A Hangchow dispatch states that nearly six hundred prominent members of the gentry, literati and merchants of Hangchow and other prefectures of Chekiang province attended " meeting held in that city on the 28th instant to select from amongst their number representatives to proceed to Peking to petition the Government in person for the early granting of a Parliament to the country. Eight gentlemen were elected and they are expected to leave for the Capital within " week.
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