The R.M.S. Empress of Japan arrived at Hongkong on the loth inst., at 2 p.m.
he silk which left Shanghai on the Lau ult., per Empress of China, arrived in New York on Thursday, the 11th instant.
Tt appears from home papers that on her say home last voyage the Preussen collided disastrously with the Russian steamer Peter der Grosse, bound from Hamburg to Greenock with a cargo of sugar. The casualty occurred on 13th March near the Royal Sovereign Shoals. The Russian vessel was struck amidships, being almost cut in two, while the Preussen's bows were ature in, After the sixteen men composing
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