OUTRAGES ON MISSIONARIES IN CHINA.
THE steamer which arrived at Victoria from China on the 25th of July brings news of the cruel massacre of two Swedish missionaries at Sung-Pu, by an infuriated mob. They were in the midst of a city of 25,000 people, who are noted for their hostility to foreigners and foreign religion, without any other friends than three Chinese servants who were Christians. These servants gave the missionaries warning that they were to be killed on the 18th day of the 5th moon (July 1), but they did not heed the warning. They merely notified the authorities of the threat, but no attention was paid to the notification. On the day mentioned the house was surrounded and assaulted with stones and clubs until the inmates climbed to the roof and attempted to escape. But they were pelted with stones until they finally jumped to the ground, and were beaten to death and left lying in the street for the dogs to eat. It is stated that the missionaries were of Bishop Taylor's party, recruited in Wisconsin six months ago. The Shanghai Mercury hears from Hankow on good authority that during the past six months no less than three distinct and villainous attempts have been made by the natives to set fire to the Italian convent, and that there is an uneasy anti-foreign undercurrent again making itself felt in the great tea port. A cowardly outrage was perpetrated on an English Methodist missionary, the Rev. C. Bore, near Canton on June 15. He was going up the river in his boat in broad day, when pirates leaped aboard, and, presenting pistols at the heads of himself and his servants, robbed them of all their money.