'A letter was received in Shanghai From Ow Own Correspondent. yesterday from a well-informed missionary quarter which pats a very serious complexion on the state of sffsirs at Soochow. It otates that 9,000 weavers are out of work, and Monday bad been fixed upon for an attack on the Gover-Something intervened to arrangement, bat now another date has been decided upon for thie attack, At the same time the loafers are threatening to attack the schools, The Governor has released Ts. ist the banks, and this houses when the crisis does arrive, Shaohsing, Oct. 23.
The outlook io Shaohsing has began to assume "serious The city is practically unprotected. The 200 led troops have been re-few of the recently dis jaded soldiers have been called together by the Prefect.
These latter the people despise.
Yesterday I saw a crowd of some 2,000 men assembled la front of " rich man's bouse in the south street. The man in question is very influential and owns a number of rice shops. The crowd demanded that the price of rice should be lowered. The reply to their Tso! demand was evidently unfavourable, for last night the mob wrecked the hoose. The officials seem powerless and have not intervened.
Taiyaenfa, Oot. 16, The news of the outbreak at Wa-chang, and the revolutionary movement on the part of the soldiery there. has caused a good deal of excitement here, although chiefly among the officials and the military, The city guards been doubled and cavalry are patrolling onteide the city and round the walls.
The peopl are quiet and basines is going on as usual.
Somewhat serious news comes from the South of the province, as it is reported that the Koh Ming Tong bat broken out at Changchow and Hotel The object of t to weaken the forces. Troops have been instructed to depart for Honan tomorrow, and unless the order is manded will leave early by general opinion here is that the straggle is between the officials and the "soldiery, and that the people have nothing to fear, also that all ud the Catholic and Pro-sions, will not be touched, and so there is a large amount of indifference as to what may happen, but the excitement and fear in the great, Two days' alter his arrival Governor inspected the city wal was accompanied by several officials and bands of troops, Nothing particular was done and the inspection was about ae useless as the English custom of beating the bounds, but there is "squeeze pidgin" in it, as the city eldete have to pay for any place needing repair through neglect,
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