The last few months have been: remarkable for the many shipping casualties that have occurred in which residents. hero were more or less interested; but hap) ily the instances where life lias been sacrificed have been comparatively few. A rotrospective glance since October last calla to mind the wrecks in that month of the sailing vessels Gold Hunter, Taffarette, James Bailey and Canton, all on or near the south coast, and all ships well-known in Shanghai. On the 28th of the same month the collision between the Breconshire and Braemar Castle occurred in Penang Har-hour, resulting, as our readers are aware, in the wreck of the Braemar Castle, 3 favourite tea steamer both at Hankow and Foochow. Then, coming as it were into our own waters, there are on record the loss of Messrs. Douglas and Lapraik's coasting stermer Douglas, in the Hactan Straits, on the 14th November; the sinking, by
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