general strike of printers, compositors, and bookbinders has been maintained since Saturday, as the result of the Government's banishing the officials of the Compositors' Guild, which has exercised intolerable oppression.
The men declare that they will not return to work until the Government cancels the order of banishment.
Many, fearing prosecution by their masters, Lave fled to Canton.
No Chinese newspapers have been published since Friday and English papers have practically n reduced to publishing telegrams only.—Our (en Cor dent.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.