With but one or two exceptious the Southern charterers have left, saying that they feared any slight commotion in the native town might cause the Russian gunboat to open fire, were there was no ship flying the white ensign present to exercise a calming influence, and declaring positively that with a British gunboat in port they would remain and continue businesses heretofore.
Tu accordance with time-honoured dition, our worthy representative of an or ready government considered that the first shower of rain would cleanse the celestial mind of its temporary anti-foreign mania blot, and we should therefore be all the more thankful that, although unproductive of the desired result, the request for a gunboat was forwarded, even though looked upon as a sign of the exaggerated importance attached to the appearance of certain Boxer" tracts and pluewds,—Tncredulity may be carried too far, and there is not the slightest doubt that the fur-cig residents might have been placed in a very dangerous position had Consuls of other nationalities also been possessed of similar temperaments.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.