The usual Tientsin " reports of the closing of the Imperial University," have, like the ass turning a Chinese mill, come round again. Meanwhile, buildings to accommodate 100 more students are rapidly approaching completion, and the first instalment of books for the foreign library will soon be on the shelves of the great "Tsang Shu Lou." Let us hope that i will be only the beginning of a collection fit to radiate "sweetness and light" from the "Book-storing Tower" to all the inhabitants of the University and of Peking too.
THE ENPEROR, A High Manchu official, who saw the Emperor a few days since, says: "His Majesty looked perfectly well." So let us hope.
12th June.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.