'A correspondent informs us that the wave of Missionary trouble which made itself apparent recently in popular agilations in Kiangsu and Chekiang, has tra-yelled down the coast. Difficulties more or less serious have occurred at Chinchow, at Swatow, and in Formosa. That at the city first named, arose through the efforts of the native Christians (aided by the foreign mission at Amoy, (o which they owed church allegiance), to replace a rented building which had been used as a place of worship, by the purchase of a suitable property to be adapted permanently as a chapel. No difficulty was experienced in arranging the sale, nor, it would appear, unto the time when the consent of the authorities to the lrausfer was required, Alarm or antipathy, how-over, then roused the officials, They seized the vendor and middleman, and ap ently regarding the latter as the gull because he had negotiated the tr they informed the Christians that w they abandoned their object, and w ief space yave up the title deeds the native preacher had alrendy ed, the indiscreet bruker should forfeit his head. How such a judice murder could be glossed: over, even in China, it is dificult to understand, and the course of the affair subsequently lends support to the opinion that it was never intended it should actually be perpetrated. The native preacher fell back on his foreign patrons, and these appealed to M. Consul at Amoy to use his influence on behalf of the unhappy Chinchow Christians, who were being ' persecuted" and "interfered" with, not by " popular faction, but by their own officials, in flagrant opposition to Art. VIII. of the Treaty of i The case nature that the Chinese author on, in face of the representations addressed to them, although we are unable to say as yot what may have been the effect of these culars of, except that it was with a body of American was {rifting in ite mature, and Swatow being a treaty port, was settled on the spot.—The Formosa case was an attack made a few weeks ago on the Rev. Win. Campbell, at a station about forty miles north of Taiwan, and at some distance from the coast. Mr.
Campbell pursued his labours among the Pepohuans, a large proportion of whom in this district are ina state of serfdom to the more powerful Chinese colonists, One of the latter class, fearing probably that foreign teaching might induce among the people who were practically some more exalted notions of their as members of the human family, gathered his Chinese followers around him, and made a descent on the little chapel, in which, according to the custom of thei journeyings, Mr. Campbell was passing the night. The chapel was surrounded by mon, a: med with knives, spears, and torches, and the foreigner was invited to come out.
He appeared at the door and spoke to the mob, but was driven back. Shielded by a cotton quilt, he again went out, but was again driven back, while the quilt was gashed in several places by blows aimed him, The mob then flung torches into the building, and Mr. Campbell's position rapidly became untenable, He must have perished in the chapel, or fallen a victim to the mob which closely guarded the only menns of exit, but fortunately bloodthirsty guard had their atten ti momentarily diverted bya ery that the doorway was falling. They ran to the end of the building for safety, and Mr, Campbell unhesitatingly seized the opportunity rush out into the darkness, He found a place of concealment at no great distance, but as the waving of torches in different directions showed that his escape had been again sought safety in elled all night, and in the aruing, destitute, exhausted, and suffering teen received in the attack and during his flight, he made his way tothe nearest yamen, Here he was afforded protection, and was assisted to reach Taiwanfoo, the chapel destroyed was an old structure, but at the same time the materials which had been brought together for building a new one were demolished. It is not improbable that, in all the cases, the active outbursts of latent opposition have followed on some such new display of the vitality of Missionary enterprise, TRE YANG-KING-PANG, The Municipal Reports which we print on another page relate the negotiations that have been going on about that much vexed stream, the Yang-king-pang. The two Councils have age submit the question of encroachment to the arbitration of the Consul-General for Franco and another member of the Cunsular body; and Mr. Godeaux and Mr, Medhurst hare consented to act, 1& will be remembered that the eyereachment took place in 1872, when the French Council bunded out their bank of the Yang-king-pang, several fect, Objection was made from th and an arrange. ment was come to in 1873 to submit the matter to arbitration, in the following form:—'fs the construction of the new Yang-"king-pang bund, between the rue Diss ery and the rue Touranne, under present "circumstances, an obstacle to the uaviga-"tion of the Canal; or does it really "prejudice the interests of the bordering "Jand-owners?" For some reason or other, probably the illness of Mr. Johnston and the consequent changes in the Municipal stall, the matter formed the subject of fresh disou: and the old arrangement has been revived. The English Council suggested that the question whether there had been eneroneliment, was also one for the arbitrators but this point the French Council concede, They raise, on the other hand, another point which is rather surprising. They contend that the assent of the English Council to the order of an iron bridge (to be placed opposite Honan road), of dimensions which are just sufficient for the present width of the two banks, has vitiated the Council's redo and justified the French Council in sidering the actual alignment defn
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