A telegram has been received from the Lawyers' Guild in Shanghai, urging certain measures of law feourt reform to be carried out in preparation for the abolition of fextraterrjtoriality. It is recommended among other things that in leach county a number of ry Jeourts be sot up, in order to facilitate the means' for people who wish to have recourse to Inws. Two or three major courts are also to [be set up in each county. Soldiers who commit civil crimes are to be brought under the jurisdiction of the civil courts, Prisons are to be, inspected by the officials, and means" taken to improve them. Last (but certainly not least), the salaries of law officers are to be increased by 20 per cent, in order to encoura them in the execution of th duties. telegraphing to Pekir declares that there is no such a coin as the gold frane, nor is there any exchange rate of this mythical quoted in France (says the Chinese press). If the Chinese Government should agree to pay anything in gold franes, Dr. Tsai thinks, there would be no end of trouble in trying to make the payment. It would be impossible to mint gold franes in China. Dr. Tsai advocates the fixing of a rate of this coin cither in sterling or silver that is fair to both countries, in order to end the dispute:
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