"Civilized" Warfare

- TheLondon Sun, ingiving an account of the Ia6t baitle between thfr English and Chinese, saya: "The troops contrived to surround ihe Chinese, and quité bewildered them. The carnage was dreadl'ul. being more of a butchery than a battle. Jgnorant of the 1'awB of civiüzed warfare, thepoorcreaturesknew not how to surrender, and were niassacred. Not less than a thousund of them, including a great number ol mandarina, wore killed, while only three of the British troopa wcro slain."