20th July.
Tae letters from Formosa and from Amoy that we publish this morning are very melancholy reading.. The letter faiuanfu. comes from a writer whose means of knowing the trath and whose independence and impartiality are unimpeachable; and he says in the note that accompanies his communication: " Affairs in South Formosa are becoming desperate.'.. I have made no statement which I cannot bear out with facts, In the name of common htimanity I pray you' print them} let the world know the true state of affairs.". The Japanese. Government cantlet know what its officers have been doing in the island. The failure of the Japanese in Corea was excusable, as we have said already, because they were in a false position in the peninsula; but there is no such excuse for them in Formosa; and it would seem that they do not naturally possess, and have not gone the right way to acquire, the art of pacifying and governing a dependency. We do not print to-day nearly all that we have received on this subject; but the accounts of the behaviour of the Japanese in South Formosa are all alike, whatever the nationality of the writer, in their condemnation of the action of the conquerors, and their horror at the Atrocities committed. 'l'o exterminate dacoits is one thing; to confound the innocent-with the guilty, and lay waste petcefal villages with fire and sword eats dacoits have: taken refuge in them, is. another; and Japan has not g0'niauy friends at the present moment, or such a record for humanity abroad, that she-can afford to excite by her action the reprobation: of the civilised world,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.