OF SEPTEMBER 1, 1870
Hongkong papers brought yesterday by the Chukiang depend chiefly, for their interest, on extracts from Shanghai journals, regarding the state of affairs in the north. The arrest has been at length achieved, of some of the burglars, who have been lately farming the Colony. The "Daily Press" has an article praising the Shanghai Volunteers, for the energy with which they have been drilling through July weather; and quotes a remark by Sir Harry Parkes, When the last Volunteer force was formed: that, in China, it is simply impossible to know from what quarter or from what cause a disturbance may "The truth of these words." it events which have attracted so much attention in China.
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