The following very interesting account of the siege is from another point of view, that of an American missionary. In hand: ing it to us the writer said that he found the British Mi r Claude Macdonald, being severely criticised in Shanghai, but in his opinion much that was being said was too severe and unjust. After the siege began, Sir Claude and Lady Macdonald did everything that people in thole position could do and were exceedingly kind to all whom they took into the Legation and especially to the lange party, thirty-four, who messed with them and fared rather worse than the masses outside. Sir Claude is not a strong man, and he has never perfectly recovered his health, and he was not able to take a very active part in the defence. Major Conger too, the U Minister, after he once realised the danger, beloved' in an unexceptionable man: ner, both as a, man and as the representative of the United States, and the same is true of all the foreign-rs, whose blues and not any considera on the part of the Chinese alone bro the foreigners in Peking safely through.
Tue Accovst.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.