A horrible account is publisqed of some Chinese naval execution* which were re cently carried out at a port of Kowloon. The prisoners were brought ashore in baskets by boat* from the shqvs in the bay and were set down on the beach. They were SIX in number, and all appeared to have been wall dosed with opium. Tlie executioners were two men in white jac kets and straw hats, armed with swords, which, while they were waiting for their victims, they handed round among the spectators. The prisoners were ranged in two lines just above high water mark, ami the executioners, after removing their hats, took one line each, and proceeded calmly to smite off the heads of the men in the baskets. Executioner number one severed his first head at a blow, made an ineffectual but terrible cut at the second, passed ou to the third, and then returned to the second man and deliberately sawed through his throat. Executioner number two did his work less barbarously ; but he did not begin until the men of lhe second line hnd witnessed the massacre of their comrades ot the first, ami he had lo make a second blow at one of his victims.
