which was opened here with such a flourish of trumpets some three ly ago and which was SUD} to herald the dawn of a new era in the Healing Art in China is now the scene of strange doings. A fine chance has been lost by the cursed spirits of intrigue and jealousy. Surgeon-Major Houston has been persistently thwarted and checked by one of his Chinese colleagues, a so-called Dr. Lin, until at last things have come to a dead stop. The hospital, notwithstanding its fine accommodation, funds, and official prestige, is not popular with' the class of people it was intended to benefit though the neighbouring Missionary establishments are always full up. The students in the Medical col _are discontented and have struck work in protest at the happy-go-lucky way in which their education is conducted. Three of them have this week been arrested and sent to the yamen because the class memorialised for some change in the tuition. The story the ly of hay "two kings of Brent-is long and entangled, but it all turns on of havii ford." Aschool of all things in the world cannot have two heads and the Chinese
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