One cannot go about cither Tientsin oF Peking without being impreseed with the immense amount of property that has been destroyed. A very large portion of it was done by the Boxers in a most wanton manner—some because the owners were suspected of sympathy, or of some connection with foreigners, others for loot or to gratify the mad impulse for destruction that often seizes such fanatical hordes, Some was destroyed by the foreign troops as a matter of self-defence, and apparently. in some cases, I am sorry to sax, some of the foreign troops seem to have been impelled by no better motive than the Chinese troops and Boxers. Tt Ins been a terrible lesson inftieted on the Chinese because of their attempt upon foreigners and foreign Legations; but unfortunately in many cases the punishment fell upon those who had no part in the matter, and in many cases the most guilty. parties have been allowed to go free, still plot and plan, because of the unwise and jumbied course pursued by the foreign Vowers—dictataug impossible things, assuming to do whut it was none of their business to do, but which the right Chinese Government re-established could have done, and showing a most vacillating and regrettable attitude of wealness and strength which the Chinese have not failed to improve to their own advantage.
Land-grabbing.
One of the most noticeable features resulting from the troubles at Tientsin is the complete destruction of the city wall, the illing of the vile old moat, and making of broil street on the foundation of the old wall. A broad street has also been made along the entire length of the river bank, from the Settlement around the city, as far_as it had a wall tacing the river. The French Concession has been greatly extended, and other Concessions have bec granted or rasen. In sozte cases Uhinese owners in 1.0 way connected with Boxers, whose property has fallen within the limit of these extensions, have been treated in a most dis honourable, unjust, and uncivilized manner, their property ta~ ken without any compensation, and they charged a high rent, and this' gradually raised to a figure beyond their ability to pay, and they have then been ejected. Deeds of laud purchased from the Chinese previous to the notice of occupation for a Concession have been disputed, or acknowledged as valid only after much trouble, Lam informed. Such conduct is not likely to impress the Chinese peopl favourably with the peoples of the Wess. Some of tie things reported by eyewitnesses make one wonder if we ave Te~ turned to the times of riot, rapine, lust, and savagery which prevailed in the "dark ages." Those times have no oveasion to blush in view of some of these acts of brutality,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.