HOW THE CHINESE ARE ACTING TOWARDS FOREIGNERS IN CHINA.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3920, 22 July 1881, Page 2

HOW THE CHINESE ARE ACTING TOWARDS FOREIGNERS IN CHINA.

The Foochow Herald of February 3rd has an Mticlp.wi»ic.h9ay3 ••—-•• (fhiipitime has now come when' an attempt is made to famish the Merchant as well as the Missionary, not merely from the hill-top, but from' the dismal swamp at welfyand the trial and tribulations of a case not; alone paralled,-but far beyond that of the famous ;Wu Shi yShani'threiatens to rail upon all, irrespective of their nationality or of their various secular pursuits. A few of ,the Literati of Foochow hare prevailed upon the Elders and J&terltti of eighteen villages, to issue an everlasting prohibitory agreement,; which says: 'For. public, gpbd we iaak£ vthljhperpetual prohibitive agreement^ lne rpdrport , of .which agreement is without ,Jite,ra\lj quoting it, that nothing .shall be sold to foreigners, no matter what the articles «may > be, shops, houses, fields, gardens, graves, ponds, or empty spaces of ground. Any. person violating this prohibition ii;to have his dwelling-house; or houses down and destroyed by the public, 7 Md the offender is to? be driveh^oufr dfuotne village, iijs or their property-So bo: confiscated to the head of the clab| 'and Ithe brokers bound and handed dtefc-tfd'i'the authorities for trial, as the 0 law* provide!. Andiwhen any brokera.en,ter the villages and are seen, they shall be it bnrfeiaippre'ffivl&eA !iihd sent: to> trnfß"Trla r fiil>nse. quence '6f this pla'oaf&phajf&lS&fßxiifcl, the Mandarins refuse .tp^aSk their seals to certain deeds in their hanfia time.. The Chinese officials stillholdjhe deeds. Negotiations for the purchase of lands l»y foreigaera-htve« b^n-rpe^armp-torily" stopped, beeauie the OTokerg'feac the;dos|tru,otion,of tjieiiv ownp.jejaidenpes, nn|tea4ing settlers Jfearing'alW sioiitar punishment. The Herald Ifear^, i ih|tt;,if this outrage: upon; trejft^y; bo allowed ,to pass without, ( jjot^e,.,,t^ia Chinese will manipulate nu^l thej.suc^Bisd in exbtudinff alt, foreitnecft'vftoni:' the' . porti' It thinks, : alsdj that thitr »ight lead to similar exclusions Ivobi ii, Ihund.red other yilligeft. < ThS Missionaries had been;id' pds&ski(stil unider teijse'for 30 years, of a certkin but the Chinese dislodged . them. . The Herald suggest* a demonstration of Ch£ fcoinmanity againat such acts of the_titerati, and.| joint oon>. sular protws'tationr^ Tm« , i]fßimim%~.«£^. Chinese)opppsiti^ii the presence* of foreignors'.among them is a fine commen* tary upon the Burlingame Treaty, and the. pretended reciprocity of the two nations. No wonder the Herald calls it a cloud hanging over r the "'foreign ioteresis at Foqchow./ .'y%e $t»t'si~" fatherhood of Grod, and the br^etniidd!^ B^Sn(>>lplir«%© will have W! be, modified'when.applied to the heathen Chiiieei T fTU" Tiro l