Company's hulk Shamrock, laden with ammunition, was towed down the harbour on the 15th May to Tomachi, as being more retired, and where less harm is likely to occur in the event of a catastrophe from explosion. Japanese are of that happy-go-lucky temperament that makes litle tinction between gunpowder and coal dust, and do not quite understand there is much, until they find themselves sailing aloft astride of the remains of a cartridge box. The commanding officer of the Kearsarge evidently acted with discretion when he moved that vessel to a safer distance away from the hulk while she remained among the shipping.—A batch of Satsuma prisoners, about 270 in number, were landed on of the 18th, from the S. S. Horal Maru, haying been brought up from Takase in custody of some 60 policemen. The prisoners nearly
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