It is, however, high time that a calmer spirit should pervade the atmosphere, otherwise all the soporifics and nervine tonics in the pharmacopeia will be requisitioned, seeing that the report on the 14th inst., to the effect that 2,000 Boxers had passed outside the Russian outposts at fashichiao, and were advancing on the port, guarded, be it understood, by four gunboats and bro torpedo destroyers, was considered sufficiently serious to justify grave apprehensions as to the possibility of holding the Foreign Settlement. The Russimn Settlement has since been practi-ally deserted, the majority of those capable of bearing arms having left for Tashichino, others having come down to the fort.
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