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No. 5423.-NOVEMBER 26, 1880.]

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

(SUPPLIED TO THE "CHINA MAxz."]

HOSTILITIES REGUN IN DELCIGNO.

LONDON, Nov. 24.

rier, October 30,

THE CHINA MAIL.

BION CF FIUS ARMS.

"Follow -

CHINESE pars meer per fomerset will take | Owing to the heavy on, the Chief Fo LIGHT OR PARS, AND DEING IN POWERS- Gazells of the 14th Aug st concludes asing ships, they were aurpissed in every collision or fire. The very first verse a small quantity of poll, which amounts lea Officer's boat was "swamped almost

respect by the splendid "tra clippers" frequently sends down the barometer a considerable value. Br Heoriques entered immedaitely after getting lougside, coalies, appeared on remand from the 24th

Au Afat, 3, and Chun Asbeune, 28, Ás has been sein, this experienced junder our own flag, superb specimens of quarter of an inch. In the old days of for one party for which he trazont 366 and the Chief Engineer's boat gutinah, charged with being abroad after hours shipmaster fully shares the opinion of naval architecture, which the visitor to siling ships, one of the most experi Fer E. B. A. & C. Telegraph Co's Line. ounces, valued at £2,264-Cookton Con- adrift. Captain Drewes Ion: them & without a fight or pan, and Airat defendant Coptau. Jaski. The lighthouse must be Shanghai ar Hongkong cannot we with nord of the Black Bail captains was boat to pick up their own, and proceed with being prasension cf.a leaded of. ilt, for, every year, navigation along out.a pang in their new characters of recustomed to call all hands as he heard ett on fais voyage. The Chief Officer Tux following charters were effected at put the Chief Engineer and his men Hostilities have commenced In Duloigan. Manila from the 6th to the 20th instant into the hont belonging to Douglas and

Spanish steamer Arivrem, for Liver; vol, deavoured to return in the Amoy's boat; 1000 bales hemp at £3 12.6.

after pulling until about noon and uak- Norwegian ship lierra, for the Channel,ing no way against wind and sea, they for orders, to load at Lobn, wet sugar at rou to Lain Tit, and funded about 1 t, £3,26.

finding there the second engineer must all j French barque France, for Liverpool or

the people from hisbout. Saw the Chinese London, angar and hemp, privats.

American ship Pasay, for New York or gunshot at anelor nour the rhaglus Boston, hemp, private.

and afterwards went to Passage Island and In the American slip Cashmere, for Boston, took the passengers from there. Losnon, Nov, 24.

$11 and hemp at $0 for four holes. bagar at

| American barque Hose, for New York, sugar and hemp, private:

TERRIBLE MASSACRES BY THE KEADS.

LONDON, Nov. 24. The Karda bave committed terrible ma

вастом.

AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

1

Sanguinary Bghts have taken place tween the police and people in Ireland..

AFFAIRS AT BASUTO-LAND.

Loxnoy, Nov. 24. Fifteen hundred-colonist troops and to luataera havé ropulsed 5,000 Basutos.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. The next ENGLISH MAIT, may be expected here by the P.&O. stesmer askear to murow, Saturday, the 27th iust. She brings London, dates to 22nd ulto.

The next AventCAN MAIL may be looked for bere on or shout the ist Doc., by the O. & 0.

steamer Garlic, which brings San Francisco,

dates to the 4th inst.

Tazuz were no cases of any importance by fore the Summary Jurisdictina Court to day.

A fuseser match will be commoned to morrow at 11 o'clook, batwsea olevad Of ficers of the Army and Navy and oleren Civiliane.

THERE is now to be seen, at Hours Tue, Crawford and Coy's, an oil painting of a local subject which is to be disposed of on the Art-Union principle. The procede will go towards a charitable object.

for New York, sugar at $10 and hemp at $9 for four bales,

German barque Mercur, for Liverpool, sugar and heup, private.

Pagoda Anchorage, 13th November:-

Arrivals During the Week.-Nov. Titania, from Hongkong; 7. Namna, from Bongkong; 5, Boson, from Hongkong 8, H. sports, from Shanghai; 9, Apgan. from Shanghal; 9. Kwang Pang, from Hongkong 10, Walter Seigfried, from Cardiff; 11, Patroclus, frora Shanghai 14, Alex Newton, from Newchwang; 12,

Sau, from Shanghai.

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Hour & Co's Weekly Shipping Report,

Pagoda Anchorage, 20th November :-

Arrivals During the Wegk.-Nov. 14, Waverley, from Newchwang 17, Achillos, from Shanghai; 17, Sheldrake, from Cruise; 19, Glenorchy, from Shanghai.

Departures During the Wook.-Nov. 14, Patroclue, for London; 16, Hesports, for London; 16, flas San, for Shanghai; 19, Achilles, for London; 19, Titanis, for We understand that Captain Freeman of London; 19, Waverley, for Kealung; 19, the ship Geldhunter, with his wife and Sheldrake, for Baitan Straits.

Shipping in Port.-Walter Siegfried, daughter, who arrived here from Manila yesterday by the steamship Diamante, leave Alex. Newton, Glonroby. this Colony to-morrow for San Fraudse by the P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer City of Peking.

at 3 p.m.

a Band reef from the north-east and sea.

THE LOSS OF THE "DOUGLAS." By the S. S. Name, Mr Goddard, the chief mate of the Douglas, arrived here to-day, and from him we have the

vessel :-

meantime three Chinese saloon pse gers who find landed with the second

₤12

| The two defondants were sentenced for quo that dangerous promontory v Africa is hulks or colliers Eating to and from Au- the first note of the song, and if it was month with hard labour, as rogues and increasing, and it is inexcusable not to stralian Newcastle, Yet they too are sung by more than three passengers he $50, in nofaults farther imprisonment with petature Gusevations in the store of the steady increase in the total British etting Use topralluut sails above them, vagabonds. First defendant was &'an üred light the same, but, in the meantime, being oxtanded by the steamer, in spite instantly put a reef in his topsoils,

i-tard labour for five monche, and alas to bo

and ondered the carpenter, to stand by. exposed in the aucks for three houra as the sal scese might remove much doubt re. tonnage,

„Tho China shipping trade under the thus harchorter and bring him word, the scano of the face. The platol and analing the true position of a ship, atd | munitions to be forfeited,

we test that every so man who liss to: United States flir in jassing from the moment it began to sink. By these pars Gunndafai in vg 8. W. monsoon bands of Americans into the of the timey casures be repeatedly saved his with augusty, consult the mean thermo-Chinese themselves. Not that the coast- chip from hing diemusted by a sudden imeter

ing trado and the transport of foreign | eveline. He often lamented that his A correspondest of the Pujah papers commodities from port to port is being envers did not give him authority to myn it is now high time that a good Hight | carried on only or chiefly in junko, the Į hrbát all singing by passengers, but Chinese Beranna Cruiser Ling Fog, Keng subscription of all civilized nations.

Là Shui Ti, 25, quarter coaster of the be built on or at Guardaful by a general unmbers of which employed in at incr are they reprimanded him so unpleasantly It but slowly, but because the Chinese are the bue dccasion when he put a

(Before the Hond Ng Chaip);"

A CHARGE OF MANSLAUOUTER.

board the Bamo vessel, were, charged by

DRUNKS.

Gustar Nelson, 20, soaman, was fined $10 and to pay 60 com amenda to the clau cui, in default to ba im; zinonul for three weens with hard labour, for Feine drunk, assaulting the emir e ele, and a castable un the 25th instant.

James Eftig'm, 42, was charest with boug drunk and sheayale on the 27th in- tant, but having been quiet when takes in charge, he was discharged with caution.

DREACH OF REGISTRATION ORDINANCE,

PRITY LARCENT.

DEO >YING A WOMAN,

aurosion of $260 each.

THE PASS.

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said gici with intent sell her for unla

China. AMOY,

(Gazette.)

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THE CHINESE AND THE

SING TRADE. Pall Mall Budyet.)

| than doubled, the number had increased

only by about avenly par tout, showing

to

exception of ourselves.

SINGING AT SEA.

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American barque Hannah W. Dudley, engineer, had found a Mandarin, whong Choi, 21,Ching 'W L, 18, kamen on would be simply creditable to the whole competing with Weatern nations for a passager ir iron for singing "A life......

Put a guide requesting everyone to go Inspector Cameron with causing the deathcantile world. Surely sufficient peril share, perhaps for a monopoly, of the the ocean wave-having previously Considerable as has warned him, with a belaying-pin over to the Yamen. About 4.30, seeing the of one Loa Kan, a boy of 6 years of age, and loss have fun now entailed by it to stranier "trylic. Chinese gun-boat return from Passage also oue L. Wak Fuk, s girl of 3 years of enforce the demand which is much too been the augmentation of our own ship- the head, not to sing that he did not Islands and again unchor near the Zonage, at Hungham.

reasonable to demamul proof, and should ping statistics in the trade they have again resort to extreme measures, gies, all proceeded to the Yamen, reneh-.j

An inquest being held this afternoon on

no longer be neglected by the mercantile about-doubled in seven years-it bears Why the ocean resents the singing of BADOR & Co.'s Weekly Shipping Report, ing there abont 5.30. The Mandarin the body of the by, a remand was applied as well as other commation of the world no comparison with those indicating the passengers, and especially their singing

for and granted till the 3rd December, at large-Commercial Gazette. showed them every attention, providing onera being dmitted to bail, each in two

development of the murcantile marine of of sham sen songs, cannot be definitely them with food and accommodation tu sureties of $250 each.

China, Omitting juak tounge, which | decided. There is a certain degree of the best of his ability. On the morning

ig perhaps hardly 2 par cent of impertinence in the feeble pipe of the of the lifth the Mandarin procured the

SUIP-the whole, the roninge of Chinese ship-passenger who lifts up an apparent Chief Officer a antive junk, and becom=

ping cutered and cleared at the op- challenge to the bowl of the tempest, Į porta increasial from 178,000 in 1973 to and it is only just that the challenge panied by hita, the military official atel

If the date montally, gives as that of the early four millions in 1877. The per-should be accepted. When, also, a pas soldiers started for the wreck. On their way they met the chief engineer,

apponians of the 1st cater the Sircentage of the total tonnage owned by senger, who his just recovered from bis the second officer and 4 men in one of

Charles Forbes-in Chinese waters be Chinese was 21 in the former year and seasickness, loudly clamours for a life the ship's bonts; took the chief engineer

exrruck, the current year completed exact 33 in the latter the American por- on the ocean wave, when what he really Departures During the Week-Nov. 7,

iy bult a condary since that event.centage having decreased from 42 42 wants is a home in Oshkosh, it server Fise San, for Shanghai; 10, Forward to board and sent the second officer on to join the others at Lan Yil. The

Though the navigation by steam vessel and the British having risen from 44 to him right if the ocean wave promptly for Lendon; 10, Mantin, the logo chief engineer stated that Capt. Ashton

of these distant was was so long ago 54 in the save period; 60 per cent of shows him what it is capable of doing. 11, Bowen, for Colonies; 12, Appin, for

shown to be practicable, it was not till the ships and 87 per cent of the tonnage Nevertheless, these ure nut reasons Shanghai 12, Kwang Tung, for long-had gone to Haitan Chiu, in the Chi kong

nese gunshoat, to seek assistance to pro-

within the lads ten years that it has been aro British and Chinese. In fact, be- which can be accepted in explanation of Shipping in Port-Titania, Hesperis,tect the wreck, as the gan-bont had to

prosek by netral dounastration to between us we have taken up all that has the dangerous consequences which fol Tang Hing, of No. 1, Stanley Street, espadas of monopolizing the whole mari- fallen from the hands of the Americans, low singing at sea. Walter Siegfried, Patrolus, Alex Newtou, lease, having important despatches for

The ocean is Elae San.

Amay, leaving hin and the second officer plea cd unihy to a charge of neglecting to tie tretic of the Chileso Empire. We though-the larger share has gone to the net a reusimble being, capable of re in charge; that shortly after the gun-port to the Regis rr General within tire

at had left, the ship was surrounded proper period, his having became the house the whole" advisedly, un tan coast-Chu More than that, the Germansceiving and avenging insult, and we ing trade has already Jurgely fallen into have in like manner, though more slowly, must is me that there is some hitherto but had left, the shiji was surrusted hekter of house Now. 3, 5, and 7. S stil the hands of meamship, owners, whose bess yielding to the same two fings undiscovered law of Naturs which causes

tecet, on the 28th instant. Faur other driven from the wreck by the natives, charges of the same nature wore made by vessels have also obtained a considerable. Having in 1873 cloren per cent of the the storm to follow the song.

No senfuring man needs any farther who had fired four or five shots at them, the Registrar General against defendant, share of that of the great rivers; whilst ships and soven and a third per cent of while standing on the top of the

ut were withdrawn on this case being ad- the foreign trade is becoming theirs more the tonnage, they had five years later explanation of the way in which the wheel house, the only part of the ship itted, defendant being fined $25, in de-and more every year. At the shipping only six and four per cent respectively. Arizone came to run into an iceberg that was dry at high water; so they fault to be imprisoned for one month.

convention which bas lately been sitting The enterprise exhibited by the Chiness than the fact that the passengers wore had deamed it advisable to leave the

at Boston Mr Seth Low, a New York in their competition with foreign ship singing, "A life on the ocean wave." ship in their boat, when the natives

shipowner, made statement concerning owners is not confined to a struggle for The only wonder is that the vessel did Lam a Fat, 39, was sentenced to one arrived near the wreck about 1 p.m., talentos carrying pole worth about 10 which gives in a few words an accurate their own ports. They have established if this song is to be sung during the at once wok possession. The party month's imprisonmont with haid labour for his own experience in the China trade share of the carrying trade hetween not go down the moment she struck, abundant, no as this time being half ebh. Counted 24 cents, on the 25th instant, from a hawker representation of the position which atoma line of steamers rituning regularly to coming season, when ice junks round the ship, and there must called Ip a Houg

|navigation has used in the cow morce our colony of Singapore from our other care on the part of officers oan nvert vu be three hundred to four lam-

of that country, said that his firm had coloury of Hongkong, and have already collisions. We shall have more than dred men on board. The Mundurin now

at on time, thirteen clippers sailing to sort the pincer" vesal to San Fran- one terrible calamity to record, and the Fung a Sui, 45, widow, was charged Chinese parts, and now it had only one, ci-co to open a new line of commanica anthinking public will lay the blume on hoisted his flag, und the chief officer's but wiled into the midst of them. Then the 13th instant with during a stand that that was not being mailed at a tion with California. They possess one officers, sultors, and owners, without soldiers fired several shots at the pirates ried woman named Wong Lai Karai win, sing the Mandarin, at mice this Colony for the parpno of eatigration,rofic: that froights to and from Shang ausbip company which need not be dreaming that the real cause was a

i were now obtained by ateamers at a ashamed of a comparison, with game of vocal concert in the saloon. was today c minited fir trial at the next An inquest was held this afternoon, at the

comp. Went on board the Douglas riminal Sessions of the Supreme Court, leaper rate than by sailing vessels to the grout associations of a situine kinni Government Civil capital by the Acting

SHARKS IN THE RED SEA. Coroner, G. S. Nortboote, Esq., on the following account of the loss of that and saw that in the two or three hours prazer being admitted to bail in three years ago; and that the latter were in England. This company-the "China

the pirates had had possession of her,

Being altogether superseded by steamere. Morchants Company"-founded they had done

Of between fourteen and fifteen million oflioinle, and no doubt enjoying much body of a Chiness male olid, five year of

great deal of

A native of Ayr, an officer on board The steamship Douglas left Amoy for damage; whistle, bells, ventilators, gaffs,

tons of shipping which enter and leave official patronage and countenaner, own the Anchor Liner Sidonien, just arrived age, which died from drowning. No de-

the treaty ports of the Chinese Empire upwards of thirty ves of which in the Mediterranean from Bombay, decision was come to by the jury, the in- Foochos at 40 pan., on Saturday, and many other things had been stolen,

Puu Apo, 20, charged on the 22nd is it year haully more than a tenth in early one half passed to it by purebe writes home to a brother as follows Inst., with catering compaunat's house on quest boing adjourned till Monday mart, 1th November, having on board 9 Chi-rigging and stays cut and portions of

Bese saloon, and 50 deck passengers, then gono. Steam pipe was cut through the 2hh ist, for the purpose of a fel ny, vessels only were considered, ale Low's cuntrymen not long ago featedalaring men, that sharks do not go in onder it; while, if the ocean-going hem the great Amurričau tina which on As I have often heard asid, by old draught of water being ft. 8 in. Ture, winches broken, all rapes from the deck

WAS CONVIVID, and satenced to be impri and 4 ft. 3 in. af. Experienced a strong gone and a seene of destruction every-soyed for two mastha with hard labour." experiener, that ourly about one-thirteenth might exclude our thug from the locally great numbers, and as it may be of the business remains with the exiling trade. Even in the rapid expansion of interest to some of your readers, We are favoured by the purchaser of the N... wind with high heat sea through where. Remained by the wreck until Junes Bairy with the following infwout the night, and did not reach Lum 6p.in, when, having no provisions on DECOYING A GIRL INTO THE COLOSK FOR Taft, would be pretty much that of the statistics, which has been so markala especially those who have sailed through Point nutil-2-pau of Sunday, 14th just bord the junk, were obliged to go buck- UNLAWFUL-PURPOSES,us interest in general. In 1871 feature of modern commerce, there is not langerous ses noted for sunken The case of Chus Aki, and Lan Apat, the total tonnage entered and cleared in parallel to the speady development of cherenfe and being so badly lighted (through The American ship Janus Builey, ist 2.45 in passing through The Channel to Lam Yit for them; after getting pro- lylug on a starp sandy beach protected by South of Passige Istuud, the ship struck, visions started back for the wreck, the who were charged on the 24th inat., with the r's the open was 7,381,567, of | shipping trade of the Chinese; for is scarcity of lights), I beg leave to say and passed over an unknown sauken Mandarin and soldiers again aequin bringing a gel into the Colony for an which 5,637,415 was steam und 1,744,142 there perhaps any to the case with which that the following account will show rock ring in the Fairway to White Is-panying us. Reached the wreck about unlawful purpuss and with harbouring the sailing. In 1878 it appeated that the fall rivals seem to fuit hefore their enter That sharks do go in great numbers, There is a deep channel inside of the roof land and having about 11 feet of water u.m. of 17th, and fuund the piratesul purporta respuctively, occupied the utter had remained stationary or had prising competition, with the single though as to whether as a rule they do

attention of the Court this afternoon, and The total tonnage was 13,440,394, the|

rather evinced a tendency to decline, between the roof and the betch. Allow on it. Ship at the time was heading for again on board; drove them off and re-

so, i cannot any. On the 7th September, at 7 4.1., ou our honoward voyage from Water the vessel's portalite is dry, so that one White Island being by N.N.mained alongside. Shortly after day was again rouded till the 3rd iust,

!stram tonnage 11,726,015, and the sailing

India, in lat 15 deg. 50 north, long, can walk on board, whilst ou her starboard trus, and Une Foot Risk, bearing A. by light Captain Ashton returned in Chi- Sounded wells immediately, and nose guiboat Fu Sing and anchored

only 1,713,470. It is notable that,

41 Jag. 95 east, we passed through a side the has from 17 to 14 feet of water, finding ship taking water very fint, near the Douglas. Reported to Capt.

though the touage of atomers had tuore

shoal of at least 200 sharks The (From the New York Times.) taking soundinge fruta the ship'a deck. The Captain Ashton at once gave orders to Ashton what had occurred and then

Within the last five weeks no lessen was as calm as a mil pond, and

of them vessel is a little boygod, but has otherwise clear away the boats, and beached the went ushore in junk to bring back the

were actually resolved no damage; her lower hold ship on the shoul nour the Une Fout second officer and engineer und people

We learn that a tu to be called a considerable addition to the average than six stetners Lave been in collision

aplendid view of them. They did not. pertly Alled with water and ballast, and if Rock. The water by this time was over that remained on Lam Yit. The wreck "Banker's Plate," has been presented for intensions of the vessels. On the other with ice in the North Atlantic. Two of touching the side of the ship, we had them were so badly injured that they were put themselves about in the least, but the 'tween decks uft, and rising rapidly was again visited by the natives during the Amoy Races by the Agest of the hand, the average size of the sailing sabandoned, and tits other four reached moved as slowly as if defying the iron these are taken out the vessel will be seat.in the engine room. The boats were now the night of the 17th, but they were thongkong and shaughai Bank. Toin to had remained the same. It is the intention of the purchaser to leave lowered into the water and passengers at drive away by Capt. Ashton and the the first time that the Bankers of Amoy hor where she is now till april, when she once put into them, but seeing a Chi-people of the Chinese gunboat. 11... be hoped that we shall see a similar Cup the Suez Causi le had upon the msito a mild summer in the Arctic regions feel inclined to try its power. Those Nothing could exhibit more clearly thert with their forward compartimenteater, and the threatening of the pro- bave come forward with a Cup, and it is to immense effect which the opening of all of water. It is evident that-owing eller to cut them in two, should they will be brought to this port, on the otange nese, gunboat coming down an urgent anger arrived from Amoy and every nou Meeting.

The Agest of the Hongkong and Shang. time commerce of the world then, the the ice and drifted down into the track gloso to the ship, which we could p'ainly of the mounová All the inventory, a signal of distress was hosted, and the chored near the Douglas about noon of also all moveables, have been stolen by the boats were kept alongside. Unfortunately the 18th. On the morning of the 19th, hai Bank has also presented a Cup to be change thus wrought, since the date o

the Chinese gunboat in endeavouring to the Company's steamer Namous arrived called the Batik Cap, this is in lieu of its completion, upon that important and in much greater quantities than were about 26 to 25 feet long, and come to the assistance of the fouglas, from Amuy, unchurel near by nad salved the "Wayfoong Cup" which he presented section of the latter which is carried on ustal. Fortunately, the large pse the thickest part of the body, and, judg

Jast meeting, and was won by Driving between Europe and Eastern Asin. The ger stenuere have, so far, met with ning from the tremendous size of their herself struck a rock, and at once kept as much cargo as she possibly could at

new route has rendered steam navigation accident, and, as a matter of course, beads, their mouths could have taken in Tex telegram which we publish this evening away and proceeded round Lam Poirit. low water, leaving for Foochow on the morning of the 20th and taking with

ony. It lies throughout in the neigh unusual care will be taken during the is the must bellicone production of Beuter Four boats with passengers, in charge

is large pig with the greatest of ease, krason to guard against Their bucks were mostly all spotted, sod the second and third officers and the her everyone belonging to the Danglas CAPE GUARDANUL,

bourhood of coasts; and is studded with present which has been regcived here for chief and third engineers, were now de- with the exception of Capt. Ashton,

stations especially convenient for storing the danger of collision with ice. (Straits Times Netherlanda India mang a day. Hostilities in Dulognesspatched to the nearest Island, but and the chief officer, and xat's crew,

and embarking supplies of fuel. Its pe- these circumstances.it would be a failing party out of the water, the rays Translations.}

culiarities have exerted a decisive in-ure of duty not to call attention to an effect. To see them was a sight to be of the sun shining on them bed a splendid tarrible massacres by the Kurds, sauguinary owing to the strong wind and tide, and who wore left on board H.M.S. Swinger.

In expectation of the lighthouse, for duence upon the architectural character-incident in connexion with the disaster fights in Ireland, and continued war in the boats being heavily ladea, it was H.M.S. Sheldrake arrived from Foochow Basutoland. This is an all-cound tule of with great dificulty they reached the about noun of this day. Two boats the building of which the proposals of istics of the dents which ply on it, and it to the Arizona which at the time was embered at the same time to make trouble which is by no means reassuring land and landed passengers on the arrived from Foochow, with Chinese be Egyptian Government are now has been found at once handier and more overlooked or wilfully ignored by the your blood run cold at the thought of Western Passage island. The water divers on board, on the afternoon of the awaited, samen maust, as much as posseonomical to enlarge the dimensions of press. At the very moment when the ow many a poor fellow has been eaten It wil be noticed that the hostilities on the was now rising very rapidly on board, 21st; and at low water of the 22nd salved sible, help themselves to avoid the dan the ships which compose them.

Or Arizona struck the iceberg the saloon up by such monsters. The captain, who Adriatic Coast are said to be in Lutigne, and at high water about 0 p.m. the up- about sixty pigs of lead. HMS Shet gors of this portion of the great marine course for us the chief interest of thie passengers were singing "A life on the has sailed over 20 yeare, told me he so it may be assumed that the Albanians per deck, as far forward as the funnel, drake left for Foochow in the afternoon highway to and from Netherlands India. remaikable development of the steam- ocean wave." There is very little doubt ever saw such a sight, or ever heard of have after all sui fores to oppose the was completely under water, and it, ani of the 32nd. During the evening of this Captain U. Jaski, commanding the shipping trade in the Chinese seas is the that the restoration of the captain's one, and the officers and those who were Netherlands steamer Madura, furnishes mauner in which our own position has certificate, of which he was at first on deck at the time say the same. For Montenegrim occupation. Reuler tale ale the whole of the saloon, very shortly day, hearing the natives at work ou graphed on the 13th instant, that the broke up and washed away. The fifth board the wreck, Captain Tudor, of 11. in the August number of the periodical been effected by it. In 1864, the ton-sentenced to be deprived for six months, yell, I have boon over 10 years at sea, beat, in charge of the second engineer, M. S. Swinger, sent two armed bants called De Zee [The Sea], an interesting nage of ships entering and leaving the was resolved upon as soon as the know and it was a sight I shall not easily Albanien chiefs had agreed to the onion containing in all 17 hands, broke ads if to disperse them. The Namen returned article which pointe ut now and ex treaty parts was rather more than six mil-ledge of this fact came to the court of forget. of Dulciguo; but if this later mora be from the ship, and tried to return für from Foochow on the forenoon of the reinely simple means of ascertaining the lions and a half, of which upwards of two inquiry.

The danger which attends the singing. carrect, the question must have taken a about two hours, but finding it impos 23rd and left for Amy on the afternoon exact position of a ship when off Cape and three-quarter millions were under

Guardsfui. He has noticed a gold water our flag, and a little above two and a half- of secular music by passengers at sen is less peaceful turn. The last news to handsible to do so ran before the wind and of the same day. Captain Ashton and

The following is corrected from the 'atoui about the Kurds was the message of 18th landed her crew and passengers on Lam the Second Other of the Douglas are succent on the African Cost up to Capo millions under that of the United States perfectly well known to all seamen.

Vit. Between 11 and 12 o'clock, the bouts remaining by the wreek board 11. M. Gaardafui, which enables seamen merely That country in the carrying trade of the Psalms can be sung on Sunday in London and Colonial Papers, de- ins, that the revolt had been completely containing the chief engineer and the se. Swing The Douglas is lying on by making diligent use of the thermo- empire was therefore not only our nearest moderation, and in connexion with ser- defeated this additional information of cond and third officers returned to the the shoal patch, about 30 yards cast of meter whenever they dare not trust their rival, but was also a very serious one. vices, with apparent impunity, and the terrible mass tores having been committet ship, leaving the third engineer in charge the One-foot rock. She is quite upright, own conjectural conclusions, and have no For several years this close rivalry con- legitimate singing of sailors when work- may therefore be only nous further details of the people on the Island, The tide now and at low water has 10 feet of water and in sight or can use it only indis tinned; and as late as 1871 it was ing at the capstan, or hoisting theme.

talling fast and Captain Ashton finding under the stem, and 19 test under the tiaotly, to ascertain whether they are seriously proposed to invoke the aid of topsail yards, or pumpin' on her out," of the past inuursion. Ireland evidently the ship safe, sent away a boat in charge stern, and the water rises 23 to 28 foot. still off Cape Guardafui and thus must Parliament to prevent the passing of is aut only harmless, but in many cases gets worse and worse, and will, as we have of the second officer with provisions Upper deck and all houses, with the ex-keep on their course, or have already nesly the whole of the steamer traffic positively beneficial. When, however, bofore stated, continue to do so until the for the people on the island, also to ception of the wheel house, are compassed the Cape and hence may safely and carrying trade on the Yangtze into the passengers undertake to have a situation be fairly, honestly and duty fund mails, &c., keeping remainder of pletely gone, and the ship appears to be stear Westwards. The temperature of the hands of foreigners, where it is con- concert in the saloon, or when several grapple with by the Government. It is the people on board and the boats in settling down, water ebbing and flowing the sau in the gold water current was ducted," it was paid, under the Ame of them lift up their voices on deck and Sept,

found by him to be 25 Celine, and rican flag chiefly, to our loss and injury." sing "Home, Sweet Home," or other fervently to be hoped that as little blood readiness alongside. During the night from all compartments with each tide.

several Chinese bouts coup pear the

bence The wisdom of such an appeal to the Lopurely land songs, danger and disaster, Dreman Castle (,) London-(sunk) a very appreciable difference. Captain gislature many he perceived from an ex-are sure to follow. Worst of all is the faski concluded his interesting con- araination of moro recent statisties, the singing of those so-called sen songs tribution, dated 10th June 1880, Since 1873 the American tonnage has written by men who never put their feet with the following remarke I ven steadily and rapidly declined. In that on a vessel's deck. It is estimated that ture to Beanie. it as almost certuin year it was only 2 per cent, behind our thirty-seven British vessels, having an that the temperature of the seawaterowa. In 1877, whilst we had more than aggregate tonnage of 94,000 tons, were at the surface indicates this current by a 50 per cent, the Americans had not five, lost last year by the singing of Nancy only the Police Affairs at the Caps are assistance from the nearest Mandarin. The case in which Leang Akit, 16, and difference of 4 to 5 Celsius. Should The threatened monopoly of the river Lee" alone. The loss of life was, of Dor clearly "becoming more serione who no They landed on the Ited Yit, but find- Leong Atai, 87, were charged with depoying this be oontirmed by further observation, trafo has certainly not passed into the course, large, and she would to those army of 6000 Bastos have to be repaked.ing no Mandarin there, put the passer girl of le pears of age into the Colony for the lowered temperature even in rough hands of our American rivale, whose flag, 37 vessels the numerous sail-boats that The tribes have donbiles gathered round gers into a native junk to take them to broagut balore the Court, and the, failier nights, (we shall probably be long de appeared from the waters of the Yangtze, by that fatal song, we shall not be far the purpose of prostitution, was again boisterous weather, raging sea, and dark on the uther hand, his altogether dis during the same period, were capsized a Chinese gun-boat which was now seen of complainant not having yet arrived from the rebellious Baantos, mud if this tesgram of the 17th is correct shall bare the unking for the wreck, and sadesyoured Whamps, the use was a la romande theprived of the so-much-desired light the astonishing diminution of the ton out of the way if we estimate that fully

will indicate he to returu in the gig. Shortly afterwards the Sri Decumbar next.

esuat we are in the naga tinder the United States flag has no 800 people have been drowned because Boers to reckon with immediately saw the steamer Amoy bound ups board-

neighbourhood of that dangerous coast." doubt been to a great extent due to the they or their companions insulted the be said that in ruling an Empite like that ofed her, and asked Capt Drewes if he couli

The foregoing is quoted by the Baubstitution of steamers for sailing vessels sen by howling the idiotic refrain, AL London, Steamer sia Suez Canal render the gay asistance. Capt.

tavis Dagblad of the 8th October, for those beautiful "clippers, in fact, Yo ho, boys, bo! A-cross ther seal Kanmure Castle. that sometimes they arles in clusters; and azzewes hoisted signal Do you want John Saith, 45, saaman, unemployed, from the Amsterdam Handelsblad. This of which Me Seth Low spoke the other Still more fatal is the song, "A life on

Sailing Vessels, being drank and incapable in the public journal, after polating out that Captain | day Boston, and of which the most the uccan wave." A long series of isat for an indefinite tips. There must be | Douglas being unable to make out the to enter into a recoguisauce with two sure those of Captain Symington of the Bri- does not by any means dccount for the hour after this song is sung at sċa either |

assistance?" but the people on bosstreets, on the 23rd inst., was ordered Jaski's observations are confirmed by eminent builder has only just died. This observations proves that within half an Star of China.

44 livrpool. even for the greater part of it. agale of wind or a fog comes down, or Augusto, by him to the Shipping and Mercantile | Magnificent as were the Amorican sail the vessel is more or less injured by Lydi

Chinese,

will be shed at posible, hata baptus of ship, picking up wreckage, &c., but a fire seems impending the misguided pea though they were bailed repeatedly, and sante, it is rauch to be feared, bearing the offered large sums of money, none would brust that ought to fall upon pollioal cums alongside. At daylight the Chiet agitatore. So far we appears at prepast, the Officer was sent in charge of the gig, military do not seem to have been in setian, evntaining G Chinese saloon, 1 deck passenger und 4 of the crew, to seek

Britain wars must come It would som

Police Intelligence. (Before the Hon. M. S. Tonnochy,) Friday, Nov. 201

DECOYING A GIRL

DRUNK AND INCAPABLE..

Cloud.

outside the same 29° to 30 °

something wrong in the half-measures of sigual, could not answer it. The Amoy ties in £10 each, to be of good behaviour our administration in these days-ame was also boarded by the Chief Engineer hostelurst, in default to be committed for tish steamer Hankow, 18 communicated whole, thing radically wrong.

of the Dougier about the same time, three days,

of our transatlantic strummers earlier

would measure about 14 or 15: 4 round

Shipping Intelligence.

10, Golden Stato,

Lifti

VISSELA TO ARRIVE.

AT HONGKONG, Name.

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15, Crania,

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LOADING FOR CHINA AND JAPAN FORTS.

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22. Penangi

23 R. Thomas, 23 State of Maine, Ilaihow (a.)

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