The ship was w full-rigged four-master, Dut Fas now ull yards sent down. She was built in 1881 by Caird and Ca., Greenock.
The Empress of Judia made the ran from the Wousung Spit Buoy to the Nagasaki (lwo) light in 27 hours, The New licany has made a smart trip from Shanghai to Swatow and back, her Just round trip from wharf to wharf eccupying only 6 days, 2 hours, with " full cargo each The run gunboat Wolf left here on Friday for Ningpo and the Chusin Archipelgo, and wil: probably return about the middle of the month, The French man-of-war Furfail, the sister ship tothe Villars, which she replaces; arrived at Shanghai ow Thursday (2nd).
The French gunboat Lion returned to Shanghai yesterday from Tientsin where she has been wintering.
The D.D.R. sir. Daphne arrived from Hamburg and ports of call at Hongkong on Friday last, Her Shanghai cargo will be brought on by the so, Peiyang.
he O. & O, Co.'s s. Belgic, which left Sun Francisco on the 23rd February, is coming vid Honolulu, She will there: fore be probably two or three days beyond the dure put down in the schedule for her arrival at Yokohama, viz,, the 14th or Lith of March, The Malwa, with the English mail, left singapore on Sunday at 4 p.m. for Hong:
and Shanghai, Empress of kodama on afternoon for Vancours The Ucernic, with Shanghai dates to 10th ult., arrived at San Francisco on 4th inst.
U.L.G M.'s gunboat Jitis which has been Wiutering at Tientsin has arrived xt Chefoo.
The RMS. Empress of Chine loft Ya caver on Tuesilay moming, and may be ted to arrive at Yokuhama on the instant, We lear that some of the native buteke have sent in a petition to the Mixed Conv Magistrate asking him to use his influence With the Council to allow fourteen days to elapse before avy further steps are taken to compel the slaughtering of animals at the abet We understand that the root of the trouble is that very inferior cattle are slaughtered to supply the shipping the native butchers, having come their senses, have taken out licences to Kill their animals atthe new slaughter house.
We have received from the Rev. A. FI Suv, of the Foreign Christian Mission, Nanking, copies of a Chinese cdendar pre~ pared this yexe by lunn for the first time. It is entirely in Chinese, and considering the desire which natives evince to own a sheet almanac, should find ready acceptance with them. A mass of motion of religious character, uch as is likely to give the reader some i¥ea of the Christian system, is set forth, and there is als" Western knowledge of secular character. We cannot do better than give the following The subject 1.—Twent of God. 3.—Explanation of Terms God. 4.—For Jesus. 5.—Explanw Old and New Testaments, 6.—Geography. T—Astrmomy. 8.—The Western calen-10.—Quotations fr On Sin 12.—On saving opium suicides. stopping the trad account of Jesus' life, 15.—Short reference to Treaty with China, 16.—The different jaties working in China and their pro-17.—Drum Tower Hospital, Nan-King. 18.—-Christ College, Nanking 19.—Felipses. 20,—Why we print x calendar, 21.—Sundays of the y 22.—The 24 seasons, 23.—Tmportant events in the year. 24,—Two sets of antithetical sentences.
The cunpiler deserves great credit for the care and conscientiousness of his work, 4 wide distribution of which could not but result in good, The first nvnual report of the North Fuhkien Religious Tract Society, a Suciety which was formed in Furchow last yew for the circulation of buvks and tracts prepared on the same principles ax these of the Tenet Societies of England and shows that the new organi uns already performed an amount of which should meet with good results, Necessarily, as the report says, it is a record of work began rather than of work completed, but it is none the less satisfactory on that account, The number of books and tracts printed and published dining the year was 46,500, er ing 1,167,000 leaves. The axles amounted to 13,665 volumes, realising $90.86. The Rev. Lu. Lloyd, the Secretary and Treasurer, who signs the report,—"'The Central given us_permi any of Dr. Griffith Joby tracts, and 45,000 of them are now in ti press and will' be ready for distribution in short time. The value of attractiveness aid to the sale of religious tracts and books in China has not been lost sight of, and several of our recent publications ha been put into red pictorial cover Tt is hoped that the small extra cost thus incurred will be repaid by the increased usefulness ut the books. Most o pamphlets hitherto published have simply been new, and in some cases revised, edition of well-known produe!ions which' have stood the test of time, and proved useful both for sale and gratuitous No doubt another year we shal announce the issue of new works by our members. The ability for thie work is not licking; at present it seems to be lying Intent amongst us. A gentle reminder may lend to its manifestation."
The Yokohama Agency of the Occidental and Oriental S.S, Ca, hax sent us two prettily illustrated pamphlets, printed in various colours, entitled Huroaii, the Paradise and Inferno. That they will excite in all who see them a desire to go and see these beautiful islands is certain; for they find in Hawaii, to quote from the enthusiastic writer, The Paradise of the Pacific
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