30th December.
The Mixed Court Magistracy, We heat that owing to the ever incroasof al classes compiainiog about the dilatory ing number of appeals to him by litig: and unsystematic methods permitted by the present incumbent of the International Mixed Court, Yuan Taotai of this port recently instructed Mr. Wang, the Shang-bai City Magistrate, to make a personal investigation of the cases filed at the Mixed Court awaiting settlement at the hands of that Magistrate. In his report to the Taotai the Shanghai Magistrate stated that he was perfectly astounded at the abnormal number of unsettled cases at the Mixed Court, there being over three jnundred of them, and many of them very important and involving large sums of money. To make matters more bewildering, it appeared that the incumbent of the Court in question had scarcely any idea of these cases, owing to the fact that, for reasons bret. known to themselves, which are to" obvious to anyone knowing anything of Chinese yameos to need reiteraition "here, the scribes and runners who control things generally under this Magistrate kept back these cases and did not consider it worth their while to report rheic existence to his Worship. Thi deplorable ced to be allowed to resign, owing to inability to keep up with matters, and other physical disabilities, Amongst the complaints sent to the Taotai there are many realy serious charges over and above the foregoing. We understand that the matter has been reported to the high provincial authorities, as the Chinese' Chamber of Commerce live also. made a numb-r of strong charges against the Magistrate.
The Bund Murder.
The leading Ningpo gentry and merchants residing in Shanghai have sent a telegram to Prince Ching and the Ministers of the Waiwupu to the effect that, owing to the action of the Russian Consul-General in Shanghai in handing the tve Rassian sailors of the Askold, guilty of the murder of the Ningpo man Chou wick to their own officers without ing the Shanghai Taotai, and because, in spite of the repeated demands of the said Shanghai Taotai upon the said Consul-General for the persons of the murderers in order that they should be
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