in this district does not diminish in The French Church party are i i ity of inflicting nees of the post three years in which the people have risen against. their tyranny ate bei funted before the Maxistrucy with the threat of perpetud di As a hicly, however, it ix gratifying to note that the Inter decline to he hustled, but their hands are thus tied while predatory bands of the worst characters ut the district are making armed depredations in the name of the Roman Catholic Church.
THREE CASES, these are three noteworthy in wich the victims were black mailed to the tune of 80 or 9) dollars apiece. Another, in which a shopkeeper was kidnapped tu the house of a Roman Catholic Christian and another in which afarm was well looted by these rutians. It is curious in this latter case that the losers were near relatives of the excatechixt Yeh Tzu-jong, slain while loading a similar attack last year, ToMPoUSPING aNn cours \NT.
This trouble has now been compounded for $2,000, $1,200 of which go to the French Church and $400 to the widow. The better Casses are complaining bitterly. If our people resist the oppression they are say-1G, we are fined out of all proportion. If the scholars move our Examinations are stopped, and if our Magistrates either put down these unprincipled fellows, or decline to aid them when they meet them, dire threats of degradation and expulsion are hurled atthem. Our hands are tied every
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