SHOCKING OUTRAGE IN CHINA.

Evening Star, Issue 4267, 30 October 1876, Page 4

SHOCKING OUTRAGE IN CHINA.

The 'Shanghai Courier' says:—"We -mblished a rumor some few days back of a rarribie onslaught upon the Catholic Chrisiaus in Ning-kuoh Fu, in the province of ■STganhwuy, when a crowd of about a thousand soldiers and ruffians, under thf uidance of officials, burst into a chnpel luring divine service, and brained numbers >f the congregation. This has been since :onfirmed. Our authority is a gentleman So whom the horrible tales were recounted >y one of the French priests. It seems that the men entered the chapel, of course interrupting the service, and demanded of the fficiating priest, an Italian gentleman, that e should cease promulgating the doctin<-s f the T'ied-chn sect. The priest naturally lecliiied to promise anything of the sort, /hereupon a scene of indescribable uproar nsued, during which the most frightful utrages occurred. The priest was tortured, ind eventually put to (ieath, being hacked o pieces ; a little child, whom he hari adopted, was torn limb from limb, and the corpse of another Father, who, happily for aim, died previously, was taken from its coffin and brutally ill-used. The members of the Inland Mission have all left the neighborhood, and the Roman Catholics now have a guard round their house. The origin if this truly diabolical outrage is fixed upon % military mandarin 'named Wu, who has openly expressed his malignant hatred of the religion of Christ. The priest in charge of the mission proceeded by steamer on the 2nd inst., accompanied by three officials, to Wuhu to institute inquiries. Three other priests are said to be missing.