There is quite " lot of petty persecution pis destrier. The Christians who were ing sought after a few months ago are uow subjected to all kinds of annoyances, Our chief places have within the last few days been placarded with "an exhortation to be good" rhyme. It is stamped with the official seal of the local mandarins and purports to have come from the Board of War through the ordinary stages of trausmission into the hands of the Asien. It is too long for translation for this letter, and besides if the account it gives of its origin and descent be correct you are likely to have heard of its appearance already. It is fulsome in its adulation of the present dynasty as compared with all former ones. Tt claims that taxation is lighter, that enforced Inbour has been abolished, that compulsory military service no longer prevaila but instead a scale of pay has been arranged muses the people to volunteer, that bastinadoing of courtiers is not practised, that the penal code is minute and just, and that officials are degraded who abuse its provisions or inflict illegal punishments, and so on and 0 on.
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