which have prevailed in this prefecture for the past three or four months have aparently. passed into a more acute stage.
these Jetters I have had occasion to record several outrages directed against the German Roman Catholic station at Wang-chuang, seventy (i east of this place, in the course of which several men have been killed on both sides. The last act of the tragedy was the killing of four of the Christians and the burning of the bodies of {one man and child. It is whispered that the Latter was thrown into the fire alive! This, however, would not be an-unprecedented barbarity in the present troubles for it is only a few weeks since a Christi was burned alive fifty Zi south of this city.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.