The correspondent of the Times in Peking telegraphs to Friday's
paper a summaly of the new Opium Regulations promulgated by the Chinese Government. They are of the most stringent kind; and are stated to be inspired by Yuan- Shih-Kai, the Viceroy of Pechili. Under them not only is the cultivation of the poppy to cease altogether, but the use of opium is after ten years to be totally abolished. Though it is calculated that some forty per cent. of the people of China take opium, every user of the drug, and the amount he uses, are henceforth to be registered. No one who begins the habit after the present time will be able to register. Smokers of sixty years of age will be given a good deal of latitude, but those under sixty must decrease their allowance by twenty per cent, per annum. Those who after ten years are still addicted to the drug will have their names publicly posted. In the ease of-officials, under - sixty,--abandonment of the drug must begin at once. Exceptional treatment is, however, to be given to Princes, Dukes, Viceroys, and Tartar Generals, even though under sixty. If they continue to smoke opium, substitutes are to carry on their duties till they are cured. Arrangements are to be made for distributing pre- scriptions and medicines calculated to counteract the effects of the drug.
