At about 5 #m, on December 27, fire broke. out in the depart occupied by the students of Natural History, at the Liang Ha College at 'Wachang, the capital of Hupeh province. It said to have been caused by the overheating of a store and the bursting of " fice leading to the chimney on the grand floor of the boilding. 'The students' sleeping quarmunications haa framed five regulations in regard to railway loans, the breach of any one of which will cause the loans, to be liable to cancellation or the, withholding of the sanction of the! Government. By these rales the mortgage of the property or the grant of discounts is absolutely prohi the Government is to reserve the right to pay off the loan His date for payment are prohibited and rights in connexion with the employment of staffs and in the parobase of materials are not to be parted with. These rales have already been copied and sent to the Viceroys and Governors for their information.
Chen Yeh-ching and Tsai Obis-pso, the former known to foreigners as Chiog Yue, (his piece-goods Hong-name), were brought from. the Mixed Court gaol before His Honour the Shanghai Taotai for trial in the afternoon of the 4th instant. Mr. Tien, the, Shanghai district magistrate, aod Mr. Pao, the Mixed Court official, were pre-~ sent, After " long examiastionhis work, which covers from his birth in 1804 first election to Parliament in 1837, and we are given an opportunity of studying the influences which shaped Disreeli's early career and of forming an estimate of his personality as it displayed itself in his years of growth and development, book deal with Disraeli's birth and its The first chapters of Mr, Monyrenny's
early struggles to obtain fame before he bad reached maturity, the subsequent chapters with his. period of travel and literary activity and the latter portion of the book with first efforts to enter Parliament and with the stages by which: Disrseli formed " political creed and built himeelf " bridge to cross from Radicalism te Toryism. Of the three divisions each has an interest of its own, because the youthful Disraeli had a0 agreeably edventorous character and his efforts at scbieving fame were never commonplace or uninteresting. He was iven moreover to self-analysis and to self-revelation and in the pages of his letters, his diary and his novels, which were largely satobiographical, he admitted his readers to " frank and fearless exposition of hia own character. "I am one of those," he wrote to Sharon Tarner when he had barely tarned twenty-two, "to whom moderate reparation oan give no pleasure" and he never endeavoured to obtain anything less than a complete trlamph. Foiled of success. in early years, his mind gradually solidified aod hardened, and when be at length reached Parliament in 1837 he had already formed s com} political creed and Diaraeli's political views in early life were not. outinged: with, scute of ementiciem which seems to hare. been native to his character. He. displayed UN
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