Seeing thers has been a good Jeal wri-ten about Christians having to worship at the tablet of Confucius in connection with the new school, can any of your readers tell us what standing the Mahomedans have in these new schools if they apply for admission? It is well-known that formerly in connection with all the Confucian worship of sacrifice and incense at the examina. tions every three years, they never took any part in the worship or sacrifice, but were allowed to take pars in the cere nies when there was no sacrifice. Can it be possible that thy are now excluded from these new sc'iools For from my knowledge of this section of the community, they will absolutely refuse to worship any but the Supreme Being an, in this district at least, they are far tod numerous to treated contemptuously.
The First Hsien Examination has now been held under ths now rézime, and I find on enquiry thy' though thera were no literary essays, neither was there anything of Western learning, as there was no one capable of examining the papers.
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