July Sth, arrived in harbour on the 23rd inst. The following are the only new telegrams she brings.
London, 27th July.—The Irish Church disestablishment Bill has received the Royal assent. The 'Telegraph Bill has passed. Admiral Seymour is dead. The Manchester Market closed, unchanged. 'The Liverpool cotton market closed steady. Western Ma', draw Cotton 94d. 28th.—Cotton Dhollerah 104d., Market steady. New York, 23rd July.—Cotton Mid Uplands 34 cents. Gold 1354 Exchange on London 110. Calcutta, 26th July.—Exchange'on London 1-114 to 1-11.9-16. China Rs, 226, weak. Patna Opium. Rs.. 1285. Benares Rs. 1266. Loading for Straits, aod China steamers China, Hindoostan and Armunian. Cotton Fair Bengal Rs.25-4. Imports quiet but firm.
The following has Also been received via,' Kinchta.—London, 3rd August, 1869: Cotton, Very active, 13d; Grey Shirtings, S{lbs 11/9;- Tea, Lower grades, firm; Silk, Dull, "Red-Peacocks, 23/,°—No. 3 Teatlee 28/; Dollars, 60; American Tea, Dull; American Exchange, 10}; Amerivan Gold, 1364; Discount—3%, Of local news thera is less than usual to recor the following items taken'from the daily papers being all that has occurred of interest. estre M.'s Minister at Poking has confirmail the sentence of death passed upon the convict George, and he will be executed early in the week. eae The old church is being rapidly demolished and. little remains but an unsightly dilapidated shell of the building so long used for public worship in Shanghai. The foundation stone of the now. Oriental Bink 'Tax Evening Courier gives the' following as the. reply of the Tauutai to the, lust "despatch, from the Consular, Body-on.-the. subject of: the "pro-, posed telegraph-to: the Kiu-toan Beacon.
Tu, the Tautai, acknowledges receipt of. the' Consul General's reply on the subject of a line of telegraph in the Vicinity of the " Kiutoan" Beacon, (lated the 3rd of 7th month; 10th August; 1869) stating that the ob-Sect of such a line of telegraph' from" Shanghai to the' Vicinity of the Beacon was'for the presérvativa of life and property, add for the general: interests "of "commerce; and that it was not convenient tb'discnss the question'ag to whether' it might 'Be iujarinis® to the "Fang-shui" or geomantic indlueuess: but that the Gorisuls thought's louch batter plan would "be t8, lay this tatter in all its bearings ' before their "rdspe> tive' Ministers resident at Peking, so'that=they might lay the subject before the Board of Foreign Affairs at Pe-. kiay' and statidg'that they did-not-desire- that the Building was, we learn, Jaid on Saturday Inst."
meeting of the German community was hold at their Consulate on Monday, and attended by at least sixty gentlemen of that nationality. Its object' was to determine in what special manner the German ro: sidents would shir their respect for H. R. H. the Duke of Edinburgh, who.as Dake of Saxe Coburg Gotha and heir to the preseat Reigning "Dake, (whom e will succeed provided the Dakedom be not in the meanwhile annexed by some snore powerful potentate) may be looked upon as one of themselves, Committee, consisting of Messrs. Anuecke,' Hop pius, Probst, Hubner, 'Pelge,/ Wallich, tand' Drage, ry out the objects of the meet-. "passed, asking the Club Uoo-Liedertafel and 'Theatre -Veroin, to unite in a Concert and Theatrical entertainment; pros vided the' weather should be cool eaoagh to adlwit'of
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