to his superior the Fu, and pointed to a sentence in it which said nothing of the sort. This despatch led to a vigorous conversation between him and us, during which our writer was able quietly to copy it with Jead pencil. Tt stated that the Swedish missionaries had come to live at Sungpu and vented a house, but the people of the neighbourhood did not want them, and sted placards threatening serious trouble if they remained there. "He had therefore several times requested the Taotai to get them withdrawn by their Consul, but these missionaries would not obey the Consul's commands. Instead of going away the missionary Mr. Mei sent and brought another, Mr. Yoh, and continued to live on as before. At this time there was a large religious festival due which was according ancient custom and impossible to stop, so he sent to request them to remove to the city, where he had a hundred plans for taking care of them; but these missionaries were still obstinate. Again, he tried to have them removed by the Consul, but they would not listen to advice; 80 on the 1dth (27th ult.) he ordered all the civil and military officials, the gentry and police, to carefully protect them, and fortimately the hist days of the feast all was kept quiet. Tt chanced that on the 17th (30th June), in the south of his district a man had killed his father, and another man's daughter had hanged herself, so he had to be unavoidably absent there with the instruments of justice, when he was informed that on the afternoon of the 17th the foreigners had seized and bound in their house four men, of the place (names given), so about 8 o'clock on the evening of the 18th the country folks came and beat the two missionaries to death, At the same time there happened to be a fire at the forvigner's house, he did not know how caused, and two' houses had been burned down, but not the foreigner's house. Onthe 20th (8rd July), he had personally yone down to the place and inspected the bodies of the two missionaries which were entirely covered with heavy wounds, so he ordered them to be coffined and told the policeman to look after them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.