{just passed up, I could not make out who about a foreign gentleman of rank who had Once or twice going down, I was.told
it could fe was inspecting the rivers; they said, for the Governmeit in order to mers down. But at Chiatigtth T heard it was Capt. Sullivan, who after Visiting the capital, Changsha, had' come round by Changt@h on sotie errand connected with the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. If this is so, you will likely know better about his movements than we ds. At Changteh, there was no trouble though the officials were very frightened about landing. But at Changsha, I believe, he was stoned on leat the Nieh-tai's (Provincial Judge's) ya: where he had been to dinner. heard too that he had been ill-treated about Tsinshi or Lichou when he passed thereon his way to Shasi, a very likely thing, for they are both turbulent places. It is to be hoped that the visit hower will add to the information about Hunan, ud help to the opening of its varied resources to foreign commerce.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.