So far as we know, the real ringleaders in none of the riots' have been arrested. They have been systematically shielded, if not by the officials, at least by the local gentry. The indemnity has been paid by the higher authorities and while the fact that it has been paid at_all will have a certain effect upon the mind of the people, yet the local ringleaders can easily represent its being a substan ial victory for them. It looks almost like official indorsement and is placing a premium on a repetition of such scenes of lawlessness fas we witnessed the past winter. We hope yet to be able to secure such local settlenient of our cases as will largely counteract this tendency, but is not at all certain that our efloris will be successful and in any case the fact renviing that the mode of settlement consists in the forced payment of an indemnity by officials who had no immediate responsibility in the outbreak followed by a little smooth talk and the "presentation of face" (largely bogus), i essentially vicious and directly tends' to multiply anti-foreign outbreaks.
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