The reports as t" the foreigners in Peking continue numerous and cou tradictory. Yesterday H.M. Vonsul-General received from H.M. Consul at, Trentsin copy of Sir Claude Mucdonall's letter of the 4th inst, from Peking, which onl reached Mr. Garles ea the 21st inst., say that the Legations Id still provisions fora fortnight, buy that the garrivun was too exhausted tv hold out long. Yesterday also Mr. Pelham Warren received a t-letam from ELE. Yuan Shire saying that he had received from Peking an Imperial Edict stating that the Ministers were a!) safe on the 24th instant and were being supplied by the Government with fresh meat and vegetables. This, Yuan Shih-kai says, has removed his anxieties. Ca the other hand we lown that an intlaentinl banker who resides in Peking, about one li from the British Legation, arrived here on Wednexdy, having left the expical on the 7th. He stares that the Leyutionx tind then been destroyed, and all the foreigners lad disappeared, but h+ evuld not say. positively if they had been murdered, as he was tou frightened to enquire, "Tang Fu-hsiang's tro ps lout cleared out of Peking on the Z+hy and Uh city was qui Ace Tang's tro "ps prepa ing to detent the road to Peking, or wee they perchance escorting the Empress Dowager t" Hsianfu WARSHIPS IN THE RIVER, Tne U.N.S. Tatung, which arrived from River ports yesterday, reports seeing the following warships in Uae rivet:—At Hankow, H.M.S. Pique and " Japmese cruiser; at Kiukinug, H.aLS. Linn at Wan, HAMS. Snipe; ae Nanking, H.M.S. Hermione; and at Chinkiay, HIM. Ships Pigmy, Rosario and Evk.
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