Filippi Governor of Cuchi, Who was to have left for Indo-China by the Mull of 11th April, hias been obliged to postpone his departitre om account of ills It is feared that M. Filippivi will give up taking pos of his new fauctions, 26 Denny has been appel President of the Coren Fursign Ofice at left yang Squadron, and he arrived here on Wednesday in the Binyshun from Tieutsiv A Woman and were before the charyed with mak.
4 pills ud the defi detained iv Court, the case not being ished.
'A number of German officers who came ith the Chi ironclads are now in Shanghai on their way home, having rived here on Friday frou: the north, Tu another eolamn will be found our report of the Inquest on the Into Captain Alfred Roper, who was found dead in his bed on Saturday morning, was well-known in the first appearance out here about thirty-five Fears ago.
On Me ning, the Gleneagles got ashore on the Bar, and buat Rocket went to her assistance. Towards midnight, the Rocket, which was towing alwad, sud denly got thwart hawse, and careening over, the water rushed down the engine-the vessel rapidly to ide was ranning strong flood at nearly the top of As soon as the accident was. eagles, a boat was lowered and strongly insnued, and most of th crew of the tug were rescued from the tug'e funnel chains which they had clung to. Captain C. McCaslin, who was in charge vf the Kocket, was picked up fi-ating in the water, but the Chines: was drowned; it is supposed not get_on deck before the Oming to the strength of unable to get o their vessel till the Fullee, which was the vicinity, went to their assistance. As son as the accident happened, aequi h what had occurred, telegram was sent to the Harbour Master, wi and on Tuesday morning the Fulilee, Fairy and other tugs, with lighters, went dows to the sunken' vessel 200 feet south of the li is probable she will be raised in a few da; The rocket was brought out to China via the Suez Canal, by the Into Captain Roper for Mr. A. R Tilby, and it is remarkable that on the same evening that he waa buried, the Rocket annk, It was while Captain Roper was off the entrance of the Red Sea in the Rocket that he fired into some Arab hows which he anpposed contained pirates. When the Rocket arrived at Singapore, the dock companies had just come to mutual arrangement about docking and other charger, and Captain Roper having to one of then to dock refused to avail himself of ti but beached the steamer in front of Raff Institution, and did the necessary work himself. A Customs Notification with ree ference to the Kocket appeare elsewhere, We are informed Uist intelligence was lately received in Peking of the death of Woo Teze-tung who went a few year since to America on educational matters. At the time of his death he was residing in Kansuh.
The two Fre al Corresponds was supposed to obtain contracts, have now returned. It appears, however, that they were too late in the field, The debate at the meeting of the Shang hai Literary and Debating Society on Friday evening was well attended. The Resolution was worded as follows:—" Thut appropriation by the Ratepayers of Municipal Funds for charitable purposes la wrong in principle." Tue subject being local On" and affecting more or fom every ratepayer in Shanghai was entered upon with considerable interest. Or ide it was shown with much force and skill that thy voting of money for charitable purposes only tended to socialism and involved dishonesty. On the other side it was argued with equal weight that although charitable objects are not included in the Land Regulations they have grown to be un absolute neo regulations were d that they involve in a mont manner the wellbeing of the Comity, calling loudly both for public as well a8 private subscriptions. Me. Morrison ied on the affirmative side and Mr. Gowing on the negative, Lhe other speakers wore Messrs. Drew, Kingsmill, Alabaster, Muirhead and Slevogt. Before putting the resolution to the vote the President the Rev. W. Muirhead for the the ion and for ion as to the pi was lost by " large majority.
The recent events in the Balkan peni sula are said by a well informed St, Peters burgh Correspondent to have brought about much coolness between Germany and Austria, and a great rapprochement betw the former powe Russi by no means ani with the lo influence in Bulgaria, the result of her 1 to Prince Alexander, believe that Austria is only awaiting an opportunity to bual Servin into another conflict, Those fears fare no doubt the cause of the warlike preparations in Bessarabia, annonnead in a telegram which we published yesterday, The China Merchants gave an exhibition of Chinese reworks at Groom's Gardens, Bubbling Well Roxd, on Saturday ove and thousands of Chineve as well ronged the Gardens to ace the illumination, in which a huge suddenly replaced by a man-of-war in full action, then by a Chinese house, and finally by a pagoda of many ston was a good specimen of Chinese ingenuity applied torfremorks; but on the whole the exhibition scarcely came up to a Crystal Palace chay]
We appear to have been misinformed in regard to the changes in the commands of some of the C.MS.N. Co.'s steamers as reported in our last issue.
The signal on the Timo Ball mast Friday morning indicated that the wind
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