is causing the Viceroy and Chinese authorities some anxiety, and they are collection, information how best to deal with it, if it appears here. The telegraph daily an-ounces its increasing ravages at Newchwang. Tientsin used to have a most lable notoriety among Chinese cities and over-crowdedness; if this be still the case, the Shu-wen Ping, as the natives designate bubonic plague, may run fearful course here. There is, however, some ground for hope in our fine Northern autumn and winter. Doctors January and February are fine anti-pestes. In the meantime our other epidemic, that of 'THIEVING, continues unabated, the fact that the burtery and silver, shows that former or present lars always go straight for watches, jewel-servants are in collusion with the scallywags. The ordinary Chinese thief does not know the run of a foreign house and has a mortal fear of fire-arms and dogs: the fiot that the presence of dogs lias not immunity is a strong presumption that the thief is some one who knows and is known to the animals, THE PEIYANG SQUADRON, of five fine cruisers, a corvette a training ship and a few' destroyers, makes quite a respectable fleet at Taku. Admiral Yeh's chief difficulty for the moment is personnel, both in the ward-rooms and in the lower-decks. Nearly all the officers of the former fleet have lapsed into civil life, or are "officially dead" by the absurd re-action of the Chinese doctrine of responsibility. Some of the junior officers still languishing in prison because their iperiors played the poltroon and were never captured. Outraged law must have some culprit even if it be the wrong one.
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