The Snipe is still here and the disturbances in the Poyang Lake which were alleged as a reason why she should not visit that inland sea seem to be more than an official pretext. A ridt arose at Jaochou (Loping) over the imposition of a tax on indigo, and popular disapproval was shown by the burning of the yamen. The magistrate's wife disappeared, either in the conflagration or by capture by the rioters. The Kiukiang Taotai set off for the scene of hostilities with war junks and hundred and fifty men and reinforcements are being sent, amounting to not far short of a thousand men, so thatit seems as if we must call it a rebellion rather than a riot. One man at least has arrived for treatment at the hospital, badly injured in the fight.
French Sailors ju Trouble.
In Kiukiang we had small row, which might have led to disagreeable consequences. A party from the Montcalm came on shore on Tuesday night and took to using rheic knives, so that two natives had to be taken to the hospital for treatment. If it wore foreigners who had been thus handled, it would be considered a terrible outrage; being Chinese, it was but a small matter, to be settled by forty or' fifty dollars, But. this happens frequently when we ha French man-of-war in port, and mal us hail the sight of the Tricolor with some misgivings. Indeed it is said that the Sisters at the hospital prepare an extra supply of bandages when a French ship is here! Other nationalities are not such great offenders in this respect, although recently a party of sailors from a German gunboat broke some windows in an unoccupied house.
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