It is reported from Takow that the Taotai implicated in the recent outrage on an 'American hong has been making frantic efforts, through the indispensable go-betweens, to get the foreigners' cunpradure to admit that he was in the wrong, but, of course, nothing came of the attempt. Just after the trouble began it was announced that the Iand-line was interrupted between Takow and Tuipch Fu, the object being to stop comumication with the mainland, Ie leaked out, however, that there wns constant telegraphing going on between the Tastai and the Governor, sv the next step taken was to announce thut the cable between Tamsui and Foochow was broken and no notice was given of ite repair, even after the Chinese ts declared that they had been receiving messages from th nixiuland, Hongkong and Japan, Residents ut Tukow fear that communication would be impeded in the same way if there were any trouble ut the port; and this acceutuates the neglect of the naval authorities, who leave the island unvisited by men-of-war for years, It is over two years since there waa a gunboat at Takow Perhaps now that there is a new Admiral on the station, more attention will be paid to this apparently forgotten seat of what should be a flourishing trade. Sir Thomas Wade tells us that he put difficulties in the way of the opening of Chungking, because he disliked foreigners settling at a port that waa inaooeseible to euetot-war. Hoty ins Kong. where thers are always: gonbunts port within two days' easy steam of Hong-
getting mouldy at their anchors, and yet the Admiral dues not see his way to sending one over occasionally to see how the foreign residents are getting o1 really be done to afford them protection doubtless all return to the way out of the difficulty would be to dismiss the Cantonese on the spot but asthe directors all hail from the Kuangtung province they are veryaverse to thus summarily ridding themselves of their countrymen. There is no reason whatever why they should be retained as they only breed disturbances and the northern men are quite competent to clu all the work. It is simply another instance of Chinese clannishness, because man has a good thing, all his relations, friends and fellow provincials must have their share too.
The grain junks which are beginning to complied with, they left the works ina body on Sunday the 12th and came to Tientain, where they reported themselves to the British Consul and claimed his protection and assistances. The Consul informed the men_on Monday that he had already seen orders to artest the ringleaders and. bri the Viceroy, who had sent up peremptory them down to Tientsin. Ho also informed them that the Engineer-in-chief would be in Tientsin the following day and. advised them to be ready to return with him to the works on Wednesday. Mr. Kinder did not turn up, however, and it was not till the 16th that they received x telegram from the works stating that the five ringleaders put in an appearance are crowding the er|had been arrested and sent down to and rendering navigation extremely diffi-Tientsin. The men therefore returned to cult. the works by the first train on Friday the 17th, When they arrived they soon found The Tongshan trouble is likely to end that they had been deceived, for the satisfactorily. The foreigners employed in Cantonese had not been arrested, but the Colliery and Railway waited in a body had been allowed to leave the place on the Directors at Tongshan and asked and we to be on their way to for protection against the Cantonese, which Shang! ime the Colliery hud was granted in a perfunctory and quite been getting on quite well without the useless fashion. They further
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