have been few and unexciting. TheGerman cruise Cormoran came in on the 18th inst, from Manila, but lett again on the 20th for that port. The British gunboat Plover left here for Manila on the 2st inst. The British gunboat Tiveed arrived at Wuchou on the
maybe naseful vessel for river work, but the passage from Hongkon, e inst, having taken six days to make
has no special turn of speed. An armed steam-launch might have been more useful.
The Japanese cruiser Aliéeushima arrived here yesterday from Manila. She brought little fresh news beyond the fact that 1,500 of the American reinforcements had been landed, and that an attack by the insurgents on Manila had been repulsed, The attitude of the insurgent leader Aguinaldo is becoming arrogant; he hss drawn up and published a Constitution, with himself as resident; and I fear the Americans may have trouble with hira.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.