NEWS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1441, 28 September 1878, Page 3

NEWS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN.

-U i TeLeubauh. 1 [i' IiOJX COBBEsI’ONDENT Op THE I'KKSS AGENCY| Yokohama, August 5Ui. An International Loan, tor twelve and a half million dollars, has been Moated, but is not considered very successful by the Government. There arc 115 National Rants A Jg a,i. with a capital ranging L 0,,, 00/euteeni million dole, to litty thousand i dols. > A noticeable feature a,bout the pew loau ib that Governiv.. - ; i ■ 1 '• ’ "

merit has been compelled to pay twenty per cent, premium for their own paper, while its value in foreign estimation is seven and a half per cent, discount. An action was raised against the steamship Merionethshire for the value of some cases of collodion shipped on deck and subsequently thrown overboard. The decision was against the ship, on the ground that she was unseaworthy. The judgment causes great dissatisfaction in commercial circles. There is great apprehension for the rice crop. , A commercial alliance between the United States and Japan is advocated by one of the leading journals. A new wharf extension of 2400 yards further into the harbor is to be made at Yokohama, so that ships of any size may come alongside to load and discharge. In a thunderstorm in the province of Mino, three men were killed by lightning. For the assassination of the late llomo Minister, six were beheaded, four sentenced to imprisonment for life, and eighteen sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The infant Prince Imperial of Japan is dead. This leaves the Emperor childless. Sporadic cases of cholera are reported from various places among the natives. The GHavis Castle, from Amoy for New York, with a cargo of tea, got ashore, and remained four days aground, but lightened herself and got off after throwing 300 tons of cargo overboard. According to the last census the population of Japan is 33,622,678 persons, of whom 17,050,521 are males, and 16,555,157 females. An explosion of fireworks occurred on board a Japanese junk off the Island of Dvraji. Out of sixteen persons on board nine were mortally wounded, and the remainder seriously. Sixteen Japanese sailors were taken off St. Peter’s Island, where they had been cast away eleven months. During that time they lived on birds, fish, and rain water. There have been heavy floods in the interior. Many lives wore los*', and the crops and property damaged to a considerable extent.