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Per str. Peking, from Hankow—Mr. and Mrs, Hawtroy, and Messrs. J. R. Reddie, and E. Boomer. From Chinkiaog—Mr. B. M, 6 David.
Per M. B, str. Hiroshima Maru, from Japan <The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Brandston, Mrs. Nelson and three children, Lillian Howard, Rev. W. Lambuth, Messrs. E. Low, W. J. Bryuer, Tuck'Sing, Reddish, was not very clearly understood, ost autumn, what were the guarantees which the British Minister had considered essential before allowing Mr.
Grosvenor to proceed to Yiianan. The correspondence just published explains this, by explaining the sense in which the term was employed. What Sir Thomas Wade wanted, was guarantees of the Chinese Government's good faith, of its intention that the enquiry should be a real one, and that it was earnest in ils promises of dealing thoroughly with the authors of the crime, From this point of view, the negotiations are divisible into two parts, When the nows of the outrage first arrived, Mr. Wade submitted three demands 1°—An undertaking that no one, whether official or private person, who might be charged either with directing or promoting the attack," be put on his trial before the arrival of the British officers who might be sent to assist at the investigation; and that passports be forwarded to the Legation, for such officers to proceed to Momein, 2°—A passport to enable a second expedition from India to enter Yunnan by the same route as that taken by the one just repressed. 3°—That Tis.
150,000 be placed in the British Minister's hands, to be applied either whole or in part as the British Govern. ment might think fit. We will not
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