Advices from Nanking have been received in native official circles at this port to the effect that she ex-Captain and Kolao Hui "Bilder", Wan Sung-thing will be executed by the Ling-chi or "Shanieful (not Painful a it in usually erroneously translated) and Slow Process." This la the form of punishment, we have been informed, that has been recommended to the Thron Wan's case, by the i now' only waiting for the Imperial assent in order to carry out this dreadful sentence which to Chinese minds is the acme of disgrace, the stigma of which attaches itself to the sufferer's family down to the tenth goneration—theoretically speaking. There is usually not much pain in the process, for sometimes by means either of bribes or because the ' minion of is more merciful than his fellows, the executioner generally gives the coup de grace first, by planting @ long thin dagger into the cul-pnt's beast before cutting him up into the six pieces required by the lw. Wan Sung-thing, as our renders will remember, was the man who introduced the ill-fated Li Hsien-mou to the Chiefa of the Society adinner given by the former in Chi Kiang in the month of May, 1889, When Li Hsien-mou was arrested two years Inter, Wan Sung-thing, then a Captain of a regi nent lying st Chinkiang, was also, taken in custody; but being thought to be a no-view, nowly enrolled into the Kolao Hui, and' confessing penitence, he was after a short incarceration released on promising future good behaviour, having in the mea while also given up in proof of his pen tence, all the insignia connected with the society's membership. Wan Sung-t kept his promise and meddled no more with such dangerous matter of good behaviour, he was old rank of Captain, but in a giment, this time quartered xt Kiangniuj 80 as to be within reach when required by the authorities at Nanking. But the dani-ning evidence given by Tseng Ming-kao onused the man's re-arrest: his judges being ospecinlly bitter against him on account of his having been the mainspring and chief cause of all the recent troubles with that society. He has now signed fession," corroborating everything contained in Tsing Ming-kao's evidence last May,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.