This state of affairs is due to the general disturbed condition of North China, and not to desire to injure these against whom the Boxers have been fighting. As far og can be learned, there are now no demonstrations against the native Christians, In Weihsien, where, by the burning of the Presbyterian Mission promises in June last, Shantuny made her largest entry on the indemnity account which China owes the world; in Chinanfu, where Governor Yuan's soldiers have been living in (and surveptitiously looting from) the foreign pr mises placed in their charge; in Chining-chou, where for a year past nothing more than' ugly rumours have disturbed the peace; in P'ingtu, where officials and people are alike anxious to mike re paration for all losses—in these places, us in all others (in this province) where foreign residences are situated, quietness reigns.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.