I only wish we could get some idea of what is going on outside. It is annoying to think that you at home, thousands of miles away, know a gr.at deal better what is going on outside the very walls of Peking than we who are covped up inside them. A coolie messenger whom we sent out into the city has just returned with the news that all the troops in the city, except five of Jung Lu's regiments, are ordered to go out with all haste'to meet the advancing foreign troops, which also looks hopeful. However, more of all this in its right place. I must go on with my description of the present condition of things where I left off last Monday.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.