After going the usual round these documents have now arrived at Ichang again, from Peki Two of them, viz., those of the Rev, Mir. Dean and Dr. Pirie are t8 be Rev. paid in fil bat the Re. fs. Cockbu has-been reduced—it is said by the British Minister at the capital—by fifteen per cent.; a reduction that the latter gentleman refuses to assent to, and will only accept the amount tendered as part payment, leaving the remainder open for further consideration. On the face of it this course poems both reasonable and desirable, if the claim he preferred was a moderate one, for compromising such a matter, by however small a reduction, is both morally wrong and admitting @ principle that is fraught with danger for foreigners generally who may have their property destroyed by lawces mobs in future.
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