Just now the public mind, or the public purse, which practically amounts to much the same thing, is rather sensitive about missionaries, and their manners and customs. The Abyssinian Income-tax—the actual Swopeuoe and prospective nobody knows how many pence, which after all-must be traced back to a fervent desire on the part of a small knot of sincere, but imprudent, people to improve Abyssinian Christinnity—makes us wince. We all know the duty of sowing the Gospel seed in heathen Jauds, and many of us, think that, so lone as it is sown, the sower and his tools, the times and seasons for sowing, are very immaterial, imdced, to inquire about them at all is often considered to be the sign of the faithless, if not of the scoffer. Still at this moment, like Cowper's tithe-payers, down drop our chins as we bring oat our has, and we mute ter as we review the cost of our Abyssinian sermons A rarer man than you Tu pulpit none shall hear; But yet, methinks, to tell you true, You sell it This nervous and irrita state of the public mind accounts for the interest felt ina debate in the House on Taesila inese des-on British Protestant last August. We another Chinese war, and all to avenge a little popular brace, in which certain persons—nobody s who, but calling themselves missionaries—lost their hooks and furniture and certain female folials, and one of them goto bad black eye. It seems that in ly-mo hie town above mentioned, in the terior of the country, a domestic party of English styling themselves the Chi ye planted themselves. Wh Inland Mission is nainly seems to know. The sionary w them; Lord Shaftesbury speaks of them with contemptuous ignorance. The Toland Missi uokuown to London, and, if wnjecture, it is some offshoot of some small ity existing in one of the Chinese consular cities, which has plated itself; for nobody seems to he responsible fur its origin or existence, The tot a large domestic party—with his wife and four little uble; two single gentle-and nineteen teachers It does not sven that this party did tive in the way of missionary work.
a house under the provisions of the treaty, not popular. As has happened ever ity existed, they were suspected by the cannibals." The old scandal raised tive Christians reappears in Chin: sare suspected of keeping children the purpose of cooking and eating them, scooping ripping up women with child. the es andi gentry of Yangchow disseminated reports; the consequence was a popular lion-house riddled, and the missionaries robbed and ill-treated., No lives were lost, but one ye was reported to be missing, though it seems afterwards to have Leen recovered, not however without, it is said possible permanent injury. This was the result of the riot. Mr. Director ylor imappeals to Consul Medhurst, and as the ame Medhurst familiar to us in councetion with enor surprised that this official favourably a very high hand, rinaldo, ain, with an imposing force, demo sorts of penalties and redress He was determined to assert the treaty rights, determined that the mis-for their wrongs, deter-apology should ba exa Mr. Consul Medhurst was firm, very: ptain of the Minute was, much to his credit, rather lukewarm, "ti Alcock was backed up Mr. Medhurst with the whole force of the Briti: British Captain Heneaxe was despatched by Sir Henry Keppel with the Rodney and three hundred meu, and after seizing a most inuoceat Chinese steamer, private property, the missionaries' demands were of course acceded to. A large sum in the of compensation was paid by the Viceroy, and we are not at war with Chiva. Indeed, we have performed a glorious feat of arms, and achieved a commercial success which runs secaml, if second, only to that which we won op behalf of Dou Pacifico.
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