Viking which left for London on 18th June, took the largest tea cargo ever believed to have been shiped from Foochow: 2,902,541 pounds.—or the first time during many years, one of the principal prizes in the half-yearly grand drawing of the Manila Lottery was drawn at Foochow.—The Seaman's Hospital Fund is being liberally subscribed to by the community, and we trust that the amount raised will be suficient to meet the immediate wants of thi useful and deserving charity.—The attempt of certain Teamen, Tea Brokers, and Compradores, to get up howl over reported heavy losses incurred through the recent flood, has signally failed. ' Our Boy" says "that some of the "damaged" tea: have been already sold at a profit!—Dur-the thunder-storm on the 19th instant, two shopmen in the southern suburb were struck by lightning while standing behind their employer's counter;—they were, of course, killed instantaneously. At about the same time, another man was killed working' in a field on Nantai. Salvora at the Kwang Tung, off Ockseu, though nominally protected by a guard of native soldiers, are by no means unmolested. A quantity of their salvage has already been plundered, and the wreck is claimed by the islanders as their own perquisite. A Malay, belonging to a foreign hong in Amoy, enperiutending the salvors, has shot two Chinese, thieves of course, The Mandarins demand life for life, and a row is the consequence. Thistle, with Mr. Conaul ron board, was to leave Amoy for Ockseu on the 19th instant. fret ent interruptions to our telegraphic communication with Pagoda Anchorage are, we believe, likely to cease. So long as the thieves could secretly dispose of the stolen wire, it was, of course, a difficult matter to put a stop to the constant fering of material; but, as we un stand that the receivers of the plunder have been at last discovered by the native police, and are now undergoii tion (torture %) in the City, assume that the robberies complained of will actually checked. As the increased vigour of Referring tothonativetroub! near Swatow, mention of which was made our last issue, we hear of further dances, and that the Magistrate at Chang P'oo, in the Chang Chow prefecture, has beau taken by the rioters and quartered, regarded by the officials here as and it is feared that it will very serious matter, We also understand, on good authority, that the district city of Shao Woo, in' the Shao Woo prefecture, aa been captured by band of rebels known as the ' Chai-fe BE, " peculiar sect of Buddhists, Tes said that Chang, late Taotai_ of Yen Kien Shaou circuit, has been ordered to the disturbed district, with three thousand troops.
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