Our foreign residents have begun to migrate from the Western Hills into the city. We note with pleasure the arrival of Mr. Bruce Hatt from Europe on a visit to his father, U.E. Hung Suen is said to be sorivusly indisposed. Some assert that it is no more thin jaundice, others that he has pleaded indisposition' to escape being appointed an Examiner at the present metropolitan examinations now in session here. - The Pamirs question has surely not been the exciting cause of his present illness. The examination stalls have been rebuilt this year and the present batch of students are the first to occupy them. This may be said to be one memorial of the coming sixtieth celebration next year of the Hsifohzo (Western Buddhi), the name colloquially applied to the Dowager-Empress, Another memorial of the same event is the mulcting of 25 per cent. of all the salaries of the olticials and Bannermen, In Kien Lung's reign the soldiers were also subjected to this charge. The Empress went wat to Lie Eho-yuen (\Wanshowshan) on the 5rd of last Chinese moon (7th) and will romain there for fifty days. On the 9th of the 8th moon Her Majesty proposes to visit the tomb of the Seventh Prince who is interred about " mile from Tachinossit where the German Legation has its summer quarters.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.