(From the Foochow Bobo of 21st May.)
Phe Comercio of Manila of the Sth instant says that 6,730 lottery tickets for May were returned to the chief office of the lottery and that in this lot was the happy number 6,344, which won $50,000.
The much talked-of temple to be erected at the Arsenal in memory of its promoters, Shen Pav-chen and Tso Teung-tang, Degun, We understand that it w enormous building.
Several Manchu ten buyers have arrived to make their annual purchases for the use of the Imperial household and_ the oficinls of Peking. Money is scyt down in advance und entrusted (0 a mail whose biond quarters uro in Sinchunckye. A rent variety of tens is taken, all of the finest quality, of course; and all specially prepared, 'A ten that corresponds to Pou-chang. is most hugely taken, snd amongst other kinds Flowery Pekoe and Green tea, Price being no object, fabulous figures are paid for the choicest quality, rauning up, in the different districts, are much sought after; as, naturally, there is a good profit attaching to the business.
We wie informed that 'a couple of benevolent persons, aa they style themselves, are going about the different tea, distri exhorting the planters to pluck up'their ten plants and grow sweet potatoes or any other crops they may choose, as the per-sent low prices ud unprofitableness of growing ten area clear proof that the money got from the Ireang-yang or foreign devil is bad fungvui and the sooner tea growing is put n stop to the better. Before foreigners came to the port they lived in happiness.and contentment; they had nude money since, but it had been lost again, showing that the curse of livaven rested om money made out of the trade, They should be warned in time before matters get worse; by doing away with the ten, they would have a happy future to look forward to, Such is the preach these gid people. They were in the Pukling district.
The time is certainly well chosen by these men, whoever they may be, to recommend their countrymen to abandon tea growing. Everything is going in favour of their being Tistened to. We shia!l not be far wrong if we put them down to be emissaries of the Kiterati, and we think all who read the foregoing will be of the same opinion, The two ladies from Chingho are safe with their friends at Lamyakow, and Dr.-Rigg is going about his work as usual.
Through the immediate and energetic steps taken by H.B.M. Consul, danger to the mission at Lamyskow was averted, font was through his prompting that orders were at once sent up country to afford every protection to missionaries, and the authorities at Taichow (Kienning), doubt-Jess knowing that an enquiry would be made into the circumstances of the riot, at once set about repairing the damage done to the Dispensary.
The gentleman who furnished us with particulars for the account of the troubles, fixes the root of them on the heads of the literati at the respective places, Chingho and Kienning, and if this can be proved they will, no doubt, be punished in due course, or at least reprimanded. It is stated that the mandarins connived at the rioting, but we think this highly improbable. The Tartar General, who at present also fills the post of Governor General, is not a man to be with, and however difficalt he ma it to deal with independent men high in the ranks of the literati, he would not think twice about dismissing officials holding Being parties to rioting of any kind; much is under him if he suspected them of
more 0, if the rioting were likely to lead getting into trouble with a foreign This ebullition of anti-missionary feeling in no way connected with any organised attacks upon missionaries that have taken place in the Yangtze valley; they were solely the result of over-zerlousness on the part of young missionaries who thought that missionary work was not making the rapid progress they would like it to make.
Happily H. B. M. Consul's appeal to the authorities to repress disorder was promptly attended to; for, had not such been the ease, the hot and misdirected zeal of these young missionaries might have ended in the destruction of the flourishing mission station at Lamyakow, as well as of that at Kuchéug.
(From the Foochowo Echo of 28th May.)
H.M.S. Linnet arrived here on the 26th instant, and will leave for the North on the 30th instant.
We understand that Opium is to be extensively planted in many suitable places in this province; several retired officials are esting money in the undertaking, We hear that a teaman having obtained the loan of a couple of thousand dollars went up to one of the Tea districts with them, taking four other men in his company. That was some twenty days ago WW, and nothing has since been heard of him: It is feared that, either he has been murdered by the four men he took with him, or that the whole company has fallen into the hands of highway bers. While waiting for the mystery to be cleared up, we fear the prospect of the Advancer ever seeing his dollars again is The authorities are adopting stringent measures to stop in toto the use of kerosene il in the city, spies being set on the watch, ight and day, to catch buyers and sellers, Several of the unfortunate dealers have already fallen into the traps of these runners and are paying dearly for their disobedience. Fear of fire is the ostensible reason for the suppression of the use of this oil; but, it is pretty generally known, that the real reason is, to help the trade in k tea and other vegetable oils.
Archdeacon Wolfe, in a letter we publish from him to-day, characterises our remarks of Inst week on the Taichow riot as cruel and uncalled for. The words surprise us. Our regard for Missionaries is so great that, a rule, we should prefer to keep. silence on occasions of our hearing of any short= comings on their part rather than repost them in print; but here, in this case, when an indiscretion threatens to embroil us with the Chinese, our readers demand that we should take notice of it. That our remarks appeared to be cruel isa matter of great regret tous, It is not true," the Arch-denton writes, "that Dr. Rigg's occupa. tion of the Taichow village as a medical outstation was strongly opposed by the older members of the mission. On the contrary it was opened and superintended by him with theirfulland cordial approval." Quite so, this, closely agrees with what we ourselves had heard, What they opposed, as we understood it, was his superintendence in proprie persond. Then Archdeacon Wolfe takes exception to outstatement, that: of course Dr. Rigg brought it upon himself," arguing that aman aust not be blamed for justly endeavouring to save his friends or property, though he gets beaten or killed in the endeavour, "Well, we imagine he would be blamed or not, according to the risk he knew he had' to run, Archdeacon elf, in Dr, Rigg's defence, states that he went into Taishow to see a magistrate on some business, and that he remained in the house the whole tite. His remaining in the house the whole time shows that he had something to dread. He knew he had something to dread; and although he did not know the day on which it was planned to attack his hospital, he must have known how averse some of the leading men in the city were to the extension of is premises, Chuo Chie-put amonget them, and that, sooner or later, there would ho trouble particularly as\ he insisted on carrying on his plans for the extension. Although we knew a: great deal more, we aid as little as we possibly could in blame of Dr. Rigg last week, but of this little advantage is taken to remark that we were probably defeating the ends justice end. doing inoalodlable arm interests of foreigners venerally We must leave others to judge The instigators of the riot will
and we hope to hear of Chol Chie-poi being be brought to book as speedily +8 possible, severely punished, His government has signed a treaty and he must abide by it, or take the consequences. Nevertheless human nature is human nature, and allowances must be made fur the strong bias the Chinese have in favour of their own religion. The majority of missionaries use that tact and discretion which are necessary to the attainment of our objects in every walk in life, whatever they may be. Dr. Rigg, through over-zeal in the good work in which he is engaged, lacked this discretion in the present instance, and this is all we wished to point out last week.
Dr. Rigy's benevolence and Christ-like work are tov well known here to have needed mention by Archdeacon Wolfe in his letter, and yet we are too glad to hear of his successes in and about 'Taichow, and all who know anything about him' will desire that he may go on and prosper.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.