22 OCTOBER 1870, Page 3

The British Government, it is announced, has sent a battalion

of Marines to China, where "the force is already considerable." This is probably sufficient, provided Lord Mayo has been warned, but the intelligence from China is still very disheartening. Several persons, probably innocent, have been executed, but Ma, the Viceroy of Nankin, has been assassinated for favouring foreigners, and the Government of Pekin appears profoundly indifferent. It has, moreover, scarcely yet realized that the power of France is paralyzed for the moment.