had nothing as 200,000tbs. of young insects already to do with the banner soldiers. This was hatched. the old rule, and it had been re-affirmed 19th June. not long ago. The petitioner however was dismissed from the service. Having thus HARBOURING THIEVES. suffered from the General’s false reports, The Magistrate of Taming has reported he humbly begs to lay his complaint before to the Viceroy of Chihli that a military the Emperor. During the time that Ying graduate of the highest class living in his Lien has held the p（*st of General, he has jurisdiction was accused of harbouring rebuilt some scores of rooms at his quar thieves and sharing their plunder. Evidence ters. The wood for them all came from to this effect was given by a robber who trees which were cut down under false had been arrested, and the graduate, pretences, and the bricks were taken though denying the charge, acknowledged from the boundary wall. The example that he had known the robber as a thus set has since been improved upon by neighbour and often received him into the General’s underlings. Again six years his house. The Viceroy considers that ago somes trees were cut down near the the graduate’s own confession is quite great red gate. The malefactor was* arrest enough to justify his being put on his ed ; but he was merely sent to the magis trial, and begs that with that object he trate at Tsunhua, and no report was made may be stripped of his degree.—Granted. to the Throne. Two years ago a young fellow belonging to the household was LEKIN IN FORMOSA. caught by the soldiers sawing down a The Governor of Formosa reported the cypress tree, upon which the officer of amount of Lekin collected during the letter the household in charge of the trees took half to the past Chinese year. The Lekin the boy away and told the soldiers it was 13 levied on Tea and other articles of all none of their business. When petitioner kinds. The total amount was Tls. 23,372, reported the case to the General, the latter from which one tenth must be deducted not only did not punish the-offender, but for expenses. The memorialist explains abused the petitioner for his meddlesome that the receipts in the second half of the ness. The petitioner thinks that the above year are never so great as in the earlier will show the hardship of his being punished half, when the export trade is more brisk ; for not taking care of the trees. and moreover the half year under review The Board of Censors feel it their duty happened to be a particularly bad one. to lay the matter before the Emperor. 20th June. They have questioned the bearer of the petition, and find that no complaint has TROUBLE AT THE TOMBS. been lodged at any other office. The Board of Censors report that they In a decree. previously published the have received a petition from Ch‘an Ling, Emperor despatches two high Commis who has recently been dismissed from the sioners to hold an enquiry concerning the posts of the Chief Superintendent at the whole case. Mausoleum of the Emperor Shun Chih. Ch‘un Ling makes a serious complaint TEMPLE IN HONOUR TO TSENG KQO-CH‘UAN. against Yung Lien, who holds the combined The year before last, says the Governor posts of Comptroller of the Household and of Anhui, Tseng Kuo-ch 4iian died as Viceroy General at Malan Chen. It seems that at Nanking. Among other favours His one night last autumn one tree was Majesty was pleased to permit the erection sawn down and another partially chopped o f Temples in inemory of the deceased in J une 20 —21.] 79 those provinces wh(、re he had distinguished which service is officially performed by the himself while alive. At the time of the local autlioritics, twice a year, in spring Taipingrebellion, continues the memorialist, and autumn.—Granted, out of every ten cities in Anhui, as many as RECEIPTS AT TIENTSIN CUSTOM HOUSE. eight or nine were destroyed. Nyanking, the The Governor-General of Chihli reports capital, was one of the first which fell. It the amount of marine duty received at was occupied by the rebels for nine years, the Tientsin native Custom House during and was made one of their principal strong the year ended last April. The fixed holds. In the year iu 1859 Tseng Kuo- assessment is Tls. 40,000, of which Tls. ch‘iia"，then a Taotai，led an army from 26,000, less a certain portion for ex Kiangsi against the city. He drew a line penses of collection, are sent to the of trenches round it, and scoured the river Board of Revenue at Peking, while the with a fleet, in order to prevent the en balance of Tls. 14,000 is retained in the trance of supplies. A rebel General, Ch'en Provincial Treasury. But the grain junks, Yii-ch(eng, made several desperate attempts 217 in number, bringing tribute rice from to relieve the place. The besiegers indeed Kiangsu and Chekiang, are excused duty were reduced to great straits ; but Tseng to the extent of 20 p.c. of their cargoes. Kuo-chSian, his brother Tseng Chen-kan This makes a remission of duty amounting and other Generals met their assailants in to Tls. 8.029.8.9.7. There is a similar loss different directions, while rigorously niain- on account of China Merchants’ steamers tiiining the siege. Afc length, after with tribute rice, to the amount of Tls. more than two years of hard fighting, 4,398.3.3 ; also for grain junks returning, he exploded a mine under the city which load beans or other grain at Tientsin wall. The town was then recaptured, and N ewchwang, Tls. 1,249.0.4. A gain and the fierce rebel soldiery, who held imports of rice and other grain were ad the place, were exterminated to the last mitted duty free to the extent of Tls. man. The effects of this exploit were 17,378.0.0.3. All these remissions together most far-reaching. Not only were a num amount to Tls. 31,055.2.7, and must be ber of towns in the vicinity taken imme deducted from the fixed assessment. Added diately, but the various strongholds on the to the sum of Tls. 9.016.2.1.2, which was river were recovered, and the way was actually collected, they make a total of Tls. laid for the later successes in the south 40,071 4.8, or a surplus of Tls. 71.4.8. The east. In these early days, as each city loss on account of remitted taxation must be fell, Tseng Kuo-chiian had always surplus divided proportionally between the Board grain from his* commissa' iat to bestow of Revenue and the Provincial Treasury. upon the distressed population. Years And similarly the actual receipts Tls. afrer, also, in 1887 there occurred the 9,016.2.1.2 must be divided between them great breach in the embankment of the in the ratio of 26 to 14. This gives the Yellow River. The escaping water des Board Tls. 5,860.5.3.6.5, and ,the Provin olated Yingchou, Fengyang and other cial Treasury Tls. 3,155.6.7.3.5. From the places in northern Anhui. In the follow first item/ again, one tenth must be ing year, as the breach had not been deducted on account of expenses of collec closed, the suffering of the people in tion, reducing it to Tls. 5,274.4.8.2.8. tliose districts was much greater; be These figures are furnished by the Taotai sides which in the neighbouring country of in charge. The Viceroy guarantees that Liichou and Ch{uchou there was scarcity they are correct and that the duties were caused by insufficient rain. Tseng Kuo- properly collected. ch(iian therefore inaugurated a famine relief fund, and the distribution of charity 21st June. saved thousands upon thousands of lives. LIST OF PERSONS KILLED IN IIAHOMMEDAN The people on these accounts cherish an WAR. ' affectionate remembrance of him, and the The Governor-General of Shensi and permission to erect a temple to him has Kansu presents a list containing the names been enthusiastically received. The funds of a number of persons, officials or mem required have been subscribed by the offi- bers of o伍cials’ families, who perished in cials throughout the pr（,»vince, the Treasurer the great rebellion of the north-western heading the list with a donation of a thou- Mahommedans twenty years or so ago. 似 nd taels. The Magistrate at Nganking The list is the twenty-first of the kind purchased a site within the city walls that has been laid before the Emperor and the building was completed a month or and contains the names of fifteen persons. two ago. The request is now made that it Some of them were military officers of high may be envullefl among the temples at rank who died from fatigue or exposure in 80 [J une 21—23. the different campaigns. The remainder diately. Fortunately two distinguished are officials and women of their families, medical men from Hangchow and Chin- who were killed or committed suicide when kiang happened to be in Yangchow. He the towns where they were living were sent for them and they found that he had captured. The memorialist states that he fever while his pulse indicated extreme has sent a detailed account of each case to weakness. The fever rendered strengthen the Board of Rites and the Board of War ; ing medicines unadvisable，while the state and he prays that the Emperor will be of hia digestive organs only permitted the pleased to grant the ordinary posthumous use of cooling draughts in a very moderate honours or other marks of his compassion. degree. There was little to be done, beyond —Approved and referred to the two Boards keeping quiet and taking care. Formerly SHEEP DUTY IN TURKESTAN. walking brought on fits of panting, but now they are caused by merely speaking a The Governor of Turkestan recommends few words. The memorialist is bound to the abolition of the tax on sheep levied iu cut himself off from all business ; and he the Grass Lake district belonging to the territory of Kuche. The tax is a cause of cannot feel afc rest till he is freed from the much hardship to the people. The locality important post which he holds. The truth is so far from the city that it would cost of what he has said can be attested by more than it is worth to send officials to every one at Foochow and Yangchow.— levy the tax. The collection of the money Decree yrunting reguest issued previously, is therefore entrusted to the local headmen 23rd June. or constables, and they perforin the duty A STUBBORN PLAINTIFF. in a very oppressive manner. The total The Governor of Hunan reports the sum received is only twelve or thirteen settlement of a case in which it has been hundred taels.—lieferred to the Board of impossible to secure the acquiescence of lizvenuQ. the plaintiff. As long ago as the year 1869 22ncl June. two men of Ninghsiang, Lu Wen-ch‘ing APPOINTMENTS. and Lu Fu-i, had, the one some hill land, T‘an Chung-lin is appointed Governor- and the other some paddy fields, adjoining General of Fukien and Chekiang. the property of a neighbour, Ch4en Chin- The Taotai at Ichang is transferred to hsien. Hoping to get some money out of Tientsin, and the Tientsin Taotai to Icliang. Ch‘en, they destroyed a watercourse on Sheng Hsuan-huai is appointed Customs his land, under , the pretence that it Taotai at Tientsin, and Liu Han-fang re encroached upon Lu Fu-i’s ground. The places him at Chefoo. result was a lawsuit which went in Ch‘en’s favour, while Lu Fu-i was flogged by the PIEN PAO-TI’S APPLICATION FOR RETIREMENT. Magistrate and ordered to restore the The memorialist, Pien Pao-ti, states that, drain. In the beginning of 1888 Lu Fu-i being feeble from age and seriously ill, he wished to sell his land to Ch‘en ; and, when applied last March for permission to retire. the latter declined, he and Lu Wen-ch‘ing In reply the Emperor gave him one once more went and destroyed the drain. month’s leave of absence. The month This led to a fresh lawsuit, which terminated having expired and his health being even in the same way as the first one, A month worse, he now makes a fresh application, or two afterwards Lu Fu-i paid a visit to a His sickness began last summer. It was friend named Tsou. His friend kept him to aggravated by chills, taken first afc the dinner and entertained him most hospitably. military examinations in the autumn, and When, towards evening he wished to return again in the winter when he was reviewing home, Tsou, who sixw that he had the troops and visiting the dockyard. His well drunk, offered to keep him for the coughing was then incessant ; and, having night. He declined, however, and went been prescribed medicine which did not off home. On the way, passing near a suit him, he became dangerously ill. creek, he slipped, fell into the water and Though he took a turn for the better at the was drowned. Next day Tsou, going out to beginning of February, be found it impos work in hia fields, discovered the dead body sible to regain his strength and therefore in the water. An inquest was held and a he asked leave to retire. When travelling verdict givt/n of accidental drowning, with he became worse again ; and after he the consent of the widow and of certain reached home, his throat was injured by influential relatives who were present. the fatigue of replying to the numerous Lu Wen-ch‘ing however made out a story visitors who came to see liim and make to the effect that the deceased had been enquiries. He seemed likely to die imme killed and 11 iron n into the water by Cl^en, J une 23一26.] 81 lodged a petition at the Magistrate’s office. fied to the Vicerioy too late for him to The complaint was heard several times, recommend the donors for rewards, he finally by the Chief Justice himself. But merely sent to them a complimentary though Lu Wen-ch*ing persisted in his placard written by himself. The present charge, he could not say when or where Viceroy has come across the matter while the quarrel took placet by what weapon clearing up his archives ; and he thinks the death was caused, or who were the so highly of the patriotism and charitable witnesses that knew about it. On the ness of the donors, that, though the period other hand there were the evidence of for according them is past, lie does not Tsou, which could not be disputed, and like to abstain from bringing the matter to the fact that the verdict had been given the Emperor’s notice. with the assent of the relatives. The facts The Emperor in his Rescript desires the appear to the memorialist so clear, that he Viceroy to inform the donors of his has no hesitation in winding up the case, admiration and approbation of their in spite of Lu Wen-cl?iug’s still persisting conduct. in the truth of his st"ry. Lu Wen-ch'ing 26th June. is sentenced to three years penal servitude POSTHUxHOUS HONOURS REFUSED. for falsely charging another man with the commission of a capital crime ; nor will lie The Military Governor of Heilungkiang be allowed the option of paying a fine represents that an application lias been made to him by certain o伍cials on behalf instead, as is generally accorded to those of his predecessor Kungt‘ang，who died who are over seventy years of age,—Hefer just after he had been transferred to the red to the Board of Punishments. Tartar generalship at Hangchow. Kung- 24th June. t ‘ang was originally a Peking o伍cial，and owed his advancement to the strong recom No documents of interest. mendation of the well known Wensiang. 25th June. He distinguished himself asTaotai of Ching- cho'v and Ichang, and again as Chief Justice EMPEROR AGAIN PRAYS FOR RAIN. in Hupeh. After that he was employed for For the third time this season the Em a short time in Manchuria. In 1878 he peror announces that he will offer prayer was in Turkestan, commanding an arm / at for much needed rain. His previous efforts Orumtsi, where he took a leading part in have been followed by slight showers ; but caring for the distressed people and re-or now that the summer solstice is past, in ganising the country after its re-conquest. the interest of the farmers it is necessary After this he was made Governor of Hei that the ground be tlioroughly soaked. lungkiang. Here he gave his attention The Emperor himself will burn incense in to the wants of the army, seeing that it three temples ; and officers of the highest was placed on a proper footing so as to be rank are deputed to visit other shrines as able to defend the frontier. Afterwards, before. in conjunction with the Viceroy of Chihli, he opened the gold mines on the Mo River; CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CHINESE and, with the Coinmander-in-Chief foe IN AMERICA. Manchuria, he gave himself great trouble Four years ago, says the Viceroy at in instituting a new division of the army. Nanking, great suffering was caused in the The applicants think that this slight sketch two provinces of Kiangsu and Anhui, in of his career is sufficient to show the ear some places by floods and in others by nestness and sincerity with which he devoted drought. The memorialist’s predecessor, himself to the performance of his duty. Tseng Kuo-ch(iian, obtained leave officially They also testify to the affection felt to organise the collection of subscriptions for him by the people in Manchuria, throughout the Empire. Even in the and to the general regret felt at his depar furthest lands beyond the aeas Chinese ture for Hangchow. In conclusion they beg merchants gladly came forward to give that temples may be erected in his honour their aid, and in several instances they in the provinces which he served, and the were recommended by the Viceroy to the usual official services performed. favourable consideration of the Emperor. In his Rescript the Emperor remarks Afterwards the Minister to the United that Kungt4ung never won distinction on States sent a sum of $29,485 collected the field of battle, and that marks of among the Chinese merchants in America. the Emperor’s compassion have already The money was divided between the four been bestowed upon him since his death. provinces of Kiangsu, Anhui, Honan The request for the erection of temples and Shantung. But as the gift was noti will not be taken into consideration. 82 [J une 26_27. MATERIALS FOR ARSENAL IN SZECHUAN. mand. He therefore raised two forces of The autumn before last the Viceroy of over ten thousand men each. One he Szechuan was informed that in a very placed under Sung Ch‘ing, the other under short time the arsenal would have used up Chang Yao, who was then a Brigadier all the foreign copper, sulphuric acid, steel, General, and was on leave of absence on iron，files, etc.，which had been bought account of the recent death of a parent. in Shanghai for the purpose of making gun To these was joined a cavalry division caps, gunpowder and bullets for Mauser under a Mancbu General Shanching. A rifles ; and it was therefore necessary to strong camp was formed, where Li Ho-nien procure a fresh supply, in order that work took up his position as Conimander-in- might not be stopped. As lie reported at Chief. A desperate effort was soon after the time, the Viceroy therefore despatched wards made by the rebels to cut through two o伍cials of the rank of Taotai to buy the bank of the Yellow River. With the the articles required at Shanghai. They aid of the fleet this attempt was for have now returned with their purchases， tunately frustrated, and millions of lives which have been inspected at the arsenal were thus saved. Tseng Kuo-fan and Li and passed as being of good quality. The Hung-chang were now ordered to come to cost of the things，with freight, passage assist Li Ho-nien. It was agreed by them money and expenses for the officers, that the only way to deal with the amounts to Tls. 23,498. In reporting the rebels was to prevent their moving about above, the Viceroy adds that the order the country as they had been wont to do, for the purchases was given before the and Li Ho-nien urged the establishment receipt last year of instructions from of a joint blockade. The three Generals Peking that no foreign guns, ships, or loyally supported each other. One corps machinery were to be bought anywhere for of the Honan troops was sent to occupy the the space of twelve months.-一Refer red to fortress of T‘ungkuan, because the rebel the Board. Chang was ravaging T'ungchou and Hua Chou in Shansi, where he had gone 27th June. under the hopes of uniting with the Ma- MEMORIAL TEMPLE REFUSED. hommedan rebels. The rest of Li Ho- The Governor of Honan presents an nien’s troops joined the eastern movement, address to the Emperor from certain retired and took part in hemming in the main body officials in his province. The petitioners of the Nien-fei. The rebels succeeded once refer to the Emperor’s decree in which in breaking through the surrounding line, permission was given to erect temples to and crossing Hie Chiao River. But they the memory of Chang Yao in the provinces were hotly pursued by Shanching’s cavalry where he had distinguished himself. One and finally were caught on the sea coast in of these is of course Honan. At the same the extreme north of Kinangsu, where they time there are some points connected with were exterminated by the soldiers of Li his meritorious service, which they feel Hung-chang and Li Ho-nien. There bound to bring to the Emperor’s notice. now only remained the western division After the death of Prince Sankolinsin, of the Nien-fei. After committing fur who was killed in the year 1865 at Ts‘ao- ther ravages in Shansi, in the winter they cliow in Shantung, the three chiefs of the crossed the Yellow River on the ice, Nien-fei rebels, Cliang, Lai and Jen, kept and passing through Shansi plundered the collecting larger and larger bodies of portion of Honan to the north of the followers. They formed a strong force of Yellow River. They were attacked by cavalry, and moving about with prodigious Li Ho-niei^s troops, and fighting went on rapidity, they reduced the people of Honan every day. In the spring of 1868 they to the direst straits. In the spring of 1866 turned northward. Li Ho-nien left the Li Ho-nien was appointed Governor of provincial capital and followed them, Honan. He found that not only had the continuing the chase by night and clay, Nien-fei ravaged the centre of the pro though he had been injured by his horse vince for ten years, till they knew every falling. Occupying Tz^cliou, he de inch of i t ; but also they were continually spatched bis two Generals in further crossing it in their incursions beyond its pursuit. They won many victories in frontiers, so that the condition of the in different part of Chihli, and gave not a habitants must become even yet worse, moment’s repose to the enemy, till finally unless the rebels could be speedily crushed. they destroyed them utterly with the aid But this could only be effected by changing of the other armies which came to take the system of petty efforts in all directions part in the operations. It was by the for that of lar^e armies under a single com energy and perseverance of Li Ho-nien J one 27一30.] 83 that this army of Honan had been raised taliate, and very serious trouble would and drilled, at a time when there was the arise. The Governor therefore sent officers utmost difficulty in procuring funds. The to the head quarters of the different tribes, obstacles which he surmounted are known to exhort them to behave properly. The to every one. His achievements and those officers have now returned to Jeho. They of Chang Yao are inseparably connected report that their efforts to preserve order Tvith each other. It is therefore humbly have been perfectly successful, and that, requested that a temple may be erected in since the distribution of the charity, the the joint honour of the two together. Mongols have gone about their ordinary The Emperor’s decree refuses to allow business in a perfectly peaceful way. the honour of a temple to Li Ho-nien, as THE CHINAN FU 2RSENAL. he was an o伍cer who was disgraced for The Governor of Shantung presents a misconduct. list of officers and overseers connected with 28th .Tune. the arsenal at Chinan Fu, and recommends GUARDS FOR PRINCE CH‘UN’S TOMB. them for various rewards on account of The Viceroy Li Hung-chang was notified their faithful and skilful service. The by Fuk‘un that he was required to provide arsenal was commenced in the year 1875 a detachment of sixty Chinese soldiers and by the orders of the then Governor Ting two officers, to form a permanent guard Pao-chen, and it was completed two years outside the mausoleum of Prince Cli‘un. afterwards. The memorialist says that the It was also left to him to provide the arsenal staff has worked with great indus necessary quarters for this force. The try, being deterred neither by extreme Viceroy reports that he accordingly directed heat nor by extreme cold. Their skill has the provincial Conimander-in-Chief to send developed with practice, and they have the requisite number of troops from turned out articles equal to the best of Ch'angp^ngchow, which was the nearest those on which foreigners rely. They have military station, and at the same time to provided all ammunition required for the have estimates made for the building of forts and the army, as well as other am the necessary quarters. In due time munition for war, just as good as those the Comniander-in-Chief replied that he made abroad. On two occasions, when had sent the men, with tents to live measures were taken for the defence of the in till the houses were ready. The coast and many other extra troops were Commander at Ch‘angp‘ingchou had also raised, the laws of neutrality prevented taken some builders to look at the place foreign nations from selling warlike mate and draw up a statement of the cost of rials ; but supplies came steadily from the building. They considered, after examin arsenal, to the full amount required. It ing the locality, that there would be Tls. should be remarked that no foreigner has 45,000 to Tls. 46,000 required. The Vice ever been employed at the arsenal, so that roy then directed some of his own officers the expenses have been comparatively very to go and make a calculation in conjunction small, without interfering with the excel with the Commander. They found that the lence of the articles turned out. work would be expensive owing to the dis 30th June. tance that materials must be brought, but POSTHUMOUS HONOURS FOK AN OLD SOLDIER. that it could be done for Tls. 25,800. This The Governor-General at Nanking gives would be for offices as 'veil as quarters, an account of the career of Chanfj； Ho- in all one hundred and thirty-eight rooms. tscni, the General in command at Yangchou The Viceroy is of opinion that this estimate and Huaiyang, who died recently at his is very moderate and that it maybe accepted. post. General Chang entered the army in He also finds that it will be necessary to the year 1853, when he joined the late make certain allowances to the men, in ac General Liu Sung-shan, and laid the cordance with the precedent set on a pre foundation of his future fame by his success vious occasion. — Approved. in driving the rebels out of the province. PACIFICATION OF THE MONGOLS. Afterwards he passed into Hupeh, were he At the moment when the northern re recaptured Cl^ungyang, T ‘ungch‘eng and bellion was suppressed last year, the Go other places. Next in Kiangsi, he cleared vernor of Jelio was informed that the out the rebels in Chian and Chiench*ang, various Mongols, especially those of the and availed himself of his success to storm Karachi? tribe, were plundering their Chi the rebel camp at Chingte Chen. In every nese neighbours under the pretence of engagement he was in the front rank and the arresting rebels, and if these were not rest followed, relying on his courage. In the stopped, it would cause the Chinese to re year 18G1 be became Adjudant-General of 84 [J une 30. the army to which he had always belonged, below Chinkiang. In 1876 he was ap， namely the Old Hunan Force. For two pointed to the Generalship at Kiukiang， or three years after this, southern Anhui but he remained in charge at Chin* was everywhere overrun by the Taipings. In 1882 he received the Yangchou The Imperial Troops were in difficulty and uaiyang appointment. But it was unable to undertake the recovery of Nan not till three years afterwards that he king. But stimulated by the efforts of was able to take up his residence at Chang they recovered Huicliow and other Ch‘ingching and give himself entirely to cities. At this period he increased his the affairs of his post. Here he became a renown by his brilliant defence of Ching terror to robbers and the guardian of Hsien, where he struggled day and night peaceful people. In 1889 he was obliged with a handful of troops against immense to take leave on account of his health ; but masses of the enemy, finally beating them he returned to his post the next year, and off and preserving the place from being continued there till his death. Even in taken. Indeed it was owing to the liis last moments his whole thoughts bloody battles which he fought that were given to the public service and Anhui was at length cleared, and the in no degree to his private affairs. army could turn its whole attention to the The above narrative of the service of siege of Nanking. At the close of the Chang Ho-t‘sai was furnished to tha Taiping war he was a Colonel, with brevet memorialist by the officers under the com rank of General, and the honoured title of mand of the deceased. But the memo Baturn. Just then Tseng Kuo-fan marched rialist can endorse it from what he has north against the Nienfei. As his Hunan known of General Chang during the three troops had served so long, he dismissed times that he has held office at Nanking. them all excepting the { Old Force，’ which He therefore humbly suggests that th& was confided to Liu Sung-shan and Chang deceased should have the honour of having Ho-tskai. From 1866 to 1868 Chang was the history of his exploits entered in th© in pursuit of the Nienfei, and took part public records, and secondly of having in the suppression of both the eastern and temples erected to his memory in the the western bands. He was recommend provinces where he was born and where ed to the Emperor by both Li Hung-chang hg distinguished himself. and Tso Tsung.t‘ang, and waa rewarded In a long decree published some days by a fresh Baturn title, a yellow ring ago the Emperor speaks of General Chang jacket, and a button of the first class. in the most laudatory manner and grants In 1870 lie was fighting against the Ma- all the favours asked for him. hommedan rebels in Shensi and Kansu. TROUBLES AMONG NATIVES TRIBES. While storming a fortified camp, Liu Sung- slian dropped from his horse, struck by The Viceroy in Kansu refers to a com a bullet. Chai;g redoubled bis furious plaint made by the natives of Yushu in efforts. He ordered fire to be brought to Kokonor, who alleged that they had been burn the gates. Then rushing in amid the robbed and ill treated by the people of storm of shot, he waa followed by his men Terko, a tribe living inside the Szechuan and the place was captured. He next be frontier. The memorialist and the Im sieged another place and pressed it with perial Agent at Sining sent a civilian and such vigour, that the Mahommedan leader a military officer with a few troops to join surrendered and was executed. These the officials from Szechuan in dealing with successes freed Ling Chou and Ninghsia the affair. There was originally time lost Fu in Kansu，and the Emperor bestowed because the Szechuan officers were late in valuable gifts on the victor as a re arriving ; and afterwards matters came to ward for his extraordinary merits. When a deadlock, because the two parties of the Mahommedan a were conquered in o伍cials took different views, each believing Kansu, he went home on leave to nurse the story of their own natives. The his serious wounds, and before he got Viceroy has now recalled his two delegates there he heard of his mother’s death. and sent two more in their place with Nevertheless he was only allowed one instructions to be sure that the affixir is hundred days of rest, when he was called settled in accordance with justice. out again to take command of six picked DISTRESS IN KANSU. battalions, which had been retained when The Kansu Viceroy states that owing to the remainder of the old Hunan Army want of rain there was a very deficient was discharged. In 1874 as the defence of harvest last year in the various districts of the coast had become important, he was Ch‘ingyang Fu, a prefecture bordering placed in command of the fortifications upon northern Shensi. He mentioned the J une 30—J uly 5.] 85 ect in a report last winter and said with tribute rice from Shantung passed out relief measures might be necessary in of the province and entered the territory the spring. Unfortunately there has been of Chihli. little rain and snow since, so that the 4th July. wheat cnjp is a failure, while the rice lias ARREST OF MANY BRIGANDS. not yet been planted. Orders have been issued to distribute grain from the public The Governor of Kiangau refers to the stores ; and there will be a postponement well known fact that the region in the of the land tax collection in such places as extreme north of that province, bordering it may seem necessary. upon Shantung and Anhui, is filled with a poor and turbulent population, among 1st July. whom robbery with violence is a very THANKS FOR RAIN. common matter. The present magistrate The Emperor's repeated prayers for rain of Such‘ien has shown much vigour in have at length been answered, as during the dealing with malefactors. During the past last few d'ys a number of heavy showers twelve months he has arrested more than have fallen in the neighbourhood of Peking, thirty n）en who had been concerned in sufficient to soak the uround thoroughly. robberies during the time of his predecessors His Majesty will therefore express his deep or in adjacent districts ; and the number gratitude by burning incense at certain of such offences in Such‘ien itself has been temples ; while he deputes some of his reduced to a tenth of what it was. The Ministers to visit other shrines for the same memorialist thinks that such useful energy purpose. should meet with its reward, and he pro 2nd July. poses that he should be allowed to send the magistrate to Pekingfurthe purpose of being GRAIN BOATS PASSING NORTH. presented to the Emperor.—Approved. The Governor of Shantung reports that the whole fleet of canal bo^ts, with tribute ROBBERIES WITH VIOLENCE. rice from Kiangsu, entered the province of The same memorialist makes a report Shantung between the 23rd of May and censuring the magistrate of Wuchin, which the 5th of June. The boate have since is one of the headquarter districts of continued their journey northward. All Ch'angchou Fu. A few weeks ago three shallow places iu the canal have been shops, standing close together outside the dredged to facilitate iheir passage ; and the town, were attacked at midnight and plun embankments, where the c“nal passes the dered of a quantity of property. None of Yellow River, have been put into a proper the robbers have yet been arrested. state of repair. The memorialist considers that there lias been a very serious failure on the part of REMOUNTS FOR THE ARMY. the magistrate to perform his duty of pro The Viceroy Li Hung-chang reports that tecting the people. He begs that the a supply of remounts is badly wanted for Board may inflict some puniahment on the the army stationed round about Tientsin. officer in question, who will further be re He is therefore sending officers to Lama quired to discover the ofttinders within a Miao and those parts, with instructions to certaiu limit of time.—Granted. purchase 736 tall, strong ponies. He has 5th J uly. written to the Custom house at Kalgan to have them passed free of duty, and to the ESCArE OF A PRISONER. magistrates in the towns by the way to see The Governor of Chekiang reports that a that they are fed and taken care of en prisoner who had been sentenced to death route. for murder, made his escape while being 3rd July. conveyed back from Hangchow to Hsienchii Hsien in T (aichou Fu. It appears that TROOPS REVIEWED IN TIBET. the prisoner was being carried in a boat in The Chinese Resident in Tibet reports the neighbourhood of Shaohsing. The boat that he has reviewed the Chinese and native was moored to the shore for the night; but tmopa in Nearer Tibet, in accordance just before morning, a violent storm came with the regulations laid clown on the on, and it was blown out into the middle subject. He expresses himself as on the of the river, where it upset. The prisoner whole very well pleased with the perform then escaped by swimming. An enquiry ance of the men. has been ordered to be held, to find out if GRAIN JUNKS FROM SHANTUNG. the man’s fetters had been loosened or if The Governor of Shantnng reports that there was any other connivance on the part on the 28Lh of May the last grain boats of the guards. 86 [J uly 5—6. GOVERNMENT BUDGET FOR TURKESTAN. but the trees cut down were in another The Governor of Turkestan presents an part of them. The complainant and his estimate of the funds which will require two subordinates are therefore declared to be provided next year for Turkestan, guiltless, and reinstated in their posts; and Hi and Tarbngatai. For the present year the Board of Punishments will determine the sums furnished by the Board of what is the proper punishment for their Revenue amounted to Tls. 2,608,000. accuser, Yinglien. According to the schedule drawn out by the Provincial Treasure for next year PREPARATIONS AT THE YELLOW RIVER, Tls. 1,560,000 will be wanted on account of The Director-General of the Yellow pay for the Governor^ brigade, the General- River presents a report on the measures in-Chief^ brigade, and the two brigades Avliich have been undertaken by him to at Aksu and Barkoul; Tls. 100,000 for prevent any mishap occurring during the arms and warlike stores ; Tls. 150,000 for time of high water. He remarks that the excesa of authorised expenditure over freedom from trouble along the river last receipts in the provincial treasury ; year was due to the Emperor’s many Tls. 50,000 for miscellaneous payments by virtues, and also to the fact that in the local treasuries, freight, wages and the three north-western provinces the rainfall like ; Tls. 65,000 for the Tartar troops for the year was exceedingly small, so that at Guchen; and Tls. 140,000 for the very little water was brought down by the ‘ Restoration of Order * Board ; in Hi, for tributary streams to increase the volume of pay of the troops, munitions, and 4 Re the main river. Good was also done by storation expenditure’，Tls. 300,000 ; and throwing in stone to protect the great em in Tarbagatai for the same objects, bankment and breakwater at Jungtsfi. Tls, 152,000. The total amount asked for Experience has shown that the dangers of comes to Tls. 2,608,000. Ever since the the Yellow River can never be certainly pacification of the country it has been foreseen. But still one may say that necessary that funds for its government human power can go half way to meet should be provided from other provinces ; them. If one fears for the embankments, and though the greatest economy is prac one can protect them with fascines ; this tised, it is impossible to reduce the meana the purchase of millet stalks. If demand below the large sum now asked one fears for the fascines, one can protect for.—Referred to the Board of Hevenve. them with stone ; this again means the purchase of material. In short, the whole 6th July. question comes to forethought and money ; and though even then you have no cer A n o fficia l rein sta ted . tainty, still you may have hopes of success. An officer in charge of the Tartar troops The present dry season may bo fallowed at the Eastern Tombs was recently dismiss by continuous rains in the hot weather ; ed, together with two of his subordinates, and therefore the spring has been spent in because some trees there had been cut strengthening the banks. At the begin down and stolen. He therefore presented ning of the fifth month the memorialist a complaint to the Emperor through the accompanied by the Taotaia of the districts Board of Censors, alleging that the res made a general inspection of the work ponsibility for the theft had unjustly been executed on b"th banks. He can say that laced upon him by a superior officer, the officials had spared neither trouble n<>r ?inglien by name. The Emperor des money, and the banks seem twice as patched two High Commissioners to enquire strong as they used to be. In all, fascine into the matter, and their report having work has been employed in 504 places, and now reached him, he publishes a Decree. between one and two thousand large stacks From it we learn that the enquiry had have been used up. If there be any falling the very unusual result of exonerating in, repairs will be made at once without the cashiered officer. The Commissioners waiting for authority. As regards stone found, in the first place，that the trees in embankments and breakwaters, it appears the avenues at the tornb in question were that ten thousand fong of stone were under the special charge of the servants provided last- winter and employed to give of the Imperial household, and those in additional security to the existing stone the groves were similarly under the Chinese work ; in addition to which an ofHcer has troops outside. The Banner troops had been sent with several tens of thousands of no Bpecial responsibility with regard to taels into the mountains, where stone is them. The Banner troops had to keep constantly cut au(l shipped to different guard at night in a portion of the grounds ; points for use in summer, and the same J uly 6—7.] 87 has been done with regard to millet stalks. Tamsui. In the military competition all The new embankment at Chengchou has showed themselves about the same. Pro Bunk somewhat, as might be expected from found peace prevailed in the districts visited ifs method of constructicn. For a length by the memorialist. of three thousand feet, across its whole width of one hundred and eighty feet CONTRIBUTION KEtOM CHEKIANG. it lias been raised four feet and a half, The Government of Chekiang lias been Tls. 10,000 b ing devoted to this pur required to remit thia year to Peking a sum pose. Everywhere, when the flood cornea, of Tls. 400,000 from the land tax receipts of there will be found materials at hand the province. One half must be forwarded and the inspectors ready to help each before the fifth month, and the other other. The lowness of the water is causing before the twelfth. Tla. 150,000 have one difficulty, namely to the boats with already been despatched, and a fourth stone, which cannot get along the Ch‘in instalment of Tls. 60,000 is now going. River and cannot reach many points where The money has been entrusted to an officer they ought to deposit their cargoes. This who will convey it by steamer to Tientsin. will be attended to when the water rises. The main object of the memorialist will be TROUBLE WITH ABORIGINES. not to let himself be caught napping by The Governor-General of Szechuan re sudden danger. ports that there has been some fighting with aborigines in Huili Chow. These TAX ON IRON FOUNDRIES. aborigines seem to belong to the fierce In 1889 Chang Clnh-tung put a stop for Loloa of Ningyuan Fu, who were for three years to the tax on iron foundries in so many years, if they be not still, Kuangtung and Kuangsi, as a vexatious the terror of their Chinese neighbours. impost which brought in but a small re The trouble began with the plundering venue, Tls. 1,600 in Kuangtung and Tls. of some Chinamen’s houses in a locality 250 in Kuangsi. The three years being up inhabited by both Chinese *and Lolos, new arrangements require to be made. the offenders being members of some These have already been proposed and of the old robber tribes, who submitted sanctioned fur Knangtung. In Kuangsi after the successful military expedition the Viceroy suggests that instead of there against them a year or two ago. An at being any direct collection of the foundry tempt to arrest the robbers failed, and the tax, it should be merged in the likin on magistrate therefore went after them him iron, and the annual sum of Tls. 250 paid self in March, accompanied by a force of therefrom to the proper quarter. militia. But he found that they were too strong for him ; as they bad collected 7th July. twenty or m<*re parties of Lolos and had encamped on the mountains*，in an attitude EXAMINATIONS IN FORMOSA. apparently of open rebellion. The next The Governor of Formosa reports that month th e magistrate returned with liis in his joint capacity of Literary Chancellor force of militia increased to some thousands he has examined the students of the three of men. Several days’fighting ensued, in prefectures which form the island. He which the troops were victorious, and left the capital of the island by steamer managing to get some of their number to in the middle of April Three days the rear of the enemy, they killed as many afterwards he commenced the examina as fifty of them, while they themselves suf tions at Tainan Fu，the students, civil fered some ]<>ss. Shortly afterwards and military, fr<，m Taiwan Fu having they attacked the rebels in their quarters, been summoned to be present also at which a favourable wind enabled them the same time and place. In eigliteen to set on fire. Five hundred unwilling days his work was finished, and he travelled participators in the revolt then came back by steamer to T*aipei Fu. Here he and surrendered; but the more despe spent a few days in getting through his rate ones endeavoured to save them correspondence, and then held the examina selves by retreating. They were hotly tion for the northern prefecture. From pursued, overtaken and attacked on both the three localities there had appeared in sides. Many were killed, and their principal the halls 1,500 or 1,600 bachelors, literary leaders, who were captured, were executed and military together, and about 4,000 immediately afterwards. Complete tran litei'ary students, and 600 military. In quillity has now been restored. Altogether Taiwan Fu, Taiwan and Changbua did best. of the militia nineteen were killed, and In the other two prefectures, Anpcing and fifty-four wounded. The memorialist thiuka 88 [J uly 7—9. that those concerned in the affair are splendid harvest. The u per course of the worthy of some reward, and makes a re river has now been surveyed, and a care commendation on their behalf.—Approved. fully planned scheme has been drawn up, by which it may be treated in the CRUISE OF THE ADMIRAL FOR CHEKIANG, same way as the as the lower part. The coast of Chekiang, says the Admiral The cost will come to some TIs. 250,000, of the Province, is several hundred miles in which will be taken aa before from the length, and is densely thronged in summer general relief fund; and the work will be by fishing and trading boats. It is there given to the distressed people from the fore necessary to keep a sharp look-out for surrounding country.—Approved. pirates. In April the memorialist made a cruise to the north in the Ynenk'ai; and FOUNDATION OF A COLLEGE. the next month, aftei' a few days (，n shore, The Governor of Szechuan reports the he started again in the Ch’a o w visiting foundation of a College at Wan Hsien in Cheuhai, Tinghai, Sliihpu, Haimen and that province. There were already two Wenchow, as well as the inlets and islands colleges in existence there, but there was along the coast. The tishennen everywhere not room in them for all the numerous said that things were quiet. The forts scholars who wished to resort them. were inspected, and with their garrisons A gentleman named Yu Chien-yang has were all found to be in good order. The therefore bought land and built a new memorialist would have liked to stay at sea one, in accordance wi'h the desires, as he for the whole fishing season ； but it happens declares, of his deceased parents. The to be very late this year, and official buildings comprise three lecture rooms, business called him on shore. He was forty-eight students1 rooms, besides gate therefore forced to leave the preservation ways and offices. The total cost has come of order to the three commodores of to TIs. 10,245. Three other gentlemen Haimen, Tinghai and Wench. »'v, who have subscribed respectively two thousand, would cruise about with a force of junks. eight thousand and six thousand strings of cash, in order to form an endowment for RAIN AT JEHO. the establishment. The founder, Yu Chien- There have been slight showers duiing yang, has already been granted a memorial the spring this year at Jeho, and at the arch on account of a subscription of a end of June there fell copious rains, which thousand taels for the relief of sufferers have given the young corn a good starb. from floods in Hupeh. It is therefore requested that the Board of Rites may be 8th July. allowed to name some other favour for RIVEK DREDGING IN SHANTUNG. him and his parents ; and that the three The Governor of Shantung states that givers of the endowment may be allowed last year his predecessor, Chang Yao, de the lionoui' of having archways erected.— termined to dredge the Hsiao ClPing Ho, deferred to the Board. which runs ii）t<> the sea a li'tle to the Kouth of the Yellow River. The bed of 9th July. the Hsiao Ch‘ing Ho had gradually silted TEMPLE REQUESTED FOR SELENGO. up to such an extent that it could not The Governor of Fengtien has been re carry off the summer rainfall, and wide quested to a?k the Emperor f"r per devastation was consequently caused by mission to build a temple in honour of the floods which resulted therefrom. As Selengo, who formerly distinguished him the whole river was too long to be cleared self in certain military operations in that out in one season, the forty miles or so province, and has recently died as Military nearest the mouth were first taken. The Governor of Hi. It appears that in the distressed population was called to the year 1873 Selengo came to Fengtien as work, employment being given to it in the one of the Lieuteuauts of Tushinga, who place of charity. The excavation was brought an army from the northern Man carried out most successfully ; and the churian provinces to tight the banditti lower part of the river was entirely who were ravaging the country round freed from floods, while the upper por Liaoyancr. The banditti were in strong tion again suffered. The cost was only force, consisting both of local brigands TIs 190,000, which is bub a small sum in and mounted bands from beyond the comparison with the saving to the govern frontier. Selen^o encountered them ment in the way of remitting taxation and several times in Liaoyang, Hsingching and giving charity, and the profit to the people K ‘aiyuan. He was victorious in every who were enabled for once to reap a eng^ement bill they were exfcerniinated J clt 9—11.] 89 and peace was restored. On one particular 11th July. occasion with only three hundred cavalry POSTAL IRREGULAITY. he defeated a vast horde, he himself fight The Emperor finds that the Acting ing in the front rank and being most severely Governor of Chekiang has committed a wounded. Afterwards as Lieut.-General serious fault in forwarding to Peking at at Hsingching he crushed a serious rising the rate of 400 li a day certain memorials of people who refused to pay taxes. As an which were only concerned with ordinary administrator he distinguished himself by subjects. His Majesty desires that this constructing roads and establishing a river expression of his disapprobation be convey force. The people still remember his ed to the Acting Governor. valour and the benefits they received from him ； and now that they have heard of his HOMICIDE LIGHTLY PUNISHED. death they wish to build a temple to his The Governor of Shansi presents a re memory. port dealing with a complicated case of The Emperor’s Decree desires that Selen- murder at Hsi Chow in that province. goJs name be included among those inscribed Ifc is to be noted that the Sub-Prefect in Tusliinga’s temple, but refuses him the who originally investigated the affair was honour of a separate edifice. cashiered for coming to a wrong conclusion. As appears from the Governor’s report, there was a man named Wang, a native of RETURN OF TROOPS FROM JEHO. Chihli, settled in a village of Hsi Chow, The Governor of Fengtien states that after where he kept a general shop. There were the suppression of the Jeho rebellion, by also two Shantung men living in the same an agreement with the Chihli Commander- place, who had made themselves generally in-Chief three battalions of Manchurian feared by their brutality ancl violence. tro（?ps were left temporarily to occupy im They often frightened Wang and other portant points in llie district of Chaoyang. villagers into lending them money which This arrangement was referred to the they did not repay, One day, the spring Emperor and received his approval. The before last, they came once more to borrow Chinese and Mongols are now in perfect money of Wang. When lie refused, they peace and are busy with the cultivation of began to break up the things in the shop, their crops. In the interest of economy till the shopmen gave them 4,000 cash to the memorialist therefore proposes to re go away. A fortnight later they met him call these troops and let them occupy their in the road and took his jacket off his accustomed positions.~Approved. back, without his daring to protest. Not a month afterwards he was selling pears 10th July. at a theatre, when they kicked over his basket and would not let him continue the KEAVARD FOR MUNIFICENCE. sale. A row ensued, but they were quieted Some time ago a gentleman named Meng by the bystanders. The same evening Chi-sheng, an Expectant Prefect on the about 10 p.m. the two men, having Kiangsu staff, but a native of Shantung, armed themselves with knives, came to contributed largely to the relief fund in the front of Wang’s shop and began to the last mentioned province. His gifts abuse him. Wang at last gave way to his consisted of TIs. 10,000 in money, and two feelings of anger against them, and, as he thousand wadded articles of clothings, coats was no match for them alone, asked three and trousers, reckoned to be worth TIs. men to help him give them a thrashing. 2,000 more. In recognition o f this libera Taking knives and cudgels, he and his party lity, the late Governor of Shantung asked stepped into the street and began to return that Mr. Meng should be promoted to the the abuse of the Shantung men. The rank of Expectant Taotai and given a latter attacked them with their knives ; but button of the third grade. The proposal numbers prevailed, and the two ruffians was referred to the Civil Service Board, were soon stretched on the ground, the one which objected to its being accepted, and mortally and the other dangerously wound said that the case was one to be met by ed. Wang then saw that he was likely to a grant of an honorary title without get into serious trouble. In order to effective promotion. The present governor avoid it, he pretended that the two men now strongly supports the original request had been making a burglarious attempt and adduces precedents to show that it was upon his house. He smashed his a proper one to make under the circum own door way, tied up the wounded stances. The Emperor’s Rescript grants the man as a prisoner, bribed the iipao, request made by the Governor. and went to lay a complaint at the 90 [J uly 11—13. Sub-Prefect’s o伍ce. Four days afterwards REPAIRS TO YANGTZE EMBANKMENTS. the wounded man died. 'The Sub-Prefect, On the north side of the Yangtze who had been away on duty, came back just opposite Kiukiang there is an embankment after this and held an examination into the which protects portions of three provinces, whole affair He accepted the truth of Hupeh, Kiangsi and Anhui. It was built Wang’s story and sent in a report in accord about the year A.D. 1848, at a cost of ance with it. The Governor, noticing Tls. 100,000 and is some 19,000 feet in certain discrepancies in the report, desired length. When it was completed, the that a new enquiry should be held，and authorities arranged that the annual repairs appointed a special officer to take part in should be effected at the cost of the it. In the meantime the relations of the farmers protected, by a rate in proportion deceased hacl lodged a complaint against to the acreage owned by them ; while the decision, and the Sub-Prefect, who went money required for any large undertaking into the matter again, made a fresh report would be advanced by the three provincial correcting his previous decision. But Wang, governments. In the year 1890, after the who had been at first under arrest, had been floods of the month of August, the embank let out on bail on account of sickness, and ment was reduced to a tottering condition. took advantage of this to make his escape. Communications were received in Hupeh His absence, combined with the other points from the governments of Kiangsiand Anhui, of the case, caused the Sub-Prefect to be cash representing the necessity of effecting re iered. Wang hid for a long time in caves pairs. The three local magistrates concerned and empty temples ; but more than a year proposed a new line of embankment for a afterwards he returned to his own home in part of the distance to be protected. It Chilili, where he was arrested by men in would be 11,385 feet in length and would employ of the cashiered Sub-Prefect, acting cost Tls. 25,970, or Tls. 8,657 for each of course in conjunction with the local province. The Hupeh government found police. He was taken back to Shansi ; but that the District of Huangmei in that before the affair could be concluded he province was the most exposed to inunda died in confinement. tions of all the three concerned, and that The memorialist finds that where any of late years it had suffered exceedingly, one in a moment of passion kills ruffians because the growth of shallows on the who are using violence and causing him south shore had forced the water against annoyance, the punishment is, for princi the north bank. The said government pals three years banishment and one therefore could not well hold back when hundred blows, and for accessories eighty the other provinces were proposing to take blows. In the case of both these murders action. Moreover the repayment of expen the wounds actually causing death were diture by the people of the locality, though inflicted by Wang. He therefore, if alive, it was the formal rule, was in reality very would be liable to the first mentioned seldom observed in even the ordinary penalty, and those who aided him are annual repairs. Therefore instead of risk liable to the second. It is further suggest ing disaster by delaying the work for ed that the Sub-Prefect should be restored the sake of getting money from the to his rank in view o f his having both people, it seemed better to take the corrected his erroneons decision and re whole business upon the shoulders of covered the prisoner who had escaped.— the government which was interested Referred to the Board of Punishments. ly by reason of the endangering of the tax. Accordingly Tls. 8,657 were 12th July. advanced from the funds in the Hupeh treasury, and the work was put in hand PRAYERS FOR FINE WEATHER. at once. It has now been completed, As has been noticed in these columns, inspected, and passed as satisfactory.- — the Emperor after praying for rain several Approved. times, recently returned thanks on account- of the acconiplisliment of his petition. But 13th July. after tlie land had been sufficiently wetted, PECULATION BY A MAGISTRATE. heavy storms fell continuously day and The Governor of Shantung states that night, till the young crops appeared to be complaints have reached him from several in a slate of considerable danger. In order sources about the misbehaviour of the therefore to obtain fine weather, the Em magistrate of Hinyang. That o伍cer is peror on the 14th of July will offer incense, accused of falsely reporting land to have at some temples in person, and at others j produced no harvest, and then collecting by deputy. ' the taxes on it and appropriating the money. J uly 13—15.] 91 any rate there are such discrepancies in the great Mahommedan rebellion had al his accounts as to make the truth of the ready been suppressed by the Government, charge to seem probable. The Governor But, say the petitioners, some of the enlarges on the importance of properly followers of Tu Wen-hsin, the usurping collecting the land-tax, and on the heinous Sultan of Tali, escaped and again raised ness of the offence with which the magis the standard of revolt. They occupied trate is charged. He begs permission to Momein, and in conjunction with local dismiss him from his post and have him ruffians seized several cities in Yungch‘ang immediately arrested and tried. and Shunning. Ifc was only by the active In view of the gravity of the accusation and intelligent use which Liu Ch(ang-yxi the Emperor issues a special Decree de made of his troops, that the smoulder siring that the said Magistrate, Chiao ing embers were preventing from bursting Wei-lin, be dealt with as proposed. into a general flame throughout the pro vince. In the time of peace which followed, NEW TAOTAI AT KIUKIANG. the administration of the Governor-General The Customs Taotai at Kiukiang has was not less distinguished. He niingled been promoted to the post of Salt Com mercy with severity, aiding the people to missioner for Shantung. It has therefore recover their strength and repressing all become necessary to appoint a temporary lawlessness of the soldiers. In forwarding occupant at Kiukiang till the new nominee this petition, the memorialist recalls the shall arrive from Peking. The Governor fact that, when he was Governor of Hunan, reports that he has selected for this pur the people of that province asked permis pose an expectant Taotai named T ‘u sion to erect a temple to Liu Ch‘ang-yu in Ch*un-nien, who is an officer of intelligence his native home ; and the Emperor’s and experience, and well fitted to perform sanction was graciously accorded to the the duties of the post. proposal.—liequest (jrantcd. IN>SPECTION OF CHING CHOW EMBANKMENT- PASSAGE OF GRAIN JUNKS. The great embankment at Cliingcliow The Director-GQneral of the Yellow River in Hupeh is the sole protection against and the Grand Canal reports that all the the Yangtze for the whole of that pre grain boats- with tribute rice from Kiangsu fecture as well as other districts further have succeeded in passing Chining Chow. down stream. The Governor-General and The progress of the fleet has required this the Governor ought to take turns year year more than ordinary attention, as there by year to visit the embankment at the has been but little rain in the winter and time of the summer and autumn freshets, spring to fill the channel, and the lakes in order that they may personally sup which feed it in Shantung are not of erintend any protective measures which any very great extent. The Taotai con- it may be necessary to execute. But if cei'ned has reported that all tlie boats had prevented from going by public business entered the territory of Shantung on the they may depute the local Taotai or Pre 30th May. On the 11th of June the first fect to act in their stead. This year it boats had reached Chining ; and only six is the Governor-General’d turn ; but he days later all the fleet had passed Chining finds that aflairs at Wuchang will not let and continued their journey northwards. him go away. He lias therefore desired the Prefect to undertake the duty on his DEATH FROM MALARIA. behalf.—Noted. The Acting Taotai for the prefectures in the south-east of Yunnan was an officer 14th July. who had taken part in the campaigns in No documents of interest. Tongking. Five years ago he was placed on the commission for the demarcation of 15th July. the frontier; while thus engaged he caught a bad malarial fever, and was subject to MEMOKTAL TEMPLE. attacks of it ever afterwards. Last year The Governor-General in Yunnan pre lie was inspecting the forts on the border sents a petition from a number of influential in the month of June. Towards the end persons in that province. They desire of July he returned home, A violent permission to erect a temple in memory of access of fever followed, and in nine days Liu Ch*ang-yu, who took the place of Ts(en he was dead. It is requested that he may Yii-ying as Governor-General of Yunnan be granted the marks of His Majesty’s and Kueichow, when' the latter went into compassion usually bestowed in cases of mourning in the year 187(1. At this time I the kind.-— 92 [J uly 16—17. 16 th July. ness of their extent the worst ever known REWARDS FOR COLLECTORS. in Chihli. Those in urgent need were numbered by millions, and the local When the great floods occurred the year treasury was empty. But thanks to the before last in the country round Tientsin, beneficence of the Emperor, and the zeal the Emperor sanctioned the making of an with which other provincial authorities en appeal to all the provinces for money to couraged collections, funds were raised and increase the relief fund ; and he promised the calamity met in a manner which was that any officers who specially distinguished beyond all hopes. But from the lie of the themselves in collecting contributions land, I he province is always liable to should be rewarded in accordance with a drought or flood, as the rainfall may happen . scale already adopted on certain previous to be small or great. After heavy rains occasions. The Viceroy Li Hung-chang the union of Bve great rivers brings has now received lists of the principal together a mass of water which can hardly collectors in Hunan and Kiangsu. He fail to break its banks. Thus river works warmly recommends them on account of and relief are wanted almost every year ; their success ; for Hunan has always been while the province is a poor one, with noted as a poor province, and Kiangsu, ■which is the same thing practically as an ill-supplied treasury. Judging from Shanghai, has not of late been in a flourish the past, it is necessary to make pro ing condition as regards mercantile affairs， vision for the future. The officers con and as a collecting field has already been cerned have therefore been cautioned to pretty nearly worked out by successive be the most sparing of the balance in applications. In conclusion the Viceroy hand ancl to see that not a penny of it is presents the lists of names with the pro wasted. With the money already spent posed rewards.—Referred to the Board. the greatest economy was practised. Charity was given nowhere till its necessity had RELIEF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE. been reported by the local authorities and The year before last, says the Viceroy verified by their superior officers. The Li Hung-chang, was a terrible year for giving was proportioned to the extremity floods in Chihli. Apart from the metro of the need. Boats were sent to visit the politan prefecture of Shuntien, there villages which had become islands. Soup- were more than forty districts which ldtchens were placed in suitable places. suffered from the calamity. A quantity The poor were clothed in winter and dosed of tribute rice for Peking waa allow in summer. When the waters dried, seed ed to be stopped at Tientsin. Funds corn and provisions were given to the re were drawn from the provincial treasury, turning peasants. The river works, dredg and contributions were collected both in ing, cutting, banking and the like, were the province itself and throughout the all carried out after due consultation, ancl Empire. The memorialist now begs to the distressed poor of the locality were em present a statement of the receipts from ployed and paid. Where it was necessary, all sources, and of the expenditure on the troops were called in to give their account of river works and relieving distress assistance, a moderate remuneration being during the two years ended last June. It given for their work. In conclusion the should be stated in the first instance that Viceroy warrants that all sums havebe en certain sums have been transferred to the properly expended, ancl begs that he need Shuntien Prefecture, for which the Mayor not be required to present detailed ac of Peking will account, and other amounts counts. —Approved. have been spent on special matters of which separate returns have been already 17 th July. made. Apart from these, the disbursements GKATUITY TO NORTHERN TKOOPS. have been，Tls. 2,534,523.3.3.8.2.8.2.6 ; The Viceroy Li Hung-chang states that Tientsin copper cash，strings (about three when the troops from Tientsin were sent to to a tael) 770,717 ; tribute rice, piculs crush the Jeho rebellion last winter, the 121,520; ordinary rice, piculs 7,740 ; millet, Commander-in-chief told him their pay was piculs 24,963 ;giant millet, piculs 34,014 ; not enough to cover the cost of their food, wadded clothes, 601,432. The balance in and suggested that they should have a hand is Tls. 441,237, odd; cash, strings8,497; gratuity of two or three taels apiece. rice, piculs 1,848 ; wadded clothes 81,154 ; The paymaster’s department, to whom the all of which will be used for future works question was referred, considered tliat the or relief and be duly accounted for here- most economical scheme which it could after. The memorialist remarks that the propose, was to give the men actually Hoods of two years ago were for the great engaged in the campaign half a month’s J uly 17—20.] 93 extra pay. The memorialist sanctioned all of it that is used in the province is of this ; but when the accounts were sent to home growth and manufacture, and hardly the Board of Revenue, it refused to pass any comes from other parts of the Empire. them, as there was no rule authorising such Every effort however will be made to expenditure, and theEniperor hadnofcgiven secure the collection of all the duty and approval of it. The memorialist humbly re likin possible, in order that there may be presents that it was necessary to put down as little loss to the revenue as possible. the rebellion with great rapidity in order to prevent its spreading ; and it was clue 19fcli July. to the troops that this was successfully COPPER FOR PEKING. effected. They h id a hard campaign in a The Governor o f Hupeh announces that terrible climate ; and provisions were dear he has despatched to Peking the first instal on account of the rebellion. He begs ment of the eleventh lot of copper from therefore that the Emperor will approve Yunnan. The amount is 515,000 catties. the giving of fcliia gratuity in order tu pre It reached the frontier of Hupeh on the 2nd vent the soldiers suffering pecuniarily from of May last and on the 13th the whole the campaign.—G t anted. am"unt had arrived at Hanyang, close to ACTING TAOTAI AT TIENTSIN. Hankow. The Perfect and the Magistrate The Tientsin Taotai has been ordered to of Hanyang then inspected and weighed exchange posts with the Taohai for Ching- the copper in the company of the officer cIioav and Ichang. The former has de who had brought it. After that they saw parted ; and, until the latter can arrive, a it loaded ou to a steamer, which started temporary occupant is needed. For this for Shanghai on the 18th of the month. purpose the Viceroy has nominated Brevet Tls. 1,800 were paid to the officer on ac Taotai Wu Ting-pin, who is a most com count of freight, the money being taken petent officer for the post. from the land tax receipts. 18th July. OPIUM TAXATION IN SHENSI. TAX ON OPIUM FIELDS. There appear to be duties levied on As the likin on native opium in Shensi native opium in Shensi, the proceeds of did not produce a sufficiently large sum, which all go to the Admiralty for expenses the Governor was desired some time ago of the navy. One of these, the character of hy the Board of Revenue to make the which is not clear, is called the native experiment of taxing the land where it ia opium contribution, the second is the tnx cultivated. After a year’s trial the Governor on poppy fields, and the third is the ordin finds that this plan has worked satisfactor ary likin. Last year these three im ily and without, harassing or discontenting posts produced respectively Tls. (i,104, tlie people. The receipts lnve been credited Tls. 15,189, and Tls. 44,534, or a total of to a special account so that they may go to TLs 65,827. This money has been set apart the Admiralty for naval expenditure. for the purpose of being forwarded to the But during the present spring there has Board of Admiralty. been unusually little rain, and the poppy 20th July. plants have been much affected by the drought, which wi-h their slmllow roots SUICIDE OF A PRISONER BY POISONING. they cannot stand as well as wheat does. The Magistrate of Trebling in Southern Reports came in from district after district Manuhu- ia recently rup"rled t" the Gover- •saying i hat thep -ppies had entirely withered | n >r that a number of prisoners were away, and the fields had been ploughed up j being taken from Mouk-len back to Treb in order that they might be sown for the I ling under the charge of the gaol-master nu umn crops. Likin officers Imve there- of the said district city. On the road fui’e been sent to inspect the country for （»ne of them was stated bv the goal-nifister themselves ; and they state that though the to have fallen ill, and to have died ci()p has not failed in a few peculiark 'vet next morning in the house of detention t-> situations, yet the amount that has escaped which he had been carried in the course rf can only be between twenty and thirty per the night. He was a man who bad been cent, of the wliok. These liekla will of coiuse concleinned tu decapitation after the nutunm be taxed as usual, but the Governor does assizes for intentionally shoo ing and kil not propose to levy nnything on the land ling another person. 'L’lie Governor（1 'sired which has bem pl（）ui relatives and of the policeman in whose be bawialied to a distance of two thousand charge he had been. This having been l i ; to which punishment he has accordingly done, the magistrate^ report announced been sentenced by the memorialist. lie- that the face of the corpse was black and so ferred to the Board of Pxuiislimeibta. were its fingers, and that blood mixed with saliva dropped from its mouth. Also, a 21st July. silver needle which was introduced into its RETIREMENT OF ADMIRAL LI CH‘ENG-MO'V. mouth and left there for a time, was found on being withdrawn to have siiuikirly Li Ch‘eng-mow，Admiral of the Yangtze, acquired a black tint. This tint could requests permission to retire from the not be removed by the application of public service on the ground of ill-health. soap and water. The deceased had mani He had already been granted three months’ festly been poisoned, and had not died, as leave of absence, bub found that was n（*t had been reported, from some disease. su伍cient to restore his strength. The Governor considers that an official The Emperor grants the application in a enquiry ought to be held, in order that it special Decree。 may be discovered under what circum stances the man obtained fche poison, whether INSURRECTION IN SZECHUAN. it was through the carelessness of those The Viceroy of Szechuan states that last in charge of him, or whether there was year, in consequence of an insufficient some collusion on their part. It is there liar vest, there was a certain amount of fore requested that the gaol-master may be , distress in the part of Shensi which joins cashiered and that he and the policeman of Szechuan ; and consequently the districts the esc“rt may be fiornially tried at the in the north of the last mentioned pro provincial capital.—App! oved. vince were constantly visited by hands of beggars from over the border. These BURGLARY IN HVPEH. unwelcome visitors were cared for by The Governor of Hupeli reports the sen the various local authorities, and sent to tences passed or punishments inflicted f»n their homes again. Last May, before the some men convicted of burglary in the Pre time of the wheat harvest, a number <»f fecture of Anlu Fu. The robbers, who were . robbers and bad characters invited the eleven in member, arranged to break into distressed people from Shensi to make the house of a wealthy man in the another incursion into Szechuan, their idea neighbourhood. While they were going to being that a fine opportunity would thus be the place one of them was afraid of afforded for thieving ancl extorting money the risk and turned back. The other from the rich. As the poor creatures were ten continued their course. On their really in want, the authorities at first (lid arriving at their destinfifcicm，two of them no more than to take precautions to pre were left outside to keep watch and serve order ; but a few days later a band of receive the plunder. The others set on fire a hundred and more armed with all kinds an umbrella to act as a torch, broke down of weapons marched against a town in the the outer-door, and entered. They then Nanchiang district. On being met by the forced the house door and terrified the pro sergeant of the district and a small body of prietor into silence, while they ransacked troops, they shot him and a corporal dead, the place. They carried off a quail會ity of and wounded nine of his men. After this it money, jewels and clothes, with which they was plain that stern measures were neces retired to a quiet spot, picking up by the sary. All the magistrates in the neighbour way the man who was afraid, and giving hood were ordered to act vigorously、and him an equal share of the plunder. After- troops were hurried up from a distance to wards six of the robbers were arrested, assist them. By these means order has with a certain part of the property, which been restored, and a number of prisoners was duly returned to the @wner. Of the have been taken. They will be rigorously six prisoners, three died in gaol, and tried, and those found to have taken two, the men who watched outside, have part in the attack upon the sergeant been beheaded without delay ; as in the will immediately be beheaded without eye of the law, their offence is exactly mercy. The rest will be punished more the same as if they had taken an actual lightly or sent to their homes, as may seem part in the breaking in. The sixth man advisable in each case. In conclusion the is the one who was afraid and turned memorialist beecs that the Emperor will back. Although he shared in the plunder bestow upon the sergeant the marks of afterwards, the penalty for his offence is compassion generally accorded to officers merely to receive a hundred blows and to killed in action, J uly 2L—22.] 95 The Emperor’s Decree grants this request, continued ; and lie communicated with the and desires that all the disturbers of the high authorities of the neighbouring pro peace be arrested and punished. vinces, in order that they might likewise be on their guard. 22nd July. POSTHUMOUS HONOURS TO SHEN YU-SXJI. REMITTANCE FROxM HUPEH. The Governor of Hupeh states that be is The Viceroy of Shensi and Kansuh forwarding to Peking the sum of Tls. reports that the General of the Hochou 40,000. This is one half of the sum of Tls. Garrison, Shen Yli-sui, died at his post last 80,000, which has been appropriated from January, the cause of his death being the this year’s likin receipts in the province of re-opening of an old wound, consequent Hupeh for the defence of the north-east upon his taking a severe chilk He had frontier. The money is being sent in the been a trusted lieutenant of Tso Tsung- charge of an officer, who apparently travels t ‘ang and ether great commanders, while all the way overland. on account of his courage and his habit of sharing alike with his men, he was LOCUSTS IN HONAN. devotedly followed by those under his The small amount of rain that fell at the command. He was a native of Hunan and beginning of this summer rendered the joined the army in 1854, when he seems to Governor of Honan very much afraid of have been only sixteen years old. After there being trouble with locusts. He there a great deal of hard and successful fighting fore issued general orders that, if they against the Taipings in Kiangsi, he passed made their appearance in any district, mea into Kuangsi, where he took part in the sures were lo be taken immediately to relief of Kueilin Fu. In 1860 he followed extirpate them, and a report of the circum the same enemy into Szechuan and again saw stances sent in without delay. About the a great deal of severe service. In one of end of June, and the beginning of July, lie the battles his elder brother, General Shen received despatches from Linying, Shang- Hsiang-fa, was killed in making a rash shui and Lani, to the eft'ecfc that the attack, but Shen Yii-sui renewed the com drying up of the water in the shallow parts bat and broke the enemy’s ranks. In 1863 <，f the rivers had caused the shrimp and he was in the Canton province and re fish spawn to turn into locusts, and that covered Kaochou Fu from a vastly superior they had also been bred in the long grass force of rebels who were ravaging the which sprang up where the water of the country round. Next as Colonel at Hsiang- Lo River formed stagnant pools. The shall he captured a number of noted magistrate of Kushih also said that they pirates. In 1869, when affairs were in a had appeared iu some reed-covered land bad way in Kansuli, Tso Tsung-t‘aug sent on the border of Anhui. He had seen for him to command part of the Hunan them himself, little things the size of flies, army there. He reconquered Kuyuan mid having only just emerged from the soil. continued to fight desperately for h year All the above magistrates- vere taking and more. At this time General Liu Yung- proper precautions against them, digging sliaii was killed by the Mahomedaus, ditches, employing catchers, providing fuel who were consequently more than ever for burning them, and paying for their cap einboltlened. But Shen Yli-sui continued ture. About the middle of June reports the contest, till the north was tranquilli- "were received from the magistrates of Yen- sed, and lie was sent westward to attack ch4eng, Hsip‘ing，Slmngts‘ai，Hsihua, Fu- Hochou. This place and Sining had at kou, Suipcing, Yenling, Chungmou, and that time been nearly ten years in the Huaining, that on such or such a day hands of the rebels. The country was locusts had been seen flying over their dis waste and the troops never had two days’ tricts， and some of them had alighted, but rations in hand. Still he kept on, and won lnen had been paid to kill them, and they provisions from the stores of the enemy. bad all been exterminated. The Governor, Hocliou was in the midst of the rebels* however, while congratulating himself on country, and the General 'viis soon sur， the fact that the early harvest was safely rounded by immensely superior numbers, stored, and the young autumn crops had who attacked him during a violent storm taken no harm, still could not help thinking in the beginning of 1872. But rushing that the destruction of the insects might not forth at the head of his whole force he be so complete as was supposed, and that routed them, and slew immense numbers. they might leave eggs which would hatch and Afterwards he was appointed General nt harm at some future time. He therefore Hocbou. In 1877, when peace was in some gave orders that the pursuit be unweariediy .degree restored, w as,. at the request oj 96 [J uly 22—25. Tso, excused from the usual military exer remainder for his own use. The memo cises as his body was covered from head to rialist requests the Einperoi?s sanction for foot with wounds. His aclininistration at this arrangement.—A ppt oced. Hocliou was most successful. He was 24th July. attentive to military work ; Chinese and KKMITTANCE KUOM CnEKIANG. Turks alike revered him ; he recolonised The Province of Chekiang has been abandoned lands, and he endowed schools ； from ]）is own purse. required this ye ir to furnish the Peking In a special Decree the Emperor grants Government with a sum cf Tls. 100,000 all the requests made on behalf of the fi,uiu the duties collected by the Foreign deceased. He will have the marks of Customs. The Governor is uo、v remitting favour usually granted in such cases ; his one half of the ab"ve amount. The money deeds will be recorded in the historiogra is taken from the “ six-tenths fund.” pher’s office ; his name will be added to ESCAPE OF PRISONERS. those in Tso Tsung-t‘ang’s temple ; and lie The Governor of Chekiang reports the will be allowed to have a shrine of his escape of two cundenined criminals. They own at Hochou. were both men who had been found guilty MILITARY FARMS IN KOBDO. of taking part in the abduction of girls. The officer in charge of the government The law under which they were sentenced atKobdo states that the military farms there was one which ordains the punishment of are always ploughed and sown as soon as strangulation for those who take part in the snow lias melted and the frost is out of entering into the house of a person who the ground. The proper instant Laving is in no way connected with them, and arrived, lie issued from the granary 700 abducting any woman or girl therefrom, no piculs of wheat, barley and oats, with which matter whether they have made any money ten farms were sown. By the 20th of or not by so doing. The two men were being taken back to Kashing after their May the work was completed. final trial at the provincial capital. At POSTAL SERVICE IN NORTH-WEST. Shilimen Hsien their fetters were examined With reference to the delimitation of the and they were enclosed in a wooden cage. border at the Hapa river and the settling A boat was hired, in which they started for of the Mongols and Kirghis, the Lieuten Kasliing, under a guard of soldiers and ant-Governor of Kobdo says that there police. The aanie night a storm arose, are no post stations upon the long road which furced the boatmen to come to from Kobdo to Uliangliai. It will there anchor agninst the bank. In the small fore be necessary to send detacbments hours, when the escort were all fast asleep, of troops to establish temporary posts, the prisoners opened the cage, tore off procure camels and so on. According to their fetters and escaped. The meinoi ialist precedent he proposes to make an allow considers the case more than ordinarily ance to the officers and men engaged, suspicious, and will have the men who giving the former twelve, and the latter formed the escort subjected to a severe eight taels apiece, in order that they may trial, in order to find out if they were be able to provide themselves with necess guilty of collusion. aries. The money will be taken from the SILK CROP IN CHEKIANG. house rent fund.—Approved. The Governor of Chekiang reports that 23rd July. the production of silk in that province, KE-MOUNTS IN KOBDO. that is to say in Hangchow, Kasliing and The Officer administering the Govern Huchow, amounts this year approximately ment of Kobdo states that, according to a to a fifiy per cent. crop. report from the Klialkha Prince in charge 25th July. of the stud, there are not enough horses DEPARTURE OF GOVEBNOK FKOM S00CII0W . in the studs for the performance of the The late Governor of Kiangsu, who has official duties required. He therefore, in been transferred to the same post at Can accordance with the precedent set on pre ton, reports that, his successor having ar vious occasions, requested the Governor of rived at Soochow on the 28th June, on the Uliasutai to send liim two hundred young 29th lie handed over charge, and on the geldings from the breeding establishments 3rd July started for his new poat. in that place. The Governor has replied that he has only three hundred suitable DEATH CAUSED BY ILLEGAL CONFINEMENT. hordes, and therefore proposes to send one According to a report made to the Gor- hundred and fifty to Kobdo and keep the verner of Foimosa by the colonel stationed J uly 25—26.] 9/ at Kagee, a certain captain locked up a Ngankin, three districts of Liichow Fu, two prisoner last autumn. After two months o f T ‘aip£ii】g，two of Yingchow, one of and a half he suddenly released the man, Chihchow, aud in Ssuchow, Liuanchow, who died of disease the same night, the and Hochow. In some cases it was said cause of his sickness being manifestly the that they had just been hatched from the continement to which lie had been subject fish spa'vii on the dried up banks of the ed. It is conceded that the captain was rivers and lakes. In some districts they responsible for the protection of the locality were said to have been exterminated, and in where he lived against robbers, and the others an active campaign was being carried man whom he shut up was a person of bad on against them. The memorialist there character. But he ought to have handed fore sent instructions to each district, as the over his prisoner to the civil authorities case might be, either to continue the Avork and not have kept him in detention for any of destruction, or to prevent their reappear lengthened period. ance in the future. The latest news, just SEDITION IN MANCHURIA. received, is to the effect that everywhere they have been got rid of either entirely or The Governor of Kirin refers to previous to the extent of perhaps ninety per cent; reports in which he narrated the prevention and that in no case have they become full of an intended rising near Ch'angclPun, grown and flown away to other places. and the suppression of an outbreak of There has been a special report from brigands in the immediate neighbourhood Tangtu Hsien, a large district where they of Kirin about the month of January last. appeared earlier than anywhere else. These events were closely followed by the After long continued efforts on the part of earance of several bodies of banditti in the civil, military and river authorities, jurisdictions of Alcliuku and Potuna, ， they have at last all been utterly exter all of whom were crushed (ne ofter another minated. While, in the adjacent prefec by the energy of the regular troops. The ture of Chiangning (Nanking), there have moment, says the memorialist, was one of been long ditches dug, and men are em unusual peril. The country was disturbed ployed to keep watch in order to destroy swd all men were excited by the news u-f any of the insects in case they should the Jelio rebellion. The brigands received appear. additions from escaped insurgents ; and, if they had not been speedily annihilated, a MANCHURIAN 0F1ICERS RECOMMENDED. repetition of the Jelio trouble might easily When the Jelio rebellion broke out, a lutve arisen Not only did the troops force of cavalry was sent with all possible display great gallantry while subjected to speed from Kirin to keep watch in the severe hardships from the climate, but the town and the neighbourhood of Ch(ang- civil authorities gave energetic assistance cli‘un. The vigilance of the commanders with the local levies and train-bands which detected a conspiracy on the part of th e they collected. In conclusion, the memo members of some unlawful society ; and rialist presents two lists. The one is of the leading men among them having been officers, both civil and military, whom he arrested and executed, all the uneasiness recommends for rewards on account of of the people was dispelled. For this, and their distinguished conduct. The other is for tlieir carefully conducted patrolling of of officers and soldiers killed in action, on the country, which had a most beneficial "whom it is hoped that marks of the Em- effect in every way, the said commanders peror’s compassion may be bestowed.一 are recommended for promotion.—Referred deferred to the Board. to the Buard of War. LEAVE OF ABSENCE EXTENDED. 26th July. The Governor of Kirin states that last LOCUSTS IN ANHUI. November an o伍cer of the Emperor’s In continuation of previous reports the Guards was given five months’ leave of Governor of Anliui states that early in absence to proceed to Kirin and repair the June large quantities of locusts’ eggs were graves of his family. It was near the end dug up and destroyed in various districts, of January by the time when he could reach and as the month went on the warmth of Kirin, and the ground was so hard that it the weather caused a great many young was impossible for him to coinmence his insects to be liatched out from eggs that task. He has thus been unable to com- had escaped detection. The memorialist plete it so as to return to Peking within therefore sent officers to find out what was the time granted to him, and he begs that the real state of things. The presence of he may be granted two more months,一Ap- Jucusta was reported in tiy© districts of proved, 98 [J uly July 27tli. borne out by the enquiries which he PUNISHMENTS FOR FLOODS AT TIENTSIN. made. He has now received the customs An Imperial Decree notices Li Hung- returns for last year. The receipts for cluiug’s memorial reporting the breaches in wine, which are very trifling, are included the embankments of the Hun Ho or Yung- under those for tobacco. The total anionut tins; River, and requesting that he may be under this head is Tls. 8,523, or only one punished for their occurrence. It appears third o f the fixed assessment; and when it that the banks gave Avay at two points in is diminished by the ten per cent, given as the beginning of July, but there is no pay for the clerks and servants, it becomes water now flowing through the openings. Tls. 7,671. The result of the wood tax is On the 7fch of that month, however, the Tls. 3,726, which is a little above the assess bank Avas washed away for a length of more ed amount. The total deficiency is Tls. than four hundred feet. For not preventing 19,476. As tho memorialist can guarantee, this the Taotai in charge and two other after the careful enquiries made, that this officers are nominally cashiered, while be is really caused by the failure of the crop, ing retained in their posts, and four and is not in any way the result of pecu more are deprived of their buttons. The lation, lie hopes that the Emperor will be Board is desired to determine a penalty pleased to sanction the passing of the ac for Li Hung-chang. The Viceroy is at c o u n ts .Referred to the Boai d of Revenue. the same time desired immediately to STEAMER FOR ANHUI GOVERMENT. strengthen the two ends of the breach, The Governor of Anhui states that lie s分 that it may nob extend further, and, as soon as- he can, he is to set to work to has for some time past employed two steam replace the destroyed portion. ers, the Chengchiug and the their duties being to carry treasure, provisions, FAILURE IN KIRIN TOBACCO CROP. munitions, and so on. They have both The Governor of Kirin reports a serious suffered somewhat from long use, especially failure in the tobacco crop of that part of the Anlan^ which has cost a good deal to the country, causing a large deficiency in repair of late years, and is besides very the customs revenue for last year. Special small for service in rough weather. Last duties are collected at the city of Kirin on winter the memorialist Iieard I hat the tobacco, 'vine and wood. Nine years ago Viceroy at Nanking was goin^ to lay up the Board of Revenue fixed the amounts the Fuau. He therefore asked the Vice that these must produce nfc Tls. 28,000 f（»r roy to let him use it instead. The Fuan the two first, and Tls. 3,700 for the third, is 130 feet long, and 19 feet broad, CO with a provision for special arrangements horse-power, crew all told 49, monthly in case of years when the crops might expenses Tls. 650 to 680. The Aidcnb will fail. About September last year tlip be laid up, as her engines and boilers are officer in charge of the custom house repre in a bad state ; and her Captain will com sented that while wine and Avoud were mand the Fuan. All expenses will be affording their ordinary revenue, it was charged to the Anhui Government. The otherwise with the principal article, namely memorialist has notified the Board of Re yellow tobacco, which had suffered severely venue and the Board of War.—Approved, in most districts from rain and frost. At 28th July. his request an independent official was sent to make enquiries throughout the KIRIN CUSTOMS ； SHORT COLLECTION. country. According to this gentleman’s According to a report from the Governor report, the tobacco crop was in the first of Kirin, the duties collected last year on place much injured by heavy rains which general produce amounted to Tls. 3,928, fell constantly from the month of June after deducting fifteen per cent, for the onwards ; further, on the 16th and 17th of expenses of the staff; while the amount tember, two severe frosts occurred, and according to the fixed assesseruent should tobacco leaves were spoilt by the action have been Tls. 6,742. The causes to which of the sun upon them after they had thus this falling off is ascribed are, first, excessive been frost-bitten. Where the frost had rains, which had a serious effect on the been lightest, forty per cent, of the crop growth of all crops; secondly, in the eastern was saved ; in other places hardly twenty part of the province, the shipment of cargoes per cent. The average for the whole for the south from Vladivostock, so that was less than thirty per cent. When they escaped taxation; and a diminution in travelling about to inspect troops the the quantity of ginseng, skins and deer memorialist did what he could to verify horns, owing to the more general cultivation these and he foun迂 them of the ground by th阜 increased population J uly 28—29.] 99 and the consequent destruction of the wastes This very expensive work was only com and thickets. The Governor guarantees the pleted last May, and as Admiral Ting truth of these statements, and declares that happened to be in those parts, lie was the poverty of the collectors of customs is asked to go to Foochow and take them such that they could not find means t > over for the Canton Viceroy. The guns make good the d e fic ie n c y . to the were good and so were the engines ; but ifc Board of Revenue. had not been possible to make a thorough trial of the speed of the ships. The donkey FUNDS FOR KOBDO AND ULIASUTAI. engines wanted slight alterations, which The Manchu authorities at Suiyuan in had at once been elteeted. In J line the Shansi report that they liavei，eceive‘l the sum ships came to Canton, where the Viceroy of Tla. 100,3GG for the use of the government inspected them. Their crews all told in Uliasutai and Kobdo. Tls. 95,366 of amount to between 140 and 150 men. this money lias been provided from the For the purpose of drilling with the provincial treasury of Shansi, and Tls. 5,000 northern fleet, tlieir coinnianders have been from that Kiangsi. The money has put under the orders of the captain of the been handed in portions to several officers, Kunngch!r^ who lias been through that who will convey it to its destinaiion. The work several times. Half of tlie cost of memorialists are also despatching fourteen the materials and labour was found by the soldiers to Uliasutai, to take (he place of Foochow Arsenal, while the remainder men whose term of three years’ service has comes from contributions by officials, gentry expiied. and salt merchants. For further expenditure 29th July. the Viceroy begs that lie may have recourse to i he sum of Tls. 100,000 which was to be LOCUSTS NEAR PEKING. repaid this year by the flupch government An Imperial Decree states I hat locusts for guns transferred to that pr ovince from having been seen in the nei.ulibourliood of Canton. Peking, the Emperor recently summoned before him the Government of the Metro DEFENCES AGAINST ABORIGiNES. politan Prefecture, whom he desired to set The Viceroy at Canton says that three to work tu destroy them immediately, ancl years ago. there was a rising of tlio Yao to find out if harm had been done to the aborigines, who inhabit the north-west corn in the districts where they bad passed. corner of his province, where it touches A cens）v has now reported that there are upon Hunan and Kuangsi. Officers were locusts about everywhere. His Majesty sent to quell the disturbance, and two desires the hi^h authorities both of Peking bodies of troops were raised by them, one and of the Province to take strenuous of one hundred, the other of five hundred measures at once. They will also report men. At the end of the year, when order whafc they are doing, and whether any ]nvl been re-established, the first body and damage has been effected so far. half of the second were disbanded, two hundred and fifty men being retained as a CANTON MEN-OF-WAK. permanent force. During the four months When Viceroy at Canton, Chang that the whole f<»rce was in existence, Tls. Chih-tung obtained perinissi«»n to have 12,000 were spent in pay and food for it. eight men-of-war of foreign type built An expendifure of Tls. 4.100 w：»s also in for him at the Foochow Arsenal. curred in building offices am) guard houses One of these was constructed, the at seven points. The Viceroy request's f(uangchln，and after a good deal of altera- that these accounts may be passed.一Ap ti⑴l was sent north to be drilled with proved. the fleet. A second, the K^tanukeng, was also built, but, not being adapted for going COST OF FOItTS AT CANTON. out to sea, was retained for service in Kuang- The Vicen-y at Canton says that eighteen tung. Of four others the construction was years ago his predecessors commenced the postponed by the present Viceroy. The construction of forts after the Western remaining two, the Knangping and Knaiuji method, in order to defend the long and which are very similar to the K 、ia"gchi"、 deeply indented coast of the province. He were completed by the arsenal a d are fit now reports the expenditure incurred in for active service. When they were ready the two years ending eighteen months »，go, commanclers were appointed to them, and for forts, magazines and soldiers’ quarters. were desired to fit them out wilh guns, It amounts altogether to Tls 34,000. The torpedoes, electric lights, flags and other detailed accounts he has submitted to the necessaries, beside shipping proper ci'ows. hoards concerned.一 Approred. 100 [J uly 30—Ano. 2. July 30th. 2nd August. AN APPOINTMENT CANCELLED. REMITTANCE FROM CANTON. It may be remembered that an officer The Canton authorities have been re named Akotach £un was recently made Gover quired this year to forward Tls. 100,000 nor of Shansi, and a protest was lodged by from their likin receipts to the metropo a censor aga/nst his appointment on the litan government at Peking. The Viceroy grounds of the very indifferent reputation now reports the despatch of Tls. 20,000, which he enjoyed at his last post. A Hiis being the second instalment that he Decree now states tliafc Akotach(un has lias H' nt. just been received in audience by the Em 31st July. peror, who found a want of clearness in all the replies which he gave to His Majesty’s RELIEF OF DISTRESS IX CHIHLI. questions. It is ordered that he vacate Many rivers, says an Imperial Decree, the Governorship of Shansi and wait for have overflowed their banks in the province other employ uent instead of Chilili, on account of the excessive ia:ns OVERFLOWING OF THE YUNGTXNG KIVER. which fell in the course of the month of Li Hnng-chang reports the overflowing July. Widely spread inundations are re of its banks by the Hun Ho （>r Yuniting ported t(> have occurred in the prefectures River. The misfortune is ascribed to of Shuntien, Paoting, Tientsin and Hochien. the extraordinary rainfall between the The Emperor desires to devote to the relief 11th ancl 17th uf July. In a short space of of distress one hundred thousand piculs of time the river rose hs much as twenty-seven the canal-borne tribute rice from northern feet. At the bridge near Peking, called and soutlieri) Kiangsu. The Viceroy of the the Lukou Ch£iao, there was nn）re than a Province and the Governor of Sliujitien Fu foot of water covering the approaches (»n will instruct the local authorities h* find out either side. Two comparatively unimport in what districts the distress is most severe, ant breaches occurred first; but on the in order that the Emperor’s bounty may 17tli nf July, aided by a strong north-east reach those who have the greatest need f<*r wind, the strenin drove against the south it. The money which would have been ex bank, at a place where an outlet had pre pended in conveying the above mentioned viously been constructed. The water rose rice from Tientsin to Peking will also be high above the tup of the embankment, and handed to the Relief Board for distribution in the middle of the night carried it away as charity. far a length of more than four hundred feet. This so much changed the course of THE INSURRECTION IN NORTH SZECHUAN. the water that the two earlier gaps were at Mention has already been made in these once left dry. The Viceroy having quoted columns of the disturbances in Szechuan the above remarks from the report <，f the caused by robbers in league with starving Taotai in charge, goes on to say that the peasants from over the Shensi frontier. bed of the river lias long been raised by The Emperor is pleased with the promp silting, and its enib mknieuts are only titude shown in putting down the insurrec of loose sand. The proper way to deal tion, and afterwards in capturing several of with it would be to dig a fresh bed alto the ringleaders. He gives permission to gether in a different ]）lace. But he has the Viceroy to recommend for rewards the been prevented from doing this both f）fficers who specially distinguished them by the want of funds and the unwilling selves in the affair. ness of the people, and has had to adopt a very much smaller and more imperfect 1st August. i scheme. The tendency of the river has j always been to break out on its northern NEW TAOTAI AT CHEFOO. \ side, and it is just there on account of the Sheng Taotai having been transferred to | proximity of the capital that any overflow the Customs Taotaiship at Tientsin, it lias ' is most dangerous. Two years ngo there- become necessary to find an acting occup ' fore he dug an outlet to the si.uth through ant of the post at Chefoo during the inter i t-be Hsiao ChMng River to the Ta Ch*ing val till the officer who has received the ; R ver，traversing a tract little inhabited substantive appointment can arrive. The i and thus less liable to injury by floods. It Governor h“s therefore selected for this w-is here that the great break occurred oil purpose an expectant Taotai, Li Cheng- the 17th of July ; and if it had been on ,1 ung, whom he states to be an upright and the other bank, much more damage would experienced official. i have been effected. It may be said that A ug. 2—3.] 101 -the accident happened under very extra dry that the attempt must come to nothing, ordinary circumstances, as at Shiliching unless further copious showers should Shan the water rose three feet above what follow. Moreover the price of grain was had been previously the highest mark. very high, and so was the cost of carriage Nevertheless the Viceroy feels bound to re as the horses had many of them died. commend that certain punishments should The memorialist had therefore provided a be inflicted on the officials in charge o f the further sum of Tls. 60,000, ordering that embankments, and that the Board should it must not be wasted in any way, and determine a penalty for himself. desiring the commanding officers in the A Decree adopting the Viceroy’s report adjacent part of the country to employ has already been published. their troops in preserving order. In the south of the province the early DEFALCATIONS BY A MAGISTRATE. harvest has been destroyed by drought According to a report from the acting throughout Fenchow, P'ingyang and Ho- Governor of Shansi, the magistrate of chou, with the exception of a few peculiarly Hsia lisien died about six months ago after wet spots. The local authorities also reported •holding his post for a year and a few days. either that the autumn crops had not been 丑 is successor, on going through the official sown, or that they were not likely to come •accounts of the magistracy, found a defi to anything. It has therefore been arranged ciency in the treasury of Tls. 28,385. This to lend corn from the public granaries, sum is so large that the Governor thinks it and to leave the question of the grain tax must in part be due to thefts by the till the time of the autumn harvest has private or public servants of the magistrate arrived. at the moment when he was at the point In P cuchou, Chiehchou, Chiangchou, of death. The memorialist requests that Luan, Tsechou, P ‘ingting，Hsicliou and the deceased may be formally cashiered Liaochou seasonable rain I二s fallen. The and that any property of his may be seized ; spring crops were fair, the autumn ones ■also that his servants and clerks may be have been sown, and the regular tax paid brought to the capital of the province with as usual. In T‘aiyuan, Tatung, Taicliou, a view to their being rigorously examined. Ningwu, Sop‘ing, PaotSli a“d Ch‘inchou, 一Decree issued separately. the rainfall has been variable in both time 3rd August. and quantity. The harvest therefore can not be estimated beforehand; but orders DISTRESS IX SHANSI. have been issued for the landing of grain In continuation of previous reports, the where required. In villages where it is Acting Governor of Shansi states that at the second year of distress, a distribution the beginning of the summer further of relief has been made, and the people accounts reached him of the distress occa will be able to hold out. In conclusion the sioned by long standing drought in Kuei- memorialist refers to the fact that the hua and six other districts situated at the province has never fully recovered from the extreme north of the province. The great famine, and states his fears that ifc autumn crops were not sown and the poor will not be possible for the present to put had no means of subsistence. The suffer a stop to the giving of relief. ing was specially great beyond the Tach‘ing The Emperor’s Decree desires the me Shan, where the people were leaving their morialist to take care of the people and homes and selling their children. Cheers not let them be driven from their homes. were therefore sent to Kueihua and Sui- yuan for the purpose of establishing relief YELLOW RIVER IN SHANTUNG. ■depots. As there were no provincial funds The Governor of Shantung reports that available, a sum of Tla. 100,000 was bor he has left the provincial capital and taken rowed from the treasury at Suiyuan; up his abode on the bank of the Yellow and corn for distribution was bought at River, in order to be able to exercise per Paotou, which seemed the nearest possi- sonal supervision over the repairs which place, the orders being to give out may be necessary. In the early part of the two months’ rations to all in need. The summer, says the memorialist, there was officers employed afterwards reported that no permanent rise in the water, and th© the money in their hands would not embankments gave no cause for anxiety. be su伍cient. The tract of country con But rain fell many days in succession from cerned was of very large extent, and there the 29th of June. An extraordinary freshet was little hope of an autumn crop. Kain was brought down from the mountains by fell once in June, and many had hurried the Yiifu River, and the Yellow River to till their lands. But the ground was bo itself steadily increased in violence and ia 102 [A ug. 3—4. height. It rose every day without intermis His agents selected and purchased suitable- sion, sometimes more and sometimes less land, registered the families to be reiuoved, than a foot. On the 16th and 17th July gave them plots of land, with money together the increase was as much as four for travelling and for the cost of building. feet and one inch; and even after that it still At the present time, from seventy continued to mount. Accidents of various to eighty per cent, of the new houses kinds have been reported, from Hotse in have been built. Altogether, including the upper part of the river, from Ch*ang- what was clone previously to the pre ch(ing in the central part, and Pinchou in sent year, between Changch'in and the the lowest. They comprise the subsidence sea more than two hundred new villages or the eating away of embankments, the have been built, and more than twenty washing away of fascines and the disap thousand families moved. The earlier re pearance of breakwaters. The officers local movals have already planted trees, dug ly in charge are busily occupied in setting wells, and ploughed the land; while those matters to rights without a momenfa of this year are also getting on well. delay.—Noted. There only remain a few families to be 4th August. transported in these districts, and the inhabitants of thirty villages in LiclPeng APPOINTMENTS. Hsien, all of whom will be moved before Chang Hsii is appointed Governor of winter. Shansi, and Wu Ta-chfeng succeeds him as Governor of Hunan. CHARITY SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR SHANTVKG. LOCUSTS AT PEKIKO. The inhabitants of Shantung, Jiving near One of the Censors at Peking represents the course of the Yellow River and of the that since the 20th or 21st of July he Hsiao Ch‘ing River, have been for many has seen locusts flying backwards and for years the recipients of relief funds both from wards over the city, some going south and the State and from private contributors. others going north. There were innumer Not only has great liberality been shown able quantities, both on the earth and in by givers all over the empire, but extra the air. He has heard that much damage ordinary hardships have been incurred by has been done by them to the crops in those who undertook the distribution of Wuch‘ing and the adjacent districts, and the money. Between August in the year lie expresses his surprise that the local 1883, and the month of February in 1888, authorities did nob destroy them before there were subscribed and distributed Tls. they could fly. It seems that they are 836,000 ; wadded clothes, 124,000; doses of prevalent in Anhui and Kiangsu, as well medicine, 113,000. The above, says the ag in Shansi, where there has been no Governor, was reported some time ago by considerable rain either last year or this. his predecessor, Chang Yao. Since then, He is aware that they can never be up to the month of May last, the Relief absolutely exterminated ; but they will be Boards in Shantung have received from prevented from doing harm, wherever the charitable givers in all parts of China, Tls. authorities are active and vigilant. His 1,840,000, 270,000 articles of wadded Majesty’s predecessors have been very clothing, and 8,000 piculs of different earnest in their orders as to the destruction kinds of grain. With the exception of of the insects ; and the memorialist now certain sums which were expended in begs that the local o伍cials may be ordered digging two river channels as relief works, to trace those which have recently appeared all the above contributions were handed to and do away with them without delay.— Yen Tso-lin and the other gentlemen from Decree already published. Kiangsu and Chekiang, who had under taken the office of distributors ; and there REMOVAL OP VILLAGES IN SHANTUNG. remains in their hands cash and silver to In many of the districts between Chinan the value of Tls. 50,000. Those contribu Fn and the sea there were villages enclosed tors who wished for rewards have been within the Yellow River embankments. recommended in accordance with the rules They were perpetually flooded and their while those have been left unnoticed who inhabitants were in dire distress. At the gave only for the sake of giving and did begining of this year the Governor of not wish attention called to them. But the Shantung proposed to buy land in elevated collectors and distributors are considered situations outside the embankments and worthy of special remark. They have taken to transfer the sufferers to them at the great trouble and in som e cases have incurr government expenr.e. He now describes ed great hardships, while their labours have Kliat has been done to carry out his plan. resulted in preserving the poor from A ug. 4 —7.] 103 beggary and loss of home. The Governor 6th August. therefore requests permission to ask re COST OF COPPER IN YVNNAX. wards for those who are the most deserving According to a memorial from the high among them.—Referred to the Board. authorities in Yunnan, the mining com 5th August. pany there represent that they could send a further supply of copper to Peking SZECHUAN VICEROY WISHES TO RETIRE. this year, but the price allowed by the A month’s leave of absence was recently government is not su伍eient to cover granted to the Viceroy of Szechuan on the the cost, so that the more they send the ground of ill-health. This holiday has now greater is tlieir loss. The sum allowed expired, but the sufferer finds that his is Tls. 10.30 per picul; while with the ailments have increased, and that nothing poverty of ore and the present cost of but a long period of complete rest can labour and fuel it ought to be as much as restore him to health. He therefore re Tls. 12.30. The memorialists support the quests permission to resign his post, pro application and vouch for the truth of the mising again to apply for an appointment statements as to the difficulties of the com if ever his strength will allow him. pany. Whereas formerly the ore need The Decree in reply gives him two only be melted once and produced sixty months’ more leave of absence. or seventy per cent of copper ; now it must be passed through the fire seven or THEFT AT EASTERN TOMBS. - eight times, and the result ia not more Last spring one hundred and six sacri than ten per cent. There is also not ficial vessels were stolen from a store room the same competition for private .pur 芯t one of the Imperial Tombs to the poses that there used to be on the part of east of Peking. An investigation has been wealthy merchants from other provinces. held, but it lias failed to elicit much. The In the interests of the mining population vessels were safe at the end of the third as well as of the government of Peking, month, but were missing when wanted at the memorialists request that the regula the middle of the fourth month. The strips tion price may be increased by one tael, of paper pasted across the door of the namely to Tls. 11.30.—Heferred to the room were broken during the first day or Board of Hevenne. two of the month; and when the officer 7th August. who had been on duty handed over charge to the next one, he said that this was an END OF INSURRECTION IN SZECHUAN. ordinary occurrence whenever a high wind Mention has already been made in these blew. Two or three officials succeeded columns of an insurrection in northern each other without any inspection being Szechuan excited by local robbers with the made, and the loss was only discovered aid of starving people whom they invited when the articles were required for use. to join them from the neighbouring pro The ofiicer first on duty will be severely vince of Shensi. After killing an officer punished, his successors more lightly. The who tried to bar their progress, the insur guards will also be dealt with in proportion gents moved from Nanchiang to Tung- to their responsibility. Search for the actual hsiang, forcing the country folk where thieves must be kept up till they be dis they could to join their band. In the covered. district of Tuughsiang, to the number of In a further memorial on this subject it three or four hundred men, they occupied is stated that the police of Tsunliua Chou a strong position, and there waited to be recently arrested a certain captain of the attacked. All available troops were got to guards at the tombs. He was travelling gether and led against them without delay. to Peking, and in his cart were found more A hot conflict ensued, but the insurgents than a thousand ounces of pewter and two were worsted and fled into the mountain or three hundred taels of silver. His forests with the loss of thirty killed and servants on examination deposed that he many wounded. Some prisoners were taken had long been in the practice of manu later, on whom were found a number of facturing false silver; and be himself, tickets，which they said they bad been after hearing what they alleged, said that ordered to distribute with a view to arising be would make no attempt to deny it. It on an appointed day. The insurgents fled is thought that he may have undertaken eastward, pursued by the troops, who the melting clown of the missing articles, kept cutting off some of tlieir number. and he will therefore be rigorously ex The alarm having been given throughout amined on this point. the country, the people were ready and 104 [A>ug. / —9. prevented their entering into the villages, so incensed him against the woman that he so that they were forced to flee by unfre determined to take her life. One night, quented roads and by-ways. They crossed when he knew that her husband was away the border into Shensi; but there a」ain on business, he armed himaelf with a sharp they were met by the troops and driven pointed knife and went secretly to her back. Finally all their leaders were killed house. Failing to open the door, lie set fire or taken, while the remnants of the band to the thatch of a cowshed which was built melted away and disappeared. The Viceroy against the house. The woman soon came mentions that in the reign of Chia Ch‘iug running out of the house with her little the mountainous district is question was boy in her arms. The assasin fell upon the scene of a religious rising, which, not her with his knife, and, as she tried to being suppressed at the time, finally grew evade him, he accidentally struck the into a terrible rebellion. The expedition child, whom he killed with the first bio讯. shown on the present occasion by the In spite of her cries for help, he stabbed officers concerned is such, he thinks, as to her repeatedly till she fell to the ground, entitle them to praise, and lie begs that he whereupon he killed her outright. An may recommend the most worthy of them elder daughter of the woman tried to stop for reward.—Request granted in- a separate, him, hanging on to his clothes and scream Decree. ing “ murder.” Being unable to get clear of her, he struck her several blows, and she OFFICER RETAINED IN SHANTUNG. fell dying. He turned to flee ; but was An official named Ho Huan-chang was caught by the neighbours who were hurry recently sent by Chang Chih-tung to ing to the spot to extinguish the fire. The Shantung in order to visit the mines in case was tried, and finally the offender was that province. The Governor of Shan brought before the Viceroy according to tung finds him a man of unusual intelli the ordinary course of procedure. The gence and well acquainted with river works. sentence which the Viceroy has passed Therefore, as this is the season of floods, provisionally ia that of, branding, decapita he proposes to retain him temporarily in tion without delay, and exposure of the Shantung, and give him employment in criminal’s head.—Referred to the Board of connection with the river. Punishments who will report at once. 8th August. EXPENDITURE AT SZECHUAN ARSENAL. MURDEK OF THREE PERSONS. The Viceroy of Szechuan states that he is The Viceroy of Szechuan reports the sending to the Board of Revenue detailed sentence passed by him in a case of mur accounts of last years’s expenditure at the der. The criminal, whose name was Lo provincial arsenal, as there is a new rule T ‘ing-lin, was a poor country labourer in requiring this to be done annually with re the district of Ho Hsien. One night, com gard to all extraordinary expenditure. The ing home penniless and miserable, he went work accomplished in the twelve months into a neighbour’s house and stole a basket. comprises repairs to 115 pieces of machi The wife of a cousin of his, who also lived nery, 10 fire engines and 1,652 old foreign, near, happened to pass by at the moment rifles ; there have also been manufactured and saw what he was doing. He besought 380,000 cartridges for Mauser Rifles, her not to tell of him, and she promised 6,600,000 copper caps for muzzle-loaders, to keep silence. The woman afterwards 120,000 pounds of gunpowder, ninety-three noticed that she was frequently robbed of pieces of machinery, and other articles in corn, poultry and the like ; and as Lo T ‘ing- small quantities. Everything has been lin often came to her house she suspected tested and found satisfactory before being that he was the pilferer. She therefore issued. The total cost of the years* ex went to his house and taxed him with the penditure at the arsenal, including wages, offence. Lo T ‘ing-lin protested with much purchase of material and everything, has vehemence and appealed to the people of been Tls, 43,513 ; and the funds to pay for the village. Upon this the woman told the it have all been withdrawn from the likin whole story about her having formerly on local products, without trenching upon, caught him thieving. The assembled the ordinary sources of revenue. 一 Bcferrecl villagers decided that ahe had no proof of to the Board. his having robbed her ; but that lie must 9th August. not go near her house again. After this CAPTURE OF ROBBERS. LoT4ing-lin found great di伍culty in getting About the beginning of summer last work ; for the story had spread abroad and year, the Taotai of the Grand Canal was no one waa willing to employ him. Thia in his boat at a place near T‘eng Hsien in A ug. 9—11.] 105 Shantung, when he waa attacked by a Wei River rose suddenly as much as particularly audacious party of robbers. twenty feet, flooding the land and run He himself was wounded and a quantity ning into the moat of Weihui Fu. The of government treasure was stolen. When cifcy gates were closed and blocked to the matter waa reported to the Throne, prevent the entrance of the water, but the Emperor considered the matter un outside the whole country was a wide sea. usually serious, and stripped of their rank Many villages were under water ; and it both the Magistrate of T‘eng Hsien and was feared that some people had been the local military o伍cer. An energetic hurt by the falling of their houses. search was made for the robbers, and by Somewhat similar reports came in from degrees nine of them were arrested, one Hsinhsiang Hsien, a little higher up being the leader of the gang. One other the Wei River ; and there was a was killed in resisting capture. As the great freshet in the Tan River at Huai- number of the robbers had been discovered cl^ing Fu, but the consequences there to be eighteen, Fnore than half their seem to have been less serious. The number have thus been brought to justice. memorialist hopes that with the present Ir is therefore humbly requested fcliat the fine weather the water will run off early Emperor will restore to their rank the enough to enable the people to replant two cashiered officers, by whose diligence their ground and get a crop after all. But the arrests were effected. In urging this as there must be a good deal of suffering the Governor represents that the magis in the inundated villages round Weihui trate had only held his post fourteen days Fu, he has sent three thousand taels to be before the affair occurred ; on the four expended in the building of temporary teenth day he - went away to pay his refuges or the distribution of food, as may respects to the prefect, and the next night seem best to the o伍cials in charge. the robbery took place. It thus could The Emperor’s Decree orders all neces not be ascribed to previous laxity on his sary steps to be taken for the relief of the part.•—Reqneat granted. sufferers. llfcli August. DONATION BY DISGKACKD OFFICIAL. A donation of Tls. 15,000 has been made OUTRAGE BY SALT SMUGGLERS. towards the cost of moving villagers in Abwut three years ago the lateGovernorof Shamung from flooded lands, and settling Shantung reported the murder of a num them <>n higher jsjround. The giver is a ber of uoverunient servants by salfc smug disgraced ina?.istrafe who was cashiered on glers in the district of Wei Hsien. The the recoininendation of the late Governor present governor now furnishes a final of the province. He had been accused of statement concerning the affair which has two niisdenieanours. One was inflicting taken all this time to settle. An officer in heavy, tines on the parties concenied in the preventive service had his headquarters lawsuits which came before him. It is now at a licensed salt shop in one of the villages slated that the proceeds of the fines were in the district. There was a good deal of devoted to building a college, and n"t to illicit trade going on in the neighbourhood, his private use. The otlier was some the poor people gladly buying from the offence connected with the salfc revenue, smugglers the small quantities required for for which apparently there was no excuse， their daily use. One day a watcher caught except that it was an old custom. The one of the smugglers, and took him Governor states that neither of the offences to the salt shop above mentioned. The are among those considered irredeemable officer examined the prisoner, and, having and begs ihat the niaiVs liberality may be forced him to give up the names of some i*ewfl,rde（i by His restoration to his former of his accomplices, sent five soldiers to find rank.一Granted. and arrest them. In the meantime a 10th August. number、of the prisoner’s friends came to beg for his release ; but they were met by FLOODS IN NORTHERN HONAN. a stern refusal. On the return home，find According t<> a memorial from the Go ing the five soldiers in their village, they vernor of Honan there have been serious seized them and placed them under a guard floods in the part of the province which lies in a deserted temple, where they deter to the north of the Yellow River. In the mined to keep them as hostages. A party first half of July there were already heavy of seventeen men then assembled, armed rains, and the low lands in several districts themselves with what weapons they could, were reported as bei"g under water. and marched in a body to the salt shop. But after the middle of the month the Arriving there, they proposed to make an 106 「Aug. 11 —]3. exchange of prisoners, and when the officer; memorialist suggests that lie should be would not listen to them, they began to promoted in rank from the lower grade of make a disturbance. It happened to be the first class b * the upper grade of the market day, and many of the people first class —Granted. ， present were illicit buyers or sellers of 12th August. salt; so that a sympathising crowd was easily collected. At length the rioters be KEWARD FOR GETTING TELEGRAPH POLES. came so violent, that two of the soldiers Two years ago a line of telegraph was inside fired off their guns to frighten them, erected from Sian Pu through Kansu to and in so doing unfortunately wounded one Ohiavii Kuan, a distance of 2,900 li. The or two men, and killed a bystander out poles were furnished by military officers, right. The assailants then became more who went off wirh their soldiers into furious than ever and forced their way. into the mountains and cufc down trees for the yard. The officer and his men tried to the purpose. In many cases this was a resist them, but were most of fcHem knock long and difficult t isk. The commanrler- ed over and left wounded on the ground. in-chief in Kansu thinks that the said After this some of the rioters dispersed, officers are worthy of some reward ； and but the remainder agreed to burn down the considers that such a recognition of salt shop. A stack of millet stalks was their services would have a good effect standing close by, and so it was easily set in view of the present extending of the on fire. Some of the wounded men man line into Turkestan, for which poles must aged to struggle o u t; but the remainder, be provided in a similar way. A list of and the officer himself, were unable to recommendations is forwarded through the move, and therefore were burnt to death. Viceroy Li Hung-cliang. —Referred to the Meanwhile the uninj ured soldiers were Board of U’a 厂. some of them trying to extinguish the 13th August flame?, and the others attempting to arrest YELLOW RIVER IN SHANTUNG. those of the rioters who remained on the In continuation of a previous report spot. After two of them had been wounded which was dated the 20th July, the Gover- in so doing, a third fired and knocked over ner of Shantung presents a memorial con two of the smugglers. The rest of the cerning the state of the Yellow River in his smugglers then turned upon them, seized province. A go（*tl dual of severe labour them, bound them, and, dragging them to has been required at various points, and the blazing house, threw them into the fire. one embankment built by the people has Five men were killed in this way. The been overflowed ; but this is an annual leader of the smugglers then proposed to affair and n^t in any way serious. In fact finish the business by putting to death the things are going fairly well everywhere, prisoners in the deserted temple. With except at one place, Shilichiawu, on the the help of some of his companions he took North sine of the river in the district of the men and drowned four of them in a Chinan Fu. Here a sandbank on the south river close by, the fifth managing to make shore drives the stream against the norrh his escape. bank. The water is forty feet deep, and The affair naturally caused a great stir, washes away the embankment as fast as it is and the magistrate was removed from his strengthened. A crescent-shaped wall,seven post. As time went on several of the cri hundred yaids long, is being constructed minals were arrested ; and the Governor behind ; but whether it can be completed in now reports the sentences which he has time, the memorialist is not yet able to say; passed. But as the worst.of the criminals stones are also being procured and thrown have all died in prison, the punishments into the hole at the dangerous point. allotted are of little interest. The magis trate is exculpated by the Governor from YELLOW RJVER IX HONAN. allresponsibilityforthe outbreak.一Referred The Director-General of the Yellow to the Board of Punishments. River reports that a sudden rise has taken place both in the Yellow River and the Ch‘in REWARD FOR CHARITABLE DONATION. River. There has been danger threatened The Governor of Shantung represents that at certain points ; but .so far it has been two years ago the late Li Feng-chang of successfully combated by the memorialist^ Hofei (brother of Li Hung-chang) gave staff. ten thousand articles of wadded clothing for FLOODS IK MAN(；HURTA. the use of the distressed people in Shan The Governor of F^n^tien reports serious tung. At the time he disclaimed all wish floods in the vallery of the Liao River and for reward. But now that he is dead, the its tributaries. The spring rains, says the A ug. 13—14.] 107 ineiu-.rialist, had been very seasonable，and of the servants, and carried off a quantity the crops were very promising. But on the of plunder. Afterwards fourteen of the rob 3rd of July heavy nun began to fall, and bers were arrested, and several of them vn the 6th, the 7th and the 10th it came were found to be men who had committed down in torrents, not stopping day or night. other crimes. Two of them died in prison, The Liao and its tributaries overflowed and the others have all been summarily their banks, and the lowlying lauds and beheaded, under the law which orders that villages were inundated in no less than punishment for all who take part in a nine districts, namely Gh‘angt‘u, K ‘ang- robbery, where any of the number are p‘ing, KStiyuan, T‘ieliling, Ch^ngte, Hsin- armed with foreign fire-arms. inin, Kuangning, Liaoyang and Haich‘eng. In some places too there had been, loss ()f PUNISHMENT FOR CAUSING SUICIDE. life from falling houses. As the people Eight years ago the Manchu commandant rally speaking are poor, there is a great at Ch‘ingehou in Shantung dismissed a of distress at the moment, and the clerk for incompetence. The clerk got distribution of relief is necessary. The into trouble by making a noise at the raenv»rialisfc has therefore appropriated Tls. commandant’s gate; but the affair was 30,000 for this purpose, and lias despatched arranged, and he went away as a tutor, officers to co-operate with the local author after which he did n"t misbehave again ities in taking care of the sufferers. The in any way. The commandant however sky lias since cleared, and it is hoped that used to hear noises and the breaking there will not be any recurrence of the of tiles on the roof of his house afc calamity. If the fine weather continues, night. He suspected that it was the clerk there will be good crops on the higher cuniiug to spy about, and he took to carry lands, which are of fxr wider extent, and ing a pistol for his own protection. After the mischief done to those on the low wards, in the spring of last year, he was ground will not seriously affect the general told that people were throwing about bricks prosperity. and tiles in the clerk’s yard. He sent for one of the corporals under his orders, and LOCUSTS IN CHIHLI. told him that the clerk was reported to be Owing to the absence of rain, says the a sorcerer. He added that the clerk had Viceroy Li Hung-chang, locusts appeared accused the corporal of throwing the bricks afc the beginning of summer in the country and tiles about. The corporal went and had to the east of Peking and in the Prefectures a tight with the clerk, after which he laid of Tientsin and Hochien. Wherever their h complaint before the commandant. The occurrence was reported, the local autho commandant sent everybody out of the rities were ordered to destroy them, and room, and then suggested to him that he the military cimmanders were instructed should accuse the clerk of having asked him to give their assistance. This was before to help assassinate the commandant. The the insects were able to fly, when their corporal, who was afraid to disobey hia extermination was a comparatively easy superior, accordingly lodged a petition matter. The military and civil authorities to the above effect. But thia was not afterwards reported that they had made enough; the commandant in the same away with vast quantities, and had pretty secret way told him to lay a further nearly destroyed them all. Though a few complaint charging the clerk with having had flown away to other places, still after practised witchcraft, and naming one the heavy rains in July, there was no Chleng-lai as able to substantiate the danger to be apprehended from the in. fact. Ch‘eng-lai，who was also oue of the In the south a few have flown over from commandant’s men, was similarly made to Shantung, where they had been brought say that, being a neighbour of the clerk, into existence by the long drought. But he had seen the latter moving stones and orders were given to deal with them, and jars by means of sorcery. The case was they have not done any harm to the brought before the civil authorities, upon crops. which the clerk accused the complainants 14' h August. "f acting out of spite, and detailed certain grudges that they had against him. As housebreaking by a large gang. both parties stuck to their story, it was One night in the spring of last year a found neeessary to remove the case to a body o f twenty-five men entered the town higher court. This alarmed the corporal, of ClViiehou by a gap in the city wall. and he went to seo the comniandant. Th© They made their way to a large silk goods latter would not receive him ; whereupon shop, broke open the do（»r, wounded one he stood in the doorway and shouted out 108 [Aug. 14—16. in every one’s hearing that if he were not ful showers came afc last and the progress admitted he would tell the truth. The of the junks was easier. On the 3rd of commandant was terified afc this, and soon July they had reached Shihli Pu1 where the afterwards shot himself, leaving a paper Yellow River -is crosspd. It was found on to the effect that the clerk, the corporal measuring that the Yellow River was at a and Ch‘eng-lai had been conspiring together higher level than the canal. The gates against him. These being the facts, the therefore were opened and the junks passed Governor of Shantung and the Tartar into the river. One after another they Lieutenant-General find that the corporal made their way to T‘aoch‘eng Fu on the drove the commandant to commit suicide ; opposite side, and by the 18th July they and as the latter was the superior officer of had all entered the northern canal. In the former, the penalty for the offence is view of the difficulty, that there always strangulation. But under the special cir is in getting across the Yellow River, the cumstances they think that this penalty passage this year may be considered very would be too severe, and propose to reduce successful. The fleet is being urged on it one degree, namely to flogging and ward with all possible speed ; and another banishment. Ch‘eng-lai，for bringing a false report will be made as s（）on as it has all charge, is sentenced to a lighter flogging. I passed out of the province of Shantung and The clerk is entirely acquitted.— red entered Chihli., to the Board of 16th August. 15th August. AFFAIRS IN HEILUISGCHIANG. EXAMINATIONS IN SHANTUNG. The Literary Chancellor of Shantung j The high authorities of Heilungchiang reports that from the first monfch to the report that the measurement of the land in beginning of the sixfclj he was engaged in Suihuafcking was undertaken last May. examining the students, lirst in Ch*ufu, The rebellion at Tungsuitzu was put down and then in Yenchou, Ts^aochou, Tung- thoroughly, and steps were taken to tran- ch(ang and Linch‘ing ; after which he re quillise the district, so that there should turned to hold the examinations at Chinan be no interference with the surveying Fu. The acquirements the candidates operations. All the people returned to were good, and tlieir behaviour satisfactory- their homes and perfect quiet prevailed. in the hall. The memorialist himself kept As a warning to every one the land of the an active supervision over them, so as to rebel chiefs was confiscated and the tenants check any commencement of improper in occupation of it were removed. The practices. There was also plenty of excel surveying was carried on in a proper man lent material among the military students; ner, and the people had no complaints to and full numbers could be pasded in both make against the officers. On account of schools. The Manchu garrison at Techou the lateness of the season they were able afforded the proper number <»f successful to measure the fields even up to mid candidates In every place the memorialist summer without injuring any of the crops. gave most earnest advice to those whom But the country having been colonised he examined, urging them to perfect them thirty years, there were a number of intri selves so as to respond to His Majesty's cate lawsuits among the people. Numer wishes. In all the districts he traversed ous petitions were presented everywhere the rainfall had been su伍cient. The crops to the memorialists. The hearing of these were good and the people tranquil. cases was entrusted, as seemed best, either to the local o伍eiaJs or to the tra PROGRESS OP GRAIN FLEET. velling justices, so that they might be The Director General reports the pro terminated without delay. There were gress made by the fleet of junks engaged two very important matters which have in carrying tribute rice to Tientsin by the been left for arrangement when the way of the Grand Canal. On the 17th of meniorialists can meet and discuss them June the whole fleet, which is divided into in person. These are police measures eighteen detachments, passed northwards for the prevention of robberies with from Chining Chou, the memorialist’s violence, and the establishment of farming officers strenuously urging them to make colonies fqr the benefit of the Manchu their way with all possible rapidity. This soldiers. The quantity of land which had was a difficult business, on account of the been measured up to the middle of July shallowness of the water ; for there had was 170,000 shanj (of six mow each). Be been very little rain, and the Wen River sides this there is a little more, either not wae extremely low. Fortunately some use yet measured, or measured but nob yefc A dq. 16—20.] 109 reported. The rain since the beginning of CAPTURE OF GOVERMENT STEAM LAUNCH. the sunnier has been su伍eient，but not too The Viceroy at Canton states that Sung much, -and a good harvest may be expected. Fu ch‘ing，commander of the force at 17th August. “ The Three Rivers，” did not appear a very competent officer and it waa feared LAND FREED FROM TAXATION. that he would make a mess of his duties of Three years ago there were serious floods looking after pirates and keeping a check on in Chenp‘ing Hsien, which forms part of the Yao aborigines. The memorialist Chiaying Chou in the Canton Province. therefore removed him to a similar posb Relief was distributed by the then Gov at Lungmen, and desired the Commo ernor-General, and the Emperor sanction dore at Pahhoi to heep jin eye upon ed the remission of the year’s land his conduct. The latter officer has re tax in certain localities. In consequence ported that Captain Sung does not keop of representations recently addressed to his men in good training and employs so the present Governor-General, an. inspec many of them for work on shore that hia tion has been made of s"me of the war junks are not properly manned and ground then flooded. It is found to have not fit to go to sea， The Commodore has become a permanent marsh, and there is no spoken to him many times, but it is all of prospect of the owners being able to culti no use. Also, another officer, Lieutenant vate it again. In the regulations of the Chang Ch'ing-hsiang, was in charge nf a Board of Revenue it is laid down that, if steamer on the look-out for salt smugglers. land be flooded and buried in sand so as not The steamer was captured and plundered to be worth tilling, the higher authorities by a number of pirates, who had been should verify the fact and apply to have allowed to come on board as guides, and the land tax taken off. Also, an Imperial many of the crew were wounded. After Decree of two years ago graciously ordained this the pirates robbed several passing that a representation to the Throne should vessels, and then went off. Lieutenant be made wherever land tax was being paid Chang is blameworthy, both for losing his on fields which had been overwhelmed or vessel in the first instance, and afterwards obliterated. It appears from the registers for failing to track the pirates. A number that Chenp'ing Flsien contains 16,542 mow of them have since been arrested by other （ did not report the case, will be flogged ancl possibility, of raising them by any other dismissed from his post. The carpenter means. Chihli is a poor province, im who took a false appeal to Peking will be portant by its position in the neighbour flogged ; but the number of blows will be hood of rhe capital. His Majesty’s attention diminished, on account of his having of has been, turned towards these suflferers, and his own accord withdrawn his application every effort must be made to give them for a n^w trial.—Referred to th公 Board of help. The memorialist therefore begg Punishments. that he may have leave to follow the pre 22nd August. cedent quoted above. He proposes that the lists shall be open for one year exactly, NEW RELIEF FUND FOR CHIHLI. and during that time contributions for the The Viceroy Li Hung-chang represents Admiralty will be put a stop to.一Granted. that distress prevails over a very wide area RE-MOUNTS FOB ARMY OK CHJHLX. in the province of Chihli; and as a large amount of money will be required to cope Li Hung-chang has received an applica tion from the provincial Commander-iu- ■with it, he asks permission to invite sub Chief for three hundred horses to replace scriptions a3 he has done before. He has worn-out animals in the cavalry and artillery already reported that in the low-lying dis under his order. Two officers have tricts there is great suffering on account of therefore been sent into the Lama-miao the floods caused by the excessive rains district to purchase tlie required animals in the past summer; and the Emperor in that neighbourhood. One half the has graciously commanded that a hundred thousand piculs of tribute rice be appro number are for the troops at Kupeikou priated for the benefit of those in need. Re or in places outside the wall; and they will cently more complete reports have reached be sent direct to the districts where the the memorialist，from which he learns that said troops are stationed. The remainder there have been inundations in more than will be taken to Lut‘ai and Shanhaikuan, where they will be distributed aa needed.— thirty districts, involving the loss of the Let the Board of War take note. greater part of the harvest. The quantity of water covering the ground is so great that 23rd August. it can not *be run off soon enough to allow DEATH OF KUACHOU COMMODORE. any re-planting this autumn. In view of The Viceroy at Nanking and the Admiral the pitiable state of the farmers, the o f the Yangtze report that the Commodore memorialist has had soup kitchens set up at Kuachou lia^ just died at bis post. The at Tientsin, and has sent officers to see. deceased, Wn C：»i：i-ping by name, bad just to the immediate wants of the sufferers. started to visit the stations under his com Bub the administering of relief will be mand. when he was struck by the sun. He necessary for a long period ; and there are returned to bis headquarters, but died the many breaches in the embankments of all next day. He had occupied his post with the rivers, which must be closed before the much distinction ever since the year 1868 ; flooded lands can be dried. These two and previously he had done a great deal of tasks will require immense sams of money. hard fighting against the Taipings. Accord Two years ago money was wanted on ing to the rules governing the Yangtze account of the floods in Chihli, and the naval force, when a vacancy occurs among public were consequently invited to offer the senior o伍cers, the memorialists are contributions. It was arranged that for bound to submit two names, as their gifts amounting to forty per cent, of the sums first and second recommendations for the ordinarily authorised, subscribers might vacancy. Accordingly they now nominate obtain brevet titles, posthumous titles, two officers, both of whom they consider decorations, buttons up to the second class, well qualified. The post is a very import the grade of licentiate, and brevet rank up ant one, both from the proximity of Yang- to that of colonel. Disgraced officials chow, which makes the locality to be might apply to have their rank restored. frequented by crowds of salt merchants, Nominal donations of clothes, if the money- and secondly because Kuachou is imme value of the articles were presented diately opposite to the Treaty Port of instead, would entitle the givers to Chinkiang.—Decree issued separately. similar honours. The money raised by 24th August. the above means was ■ of incalculable benefit to the sufferers, and facilitated the LAND TAX REMITTED IN YUNNAN. speedy comp letion of the public works The Governor of Yunnan asks that the required. At the present moment funds land tax may be remitted in certain locali are similarly required, aud there seems no ties in Hintse Hsien, where there were Aua. 24—25.] 113 serious floods last year. It seems that that the B^ard of Rites may be instructed torrents of rain fell during the months of to erect a memorial arch in her honour.— June and July, and the country was Approved. innundated through the bursting of the 25th August. embankment of the adjacent river. The Emperor is requested to excuse payment of YELLOW RIVER IN SHANTUNG. land tax for periods of five, three, or two The Governor of Shantung refers to a pre years, according to the greatness of the vious report dated the 28th of July, in which mischief done in each locality. A similar he stated that everything was going well est is made with regard to arrears except at one point, Shihcliiawu, nearly tax, amounting to about Tls. 500 in opposite Chinan Fu. Here the danger was the District of Gh‘inpci, not far from the so great that he was unable to predict how Kuangsi frontier. This district was ravaged tilings woitld go. He has now the honour by a band of river pirates at the beginning to present a further memorial, describing of last year ; and before the marauders what has happened since the above date. could be suppressed, a number of people At Shihchiawu all attempts to strengthen had been robbed of their all ; so that they the embankment failed, through the ma had no means of paying the ta x .~ Granted. terials bein^ carried a、vay by the current. A crescent:shaped embankment was con LOCUSTS IN SHANTUNG. structed in the rear ; and, as the regular In the first half of July, says the Governor staff was not sufficient, first private of Shantung, vast quantities of locusts labourers were hired, and then the Go were seen flying overhead in the vicinity vernors own regiment of guards were sent of Chinan Fu. No great harm was done by to give help. Materials were procured them, however, as officials were sent out, in all directions, while vast quantities of and with the aid of the people destroyed stone were fetched and thrown in by night them thoroughly wherever they had settled. and day. When the pile reached to within Where the crops did suffer, the people five feet of the surface, the current began have been able to re-plant their fields. The to be deflected from the shore. The wall memorialist is well aware of the danger could now be widened and strengthened, from young locusts, wherever eggs have and danger gradually passed away. At been deposited. He has therefore ordered many other points along the course of the the local authorities to pay the country river, the embankments required vigorous people for either digging them up or efforts to keep them in safety; but in destroying the young insects as soon as every case they have already been re ever they have emerged from the ground. paired, or are so nearly put right ithat no harm is anticipated. As pre SUICIDE OK A WIDOW. viously narrated, a private embank The year before last a young lady was ment gave way in CIVangch'ing Hsien. married to the nephew of a magistrate in The water lias retired there slightly, and the province of Chihli. But before they the government river wall stands unin had lived together twelve months, her jured. In the autumn money will be husband fell sick and died. The widow given to assist the people in repairing the vowed that she would follow him into the breach. In Liching, close to the sea, the grave，and abstained from eating for seven flood water has hitherto partially escaped days. At length, however, she yielded to through gaps into the Hsiaoning River and the entreaties of her husband’s parents so found its way to the sea. Last winter and consented to take a little food. After the people filled up the gaps, which are on this she twice swallowed poison, but reme the south bank near Meichuang. The dies were given to her and she recovered. water waa thus confined to the main chan Then her father-in-law contracted a very nel, and had no outlets to help carry ifc off. serious malady. She waited on him con With the unusually strong freshets of this stantly, without allowing herself to sleep year, Yen'vo and other places on the north for a m®nth and more. One night when bank were in the most imminent danger. he had got a little better, she again poisoned They were saved, however, by the occur herself and died. This was ju^t a hundred rence of a breach below Meichuang, which days after the loss of her husband. Her allowed the water to run as usual into the ^fise is considered one of special merit, Hsiaoning River. Meichuang lies in a because of the calm and resolute way in thinly inhabited locality near the coast; which she ended her life after so long a and it will be a matter for consideration time had elapsed. The Viceroy therefore this autumn whether the new breach there reports her case to the Emperor, and begs should be kept open, or whether the 114 [A ug. 25—27. people should be allowed to close it. In the instruments of punishment in accordance latter case special measures of some kind with the allegation made, and there was a will be required when the season of high cangue for one man, weighing one hundred water comes again. and five catties. It was also unlawful for PROGRESS OF GRAIN JUNKS. him to give a flogging of a thousand blows, the legal limit being fifty. The people In continuation of previous reports, the were in ferment on account of his ferocity. Director-General states that the fleet of There was really danger of an outbreak junks with the river-borne portion of this occurring, as Kueihua was a place with a year’s tribute rice has now passed out of mixed population of Chinese, Mongols and the province of Shantung. As h.e learns Mahommedans, and a large nurtiber o f dis by telegram, the whole fleet left Techou tressed people had flocked there on account on the 9th of August and pursued its of the failure of the harvest. The Lieuten voyage towards the north. There was ant-General therefore begs that the magis plenty of water at this season in the Wei trate may be cashiered an •account of the alleged excesses committed- mander-in-Chief should be more lightly by the troops under his orders. The punished.一Decree in approval already Governor-General at Foochow was,ordered I issued. * to investigate the charges made by the DROUGHT IN SHANSI ENDED. censor ; and he now forwards a report to The Governor of Shansi reports that the the Emperor. According to his statement, long drought in the province is terminated, the actual command of the troops in search as heavy rains occurred there, between the for Ch‘en Kung was put into the hands of 9th and the 29th of July. The crops are a Colonel Yii Hung-liang, whom General sown and a good autumn harvest may be Sun had transferred for the purpose from expected. Only, in the region outside the •Chekiang. The Governor-General at the Great Wall, as the frosts there come early, first moment warned the Colonel against nothing could be sown except buckwheat letting his troops harass the people. Later and grains which ripen quickly. However, the Colonel asked permission to blockade some villages, in order to secure the Bur- seed has been distributed and the people render of certain disaffected headmen. will be able to get along. But such great This the Governor-General refused to rains could not occur without floods in the sanction, though he said that the men rivers. In a few places the banks have might be arrested by other means. Next, burst so that some of the people are suffer*- there arrived the Emperor’s Decree, order ing from inundations and may require ing an investigation to be held. The relief on that account.—Noted, Governor-General selected a sub-prefect, FALSE REPORTS MADE BY A MAGISTRATE. who was known to be a man of uncom The high authorities at Nanking are in mon intelligence, and entrusted to him vestigating the death of a man belonging to the task of making enquiries on the spot. Lucliiang Hsien in Anhui. It appears that According to the sub-prefect’s report, the man was confined in the yamen as the General Sun arrived in Tekhua last October defendant in some case or other, and while and gave the command of the troops in the there he died. The magistrate reported field, as above stated, to Colonel Yii. that he came to his end in an access of The Colonel first dealt with the village madness. But the clerks and . constables which C]i(en Kung was occupying. The who have now been examined declare that latter fled and the Colonel pursued him ; ljiis death was the result of the beating •certain villages harboured the fugitive, inflicted on him by the magistrate, and and inconsequence the Colonel set them that the evidence the magistrate produced on fire. Perhaps two hundred houses were against him was procured by torturing and thus ^destroyed. Most of them belonged forcing the witness. The magistrate sent to rebel sympatlgsers ; but a good many in a paper supposed to be written by the were the property of innocent people. In gaol-warden to the effect that the death many cases the soldiers helped themselves was caused by madness; but the gaol- to the fuel and food in houses which warden declares that he never examined had been deserted. But this was in the corpse or signed any statement, so that evitable, and there is no proof of the rapine the document must be a complete forgery. and atrocities alleged by the censor. As The evidence being so strong against the tne rebels no longer made any head against magistrate, the Viceroy requests leave to 卞he troops the task of the latter resolved cashier him and place him on his trial.— itself into hunting for Chen Kung in the Approved. mountain forests ; but before they could arrive, he was always gone. In January 29th August. General Sun issued proclamations to calm MURDER OF A MOTHER-IN-LAW. the people ; and the magistrate went among Last year a Chinaman, his wife and his them distributing seed corn and making mother were living together in a village them put up temporary sheds for them near Moukden. In the course of the win selves. Colonel Yii acted wrongfully in one ter, at the instigation of a Manchu neigh •other matter. Another officer had accepted bour, the wife enticed away tlie daughter- the submission of two villages ; but the in-law of another woman and sold her to Colonel went there and harassed the in a man for two hundred and thirty strings of habitants greatly, searching for arms and cash, which sum she divided with the arresting prisoners. Manchu. After some time the family of Tn forwarding this report the Governor- the kidnapped woman discovered who had General mentions other instances of the （stolen her, and demanded her back from OoloneVs misconduct and recommends that ' them. Tlie Manchu asked another villager to he be cashiered immediately, while the C"m- act as peacemaker, and the latter arranged 116 [A ug, 29—30. that the guilty persons should pay as com 'Referred to the Board for an immediate pensation three hundred strings of cash. report. The evening before the payment was due, FOREIGN DKILLED FORCE IN SHENSI. the woman met the Manchu to talk over the business. As they had not enough The Tartar Commander-ii卜Chief at Sian money to meet the debt, he suggested to her Fu has obtained permission to establish a that she should kill her mother-in-law and foreign-drilled force from among the Tartar hang the corpse at the arbitrator’s door, soldiers under his command. It will consist making it appear that the old woman had of a battalion of five hundred men. He committed suicide there. By this means now asks that he may have five hundred they could exercise pressure on the arbitra rifles and a supply of ammunition from tor apd put their debt on to his shoulders. the surplus stores of the Peking Field The woman agreed, and in the middle of Force. He also begs for some drill-in the night, she killed her mother-in-law with structors, armourers and cartridge-makers a blow on the temple from a wooden from the same source. He will set apart shovel. Then she woke her husband and Tls. 1,000 for the extra pay of the force, told him what had happened. He was till final arrangements as to expenditure -terribly frightened and could not make up can be made and reported for approval. his mind what to do ; but at length he was He would like the munitions and officers persuaded to help carry the corpse to the to be forwarded by the, local authorities arbitrator’s yard and tie it to a tree with along the government route.一Approved. a noose round the neck. Next morning the 30th August. arbitrator found and recognised the corpse. AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS IN SHENSI. He immediately sent word to her relations, Shensi is one of the parts of the Empire who came to see it. A daughter of the which have been suffering from drought. deceased, who could not bear to see the But the Governor states that, according to corpse hanging, had it cut down and with reports received from the local officials, out noticing the blow on the forehead placed between the 28th June and the 3rd July it temporarily in a co伍n. The murderess, and between the 8th and the 13th July at the instigation of the Manchu, lodged a rain fell throughout the province. The petition saying that her mother-in-law had amount however varied greatly. In some been persecuted to death by the arbitrator, localities there were only a few showers, who had demanded money from her on in others there were good downpours and account of damage done by her pigs to his in some the ground was thoroughly saturat crop of corn. But the arbitrator and the ed. Taking the whole summer into con tipao applied for an inquest ; and after sideration the memorialist finds that the some trouble, the woman was made to con southern part of the 和ovince has fared fess the truth. best, and that, while rain has been short The Governor of the province, after in other localities, the drought has been stating the above facta, proceeds to report greatest in the extreme north. There the the sentences which he has passed. The early harvest failed, and till recently woman has been condemned to cutting in the autumn crops could not be sown. pieces, and in accordance with the law in Buckwheat has now been pub in the such cases, the sentence has immediately ground ; and if the frosts do not come very been carried out. The husband, in conceal- early, it will have time to ripen. As this " a n）urdev of this kind, has committed an is the second of two bad seasons running, nee of which the punishment is strangu-' some distribution of relief will be required lation. But this need not be noticed as he is before harvest time arrives. In one dis liable to a heavier penalty. It is the law that trict in the centre of the province, Lintfung if any one shall inflict pretended wounds on near Sian Fu, great damage has been the corpse of his parent with the object of done in some localities by hail. The storm bringing false charges against other people, lasted a couple of hours and more, apd he shall be condemned to immediate decap in a tract of about 8,000 mow, the cabbages, itation. To this death he is therefore beans and millet were all. hopelessly sentenced. The Manchu who proposed to damaged. An investigation will be made the woman that she should kill her mother- and relief given where required, and in-law is guilty of instigating the commis for the moment the collection of land sion of a deliberate murder. For this, tax has been postponed. At the present decapitation is the ordinary penalty ; but time in Sian Fu the price of rice is on account of the peculiar atrocity of the Tls. 2.27 a picul, and millet Tls. 1.51 being crime in the present instance, he is con an increase of tael cents 34 and 17 above- demned to be beheaded without delay.— the rates at the same period last year. A ug. 31—Sm'. 1.] 117 VIRTUOUS WIDOWS. offered to the River God, who proved It has been represented to the Governor responsive to the suppliants. The^ em of Turkestan that a certain Mrs. Ma living bankment held till the waters fell. Tsao in Ch‘angclii Hsien became a 'vido'v at the Taotai then hired boats and took provi age of twenty-six, with two children to sions to the people in the villages, rescuing take care of. She supported them by many from the house roofs and tree tops, doing needlework, brought them up, and and saving perhaps ten thousand lives. found them wives. Since the date of her Next his task was to repair the river widowhood she has lived a blameless life for and exposure while he was doing this thirty-eight years. Also a Mrs. Hsii was brought on an attack of illness. He was left a widow with two children in the year occupied after this in distributing relief, 1864 when she was twenty-seven years old. when he was ordered to take up an It was at the time of the war and her acting post elsewhere. The people as family were poor. She was, urged to sembling in thousands, caught hold of re-marry, but she vowed to remain faithful his chair, or threw - themselves in the to her husband and brought up her children road, and would not let him go away. in great poverty. The memorialist sub Others hurried to the Governor, who ac mits that these examples are worthy of ceded to their petition and cancelled the being remembered. It is the custom in transfer. For the remainder of his term such cases with the Emperor’s approval that of office, and later as acting Provincial the local authority should give the family Treasurer, lie was ever distinguished by of the person a sum of thirty taels, witli his energy and good acts, which in the which they themselves erect a memorial memorial are described at length. Finally arch. He begs permission for such action he left the province and was appointed to be taken in the present cases.—J 卯 ⑽ ed. Chief Justice in Shantung, where after a few months he died. The original cause MEMORIAL TO A TAOTAI. of his sickness was the exposure to which The Governor of Honan states that he lie had subjected himself while dealing has received an address calling attention to with the river embankments in Honan. the merits of Tsao Ping-clio, who was On account of his good deeds and the formerly Taotai for northern Honan, and love in which he wks universally held recently died in Shantung, where he was 、by the people of northern Honan, the holding the post of Chief Justice. The gen memorialist was requested to obtain the tlemen wllo address the Governor say that Emperor’s sanction for the recording of Tsao Taotai, before lie came-to Honan, was his history in the national records. He reported to have been highly esteemed by had referred the question to the Pro the people of Kaiisu, where be previously vincial Treasurer and on the recommenda held similar rank ; but as the facts are not tion of the latter had already determined known to the writers personally they prefer to address His Majesty when a despatch not to dwell upon them. When he arrived came from the Governor of Shantung. in Honan, the Ch‘iii River was in flood. That officer said that certain Shantung It had broken down the great river wall o伍cialB，who were of Honan origin had and all the country was inundated. The made a representation to him in favour of special embankment which protected the deceased. But as the deceased had Huaining had the water within a foot of been so short a time in Shantung, the its top. Many persons were fleeing away Governor thought it betteV to refer the mat for safety. Tsao Taotai, however, at great ter to the memorialist. The memorialist personal danger made liis way to his post, now recommends the case to His Majesty’s entered the city and took over the seals. favourable attention, and begs that the This being done lie immediately set to Kansu authorities may be directed to give work to secure the safety of the place. an account of Tsao Ping-cho’s acts while in There were leaks in the embankment, that province.—A pproved.. through which the flood was pouring in waterfalls. Heavy rain was falling, 1st September. and ordinary Materials were of no use CAUSING DEATH BY PEKSECUTION. for stopping the crevices. Men, blanch- There was an hereditary chi wei，or ed with fear, were looking hopelessly petty military o伍cer，in Horan named at each other. But Tsao Taotai bought a Yuan Chen-huan. Ha had obtained his quantity of wadded clothing, and going title through hia grandfather, who was abou^ in the mud. and water personally killed in action. Two or three years ago superintended its being thrust into the holes. I he mortgaged a piece of land to a fellow Fervent prayers Avoro at the same time I villager for twenty strings of cash, The 118 [S ept. 1—3. following year he wanted to sell the land But as he has not recovered from his ail outright. It measured five mow, and he ments, he requests permission to vacate asked the mortgagee to give him thirty his post. The Emperor declines to permit more strings for it. The mortgagee thought this, but grants him a further holiday of the price too high and declined. There three months in order that he may restore upon the officer threatened to go to law himself to health. with him and force him to take it. This so frightened and worried the villager that MUNITIONS 01' WAR IN FUKIEX. a couple of nights afterwards he went The Viceroy at Foochow reports the and hanged himself in the officer’s expenditure incurred last year on warlike garden. The officer lias already been material purchased in the country. It stripped of his title, and is now sen only amounts to Tls. 2,295, and comprises tenced to receive a hundred blows, that the cost of leather belts, bullets, caps, being the legal punishment for causing a timber for fort building, etc. ' person to commit suicide under such cir cumstances. He must also pay Tls. 10 for 3rd September. the cost of the deceased’s coffin. Enquiry will be made as to the next of kin, to whom FOREIGN SCHOOL AT CANTON. the title of Yun chi wei should be trans The high authorities at Canton present ferred. a memorial concerning the Government Foreign School at Canton. They state that RELIEF OF DISTRESSED MONGOLS. as long ago as the year 1867 the pupils in The Military Governor at Jeho sends in the above school were examined, and six a report concerning the distribution of of the most promising among them selected. relief among the Karachin Mongols, who These picked students were sent to Peking suffered greatly at the hands of the rebels where they were again examined in the last winter. The Mongolia o伍ce at Peking Tsungli Yamen. The Yamen having de obtained permission to devote Tls. 30,000 clared that they had all made satisfactory to this charitable purpose, and sent the progress, the Emperor gave them inter- money to the Military Governor, who preterships or the grade of licentiate, and entrusted the actual task of giving it granted them the right to appear at the out to the Prince of the Karachina in national examinations fora Master’s Degree， company with a Chinese officer. The after which they were drafted to diflerent Prince lias now presented a report provincial authorities to act as interpreters. which is endorsed by the officer so far as It was at the same time ordained that there the facts came under his actual cognisance. should be a similar exsyiiination at Canton He says that the members of his tribe re every three years, when the passed students lieved, including women and children, num would be treated in the same way as above, bered 24,965, besides whom there were 354 and any who specially distinguished them strange Mongols. There were given away selves in their knowledge of modern lan 9,084 piculs of millet, which at Tla. 1 88 guages should be sent to Peking for a fur per picul cost Tls. 17,079. Tls. 14,983 ther examination, success in which would were given away in money, principally in entitle them tj an (，伍cial position. This order to enable the homeless to rebuild triennial system has been continued to the their houses. Office expenses and labour present time. The last term was completed came to Tls. 551. The total thus amounted in the month of June this year. Accordingly to Tls. 32,613. The excess of Tls. 2,613 the Chinese superintendent of -the school will be borne by the Prince "himself, who and the European professor picked out does not ask to have it refunded to him.— eighteen of tlie best pupils and presented Approved, them to the memorialists for examination. The pupils were tested in translating from ♦RAIN AT JEEO. e There has been sufficient rainfall in the and into foreign languages. By this means Jelio country during the months of July the ten best of them were selected. Their aud August. A good harvest may be ex foreign compositions were further subjected to the scrutiny of Yang Taotai, formerly pected and the people are happy and Consul at Nagasaki) who declared them to contented. be without serious error. His Majesty ia 2nd September. requested to confer upon the successsful LEAVE GRANTED TO SUN YU-WEN. candidates the favours referred to above. Sun Yii-wen, President of the Board of For the present the young men will remain Punishments, and a member of the Tsungli in the school, so that they may pursue Yamen, has completed his term of leave. their studies and perfect themselves, The A ug. 3 4 . ] 119 remaining students will be either retained trol. If lie ever should offend again, no or dismissed according to the diligence mercy can be shown to him. which they have displayed.—Approved. MURDER BY AN ADULTERER. DONATION TO WORTHY OBJECTS. Wang and Chen were fellow villagers in A gentleman of Chining Chou has given a country district of Chihli. Chen was the sub-prefect of the place ten thousand often in Wang’s house, and so frequently strings of small cash, worth more than sa'v his wife. One day he secluced her, Tls. 3,000. The nwney is to be put out afc and their intercourse continued for about interest, and the proceeds will form a fund a year and a half. After this the husband for supporting a local college，as well as became suspicious of his wife’s behaviouV for aiding candidates on tlieir journeys , to and taxed her with misconducting herself. the examinations at the provincial capital She returned an evasive answer; but or at Peking. The donor’s father was a she told her lover what had occurred, and gentleman well known for his liberality, they were afraid to continue their intrigue. but had not sufficient wealth to enable him Two months afterwards the husband 'vent to do as he wished. The donor’s mother, away to visit some friends. The lover however, was possessed of some personal knew of his absence and in the evening property in tire shape of jewellery and such came to the house. The woman was sitting tilings ; and it is by her death-bed wish up sewing and her two children were that the sc-n has devoted her wealth to the asleep. He went in and wished to renew pm pose above described. The Governor his intimacy. While they were talking the lias the honour to lay the natter before husband returned. He heard their voices the Emperor and suggests that the son and kicking open the door rushed into the should be allowed to erect a memorial arch room. He tried to seize the lover, but the in honour of his two parents.—Approved. latter drew a knife and stabbed him several times, till he fell helpless on the ground. REMISSION OF SALT LIKIN IN FUKIEN. #The woman was in a great state of trouble The Viceroy at Foochow represents that and tried to go and give the alarm, but the the salt merchants in Fukien are in a very man. called her back and compelled her to had way, being unable to get rid of the keep still by threats that he would take salt for which they have taken out permits. her life if she did not. At the same The difficulty seems to be that at the pre time the children began to cry, upon sent cost o f licensed salt they are unable which he took up one of them and killed to compete with smugglers. He suggests ib by dashing its head against the bricks. therefore that in a large part of the pro He then compelled the woman to run away vince the likin should be entirely remitted. with him to Peking. She was in great In the remaining districts it can still con distress and would have liked to commit tinue to be charged. This likin is of course suicide, but could not find any opportunity, something entirely apart from the regular Finally they were arrested by the police duty.—Approved. in one of the towns which they passed 4th September. through. The husband lingered a fort rUNISHMENT OF GENERAL SUN. night and after that died of his wounds. The The Board of War was directed to deter murderer has been sentenced by the Viceroy mine what would be a fitting punishment to be beheaded immediately and have for General Sun K ‘ai-hua，on account of liis head exposed, for the crime of killing the excesses committed by the troops under two members of one family. The adul the orders of his lieutenant, Colonel Yii， teress is condemned to be strangled after while searching for Ch‘en Kung, the leader detention in prison, because she did not in the TShhua rebellion. The Board has call for help or deliver the man up to proposed that lie should be degraded three justice afterwards.—Referred to the Board steps and transferred to another post. The of Punishments for a report without delay. Emperor, however, is mindful of the for A ‘‘ KOLAO H U I’’ ARRESTED IN HOI]AN. mer services of General Sun, who greatly The Governor of Honan states that, when distinguished himself upon the field of t the Emperor’s instructions were issued with battle. On this account, therefore, and regard to the discovery and arrest of Kolao because Ch‘en Kung has now been arrested, he published proclamations and His Majesty as an act of grace commutes enjoined upon his subordinates the neces the proposed penalty to that of the loss of sity of keeping a sharp look-out. The all rank without removal from his post. niiigistrate of ShenclViu has now reported But General Sun must in future use every that last July lie heard there was a man effort to keep his men under proper con concealed in the neighbourhood, who was 120 [S ept. 4—6. a notorious leader of a secret society. He that on the 21st August serious breaches, immediately took measures to effect the one a thousand feet long, occurred in thez waiVs arrest, and found he was a native of embankments in Huimin and Licking Shensi, but lie had been enrolling members Hsiens, and on the 24th the same thing in Anhui, at T‘aiho Hsien, and had fled from happened in Chiyang and Changch‘iu, two there because search was being made for more districts, like those first mentioned, him. On his person were a number of tickets situated between Chinan Fu and the sea. and seals with mysterious words upon them. In accordance with the Governor’s request The man has been sent to T(aiho? and the the officials ill charge at these localities are high authorities at Nganking and Nanking all punished in various ways. The Gov have been communicated with. —Noted. ernor himself escapes with a serious admo 5th September. nition. PATROLLING CORE AN FRONTIER. REWARDS FOR SUPPRESSING INSURRECTION. There are Chinese settlers now establish A petty insurrection in northern Szechuan ed close to the frontier of C>>rea, from which has been mentioned several times in the they are only separated by the Yalu River. Gazette lately. Some of the insurgents In consequence of this it has been arranged escaped into the next province, Shensi, that the frontier shall be patrolled by where they were soon crushed by the local Chinese o伍cera four times a year, and authorities. A Decree sanctions the Go in summer and autumn they are to be ac vernors request that he may recommend companied, while so doing, by a party for rewards the officers who most dis despatched by the Government o f Corea. tinguished themselves in the business. One of these joint expeditions has now SERIOUS FLOODS IN YUNNAN. taken place, and the officers report that ， After so dry a spring that the early crops they found tranquillity prevailing every were a failure, North-eastern Yunnan was where. visited during the summer by tremendous DUTY ON COTTONS WOVEN AT FOOCHOW. rains. There have been serious inundations For some time past the cloth woven in the in no less than sixteen districts. The Em Government Cotton Factories at Foochow peror desires the Board of Revenue to ap- haa been allowed to be exported duty free, propriate Tls. 100,000 to the relief of the while that coming from the private establish sufferers in these places. ments of the same kind lias been subject to taxation oil export, the charge being CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AT CHEFOO. forty per cent, of the regular duty. The According to a representation made by result of this different treatment is that the ShSng Taotai to the Governor of Shantung, private cloth is passed off for the other, Chefoo has long been frequented by dis and a good deal of fraud takes place. After tressed people, coming principally from the due consideration the Foocliow o伍cials neighbourhood of the Yellow River, The have coine to the conclusion that the two Taotai’s predecessors in consequence estab articles should be treated alike. They lished soup-kitchens and refuges at their therefore propose to charge export duty on own expense, and even vaccination offices the government cloth at the rate in force and hospitals. Sheng Taotai himself has for private cloth. This was the amount consolidated and extended these establish originally intended to be levied, and ifc was ments, making them include other good remitted only because the weaving enter works, and has also transformed those prise was at first in an unprosperous con existing at Ch*ingchou and Laichou, so dition. It is now sufficiently flourishing to that they should all become branches of be able to bear taxation. a common undertaking. This has cost him Tb. 15,000 of his own money, and he 6th September. has raised other Tls. 20,000, which have INUNDATIONS IN SHANTUNG. been put out at interest a t the silk It is not much more than ten days since factory in order to produce a perpetual the Gazette contained a memorial from the revenue. It is also calculated that future Governor of Shantung reporting that Taotais will contribute from their salaries he had successfully strengthened the em to the current expenses, and the proceeds bankment of the Yellow River at the only received from seizures of opium or sulphur point where there appeared to be imminent will be devoted to the ^anie object. The danger, and that he did not apprehend Governor notes that- >Sheng Taotai haa serious trouble anywhere else. A Decree included a home for children in his founda now issued has a different story lo tell. tion, and in so doing he has carried out The Emperor has heard from the Governor the wishes of the Emperor. For last year 121 S ept. 6—10.] His Majesty desired local officials to estab made for them ; though two places have lish orphanages in order to put a stop to been set apart for the aborigines who may the troubles which so frequently arise from, present themselves for the examinations. the Catholic ones. When Sheng Taotai was The Governor therefore requests that in formerly acting in Chihli, he opened an furture at examinations for the first degree institution of the same character as the two vacancies may be competed for by the present one. It had its head quarters at immigrant settlers of Lungsheng T‘ing.— Tientsin with a branch at Peking. ±11$ Referred to the Board of Ctremon'es. Majesty granted it an annual supply of three hundred piculs of tribute rice. It is INSPECTION OF SIBERIAN FRONTIER. now hoped that he will show similar favour Whenever a new Military Governor to the Shantung undertaking. arrives at Uliasutai lie is bound to visit the In reply the Emperor allows the yearly outposts along the Russian frontier, the appropriation of three hundred piculs of stations on the post roads, and the Govern- the tribute millet due from Shantung. inent horse and camel establishments. The present Governor arrived last year SALT REVENUE IN KIANGSU. just before winter, when.such an expedi The Viceroy at Nanking reports the tion could not be undertaken. He there revenue collected from the salt establish fore waited till this summer ; but from ments north of the Huai River in the ten want of rain and consequent absence of months ending July before last. The herbage the horses and camels are too regular duty collected amounted to Tls. thin and weak for the journey. He there 371,524. The two likin offices at Wulio fore begs leave to postpone his visit till and Chengt(ang further received 145,405 next year, when the regular triennial strings of cash. inspection should take place.—Gra/uied. 7th September. 8th and 9th September. AN niPEKIAL CLANSZ\rAX CONDEMNED TO No documents of interest. DEATH. ' In the early part of the present year an. 10th September. Imperial Clansman named Miiig-chii was MISCONDUCT OF AKOTACHL'N. arrested with seven other men. He was The Treasurer of Anhui, Akotachun by found guilty of collecting a number of name, was recently iwmiiiated Governor of armed men and committing robbery with Shansi. A strong protest was made against violence in the north and west parts of the appointment by one of the censors, on Peking. For this offence tlieBoard of Punish the ground of his having greatly miscon ment sentenced him to be beheaded after ducted himself in his late post. In imprisonment, and directed that in the the end he was required to vacate the interval he be conveyed to Moukclen for Governorship, which he had never actually confinement there. On his way to Mouk- taken up, and the Governor-General at den be managed to escape, and made his Nanking was desired to investigate the 、vay back to Peking, where he immediately charges made against him. It appears from recommenced his evil practices. He has an Imperial Decree in this clay’s Gazette, now been arrested a second time and handed that the Governor-General’s report has over to the proper authorities. Rewards reached the Emperor. It is declared are requested for the officers who effected that there is no proof of Akotachuu’s his arrest、一Decree already issited. * ever having either sold offices, received CANDIDATES UNPROVIDED FOR IN KUANGSI. presents from subordinates, or charged There is a district in Kuangsi called Lung- the Government for expenditure which shenu T ‘ing，not far from Kueilin Fu. It was never incurred. But he exercised was originally land occupied by aborigines. no supervision whatever over his pri- But a hundred and fifty years or more ago vate secretary or his majordomo, both it was formed into a T king or official of whom made trouble whenever they district, and settlers were allowed to could. Morever he accepted other officials occupy it. -They came from Hupeh，Hu as bis honorary pupils in the most reckless nan, Kuangtung, and Kuangfd. In time manner, giving them the opportunity for they have multiplied, and many of their constantly intriguing in their own in descendants have taken to studying so as terests. Akotachun is declared to have to make progress. Their original homes behaved in all this with exceeding im are so far away that they cannot go propriety, and the Board will del ermine there for the examinations, and in their a severe penalty for hitn. A large number present locality no provision has ever been of his pupils and followers, of various ranks 122 [S ept< 10—12. from that of Taotai downwards, are at the determined to murder him. He waylaid same time ordered to be dismissed from him one evening when coming back from the public service. working in a cotton field and killed him MURDER IN TURKESTAN. with a couple of blows of a hoe. The The Governor of Turkestan reports the corpse was soon discovered and the murder sentence passed by him in a case of murder. er immediately arrested. As the man that Eight years ago a Chinaman in Kansu he killed was his father’s elder brother, he engaged another man to go with him into has been condemned to the punishment of Turkestan to help him herd camels. The cutting in pieces. There is also a law that, wages promised were two taels and a half when a son commits adultery, and the a month, but they were not paid regularly, offence leads to his parent being murdered, and at the end of six years the assistant if the said parent did not connive at the had only received fifty taels. The sum adultery, the son shall be strangled with mer before last the master hired another out delay. Also it is laid down that in man, a Mahommedan, to go with them such matters the wife of a son stands in to the Grass Lake near Barkoul and help the same position as a son. The adulteress to take care ()f the camels. At the lake in the present instance is therefore sen the camels were divided into three herds tenced to the said penalty.—Referred to the and the men lodged in different places. Board of Punishment for immediate One afternoon the employer thought the report. ' camels in his assistant’s charge were looking FUNDS KOR THE TUNG WEN KUAN. thin, and scolded him for not taking proper care of them. The assistant protested that It appears from a memorial sent in by it was not his fault; but, as his master con the Governor of Kiangsu that three-tenths tinued to abuse him, he too at last lost his of all the tonnage dues collected by the temper and said that he would not work Foreign Custom house at Shanghai, are sent any longer. The master therefore very to the Tsungli YamSn for the support of shortly bade him begone at once. He de the Tung Wen Kuan or Peking College ; manded his wages ; but the other said that while the remaining seven-tenths are hand they had all been exhausted to pay for ed to the Inspector-General. For the first camels which had died in his charge during quarter of the present year the sum going the six years. He next asked the Mahom- to the Tsungli Yamen amounts to Tls; medan to intercede for him and get enough 14,324. money to take him back to Kansu. The 12th September. master, however, would not give even this small amount. After that they all separated ‘‘ GOLD’’ BRICKS FOR THE PALACE. for the night. While thinking alone the The Board of Works at Peking has in man became furiously indignant at the treat dented on the Governor of Kiangsu for a ment which he had received, and getting up supply of “ gold” bricks, which are ap in the darkness went and killed his employ parently bricks or flat tiles covered with a er with the knife that he used in doctoring yellow glaze. They were wanted this camels. He was arrested for the murder year ; but the master makers report to the and the above facta were elicited. He has Governor that they cannot be finished so been sentenced to decapitation after im soon. It is the custom to prepare the prisonment for the crime of wilful murder. earth in spring, and make the raw bricks The deceased acted improperly in detain in summer. Then they must wait till ing the man’s wages ; but as he is dead no they are thoroughly dried before they are notice need be taken of his misconduct.—— baked ; so that they cannot be completed lief erred to the Board of Punishments. till the winter. If they are made at other seasons, they are very apt to get broken. 11th September. The indent was for 4,000 two foot two inch PUNISHMENT OF CUTTING IN PIECES. bricks, which will cost Tls. 4,024; for A young man of Kading, near Shanghai, 1,000 two foot bricks, Tls. 580 ; 1,000 one formed an adulterous connection with the foot seven inch bricks, Tls. 482. There wife of Ilia cousin. The woman’s father- will also be charges for supplementary in-law discovered the intrigue, and it bricks and packing. afterwards came to the ears of the young- man^ father. The latter gave his son a SZECHUAN AND SHENSI INSURRECTION. beating and forbade him ever to go near Mention has been made in these papers bis cousin’s house again. The father-in- more than once of an insurrection in law also spoke of having the offender put northern Szechuan. Order was restored in out of the way. The young man in revenge that province without much difficulty, but S epp. 12—13.] 123 a good many of the insurgents escaped Another body of rebels entered Tingyuan across the frontier into the adjacent pro T‘ing from Szechuan on the 25th of June. vince of Shensi. The Governor there had The soldiers and militia attacked them at been forewarned of the likelihood of their once and took eight prisoners of importance. coming and was therefore prepared to The rest fled and escaped in the darkness receive them. He sent orders to the of the night. On the 28th another body of civil and military authorities in the two rebels entered the district. They were Prefectures of Hanchung and Hsingan to attacked by the militia and native marks have their forces in readiness and to keep men. Torrents of rain were falling, but a sharp look-out. In addition, in order they were driven from their position on the that everybody might feel perfectly re hillside ; sixteen of them were taken，'and assured, he despatched some foreign-armed the remainder dispersed among the moun troops from the provincial capital to the tains. The next two days there was more expected scene of action. Ib was of fighting with other parties, who lost several importance, he considered, not to let chiefs, and the arrival of the troops from the banditti get a footing in the province, Singan Fu rendered further resistance as the mountainous nature of the country hopeless. In all thirty-four prisoners were would render it di伍cult to hunt them out, taken, and perfect order was restored in and the amount of distress resulting from Tingyuan. last year’s bad harvest, combined with the It was evident to the Governor from natural restlessness of the people, would these reports that the rebels had been make large numbers of them likely to flock utterly crushed; but still, as so many to the side of the rebels. of them had managed to escape, he The first district into which the rebels thought it necessary to order that an crossed from Szechuan was Tzuyang Hsien, active search be maintained, and the where they arrived on the 24th of June. people be made to take care that none They were some two hundred in number remained concealed amongst them. With and well armed. The important passes regard to the prisoners, he ordered that were immediately occupied by the local they all be tried, and the hardened rebels militia, and the rebels were forced to make be executed promptly, while those who their way across the mountains. Next day were drawn into the affair should be the regular troops arrived, and some sharp treated in a more lenient manner. In fighting took place. The soldiers had ten conclusion he asks for rewards for the men wounded, and the enemy a great officers who most distinguished themselves many more. The latter, however, were in the suppression of the rebellion.—Deciec strongly posted and could not be dis already isaued. lodged, till fresh troops came up, when 13fch September.* a combined attack sent： them flying pell- melL They lost seven prisoners, and HOMICIDE LIGHTLY PUNISHED. a number of weapons* as well. They There waa a Major in the army living fled in two divisions,* both of which were at Nanking- About seven years ago lie followed. One of the two was intercepted bought a concubine, and some time after by another party of troops, who cut off wards he engaged a man to be Ms its retreat; and Chou Man-tao,* the leader servant. One day, when he was away of the whole insurrection, waa captured from home, the servant succeeded in seduc alive with a few companions. The re ing the woman’s affections, and the intrigue mainder escaped over the steep mountains. was continued after the master’s return. The other division was also hotly pursued, When some months had passed, the Major and lost many men by wounds or falls again went away on business. The Rer- among the rocks. At last they made a vant determined to avail himself of the stand in a strong position and fought most opportunity and carry off the woman. desperate1)7. The troops which had followed Having hired a boat, he proposed to her Chou Maa-tan now came up. The rebels that she should run away with Iiini to were attacked on two sides but did not Yangchow and become his wife. The wo give way for several liours. At last thsy man, who waa deeply in love with him, tied, losing their leaders and a quantity of immediately consented, and they went weapons. The troops had thirteen men straight off to the boat, which, however, wounded. Again the pursuit was recom did not sail that evening. In the meantime menced, and after one more figlit the the Major came home. He of course at rebels were driven across the frontiers into once discovered his loss，and asked a friend the hands of the Szechuan forces by whom to help, him look for the woman. Next they were cut to pieces* morning at daylight the servant went on 124 [S ept. 13—1'4. shore to buy things. While he wa3 away, while the remainder of the four-tenths is the friend arrived at the boat, found the applied to maritime defences, being divided object of his search, and carried her back between the Northern and Southern Minia- to her husband, who gave her a good beat ters-Superintendent. The similar duties ing. The servant absconded and was not paid by the China Merchants’ Co. and other arrested, but a month afterwards the Major Chinese vessels come to Tls. 76,746 ; and caught sight of him going down the street. the four-tenths of them go entirely to This brought back his feeling of resent maritime defence as above described. Of ment, and he sought the aid of the same the six-tenths of the foreign vessels’ duties, friend as before, with the object of get ting namely Tls. 528,178, ten and a half per hold of the servant and putting him to cent, is lreld for the use of the diplomatic death. The friend found the man and service abroad, if required, while the brought him to his master to beg pardon. remainder is used for the Customs Admi The one pretended to intercede and the nistration and whatever subsidies the Board other appeared to become mollified, and may desire. the servant was received back into his old place. The same evening the Major, having FUxNERAL RITES OF A MONGOL PRINCE. armed himself with a dagger, called to the The Lieutenant-Governor of Kobdo re servant to light a lantern and escort him to ports that he has visited the tomb of the visit a friend at the other side of the city. late Prince of the Left Wing of the Turbeb According to arrangement the friend joined Mongols. In accordance with his instruc them. When they were going past a lonely tions he offered libations and deposited an spot the Major attacked the servant with elegy in the Manchu and Mongol languages, the dagger, wounding him and knocking which had been forwarded for the purpose him down. As he made a noise on the by the Mongolia Office in Peking. The ground the friend took the weapon and present Prince and his subjects expressed finished him off, after which the Major great joy and gratitude for the favour thus mutilated the corpse. Tho Major was ar shown to them. rested for the murder, but the friend man 14th September. aged to escape. The circumstances of the homicide and the relationship between the YELLOW RIVER FLOODS IN SHANTUNG. parties make the task of passing sentence The Governor of Shantung reports the unusually difliculfc, as the case is not exactly breaking of the Yellow River embankments vided for in the laws. But the inemo- in several places. The Decree in reply to ist has decided that the proper punish his memorial was published a few days ago, ment for the Major is three years’ penal and gave the names of the localities, as servitude and a hundred blows. As, how well as the dates of the accidents. The ever, lie is an official he will be sent to memorialist states that in the latter half of serve on the post roads in Mongolia. The August the water was three feet higher woman is sentenced to almost as severe a than it had been at the time of the summer penalty.—deferred to the Board of Pxcnish- freshets, and four feet above the high rtienta. water* level of two years ago ; while the violence of the current and the duration of CUSTOMS REVENUE, HOW DISPOSED OF. the rise were such as have not been known The Governor of Kiangsu presents a re for many years. The worst breach was port concerning the disposal of the revenue that in Huimin Hsien, which occurred on collected at the Shanghai Customs House the 21st August. Rain was falling and the in the first quarter of the present year. wind Avas blowing. The waves were moun During the period in question the regular tains high, and the water came right over import and export duties received from the top of tlie embankment, in which foreign vessels amounted to Tls. 774,248 ; it soon cut a gap three hundred feet but of this Tls. 11,828 were paid by draw wide. Several men were washed away backs, reducing the sum to Tls. 762,419. and drowned while working at the repairs. The opium duty was Tls. 117,878, making The next day the opening widened out to a total of Tls. 880,297. Four-tenths of this a thousand feet, the water escaping to the sum is always set apart for the Board of Tuhai River and so to the sea. Other Revenue, which now disposes of it in the breaches occurred about the same time or following manner :—One half goes to the a day or two later, the water from which use of the Nanking arsenal. The other went in the same direction. On the 28th half pays a su’)vehtion of Tls. 60,000 to the August an embankment gave way in Province of Kueicliou and Tls. 5,000 to , Changchun, on the south side of the river, tho fund for increasing o伍cial salaries^ i and tho flood poured into the Hsiaoch’iug S ept. 14—16.] 125 river. At the date of writing the memo fore beg that the central government may rialist considers it impossible to do anything be directed to supply the sum of Tls. beyond strengthening the ends of the gaps 100,000 without delay, in order to prevent to prevent further falling in, and he must the unfortunate sufferers from being driven wait till the water is somewhat lower before from their homes by want.一Decree already he can commence any repairs. Officers issued, granting the sum a^edfor. have been sent to visit the flooded districts and ascertain to what extent the distribu FLOOD IN HUPEH. tion of relief will be likely to be necessary. Chang Chih-tung reports that a serious —Decree already issiiecl. inundation has occurred in the district of Kungan, which is on the south bank of the lotli September. Yangtze above the Tungting Lake. It is a SERIOUS FLOODS IN YUNNAN. low-lying tract, in which much land is flooded every year, but in ordinary seasons The High Authorities of Yunnan state the higher grounds are sufficiently protect that, as might be expected in such a poor and ed by the embankments to afford a crop to distant province, there have frequently been their owners. This summer the water in the partial droughts or floods which necessi river was higher than usual. But on the 15th tated the distribution of relief from local re and 16th of July torrents of rain fell locally, sources. This spring in the two prefectures of Chaot‘ung and Tungch‘uan the persist- while a tremendous freshet was coming tent drought caused such a failure of the down from above. The water rose above early crops that the poor were glad to dig the top of the embankment, and in spite of up roots of grass for food. Some relief every effort the country was soon flooded. was distributed, but the matter was not The fields and villages were overwhelmed, looked on as very serious ; because if rain and lives were lost in the falling houses. The magistrate has applied for money, as fell in summer the more important autumn the people are in the utmost distress, and harvest would set things right. The wet there is no possibility of their replanting^ weather began early, and in both the their fields. The memorialist represents high and the low lands the rice was that Kungon Hsien is so frequently flooded planted out. The prospect waa thus as to be called a “ water country,n and the extremely good. But towards the end inhabitants are poor, struggling people. of June there commenced- a period of In their present distress, therefore, they steady wet weather. This was followed will certainly want assistance, and the in the early part of July by torrents of rain memorialist has desired his treasurer to which went on falling for several days and send the magistrate Tls. 3,000. This nighta withont intermission ; and it was money and the rice in the local granaries not till the end of the third week in the will be distributed among those who are month that the sky cleared once more. in the greatest want. With the aid of the Very serious damage is reported from no farmers the magistrate will also proceed as less than sixteen districts, situated in the rapidly as possible to run off the accumu prefectures and sub-prefectures of Yunnan, lated water. Wuting, Ch‘iich‘ing，Kuangsi, Ch‘eng- chiang and Chaot‘ung, all of which are in There are several other districts, says the east or northeast of the province. In the memorialist, bordering on the Yangtze many places the rice fields have been or the Han where more or less serious obliterated. But it is not merely a question floods are reported. These will be care of such damage as that, or as the water fully inspected when the autumn comes， being several feet deep inside some of the and such measures as may be necessary city walls. In a large number of villages will then be adopted.一The Decree in reply the houses have been washed away. In orders the distribution of sufficient reliefs so some not only private buildings but even that the people may not be driven front their the public offices were entirely submerged, homes. and in one place mere than a hundred 16th September. lives were lost. Inquiries are also being INQUIRY INTO AKOTA CHUN’S CONDUCT. made in order to find out if there are any other districts in which similar calamities Akotachun, formerly Treasurer in Anhui have occurred. As this season is so far and recently nominated Governor of Shapsi， advanced, in many places no replanting has been dismissed from the public service. of the crops will be possible, and a Thia step was taken in consequence of an very great quantity of relief will require to unfavourable report from the Viceroy at be distributed. The memorialists there Nanking, who had been ordered to inquire 126 [S ept. 16^17. anto the truth of certain charges made 17fch September. igainsfc Akotachun by one of the Censors. The memorials of the Censor and the CONDUCT OF OFFICERS AT. TIME OF JEHO Viceroy are published together in to-day’s REBELLION. Gazette. The Viceroy states that on receipc The military Governor at Jeho has made of the Emperor’s instructions he sent an an inquiry into the conduct of certain mili officer to make private enquiries in Anhui tary officers who were stationed in districts concerning the various points mentioned where the rebellion broke out. He finds in the Censor’s denunciation, and it is on that they were liable to punishment for the facts thus elicited that his report is allowing themselves to be overmastered by based. In the first place he finds that the rebels in the first instance ; but he Akotacliun, though fairly conversant with thinks that they may be pardoned on business matters, was really an indifferent account of their energetic and spirited scholar, ancl used to leave the manage conduct afterwards, when they fought both ment of his official correspondence to his with great boldness and distinguished private' secretary and his major-domo, success. One civil officer, the collector of who worked it in their own interests. Customs at Santsot% had indeed no There is no proof that he actually sold territorial responsibility, but he reported official posts ; but there was a great deal that the money in his treasury was carried of intriguing by applicants with the secret off by the rebels. This was a want of care ary and major-domo, who managed his for which the memorialist thinks some o伍cial affairs. Nor did he compel his punishment should be awarded to him by subordinates to make presents to him. the Board.—Approved. But he received a nuniber of officials as hia honorary pupils, and they used this connec FLOODS IN NORTHERN HONAN. tion with him as a means of getting The Governer of Honan refers to a pre advancement. One person in particular vious memorial in which was reported the was given irregular employment for two existence of floods afc Weihui Fu and Hsin- years without any intermission, and then siang Haient caused by the Wei river over was promoted to be Prefect at Ningkuo flowing its banka. The flood was caused Fu, which caused a good deal of talking by heavy rains which fell in the Tai Hang among people at Nganking. It also seems mountains early in July. The mountain to be the fact that the private secretary streams turned into torrents and the mass accepted a present of a concubine from of water which they brought down to the one applicant; but, as he has gone away, Wei River caused the latter to overflow its it cannot absolutely be proved- It was banks. The worst harm was done afc Wei also alleged that, when Akotachun came hui Fu, where the face of the city wall fell to Nganking there was a sum of a good deal outwards at one spot and killed as many more than a hundred thousand taels in the as four people. There was some fine treasury, but he exhausted it all by in weather towards the end of July ; but venting fictitious charges upon it, and his the beginning of August brought back servants of every class drew monthly allow extremely heavy rains, which increased ances therefrom. There is no proof of the depth of the flood water on the improper charges, except that the private lowlands. In Hainhsiang, however, the secretary drew sixty taels a month and state of affairs was still more deplorable, the major-domo ten, which as private and in a tract enclosing eighty-nine vill employes they had no right whatever to ages it is feared that the autumn crops do. Though the amount is small, the must be partially destroyed. In some Viceroy considers that any tampering with villages of Hui Hsien the water was the public funds is a most serious matter two or three feet deep, and nineteen at the present moment when money is so houses were washed down but without in much wanted for military expenditure. In jury to anyone. Afterwards came the rain at conclusion he respectfully represents that the beginning of^ August and many corn Akotacliun is worthy o f punishment for fields were drowned. In Huichia Hsien his entire want of control over his two the Little Tan River could not contain the confidential servants and for the reckless mountain water, which spread over the way in which he received large numbers country covering the land but not causing of men as his pupils. At the same time loss of life. In Haun Hsien the embank the memorialist gives a list of the pupils ments gave way, and there were four or and intimate friends, whom he would ad five feet of water in the level country. vise to be expelled from the public ser Forty villages were flooded as well as the vice.—Decree already issued. surrounding fields. In Ch‘i Hsien the same S ept. 17—20.] 127 thing happened in all the low bottoms. The memorialist calls attention to the Meng Hsien in HuaiclVing Fu is traversed necessity of there being a powerful army by the River Ao. This was already full I to defend Manchuria, the home of His to the brim, when the mountain water Majesty’s Dynasty, and states that the came down from Chiyuan Hsien, causin? it fifty battalions of troops in Kirin and to rise above its banks. The embankments Heilungchiang are all armed and supplied round several villages were thus broken with munitions from the arsenal in ques down, and the water spread south-east and tion. Sung Taotai is not only skilled in. south-west over the country,. seventeen his special work, but his opinions are very village on the low ground suffering especial valuable in all matters concerned with the •damage therefrom. The memorialist re local government. The memorialist Sug marks that these districts lie just under gests that the Governor of Kirin should the Tai Hang Mountains, with the Wei be desired to send Sung Taotai to Peking River and its a迅 uents passing though them. in order that he may be received in He considers therefore that it is inevitable audience by the Emperor and obtain such that they should be inundated whenever recognition of his merits as His Majesty there are extraordinary rains, such as may think fit.——Approved. have occurred this summer. Even in tlie higher grounds, where the land has again 19th September. begun to dry, crops have suffered some No documents of interest, damage; while in the lower tracts the prospect of a harvest is almost hopeless. 20th September. The greatest damage appears to have been BRIGANDS IN SHANTUNG. done in Chi Hsien (i.e. Weihui Fu) and The Governor of Shantung states that Hsinlisiang. For the purpose therefore of Wei Hsien in Laichou Fu is a poor district relieving distress in tliose two districts he with a turbulent population, much infested has set apart a sum of Tls. 3,000, which by robbers and salt smugglers. In the will be used together with the corn in the spring of last year the laie magistrate local granaries. In the other districts above arrested and beheaded a robber chief, with mentioned enquiries will be carefully made the result that there was much less trouble on the spot ; and if it appears that circum for a time. This summer, however, there stances necessitate any measures being being a new magistrate in the place, some taken on behalf of the people, a fresh of the companions of the executed criminal report will be furnished to the Emperor.— each collected a few followers and then Noted. banding together began to commit de 18th September. predations on the borders of Changi and Wei Hsien. Under the memorialist’s PRAISE OK KIRIN ARSENAL TAOTAI. orders the local magistrates attempted to The Military Governor of Heilungchiang make a joint raid on the brigands without calls attention to the merits o f Sung Ch‘un- giving them any warning ; but the latter ao, Director of the arsenal at Kirin. In got wind of their approach and hid 1880, when the army of Manchuria had themselves in the thickets or tall millet, just been established on a new footing, the where they could not be discovered. In Military Commissioner Wu Ta-cheng pro fact nothing was done beyond destroy posed that an arsenal should be erected at ing a fe\v huts that they inhabited, Kirin to supply the amis and munitions afld ordering the village headmen to seize required for the troops. Application was them when there was an opportunity. made to Li Hung-chang to recommend an There was a further di伍culty in the official to take charge of the undertaking, fact that the villagers whom they plundered and his choice fell upon Sung Ch‘un-ao. were unwilling to denounce them, for fear of Under that officer’s management the ar becoming the objects of tlieiv revenge. On. senal proved a great success, and many account of the entire failure of the above articles and warlike munitions were con attempt, the Governor sent a military force structed, including both torpedoes and into the neighbourhood, which occupied steamers. Some of the rifles and guns the important passes ; and then with the which he turned out were sent by the aid of informers about twenty of the rob Governor to the Peking Field Force for bers were discovered and caught. But examination, and there they met with these did not include any of the chiefs, and high praise. In 1888 he was recommended an active search will continue to be made to the Throne by the Board of Admiralty; till all of them have been arrested. Before a?d in 1891 he was specially commended for thia was done the Governor had temporarily his economical management of the arsenal. removed the magistrate ; and as the latter 128 [S ept. 20—24. does not seem quite up to his work at Wei to the notice of the high authorities, there Hsien, it is thought better not to send him was a fresh trial before the Prefect of Pao- back there, but to find him a fresh post in ting Fu, when the truth of the matter was fiome other district.—Approved. established beyond all question. But as 21st September. the doorkeeper had fled, it was not pos sible to convict the expert of having re CALAMITIES IN TURKESTAN. ceived a bribe to make a false report. The The Governor of Turkestan reports ?that Viceroy, however, recommends that the Turfan and other districts under his juris magistrate should be cashiered for allowing, diction have been visited by natural himself to be gulled by his servant, and calamities of different kinds, namely frost, inflicting illegal torture, with the result that hail, floods and drought. At Turfan on great injustice was nearly committed.— the 1st and 2nd of May, there was a slight Approved. fall of rain followed by frost. The vines 23rd September. were just then in flower and were badly nipped, so that they for the most part ARREST OF ROBBERS IN FORMOSA. produced no fruit. The damage was greatest The Governor of Formosa announces in the low lands. In Kashgar there was that he has arrested and executed a noto extremely heavy rain on the 21st and 22nd rious brigand in the south of Formosa. The of June. In one locality the mountain man, whose name is Cheng Shang, had streams overflowed, and inundated 2,200 been guilty of numerous robberies with mow of land ; not only were the crops violence. At times he had a following of as spoilt, but 315 houses or rooms were washed many as a hundred men, at the head of down and one person’s life lost. On whom he would offer resistance to the Barkoul a hail storm on the 1st of July imperial forces ; at other moments his com destroyed the wheat, beans, and oats in panions would be dispersed, and there 1,800 mow of land. In Yarkand there would be no traces of his whereabouts. were floods caused by extraordinary rains In consequence of the reports^made to him, first on the 9th and afterwards on the the Governor sent a special officer with 18th and 19th of July. Some 600 mow a military force to secure the arrest of this were covered with sand and mud and ninety dangerous criminal. But Chgng Shang’s houses, or rooms, washed down. In the adherents were so numerous and his inform neighbouring district of Sufu a storm ation so good, that for a long time the covered the ground with hailstones to the attempts to arrest him ended in failures. depth of five or six inches. The sorghum, At last he was taken after a sharp fight near millet, wheat, and beans were damaged over Kagee, where he had fled from the Pitao an area of more than ten thousand mow. neighbourhood in consequence of the In Ch‘it‘ai Hsien the weather was dry from vigorous pursuit maintained in the last the beginning of summer, only a few drops mentioned district. One of his companions of rain falling. In consequence of this was also captured, aB well as some guns and moat of the corn withered away. The several revolvers ; but the rest of his party memorialist has sent officers to visit the managed to escape. There were a number above mentioned districts for the purpose of robberies against his name, and he made of ascertaining the severity of the damage no attempt to deny any of them. When and the necessity of distributing relief or asked if he had been concerned in any other remitting taxation. important crimes, he replied that after having been a brigand more than ten years 22nd September. he really could not remember particular PUNISHMENT OF A MAGISTRATE. cases. He was executed without delay and According to a memorial from Li Hung- his head exposed, in order to reassure the cliang, there was very nearly a serious minds of the public. In conclusion the miscarriage of justice a short time ago in Governor asks for rewards for the officers Ch‘iiyang Hsien. In a fit of madness a man who effected the capture.一Approved. fell into a well and was drowned. At the 24th September. inquest the magistrate’s doorkeeper per suaded the expert to pretend that he had OFFICER RETIRED OX ACCOUNT OF AG£. discovered marks of injuries on the corpse. A captain in the army of Shansi has In consequence of this the magistrate was been allowed to retire from the service on completely deceived and tortured some in account of age. He is seventy years old， nocent people with burning joss-sticks to and therefore not equal to the duties of his make them confess that they had beaten post. He is allowed to retain in his retire* the man to death. The case having come ment the grade to which he had attained. S ept. 24—26.] 129 AFFKAY betw een guards and pkiso ners. not give her lip to the various messengers. The Governor of Kirin reports an attempt At last the husband came himself. The made by some prisoners to escape from the brother reproached him for being stingy guards who were in charge of them. The to her, and still would not let her go. The case is somewhat noteworthy, as it is plain two men began to quarrel, and before long from the facts that for once the police were grappled with each other. The woman not in any way guilty of intentionally con tried to come between them with a knife niving at the flight of the criminals. in her hand to defend her brother. But Last May four men, all of whom had her husband wrested it from her, and when been condemned to death, were being con the brother tried to seize it, he stabbedjiini veyed back to Potuna after their final ex in the breast. His wife caught hold of him amination at the provincial capital. One by the clothes and poured out a torrent of night during their journey the party stop abuse. In a moment of fury he determined ped for the night at an inn in the to kill her, and inflicted on her a fatal town of Wulachieh. At about two in the wound. The brother was now lying on the morning the prisoners managed to geb hold floor calling out for some one to seize the of a heavy sword belonging to one of the murderer. The latter therefore, under the escort. With it they cut through their influence of his passion, again attacked the wooden fetters, and breaking off their leg wounded man and killed him outright. The irons jumped from the kany with the in dead man’s wife and brother were persuaded tention of running off. Theguai ds, who had to accept some money and say nothing of all been fast asleep, were awakened up by the affair ; but it nevertheless came to the the noise and attempted to seize the ears of the local magistrate, who arrested fugitives. But the latter had already got and tried the murderer. The prisoner has hold of their weapons, and fought most been sentenced to be decapitated after desperately. Three of the guards were imprisonment, while lighter punishments shot; but another of them took a gun are awarded to those who took part in the and killed one of the prisoners. The attempt to hush up the case.一Referred to other three prisoners escaped from the the Board of Pimishment. house. One of them fell into a river 26th September. and was drowned, another was caught, but the third got clean away. The wound THE YELLOW RIVER IN HONAN. ed guards all died soon afterwards, before The Director-General of the Yellow River they could be removed from the inn. The reports that, so far as the portion of the memorialist proposes that the guards and river under his jurisdiction is c*>ncernecl, their superior o伍cers should be punished no further trouble need be expected during for the neglig ence shown by them in the the present year. He mentions that the matter.—Inferred to the Board. heavy rains in the latter part of the sum- nier occasioned much greater anxiety than 25th September. he had anticipated. MURDER OF WIFE AND BROTHER-IN-LAW. MURDEXt OF WIFE’S PARAMOUR. The Governor of Turkestan reports the A Mahommedan farmer of Kuche named sentence passed on a Mahonimedan of U^hi, Nassuv was njarried to a woman called who was convicted of murdering his wife and Hali Bibi. A certain neighbour was in his brother-in-law. The murderers name the habit of going into their house. was Chaid. About ten years ago he gave his One day finding the woman alone, he sister in marriage to one J ussuf, and in tempted her and she fell. The intrigue the following year he himself married was continued for some time without its Jussuf’s sister. Five years later his wife coming to the husband’s knowledge. At ran away with another man. He got her last a man who lived next door saw the back again, but as he could nut find the lovers sitting on the ground in the back man, h°e was unable positively to convict yard talkinur and laughing together. The her of adultery. Their conjugal relations, man tolcl Nassur what lie had witnessed however, were never happy after this, and advised him to look af t er his spouse. and the woman often used to niake a n<-ise Nassur extracted the truth from her and in the house. One day she wanted some gave her a severe beaiing, but for shame’s new clothes, and he would not let her have sake he took no further measures. Hali them. She therefore worked herself into Bibi after this behaved with perfect pro a passion and ran ofl'to her brother’s house. priety ; but whenever she went out her The brother foolishly to"k her part, and, admirer would meet her and persecute her when the husband sent after her, he would with his attentions. At last she told her 130 [S ept. 27—30. husband and advised him to send her those localities to which attention had pre away to some other place. Nassur viously been called. would not do this ; but he arranged with her help to try and entrap the admirer, 28th September. in order to give him a good thrashing. RIVER WALL IN HONAN. The next time she went out, her admirer The Governor of Honan asks leave to met her and accosted her as usual. She recommend for rewards the officers engaged told him that on the morrow her husband in building a stone river wall along the was going away to the Grass Lake to buy Yellow River in Wenhsiang Hsien. He sheep, and that he might come and visit states that the undertaking was of great her in the evening. As soon as she re importance, as the river was encroaching turned home she informed her husband of on the district city ; and had it not been what had happened. Nassur got ready speedily completed, both public offices and some cords and a leather whip, and on the private dwellings would have been seriously following day made a pretence of startinsj endangered. on a journey, but in reality he hid himself in a cornfield hard by. When night had 29th September. fallen the admirer came to the house and NEW SUB-PREFECT FOR l3OSe. entered. Nassur followed him in, shut the The Governor of Kuangsi requests per door, and with the help of Hali Bibi seized mission to select a new Sub-Prefect for him and bound him to a beam. He then took the whip and began to lay on. As the Pose, a district which is well known by captive was kicking violently, he passed name as being at the head of the navigation the whip to Hali Bibi and bade her use it of the West River of Canton, on tlie main with all the vigour she could, while he tied route between that city and Yunnan. the man’s legs with another rope. Then Pose is described by the memorialist as a troublesome and busy post, in a malarious he took the whip back and thrashed him situation and surrounded by aborigines. with it all over. On account of the dark The subprefect there has always the right to ness it was impossible to tell which particu be withdrawn after three years* service, and lar blows were inflicted by the mail and given a post in a more habitable district. which by the woman. Hearing the noise their next door neighbour came in, after MAINTENANCE OF GRAND CANAL. which the captive was untied. Restoratives The Governor-General at Canton an were applied to him, but nevertheless a nounces that he has forwarded to the few hours later he died from the effects of Director-General of the Grain Transport a the beating that lie had received. The subsidy of Tls. 10,000. It is stated that affair came to the notice of the authorities, this sum is payable annually on account of and bothhusband and wife were arrested and river works ; and doubtless it is expended tried. Nassur has been convicted of murder on the maintenance of the Grand Canal. and sentenced to be strangled after imprison ment. Had the paramour been caught in TROOPS NEAR TONGKING FRONTIER. flagrante delicto the punishment would have Within the last few years a new District been lighter. As the woman was acting called Fangch‘eng Hsien has been establis- under her husband’s instructions, her sen ed, close to the Tongking frontier. It forms tence is one hundred blows and a month’s part of the sub-prefecture of ChSnchou, wooden collar. The latter part of her which lies on the west coast beyond Pakhoi. punishment will, as is customary, be re Fangch‘eng does not yet possess a willed mitted on payment of a fine. —jRe/erreci to city and the people of the surrounding the Board of Punishments. country are described as being of a lawless character. A f*>rce of two hundred .and THE FLOODS IX YUNNAN. fifty men has been raised for military ser The Governor of Yunnan presents a vice there. The Governor-General now- further report on the serious floods which reports on the expenditure, which will be have occurred in that province during the necessary for the maintenance of these past summer. In addition to the districts troops. of which he has already forwarded a list, he 30tli September. finds that considerable suffering has been caused in Ch‘engkung, Fumin, Chiensliui, EXECUTION OF CRIMINALS. Huitse, Chinning and Nanning, where some The Governor of Honan gives a long thousands of acres have been inundated, list of criminals, about fifteen in all, who and many houses washed clown. Enquiries have been convicted of taking partin house will be made and relief distributed, as in breaking or robbery with violence. As they S ept. 30—Ocr. 3.] 131 were in possession of firearms at the time ■ 2nd October. of committing their crimes, they have all FUNDS FOR THE ADMIRALTY. been summarily executed and their heads The Government of Chekiang is required exposed. to furnish the Admiralty with a sum of Tls. 400,000 from its likin receipts during 1st October. the present year ; and the Governor has AN ADMIRAL ON HORSEBACK. been requested to forward this money in instalments to the Superintendent of the The Admiral of the Yangtze, Huang Northern Ports at Tientsin. Tls. 160,000 I-sheng, is graciously accorded permission have already been sent in accordance with to ride on horseback inside the walls of the the requisition. Since then Tls. 40,000 Forbidden City at Peking. more have come to hand, and the Governor ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES IN KUANGSI. is remitting that amount in bills of ex change to the Viceroy Li Hung-chang. Some time ago the late Governor of FUNDS FROM CHEKIANG FOK GRAND CANAL. Kuangsi proposed that the District of The Board of Revenue has addressed Shangssu Chou, which lies near Tongking, the Emperor with reference to the annual should be changed into an independent subsidy due from Chekiang for the main sub-prefecture, instead of being under the tenance of the Grand Canal. The subsidy government of T laipcing Fu. The Board lias been allowed to fall into arrears to such of Civil 0 迅ce reported favourably on the an extent that Tls. 120,000 are now due. proposal, and the Emperor accordingly gave It is desired that the annual sum may in it his sanction. The new sub-prefecture future be sent in full, and that the arrears (Ting) is classed as an important fron may by paid off gradually in such amounts tier post, the incumbent of which will as the Governor of Chekiang may find be entitled to promotion after five practicable. That officer describes in some years1 tenure, without preliminary removal. detail the efforts which he is making to Again, in 1886, the high authorities pro carry out these instructions. posed that a new intendancy should be formed, the incumbent of which should be 3rd October. termed the T(aip‘ing Kueishun Taotai and AKREST OF KOLAO HUI MEN IN KIANGSI. have charge over all frontier affairs. Lung- chou was chosen for his place of residences The Governor of Kiangsi refers to the and he was given jurisdiction over a portion Imperial Decree issued rather more than a of territory formerly belonging to the Tso- year ago in which the high authorities chiang and the Kuei-p‘ing-'vu-yii circuits. throughout the empire were desired to use This has necessitated certain changes in every effort in order to arrest members of the seals of office, which will now be made the Kolao Hui Society, and were allowed with the Emperor’s sanction. to recommend for reward any officers who especially distinguished themselves in doing. The Governor has already present DEBTS BY DECEASED OFFICIAL. ed more than one memorial describing The Governor of Honan remarks that what he has done to carry out these in there are very strict regulations with re structions. More recently it was reported gard to the handing over of balances when to him bv the Prefect of Fuchow that last territorial ()伍cials change their posts. March that officer discovered the presence When the late Magistrate of T^ik^ng of Kolao H ui in Ch‘ungjen Haien, where Hsien gave over charge to his successor, they were enrolling members and exciting there was a deficiency in his treasury the people. The Prefect therefore took to the amount of Tls. 6,244.79. The o伍cer measures to deal with these offenders, and in question is dead, and application in the first instance a man named Tsou was has therefore been made to his family arrested. On him were found a flag and for the sum in question. They, however, a ticket，which he said he bad pur have paid no attention to the matter and chased from one Lo Hsing-pao. On the have altogether failed to satisfy the claim. latter’s being captured, there was discover It is proposed that the formality should be ed in his possession a wooden seal which gone through of cashiering the deceased corresponded with an impression on Tsou’s official, and a term of two months allowed ticket. Lo confessed that he and two other to his family within which they must pay men, whom he named, had been enlisting the money. Should they exceed the limit, followers to join in a rising. Some officers more stringent measures will be put in and soldiers were sent off without a force against them.—Approved. moment’s delay, and they succeeded in 132 [O ct. 3. ring the two men, Ch‘en Ch‘ang and should both be summarily decapitated and Sheng-fu by name. The prisoners their heads exposed, in order that others were examined locally ; but as their con might take warning by their fate. The fessions were not satisfactory they were guilt of the other prisoners, being apparent- transferred to the provincial capital with ty of a lesser degree, he had ordered that some other men who had also been taken. they should again be examined and such Ch‘en Ch‘ang stated that he was a native sentences passed upon them as they might of Ch{ungjen Hsien and had gained a deserve. As Ch(en ChSmg had already- bachelor’s degree in 1878. He acknow been deprived of his studentship, no cen ledged that he had been in the habit of sure would fall upon the local officer of undertaking lawsuits for other people and instruction for careless supervision, but of drinking and using violence. On ac the elder relatives of the two criminals count of his bad character, his degree was would be summoned and punished for fail taken away from him. One day after a ing to restrain them. The officers to whose drinking bout, a man named Chiang said energy are due the detection and capture that a golden dragon often appeared on his of these important criminals, are recom ■wife’s person. From this time forward he mended by name for appropriate rewards.— began plotting in conjunction with Chiang. Approved. He assumed another name which suited his pretensions, and engaged a dozen men KOLAO HUI MEN IN CHEKIANG. to enlist adherents for him. Their watch The Govern or of Chekiang states that in word was “ faith and justice.” The in consequence of the vigilance displayed by tention was to wait for a favourable oppor the High Authorities of Kiangsu and tunity, and then take arms openly. His Anhui, numbers of Kolao Hid have escaped party were to pretend that they were acting into Chekiang, and the Prefecture of Hu- against unlawful religious societies, but in cho'v which borders on Kiangsu has been reality they were to make a descent upon particularly infested with these lawless Formosa and capture the island. characters. Early last June two men named Lo Hsing-pao, in addition to his previous Ya and Huang came and surrendered them confession, further acknowledged that selves to the magistrate of Anchi Hsien. seventeen years ago he had been enrolled They said that they had been deluded into as a Kolao Hui. He was given a ticket joining the Kolao Hui, but had repented and made chief ensign, with right of and wished to give up their tickets in order authority over one hundred men. Four to sever their connection with the society. years afterwards he was arrested by the The local chief of it, one Liu Yii-kuei, hav Magistrate of Ch‘ungjen, his native place. ing heard of their intention, carried them 丑 e gave up his ticket and was allowed to off and beat them cruelly. The Magistrate be bailed out by bis friends on the promise thereupon sent some troops to arrest Liu that he would lead a new life in future. Yu-kuei. With the help of his followers At the beginning of the present year he he made a vigorous resistance, but he was took it into his head to open a branch, like surrounded by the soldiers and secured that into which he was originally enlisted. though his men all managed to escape. He accordingly issued tickets with a super About the same time a man named Peng scription which he now described, and was taken with a number o f flags and stamped them with a seal that he had pro tickets, and another member, Mi, was cured. He at the same time nominated caught in Wuch'ang Hsien. By the Gover- lieutenants, and ensigns undsr his orders. nor’s orders all the prisoners were sent to Among those who bought his tickets was Huchow Fu for trial. the prisoner Tsou. When he was con Liu Yii-kuei stated that he was a Hupeh fronted with Hsiit Sheng-fu and other man and had served in the army. An old prisoners, they acknowledged that he had acquaintance of his, Hu Ming-yang, had enticed them into joining the society, but enrolled him as a member of the Kolao that they had not committed any further J i“i，the branch which he joined being unlawful acts. called that of the Chunghua Mountain. The Governor found that Chlen CIVang, They had secret passwords by which con apart from his antecedent bad character, federates could be recognised. On account was manifestly a rebel leader of importance, of his military experience he was made who had conceived the most treasonable in “ Fifth Ensign.” He was afterwards pro tentions; while Lo Hsing-pao, who had once moted to be military commander in a new been pardoned and afterwards relapsed, branch, and was given flags and tickets. was an inveterate and incorrigible offender. These he distributed for money, which he He had therefore commanded that they spent for his own use. He and a number O ct. 3—4 ] 133 of companions had plundered the crops of 4th October. a man who would not join the society, SUBSCRIPTIONS FROM KIANGSI FOR CHIHLI. selling the corn and dividing the proceeds. The Governor of Kiangsi presents a It was true that he had carried off the two second list of officials who contributed men Ya and Huang, who wished to quit money fur the relief of distress in tbe， the society. He sat in judgment on them province of Chihli, in accordance with an and punished them by scourging. He had application made to the Emperor two years burnt all compromising articles when he ago by the Viceroy Li Hung-chang. The learnt that he was likely to be arrested. total sum subscribed on this occasion The second prisoner, Peng, had a very amounts to Tls. 16,698, and the number of similar story to tell. He also was a soldier contributors is one hundred and twenty- who bad been dismissed from the service. seven. The rewards to which they are He was a Hunan man, but be had been entitled are decorations, brevet rank and enrolled as a Kulao Hui in Nanking, by so on. A list of their names and parentage the Hu Ming-yang above mentioned. He together with the amount of each donation had Ipeeii given a military post, and later ， when Hu Ming-yang formed a new branch, has been sent to the Board. he was placed in a higher position in it. He MISTAKE IN A MEMORIAL. was also entrusted with flags and tickets The Viceroy at Nanking a month or two for distribution. He sold them in Nanking ago addressed a memorial to the Emperor and Kuantech（m of Anhui, about a dozen in which he requested that Yang Pe4i-lin? liags for a dollar each, and some sixty titular Magistrate of Huaiyuan Hsien, tickets for six or seven hundred cash. He but actually acting Magistrate at Lucliiang spent the money as he got it, for his per Hsien might be cashiered with a view to sonal requirements. his trial for his complicity in a certain The third prisoner, Mi, was a Hunan case. The Viceroy now finds that in the man, a discharged soldier. Seven years ago said memorial the offender was by mistake a stranger from Szechuan whom he met in described as Magistrate of IIsi Hsien Wuhu.had spoken to him of the advantages instead of Huaiyuan. He begs that the of being a Kolao Hui，and enrolled him as mistake may be corrected and that the a member of the Wenwu Mountain branch. Board may be instructed to determine Two years later he took part in a disturb what penalty should be inflicted on him ance in Ningkuo Fu. Bearing that he self for making it. was likely to be arrested he burnt his Decree.— The Board will determine a ticket and disappeared. He had since penalty for Liu K ^u^yi. taken part in a robbery with violence in Cli‘ingyang Hsien, and in conjunction TEMPLES ANI) RITES FOK DECEASED with another member of the society had OFFICIALS. carried off a man and murdered him on the At the request of certain influential peo frontier of the province. ple in Chekiang the Governor of that The Governor has ordered the immediate , province prays the Emperor to authorise decapitation of the two first mentioned the construction of temples and the official prisoners, who have been shown to be performance of rites in honour of two of the leaders in an unlawful society. The offen memorialist’s predecessors. The first of ces of the third nmn, Mi, are also such these is Ch‘ao Shih-lin, who became Gov as to be unpardonable. But the Governor ernor in the year 1G84. At that period the learns that his name has been mentioned people owed large debts to the soldiery at in the confessions of certain Kolao Hui cruel rates of interest. By an arrangement who have been arrested in Anhui and are with the Tartar General he provided funds now under examination there. It is there and extinguished the debts, thus freeing fore proposed to deliver him over to the the people from a painful bondage. authorities of that province in order that He dredged the canals in Hangchow, which they may make use of his testimony. had been neglected for nearly a hundred There remain the two men who surrender years, and rebuilt both the city temple and ed themselves of their own accord and that of Confucius. He further constructed whose depositions were the means of secur a college on the Orphan Hill in the West ing these important prisoners. The Gover Lake, where the people were taught nor thinks that they may be given a free monthly the precepts of the Sacred Edict, pardon. In conclusion he asks permission and scholars were instructed in literary to recommend for rewards the officers who knowledge. Service was performed in his effected the oapturea.—Permission accord- memory at the college, but the buildings ed，but it must be used sparingly. were destroyed in the Taiping rebellion, 134 [O ct. 4—6. and the people who have not forgotten him consulted with Mou and Captain Hung, wish to build a fresh shrine in his honour. and it was agreed that lie should fabricate The second Governor is Shuai CIVeng-ying some documents f"r their joint benefit. who entered upon office in the year 1841. Employing a foreign method of printing, His first great act was abolishing salt with which he was acquainted, he first duties and contributions to the amount of copied an o伍cial receipt. Then he took Tls. 700,000, and. yet not causing a de a small square of opium and on its four ficiency in the treasury. Afterwards there sides he cut imitations of the seals of the was a great famine from floods in Hang various offices concerned. With these he chow, Kashing and Huchow. He obtained stamped the receipt, and the document funds from the Emperor, detained the was complete. Next day he took his own boats with tribute rice, encouraged im patent as a licentiate, and. printed seven portation by suspending duties, and thus teen similar sheets.. Flattening out the prevented the loss of a single life. He also square of opium, he produced on it the dredged the West Lake and rebuilt the seal of the Board at Peking, and stamped Haiyen sea wall. Finally, when quitting all the sheets which he had made. A clay the province, he left behind him a sum of or two afterwands he gave these fabricated eighty thousand taels, half of which he gave patents to Mou to be sold cheap, and handed towards the dredging of the lakes and the Captain Hung the o伍eial receipt for Chin. other half to the support of widows and The latter thereupon paid the balance of childless people. The Memorial thinks that $25, of which sum Huang gave $4 to each the foundation of temples in memory of of bis two confederates. Finally the'"frand these two deceased statesmen will be both was discovered，because Chin took his paper just and popular.一Granted, to be verified at the office for collecting 5th October. subscriptions, where the mandarin in charge FABRICATION OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. at once discovered the forgery. The three offenders were arrested. Huang has died The Governor of Chekiang reports that iu prison, but sentence of beheading has certain persons, some of them of official none the less been passed on him. The rank, have been convicted of forging an other two, as his accomplices, have been official receipt and other documents. There condemned to flogging and penal servitude. were three individuals implicated in the - - liefer red to the Board. affair. The first was a man named Huang, who had been empl（»yed as a printer in 6th October. Shanghai, but afterwards went to Hang KOBBERS IX NORTHERN KIANGSU. chow to collect subscriptions for the Chihli From two memorials of the Governor of Relief Fund. The second was ©ne Mou, Kiangsu it appears that there is more rob who had been given military rank, because bery and brigandage than one would have his father was killed in action. But lie expected in the country just north of the never qualified himself for an actual ap Yangtze between Yangchow and Huaian pointment, and bad turned into a loafing Fu. Last year an opium and money shop ne’er-do-weel. The third, Hung Shih-lun, was attacked inside the city of Antung, had obtained a military degree at the and the proprietor shot dead by the metropolitan examination, and held the robbers. Secret enquiries elicited the fact rank of expectant captain. All these three that three of the principal members of the were well acquainted with each other. gang were well known criminals, named Just a year ago Captain Hung met a mili Chu, Hsu and T‘ai】g. The villages where tary student from the country, named they lived were regular resorts of robbers, Chin, who wished to obtain a licentiate's who assembled there in large numbers. If title for his father. Captain Hung said troops were sent against the robbers, they that Huang was well versed in all matters always got news beforehand, and either concerning the purchase of titles and temporarily disappeared, or, if they felt offered to see him on Chin’s behalf. strong enough, showed fight. The officials Chin agreed, and produced one hundred therefore considered that a stratagem and ninety ounces of Taichou prepared would be necessary to get hold of the men. opium, worth $25, which he handed A spy of unusual intelligence went to the to Captain Hung and the latter passed village where Chu lived and proposed to on to Huang. Chin made several applica procure liini a post as a military scout. tions for the o伍cial receipt which should Chu was taken in and agreed to meet the have been delivered to him ; but Huang spy at a certain place. In the darkness a had spent the money and there was no detachment of soldiers surrounded the receipt forthcoming. At last Huang spot, and, when Chu came there, pounced O ct. 6—9.] 135 ■upon him suddenly. Then, before the 7th October. news was known, they hurried to the APPOINTMENTS AT PEKING. villages and arrested the two other men who were wanted. When examined by Hsu Yung-i is made Senior Vice-Pre the authorities, all three confessed that sidents of the Board of Civil O伍ce. they had taken, part in the robbery of Liao Shou-heng is made Junior Vice- the opium and money shop, the originator President of the Board of Civil O 伍ce. of the scheme being the man Chu. They Chang Yin-lieng is made Senior Vice- have all been executed and their heads President of the Board of Revenue. All these officers are members of the exposed. Tsungli Yamen. Another report from the Governor states that a man named Kuo had organised a 8th October. band of several hundred brigands in the CHARITABLE SUBSCRIPTIONS IN SHANTUNG. neighbourhood of Paoying and Shanyang. There were ten leaders of which he was the . The Governor of Shantung presents * a chief. They pretended to be salt smug list of officials and gentlemen, whom lie glers, but in reality they were a gang of asks to have rewarded for their labours robbers, who plundered and murdered far in collecting subscriptions or distributing ■and wide. Large rewards were offered for charity. He has already laid before the their apprehension, and soldiers were often Emperor the names of those specially con sent in their pursuit; but the robbers were nected with the Kiangsu and Chekiang so wide awake, that when the troops fund, but he is now concerned with those arrived, the birds were always found to be belonging to all parts of the Empire. Not 丑own.、 A Colonel Hsii was sent to look only, he says, were the people along the after them, and he ascertained that Yellow River constantly reduced to dire dis tress ;but three years ago in Chinan, Ch‘ing- they carried on their depredations, both chou, and Wuting Fus drought prevailed on the north of the Yangtze and to in the spring and summer. Under the the south as far as the borders of Chekiang. late Governor’s orders Sheng Taotai invited They moved about in boats and had no subscriptions from the officials and gentry fixed resting place, constantly assembling throughout the empire and from Chinese and dispersing again. The Colonel’s spies and foreign merchants. The managers of followed Kuo about for three months, but the Kiangsu fund were invited to distribute he never gave anyone an opportunity to the money. Besides the direct giving of catch him- At last the Colonel heard that charity, the Ssunussu and the little lie had come alone to a village in Hsinghua Ch‘ing River were dredged as relief works, Haien to fetch his wife and carry her away In the last five years TIs. 1,800,000 were to some distant locality where he would be expended, and in the four years and a half beyond pursuit. Troops were sent for before that TIs. 830,000. These figures from several quarters and the village was represent money only, in addition to gifts speedily surrounded. Two soldiers entered of corn and clothes. These who collected the robber's lair. He was armed with these sums worked hard, and those who pistols and showed fight, but the other distributed them were exposed to the soldiers crowded in and lie wzaa taken alive. burning heat of summer and the hard As soon as he had been tried lie was ordered frosts of winter, to toilsome journeys by to be executed. The memorialist has sent land and to dangers from the winds and •a present of two hundred taels to the men waves upon the water. They underwent who captured him, and rewards will be all this from pure philanthropy and with •asked later for the officers both civil and out hope of reward, but the memorialist military. does not wish that their labours and dangers should be forgotten. He asks for OFFICERS KILLED IN FORMOSA. them the same recognition as was granted Some time since the Governor of Formosa to those similarly engaged in the province prayed the Emperor to bestow marks of of Chihli.—Referred to the Board. •compassion on six o伍cers who were killed 9th October. in suppressing the revolt among the abori gines at Taku Kan. The memorialist now MURDEK OF TWO CONCUBINES AND THEIR finds that there were besides them live PARAMOUR. other officers killed in action, from the A month or two ago it was announced in rank of captain downwards. He begs that the Gazette that l uan Hsiu-kang, General the Emperor will accord a similar favour at K laihua in Yummn，was cashiered in ill the case of these men also.—Approved. order that he might be tried fur causing 13G [O ct. 9—13. liis servants to put to death his two concu piculs of glutinous millet on the public bines belonging to him and a man with soup kitchen at Lukouch£iao, and to whom they had run away. The trial has another place, the warm refuge of the now taken place, and sentence has been Tzushan T Jang lie gives three hundred passed by the Governor-General. As ap piculs of the same grain. pears from his report, the two women were 12th October. living for the benefit of their health in a house away from their husband. A small MEMORIAL TEMPLE TO KIN-SHUN. official temporarily stationed in the same The Governor of Kirin refers to the fact place formed an adulterous connection that when Kin-shun, the conqueror of with them. When his duty was finished Turkestan, died, the Emperor sanctioned and he was leaving, he persuaded them to the erection of temples in his honour in go off with him. The newa reached the all the provinces where he had won dis General, who sent a petty officer with tinction. Certain gentlemen of Kirin now orders to kill all the three. He followed beg to call attention to the fact that in the them up, caught them in a house, and shot bustle of his military life he found time to the man, but was prevented by the peo write books f<»r the encouragement of ple there from slaying the. women. He learning and contributed vast sums towards took the women away with him, but left the execution of useful works in his native them en route while he hurried to report country. Although the memory of him is to the General what he had done. He preserved in the regions where he fought, also showed the General the queue and there is nothing to make him remembered one ear which he had cut off from the corpse in his own province. Under these circum as proofs of the adulterer’s death. The stances the memorialist begs permission General who was still implacable sent him to build a temple in honour of Kin-shun back with a servant, giving them strict at the town of Kirin, to which he be orders to put the 'yomen to death. The longed. —Granted. servant killed them, and then buried them FUNDS FROM HUPEH. with their paramour. The Governor finds The Governor of Hupeh states that the- that there is no punishment for a husband treasury of the province has been required who kills his concubine’s paramour on the to furnish the Peking Government with a sp o t; but for putting the women to death sum of Tls. 450,000 from its land tax at a different time and place the General receipts. He has already forwarded five must he condemned to receive a hundred instalments amounting to Tls. 250,000 ; blows. As he has been cashiered, this may and he is now despatching a sixth, consist be taken as the equivalent of the beating. ing of Tls. 40,000. The money is entrusted His agents, the petty officer and the ser to two officers who will convey it overland vant, who slew the women, and committed to Peking. a further offence by surreptitiously burying them, are ordered to receive eighty blows. REDUCTION OF TROOPS IN MANCHURIA. The former, however, has been cashiered, For eight years past a gradual reduction and the latter is dead, ng further notice has been carried out in the number of therefore need be taken of either.—Referred soldiers and camp followers in the army of to the Board of Punishment. the province of Fengtien or Shingking. Owing to the rebellion near Jeho last win 10th October. ter the process had to be temporarily No documents of interest. stopped. However in the first months of this year the saving in consequence of the 11th October. previous reductions has still amounted ta DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD AT PEKING. Tls. 17,870. In obedience to standing in The Governor of Peking according to structions, the Governor is sending thia annual custom lias asked the Emperor for money to the Board at Peking. It is all a supply of food for certain charitable remitted by means of Bills of Exchange on institutions at Peking. His Majesty re substantial native banks. marks that the cold weather is approaching 13th October. and it is difficult for the poor to find means of support. To two establishments he MEMORIAL TEMPLE FOR DECEASED GENERAL. grants five hundred piculs of small millet The Governor of Honan has received instead of their ordinary allowance of three a petition, through the regular channel, hundred piculs, and to a third he gives from some influential residents at Nan- the smaller amount. In reply to another yang, who are desirous of doing honour to petition His Majesty bestows four hundred the memory • of the late General Chao O ct. 13—14. J 137 Hung-chii. The deceased General was a he had preserved from destruction. The native of ChangtS Fu in Honan. Hav petitioners ask the Governor to address a ing obtained the highest military degree, memorial to the Emperor, praying that the he was appointed one of the Emperor’s deceased General’s history may be recorded guards and sent for service with the rank in the national annals, and that permission of Major in Hupeh. In the year 1854 may be given for the erection of temples in he took part in a campaign against the his honour in Hupeh, Anhui, Shantung, in Taipings. By his skilful tactics he re the capital of Honan, and in his place of conquered Mienyang Chow and several birth. other places, killing vast numbers of the In forwarding this petition the Governor enemy and destroying their boats with speaks in the highest terms of the exploits fire. After other victories he retook of General Chao, and mentions his defence Hanyang and then passed into Anhui, of Nanyang as the deed which rendered where like success awaited him. At this him specially illustrious. The Governor time the Nienfei were besieging Kushih humbly requests that the General’s acts Hsien, which was reduced to great straits. may be recorded in the national annals ; Crossing into Honan he relieved Kushih, but he leaves the question of the temples and pursuing the rebels, he slew many to His Majesty’s decision without dariug of their number. Returning to Anhui, to make any recommendation. he retook Liuan Chow. As large bodies of The Emperor’s rescript permits the re Taipings were then ravaging Hupeh, he cording of General Chao’s career and the followed them there, and at once captured building of a temple to him in the city of Laohok 4ou. Next, as a Lieutenant of Nanyang, but it negatives the rest of the Prince Sankolinsin he fought in Honan. petition. There he stormed many of the Nienfei’s 14th October. strongholds, and killed in action, or captur ed and beheaded, several of their principal PRISONER TO BE RETRIED. chiefs. In 1865 he was made acting One of the Censors reports that there General at Nanyang. That autumn Nan- are grave reasons for doubt concerning the yang was encireled by a strong rebel force. case of a woman, named Yung, who has The besiegers pressed up to the very moat been condemned to death by strangulation of the city, and the inhabitants were in a and has even had her sentence confirmed state of consternation. With his own hand by the Emperor. His Majesty therefore he fired the cannon by which some two orders that there shall be a new trial and hundred of the enemy were killed, and so nominates two officers of high rank to drove them from the city. Next day he conduct it. pursued them for twenty-five miles and turned their retreat into a rout. After BRIBERY AMONG OFFICERS. holding the acting post three times, he was The Governor of Kueichou states that at length made permanent General at Nan some time ago he gave appointments to yang. Here for ten years he served success two officers, Colonel Li and Major Mao. fully, protecting the peaceful and putting He had hardly done so when he heard down brigandage ; for which he was from the General at Chenyuan, who had rewarded by the brevet title of General-in- recommended them to him, that they had Chief. In 1882 he was appointed General been cheated out of money by a Captain at Tsaochow in Shantung. In the very Hsieh and another officer named Fan。 next year by his energetic efforts he pre Shih-hsi and further that Captain Hsieh served the country from an inundation of had forged a despatch in favour of a the Huang Ho; he also freed the neighbour Colonel Yang. The memorialist therefore hood from the brigands which infested it. reported the case to the Emperor and In the month of February 1889 he wenfc obtained leave to have all the parties tem， out against some banditti, and being caught porarily cashiered in order that they might by a heavy fall of snow, he took a chill, to be placed on their trial. The case was which he succumbed. During his twenty heard by the authorities in the provincial years of command he was noted for his skill capital, and such sentences as seemed ap in fighting against superior numbers, for propriate were passed upon the offenders. his bravery which made him always the It appears that all the above-mentioned foremost in the fight, and for his strict parties were old acquaintances, having discipline by which he prevented plunder served together. Some time ago Fang ing even in the minutest degree. His Shih'hsi, who was badly in want of money, memory is specially cherished by the people told Captain Hsieh and another acquain of Nanyang, whom, as is above narrated, tance named Chang Ping-nan that he had 138 [O ct. 14—16. many friends in the various yamens9 and but had destroyed it when arrested. The he was in the habit of obtaining appoint forgery of an u伍cial despatch from an ments for people. One day last October officer of the rank of General is punish Hsieh passed this information on to able by strangulation after imprisonment， Colonel Li, who thereupon expressed a and to that fate is Hsieh condemned. For wish that Pang Shih-hsi should come and pretending to sell appointments Fang Shih- see him. Fang did so, and Colonel Li hsi is sentenced to three months’ wooden told him that he would pay him if he collar followed by penal servitude in a could get him a post. A month or two malarious region. His dupes will suffer afterwards an orderly came to Kueiyang similar penal servitude without the previous Fu with a despatch for the Governor from wooden collar. Colonel Yang has the same the General at Cheuyuan. The orderly fate as they. The remaining persons im entrusted the letter to Fang for delivery. plicated will be punished as soon as they The latter secretly opened the cover, can be found and arrested.— to tlte and found that it contained a recom Board of Punishments. mendation on behalf of Colonel Li and 15th October. Major Mao. He sealed it up again and No documents of interest. delivered it without delay. Next morning he went to Colonel Li and told him that he 16th October. could get him a post for a hundred and CHARITABLE SUBSCRIPTIONS IN SHANSI. fifty taels. The Colonel consented and The drought last spring and summer paid down fifty taels, leaving the remainder was so severe in the northern part of Shan till the appointment was obtained. Fang si that the Governor found himself obliged then went off to Chang Ping-nan, to whom to withdraw from the Treasury the large he knew Major Mao had spoken about sum of Tla. 160,000, all of which was dis getting a post. He told Chang that he tributed in charity in those regions. Afc had succeeded in his efforts on behalf of the same time the deficient crops in parts Colonel Li and suggested that Chang should of the south, namely Fenchou, P ‘ingyang make a similar proposal for him to Major and Hochou rendered it necessary to lend Mao on the same terms. Major Mao grain and postpone the collection of taxes. agreed and paid down thirty taels. In In the early part of July there were copious consequence of the General’s recommenda showers, and the autumn crops were re tions both the "Major and Colonel were planted ; but in the latter part of the very shortly gazetted to appointments. month came many days of unceasing rain, Fang was on the point of receiving the which fell simply in torrents. The Huta balance of the money, when the affair and other rivers were all in flood at the came to light and he was arrested. A same moment. Streams overflowed, em little before this happened the other bankments burst, fields and villages were Colonel, t hat is to say Colonel Yang, re inundated. From more than thirty dis ceived a visit from a man named Wu Lang- tricts in the south and centre of the hsien. Wu told him of Captain Hsieh’s province there came the same tale of skill in obtaining posts, and Colonel Yang woe. In some of them the number of asked Wu to speak to Hsieh on his behalf. flooded villages amounted to more than a Wu did so and arranged that Hsieh’s hundred, while insome villages the buildings remuneration was to be one hundred taeb. washed down were reckoned by hundreds, He got half this sum out of the Colonel, and the lives lost by scores. The deepest went off with it and was never seen again. distress prevailed all around. The local In the meantime Hsieh had in his posses authorities and other officials were set to sion a blank despatch and envelope sealed work to relieve the sufferers. They dis by the General at Kuchow, which had been tributed the corn in the public granaries, given him some time ago by a man now and where that was not enough, they im deceased. This form he filled up with a ported it from elsewhere or gave money recommendation on behalf of Colonel Yang instead. They also assisted in the rebuild- and delivered it at the Governor’s o伍ce. in of houses and in the burial of the dead. The forgery, however, was discovered and In most instances aid was also given towards he was arrested. There was no doubt in the repairs of river banks. But there is the matter, because of the age of the paper, reat embankment near Taiyuan Fu, its difference from other letters of the protects the neighbouring country General’s，and lastly because the ink of against the water coming from the west. the date was over, instead of under, the This has been washed away for a length vermilion of the Real. He afterwards con of about two miles. It used to be main fessed that he had one more such despatch, tained by the people ; but in their present O ct. 16—18.] 139 difficulties, its reconstruction is altogether and they will be carefully tended and allow beyond their means. The government there ed to graze by the way, while corn and fore will rebuild it as soon as possible, and beans have also been provided for them. pay the labourers as a means of furnish On their arrival at Peking they will be ing relief. In the north beyond the wall, delivered to the Master of the Horse，that where the rain arrived later, only thirty they may be exercised and got ready for His or forty per cent, of the crops could be Majesty’s use. The authorities at Kobdo, re-sown，- as the frost commences early at Ulianghai and in the Chahar country have there, it is doubtful what proportion even been notified in order that the local officials of these will be harvested. Though the may take care of them by the way. The giving of charity has been stopped for the memorialist further has the honour to moment, it will be necessary to provide for enclose a memorandum giving their colours， its distribution in the winter. Indeed, and the sizes of their hoofs, as a means including all sorts of charitable calls on the hich they may be indentified. public purse and the repayment of loans already incurred, there will be wanted at 17th October. least as much as Tls. 200,000. In the No documents of interest. meantime the land tax cannot be collected through half the province, and there are 18th October. the sums due to the Central Government, which must nevertheless be forwarded. FLOODS IN THE CANTON PROVINCE. Under such circumstances there are no A memorial presented by the Governor funds available for use. When a similar at Canton gives an account of the agricul calamity occurred six years ago the want tural prospects and price of corn in the of pecuniary resources was met by open province under liis jurisdiction during the ing subscription lists and rewarding intercalary sixth month (July and August the donors in accordance with the plan last). The harvesting of the early crops introduced into Shantung. In the pre- was completed, rain fell frequently, and the sent case the memorialist would suggest late planting was undertaken. The price of following the example set in Shuntien Fu rice also fell lightly. But in the last day ■and Chihli, and inviting subscriptions on or two of the month Lungch ‘uan Haien in the same terms throughout the province Huichou Fu was visited by terrific rains. of Shansi. In case of there being any The mountain torrents poured down donations of the amount of Tls. 10,000 or into three low-lying sections, where the more, a special report would be made to water rose to a height of ten feet on the the Throne in each case. With regard to level ground. The people were drowned in the remission or postponement of taxation, crowds, and thousands of buildings fell. it has not yet been possible to ascertain Lower down stream is the neighbouring su伍cient particulars in each locality. But district of Changlo in Chiayingchou. Here as soon as complete lists can be made the rivers united and the water rose higher out, the memorialist will again address the than ever. The embankments close to the Throne.一Approved. city on both sides gave way at the same moment. A gap was made in the city wall, HORSES FOR THE EMPEROR. and, as most of the houses inside are built The officer in charge of the government at of mud, more than half of them were wash Tarbagatai states that, this being a year in ed down. The magistrate’s yamSti and the which it is his duty to send horses to the o迅cial buildings connected with it were all Emperor, he selected a number of horses overwhelmed, but the prisoners were safely from his herd and after subjecting them to removed in time, without any of them ■a great deal of training and trying, lie has escaping. In the town altogether sixteen picked out four geldings from the number. persons were drowned. The state of things At the same time according to established in Changlo seems even worse than in Lung- precedent the Captain General of the ch‘uan. Both of them are poor districts, Eleuth Tartars has furnished two horses and the memorialist fears that with such a as his tribute. Though the six horses do sudden calamity many of the people must not match in colours, still they are all docile have been driven away from their homes! and well-broken. At the beginning of He has appropriated Tls. 3,000 for their -June, when the grass on the plains was relief, and has telegraphed to the local lon^ and plentiful，they were despatched Taotai to advance the money temporarily. to Peking under the charge of two officers Other funds have been provided from and a party of soldiers. They will follow private sources. O伍cials will be sent to •the route through Kobdo and Ulianghai, assist the local authorities in distributing 140 [O ct. 1 8-20. the money. Every effort will be made to would have supported some thousands of drain off the flood water and repair the starving people; and unless condign punish embankments as soon as possible. ment overtook him, it would be impossible 19th October. to cheek similar malversation on the part of others. He therefore directed that the TREASURY APPOINTMENT. clerk, Ch‘en Chcun-shou, be taken bound Fuk‘un is appointed a Senior Grand to the public place of execution, and there Secretary and ordered to take charge of straightway put to death. Decree :一Let the Board of Revenue. the Board of Puivishments take note. TRIBUTE RICE GIVEN TO SHANTUNG. 20th October. Fujun has requested permission to keep this year’s tribute rice in Shantung DISTRESS IN KANSU. instead of forwarding it to Peking. The The Governor-General of Kansu and autumn freshets in the Yellow River were Shensi has already reported the existence unusually high this year, and as local rains of distress caused by drought in many a t the same time swelled the tributary of Kansu this summer. He now streams, the channel of the great river to the previous list of such places, could not contain all the water which was and further gives the names of a number poured into it. The result was serious of localities in which great damage was floods in Huimin and other districts. His done by hail. Also in the middle and Majesty being mindful of the sufferings of latter part of July there were tremendous ±lie people feels himself bound to accede to rains in the prefectures of Sining and the Governor’s request. The grain which is Liangchou. Floods ensued, by which fields annually set apart for the local garrisons were inundated, bridges carried away, must be given to them as usual; but all houses thrown down and a good many lives the rest of the tribute rice together with lost. There was also much destruction the money which should have been spent among the flocks and herds, a great deal of in sending it to Peking, may be devoted suffering has been caused, especially among to the relief of the sufferers in such propor such people as had the misfortune to lose tions as each locality may have need of it. both their early harvest by the drought, and their late one by the water. Further A CLERK BEHEADED FOR PECULATION. enquiries will be necessary in order to The Sub-prefect of Tokoto Ting recently ascertain exactly how far it will be necess reported to the Taotai at Kueihuach*eng ary to distribute relief and remit taxation- that he had detected one of his treasury clerks in committing an act of gross fraud. PUBLIC GRANARIES IN KANSU. The clerk at the same time was sent to the It appears from a memorial by the Gover Taotai for trial. When examined he con nor-General that before the Mahommedan fessed that he had fabricated a list of rebellion a system of storing c（»rn in public people’s names and received on their behalf granaries existed throughout the province of two hundred piculs of charity millet. Kansu ; in the rebellion of course the build He had stored the corn in the house of one ings were all destroyed, and since then， Ch ‘iao, but the latter had no knowledge of in spite of the efforts of the memorialist the unlawful circumstances in the case. and his predecessors, the system has never Ch‘iao was examined and gaye similar been thoroughly restored. The north and testimony. It was not therefore proposed west of the province contain great grain- to do anything to him, though the grain producing tracts and have never given much was of course taken away and returned to cause for anxiety ; but it is otherwise in the a government storehouse." The matter was mountainous regions of the south and east， then referred to the Governor, who was where little corn is grown. Should a scar requested to make a severe example of the city occur there, there are not sufficient guilty clerk. The Governor represents stores to fall back upon ; and if food is that there was severe distress caused by imported from other districts, its price is drought in the Kueihua country this year. more than doubled by the cost of convey JTot only was corn issued from the local ing it over the mountain roads. In some granaries, but application also was made of the districts of the grain-producing re to the Emperor and funds for relief of gion there are stocks which amount to the poor were obtained from else 319,000 large piculs of first quality corn where. The memorialist felt that no and 27,000 of second quality exceeding the punishment could be too severe fur an available accommodation. For, ns the full facial clerk who callously appropriated extent of the army has never been re- for his own benefit the food which established, there are not so many calls O ct. 20—22.] 141 the supplies as there used to be. It finds that the unavoidable expenditure erefure been sugg -sted to the memo cannot be less than Tls. 40,000 or 50,000. rialist that he should take ndvant >ge of the There ia an annual sum of Tls. 40,000, high price of c< rn thin summer, and yell formerly spent in grain transport expenses, some of the accumulated giain at a mode but now regularly remitted to Peking, un rate rate. This w ould bo one tael per picul less permission be given to retain it for for the superior, and half a tael for the in special needs. The memorialist begs leave ferior quality. fl、he amount to be disposed to keep one year’s receipts under this head of, would be as a rule the regulation amount and spend it in charity or relief works as of thirty per cent, or more if circumstances above described.一Gi anted. rendered it advisable. The proceeds, 22nd Ootober. according to the same plan, were to be paid into the state treasury ; and whenever MEMORIAL TEMPLE TO P lAN TING-H*SIN. the state of the market should be favour Some retired officials living in Tientsin able, the treasurer would buy corn and have petitioned the Viceroy Li Hung-chang store it in the poor districts of the south to obtain for them permission to erect a and east. The memorialist was pleased temple in honour（»f P'an Ting-hain, who with the proposal and has given orders to died as Governor of the province of carry it into effect. He now reporta what Kuangsi. They st ate that in the year he has done for the Emperor’s approval. 一 1865 the Nienfei rebels were threatening Approved. Tientsin and the safety even of Peking was 21st October. endangered. General P*an came with his army from Shanghai to Tientsin by sea, and MONEY FOR POOR RELIEF IN HONAN. preserved the place from further peril. In The Governor of Honan states that the year 1868, Tientsin was again in danger, careful enquiries have shown the existence this time from the Western Nienfei under of great suffering among the inhabitants of Chang Tsung-yii, The first to come to the several districts in Weihui Fu, where the assistance of the place was General P ‘an, country was flooded by the Wei River. who by his operations near Paoting Fu and Not only is money required for the relief Chentin^ Fu perfectly protected the north of these poor people, but it is urgently of the province. The sume summer there necessary that the embankments which was again ；ni advance upon Tientsin by were washed down should be repaired with the rebels from the Mouth. Bub P ‘an out delay. Therefore being without the Ting-hsin and Kuo Sung-lin by forced desired funds, he begs to be allowed to retain marches threw themselves in their p；itli, for use certain moneys connected with the defeated them and drove them back. grain tribute, which he should rightly Afterwards by his defence of Ts‘ang- forward to the central govei nment. The chou and Chienho he linally prevented investigations made by officers on the the possibility of their advancing north memorialist’s staff have, so far, elicited the ward. The petitioners are aware that the fact that' in the districts in question deceased general won renown in all parts there are as many as four hundred and of the Empire, but the exploits which nine：y-two villages which have suffered they have dwelt upon are those which are from floods, to the extent that they known to themselves personally, and of have lost half th^ir crops or more. which they themselves have reaped the The houses which have been flooded or benefit. washed down are two thousand seven hun In supporting this application the dred and ninety-seven. The sufferers, Viceroy goes back to the year 1862, when young and old together, are one hundred P ‘an Ting-hsin accompanied him in his and nine thousand two hundred and eighty- descent of the Yangtze from Anhui and four souls, all of whom are in a state of assisied hitn in the re-conquest of Soochow pitiable misery. To give these people a and the Shanglnti u- untry. In this and month’s food and restore their houses will the three following years he bad led his cost not less than Tls. 20.000. It should troops to victoiy iii no less than five pro be stated that tlie'e numbers are not com vinces, fighting against both Taipings and plete as there are some districts where the Nienfei, and being inferior to none in his investigations have not yet been carried labours and his renown. But afterwards out. Then there are the breaches in the his relief of Tientsin brought liitn still embankments, some of which must be re greater distinction. Early in the summer paired at once, and which it is proposed of 1865 Prince Sankolinsin was killed should be taken in hand as relief wr）rks. at Ts^aochou. The rebels turning north Taking everything b»getlier the nieniorialist ward placid Tientsin in peril while the 142 [O ct. 22—24. armies of the State were away in Kiang- suffered greatly. As the first crop of rice su au(l Honan. The meniorialiafc was had been harvested and the second only then hnlding the Governor-Generalship juafc sown, the farmers escaped with less at Nanking. At his suggestion P ‘aii loss than might have been expected. The Ting-hsin was sent by sea to Tientsin. people will be assisted where it seems P'an defeated the rebels and saved the necessary, and the restoration of the public north. His Majesty issued a decree com works destroyed will be undertaken in mending him in the highest terms, and due order. Just as the memorialist Tseng Kub-fan, who was with an army at is writing (apparently on the 6th o f Hsiichi»u report ed that the ill effects of his September) a tremendous gale has sprung own defective strategy had been retrieved up in Taipei Fu and is doing a good by P ‘an’fc army. In the spring of 1868 the deal of damage to the buildings there.— western Nienfei burst from Shansi into Decree. Let relief be given tuhere necesaaty. Chihli. Afc that moment, many generals had just returned home after the suppres 23rd October. sion of the Eastern bauds. The memo No documents of interest. rialist, hearing the news, sent P ‘an Ting- hsin northward. So rapidly did he move 24th October. that his army entered Chilili two days CRIMINALS RESCUED FROM PRISON. before the cavalry of Shan Chcing which A memorial presented by the Governor bad started at the same time. The rebels of Hunan throws a good deal of light on were pressing both eastward and north the recent movements of Chinese troops in ward, and divided into different bands were the province of Kiangsi, which caused so threatening at once the Western Tombs, much excitement and needless alaim last Peking and Tientsin. There was no army month among the Chinese round about in their front, but P ‘an Ting-hsin managed Kiukiang. In eastern Hunan not very to outstrip them and drive them back. He far from Changsha there is a district called afterward defeated them within a few miles Liling, and adjoining it is P^nghsiang of Tientsin, first near the South Marsh and Hsien in the province of Kiangsi. The then at Yanglinch'ing. Then he followed last mentioned district contains a village them south, and within three mouths’ time called Taianli, lying deep in the moun they were utterly annihilated. The honour tains which from the frontier between the of the battles was shared by Kuo Sung-lin two provinces. Tai an Li is the head quar and Yang Ting-hsiin, but the str->hegy was ters of a number of K(，lo“ Hui who have the work of Ting-bsin alone. All formed a l *due there with several chiefs. this the memorialist reported ai the time, Two members of the society were arrested as the documents which are the price ruling in the local market, and able to give evidence. The memorialist then lix the rate at which copper cash must states that, according to the law, in a be reckoned for the payment of land tax. crime of this kind there is no difference He finds after due enquiry that the rate made in the punishment on account of the of exchange is now just about what it was insanity of the offender. The murderer last spring. He therefore makes no change has therefore been condemned to be put in the amount then determined upon, to death by slow degrees. The sen namely 2,200 cash per tael. He has caused tence has already been carried into notifications ro this effect to be published effect ; and the execution took place at everywhere, and has the honour, in accor the provincial capital, because the crimi dance with the regulations, to report what nal could not be taken io the scene of he has done for the Emperor’s information. the murder without crossing a river ”n the way. But his head has been canied there DEATH OK PIEN PAO-TI. to be exposed as a warning to all. It is The Emperor has heard of the death of further the law that if a madman kill any Pien Pao-ti, who had only a few months ago one, and his neighbours have n（*t noiified retired from his post of Viceroy at Foochow. the authorities of his madneys, they shall The deceased statesman commenced his offi be liable to the same punishment as those cial career in one of the Government Boards who know that a murder is intended, and at Peking. He was promoted to be Gover do n<>t prevent it or report tlie fact. Under nor of the metropolis, after which he held this law the two neighbours are condemned several provincial govetnoraliips，showing to receive each one hundred blows. But himself to be a most capable and efficient as they are women they can redeem them officer. The Emperor deeply laments his selves by、the payment of a tine. The death, desires that all penalties to which tipao will receive a similar beating and he may be liable should be remitted, and be removed from his o伍ce. The elder grants to him the marks of compassion brother acted under his mother’s orders in usually accorded to a deceased Governor- nor reporting the insanity ; but as he failed General. to keep effective watch over the maniac he MATRICIDE BY A MADMAN. stands convicted of grave impropriety. The Governor of Kiangsu reports the For this lie is condemned to receive eighty sentence passel by him on a man guilty blows ; but being a graduate lie will l»e of the crime of matricide. The murderer allowed to pay a tine instead.—Let the Boaid was an obedient and affectionate son, and of Punishment take note. hia mother was in tbe habit of living with him. He had an elder brother, but they TOUR OF INSPECTION BY S00CH0W had divided their property and maintained GOVERNOR. separate households. Lasfc January the The Governor of Kiangsu reports his younger brother became liable to tempor intention to start on the 12th of October ary tits of madness. As lie did nob become from Soochow in order to inspect certain violent when under their influence, the importai t forts. Goini： by way of Shang mother ordered her elder son not (o hai, he will first visit the Woosung Forts report tbe matter to the authorities, and and will at the sniue time examine the sea she prevailed upon her neighbours and wall atPaoshan. He will then ascend the the tipao similarly to keep silence. The Yangtze and inspect by the way the forts young man thus was not taken away to in the neighbourhood of Kiangyin and be put in confinement. One day last Chinkiang, as wi ll as those < utside Nan August he cam3 into the house after king, At the last mentioned place he will having been out. His heart was in have an interview with the Viceroy, whom flamed by heat and an access of frenzy he wishes to consult on certain important came on. Seizing a knife, he attacked Ilia matters of business. mother and wounded her in several places. 18th November. The elder brother heard her cry out and rushed in immediately. He also was stab SCHOLARS IN HEILUNGCHIANG. bed in the shculcler, but lie called to the The high authorities in the Manchurian neighbours, who came in, caught hold of province of Heilungchiang represent that the madman and bound him. When this there is a large increase of candidates at bad been d',ne，it was f"und tli-xt the the provincial examinations and beg that mother was already dead. 'Vhtni brought in consequence there may he an addition before the authorities the murderer was to the number of yraduateships allotted to found to be raving mad ; but with medical successful students._ Referred to the Board treatment he recoveied his senses and was vf Iiiles, Nov. 18—19.] 145 tem ple in honour of tso tsung-t ‘ang. on the part of the clerks nnd others be The Governor of Turkestan represents sternly and effectually repressed. that seven years ago a temple was erected ACCUSATIONS AGAINST EACH OTHER BY in the provincial capital to the memory of 0FFICIAL8 AT THE TOMBS. Tso Tsung-i cang, by whom the reconquesfc of Turkestan was effected ; and three years Fuk reports that a petition has been later a similar building was set up at brought to his office by ihe servant of an Turfan. The civil and military authorities ottieial named Wen to, one "f the Manchu at Hami have n"w laised a third Custodians at the Eastern Tombs. The edifice in that town, which was the spot servant, when questi« -ned, stated that occupied by the conquering army after last year two cypress trees near the tomb making its way across the desert. I* is of the Emperor Shun Chili were cut down requested that the local authorities may be and curried off by thieves. The General instructed t*> perform official service at this at Malanclien, Ying Lien by name, tried new temple in the spring and autumn of b) evade the responsibility for the loss by- every year,—Granted. putting the blame on to the Manchu o伍cia】s. Wento and the other officers LOCAL OFFICIALS DENOUNCED. protested that the locality where the The Governor of Shansi feels deeply the robbery took place was in the charge not importance of having the country governed of themselves but of the Chinese troops. by honest and hardworking o伍cials. Ever The General, however, sent a servant to since he arrived at his post he has there Wento and demanded from him a present fore kept a careful watch over the conduct of Tls. 250, aaying that if this money were of his subordinates. The magistrate at given he should not be denounced ; but Tokoto is a man of indifferent character Wento declined to do anything of the and doubtful reputation. The recent act kind. Afterwards Wento made up his ing subprefect of Shihchou is a stupid man mind to go to Peking to obtain justice and a careless administrator. The magis there. This happened to be at the time trate of Ich‘eng is queer-tempered and when the robbery of vessels from one of passionate, as well as unpopular with the theMausolea had been discovered. When he people of his district. The magistrate of was on the road he was pursued by the Linfen is weak both physically and moral police of the Tsunbua sub-prefecture, under ly, and is not up to the work of a busy post. instructions sent from the General. The The Governor proposes to cashier the two police arrested h m and two fellow travel first, mentioned officials, and to recall 'he lers, and further seized the funds which he two others, giving them new appointments had provided for his travelling expenses， when suitable vacancies occur,- - Decree namely Tls. 150 in silver and sixty-two issued separate. Iy pounds of pewter. It was fakely alleged 19th November. before the magistrate that these were the POOR RELIEF IN KIANGSU. proceeds of the stolen vessels which had An Imperial Decree states that want of been melted down. But Wento showed rain thh summer prevented the planting that he had obtained the money by mort out of young rice at the proper season in gaging his land, and gave the name of the many districts round Nanking and - Yang- shop where he bought the pewter, which chow. The failure of the harvest was facts were duly verified by the sub-prefect greatest in Ranch(iian ; while in Chiiyung, liiinself. The sub-prefect then got hold of IclVeng, Liuho and Chiangp^u there was a servant who had been discharged by also a very great deficiency. The sufferings Wento for misconduct. This man un of the poorer part of the population are truthfully deposed that Wento bad been in such as to merit the Emperor’s deep com the habit of making counterfeit coin, and passion : and his Majesty sees that it is had in his house the bellows and other im necessary to bestow charity upon them. plements employed in such work. The He desires the provincial authorities to house was therefore ransacked, once by appropriate for this purpose thirty thou the sub-prefect and once by soldiers whom sand piculs of the tribute rice which should the General sent, but nothing of the sort have been sent to Peking by sea next was discovered. The General next urged spring ; and the money which would have the sub-prefect to employ torture, and been expended in paying for its freight Wento being unable to support this con may be applied aa well to the same object. fessed to things that he had never done. His Majesty concludes by ordering that In the meantime the original charge each locality be inspected before any dis about the loss of the trees was investi tribution takes place, and that all peculation gated by an Imperial Commissioner, who 14G [Nov. 19—20. absolved Wento and his colleagues from to Peking. This year at the instance of all blame. But the General still continued the Board of Revenue the Governor has his persecution of Weuto and obtained bis been instructed that he must do his utmost; removal to the yamett of the Taotai, where to resume the old system, instead of as in he was sent in irons for further trial, while recent years commuting the tax aud re liin accuser, the dismissed servant, was mitting silver to the capital. In reply the secretly released. Wento, being thus Governor states the present practice in confinement and unable to come to was commenced in the year 1853 in con Peking himself, had sent the bearer to pre sequence of orders received from Peking, sent the petition on his behalf. On and he proceeds to give" reasons againsb examining the petition Fuk‘un found that changing from it again. In the first place it agreed in the main with the account the people are contented with the rate of verbally given by the bearer. As fcbe uonimutation. Secondly the route is much accusations made are so grave, and are longer than frem Kiangsu or Chekiang ; brought moreover by one official against and the navigation of the Poynng Lake another who is his superior officer, the and the Yangtze is difficult for the grain memorialist thought that it. was his aui- boats in stormy weather. The cost of fesfc duty to lay them before the Emperor. freight would thus amounh to con.sid*T- He suggests that the man should be hand able sum. Though the change would be ed over to the Board of Punishments in nominally the resumption o£ an old system, order that the case may be investigated.— in reality it would be like the inaugura Decree issued separately. tion of a new one. For the granaries NATIVE CUSTOMS AT WUHU. having been long destroyed they must all be rebuilt, and there are no funds The Governor of Anhui has been inform for the purpose. The boats have ed by the Taotai at Wuhu of the amount of disappeared, and it would not be easy to the receipts at the Native Custom House get them together again. The memori there during the first half of the present alist knows that corn is a prime necessity year. They amount to Tls. 36,003.88 on at Peking, that the commutation was only account of tbe Board of Revenue, and a temporary measure ; and, were the re Tls. 37,473.02 (from wood rafts) for the sumption of the old plan practicable at the Board of Works. He has directed a re moment, he would not dare to postpone mittance of Tls. 50,000 to be made to it. But apart from what he said above, Peking without delay. the farmers have been in difficulties from PUBLIC GRANARTES NEAR PEKING. b id seasons ever since the end of the Tai- The Governor of Anlmi learns from the pin<{ rebellion. This very year in Chian Board of Revenue that the Grand Secret and other prefectures the rains were so ary Hsu T ‘ung lias proposed to the Em continued in May and June that the moun peror to have funds collected for the pur tain streams were swollen, and floods pose of erecting public granaries in the occurred in the low lands, by which the country round about Peking, and storing early crops of rice were drowned. In the corn in them as a precaution against famine. latter part of the suminer there was a The Emperor's approval of the scheme bad period of drought and burning heat, which been communicated to theBoard, which was withered up the late rice in the higher sending the above information to the high ground. Thus the autumn harvest was a authorities in every province. The Gover deficient one, and the price of grain rose. nor recognises that it is his duty to do all Looking at the circumstances of the farmers he can in the way of promoting so impor at the present moment, the memorialist tant and beneficial a measure. After con feels that a change at the moment is im sulting with his staff he finds that there possible. He therefore begs that he may still remains a residue from the funds be allowed to continue the collection of appropriated for the relief of distress in tax in money. Onlera have b^en sent to Anhui during the past spring. From this the local authorities to take care that, the he will take Tls. 4,000 and send them t<» lax for the present season be paid in full Peking in the charge of an officer who is without delay, and that any arrears from conveying treasure there. past years be made good at the same time.— 20th November. Approved. GRAIN TRIBUTE FROM KIANGSI. PUNISHMENT OF REBELS IN KIANGSI. It appears that formerly in Kiangsi, ns in The Governor <、f Kiangsi has already certain other provinces, the land tax was reported the suppression of a rising of collected in kind and the grain forwarded Ko^ao JJui in P 4inglisiang Hsicii, and the Nov. 20—22.] • 147 gaining of a victory by the troops at a up arms of their own free will. These have pl 'Ce called Nanking. Among the pri- b eu execuf ed, under the Governor^ orders, S"ners taken then or soon afterwards were by the magistrates in whose hands they three of special importance, namely Teiig were. The inemorialiat concludes by re Hai-shan, the supreme chief of the rebels, questing rewards for the officers who known as the Prince of the House of distinguished themselves in the affair, and Hunan, Li Puo-shan, another of their liis application is granted by the Emperor’s leaders, and Lu Feng-kang, called the R e s c r ip t. P ‘inguan Prince. These men were sent for trial to the provincial capital. When 21st November. examined, Teng Hai-shan stated that he HEROIC CONDUCT OP LADIES. had been a soldier, and after his discharge In the year 1861 the Taipings advanced gained a living by teaching boxing. He upon the town of Ningkuo Fu. Among the was initiated as a member of the society inhabitants was a lady named Chou well by some Hunan men, whom he met by known for her high character. She had chance. He was made head of a lodge, already sent off her eldest son to assist in and enlisted followers with treasonable organising the local militia ; and when the intentions. Knowing that Taan was a rebels entered the town，she mounted with retired spot and by its situation easily lier two daughters-in-law to an upper cham defensible, he invited the headmen of ber， from which she threw down tiles upon the society to j"in him there with their the enemy, wounding some of their number. followers, and thus collected some eight Here she was killed, while one daughter- or nine thousand men. On the lbth in-law, after fighting with a sword as long of September he set up his standard, hs her strength lasted, threw herself down and was saluted as supreme chief. His into the street and thus died. The rebels intention was first to sack the district city were so enraged with the latter that they and then move west upon Liling, which burnt her corpse. The other daughter-in- he would make his headquarters. When law had her arm broken, but she endured the flag was being consecrated, a sudden the pain till she had .buried her mother, gust blew down the pole, which friglvened and then she starved herself to death. every one and caused the defection of very The eldest son was killed in a neighbouring many of his followers. For the moment he village fighting at the head of the militia. was obliged to remain stationary. But he The above f-»cts were reported ten years raised barriers and guarded the passes, ago by Tso Tsung-t'ang, aiirl permission intending to move as soon as his supply of was given for the erection <»f a temple and arms was su伍cient. Affairs were hurried a memorial arch. These have been built on, however, by s“me of his people who by the lady’s second son, who is a Prefect made a raid on the mili'ary depot of the in Kianysi. He has also given six hundred local miliiia, while others attacked the and eighty acres of land as an endowment militia themselves. News als«» was brought for the temple. At his request the Go that troops from the provincial capital were vernor "f Anhui prays the Emperor to on the march. He therefore at once hurri authorise the performance of official ser ed to Nanking, intending to attack ihe vices at the shrine, and declares that the district city. Several combats ensued, and propriety of such a proceeding is fully when his men were nearly all cut to pieces, endorsed by the opinion of the public.— he was taken at Liuyuan. Lo Feng-kang GruHted. confessed that he had joined the rebels, and had been appointed Quarteiniaster- 22nd November. General. He was ； was the worst off. It lies low, beneath two other places for distances of 2,300 feet the level of the river, from which it is and 1,950 feet, but these were dry gaps protected by an embankment. This burst, through which no water waa passing. The and the fields were not only overwhelmed repairs were commenced on the 30th of with water, but were covered with sand Sepi ember and were much favoured by the and stones as well. Tliafc there must have fine weather. been much damage done is plain from the 24th November. fucfc that the flo«»ds wete in places from ten to fifteen feet deep ; but on the whole it SUCCESSFUL MILITARY GRADUATES. was not so great as might, have been The names of the first four graduates expected, as the early rice had been in the recent Metropolitan Military Exam harvested and the late crop was not yet in ination are (1) Pien Keng ( 卞 from ear. Relief will be distributed as it may be found necessary. Haichou in Kiangsu ; (2) Chang Lien- t.ung from Iyang in Honan ; TEMPLE FOR CHANG YAO. 漲蓮同) Certain inhabitants of Ch^iochou Fu ask (3) Li Lien-chung 中 )from Ta- permission to erect a temple to the memory ming in Chihli (4) T‘ung Yun-lung of Chang Yao. The deceased General in 1865 preserved the prefecture from the 雲龍) from Chinhsiang in Shantung. attacks of the Taipings. Occupying Tapu These four graduates were to-day received Hsien he had many bloody contests with in audience by His Majesty. them, and completely prevented their ad vance. Afterwards in 1868 he became A DECREE. General at Ch *aochou and freed the country The Governor of Shantung，Fu Jun, from the pest of the robber villages. The reports the closing of the breaches of the principfil outlaws were put to death, and Yellow River at Huipa, Sangcbiatu, and the rightful owners regained possession Huchiangan in the district of Uhiyang, and of their lands. His tenure of office was requests that the punishments apportioned also signalised by many beneficial works. to the Taotai Chang Sh6ng-ta, and others Finally it may be said of him that he never may be remitted. spared a rebel nor ever injured an honest In July last the Yellow River broke its man. 一 Granted. banks at the above named places and the Governor Fu Jun, putting himself at the 23rd November. head of the officials entrusted with the MILITARY GRADUATES REJECTED. care o f the river works, by strenuous efforts The successTul candidates at the third succeeded, by the 27th October, in renew or metropoJiv.au examination are alwavs ing the embankments. This may be con subjected to a tinal test in the palace itself. sidered expeditious work. The punish The military graduates of this year have ment allotted to the Taotai Chang Slieng- just been thus proved ; and five or six of ta, of the loss o f four grades and removal them have failed to come up to the stan（lard from his post is hereby rescinded. The in some particular or other. Their degrees sentences of dismissal against the colonels are therefore kept in abeyance till the next Chang WSn-ts‘ai and Yen Te-sheng, and examination in three years* time, when they the magistrates Wang Chien-chJou, Cliao may enter again at the palace trial. The Hui-lin, and Liang Hsi-hu are also re high officials who originally passed them scinded, and their buttons are restored to will receive such punishment as the Board the prefect Hao T‘ing-chen and the magis declares proper. trate Li Ngen-hsiang. As to the other officials who have distinguished themselves, REPAIR OF THE YUNGTING RIVER the completion of the work at Paimaofen EMBANKMENTS. must be awaited. Rewards may then be The Viceroy Li Hung-chang reports that requested for the most worthy, who nmsb the breaches in the banks of the Yungting be carefully selected. River have all been closed by the appointed The suggestions of the memorialist on date. The works executed were of con the remaining points are approved. Let siderable magnitude. One gap was 490 the Board concerned take feet long; but as the ground wanted solidity, ifc was necessary to build an entirely new MEMORIAL FROM CHOU TA-WU, COMMANDEK- line of wall for a length of 1,600 feet. IN-CHIEF OK THE FORCES IN KANSU. In connection with the same undertaking a In a long memorial General Chou temporary canal was dug for about four explains how he has repaid from his own miles. The river wall was also rebuilt in resources certain loans contracted to pay the Nov. 24— 25.] 149 expenses of the troops in operations against A ME^IORIAL FROM T1TR VICKKOV OF THE tlie native tribes of Kueichou in the years 1870-2. TWO KTANG, LIU k ' u N-YI. General Chou entered the army in 1853 TheViceroy reports the death and presents and served in many parts of China. In 1865 the dying memorial of Pien Pao-tai, lately he was promoted to he General of tlie Viceroy of Fukien and Chekiang. Pien Pao- Forces in Kueichou. After the operations ti requested leave on account of sickness in in 1870-2 in which the province was June last, and died at his home in the juris- completely tranquillised, the troops were dictioi) of memorialiston the 23rd of October. in great part disbanded. Sufficient funds The services of the deceased arc narrated nofc being foi tlico⑴iiig，T；»els 60,000 had to as follows : His official career commenced be borrowed, and for this loan the General iu the Boards at the capital. He was was held responsible by the leaders. promoted to be a Censor and his advice Although the Imperial authority was was greatly valued by the Emperor T‘uiig obtained for the provision of funds from the Chili. He avas made successively Vice- provinces of Kin ngsu, Chekiang, Fukien, Governor and Governor of the Imperial Shantung and Kiangsi, and orders were prefecture of Shunt'ien Fu, in which oflice f^iven by the Board of Revenue to these he greatly distinguished hitnaelf by putting provinces to lemir the money, it was never down the mounted robbers who infested sent ; nothing came but excuses of empty the neighbourhood of the capital. lie treasuries, eet., etc., so General Chou accomplished this by an efficient system of himself by great sacrifice of land and pro patrol and his careful supervision "f district perty repaid, between the years 1888-1891, magistrates. He frequently visited in the whole of the a mount. disguise Ilia subordinates1 jurisdictions, and made himself acq uainted with the reputation Temples to the memory of the meritorious of the local officials. He was entirely free dead were buik in Kueichou and Hunan, from any suspicion（»f accepting bribes. Ho but the funds for their maintenance being ， was then appointed Treasurer of Honan, insufficient lueniorialist has paid up to the at the time when the Nienfei rebels threat present time Tls. 4,130 on this account. ened the town of K^iifong. To him was No provision was made for tlie temple in entrusted the defence, and so well did he Szechuan, and rather than witness neglect succeed that liis name is still held in high of the shades of his woi'bhy departed com esteem by the townspeople. He was next rades, General Chou has felt bound to make Governor of Fukien, and after a make an effort to furnish the money. He period of mourning, Governor of Hunan. has subscribed this year Tls. 11,659, and There he e irned the approbation of His the expectant Taotai Chou Chen-chiuug Majesty for prompt measures in dealing of Szechuan has given property to the with threatened disturbances at l)‘ing- value of Tls. 4,400，to build and maintain chiaug and Wuling. He was unceasing in a temple in Cliingtu. The temple lias now his exertions, ami his successful measures been satisfactorily erected. Memorialisfc were widely known. The repair of Avater- has clone this as a humble attempt fco show ways, the improvement of the administration his gratitude for long continued Imperial of justice, subscription for colleges and favour. He begs that the provinces which orphanages, all occupied liis attention. had been ordered to supply the funds inay be told that the money is no longer required, Hew as s u bseq u e i i tly acting Viceroy of the and that the Provincial Authorities of Hukuangand iu view of the border troubles Szechuan may be directed to order the (the Fronch-Tongking war), took great local oflicials to visit the temple for the precautions for the defence of the river, usual ceremonies in every Spring nnd and supplied money and men. He was Autumn. The expectant Taotai Chou re then promoted to be Viceroy of Fukien solutely refuses to have bis name submitted and Chekiang with control of the navy. for any recognition of liis generosity. In all affairs connected with his duties in •Rescript:—ie t f/tc cousi'icvcd wh“t this post he displayed the utmost diligence. wiarJv of cippvobcttion b ' bestowal ou Chou He also nipped in the bud what might have Ta^wn for his repctyuicut this loan, 7 he been a most serious rising. The rioters other suggestions of ineinoi'udiat are approved, from the Yangtze and the members of secret societies stirred up trouble at Takan- 25th November. hsiang in the Shunch*ang district in COURT GAZETTE. Fukien, and the tea pickers assembled in His Majesty the Emperor will proceed tens of thousands, by Pien Pao-ti by the on 21st December to the Temple（»f Heaven immediate despatch of troops settled the to offer the sacrifice of the winter solstice. I afEtir, He devoted the whole of his 150 Nov.24—2 7.] allowances in connection with his Naval Formosa. It appears that on the 24th ORice to the use of Arsenal. June last the savages attacked the town of He lias thus shown a most upright and Fengchiang, in consequence of the Chinese resolute character during his service, of attempting to take vengeance for the death more than forty years in the capital and of two Chinamen killed by the natives of provinces, and lie died regretting with his Shepuli. The Brigadier-General of T ‘ai- last breath his utter lack of becoming return nan, Wan Kuo-pen, was sent to restore for the Imperial favour. Although his un order, and conveyed troops to the spot by quenchable zeal for his country’s good was steamer from Anp‘ing on 10th August. no more than his proper duty, His Imperial The savages refused togive up the murderers Majesty’S graci"usness to worthy officers is and the troops moved against them. About, never ending, and memorialist leaves the the 29th September the .soldiers using question of the bestowal of any mark of rockets, and by crossing several mountain recognition in hia Sovereign’s hands. streams circumventing the savages, took the Decree previously issued. See Gazette village of Pashilnno. Forty of the savages of 17th November. were killed. Of the Imperial troops one MEMORIAL FROM THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF petty officer and five soldiers were killed, THE TWO KUANG, LI HAN-CHANG. and more than ten wounded. The Viceroy reports the capture and Orders have now been sent to the village execution of certain notorious pirates :uid of T*saopu to surrender the murderers, reconnnends for promotion the soldiers and pieparatioiis have been made for a who made the seizure. The desperadoes vigorous attack. Meantime it is the memo of the Two Kuang are given to forming rialist^ duty to report this rising of the bands and lewing blackmail. If resisted savages of the H&ngch‘un district and their they resort to any violence. Their leaders punishment.—Imperial Rescript : J^oted. live in foreign territory, the members of Let the Governor at once send orders to Wan the gang live scattered iu different places Kuo P^en to destroy the rebels for the pre- In the year 1890 memorialist managed to af JarUter troubles. secure a noted leader of these ruttians, named Tseng Lu Yii C hU n, aiul made 26th November. such an example of him that a great improvement followed. P ‘u Shan is appointed a Director of the Anoilier gang has now appeared. Ho Court of Sacrificial Worship. Ah-an, alias Ho Fei-an was formerly a comrade of Tseng Lu YU Ch(iian, and a 27th November. most desperate character. He was lately made the leader, took as his Lieutenant COURT CIKCULAR. Li Ah-heng and used the old gang name His Majesty will proceed to-morrow at of Lien Yi T‘a"g. They made Hongkong 8.30 a.m. to the Inner Palace, and at 9.30 their headquarteis and levied blackmail far a.m. will pay his respects to H.M. the and wide in the Hsiiihui and Hsiangsban Empress Dowager in the Tzu Niiig Hall. districts. Memorialist gave orders tu effect ('I'he 28th November is the Einpress, birth their capture and Corporal Clmn Hui-ts'ai day.) having learned that the pirates had come to Canton from Hongkong by steamer, A MEMORIAL FKOM THE VICEROY OF THE took a party of soldiers and going quietly to a place near Canton called Hwati sud TWO KIANG, LIU K (UN-YI. denly fell upon Ho Ab-an and Li Ah-lieng This memorial takes up ihe whole of the and secured them before they could use Gazette for the 26th and 27th November, the revolvers with Avhich they were armed. and givss the result of the Viceroy’s in Ho Ah-an and Li Ah-heng both confessed vestigation of certain grave charges against their crimes and have been executed and the Magistrate of Lu-chang-hsien in An their heads exposed as a warning to others. hui. The officers who made the capture are A petty lawsuit was brought before the recommended for promotion. Rescript : magistrate in April 1891，in which a clerk Let it be is requested.—Lei the Board of in his own named Chang Hsien-yi, War ）tote. was accused of stirring up litigation be rOSTS(；RIPT MEMORIAL FROM THE GOVERNOR tween the members of a certain family OF FORMOSA, SHAO YU-LIEN. over the family property. Clinug Hsien-yi The Governor reports the progress of was tortured to death in the course of the operations against the savages of South trial, and his family brought a complainant Nov. 27—30.] 151 against the magistrate. The magistrate, societies in the Yingtzo and Hsiang river to rid himself of his embarrassment, accused districts, and recommend for reward the one of the family, Chang Cl^ang-yuan, of oflicers concerned in I heir seizure. trying to set fire to his y（wu2i^ and sent After the troubles of last year several one of his runners, Hsii Yung, to arrest of the ringleaders were c »ugl»t and ex him. Hdi Yung could not catch him, ecuted, but many of the worst rebels were but secured his s )u Client Shen^-hsiang. left at large, and the work of hunting Cheng Sheng-haiang'a wife in despair them out lias been going on all this year. jumped into the river and though she was A long list of captures is now given. 13 rescued she died from the effects. Clieng of the leaders have been executed and Shen^-hsianr managed to escaped from Hsd 9, who have heavy charges laid against Yuug en route to prison and the m igistrate, them, liivve been remanded for further enraged with Hsii Yung, had hin pufe in examination. Many more of the prisoners the cage, where he died. have been released under guarantee of good The magistrate, Yang P^i-lin, has now behaviour, as it appeared that they had been sentenced to banishment to the New been deluded by the real rebels into join D nninion there to be treated as a camp ing the societies, and bad not themselves follower. A civilian would havo been committed any offonces. Renewed orders liable for .similar offences t（» ono hundred will be given to all the provincial officials blows with the heavy b:unbou and baniah- not to relax their efforts for the arrest of nieiit to a distance of 3,000 li. Rescript.— disturbers of the public peace. The names L （d it ba “s pfopoied (tnd let the Board take of many officials who took part in the no/e. captures of the rebels arc recommended 28t h Ni»ve»nber. for rewards.—Rescript :—Let it as re ITsii Ch(eng-yii is appointed Sub-Director quested. Let the Boat d concerned take < f i he Court of S.icrificinl Worship. 30th November. ML.VOKIAL EltCOI CHANG CHIH-TCNG. AJEMOHIAL FKOM GOVERNOK OK KUANriSL A memori.-il Hie Viceroy of the A meinorijil from the Governor of Ilukuaiig. Chang Chih-tung, reports tlio Kuangsi, Chang Lien-kuei, on the merits (，f retire⑴eiit; of Lo Chiti-shen, Brigadier- the late Su Feng-wen, formerly Governor (ienernl of Iehang, from illness, and re- of Kuangsi and subsequently Director- u -shs that the vacant post may be filled. General of the Grain Transport, suggests Genoral Lo had suffered hardships and thnt bis biography be compiled in the State Jhitsn wounded in the course of his career Historiographer’s office. as a soldier and recent exposure has renewed The gentry of Kuangsi have addressed his coniphiints. He accordingly retired on to memorialist an account of the services the 14th October last. of the deceased as follows :— Meniori.-ilist expatiates upon the impor Su Feng-wfen, a provincial graduate, tance of the post，connnanding as it tloes commenced Ilia official career as "a magis the approach to the-Yangtze gorges and as trate in Kuangsi in the year 1850. The being an open port where the temper of Taiping rebel Hung Hsiu-ch(uan soon the people is turbulent. He has therefore afterwards coniiuenced his calamitous up sent as acting Brigi»（lier-General, the rising, and Su greatly distinguished him Colonel Chiang Tse pin of his own brigade, self in suppressing the revolt within the a man of great ability iukI sterling charac districts under his control ; not only this, ter who connuancls Lhe re.spect of both tlie but be afforded efficient help to his neigh soldiers and people. Mein 'lialist begs Hiy bours, and besides exerting himself as an Majesty to lose no time in making a per official, he led bis troops even during the manent ap[K）inftnenfc.—Decree previously time he was in mourning. Upon bis as issite9 16tk November, appointiny Fu sumption of office as magistrate of Lo T^iiKj-ch'cn. ch 4eng he found the districts in fear of a rebel named Yu Pa. Having no force to cope 29th November. with the rebels, Su Feng-wen rode alone to A jMEMOKIAL FK05I CHANG CIIIH-TUNG AND tlieir camp, and by his impressive words TAN CHI s u u x . induced Yu Pa to give in his submission The memorial fr"in the Viceroy of Hu and even to assist in fighting dther bands Kuang, Chanu Chih-tung, and the (Jovernm’ of outlaws. Afterwards, becoming magis of Hupeh, Tlan Chi-hsiin，takes up the trate of CliMianchow, lie defended the town whole of the Gazette. against the attack of more than 100,000 of They report the capture and execution of Hung、 men in 1855. In 185G a great a considerable number of members of secret band of more than 200.000 men came to 152 [Nov. 3 0 D ec. j . attack the town. Su defended himself aparture, which was thus increase io a with vigour and sent oif messengers to length of inoro than 1,400 feet, with a depth Yungchow in JH unan for help, and with of water varying between tliivly and forty the aid of the forces which came to his feet. Though wider breaches have been appeal gained a complete victory. Su closed lately, the task here will be of remained at ClPiianchow fur four years and unusual difliculty, owing to the depth of though military cares occupied him inces the water and the force with which the santly ho found time to foster the education stream is directed against the place. of his district. At one time, when the There is further inconvenience from the town was surrounded and water supplies fact that many repairs having been were cut off, Su’s prayers were answered effected of late years in this neighbourhood by a gush of clear water from a well he had the stock of millet stalks in the surround caused to be dug. His own troops numbered ing neighbourhood lias altogether boon but 2,000 or 3,000 and yet he successfully exhausted. Officials have therefore been fought with bands of myriads. sent further inland to purchase materials, Foreseeing danger to the provincial and in the meantime General Wang Te- capital, Kueilin. he sunfc urgent messesges k‘uei has been directed to empluy two to Hunan for help, and Lo Ping-chang, battalion of soldiers in digging a temporary the then Governor of Hunan, despatched channel to draw off some of the water and troops which saved Kueilin from capture. relievo to pressure at the breach. But not only did he call in the help of his neighbours to save his own TSO TSUNG-T‘ANG’S EXPLOITS IN nUNAN. province, he did what was still more In accordance with the permission meritorious, went to the assistance of his grantod some time ago by the Emperor, a neighbours. When the town of Yangchow was temple has been built to the honour of beset, lie despatched troops，took the rebels T ho Tsung-t^ng in his native town of in rear and defeated them. Su Feng-wen Cl^angsha. His Majesty is now requested 'vns subsepuently promoted to be Governor to ordain that official services bo performed of Kuangsi and rooted out all vestiges of at the temple twice a year, and to remit rebellion. He proceeded to Peking for the trifling sum at which the ground audience and was make Director-General acquired for the temple is assessed for the of Grain Transport. All Kuangai grieved annual land tax. In describing the meri at his departure. The gentry now request torious acts of Tso Tsung-t‘aiig in the that a temple may be raised to his illustri province of Hunan, the applicants touch ous memory, and that his biography may lightly upon his dealings with floods and be compiled. Memorialist is aware that famines and dwell at greater length upon his the regulations forbid a request for the exploits against the Tai pings. In the early erection of a memorial temple before thirty part of hia reign of Hsien Feng, Ch‘angsha years after the death of any o伍cial，but was invested by an army of the rebels. feels bound to report the circumstance to Tso Tauiig-t‘ang was acting at that time as His Majesty. He requests that ilic bio Military Secretary of tlTe Governor. Tak graphy may be compiled, and when the ing personal command of the troops he fixed period has elapsed, application for remained on duty day and night. Three permission to erect a temple will be made. times breaches wero effected in the walls, He presents thia memorial in conjunction but, repulsing the enemy, lie had them with the Viceroy of the Two Kuang, Li repaired, and preserved the city till the Ilan-cliang.—Rescript:——Let it be as re siego was raised. It was owing to him also quested. Let the yant^n concerned take note. that troops were despatched to destroy the 1st December. rebels at Liuyang and the various bands in THE YELLOW RIVER IN SHANTUNG. the south of the province. In the year The Governor of Shantung reports the 1854 three attempts were made by Shih closing of three breaches in the embank Chen-hsiang to invade the province from ments of the Yellow River. There is one Hupeh ; but on each occasion lie was beaten great gap, however, at Paimaofen near the back ; and the first grand triumph of the river’a mouth, with which ho has not yet Hunan troopa was won in the Hsiang-t*an been able to deal sucessfully. Afier the campaign. In 1859 Hunan was attacked rupture in the wall at this spot, it seems by Shih Ta-kkai, who came from across tho that (as so often is the case) a large sand Kiangsi frontier, and with thirty thousand bank formed just opposite it on the further followers laid siege to Paoch*ung Fu. The side of tho channel. The obstruction so whole province was in consternation ; but made deflected the stream and drove it the peril was averted by the energy with with more violence than ever against the which Tso, acting for the Governor, raised D ec. 1—3.] 153 levies and assembled troops. Nor was bis founded, the officials concerned are acting activity shown in purely niilitary matters most illegally. He desires that the high alone, but also in the raising of funds and authorities will make known to their sub the collection of taxes indispensable for ordinates the regulations on the subject ; the support of the troops. ancl if way infringement of the same be In forwarding the above af»plipa L iiii three sons, eight grandsons, tiiirteen ) him i" the same way as his mother. great-grandsons, and one great-great grand : W h e n C h o u returned borne, he reported son, the latter now grown up and married. the case to the authorities. The murderer An official sent by the Governor lias veri ! was arrested and, as the Viceroy was away fied the truth of the report. He states at Tientsin，the formal rehearing was con that the elder members of the family are ducted by the Treasurer of the Province. still vigorous, the nv’ddle-aged ones are The murderer has been condemned to sturdy powerful men, and the younger ones branding and immediate decapitation, after fine handsome fellows. The Governor which hia head will be exposed. Half of dwells at some length upon the felicity liis property, if he has any, will be given to attending his Majesty’s reign, when such the family of his victims for their support, an unusual event has become possible.— j The conduct of Chou in the first instance Hefei red to the Board of Ceremonies jor a i was such ns to merit puniahment; but it is report. j proposed to pardon him on account of the RELIEF OF DISTRESS AT NANKING AND aad loss which he has suffered,—Referred to YANGCHOW. the Board - / Punishment. The country round Nanking and Yang- FXRE-ARMS FOR MANCHUS AT TS‘ANGCHOU. chow suffered greatly from drought last The Imperial clansman Jusheng in charge summer. The distress consequently is so of the Manchu •troops at Ts*angchou has severe at the present moment that extra- applied to the Viceroy Li Hung-chang for ordinary measures are required to deal one hundred rifles and forty cavalry car with it. The Viceroy proposes therefore to bines. During the past year or more lie solicit subscriptions from the wealthy peo J has practised his men in shooting at the ple in the two localities and to offer them ）target and has drilled them according to the same rewards for their benevolence as \ the system employed with the Military have been granted in Chihli and other i Field Force at Peking. But though they parts of the Empire.一Approved. ! have made good progress, they cannot be- 4th December. j come a thoroughly useful body until they MURDER OF TWO PERSONS. : are armed with suitable, modern weapons. Among fclie poorer inhabitants of Chin^- : These troops have never been re-armrd chou in Chihli were two men named Pi : since 1868, when the town was sacked by and Chou. Pi and Chou’s eldest sons were j the Nienfei and their "Id jingals and employed as workmen in the same establish ■ fowling pieces for the most part destroyed. ment. Chou's sou was dismissed for ! The Viceroy Li is much pleased with the laziness, and Chou suspected that it must energy of the applicant and aska permis have been done at Pi’s instigation. There sion to iaaue the weapons applied for.— fore the next time he saw Pi he gave him Granted. a thrashing，and whenever they met he FREIGHT OF LEAD FOB PEKING. cursed and abused him. But Pi, who was A certain quantity of lead is sent at afraid of Chou, submitted and made no intervals from Kueichou to Peking for the reply. One night last spring Pi drank use of the government. The cost of for more than was good for him. Becoming warding it k paid by the provinces through intoxicated he brooded over his insults and which it passes ; and they are required to injuries till lie determined to take his have the money in readiness so that there enemy’s life. Arming himself with a heavy be no delay when it arrives. The Governor- sword he climbed over the wall into Chou’s General of Szechuan reports that he has courtyard and entered the house. It set apart the sum of TIs. 5,075, which happened that Chou was gone into the will be handed to the official from Kuei city to pay his land-tax and had not re chou, as soon as lie reaches the Szechuan turned. But his wife, Mrs. Chou, woke frontier, up and, before Pi could retire, jumped out of bed and seized him. Unable to get free, AN OIFICIAL REINSTATED. he used the sword and wounded her slight The Governor-General of Szechuan refers ly. She fell to the ground, calling on him to an edict issued three years ago permit by name, cursing him and threatening him ting Ministers and Governors to lay before with her husband’s vengeance. Pi there i the Throne the cases of any o伍cials who upon determined to stop her mouth for had been dismissed from the service on ever, and forthwith killed her outright. insu伍cient grounds. Some years ago a Her youngest son who was neleep in the Taotai named Chao Chi-yuan was in charge hhuio room woke and began to cry with of the military cheat at Nanking. As he fright, upon which the aasasain aerved did not issue funds for the Yangtze forLi D ec. 4-^7.] 155 t" the extent which P*eng Yu-liti desired, ch‘aug. Culh^cting a miscellaneous b（»dy he was denounced by the oliieer for parsi- uf a hundred and more men, the ma njony and was consequently cashiered. gistrate hurried nfter th e brigands. When The memorialist vouches fi»r the character he approached, they openly defied him, and ability of Chao Chi-yuan and points drawing themselves np in battle array, out the emptiness of P*eng Yii li"’s aecusa- with flags flying and cannon posted. A tiunsj. A Treasurer can only pay out what combat of four hours ensued, after which the money the Governor above him autlioi ise-; bri-anda retreated, having had three men and the Governor must, be guided by the killed. Three more were captured in their amount of his funds and the number of flight, and were executed as soon as orders Cidla upon them. c -uld be sent by the memorialist. Addi Decree: Let C7iao Cld-ynan be presented tion.'! tr'iopa were despatched to aid the c（t Court by the Civil Service Board. magistrate, who on the 10th of October 5th December. was informed that Y ii Ts‘ui-p‘ing and Yu GRATUITIES TO SOLDIERS AND OTHERS. Man-tzu had occupied Shuilungchen with a force of two or three hundred men. The As the weather is now growing cold the magistrate and the mili'ary forces at once Manchu and Chinese soldiers on duty at started in pursuit, upon which the brigands Peking will have great hardships to sufter. retired to Clvishihchiench‘hang，where His Majesty therefore orders that a gratuity they strongly barricaded the streets. As be given to them of half a mouth’s pay. For tlie same reason he bestows one mouth’s soon as possible an attack was arranged allowance on the unemployed imperial from the east and the west simultaneously. kinsmen and clansmen who ate the Aa the troops advanced they were received pension list of the court. with a rain of gun and cannon shot. The troops attacked again and again, and many DONATION OF TEN THOUSAND TAELS, were wounded on both sides. The magis The Viceroy Li Hun^-chang reports that trate received a ball in the arm, hut he bound a donation of ten thousand taels has been up the wound and continued to hold the given to the Chihli Relief Fund by Liu Pao- command. The officers and troops fought liu, au expectant Taotai on the Hupeh list. recklessly，and one of the former slew the 6th December, rebel standard-bearer with his own hand. After a struggle of eight hours’ duration No documents of interest. the brigands were utterly defeated, eighteen 7th December. of them being killed and twenty captured. SUPPRESSION OF ANTI-CATHOLIC RIOTS. Three more were cut off and slain in the The Governor-General of Szechuan states pursuit. The losses among the troops that he has already reported certain anti- amounted to five killed and sixty-three Christian riots, which took place last year wounded. The prisoners were beheaded in Tafcsu Hsien near Chungking. Under immediately, with the exception of one of the leader-ship of Yii Man-tzu and others, them, Yii Ts‘ui-p‘ing, who was examined the rioters destroyed the Catholic chapels and kept alive till telegraphic orders were at Shuilungchen and some more places, received from the memorialist ordering as well as the dwellings of the converts his instant executioi?. Yii Man-tzu was fcliemselves. A military force was required wounded, but succeeded in escaping. When to drive them away and disperse them ; the report of the affair was sent in, the after which the case was arranged by the ball in the magistrate’s arm had not yet Taotai and the Bishop. Some of the been extracted. leaders escaped, but orders were given to The memorialist remarks that the trace them out and arrest them. In August troubles at Tatsu commenced in disagree this year there was a renewal of the trou ments between the people and the con bles. One of the escaped leaders of last verts. In the first instance a number year, Yii Ts‘ui-p‘ing，induced a number of of ruffians made a pretence of carrying charcoal-burners from the mountains to on a religious war, and so gained the join him in a contemplated attack upon sympathy of the gentry and the militia, the house of Huang Ku, a Catholic con which proved a very serious obstacle to the vert. Thia was reported by the magistrate, attempts to deal with the matter. But Kuei TSen-pei ; and the memorialist sent afterwards the late acting Taotai Chang troops to arrest the lawbreakers. Next， put out a proclamation earnestly calling ou the same Magistrate found that Liu I-ho the gentry and militia not to favour the and a band of a couple of hundred men, rioters ; and the same line has been taken «fter plundering u convert’s house in T‘ung- Btrongly by the present Taotai, Li, also the iaiig’ bad made a similar raid at Wengclri- magistrate from the moment he arrived at 156 [D ec. 7—8. bis post maintained intimate relations with that they may learn modest ways. Head the gentry, winning them over to bis side. men are also appointed to control their In consequence, when the recent riots com fellows, and as a distinguishing mark a menced, the plunderers obtained neither short coat made of camlet is given to each. help nor sympathy. Thus it was due to The Governor submits an amended account the administrative skill of the magistrate of Tls. 129,000. in the past and to his promptness and bold ness when the storm burst, that the local SQUEEZES ON THE PURCHASE OF THE trouble did not spread into a general war ‘‘ SMITH " AND never bought, and Tung Men-lan was de now despatching the balance of Tla. 20,000. graded for his carelessness in investigating The money has been handed to two Chinese the charge. He was no party to the fraud. bankers, who will pay the equivalent Smitten with remorse Tung Meng-lati has amount to the proper office at Tientsin. since done his best by efficient volunteer service in Kirin, aa adjutant of the forces, REWARDS FOR EMPLOYEES AT THE KIRIN to atone for his mistake, and (he memorialist ARSENAL. begs that his former trifling error may not The Military Governor of Kirin was blight his prospects for life.一Rescript. Let informed some time ago by the Board of the Board of Civil Office bring forward Tmtg Admiralty that in accordance with arrange ^Jcng-lanfor audience. ments approved by the Emperor the ofticials at all arsenals, military or naval, 15th December. in the maritime provinces, might be recom EXPENDITURE ON NATIVE GUNBOATS. mended for ordinary rewards at the con The Governoi'-General at Nanking re clusion of every five years ; and these ports the expenditure incurred in the instructions applied equally to inland pro Province of Kiangsu on native gun-boats vinces which were concerned in guarding of the sea-going class, during the year important frontiers. The arsenal at Kirin which ended two winters ago. It appears has been in existence for ten years, but it that some years back the naval service of was only last autumn that there was com the Kiangsu Province was divided into pleted a term of five years from the pro three classes, one sea-g（»ing, the second for | mulgation of the Emperor’s edict sanctinn- employment in the broad waters of the i in£j the application for such rewards. The li)wer Yangtze, and the third for the small ! oHicers and workmen fully deserve a re rivers. At that time regulations were laid I compense ; for they have toiled early and down, in accordance with which the ex lute at their dangerous calling ; while the articles which they have turned out have penditure is conducted. At the commence- been skilfully made and have proved of ment of the period covered by the present great service. The memorialist has made report, there was no balance in hand. But out a list of the most deserving individuals sums were received from the Sungkiang and Shanghai Likin Office, the Provincial [ and has suggested rewards for them, accord Custom house, and the Military chest at （ ing to the ordinary scale with some slight Nanking, which, together with the p r o - ; additions, and he humbly presents the list ceeds from the sale of old materials, ! for His Majesty*s approval.一Beferred to amounted in all to Tls. 38,098. The out the Board. goings included the cost of refitting vessels, 16th December. the making of gun-carriages, repairing No documents of interest. dockyards, caulking and such items, together with pay and allowances for 17th December. officers and men ; and its total came to Tla. 28,369. There was thus left a balance APPROPRIATION FOR THE DIPLOMATIC of Tls. 9,729, which would be employed in SERVICE. the purchase of materials for the following According to a representation made to year, and would be entered in the next the Governor of Chekiang by the Customs1 accounts.—Referred to the Board. Taotai at Ningpo, for a good many years FUNDS FOR PORT ARTHUR. ten per cent, of the 4 4 six-tenths n Customa receipts at each port has been taken for The Governor of Chekiang was informed the support of Chinese missions to foreign some years ago by the B"ard of Revenue countries, and some time ago this appro that, at the request of the Admiralty，the priation was argumented by an additional Province of Chekiang was required annu five per cent, from the same source. During ally to supply from the additional likin on the third quarter of the present year the opium a sum of Tla. 50,000 for the purpose total Customs receipts at Nitigpo amounted of purchasing guns and building forts at to Tls. 299,893，and the six-tenths to Talienwan and Weihaiwei, in order to Tls. 179,935. Fifteen per cent, of thia defend the marine approach to the North. comes t" Tls. 2G,990, which sum, in accord He at the same time received a communica ance with standing instructions, has been tion to the like effect from Li Hung-chaug， remitted through native bankers to fho as Minister Superintendent（»f the northern Customs’ Taotai at Shanghai. The Governor ports. He has already remitted Tls. 30,000 has now the honour to report to the Em on account of the present year ; and be is peror the forwarding of the money. 160 [Dire. 17—18. REMITTANCES FROM CHEKIANG TO PEKING. assistant magistral e and may be placed This year the Board of Revenue proposed for service on the roll of some province that the Province of Chfekiang should be where there ia foreign business to be trail- desired to supply Tls. 220,000 from its salt aacted.—Granttd. taxes and salt likin for the use of the central government, and Tls. 50,000 from EXTRA FUNDS FOR HANGCHOW SEA WALLS. the salt taxes for the maintenance of the The Governor of Chekiang states that Imperial Household. Tls. 10,000 were also the sea walls in the prefecture of Hang required from the Province for the purchase chow will require additional funds for their of ginseng for the Emperor. The governor repair on account of the damage done to has now sent a sum of Tls. 90,0(X), which them by the unusually high tides. In completes the amount demanded on all addition to the three great stone walls, three accounts. The silver has been given says the memorialist, there are in the said into the charge of two o伍cials，who will prefecture a nuinbei' o f other walls, fascine convey it to Shanghai and thence by steamer works and embankments, making a total to Tientsin, from which port it will be of something like forty-five miles of works. carried overland to the capital. For the maintenance of these there used to be an annual allowance of a, tael a 18th December. foot, or Tls. 230,000. Eleven years REW入RDS AT THE CANTON FOREIGN SCHOOL. ago, on account of the want of fund« The High Authorities at Canton request the then Governor, T‘an Chung-lin，pro rewards for the o伍cials connected with the posed that the allowance be reduced to Foreign School in that city. They state Tls. 174,000 ; but that year, on account of that ever since the school was first,opened, the unusual violence of the wind and tide twenty-eight years ago, it has been the the expenditure still remained at the old established practice after every three e. Four years ago the weather having years to give rewards to the officers unusually calm, and little damage charged with the management of the done, Governor Wui brought the sum down school, the proctors, Chinese professors, to Tls. 142,000 ; but it was provided that and teachers. Such a term has now been if exceptional circumstances required a completed since the last rewards were greater outlay, His Majesty might be bestowed. The pupils have been examined, petitioned to sancti -n it. The very next and a certain number of the best were year there came extraordinary lides which selected as worthy to receive appointments. did an immense deal <-f mischief ; and an The o伍cials who have formed the magis additional sum of Tls. 38,000 was granted. terial staff and have continuously given But this only sufficed for such repairs as their services are certainly worthy of their were most imminently necessary, and less authorised recompense. A list of names pressing needs were left for some future and recommendations is accordingly fur time. Since then the allowance has been nished for His Majesty’sapproval.—Request kept at the reduced sum, with the result granted. Let tJce Tsungli Yam^n take note. that the woodwork could not be renewed, and that it has become unfit to resist any PROMOTION FOR INTERPRETERS. unusual pressure ; while the gradual growth The same memorialists state that after of a sandbank on the southern shore has the conclusion of the examinations at the turned the tide, so that the north bank ia foreign school three years ago, three suc sed to a greater force of water than cessful students were given small appoint erly. Finally on the 9th of September ments and employed as interpreters in the and two following days there occurred various yamens at Canton. When the a typhoon, which increased the height memorialists had interviews with any of the tide and caused a great deal of foreigners, these gentlemen were called in damage. If steps be not taken at once to translate what was said ; and when to put everything into a proper state, documents or despatches in foreign lan there is no telling what irremediable guages were received, they were required harm may be done at some unexpected to turn them into Chinese. In each moment. The peril will be greatest cage they accomplished their task in an next spring when both the tides and the eminently satisfactory manner. They more river waters are high- The fixed allow over presented themselves aa candidates ance is not sufficient for the necessary the lato provincial examinations, when works and the memorialist is obliged to their compositions were found to be of aek for more. Ho thinks that the appro sufficient excellence. It ie therefore re- priation fixed by Tcan Chung-liu is a fair quebted that they may be given the rank of, one ; and lie would ask that from thia year D ec. 18—20.] 161 lie may increase the allowance by Tls. houses, where they were waiting in 32,000, thus again bringing it up to Tls. pitiable condition and clamouring for food. 174,000. As to the provision of tlie extra The memorialist had been notified by the sum, lie. remarks that, if the silk trade Mongolia Office at Peking that it was hia continues to flourish, the likin on that duty to attend to whatever might be neces article may be calculated to bring in about sary with regard to the post stations. He $110,000, or ^120,000 per anmcm; and fn.iu therefore proceeded to relieve the sufferers, this source the money can be provided.— giving them a thousand taels from the Approved. Moiig"l Relief allowance, which they were 19th December. entitled to share as belonging to the Kara- chin and Tuniet tribes. Next came the OFFICIALS PUNISHED. question of furnishing a fresh stock of At the request of the Viceroy Li Hung- horses for the postal service. The number chang the Emperor cashiers or degrades (»f animals required was only eighty-seven ; several magistrates holding posts in the and the memorialist thought it better that Province of Chihli. One of them had thoy should be purchased with government allowed hu servanta to manage his official funds instead of levying them on the business for him, tlierely giving rise to Mongol tribes, who are really at the moment grave scandals, the others were of indifferent incapable of supplying them. But, Khile character, stupid, or weak mentally and the coat of a horse is seven or eight taels, bodily. and the old government price wub six taela REWARD FOR A MUNIFICENT GIFT. and a half, of late the Board of Revenue A sum <-f ten thousand taels has been has reduced the authorised allowance to contributed to the Chihli Relief Fund by a three taels and a quarter. At thia rate it Licentiate named Liu Kuo-kuei belonging is impossible to procure the animals ; and to Huangkang in Hupeh. In offering this the memorialist trusts that his payment of gift the donor afeates that he does not desire the old government price will be approved to ask for any reward. The Viceroy finds in the present instance. With regard to that Liu Kuo-kuei is a son t）f general Liu this sum of money carried off by rebeb, Wei-chen, who not only saw a great deal the memorialist remarks that the o伍cer in of active service, but also was noted for the charge of it lost all his own baggage and liberality which lie showed on more than only escaped on foot after having run tho one occaai'»n. In spite of the wish expressed greatest possible risk of being killed. It by Liu Kuo-kuei, the Viceroy thinks that is hoped that under these circumstances he ought to call th« emperor’s attention to he will not be required to make good the bo splendid a donation. It is permitted by money.—Referred to the Mongolia Office. the regulations that a licentiate who makes such a gift may be promoted to be an SICK LEAVE FOR A MONGOL PRINCE. expectant prefect and placed on the list for The authorities at Uliasutai state that immediate selection. This mark of favour they received a representation from Aole- was accorded at the Videroy a request to cheitenior, Prince of the Sainuoin division another individual under similar circum of the Khalka Mongols. He explained stances ; and it is suggested that a like that last spring when performing his duties recompense be bestowed upon Liu Kuo- as Assistant Military Governor he contract kuei.—Granted. ed a disease which had caused a swelling 20th December. of his legs and great general feebleness. He was about to ask to be relieved tem POST STATIONS DESTROYED LAST WINTER. porarily of liis o伍cial duties, when he heard The Military Lieutenant-Governor at from the Mongolia Office through the Jeho reports on the damage done by the Captain-General of The League, that he rebels last winter to the live or six post was selected for duty this year at the stations outside the Hsifeng K ‘ou Gate in Palace at Peking. As the undeserving the Great Wall. The buildings were de- recipient of the imperial bounty he was etroyed, the horses gone ; and, at the in duty bound to avail himself of the oppor moment when the rebellion commenced, tunity to show his fidelity and attachment; an facial was conveying money there for but he is forced by his ill-health to ask for the purchase of remounts. This money leave of absence, and he suggests the names was carried off by the rebels, and many of of other officers who could take liis place the officer’s e«cort were killed. An officer, as Assistant Governor and as Chieftain. sent to investigate, found that tho Mong<»l The momorialists did not dare to support eoldierB employed in the postal service had this proposal at first, and they replied to built themselves huts near the ruined station the Prince that he must make an effort to 162 [D ec. 20—22. proceed to Peking. The Prince then wrote Shih-ying led his men to the fight, and the again, saying that he was really incapable spectators on the walls were astonished to of walking，and begging that an officer Bee him driving the enemy before him. A might be sent to inspect him ; if he were charge of the cavalry brigade completed found to have been making a false repre his success ; and he was hailed as the sentation ） he would willingly accept the bravest of the men of Hupeh. A little penalty. The memorialists accordingly later he was transferred to Shensi and despatched an officer, whose report entirely Kansu, where the Mahommedan war was substantiated the declaration of the Prince. in progress. After ten months of cam They have therefore granted him two paigning, during which his men nearly months’ leave of absence, and have appoint died of starvation, lie represented to ed officers, as requested, to replace him in tbetn that it was better to be killed his local duties.—Let the Office concerned by the enemy than by hunger. Leading take 7iote. them against the town where the provisions HEMP FOR PEKING. of the Mahommedans were stored, be cap The Governor of Anhui states that be tured it and won for them food in plenty. has given orders as usual for the purchase Again, the present memorialist, who was of a quantity of white hemp which also serving in Kansu，was sent to receive will be forwarded to the Government at the submission of the town of Ninghsia, Peking. The hemp is grown in Hoshan where there was an immense Mahommedan Hsien，and the amount to be forwarded population. Treachery was feared, and is 34,158 catties. The fixed allowance is none dared accompany him ; but Hu Shili- three tael cents per catty, or Tls. 1,024, ying, who knew this, insisted upon sharing which is drawn from the laud tax receipts. the danger and rode into the town at hia Bub this sum is not enough to cover the side. In Jannary, 1866，the Imperalist cost, and Tls. 802 will further be required troops were defeated by the Nienfei at to complete the payment. Feight and Pacli(iao near Sian Fu. Hu Shih-ying was denounced by the Governor as having travelling expenses will take Tla. 888 ; and been late in coming to give assistance, the Board Revenue allowances make Tla. in consequence of which he was removed 1,440 more. There are thus extra huiiih amounting altogether to Tla. 2,850，which from his post and degraded from the rank will be taken from the petty contingency of General, to which he had gradually fund. risen. Suffering from his wounds he went 21st December. into retirement till 1880, when theGovernor at Moukden obtained permission to phice RANK RESTOKED TO DECEASED OFFICER. him in command of liis old foice in Man Fengshen requests the Emperor to restore churia. When the trouble wae over, he the rank of ex-Genera.1 Hu Shih ying, a again passed ten years with- »ufc employment. recently deceased officer who served former In the present year, being sfcil] little more ly with great distinction, but had the mis than fifty years ohl, be offered his services fortune to be degraded afterwards. Hu to the Governor at Kirin. They were gladly Shih-ying was a Hupeh man. Afc the be- accepted ; but before the Emperor’s per- .gining of the Tuiping rebellion when still wission could be obtained, an old wound very young，he raided and commanded a burHt out and lie suddenly died. The f（）rce of five hundred men, with whom memorialist thinks that the merits of Hu be accompanied the army of Governor Shih-ying were such as to outweigh the Hu Lin-i. After a number of actions fault which was charged against him, and in which he displayed great bravery, he prays the Emperor to restore to him hia received a commission in the regular rank and grant him the honours of a army ; and, moving gradually eastward, deceased general.—Approved. in the year 1861 he was in command of his old force, now largely augmented in 22nd December. numbers, under Tushinga at Yangchow. PUNISHMENT FOR ABDUCTION. Two hundred thousand rebels had crossed W6ng T*ung-ho, President of the Board the Yangtze, and were confronting the of Revenue, and Hwai T 4a-pu, President artny of Tushinga, which, consisting of a of the Court of Censors, report the result hundred battalions whs encamped under of their investigation of a case in which the walls of Yaugchow. The country was the Supervising^ Censor Hung Liang-p'in covered with the banners of the rebels, represented to the Throne tl）At the trial and none i>f the imperialist commanders of a woman of the maiden name of Yung, dared to be tlio^rst attack their superior condemned at the Autumn Absizes to nunibers. But at th« General’s orders Hu strangulation, had not been conducted D ec. 22—23.] 163 in a sufficiently thorough manner by the was made iu good faith or under circum- Board of Puniahinents The circum stancea \v hieli j UHtificd suspicion, her stances of the case are briefly as fol punishment is decreased, Pao Huan lows. Kwei Clfeng was a private in has been sentenced by the Board to a corpa (»f Mongol Guards at Lantien- the same penalty under the law deal ch‘ang near Peking. His wife, whose ing with the abduction of a married maiden name was Yung, aged 23 year^, Wiis woman without her consent; but the ex- according to her own evidence, taken in tenuiutiii^ circunistanc^a. that her loose March 1890, by ber husband’s friend Pau conduct in frequenting Pao Huaii’s house Huan, an ex-private in the Manchu Guards, gave him the idea of abduction, should be to Peking, to look for employment. Pan stated in the report of cases submitted to Huan, however, sold her as a concubine to the Throne. RJinor penalties have been a member of the Imperial clan, named allot, ed to those perRons conuected with Wen. She, finding herself deceived, ran the sale of the woman and are approved away in February 1891, and went back to by the niemoriali.sts. The officials of the Lantiench'aug. She and her husband B oaid（ Throne on the subject of a charge brought 26th December. against the magistrate of Nanching Hsien STONE EMBANKMENT FOR YUNGTING KIVER. in Fukien of levying illegal taxes. The defence of the magistrate Chin YU-t/ang One of the Censors recently presented was that the taxes in question were levied % memorial on the constant danger of for the purpose of repairing the river em the Yung'ing River breaking oufc on the bankments of the district. Similar levies northern side in the upper part of its had been made before, the sanction of the course. This memorial was referred by the Emperor having been first obtained. On Emperor to the Viceroy Li Hung-chang as this occasion the necessity f*，r repairs the officer reponsible for the management of being very great, he had intended to the river. The Viceroy no'v proposes to collect the money and then to ask for build a stone embankment at the locality in question, which is near the soutli-west sanction. The amount levied in excess ； of the ordinary taxes was TIs. 451, and corner of Pekini . In the first instance be Was charged on land transfers. In accord would make it for a distance of eight i/, ance with the law relating to the levy of or 14,400 feet, with six stone buttresses to illegal taxes for public use the degraded every This will cost TIs. 544,807, and can magistrate Chin Yii-ting should be pun- be accomplished in three years. TIs. 30,000 islied with half the severity a theft of the further will be required for allowances, same amount would entail- He should gratuities and miscellaneous items. He receive 70 blows with the heavy bamboo therefore requests that the Imperial Trea and be banished for one year and a half. sury may pub at his disposal a sum of TIs. As he is an official, he should be allotted 190,000 for each of the three years. When the utmost penalty and be sent to the this task has been completed, he would •forces on the frontier there to atone for take into consideration the expediency of his fault by hard exertion. The money he extending the work for another five li, at a collected should be devoted to the river coat of about TIs. 300,000 more.—He/erred embankment works. The underlings who to the Board. collected the taxes should each receive 80 GINSENG FOR THE PALACE. blows,—Rescript: Let the Board of Punish Iii forwarding the last supply of ginseng fields report. for the Palace, the Governor of Kirin stated MEMORIAL FROM THE GOVERNOR OF that th e season for collecting it was past, SHANTUNG, FU JUN. and the work could not be resumed till the coming summer. His officers have now The Governor reports the provision of succeeded in securing a further quantity,. funds for the control of the Yellow River namely eight large stalks and fourteen next year. of medium size, weighing together nine The amount fixed for this purpose in the Chinese ounces and two-tenths. It is nil province of Shantung was TIs. 400,000 per mountain ginseng of first quality. The aununi. The former Governor, Chang cost of collecting it comes to TIs, 1,889. Yno, represented this as insufficient and It has been packed with great care in two TIs. 200,000 were added to the yearly boxes and entrusted to an officer who will estimate. However, this was still too little, convey it to Peking.—Noted. and in the years 1889-1890 the figures were TIs. 800,000 and TIs. 970,000. In 1891 by RELIEF OF DISTKESS IN MANCHURIA. great economy memorialist managed to The Governor at Moukden refers to ;i keep expenses down to TIs. 650,000. This memorial which he presented last July or year TIs. 600,000 were asked for in the August, concerning the distress cnusecl by first instance, and the autumn floods floods in portions of the province of Sheng- necessitating great repairs, another amount king. He was then allowed to expend of TIs. 50,000 had to be afterwards applied TIs. 30,000 in relieving the poor ; and he for. The river ever since the overflow in used the money in supplying food for ten Honan has been in a bad stp-te, and the soup kitchens, which lie established in the overseers report that enormous damage suffering districts. He now reports that having been done by the autumn freshets, in the parts of the country where the it is imperative that materials be collected floods were deepest, the water did not during the winter, that no time may be disappear early enough to permit a fresh lost in setting to work in the spring. sowing t" take place ; and that on the Memorialist therefore nskn for sanction slightly higher lands, where it retired for the allotment of TIs. 600,000 for next earlier, though buckwheat, vegetables and year's expenses.—Reset i jK Let the Board similar suitable crops were planted with 2^re?life rote note. all possible speed, still the occurrence 166 [D ec. 26—28. of early frosts prevented some of these avert the evil for now and for all time. The from coming to maturity. At the time of stretch of land in question is exposed to harvest the sturdier of the people were the full fury of the torrent when it bursts able to go away into other districts，and through the arches of the Lukou Ch‘iao earn money for the moment by helping and under such conditions to ensure in the fields ; but there still remained a the strength of a strip (J sandy bank, crowd of applicants for food at each of the is more than human means can accomplish. depots, varying from three or four thousand For twenty li above the bridge and four ut the larger (，nes down to about a thousand below it, there has been a stone embank at the smaller. When all agricultural ment from the days of the Chin and the operations are finished and the severe cold Mongol dyiiHBties ; and this, which has has commenced, it is certain that both the often been repaired, has always proved a weak and the strong will alike be applying reliable barrier. The country people say for food. The Tls. 30,000 which su伍ce3 that the bed of the river is the same below for immediate necessities in the summer the bridge as above, namely, a hard, stony will not carry the people through the bottom, in to which stakes for fascines winter. The local government, however, cannot well be driven, while on the other is not possessed of surplus funds ; and the han‘l it makes a good foundation for a only plan which the memorialist can suggest wall, unlike the lower part of the river’s is to have recourse to the public granaries course where the sandy bed is constantly throughout all the districts in the pro eaten away, and a wall is always in danger vince, in accordance with the precedents of falling. The memorialist therefore set in times of distress six years and proposes that a stone embankment should four years ago. The amount which the be made for about ten Z/*, which would only memorialist proposes to take from this cost from one hundred to two hundred source is fifty thousand piculs, the whole thousand taels. This sum, though large, of which he would deliver to the soup is nothing to the cost of repeated repairs, kitchens already established.—Approved. not to mention the remission of taxes and pour relief, or the lous to the farmers 27th December. themselves. The Viceroy Li Hung-chang THE EMPEROR PRAYS FOR SNOW. ia the officer responsible for the river, but lie is already uvtnburUtmed with his Though a little snow has fallen at Peking, other duties, provincial business, admiralty a larger amount is greatly needed in the and foreign affairs, s<» that lie cannot give Helds. The Emperor therefore announces it the personal supervision absolutely bis intention of proceeding on the next required. It would therefore be better day but one to the temple called the Great for ilie Emperor io appoint an officer nf Lofty Hall, where lie will burn incense in high rank to act as the colleague of the person. High officers are deputed to visit Viceroy in this matter.一lieferrei to Li other temples for the same purpose. Huug-chuug. PROPOSAL AS TO THE YUNG-TING RIVER. FAILURE OF CHOPS IN KIHIN. A Censor named Chung Hung-liang re The Governor of Kirin reports that there presents that the Yungting River, or Uuu lias been a partial failure of the harvest iu Ho, has long had an evil reputation for many parts of the province. The crop was floods; and, in the upper part of its already injured by a superfluity of rain in course across the plain, its northern bank the middle of the summer ; and on the is only ten miles away from the south 12th and the three following (lay in Sep west gates of Peking, while it is much tember there occurred early frosts of nearer to the Imperial Hunting Park. The exceptional severity, which damaged the strength of its bank at this point is there partly ripe grain in the ear. — Noted. fore a matter of the utmost importance. 28th December. The embankment constructed of sandy earth two hundred years ago has never SANCTION FOR POSTHUMOUS HONdUKS WITH been a sure protection. There have been DRAWN. frequent breaches in recent times, and the Some time ago Chang Lien-kuei, Gov city gates have been invaded by the waters, ernor of Kuangsi, informed the Emperor to the great inconvenience of the govern that a petition had been presented by Lei- ment postal communications. For the good Tsu-ti rtud other officials, living at their of the farmers as well as for the safety of homes in that province. The petitioners the Imperial residence, the memorialist represented that a former Governor of thinks that a great effort should be made to the province, Su Feng-wen, had been D ec. 28—31.] 167 a man of high renown as an adniiuis- One division of the C(hang Sheng Brigade, trator, on which account they prayed that and two of the Shou Tzu, have been de a record of his acts might be enrolled tailed for duty at these barriers. They have in the annals of the State, and that■’ done their work admirably ; but as they when the necessary number of years had are part of the local forces, they are re •elapsed, a temple miglifc also be built in quired for military duties when any his honour. This petition having been disturbance takes place elsewhere. For •endorsed by the Governor, His Majesty instance, when the trouble at Ta/tsu issued a Decree giving it his sanction. occurred this year, several companies of The Board r）f Censors, however, lias now these men were called a'vay iron) the addressed His Majesty on behalf of a num barriers to put down the rebels. The effect ber of Peking officials, who are natives of of the relaxation of the preventive system the province of Kuangsi. They aver that was afc once shown in diminfehed receipts Su Feng-wen had an indifterenfc reputation of opium duty. The roads from Szechuan to in Kuangsi and that his relations with the the four provinces above mentioned cover people were not harmonious. They also in the aggregate several thousand /i, and state the the principal author of the original the thirty odd barriers which have been petition was serving in Peking when he placed upon them in important passes are presented it and was not at his home in situated in the middle of wild mountains Kuangsi. In addition to this a member of the and intricate paths. The opium dealers Imperial Academy has presented a memorial are moreover rough, rude men, who travel requesting His Majesty to withdraw his in bands, and should they see that the sanction for tJie proposed honours，on the guards have been withdrawn to other grounds that Su Feng-wen made hitnself places, they evade the payment of duty the object of popular resentnieufc both by by either boldy forcing fclieir way past his avarice and hia habit of claiming the the barriers "r by stealing through when merit of what was done by other people. opportunity offers. His Majesty observes that the honour of The Governor-General points oub tliat having one^ life recorded in the State outbreaks are frequent in Szechuan and the annals is only ui'anted to those whose tniops at I）is disposal liave more tlmii they claims are manifest and undeniable, and it can do. Hurried from place to pl«ce, they cannot be accorded to Su Feng-wen after crtii only keep part of the province in the allegations which have been made order. The proposal now made to station against him. The authorisation formerly men permanently at the barriers is how granted is hereby withdrawn, and it is ever necessary, and as their expenses will ordered that hereafter no application be be paid out of the opium duty receipts, made for a temple to his memory. The memorialist will be able to raise more •Governor Chang Lien-kuei has been guilty men and by constant vigilance and move of great carelessness both in forwarding ment of troops guard against any disaster. Lei Tsu-ti’s petition without verifying its _ Iiatictipt. Let the Board concerned to!沁 truthfulness, and in not ascertaining that note. Lei Tsu-ti was not at home in Kuangsi THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF SZECHUAN when it was presented. Let the Board KEMITS MONEY. -concerned determine what is the proper punishment to be inflicted on Chang Lien- The Governor-General of Szechuan re ports the remittanee of 60,000 taels to kuei. tne Treasurer nf Kueicho'v being half of 29th December. this year’s requisition on his province of PREVENTING OF OPIUM SMUGGLING. 120,000 taels for the transport of Kuei- The Governor-General of Szechuan, Liu clio'v lead to Peking. Ping-ching, io a memorial to the Throne The Governor-General of Szechuan re represents that for the prevention of opium ports the remittance of the last instal smuggling it is nacessary that the three ment of the requisition of 980,000 taels for Brigade divisions now guarding the passes Kansu