from September 1853 till February 1855, had no connection with the Taiping rebels, Tt was an intolerable mischief, like many local occurrences of the kind' in China. The only pleasant remembrance that the sperker had of the matter was the generous efforts, made under the hand of Dr. Lockhart, for the relief of the starving poor in the City. An amusing incident occurred when the Imperialist General heard that Dr. Medhurst was in the habit of going into the City to preach. as he thought, to exhort the rebels to become good. He said: "If he will come into my camp, I will supply him with a congregation of the worst characters possible, that he need not go into the City for the purpose."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.