Nothing important or remarkable has occurred, except the unusual strictness of the Governor in rejecting many more essays on first inspection than has even been known before. Several hundred were rejected on sight because of blots, blurs, clerical errors, erasing characters,' adding characters, ete. The usual number shops and stalls for the display of attractive goods and. curios, were opened in the streets in the neighbourhood of the hall, and the trade in these articles seemed to be carried on quite briskly for days before the opening, as it will be for some days yet to come.
NOT IMMACULATE, As far as the writer knows, the students been quite peaceable" and orderly during their stay in our midst. There are rumours flying about the streets, however, that perfect peace has not reigned amon; those in' authority. There are charges of bribery and corruption in high places, and they are spoken bf so definitely and the persons and the circumstances specified so particularly, that there must be some foundation for the rumours. But as the matter is under. investigation, it is thought prudent not to make it more public than necessary, lest some innocent reputations should suffer.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.