14 NOVEMBER 1863, Page 2

The artist correspondent of the Illustrated London News, who seems

to have been in the harbour of Kagoeima during the bom- bardment, supplies some additional information. According to him—though the sketch looks very much as if it had been taken in the hold—the batteries are exactly in front of the town, which may, therefore, have at first been fired by accident. That is no apology for the second day's destruction, and the artist mentions that at night the Perseus kept throwing in rockets just "to keep up the fire:' Rockets are about as useful against batteries as squibs would be, and the fire" must mean the flames then con- suming the town.