There is again but little to relate in connection with the warships. The U.S, boat Petre arrived here on the 19th in from Manila, and went into dock at Kow-Joon on the 21st inst.
The British cruiser Daphne, which went to Batavia to be present during the celebration of the coming of age rejoicings of Holland's fair young Queen, has now left port for the Cocos Islands, PROGRESS OF HOTHOW, Even the Hainan port has at length begun' to move, As a place of residence Hoihow has long been considered a3 most undesirable, and it is perhaps one of the least inviting of all the Chinese Treaty Ports. Hitherto the Consuls and foreign residents (few indeed of the latter) have put ap mith Chinese houses adapted. A new French Consulate is now in course of erection, and on the 19th inst. Mrs. O'Brien Butler, wife of the Consul, laid the foundation stone of the British Consulate,
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