CHINESE INTELLIGENCE.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1650, 4 June 1879, Page 3

CHINESE INTELLIGENCE.

[Press Special Wire.] The correspondent of the Press Agency sends the following intelligence from Hong Kong ■ Business for sailing vessels is dull, but steamers find good employment from the Southern rice ports. Freights continue to rise slightly. The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, has determined to close its branch at Yokohama. Sir Brooke Robertson has resigned his post as Consul-General of China. A European mining expert is to bo employed in the provinces of Shensi and Kansu to explore for gold. The U.S. Consul at Tientsin will shortly proceed to Formosa to inquire into the alleged burning by the Chinese of the Forest Belle at Kwahang Bay in March, 1878_. The distress from famine in the province of Shansi is not yet over, there being still a great deal of suffering, and grave fears are entertained for the future, as agricultural prospects look very bad. A tender has been accepted by the Spanish Government for laying a telegraphic cable between Luzon and Hong Kong. The steamer Tesso became a_ total wreck by sinking on the "White Rocks, thirty miles from Swatow. One life was lost. None of the cargo was saved except the treasure, since recovered by divers. The master lost bis certificate for three months, but was complimented for the good discipline maintained after the vessel struck, which prevented loss of life. An anti-Missionary riot occurred at Tuhkeim, In another riot, 140 miles from Foochow,_ a Methodist Chapel was wrecked and the worshippers assaulted. The local authorities compelled the offenders to make redress and find medical aid for those injured. Active steps are being taken for the establishment of an Exchange here. An outrage has been committed upon the Roman Catholics in the province of Canton. The riot originated through a Chinese doctor, who had turned Roman Catholic, refusing to contribute towards an idolatrous procession when a subscription list was banded to him. The villagers became angry and destroyed everything in the doctor’s shop. The French Consul has been sent to enquire into tho affair. It is stated, on Chinese authority, that the rebel leader has left the Tonquin frontier and taken up a strong position in the mountains on the borders of Hunan, where he has been joined by other bands of the border banditti. The Imperialist commander hesitates to assume the offensive. A cotton mill company, under foreign auspices, is in process of formation at Shanghai. The China Merchants Company’s hulk Aden while being discharged at Taku, capsized, and 35 coolies and one of the crew were drowned. The accident was caused by shifting cargo from the hold to tho ’tween decks.

A number of heavy guns, purchased in Europe for the Tientsin forts, have arrived at Shanghai.