The French mail of the 17th December, arrived on the 4th inst., by the 0. S, N.
Co'.s tr. Menelaus.
The American mail of the Ist January, arrived on the 8th inst., by the P. M. air.
Nevada.
The English mail of the 2th December, also arrived on the 8th, by the P. & O. str. Golconda.
'A mail leaves to-morrow for Europe by the P. & 0. str. Gwealior.
The following telegrams have been received Increase in the next Army Estimates is an-
Perhe Prince of Wales met with a gorgeous reception at Cashmere. There was a splen-the body-guard clad in chain ades period. The Witnessed the fireworks from is to be the French Mini Tt is stated that Brenier de Sontmorand dis bar been decided on, penny postage between
There has been an accident on the Great Northern Railway. Thirteen persons killed and 21 injured.
The Royalists have made a combined movetion have resulted i majority.
The jan Budget shows a deficit of over two millions.
A paper hunt was had on Saturday, starting in the field next Mr. Schmidt's house, and finishing on the Sikaway road, half a mile from the Bubbling Well. The weather was very bad, and the hunt thinly attended, A second, under more successful circum-the Bubbling Well and finishing near the 2-mile bridge.
he waual fortnightly entertainment of the Temperance Society was given Saturday evening. The heavy downpour of rain interfered with the attendance, and the programme was gone through before an audience of Jexs than a hundred persons.
The Municipal Council notify that, under the new constitution of the General Houpital, four ratepayers of the Settle ments North of the Yang-king-pang payers' meeting, Printed names of those willing to serve will be circulated; and in the mee payer desirous of being " Trustee is invited end forward is name as early as ble.
The Courier calls attention to a cruel punishment which has been"inflicted upon aman forsellingn piece of land at Woosung, to the Tramway Company. The piece question was situated on the opposite bank of the Woosung creek, and the owner has since been beaten so cruelly that he died after being carried home, although he could have seen no ble ranson why he should not be allowed to sell his land, when his countrymen on the other side of the creek were allowed to part with theirs. But the Courier is mistaken in saying the papers wf transfer were officially stamped at the Taotai's Yamen. Tue papers of transfer have not yet. been confirmed. The bill of sale passed between proprietors and buyers; the Tepao, who seems also to have been cruelly squeezed, being party; but the Taotai objects to confirm it with his seal, on the ground that the plot was fraudulently sold; the true reason being, it is reported, that when the Viceroy was down here lately, he ordered that the Tramway should not pass beyond the Woosung creek, The subsequent procedure is essentially Chinese. Instead of frankly stating their difficulty, when it might have been made subject of official argument, the Mandarins set to work to cruelly ill-use the unfortunate countryman who was a perfectly innocent party. We sincerely hope that the case will be strongly taken At the Supreme Court, Friday, before Sir Edmund Hornby, a case, "R, Mines M. ©. Adams," came on for hearing.
Plaintiff sued to recover $300, on the ground of wrongful dismissal from his engagement by the defendant, as captain of the steamer Dragon. He alleged that in consequence of the ship being wider repair at the time of his engagement at the end of November last, he was to receive half-pay at the rate of $100 per il she was ready for sea, and was in the meantime to generally certain work to be done on board, by three coolies to be paid by the al He understood that his command was to extend only to the period of the return feom a voyage to Manila in the barq Union, of Capt. Barry, who would sup sede him, and he would then become chief mate, The defendant, owner of the Dragon, who stated that he engaged plai tiff as ship-keeper only, and to make himeelf generally useful, became dissatisfied with the time taken to do the work referred to he also accused the plaintiff of disobedience of orders and general carelessness in the execution of his duty, and in consequence dismissed him without notice, in the ruddle of January. Plaintiff, therefore, in addition sued fur $200, as one month's full pay as captain, at the Shanghai rate of wages. Defendant paid $100 into Court, and the Court gave a verdict fur plaintiff, for another $100, with costs.—A report appears elsewhere.
On Sunday week, about ten p. party of constables under Inspector Wilson, made " successful raid upon a den of gamblers, and captured fourleen—all who were in the house at the time, The locality was an alley running out of the Fulskien Road, called these 1g-loong 5 and the house having only 01 entrance, there was not ay much cha. ce for escape in the recent casein the Honan Road. The entry, who was recoguined us one of the Mixed Court lictors (exch of whom, it believed, performed the ' duty" nightly, for the purpose of squeezing the proprie for), hind stationed himeelf in another room, instead of being outside, and only became aware of the approach of the enemy when entrance was effected, too late for the whistle he gave to be effective. The usual attempt at stampede was made, some getting under the tables, and clinging desperately to the legs in order to resist capture; I which, homer, was too well guarded, and in a fow seconds all were safely secured, and, together with the articles found in: the house; on the way to the Police Station, Among the articles taken were copies of the most approved treatises on gambling, account books of gains and: losses, cards, some strings of curiously cut Japane exe case, stamped leaden counters, two or three pocket-boxes of prepared opium,.s number of Chinese cash fitted close toge ther on an tron rod about seven -inches long, and constituting a formidable fighting weapon at clos One of the men was' a schoolmaster, who was liberal ted on bail, and on Monday morning Huich, the Mixed Court Magistrate, sent his card to the Police Station, with the intimation that the man would be forthcoming at the proper time. When the case was called on at the Mixed Court, however, the schoolmaster was not to be seen, and in anewer to questions as to his whereabouts, the Magistrate: quietly he was excused attending! Such an interference with the due course of justice an this, is anything but encouraging to the Municipal authortties, who are doing their utmost to clear the Settlement of these pests, which' are frequently the resort of pilfering houseboys, well as the haunts of known thiev and receivers of stolen property.
On Saturday night, another meet of gamblers was sure: successfully by the Police, The house was not an ordinary gambling den, being the place of business of a native piece-goode dealer. It is tuated in the Shantung road, and the occupier's boys appenr'to have made ita rendezvous of gamblers unknowingly to him, At the time the Police effected an entrance, upwards of thirty were found engaged in trying to solve the mysteries of chance, Some of those: present were houseboys, others tradesmen, and all appeared to be of a respectable class; but it turus out that the house had for some time been a gambling resort, Twenty of the delinquents were captured and taken to the Police Station, and about a dozen escaped. Some of the prisoners were released on bail, but all those taken appeared at the Mixed Court Monday morning. One, recognised as an old gambler, was ordered to be kept in custody, presumably for further enquiry about him the others were discharged with a warning, LIB. M.S. Thalia returned to Shanghai Thursday afternoon, from her cruise in search of the missing lorcha Mandarin, Although she had not been able to dise cover her whereabouts, enquiries made at various points along the coast were pretty conclusive that she in still afloat and trading, in the hands of natives, be: tween non-treaty ports, Investigations made by Captain Woolleombe and Mr, Forrest, H.B.M,'s Consul at Ningpo, as to the purchase of the cargo by the Soong-men merchant, and also into the facts of Uke lorcha's seizure and murder of the captain by the crew, have led to some curious revelations, which will be further pursued; and there now seems little doubt that the whole of the circumstances attending this gross case of piracy and
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