An unusual case, forcibly showing the fertility of resource and quickness of thought of the better classes of Chinese, has been reported to us from Nanking, During the Taeping rebellion, a married Chinaman resident in that city joined a regiment which was ordered for service against the rebels. Ho did not return at the close of the struggle, and nothing being heard of him for several years afterwards, his wife, believing herself a widow, listened to the advances of another man who professed love for her, and who pressed his suit so ardently that she consented to join her lot with his. They wont before the proper authorities, were made husband wife, and' lived together in conjugal happiness, as they believed—at all events, they were happy. 'This continued for' year or two, when quite unexpectedly the first husband presented himself, alive gnd well, and demanded the restoration of his wife. "Oh, no," said No. 2, "You left her, remained away for years, nobed; heard of you, she thought you dead, ani mourned for you, Weare married now, and here are the papers." No, 1, not having heard of the example of Enoch Arden probably, still clamoured for his wife, and it was ultimately decided to take the The maely to both ides of the story, and at first appeared puzzled what course to take, The papers produced by the second hua-band were legal, but—the first husband was obdurate, and would not yield. At length, the magistrate told them to leave the wife in his yamen for ten days, and then both to come back again for his decision. This was agreed the fifth or sixth day, the mag in great haste sent for the two men, and with a mournful. countenance ins formed them that the wife had been suddenly smitten with an illness which had proved fatal, and that she was dead and he asked the Grst husband whether ho would take away the body and provide for the funeral. The man demurred, said he wanted a living wife, not a dead one, and should have nothing more to do with the atter. Turning to the other, the magi trate put the same question to him, saying that one of them must remove the body. This man said he was very poor, but the deceased had been a good wife to him; they had loved each other dearly, and coat what it might he would raise the money and pay for the burial. Very well," said the magistrate, "then here she in,—take her away with you and dra a curtain showed the astonished men wife, standing, living and in good health, before them. It being clear that the frat husband really cared nothing for her, al willingly abided by the magistrate's method of settling the complication. The only drawback to this story is that we are unable to hand down to posterity, in plain English, the name of this Chinese Solomon,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.