The aspect of affairs in Taichow is not reassuring. Quite recently a bandit of some note fell into the hands of the Magistrates, who were considerably nonplussed by letters from the Roman Catholic party, demand. ing his release, upon grounds of church membership. 'The Prefect, considerably compromised, journeyed to Haimen to interview the" superintending Missionary and, after some trouble, succeeded in per suading him to look' into the man's antecedents. It was found that the man was not a member, but a relative of a member, and eventually the Prefect obtained a reluctant consent to allow the common law of the land to be administered.
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