were present by invitation and participated in the services.
Messrs. Graves and Lowerby ar at Wachang. On Si place four native candidates who hare passed several years in study and evangelistic work were admitted to the Order of Deacons. They are appointed to work in this part of the province, several new stations having been recently opened.
We are in a position to state—if, indeed, such an assertion is needed, which we searcely think—that Me, Alabaster is not the author of the article on the Hankow toa-trade in the St Jumes's Guzetle, His we are informed, is a person who formerly resided in Shanghai The Commandant of the M.M. steamer Travuaddy requests us to make the following statement on his part with reference to the article we publish elsewhere from the China Mail. He was compelled to request the ollicer to retire on ucooiut of the highly improper ma n which he had come on board, havi ribed up the side of the ship during ght, and introduced himself by the port-hole of the coupee, The behaviour of the officer was suet that the O dant of the Iruonaddy judged fit to lodge a formal complaint Against him with the French Consul at Suez—a step which the Beitish officer could have adopted on his side had he considered that he had been discourteously treated. As the matter will thus be brought diplomatically before the English and French authorities, the Commandant of the Irayuaddy dows' not consider it necessary or desirable to take further notice of it meanwhile, A Correspondent sends us the following facts with regard to the delivery of mails,—a subject, he thinks, in which the public are one and all interested. On Friday he writes, "I saw in the paper that the letters of the French mail had been sent out on Thursday evenii As I had received nothing, I sent my servant on during the forenoon to see if there was thing for me. He came back emptyded, with the message that there was ug at the Post Ellice, everything 1g been distributed un the previous About an hour after this I received ® paper and two letters from the Post Ottice, and this (Saturday) morning, auEnglish post-card, which must have come by the same mail."—The distribution seems to have been somewhat fragmentary.
We notice that the second name on the prize-list of the provincial examination ie that of Wang Fang-tsao, a Soochow man, ho has been educated by foreigners. He was formerly student in the Arsenal school at Shanghai, and afterwards studied at the tang Wen' Kuan at Peking for several years, where ho distinguished himself in every branch of learning. thas on two occasions refused to go as interpreter to England, because he desired first to obtain the degree of ohe jen, We are informed that for many years past no examination for the hi has taken place at Pekin 'Bung Wen Kuan good show among' the honor Many of the students have become chin-shih, We have received authoritative con-Grmation of the reports which have been current lately respecting the impeachment of Tso Teung-Vang. The Tartar General, the Literary Chancellor, and the Provincial Teeasurer of the Liang Kiang have all Excellency, and Admiral Yii-lin has been commanded by the Throne to investigate the charges and report. There is no doubt that'Tao is decidedly unfit for the exit cies of his high, and it appears that his removal ent, He has been summoned to nnd we believe that he will proceed. thither in a very short tims Chou Ini-cliting, the Director of the Court of Sacrificial Worship, who was denounced by Ch'dn Ch'i-t'ai on the Sth September, vacated his post on the 13th October to' await trial. Chow 'x jen grax duated in 1859, and was first appointed a second-class Assistant Secretary to. the Board of Ceremonies, Ho then rose to be a Senior Secretary of that Board, and was promoted to a Ditvotorship ofthe Banguet~ ing Court. On the Sth July 1882 ho was advanced to his late post, from which he has now been compelled to retire.
A curious case is said to have come before the Cho-hsien the other day. A man had grave donbta of the propriety of his wife's friendship with an elderly member of her family, who went by the convenient name of uncle. At last things were brought to a point by the avowed intention of the Indy, who soams to have boon wealthy in her own right, of giving half her fortune to her friend; and the husband very naturally haled her before the ins, trate, His artless tale however wont for nothing beside her artful ons; she ropresented the uncle' as having been the guardian of hee tender aye, and said she could do no Jess, now that she was a rich woman, than make him some substantial return for his early goodness, The magia trate upheld her in these dutiful procest= ations, and slapped the husband's face.
the midst of the infliction the unlucky tian remarked that there wereevile to which a husband was liable greater even thi the loss of fortune; but, in so saying, used an expression which la not often heard in polite society and was therefore resented, and punished, by the magixtrate as contempt of Court, The lady came off with flying colours, and is now free to act as she plo: added—perhaps un; hundred duillars. viously " paid into Court" th
We are sorry to learn that a report which was circulated, to the effect that the shroff of the Tong Foo Cheong had been released, was premature, It was not without foundation, however, fur the man had actually been seen ata tea-shop by our informant himself, though, as now appears, under the surveillance of yamdurunners, Being a person of some resources is allowed certain amount of liberty, and occupies comfortable quarters where Jjoy his apina-pipe, OF course lus to pay for his privilege The warrant for the arrest of the two Chinese was, it appears, a very different document when granted' at Nanking from that which Mr. Cheshire was waked a
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