University, Mr. Huang, has been promoted from the post of Expositor of the Hanlin Academy to he Reader in the same institution, Two Manchus and two Chinese form the staff of Readers there, and considering the excessively oppressive weather, it, may be taken for granted that these sinecures have enough to do to satisfy their diligent impulses. If not, they inay profitably spend a little energy on the higher education of their President, Hu Tung, who quarrelled with one of his domestic staff for daring to propose the removal of two venerable mud-heaps on the premises, when he ought to have known that such vandalism would be absolutely fatal to the good-luck" of the house! As the improvements to be inaugurated in the extended ' Model Settlement" may be perilous to its prosperity, it might be well for the Shanghai municipal Council to enlist the geomantic accomplishments of Hsii Tung in order to secure the continuation of the felicity of the place. The science of féngshuei should not be neglected at such an important juncture.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.