To the Editor of the Dear Smm,—One cannot but sympathize with the righteous indignation of one of your recent correspondents, who proposes that there shall be a portion of the city of Tientsin razed, as a mark arid punishment of such barbarities as have been perpetrated in a place hitherto associated with amity and goodwill. I would suggest to the French Minister, thathe should require an Imperial edict to be issued, changing the name of the city for ever, thus blotting it, in some sense, out of existence. It is customary for stich to be done in the case of places where parricide, or some very base crime has bent committed.
What so vile as the crime of the citizens of Tientsin, the ford of heaven!" It is reromerons that the scene of such hellish Chinese history would then be forced to leeds should still enjoy its heavenly style.
record an event which is almost unparallel-Jed in the history of recent times.
Yours truly, Hankow, July 10th, 1870.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.