The British Press is confident that the triple association of the United States, Iupan and Britain will prove antagonistic to the bestowal of profrrential rights on the Russo-Chinese bank respecting Man-chuns, and that this must prevail. The Press anticipates the maintenance of commercial equality throughout the Chinese Empire, the St. Petersburg journal Rossiya" has b-en suppressed, the editor deported, and the contributor of the objectionable article has been banished to Siberia. 3rd February.
The Aomori disaster evokes the sympathy of the Press her:
The extensive premises of the Waterbury Watch Company at Connecticut have been destroyed by fire. The loss sustained amounts to millions of dollars.
The Russian navy has been ordered to devote increased attention to ballooning.
M. Pondloff is dispatching quantities of quick-firing guns to East Siberia.
The Manchurian railway is stopped, and tons of postal matter have accumulated at Stretensk.
Seoul, 5th February.
The Russian Minister to Seoul is moving among the Corean officials with a view to procuring a perpetual lease of Shuko (?), a port near Masampo. Min Yel-sen (brother of the Crown Princess);; and Ye 'o-yok, Minister of Finance, ate supporting the Russian Minister. The Minister was received in audience by his Majesty at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and remained in the palace some considerable time. The audience had: something to do with the matter.
The Russian. Minister was received in audience by the Emperor last night. It is reported that he-bribed Ye Yo-yok, Financial Minister, and is moving to procure a port in southern Corea. The report is be. ed to be accurate as there is evidence to confirm the Russian act of bribing the arean authorities to carry out their object.
The movements of Major-General Wo-geck, who has been in Seoul recently, caused much surprise. It is understood that he was in Corea to instruct the Russian Minister regarding a demand for a port. Yo Yo-yok, Finance Minister, is the only official who favours Russia at present. of Li Yang-ik, has started a vii The Russian Minister, by ce-operation of piece of land of strategic importance on the southern coasts of Korea. The Russian Minister has been unexpectedly promoted to the position of Envoy Extraordinary and, Minister Plenipotentiary and lately the exchanges of telegraphic messages between him and his Government have become very frequent. He had an interview with the Corean Emperor yesterday at 3 p.m. in connection with the matter above referred to, Fusan, 5th February.
The Ruésian warship Gremiastchy left the port to-day for Masanpho.
Tr will be remembered that not long since the "Japan Mail" was very angry with us for printing some remarks made ina letter from our Tokio correspondent on the political motives of Marquis Ito's recent visit to London. We endeavoured to turn away our contemporary's wrath by the soft answer that the unnecessary heat it displayed would make the reader certainly conclude that our correspondent remarks were very well-founded. sorry to see that instead of quenching the fire that blazed in our contemporary's columns, we only succeeded in adding fuel to ity for our reply is quoted in its issue of the 4th inst. with the following courteous sentence from the editorial pen Nothing need be said of the grace and courtesy of that rejoinder, which plainly hints that the more strenuously a thing is denied by a contemporary, the geater the probability of its truth. The noric able point is that the " North-China Daily News" is either silly enough to credit such transparently sensational falsehoods or 60 enslaved by the dignity of stubbornness as to espouse a lie rather than to divorce it."
The news of the Anglo-Japanese Agreement is all the answer to this necessary. It shows how much better i formed we are, thanks to our Tokio correspondent, than'the "Japan Mail" is, and this we must accept as the excuse for our contempt rary' atrabiliousness, Tax "Kobe Herald" gives the following account of the Glengarry in a hurricane:—
The Glen line steamer Glengarry arrived in harbour direct from Tacoma this morning. She has had a dangerous run across and Captain Stevenson, who is in command, says he has not experienced such severe weather before during his twenty-two years' experience at sea. Considerable damage was done to the vessel and she will probably be delayed here for repairs. The Glengarry left Tacoma on January 12th, with about 4,300 tons of cargo, " case salmon, in 2,000 tons), and cotton ' for this Port (some 900 tons). She a hundred tons of coal on deck and with this she weathered two gales before encountering the terrific storm which wrought such havoc on board. When the hurricane broke the Glengarry was in 73°E., 50°N.. one and a-half day's steam past the (Aleutian) Islands. That was on the night of the 25th. The hurricane lasted from 5 p.m. to 10.30, when it settled down to a storm, moderating to a gale at 3 a.m. on the 26th. The gale lasted all day long. A terrific sea—a true W.8.W. sea—was running. The one redeeming feature was that during the whole 36 hours the sea was as true as adio. But for that, there would have been "some missing." Captain Stevenson says he has never experienced such weather during all the years he has been at sea. Two boats were carried completely away, the main deck was sprung, sheep and fowl pens were swept from the deck and casings were damaged. The port life boat was washed clean out of the chocks by on the life boat and eventually haul her for-wai again, where she—was lashed to the steam crane. Her chocks had been entirely washed away. All this took place in the small hours of the morning of the 26th. Captain Stevenson speaks highly of the conduct of all his officers and engineers and petty officers during the trying experience. Moderate weather was experienced during the rest sighted. Heavy snow was encountered on of the 0 until tke coast of Japan was nearing the northern coast. The first land. sighted was Ashisima, about 6 miles off Kinkazau. The earliest confirmation obtained of the belief that land was near wag afforded by the sound of a fog horn and very shortly afterwards the Cape loomed up through the fog. This sulfced to give the ship a good point of departure and Inaboye was passed about 2 miles off. The Glengarry sighted the steamer Knight Companion ashore and steamed within three-quarters of a mile of hor. She sighted the stranded steamer at 10 a. m. on the Srd (Monday), and got up to her at noon. The position of the Knight Companion is 1} miles N.E, from Iwawadasaki, 8.E. of Konshu. Seeing no signs of life on board and that the Glengarry could render no assistance the ship was headed for Mela Head, signals "C. H." (meaning vessel indicated is ashore) being hoisted on getting up to the lighthouse. "No notice was taken of the signals for an hour," Captain Stevenson states. The ship was then put on her course for Kobe, a fresh gale being outside. After passing Omaisaki the wind increased to a whole gale. To avoid the heavy sea the ship was kept close in shore the rest of the voyage.
The Knight Companion is heading N. W. and is lying on a sandy bottom, the seas breaking over her decks fore and aft. Nos. 1 and 2 hatches have burst open and the cargo is floating about. Captain Stevenson does not think there is any chance of saving her at this season of the year. and the probability is that she will break up in the first 8. E. gale.
We take the following from the "Kobe Herald." Silver vase: 26 fort high are a rather "large order A Tokio dispatch states that the British subjects in Japan have davided to order two silver vases in commemoration of the Anglo-Japanese alliance and to present one each t" the Sovereigns of the' allied nations. The British Consul at Yokohama, who is the chief mover in this matter, has already ordered the vases, which are about 26 fe-t in height, from the Giyokuh: do, kad Ikenohata, Tokio. The flags o* the high ewntracting powers, the territories and seas of Great Britain, Japan, China and Corea, are said to be shown in the designs for these vases.
Times," is largely made up of raw silk and Ovr foreign trade, says the "Jay
raw cotton, the former in exportation and the latter in importation. As it is now widely believed that the exportation.of raw silk would reach one hundred million yen in value within a few years, our readers may take some interest in the following table which shows the ever-increasing trade with both the two articles abore mentioned
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.