On the morning of the 14th inst, a passenger-boat plying between Svochow and this port encountered strong gale in the Yangehang Ho, and was capsized. Of the persons on the unfortunate boat, 23 in all, 18 were drowned. The owner of the dont, being overwhelmed with grief at the loss Of the cargo and treasure, amounting to methingover " thousand taels, and having face" to meet those whose cargo he had Jost committed suicide by jumping over board. Amongst those saved were the boat's crew at the stern of the boat and x young male passenger, who is the only heir of the seven families of the clan, It was for the purpose of celebrating his marriage that the latter took passage in the ill-fated craft to Soochow, with his mother and mother-in-law elect, when they met with this disaster, in which the maternal ancestors of himself and his bride perished.
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