Shénpuo.
A letter from Kiukiang wakes the following statements, for the correctness of which we cannot vouch. About 10 o'clock in the forenoon of the 23rd instant, the steamer Tekin was steaming along the Yangtze through the Hukow district when fire was discovered in the hold, where several hundred bales of cotton were stored. or four bales were burning and dense awoke filled the place, The sailors gave the alarm, arousing at the same time many passengers. Quantities of water were thrown into the Reld, while the burning bales were hauled up and cast overboard. The captain rounded the buat at once on a sandbank. he hundreds of passengers, crazed with fright, were loud in their lamentations and cries for help: but fortunately there were plenty of hands at work, and the fire was extinguished and quiet restored. The boat stuck so fast that it was not till noon of the following day that she got off, with the assistance of passing steamers." An attempt had been made to set fire to the Pekin while she was at anchor in Shanghai how was it that anther attempt was nade? Whether this Intter was originated through the report of the attempt made in Shanghai or whether there was really " second attempt, we have, as yet, nu means of ascoring with certainty.
(We prine ti to show that native journalists, at least, do not lack imagina: tion.—Ep. N. N.
The fleet carrying the remains of the late Viceroy of Nanking, Kuo-chuan, has arrived at Wuchang, They were received with much ceremony pomp by all the officials of the city.
The day before yesterday H.E. the shai Customs Juctai closed the seal to the the 20th of the 1st Chinese moon next year, Two Chinamen charged with issuing bogus lottery tickets were remanded and Kept in custody in the Mixed Court, The older prisoners, in collusion with the head keeper, and with a view to extorting money, had these two men tied up in such a manner that they could nei it up or lie down, Magistrate Teal, hearing' of th case, at once made an investigation with the
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