Hongkong, 16th Nov., 11.39 am.
The steamer Wah-young was burned last night and beached in the Canton river. Three hundred natives were burned or drowned, two hundred were saved.
[The Wal-young was a British steamer of 313 tons.] near the scene of the inundations says that A letter from a Chinese gentleman living 5,000 men were swept away at one rush a3 they were endeavouring to stop the great gap, and he adds that another 4,000 have been swept away somewhere else in Honan.
'The following additional foreign subseriptions to the Yellow River Inundation Fund are acknowledged Messrs, Melchers & Ca, Telge & Ca, Schelihass & Go.'
Frazar & Ca, Justus Lembke & Ca."
A mail leaves to-morrow morning for Europe, by the P. & 0. Co.'s str, Ancona,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.