Your correspondent has been absent from Nanking for about six weeks, but returns now to find everything, seemingly, just as it was left. The energetic care Which was shown before we left has very evidently been kept up during our absence and with one small exception Lhave heard of no disturbance. If, as the Chinese sy, this quiet is only on' the surface, while underneath the disturbance is all but ready to break out, so much more praise is due to those in authority. No one can tell exactly what it is the officials have had to resist, but it is known that the contlitions have ull been conducive to unrest and even to outbreak.
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