will have honed that some Aanamite soldiers, forming part of the retinue of M. Bonin, were robbed between this town and Buifu.' The Brigadier General of this place has reported the capture of five of the robbers, and the recovery of some of the loot. "The passing of these soldiers through this province caused uy "mount of talk. The Ohinese say there were disturbances at nearly every stopping-place.
In this town several restaurants shut up. shop from fear of trouble. 'The robbed soldiers, with true Oriental sagacity, reported to the authorities that the value of their losses was "more than tex thousand taels." The city magistrate told me this sod' alo that the cub-prefect of Takuan in whose territory the robbery was committed is very much alarmed about the affair.
DISTRUBT OF FOREIGNERS, There is a genera} distrust of foreigners all about. The rumours of the division of China among the'Powers have taken deep root here. A translation from x French widely copied and hes Been the cause of proposing the partition has been
much unrest,
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