A private letter from Canton dated December 2 reads "Everything is fairly quiet here, altboogh' the city is under the abeolate rule of forty thousand pirater, command-by their respective chiefs, who are kind enough to follow the advice of the Governor General. Ontlying districts are being pillaged by robber bands who have not acorpted the new Government and who think thi is more money]. tobe made than by serving their country at ten dollars "month, So far none the missionaries have been disturbed.'
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.