The Chou Han party are on the warpath once more. By a letter from Changsha of the date of the 4th inst. we learn that the examinations are beginning there, and that all the students of the twelve districts of the prefecture are gathering in, Whereupon says our correspondent "Chou Han's tiger-cat following have tal last year's reviling our Lord anonymous placards, and every kind of big and little cartoon, besides a number of new ones which they have prepared and printed, and stuck them all over the city, both inside and outside the walls of Changsha and Siangtan. Qn account of the heat we could not take down many samples (samples sent). Among the worst are the Agreentent enterered into by all Hunan, and There is nothing to be afraid of. They are also searching for any Christians they can find to drive us out." This news is important as being the action of the head centre of the antiforeign party; and as it has been proved that their activities are perfectly under the control of the authorities, who can turn them off or on xs easily as water on a tap, it means lively times in the Yangtze valley before long. There are several interesting Wuchang items and rumours, but they must stand over lest I lose the steamer.
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