Fortunately no attack was made on the foreign community, though it was seriously mooted during the attack on the Opium Depét. Better counsels prevailed, "the foreigners are powerful and would not stand it." Threatening language was heard in the streets, and as we might at any moment be at the mercy of a mob it was deemed advisable to yet as many of the Indies to the Tsland as would go, the men returning to their respective posts of duty.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.