German mail of the 21st July, left Singapore for Shanghai at 10 a.m. '-n Friday, the 14th instant.
Tue P. & O. intermediate str. Socotra, from London, left Singapore for Shanghai at 10 a.m, on Saturday, te 13th instant.
fae M. M.S. Salazie with the French mail of the 95th July, lof Singapore for Shanghai on Monday, she 17th instant, at LI pam.
Tue T. kK. K. S. Nippon Maru arrived at Yokohama from Sau Francisco on the 18th ivst., and may be expected to reach Wooaung on Tuesday, the 25th idem.
Tae R. M.S. Tartar, which left here on the 25th ultimo, arrived at Vancouver at 6.30 p.m. on Saturday, the 15th instant.
Tas P. and O. S. Canton arrived in London on th 12th instant.
Tar R. M. S. Empress of Chi left. Yokohama for Vancouver on Fridsy Pur British sailing vessel Dundee arrived at Woosung on Wednesday, having made the passage fron New York i Tar C. N.S. Changchow, which arrived here on Wesinesday from Hongkong, reports, On the 17th August, at 12.20 pan, in Lat 27° 06' Long. 121°'05', passed the U. revenue cruiser Mindanao, steering south ward. She asked to be reported Iscoyuxo vessels during the recent gale report h avy seas outside, but practically no damage, At Woosung some delay took ace in the departure of boats on Friday and Saturday, hut in several instances boats which would have been due out were detained by considerations of cargo or for other reasons. The nearest approach to an accident within the port took p'ace on Friday afternoon at the entrance to the Soochow Creek, where the current running very strongly, nearly brought about a collision between the Peking for Ningpo and the Hakuai Maru. The latter averted the danger by dropping her anchor in mid stream. Just within the Garden Bridge a great crowd of native boats which were unable to make the bend outward against tide and wind caused something very like block on Saturday afternoon.
So few sailing ships come to Shanghai now, and of those s0 few go direct to American ports, that such grievances as those convey d in the letter of the master the Dunfermline are only occasionally hard of nowadays. It is undoubtedly ry hard for the owners of a large vessel ko this that their ship shout be detained for about a week mainly because the American Health Officer declines to allow her to go down to Woosung, where the captain would have some control over his crew, or to give the crew individual certificates of health, To insist on the whol
in hanghai is to set the captain being must-ned tagthr on the shi impossible task. Many of th are shipp-d from th practice of getting the which they cash with the keeper of some den in Hongkew who'keeps three-quarters of it for himself, and fills she man up with ign mainder, and int this den the mau remains until the' ship has gone. and he can repeat the process with ano her ship.
If the man is trested, he is taken the police magistrate and given haps a fortnight's hard Labour or to be on board if the -hip sails previously. Such a sentence as this has no terrors for an advance-jumper, who might think twice about it if he were given three months' hard labour. The chief remedy, it seems tous, is for the police to exercise" moe supervision over the dens la Hongkew in which these advance-jumpers are hidden.
We have received the June number of the "Missionary." Among the illustrations, which are always a feature of this well-printed magazine, are a picture of the Shanghai Bund, showing the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and several of scenes Corea and Japan The July number of the same publication has for frontispiece a photographic group of the Union Theological School Students ut Soochow, thoughtful _practical-looking body of young men, who may leave their mark on the Empire. There is an interesting account of an_ itineration near Soochow anil a capital picture of the famous porcelain tower there.
Unpen "Latest News," Saturday's "Echo de Chine" says that a violent cyclone has burst over Martinique, causing severe losses and eight d The Hombert case is continuing quietly; there ix nothing new in the evidence given.
Scnpay's Echo de Chine" contained the minutes of the meeting of the French Municipal Council on the 16th ult.—Mr. Brodie Clarke was in the chair, the only others present being Pere Robert, Coun oiller, and M Laferritre, Acting Secretary. A letter from M. Ratard, Consul-General, having been read, thanking the Council for its ce-operation in the celebration of the French national fete, another letter from Mr. Ratard was read, drawing attention to the great risk to which the Chan collery of the French Consulate and the Annexe to the Hotel des Colonies were recently exposed by the late five in some adjoining Chirese houses. M. Ratard asked the Council to pass, as urgent, a bye-law forbidding the building of any China house in the space bounded by the Quai de France, the Rue Colbert, the Rue Petit und the Quai da Yangkingpang. all existing Chinese houses in that section to be rebuilt on European models within five or ten sears. The opinion of the Council was that it was desirable to pass such a bye-law immediately for the block bounded by the Quai de France, the Quai dir Yangkingpang, the Rue Montauban, and the tue clu Consular, and it considered three years quite enough for the proposed transformation, So many members of the Council, however, were absent at this tim> of year, that it was decided to postpone a final decision. There was no other mat of general importane mentioned in the lotter from Port Arther dated the 12th inst. fully confirms the report that the Russian women and children in Port Arthur have received official notice to send in their names to the authorities immediately, in the event of their desiring to return to Russia in evse of war. There are now 84.0 0 troops in Por: Arthur and Dalny, in fighting trim, while the Russian ficer in these witers. now amounts to seventy-three vessels of all denominations.
We have received the Peking and Tientsin Times" to the 14th inst.—The attitude ken by our Governnent towards the Supao " prisoners is said to be partly due to the strong representations of Mr. Town-ley, the British Charge at Poking.—-Prince Ssu and Chang Chih-tung are said to be the high officials at Peking opposed to an alli ance with Russia, and the latter has been denounced to the Throne as a Reformer. It i ied that Shen Té-kuei was finally gled because he was going to give the i Peking who he aid him but this is obviously the merest It is stared that gentlemen who crave for Chinese rank can be made 3rdclass motr politan officials if they arrest a prominent reformer, and a degraded fficinl who arrests a really conspicuous reformer can get his rank restored.—Liang Tse-yih, who was unlucky enough to come out first in the Western Sciences Examination, has had his Hanlin degree taken away.—Mr. A. Newcomb is suing the Tientsin Hotel des Colonies, Ld., for Tls. 10,000 for wrongful dismissal.—Piince Ssu, one of the few honest and enlightened high officials at the capital, has been impeach d on the charge of illegitimately spending Government mot he line from Hsin-tien fu to Chéngtingfu has been completed, and it is proposed tu open it to trafic on the 23rd. inst.—In the case of Butland Crawford, tried in the British Consular Court, Tientsin, before Mr. Consul-General Hopkins with two Assessors, in which the plaintiff claimed Tls. 2.500 from the defendant for certain lib-lleus words addre-s-ed to him at a meeting of the Taku Club in February last, the Court gave the plaintiff $20 daniages, and costs not to exceed $100, including Court fees.—It is said that og
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