Mrs. Jerdein, Mr. and Mrs. Kuoop, three children and'one amah, Mrs, Peters, infant Rev. E. Cottin, and Mr. For Port Said—Mr. a Christoph. For Point de Galle—Mr. ti, Whiteheak. For Singapore—Mr. D. Finlayson, Tux Peking Gazette of the 1st September contains a memorial curiously illustre tive of the system of paying officers lump sums to provide a certain number of soldiers, to which we have referred in recent articles. General Yang Yii-ko, who distinguished himself in connection with the suppression of the Yiionan rebellion, seems to have surrendered an admitted claim against the Government of no less than Tls. 400,000, for the pay of troops due to him, at the close of that movement; and, so far from his being in a position to give up this large sum exciting suspicion or enquiry, it was made the occasion to confer honours upon him for his self sacrificing patriotism, Nor does the loss seem to have at all embarrassed him; for we now again find him reporting that he has converted his late residence at Tali-fu into a college for the benefit of the students of Western Yunnan, and "has endowed it with rents derived from lands and houses, in order to furnish stipends for the students and travelling expenses to the candidates proceeding to Peking for the civil and military examinations." Evidently the General is not @ man to hide his light under a bushel, as the Governor quotes his own report in "placing on record this most meritorious proceeding he la
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