Tr has lately been noticed that a placard of a mysterious and threatening character was posted on the City walls, and it was suggest that the document probably emanated from some secret society..... From. time to time considerable interest is excited by the supposed efforts of these strange cor-parations. " Omne. ignotum pro magnifico" is probably the explanatiéii of the whole affair. We are almost entirely ignorant of the doings of these societies—in fact, paradox as it may seem, their very existence is questioned, and therefore we are prepared to believe anything extraordinary and threatening about them, and to credit the Chinese Vekmgericht with treasons, stratagems, - spoils, and all kinds of malpractices. A very few notices in the Chinese Repovilory, that treasure-
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