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The China Mail,
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 17 MARCH, 1995,
In the way of amusements Hongkong has been perfectly un-Hongkong like during the last few days. A race ball and two the atrical performances have made one long to At St John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on the 24th of Fe present a testimonial to the public-spirited brary, by the Rev. John Wilson, as, Actfag Colonial individuals who have "got them up." The Chaplain, Captain W. T. CORRI, 2d Batt, 11th Re- giment, to Moxa ASTOISES FARSE, Daughter of Co-acting of the amateur Thespiana has been in fonel Wyatt, 23 Batt, 21th Regiment.
MARRIAGES.
BIRTHS.
On Tuesday February 5tb, st the Tarsonage, Yoko hama, the wife of the Rev. M: BUCK WORTH BALT,
On Basrd the British ship Lochnagar on the 27th
BOO
of February, the Wile of Captain Bisxy of a Daughter.
DEATHS.
At the General Hospital, Hongkong, on the 394 of February, M. Kenasust, Corporal of the 24 Batt, 41th ngad 26 years, (of Hydrophobia).
Hongkong, on the 24th Es
every way capital, and we felt unwilling to express our opinions, as, from the want of something to find fault with, the public would probably put down our comments to a feeling of favor, rather than a desire to speak truly,
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just as the barricades of '48 necessitated the Imperial absolutisos of the France of to-day
It is possible that the time is not far distant, when Occidental nations may have to grapple in earnest with the difficulties attendant on the administration of the It is the genius Chinese Empire. of the Teutonio race to conquer that It may be that Mr it may convert. Disraeli's Great Asian Mystery, (ao doubly great when spelt with capital letters,) will eventually explain how it is that in all the conflicte between Europe and Asia which fill the pages of history, the European should have been ever triumphant. For 3000 years Asia has periodically precipitated itself on blic spirited acts which have so often dis-Europe and though often temporarily tinguished these gentlemen in all parts of successful there is not a corner of Europe in the world are well known, but wo think it which the Asiatic race remains as conqueror. a pity that they should have had to bear The bordes which overthrew the Empire, the cost of an expensive erection which did not succeed until centuries of luxury and might have easily been paid for by the years of civil war had destroyed the Roman colonists at large, who, equally with the people. others, enjoy the performances of the band. Let us however be thankful to those who not only suggested the idea but have at their own cost carried it out.
The Parsee community have, very hand- bruary, & E. Waira, Seaman, late of the United States somely, presented the frequenters of the ship to Hospital, Hongkus, on the 26th of Fe-public-garden with a bandstand. The pa- brusy, Jon McLEAK, Beau, nomployed, Yoko
On the 30th-instant, at the Military hama, Japan, Joan SPARES, Pta in H, M. 2d Battalion XX Regiment Aged 24 years.
On the 20th Instant, WILLIAM WALLER, aged 20 years
the
ECHOES OF THE WEEK ··
means been THE past week has by no devoid of exciting social events. On Friday last we learned that the living cargo of the French vessel Hongkong had, some ten niles outside of Macao revolted and murdered the Captain, two of the officers and some of the crew. The report as to the Captain's death proved to be unfounded, as the vessel has been discovered on shore with the Captain on board her still living; but that another shocking event has occurred demonstrating the evils of the present Macao Coolie trade regulations is incontestable.
Nam post civilia bella Hic populus Romanus erit →
Lucan.
and before the ultimate downfall of the We have great pleasure in drawing the Empire the bitter tongued satirist had com- attention of our readers to a numerously-plained that the Orontes had mingled its signed memorial (published in another part waters with the Tiber, in allusion to the of our issue) which has been presented to the mixture of slave blood among the Romans; government praying for the abolition or while even after their conquest, the con- removal of a nuisance known as "Mosque querors could but adapt themselves to the village" situated just above the Robinson civilization of the conquered. Everywhere Road. The Governor has acceded to the in the struggle the Asiatic succumbs to the request of the petitioners and deserves the European. A hundred years ago an English hearty thanks of every inhabitant of the trading company with a regiment of troops on the Hooghley, upper portion of the island. What will the and a few factories "protectors of the Chinese" say to this. quarrelled with a satrap of the Great Mogul; the anti-foreigners will cause it to appear as a perfect sentence of desolation on the "poor doar Chinese."
The pleasure we experience in publishing V. J. Remedios,
J. Ribeiro. the reply of His Excellency the Acting Go F. M. Lima. vernor may therefore be understood to be J. Danenberg. proportionally greater, and we most hearti- O. A Cruz
Granville Sharp Henry Sharp. ly congratulate our fellow Colonista, on the success of this the first appeal to commón sense principles for the future welfare of the Colony at large.
With such a precedent in view we would again urgo in the strongest terins the ne- cessity of applying a similar modo of action to the piratical village of Shek-dong- sui. Its present status is so well known by all who reside in the Westert part of the Island that further remarks on our part are unnecessary to prove the ex- istence of such a nuisance as this is known to be.
To His Excellency
The Hon. WM. THOS. MERGER,
C. Caldwell.
H. Kaiser..
Archd. Stewart.
F. Schütze.
J. J. Murray, M.. W. K. Hughes. 1. J da Silva, Jr. A. L. Tumer. Wm. Hobson P. Ryze Fred. T..
Smith.
Cheque. B: Lapraik. W. R. Dalziel. W. Soames!
Henry Wm. Davis. Q. Overbeck. Edward H. Pollard F. S. Huffur W. M. Morgan. V
Joh Chas. C. Cohen.
M. Moore. Edward Mellish.. Francis H. Lane.
Andrewa. Dhuruusay Poonja-
bhoy.
Nursoy Kessowiec &
Co.
P. Deerjee. D. Rudunjee. E. K. Belifos. SD-Subadar,
G. M. Anemia. R. Rowelt
Acty. Governor of the Colony, of D. R. Crawford.
Hongkong.
F. Norris,
흔한
F. M. Harsant. THE HUMBLE PETITION of the undersign-F ed owners and occupants of Dwelling-houses A. Pestonjee,
C. d'Aquino. in the ueighbourhood of the Chinese Vil-J.
M Mar. lage situated on the Robinsou Road, Victo-J.
Wm. N. Olmstead. ria, immediately above Mosque Terrace and other residents of the Colony of Hongkong, W. Bonnet.
Hitchcock, W Humbly sheweth. made
Q. Anderson.. Alphonso Bonnet.. H. G. Thomsott Jas.
0. Henderson,
[No. 1098-MARCH 1, 1866
Harold, to expire in a picturesque and becoming attitude.
The prophets of evil who mourn over and predict the coming and inevitable de calence and downfal of the Babylons of modern Europa night in like manner cease.
for a time from their gloomy predictions, and endeavour to instruct the world how to meet with dimity, a fate which they aver, no individual exertions: сал frustrate or retard. The result of the Gospel accord- ing to" Proudhow & Carlyle," the despair ing views of human life inenluated by mo- dem philosophers and satirists, the hopeleas admission of the greatest of modern dialed ticians is that "Doubt is the beginning and the end of all our efforts to know, and the grand result of human wisdom is only. consciousness. What we know, is as nothing to what we know not." This, and a belief like that of Pendennis tempered with scorn, th All things extanta a silent acquiésence in all things as they are, is what modern -philo- Sophy has brought us to. To shunter through life like non-dancing man at s ball inveigled into a quadrille or a cotilion without interest in its intricate figures or pleasure in its mazy whirl or to wait on as a bystander impelled partly, by curiosity as to what may come nest, and partly per u..haps because his cab has not yet come;
M. D. H. Jorge J. N. Lovell.
Lt. Col. &o, R.E. 3. M. Killall. G. H. Hase,
Lieut. and M. I. 2d Batt. 11th Regt. W. P. Mason. Clement Smale. F. I Hazeland. Henry Robinson, A.
S. W. Baker.. A. Schetelig, ... Warren Delano, Tz. Warren
G. A. Medlin, James Logan. Fred C. Adams. Wm. Gaakoll. George Saunders, 9th
Regiment. William Dick, M. D.
Cal
Thos. B. 9th
Beriment.
Robert Guild. A. Coxon.
F. A. Seabra. A. Bourjan. W. Nissen. Arthur Booth
J. B. Endicott.
stand apart, and smile and sneer at the in- explicable folly of those who find an in- interest, or pursue an object. in life; to stand at the door of the church and only question why others enter there; to,
fot upon the watera whulst the prow should grate the Golden Islos' is the cud and result of the modern philosophy of Life. Well might the old moralist onquire
*aid ultra tendis ?
And as practically speaking, all the religion and philosophy of the ancient world,
*The glory, that was reeca
and the grandeur that was Rome,' culminated in suicide, le dernier mot d'antiquité the
·80 great end and result of modern thought, seems to consist in an endurance of evils.over which we say that we can make no conquest, in the dry de- materialism or an effeminate and girlish yearning for peace and rest
whose exploits have long rendered that part A little dexterous writing on the part of and though our conquests in India were duo they were. Sully secreted during a tie information has been received of the tails of science, a blind, worship of a bieless
The pirates seem to have been playing a losing game lately. We hear that Lieut. Morant of the Grasshopper has been doing good service in capturing several junks and with them a pair of notorious pirate chiefs whose exploits have longest native tract. The only unfortunate thing is that no amount of outside captures are likely to affect the pirate nests in Hongkong itself.
to
national rivalry, and our Empire there
was established by simple resistance to the designs of Dupleix and Labourdonnais, still, what has happened in Hindostan may occur again in China; and it is worthy of notice, THE vast changes which velcanio up-hat the fierce fanaticism, the hatred of heavals have effected in the physical world the Infidel and the Giacur which disting causing productive and life-supportinguish those Oriental nations which have
tracts of land to take the place of trackless given in their adherence to the Mahommedan expanses of ocean, and conversely over faith and a satisfactory method of deal whelming in their irresistable force extentsing with which, has hitherto formed one of
Since the foregoing was writton, authen people belonging to the Village in question, burping their feadh, a short distance from it, higher up the Hill, and so superficially that the Coffins are at times quite exposed.
Hongkong, October 6, 1865.
I could fie down a tired child And weep away the life of care
Which 1 tave borne and still must bear
was the lament of Shelley, and it is a lament which finds many an echo in the present time.
That numerous attacks which have been Alfred
on adjacent houses occupied by for. G. (H. Hesto eignerà are known to have been perpetrated Wm. Kane. by the Villagers themselves or persons har- Thomas Rogerson. the wives and families of persons resting the W. H. Forbes.
in W.C. van Orrdt. bouted by them, in consequence of which, J. M. Armstrong. that heighbourhood being alone during the
T. D. Tillinghast. greater part of the day, are under constant Win. H. Foster, Jr. tic servants in bodily fear from the threats. W. Torrey. apprehension and anxiety, and their domes
Rob.
5. Walker, Wm. H. Notley. held out to them, and in solue instances
J. W. H. Escherich. from the personal injury actually inflicted
That the fact of two convicts in chains, J. Simpson. by the Villagers upon them. and wearing the prison dross having last V. C. da Rocha, Jr. in the Village where wook taken
asaroh by the Police and eventually escaped, manifestly proves the disloyalty of the inhabitante.
That the neighbourhood is disturbed day and night by the quarreling and fight. ing of these
people, and by the noise of
abound there in large' dogs, and pigs drainage and filthy beyond description, numbers. The Village is entirely without No. 86,
Cowpers Lodge in some vest wilderness causing a stench of the foulest kind to per-
and at times GENTLEMEN With reference to the me-
A botadless contiguity of shade rade the air in the vicinity,
to health, presented to the Acting Governor, I am without great discomfort and risk
with sympathizing admirors, and would rendering the road impassable and her morial relating to the Mosque Village you would not be welcome now unless thronged whilst it is apprehended that all the sewage directed by His Exellency to send you a copy be desired only as a place appropriate to and other refuse of the Village which neges of the Attorney General's opinion on the continuous and querulous wailing and com to the harbour through subject and to state that it is His Exellen-plaint. In one of her most churming let- that portion of
that the word not should be taken pied by foreigners must be prejudicial ip a to be taken in accordance there with.
Petitionera
commandments and clapped into the sanitary
point of view. Your
I have the honor to be Sir,
Your Most Obedient Servant, creed We, in the 18th century effect a less epidemio which may unhaping that any arigo, would
W. H. ALEXANDER, startling but hardly leas perverse an altera- have medical authority for a
Acting Colonial Secretary. tion. That the world has from the time of be aggravated by the pestilentical air from
illege, and which at any time may W. C. HUNTER, Esq.,
the creation downwards, been a gigantic failure that life ia a mistake, a comedy, the prove injurious to your Petitioners and also to the invalid soldiers occupying the mili-
may too often a
a tragedy of errors; that sanitarium to the eastward,
youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle,old That the only ostensible occupation of the
ago a regret these are the main features or Villagars is the rearing of pigs and the unl
cardinal points of our modern creed, Atha- nasian' in its hopelessness and severity. beside his sunny Judean Fishpools, the wise king of Israel aquiounced the doctrine which is now the keystone of the belief of
Vaiutas! Vairtorum Life is sad and sombre modes How the
COLONIAL BRORSTARY'S 077105,
Horqagic, 5th February, 1888,
news ahead and be nearly) oarjain of being of country which bad hitherto been the home the great problems of British Eastern rule, sarily finds its way via most deusely coeu- cy's intention to direct the necessary steps ters Lady Mary Wortley Montagu suggests
News from the porta is as troublous as heretofore. The irrepressible Nien-fei are as usual overrunning the country. They are said to have approached to within 9 miles of Hankow and the people there are as un- comfortable se might be expected. In these present times one might almost manufacture sufficiently alone to the truth to dedeive the of the human and animal creation, have had are altogether wanting. publio The Rebels in the North East of their moral parallels in the revolutions, Kuang-tung province have been worsted, but which have at one period or another changed an aphonnosment of the total destruption of the destinies of nearly every existant nation all the rebel armies now in existance would as well as of those who sprang up, flourish hardly lead any oneto believe that rebaidoned, and decayed, in the times of our prime was extinct as an institution.
val forefathers. The wonderful announcement of Mr
a
tary
and others.
THE MOSQUE VILLAGE.. OPINION.
the
HART's dismissal with which we were fa- from our windows affords perhaps a stronger is able to entertain, but this dislike boldomlection and preparation of manure, which Petition and other Papers placed before Thirty centuries have passed since,
youredby the English papers has served to amuso us and revive, the memories of the Lay-Osborne failure. We have all heard of Dumas reading an account of his own death the papers) and enjoying the perusal of the obituary notice. Mr HART has, politically, enjoyed the same treat and will doubtless
The vast ompire whose coast is visible
illustration of a history founded on revolu- tions than any of her younger sisters of the wost, and in seeking for the vast causes of commotions which in China have had so people, it is a subject-worthy perhaps of some that of Rome to the early Christians. consideration as to how far the disturbed From Rome itself no danger arose until the and revolutionary state of the Chinese Em-time of Trajan, and then not from any
At all
Ge-
out of
(which he himself had waggishly inserted in vast an influence-upon her government and towards the Hwei-tze, is much the same as Road on which it stands where the exposure flagg extends, is identical in its terms. I best and brightest, listlessness and apsty
profit by the occasion.
From Japan we learn that the 'Itreboo exchange will soon cease for ever. No more
shall Naval officers of high and lowly rank an influence aniong occidental nations: In fact of its professors being suspected of dissidety situated for suburban Villacifio performance of so vague a building and existence and it is probable éugh.
cess.
The Hindoo who wishes to be known sa Brahmin or a Kshatrya mast mark the red or white tilaks' on his forehead. The Chinese needa no such profession of his class or creed. Truo the Hwei-tzê' or Ma- hommedan, excites as much hatred and dis- like as the mild and scholarly Confucianist
I have given my best consideration to the manifests itself is open hostility, or direct is spread to dry in the open air a theme in relation to this subject and I have persecution, unless provoked by barefaced moreover, the men, women, and children of examined tire countex part Lease of Lot 709 attempts at proselytism, or by threatened the Village for necessary purposes refurnished us by the Acting Surveyor
other Lob over which Mosque
bre perhaps even when danger to the state.. The attitude of China sort to the hill side, and even to the public 710, the other me that the feare of lot of their persons is a chuse of the most
The question is whether there has been forfeiture of these Leases empowering the may be cardinal virtues after all, and there may be a fraction of truth in the idea that serious aunoyance and disgust to your Feti
some of us life.
on for éuriosity's sake tioners and their families. The must stren nous efforts of the Police to check this in Crown to re-enter.
I am of opinion that the forfeiture which
we know not what. It is also a decent practice bave proved utterly useless, was no doubt, incurred for breach of the expecting we that we That in consequence of the proximity of
had no
no option about being pire is due to the absence of those outlets objection to Christianity as a system or a
the said Village, the ridge of Hills on either Building covenant has been waived by fat
woke up one morning from nonessity to of opinion, the Press, the Pulpit and the creed, (for a place in the Pantheon was
fav bly situatare fu inhabitable by covenant would not be attended with sealed hail the choice been offered, and me platform, which exercise so predominating offered to the Christian's God), but from the side, now almost the sole remaining site acceptance of rent and that a suit for ape placed in this world at all. We
so admirably suited for walking, riding and ropeans, and the Robinson Road, otherwise There would appear however to be a con- conditions of life revealed, that the majo
purge, cleanse, empty, &c., to the satisfaction recreation, is now barely available by the tiauing breach of the covenant to
the Surveyor General, the Drains, sink Town of Victoria to the other without being community for passing from one side of the
buildings erected" &o, appertaining to the referred to.
on the Lots. This is of That the elevated
fa jury And open business. The time is past and in-notony of Society which Louis Quatorze is prototype in dealing with the Christians,
We were not consulted however and we au action
find ourselves here. come tax to government officials is again asserted to have been anxious to establish in he foresaw in the spread of their doctrine, Village is such as to preclude it from ever should it be found necessary to have ze
of Bjectment.
It is therefore, aurely the Europe of his day, has been morally and the downfal of his dynasty and the proba being made oligible for the dwellings of should
well-to-do and respectable Chinese, but is course to an
The Infractions of Ordinance 8 of 1850 right, that we should make the best it, The recent orders anent the troops in mentally attained, by the Ethics and edu ble overthrow of the Empire. Toleration on the other hand most peculiarly adopted
description,
open to the Hill quly subject the offender to certain Pe- attitudes. We have no ability to try any being entirely open to
other existence, and I have an enduring this part of the world have, like all other cation which have prevailed in China from exista anong ourselves only because we no 28 a rendezvous for bad characters of every referred to in the accompanying Papers and not go on raving and cutting of y I observe in the Lease a covenant not to faith that any such attempt would result itt government orders, furnished a fruitful source prehistoric times till now. Character has longer believe that want of faith, is neces- while the nature of the ground is such dalties and cannot affect title to land.
frying-pan for the for abuse. How strange it is this wonderful, for centuries besu formed on a single type, sarily fraught with the tremendous conse-entirely to prevent the possibility of any
premises without registering at Police
authorities. It
It thus presents to the part of the
over a pab suspended ove
of sternal nay almost consistent mismanagement, the forms of the father's thoughts are thosequences which the earnest believers of earlier strict surveillance being kept over it by the let or underlet as well as not to assign ang an exchange of which distinguisbes our military autheri- of the son's, and the descendant of to-day times felt convinced were attached to it. Villagers themselves every facility of obser the Land Office although the Ordinuance for
har Leases at rack rent under three years. All frizzle in as digniñed and manly a way us in the way of destruction of human life that prints of progenitors who were lettered, ai- indifferenco and want of conviction than of side of the Island, or by way of the las assigneouts of Sections by Tan Aquan we can, hoping that when our turn way ties. There is so much purpose displayed is ocoupled in treading into paths the foot-Toleration is with us rather the result of vation, and of necessary escape to the other Registration expressly excepta bona fide bustion; so let us bear our
of dralu constructed for the purpose of oth (Lot 709) seem to have been regiatored and
we shall be come, we
served up (and even be apprehend that the expression "let" and chef d'enres of the moral cuisine,) at the ing off the rain water which flows
Funder lct" in this covenant would be bridal banquet of time and eternity. But Nullah
That in the possible avent of an emcnte ander let of the Chinese in this Colony the said Vil held to mean granting such a Lease or serience it is perhaps worth while to
the
why theso complaints of caquire
the futi Ordinance.
lity and rewardless worry of
of life, slud Whether Chuu Ab Kum has granted be so lage would form a most dangerous vantage underloase as may be registered under
universal. It arises. I fancy from the ground, and therefore, upon stragetic con
such Lesses does not appear.
oid antagonism between the Pastoral and That your Petitioners would humbly sug-
Some men
be seen, hastening to grab the little profit derivable from an exchange on their scanty pay., No more shall merchants chuckle at
no country has the despotism of Custoin, that "standing hindrance to human advance ment" been more stringent, more systems.
loyalty to Cesar. Kang Hsi, the Marcus Aurelius of Chinese history, punished and persecuted the Mussalmen in his western
the chance of "doing the Japanese in fair tic or more successful. The dead level mo- dominions, bocanse, like his philosophie subjected to the the said fact for the determinas e a question
dread reality.
one almost fears some day to discover the vilized, and versed in many of the arts of existence of some deep-laid conspiracy to kill life, at a time when our ancestors, painted off the British ariny in the interests of the blue with woad, were living on the preca peace-mongens society. The naval Com-rious results of the chase, or wandering mander in Chief has been "talked about" in the forests of Sussex and Hants. Indi-
adherence to the noble principles of Milton and Locke, and it is quite probable that the toleration with which the Chinese regard the religious views of others thay arise from the torpor with which they acquiesce in
of
Of
of a
rity would still have slumbered on in obli vion.
Count o'er the joys these bones have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free And know whatever the best been
Tis something better not to be."
This world nothing but & F
a little for throwing obstacles in the way of | vidual development is essential to national their own lifeless superstitions. Encruste/siderations its existence is to be deprecated any Crown can of course resume at any artificial states of existence.
the speedy embarkation in Japan of the progress, and it is precisely because China
with paralyzing routing, with faculties has entertained too limited a conception of deadened by a slaviski belief in the half troops destined to relieve the 9th.
We think that there has been soie little human excellence, that sho has remained fabulous traditions of the past, the Chinese misunderstanding about, the matter. We stationary for 2,000 years. Better the have been prevented by the policy of their havs good reason, to believe that the gal-pray of Exeter Hall, the insolent absur rulers from being imbued with that last put the Adventure at the disposal of the and the vulgar license of an unrestricted impelled the various civilizations of the
The
r probationary
gest to your Exellency that a portion of tinie upon paying a fair indemnity to be and most notably the philosophers (real and dillettante) of the day, bave discarded and the site upon which the village now steadis
seems to me that the Lessees Tuhatterly cast out, the pastoral element which which is greatly needed in this locality and
namentioned By
metaphysicians and would be valuable as a Police Station,xed by the Surveyor General.
unmapped by phrenologists, is yet an jele- would be an immense protcation and boon Aquan and Ohun Ah Kum should be in though to the numerous occupants of houses and formed by the Surveyor General of the
made by the Police on the state of ment of human character. The simplicities Reports the forcasing foreign population now the buildings and habits atid condition of and little happinesses of life, aunot please
up the Bill
their inmates also that the attention of them, nor would they be happy Your Petitioners that your
Excellency will take this petition
by a numerously signed Petition sut, earnestly pray both an oft
verd-
lant Admiral bas, never been requested todities of the Sheffield foreign committee, for power, or greed of conquest which have stretchings accordingly humbly beg the Government has been drawn to the skies were never clouded, the valla the military authorities. Had the roquest been Press, than that the national mind should be wast in their onward course, and the pro- into your Excellency's favourable consider- of the Colonists and that it 16 the intention Chloe and Amaryllis always compliant,
be
made there is to reason to assert that he restricted to a certain growth and confined bleu of national, existence has now to would not have done so. However we within certain limits, until the people at fought out within the confines of the Ce must say that public opinion in some quartain to such uniformity of mental constitu- lestial Empire,
Whether a few open ports, which, like the ters is by no means complimentary to the tion, such similarity of moral develop- Naval Commander in Chief and in the ment, that for aught that distinguishes free cities of the Middle Ages, shall serve as dearth of more exciting matter, he forms a them, they might be so many spoons bonded warehouses for commercial enter good object at which to level smart sayings, packed in a plate chest, or so many chessmen prise, are to be the result and outgrowth of The most noticeable social subject of dis turned out by nature ready made in of the struggle, or whether British trade is onsalon has been the death of two persons acts, Strange indeed, that among the to be the prelude to British dominion, time from real or supposed hydrophobis. Not proletarian classes of a society of such alone can show, being medical men we are unable to formi level monotony, and comparative content; an opinion as to the facts, more especially
By some who are, essert that the disease was
true hydrophobia while, others assert that it was not.
nuisance
on
ever arise to call them
And your petitioners will ever pray, &c. their part other part of the Colony Danza to its ideal. They rejest
J. J. dos Remedios..
some
tion and no necessity
from publio as well as private grounds that the of the Crown to re-enter fur breach of their fairy dwellings and atuorbus atus, mid Village be destruye or removed to covenant but that the Government would It is certainly the curse of genius that its
consider be disposed to
an application
are never attainable, and that aspirations some more suitable portion of the Teland.
for & Lease of
of another Plot of the
of lite should always prove to be land in subject to such conditions as will prevent the planid pust, qusirel with the stifring in future the formation of such a coin-present, and sigh for some golden
future munity of thieves, as they have allowed to which from their invariable failure to at collect in Mosque Village. Should these tain, wo must believe to be incompatible terms not be accepted I should recommend with aublunary arrangements, whether the actions of Ejectment to be brought and repi dissatisfaction and discontent so should this fail the Government can then prevalent in the literature of to-day, may consider the propriety of reauthing the not not as the thunder and
W. M. Davidson. E. A. Arthur J. MoDouall. Geo. F. Beard. Richard Detoon, 4: F. Heard. W. S. Riddell, H Çoben.
Bertrand W. C. Hunter,
mour Road. E. d'Aquino. Fraucis
Woodford.
elements sufficiently dangerous and inflant Ir is with most unfeigned pleasure that we able to keep alive the chronic rebellions direct the attention of our readers to a pe
of the Empire, should be found. Those who tition presented by several of the leading J. N. Frosh
Juo admire the unscrupulous and equivocal inhabitants to the Government, requesting
F. D
Guedes. triumphs zohieved within the last few years that the abominable ruisance known as Jas D. Wood by modem Imperialism; those who see in Mosque Village be demolished. It is, we V. Danenberg. the iron despotism of the Emperors who say, with great pleasure that we direct F. P. Sonn
Senza
M.
F. Chomley,
Alfred Hanwell.
J. H. Cheverton. Richard B. Parr. FI. D. Margesson. Arthur Sassoon. Francis Parry M. J. d'Aquino, Shel- MJ
d. Bey.ley Street. Max. Fishet Zed. J. F. Menke. W. S.
Tan Thos. Probst
E. 6. W: Gro. F
H. N. Boatda~-
J. Gutierrez.
Reiket.
A Vaucher.
Kresser.
When doctors disagree, who shall decide?" We hope the unpleasant subject thus started will not however be revived, and by
Marçal. the divine right to rule, would doubtless showing that the inhabitants of Hongkong F
D. do Rozario, assert, that the very nature of the Asiatic are not infected with the Exeter-Hall-pest, Dorabjos Nowrojee. and more especially of the Chinese, demands the Chinese mania which threatened to Joze V. Pereira. i a rule af once' irresistible and convinging) make Hongkong a disgrace to British rules L.. J. Collego.
way of avoiding it would suggest that those succeeded Domitian,.but a manifestation of our readers' attention to the petition as TM. Guedes. Preparin
who are fond of dogs should keep them in places where they would not be likely to
bite casual and perhaps friendly visitors, Verbum izp
J. B. Taylor. Win. Neilson W Leznano. A. G. Hogg,
| land at a valuation.
(Signed), JULIAN PAUNGEFOTE,
Apting Attorney General Hongkong, 3rd February, 1866. True copy.
W. H. ALEXANDEIM.
Asting Colonial Secretury.
DESULTORY ESSAYS.
repining,
which clear the air of whatightning
the
method by which forces otherwise anarchie. ere barinonized and brought to acquies In axisting arrangements, is a which is not to be discused in this dollettante fashion.. Beware" says Oliver Wehdell
beware of Holines
the woman who ef life utterance for ber stormy inher in words or song" and the remark
may perhaps admit of wider application than its author deemed. How essential (By an occasional Contributor.): The Laniston of ancient Rome whose to the vitality of truth or doctrine as dis office it was to prepare Gladiators for the cussion and dispute, is shown in that noble arena not only trained their pupils in war little Tract of Wills On Liberty. His like and athletic exercises, but taught them tory and experience combine to show how to draw down applause when wounded, that a doctrius ceases to convert or gain and like the dying Gladiator of Childs | adherents as soon as the doctrine which
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provoked the struggle is and benes perhaps it reformers show in faires cause is ungained, when gling minority-chiedy c
A CORRESPONDENT has us with the following n he has lately made i province.—
EXCURSION INTO TUNG PRO
Ι.
The Sanhing stream j between the two pagos posite Shiabing-fa; down to half-a-mile fre the water commingles kept back by the high River. For the first 3 is deep, and passes of the foot of hills 500 c concave sides of the Affording small tracts On the West bank is hau, a miserable coll but conspicuous beca
bat:
one.of a hill. bank, is the mat small place, Th a niarket a large
day,
there.
*stre
Ten helor widens to 200 or 250 cordingly; sands and the boat is draw: into channels deep Passing San-kin the s water continues to sh stantly drawn half af and sometimes has to out for her to course from this up; this river, now on that feet water, now stuck!
is niade.
li above Spin-
pro
0.pass the
are ar
ket town of Lu-ku, a that is another amal Ché-kom, both on th river. Twoity ab Wouly Tang market tow of on the point where these places are market days, to ba the people of the surr gregate to sell or exc As Tung-han is appr widens to nearly a q the stream of clear w sometimes in tortuous times spreading out: surrounding couty a still there as though feet in height here :
elevations are
lafty
to the
Until
E.
Tung-han is
try shews signs neith tion por of the mean the paddy fields at th low, near the river ar vegetable beds, but
20(1
from
ge
to mout suicient to west th borhood. The soil t dry sand, the depos
freshets; it appears granitic formation, an
the fiue particles of g every wind, and On the plains or rat valleys near Tuagh to be more cultivate nufactured into dark- forms the chief article hau
market, its pres The geological form counterpart to that o granitic marl overlayi Bills of the latter are not being frequently Above Sankin is the the slate formation, surface
affording a
a. pecul
the smooth. Jine of the sucro
also is of crater suggests volcanic view lends no furt
а
gestion. The basin i linusstons is seen The time of nical observati of Kwang-tung, tomentosa) and mate Chinese pine afford-
abou
cutter, and the mor ninghamia at times hill side woods; oce inore diversified fore but these would
acer
in the winter, in th which grows on the and then raises its b sturdier neighbours, abundance in many
in bloom; also a hug from the trunk of wh
el sticks sold by Chi sailors as tea-tree sti 1st day, Shing-1
g-hir 2rui 1
San-kin Che-kam At Tungban the S into two branches, forming an inverted probably ten miles in at its aper used for purposes of
3rd Juzku 4th At
The V
to pasa several ma reaches, at a dista Tunghan, the town i the name to the He not because they are cause they were origi and are still chied
by people from that Western stroaig is e ferry close to Tungh the Government Ro Shinbing, thus past the Eastern branch 1 or 400 feet in length Linahau on the sea Hainan. This road, form the usual rou Canton, but the lat disuse
owing to the s Bountry through Eastern branch doss for purposes of payi -fore seems to know- is evidence however summer though now Danoo would not find
*This impression is Excursions foland, and · different impression.
Between Che-kont and Cane engar country: I am felds on my return.
"From a suteequest.
I should judge the dista in a straight line, and the tortuous rivay bed,