At lest hangchow has officials holding substantive ointments, both magistrate and Taotai. They are men
especially, who is nearly seventy. Whewall advanced fa yearn, the Tectal ther these gentlemen will take more than pasiog interest in the place, As to the Anti-Opiam movement, judging from what we hear of it here, it most bare stopped moving long ago. 'The kettles of the firms boiling the drag are as fall as ever, and shops and dens handling it seem to encounter no troable besides the usual squeezes, made no secret of, not even where in secretaries' and ge' rooms pipes are la evidence almost everywhere,
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