On Saturday week last we mentioned that the Feima Channel over the Bar was coming into general use, and that guiding marks over it had been put up, and we recommended that this should be officially notified by the Customs, A notification to this effect was issued by the Coast Inspector on Saturday afternoon, and it is advertised on our front page. Certain excellent rules are added, the principal point being that vessels intending to use this channel should notify the fact in good time by hoisting "V"" of the International Code at the fore, so that a vessel going down against the tide seeing a vessel approaching with the tide with the "ye hoisted, may wait to allow her to, pass. We understand that the Customs have been asked to notify by a signal which could be easily made on the semaphore at Woosung when a vessel is sighted coming in with the "V" hoisted, as, owing to the curve in the river, it is not always easy fur a vessel at the upper end of Gough Island to see what flags a vessel passing the Woosung Spit Buoy may be flying. The Customs have, however, we are informed, declined toaccede to this request on the ground that it would impose on them an undesirable responsibility, The signalman at the semaphore might not, in calm, be able to make out whether the incoming vessel was flying the "V" flag or not; and if an accident happened, he might be held responsible, This seems to us, we confess, an excess of caution. It might oecasionally happen that the "V" flag, though hoisted, was indistinguishable by the signalman; but even so, it would be better that the majority of the steamers coming in should have their intention notified, than that none should, and it would be quite within the resources of nautical science to hoist the flag so that it should be distinguishable even iv a calm, and the Customs might enjoin this by a regulation. The regulations now issued are altogether commendable, byt they would be still more useful if the suggestion to which we have referred were adopted.
Acctpesr ar THE HANYANG Inoxwouxs.
Shénpao reports that an accident Hanyang Iron Foundry on which resulted min the death of boy.
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