Ox Saturday next, our Taotai, To Tsung-ying, will deliver his seals of office to Suu Ping-ching, Taotni elect, with the usual ceremonies. Tu Taotai is a protege of Tseng Kwo-fan, to whom he is indebted for his promotion to the Criminal Judgeship ' of Hunan. When appointed to the In-tendency of Shanghai, he was prefect of Nanking, where he distinguished h by clearing the " Southern Capital" of fallen women. He expected to promote morality at Shanghai by similar mosures; but failed, solely owing he states to the refusal of one of the Consuls to ce-operate with him in that undertaking. Among the Chinese he has been somewhat popaler; but he is less 80 with foreigners; and perhaps the best we can say, is that the Imperial Government could easily find a more objectionable mau as its representative at this port.
Sun, the new Taotni, is highly popular with his countrymen, and is esteemed by the foreigners who have had opportunities of becoming acquainted with him as an administrator. He is a ripe scholar, being a member of the Hanlin College. We question if Shanghai las yet had a scholar of that rank among its officials, certainly not for the past twenty years. He stands high especially for his skill in versification, and is honored for estimable private qualities and for public spirit.
Taotai of Chinkiang at the time of the Yangchow disturbances, when excitement prevailed at Chinkiang which was due mainly to the machinations of Chen Kuo-jui. This hater of foreigners owned x house at Chinkiang, which his family had leased to a foreign missionary; and although the lease had yet a year to ran, Chen demanded the expulsion of his foreign tenant, When he found that the missionary could not be driven out, he sent some braves to demolish the building. So great was the excitement then prevailing, that a fearful riot musi have taken place but for the wisdom of Sun Tuotai, who arrested mischief by inducing one other citizen to purchase the dwelling from Chen, and sell it to the missionary. When Sun first went to Chinkiang, he found the place still suffering from the devastations of the Taeping rebels. No attempt had been made to replace the mulberry trees which they had everywhere
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