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Censoeship or Public Mobals in China.-— The numbers of the 'Pekiri Gazette' received in Europe occasionally contain v.cry curious particulars relating to the administrative organization and political usages of the, : Chine3e empire. In a late number, for instance, we find the report of a censor, who denounces to: his Sovereign the increasing folly • of the present age. People spend, too much money,-he declares, in amusements of all kinds, especially in shows and amateur theatrical/ performances. According to that official, high families are in the, habit of performing in dramas, even the greatest personages being imprudent enough to appear on the stage. But the ; cPekin Gazette,' apprises us at the same time that the Emperor has called on the censor to name the guilty parties, and that; functionary, all trembling, then declared that he had spoken generally, arid could not designate any particular person. ' The explanation of the censor's; ■'■conduct-is'extremely instructive, since it appears, that the, person invested with theso high functions is exposed to a heavy punishment if he does not find at least once in three months something to blame and denounce to the rigours of, superior authority; thence arises denunciations, generally followed by ah embavi-assing silence. It is not easy to say which presents the most ridiculous figure in this system—-the censor,wlio is compelled always to find something to blame, or the .Government, which fancies that such means can lead to the repression of abuses, and 'the improvement of public morals.—Debais. . ]■'/_',', '".■)'" LONGEVITY AMONG THE PEERAGE.—It is not a little singular that of the score or so of Peers who have died since the commencement of the year there are 16 whose united ages amount .to no less than 1229 years, giving an average of 76 years and a-half to each, and setting at nought the; dictum of David as to " three score years and ten." The~ list of noble Lords is as follows:—The Earl of Aylesford (aged 72); Lord North wick (81)ythe Earl of Ripon (76); the Marquis of Bristol (89); the Earl of Devon (81); the Bishop of Ban'gor (86); the Duke of Leeds (60); the Earl of Moray (63); the Earl of Tankerville (83) • Earl Cathcart' (76); the Earl of Harborough (62); the Earl Minto (76); Viscount Sfc. Vincent (92); the Earl of Jersey (86); the Earl of Westmoreland (75); and Earl Walde-. grave (71). — Once a week, '. . ; ;

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