The reformed and partly rebuilt Provincial College was opened by the Viceroy stituting the hope of the new China. This is what we believed and hoped last ear; but alas! the aspect of things has grievously changed, and the institution cannot be reckoned as one of the hopeful features in the situation. Last year the director of the University was a man of progressive ideas. He increased small town and shot him dead. Theman at the end of August. The place is now, referred to above says he dare not go provided the teachers are satisfactory, the staff of torchers by two young men who had been educated abroad, and one back. Another old servant is reported likely to do well. I hope to send a who was for several years at St. John's fuller account. to be a prisoner in the rebels' hands.
College, Shanghai. For a while every-
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