In lieu of the details of the capture of Peking, which are not to hand, I may refer to local matters. Yesterday the first regiment of Germans came in, I was at the Gordon Hall when they passed. They made a splendid show, great, tall, masterful fellows in fine condition after their month at sea. They are as good-looking if not better than the Sikhs, who look very finely in their khaki dress and tall head-wraps. The American horse, mostly from Oregon, are the finest lot of cavalry, however, We learn that the 9th cavalry (coloured) are soon to be here. They are said to be a fine lot of soldiers, very clean and very soldierly, The Russians are the dirtiest-arp though the Hindoos have the live-hest odours. The little black coolies from Madras are the oddest, and the Brahmins with their clean brass water-bowls. One could never see elsewhere such a combina tion of soldiery as is seen here now.
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