A petition was submitted the other day to the Shanghai Tao: ai by the post offices, owned and worked by the natives privately from time immemorial, and not pr hibited since the advent of the Imperial Chinese Post Service. The petition is to the effect that on Septem-aod by the retary, calling the official dispatch bateaux and the Frivate post cities of all the provinces to pay the fall postage of 96 cents, Mex,, per pound in weight of covered
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