cident Tesbes me fom a welringrmed strange and otherwise instructive in-
source. Not many months ago the Chung-yin yamen was within measurable distance being burnt to the ground in a conflagra~ tion which destroyed a great many houses the centre of the city. General repairs have been of late proceeding in the neighbourhood, and the opportunity has been seized by the authorities for effecting some renovation of the dilapidated official building. In the course of their duties the workmen thus employed had occasion to open up two rooms which for many year,
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