The American mail of the 20th August arrived Thursday, by the M. B. str. Saikio Maru.
A mail leaves to-morrow for Europe by the MIM. str. Sindh, Telegrams have been received announcing another attack on Plevna, in which the Russians took four redoubts, at the cost of 3 Generals and 5,000 men wounded.
The Russian attack was preceded by a week's bombardment, and would seem, therefore, to have been a most determined effort. The Turks, however, subsequently retook three of the redoubts, inflicting enormous loss on the Russians. the 15th September, bed Bonn 12,000 Rus-'The losses of the besieging force up to
sians and 3,000 Roumanians.
Mchemet Pasha has again encountered and defeated the left wing of the Russian army and the Russians have in consequence ovgenated Timova, oyarsday, say the Russian troops from Poland had tent telegrams were received Thursday, sayin,
summoned to the seat of war.
The only news in the Municipal minutes is that the Council have agreed to purchase a strip of land to widen the Szechuen road Detween the Canton road and the Yangking-pang.—They have refused an offer to round the corner of Kiukiang and Szechuen roads, because the price ached is in excess of the assessed value. It seems to us that, in laying down this as the only basis on which they are prepared to treat, the Council practically shut themselves out of the market. It doesn't at all follow because a certain value has been placed upon land for convenience of assessment, that that is the value at which it is to stand indefinitely in the market. To show the absurdity of the position, the Council declined the other day to treat, except at the assessed rate of Tls. 1,500 a mow, for the surrender of a corner off piece of land in Hongkew for In the case of the C. N. Ca. v. Ho Chu-tsai, tried some iveeks ago, the Mixed Court has reconsidered that portion of its judgment in which $200 compensation for loss of time was awarded to the defendant. It is admitted that, though the plaintiffs were unable to produce sufficient evidence to convict the defendant, they had good grounds for bringing the action, and the defendant, "though not proven guilty, left the Court with grave suspicions attached to his character. The Court, therefore, on reconsideration, relieves the plaintiffs from paying the costs, and orders the cancellation of the undertaking they entered into"—to pay compensation, The question will suggest itself, why the Court did not see all this in the first instance, and avoid making the order which it now cancels, Thefourthengine for the line between this and Woosung having now been completely finished, took its trial trip down the line to Woosung and back on Wednesday afternoon, The name of the new addition to the rolling stock of the line is appropriately The Viceroy, and, we suppose in view of the approaching change of ownership, has its name also in gilt Chinese characters, The new engine performed its work satisfactorily in every particular. It was built by Messrs. Ransomes and Rapier, and is much more powerful than the three former, being especially intended for holiday and excursion trafic, Although much longer and heavier than the previous engines, it is so arranged as to have but little extra length of wheel space, and can be readily turned on the present turn-tables. We understand that The Viceroy will commence running on Sunday next.
A correspondent complains of the late hour to which the market people are allowed to remain in the Maloo, and of the danger which is thus incurred of accidents from the traps of country residents who are driving to their otices. That a market should be held at all in the chief thoroughfare of the Settlement is an anomaly; which edu, however, scarcely be remedied except by the erection of a public market-house somewhere in the neighbourhood. This has been often advocated, but lias never been taken up in earnest, and the subject has as often dropped after a fow weeks discussion.
The Chinese have a very indistinct report ofa powder magazine having been plundered somewhere in Chekeang, and of the Fatal ordering out troops—all of which they interpret to mean a rebel movement. But we must await further particulars before we can make anything comprehensible out of the rumour.
The steamer Peking left yesterday afternoon for Ningpo, and the Tunsin resumes her place on the River. This looks the C. N. Ca. had found a profitable field for the employment of the larger steamer on the Ningpo line,
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