New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-18

UNSATISFACTORY STATE OF AFFAIRS At TIFS
TsIN-THE MISSIONARIES ADVISED TO RE-
rURN-A PROTESTANT CHAPEL BURNED
MARINE DISASTERS ON TIE JAPANESE COAST
SAN Francisco, Nov. 7-ArriNcd to-day,
steamship China, from Hong Kong Oct. u, aud Yoko
hama Oct 49, with - cabin and lis steerage passengers
and also, LOO tuns Of cargo.
A British gunboat will be stationed at Ncw-Chsng
China, during Winter. Matters still -atisae
tory at Ten-Tsin Admiral Kelett has potitioned for
and O number OF field pieces, TO patrol the settle
ment. II is reported that Minister Low has advised ID"
missionaries Tenchow, and authorizes them
to request the commander Of the first United states YES
sci that reaches Chooo 20 convey them back and take
for their protection and guarantees their
manning In TenchOw will be unmoested. The Protestant
chapel az Fatsbaw destroyed but personal VIC
Benica are at Woosng and the Alaska Is at Hong Kong
The news from Japan is unmportant che eo q,
Mkado was celebrated at Yeddo and Yokohama, and 80
far as oTn throughout the Whole sSay Tue s1
the Imperial flag was sauted by the various menofwar
ihe Sar I Mary Miller and ROYAL Minstrel schooner
Rantpoe, and several other vessels were damaged by
typhOOn Hogo has suffered severely from heavy gaze
METHODIST MISSIONARY wORK-A MIssIONARY's
VIEW OF THE POLITICAL sITUATIoN-rHE
TIEN-TSIN MASSACRE CLAIMED 70 BE ONE
OF THE RESULTS OF THE BURLINGANE MIS-
SION.
BosToN, Nov. 1.-THE Rev. Mr.. Baldwin,
young missionary lately returned from China, where he
has been aborng for twelve years. spoke in the Brom
feldst Church last evening giving account Of mat
tiers connected with the Methodist mission work In that
country.
After describing some OF the difficulties attending the
missionary work. he said there no converts during
the first ten years but there nearly 1000 native
Christians and among them many ministers and lay
preachers who sometimes endure untold prosecutions
The Methodsts have three principal mission stations,
the largest OF them being at Funchow. The missionaries
d., In ~
light from that IN winch IL IL ueSeh oy mos iihe
treaty Of 1860 TO remain as II was, ami not 10 DC
revised the end VI ten years according TO the agree
ment; and to accomplish this end their ceI Mr. hart
offered to Mr. BurlD game the mission to foreign nations,
as no mandarin Of the first class would accept IT, lie
was receive $4,000 He was instructed TO make new
Bile but the people in China were asonlshed at the hrst
reports OF his speeches that came 10 them, t.
the effect that China wanted railroads, tele.
graphs and all modern Improvements, and offered
TO Americans the inside track in their construc-
ton; whereas such things were far from being
the real wishes the mandarns OF China and the treaty
was found on comparison with the Old one TO differ only
in this that when China was ready 10 DhiId ralioanS
America should be allowed TO furnish the CngneeTs, &C.,
from Mr.. Bnrlingames speeches and representations led
them, and the English and French afterward, 10 give
directions in behalf Of China that gunboats on o
Chinese shOnd exact reparatiOn for Injuries the
spot but that such injuries should he reported 10
the Minister Pekin, and he In turn should
receive instructions from the Home Government before
cases which involved the life OF foreign citizens. China
construed these instructions indications Of backing
down the part " the treaty making Powers lnstcad
OF indications mggnanimlty, as thcy were intended
She therefore very naturally concluded that any IN
Jury they might do could not be punished Tor nearly
year 1t was most favorable opportunity 10 drive az
foreigners out OF China This IL really The desire OF all
the Chinese those the spot cannot fail To This
was real of the late terrible massacre there