rything has been quiet on the Con-cet ion during the week.
Thoro was a rumour current on Monday that the Ningpo-men intended another outbreak, should the French Council disregard the Consul-General's action, and that they would be helped by the Cantonese but it was based on so improbable aeon! gency, and was so unlikely in itself after the display of force which the Inst riot evoked, that we dismiss it with the mere mention. It improbably true only in so far that the Southern Chinese sympathise with their Ningpo confreres in the matt Statements vary as to the light in which the Chinese regard the disturbance of the 3rd inst. Some conier that it has brought matters to a head in a very successful manner, count the few insignificant lives lost in it a trifle, and assert that it was pre-arranged and the ringleaders were in the pay of the Guild. The last statements denied, however, and teems the less likely because some of the Guild Trustees were to have met the Chairman of the French Council on the day following the riot, and were thus in a position to know that their representations. would be reconsidered. And now, seeing the extent to which the naval force in harbour has been augmented, and the large contingent of Chinese soldiers who sera to be installed as a permanent guard at the Joss-house, there can be little apprehension that the people will be ill-advised enough to again risk an outbreak.
In the meantime, the Guild have run up a fence to define their boundaries, in pursurance of the suggestions contained in the proclamations by the Consul-General and the Taotai, We have heard the proable claims for damages by the disturbance estimated at various sums, from Tls. 150,000 up to Tls. 250,000! There is no doubt, however, that the sum total will be large, awolled as it will be by indirect claims on account of depreciation of property through the withdrawal of tenants.
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