'There are still grumblings on every side in connection with the copper ten-cash pieces. Silver advanced in copper cash to xbout 1,300 per tael, while 1,250 in good one-cash pieces would buy it.' Thisis about 300 cash per tael more than it was worth a year ago, Up till a fow days ago, small produce dealers, such as chicken, egg and fruit sellers, would receive the ten-cash piece, charging slightly higher for their wares; but all of a sudden the old cook informed mo that they would not receive them, and so we had to have return to the more ancient form of "filthy lucre."
China's Disregard of Treaties.
T have been quite interested in all that has been said about China's disregard of. the recent commercial treaties, and 1 have wondered how much longer countries like England and America will enjoy the luxury of making elaborate treaties just to seo them broken, and that, too, when the carrying out of the treaties would be not only for the benefit of the few foreigners living in China, but still more so of the Chinese themselves.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.