Ow Thursday a Chinese prisoner in Victoria iug.had his fill of re stand good food, thought it time to retarn to his comrades o side, and accordingly made his arrangements for that purpose. These were so well planned that he would have succeeded entirely had he not cut, his foot badly on the glass on the (6p of the walls, By his tracks he was traced to his place of concealment, a house in Staunton Street and re-captured. His term was doubled, and the man who had concealed him was also committed to gaol with six weeks' hard labour. This will serve, perhaps, asa lesson to others not to assist prisoners te escape.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, There is little naval news to record. The man-of-war anchorage presents an animated sight, quite a large fleet of fine Brit men-of-war being gathered there awaiting eventualities, Their numbers were reinforced on the 6th by the arrival of the cruiser Archer from Yokohama, and that of the gunboat on the 7th inst. from Canton. The Archer is ta be relieved next month from home by a vessel of her own class.. She goes to England to be rearmed. The river gunboats be Snipe and Sandpiper, which recently arrived in sections, are now being put together at the Torpedo Depét, Kowloon, and will soon be completed, They will carry 8 complement of 70 men each and will be armed with 4 six-pounders and 4 Maxim guns, The cruiser Zigar is bringing out new-crows for the Alacrity, Daphne, Pigmy, Plover, and Redpole.
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