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of Foochow.

uas furnished to

This information uomos

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by the Bishop of Hongkong, and,

owing to that fact, and

to the intense

Excitement and wide spread dismay

that prevails, I felt myself justified

in transmitting the intelligence so

you.

without delay.

I have

also

unicated with

H. M's Minister at Peking.

Though Hongkong may fairly be

reguarded

as the guardian of the

as

interests of Europe in China, I hardly

know to what coclewl,

| Governor of the Colony

if

at all, the

the Colony is justified

in dealing with incidents which

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occur outside of

outside of its Boundaries;

but at this dreadful news, surpassing

in horroLAN

the

2

* 3-2 Cro

of the Roman

basholic Missionaries in Tientsin in

in 1870 has

bec

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me by the Bishop, and

caused

nicated to

it has

a profound sensation throughout

the entire community, I venture to

few remarks upon the c

make a

general subject of our relations with

China.

You

of Course

that are li

inmate

of

Europeans is one of the chief

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hatred

characteristics of the Chinese,

not so strongly developed in the

labouring population

"Gentry

ad

a $

on the

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