London, 10th August.
Sir Stafford Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has made his financial statement, showing a deficit of £4,250,000. The Commons agreed to a Ministeria! motion forthe issue of £2,000,000 Exchequer Bills immediately.
Berlin, 9th August.
A favorable issue to the negociations between Germany and the Vatican is looked for.
Vienna, 9th August.
There is to be further Austrian mobilization, in consequence of the turn of events in Bosnia and Hertzegovina. The Austrians attacked and routed the enemy at Mostar after severe fighting, with heavy loss to the insurgents; that of the Austrians was trifling.
Rome, 9th August.
Cardinal Nina has been appointed Pontifical Secretary of State.
Cyprus, 9th August.
The Indians at present in garrison Cyprus are to re-embark in about five weeks, Vienna, 10th August.
The resistance to the Austrian advance is increasing. Continuous fighting is going on in the neighbourhood of Menmiur. Singapore, 13th Augu:
The Voonvarts, which collided with the Ehedice, has been floated.
London, 12th August.
Safvet Pacha has been created a Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Northcote, in reply to a question, said that the British Ironclad Squadron would withdraw from the Sea of Marmora when the Russians evacuate Turkish territory.
Constantinople, 12th August.
The Porte agrees to grant to the island of Crete certain concessions in the interest of peace, but declines to accede to the demands of Greece.
The Mahomedan population in the province of Batoum, out of vanity, have assembled to resist the Russian occupation. Vienna, 12th August.
The Austrians have captured a battalion of Turkish troops of the reserve.
The community will regret to see by the correspondence published with the minutes of the Municipal Council meeting of the 5th instant, that the long-contemplated project of extending the Markham road long taken regarding it, to be about to fall through. The landowners on the proposed route have suddenly, and apparently unanimously, refused to sell the necessary ground, and although the acting Taotai Chu has consented to postpone the joint investigation of the locality until after the gathering of the crops, there would appear but little probability of this-much-needed extension being carried out. It is a pity the landowners cannot be made to understand "how greatly their "farms "would: be improved by the construction of a good road, whereby the facility of conveyance of produce to market would be much enhanced. How the screw has been applied, will probably never be known.—It is satisfactory to find the Council still intent inroad improvement within the boundaries of the Settlementitself. The excellent work now being done in the Hankow road is shortly to be supplemented by the widening of a portion of the Foochowroad, betweentho Kiangse and Honan roads.—Some further correspondence is published respecting the non-burial of coffins of deceased destitute natives near the Rifle Butts, and the Acting Taotai has been at length induced to order that the coffins at present deposited there shall be covered with earth, and that all new coffins shall be covered as soon as they reach the ground.
The collision case, the junk Song Hong Mow v. the P. and O. Co,'s steamship Pekin, Captain Wooleott, was commenced on Friday in H.ML's Supreme Court before G. French, Esq., Chief Judge, with Captain Barclay, master of the steamer Mikado, and Mr. E. Brand, pilot, sitting as Assessors. The collision took plavo over twelve months ago, near the Woosung Bar, the junk being badly damaged although: not sunk, The case is not yet concluded, the Court having been occupied with it each day since Tuesday. We give a copious report of the plaintiff's case elsewhere.
A Naval Court to enquire into the cireumstances attending the loss of the British barque Harlow, on the Tungsha Bank, in the river Yangtsze, on the morning of the Sist July, under circumstances reported in last week's North-China Herald was held on Monday at H.M.'s Consulate. A full report is given on other pages.
The Customs enquiry into the loss of the Harlow was called for Thursday afternoon, in the Harbour-master's office, but was adjourned till a future day, the date of which has to be fixed.
Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Ca., agents for the Harlow, request us to state that, with the assistance of the Registrar of Shipping and Captain Matheson, they have collected sufficient funds, and otherwise amply provided for the wants of the shipwrecked crew. Captain Stephens, and his officers and crew, take this opportunity to tender their grateful thanks to the Shanghai community for the very liberal manner in which their appeal for assistance has been met.
Between two and three o'clock on Saturday morning a native constable was patrolling his beat in the Fohkien Road, when he discovered that a house, in which was stored some straw, was on fire. The
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