Shanghai Young Men's Institute was held at the temperance Hall on Monday evening, a full report of which will be found in another column 'Th operations of the Shanghai Waterworks' Company have excited some discussion during the past week we publish a letter on the subject addressed by Dr, Jamieson to the Secretary of French Municipal Council. Chiarini's Circus still continues to attract large audiences; on Wednesday ovening there was a very heavy downpour of rain which did serious damage to the large tent, and the weather still continues to be wet, unpleasant, and even cold for this time of the year.
The English mail of the 15th May arrived here on the 26th inst. by the P. & O, steamer Khedive.
A mail for Europe leaves to-morrow by the P. & O. steamer Kaisar-i-Hit REUIER'S TELEGRAMS, (Supplied solely to the N.-C. Daily News.") London, 23ed June.
At the first sitting of the Conference between the powers the Austrian and German Ambassadors were without instructions and the Conference was adjourned.
The British and French Consul Generals hold no intercourse with the now Ministry. 24th June.
The Seyptian troops are constructing earthworks along the coast.
The proceedings of the Conference are kept secret.
26th June.
There is great activity in the Arsonals and Dockyards of England. that a Brith expeditionary force is in The Times publishes paragraph stating
readiness in order to protect the Suox Canal, the safety of which is causing an uneasy feeling.
pore 27th June, land. 20 Military pre rations continue in mon are' ready to loa case of nec 28th June.
There is renewed panic in Egypt, The Daily Telegraph publishes a telegram that the Egyptian troops hold the Suez cly to destroy the banks with We are in a position to state that no arrangement has been come to batweon Sir Thomas Wade and the Chinese Government in regard to the import and lekin duties on Opium, Matto fore likely to remain as at present, it improbable that any further at will be made to establish one fixe: certain charge; at all events for some table time.
'A fow words added to the telegrams we published Vi ay, or to the one which appeared yesterday morning, would have told us for what purpose England is making Want-vainly quence of the state of Ireland or of affairs in the East. Some days ago we heard that military measures were being taken against o rising in Ireland, and Wednesday's message ani there was great activity in the Arson Dockyards, and force was in readiness in order to protect the Suez Canal. The stir in the Dockyards seems to. make it probable that affairs in the Enst have suddenly assumed a very serious aspect, and if go the twenty thousand men who are ready for embarkation are intended for that quarter of the world. But on the other hand it may be in Ireland that matters have become imminent and that both troops and shi to be required near at home. In short a serious state of affaire on cither supposition indicates thatRottors are not dealing fairly with thir subscribers to sond such telegrams as those which have come to hand during the last week or a0.
A considerable amount of difficulty some to be experienced, by @ number of our correspondents, in reconciling the letter addressed by Dr. Jamieson to the French Municipal Secretary, with the footnote he added to the protest' of the doctors a few weeks ago. That footnote embodied a proviso that "the dates of suspension and resumption of the work should be indicat ed, not precisely but morely, as the bo-ginning and the end of the season of great heat and moisture; which season may begin earlier or later, and la longer or shorter time than the average." This clearly means that the works should stopped when the groat heats sot in, and resumed in the autumn, when it is cooler. Dr. Jamioson's letter to the French Council, however, has been generally interproted as sanctioning the immediate commencement of operations on the French Concession; and rightly so interpreted, we submit, as he appeals to the fact of similar operations having been carried on in Hongkew "during the hottest part of last summer," and in a neighbourhood one rection of which was described ax simply filthy, the deposit of garbage for yeara:" It seems then a little curious that Dr, Jamieson's restrictions of April 22nd should have been metamorphosed into uch very liberal doctrines by the 21st of June. Dr. Jamieson points to the remarkable freedom from typhoidal affections of persons who might be fairly considered
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