7 MAY 1864, Page 3

The latest intelligence from China (March 8) is as full

of horrors ns a sensation novel. It is affirmed that so great is the distress in the districts ravaged by the rebels that the "little flesh which can be cut from the emaciated bodies of the dead is eagerly taken for food by the miserable survivors." The rebels, moreover, hold Europeans responsible for the breach of faith committed by the Futai at Sooehow—he killed all leaders to whom Major Gordon had guaranteed pardon—and that officer found at Woosi.h. evidence -that a rebel chief had in revenge burned four Europeans to death slowly over a fire. The victims were identified as four officers of

• the Firefly, the steamer seized by the rebels.