A deep rumour rose yesterday, confirmed to-lay, that the French have revived the infamous Wanté case of two years since. The prefect Kuo (now of Ningpo), the late chéntai of Haimen, his chengtu, and the Muangyen chihsien, are eto bestupped till the huge indemnity is paid. (The first-named was degraded to Ningpo because he executed Wanté.) We trust it is but rumour, but if trae, we cannot but ask, What can our French neighbours be thinking about Surely wiser counsels would have said "Let sleeping dogs lie, Was not their man's head enough 2"
Already they are so disliked in the Huangyen Hsien that their foreign representative dare not leave Haimen to travel in the country without an armed escort. It is not so with other missions,
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