tour of inspection of the Inud and forces, There is consequently a great stir among the troops, in the exmps la, the neighbourhood, drilling and Gring, as may be heard in the morning.
ks The Commission wh ut riot at Nagasaki, ing of Kusaka, Hatoyama, and Kirkwood for Jxpan, wud Messrs. Tesi, Yo, and Drammond for China, has held two m i ud decided to conti 8 hours daily until the has treated the public their cables nearly a appears to have been king early on Thu if not during the previous night, and in the courar of the day messages were received beating dates frqin teu to twelve days buck to the 15th. No notification of the re-opening of the line mas made, though considering the Yenieuce. which the public has the interruption of traffic, such slight act of civility would have come well from the Company.
The delay in the despatch of mesaa; Great Northern Telegraph Com-due to two causes: inundaiberia, a great part of ry near Lake Baikal being under water; and the block of traffic. During the breakdown of the Eastern Company's cables, the whole of the traffic from points enst of Madras and Rangoon has gone over Great Northern's wires; this including the whole of the Australian business, and the press messages alone from Australi reach an enormous number of words, Interruptions from thods in Siberia cannot be obviated, but the block of traffic will be relieved. now that the Penang-Rangoon cable is in working order again, and the restoration of the Madras cable hourly expected.
The new Tao-t'ai of Shanghai will take over tle seals of office to-day.
The property on the Bubbling Well Road, known as Beookbank, better known perhaps as Byrue's First Bungalow, consisting of a piece of land measuring four mow and three fun, with six-roomed house on it, offices, stables and coach-house, was sell at auction on Monday by Mesara, J. P. Bisset & Co.'s for Tis, 6.500.
Mr. Ibert was the buyer. ing Tennis lawn, measuring one mow, five was bought in at Tis, 500. gunboat Chin Ho returned eh for the foreign vessel that was report wrecked outside. From reliable information we learn that the wreck lies thirteen miles south-eastward of the S.E. pact of the Island of Mao-t'ao, which does not appear on the chart, and thirty miles northward of Drinkwater Point. The vessel was found to be bottom up, and about thres feet at low water apting ti AcG a.m. on the 14th, there were nine boats at the wreck, the crews being engaged with hooks at the end of bamboos endeavouring to fish up things from the vessel, and there were alya native divees engaged in a vimilae operation, but they did not appear to.xcomplish much, for all the wreckage obtained by the Lot was two pieces of teak wood whicn were parts of the hull, From enquiries made amungat the natives, it was ascertained that the ship-wrecked vessel was one of the two pieces of wood salved, ing rough naila which pisree the wood sideways in the same manner that the exe or other Asiatica would Lind timbers together. So far as could be ascertained, none of the men crow had been found in the vicinity of ie at of Shawei were alay made at Tsung-aniny information. that Lodivshad been washedashoreateithor of Unese places. Beyond this, no further inform. ation is at present obtainable, though the Chinese authorities have a mandarin buat in the vicinity, ao that if any further news is obtaine hall probably hear of On Susday morning, the 5th instant, the Pautuh saw a large Gre on the mainland some forty miles distant, in "bout the same latitude as the recent wreck that has been ay much talked about recently. The fire Waa seen for two hou On Wednesday afternoon there was launched from Fan-cheng's Yard, ongke at for Captain Wi the owner of the steam ferry-boat that has for the last few yours been 1g betwei Shanghai and Woosung. The new boat is larger then the old one, snd will run on the mame route.
Some time ago the Municipal Connell gave notice to people who had put up buildings on the Soochow Creek foreshore to remove them. We see that ti being done by some of The second steamer of the new German mail line, the Neckar, arrived here on Tuesday from Europe, the Neckar, Daily Press so; to the Oder, to arrive, aird & Cow, and, like the former, she was previously running in the Atlantic trade. She is a flush decked, schooner rigged vessel, 360 feet long, and of 1870 tous hurt hen.
Her engines are compound of 3,250 horse power, and her maximum speed is fourteen knots j an hour, She has four deck: accommodation is on the m: in some respects from that of her Lhe first class saloon is longer, ra in that department, handsomely upholstered _in darker coloured woods, and x texture in the decoration is a succession of lora oval shaped oil paintings, well executed on each of the central panels between each cabin entrance, A long table, broken in one oF tivo places tu allow a pastaze ucrons, runs down the saloon, with Bxed revolving chairs on cither side. 'The cabins are com fortably fitted, with two bunks in exch, and a couch which can be made into a third if there is " pressure on the space, All round the floor of the saloon rua a pips for supplying fresh air. A Indies' anton, neatly fitted up, with bathroom attached, is on ons side of the saloon. On the same deck, forward of the li saloon which forward of thi loon. This saloon la much "mailer than the first, the accommodation in this claws being for 24 persons, The cabins are almost equal to those of the first class. 'There is x good provi of bath rooms and lavato and cold water supply. 'Lue throughout with the electric light, 'The crow numbers 104 all told, including the Captain, tone oticers, font engineers, and four assistant engineers, a doctor,' two lenses, o., und all hands are Kure Ie.is noticeable that the Ancona, with the English mail, made the ghai from Kucope as the Nec The Agent of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha has sent us copies of the time tables for the movements of the company's ships till the and of t According to the miners will leave nday every week and arrive at Yokohama on the mornin of thw. following Feiday. 'They. could leave Yokohama at noon every' Tuesday and arrive here en the morni of the follow Tuesday, their stay limited tu three days, 4 line will be the Yokohama Maru, Tokio Marw and Satsuma Maru, We received yesterday a very fine apple urown in Chefoo from American trees imported sume years since by De, Nevius, The apple weighed three quarters of a pound, and is only one of several that have been sent down, We understand that other kinds of fruits brought from Amor also been successfully cultivated We have to thank the Shanghai Young Men's Christian Association for *'The Life and Times of Ezekiel the Prophet," by the Rov. 8. C. Partridge.
We acknowledge with thanks from the agent of the Messayerios Maritimes Company a large coloured illustration of the mpany's steamer Nutal.
We acknowledge with thanks from Messrs. Melchers & Ca., the agents of the Norddeutacher Lloyd line of steamers ab fine coloured illustration of eatlautic liners, The steamer is flying the signals QDKR, which, on referring to Lloyd's Register, we find signifies the name of the faure masted steamer Elbe, The Arsenal authorities are about building a carriage rond from the Arsenal to the French Sicawei Road,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.