Baker Pacha with 4,000 mon is expected to ndvauce to the relief of Tokar, 20,000 Arabs are preparing to oppose.
[Tokar or Toka is the place near Sual im on the Red Sea where Capt. Moucrieft's force was defeated on the Gth November.]
Ast February, The ordinary Law of Trial by Jury has been suspended in Vienna and the suburbs, owing to the recent murders and the spread of Socinlism.
2nd February.
Baker Pasha made a reconnaissance in force, when the enemy fled, and the cavalry, parsning, succeeded in killing several hundreds, 4th February, Baker Pasha is advancing.
'A foraging expedition at Sinkat has been cut to pieces. 5
Mons. G. Lemaire, who was acting French Consul General at Shanghai in 1879 and 1880, returned to this port by the Sashatien'on the 4th inst., to resume his duties as Consul General.
The members of the French Musical Society played at the Hotel des Colonies on Monday night to welcome Mons, Lemaire, the vow French Consul General.
Only eleven Chinese Banks opened for business on Friday after the New Year holidays. Of these, two are considered good for any engagements they may undertake, and the remaining nine a3 of second, third, and fourth degrees of financial standing, Inst year forty-one banks opened, and in 4882 there were seventy-six banks established here. The number of banks will probably be increased by and by, as was the case Inst year.
A private letter hes been received from Tientsin, dated the 19th ult., stating that the weather was very mild; there was then no ice in the Peiho, and no likelihood of the river closing up this winter, The first steamer leaves for Tientsin to Hongkong by the last English snail of the death at South. ampton of Captain Gibbon. The deceased had been in ill health for some previously. Capt. Gibbon was well-known in Chins a few years back as the commodore of the C.M.S.N. Co.'s fleet. He first came to China in 1857 and commanded the Dragon, Fulleand Yungching, which latter, under tie name of the Daybreak, he brought out to China for the C.M.8, We commend to the consideration of our readers the very pious ghost-story which appears to-day in our translations from the Peking Guzette, No fewer than three eminent members of the Chinese Pantheon are recommended to the Emperor for re. wards: the God of Wind, the God of the River, and the God of War. The ly disappearing mysteriously from"
which it would of course be rank ciate in any way with the familiar Jack-o'-Lanterns of our youth. The extraordinary drawing and unclosing of the curtains which relied the shrine of the River God, without visible human agency, is suggestive of modern agarices, and it is only a little curious that the God, being presumably a spirit, was not able to emerge from his throne without having the d for A light sulticiently Nu noighig house proceeded from. the- sample of the God of War; and, wonderful to relate, strong gale, after springing up without any assignable cause, stopped as denly, on more than one occasion, uly the Chinese are a confiding race, and imicacle-mongers ought to drive a thriving trade among them, Another vessel has been added to the list of wrecks on the China const within the past thirty days, Messrs. Siem Ca, received a telegram early on luc ug to the effect' that the ner, the Chinkiang, Captain Herrmann, was lost on the 29th instant at Haitan Bay near Amoy, where the Yorkshire stranded on the 15th September, 1882. The Chinkiang left Hongkong on the 27th inataut bringing on the steamer Feronia's cargo. In add thi jad a quantity of ammunition on board. One of the Chinkiang's boats actived at Amoy with the intelligence of the loss of the vessel. There were two engineers and some passengers in the boat, and it was hoped the others would also tum up. Wo believe the Chinkiang is insured in he attention of our readers to the letter published elsewh from M: Judd, and trust that the willing ne expresses to assist in purveying relief to the sufferers on the Grand Canal will be liberally responded to. Money and clothes are urgently weeded, and contributions should be sent to Mrs, Judd's residence in the Quinsan Road, The prospectus of the Ca-Operative Ice Company has been issued, and may be had at the Agra Bank. The new Company proposes to take over the Beckwith ice making machine belonging to the Ice ciation, which it is said can be purchased
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