North China Herald (Newspaper) - July 22, 1870, Shanghai, Shanghai THE AND SUPREME 4 CONSULAR illETTE Vol No. 168. JULY 22, 1870. 12 Articles on The Burlingame Mission and the Present 39 News 40 E dito rial Selection s Da ily 2fewa) The Political 42 The of the Settlements 42 Baron Report on the Han 43 The French Gas 44 Outport Correspondence Chefoo 45 45 4ft Ningpo 46 46 46 47 Public Meetings The French Gas 47 Official Documents Letter by Rev. C A. Stanley to the U. S. 47 Proclamations By the Prefect of 49 By 49 By the Futai of 49 By the Viceroy of 49 By the Taotai of 50 Mr. Hart's 50 50 Law Reports v. Provand 51 Police 51 Commercial Market Report and Prices 56 Table of Silk Shippers from &c. 57 Tea Shippers from 57 July 10th, 1870.-Died at Pagoda Mr. George of aged 24. 30 17 San i 18 is 4 12 12 Latest iii from 19) Received vU Marseilles 12) May The publication of the Herald and Supreme Court Consular Gazette at 5 p.m. SOT JULY 22, 1870. Latest accounts from Europe report the speedy return to China of the once famous Burlingame The most ardent admirers of that quixotic enterprise have long since seen through the shallowness of its pretensions and the lacking the esprit of its has in Europe sunk to the insignificance it properly After failing at and being stripped at St. of the last shred of it has since been filling up its programme by a tour through the smaller Courts of It seems almost a Nemesis that its mission will come to an end nearly at the moment that news of the late massacre reaches If for nothing we hope that a once trusted servant of the British Government may be spared the further degradation of having to excuse a state of which it was the first object of the mission to prove had passed away for It is perhaps best for Mr. reputation that he died before this last sad and convincing proof of the entirely unfounded nature of his statements could have tempted as apologist for the Peking to raise up another structure as sparkling though as untrue as the The desire for the wish to live in amity with the the welcome offered to the shining have finally by the Government on whose he published them to the The old that we exist on soil only by the exhibition of has been impressed on not fin of auy action of but by the deliberate conduct of the Chinese Government itself The massacre of Tientsin shows at matters in the most favourable that the officials are either unwilling jor unable to lend us The Magistrates of Tientsin promoted instead of opposing the outbreak and there is every reason to believe to the exhibition of military force made by the residents at and the opportune arrival of one or two vessels of is to be attributed our own safety from We have not been hasty to accept every flying rumour which has gained prevalence in but we as a that every measure has been taken to excite the feelings of the From Peking to there has we been an important city where inflammatory of the most scandalous have not been The proceedings at Nanking were a subject of comment in this before any news of threatened disturbance at Tientsin had The similarity in the measures taken only be explained on the supposition op a preconcerted plan of The same may bo said of Chinkiang and in both of which we believe there are at present considerable numbers of we hear considerable excitement at The two extremities of the Empire have hitherto shown so little desire to make common that we mast as utterly the suggestion that the Tientsin tragedy was other than the explosion of a carefully laid and pervading having for its instigators officials high in Government We have it on the authority of an and well qualified to that the excitement at Nanking bad been worked up to such a point that the slightest indiscretion or accident would have resulted in such another scene as at So elaborately and thoroughly had the popular mind permeated with the stories of kidnapping by or for their that women and children shut themselves up in their inner strong men even feared to take their rest in exposed and sought the unwonted protection of high walls and closed The danger was the greater that it was the victim marched away of his own when under the influence 6f the powerful drugs said to be made use and only discovered his error when their potency had passed and he found himself in the hands of his ruthless toi Such were the ingenious stories carefully amongst a people whose pharmacopoeia still includes portions of the human and who teach their soldiers to eat the hearts of their in the hope of increasing their All this unsubstantial victims were as as the No one point to any mysterious disappearance within their own of aud it might happen with Chinese they would care little for what occurred it were difficult to procure tangible it was comparatively easy to manufacture One seems to have sufficed at His exhibition at the residence of the and the tales of his confessions given forth by the City Magistrate seem to have been sufficient to convince the not to speak of its At on the other the confessions of seventeen did not have the required The limit was probably one or two might excited the destructive passions of the the arrest of and - the