28th Oct, As our Peking correspondent told us in his last letter, Count Cassini, the Russian Minister, left Peking for Russia on the 80th of September. His baggage had been packed for three or more weeks, and the carts and mule litters were actually standing in the courts of the Russian Legation, but the Minister would not go until he could take with him duly signed and sealed "an important agreement supposed to be the right of way for the Siberian railway across northern Manchuria." With great difficulty we have succeeded in obtaining a copy of this agreement, and we now proceed to give an English translation of it. 'The numbers to the various clauses in this Convention have been added by us for convenience' sake
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.