have just finished reading your account of the wedding of our Princess with great enthusiasm. As I finished I passed on to the news about our Prince, and the contrast of the two situations struck me. It must have been a great matter for regret to the Prince and all the Royal Family that he should have been absent from such x family joy. He was on the business of the Empire. He la an example to us all.
Cuana's TRoops, The soldiers who belonged to Chang (the Rabbit) who was beheaded at Shih-fang recently have come to Mienchow, and taken up their quarters under General Tien.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.