is being started here called the Pot'ung Shu Yuen (1 3S sz). According to the proclamation hanging up in the College it is started in accordance with, instructions from the Tsungli Yameén to the effect that Colleges for teaching Astromony, Mathematics, and other Sciences are to started in all. the provinces throughout the Empire, that men of learning may be produced who will be fuse to the government. Forty students are to be admitted into the College here, who will be supplied with 2,000 cash a month for rice. A teacher of the sciences has arrived from the capital, and a few days since
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