Tur. French mail of the 15th of July the 16th inst. by the apologists are right in saying that his real object is to reform the financial system of these provinces; but his crass ignorance has only resulted in his squeezing a lot of money of the officials whom he has visited, which they in their tura will from the people until brought to the verge of rebellion, niterly ignorant old Boxirbon, however excellent his intenticas may be, he cannot introduce any situtary' reforms because he is ignor int of the first principles, the rudiments, of finance, and is too old to be taught. Western knowledge he nu: merely despises, it is hateful to him. To hin the schools of Western knowledge that have been founded by more enlightened men like Chang Chih-tung and Lin Kun-yi are anatheme mareaatha, and" he comprehensively stigmatised them all as "breeding-pi of traitors." He wants to build the Woosung forts, and he objects to the proposed new Mixed Court, because he sees foreign innovations in the plans. He has now memorialised the Empress Dowager against the Chinese Boarding-School for Young Ladies, which was founded here not long ago by the leading gentry of Shanghai, and which has een carried on so successfully under the guidance, with some foreign assistance, of the wives of 4 the 19th inst, by the Empress of India.
mail of the 22nd of July here on the 20th inst. by. the Tue English mail of the 2st of July arrived here today by the P. GO. 8, Bengal.
4 Matt leaves to-morrow morning for
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