in Nanch'i referred to in my last has seriously increased during the last fortnight. Thear that thousands are joining and that in one town alone forty-two whole "pieces" of calico were cut up into certificates and distributed in one night. They are sold for 104 cash each to ordinary members and at proportionately larger prices to those wh: are to hold office when success attends their endeavours.
GUNS ARE BEING Cast, and the whole district, "large and important one, is in serious ferment. The chief objects of the Society are stated to be to rid China of the foreigner, of Christianity, and of the Manchu; and to re-establish the Ming dyn: Perhaps the most incomnprehensible feature is
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