Monday for a cruise up the Yangtze. She will probably be away three weeks and on her return will relieve the Iphigenia.
Tae U. S. torpedo-boat-destroyers Barry, Bainbridge, Dale, Decatur and Chauncey left Shanghai on Monday.
Tae French cruiser Montcalm and torpedo-boat-destroyers Pistolet and Javeline left Shanghai on Monday.
Tue French gunboat Kersaint left Shanghai for Chemulpo on Wednesday.
Tae Austrian cruiser -Aspern left Shanghai on Sunday.
Tue Italian cruiser Elba left Shanghai on Wednesday for home. The Marco Polo and Puglia also left the harbour.
Tue N.-D.L.S. Bayern with the incoming German mail, left Singapore last Friday at 10 a.m.
Tar N.-D. L. S. Prinz Heinrich left Colombo for Hongkong and Shanghai at 6 p.m. on Sunday, the 28th ult.
Tae P..and O. intermediate str. Japan, from London, left Singapore for Hong: kong and Shanghai at 8am. on Satur-aay, the 27th ultimo, Tun P. & 0. intermediate str. Candia arrived in London on the 26th August.
Tue M. M.S. Tonkin arrived home on the 25th ultimo.
Tae R. M.S. Athenian left Vancouver for Japan and Shanghai on Monday afternoon, the 29th ult.
Tar strs, Diomed, Prinsosse Marie, and Sardinia passed the Suez Canal homewards on the 25th ultimo.
Tar astts. Achilles, Salazio, Hellas, Kennebec, and Indrawndi passed the Suez Canal outwards on the 25th ultimo.
Tae German str. Arabia, which was captured by the Russian Viadivostock squadron last month, arrived here from "Viadivostock on Sunday.
Tue str. Hsinchi, which arrived here on Sunday from Tientsin and Chefoo, reports having passed on the 26th ult. at 8.30 a.m. the Newchwang lightship under sail steering north towards her station.
Tas str. W. Cores de Vries, which arrived here on Saturday last from the river ports, reports the following men-of-war: At Hankow—The French cruiser Gueydon, two destroyers, H. M. gunboat Vestal and the U. S. gunboat Bleauo. At Chinkiang—The French cruiser Sully and a German gunboat.
Tae C. M.S. Irene, which arrived here from Swatow on Monday, reports sessing four warships anchored off Rapier Island, three miles north of Bonham Pass, at 4 a.m. on Sunday.
Tue new Kiutoan light-vessel was launched without ceremony from Messrs. Farnham; Boyd & Co's Pootung yard on Monday and is now anchored in midstream, awaiting completion and the erection of her light. She has been built to the designs of Mr. J. R. Harding, Engineer-in-Chief of the I. ©. 8. at Shanghai, and there are only about two other ships of her particular character in existence. She is of steel and will be gas-lighted, and it is hoped to get her into position in about a month's time or less.
Tue new issue of "Israel's Messenger" contains a letter from Dr. Edkins expressing warm sympathy with the Zionist cause and suggesting practical measures for the carrying out of its scheme for a Jewish Settlement in Palestine. There is also a letter drawing attention to a fund for the benefit of the children of the late Dr. Herzl. There is an interesting account of the funeral of the late leader at Vienna. Over 100,000 persons were present, 30,000 of them coming from outside Austria.
Tue August issue of the "Chinese Iihistrated News" has a number of pictures which cannot fail to interest native readers, but the large one seems to have more real connection with Mongolia than Arabia. There is a groat deal of good i ber of this exceed-magazine.
We have received the "Child's Paper" for September, with pictures of elephants, always attractive to children, and much interesting letter-pross, with music.
We have received from the Commercial Press, publishers of the Commercial Press New Text-books Series," the following books: " Hygienic Physiology, based on the latest edition of Stoole's Physiology," by Mr. Zia Hong-lia, of the Anglo-Chinese College, Shanghai; " Elementary Arithmetic," Part L,, with illustrations, and "The Methods of Teaching Elementary Arithmetic," Part L Also Part I and Part LI " Series, arranged according to the Genin System for Language Study," by Mr. Roy Scott Anderson of the Soochow university. The books are all well printed on good paper and suited in every way for the students whom they are intended to instruct.
We have to thank Messrs. Kuhn and Komor for a packet of postcards with good photographs of the loading Admirals and Generals, ete., engaged on both sides in the present war. It is amusing to; neties how the Russian photographs bear out on Tuesday what Herodotus wrote of the Hyperboreans some 2,300 years ago; that the men "are bald and wear big beards." There is decidedly more intellectuality about the Japanese faces, many of which are of a distinctly Caucasian type.
We have received Tientsin and Chefoo papers to the 25th and 26th ult., respectively.—All the hospitals at Harbin are full, and the Red Cross nurses are much pressed for room.—The total Russian force at Mukden is said to be now 100,000.—Piracy is rampant off Peitaiho.—The "China Times" says that the electric light on the French Concession went out with a lop at 9.30 p.m. on the 19th, what time a sudden squall brought down the circus tent and stopped the performance. The electric current struck work, and the Cirenus people lost a $3,000 house—The steamer Chefoo has been salving the cargo of the Unison, which consists chiefly of meat, potatoes, onions, and condensed milk and cream. The Unison is listed heavily, but it is impossible, as she is lying in a strong current, to make a thorough examination of her injuries—The Japanese are turning out sleepers by the shipload for the Seoul-Fasan railway from the captured Russian saw-mill at Yongampho.—The following Newchwang notes are from the " Chefoo Daily Nows" of the 23rd ult.
News reaches us to-day that the Newchwang shipping is at a standstill.
Few ships will be bound for that port now.
No more beancake for transhipment can be had at Newchwang.
All junks coming down the river are stopped.
The Russians are constructing a dam with stones, which will block the Liao River and may give it another course.
This will stop the shipping for the present unless the Japanese advance further north.
On Sunday morning a three-masted Sapanese schooner, was anchored on Newchwang Bar to act as lightship.
The Czarevitch had only three shells for her big guns remaining when she took re: fage in Tsingtao.—Tho "China Times," discussing the Reschitjelnij incident, says:
Tt was necessary, in the interests of neutral commerce and for the maintenance of the honour of nations, as well as in her own interests as a belligerent, that Japan should take some steps to restrict the abuse of Chins's neutrality. Japan shows herself once more the champion of honesty and right dealing, as against the pernicious principle that might is right."—The same paper says that the Russian destroyer did take coal at Chefoo, and was not disarmed. The Japanese officer on board knew enough Russian to recognise the order given by the Russian captain to blow up the destroyer, whose orders were to return to Port Arthur.—The Peiho remains at the abnormal depth of 13 feet 1 inch—The Japanese are taking active steps to rid the Newchwang Coast and harbour of pirates.—The following remarkable statement appears in the telegrams sent to Chefoo ands Tientsin from shanghai by the Ostasiatische Lloyd ":—" It is generally believed that the neutral Powers p1 vented the Japanese fleet from entering the Huangpu.".—The Russians are commandeering cattle and carts in Linoyi and Hsinan, and have sunk a large number of junks in the Liao river in the hope of causing an inundation which will hamper the Japanese advance.—The leading foreign employees of the Chinese Imperial Railway Service have now received the China medal and clasp for 1900.—Harmston's Circus is tooponin Peking next wook.—A capital concert was given on the 23rd at Peitaiho by rusticating musicians, including Miss Winifred Curry, Mrs. Anderson, Dr. Hayes, Miss Dora von Méllendorf, Mme. Trotchiakoff, and others.—The Governor-General of French Indo-China has interdicted the ciroulation of Hongkong Chinese newspapers in the colony.—Mr. J. R. Brazier, Commis-missioner of Custotas at Kowloon, has been appointed General Manager in China of the South African Labour Emigration Agency. He has been seconded from the Customs Service for the purpose.—A Japanese undergraduate coxed the First Trinity, Cambridge, boat at Henley.—The Russians complain that the Japanese put up quakers at Port Arthur, which the former expend their ammunition on, while the real guns are screened from view—The Peiho rose on the 25th to 13 feet 2 inches.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.