The foreign residents with whom your correspondent has spoken are uni in their approval of the strong editorial in your issue of the 26th inst. It is just to the point. The present anti-foreign movement is distinctly official, The evidence all points in one direction, The fears of your correspondent, X.Y.%, are tuo well-grounded. Let us not deceive ourselves any longer, It is gad to have our illus sine dispelled, butit is fully to cling to them after they are shown to be illusions. China is not civilised countrys her rulers are barbarous and treacherous the policy which has been agreed upon with respect to foreigners ant their religion in the Yangtze valley given in an incident which has just ecetrred at the yamen of the Shang-yuen Hsien, Last week Chinese colporteurs were itinerating some twenty milan southeast of the city. A bully in the village of nk'iao attempted to stir up the people against them with reports that they were stealing children, One of the colporteurs returned to the city to make known the situation. A couple of yamen runners were at once sent out who brought back the ringleader and the colporteurs. The next dey these unoffending colporteurs were and scolded inashameful way. They were Gnally ordered to abstain from going tu the district in question to preach. The bully was untouched. The missionary in charge put in appearance to remonstrate. He was received with great politeness and told that a full investigation would be made, the guilty parties punished, and a proclamation issued.
The next morning, before any investiga-ion could have been made, a letter came from the Hsien, saying there was no evidence against the accused, and enclosing ove of the stereotyped proclamations which had no reference at all to the trouble. to predict what the outcome will be in the near future, if this policy is to continue. Since the' oficial opposition to the foreigners' residence un the hills has become known, and the fact that they have been compelled to return to the city, there as been a decidedly hostile spirit manifested in sume quarters, Stones ure thrown through the chapel windows during services and other marks of ill-feeling shown. In September between twenty and thirty thousand students will gather here for examination
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