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The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Interesting from China. (search)
Interesting from China. ratification of the treaty in Pekin — funeral of the Murdered Allies — the burning of the Emperor's summer residence, &c., &c., &c. The America's mails give particulars of the ratification of the treaties between the Allies and Chinese, in the city of Pekin. An interesting description of the scene says: The ceremony took place in the hall of Ceremonies, in Pekin. At three P. M. the procession entered the Austin gate in the following order:--One hundred cavalry (detachments of King's Dragoon Guard, Prebyn's and Fane's Horse,) four hundred iour Allies, and the four British were buried in the Russian cemetery, outside the An-tin gate of Pekin, on the 17th. At noon the procession formed at the Liama Temple, and marched in the followthe open country south, with its groups of villages and trees, a tier of hills on the right, and Pekin away in the distance. The 19th of October was the great day of destruction, black masses of