Wrangler, and at present Literary Chancellor of Shantung, states that he has been 16 Kad an opportunity of retaming to hia home ears in official life without ever having in the neighbourhood of Canton, From letters which he has recently received, he is grieved to learn that the ancestral cometery has fallen into a sad state of neglect, and his heart yearns with renewed longing for the South. He asks, therefore, that as soon as he is relieved from his present office he may be granted three months' leave to enable him to return home at his own expense, and put the family cemetery in @ proper state of repair.—Granted by Rescript.
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