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Deranrep.—Per Nanzing, for Tientsin—Po lesers, E, H, Grimani and A. R. Hewlett.
Grimani third of the population of the whole world will formally assume the reins of government which have been for eleven years in the hands of a regency. The interest and importance of this event, whether regarded from a Chinese or Foreign point of view, gradually deepen as the appointed time draws near. The youthful Emperor has been brought up and educated for his lofty position tudor most unfavourable circumstances. Confined within the walls of the Imperial palace, and secluded swith the utmost care and vigilance, he can possess but little knowledge of the outer world. His tutors, who have been men of the old school and imbued with strong antiforeign prejudices, cannot have failed to fill his mind with absurd notions res-mutual understanding was arrived at. On one occasion his tutor, a venerable old man, is said to have been so overpowered at his want of success as to be unable to refrain from tears. Whereupon the pupil began to read away with a little more vigour, till, coming to the end of a page, he found the sentence F TH B—(The superior man is not utensil.) The thought struck him that it would be a capital joke to tear off the corner of the page, and with it the two [J which form the lower part of the last character, thus making the sentence read FFF Hi JE—(The superior man does not ery as a child.) Having done this, he repeated the sentence in its amended form as part of his lesson. The old man is said to have pecting the greatness and power of the Celestial Empire, and his superiority as the "Son of Heaven," over all barbarian rulers. His guardians having been persons of no' refinement and differing from the vulgar herd in little beyond their superior position, he has doubtless been so much annoyed at this practical joke at his expense, as to give up his pupil as incorrigible.
Viewed from a foreign stand-point, the way in which the Emperor has been secluded, and kept in ignorance of the true state of things existing in the seen and heard much of the deceit and outer world, and even in the different intrigue that is known to exist in the! parts of his own empire, seems at first
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