Ae Count A. Cassini, Russian Euyoy and Minister to China,' and Minister G, Lemire of France, who is also delegated to the court of Peking, have exch day read ith interest the news from Shanghai and The atmouncement that the Ministers of the four great powers—Great Britain, France, Russia and the United States—had 4 the. pressure on the Chinese minent for the punishment of the Chinese rioters and the officials who permitted it excited much interest here. When to this was added that the gun-boats of the Powers were already on the Yangtze-Kiang, but that notwithstanding this move ets Were imminent, unless the missionaries left the country, the situation was deemed anything bat reassuring.
There are about forty missionaries here who have arrived from various Ba States on their way to the Orient, completed their vacations, Some of th have been quite anxious, These and M isters Cossmi and Lemaire, with their suites, will sail to-day on the Oceanic.
Minister Leniire arrived several days ago, and Minister Cassini reached here on thursday. Neither was inclined at. firat to say anything. Yesterday, however, they unbosomed themselves. "They say that the dispatches do not properly set forth the situation; that while the war ships of the powers are really on the Yangtze yet they clu not, fear any trouble, Minister Lemaire talked fully and at length about it to a Chronicle reporter. The story that the Chinese hud begun the onslaught on the missionaries for the express purpose of bringing the Tartar dynasty into conflict with the powers was reviewed. He touched briefly and tersely on the Ko-Lao and other secret societ do not understand, the Ko-Lao society hus for its object overturning of the Chinese Government, This is the first time, so far as I know, that the intimation has been made that this was its purpose, and when I saw it I was astonished. If this were actually true it is hardly necessary for me to point out that the foreign powers would be the natural allies of the dynasty. Of course it in a measure sounds xll right to say these secret societies want another dynasty, but who could be put forward at its head? I think therein not now any representative of
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