A Carvse official here, who has relative overcast; pressure still falls at Amoy—Probabitities.—Weather threatening rain, appointed as an attache to the Embassy moderate N. or N.E. breezes over the ing to Russia to attend the Coronation N. coast; light S. winds over the S. of the Czar, has received a telegraphic des-coast till' the rise of the barometer. patch from Peking stating that the in-—Tuesday, 25th February, 10 a.m.—dications are that H.E. Li Hung-chang State of the atmosphere on the 24 The will not go to Russia but that a Manchu Tow pressures seem to have been divided of high rank will go instead as Chief, and whilst one centre is located in the neigh Shao Vu-lien as Vice-Ambassador. bourhood of Foochow, a second centre, Accorprxa to native reports Lo Féngwhich deepens considerably, lies at sea to Joh, ex-Naval Secretary of the Peiyang, the N.W. of Nagasaki. There is probably although denounced by certain Censors, as another depression over Mongolia. High already reported in these columns at the pressures over the N.E. of Japan. State time, has so far escaped summary degradaon the morning of the 25th.—The barometer tion through the influence of his patron does not rise yet at Shanghai and the wind who is said to have engaged the services of hesitates between the two pressures. the Empress-Dowager to shield his protiné babilities.—The weather will set fair; from his numerous enemies. In apparent variable winds over the entire coast, more demonstration of the above it is now an-from Nor NE. in the N.—Wednesday, generally from S. or S.W. in the S., and
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