Tar RMS. Empress of Japan arrived at Hongkong at 10 a.m. on Tuesday.
Tar RMS. Empress of China left Vancouveron Monday afternoon, the 10th list., and may be expected to reach Yokohama on Monday, the 24th idem.
H.M.S. Watertcitch left for Tinghai on Saturday, whence she will proceed Ixter to Samehun'Bay for surveying purposes.
Tue silk which left Shanghai por R.M.S. Empress of China on the 10th ult, arrived in New York on the 8th instant.
Tar China Mutual s.s. Teenkai left Singapore for Hongkong yesterday morning and is duc here on the 25th instant.
Tae' Indo-China steamer Loonysang, formerly the Ebani, left on Friday morn: ing for Tientsin. She has during the past few weeks undergone extensive repairs and alterations. Six cargo ports for the quicker and more - economical handling of freight have been cut in her sides, and the Chinese and foreign cabins and saloons have been materially improved. It is expected she will eventually be put on the Hongkong-Japan line for" which'
Tue G.L.S. Glenshiel has accomplished smart run from Foochow to Suez. She left Foochow with 4,300 tons of new season teas on the 16th ult., called at Singapore and. there took in nearly 1,000 tons of cargo, and arrived at Suez on the 9th inst., completing the distance in 23 days.
Tue big steamer St. Helens, of 2,580 tons net register, was. successfully docked at the new Cosmopolitan Dock on Thursday, We were.in error in stating the other day that this new dock of Messrs. S. C. Farnham' & Ca., Ld., is an enlargement of the old Collyer's Dock. It is an entirely new dock, only a small part of the old one nee covered by -its site. It is the largest and certainly the finest dock in Shanghai, with 24 feet 6 inches on its sill at high water springs, with three feet. more in the dock itself, and it will take a vessel up to 565 feet in length.
Mr. W. For. Trier, Coast Inspector, has issued a Notice to. Mariners,- No. 343, announcing that the Kaiser Rock in Sam: sah Bay has been. marked by a. black conical buoy, which inward-bound vessels must pass on their port hand.
Orricta1 notification was received at the various Consulates-General from the Doyen on the Lith: inst. of the death of the Czarevitch, and the flags were half-masted on Saturday, not on the previous day as it was the French Fole Nationale, We have received the first number of The Anti-Opinn News, newspaper printed in English and Chinese, the official Organ of the Anti-Opium League in China... It is temperately written and well printed on white paper with illustrations. The annual subscription is 15 cents for 1 copy, 81 for oven. copies, $5 for 50 copies, or $10 for 100 copies, including postage.
Cirizex Gronrcr Francis Traty has sent us the fifth number, for May '99, of his Penny Magazine, the Work of Cranks for the Fustruction of Wise Men and the Amusement of Fools, published at La Crescent; Minne: sofa, Woe are sorry to see that age has not mitigated Citizen Train's hatred of England. The Penny Magazine defends Trusts and vigorously attacks Bosses all round, while this.issue contains trenchant account of "American Transgressions in the Philippines" from its Shanghai correspondent, signed A. H. Myers.
Wer have received Corea and Japan Papers with dates from Seoul to the 6th, yokohama the 8th, Kobe the 10th, and Nagasaki the 14th inst.—The U, S: hospital steamer Relief went ashore on Saratoga Spit, Tokio Bay, on the 2nd. She floated off at high tide the next day, none the worse for her grounding.—Mr. Ito, head of the Issue Department of the Bank of Japan, has been fined tro months' salary for not preventing the recent theft of 5,000 yen from the Bank.—The Kobe City Council is to give" Prince Henry'a reception on his return there.—The Kobe District Court has sentenced Mr. Rozario of the Kobe Shipping News to eight days' imprisonment for libelling Mr. Pfoundes.—Captain Moses of the N.Y. K. was married at Kobe on the 5th to Miss E. A. James, daughter of Captain H. D. James.—The City of Pek: ing was released from quarantine at Nagasaki on the 5th.—The hie Inspector-of South Chulla, Corea, paid $16,000 for his post, and to raise the money pamed his commission with a Japanese. Inspectorships have now been abolished, and borrower and: lender are wondering how the-loan is to be repaid.—As we have already noticed, the concession to a Frenchman to build the Seoul-Wiju railway has expired by effluxion of time, but the French Minister has-informed the Corean Government that he shall insist on the concession being kept in force unless only French engineers and French material are employed in the construction of the line.—There has been some considerable trouble over a lottery in Seoul in which, tthe first fifteen prizes were unaccountably won by' fifteen of the promoters:—The Bank of Japan is said to have purchased three million ven worth of the new loan, which the Japan Mail thinks will soon go to par—Mr. F. J. B. E. Balmés, who was for many years in business in Yokohama and came to Nagasaki some 18 months ago, died there on the 8th, aged 51.—Prince Henry of Prussia is expected at Saseho on the lst, and come thence to Nagasaki, where he will probably stay until the 25th.—The. gaolers the Nagasaki district have been taught English.—Mr. Pavloff has' come to the conclusion that a serious crisis is inevitable in Corea, and Russia must be prepared: to interfere. "The Nagasaki Press says that an official document sums up the situation as follows':—' Complete anarchy is approaching in Coren, real Government no longer exists, and if the various States still maintain their representatives at Seoul and take for a reality the' Corean Government, which has become a myth, it is only' owing to their desire to defer'as long as possible the inevitable' end."—The same _paper notes the absolute accuracy of the Sicawei Observatory's forecast of "the recent' ty: phoon in Japan and says that "it is a splendid tribute to the efficacy of the work of the Jesuit' Fathers in the "above observatory."—The Corean correspondent of the Nagasaki Press says that the stories of the tortures to which the unfortunate Im Pyeng-kil was: subjected, "are horrible. Heis now Im Pyeng-killed and beyond further torture. The correspondent speaks very favourably of the new Corean Prime Minister, H.E. Yun Yang-son.
The following*telegrams are from the Kobe Chronicle:—Tokio, 3rd July.
Prince Henry proceeded to Nikko this morning by the 9'a.m. train from Useno. He was accompanied by only three of his officers, Mr, Nagasaki, a master of cere-many in the Imperial Household, and another gentleman. Baron Sannomiya, Viscount Soga, the President of the Japia Railway Company, and a' few officials in the Imperial Household saw the Prince off at the Uyeno Station. Last night the Prince gave a farewell dinner in the Shiba Detached Palace, which was attended by of State, and other high officials, the, Princes of Imperial family -Ministers Prince Henry arrived at p.m. Governor Mizobe: and leading private indivi Prince at the station, Yokohama direct from Nikko after spending three days there. He will then, vi Yokosuka, Kobe, Osaka, Kioto, Shiga, ifu, Nara, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. 4th July, Prince Henry has presented 500, yen towards the fund for the relief of the poor Tokio, and 200 yen towards.tho, same fund at Yokohama, ath July, Information has reached Tokio. that Prines Henry is leaving Nikko to-day to return to thio Deutschlend at Yokohamn.
TLR.H. will give a dinner on 'Uoard the day after to-morrow, to which a number of, dliicers of the army and navy, the Germain' Minister, and" others will be' in vited.
'The draft of an Imperial Ordinance relating to the residence of Chiiieso in the interior, as proposed by the Home Depart-mant, is now before'the: Cabinet. It vides' that' Chines6 shall not be allowed t6 reside outside thd existing Foreign' Settle; ments without obtaining permission of the Hattie' Minister. 'This " show: the' Hohe Departinentis not absolutely opi to the'residento of Chinese in the interior, The draft by the' Cabinet." be vitally colahabtte "ithe inauguration ceremony of the_new.
litied! party to be called the Teikokito whs held to-day, when resolutions to the effect that the party agreed. in its political views with the present Cabinet were, pass: baron Takezono Yasunaga, aged 23, who was enrolled in the army according to the Conscription Law in December 1898, and who was serving with the ambulance sec: tion of the 1st troop, of the Ist Regiment of hpsieg deserted the colours last May. He was discovered by gendarmes the day before yesterday working among coolies at Asakusa, and was arrested: and handed over to the military authorities, "Peking, 7th. July.
The French Government has asked the Chinese Government to' sond troops into Yunnan for the protection, of French at Méngtze, The Chinese Government subjects, in view of the cent disturbances, has instructed the Viceroy, of Yunnan to send the troops, but at the, same time ji imploring the French Government to with. draw the application, 2 Tokio, 8th July.
The Deutschland with Prince Henry on board left Yokohama at 7.30 this morn. ing for Yokosuka, arriving there at 8 an. All the Japanese men-of-war fired a salute. Admiral Yamamoto; the Mivister for the Navy, Admiral Ito, President of the Naval Staff Department, Admiral. Sameshima, Commander of the Standing Squadron, and Admiral Ainoura, Commander of the Yokohama Port Admiralty, proceeded on board the Deutschland to meet 'Prince Henry, who, after receiving them, went on the Fuji.' Prince Henry isto entertain Princes Kwacho and Komatsi, the Minister of the Navy, and others at dinner on the Deutschland this evening. a 7 Yokosuka, 9th July.
There being signs of a gale, the' departure of the Deitschland with Prince Henry has been postponed. 2 Tokio, 9h July, A London telegram to the Specie Bani yesterday states that the new. Japanese Loan bonds have improved, and the. dis-:, count now stands at 1} per cent.
Tue Kobe Chronicle of the 10th inst, has the following notice of the recent storm':—'
The storm which commenced on Friday Aight or Saturday morning and which con-' tinued to an "early hour' this" morning appears to have done little damage, 'Yestetday' evenitig about 6 o'clock some Is fear was expressed that the western bank' 'Egopama' where' dine "damage "as" done of the Minatogawa, "at the point below the:
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