And the following have sailed;—Sarah Nicholwn, Saigon; Maria Rickmers, Singapore; Satsuma, Montreal; Sarpedon, London.
The Murch, the first steamer of the season from the North, arrived on Saturday, and the Appin, second, on Sunday.
hear that both steamers had to break the ice, to get up the Peiho; and they report that there was a good deal of broken ice in the river, when they left on the Sth The annual meet Company was held on the 10th instant. a net profit on the 24,172, of which Tls. per cent dividend, ising the Fund to Ts. increase in consumption of the report for the past year, which showed the position of the congregation to be satisfactory. A call had been given to Mr. Thomas, who was lately in charge. Thenative female mission schools in connection with the congregation were working well. The Chapel had undergone extensive repairs, and a lease had now been drawn up and forwarded to the Directors of the London Mission, vesting the building in the managers for the time being, on behalf of the congregation. Mr. Tod read the financial statement which, with the Report, was passed unanimously. Managers for the current year having been elected; the Chairman moved that a vote of thanks be passed to Mr.
Milsom for much valuable service in connection with the congregation. Mr. Owen read the report of the Female Mission Schools, which had been in operation for the last ten months. One of these insstitutions was in the City and one in the Foochow Road, both together having about thirty pupils, who received religions instruction and were also taught in several of the usual broaches of a school course while a Sunday school in connection with the same mission was attended by about 60 children. Bible reading by Chinese bible readers, and house to house y ing. carried out by some of the Ladies of the congregation, were also noticed in the Report, which was adopted.
We print elsewhere a report of proseed-ings at the meeting of members of the Gymnasium, which we sketched in our last issue.
It will be seen that the accounts show a balance in hand of $703.
The Directors of the U.S. N. Company have appointed Messrs. Olyphant & Ca.
General Agents. The announcement has taken shareholders rather by surprise. So important a matter, it is urged, should have been submitted to a general meeting of shareholders; and Article 7 of the Company's deed of Settlement seems to sustain this view. Apart, however, from the technical question—that people generally consider the Directors have acted wisely in the interests of the Company, is proved by the fact that, since the announcement, the quotation for shares has considerably advanced.
We regret very much to have to record the sudden death of Dr. B. Jenkins, Inter-prefer of the U. S. Consulate. Dr. Jenkins was one of the oldest Shanghai residents, his stay here dating from 1847, and he will be much missed from a community in which he has been so long known and respected. Thefirst thirteen years of his stay were devoted to mission work, in pursuance of which he travelled a good deal through Recently, during Mr. Seward's absence, in
S. Consulate, as Vice-Consul General resuming his old post on Mr. Seward's return, The American community therefore lose in him an experienced a oficial, as we all lose an esteemed fellow-resident. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon, at the old Cemetery, and was attended by the various foreign Consuls, by Chen the Magistrate of the Mixed Court, the officers of the men-of-war in harbour, anda large number of foreign residents. A strong body of Volunteers lined the path leading from the mortuary chapel, down which the coffin was borne by sailors from the U.S. steamer Monocacy, the Volunteers resting on reversed arms as it passed, presenting arms as it was lowered in the grave, and again resting on reversed arms, while the solemn words of the funeral service "earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust," were read by the Rev. Mr. Nelson, the officiating Chaplain. The flags of the various Consulates and on board the ships in port, were hoisted to half-mast during the day.
We regret very much to hear that M. Vial, the Commandant of the Franco-Chinese disciplined troops stationed outside the South Gate of the City, has been badly injured by one of his native sub-officers. He had received on Monday the money to pay his men their month's wages, and the assault was evidently committed with the intention of murdering him, and of stealing the money. In the evening, when the bugle was sounding the breakup, one of his Chinese officers came to his quarters, and asked for some sporting ammunition which he knew M. Vial kept alongside of the chest which contained the money. M. Vial told him three times to go away; that this was not the time to make such request, when the Chinaman suddenly struck him a blow onthe neck with his sword. MI. Vial did not at once realise the nature of the wound, and grappled with his opponent, receiving inthe act a second blow, which cut open his under lip. A struggle ensued, M. Vial trying to reach the fire-place to ring for assistance, and during it he received five other wounds in the back, which so weakened him that the Chinaman managed to get away and, in the darkness, to escape from the camp. Notwithstanding his loss of blood, MI. Vial was able to be carried to the General Hospital, where he has been carefully tended by Doctors Galle and Vidal. Tite wound in the neck, which narrowly missed the carotid artery, might have proved mortal, but the others are not: serious, and we are glad to hear that heis likely to recover. It is evident that the motive of A nucetingof the Victoria Fire Imsurance was held in Hongkong on the 7th ultimo, A report of proceedings will 1 found elsewhere. The accounts, as we mild be the ease, enabled £52,000 to he carried to rewer payment of a dividend at the The i general meeting of the congion of Uni was held on the inst.. the Rev. Mr. Muirhead in the Mr. Mitchell, the secretary, read the neighbouring country, at " time when such journeys were more serious undertakings than they are now; and the pages of the North-China Herald contain interesting records of his adventures and experience. Having accepted, subsequently, the post of Interpreter at the U. S. Consulate, Dr. Jenkins has acted, in virtue of that office, as Foreign Assessor at the Mixed Court almost since its foundation—an interval of absence in 1363, when Dr. R. A. Jamiesonfilledhisplace, having only tobeexcepted. the attack was robbery, from the circumstances we have mentioned. M. Vial is aman of kindly disposition, liked by his men, and has been particularly kind to his assailant, who had been with him for several years, and who owed his position to his patronage. We are sorry to learn that, up to last evening, the culprithad not been taken, but the most active search is being made for him, and it is hoped that he will not be able long to escape the punishment he deserves.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.