Arthur on the Askold. The morning after On Sunday week the Viceroy left Port his arrival in Talienwan the review began, but, of course, the newspaper account. of it merely refers to the reception of officials by the Viceroy, the handing of reports to the latter by various authorities. and many ether matters f detail. The bulk of the fleet was in Talienwan, however, drawn up in three lines and occupying "the whole breadth of the spacious We had only: succeed Kr correspondent, hurried glance at the shi wreath of smoke suddenly appeared or side of the flagship and was immediately followed by the report of cannon... Immediately afterwards all the ships were wrapped in smoke; the salute was inz fired. The squadron presented appearance. half catered as it with smoke which was, however. cleared away in a few moments by the wind. When the last wreaths of smoke had disappes ared, our eruiser"—{from which Tennelude that this report in the Port Arthur paper was written by an officer in the suite of Admiral Alexeie) "answered. "We then proceeded. steaming slowly, beteveen the lines of ships until at 3 p.m. we anchored in a central position. Immediately after we had anchored, a steam-cutter pushed Some of our most earnest and well-; of from the jo of the flagship, the Petropaulovsk, bringing the commander-iaintentioned critics at homo are quite as fierce in their denunciation of "the flannel' fools at the wicket" as the Shanghai correspondent of the Port 'Arthur paper could desire. There is also the question of whether the banks do not give themselves too many holidays as it is; and I may here remark that the bank' in Port Arthur seems to have a fair number of holidays as it is, and if it also began to close on the occasion of cricket matches it would only be open on rare occasions. These, however, are questions apart. chief of the squadron, Vice-Admiral Starck. with Flag-Captain Eberzard, who came to present the usual reports to the Viceroy. The Vice-Admira! left for his own ship at 4 o'clock.... - The weather continued fresh and the waves in this harbour were much stronger than in Port Arthur.
The Second Pay.
"On the 130i of October the weather was as fresh as on the previous day. At first. indeed, it was so bad and the waves were so large that it was regarded as hardly possible for the cutters and sloops to venture out in order to make an inspection of the fleet. The visit to etch of the ships was therefore deferred but the vessels were signalled to go through their exercises. About "12 o'clock Engineer Sakbaroif, the Governor of Dalny, came on board with his report. After having conversed for some. time with his Excellency on the stairs of his district, the Governor was invited to breakfast." (This functionary is said to avo presented a pitiable sight as he stool fon the quarter-deck in presence of the Admiral and his staff, as wet as if he had been keel-hauled all the way from Dalny. The Admiral kindly told him to go and dry himself before he presented his report.—Transhitor.) After breakfast the weather remained unchanged and indeed the wi only grew stronger, raising such waves rendered it quite impossible for the Admi to carry out his inspection on that day." The Third -""On the 14th October," says the Kral" of to-day, "the weather in the earl monaing seemeil to show a decided improve: ment, the wind having fallen and the waves having decreased in height so that tluught possible for the sloops out." After the hoisting of the thi. were given to got ami at 8.50 the Viceroy, accompanied the officials of his staff, the flagship. Petrop deck of this armour-clad, corny" was met by the officers of the squadron and by the commander. Captain (Ist rank) James. Having received the usual report from the latter, the Vicerny pasted down along the front of the line formed by the oticers ut the ship and the officials heléhging to the staff of the chief of the squadron, ask about te health of each person and tioning exch about matters of navigation, He then asked after the health of the men who were doing sentry duty and even ut the members of the hind. "He also spoke questioned the men whose watch it as. After this he proceeded to inspect the ship. He examined all the decks and made a detailed examination of every nook and corner. He even visited the lazaretto. where he questioned the doctor regarding the patients in his care, and conversed with the patients themselves. Then he went on deck again and watched with a critical eve the men ea throuch their drill. The result: was that he became fully convinced that the ship was kept in good order, was even a model vessel, and that the instruction of the men in their various duties was carefully attended to. Before leaving, he thanked all: sand at 10.30 proceeded in the company of the chief of the squadron sad the oft fon board the armour-clad salute should be fired.'
In who same aris next inspected the wastopal. On the conclusion of the insp. tion. the Admiral Canker all bat especial the commander, and made a little speech in ho reminded the men wf the glorious name their vessel here and hoped that. they would prove themselves the brave Inds they had ever been. mindful of the labours of their father-—the men who defended Sevsstonol.
After tiffin, the Viceroy proceeded again in his cutter between the lines of warships, before directing his course to the iron-did floated the flag of Rew tomsky. The chin'
the squadron and his staff happened be on board at the time and met the Vicero The Viceroy left. warmly praising the mander and his men and proceeded ironclad Retvezan. which Lo carefully spected.
The review came to a conclusion at 5 o'clock in the evening at which time the Vicer.s took leave of all en board the Retvezan and desesrded to his cutter amid loud cheers from the crew of the wars The Social Side.
At dinner-time the cruisers Zabi Vendneek arrived with a number of visitors bee jen tenant-Ceners] Vatkoff and the officers of the fortress artillery.
In the evening, there was a very striking display made by the search-lights, a display which was rendered more effective by the profound darkness of the night.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.