Since the establishment of the Republic, a great number of persons have embraced the profession of the lawyer and engaged in private practice, Not only grade schools abroad, but also persons who have had no connexion with either the firms of foreign solicitors or the Courts of Justice, Chinese or foreign, and ex-writers in Chinese yamens, have become pleaders of the law. Recently cases of Judges and Attorney-Generals abandoning their official posts for the more lucrative, though less exalted, positions of private practitioners have not been question was adjourned for ten days.
The Bank of China.
The above Bank haa sent a peti tion by telegraph to the Governor of Kiangsu, through the Chamber of Commerce, asking for the re Payment of its advance to the Shanghai Army. It says that dur-the troublous times the money market was very stringent, but the Bank did what could by advancing money to the Military Government of Shanghai to pay the soldiers and there—- by to tide over the crisis. The total amount advanced was over Tls. 700,000 which account the Shanghi Tutwh has transferred to the Gover-|. nor of Kiangsu. The Bank has been, and is still, entrusted by the Government with the duty of cashing the military notes. As it has no ready money to meet this demand, it is urgently requested that the Governor will at once remit Tls. 40.000 or Tls. 50.000 to Shanghai for immediate requirements. The least delay, it says, will destroy public confidence, ete.
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