must be between the ages of twenty and twenty-five. They must be at least four fet eight inches (Chinese) high ie, five foreign feet, which seems to an uninstructed civilian to be low enough at all events, The candidates must be sound of body and able to lift a weight ozone hundred catties above the head. They must be able to walk twenty {iin two hours. Perhaps the most encouraging stipulations have to do with the character of the applicants, Each recruit must be guaranteed by a certain number of responsible neighbours to be of good moral character. "In particular, he must not smoke opium or be involved in Jaw-suits. The pay is to be better than heretofore, viz: two hundred large cash per day. After every three years of service a furlough of three months on full pay will be allowed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.