It is natural that a spirit of depression should hover over our foreign community on account of the great loss of British officers and soldiers in South Africa, with so little, comparatively, to show for it, and owing to the conviction that many more brave men must fall before the end is reached. The particulars of the death of General Lawton in the Philippines, and the news of the death of D, L. Moody—" the greatest evangelist since John Wesley "—together with the British reverses, just alluded to, have caused a general feeling of regret and sympathy on the part of the Americans at this port, re THE EMPEROR KUANG-Hsii, Recently your correspondent returned from a visit to Futsiughsien, some sixty miles south-east of Foochow. As I wrote you a year or 60 ago, the people of that region are extremely independent, yet ye pronounced in their loyalty to Kuang Hei, their legitimate Emperor, and restive under the usurprtions of the Empress Dowager. During my recent visit I noticed a strangely rullen demeanour on the part of the people in Futsing city, and in other places. They seemed to act a8 if they thought that foreigners were at the bottom of the recent Some, however, asked with evidently suppressed feelings: "Do you think the Emperor is dead?" and "Do you think he will be killed?"
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