'A meeting of the Volunteer Corps has boon held, at which its finances were shown to be Tis $00 to the bad. It was resolved to uch sufficient rifles to cover thia deficit, and to call another mooting in Soptombery to decide on any further measures in respect to the corps.
Wo are glad to learn that th last your's, working of the Kinchta fine has been suf ficiently remunerative to enable Mr. Grant to repay the old shareholders the first instalment of their capital, ut the time fixed.
'A special proclamation from Poking has recently been issued by the Che-hsien of Shanghai, and by the Chinese authorities of places near the means of water communication, to the effect that, on account of the scarcity of provisions occasioned by th protracted drought in the North, no duties will be levied upon rice sent by Chinese Merchants to Tientsin and the northern ports, The East India Telegraph Company appears to have deferred for the present ite scheme of introducing telegraphs into China,—convineed of the difficulties attending the task. By the last mail, the Directors announced this fact to their Commissioner in China, saying however, that they hoped to resume their relations with him at no very remote period. "A due regard," they add, "for the economical administration of the aftirs of the Company, for thechango in their plans of laying down cables first, and the evidence you that nothing can be done at present in China, to promote the original Plans of land lines, either by obtaining concessions, or in securing a part of the capital necessary, all being taken into earo-
Company on this lino of action."
The barque Zodiac, bound to this port from Nowshwang with a cargo of beancake, got on shore on the North bank, on her way up the river with a Chinese pilot fon board. She has since been got off, but had to be towed up to Shanghai and beached on the Pootung side, to prevent her sinking, The Chih-hsien held an inquest on Tuesday morning, on the body of a Chinaman who had committed by eating raw opium, on account of gambling losses. The evidence was so clear that the magistrate id not employ the means usually adopted in endeavouring to discover the poison, and an amusing opportunity of witnessing the process was lost. Amongst other favourite methods of detecting' the cause of death, are washing the body with Shao-Using wine, or medicated water, for bringing out the potion in epota,—plalstering over with a sort of poultice which is left today, and on removal of which any hidden scar is supposed to make its appearance, and the insertion of negdlos into different parts of the body.
Wo lean "from Haxkow that the Chief of the Mahomedan Rebels in Yunnan has proclaimed himself Emperor, under the title of Tainslin." A mooting of the Chamber of Commerce has boon held, to ovate on the rvoont action of the Taota, Replies by the American, French and English Consuls, to the letter addressed to them, on this subject, by the Chamber of Commerce, will be found elsewhere. The former yromisos to take measures, in concert with his colleagues, to show the Taotai that his ground is utterly untenblo and that ho must retract hie recent reclamation.""
It is well known that, in China, publio amisfortuncs are held to be referable to rome shortcoming of the Emperor. The present Arought in the north is accordingly suggesing various memorials by Pex1No officials, containing suggoations as to its cause, Wo Publish elsowhoro a translation of an Im-'Porial edict respecting memorials addressed to the Emperor by Chung-pei-hsien and Worjin. In the Peking Gazette of Juno 30th, there is a further each from which it appears that an inferior mandarin of the rank of Chi-chao, named Yang-ting-hsi, has also taken upon himaolf to memorialize the throne and point out what he considers to the cause of the present long continued Aronght. His memorial is represented us arranged under ton ghoads, and the tenor of itis apparently much the same.as of
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