Since the date, of my last letter of the '28rd inst,,"there has" been' a good deal of speculation as to what the' British Government will demand by way-of reparaion for the late outrages in this peyrinea, true. no -Jives were. tort, that, 18' lives, though, excepting: in. case of Mr..and Mrs. Phillips and Miss Benrs,.: no credit. is due to, the Chinese authorities that it was so. The ladies who escaped from the city of Kienning. received Christian converts were entitled to protect protection, nor did Dr, Rigg: Then the by. Treaty, but they received none and wer allowed to. be barbarously; killed. The fact __was the local authorities had neither moral nor material, power at and to suppress. the action of the mob, as.they.should have had, The matier ought not to. be lightly. passed over, The Church. Missionary Society, will not: press for redress, but the Britisl, public will not be content until the perpetrators of ithe outrage. have been puni vincial government. called., to, accou arantees taken that our Treaty rights witl respected in the future.
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