Everybody is full of delight and we hope to hear from our friends very soon. The last was through Mr. Pethick's despatch. We heard there was two days' fighting outside of Peking, which might be possible, but if the Chinese were all ready to run they could not hare fought with the courage of despair. Conscience has made some of them at least cowards. The record of what has been done in the city by the authorities makes one's blood ran_ cold. We hope that a certain amount of justice will be measured out to them. It was reported that when T'ungchou was captured the people were intimidated at first, but soon began to take down their shop boards and were rather glad that the reign of the Boxers was over. You will have known that Mr. Slimmon and his party of interpreter came in on Sunday. Mr. Slimmon stave! here at the head office and is waiting now for something to interpret. He might begin on Chinese nature under the conditions of absolute defeat.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.