i¥ fs a Fe & ef Second Bombardment. of . Arthur was brought here by British t ad 'Score "Another Big Victory off Port Arthur. A despatch from Chefoo says: News Port Steamer Chefoo. The vombardmen -took place on Wednesday, and lasted nearly an hour. The Japanese shells killed ond wounded a number of people and damaged houses on the hillsides. People are flecing from Port Arthur and the Steamer Chefoo brought a large number of foreigners and others. TRANSPORT RT BLOWN UP. A report has been received at St. Petersburg from Viceroy Alexieff paying 'that the Russian tarpedo boat transport. Yeniseih has been} blown up as the result of accident- ally striking a mine ae Port Arthur. | per Admiral at Port..Arthur..allowed himself to be surprised. Admiral Alexieff, Viceroy of the Far East, received a share of the reproach. RUSSIANS FOUGHT WELL. The newspapers at-.Tokio are print- ing a great variety of war stories, none of which has official corrobora- tion. Most of them are apparently based on belated versions of the fight- ing at Port Arthur, although the facts are treated as though they were new. Later-accounts of the engage- ment with the Variag and Korietz at Chemulpo indicate that the Russians made a brave fight agaist an im- mensely superior force. The engage- ment was watched by thousands ~of sons on shore, who had gathered in anticipation of a collision. The rican gunboat Vicksburg, the The Yeniseih and Capt. 8 officern and 91 ep were lost. FOUR K'LLED, D, 54 WOUNDED. The Japanese naval. attache at Washington has received an offi-, cial cablegram from Tokio to the effect that the total casualties of the | Japanee at Port Arthur were four. killed and 54 wounded. Not one of the ships was damaged t@ an ¢x- tent that would injure its fighting | power. 'The officers and crews of the | Japancse are reported to have en- gaged in the action with the same calmness which would have charac-: terized their conduct during ordinary naval manoeuvres. RUSSIA SHELLS LLS STIAMERS. Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Min- ister at London, has received a des- patch from Tokio announcing that on Feb. 11 two Japanese merchant steamers, the Na' snoura Maru and Zensho Maru, W >on thor way from Sakata to © ..aru (on che is- «land of Hokkaido), were surrounded and shelled by four Russian War-! ships, presumably the Viadivostock squadron off the coast of Herunshi. Tho Nakanoura Muru was sunk but | the Zensho Maru escaped and arrlv- ed safely inw = WILL MOBIL Wage A Russian Impe ial ukase, Feb. 10, was issued on Friday. 1 commands that al) the troops in the military establishments in Siber- | jan military ahateacts be placed in that all the divi- sions = in Far Eastern Vf.o- Rovalty be brought tovwar strength, and that the-army and 'wavy reserves | in the Siberian districts "be iled for active service. The authorities pre empowered to requisition necensary ; TROOPS. $5.600,090 FoR wor NDED, The Russian Ned Cress has rective | ed wn appropriation of $2,500,000 from the City of St. Petersburg, and | 'opinion is the | 1 . : alist press is parti datoad |! p Pp 'British cruiser Talbot, the French cruiser Pascal, and the Italian cruis- jer Elba also witnessed the engage- 'ment and saluted the victorious flag. The Korietz was utterly overmatched. The broadsides from the Japanese lvessels raked her continuously untii she sank, killed by shells or drowned, , 'of the survivors Ww swam ashore were captured by Japanese so!diers. As the cruiser Varie¢q was steam- 'ing out of the harbor she was met by a hail of shells, and her mast speedily fell. 'Her --crew-fought--with desperate energy for several hours., According to one report, after she had taken refuge among the Polynes- ian Islands, her captain ordered the crew to save themselves, and then himself blew up his ship. FRANCE GROWING ANGRIER A despatch from Paris says: The fecling against the Japanese is grow- jing here. Angry indignation is ex- |pressed at what is described as their brutal violation of the law recogniz- 'cd by civilized States in attacking the Russians without a formal dec- laration of war. Such a treacherous act, it is declared, proclaims the har- barism of the Jap ie, ane Nation- ularfy noisy and The bulk of other press naturally for Russia. The {Journal des Debats, discussing the proposal of Secretary of State Hay. sves in it an intention to side di- Violent. rectly with Japan by raising the {Manchurian question. It says that if 'the United States does not desire more than the iaaintenance of the open door she ought to be satisfied With the assurances Russia has given Russia will sim- to all the powers. iply refer the United States to her 'former statement. The Journal ad- 'vives the United States to abstain Jn her the merchants of the city have pro- mised lo give $750,0CO more tre City of Moscow and the merchants there have cont: ibuted $900,600, and it is expected that the available for Red Cress work wili reach $5,000,000 within ao week. All the officials in the Ministries have promised to contribute from 3 to 10, per cent. of their salaries. Four thousand hospital beds are ready for shipment and will go forward within | a fortnight. NO ATTEMPT TO LAND. A despatch was published in Lon- don on Thursday afternoon to the ef- fect that the Japanese endeavored to Jand men in some of the bays in the vicinity. of Port Arthur, but were driven off. A later despatch from St. Peters- burg states, however, that the Ad- miralty absolutely denies the report that the Japanese attempted to land JAPAN TO STRIKE QUICK. The Tokio ~correspondent of -- the London Times intimates that the promptitude of the Japanese in open- ing hostilities and the scencs of nav al condicts are significant of what will follow. He says that military de- velopments will come as quickly as | the naval blows, He adds that tne quiet reserve of all classes is most" impressive. There is deep determine- tion, which is not demonstrative. The Japanese have entered 'the strug- gle with cmmcned tel teeth. BOXERS TO ro AID JAPS. There is great unxiety in official tircles at Vienna over despatches from Fekin reporting that China in- tenas to send 200,000 Boxers to " Manchuria to destrey the railroad. 40,000 MORE RESERVISTS. A despatch to the London Times from St: Petersburg says that Rus- tin §6will mobilize 40,000 more re- fervists. Nine thousand men and 22,- 900 tons of stores aré at Sebastopol iwaiting shipment to the Far East. e officials of the Ministry and Mar- Su perticularly Grand Duke Alexan- eer, are Dacia nde sei ie se that . } amount | iby despatching on Feb, | | 'from a step that is destined to end oWn confusion. RUSSIA'S ARTILLERY. A despatch from London says: Ac- cording to a despatch mailed from St. Petersburg, Russia conrpleted her artillery equipment in the Far East 7th seventy- two quick-firing guns, of the type that were conspicuous in the Dreyfus case, which have since then been much 'improved, It is stated that they are now superior to any guns of that class in the world. They fire 28 rounds a minute. Seventeen carloads of ammunition accompanied the guns. -- JOY IN BRITAIN. A despatch from London says: The great joy of the British people at the news of the Japanese successes in the Far East is plainly manifested at tho Japanese Legation in hundreds of letters and telegrams from all parts of the country? The communications jare so numerous that it is impossi- ble to repiy to them individually. Many of the letters contain requests for permission to serve in the Japan- ese army and navy. COMMAND OF THE SBA. A despatch from London says: All the papérs recognize that Japan has secured beyond dispute the cominand of the sea, and the general tendency is to Lelieve that this ensures final victory. The Daily 'Telegraph says:--"Upon one point of vital interest and im- portance, the opening movements of the struggle have removed all un- certainty. There is no longer any doubt as to Japan's main objective. 'Whether she means to occupy Co- rea or not, she does not mean to confine herself to Corea. She has satisfied herself that her national des- tiny must be fought out in Manchur- ia, arid,..throwing herself at once against Port Arthur, she lays her axe to the root. If 'the Mikado's fleet can obtain command of the sea, they can isolate Port Arthur sooner or later, and in that case it would be |by starved out, even if it were not® carried by assault at one of the sev- {eral points where the immen: head of the lance, as it were, be snapped off. and in her attempt to retake Port ur the Russian power in the F: r Bast would bleed to death, even it "the Japanese: army hag rey for 'some time from carry- ing the military. part of the cam- paign into the heart of Eouaiable ter- ritory."' ENTHUSIASM IN RUSSIA. A St. Petersburg despatch says '-- Iv is incréasingly evident that what- ever was the view in official quarters the public-generally were convinced at Japan was bluffing and would never dare to. draw the sword on Russia. The awakening from this il- lusion has been cruelly painful, al- though t' does not shake popular faith in the ultimate result. Elo- uently worded resolutions from. the provincial Zemstovs,;the district and Provincial assemblies, are teaching the Czar expressing the readiness of every Russian to do his utmost by Sacrifices of blood and money to de- fend the country and Emperor. The municipality of Moscow has prompt- y voted $500,000 for the benefit of Prospective widows and orphans. There is great eagerness to volun- teer for service. The enthusiasm with which the cadets received the Czar's speech on _ the occasion of tteir promotion by his Majesty on Wednesday is typical of the feeling in naval and military circles. The railways are busy conveying doctors, nurses, mechanics and medicines eastward. Solemn services in the churches aré attended by crowds of earnest wor- shirpers, who fervently supplicate for the Divine blessing. At the great cathedral of St. Isaac a service be- gan at six o'clock on Wednesday morning, but this was not too early to draw a vast and reverent congre- gation. Long lines of callers are bombard- ing the officials at the War Office and Admiralty with enquiries. The telegraph offices are overwhelmed with work, and are unable to es- patch many mossages,_ especially those addressed to foreign news- Papers. In a word, the initial disasters of the war have everywhere startled the people from the security borne of the official assurance of peace issued during the past few weeks and of the contempt felt for the yellow enemy. 'hue newspapers practically contain nothing beyond the official cespatch- es, The Novoe Vremya complains of the meagreness of these, and seeks to instill comfort in'its readers by assuring them that the dDcean is not Russia's element, and that what happens at sea is of Httle conse quence. It declares that when the fighting begins ashore the Japanese will learn with disinay with whom they went to war. The Viecomosti warns Japan that the punishment that will be inflicted upon her for hindering the expansion of a flour- ishing race will be so terrible that coming generations wi!l have it en- graved on their minds. CHINA MAY TAKE A JIAND. A Weng Kong Gen, Yuan-S! i-Kai, in-Chief of the Chinese army, is driving 30,000 new troops. He has applied to the Government for funds, and if unabie to obtain them = pro- foses to raise the required money himself, . Gen. Ma has been ordered to Shan- Hai-Kwan to hold it against Russian occupation. The Chinese Minister declared on Wednesday that while China is pledged to strict neutrality, yet if Japan has notable victories,it may be difficult to keep the Chinese in hand, INSURANCE RATES despatch says :-- the Commande- Modern Conditions Have Increased Fire Tisk. A despatch from Toronto says :-- The Mutual Fire Underwriters' As- sociation of Ontario are seriously considering the advisability of rais- ing their rates in order to mect the increased hazard that moden condi- tions have created. At the Parlia- ment Buildings on Thursday after- noon their annval convention open- ed Representatives from thirty-four companies doing business in the pro- vince were present, and James Mc- Ewing, of Drayton, was in the chair. The meeting was largely taken up with the reading of a series of pap- ers showing w modern improve- ments had increased the danger of ire, a a debate took place as to nc Wikdom>: of appointing an influen- tial committee to draft a new set of regulations and of recommending increased rates. --_--~---- GERMANY READY TO TREAT.. Anxious to~ Negotiate 'cs Remov- al of Surtax A despatch from ottesa says: official despa' through the British Colonial is believed to have been received here, its text being a proposal that negoti- ations be opened . up for bringing about an understanding on tke trade Be peri- jof | would ne se ES © 2 BREADSTUFFS.. Toronto, Feb. 16.--Wheat-- The market is very firm, with. ely at. 88c for No. 2 red and yand middle freights; ean holders asking 90c to 76c Spring is 9446 for No. 1 Paoithers. 913c for No. 2 northern) and 824c for No, 3 northern at Georgian Bay ports, and 6c more grinding in tran- TB lous ts. scarce and: Very firm Local exporters quoie $3.25 for 90 per cent. patents in their bags east or middle freights, but could not get any at that price, and milters, would probably not accept less than $3.35 at least. It is said that with wheat at 88c the flour could not be sold at any sort of a fair profit for less than $3,50 withowg covering. Manitoba flour is firm at $4.80 to $4.90 for cars of Hungarian 'patents $4.50 to $4.60 for second patents and $4.40 to $4.50 for strong bak- ers', bags included, on the track Toronto. bia Millfeed--Is firm at $17 to $17.50 fer cars of shorts and $16 for bran in bulk east or west. Manitoba mill- feed is-firm at $21 for cars of shorts and $19 for og sacks in- cluded, Toronto freights Barley--Is steady. No. 2 sold to- day at 43c and 44c low freights. No. 3 extra is quoted at 42c-and No. 3 at 40c east or west. Buckwheat~--Is firmer at 49c o. 2 east or west. R-e--Is firmer at ae" ad No. 2 eas. r west. Corn--Is steady for Canadian and firmer for American. Cars of Can- adn mixed are quoted at 374c and yellow at 838c west. American is quoted at 334c to 54c for No. 2 hth 52ic to 58c for No. 3 yel- for jlow and 514c to-52¢-for No.3 mix- ed in car lots on the track Toronto. Oats--Are firm at 324c for No. 1 white and 32c for No. 2 white east; No. 2 white are quoted at 324 mid- dle freights. Rolled Oats--Are firm at $4.10 for cars of bags and $4.35 for barrels on the track Toronto, and 40c more for broken lots. Peas--Are steady with sales to-day at 63c for No. 2 west and 64c east, both lines COUNTRY PR PRODUCE. Butter--Receipts continue. fairly large, but the demand is active and quctations all round are unchanged. Creamery, prints .............. 20c to 22c Go solids wo... cece eeeee 154c 20¢ Dairy 1b, rolls, choice wee 17 do large rolls .. 5c 16c do tubs, aoue to 'choice. "ise 17c do medium .......... cece 138¢ ld4¢e GO POO csccssasece: cxcvereseessees 10c¢ 12¢ Cheese--Quotations are unchanged at the recent decline of 3c per pound Twins are quoted at 114¢ and large at 103c Eggs--Arrivals of new laid contin- ue very light. Quotations are steady to firm at 35c for new laid and 32c to 833c for fresh gathered, cold-stor- age and limed. Potatoes--There are few, cus com- ing forward and the market has u firm tone. Quotations are unchang- ed at 80c for cars on track here. Potatoes out of store are held = at 95c to $1. Poultry--There is littie doing in any lire. The bulk of the cemand is for chickens, receipts of which = ara very light. Chickeis are quoted at 14¢ to lic, old fowl at Ge to 7c and turkeys at 14c to 15e. Seeds.--The local demand continues light and trade is quiet. Quotations for outside points are unchanged as follows :--Red clover, $5.25 to $5.75 for ordinary grades and $6 to $6.35 for choice to fine, ctsike at $4.25 to $6, and timothy at $1.15 to $1. 50, and flail-thrashed at $1.75-to $2. all rer bushel. Dressed Hogs--Receipts of cars here are still light. Quotations unre un- changed at $6 per cwt. for light and $5.75 for heavies. Baled Hay--There is plenty of hay in the country but little of it is coming forward yet and the market keeps steady at $9 per ton for car lots on track here. P Baled Straw--Receipts are light. and the demand is fair. Car lots on track here are quoted unclianged at $5 to $5.50 per ton MONTREAL. MARKETS. Montreal, Feb. 16.--G 9%i--Owing to the continued severe storm, the railways are unable to kéep their freight moving, aud farmers are un- able to deliver it. Oats have now been on the way about u month, other-lots being more fortunute. No. 2 oats, Montreal inspection, are quoted firm at 374c to 38c for car lots.in stcre for local account, the demand_ being reported fair. No. 38 are quoted at a spread of ic to lc below. No. 2 oats, low freights for export, 81c; No. 2 peas, 64c; hee 52c; No. 2 barley, 4384c¢; No. extra barley, 424c; Ne. 8, fie" Flour--Quotations given out by the large Manitoba millers are 15c apart. Patents range from, $4.90 to $5; strong bakers', $4.60 lo $4.70; winter wheat patents, $4.25 to $4.35; straight rollers, $8.90 to $4; extras, $3.50 to $3.65; straight rol- lers, in ge 2. 80 to $1.90, and extra, ae ash 65 to $1.75. the large millers ad- x peta pi bran yesterday to $19. Manitoba , in"bags, $18 to shorts, $20 to $21 "per ton; The Ruling Prices in Live Stock and Breadstuffs, hhite east. fcommanded by No. 2, $8 to $8.50 ° rices are steady at $1.65 to. oe a. bag. Beans--Choice primes, $1.46 pev bush.; $1.40 in car lots. Provisions. --Heavy Canada short cut pork, $18 to $18.50; light short cut, éut clear, $17 to $17.50; American nes backs, $18 to $18.50; compound 8c; Canadian lard, 84c to 9c; reese rendered, 10ic: hams, 1i4c to 18c; bacon, 14c; fresh killed abattoir hogs, 7.50; country dressed hogs, are -75 to $7; light hogs, $5.25 to ecgs-New laid, 88c to 40c; can- dled selected, 32c to 34c; limed, 28c to 30c; refrigerator, 28c to 0c. Butter--Winter creamery, 194c to 20c; full- grass, 21c; western dairy ar he 154c: rolls, 16c to 16$c. pigs a to 11§c; town- ship. 104c to 1 Potatoes--Per "Soc. bag, 75c; 60c 18c to 145; to 18c; chickens, 12c; fowls, 8c to 9c; geese, Vc to 10c. BUFFALO 'GRAIN MARKETS. Buffalo, Feb. 16.--Wheat, spring, firm; No. 1 northern Chicago, c.i-f., $1; winter nominal. Corn weak: No. 2 yellow, '52c; No. 2 corn, §0}c to 50%c. Sats steady; No. 2 white, 484c; No. 2 mixed, 46ic. Barley, 55c to 65c asked for western in store. Rye, no offerings. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Feb, 16--Deliverics of eattle- at the Western' Market were light to-day, and buying was active on limited offerings in the morning. The receipts were 40 cars, containing 653 cattle, 539 sheep ard jambs, 1,166 hogs and 26 calves. The best butchers' were sold at firm prices. A load of choice ani- mals brought $4.55 per cwt. The de- mand was fair for all the choi-est classes, but medium and lower ce- scriptions were quitt. Butchers' cows did not seem to be much wanted, but their prices kept about steady. Owing .to the snow blockaves on the railway likes the cal) from the - country for feeds: and stuckers was light, and though the offerings | were limited sales were not brisk. The prices were nominal at current qudé- tations. There was no new feature in the sheep trade to report... The arrivals, theugh light, were about equai to the demand. Prices continued steady ut Tuesday's IleVels. Veal calves were wanted, in them were brisk. Values firm. : Good butchers' were in fair demard while medjum and lower grades were quiet and weak. Quotations follow# and sales i:eld --Good loads, $4 to $4.35; fair to good, $3,70 to $4.10; common to fair, $3 to $3.50, and cows, $2.60 to $3.20 per cwt. The bull trade was quiet. We quote :-- Heavy bulls, $3.60 to $4.10; feecing bulls, $5.25 to $3.50, and light bulls, $2.50 up. Butchers' and export cows were still in light demand. We quote :-- Export cows, $2.20 to-$38.50; butch- es' cows, $2.75 to $8.10; and can- ners, $2 35 une = No Siange took place in the pace of sheep. Export ewes, $3.7 $1; export bucks, $3 to $3.26: Dut- thers' sheep, $3.50 _to $4; grain-fed lambs, $5 to DU; barn-vaed lambs, $4.50 to $3. per cwt. Cal.es were quoted at $2 to $10 each, and 4 to Ge per Ib. Milch cows continued in fair ce- mand. We quote :--$25 to $50 each. Hogs were unchanged. We quote as follows :--Selects, 160 to 200 ibs. of prime bacon quality, off cars, Toronto, $4.75; fats and lights, $4.50; sows, $3 to $3.50; stags, $2.50 to $3 per cwt. a ee AMONG CANNIBALS. Them British Captgin - Entestains n Roast Pork. A despatch from London says: Des- patches received at Queenstown rec- ently from Barliadoes contain parti- culars of the arrival there of © the British barquentine Mary Hendry, Capt. Kvuote, frem Southern Nigeria, after having spent several weeks tredijg on the African coast. Capt. Foote states that dur- ing his stay on the coust he enter- tained at dinner King, Ogby, the rul- er of the Iakrimen, who inhabit Southern Nigeria. The dusky imon- arch was much impressed with the vessel, and whilst. fenstinge on ronst pork enquired if if was white man's meat! The king has over 1,000 slaves, numerous Wives and a crowd of children. a When King. Ogby was leavin the ship Capt. Foote asked him for a piece of tanned skin with which to make a pair of slippers, aud the next day a slave came to the vessel with a parcel from the monarch. It con- tained the hide of a negro, from the neck to the waist, who had been kill- ed by order of King Oghy to procure his skint. Capt. Foote auded that he.was informed that the tribesmen Reaghnta lo? flesh. eat TRS @ise than bac Ki back to $7-50;5c1 ver, $6.50 © lo . $17.50 to $18; American short"