18th October.
The Result of the Change of Viceroys.
Everything is qui ud, with the advent of the new yy fom Shansi, the Boxer attempted rebellion appears to have fizzled out; the heavy antum rains ing also done their share in their dis-persian. The old Viceroy, Ku'ei Chun, came down by the river route from Chéngtu and passed through this place on the eighth, on his way to Shanghai and Peking. It is due to his feeble administra tion and yielding to the anti-foreign temper of the Chéngtw officials that the rofiellion was able to make the headway it did. He was likewise a steady opponent of mining enterprise and_was successful in staving off, during his Viceroyalty, all the attempts of Mining Companies, British and French, to commence mining operations in the province, and did his best to hamper the movements of steamers. This persistent policy of obstruction was said to be dictated from Perelative and patron Chun_hin: self being po sonally civil and courteous to the {mi ners that sought audience with him and possessing a manner that charmed all his interviewers, but when it came to business the old gentleman was linflesible, his natural timidity strengthening him in his opposition to changes the possible consequences of which seemed really to appel him. The new Viceroy has a very different reputation and it remains to be leon whether, under his rule, Szechuan will at last awake from her sleep of ages and a serious effort be made to allow of the development of her really exceptional resources.
The Missionary Wa:
Tut if the Boxers are finished for the moment, opportunity for their revival will not be wanting as long as the two antagonistic branches of the Eh ligion stand face to face in each city of the province, carrying on a competiti notoriously docs not, a division of spheres would be made and xo the Catholic and the Protestant converts be kept apart. As things are, the feeling bitter and, although' the European American missionaries themselves ma: with prudence, the same cannot be said of their native followers, who are imbued with an excess of zeal which is ever leading to quarrels with their neighbours. There are numerous Christian communities in the interior entirely governed by native priests, who naturally cannot avoid maki and of their being under foreign protec: tion and so exasperating their pagan follows. At the present moment there is an important city of Nachi, situated on the Yangtze river about 100 miles above this place, in which there has been for wi any decades past a large and flourishing Catholic community; this place has been of late sears actively invaded by the Protestants, who now boast " community of some two thousand converts. The consequence has been constant friction, and well-informed Chinese predict an outbreak in that spot with certainty before the end of the year.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.