From a private letter we have seen from Colonel C. G. Gordon, posted at Aden, it appears that he goes to the Mauritius for eight or ten months to fill the appointment of Commandant of the Royal Engineers, which we have already alluded to in our columns, "to qualify himself," to use his own words, "for promotion, and its subsequent freedom from service."
The friends of Mr, Freusberg, Interpreter at the German Consulate-General at this port, will be glad to hear of his promotion to the charge of German interests in Hayti as Consul at Port-au-Prince, It is expected that his place here will be filled by one of the Messrs, Von Méllendorf. Mr. Feindel, tha predecessor of Mr, Frousberg at this German Consulate-General, now at Home on leave, will probably return to China in October. Mr. Alfred Pelldram, Vice-Consul at St. Petersburg, has been promoted to the posi-of Consul at Tientsin, Mr. Bernhard Schaar has received the appointment of Vice-Consul at Swatow in the place of Mr. Eboll, resigned. Mr. Schaar is authorised to have marriages solemnized before him, and to certify to the births and deaths of German subjects in his district, Mr. Kempermann, VicoConsul at Hongkong, has been promoted to be Consul at Manila, It la anticipated that the next English mail will bring word as to who is to succeed him in the Crown Colony. Dr. Philipp Lenz, who arrived here yesterday by the M. M. Co.'s steamer Saghalien, goos to Peking as Student Interpreter. Mr. Freusberg expects to leave Shanghai, to take up his West Indian appointment in about a fortnight.
Mr. Thomas Sutherland has boon appointed Chairman of the Board of Director of the P. & O. Company, in place of Mr. William Fane De Salis, who has resigned and resumed his place as an ordinary Director of the Company. A few days ago we gave an account of the launch of the Company's new steamer Rome. We now learn from the report of the Company which appears in the Homo papers, that her sister ship, the Carthage, is rapidly approaching completion, and the Directors hope that not only will these two vessels, but also the Clyde, Thames, Shannon, Ganges and Sutlej be delivered by the builders before the autumn. TheCompany's steamers Venetia and Assam are both being fitted with new boilers. The Muoltan, Baroda, Delhi and Golconda have been sold in consequence of being unsuited to the Company's present work. On the completion of the steamers we have mentioned as being in course of construction, the Company's fleet, exclusive of tugs and launches, numbers fifty vessels, their total registered tonnage being 165,067, with a nominal horse-power of 26,940, An interim dividend at the rate of five per cent, per annum has been declared for the last half-year:
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