Trdved, not only. th trade, Dut also the private lives of wea thy merchants will be pi laced under the Committee's scruti for it ix an open secret that the Bureau's chief business will not he with reference to trade, hut concerned with finding t what Reform the South and forei: communities, re there are Cader the elo Commercial Her displacement in 11,000 ton:
id her indicated horse-power natural draught, and her 204 kay She hw 16 guns and nent of six hundred. ort on Monday will return to out a for how and went Tue C. M.S, M. bu which arrived terday, reports light winds we weather: thence to thick fo45 fen Chef to the ry, light winds and foley weather ence to port bad light SW. ud hazy weather.
Tue EMS Kewshi, fom Tangku, report he variable winds and calms to Slhuseishan, with dene fog; thenes to ly wirlls and clowly swatow, reports—Moderate to fresh winds ty weather from Swatow to Thence to port, fresh northerlapan_is derived lar from the German endes, which are not us adaptable to the Japanese uses, and especially with reference to hand American subjects, ax would have been English common law."—Jupan Mull.
We have received the first two numbers of a lively monthly, costing 3a, and called The British Underwriting wi Avencn Assnran te, which is mainly me fended "to circulate information between Tnsurance Agents and their Mead Oni We have als the April issue of the Chinese strated News with portraits of the German Imperial family and Qon Paul, among other illustrations.
Tue Universit Gazelle reports that a missionary us been recently mobbed and hud to tee for his life at a country village in Huangkanghsien, Hupeh province. Appeared that the missionary went £0 the village for the purpose of buying a piece of round for the erection of a chapel, but that the nows being bruited abroad the people from the countryside got up a mob and attad the missionary, who had his clothes torn off his back and had to flee istrict magistrate of Huangkanghsien safety. The name of the missionary is not given nor the date of the alleged attack, A Sooctiow dis pat ch states that Huang Ch'eng-hsuan, for many years city maztstrate here and who was last year promoted to the rank of an expectant Taotai of Kiangsu, has been appointed acting Customs i of Soochow and way expected to take over his seals of office on day mornit Acconprxc to a Peking dispatch the impress Dowager has selected a Manchit amed Kasi Chtun, a sub-Chancellor of the Grand Secretariat, as Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg, to succeed H.E. Yang Ju (Chinese Bannerman) whose three years' term of ellice expired last March, We have received the following dispatch from an occasional native correspondent Canton:—View y Li Hung-chang, it appears, has ordered the establish me of a'Gommereial Bureau in this city and felected the fine pleasure house of the notorious Lin Hsiv-hsun, ex-Emissary of the Empress Dowager to Japan, situated in the western part of the city, as the future headquarters of this Bureau, which is Commercial" in name only, as witness the list of ollicials who are told off to manage the concern. The Chief Commissioners are to be Ting i-ch'ang, Provincial Treasurer, and Wu Ying-sun, Provin-places which, in their mandarin they could never hope to enter. and liberal-viewed merchants and will thas be placed under the thumb of these Commercial" Comm ers and one can easily picture to himself the rich harvests in the horizon, Hence no need b: surprised to hear of 1 of Canton rising ap in hostile opposit to the Commercial Bureau in the 1 future, for not only will prominently wealthy persons be troubled. by that department, but those enzged in the general trade of the pro their business paralysed by the e: demanded by the underlings of th seck this way of gel kow on the 2ist and at Kiukiang on the 22nd 1 ft. 1 in.
'Tue sion, which arrived here on Friday, reports' that Hamburg was left on the 7th ult. and the!
ports were touched at, Inthe Yor sand Channel, light N. and N.W. wailed, while in the Bay of Biscay the from and N.E. with moderate s Gulf of Lyons had very stormy weather NW, wind with a force of to 19 very rough sea which made the hi me ited in the Arabian with calm sea.
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Tue PI &. U.S. Coromuwt with the! London mail of the 30th ul Tar UD. L.
Kobe on Sunday for Shan Tur T.K.K, upon Mare arrived at San Francisco on the 17th instant. reference to the recent accident tw HAMS. Poreorl the ollicer of the watch was court-martialled at Weihaiwei, and sentenced te lose six months' sonic ILM.S. Hermione returned to port on} Thursday evening after short and uneventful paseaze to the North. The raiser first went to Weihaiwei and after a stay there of three or four hours she got under way for Taku in company with ILMLS. Brist, She lay at Taka till Monday and then steamed back to Weihaiwei whence after a short stay she took her departure for Shanghai.
LIMS. Argouivt is a nev, steel, twin-sere\r, four-funnelled, first-class cruiser of Tue L-ES, EL Dorwlo, which arrived on Wednesday from Tangku direct, reports the outer eye of the Taka Bar she spoke the turret steamer Lererniess, ILM ships Hernia and Beist, and an Tralian El Donelo bad light variable: to Shantung Pro the shan, mod winds, ro ter, misty rain.
Channel at LI p.m. on the hand cams in ut daylight on the 18th, Tur C. M.S. Piston, which arrives yesterday from Hongkong, reports Moderate to strong N.E. and' E, winds to Haitan Straits, which' were entered 7.20 am. on the "2nd, and cleared tha sume day at 9.30 pam, the vessel encountering very" strong "NI.
Thence'to port, moderate head winds and me weather.
Deratts rela the OSK. the cruise to the collision between er Miyajima Mare ant which, as reporte wteiven by th arrived ab woshinis early on the 1 The morn dark, Phe Miyajima saw a when approaching the port, two war ing dimly visible.
vainer's course was changed, but the strong current prevented hee wetting ch She touched the ram of the Kusui, hois 6 feet in length and fight side, part 4 also damaged. The fall speed alead and attempted to beach the ship in shallow water, When she approached the Yakupier the water was. maki and the stern began to sink, were shown and the passengers ed for help. Phe men-of-war ights on th passeng with 15,000 burrels narine produce, son the so-called way to. the actual rossing of the Saloon at the Kunio Ferry is that must come up for a The line as far as May from Mandalay, will ho and this a s been done. The bridging of the Gokteik Gorge is in hand, the necessary preparations for the been made; earth-work, has been thrown up on the section to Thibaw and various bridges built while still further on, toads Laskio,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.