This breach of Chinese law will, it is believed, get the magistrate into serious trouble, sind the Taotai at one time: was on the point of suspending him awaiting orders from Hangchow, as much onthe grounds of having killed off the man without torture ing-a full, confession out of him as on the ground of cruelty! It is a pity that the magistrate, Yeh, lost his tem-Be" has proved "himeelf a capable and er, for during: the last eighteen months fair-dealing officer; but when out of, temper there is little of the and much: of the zh A. about him, which is possibly true of therest of the world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.