Near the end of Inst tion for a redaction it rentals was absadoned on account of the Chinese New Year. As the re-ridents io Shanghai consider their house-rents still abnormally high, they have submitted another petition, with old agitator, Pao-ch: name at the bead of their sigoat: to the Taotai, urging him to publi proclamation, exhorting the honseowners to reconsider the proposal farther, and pointing out the houses that bare since been vacated by the inhabitants for more congenial dwellings, as proving their contention, March 23.
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