Amidst all this petty war and rumour of war, it is pleasant to chronicle a cere-many of peace. Scott, the wife of Bishop Scott, laid the memorial stone of 'AMI Saints' Church on Monday last, in Tientsin. It was a simple, cheerful and inspiriting little function, well and gracefully done.
Friday, 8th June.
£50,000 will, it is thought, cover the actual' damage done, so far, to the railway plant and buildings.
General Tang Fu-hsiang, one of Jung Lu's coadjutors, mentioned in the precious edict of Wednesday last, is the man who put down the Mchommedans in Kan-nu last year. He is himself said to be a Mahowmedan, and is very strongly suspected of Boxer sympathies—no doubt a of *similia siinilibus curantur." is strongly anti-foreign, moreorer.
The said edict but confirms that which before was siceer,' namely, that, the Gorernment is still wobbling, and is entire unwilling to deal with the emergency Inability has nothing to-do with it 70,000 fairly armed, well-drilled men of all arms, unable to put down tio on three thousand chay-bacons, armed with spears and sickles, and finding all their potency in mystical humbug! ~The idea is pre pesterous.
Tinport trade has ceased and export trade is almost at vanishing point, being confined to stocks already ready for shipment, Passenger traffic outward is very active.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.