By the courtesy of Captain Stahell we are enabled to give the follo ing account of the loss of the British barque Cuda which occur-jong on the Sth instant, Ihe vessel cargo of coal for Hongkong jer harbour on th in the outer fall the wind bogas gradually to fre and at ten o'clock veered round to to a gale with heavy Up till thia time riding on her port anchor, but as the gal dit was found necessary to let go the ith thirty father of call id out port cable, parted and the starboard chain wast jared out to ninety fathoms, but the anchor would nob hold. A spare anchor was then got over
i ip still drifting paid out their midnight she commenced to bump' heavily on the ground, Rockets were fired and flare-ups" burnt for assistance, but none came till three o'clock in the morning, when l_hoat put off from the British barque John Potts, but she was unable to render Any help ne the vessel was aground, etrili heavily and fast filling, Two hours preious to this it was found that there were of water in the old, and was still gaining on the pumps at the rate of about two feet per hour, At si the ship was full, a heavy gale was blowing with high and confused sen, and it was feared she would soon break up. The hosts were then Isunched and landed stores all articles of value, and the crew commenced to dismantle the vessel, as she was then lying over on her port side with her rusin hatches under water. The Surveyors were consulted as to what should be done, and as the vessel was found to be a0 seriously strained, with every probability of still further and more extensive damage being sustained in her bottom, they recoup mended that she be sold at as early a date as pects for the b it of all concerned before another gale should set in. The stores, sails, ig, and hull were accordingly put to public auction on the 15th, and the sum of $2,400 nett was realized, The Cuba was a vessel of 320 tons, built at Alloa in the Firth of Forth in 1870, and was renewed and re-metalled at this port in 1S; when her class, A. 1., was extended for years from that date, She was the property of Mr. J. F. Carrington of Guernsey, and was well known on the coast of China as a smart trim little craft, and bad hitherto made very successful voyages during the past four years. Captain Stabell made application for a Naval Court of Inquiry both at Keelung and Amoy, as several British vessels were at these ports, Lut was refused in each ins! because there was no man-of-war present. The mon were paid off and cleared at V'amsui, but could not be formally discharged. at that port as there were no duly authorised Forms of Discharge the Consular offic At and the whole of the men could the proper have been furni been this morning in the Fokien from Amoy, and app! once made to the Harbour Master for a Court of Inquiry, which will ing the course of next Captain Stabell has now hi only other mishap he has experien hie professional career.—China Mail, 'THE EMPRESS REGENT AND THE TELEGRAPH, The world has recently learned the fact which only a few short years ago would have the riverine port of Peking, iv connected been pronounced impossible, that Tientsin,
by telegraph with Shanghai, and thereby with the outer world. The distance, as the crow between the two porte, is just six hundred English miles, Ww tine 9 distance of some eight hundred mi more, and connects with the capital and the coast several rich and pros) the populous provinces of tung, and Pechili, Wo say, with the capital; for, a8 we wrote of late in noti ing the adver th declares the public n Poking by road, at the lower junction al with the Peiho, " Bat, it the wire ever in which float the spirit or the soil in which their have mouldereds if these prejudices the line was question the ent is due to ct that some of the more astute of the counsellors of the Kupross Regent took advantage sudden impulse of feminins curiosity and passion. was at the time when Peking was on the verge of political cataclysm, when rivalry and party hatred surged and boiled in the Paluco, when war between Russia and China appeared, inevitable, and when the foreigners resident oF visitors to, Peking did not know at what hour some revolution in the Palace might terrify the populace and soldiery, and. thus deliver the lives and property of strangers to the mercy of a cruel because fearful and cowardly mob, It was when the burly old braggart, Tso Tsung-tang, war vapouring beyond the uvigiborliood of the Western gate of the great wall; sending couriers to his Mistress stating that he woul guarantee the Empire against Russian encroachinent in the West, and Loping sneerly that his colleagues' in the Bast, who were recommending a peaceful adj ut, were half as well prepared; and it was moi than probable that he might urge his hectoring braves to a collision with tie Muscovite which would render war inevitabl It was when his great rival, Li Hu chang, at the other extremity of the empire, was, in his Court in quietly at work, directing th ngthening of the famed Peiho forts, keeping his arsenals working day and night, importing munitions of war, increasing the fore: Tartar cantonments around Po troops about Palisades," the route from Eastern Siberia to metropolis, and the point where the G: cools its blunt head, after fourteen hundred miles of serpentine travel, in the wat of the Haute: Viceroy had counsels of his
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