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well be expected under the excited state of public feeling caused by the plague, I did not think it necessary or advisable to revive the subject at the present moment, although I am prepared to do so if
a favourable opportunity occur.
As regards the attack on American Missionary Ladies referred to in the same paragraph, I under-
stand from my United States Colleague that the mat-
ter has been arranged very satisfactorily by the
local Authoriuies.
It does not therefore seem a
matter in which I am called upon to interfere.
I have &c.,
(Signed)
N. R. O'Conor.