Already the golden age introduced by the arrival of the commissioners is passing away. A golden age 1s not expected to last long, especially when the vein of gold is superti "Nobody is: going to be banished," says the artless: Chinaman, as gazes over the way: where the new Dutldings are going up. Nobody is going to be punished, we will have another tarn at the wheel after atime. A few officials were degraded but they are going to have their authority restored, did not the commissioners as much as say sot"—"'Are going," says another; have you not heard that they have already had thole buttons restored to them and are only waiting for a vacant office Thus they are beginning to talk. Every concession to the guilty parties in the late riots is more proof to the Chinese mind that the foreigners are what they have been represented to be, and that the present tion of the officials in recognising them Ca; is the result of fear rather than of love. We are now entering the silver period under full sail—and already we can hear a good deal of barking. Will they again bite?
30th March.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.