The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-27 00:00:00

?HE CHINESE INDE211N111:

It will be remembered that one of the conditions
on which peace was concluded with China at the
close of the last war was, that a sum of money
equivalent to £200,000 sterling, should be paid by
the Chinese Government to the families of the men
who were treacherously seized by the Chinese under
an armistice, and either barbarously murdered or
else shockingly ill treated. The names of Anderson,
1)e Norman, Bowlby, and others, will at once occur
to our readers.

The French papers lately announced that the
amount of this " blood money " allocated to their
countrymen who, along with our own, fell into the
Chinese trap, had been duly apportioned. We
are happy to learn that the English portion has also
been paid to the amount of about £93,000, and that
it is now being distributed in the following propor-
tions:—To the legal representative of Capt. Brabazon,
of the Royal Artillery, £15,000. This officer was
specially selected by Brigadier Crofton for the
post of deputy assistant quartermaster-general. Ho
was the author of an excellent work, " Soldiers and
their Service," and.up to the day upon which he
gallantly volunteered to accompany Mr. Loch to
the Chinese lines ho was regarded by the heads of
the expedition, both English and French, as one of
the most valuable officers of a staff in itself singu-
larly efficient. He was decapitated, but his body,
long sought for by his father, who has lately re-
turned from China, has never been discovered. To
the legal representatives of Messrs. De Norman and
Anderson the sum of £15,000 each. To the legal
representative of Mr. Bowlby, the 2 Imes correspon-
dent, the sum of £15,000. To the legal represen-
tatives of Private Phipps, Ist Dragoon Guards,
£2,400. To the families of the eight Sikhs who
were murdered, £12,000. To Messrs. Parkes and
£lB,OOO each. Both these gentlemen were
stwheeyre were
subjected
o ut
no d tfho er
manygr o ss eds
at y
si d
theiri g i t if ease
e;
imprisoned at Pekin, continually visited by
rub-
bed in the dust, they were ki;cheadn,a btehaetven
who invariably told them that the first
w ae
rn ed
otherwise brutally maltreated ,
gliwullannilgfer-okmi' the allied forces would be the signal for
their death. The Sikhs who were subjected to ill-
treatment, but who were returned alive, will also
receive a handsome portion of the indemnity.

THE SCREW STEAMER VICTORIA.—The Queens-
town correspondent of Saunders's Neu's, in reference to the
return of the vessel, says :—" The troops which left this
country for Canada in the earlypart of the month have been
unfortunate in their voyages, for of the four steamships
which put to sea two have already returned after much suf-
fering. The screw steamer Mauritius left on the 2d inst.,
with the Ist battalion of the 15th Regiment and the sth
battery of the Sth Brigade of the Royal Artillery. The
screw steamer Adelaide sailed in two days after with an-
other portion of the 15th Regiment. The screw steamer
Victoria followed on the Ist inst., with the right wing of
the 96th Regiment and a number of horses; and in two days
after the screw steamer Calcutta steamed out of the harbour
with 44 officers and 630 men of the 96th Regiment, Royal
Artillery, and Hospital Corps. The Adelaide, as is already
known, put into Plymouth on the 15th inst., having been
11 days at sea ; and on Tuesday, at 10 o'clock, the Victoria
returned into Cork harbour after an absence of 15 days,
during which time the troops suffered severely in the storm
they met with, the vessel having had her decks swept, by
which she lost her boats, and the horses belonging to the
troops having been killed in the tossing of. the ship. On
several occasions the ship peril
was in great pe of foundering
—her decks having started, and the water poured down in
the engine-room, and it was with great exertion that it was
kept under so as to prevent the fires from being extha.
guished. A telegraph
of the return of the ship has been
forwarded
w h
o suffertothe Horse Guards, and an order to land the
severely from the storm and cold, is eZ•
troops,
pected in the course of this (Tuesday) evening,',