the " North y News to the fact that the calls attention local Chinese authorities have been notified that there are no longer any Chinese resistered at the Spanish Consulate. They have been requested also to send to the Consalate for cancellation all Spanish certificates when presented to them. Sefior A. F. Arias is to be congratulated on the promptitude and thoroughness with which he has acted, and the formidable list of names of those from whom Spanish protection lias been withdrawn indicates the extent to which the evil had grown. Of the methods taken to reprdinte the protection accorded by former Spanish consuls to Chinese and other subjects nothing is known; bnt the authority of Sefior Arias in the matter woold seem to be complete. ction, sino feel sure, will meet with the support of his fellow-countrymen, some of whom, as was dicated by a letter in our calamus from a Spanish corresyondwean Tike to see him go set farther and remove any lingering blot on the Spanish eseatcheon in the Far East in connexion with the countenancing of
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