The Earl of Granville is dead.
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April Sicawei report, 26th Mare! day the barometer remained high in Japan, At Viadivostuck it has been falling slowly for several days. At Tientsin it began to recover yesterday with a strong breeze from the north. At Shanghai and in the south it continues to fall.—27th March Yesterday the barometer began to fall in Japan. At Shanghai and in the south the barometer continues to fall slowly and regularly.—28th March: Yesterday the barometer was still fallin Japan and all the coast, from Viadivostock as Weak and irregular winds pre-1 points, indicating the change in the monsoon.—89th March: Yesterday the barometer continued to fall in Japan at Viadivostock. At Tientsin and is recovering. In the south checked. There is no sign of Yesterday the barometer rose at Nagasaki, ngo in the weather.—90th March Tientain and Shanghai. In the south it remained at the normal height. This morning it began to fall nghai. Weather uncortain.—Ist April: Yesterday the barometer continued to rise at Viadivostock. In Japan it remains steady, while in the south it fell slightly. terday-the bat lightly at Tokio and rose at Viadivostock. At Shanghai it remained at the normal height. In the south it fell slowly.
The average minimum of the thermo-rin the settlement in March was the average maximum 57°.54, and the mean 49°.27, inst 41°.03, 52°.22, and 46°.62 respectively, in the same month of 1890.. The rainfall in March was 1.94 inches, and rain fell measurably on 7 days, against 6.45 inches and 17 days in March, in which is held was Vednesday night, when Mr. Hughes was entertained ata dinner given by M. Wagner, Coneul-General for Irance, the new doyen of the Consular body in Shanghai Besides all M. Wagner's col leagues: there were ne Sir Rennie (the retiring Obiet Justice) R. A. Mowat (Acting Chief Justice and Acting Consul-Geveral), Mr. R, W: Mansfield (Acting Assistant' Judge), Mr.
M. H. Playfair (Vice Consul) and Mr. H. S. Wilkinson (Crown Advocate). During the evening Mr. Hughes was pre: sented with a very handsome Cantonese silver cup bearing the following inscription:—" Presented to P. J. Hughes, Esq., H.B.M.'s Consul-General, as a mark of esteem and regard by his colleagues of the Consularbody on his retirement. Shanghai, March 3ist, 1891." On the lid of the cup is a miniature three-masted junk, executed in perfect detail, riding on waves in which dolphins are sporting, The two handles are also in the form of dolphins, and three more of these marine monsters support the cup, which will be by no means the least remarkable of Mr.
raghes' many souvenirs of his official life in China, The'ladies of Shanghai have not been backward in testifying their regret at the approaching departure of Mrs. Haghes, some thirty of that lady's friends having presented her with a number of pretty silver table ornaments together with a list of the names of the subscribers headed by a few graceful words, Mr. and Mi are leaving to: igh by the Saikio Mau for Yokohama, whence they will proceed by the Belgic.' They will remain for some time in the United States before reaching England. Sir Richard Rennie will leave for England by the Saluzie on Saturday The petition of British resi lents in Shanghai adopted at the meet held on the 10th instant to protest agai the change in the system of the Judicial Estab! ment and Consular Service in China was sent to the British Consulate, to be forwarded to Peking, on Thursday (26th). It bore 526 signatures.
Residents in Shanghai will read with great pleasure the very graceful letter published with the Municipal Council's minutes to-day, in which Mr, Thomas Hanbury fixes a' price for the strip of land required to widen the Kivkiang Road which the Council has agreed to psy.
The French mail brings nows of the death on 15th February of two well-known old Chins hands, Mr. Richard Deacon, who died at Monaco, aged 69, and Mr. Eldred Hulton, who died at his house in South Kensington, aged 68.
The death of Pare Capitaine, which occurred at 10 a.m. on Saturday, is serious loss to the religious order to which he belonged, to his numerous friends, and to the French Municipal Council. He w: a comparatively young man, and he had not been many years in Shanghai, but he was a man of sterling qualities and of genuine saintliness of life. He had been in charge of the French Muni for Chinese almost since its eat lishment, and the zeal, devotion and self-denial which he displayed in that onerous post have been recorded year after year at the prize distributions. "The funeral service took place at St. Joseph's Church at 8 o'clock on Monday morning.
The Peking Gazette of the 19th mentions that the Viceroy Liu Kun-i had arrived at the capital and been received in audience. He was received in audience again the following day.
We learn from the report of Mr. P. J. Hughes' speech on Monday, that our regretted Consul-General proposes to devote 8 portion of his opium cum dignitate to the regular perusal of the Peking Gazette,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.