At 2 o'clock on Sunday afteracon nearly 2,000 persons, consisting of officials, gentry and merchants of this Port, met in the Minglunt'ang, or Literary Examination Hall, to celebrate the operation of the Opium prohibition I in Shanghai district. The Shanghai i, the Shanghai Magistrate and the Marine Sub-Protect wore also pooches w Prioeipel tenour of which was tha people of the Empin showed the Mand d eradica'o the evil habit of opium smoking ud other f rma of consuming the doug, it would be the (ur.ing point for Chiva-the parting of the ways, in fact—which would in time transform the weak China, as she is nom, into s powerful und wealthy entry. Furtherm re, that if the people of the country' could of their own ae. cord root vut the evil, it would be proof that the people will be able to the responsibility of taking up mentary representation, During intervals in the mooting the Ban of the Industrial School at Sicawei and of the Physicg! Associations, played tic music. The officials prevent thanked the gentry and people of 80. materially asi the vice of opium district. Without their valuable help the Taotai rightly declared, the officials w- ull be able to bring the law into operation.
meeting br t 5 p.m, alter many good withes and mutual c gratulations, Indiscriminate Accusations, provin the subject in qu igh and resi Crown. There seems of Ite by irreeponsil which the Prince wishes to put
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