have been careful to the effect that our supplies from the neighbouring districts on the Mainland will be stopped, that the Chinese mercantile brokers (some 7 or 8 in number, through whom all the native Trade passed) have resolved to leave, that by the Chinese New Year, d'isming 26th our Chinese servants have received orders to withdraw from the Colony, and that a reward is offered for firing the Town.
But as yet there is no outward or general appearance of disaffection or confusion.
In the night of the 26th Instant a daring attack was made in a body of well-armed Chinese, numbering about 60, on some Shops in Sokunsoo, a straggling village situated to the Eastward of Victoria, and adjoining the premises of Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co. They were repulsed, and must have suffered considerable loss as a very large quantity of blood was traced for a considerable distance along the road. Two of Messrs Jardine Matheson's Sepoys (a private Guard) were wounded severely but not dangerously, and a Police Constable
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