By order of the Court of Directors, HERBERT S. MORRIS, Seer Lan 180 Shanghai, 7th July, 1877. been so long employed to suppress piracy among the Islands, and on the coast of Chekeang, are to be abolished, and the war-steamers belonging to the viceroyalty formally recognised as legates of their duty. No wonder that the proposal is said to have evoked energetic protest from the mandarins more immediately concerned. We all know the system on which armaments are—or are uot—kept up in China, Officers are paid a lamp sum to main. tain a certain number of ships, or soldiers, as the case may be; and provided the required complement is forthcoming at periodical inspections, no questions are asked about the strength of the cadres in the interval. The practice
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