have arrived and are quartered for the time being with Mr, Litton, They are likely to be here for some time before proceeding west There isa rumour abroad that Yit Mantze is to be beheaded at last. Nous verrons/ The district is fast settling down again to its normal condition of: peace, and we hear of ne further cape lations on the part of Etpafal. Ex-Taotai Jeu has gone to Chéngpredatory bands. The outlook is decidedly
tu, after which he will go to Peking for an audience with the Empress-Dowager. On dit that his future home will be Paris. Paris might easily get a worse man as head of its Chinese Legation. We have had a great deal of rain lately, but your readers will hardly expect to get other meteorological news from this out-port.
4th March,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.