of one of the ablest and most progressive magistrates we have seen or heard of in China, So vigilant is he that most of the loafers and bad characters have cither been arrested and punished or have run away to escape his eluches. He has ordered the canals in the city to be cleaned out and seems in every way to have the good of the community ut heart. He has subscribed to a number of papers and magazines and has them placed in one of the most fashionable tea shops where they are read by numbers of scholars who frequent the shop. Not long since he announced as © subject for essays "Bismarck." About four hundred: scholars submitted papers. The highest prize was thirty dollars, second prize sixteen dollars, two prizes of twelve dollars, two or more ten dollars, ten of one dollar and a umber of half-a-dollar each. He is very friendly with the missionaries and with the igners at the Customs, and has entertained us all at dinner where dishes and service were nearly all foreiga style.
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