ard January.
The Imperial Entrance into Peking.
Owing to the fact that the Foreign Ministers at Peking have given out their desire to personally welcome back the Emperor upon his Majesty's return to his old Capital, it is stated that upon. tle advice of Prince Ching, the Eiperor will enter Peking alone on the 7th instant, while the Empress Dowager and the Imperial Ancestral tablets and lares and penates of the dynasty, such as have been saved, will enter Peking on the afternoon of the 11th instant. The Foreign Ministers will welcome the Emperor at the Machiapu Terminus, outside the Yungting-gate of Peking.
Famine ip Hupeh.
A Wachang dispatch reports the arrival the other day at Hankow of a large number of men, women, and children, refugees from up-country. These refugees declared that they came from Hsiangyang, and Fanch'éng where the famine was very severe and that they had been forced to come to Hankow to subsist on the gravel stations that have been recently established there.
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