Some of your readers may recollect the storm of hostility which burst over the Roman Catholics in certain adjacent cities some six years ago. Full accounts of the harrying were in your columns at the time. The persecution seemed to be organised by one named Yii Man-tze. The said Yii it appears was captured not quite ten days ago by treachery at the city of Yuenchanghsien, and it was the intention of the authorities to make him suffer for his sins. He was incarcerated in the strong prison, and the people chiefly interested were hoping that his career of crime had finally closed. Alas, however, for the weakness of Chinese law and the feebleness of the Executive! When it became generally. known that the man had been arrested, the villagers arose almost to a man, and, climbing over the city walls by means of ropes and ladders, the yamen was surrounded, and the living body of peremptorily demanded.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.