Shanghai telegrams state that the Powers are forcing China to recognise Shanghai ed Volunteers, a body which has long existed on sufferance.
he following is ancther specimen of English us she is written Hovsrroy.
It is perhaps necessary to explain that the buy wished to inform his naster of the death of a sporting deg, and of b's willing ness to produce the body as a proof of death, A rather serious accident occurred i front of the Club yesterday afternoon when 8 pony and trap drove into a jinricsha and threw the occupant, " Chinaman, on top of a wheelbarrow carrying rod iron. The Chinaman was badly hurt about the face and was sent to ho:
Complaints are again made of the dangerous condition of the bridges along the old Railway Road. Much of the planking is gone or rotten and the railing is defective. As this road is used a good deal, some ought to be taken of this state of affairs.
'A foreigner was sued by an amah at the British Court on Monday morning for her wages, The defendant resisted part of the claim on the score that she had left her situation without giving notice. Her wages {were $10 mouth and pay day was on the 10th. On that day, as she had lost an umbrella, her mistress said she would deduct $2. The amal refused to accept {her money less the deduction and left at once, though her mistress had told her that she must wait till the next month, when De. W. E, Macklin of Nanking has, she would receive the $2. The defendant Yokohama and Kobe to the 12h very neatly printed volume refused to pay on public grounds. Hesaid Mr. Donald Fraser, manager of the New that amole in Shanghai were in the habit of leaving without giving avy notice, putting their employers to a great deal of inconvenience. He did not dispute the amount due for the previous month. His Honour told the arrish that he could not allow Ler anything for the part of the month in which she left, as she ought not to have left then. The defendant would have to pay the costs, however, as he had neglected into court the amount he—If foreigners would always resist the claims of amah for payment of wages for the month in which they suddenly leave, there would be fewer cases of these abigails taking themselves off when it suits their purpose to do 80, The visit of the French fleet to Viadivostock last month appears tu have passed 0 very agreeably, though without any official demonstration un the part of the Russians. The French fleet arrived on 2nd September, and left on the 17th. During the whole of that time, the visitors were most hospitably entertained at the Club and in Being a din wor of twelve covers given by uvate houses, the only formal festivity Vice-Admiral Nazimoff. Three Russinn vu-of-war were in port. On the ith the annual fete in honour of the Czar was held, There Were illuminations on the usual scale, but there was no special festivity in honour [of the visitors, The recurrence of this fete during the stay of the French freet has probably given rise to the rumour that special demonstrations had been made at Viadivostock in connection with the entente cordiale between the French and Russian Governments.
We have received the following tea news from Foochow under date the 17th inet.:—
The shipments during the past fortnight to London and the Continent barely amount to 1 million Ibs. The calling steamers were the Chingico, Telumon and Palamed, The export to Europe stands at 15} million Ibs.
inst 193 millionsatthesamedatelast year, falling off of 4} millions, "The feature of the furtuight's business lias been the smallnessof the transactions. The settlements are reported at under 12,000 chests, Again the demand has been fur the lower grades, say at Tls. 7to12 per picul. The prices ruling in the interval show no change. At the same time it must be remarked that for quality under Tls. 10 per picul they have been extremely firm. **Type" may be laid down at 6d. per Ib. but it is difficult to buy on account of scarcity. The total supply for the season is still estimated at 345,000 chests, reckoning on further arrivals as 15,000 chests; but of course this might be added to in the event of any advance in the price of common. The stock includes a large quantity of first crop, say quite two: thirds, held over on account of the heavy Joss that would be shown on it if re-alisod. The arrivals of Congou to date are 330,000 chests against 365 000 chests the settlements are 272,000 against 315 000, and the stuck is 58,000 chests against 50,00¢ chests at the corresponding date last year. Exchange is 5/24 Cor 4 mouth' sight credits and freight to London 30s. per ton of 40 cubic feet.
The Japanese quarantine regulations are as ridiculous as they are vexatious. Shimonoseki and Yokohama are more or lees infected districts, and the steamers from those ports are quarantined, tu the great annoyance and discomfort of passengers, when they get to Kobe. But atthe same time native passengers from Shimonoseki go in the small coasting steamers tu a port the Inland Sea and then take the Sanjo railway to Kobe, and passengers from Yokohama come across by the Tokaido railway, without being subject tu any quarantine regulations whatever.
Phe Oxus arrived on Friday morning last bringing Japan papers with dates from stant.—
0. B.C. at Yokohama, is to be the Shanghai manager of the National Bank of China.—The British squadron had fine weather in the north, and captured large quantities of salmon,—The new session of the Diet is to open on the 2ist prox.—In the railway accident at Kioto in which it was first, said
ger, according to the Mail, lost " tooth, that 400 people were injured, one pose and another had his face scratched, and this was all,—Mr, and Mrs. Rickott have celebrated their silver wedding at Yokohama.—A tiger that was being exhibited in a bamboo cage at Tajima, got out and killed a buy of eight years old, though a iceman bravely drove his sword through its neck.—A fair was to be hold at the Gymnasium, Kobe, on Wednesday last, i id of the Sailors' Home, and © to assis indigent seamen found at the port."
The Japan Mail of the 12th says:—A telegram received in Tokio on the 9th inst. from Mr, Watanabe, Japanese Representa-in Vienna, announced that an attempt was made on the Ist instant to wreck train in which the Emperor of Austria was riding. The place where the affair occurred is stated to have been in Bohemia, and reads "Leimburg" 4s transliterated. The train was passing over a bridge at the moment, and the engine of destruction employed was a bomb, Happily no serious results ensued, the Emperor escaping without any injury. It is singular that the Japanese Minister in Vienna shaula have eft such an important event unannounced to his Government for nine days, and an impression prevails in Tokio that some mistake has occurred in transmitting the date, Immediately on receipt of the telegram the Minister of Foreign Affairs proceeded to the Palace to report it to the Emperor, who expressed much concern, and directed that telegram should at once be despatched in his name congratulating the Emperor of Austria on his escape, The Kobe Maru arrived on Tuesday with dates from Yokohama to the 14th, and Kobe the 16th inst.—'The first snow of the season fell in the Hokkaido on the 26th ult., and the first hail at Sutsu in Shiribe on the 8th inst.—Some excitement had been caused in Yokohama by the seizure by a Jupanese Court, at the instance of a British subject in Hongkong, of the property of Mr. A. M. Apear, an Armenian ssu ject of Persia—a hou-treaty country,—in a house on the Bluff belonging to an American, Mr, Apear'sgouds inthe settlement werealsotechnicallyseized, the godown being broken open, in spite of the remonstrances of the New 0. B. C.—'The Nippon has been suspended for the fourth time this year.—The sham policeman who stole $17,000 froma bank clerk has been sentenced to three yeats' hard labour, a fine of $30, and one year's police supervision.—A Japanese committed in 1881 to penal servitude for life for robbery with violence, has appealed after being imprisoned for ten years, and the Court of Appeal has found him innocent and ordered his release.—The first snow fell on Foji on the 10th—The Oshima Kan, a twin-screw steel gunboat of 630 tons' di launches the 14th.—The Hiogo News says that
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