There was a Chinese report yesterday that the British flag was flying over one of the gates of Peking, H. E. Li Hung-chang has' been summoned to Peking, and leaves Canton on Friday next, the -22nd instant. Later news is that he is now on his way north.
News was received here from Japanese sources that Captain Hatton Yukichi and five other officers and forty men were killed at the taking of the Taku Forts, and thirty-five wounded; the wounded were taken by the Higo Maru to Saseho,
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