The British flagship Centurion left here on the 5th inst. for Us iki. The gunboat Rattler arrived here from Shanghai on the 5th inst., and went into dock at Kowloon on the 7th, Is is reported that Rear-'Admiral Oxley has been appointed second in command of the British Squadron in these waters and will come out in the cruiser
Grafton, which is to relieve the Edyar, is Grafton, which will be his Aagship, The to leave England early in June. The appointment of a second Admiral seems to point tos permanent increase of the fleet Eastern Asia.
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