In a recent issue we announced the temporary suspension of operations in connection with the projected line of telegraph to Amoy. We are informed that the Great Northern Telegraph Company were induced to believe that by suspending the work for" short period they might, by direct negotiations with the Chinese Authori arrive at an under-bby means of which the terms originally agreed upon might be carried out in the full of the original concession. It was also Hoped that the native ofciats might, by culm argument, be convinced of the folly and tility of interfering either directly or indirectly with the Company's property. In oriler to facilitate matter Chief Manager of the Company in Mr. Dreyer, assisted by the Company's Engineer in Chief, Captain "Hoskier, and introduced by the United States Consul, held several interviews with the Fantai, the Taotai—Pan—who is notoriously anti-foreign, and the Commissioners of the Foreign Board of Trade. The only result of these intervi that, the Fantai—admitting ness of the Company's position—proposed to jasue instructions to the officials on the route, to protect the line, and he also offered to appoint deputies who should accompany Captain Hoskier overland to Amoy. Th propositions would have been reasonable enough had not the Fantai adroitly attempted to tack on another condition, viz.: that, the Company should can ial despatch to be sent from the D: Into, to. the effect that in the event of any trouble arising—through the turbulence of the people—the Chinese Authorities should not be held obvious reasons—rejected by the Compan} It would have been in the highest degree injudicious, if not absurd, to have consented for one moment to an arrangement by which the Chinere officials—ever watchful and intriguing—could disclaim all responsibility for the unlawful acts of their own people. We have seen the facility with which the wir were pulled at the time of the Tientsin massacre, by ruffiavly and cowardly man-daring. We all know how the supposed popular feeling against foreign life and property is stirred up, not by the people, but by their natural enemies—th ed literati; and knowing this, can we wonder that the Great Northern Telegraph Company decline to put their sole trust in the proteased good faith of the Provincial Government.
Four days after the final interview bet the Mandarins and the Company's representatives, Pan—Taotai—wrote to the latter, peremptorily ordering the removal of that wise threatening to pull it down, This very portion of the line already constructed, other-communication from Pan furnishes us with the key to the entire Mandarin policy. Itis pretty evident that they were not sincere in their professed desire to carry out their engagements with the Company, and that in the meantime they are seeking by threats and intrigue to jeopardize the entire undertaking, in defiance ofall reengnized principle of political honesty and good faith, The Company, conscious of the soundness of its position, is not to be deterred from prosecuting the work, either by intimidation or deception, and we are gla to learn that the line is to be pushed forward
es ed Jong this important enterprise will some an with increased vigour. Let cat oot ere
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