(From the Foochoto Daily Echw of 25th Mar.)
At the end of last season we reported the retirement of many teamen through despair of any revival of the trade. Now we hear of fifteen who have been out of the bu: 3 the Inst two years going into it again, There has been so much tlk of the tea being good und profitable in the coming season, afier the snow, that the prospect of mukiog money is considered tov good to be neglected.
Ie is reported that His Excellency the Literary Chancellor has sent in his resignation to the Viceroy on the grounds of ill-health, and that the Viceroy has refused to forward the resignation to Peking, begs the Chancellor at the same time not to think of leaving his p st. The Chancellor has the reputation of being a just and upright man. His duties have always been most ably dis charged and bribe of any description has ever induced hit to depart from the right course to the adi tage or otherwise of interested students.
We hear of " new method adopted by the natives for saving " man who has attempted suicide by eating opium, 'The ease in point occurred xt a village close by the Race Course where a native, wrongfully accused by tipay, lad attempted to take his life. His family at once gave the alarm when some neighbours came with tailors' irons with which they ironed him, while others made a gond woud fire round the body,. nearly roasting the poor man. The treatment had the desired effect, and a Chinese doctor has restored him to perfect heal: h and strength.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.