12 DECEMBER 1868, Page 2

Sir Rutherford Alcock, British Minister in Pekin, has tried to

obtain redress for the outrages committed on Missionaries at Yaugchow. Ile has not obtained it.. Consequently, he has ordered Commodore Sir Henry Keppel,—decided person, who once stormed Macao to release a missionary,—to proceed up the river with the Rinaldo, Rodney, and Stoney, and enforce redress from the Viceroy. Sir Rutherford, moreover, fears a general outbreak of hostility to foreigners, and in fact there are a good many signs of another Chinese war just when Mr. Gladstone wants reductions.