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- that fresh disturbances have unfortunately taken place at Canton, where, on the 4th instant, a Mission Chapel in the centre of the City was destroyed by a Chinese mob. There does not appear, however, to have been any loss of life.
2. On the following day the yames, residence, of the French Official Consul in the city was broken into and plundered by the populace; but the Consul and his staff had previously retired to the European quarters.
At the present time, and probably for a considerable period to come, the foreigners at Canton will not be safe unless they reside in Shameen, the European settlement on the bank of the river, where they live under...