From the latest news fighting was still going on in the streets of Peking, but if it is true that a portion of the allied forces has been sent off to follow the Empress Dowager, we are not premature in talking of the Fall of Peking. It was on the 13th of October 1860, or very nearly forty years ago, that Peking was previously entered by an allied European army, and on that occasion, although the Summer Palace was destroyed as a punishment for the infamous tortures and leruelties inflicted by the Chinese in sight of the Court on their Europ-can prisoners, the Imperial Palace was not entered by the allies. For ithe first_time in history then the flags of Foreign Powers are floating over that hitherto most mysterious spot in China, the Imperial Palace
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