Wednesilay forenoon, 9-12 o'clock. Kibkccgertes Beets "tod Analysis of Physical Geography (Potts).
Characters, Natural History Written Avithmetic(jementary logy. grade), Classics.
(From the Foochow Daily Echo of 18th Hob.)
Wo have it on good authority that five of the pirate fleet have been caught by the gun-boats sent out to search for then, and that sixty of the crew were arrested and handed over to the authorities at Ningpo. Ici stated that the pirates related bravely 2 las The price of rice is still high, and the authorities have issued another proclamation ordering dealers not to raise the price any higher, threatening them with arrest if the order is disobeyed. This has had the effect of staying a further rise in price, but we hear that dealers are losing sume 15 cents a picul in consequence on their latest importation, The scarcity of copper cash reported in our issue of the 24th December ultimo has been felt very much during the last tex days of the id year, and has brought out into use the one, two, three snd four hundred cash note, which has been stopped by the authorities since the circu lation of the government 10-cent pieces. OF course the authorities have to submit to the disobedience as the fault lies on their nd_unless. they place " sulticient quantity of both copper cash nnd ten-cent pieces, for public use, the small cash notes will be used without interference, We hear from the city that anew Mint for the coinage of copper cash and ten-cent pieces will shortly be established, probably at the Arsenal.
In our account of the fire which tool place laet week in the city we explained
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