As described by our correspondents, scene not unlike the massacre of tsin, on a small scale, has been perpetrated lately in the neighbourhood of another treaty port.. We need scarcely say we allude to the pratal treatment of the wives of the two ruffians Li and Chen, and the eventual murder of one of them between Yangchow and Kwachow, on the Imperial Canal. Further particulars strengthen the resomblanco; while an attack made on the same day on three unarmed foreigners, shows how neatly the denouement was being similar. The. whole scene was characteristic of Chinese cunning, and from such a tangled. skein of intrigue and falsehood, it is simply impossible for a foreigner to arrive at a just conclusion. Suifice it to say that it is not without reason, we believe, that Tseng-kwo-fan's unamo lias been mixed up in the transaction, which somewhat curiously seems also to be connected in a mysterious manner with the murder of the Viceroy Ma; it being known that one of the two worthies, Li-chan-sou, came some time ago on a mission to Nanking, to try to obtain for burial the body of the murderer. From what we can learn, after the quarrel between the two meu, Li succeeded in gotting Chen on board his boat, with one of his wives, and it was supposed, carrying him off. For some such oven-triality Chen was not altogether uuprepared; the pension which lo was enjoy ing for past services was more than ample for his support, and what was superfluous was spent in collecting round him a number of disbanded soldiers and rowdies of the worst class. These men, by judicious largess, wore hold ready in case any open attack should be made on his person. Chin, however, was notoriously a drunkard; in one of his fits Li succeeded in gotting him off, and had already carried him, as above described, a considerable portion of the way towards Kwachow. Intimation of this coming to the ears of Chen's nephew, he called out his uncle's followers, who started in pursuit of the boat. A curious contretemps boro occurred. An emissary of Tstng-kwo-fan, when the mob was rising, came on board the boat; pretending friendship to Chan, he said: these people are determined to Kill Li, but as they do not know you personally, and as your wife is here, it is most likely that you yourself will fall in the scufiie. It will be bettor for both to come on board my'boat, and lay your complaints before the Viceroy. "The Viceroy's boat being known to the mob, passod safely through, and took the two up to Nanking. Meanwhile, the Prefect of Yangchow and one at least of the Chihiens came on the spot, but no attempt on their part' was made to stop the riot. The mob finally attacked Li's boat, expecting to find him on board and wreak their vengeance on him; instead, they found that he and Chen had gone away in the Viceroy's boat.
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