Tt may be easily imagined that our feelings were somewhat stirred, when we Jearned on his own authority that the magistrate had been deliberately absent on the very, day, publicly intimated for weeks, as thut on which our friends would be killed. That once they were dead he had allowed the bodies to lio rotting in the sun for three days, before troubling hi self to see after them. That he took credit to himself for having preserved the peace through three days of the feast, when the fact was that he did nothing at all. That the mangled remains had been crammed into the miserable shells supplied by the Venevolent halls for derelict beggars, and like these had been handed over to the policeman, although unlike these they might not be buried. That he denied their house had been burned, which it most certainly was. That he had not the slightest idea of making any enquiry as. to who the murderers were, or of punishing anybody connected with this awful atrocity. But the crowning devilry, one heard tell of the Chinese before, was his which far outatrips all the devilries ever representing the men who had been caught and bound by the people of the street, for burning a house too many after they had finished pounding the missionaries till dead, as having been bound by our brethren who therefore had quite naturally been put to death by their friends. The murderers brought forward as the injured victims of the murdered men, because of something which happened after they were dead! It will be hard to find the match of that.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.