On account of the interruption of steamers during China New Year season and for other reasons, our latest Shanghai papers coming Steamer—hourly expected—brings are nearly three weeks old. \Vhen the
us the daily and weekly editions of your valuable paper, we can form a better opinion as to what has been transpiring recently at Peking and in other parts of the Empire. We have had a late mail from Hongkong and we have Reuter's political telegrams, but as these dispatches from the seat of war are necessarily under strict censorship, we alco know very litle as to the particulars of affaire in that part of the world,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.