To the Editor of the il, 11th August, whether a shall carry where it can best be seen, but ata height not exceeding 20 feet above the deck, a" white Tight in pular Iantern of not less than' Sin, in diameter and so constructed as to show a clear uniform and unbroken light visible all round the horizon at a distance of at least one mile, Art 2. also puts the clause in "and no others." The regulations for Shanghai harbour, Art 4. are exactly the sume, and yet every night we see the steamers at anchor in the river with two lights, one on the forestay one on the stern, or else on the fly ge and Tave the Chinese men-of-war exhibit. ing the same lights, T have not been in a. if men-of-war of the other for not, On the other hand ships exhibit one light only. Now ifa steamer is lying across the river some dark night with these two lights exhibited, one forward and one aft, and guts rans into, who would be held to blame?
T think this is very interesting questly to underwriters, ow: and masters, and if some one well up would throug! the medium of your widely circulated paper give us his opinion, and also a few others, the subject might get such would put all doubts on one side for the future, Tam, ete., Oxe Very Mvcw Ixreresten,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.