June 13.
Tue release of the last eight foreign captives of Paotzeku will: be received with.the most heart-.felt thankfulness. For more than five weeks the Old Guard, as they had come affectionately to be known, like their more fortunate comrades who were set free earlier, had borne themselves with the greatest gallantry, through all their long suspense and under the most bommable - conditions. It is some weeks since the public realized that the first accounts of, the supposed comfort of the prisoners' life were but the invention of brave men, seeking to lighten their families' anxieties. But perhaps Mr. Musso's letter Published last Monday was the first unvarnished statement of the squalor they endured, tha dirt, the myriads of flies and disgusting nature of their guards. All honour to the men who, for the credit of the white race, have kept so stiff an upper lip
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.