'1th March, Mr, Partridge writes us from Wuchang details of a recent attempt to stir up an anti-foreign riot in that city. As no later news has come to hand by wire, we may presume that it has not been allowed to go farther. Indeed, antiforeign as the new Viceroy Chang Chih-tung is supposed to be, he is not the man to allow a riot to occur in his city, if the news of its probability is once brought to his ears. But it might not be brought to his ears until too late, and then we should have to ask once ain: "Why is there no gunboat at favkow
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