Tux English mail of the 3rd December arrived on the 22nd instant, with telegrams to the 28th December.
The M. I. steamer Phase leaves to-morrow with the Homeward mail. The Brit. Darque Melrose Abbey, which we reported ashore in the river, in our last issue, has got safely off and come in to port.
The water in the Yang-tze has fallen low that most of the river steamers cannot cross 8 point near Kiukiang. Two sets are accordingly running; those of light draught between Hankow and Kiukiang; others between Shanghai and the latter port.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.