of which I wrote you a week ago are gradually subsiding in this city and district, although information to hand shows there is still a good deal of unrest in the country. Four days ago the Pahsien M: trate sentenced a man to severe unit ment for his share in circulating evil stories about foreigners. The trial was a oe. and the news of the sentence d an almost instantaneous effect in silencing peoples' tongues, A gentleman visitor assures mo that since Friday last the chief topic of conversation in the teashops has been the absence of rain for which Magistrates, priests, and people have been praying in vain, Rain is certainly needed very badly. Ofcourse, a fist was proclaimed, and was indeed observed until yesterday,
Taotai's chief wife, when it was thought which lig nea to be the birthday of the that in honour of the event the principle of self-denial might be tabooed and free rein given to the natural appetite for pork, which was sold for 145 cash per catty in the public murkers yesterday. The fist will doubtless be resumed' to-morrow again—unless rain comes in the meantime, anid there is no sign of that.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.