Just now I hear that two large boats from Shanghai, loaded with books for the Provincial College for Western learning at Kaiféngfu, are being unloaded here to be conveyed by cart thitherward There is just now also being opened in thi city a primary school as feeder to that one. I hear also that several free schools, fort teaching Chinese books to poor boys, have just been opened here. I hear occational complaints of the Heavy Taxes Imposed on houses and on shop-keepers with. of course, the conjecture that the official is growing very fat, which may or may not true. At any rate the people are, many of them, rejoiced at occasional reports that his term of office is soon to expire. The nforal charaotes of the The following document, stating the officials does not seem to have been much grounds of the plaintit's S produced by Mr. Ellis believe there is such a mass of people in The plaintiff will contend that before the the world elsewhere so easily governed as application made by the defendants for a the Chinese. The wonder is that the kind slay of proceedings can be granted the officials they have do as well as they Judge will have to decide the following points (1) Whether the condition referred to is condition precedent to the right to bring
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