last, instruction arrived here from the Admiralty to take steps to assist in putting a stop to the irades and outrages on the rivers in kwangtung, and on the 29th ultimo the Fore for Canton to assist in. patrolling the gunboat Tiveed and torpedo boat No, 36 left
West River. These ure all the boats that can at present be employed in this service, but no doubt more will be sent out for the purpose, as it would seem the Chinese Government are quite unable to patrol their own rivers or preserve order in their Some sort of attempt to deal with the authors of the Taiping outrage has been made, for on the 25th ultimo, seven men said to have been concerned in the murder by the Sanitary Board to make a personal of the Portuguese master and the looting of will take until the Taiping, were carried from the Namboi 1 Punyu prisons to the execution ground on and there decapitated. "These men were convicted on their own confession, which of course was extorted in the usual way. Seapegoats hud to he found to satisfy the foreigners, and there are always plenty n the Canton gaols. It is to be hoped that! these wretches were the real criminals, and not made to suffer vicariously.
Hongkong, 2nd September.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.