The news from China is, on the whole, favourable, and
indicates that the party hostile to foreigners has received a check. Sixteen coolies have been executed for their share in the Tientsin murder, and though, of course, the mandarins have not executed the actual criminals, but only some convicts in their hands for other offences, and though the literati have escaped altogether, still this is the Chinese notion of making an apology. Mr. Wade also is said to have telegraphed that he shall not want troops, and, best of all, a missionary chapel was, on 21st September, burned down at Fat- shan. We say best of all, because if the fanatical party had not been greatly discouraged, they would never have contented them- selves with a mere act of incendiarism. A Chinese, once irritated, hungers for the torture of those who irritate him. Under the cir- cumstances, burning a chapel was merely a courteous hint that the Fatshan braves deprecated the opening of chapels.
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