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near
ir future of both the French and the Chinese. But nothing
oy
positive is known at Hongkong, nor was known at Canton at the recent dates of my latest official intelligence from those cities. As I have frequently pointed out, the Chinese Government
more to fear from
has, perhaps, internal revolt than from external attack. There is great
activity in the prospect of the "opportunity which would be
afforded by foreign
war, among
the
the agents of the powerful Secret Society -
Nihilists of China,- called Sam-Hop-in, or the Triad Society; that is, according to
the idea of its members, the Union "of Heaven, Earth, and Man: have remarked on previous occasions, the avowed object of the leaders of the Triad Society is
to expel the reigning Manchu-
Tartar dynasty, and to restore a
Chinese dynasty.
Native Chinese
But, as is
the case with other Secret Societies,
the main aim of the mass of the
Men
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