gives us a couple of interesting despatches, from the first of which, page 44, we learn that a certain gentlemen called Kung the cat—more commonly Kung three cats—who was accused of being a leader in the affair, had seized by the Macheng fisicn's rani 4 mountain hamlet, but some of his friends had come and effected a rescue, so the Judge exhorts them to use diligence in gutting hoid of him again, As we know from other sources that this man was one of Li Kia-chung's professionals, we would have been glad had the Judge's advice been followed out, but it was not. Next, on page 00, he given us a petition which Mrs ssu, the wife of one of the three condemned Bind. She tells us that ho had certainly risyners, presented on behalf of her hus-
nothing to do with the riot against the foreigner for they lived at a distance of over ten li from Hokiapu, at the other side of a big river. On the fatal 18th, her husband was at home with his friends, as all the People in the village can Heir witness moreover, in pursuit of his business as a pedlar he was often at Hankow, Shasze, and other places, seeing foreigners constant ly, and why should he go tramping off to see them again, to say nothing of turning a murderer, especially as he was not one of those who were stupidly ignorant of the affairs of Wusueh and Toe Mrs. Hsu's account of her efforts to get her husband bailed out at Macheng; of the distress and. sickness of his old father; of the poverty and helplessness of the family; and of her journey to Huangchow, ete., where she wept and cried but Heaven would not hear; is all very touching; as is also the fact that it undertaken, petition and all, entirely in vain. Little Mr. Hsu, the dlar's name, still stands second on the list of the condemned three, for Li Taotai and Ca., had to provide a certain number of native heads, in case it became necessary have them,' to peddle off against the lives taken at Sungpu, and his would help to fill a basket as well as another's,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.