Your correspondent was in Foochow about a week before sailing for Shanghai on the 22nd of July. Daring that time T saw and heard much to convince me that an unfavourable change had taken place in the spirit and demeanour of the people. In my letter to your valuable puper dated 1th July, T stated that all had continued quiet in Foochow thus far, and that. there was little, if any, reason to apprehend tronble. But. soon after sending you that,
tive city, in some of the suburbs, and in I Tearved that the people in the some of the large towns up the main river, were becoming daily more excited and more threatening in their attitude towards the native Christians and mi ies.
I myself overheard very language uttered by a crowd who passed near my house about midnight—language full of bitter threats against Christians, foreign and native—and others had the name experience.
Nearly every night crowds surged along by the Liangan Hospital for Women and Children, threatening to been it. So serious did matters seem, in fact, that most of the patients Ivft and the hospital was closed. The same is true of the South Gate Hospital, within the city, and doubtless of others; the threats are directed, first against the native Christians, churches, and schools, and then against the missionaries," The business community, in case of an outbreak, would doubtless be able, by means of the steam Inunches at hand, to reach Pazoda Anchorage without much difficulty. But it is hoped that no one will delay too long.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.