To the Editor of the seem to me to have ration in cleeeing Councillors the nine gentlemen whose names you published last week. By doing ay they have done, they have stamped with their approval the general conduct of the re-elected Councillors during their year of ollie they have shown that the most recent ae! of those Councillors in the matter of the Secretary's office has not forfeited the good opinion which their industrious and to theirs duties had So far, 9 step ye lately seen prev-depends "at next move of the Municipal 1 in order to preserve the po taken, that they will leave the business ut a successor to the Council for 1878. They would thus completely shut the mouths of thie vecifervus and irritated ty. They would show that their hands were absolutely it motives entirely quite possible, there may an's hands when the election-day Is of a candidate for the obviously superior to all-others, L let the old Council gracefully hand over the credit of his appointment to their successore, By doing this, opposition will be silenced, all ities conciliated, and a desire tu do absolute justice exhibited, Yours, OnseRven. Shanghai, 10th January.
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