and the Hunan publications, remarking that troubles should arise between Chinese and foreigners as had recently occurred, was, in the circumstances, hardly to be wondered at. Such was the tendency of what he might call the native character, the training to which it was subjected, and the influences ever playing upon it, The Chinese were a peculiar peuple, full of pride and prejudice, having such high-minded ideas of themselves, their country, their ancient heir wonderful litera: ture, and their superiority to all the nations round about, thst the coming in of for= eigners boasting to be somebody, nnd seeking to upset their long-established order of things in polities, religion, and learning, tended to excite their ire and opposition in the keenest manner, As to the Hunan publications, they were infamous in the extreme, but the lecturer considered only the natural outer depraved hearts and minds, ignor the facts of the case, and embittered by hatred and scorn of the new order of that was evidently creeping in among them, He was satisfied the occurrence was a mere temporary affair, and would soon pass away. He looked' upon it as an outburst of malicious feeling, a piece of diabolic mischief, on the pdt of a few reck-Jess spirits, and to be taken as a proof of the onward march, and growing influence of the truth, which' it was striving in this contemptible manner, yet in vain, to put aside.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.