To the Editor of the Sm,—I was much amused at the reasons iven by Mr. Clv'ih for not replying to my last letter.
Those reasons might hi satisfied his own mind; but I am the impression that several of your fair and candid readers" suppose, and still suppose, that Mr. Ol'ih was shut up," and therefore did not reply.
Bo this as it may, Ihave hidden farewell to Mr. Ch'th}'and no good would result from a renewal of our argumentation; especially since in his latest utterance there is such a remarkable devel ment of western warmth, and western of thought. Neither have I'anything to do with the views of the Hankow ' Liberal," nor of Mr. Sen, nor yet with those of the renegade Mr. Abbott, on the missionary question, or on Christianity in general. wish to' recall your readers' attention to the issue raised by Mr. Ol'ih in his first letter some tnonths ago, a point from which some of your dorrespondeits, and notably the Hankow "Liberal, " have wandered very far indeed.
Mr. Ch'ih made a definite premise in the name of the Chinese Government—somewhat a presumptuous act, by-the-bye, on the part of this "native," as the Hankow "Liberal" rather irreverently styles Mr. Ch'th. A promise he gave that for payment of this he had given a third Christian Missionaries might go anywhere person an order on the defendant. He had and do anything if only they abandon Balance of $14 unpaid. aid on that order $186, leaving a their reliance on Treaty' stipulations; a promise which no doubt Mr. Ch'ih would Defendant said that the balance was paid be willing to extend to Merchants, on last night. When he gave up printing the Courier at the plaintiff's office, he left in his similar conditions. hands 197 pounds of Long Primer type, and Now, as to the value of such promises, this it was arranged should be distributed in and as to the character of Chinese volun-his new office. There was some difficulty tary toleration, we have some information about cases for it, and when that was over-which is not without significance. Thurs-come, it was found that that type had gone day last, Aug. 6, was the birthday of the into the mass of Mr. Loureiro's type, the God of Thunder, a day on which in former plaintiff and Mr. Loureiro being now conuecyears the Taoist temples have been crowded ted. Afterwards a portion of this type was Mth worshippers. "This year, quite unex-sent to him, but there was still a deficiency pectedly, proclamations were issued by of about 46 pounds. The detention of that the chief Magistrates of Ningpo forbidding resort to the temples on that day, and Sueea had not been delivered, quantity was the reason why the articles pro-His Honour said that did not arise in the threatening fine and imprisonment against question of account, and could not now be gone all who disobeyed this order—in the case of into, It might be raised in the next action or women, the punishment was to be visited be subject for a cross summons, He would on their husbands. Now Taoism is purely now go into the first action. a native religion, not foreign, like The Plaintiff was then sworn, and said—1 Buddhism, which last has frequently been am a printer, and in March last sold to the persecuted in the past. And if this native defendant 23 brass column rules, and eight or creed is liable to persecution and repres-nine type newspaper headings, No agree-sion at the caprice of any thoronghment was made as tothe price to be paid going Confucian local Mandarin, what for them. About the middle of June, I sent imaginable guarantee would Christian: in my Dill, and made the charges now sued for, "I sent in another bill for other goods professing a so-called foreign creed, have, on the 31st July. This bill included the balas to their safety for two days together, ance due on June Ist. Defendant never were the Government and trates of objected to the prices. 'He had paid three China set free from all Treaty obligations sums on account, after the receipt of the first to be tolerant? It is perfectly true that of the second bill, I have geon nothing of bill, but has paid' nothing since the delivery
Taoist superstition, Fung-shuy, is styled the profession of one phase in the leading letter the defendant said he had sent to me, a capital crime in the Sacred Edict. "But objecting to the prices. Chinamen can make in the same chapter, Roman Catholic the brass rules, I consider a dollar a piece a Christianity also is denounced as a false fair charge for them. I had these rules made and pernicious religion, by a Chinaman, but I do not know what I T do not touch upon the general ques paid him for making them. The headings are tim as to its being better in the long run charged defendant $3 for each line and the imply lines of type. There are 9 lines, and for Christianity to stand without the prop brass rule to go under it. I consider $14 is of Treaty rights, I merely point out the 1 fair price for each type case. entire uselessness of Mr. 's liberal By defendant—I do not remember telling promises.
Mr. Bachelor, your foreman, that the brass Yours faithfully, rules Thad made by a Chinaman cost 150 cash each. I did not count 23 of them myself. 1 do not know the cost, at home, of the type for the headings, nor what it can be imported for.
Kaw Beports, Defendant, sworn, said—I got the firat bill on the 22nd June, but made no objection to the amount charged for the column rules and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.