We are frozen in at Inst. Hu Yiiftn returned from a month's trip to Newchwang, Kinchou, and the region outside of SI haikuan on Monday last; he reported that in Tientsin several foreigners bad told him that the cause of the river remaining open Into was due (o volcanic eruptions in Japan; that the bases of these volcanoes resting in the ocean, had so warmed the current going towards the Chinese coast that the formation of ice had been impossible. As our latest reports from Tientsin say ice is all over the bar, we conclude the volcanoes have gone out of business, temporarily, to resume perhaps in the spring.
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