LOSS OF THE AMERICAN SHIP "HUMBOLDT."
The American ship Humboldt, Capt. Reynolds, loft Shanghai on the 18th inst., for New York. Ou the 22nd it was blowing very hard, and about 8
p.. on that night the ship struck a reef, but managed to clear it and get over into deep water: The gale still in orensing, the Humboldt was driven broadside ou to Lincoln Island, and in a short time split into five or six pieces. The ship carooned over, and, the crew bad to hang on as best. they could to the side and rigging, Almost every sea that struck the vessel swept them from their hold, and they had again to clamber up on the ship's side or were washed back. Several of the crow
· lashed themsolvas by the wrists to the rigging, and in consequence of being dashed about by the seas their wrists were out and the other parts of their bodies much hurt. After tanging for five hours in this miserable plight they either agreed to trust themselves to the mercy of the waves (the morning being then just breaking and a low sandy beach becoming visible at some distance from the wreck), or they were
swept off by a wave. After getting
into the water all were thrown up ou the beach with the exception of the second mate, Mr. W. C. Clinton, and and the Chinose stewards and cook. Those unfortunate men were not suc- cessful in reaching the shore alivo. Captain Raynolds was washed ashore literally unked, the sea having swept the whole of his clothes off him, Nothing was saved from the ship, and the men were in a most miserable state. Fortunately fresh water was found on the island, and some barrels of flour, beef, and preserves having been washed of shore, food was obtained and a tout was constracted from sails, etc., which were cast up. Eight days were spent on the island. On the morning of the 30th Oct. the Gordon Castle hove in sight and the Captain noticing the wreck and tent, immediately sent a boat under the command of the second mate to bring off the wrecked sailors. Ou their arrival on board the Gordon Castle they were received with great kindness by Captain Waring, fed and clothed, and inade as comfortable as could be, until arrival at this port
MANILA.
We translato the following items from 'El Commercio -
The new steamer El Mindanao, built for the Manila trade, by Messrs. H. McIntyre & Co., Paisley, was success- fully launched on August 26th. We learn by cablegram that she left Glas- gow on the 1st ultimo with a full cargo for Penang, Singapore, and Manila. The new steamer is reported to bear a striking resemblance to the Diamante. The British barque Glencoe, for Li- verpool, and the German ship Pal marstonfor London, left Manila on 17th October.
On the 8th instant thore' arrived at this port by the steainship Diamante the American naval officers belonging to the U.S.S. Palus. These gentlemen were sent by the U.S. Government to make astronomical observations in the Philippines, and are provided with splendid, scientific instruments for the purposes of their mission. The same steamer brought from Hongkong a boiler and machinery, which are in- tended for one of the iron gunboats ordered to, be constructed for the Go vernment at Cavite Arsenal.
The steamship Osbu sunk in Manila Harbour some considerable time ago, which was recently raised successfully, has been making preparations for her voyage to Hongkong where she will undergo extensive repairs. She is ex pected to be ready to leave here on November 5th.
.
We learn from a reliable source that the British Authorities at Singapore has taken steps to enfores quarantine regulations on all vessels arriving thore hailing from infected ports. This step is very satisfactory to us, as it will relievo vessels visiting this port from Singapore from our quarantine laws.
oman who
had passed the meridian of life, but still an old beau, became enamored of a fair and graceful girl, who land not seen twenty summera, and enclosing a glove, wrote these lines-
"From Glays out off the infélal letter g, Tasa glors le love, and that I send to theo,"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1881.
NINGPO.
24th October. The Chinese fleet left on the 22nd instant, to recommence hostilities with the sea rebels, it is to be presumed. A great review of troops was held (near the comotory opposite the an- churage of the various gun-vessels) prior to their departure. From early dawn until about 11 o'clock the troops were bustling through the settlement bearing with them their innumerable on their way to the review ground, banners and the most filthy and dan- gerous-looking rusty old gingalls (I wonder that in these days, the Tuotai of any proviuce is not ashamed to turn out, touch less review, men with such arms and accoutrements.]
At about 11 o'clock the Chi-an, with the Futui and suite on board, passed down from the settlement, they man- ned their yards in true British stylo and fired salutes, kept up a sort of skirmishing fusillade, and fell in one by one in the rear of the Fatai's ship; they wore the Fu-po, Cha-wo, and Hui-chi. One of the vessels has, how- ever, so far remained behind, and in the absence of any foreign gun-vessel her presence is very acceptable. Tho German gau-vessel Wolff is expected bere to-day though.
One of our residents said he was greatly impressed with what he saw of the troops, for though he had often read of, he had never seen the Hosts of the Philistines before that day, he nor realized the truth of the words" and there was great power in their banners."
The Fatai is to go via Tinghai and Taichow to Wonchow and thence will return overland to Bangchow, the capital.
I hear things have come to such s pass that the Taotai of Wenchow has bean obliged to get a body-guard of four trusty Manilamen to guard him day and night against the intrigues and designs of Mr. Kwang-king-man.
Our Thotai was very nearly lost in the Chinese gun-vessel Yuenkai on the 18th. He was en route to Tinghai in her when she struck a rock and very nearly went down (his steam.launch foundered in twenty fathoms owing to having had too short a tow line, ex- perientia docet.) The Taotai and suito were, however, safely transhipped to the Chi-au which brought them back here and the sinking vessel in tow.
The United States Consul has gone up to Shanghai for a few days. Weather fine, and harbour almost bare of shipping.-Shanghai Mercury;
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,
THIS DAY, ONE P.M. Another day drawn blank on the Stock
handa since we laat wrote, so far as we have Exchange. Not a single share has changed been able to discover, so that we have only to report a few changes in the provions quo. tations. Banks failing to load to business at 114 are now offered at one point less, and 112 per cent promium. Chinese Insurance shares are offered at 305, without however tempting purchasers. Docks are weak at
sales could easily be effected. 30, and Steamboats have been vainly offered at 24 per share premium, although at 23 A few lots of Sugars are still on the market at 160, but as above stated no transfers have been booked.
we think holders would come to terms at
SHARES.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpo-
ration-113
por cont. premium, Sellers. Union Insurance Society of Canton-$1,650
per share, Chine Traders' Insurance Company-$1,600
per share. North China Insurance Company-Tis. 1,125
por shero.
per share.
Yangtazo Insurance Association-Tis. 830 Chineso Insurance Company-$305 por
share, sellers. Man On Insurance Company, Limited-$25
per share premium. On Tai Insurance Company, Limited-Tls.
150 per share. Hongkong Fire Insurance Company-S980.
per share, Sollera.
China Fire Insurance Company-$276. pez
share.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
S. W. Goggin, Swatow $1st October, Nov. 1, YorTONG, British, steamer, 186, General.-Kwok Acheong & Sons. Nov. 1, SAM-HONG, Chinese gunboat, 500,
Yang, Foochow 30th October. Nov. 1, HWAI-Yoas, Chinose stoomer, 981,
Wilson, Shanghai 29th October, Bico. -0. M. S, N. Còl-t Nov. 2, PEXEDo, British steamer, 652, T. T. Kenderdine, Saigon 27th Octobor, Rice and Salt-Tung Kec. Nov. 2, Auoy, British steamer, 814, Her- mann; Canton 1st Nov., General.- Siomsson & Co., Nov. 2, NAMOA, British steamer, 882, Geo.
Wastoby, Swatow 1st November, Ga- neral. Douglas Lapraik & Co. Nov. 2, VLADIVOSTOk, Russian volunteer steamer, 678, Varonoff, Newohwang 27th Oct.; Peas.-Melchers & Co.
·DEPARTURES. Nov. 1, Fu-row, Chinese steamer, for
Swatow and Shanghai.
Nov. 1, HARDWICK, British steamer, for Nov. 2, STRATUMORE, British steamer, for
Shanghai.
Shanghai.
Nov. 2, JoLOANO, Spanish steamer, for
Manila.
Nov. 2, OLYMPIA, German steamer, for
Haiphong
PASSENGERS,
ARRIVED.
Per Yottung, steamer, from Swatow, 227 Chinese.
Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Company-
30 por cent. promium, Sollers.
Per Hwai-yuen, steamer, from Shang- Hoagkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat
Company $24 per share premium.hui, Mr. Derrick, and 42 Chinese, China Coast Steam, Navigation Company.
Tla. 162 per share, Hongkong Gas Company-$85 per share. Hongkong Hotel Company-S104 per share. China Sugar Refining Company, Limited-nins, and 270 Chinese.
$160 per share, Sellers.
China Sugar Refining Company (Debentures)
---3 per cent. premium. Hongkong Ice Company $128 per share. Hongkong and China Bakery Company,
Limited-$50 per share. Chinese Imperial Government Loan of 1878 ---1 per cent. premium, ex interest. Chinese Imperial Government Loan of 1881
3 per cent. premium.
EXCHANGE.
On
LONDON-Bank Bills, T.T....
3/8/
Bank Bills, at 30 days' sight
3/0
Bank Bills, at 4 months' sight
3/94
Credits, at 4 months' sight
3/91
Documentary Bills, 4 months' sight.
9/9
4.69
4.85
2241 2241 730 741
OR PARIS Bank Bills, on demand...
Credits, at 4 months' sight On BOXBAY-Bank, T.T.
ON CALCUTTA Bank, T.T....... On SHANGHAI—Bank, T.T. Private, 30 days' sight
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE: . (TAKEN AT MESSES. FALCONER AND C0's. REGISTER, QUEEN'S-ROAD). Hongkong, 1st & 2nd November. 1881. BAROMETER 1. P.M.
..30.114 ....30.108
Do... THERMOMETER-1 P.M.
4 P.M.
Do. Do... Do.
THERMOMETER-9 A.M.
Do,
P.M.
75,
1 P.M. (Wet bulb)...70.. 4P.M. Do.
A.M.
...71..
.30.188
75.
Do.
Do.
Following extraordinary document BAROMETER has been placarded at Castlebar :~ "Irish Nihilists to the front Liberty or death Nibilists of Castlebar, the hours bas come! Cast off the hellish yoke, or die in the effort. Make sure yours blows prove to the double-dyed British Government and its base, tyran uical, and bloody followers that Nihilism is not confined to Russia. Mark well your enemies. You know them. They whose lives were doomed at last meet.
9 A.M. (Wet Bulb)...71. Maximum..
-75.
Minimum(overnight)...74.
Por: Namoa, steamer, from Swatow, Messrs. Hughes, C. Ford, Tratman, John- aton, Richardson, Huber, and Dr. Stan
DEPARTED.
Por Fu-yew, steamer, for Shanghai, 2 Europeans, and 80 Chineso.
Per Hardwick, steamer, for Shanghai, 10 Chineso.
REPORTS.
The British steamer Yottung, from Swa- tow, reports light N.E. winds and fine wonther.
The Chinese steamer Hwai-yuen re- ports: Left Shanghai at noon on the 29th met steamer Oceanio off Ookssu at noon on 30th bound North, had light N.W. and Northerly winds throughout; arrived at Ga.m. on 1st November.
The British steamer Penedo reports: Left Saigon at 1a.m. on Oct. 27th, passed Cape Padaran at 2 a.m. on 28th, Cape Varella at 6 p.m. on Sunday Arrived at Green Taland at 4 a.m. on November 2nd, experienced strong monsoon and high sea all through.
MAILS.
The following mails will close:- TO-DAY, 2nd November,---
For. Saigon, por Lido, at 5 p.m. For Amoy, per Wm, Mackinnon, at 5 p.m. For Shanghai, per Gordon Castle, at 5 p.m. TO-MORROW, 3rd November,
Oa
If the reported death of "Lindy Digby" be true, the East has lost a figare which filled something of the place in this generation that Lady Hester Stamhope did in the last. The career of Lady Digby was by no means so strikingly romantic as that of Lady ing Maintain the sacred vow you Hester Stanhope, and in many ways made before Heaven. Come, then, in it was wilder and inore eccentric, but the name of God and, country. Re-the two women had in common a long. member, "He who would be free must connection with the East and a peculiar strike the blow himself" Meet, you and intimate acquaintance with Eastern
life. Lady Digby was the divorced On know when and where. God savo Ireland. Perdition to Victoria. Free wife of the late Lord Ellenborough, dom or blood. Now or never. To and after a somewhat reckless career arms, Nihilists of Castlebar, to arms. on the Continent she married, some Shrink not from your duty. You know when and where. God save Ireland and perdition to Victoria."
five-and-twenty years ago, a Damascus sheikh when she herself had attained her fiftieth year.
Whatever her youth Apropos of the final closing of the may have been, her old age was peace- ful and beloved, and her end at least well-known Polytechnic Institution, on Sept. 10, the World says "Now it was agreeably in contrast with that of is closed everybody is saying what an Lady Hester Stanhope. The gifted. admirable institution it was, and what and noble. Eliot Warburton, whose a pity it is it was not kept open. So brave death was the fittting close of a said an old gentleman, with tears in his brilliant career, has told, us only he eyes, to one of the directors, adding, could tell it, the desolate end of the Al, I came here fifty years ago!''And strange woman with whom Lamartino you've never boon here sinte?' asked and Kinglake had faterviews, and who the director. No,' was the reply. And was said to have been crowned by the never brought any of your eight chil-Arabs at Palmyra as Queen of the East. dren here ?... 'Never! answered the aged man, Then how the-diving-boll do you suppose we can keep up the institution ? rejoined the director, indignautly. It is a curious fact, that the diver who was originally in a Lauder regiment whom we have all polted with half-pends in our youth, died only a week or tou days ago. He bad dived at the Royal Polytechnic for over thirty years, and left bobind him a little fortune of three hundred pounds, the result of pelting of the visitors."
The moment she died all her people abandoned her, and her dead body was left along in the great dwelling, which had been given to her by the Pacha of Sidon, until the English Consul at Beyrout, and an American missionary came and buried her in the grove of myrde und bay trees which sho-dearly loved in life. As for Lady Digby, she has died deeply regretted by the Eastern people about her, whose affec tion she won by her kindness and her unfailing obarity.
On
For Straits and Bombay per Avoca, at 2.30 p.m. For Bangkok. per Priaz Heinrich, at 2.30 p.m. For Swatow, Amoy and Foochow. per Namen, at 4.30 p.m.
For Singapore Batavia, Port Darwin, Cooktown, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, &, per Ocean, at 3.39, p.m. For Shanghai, per Amoy, at 3.30 p.m. SATURDAY, 5th November — For Manila, per Diamante, at 11.30 a.m. For Straits, Colombo, Bombay, and Trieste, per Vorwärts, at. 3.50. p.m.
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On MONDAY, 14th November,—
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via Brindisi to the Straits Settle meats, Batavia, Burmah, Ceylon, In- din, Aden, Egypt, Malta, Gibraltar, and Mauritius, per Kashgari printed #matter at-2 p.m.,, lettera at 3 p.m.
Lawyers have a queer idea of judicial taste. May it please your honour" is the way they always begin their abuse of their opponent and the Queen'a Eng- lish..
MacEWEN FRICKEL & Co.
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