sinking of the battleship Mikasa, coming from the British Naval Committee, the Under-Secretary of the American Navy, the French Minister of Marine, the Italian Mi ting their Noel, Messrs. Vickers, Maxim & Ca, Armstrong, Whitworth and Ca, Sir Andrew Noble, besides the Mexican, Argentine, and New Zesland Govern ments. A sympathetic message from King Edward was received on the 16th inst, 'The German and some other Ministers in Tokio personally visited the Japanese Naval Office to express their condolences. Messrs. Sale and Fraser of England have sent a gift of one thousand you, Bishop Harris and the Argentine Naval' Attache fifty yen respectively. The cause of the catastrophe is now generally supposed to be due to electric -leakage or decom-Position of gunpowder.
20th September,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.