Private advices, says the China Mail, from Pakhoi and Hoihow mention that unwelcome signs of hostility and_disturbance had shown themselves at Lien-chou, the city of which Pakhoi is the port.. What may be the real origin and history of these ebullitions of feeling have yet to be discovered, but their immediate cause appears to be a very simple matter indeed. It is said that one of the few foreigners residing in Pakhoi has a genius for amateur photography, and that he recently made quite an innocent trip from that port to the prefectural city (Lien-chou) for the purpose of taking a few photographs. To the ignorant Lien-chou-ites, encouraged doubtless by the learned and dignitied gentlemen known as the literati or gentry, this unprecedented proceeding became the subject of all sorts of vague and terrible speculations. The final conclusion arrived at was that the suspected and hated foreigner was prospecting for a favourable site for a church—angling, as it were, for another Wu-shih-shan Upon this false basis, the excitement would seem to have been industriously worked up to a dangerous pitch; and the Conguest has brought ur-mut representations from Hoihow and akhhoi concerning the state of feeling at the latter port. It is stated that a sort of society or league had been formed there, to sweep the barbarians from the Coast, and that a certain native "bully" HLMLS. Midge, we may remark, left Hong-the head of this organization, kong for Hoihow and Pakhoi on the evening of the 18th inst., so that the authorities here are evidently fully alive to the gravity of the case. Unless the rowdy element thus brought into prominence in this otherwise quiet district is very prompt in its attack, little need be feared from this exhibition of its existence.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.