A small revolt in Kwangtung has been put down by
the Chinese soldiery. It was important because it took an anti- foreign direction and missionaries were compelled to fly, and also because it was organised by the dreaded Triad, the secret society which has for its governing idea the expulsion of the Manchus. Mr. Whighatn, however, the correspondent of the Morning Post, telegraphs that the agitation is watched by the officials with grave alarm, that the Viceroys are suspected of levying the new "Indemnity Tax" in order to turn the irritated feeling of the people against the foreigner, and that the Empress-Regent is certainly not going back to Pekin. She has spent £600,000 on a palace in Kai-fung, the capital of Honan, and will keep the Emperor there in dependence on herself, thus baffling all the arrangements for securing the influents of foreigners in Pekin and Chih-li. She is evidently determined not to be governed from abroad, and, so far as appears, not only the Mandarins, but the people approve her action. Europe, in fact, is left stranded in Pekin, while the Chinese Court can organise patiently and secretly any force it pleases. Can no one tell Europe the real opinion formed at Tokio, where they know what Chinamen think, upon this situation?
