It in satisfactory to learn that special precautions had been taken—presumably by the new ofticials—by the city authorities ty prevent the foreigners being interfered with during the recent fest 3 or for prompt assistance tu be rendered i were. This is a step in ti direction, for the Chinese have everything to lose by wot fulfilling treaty obligations; and if their real aim is to rid their country of foreigners, or at least prevent their acquiring further rights and privileges, hey must not give Uhem reasonble excuses to ask for such new right asset-off for their own broken faith. Thi should be apparent to Chinese statesinei as blind even us their great anti-forei high priest Chou Han himself, They admit the foreigner is still the stronger, and yet are foolish enough to pelt a rock with eggs. The Ichang officials are, therefore, on the right tack in endeavouring to afford foreigners that protection their government has contracted to give them. Unhappily however, the permanence of the peace does not entirely rest on the goodwill of the m darins—not too secure a lot of title-deeds, if it did—but rests rather on the shifty foundations of the superstition of the people; which the d ig literati know well how to excite and manipulate, A drunkard three times reformed once inted that he had the advantage of and a priority over his neighbour, who could only claim to have undergone this bene tical metamorphosis once; presumably basing his claim on numbers. Ichang has reformed more than once in her action towards foreigners; will she relapse again, or is she for ever turned from the error of her ways?
ARRIVALS, Our latest arrivals here are Mr. and Mrs. Little from up river, and Mr. and Mrs, Stanley Smith from' down. The latter gentleman gave a very capital address to a meeting of foreigners on Sunday last, at the residence of the Rev. W. Deans and one feels almost instinctively, when listening to such a man, that if China is to receive Christianity this is one of the chief messengers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.