The Chinese And the Chinese Question
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Several of the provinces were in indescribable anarchy and filled with insurgents. In the great province of Ho-nan famine had reduced the people to the extreme of misery. The two Kiang provinces had been swept by locusts, the crops de stroyed, and the people reduced to semi-starvation. Says a historian of the Tae-ping revolt, " what with rebellions, inundations, famines, and locusts, the country presented a most lamentable appearance ; in many of the provinces rice was selling at five times its... usual price. " It was at this time and under these circumstances that " the government AND THE CHINESE QUESTION. 8r of her most Christian Majesty " instituted, on a pretext framed in naked mendacity, the second war with China.
In October, 1856, a Chinese lorcha, the "Arrow, " belong ing to a class of vessels often employed in piracy on the harbors and rivers of China, was found sailing, without a shadow of right, under the British flag. She was captured by the Chinese officials in the exercise of their lawful au thority.
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Several of the provinces were in indescribable anarchy and filled with insurgents. In the great province of Ho-nan famine had reduced the people to the extreme of misery. The two Kiang provinces had been swept by locusts, the crops de stroyed, and the people reduced to semi-starvation. Says a historian of the Tae-ping revolt, " what with rebellions, inundations, famines, and locusts, the country presented a most lamentable appearance ; in many of the provinces rice was selling at five times its... usual price. " It was at this time and under these circumstances that " the government AND THE CHINESE QUESTION. 8r of her most Christian Majesty " instituted, on a pretext framed in naked mendacity, the second war with China.
In October, 1856, a Chinese lorcha, the "Arrow, " belong ing to a class of vessels often employed in piracy on the harbors and rivers of China, was found sailing, without a shadow of right, under the British flag. She was captured by the Chinese officials in the exercise of their lawful au thority.
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