Our interference on behalf of our friends in Huangchow gaol did them very utile good. They were no sooner in possession of the clothing which we gave them than their supply of rice, meagre though it was, wae stopped. As the stomach is more importunate than the back, the clothes iliad to go to the pawnshop, and now have been nearly all eaten, Probably once they are reduced to their iginal state of nakedness they will get a little rice again. We have just had an interesting message from Vu Taotai. It is to the effect that he is going down to Huangehiw to-night in connection with the case, and he would take it asa great favour if we would promise not to come there for the present, as there are lots of students and bad people about who might beat us if we went to Huangchow just now! It is very kind of him to give us the hint, and we consider it not unlikely that they would find some bad people to best us should we putin xnuther appearance at that city in the meantime, 18th November,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.