The news of the rebellion in China only reached Europe
on Wednesday, yet Friday's telegrams show that it has already spread to an alarming extent. Wuchang, the city on the banks of the Yang-toe, opposite Hankow, first revolted, but Hankow itself is now completely occupied by the revolutionists, who are said to have massacred the Manchus in that city. It is further reported that Chang-sha, the capital of the great province of Hunan, has risen, and that the railway to Peking has been torn up for a length of twenty miles. In all, five great cities are said to be affected, an arsenal with large stores of arms and ammunition has been seized, and bodies of troops, said to amount to 10,000 men, have mutinied and joined the insurgents. The specially well-informed corre- spondent of the Times at Peking declares indeed that the Government is confronted with the most formidable danger since the Taeping rebellion. He adds that at any moment we may hear of an outbreak at Canton and a mutiny at Nankin. Meantime the insurrection in the distant province of Szechuan continues.
