We have recently had in our city 2 example of that summary justice which is occasionally meted out by the Chinese officials. The knowledge of such cares far with the common people to save thei respec! for the administrators of the I for they cover in generous obli solitude of venal-ties and ex: ortions.
Sco si im aye i-a-nual fair held on the mont swith a They exhibited firtle ly mis-shapen, which they ceeded to, ma.cipulate in an extraordinary but- very cruel menner. For example they torcel it into an ordinary water Gin ti) or buried it audience which we may he sure was always on hand, were delightfully answers coming 0 vari Sport was ing one chi knife and forthwith producing an uninjured one from—no one knew where. The pro prier ts of this edifying show were reaping a financial harvest when disaster overtook them. The prefectural examinations were in progress; and one day a student from the strict of Chuchou joined the crowd about the conjurors. In the stunted and def "r-med child the young wan thought he recognised a little brother (or cousin) who had been kidnapped several yearsago. He laid information and the men were arrested. On the person of the child was discovered a birth-mark of which the informant knew.
When brought before the official the child at first refused to say anything, but upon being convinced that he lad nothi" to fear from his master he told a pitiful tale of mal-treatment. Amongst other things he said that he had been compelled sleep every night in a water-jar and that by a process of pricking the flesh with needles of, as some r-port it, by the actual removal of certain tendons of the limbs and fingers, his jointshad been made unnaturally But there is riv use in dwelling upon the details of the little one's sufferings. After his rescue he was brought to our disp" sty and our physician aid what he could for the miserable little wreck.
The guilty me" were terribly beaten several times and were daily exposed to the mocking populace, They are now ying in prison awaiting what will probably a death sentence, Tt is that the initiation in their arrest was taken by our new Prefect, Ting Li Chun. He arrived two mantis ago from Peking where he had made the acquaintance of our former colleague, the R-v. G. R-id, from whom he brought a letter of introduction. It was owing to this circumstance that Mr, Ting did us the unusual honour of calling' upon us before When we did go we found him to be a well had opportunity to anticipate him: informed and wide-awake man.
He is highly spoken of as an official.
5th January, NINGPO,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.