The man-of-war anchorage has assumed a deserted appearance. The American squadron has gone: the cruisers Concord and Boston, the gun vessel Petret, and the cutter Hugh McCulloch \ett on the 24th inst. for Mirs Bay, and the flagship Olympia and the cruisers Baltimore and Raleigh followed on the 25th inst., and on the 27th the entire squadron sailed for Manila. The German cruiser Kaiserin Augusta left here on the '26th inst. for Kisochou. On the 27th inst. the British cruisers Rainbow and Edgar arrived here from Chefoo, and here they will probably remain until the arrival of the Hermione and Bonaventure. The gunboat Linnet left here on the 27th for Manila to watch events. The venerable hulk and ex-receiving ship Victor Emanuel is advertise ed to be sold by public auction where she lies at her moorings. She will probably be bought by Chinese and taken to Canton, there to be broken up for the valuable material contained in her,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.