Actual hostilities have taken place between the Chiness and Yakoob Beg in the neighbourhood of Turfan, and the contest, which an ex; they had fought several battles and more sieges, too exhausted to attempt the invasion of a territory with a strong natural frontier, and defended by so formidable an antagonist as Yakoob Beg. This surmise has now been removed from the region of uncertainty by the successful forcing'of the 'Tian Shan range by General Kin Shun. The Chinese attacked the Devon defile, which leads direct from Guchen to Turfan; and although this had been fortified, and' was garrisoned Ly Beg Pacha, Yakoob Beg's son, with a select corps of 6,000 men, the attack has been crowned with success, ' The assailants then pressed o: wards, and entered Tarfan, which is not ma mulles inland. Whether Yekoob Beg evacuated arian without risking @ battle, or whether was expelled from this town by force, does not appear; but we incline to-the belief that, his position having been rendered untenable 1d_a message of congratulation to the victors at Kashgar; if, on the other hand, for some unforeseen reason or other, the scarcity of provisions, it should and protracted, and yet at the Yakoob Beg should be indisputably offer any resistance in the field, w ly into the advancing, or at all events prep: to advance, across the plains of Centr Asia, the power of Yakook Beg has received a shock from which it is doubt whether under any circumstance cover, the fate of his kingdom and is trembling in the balance, and the Russian authorities are trifling with his emissary while his master is being expelled from possessions which it cost bim years of sacrifice and bloodshed to secure. We about to despatch a Resident Minis State, and he will arrive just in time to remind' the victorious Chinese that we have
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