Belgium has recognized Spain.
Bazaine is at Cologne.
The Carlists have cut the Madrid and Saragossa Railway.
Reuter's Nagasaki telegram dated 21st Anugust says The Madras, Pingon, and Hamburg are ashore. The Bertha and Sooloo dismasted. The coal trade is entirely stopped for the present; nearly all the junks in harbour are wrecked, and very serious damage has been done at the Takasima mines. The steamers now here cannot be loaded for some time.
We have been favoured with the perusal of a private telegram concerning the meeting of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, held at Hongkong on Wednesday. The Chairman gave full explanations regarding the losses, and the meeting passed off quietly, no questions being ushed. Although the fact is not specially mentioned, it may be assumed that the Report and Accounts were adopted and passed. Mr. Pyke had resigned his seat at the Board, and the vacancy had not yet been filled.
A party of astronomers, consisting of Fleuriais, hydrographer to the French Navy, M. Blariez and M. Lapied, arrived by the French mail on Sunday, to take observations of the transit of Venus in Chi the French mail steamer Sindh was members of the embassy came on to Shanghai late on Wednesday evening from the Rio; jio-kan, and took up their quarters at the Astor House, Seven of their number left last night by the steamer Appin, for Tientsin, H. E. the Minister, with the remainder of his suite, left for Woosung this. morning, to embark in the Rio-jio-kan for the North. It is expected that General Lo Gendre will follow next week, by one of the Coast steamers. proceeding down the river on Sunday afternoon, she collided with a small laden junk, which filled, and was afterwards Grifted into the Soochow Creek, opposite to which the accident happened, where it sank, The junk had shortly before anchored direct in the fairway of the river, which carelessness caused the accident. No blame, we are informed, attaches to the steamer. The crew of the junk, who jumped overboard, were said to have been all saved, but the lowdah and others of their number state that there were more men on board, and that four of them were drowned.
An eye-witness informs us that after the collision several of the junk's crow were struggling in the water, close to the steamer, but no effort was made to save their lives, not even a rope being thrown to them,—Another eyewitness tells us, however, that the dangerous position into which the junk forced the steamer, regard-lees of repeated warnings from her whistle as she came down stream, was sufficient to warrant any amount of indifference to the fate of the Chinese crew. The Sindh had great difficulty in clearing the Costa Rica, at the P. Mf. S, Wharf, and our informant thinks every one on board her must have been fully employed trying to extricate their own vessel.
About 9 o'clock on Friday night a cargo-boat crossing the river, at ebb tide, fouled the bow of the D'Estrecs, French corvette, and was capsized. The boat contained four persons, three mon and a woman. The moment the accident was observed, a boat was lowered from the man-of-war, the crew of which succeeded in rescuing the woman, but the three men, a father and two sons, could not be found. Another accident occurred at Hunt's Wharf on Saturday night, between 10 and 11 o'clock, when a Chinaman while in the act of unmooring a cargo-boat from the steamer Chinkiang, fell overboard and was drowned. It was dark at the time, and"as there was a strong tide running, no attempt was made to rescue the man. Ho was not seen after he fell into the water.
On Wednesday, the Japanese corvette Riogjio-kan, from Nagasaki, was observed to be outside the Red Buoy. The Riojio-kan is a wooden vessel, protected by girdle of 4-inch iron plates 3} fect above and feet under the water line, and is not, therefore, an ironclad according to the ordinary application of the term. She is of 280 horse-power and The statement is made on good Chinese authority that the Formosa difficulty is to be, if it has not already been, referred to the arbitration of the Foreign Ministers at Peking. We give this for what it may be worth, merely remarking that, from the pro-Chinese sympathies which most of the Ministers are believed to hold in the matter, the wish, on the part of our native friends, may have been father to the report.
The ship Duke of Abercorn is still unable to cross the Bar, which on Wednesday afternoon showed only 19 feet of water.
The Mirzapore was unable to cross the Bar on the night of her arrival, and if she failed to do so soon, would probably have had both to discharge and load at Woosung. Fortunately she managed to got over on Wednesday afternoon's tide, The Pekin had to leave on Thursday morning, in order to clear the Bar before loading.
The quickest outward passage of the present season, by other than a mail steamer, has been made by the Glenfinias, a" now vestd of 1,366 tons, belonging to Mosars, Macgregor, Gow & Ca., of London and Glasgow. She arrived at Woosung on the 19th, at 5 p.m., having made the voyage from the Downs in 47 days 11 hours; or, deducting stoppages, in 41 days' 13 hours? steaming. But the Bar has lengthened her otherwise successful voyage, for she did not get over till yesterday, and then she ran upon the Pootung shore, and will have to be lightened considerably before she can come off. It is thought the accident was caused by her touching the bar while crossing it with all steam up, and thus spoiling her steering.
The Europe arrived at Woosung yesterday, and transhipped her consignment of tea to the Pleiades, which had the "blue poter" flying last night. The Europe has brought on from Keelung the machinery and sugar saved from the wreck of the Laptek.
The P. M. steamer Oregonian, with Japan mails, arrived on Thursday afternoon, There is no news of importance, and. the Formosa expedition is only touched upon in the way of speculation as to the probable result of the negotiations pending at Peking. Wo give our usual suma. ries in other columns.
The ©. N. Co.'s str. Hankow reports having passed the Aden, Leeyune and Yungehing, and four other Chinese transports, all laden with troops embarked at Chinkiang, lying at anchor at the North carries 12 guns. The Riojio-kan brings H.E. Mr. Okubo, the Japanese Special Envoy and Plenipotentiary to the Court of Peking. The in readiness for his Excelivney suite, but instead of going North by her, the Tree, on Thursday. The fleet is reported to have passed Woosuig at 10 o'clock the same day, and will rendezvous at the Pes-cade Tue Galley of Lorne, from London, ea into port om Thurmday night. We learn
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