Your correspondent applied for passports at the end of August to-return to Suchien, but received a letter saying that the Foreign Affairs Commissioner had returned. them to our Consul unsealed owing. to the disturbed condition of the province, particularly in the dis trict of Suchien. It was in the beginning of September cre he con: sented to seal them.
At the end of August the soldiers had a regular battle with the tut at a place north of here called Ts ho in the lake district. There were quite a number of soldiers killed and many injured. The—district meantime is more peaceful than it has been, they say, for 10 years; but who knows how long this will last? Previous to this fight about 1,000 of these bandits encamped a few" miles from here, to be taken-on as soldiers and only dispersed upon the magistrate ordering the merchants to unite and contribute $1,000 which they did.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.