A private telegram was received here on Saturday morning, announcing that the mail steamer China had gone ashore off Perim. We have now a Reuter's telegram, stating that she was full of water and would probably be a total loss, and we hare also received copies of the P. & O. (Co.'s telegrams courteously sent us by Mr. E. A. Hewett "China has gone ashore at Perim at 10.30 a.m, Thursday, Passengers all land ed safely. Steamer has gone to her "All the passengers are saved, all well, and have been transferred to s, Carthage, proceeiting to their destination to-day or to-morrow. All the mails and specie have been saved."
Tu his speech to his shareholders on the 20th of December last, Sir Thomas Sutherland syd: Phe Aden points the moral to a certain ox the sacrifice involved, pecuninvily speaking, is one of small amount, but if it had been one of our vessels costing £250,000, the result would have been of a totally different character, and I need hardly.tell you, because Tam sure you perceive it that any largest and fastest ships that are exposed to the rayest risk they carry the burden of working the mail contract, are therefore, every day and every hour they are at sea, exposed to risks which slower vessels are certainly not exposed to in the same measure." The China was one of the new large and fast ships referred to by Sir Thoms. She was a steamer of 7,899 tons gross, and 1,393 nominal horse-power, 500.5 feet in length, 54.1 feet in breadth, and 25.1 fect deep, build by Ha Belfast at the end of 1 homeward way at the time of the accident. She -was commanded by Cupt. de Home, wav well-known in Shang is factory that, as far as we and specie have een saved. The passengers have been sent on with remarkable promptitude, though no doubt they must have suffered considerable inconvenience.
Among the homeward-bound passengers in the China were Mrs. Wade Gani'ner and family, and Me. and Mrs. Platt, of Shanghai,
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