The Russian Ambassador at Constantinople has informed the Porte that the withdrawal of Russian troops would be stopped, in consequence of the murders in the evacuated districts.
London, 9th October.
Tester is the winner of the Cresarewitch.
Lord Chelmsford and Mr. Whalley, M.P., are dead, Constantinople, 12th Oct. and Kirkilissa, The Russians decline to evacuate Burgos London, 13th Oct.
A fire has occurred at a Theatre in Liverpool, at which thirty-seven persons were killed and many others injured.
Messrs. Heugh Balfour & Ca., of Manchester, have stopped. The liabilities are said to be £1,500,000.
Yesterday afternoon, in the Supreme Court, Chief Justice French said that he might announce to the Bar that he had just received a telegram from the Marquis of Salisbury to the effect that R. A. Mowat, Esq., was to be appointed Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court for China and Japan, under the recent Order in Council, which, his Lordship added, was to come into operation in January next.—This appointment will, we feel sure, give the greatest possible satisfaction to all who may at any time have had business requiring their attendance at the Supreme Court. Mr. Mowat's close attention to the onerous duties he has hitherto had to perform, the urbane manner in which he has performed those duties, coupled with his genial disposition on all occasions, have undoubtedly won for him the esteem and good wishes not only of the Bar of Shanghai, but of all with whom he has been brought in contact either professionally or socially. To this general recognition of valued services, we desire to add our own congratulations on Mr. Mowat's well-deserved appointment.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has conferred the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity on the Rey. Arthur E. Moule, of Hangchow, as a recognition of his services in the Mission field in the province of Cheh-
Kiang, and specially for his translation of the XXXIX Articles into Chinese. The last "Lambeth" Degree, given in China, was conferred by Archbishop Sumner on the Rev. John Hobson, British Consular Chaplain at Shanghai.
Our obituary contains the name of Miss Lydia M. Fay, who died on Saturday, October 6th, at Chefoo. She had worked for twenty-eight yearses a Missionary in China, and her loss will be felt by all who had the privilege of her acquaintance as well as by the natives, by whom she was held insincere respect.
Among the passengers who arrived Monday by the Hankwang, from Chefoo, was Chief Justice French, who, we are glad to learn, is much improved in health.
The first ordinary half-yearly meeting of the North-China Insurance Company under its new constitution on a permanent basis, was held on Monday at the offices, Hankow Road. The premia for the half-year amounted to Tls. 650,597 and the losses to Tls. 157,899, leaving o balance of Tls. 446,369, to be carried from the Working Account to the credit of the Company. The report and accounts were adopted, and the election of Messrs. D. Brand and Mr. C. L.
Grant to the Directorate, in the place of Messrs. M. S. Gubbay and F. H. Bell, was confirmed.
An action, the Tong Foo-chang hong E. H. Lazarus, which was a claim to recover Tis, 3,282, as the payment for sixty-seven bales of straw braid, has been tried in H.M.'s Supreme Court before R. A. Mowat, Esq., Deputy Chief Judge, and a Jury consisting of Messrs. W. B. Chalmers, J. Walter, J. Sharp, C. J. Shury and R. Law. The facts of the case, briefly related, were that on the 16th September last, plaintiffs, through J. 'M, Walker, a broker, sold sixty-seven bales of straw braid to the defendant, at Tls. 52 per bale, payment to be made on delivery. During the negociations, Walker, in the defendant's office, signed two documents setting forth that he was the principal in the transaction, and after the braid had been delivered and accepted he solicited payment from the defendant. Thereupon defendant produced the account sales of a previous shipment of deer skins by him on Walker's account, showing a loss of Tls. 1,744, and in settlement of the two transactions tendered him a cheque for Tls. 1,538, makingthededuction of Tls. 1,744 from the amount of Tls. 3,282 duo for the straw braid, Walker then disputed that he was the principal in the straw braid transaction and refused to accept the cheque, hence the present action, Defendant paid into Court the-Tls. 1,538, anid denied all further liability. The case occupied the Court a considerable time, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiffs, A lengthy report of the proceedings will be given in next week's N.C. Herald.
The complaint of our correspondent, whose letter appears on another page, that any person, whether holding a certificate of competency or not, may be placed in command of any British ship in China or Japan, certainly seems to deserve attention, There is no reason why rules found to act well in other parts of the world should be relaxed in China, and the very fact that incompetent men find it impossible under present forms to obtain employment elsewhere, will naturally tend to draw them to China, where commands can be obtained on such easy terms, Our correspondent points out that the local Insurance offices are largely interested in upholding the standard of seamanship; but beyond this, there are the considerations of safety to the lives of crews and passengers to be taken into serious account. It seems like an undoing of all the recent legislation on the subject of shipping, to depart from so useful a device as that of requiring official certificates of competency. 'The sen tence of a Naval Court suspending or con fiscating that certificate is at present' a severe punishment in cases of incompetencys but if no certificate at all be needed, an enquiry into the causes of a disaster will be nothing more than a farce, so far as the position of the shipmaster is concerned.
The steamship Eldorado arrived on Saturday from England, She is another addition to the fleet of the China Coast Steam Navigation Company, afd is intended for the Northern line.
The last round trip of the s.s. Haeting is, says the Foochow Herald, perhaps worth noting. She left Pagoda Anchorage at 6 A.at, on Saturday, the 21st ultimo, for Shanghai, and returned to Foochow on Wednesday evening, the 25th ulto.—having made the round trip (Foochow to Shanghai and back) in four days and-a-half.
The steamers Nizam, Eldorado, Fuyew and Ningpo, experienced a typhoon during their recent passage from Hongkong, but happily none of them sustained any serious damage. They report passing the British barque Arabia running under jury masts, Assistance was offered her but she signalled that it was not required. She appeared to be going into Amoy.
On another page will be found a translation of the memorial by the Governor of Chéhkiang, on the late disturbances at Chu-shan, which we have been enabled to obtain in advance of its publication in the Peking Gazette. It is of considerable length, tut the importance evidently attached to
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