10th Feb.
Tr has-been already announced that there is to-be a more serious rising at Canton after the holidays, and we would warn. the.anthorities that the plans of the -revolutionnry Committee include attacks "on foreign property by means of incendiary fires at other ports in the north as well.as in the south of China, whereby the attention: of the Chinese government may be-distracted, and a clearer field may be'left for the operation of the conspirators in Kuangtang. Nhe news of this'has come to-us in a very unexpected: way, but it should not be treated with contempt, and our authorities native and foreign. will do well to be vigilant, The plot is a Cantonese one, and as it is the Chinese government at which the attack is aimed, it is not intended to employ riotous mobs, lest injury should be done to the-persons of foreigners.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.