The British cruiser Porpoise has gone into dock at Kowlwon, and the cruiser Inmortalité will go there on Tuesday next. One of her funnels has been lengthened already and the other will be completed before she gues into dock. The receiving ship Tamar is getting on rapidly and ins few months will be ready to relieve the old Victor, The destroyer Hart goes into dock to-day for overhaul and the Handy comes out, The despatch vessel Alacrity, with Admiral Sir A. Buller on board, is expected on the 13th inst. The Unived States cruiser Machias left for Canton an the 5th in-t., and the Portuguese gunboat Diu, after completing repairs at Kowloon docks, eft for Maco the same day. The German flagship Kaiser went out for a cruise on the 7th, and the cruiser Irene left for Amoy the same day. The French cruiser Isly arrived here from Manila on the 8th inst., and the Netherlands cruiser Koningin Wilhelmina from Saigon, cid Pekhoi and Hoihow. The latter will, I understand, go into dock here.
The British cruiser Iphigenia, of the same typo as the Bolus, will commission at Portsmouth on the 19th inst. for Hong-Kong, and will probably arrive here in April next.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.