The new Cabinet has been formed as follows:—Bayard, Secretary of State; Manning, Secretary of the Treasury; Endicott, Secretary of War; Whitney, Secretary of the Navy; Lamar, Secretary of the Interior; Vilas, Post Office; Garland, Attorney-General.
General Grant, who has been placed by Congress on the retired list, is suffering noverely from cancer.—Japan Mail.
Mr, Bayard waa Senator from Delaware; Mr, Manning is a New York Democrat and was chairman of the deputation from that State to the Convention that nominated Me. Lamar has been Senator 1877 and was a owing to Admiral Courbet having to be communicated with, The man-of-war which went to the Admiral made all haste back to release the vessel.
In consequence of it becoming generally known, through the seizure of the Glenroy, that lead is contraband of war, the price of this article went up on Friday from Tls. 3.8 per picul to Tle. 5.
The following hij selected for the bestowal of rewards at the Trionnal Metropolitan Scrutiny: His Imperial Highness Prince Li (President of the Grand Council), Olohupu, Yeu Ching-mui Chil-wan, Hei Kan tang, Pu; Ting Pao-chi Kuo-ch'iian an restored to thole respective full positions.
General Count Kuroda is about to pay a visit to China The Taung-li Yamen paid the embassy of Counts Ito and Saigo the compliment of sending a deputation to Tientain to receive the ambassadors with Mr, Galles who, with his family, is leaving China, came out here in 1864. He was very well-known here and made numerous friends. Many of these went to seo off, while the Eh Dock fired cracker the Dock on Wedn Mr. L. F. Gowing, of this paper, and Mr. Fred Essex, editor of the Cathay Post, have proceeded to Chinhai by the steamer Waverley.
It is reported that some of Admiral Courbet's ships recently captured twelve Chinese junks which wore laden with arms and amniunition, The steamers which have recently rived here from the Yangtsze ports report that the Chinese meu-of-mar eve. agai left Kiang-yin. The Alphabetical gunboats have been in hiding for some time.
We hear that a few days ago the French Aeposited thirteen coffins in the island of Pootoo.
\d_ was presiding The Japan Mail, from which we abridge the foregoing, gives no particulars of the other members of the Cabinet, Nows was received here on Wednesday that eleven French men-of-war had arrived at Chinhae, From this it appears evident that Admiral Courbet is determined to get possession of the Chinese ships which recently took refuge at Ningpo. We not aware whether Admiral Courbet overcome his difficulty in obtaining a pilot. One gentleman told' us he wanted Tis, and another Tls. 60,000 to pilot the vessels into Chinhae, Others, we believe, want is, 40,000, Some days ago, we heard that the Admiral req Frouch Minister t engage the sor officer on board the Ningpo meaning the Kiangteen. The Minister, however, appears to have mistake: Ningpo steamer for the steamer Ningpo, and as the Intter vessel was in port at the time, the second officer of this boat was communicated with, We do not know whether this officer was actually engaged, but we are inclined to think ho was, as he a cheque for $100 from the The officer left for Hongkong and after he had gone, the ter found out that he hed been negotiating with the wrong man, jews was received in Shanghai on Thursday that the Glenroy from Hongkong had been overhauled by the French at Gutzlaf, and that they had searched the ship with the result that they discovered a quantity of lead on boar 3 Mr. and Mrs, Keswick wore passen i r, Messrs Jardine, Mi arched tugboat Fukelin to the Glenroy to bring them up to Shanghai. The Fukelin returned to Shanghai on Friday morning, having communicated with the Rocket which pro-coeded out to the Glenroy and arrived here again at 7 p.m. on Friday evening. The Glenroy is not the only vessel which has Drought lead to Shanghai lately, one vessel which arrived here recently having upwards of 400 tous of the article on board; but as the French did not know this when they boarded the vessels they were allowed to go without being searched. Admiral Courbet appears to have eon made aware of the fact, and so gave orders to his officers to search mooting vessels. It appears the Glenroy was detained ten days at Singapore discharging munitions of war, but it is evident that the lend was not discharged at the same tim The Glenroy arrived at Shanghai on Monday afternoon with the lead which caused her detention still on board, An arrangement has been come to with regard to the custody of the lead after it is discharged at the Associated Wharves, The vessel's detention since Thursday morning was London by the Shanghai Bank, on account 0 Government, is for a million and a half sterling, The loan is for ten years, repayment commencing in the filth year.
There is no information in Reuter's tole-gram about the position of affairs between England and Ras Bat that th in gt the opi menied people, may be inferred from Ca: sols having fallen to 96% between Tuesiay and Friday Inat.
Wo do not think it likely that the community will take Mr. Purdon's speech at the gas meeting on Friday in good part. To advoonto gas is permissible enough on the part of the Chairman of the Gas Company, but it is not fair-play to take advantage of the opportunity to make a bitter and quite irrelevant attack upon th i rival Mr, Purdon would h founded have been the complaints about bad gas, and that the Gas Company was at one time in quite as discouraging a position the Electric Company is now.
We give to-day the Report of the Tr of the Cathedral and their Accounts for ast w6 are unable to understand We have felt this inability rs, and would now m is any reason why this simpl account should be made out in a form not intelligible to uninspired people.
The aulvage case was concluded at the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon, when Lordship intimated his intention of eral notifies that p the Yangtsze ari at Kiangyin after dark, they must wait for daylight before proceeding.
At the States Consulate-General
citizens of the United States can take oath notification ed up to the effect that as to the value of the property they own in C1 The object of this is, that, in case of a riot, and their property is de-dispute on the gistering the value of property is two dollars in gold. It would be as well if the other consulates would also permit their perty.
Count Ito, General Saigo, were expected to arrive at Tientsin on Thursday last.
Mr. Streich, Interpreter to the German Consulate-General, left Shanghai on Friday morning by the Yangtsze, on one year's leave of absence.
We notice among the passengers left by the Surat, the name of Mr. F. W. Galles, who was till recently a partner in the firm of Mesars. S.C. Farnham & Ca. native post offices. The postmen take aix days to go from Shanghai to Ningpo.
The Volunteers under Major Holliday went out to the Race Course for the weekly parade on Saturday. There were upwards of 250 present, including the Band.
The men-of-war in port dressed ship on Saturday in honour of the birthday of H. M, Humbert I, King of Italy, and the aces of the Czar of All the Ru: quence of the tivo events me day, the fla; Russia were flown side by side at the mainmast head of each man-of-war, We only know of one other instance here where two national flags were similarly flown, and that was when the Duke of Edinburgh and the Grand Duchess Marie of Ru ried. On that occasion, the Brit mast of the Cadmus, Dwarf, Lal Rusnian flags flow side by side at th
wonna, and Palos.
In honour of the birthday of H.M. Hum-bort I, King of Italy, the Cristoforo Colombo was illuminated with lanterns from stem to stern on Saturday night. The sight was a pretty one.
Although we found ourselves compelled some days ago to close our columns to the cle-correspondence, which threatened we continue daily to recei communications upon the subj few are good, some indifferent, ud the majority decidedly bad.
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is of a most interesting character; and we regret very much that we are unable to print it. Even if we had sufficient room,—which we have not—it would be unfair to give hospitality to one cent bution after having refused 80 many other But we intend shortly to issue a pampl let containing the leading features whole discussion, something in the form of fa symposium, 'It will consist of thro atta: (1) Dr. Jamieson' th, ravined the author, with copious annotations, introduction, ete.; (2) Archdeacon Moule's speech, similarly amplified and extended and (3) a comment upon the whole controversy by 'A Catholic Priest.'
All t teamers which arrived here on Sunday report experiencing rough weather. "The Nanzing, with forty-three bags of mails, reports after leaving Hongkong, fresh to strong E.N.E. and N.E. gales to the White Dogs with heavy seas; thence to Patahecock, moderate, to fresh head winds. From Steep Island to port, fresh N.E. winds and thick rainy weather.. She passed the Roehampton bound north, and the Amoy anchored ten miles off Gutzlaff; also three teamers, It was ig and fogey at the time, and these vi could riot be made out." The Kungpai, which left Swatow on the 8th at 6 a.m. was six days coming up. She had to anchor twice.
At a quarter past twelve o'clock on Friday night last, the fire bells gave the
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