The other schools in the city are commencing, work again and, as for some time past, are unable to receive all the pupils who apply. The Roman Catholics have Wuilt a fine school during the year and are now advertising for scholars; their tees {thirty dollars a year) are about half more than that charged by the Protestant Schools. In time past a father used to send to the foreign school the son who was too stupid to learn the Chinese classics, but now it is otherwise: A day or two ago a father ap-Finn two soa and asked. the forelenere to lied at one of the schools and brought with pick out the more hopeful of the two. At the same school the relations of an old scholar remonstrated with the boy's father and urged him to send his son to one of the numerous Chinese schools that profess to give a Western education, The father was unwilling, as was the sou, but dared not offend his relations, so he told his son that he would go for a journey in a few days and that as soon as he had got ae away from his relations he, the son, could go back to his old school
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