Our Hongkong correspondent writes Major-General Barrow, who has gone through with General Gaselee to take command of the Expeditionary Force, is reported to be sanguine of being able to start from Tientsin for the relief of the capital—if there is any one to relieve there now—on the 27th inst., and to reach Peking about the 3rd of August. I trust he may prove a correct calculator, but I fear that such a movement is quite impossible, and that the gallant general has not allowed sufficient for transport Gifficulties and those for the commissirint for the troops.
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