A daring escape from the American transport Grant took place on her arrival there from Manila on the 4th instant There were a large number of prisoners on board being taken to the United States Military prisons. During the evening eight of there prisoners managed to escape though they wore handcuffed, and crawl through the ventilators leading from their place of confinement to the deck. They then broke the chins which connected their handcuffs, secured life belts, and crawled down the anchor chains and dropped into the water in their clothing, unnoticed by any one on board, They swam towards the Commissary Pier which they wore nesting when the coxswain of a ranch observed them aul picked them amed for the pier. The men by feeling desperate, when they reached the pier eprany ashore and bolted for dear life and succeeded in getting clear away. The police have captured four of the escupees, and they were up before the magistrate yesterday on a chiro of vagrancy, when the case was remanded for a week. ' The rest of the escapees are still at large.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The only arrival this week has been that of the German battleship Weissenberg on the 6th inst. from Woosung. The departures have net been much ous, and include only the British hospital ship Gwalior for Bombay and the French gunboat Cométe for Canton on the 4th inst., and the French cruiser Doscartea on the Sth inst, for Foochow.
The little gunboat Sandpiper, which went down at her anchorage during the recent typhoon, and which sunk again Inst week after being raised, has again been raised and this time safely ducked at Kowloon.
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