4 arn 26th May. Pyar the rioting on: the Yangtze should have spread to Nanking, the seat of the Viceroy of the Two. Kiang, who. tele-_gtaphed only.a week ago to the German Kating Consul-General here. that he would certainly not allow ignorant persons to raise disturbances, shows, how' determined, the. Ko; lao, Hui is... The only news.so far received. is in.a telegram sent yesterday afternoon to the! U.S. Consul-General, " Riot and Pillage commenced at Nanking," but we learn that-.the Rev. J.C. Ferguson of Nanking telegraphed to this yesterday, niorning that he was sending' his wife, down to Shanghai, as he was apprehensive, of some disturbance... Later in the day other! telegrams were received annoutting the departure for Shanghai of other. Nanking missionaries. Tele-rains.were sent yesterday afternoon' to Yanking asking for particulars, but no reply was received, as far as we could learn, but the occurrence in a couple of weeks: of outbreaks at Yangchow, Nanking, Wuba, and Ngankin, as well, as will be: seen by reference to our Notes from Native Papers this morning, as-at Hochow, shows that' it is a concerted movement...As H.M, S. Porpoise is now on her way up the river, every port will have its gunboat again, except Hankow, and as the Foreign Ministers at Pekin; are to meet this week to take concerto action we hope that their eyes will be opened, and they will make the home overpments see the absurdity of trusting foreign life and property here to Chinese protection. 2
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