It is reported from Peking that something has lately turned the Empress Dowager against ex-Marshal Ssu and that, in consequence, it is quite probable that he will not be able to procure a more lenient sentence beyond that of decapitation after the autumn assizes this year, which will be near the end of this month, It was at first thought that the ex-Marshal had bought pardon of some sort, but if our Peking correspondent's dispatch is true "the deal is off" and death by decapitation very near.
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