Great relief was felt in the town on Tuesday morning when it became known that Messrs. Rapp and Schmidt had come down from Canton by the steamer Chinkiang, and the painful apprehensions which hnd been ontertained as to their safety were removed. It seems the craft which attacked the boat they were in were cruisers in the service of the Haikwan, and wace four in number, not two as first reported; they were in command of a petty ollicer, and one of them was armed with cannon. they opened ut any previous warning, and ken for pirates. Under this 1 the boat people tried to escape ing the attacking party, but. the upper, who was at the helm, was killed by ashet, and the rigging of the boat being cut by the balls, they ran her ashore. The Chinkiang was passing up the river at the ne, and Messrs. Rapp and Schmidt tried to hail her, but could not succeed in making themselves heard, and as firing between xis people and smugglers is common enough on the river that in itself did attract any particular attention, The two meu who brought the news to Hongkong on Sunday jumped overboard whew the boat grounded and the women nnd children also got ashore, but the two Europeans elected to keep by the boat, It was not until they were boarded that they discovered the official status of their assailants, After this was known the women and children returned on board, It would had been on the ceted of snuggling and hat mistaken this one for the one they were lying la wait for, On finding Kuaropeans on board their manner indicated that they saw they had mate a mistake, and the search they made did not result in the finding of any contraband goods on board, Meeses. Rapp and Schmidt wanted them to go to the Capsingmoon station to have the matter investigated there, but the cruisers declined to do this and took them up to Canton, where they arrived about seven o'clock on Monday morning. Some time clapped before they were taken before the authorities, and in the meantime the ollicer in charge treated the ners allowed no communica aide boats, but beyond the inconvenience this entailed they suffered no ill-treatment.
ley wanted to send a letter down by the Teiany, but could not yet it couveyet on maed, and their friends st this end were thus left in we for another wight, About twelve o'elu taken to the Sale Commissi where they saw several " Onw of hom spoke Fuslish tueusl", [ere they were treated with every respect and courtesy were told there was no compl awaivst them personally, but that thole had attempted to smuggle eight balls of This accusation againat the beat people Messrs Schmidt and Rapp diately and emphatically denied, tas they had engaged the buat only an hour o¢ two before they left Hongkong, and as the people on board did not know beforehand the precise spot to which they were going, as they them-i up their minds all the prob-supposition of they were also required to report themselves at the Customs station they passed, and there was, furthermore, the search made by the Customs peuple,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.