THE NEW JAPANESE CRUISERS.

AN EVENTFUL VOYAGE. When tlie new Japanese cruiser Kas« suga was beincr moored at Colombo, one of the mooring ropes was being heaved in, and had been inserted in the loading block. The rung ef tho chain was carried away, and the sudden strain on the rope caused tho block to fly upward. It caught the carpenter, mate, a young Irishman uaraed O'Connor, at full force, broko his legs and one arm, smashed his breast, and catching him over the nose dashed out his brains. O'Connor was a very popular seaman, and one of the smartest mea ou board. Had the bolt been of good iron and not shoddy there would have been uo accident. The crew of the Kassuga, according to the " Ceylon rimes," seemed more select than that of the Nisshin. Tho captain, since decorated by the Mikado, was a retired H:N. officer, Captain Paynter. His brother, a British mil. tary officer, was in charge of the suns. Mr Null-He* is the I chief officer, and tho others are Messrs TPremantle, Whita, and Messenger. - The cost of taking the cruisers out was enormous under the conditions, and the Kassuga's captain left 23 of the British seamen at Colombo, giving them two months' pay, and leaving only about 2_ to do the deck work. Others were discharged from the Nisohin, but the remainder of the crew of the vessels got threo and a half months' pay. On being landed at Yokohama, all the Italian firemen were to be sont to Hong Kong, A large number of Arabs wero engaged in that capacity at various ports en route. A Japanese Kear Admiral was on board the Kasuga from Genoa. When tho cruiser left Genoa every man of the crew was served out with an excellent claret, but they abused the luxury, and began fighting among themselves, so that two days afterwards it was taken away from them, and only the higher officers were left to enjoy it. One of the crew, an Irishman, with a very bad temper, on one occasion, when half seas over, quarrelled with the quartermaster, and struck at him through a glas.i plate window, cutting both his arms frightfully, and io stitches had to be sewn iu one of his arms.