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The China Mail.
BEATHS.
Awalow, on the 2d ingat, the wife of CEABLE
WILLIAM BRADLEY, Daughter."
MARRIAGES.
At St. Johner Cathedral, Hongkong, on the 17th
January, "LEONARD BANK to SARAH ASK SMIT
прод
DEATHS
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The China Mail.
* | No. 1092—January 18, 1866,
In looking at the general aspect of affairs; prosent; fearing that it might be intended as enormous regions, lying to the west of the to visit the districts of which he speaks, of the coast Buoys ant light ships have
Aa his tenure expired and he lakes close on to the westem shore of and inay be said to be in a better position to been established improvements in rivers in China at the close of the last year, perhaps a bribe.
was about to leave, a friend presented inkstone. Не accepid LEONGKONG, THURSDAY, Yera JANUARY, 1888. Africa and northward to Lake Tchad, give an opinion than one who has had no and bar foura commenced and partly oireied the question of the future of Shanghae is him with an
main entirely unexplored. When Captain other opportunity of observation beyond on, and many points in dispute between the the one which stands most prominently it. On his journey down the river & storin Burton was in this country last summer he a single pleasure trip. They extend cousi-merchants and this officials were decided in forward demanding solution? Will it ever arose, and his conscience troubled him
about his inkston
inkstons. He seized it and threw had some thoughts of getting up an spediderably beyond the space at our disposal in favour of the former. The Chinese love again be the odd settlement Will it it into the river, aud: the storm ceased, tion which would have attempted the
formed into an island, which now remains this lasue, and a portion must therefore ernment, though still very far from carry-ever again attain the position it once held while the inkstone was forthwith trans
ing out to the fullest extent the principle as the great commercial emporium of the as a monument of the long-lost integrity of stand over for another week.
of free commercial intercourse sanctioned east and the wealthiest and most prosperms China's rulers. by it in late treaties, showed nevertheless of the European settlements in China? We Nearly opposite the western extremity of
Inkstone island is a little reek leading tof during the year 1565 a manifest desire in fear that it will never recover from the the funt of Tang-it-shun. It is called Lo meet our withed on every point, and to Jusses of the last tw years. He prestige is yachung. The common belief is that one improve the condition of the Empire by the gone. Ciruninstances are against it of the ancient Emperors of China passed a cordial adaption of Europees knowledge Shanghae is no big toed; and Chuight of its banke, and indeference to His Majesty the mosquitoes keptaway and have and appliances,,, There are still dozens of Liang, in our opinion, will shortly rival continued to avoid the eplace until the pre-. points on thith chyfeldabit to Chach and ought soon to outstrip Sheunghee. Bout dits: {
The monastery on
on Teng-u-shan is one of the chief attractions of the West River zeeded, but they have shown their willing Railway enterprises made no perceptiidu uess to yield to the demands of our bigher progress during the Year 1865. Something, All who have been there say that this spot, and better ciciliantion. This the Chilisse however, has been added to our lege visit. The monastery was burat by the with its beautiful cascade, is well worth a have done although during the past year of the difficulties and of the advantages of rebels in 59, but has been rebuilt.
By drowning, in the Cimbay Passage, on the 20th tober, BAS, JOB IN BROCaptain of British banque Medias-ist 42
All Swatow, in the moratog of the then listant, sud denly, Jour W LEED RICHARDSOR, Junior Member of the Arin of Messrs Bradley & Co.
oppressive summer; and it seems that last
The last year was a year of changes many and great a year to be remembered in the anuals of the world as a period of great and beneficial alterations in the political and social life of the European communities in China and Japan, a year to be referred to in the annals of many families, as a timu of great sorrows and many and serious losses.
The last year was the first since the sig
the task before us, and every day brings the idea more familiarly in contact with the Chinese mind. Time alone, and pati- once, are required for success.
On the right bank of the river is To Kai, where there are a number of Chinese Roman Catholics.
feat and most difficult achievement which remains to be accomplished in the way of African travel, namely, the reaching the lake country from the West, in the neigh- bourhood of the equator; but, that would require almost indefinite time and money for there are no caravan routes on the west side of Africa as there are on the cust. M. du Chaillu, however, has started from the Losposi, 27th November, 1665.
West Coast with the intention of ponotra- people com This is the month in which
ting into the interior, if he possibly ona; mit suicide in Eugland; and on these and favingstone proposes, after runding slushy streets of London, under this gloo the southern end of Tanganzika, to push my sky, I envy you your Hongkong Nov-into the unknown regions to the Westy if ember, with its clear skies and refreshing he can see his way to do so.. "I propose," North-east wind. However, you liave to pay a fearful price for the pleasures of the he said, in a speech delivered at Bombay nature of the Treaty of Tientsin during the whole of the troops up to that time re lately, "to go to the Rovuma, to pass Lake which the foreigner enjoyed a full and un- tained at Toku and Shanghae were with cool season, in the endurance of the dar Nyasi, arid on past Tauganzika to a part of restricted intercourse with the Chinese, drawn, and with them want the last vestige hot season in China was one of the wort the country which exists in a portion of the unimpeded by the presence of an organised of the military supation of 1860, and and most fatal which you have had for map which is an entire blank. This I pro rebellion in the heart of the country. It although as before mentioned the suppres many years. I remember once going dee-pose; but I don't know anything of the ply, into the mortality statistics of Hong-people or of the difficultius in the way was the first in which we had an opportusion of the rebellion rendered it no longer 1863 are tolerably well filled with matter
to be on the best of terras with usi kong some years ago, and collecting inform-We can only wish this indefatigable tra-nity of testing tho working of the Treaty to necessary for them in their own interests for study and reflection. We have been Tie a emansition state-sturing the last year atton on the subject from men who are now veller "God speed" on his new and splendid its fullest extent and of ascertaining un
With the past year the career of Sir FEED- Our Governor, SA HEBOULES RAINBOW, all at rest, that is, dead, with the exception enterprise; but it seems evident from what mistakably the feeling of the people and of Sir John Bowring, whom I saw the other we already know of Central Africa that it their rulers when uninfluenced by fear of ERICK BRUCE as Minister, Plenipotentiary atteft us in March last, after fix year of day looking more vigorous than ever, and will afford a field for the development of our power, and with no special motivo for Peking: dane to an end, and for some very valuable service: Our new Governor lecturing an unfortunate person in the races of European origin, and within a smoking room of a grand hotel. The cou- Joentury or two, have innumerablo loconin propatiating us to assist them. At the months Bagland had no proper repre- ja not yet on his way from England to height, the highest being about 2,000 feet,
commencement of 1865, the Taoping rebel- sentative at the Imperial Court. The assumo, bis duties, During the interreg clusion to which I caine was, that every tives moving over its vast elevated plains, lion was a thing of the past. Thanks to your witnesses the advent of it new Ministernum we have got happily along under now and then, at intervals of from four to and steamboats vexing the great sheets of
General STAVELY, Admiral Hope and Co-Sir RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, whose experience the gentle away of the Colonial Secretary China & most unhealthy year; when the by a very few living travellers. mortality among occidentals is simply enor mous. Lat those of yun who have sai vived last hat season congratulate your selves upon the fact, and think over your sins and ainend the manner of your ways.
The annals of Hongkong for the year
On the left hank, at the entrance of the Gap, is a Custom House, where duty is la vied on goods passing up and down the river,
The duty collected here is an extraordinary only been imposed since the Teping re- levy for military expenditures, which has bellion. The custoins are farmed to wen who pay a fized suma to the officers, then collect what
We now come to the Shin Hing Gap.
The bills on each side rise to a considerable
nine gears, there comes in the South of water, which, as yet, have been seen only tonel GORDON, it had been crushed out, of the Chinese during his long tenure of as Acting Governor The Community of impassable for the Gap i-vanetimen
A. atill older Hougkong Governor than Str John Bowring, has just been giving proofs of his continued existence. Sir John Davis has come out with a volume of Ohinese Miscellanies," in which he dis- cusses the Celestial mode of calculation. Hpc's travel, the rise and progress of Chinese literature in England, Chinese roots, novels, romances and plays; Chusan
The members of the Zambesi expedition The whole of the great cities on the line of found that in Central Africa they were in the Grand Canal were in the hands of the no danger from sunstrokes, and could go Imperialists; Nanking bad been captured about even in the middle of the day wear and the Teeping chiefs were gone. True, ing cloth clothes, and cloth caps undefended there were famours of a reappearance in by turbans. The country is exceedingly force in the neighbourhood of Fuhehau. A fertile, and both on the shores of the Zam-large force did mustar in the hilly country besi and the Revuma immense coal fields on the borders of the Fokien province, but exist. May not Africa become in time a great field for Chinese Emigration? I am afraid the negro is being improved of the face of the earth; and in these portions of Africa where men of European origiu can not work, the Chinese coulie might be en-
they wore only successful for a moment. They were quickly attacked, defeated and dispersed, and the close of 1865 saw but a few scattered bands in the mountains of Kwang-tang and Kwang-si, as the rem-
threatened to propagate a new faith through.
and the valley of the Yang-tage. Dr Rennie, ployed with advantage. At present, how-nants of the once mighty armies that had foo, has just come out with a volume eu-ever, I don't suppose there are a hundred titled "Peking and the Pekingese," from Chinamon in the Dark Continent. which I extract (p. 43. and p. 51, vol, 1) the following choice specimens of English.
"Kwei-liang, I may remark, is father-in-
A. W
law, to the Prince of Kung; and report VERY little of importance has marked the The English Mail arrived, states that another of the Miss Kwei-liangs past week.
is in the Emperor's harem."
consular appointments in China, and whose recent diplomatic successes in Japan rejler him in every way fitted for the post. From Sir RUTHERFORD's energy and force of character we expect great changes in the aspect of affairs throughout Chius He will urge the authorities in action to keep pace with the spirit of the times He is too impétuous asuan to have had the charge of our ititerests in China during the past five years of doubt, and difficulty and of experiment on the part of the Mandarins, but we could not now have a more suitable minister.
Hongkong has undergone many change since January 1865, Death, has removed very many-death by disease death by shipwreck. Commercial losses have re moved some well-known names from the list of residents; promotions and retire menta in official and commercial circles have done much to change the aspects society. A new and a younger generation is rising up to supplant the old one; business is flowing into new channels; fuen's minds are being turned into new and hitherto unexplored directions.
Truly the year, 1865 was an eventful one
In the social life of Thins there hasmay 1866 be as fruitful in progress, moro happy in the absence of sickness and com- but the vast countries of Eastern Asia, and been no great movement, no percopti-
mercial and social misfortunes.... to give a new dynasty to the oldest of ble tendency one way or the other. It is existing empires. The year 1865 must be too soon yet, but the shake given to old ever memorable, if only for the Eral extind and preconceived ideas of men and things tion of the Taeping Rebellion and the paui in China, by the rebellions of the last ten
THE WEST RIVER Frequent journeys up and down the West River having made me somewhat famili
"p
In the winter the current is not much swifter than usual fe other parts of the stream, bat in the summer when the "wes. to water" is
several days for boats going up. Even when
passable the currents and projecting ranks make the passage a slow, editing and sometimes dangerous one.
bridges have been built over the ravines. to track has been cut on the left bank, Aumber of Chinese odes have been cut in the rock, praiding the sublimity of the scenery.
the
Near the lower mouth of the Cap on right ban's is a quarry which furnishes stone for the best Chinese inkstones. It is below
First, the surfaer of the water. It is quite an permission has to be obtained from the Im- expensive job to open the quarry. perial authorities, as all products of mines
a dan has to quires a large sin. Then, in China belong to the Emperor; this re-
be built and the water pumped out. It is said to be opened only once in 20 or 30 years,
In the second ravine on this bank in a native flour-mill turned by water power, The wheat used bere and flour ground here furnish a good part of the freight in the passage boata between Shiu Hing and Can- ton.....
On one of the lower hills on this bank is
A similar, event happened to Mr Stout, being four days beyond her time, fication of the provinces lately under their years, the foreign wars, and extension of with it, perhaps a short notice of its poiuti transformed into the figure of i
Clair's horse, while riding, this afternoon in abother portion of the city.”
The great literary event of the fortnight, however, has been the publication of Dr Livingstone's account of the Zambesi ex- pedition, which is full of interesting mat- tor, and sggests that Central Africa will prove an immense field for European and even American colonization.
::
further it, and two or three most useful establishments have risen and promise to flourish under its motion
of interest may be acceptable to your readers.
We will begin at the "Sz-In Kan," where boats from Canton, usually enter the West Riyor. This passage, said to be artificial,. connects the West with the North River The first place we meet with is Tsing ki, which is a small hi or market town on the left bank of the river. Its chief trade is in lumber.”---
A woman
an upright stone which imagination has
looking for bar husband (many fu_shek), The story is that she stood there watching for the return of her husband, who was an officer up the river he
he was killed and the faithful wife was changed into store while
waiting
This legend, variously Amplifeil, is a favorite story with some of the Chinese women: A collection of these would afford some Chinese Ovid the materials for the story of a second. Nigbe.
the
and is
brought nothing which we had not before. sway. China was not, however, entirely intercourse with foreigners, has implanted Hopes appear to be entertained at home that free from domestic troubles. The insurgents many seeds that by and by must take root this Colony may yet be spared the Military of the north, especially the Mohamudan and grow up. Missionary enterprise has tax swindle. Another case of piracy has rebels, overlooked for a time in the greater no great conquests, but its advance is staly occurred within hail of our shores, in the needs of the central and southern provinces, if slow top Ly-ee-moon Pass, upon a French brig made head to a great extent, defeated Turning from the Chinese to the foreign named the Jeanne et Joseph. The whole large armies sent against them, slaying.tlic communities in China, the year 1865 was of the cargo and other valuables were commander of one of them, the famous Sex-an eventful year for them-a year of heavy
On the right bank of the river, just above speedily plandered, one or two men killed KO-LIN-SIN, our opponent at the Takao Forts commercial losses and many and serious
the Gap, is a sprall streain leading to Pak Pó- The lake region of Central Africa has or wounded, and the rest of the crow and in 1858, and again in 1800; and advanced so failures; it inaugurated a much more tex The Chinese system of fairs or market hu This region proluces a long, knotted turned out to be much more extensive than the vessel saved only by the timely apnear to Peking that at one time the rumour tended and liberal system of business days affords missionaries and others wlio rush four or five feet in height, from which Chinese dollar bags and mat for sails art was at first suspected; and it is not unlikely preach of the Spanish steamer Circe, a was spread that they had captured the Impe that had previously prevailed. The blight wish to come in contact with the people en made. The grass is ent auch dried, the that for some time discoveries may prove it
women then pound it but with a to be wider than we ever now imagine. boat from which was sent at once to her rafeity, a rumour which found its way to that fell on the tea trade and the difi- opportunity of seeing them gathered toge -
street Already four enormons lakes, not much in assistance. A gunboat has been despatch- London in the slipe of a positive atatement culties and short-comings in the silk trade ther. The fairs are held on two days out pipes of wood made like a
of the ten, or, if the business is greater, rammer or a Chinese pile driver. As
As you ferior in size to Lake Superior, have beened to look after the pirates, and some of fact, transmitted by electric telegraph. It drove many men and touch capital into on three days out of ten. The country people approach some of the villages the noise
of discovered in a portion of Africa, that not hopes may be entertained of their being was not till the Viceroy and Commander in other branches of frade, and caused for mites around bring their produce to the these more reminds you of the busy of navufacturing town in the West. very long ago was hipposed to be desert, caught and punished-Car H. M., having Chief of the Trokiang TENG-WO-FAN him- people to look round for other invest, market town, and make their purchases After being Battound the rush is woven by and extend-from a sex tagues Lord of the equator, to commenced his morning coffee at the Race self, with bis, veteran troops frest from the monts for their funds and other fields there. The shops, with their medicines, dry the hands of women and children into fouten south of it, close to the 30th pa purse, made his first appearance regarding capture of Nauking, was ordered to move to for the exercise of their talent in lieu of goods, jewellery, meat, de, are all in these mats. This branch of industry affords sup- rallel of longitude. There was a vague as-
the various points of the animals under the attack, that they had been at all kept the old ones irretrievably injured. The market towns. The artizans and traders port to many families in Shin Hing and m under, and at the close of the year they were result has been a rapid increase in general are inhabited by the families of the men in
are congregated there. The villages, again the country to the south of it.
The left bank of the river here is in the sertion of the existence of auch lakes in training.
still in arms in soins force. This move commercial enterpiss in new forms and the market towns, and by the farmers and fall of the year covered with wheat, buck Portuguese writings among the Arabs, and
The villages" contain, no ment occurred, however, in a portion of the in new directions. The passing of the literary met
whoat, grounilnut, and sugar cane. The in Sanscrit poems; and it was the scholar
Chinese in this province grow two pringi. ship of Captain Barton which first sug-Norzs concerning the Canton province, or country so remote from our operations that Limited Liability Ordinance Leae in Hongshops, except one or two little grocerius,
At Tsing Ki is a streant, mnavigable in pal varieties of cane. One kind has a thin rand gested this splendid held of discovery and any other of the seventeen provinces of the it had no direct effect upon or intercourse, kong, in the early part of last year, the winter, time, leading to Tail Sha, the skin and is about an inch in dianietar sted him to the shores of Lake Tangansika, Espiro, if compiled by an intelligent ob social, political or commercial, with this though partly the result of the movement principal market town in the
juicy. This is sold about the is quite and to the district town (wall ztrict,treets in Cantou and elsewhere and is
of So-wi Store,
was
aunot fail to interest our readers. Olacas, other than on it affected, the aboris fydlichtest, dit misch, mivelhicles, to Tai, sh, woad, neatly all-destroyed by the cases, winemaker of steamet. The second same expedition, Speke was the first to tnder the present circumstances, however, general welfare of the country.
it has
kind is raised mostly rotat rebels in 1859,
in larger vixit Lake Nyauza. Dr Livingstone and when the Rebels are again causing disturb
from which sugar is Sz-ui is noted for its had in or This year opens with an alarm from New the Zambesi expedition discovered Lake
Post-skitzigt. yallow
bambob or (otus mar which is called chuck che oranges Nyassa, which they represent as being ance and apprehension in the districts sur-cliwang, the most northern of the open
garia) Passing the mouth of this stream. more than 200 miles in length; and the rounding Canton, it is probable that the ports, which may possibly bring future
not grow so high as the first-named An immense change who effected during we find ourselves in the ruralrehm of the logs from the hardness of the skin. It other day Mr. Samuel Baker and his heroic Notes we publish in another column may complications in its train, but we ars id- the past year in the interm government of the river, is in Shui bu, said to be the black cane" is sonetimes seen, but it is West River. Opposite, on the right bank kind; and the stacks rarely exceed of an incli in diameter. A third kind called the lady, returned bomo with their full accounts prove still more interesting to those who clined to think not. The authority of the of the Ruglish Comfrunities in Chin birth-place of Chong Kwok Lenug, a rebel. of a fourth enormous lake in the neighdeeply ponder over the state of the Empire. Imperial Government became during the and Japan, and indirectly in that of the loader, who afterwards became noted comparatively insipid
arki
ussless bourhood of. Nyanza These immense Some may be of opinion that the two last year more firmly established, and was whole foreign community in China. The his bravery At Foochew, where he was a Department City and was the capital
We now come to Shin Hing. This is Upperialist general, and was canoniseil for bodies of water have changed all our pre-
or three rivers of the Carton province more vigorously exercised. There is plenty exterritoriality clauses of the Treaty have killed.
the two Brout próvinnes" ("Kwang conceived ideas in regard to the interior of have by this time beau fully described of room for improvement, but still an ad received their fullest development by the Od the left bank of the river Muay Africa, and it is not yet known what con-
a subject vance was tade at a time when many praeparation of the Colony of Hongkong from or suil berry tree, as the Chinese com of the fovernor
Panumber of tallow trees (Stillingia sebifera), Canton to its late in these columns that, s nection may exist between them, much less what is the character of the watershed of for comment, they have been in a figu- told and many more feared a relapse into all official connection with English subjectamonly call them. The berries in October to be seen, but only the front walls and entrance remain. It is now used as an Central Aftion Spoke, in his coutused, but rative senso, very nearly dried up" the old haughty and insolent ways of Ceal-in other parts of China, and by the data and November are covered with a coating care, ground during the military, ex-
which bears a e But, such an idea, we may at once reing with the barbarians,
blishment of a seperate set of Laws an
a strong resemblance to tallow mark, is an entirely mistaken one. Short
nese use it in making their wax candles.
ndles the troops under the immediate con There were some movements in and about Tribunala for British residents in the dust color and consistency. The Chiminations 16 is still the garrison: city of trips, and written accounts of the same, the Court of Peking, that at one time minions of the Emperors of China, and The leaf is smooth, with a long slender of the Governor General, and this head certainly have done a good deal for us in excited fears of the adoption of a retrorride Japan The Order til Council of the þil
foot-stalk and
shaped like
like that of horns are here. A Taube,
torns are here a District Magistrate a Depart at both their ends, and it is for from up the way of providing information on this policy Prince KUNG was deposed owly March lest inaugurated a new and more Rice in the principal of this region, but ment
Magistrate likely that this may be the case. However
have their Yamons in that may be, it is evident that these lakes head; but excursions must of necessity be in the year from his high and important effective regime, the good effects of which all is made to some extent,
On the South or right bank of the
river derives will be of immense importance in the future productive of only superficial and paridal posts in the Cabinet and at the heart of the have already been felb, but of which the is a range of mountains rising to a height sence of these officers wid development, and perhaps colonization; of knowledge, if notes of each individual trip department of foreign affairs. His advent full benefit will only be experienced after. 1200) or 1500 feet. The Chinese in the 2. During the Examinations the popul Africa and the discovery of their region be not compiled and given to the world, so to power was on the heads of the anti-for the lapse of time. The most striking sourlood call it the web chek fauation is increase! by about 10,000
or Cross Stone Ridge. From this point is incomparably the greatest geographical as to enable the world to give its inpartial eigu party, the advisers of and chief feature in the new arrangement is the westward the river flows through a pioun, Shiu Hing is pleasantly situated on the event which has occurred since Columbus ferdict from the whole of the facts thus agents in the events of 1858-9 and '60, provision made, and lately assented to by tsingus country. The country East and left bank of the river. Behind the city crossed the Atlantic and Vasco de Gaqu presented. This remark may be found and it was difficult, at first, to realize that the Chinese authorities, for the settlement opthi Vest, alluvial plain, intersected is a fertile plain, covered with rice fields rounded the Cape of Storms. It is not at suggestive to many who have failed to see his sud len fall and disgraceful banishment of all disputed gustoms vases, and they be regarded as the Delta of the West hills called the North
by a complete mesh-work of streams and extending to the font of mnge of Its trade all unlikely that there may be other great it their duty to give publicity to what they from office was not a prelude to the re-opvery in the new Courts of all penalties and river The district fire in the Eastern suburbs, which lakes in the unknown regions, which have heard vir seen on such trips into the turn of what, we suppose must be tersiniable by the Chinese Government un-
platte between Tanganziku and Lake Tohad, which. Bartle visited far to the North-west, Outerior of Chinar and at the risk of being the strictly conservative party, topover der the provisions of the Treaty, beth-sides of tropical Africa, there is a bell thought selfish, we cannot but express our It would appear now to have best the Municipal Governmout, if it cannot be of low lying swampy and unhealthy land conviction that it is incumbent upon all resuls of some palace intrigue or some said to have sprung into life in 1865, certain of about 800 miles in breadth, after which in view of the client but certain bange feminiue caprice whatever. Prince Kuna ly took a new lease of life, and assumed We ascend a series of ghauts and come upon which, in baing gradually aufered by the signalised his return to office and to power new and more oreditable appearance. The an elevated plateau of healthy land, with Chinese nation, and the equally gradual by drawing more closely the bonds between decisions of the new Courts, at Shanghae temperate climate, diversified by still boldes knowledge which is being gathered concern bis foreign advisers and unself. My have removed all doubts as to the authority water. This immense plates, which con
often remarkably thoughtful, way, seomed
to incline at times to the opinion that the African lakos were themselves the water shed, that is to say, that they had outlets
th
of
No. 1092 JAN
often reaching the diar feet, and their upper su apines.
The principal point o
cinity of Shiu Hing is These are a number of r rooks at the foot of t about three miles fro They appear to be imm from the plain to
to the li dred feet. There these
ere are
ese rocks. The princ Kwan Yin care, iro statue of the Goddess
of the living,
"
dash cure
the
201
dragon, the o
of
on its roof being fansie- bulous animal: This by torcing
summer on account o by water.
Several Bud been built on these re that where the Creat our admiration and a sublimity of his bandi man has set up his ser
and a off with tinsel a sive not only to the sc
but
to the taste of ere and refinement. Wo
priests have shown th human heart by ass :with
spots which cal natural religion
Bi
In one of these mor a shaven priest who the rebel loaders. E would lead as to become
an asoetio from
ma ditemma FORing his
hai. It is not surp the latter alternativ China; like those in E ages, are occasionally offenders; a man wi convent being suppo effectually out of had been executed.
Opposite to the Shi of a river leading to Hing. It is in som stream, but is
quite deal season. A great this district. The bete is also grown and b for sale. It is anid also produced to & weaving of mats is of industry in the co of this stream.
Just above Shia H tom House, where d produce
Opposite to the Cu
coming
down
Roman Catholic vill -It bank of the river. Win or Lepers' Cov Roman Catholic settl Gate of Shiu Hing. sionary has also been for several yearsgad church there.
After passing the C to a large plain o the river. It is kah Great Bend and sub villages. Rice is the
have also noticed here. Here I have s
I holly with its gloss
Chi minding one of lands towards the set- After passing Tai to the river banka. is quarried, in others and cultivated, aga patches on the sea stations at every lea ruins remind us of sperity, and an oCERS s one of the pbatay) the present limited ic
From our Or
THE London Mail - has not arrived, tho due, and our ontwi without return advic must in time work t is possibly nothing great public than in mestic and comme and considerable
evinced at here the home has taken up
were received per instant up to Nove
steamers from Calen telegraphic dates to
Since the depart thing more has been movements of the
dations they comm Beginning in NEAG
Of
to the ris
This
of a body of despers
of that port, robbing,
ice. This site
ing everything they
sirentar addressed
-be seen find Kwang siy still
The nese importint town, as we go up
Yamun
command
composing
a
its chist importance
Shit Hing
the
from the pre-
conseguent Triennial Examinations which are held in
The
along the river for mile. the river, is Wing Un ba, situated on the
boats ply between Shin Hing lift bank of the river. In this neighbour and Canton, Fat Slian and Sainam; besides hood way wid ay be seen, home fooks of gegee, these regular boats leave lass frequently for
for Canton market.
the
Wuhan sad other places. The chief ex They are often watched by dog, who ports, if we may apply this teria to goos en quite proud of his important quare irried for so short a distance, are the nats Ld, which is a place of considerable trade stones, hones, and sometimes marble slabs, On the same side of the tiver le Kwong above mentioned, paper fans, bits, ink-
The principal manufac
A
boat:
- a-
highland regions, and by great bodies of ing it to do what they can in furthering facilities have been given ungsked for, and power of Municipal Councils, Tab and Canton day between here pigs and poultry are fan, Date and in-
stitutes the centre of Africe, slopes towards intelligent relations between the foreign in furtherance of our commercial relations necessities of many of the more recently Its contre, so far as it is known to us. and the native element by every means in New ports, in Formosa, were opened settled ports have driven them to imitate Livingstone is the only European who has their power.
Changchow emerged from its neolustou nad the example set them by Shanghae. The scussed it, but he has done so only across The writer of the notes on the West Biver opened its gates to the foreigner, Atten-Year 1863 saw municipal institutions take
southern and parower section, and the given sisewhere has had frequent occasion tiên bas been given to the proper lighting | roof and dourish in Japannot let jus
tures of the Opposite to Kwong Li is an island called pense sticke Muk In Chat, or Inkstone island. The
Among the vegetable productions of the igendary bistory of its origin is as follows, neighbourhood is the hi shut, or Shin offor whit was dipartiment magistrate Bing nut. It resembles the lens nut in Spining, acveral hundred years ago, situ and taste, and brings a good price in was noted for his strict integrity. During Canton. The plant, like the lotus, grows his whole term of office, he never accepted al in the water, but du leaves are much larger
the foreign residen
mandarins were exp marauders and that
it prudent to prep From the cool man Dows defeated tr
Yangtze, we may ever the number of
will have to pay de
may make upon the
our Consulat Newch
we must conclude
ground for fest, foreigners are depe resources It is of
that the rebels abo
be so severely hand
all taste for a seco foreigners. Shoul would be much di bodies every yea governments-would garrison there durî- Advices from H mention various s over tho Imperiali of Tasso Kwo-T Chief of the Imper
of the Nientei can