To the Editor of the searched for treasure supposed to be buried there. Had not the Hsien arrived at this juncture, probable that other graves would have been served in @ similar way.
'An astonishing part of these proceedings is the cool manner in which everything was torn down and carried away, A large iron' chest supposed to be a safe, tuiring ten or twelve men to carry, quietly carried off in' broad da; leavy beans and planks requi men to carry then were car daylight past the foreign ven large bronze figures nearly life size, supposed tu be intended for the Cathedral in course of erection, were carried past the line of soldiers on geard without any question "being asked, and now stand i an open place not far away from the sce of the riot.
It is said that some at least of the thi and rioters have met with severe punish-the upper story into the burning mass below and were burnt to death.
Some twenty or thirty of those taken in the act are in the hands of the officials and are said to be awaiting the executioner's knife.
The desecration of the graves has caused much excitement among the men on board the French gua-vessel.
Noxru-Cuuwa Dairy News.
Sir,—Since I last wrote we have been somewhat quieter, The Futai the attendant men-of-war Jeff on Thursday morning, and we looked in vain for any further protection until Friday evening when the Inconstant arrived, and a small Chinese gunboat on Saturday.
But the poor Britisher is still looking for the promised Blue Jackets. When will they appear The vigorous action of the foreign residents seems to have been a good lesson and would no doubt effectually quel-Jed the disturbance if it had been followed up by as vigorous a show of authority, and we should have been entirely free from further difficulty. But there is still a very decided anti-foreign feeling.
The proclamation issued by the Taotai instead of soothing ths angry feelings of the people'is calculated rather to irritate and is in fact causing'an uneasy movement among the people. Though the proclamation commands the people to return quietly to their homes under bein of immediate death if caught in any disturbance, yet he tacitly acknowledges that there may have been cause for the up-rising by saying: "If you find that these institutions kidnap or teal children, don't create any disturbance but bring the matter before the proper authorities to be dealt with." 2 It is probably the result of this that there appears this morning a placard, supposed tobe lustied by the Ko'lao Hui, abusing in very. liberal terms the foreigner in Ry Methodist Episcopal Mission, Wahu, 16th Ma:
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