Native business is at a standstill, and in the anxiety of flight and fear of thieves shops are all closed. Gates along th streets are being repaired and put up in order to barricade thoroughfares in case of disturbance. Walking through the streets this morning I found fewer shops open than on the first morning of the Chinese year. The people were exceptionally well disposed and not an unfriendly word was uttered anywhere. But they are in mortal fear of the Japanese shells from the one jo and the looting by their own rowdies from the other. A great deal of thieving has already been carried on; and, sad tu say, stories are coming in of people drown-ad and lives lost in other ways among those who are fleeing.
SAILORS ON shone.
The Japanese sailors are more than ever evidence on the streets they guard, but the guns have been taken down from the Hill, which commanded the city.
HAS. Isis arrived here yesterday morning, and this afternoon she lands sixty marines on the British Concession where the foreign hongs are. Russian, French, American, and German men-of-war are all expected.
Steamers for Singapore, Hongkong, and Shanghai are leaving crowded with Chinese Passengers.
30th August,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.