Horrors Of War By Nominal Christians

Lieut. Ouchterlong, n his history of ihc late wnr of the Englisli in Chino, gives ihe Collo1 ing drscripiion of n fcene thut a.vaited the Entjlish troops oí thesoccoseful storming of' Chin ke ang too. Jn olmost cvfry deserted hoi.ee, the children had been madly murdered. "The bodies of most of the hapless little children who had fallen sacrifiues to the eritliiisiasin and iiind (lesp'ir of their párente, were found lying within the housep, and usnally in the chnnibcrg of the women, as if each lather iiad asscmbled the whole of hi family befüie con?umin3ting the dreadf'u! massacre; but many corpes of boys were lying in t!ie streetF, nmoiigst lliose othorses ond soldier.0, ns if an alarm hud spread, nnd they liad been siahbed while they had been atteuipiing lo esaiie from their ruthless paronts. In a few instunces these poor ]illle eufíbiers were found the mornjpg nfler the ns6ault. stijl breathing, the tide of life ebbing t-lowly awav, as they lay writliihg in the agony of a braken ppine, a model of destrudion so cruel tha!, but lor the most certa in evidence of i:s reality, it wonld not be believcd. "In one of the Ijousof, the bodies of even dead and dying persons were found in one room, fonning a group, which, for naihsome hurror, was pérhaps uncqnalled. Tlie hoiuse was evidently the abode of a man of some rank and consideralion, nnd the delicate forms and features of the sufferers, tïeiioted them as belongincr to the higher order of Turtars.- On tbe floor, essaying in vain to put food wifh n spoon into the moiiths of two young chüdren extended on a maüress, writliing in the igonies of death, caused by the dislocation of their spinee, sat an old decrepid mnn, weep mg bitierly as he liftened . to the piteous moons and convulsivo breathings of the poor infanta, while his eyc wandered over the ghn8tly relies of mortality around him. On a bed near the dying children, lay tliobody of a beoutiful young woman, lier limos nnd apparel arranged as f in sleep. She was cold, oud hnd been long dead. One arm clasped her neck, over which a silkecarfwas thrown to conceal the gash in her throa, which had destroyed life. Near lier lay the corpse of a woman somewhalmnre ndvanced in years, stretched on a sük coverlet, her features distorted, and her eyes open and fixed, as if she had died by poison or strangulalio. There was no wound upon the body, nor any blood upon her person or clothrs. A dead cfiüd, stabbed throuli the neck, Jny nenr her; imd in the narrow veranfial) ncjoimng the room, vvere Uip corpses of two more wonien, suspended from ihe mfters by twisted clolhs wound round thoir necks. They were both ynung - one quito a girl - and her features, in spite of the liideous distorlion produced by the mode of her dcatb, retained traces of Iheir original beauty, sufficient to show the lovely monld in wbich they had been cast. "In the death of the Tartar chief in cominand at tliis disaslrous buf-iness, tbere was mdoiibtedly a savage grandeur; and it has had ita due share of praise; biU, if o! her actions of the man were known, this particular one might lose eomeMiing of its gloomy lustre. - His name was Ilar-ling. After horanging 'lis troop?, he had mourilrd his horee and placing liimFelf ar tbeir head, led them to the ground upon whioh their desperate altack upon the l Stli and -49:h reginients was made; tlience seeing that ihe muin defences of the town were in our possession, and that the day was inelrievably lost, hc returned to bis liotise, ai'.d calling for hi secretary, desireri him to bring his officinl papers into a small room ndjoining an inner court of the building, where deliberately senting himpclf, and caus ing the papers with a quantity of wood to be piled up around him, hedismissed the fecreiar}, 6et flre to lite funeral pile, and perished in the fin mes. In the npariment where this si range exnmple of barbarían heroism had been enacted, Mr. Morri?on found among some heaps of nlies ond half consumed wood, evidences of the awful fncrifico which had beet; so deierminpdly consiimmated, amp'y sufficipnt to corrobórate the tale of his informant. The skull of the General was yet unennsumed, nnd the bunes oí ihe thiglis and feet, thongh partially calcined, retained enotigh of their orifinal form nnd appearance to bc recognized. The floorof tlie room was paved, and ihe fiames had consequenMy not extended be vond the pile of fuel. Thus perished this brave man, whose devotion to lus countiy rondered him, to quote the words of Sir Henrv l'ottingers proclommion, 'worthy of a no bier and r. betier faie." ''