Foreigners are exasperated. Among them it is the prevailing opinion that for the present mess; as for future assaults upon the peace of the upper river, they have only the indecision and timidity of their Home governments to blame. That the bandits will respect only force is witnessed by the success of firm administrators here in suppressing them. Foreigners ask that until some authority appears here to safeguard legitimate and established personal and property rights, the upper river gunboats be given free action adequately to protect them; that upper river steamboats be permitted to arm and to fire in self protection; that persons and commerce in the large ports be protected, if necessary, by foreign troops. That some change in the policy of the governments must soon be made, if foreign interests here are not altogether to be abandoned, is becoming daily more evident.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.