200
means I have
21st October, 1856
THE CHINA MAIL.
[No. 1140. DECEMBIR 20, 1866.
It is
Mr reduced Fee of Twenty-ive Cents, instead | bourhood, it may receive local developing the ship Prebolyan being on the berth for, have put a stop to controversy, so far as supposed that his ambitious schemes were
tified his intention, of 1867, calling into I of this description has attracted the attenkngea of tobacco and vegetable wax, certain degree of control over
it is
The fer
is
re-
here
be
a case
in
1
acquaintances in Hongkong; in fact to all cancelled, owing to the misconduct of the and stink oots, shows bow which is not calling the defendant; but by his for brine tenant, but the latter in the principal hall the official seal of the
TO THE GENTLEMEN RESIDENTS OF HONGKONG.
A
Jandlord
ari action of
charge of tue Tartar-Gener livered into the forwarded to the Capital. al; a representation being at the same time Viceroy Acting Ying this 2rd instaut received on his knees Viceroy, and worshipping the same offerel thanks to the Emperor and took over wilitary, offered their congratulations,"
Stokefield, Thornbury, near Bristol, trial trip. She lift her moorings at teu mi-occasional reports of creek piracy which very the point of sailing, he was be held that he can not be touched without charge. All the officials, both civil and
21st October, 1866. GENTLEMEN, have no means, but through the public journal, of testifying to you as a body, my sincere thanks and gratitude for your most handsome and
hattering wldress. The sane was yester The Banterer accomplished the return jour-picious circumstances, aut others turn up and this, in all probabilit on bottomry";,
*
in
to the one recorded."
thes men live
thanks for the honor done to me, Hong from south to north thous about twenty | THE following paragraph is from the Times
of
ago
or
ani
for
not when no time
Gor
must be
AY
takon
It held that the
H.M's PROVINCIAL COURT, FOO- CHOW.
December 8, 1866. LOKE-CHEONG TIE and thers J, G. Fay. Summary of Judgment.
This is
warrants from their respective being due as the loss
ini
damaged toy sold
10
him
very well as connected with an opina firm,tration, he be allowed, in the evout of re- Tr is not impossible that concurrently with denec on the merits of the case was adduced of the firian that the Chinese govern to improve national talent by always pre. ment can deal as it pleases with its own ferring Chinese assistants, when they alow- fresh Certificate at the the discouragement of piracy in this neighby the defendant, it must be taken as and also that the prisoner disappeared sud-moval, to take out
enly about the time of the robbery.
wholly uncontradicted, that early in June subjects on its own soil, should apparently ed themselves sufficiently skilful." in the Second at other ports. The Watch Committee of Jarman asked for another remand and the of Three Dollars as provided
not favorably regarded in high quarters, But theories do the Shanghae Municipal Council urge the Liverpool, with the greater portion of her the latter are concerned,
and that like Urish the Hittite he has been prisoner's attorney at objecting, the Ma- Schedule of the said Ordinance. gistrate adjourned the further hearing of His Excellency The Governor having no formation of a water police. They report cargo on board, the plaintiffs shipped 701 not always work well in practice, and the case until Wednesday at two o'clock
a Proclams-that--The necessity that exists for
reasons are constantly being urged why a sunt to the front of the battle to get him for a force!
the understanding
native out of the way for the present. The pro- as they say, that the ship tion on the 1st January, 1867, We find the following in the Press of Batur operation. The Victoria Registration Ortion of successive Councils for years; the was to have quick dispatch. Since that residents should he conceded to an Ineor vince has lost a good governor, foreigners porated Comcil, Dr placed in some foreign a friendly neighbour, and the Imperial robberies from cargo day, morning, Deo. 15:---
inance, 1866," the attention of the For
are of a must time this ship has ant appir sute
bera* hands.
The Mixed Court has greatly government a servant who has been per- eign Community is called to that part ofic THE ADDRESS TO CAPTAIN ST. JOHN,
haps
too wise for his own good, but was facilitated the settlement of disputes offers ,coolies, thieves and I suppose until cargo compaling exists between boatmen,
which that
effecting a great amount of improvement in they and foreigners are concerned Stokofield, Tornbury, near Bristol, the Ordinance which refers to the art of #terious nature, auch derstand pleted lier loading and she is
his of servants. In order to nil receivers, that it is almost impossible she will remain. The plaintiffs say sory registration of
powers BIS Provinces. SIR,-faving received a kind and hand- assist the work of registration, and that for the police on shore to detect these lar- the delay is unreasonable, as it is wil- but considerable extension in its
The following paragraph relates to the some address from the residents of long-some guarantee may be held by the applicencies; they are committed on the river, ful on the part of the captain and owners; and improvement in ita machinery, are.
cants for Certificates, with the name the police,
mostly disposed of outside ud that there has been a breach of required to perfect it. In the case of official ceremonial attending Taoh's sur insert the endosed few lines in your valua each servant be furaished ested that and the proper The coff Mears the absence of any specified time being the one appealed to recognises the es-ter; an officer deputed for the purpose and de- kong, I trust you will have the goodness to
News
cortain disputes between foreigners, how-render. November 23. Vizaror Taoh's the contract to convey, within what in ble and we knowo
marks:The casual detection off journal being the only and address of his employer. of returning my sincere twenty-five-Cents for oach Certificate which Dent & Co.'s jetty, of bests containing a fixed, must be held to mean and to ever, where there is no joint court, and official seal and documents were taken by
it may be small armoury thanks generally, to my kind friends and will hold good until such time as
of kuives, guns, ammunnition reasonable time." I have no doubt that ritorial principle in an extreme sense, great rofuge Me Eames has exercised a wise discretion inconveniet euses in which an English those who have done the the honor of sign- Possessor: CEOIL C. SMITH, Registrar may be fun amg the boats
ejectment ing the address. I am, Sir, your obedient General. Registrar Generals Othec, 14th throng the river, by man to whom creek not calling him, the case is free from any land English servant,
H. U. ST. JOHN
December, 1866.
is a profession. The vigilance of our contradiction or conflict of evidence, and against a force has
of the Frenchinan, who refuses to move; and it banks of the Wa Hen Majesty's Gunboat Banterer proceeded to a fuas puuted rundyism on shot in the plaintiff's evidence he swears that has sub-let a portion of the house to s
Vang after being told by the agents this afternoon to Aberdeen and back on a
a limit to their researches: Tho that she was on
surprised to see the captain in the sanction of the French Consul. The nutes before 2 P.M. and arrived at Aber reach us, prove that the unaniployed for his office, who told him, that "owing the principle on which this view
Here the inspector eigners who find their occupations as bur suspension of the owners he could not get is obvions; But its extreon incepvenicuce
He any
equally su deen at three o'clock. of machinery, Mr Oliver, came on board, glars gone, on shore, still pursue their any misney and that he did not and returned in the Banterer to Hongkong accustomed avocation on the island waters,
chance of his ship getting away; that money Einperor of China is lord of the soil, and
very difficult to get, and that he was
his that foreigners here are all was very
Chests Un he expressed himself much pleased at the whore they are tolerably safe from detection.
try and get moi
au equal footing, the English with no she averaged, namely, 7 knots. Uccasionally, a man disappears under sus going to try
is the true state rights over the French, or the German Speed
over the English, or the American over
suit brought by the plaintiff case: nad if it is, it explains the day day sent to me by the Lords Commissioners hy in cructly fifty minutes. She bas intely with evilent marks of ill usages but any of the
far more satisfactorily than the alleged any or wither. Each and all are subject to to recover a babuice of $400 for goods of the Admiralty, with a letter stating the undergone a thorough overhaul and-repair, excuse railer than a piratical affray is of
no other authority than that of their own gold and delivered to the defendants, not lay for gruat satisfaction and pleasure they felt, and is now reported it for active service. course put forward in explanation, During absence of cargo. No doubt cargo was dif-
such a mark of your general
hoult to get their stay.
plaintiff contracted in the mouth of July consuls, and cannot be interfered with but because it was difficult in forwarding
Shanghai,
ion The practi- without the latters' sanction. Impossible to
1866 to sell and deliver to defendants 273) esteem. Many of the signatures are those The Shanghai Recorder supplies the follow- partially in their bonts, and a police whose
get, I confess I see perhaps
onl effect of this, however, may be as chests of congon tea at The 22 per picol. of personal friends of my own, from who, ing brief description of the scene of the especial duty it should be t watch the
no reason why the plaintiffs' gods are to re- I received the greatest kindness; to these The portion of the river in which the probably make freqnes craft, would main in the hold of the Trebnigan for all follows. A tenaut wishing to annoy kis This transaction the defendants admit. during my two years' service in the Colony late operations by the French on the Seoul: movements of such discoveries similar time. If, however, the delay arises from landlord, who desires to eject him for agreeing to pay $2,908.58 for the same. and all others, I beg to off
arrears of rent or any other reasons takes On this account they in August paid $2,500, to offer my sincere
the neglect or inability of the owners to get operations were conducted raus almost
to himself four foreigners of different na but sought to dedust from the balance due, mountainous
to enable him to leave, then the
clear right to a
of tonalities, who forsooth cannot be touched a snus of $395.22 revision
they claim as my little craft, the Opossuai, may always
country to the distance of
contruct. I
without continue to be lucky, that piracy may be miles from the Isle
cannot believe, and the spot at to a subject
consule; and the landlord will be subject-
by
to defendant swept from the Chinese Seas, and commerce which from font first anchored, and then it which we have direndy repaired some in- only witness called by the defendant cer-
ed to inite delay and annoyance, i tainly did
did not establish it, that it is well
in June 1866. This sution is brought to flourish in the Celestial Empingbird, divides into two branches; that to the left formation, but the subjoined fultor parkown to all slippers and ship owners that order that an abstract theory may be res recover the full amount due on the con main, Gentlemen, Yours gratefully da westward winds round and encircles the culars will be found highly interesting:---
If the tenant's title to remain is pected.
tract
of July 1868. As regards the con H. C. ST. JOHN, Commuter B. N. Kangoo Island, which is hounded on the & letter from Capt. Richard Sprye to the a ship advertised to be on the berth for a
2. valid tract of June 1865, it has been South by a
a creek flowing into the main ri-Secretary of State for India, concerning particular port, or to sail with immediate invalid, clearly he cannot convey t COMMENTING on Rifleman's the China Nea the bett's survey of ver about six or seven miles north of the British mumeroo. with the West of China, dispatch, will not sail until she has a full right to lus foreign sub-lessees. Yet an before the Cent that the ten was delivered, Lale Boista; that to the right goes off some has just been published by order of the cargo: the evident and reasonable meaning extreme interpretation of the principle of weighed, and inspected in the usual man- general result of the work of last season as
ten miles in an easterly
direction and House ni
It appears that Capt. of a contract for the performance of a given exterritoriality prevents the landlord eject-ver and according to the custom of the Commons. It
ing them, without refervice to their resport, and was found in good order and specified is that it follows:A careful examination of the then turns suddenly to the south sliguous between Rangoon and the Shan I shall be performed within a reasonable pective, Consuls. This is one instance of condition; and equal to saip paying
Sprye proposes to establish commercial
Thus this latest corrected charts issued by the Admi- by west, in which direction it runs
1 am of opi
opinion
that the time the difficulties that may daily arise. Another contract closed. Now, ralty will show that, whereas five the main outer wf the Obis fiert Weirs as about 12 or 15 miles, when it again takes States, and other parts of the West of titue."
the city of China, and to extend the Indo-European Trebolgan has been lying in this port with may occur at any moment, by the failure fur the tea contracted for by the defen- direction, passing the
dants in July, 1866, the defendant wants cumbered with doubiful dangers, and with out, which is situated some five miles to Telegraph by land from Pugu to Hongkong those goods on board is very unreasonble of some firm in which foreigners of differ
and exact positions of the north and about twenty miles to the and the Chinese Upen Ports, such as Pek- time; and moreover from the evidence, or ent nationalities are partners. In that to deduct a star of $395.22 on account of real ones, the extent and
rather absence of evidence, on the subject,
case, would the English Bankruptcy Court certain damage to the teas bought by which were nukdown, that no navigator east of the Isle Boiste. Noir the northing, Bangkok, &c. This subject has en- could proceed
up. or down it
I see no prospect of her now it without expe east corner of the Kanghos Isle, about five gaged the attention of some of the far-
The court not tell us why
entrusted to it or would it certificate of London brokers. us why frm in hand riencing great auxiety, now, by the ear miles distant from the creek buading seeing commercial men at home for solue captain is silent. He sailing. The feel justified in taking the affairs of the from plaintiff in June. 1865, according to he had not game long ago, or when he will require the assent of the consuls of the cannot consider this to be an equitable veys, this great highway of
on the north and four miles from the mais yours past; and dul to her Majesty a do- ye. Surely it would be a monstrous hard-other partners; and if that consent were proceding towards the plaintiffs. It is quires nothing more than ordining re
river which bounds on the east, lies the
withheld, how would a settlement be the common asages coinmer- verumont praying it to direct its attention | ship on abippers to stand the risk of le arrived at 7 The subject is susceptible cial dealings. It is not fair of the defen- its safe navigation. Foremost amongst the city of Kanghoa; which is distant in a di
damage, foss doubtful dangers was the Christopher Baw-rect line from Séoul about thirty miles.
of market, dishonored
dants to take the propert
as their son shoal, which was a terrible bugbear to About thres uiles from the
to the opening of this trade, and sud
a thousand other losses, with no cer- of endless argument and inay give rise to endless difficulties, only to be over-
day of and afterwards when all scamen wishing to make Pulo Sapatuz
payment that the vessel ever will fail, or if she tainty of the island
theme und it has now disappeared from the charts,
from the main river is situated a
toes sail, that on arrival there will be come by mutual good understanding came round, to inform the plaintiffs that the defendants, would take eff Next canie
the amount sive ar Meikong River in the direction of the owners in a position to indemnify thew for and juclination to smooth way difficult from the a has sadly worried many an anxious antiga Ou the left sanghon is the spot where the
to then, ther ties among the several foreign representa
the aw laintif
the teas of July 1866 for tor, on dark
am asked to infertives. We dire only to exposa These niemorials came
incurred.
plaintifs or Sy-man."
without attempt damage done to that in June 1865. the city of blowing.
The Astery. I
Forth, and Gulum. portion of the French troops not remaining from the Chambers of Commerce of Man from theplaintiffs' evidence that no full cargo wariness of
proved by witnesses that the teas were bia-all supposed to lie in tlle fairway,
Leads, Bradford, offering is the reason of the ship not starting to suggest a in the city after it had been taken, took up chester, verngol, and frium the
without attempting to suggest delivered in good order into the godown of are known to have been brought on the their quarters; and crossing the river, on
alting on her voyage Ianu asked to say that the position,
1. As.
atter of strier right, pus- the defendants, and were examined, weigh- charts from very
insufficient data, and alte
sibly
l. an English judge cannot order theed and passed according to sample, and though they still appear there, it is in so the right bank immediately opposite to Proprietors of Cheshire and Worcester- this is a sufficient excuse, and to give the a remedy.
No proof bas Bhadowy a form, that they have oensed in this, we come to the place where a por-shire and apparently in compliance with defendant à verdict. I do not think it ejectment of a Frenchman from an English they were found so to be.
A guarantee has been offered to
on Clines?? tion of the French troops landed with the their requests, the Secretary of State for excuse.
soil; but the
been adduced in court that the been ado could ob- object
plaintiffs cause any anxiety: the Rifleman could ob-
to this ex-
have practised fraud upon the defendants tain no bottom on any of their pasto Seoul; annoitring the land route to indita, in the month of Inne 1861, directed the captain by the holders of the bill of loan's
1 a direct line
tline of, say, 26the uotice of the Government of India to lading. He insists on his right to earu
extremely inconvenient. or that they Bare made false representa with several hundred fathoms of line. The to 23 miles. From the above description the subject.
freight when it suits the convenience of tree The Government of India,
The convict will be and, inasmuch as the former could barvily tigu, and defendants were at liberty to Vanguard, Prince if Wales and other banks
be said to have received any direct injury, select as many boxes as they wished for at the southwest part of the China sen, it will be seen that the river as it branches however, appears unt to have intereste! himself and owners.
uff to the right a little past Kanghos bounds itself in the matter; for although the for the plaintiff for a return of the a which were represented
vera repre
by a dan almost rectangular peninsula, the course Chief Commissioner of British Burmah, in goods mentioned in the petition, the phun-except through liis own landlord, against inspection. The defendant said in bis
with
whom hy has a remely we doubt whe final reply, that the damage, to the teas a commercial treaty with sounding here and there, have now assumed
it flowing eastward, after which,
theliffs giving the guarantee already offered. again
negociating desined shapes and exhibit abundant sound takes to the south being almost
ther his national representative would feel might have occurred without the know- From thence to the North Danger with that from the Isle Buisée King of Ava, had this subject pressert upora
towards his attention
Some time ago our contemporary of the called on to remonstrate, if the landlord di ledge of the plaintiffs themselves, who sold by the English Government,
With
regard to the previse the whole line of banks and shoals, timi- Kangboa, until it goes off
the it does again to
-Daily News.
meaning of country damage a witness tells ang the main route to the eastward, are eastward about five miles, north of the Isle although to have been mentioned, ]-Friend of China noticed that there had been proceed according to the law of his country. the tena
according to Captain Sprye, the very great irregularity in the delivery of
us that it is dama e arising from fresh letters and papers sent through the local accurately delineated, with the exception
Itua-Chief Commissioner gratuitously yieldesi
water having found its way into the chest, of the small portion comprised between the Boiste, past the city Séoul, which is situa- five miles from the spot where the ri
np to the King of va inland duties post ofice to Amog. We now hear that the
which may occur from exposure to rain, de official cor- the Cross reef and North Damper, and
subject of of £50,000 to the extent
a year with matte
Now the court cannot consider the plain- be ich is to
completed, we understand, ver makes the last named turn, and two and a half miles from the bank. Thus the dis-
tiffs responsible for damage of this discrip early
next season. Pulo Sapatu and the
tance from the Isle Boisée to Séoul war
the new commercial route to China has that part and the Postmaster General in
angr
tion after the goods have been peed out other islands and rocks of the Catwick much shorter than had bean imagined, but been warmly advocated by Captain She Hongkong, vergral of the British Mercha
addressed their Const
Consul on
of their hands, nor are they boued to recognize as binding upon them China are now exactly represented on the charts, the extent to which the river curved round ceived support from various other quar
merchants' certificates issued by London while Pulo Condore and the coast of Co- or would not have kept on their route past tera; for it is believed that if compatches. Fearing of this circonstance, wo
brokers. The damage by fresh water may obin China has been corrected from the re-
nication were once established, a most applied for permission to peruse the corres- sults of the French surveys, made adef
important trade would at once spring
ponilence
& permission which was at once
be done in a variety of ways unknown to the vendor even before sale or delivery, as well as aftor, and for this the court is un- at Saigon. There are also numerous cor
to the Secretary of State for India the able to place before the public some morning writing from Cauton, Dec. 14, rections on the Palawan side too numerous
which have hitherto been
No
court therefore consider the defendants published. to here, but all tending to the yan the course of your reinarks, names of certain gentlemen of position and details with regard to the netter than those to refer
anent the Coreans, which appeared in your influence in London who, on the terus whi great purpose which it is the special object impression of the 13th, you seem to enter-granted to the other Tailway Companies of less than five firms, namely Messrs. John
have failed to prove their counter claim. of the Roman to accomplish, namely, the tain a desire to know from whence they Indin, or on such other terms it may be Forster & Co., Tate & Co.. Elles & Co.,
Indiginent accordingly for the plaintiffs with Messrs. H. D. Brown & clearing of the important throughfares of obtain the enormous quantity of
Boyd & Co,, and gunpowder specially agreed upon, will undertake to the denuous commerce ever, traversing they appear to possess. I therefore beg to have a survey made of the direct route from Co., have sent in complaints and certainly these dangerous 6953.
acquaint you with the following d details, for Rangoon across the north east corner of they do not appear to have done so without We have heard with much regret of the which I can vouch and in which you will Pegu and Martaban, and the Burmah Shan very good reasson. They received at the One loss which the Wesleyan Mission and the perhapa find a key to your answers. It is on Status of Kiang Tung and Kiang-Hung, to latter end of Chutuber letters, some of which
record that the Chinese authorities of this the Upper Kamboja River; and, if the were dated as far back as January.
Messrs. Tate cause of education in Juffs have sustained
Tate & Co., was placed in place have been providing themselves lately scheme is found practicable, these gentle
of a by the death of the Rev. J. Mitchil.
Only
:namely 22 from Tientsin, with this route, and railway by French friends, with about 50,00) cases of full of health and vigour and giving special
and a large telegraph towards Hongkong They will dates varying from March to October: 7 from prowie of a long career of usefulness. But gunpowder, 3 millions of capa, ihre im also make such Decossary arrangements / Chofoo with dates from March to August, upeak Manduria and assume a superiority after the telegrapu posts were put up-3s.
of cannous of various. dysentery, that inost insidione and fatal of quantity
from Macao. For what purpose Ga!! with the Kings of Ava and Siam and their andl 14 from Newchwang with dates from and ported es of our climate, fastened on and sapped his constitution, rendering him lia-thermous amount of smilion, &c. tributary chiefs as may be advantageous to January to September. 11 Does our newly appointed the construction of the railway and tele-lated to the charter of ble to an attack of cholera, under which-tal anticipate trouble consequent graph. These are the proposition now be back as May; another is dated June 11th Proteger of Tseng-kwo-fan, the celebrated through which they ran we believe, he ultimately sank. the Tamil the enformement of the stringent measures fore the Home Clovernment; and as the second Missionory taken from the Tamil which H. E. has lately exacted for the House of Commons bes ordered the com- branch of
of the Wesleyan Mission in Cuylon pression of gambling houses and brothels? munication containing thera to be printed, this year, Mr Walton having died so
some
cao, or to fight the Hakkas, or to blow up
ga.
care for
ary
were presented
1860 memo-
and
ing that it should be
opened by route direct from the port of
of Rangoon across
Upper Kamboja Eastern Pegu to the
ą
alluded to
to in the narrative.
the Alexuler, lost," which fortified and immediately opposite Chinese South West Frontier City of Es- such losses as they may have caused or the
with a strong wonsoon
Boiste,
of
ព
mok or
and]
of an o
awk-
wartiness of the rely. As a matter of i
of
earn his doctrinality pushed to 1
out any quivalent, importance of respondence between H. B. M. Consul at
matter becanie
The
་་་
grup, on the washing side of the channel, at the time the French were not aware of. rard Osborn, and the propos has re-abject of the non receipt of their dis-
the forta."
the
OWN,
It is
the direction of the Commander-in-Chier! A cORRESPONDENT of the Daily Press of this up. Captain Sprye has offered to submit courteously accorded; and we are; a wore the Chinese Authorities have hitherto willing to hold him, responsible. The
to constrict a
a couple of years ago te lan-led at Colombo through the kind offices of suine of their men will form a company, to extend
the little bundle of 43. dis-
the
on
aup
costs.
Most of our readers, no doubt, remember FENG SHUI AND THE TELEGRAPH. an amusing despatch addressed by Ting Tautai to Sir Harry Parkes, on the occasion of Mr Reynolds' attempt to establish a line
and of telegraph between Pooting,
A man chavent to die, the day Beacon.
happens on many other days probably anewhere along the time of antsi
ami the
the
and his subjects attributed the event to a violationi af the Feng-shui, for which Mr Reynolds was clearly respousible. The life should be sacritical to appease the
mission to operate against the loncial claim adanced by the villagers that his
mits ago. Jaffin is left without a En. Or does he intend to make a descent on Ma- we hope that ere long some definite steps goods and advises tho suspension of a firm, hals who were in possession of the Che manes of their departed comrade was not
ropean agent of the Mission at present, the the foreign community of Cantou ? Or is it Rev. Lanke Scott being at Galle He will uncharitable to conclude that the Corcans can calculate upon the friendship and indi-
Mr Kil-
will be taken in this important matter."
A GOVERNOR TRANSLATED (From the Foochow Adetiser.) Tso, the Viceroy or Governor general of Fobkien and Chekiang on Friday last Nov. 23. or the 17th day of the 10th moon of the Chins year, ceased to have any in- fluence in this Province
He has received special.order from Pak ing to proceed with troops to Kingshu, to operate against the Mahomedan rebels, had heen very troublesoute of late, and been unable to subdue thein. He has now assembled his forces in the Tartar Parade ground, in three encampments 5,000 un der bis immediate command in one camp, 500 under the command of a Totoi on bis left, and 500 under the command of the These Chen-tai on his right, to prepare for his troops are composed of Honan mou, who long journey inland to the North. have a reputation of great bravery ainong the Chinese, and are generally found to be a very troublesome class of neighbour by foreigners. Most of the common soldiers over the Fob-kieness. One of these re- The late Governor General Tso'b; is a vessel dated as
as Ear
capturer of
of Nankin, and has risen to be and expresses some not unnatural surprise man of note and of great influence at Pek- at the non acknowledgement of previousing, He was previously Governor of Fob- advices; another sends account sales of kien, and shortly after was sent on on the estate of which the opportunity of claiming might have been lost, and lastly, which had to be honored without advice. The there is mention of a draft to large amount return to Jaffna immediately; and tod 10 wont co-operation of their neighbours in re
ior Missionary, is expected
other firms all experienced similar annoy. the senior ner, return to Teylon at me early date. Mir sisting the harbarians? The French Ad-
ances, and indeed it seems wonderful that is the of Batticaloa
Wes
some heavy and serions lass did not result By the Glengyle we have Shanghae pa ruiral might therefore be aware what he is Miss of this is the only
in the
from the irregularities. Seeing that the sirott. Ten per cent commission is a sufli pers to the 12th inst. The folowing are bugs brought for the steamers arriving in districte. Mr Stott having left revently for cient inducement to his countryman and extracts:—
the coolies of Natal. All
Shanghai contain many letters for other (From the hanghai. Recorder,) others to supply the Coreans with material the Protestant Missions in Ceylon have guf- wherewith le give him another reception of Messes Evans & Co, of the Empire Brew-ports, it would perhaps be advisable that cords as the subduer of the Chang-mesus, and it behoves Chinese residents to enter ferent severely this
of vigorous remonstrance, if they desire to the suggestion made by the Post-Master and more particularly as the The Church Mis-
avert the epidemic certain to follow the si lost by death of Mr Parson and Mrs nature which he might not have dreamtery, have now succeeded in dompleting Guners at Hongkong in replying to the g-chen and Hoo-cheu. From this time their autumu brew. It should, cording
new outrage. Messrs Russell & Co. ea- Pickford; the Baptist mission, Mr Allen;
to established custom at home, have been dispatch from H. B. M. Consul at Amoy he became a man of celebrity and returned
we are informed, of cott to Foochow with great celat, and was con- tertain the and the Wesleyun, Messrs Watton and THE rumours which were current as tonished in October, but the heat of the should be adopted, and that letters in
f telegraph from Ke-chung. ling et The beer future should be addressed to the care ofsidered a great authority on military mat- atracting a Mitchil-Colono› Observer.
the imminent risk of de the suspicions of foul play in the cast of weather delayed it for a month.
restoration of onler and government in his populating the entire foreign settlement to drowned at Fonchow by falling overboard, best produced at the Brewery-and we have to see that they be duly forwarded.
the sonth of Foochow roud; us Ting said in on the evening of November 30th, appear to doubt will be patronised by all who
into working order than the the case of Mr. Reynolds benefitting to be without foundation. The circum are glad to further energy and enterprise in
DIFFICULTIES AT SHANGHAL.
themselves at the cost of others. How will rebels into Chang-chow took
80 prey stances were briefly as follows. Shortly this place.
the present Tuotai view p. scheme The assembly on foreigu soil of a large place, which at one time threatened to before 8 o'clock he went on board, sober.
BLAIN TATE & Co. ". THE Trebolgan. population of divers nationalities, with assume formidable proportione. Profiting nant with danger, so opposed to the Line took one glass of grog, conversed with the
About In this case, heard in the Supreme Court, drawn from the jurisdiction of the native by his previous experiences, he set about honoured prejudices of his countrymen ? Will he hold that to outrage the Feng- mate, and lay down on the poop. an hour afterwards the steward, whose cabin Shanghai, Dec. 11, before Sir E. Hornby, rulers and subject only to their own repre- to subdue them in earnest, and it was is on the starboard side, heard the lalder chief judge, plaintiffs sought to have re-de-sentatives, can hardly fail to produce fre doubtless owing to his prompt exertions, shui of the settlement is to interfere unjust- with foreign assistance, that the movement ly with the rights of the Emperor's subjects
Bend was an soon quelleit. Latterly, as the notion his own territory, and banged against the ship's side, followed by livery of 701 packages of cargo of certain quent complications and embarrassnicuts.
another gal- two cries He ran on deck, looked over goods placed on board the ship Trebolgan, A number of little natione, in fact, eacli board, but could see nothing. The watch- on the ground that the vessel was unreason with independent rights and independent cations in our columns have shown, he has lant body of fifty to vindicate their privi
Lo- mau states that he had just left the pony ably detained. The question was argued rulers, are in daily contact and daily con- beenattempting to introduce many iarprove leges or will we hold that the Feng shui when he heard the cries, which were also at length by learned Counsel, both ou cerned in business transactions. Pending ments and to increase the prosperity of his are able to revenge their own wrong
the latter is the correct view; for: He was well-disposed towards
gically, state of the ship's grow and other circum-facts of the case and their bearing are continue to arise between
eigners will no doubt be perfectly willing stances
foreigners government is frequently felt The small-services in many respects. He had lately We believe that an official
This claim is in the nature of an applica- neas of the community in Shanghai, for entered into extensive schemes for making to incur the risk.
a long time prevented the appreciation of dockyard at the Pagoda Anchorage, It is easy to understand how_great and as this does not appear to have led to tion to the Court to rescind a contract con
an advantage it will be to Mesara. (From Saturday's Gazette.) With reference to Section XXXV of Or any further action, it may reasonably be cluded between the plaintiffs and the defen- this difficulty; but the recent large increase building gunboats, introducing Silk culti dinance No. 7 of 1866, it is hereby notified concluded that the evidence produced was dant for the conveyance of certain goods, in its foreign population and influx of vation at Foochow, and has shown himself Russell & Co, to be in immediate com- munication with Kin-le-ynen, instead of that His Excellency The Governor in Coun- sufficient to prove the accidental nature of and to compel the defendant to redeliver native residents, has evolved various dif- a liberal and enlightened governor, though
them to the plaintiffs. It appears from the ficulties arising from the principle of exter- at the same time possessing sufficient depending on the eccentric movements of cil has resolved that where a Householder this unhappy occurrence. Foochow Ad
evidence of the plaintiffs, and as uo evi- ritoriality in fores. The promulgation national spirit, to encourage and endeavour chit-coolios. But of still greator general has once taken out a Certificate of Regis rertiser.
work amongst
year:
HONGKONG RAYLE ASSOCIATION. The Consolation Cup offered by the asso tciation for coupetitors who were unable to be present at the last match, was shot for au Saturday afternoon Dec. 15, at the Kow- loon range, 600 yards, five rounds each, any lescription of rifle. The prize was won by Mr Whiteford. The following is the score:--- Rifle. Nume 650 yards. Total points. Navy a. G. B. Whiteford 3 3 2 3 0 11 S. Enfield W. Hensman 64 R33 Whitworth E. J. Woodin 0 3 3 2 2 10 2.8 S. Bufield W. Urquhart 0 2 2 2 2
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He was determined by a sagacious pressed, inasmuch as he had not intended greater part of the country from the sea to doubt he died must have died because the policy to keep out of the way while the to commit the murder; but there was no His Excellency said, that "the of the re- man who Shaoushing was in the occupatard, he was Feng-shui was injured,My Reynolds thus bels. By keeping on the enabled to prevent the iniport of arms benefitting himself at the bust of others."
in danger; not The Feng-shui are again in by the rebls. On the capture of Shaou- shing by the foreign contingent he came to merely the in a country district, itself; bat the
of Shanghae re- Imperial the front, and was known in
capturer of
vicoroyalty. No sooner had be
ht got the
heard on board other ships. The mutinous grounds of law and of equity. The main the arrival of the millenoiura, dianutes province and ready to acknowledge their cigners being the prime movers, on for- rise to the suspicions which summed up in His Lordship's Judgment cerned, and then the ab persons so con- foreigners, to avail himself of their hers the evil result should fall; and wer en was held subsequently |
absence of a common superiority
No. 1140.
advantage will be from which the C value of telegr When they 350 transmisted over tion, they will ap from
any verbal beying on a Shangha the Northern and complete set of r ed into Nagasaki
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will the sight of ing order astonisł curate descriptio tinct impression their conceptions
is, in all such cas doubt the new in nents. Not this turing population to a man, agains chinery
which lessen, instand for labour; and that opposition intelligent people a similar groun
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the boating railway, dreadin trade which anor ally, however, he position will be habit and exper proposed Kin-le- end of the wedge which the chief We assume that i in the way of the the Feng-shui within the precin weut; and every Inan, will be in than hinder, Mess China Daily New
DEMURRA From the Skippi We are so fre formation respect
and Ruoning day believe the law, S matters is but ve
by those engaged Our present impr of this nature. to know whether, abroad to load Sundays count and holidays, uul er, are included may, however, be the question a how far the ques law and by cuato: of this country, a reiched her plug= ordinary Churter the ordinary plan to the age of t that time herd.
ly
days of Demurr Termed, begin intermission al
gulfed
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days S lar place axed by i of atfreightment fo of bargo, the lay ship's are
arrival at tis is provided for tingencies t the the lay tiny will at the place select the whole of the e el there. number of days is bording to
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by local custom T ing of Charter-F Merchants and Ship tion than it deserves, rassment in which involved when anyth ficulty or delay arises voyage.