Hunt. The " celebrity" here is a success-T-! fal novelist and literary man, who though married and the father of a family, poses in smart Society as a bachelor. The tale is told by his younger child in an ingenuously humorous fashion and contains much amusing satire of present-day life.
Tue "Ostasiatische Lloyd's" telegram from Berlin about the steamers bought by Russia from Germany is decidedly amusing. Nobody supposes that those steamers "are" equipped as cruisers, any more than the Alabama was when she left Birkenhead. Nor is it supposed that they can be used as " men-of-war," but they must be very poor craft if they cannot have a couple of light guns mounted on them and be used to harry merchant vessels.
Uxper "Latest News," Sunday's "Echo de Chine" says that M. Loubet and the King of Italy reviewed the French and Italian squadrons at Naples..
'M. Loubet subsequently started for Marseilles on board the armoured cruiser Marseillaise. At the moment of departure the two rulers embraced each other.
Torspay's "Echo de Chine" says that Charles Richard is dead._—Itis announced from St. Petersburg that the heroes of Chemulpo had arrived and received an enthusiastic welcome. The Czar offered them a banquet and thanked them in terms of warm emotion.
The same paper contains the minutes of the meeting of the French Municipal Council on the 12th ult, The only matter of general interest was the reading of a lotter from the secretary of the International Council asking for ce-operation in the dredging and cleaning of the Yangking-pang. The consideration of the letter was deferred to the following meeting.
Wapwespay's "Echo de'Chine" has the following note on the recent typhoon at Saigon: "It is announced that a hurrican has passed over Indo-China, On the evening of the 30th of April the barometer fell; on the Ist of May, in the morning, the wind blew from the north with a force of 8 to 10, The soa was high. The barometer suffered a further fall of 0.47 inch during the day. The wind veered to N.N.R. with a force of 12 (the maximum). The sea was terribly high. There must have been enormous damage done. A fall of half an inch in the barometer, which is of little importance at Shanghai, is an enormous thing at Saigon."
The same paper has the following note in reference to Reuter's telegram about the battle of Kiulienchéng—We a able to announce that according to the news received on Tuesday evening at Shanghai, the reports of the battle at the Yalu are not altogether accurate. The news modifies to some extent the Russian losses, which were not 0 considerable as has been hitherto reported."
'A conresronENt at Weihaiwei asks us to draw attention to the fact colony is now under the Bri Office and that the tariff for a letter is now four cents instead of one cent as formerly.
We have received the ' Peking and Tientsin Times" to the 29th ult.—Nows had been received of the killing near Shunté, on the Lu-Han railway, of a Belgian named De Jose by a Frenchman, name unknown. The Belgian Consul at Poking had gone to Shunté to investigate.—The C. N.S. Tungchow on her last voyage up was stopped by a Japanese cruiser and searched.—Peking beat Tientsin at Golf on the 23rd by 11 holes to 3.—The Empress Dowager is to receive the Legation ladies on Friday next.—Tho Emperor is ailing, and his aunt has sent two doctors to attend him.—It is quaintly remarked that some of the Russian troops raised in Manchuria have.to be drilled in Chinese, as they do not yet speak Russian.—Work on the new Board of Revenue at Peking, which is to be in European style, is to be shortly com-
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