Frightful Cruelty

san Francisco, Nov. 25.- News from Manilla brought by the steamer City of Peking from Hong Kong shows that the Spaniards have resorted to torture oL natives and half-casts of the Phllippines v.hich surpasses in its cruelty that practiced by the Chinese mandarins in cases of the most atrocious crimes. They are also charged with confiscating the estates of wealthy half-casts and deporting these wretchr ed victima to Fernandopo, on the west coast of África, a place which has a elimate that quickly provea fatal to the stranger. These statements are not given on the strength of reporta of refugees. James W. Davidson, a well-known correspondent, is the authority. Letten 8mnS3ed Througli. He was recently commissioned by the Hong Kong Press to go to Manilla and cautioned to evade the press censorship, and in several letters which he smug.?led through the lines he tells of what he has seen and what he has heard in good authority. Aeeording to him the instruments of torture used in the Spanish inquisition three centuries ago have been kept in the monasteries of Manilla and brought out recently and used to extort confessions from native and Mestizo suspects, who have been arrested and have been kept in 3ail in Manilla, subjected to hideous treatmer.t. Mr. Davidson also intimates that theleadingpowers of Christendom will be called upon to interfere and put an end to tortures which revive the worst features of the Spanish inquisition. Japan Will Send a Warship. Berlin, Nov. 25.- A dispatch from Toltio, believed to emanate from a Germán official souree, announces that a Japanese warship will be sent to the Philippinp islands, the latest news from which place is disquieting. It is stated that the insurgents have won a battle and that an attack upon Manilla, the capital, is feared.