Bombay, 15th August.
The mortality in the Indian Famine has been ascertained to have been 135,000.
Constantinople, 15th August.
The Porte has given orders for the evacuation of the town of Batoum.
'Vienna, 15th August. Austrians were compelled to fall back on After five days' continuous fighting, the Gracanit Cyprus, 15th August.
There is a good deal of sickness in Cyprus just at present, but there is no cause for anxiety.
London, 15th August.
There has been a naval review in the presence of the Queen at Spithead.
Vienna, 17th August.
The Austrians are still retreating. London, 17th August.
The speech from the Throne praises the patriotic offers of military aid made by the British Colonies during the late crisis. It further states that affairs in South Africa have occasioned some anxiety, but trusts that serious troubles are at an end.
The Director of the Police at St. Peters-St. Petersburg, 18th August. a been stabbed by an assassin and Constantinople, 18th August.
Thirty Turkish Battalions have joined the Bosnians.
The Russian troops will embark on their return on the 19th August. The withdrawal of the British Ironclad Squadron is to follow.
Vienna, 18th August.
The Austrians have gained a complete victory at Belalovac.
London, 22nd August.
Captain Nares has been appointed to the command of the alert on her scientific cruise to the South Pacific.
Constantinople, 2ist August.
The insurgents refuse to surrender Batoum. The German, English and French Ambassadors at Constantinople are urging meaning rather doubtful.)
The Municipal Minutes published on another page, contain comparative state. ments of taxes collected on foreign and native houses in the Settlement, for the half year ending the 30th June, which is exactly the kind of information the Ratepayers will be glad to have supplied to them at the proper intervals.—The alleged illegal apprehension of a native woman in the Settlement by runners from the city and the Mixed Court, was beyond doubt a suitable object for the correspondence which appears in the minutes, and, in spite of the explanation given, it would certainly seem to have been the proper course for the runners to have reported the arrest of the woman at the Police Station. The fact of meeting her in the street, when on their way to the Police Station, hardly appears to absolve the runners from the necessity of reporting her capture, before taking her out of the Settlement.
The following has been handed to us for publication:—" Shanghai Municipal Loan of 1878, Municipal Debentures Amount of Loan Ts. 24,000
Amount tendered for........++. Tls. 100,000
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