The China Mail of the 11th instant, to hand on Saturday by the Yehsin, contains few further particulars of the Riot at anton on the 10th instant 'A gentleman who lived, with his family, Folly" or Hoi Chu, out of the the frst intimation about one o'clock yen! afternoon, and narrated what had happened during the morning. This gentleman, along with Captain Calder, at once took steps to vacate the short time comparatively vex to the Honam. hia teen foreign houses in jen burned, and the following effect yesterday morning, a Chinese you! 19 years of age, named Afung, ani ployed os aru carding ho which has branch on board the Hankow wore to proceed to Hongkong. Ho boarded from the side facing the n rd, the watchman ly,' and at the same the Chinaman a kick which. body was recovered and the Chin quainted with the fact. an informal inquest on the yo and, on finding that he had a wound on his breast, demanded Captain Ogston to Gaptain Ogston refused; and thereupon' ive up the man who kicked deceased: the rowdies, who were assembled in groat force, supported the Magistrate's demand, and said if the watchman was not surrendered, they would set the ship on fire: They endeavoured to carry out. their threat but failed. 'They, ho et fire the of the agents of the Hankotw, and learned that Messrs, Russell & Ca. was it atops towards the Shameen,' with the intention of attacking Russell Co.'s house. Oning to the confusion, th wore not able to pick out Russell & 0: premises from the others, and so to mak sure they attacked the first house. they came to, Latterly they reached the premises of the American firm; but just as i reading the kerosine troops arrived and' caught the bolder rioters."
'Another Chinese account says four Chi-neve were pushed into the water, and the coolies employed of the wharf recollecting' that: the same watchman who had' pushe these men into the water had kicked a mat to death before, that the Chinese Magic:. trate would not interfere and that the lat: shooting case was still unsettled, they became so infuriated that they took sum-rabble was armed with bamboos, iron bare, mary vengeance on the foreigners.' 'The'
swords-and other weapons,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.