of leaving almost all the leaders unarrested la that they have grown bold, and now de-'Those that have been arrested and discharged are demanding "exemplary dame ages" for unlawful detention, and expect to take it out of the poor Christians who presumptively accused them. The result is such a reign of terror as we have net seen except in the earlier stages of this There is a profound and a universal conviction that the able and accomplished Yi Hsien, under whose kind patrony this rebellion was hatched and nursed, is to return to be the Governor of the province. This we hear everywhere, Never in a long experience was any item of public news so universally diffuse. The mere rumour has made the western part of the whole province a ship on fire with hatches temporarily battened down. When comes they will be raised and the destructive conflagration will have begun. Some of the Christians have been notified by yanénerunners, accompanied by the local constable, that there is to be an impressment of six hundred carts to deport all foreigners at once to the aca-coast. Those who "follow foreigners" are also to be sent amoy and not allowed to live on Chinese roil any more unless they promptly recant, and the district magistrate is represented as demanding an early reply.
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