Tne C.N.S, Paoting, which arrived here from Hongkong on Wednead'y, reporte: At 4.15 on the 29th of May an armoured Rostian cruis-r bore down on us in Lat. 27° 37! N., Long. 121° 24' E, and then followed by a Tux entire British floot lowes Hongkong to-morrow for Weihuiwei.
Tax German gunboat Iltis arrived hare from Tsingtaolaat Friday, and, loft Shanghai on Tuesday.
Tax French gunboat Décidée left Shanghai on Sunday.
Tae French guutoas Korsaint left Shanghai for Tongking on Weducsisy Tae P. and 0. 8, Nubia, with the London mail of the 5th ultimo, left Singapore for Hongkong and Shanghai at 5 p.m. on Saturday, the 27th ult, Tux 0. and 0.8. Coptic, with the U.S. mail of the 10th ultimo, arrived at Yokohama from San Francisco on Tuos-lay.
Tae British steamer Vennachar, from Otaru to Hankow, which passed through Woosung on Tuesdxy night, hid " rather curious experience. She Knew nothing, of course, of any fgh ing in Teashima Strait, and aa she approached Tsushi the "mall hours on Sunday morni signalled from the island into danger." The exptxin ly consulted his chart, and uld not find tht he was out of his course, 60 he thought it must be a mistake and continued kis voyage, Mut he was rudely interrupted by livoring a shot fired addenly seeing a J panese destroyer, apparently cxme from nowhere, whizzing round him at full speed, on which he thought it better to for daylight. When the dawn broke he could 00 nothing, 80 he quietly continued his voyage, and passed right through the Taushima Strait without socing anything of the battle, of h he only gut the news at Woosung.
Tue arts. Ajax, and Formosa passod the Suez Canal outwards on the 26th ult, Tam stra, Armand Béhic and Ceylon passod the Suez Canal homewards on the 26th ult.
Tux P. and O. intermediate atr. Manila arrived in London on the 26th ult, Mrssns. Denniston and Sullit Block have sent us some excellent photographs of four of the Russian transports and the water-boat at Woosung, and group of the sailors on the deck of the Voronej. They are capital as well as very interesting pictures, and it seen from them that the vessels are about half-full of cargo.
Tux strs, Marquis Bacquehom and 'T. Hay arrived home on the 26th ult.
Tur first Dean of Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, has written another book, and a home critic says of it Tue ste. Mameluke (Into Confidenza) Joft Shanghai last Friday for Chefoo, presumably to take aboard the Russian convalescents homeward bound, "The Oriflamme in Egypt," by Dean Batcher, of Csiro, is avowedly a historical romance of the 13th century, dealing with the fiasco in which the nth Crusade ended, and with the fortunes Tue str. Maria Valerie was docked at the Cosmpohtan Dock on the 29th ultimo. ge value of Dean Butcher's book lies in its interesting cameos of men and manners, Te O.N.S, Ngankin, which arrived Sv" with wealth of archwological here from River ports last Friday, brought one box of silver coins (is. 2,800) and ton chests of opium. She reports H. M.S. Tool and German gunboat Luchs at Hankow on the 23rd ultimo, H. M. 8. Sipe and two American gunboats at Kiukiang the following day, the German gunboats Jaguar and Vatorland and an Austrian Elisabeth?) at ing on the 25th, and the Italian cruiser Marco Polo off Beecher Point at 1pm. on the 24th, steaming up river.
Tue O, N.S. Hanyang, which arrived here from Moji on Sunday, reports having passed the Russian fest, bound northeast, south of Quelpart Island.
Tur C..N. 8. Foochow, which arrived here from Newchwang and Chefoo on Sunday, reports having sighted a floating in Tat. 30°13' N., Long, 120° 63° detail at which possibly some frivolous readers will cavil, and in the vivid peu picture which he gives of the French army's misadventures in the Nile Delta, to which subject hie brings an o-tensive personal knowledge of the topography and history. of The thread of narrative, though slight, is interesting, and the book is pleasantly written.
Gaxenat Mesny keeps up the interest of his " Miscellany," of which we have received No. 22 of the 4th volume. The best part of it is still the " Adventures of a British Pioneer."
We have to thank the Statistical Department of the Customs for a copy of the "Customs Gazette" for January-March 1905 The revenue return is satisfactory enough, the following being the condensed comparative gratement for this yest and 1904, in Haiktian taels 1905. 1904. 696,862 5,812,204 185,262 178,787 tz", Te-mao, =i} 72,894 24,729
6,865,018 6,075,720
The collection at Shanghai alone was Tls. 2,269,954 "against Ts. 2,048 488 in the first quarter of 1%04, 2,419,582 in 1903.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.