It is rumoured in Manila that on and after Ist July, the Messageries Maritimes will extend a branch line to the port, passengers and cargo will then be ford from Marseilles direct to the ippines.—On the 2nd and 3rd March, a terrible typhoon visited the province of Leite, causing much destruction to life and property.—Tho str, Yuen-tze-fei, recently arrived from Hongkong, is adver: tised for sale here.—The Swedish barque Amoy was sold by auction for $10,000. An Earthquake Insurance Company, says the Diane, is about to be got up by some enterprising Englishme o'clock on the morning of the 2tst inst,, H. BE. General Alamiuos left this city for the Spanish peninsula in the steamer Paragua, via Singapore,—Either Sr. Lopez Dominguez or Sr. Lopez Letoma will be appointed Governor-General of the Philippines. Both these gentlemen are generals in army, and.are highly spoken of by the Manila papers.—Faust and Traviata have been performed by the Opera Company at the Avroceros with much success these two performances claro the five mouths' contract with the Company, who, it is said, will now proceed to China after a few beuit nights—From Carmarines Sur dates are to the 15th Jan, last, The Cimarrones, a savage tribe living in the woods, are still infesting the neighbourhood of Cadiz. Two pour fellows who were working in the jungle, were suddenly attacked by a number of savages who, with arrows and spears, killed one of them on the spot and mortally wounded the
havoc in the district of Cavite—H. K. other. Smallpox was committing and Times.
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