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TARY 16, 1869.
DIRECTORY
for
JAPAN
nde
IPPINES, &C.
69.
ork is now PUB READY FOR CIR pply to
OHN B. MORRIS, 28873 Bowra & 08. Queen's Road
13, 1869...
ICES ON SUNDAYS GKONG HD M
EDRAL Morning, 11
p. Afternoon 4 e'olock.
Minister, Roy, D. B ervice, 11 A.M.; Even- SSION CHAPEL (Ser- Morning 10 o'clock i Afternoon 3 o'clock, CATHEDRAL.Welling T. Raimondi, PP.
og, at 6, at Mass;
h Mass with Sermon
Last Mass with Ber-
e Rev. T. Borgliguóh Sermou in Chinese Portuguese; o, Bene-
ZFS CHAPEL,Spring ning, at 7, bass with
y the Rev. Taw
atholic Reformatory,
· Vigeno. Servito it HOUSE.-Service in
̧ ̄`in
by Pastor E. Klitzke, half-past ten
lin Foundling House,
Evening Service, Beach.
SYNAGOGUE-C
28 at 4 2,."
NA MAIL.
AY, JAN. 16, 1869.,
MAGAZINE.
mont and
appréhe
last day or two, been
by a
da of many pread abroad to the of Chinese thieves,
er, were discovered the vicinity of the hat their intentions difficult to say, but ely their object, as ada are aware that
ge body of powder:
ath of all within its
e are not in posSUB-
to able to state that
been sufficient to
e doubled and other
ovide against any
th, the building
1.
be the money value
of powder at pre-
litary magazine, its wise is a matter of
the public gene- with the fearful. e exposed, in the
happening during Experience hau hinese thieves are ar as to the way
upon their веспра
ect of their unholy nd instant death by
ossible and probable
like carelessnes magazine robbery, when the neglect of Rifle guard bearly to instant destruce hot only had filled strewn about the
ut that the lights
ked flaring wis
is day we shudder
er we escaped by
tion of these wisps place, and our friends will scares- oh experience, wo
phatically protest
of the danger. We
believe that the
be exercised by
er and European
guard against the but it must be. are a inatch for se thieves if doter-
that the danger to
as great whether
in their primary not too much to wder at present. would if it ex- baition, blow down ity, and probably e proportion of its thing the chance aside, the fact of being placed just that a northerly barks of burning né is a danger not d. By retaining ent position, the exposed to most earnestly call the of the Military gent necessity of
practicable. If a
2, or no bullding
on the Kowloong onecutter's Island
much
No. 1782-JANUARY 16, 1889). available. An explosion there would doubtless cause much damage to the city, it would be nothing compared to the astrous effects which would ensuite from an accident were it to happen at pre sent. The lofty hills forming the ridge of the island would in the latter case ensure the full force of destitictive effects, while distance would leasen the danger in the the case. Considerable uneasiness exists if many quarters on this set, and we trust that something will be done to allay reasonable apprehensions The explosion of the Powder Hulk, two yests ago, is sufficient for one generation of residents in Hongkong.
THE GHINA MAIL.
may remark is common to all the Chinese. kiven the poorest Coolie will have one or mare suspended from the walls of his mud hat.
his meditating and studying room, where At last we reached his own peculiar room, during his hours of study, no foot but his own was allowed to enter.
he was accused the following morning of the robbery, and the master of the house promised, not to charge him if he would speak the truth; upon which prisoner as knowledged the theft, and got the watch returned from a pawn-shop. Sergeant Heely apprehended the prisoner, and said that he did nothing to induce the prisoner to acknowledge, his prime-hir May, naid he did not in the propor, was a hard walls, I observed one evidently held more Horo, among the verbo sripte upon the ened criminal, bat be was sorry that a man saored than all this others, as it was carefully thief. The ends of justice well be satis rich silk, and garlanded by festoons of rich in bis position had all at once started as a veiled, from observation, by a covering of had by a sentence of three months' impri- and highly-gilt ornaments. sonment, with hard labpr.
AT TE CRATER OF VESUVIUS. of it below you hear the noise of perparation the rates of marine insurance are now Urren as Vesuvius has been described, you hear a sharper crackle, and then with age, and that even on these terms the in- :(Pall Mall Gazette,)-(-; for the outburst that is next to come. Then about double what they were thirty years there is one set of impressions which are out farther warning follows a loud explosion, surers find their trade a losing one. Old all, but which, from the nature of the case, hot missiles of every shape and size. So an for the purpose of navigating them till they perhaps the most generally interesting of which shoots into the air a torrent of white-vassola; Et only to be broken up, are bought cannot so frequently be recorded. I refer ormous are the forces at work that not only go to pieces. It may be said that the in- to the impressions of one who has stood small pieces of stone and sulphur, such assurance offices themselves, acting in their while an eruption is actually in progress Piat, but huge blocks of mineral, each en guarantees, against any such practices, but upon the lip of the crater and looked down you might carry away a mementoes of your own interests, ought to give us the best It is not always that a view of anell a scene ough to load a railway ballast-waggon, and we are told that the directors of these estab- tion is the exception, ant the rule. It was ed up as though they were so many cricket all their endeavours to discriminate they can be obtained. In the first place, erup all in a state of perfectly white heat, ars toss-lishments are practically powerless. With at a time, when crash was following crash balls. The explosion lasts, perhaps, no are perpetually accepting unsound vessela Chun Yuu Ches, representing himself as a few words of admiration, on my part, re-rible, and when all the sufocating. Stosma cessation of some seconds with the noise the truth comes ant, they must either pay My conductor pointed to a seat, and after in a manner that was quite sufficiantly ter longer than a minute; and then there is a aud making bad bargains; and then, when a barber, was caught this morning "mak-lative to the general order of the room, re- and vapours were hoing driven to one side only of internal preparation once more, af- without romenstrance ou confront the cer ing tracks" from the Vaion Duck promises marked with a piece of Manila wood, which he said
"I do not hold the general views of my were able to go up from the windward side, goes on again and again as long as the erup-ly lawsuit. As to the seamen whoso lives of the mountain by a strong wind, that we. ter which the explosion is repeated. So it tain charges and unsertain results of a cost- he ha
Mr May sentenced him to 21 days.. hard labor.
P. C. Gowan (who, by the way has
THE universal experience of travellers in water from a man to boil shaving countrymen, that all human wisdom con- stand upon the lip of the crater, look down. tion continues.
THE AUSTRALIAN AND ENGLISH MATLA
in China, and that all outside nations are barbarian. On the contrary the more I hear of the wisdom and power of the Western nations, the nuble great
into the roaring abyss, and see what the eruption of a volcano looks like on the spot. yon 96 Vesuvius from below. But you Well, you may be a little disappointed as
ROSSINI
are imperilled, they represent a fear- lesa, not to BBY thoughtless таса,
in default of better. It is obviously impos- aud, besides, have often, we fear, no. option but to take the service which offers
they will sink some day or other it becomes: tabulate incidents with a view to limiting she dangers thus inourred. When
the sacrifice:
mockery to register casualties and
are sent to sea with the certainty that
We find these losses. most numerous in
China tends to show that the native peasantry are either inhospitable or Press to foreigners. In perfect accord achieved, two stripes on bis left arm), the
account of his withdrawal from public life: A correspondent gives us Rossini's own with the rule, which obtains in Chine, reserver of the peace at the Kowloong qualities which distinguished, the Fanqui, have only to mount to the summit when anoms fourteen or fifteen years ago /sible to provide by any ordinary precautions that we must there seek the reverse of caught in the act of removing, on his per success of the Takei, the more I am confid yourself in the presence of appalling rence, where he was then rosiding. In the Dock, charged a boatman with having been and the enterprise, power, industry and eruption of any magnitude is in progress to weat to sao Rossini at his hoves in Flo- European custom, whether in the practi- son, soie iron washers from the Unionvinced that words of wisdom transmitted phenomena hoth of sight and sound. Choose course of conversation he inquired what cal appliances of donestio life or the Dook this morning. Prisoner said he had from their ancestora, and carefully cherish the last few hours of daylight for your as there was new in Paris, whence I had lately mainsprings of certain acts, the assertion got the washers from another mat as ed by them, have born good fruit, and bave cent; and then, as the darkness closes round come, and I mentioned a piece by Scribe that excitement spreads from: the better security for his passage.Me May repeated mainly contributed to their advancement, and world below becomes hidden from your (the Bataille des Dames, I think it was) as classes to the mob instead of commencing his warning as to the larceny of even one I cominissioned therefore a countryman of view, you stand at the rater in presence of the latest novelty. Now" said Russi, those classes of vessola which are notorious»‹ ̈° with the lowest and, gradually infecting copper, nail, and the punishment to follow mine to visit the European Honge in the a scano for which no language can be very there is a thing I cannot understand. Wyly worst found, manned, and worst the better classes, receive fresh confirma anch ach; and, then sentenced the prisoner Treaty ports, and procure for me, to place extravagant: Fer experienced monntaineers on earth should Scribe go on at his age handled. Wu find that wrecks are most
to 21 days hard labor, and
here, one of these English proverbs which the effort required for the ascent is nothing writing for the stage? What has he to tion from every new district visited. As we yesterday mentioned, certain gentle the shop of a ship's compradore the other and the most prominent upon the walls of laborious enough Perhaps the casiness of grease of fame bo can' havaly expect, but it but in the seas frequented by the
Log & lai, an unemployed seaman, entered appeared to me to be the most valuable remarkable; but for ordinary people it is gain? Money he does not want, any toquent, not in the most dangerous seas, men who have made tours in the neigh day, and (the compradore being absent) the foreigners. He brought me this, tell the undertaking may be best measured by he got it, what difference conld it make to bourhood of Swatow and Chaq chow-too was hospitably treated by the compradore's ing me that it must be the very compen the fact that ladies at least English ladies him? His position in life is fixed. But, town in a dead calms, or fall to pieces on poorest Ulsas of shipping. We dod that vessels have found that, so fer from being receivoks who assed the gestaan to be soston, dium of all Entropian wisdom, for that can ascend; while the difticalty of it will with some people, it seems to be a zago.
go. ed with hostility, they were welcomed it an opium, pipe for him, and otherwise, throughout the Empire, wherever there was be understood by the fact that they have They cannot leave off writing. For my
first touching ground, before the crew capi riid the honors of the house. Shortly after a European store, it was most conspicuous to be pushed and hoisted up...
so much as get the bouts out. In the year! with hospitality. This and similar fastewards, the same pipe was initsed. Defenly displayed upon its walls; in fact, that should teach us a lesson of infinite use in dalt was detected yesterday pledging the tiere was no store without at least one the slopes of Vesuvins proper, you begin to twenty years, I have been assulled to tempt the vessel, or defects in the equipment, or
own part I have always steadily resisted
Bow under review nearly 300 of the As you quit the road and emerge upon the entreaties with which, for more than casualties are distinctly attributable to pres our dealings, with the Chinese never same pipe (value, $10) at a pawn-shop, within ita doo18, 12"
ventable causes, such as unseaworthiness in to admit the excuse of the danger of Couplainant identified the pipe, and the
have some idea of the desolation with the stage once more, I know very well incompetence on the part of the captain or With a reverent genuflection, he slowly which a volcano surrounds itself. You find that I can do nothing better, if as good, as popular excitement" regarding the fulfil prisoner was sent to hard feber for four threw the silk curtains apart, and I read yourself in a vast black plain of hardened I have done already. When I had written crew. This is irrespective of collisions, up ment of any engagement into which month,
conspicuotisly displayed on a yellow card- lava, some of it in the form of enormous the Barbiere, the Gazza,Semiramide, of which must, by the very nature of the wards of 400 in number, a large proportion Allsop's pale ale in quarts and pints; boulders and some of it pounded to the and Guillaume Tell, to say nothing of a the Goverment may have entered. There are no doubt times where a real
bone is genuine without our mark."Avi finest dust. Of course the estee of desola crowd of other operas, I felt that my beat case, have been avoidable by better manage popular excitement may result in the we borrow the following tables from the
rican paper.
tion increases as you ascend. Yet it is unsting of an obnoxious mandarin or the
loug: before all tricos of life disappear. powers had been exerted. After reaching binnent. Altogether, porhaps, we may all- sacrifice of a foreigner's life. But these fles, and venture to supplement their Directory issued from our contemporary's
KA COURT ON A BUST" Under this exprcative and peculiar head-there are here and there struggling speci-ma part je no me soucie pas que sea musique given are indulgently framed.
Almost up to the foot of the coffe itself a man does not expect to grow taller or use that nearly ous-third of the accidents stronger. He may grow fatter mais pour tions, it must be added, which we liave might have been escapod, for the calcula Bases occur but seldom, and as a broad usefulness, by suggesting to the P. & sonte American papers relate the. folniens of vegetation just peering above the prente du ventre:" "But you began comthe force of the wind at the time of a wreck
and to the P. L. G. that their notices
lowing incident
Whenever te dual surface of the lara By the time you reach posing very early in life, you know," should contain mention of the Australian been alluding to the exuiting conduct of or more of rough pony-riding, you have got wrote the Barbiere !" twenty-three, was The Texas papers have for some days the foot of the cone, after some two hours his wife. What age were you when you
said is returned at or above a given point, the branch when the mail steamers carry Judge Sabin, military appointee to the into a region where no bird is heard, no it not ?? Yes. I do not pretend to fix office of the Judge of the Circuit Court plant is seen; and you have become fully the age at which a writer should cease to The Brenham Inquirer thus describes the
loveliness. At this point the real hard reached your greatest height you must ne fainting On Sunday, and capocially at this the ascent bus been certainly rough, do so de temps en temps, I dare say, as long should probably learn how to do more, in night's train arrived the Judge, slightly ponies have to be left. Up to the foot of leave of at the top. I write still. I shall direction the remedy should be applied. his entrance and bis, exit On Saturday work of the expedition begins. Here the cessarily decline, so I think it better to reduction, and it is equally clear in what We are already doing our best, though we night, the Judge became beastly drunk, but it has been gradual; bere; however, as I live; but, there is no reason why I using language to good citizens unbecoming the walls of the cone start up out of
should expose myself to the caprice of dhinishing the dangers inseparable from his position, which alone saved him from the gentior ascent at an inclination which public whose praizo I do not care for, and a seafaring life, but we are not doing alt
pummelling.n Monday morning is, perhaps, o triffe less steep than the whole blame might annoy me. reports were rifo of the departure of the sides of a grocer's sugarloaf. The difficul- of his age on this same evening he
that might be done in the prevention of riak deliberately or wantonly encountered. Judge. Shortly, however, it was asosrtainty of such a limb would be sufficiently that he was born only eight weeks after they are well aware that this ground of ed that he had departed for the country in great under any circumstances; but it is death of Mozart company with a freedman in search of but here increased by the nature of the foot of Mozart, maestro,' said I, I must read is far easier to erect a lighthouse or estab- Now you speak action is more difficult than the other. It termilk, Jurors and witnesses were pouring hold. You have always into town. During the evening the Judge either to sent rolling in bushels down the day. He is in an out-of-the-way, place in the case is urgout, as our remarks baye your choice you what my brother, au accomplished is a lifeboat than to control the opera either to walk upon the loose cinders, musician, days in a latter I received yester- tions of commerce or interfere with returned, and after imbibing attempted to ronch the court-bouse, in which he finally mountain by every increment of the foot, India, where he bears no tausic, and has no show. We must either devise some ms
enterprise by legislative provision.
But subces led After. conning the of the or to go upon the scarcely less precarious instrument, and he conacica himself by court-yard and climbing up the steps, he lave, all jagged, angular, and honeycombed, stulying the scores of Don Giovanni' and thod of intervention, or anbmit to the dis succeeded, in reaching the hench. The with a fair prospect of a twist of your Guillaume Tell, and can haridy make up grace of hearing that the navigation of court was called, but adjourned unti ankle. Go which way you will, it is severe his mind which to place bigbest. Rossini British waters is ouly just half as safe as it four o'clock the following day. The work. For getting ladies to the top
top tue
was at the accession of Queen Victoria.
generality tiny be asserted that the Chinese merchants, traders, and peas antry are quite as well disposed as the similar classes in any other country, and are even tore ebery of resorting to force by way of emphasizing their opinious. Our two great enemies in Ching are the official and 40 called #literary class; the former per haps even less actively so than the
the Australian letters:
weather is presumed to be accountable for the disaster without further question.
the belief of the public that this terribler Upon the whole it must, we think, bo
Return of the departure of the British conduct of his honor at Brenham, including used by a deep impression of savage publish. All I say is that when you tiavecale of annual loss admits of material
THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS, 1889.
nect with the Australian Mails at Point Contract Packets from Hongkong, which de Galle's poor destrure Date of Arrival Date of Departure
from Hongkong. at Guile
12th Jan.
2001 Jan. 9th Feb. 23rd Feb.
23rd Mar.
20th Apr. 16th May 13th June 11th July
8th Aug
from Galle for Sydney, 27th Jan. 24th Feb. 24th Mar. 2lat pr. 19th May 16th June 14th July 11th Aug
6th Sept. ard ct. 2nd Nov, 30th Nov.
8th Sept. 8th Oct. 3rd Nov. 1st Dec
latter. As it is from this class exclusively that the ranks of the official are recruited we are justified in terming them the "upper" or "more respectable" 9th Mar class, as compared with the tradesmeu
6th Apr (the word merchant," or at least a 29th Apri word implying its meaning as to social
27th May 24th Juna position, is unknown in Chinese) and
22nd July peasantry. If the Literati could be 10th Aug. conciliated, we should experience the 16th Sept. same civility in the towns as is found 19th Oct. amongst the country people. But we 16th Nov. can offer them un temptation to like us.
To the commercial classes we can offer a
THE ENGLISH MAILS, 1869,
- Leavei Hongiang.
16
dus here.
3
a sound
steps
bled to reach the hotel, amid the
uncomfortable
In about an
you
* (1792)
•
overy
a
Talking told me
privata
level road, and behind two glossy bays, A morning ride of three miles over a fine,
had bivonacked a
confess and so the Literati are opposed Apr. 6 May July 15 Wednesday morning, about daylight, in a are clambering up the side of the co-pretended borihomie that the simple and the track. The Celestials were at break-
It is the hoped that the Surveyor Gone-
unsuspecting might easily be taken in; but earbest." Fall Mall Gazette.
June, 27 July 2 Aug. 121 oing down on the train: When asked na your head risus above the crater lip this anbiect he was unmistakably in rice and cabbage. They squatted near the
Oct.
This
It is
Tabla shewing the dates of departure of page. was certainly the muddiest mal guides and helpers provide themselves with shook his head. Il a tort. Il ne faut pas | That is really the alternative before us, and good market to the coolies and others de cole. And on my making a employment. But is the literative cas anticipated arrivals su Laidou, and dates having been wallowing with the hoga by lads groape the bar; the man, with the mines, Won jo tous daying his hand ou offer nothing but instruction in literature of return despstobes
-the assistance of up; attorney he was europe fastened round his waist, drags on in ot en conscione dis
Berieusement ought not to be doubtful---English and the inculeation of honesty and virtus.
Arriva in “Answer Leguerí
J'ai jamais été à 1. paper: jeers of thousands who witnessed front, while another man pushes the lady hanteer de Mozart, When young composers Honesty, as we understand the word, is
London Fia London Via under
Marcelites. Marcelles.
strange procedure. The bext evening found to the summit, rather breathless, fatigasd, this Take every opportunity of studying
this behind. In this way she gets hauled ap come to me for counsel I always give
THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE directly opposed to the official acquisition Jan. 19 Feb. 21 Feb. 26 Apr. 8 the judgo in no better condition, but he and gap hour from this point you music in his works you will find overy does not last very long, and in a few min. of wealth in China. Our moral precepta Jab. 20 Mar 7 Mar. 12 Apr. 22 finally managed to reach the stand, storn
Mozart. He has excelled in they have already. Christianity teaches Feb. 9. Mar 21 Mar. 26 May t
of the extra inud. Court was called, the arrive at the edge of tho crater, and there soit of effect, and always produced by the utes we dismounted at Colwiu's. While that all men are wicked, a belief Feb. 23 Apr. 14 Apr. May 2 Grand Jury with little or no change, court you behukla scene full of awe and majesty, most legitimate meask I never heard him waiting for the train, we walked over to the which few Chinese can be brought to Mar. Apr. 18
adjourned, and the judge, called at the bar, The suddanness with which you come upon speak so emphatically. It general there was camp of a band of Chinese raffroad laborers, Mar. 23 May Muy 37. Jus 17 took quother smile and reached his hotel it is quite atartling Going up you netther ao thuch of porsiflige concealed under his
who 21 July During the night he beggine no better. Ou see agr hear anything. One moment to us. They understand one argument, Apr. 20 May 30 Jun
a hundred yards from as do tigers and all other brutes that of dor. 29 June 13 June 18 July 29 burroom he announced his intention of amid profound silence; the next force. And we see no chance of success May 13
fast, the repast consisting chiefly of boiled moment, with any other as regards this powerful May 27 July 11 July 16 Aug. 26 what he would do with the court, he said you encounter a roar and a blaze whion
tires, held the bowls of rice very near their class of the Chinese community.
tips, June 10 July 25 July 30. Sep. 9 let it go to hell.❝yhon jndge, what will
prestidigitated the grains into duo, 24 Aug. 8. Aug. 13 Sep, 28 do shout the grand Jury now sisting you shrink back a little.
thair mouths by means of two slender ebony you do
DISASTERS AT SEA. surprise is occasioned, I suppose, by Aug 22 Aug 27 Oct. 7.at them sit till they hatob, he answer the formation of the crater. July 8
ulropsticks, about nine inches long. A great July Sept. 5 Sept. 10 Uet. 21 ed. The train cunyeyed the judge on his a hugo bowl which comes up to quite a the elements is greatest, and storas are fourteen, were wingled with the various Exactly at the season when the strife of any stout Chinese lads, of thirteen or Aug
Sept. 19 Sopt. 24 Nor, homeward trip. The above is a plain starp lip, about half a mile in diameter raging and howling over the land, we are groups, doing a man's duty at the troncher, Aug 19 Out, 3 Vot 8 Nov. 21 unvaruished statement of facts, as we hear and some hundred yards depth. Towards regularly presented with a pistare of the and evidently rated as mature Ishorers. , or whoever is charged with the duty of
Sept. 2 Oct 17. 22 Dec 5 and have seen, ami needs no comment at the bottom of this bowl, on the opposite tempest's work for the year preceding. But for these patient and docile Asiatio prohibiting building nuisances, will ere long Sept. 16 Oct. 31 Nov. Dec. 19our hands. The judge is a military upside to where we stood, was a great hole, The Wreck Register uniformly appears in inimigrants, California would have very return from his lengthened absence from
Nov. 14 Nov 19 Jan 2
from which all the projectiles of the erup-a month fatal to abipping, and new disasters. little acific Railroad to boast of. this Colovy-for upon no other ground
tion were shot; the surface of the bowl beare added to the list while we are cal Nov. 28 Dec. 3 Jan. 16
About 5,000 Chinainen are employed we explain the evident indifference mani. Oct. 19 fested by the public convenience in the in-
iug 'Nov. 2 Don, 13 Dec. 17 Jan. 30:
all of them smeared with antphur, recorded. We regret to say that on the mouth, and board themselves, or rather, mediate neighbourhood of Wyndham Street Nov, 10 Deo. 26
vered on Alaska and the northern regions, precisely like those pen which we were present occasion the account is worse than the Chinese contructors receive $50 for each and other localities Complaints hove
standing. As you mount the cone there is was ever lucwn before. With a single inan. The white laborers got from $40 to we despatobed our reporter in order to give between you and the gulf an enormous exception, the year 1867 was calamitous $80, colu, and are boarded reached us from many quarters, and as per-
A YANKEE PROVERB IN CHINA.
the public the benefit of the lecture's wall, which dulls everything alike for eye beyond all precedent. The actual loss of expense; so that the Chinamon anfferers from the nuisance we readily T
the company's Bonal, a
An America
gentleman, resident for dom. We regret that we have only room
are fifty per some years in China, gives us the following for a brief report. The lecturer commended a car ou while on the steeps of the life from shipwreck was not so heavy last cent. olieaper than the Trishman, and at leaf from his adventures ainong the long by remarking that although the regions en delf you might be unaware that the year as in 1850, when the Royal Charter least that much more tractable and steady. talled gentry
near the pole were hard for travellera, yet
mountain was disturbed. But a single was lost, but otherwise the returns exceed I have diligently inquired as to how the stop secuns altost enough to transfer you in gloom all former reporta. The number daily work accomplished by "John" been seen; it from the most death-like stillness to the of shipwrecks in 1867 was no less than parts with that docomplished by Path not certain whether the beare dimb it. grandest exhibition of force it is possible 2,080 or su average of nearly six for every Those best informed cantot themselves dis Those who go there are protected from dull black of congealed lava on the lower of those figures will be bost understood inore; it is doubtful if he does. In cutting
So conquive. Ins
Instead of the monotonous day in the year. The alarming pharacter cade the question. The Hibernian can do the cold, although they go in bear skins.
lovela, Dr. Hayes, a Yákse, went there in stones that have been under the notion of for the six years ending with 1801 was to reach the half-way shaft, much to the No negrocs there-all white bear aking.
you have the deep brick red of when we say that the average number the Summit tunnel the Chiuamen were first
imaginable shade of orange and yellow that 1867, 1,691. It will be observed that the blasting and digging at the other end. "In fire, the brightest vermilion, and every 1,202, and for a bimilar period ending with truculent discomfiture of the gange of Irish sulphur deposits are capable of taking. The average here rises considerably, and, in- olearing away the snow avalanches from the ground is hot too; so hat, indeed, that you deed, the authors of the calgulations before track, the Chiuamen showed marked infe- manny seconds together. Between the chinks proportion to the increase of shipping; but numbers of them have overwhelmed
The grading now-in progress across the
can
adres in proses expresied that gome
ing his dutyoulisqart
good
Sept. 90
1870.
pointed,
Dec. 31 Feb, 13 Hoaring of a lecture that was to be duli. composed of lumps of lava, stones, and culating and scrutinising those already along the line. They receive $50, coin, per
THE ARCTIC REGIONS.
sporte contain mention of In the year 1859, prior to the oushing of it is a nice (an ice-location,
thio Surprise thority that the Teese is to authorities at Shanghai, 1 succeded in have $5,000 for salvage bdas, and gaining a tacit permission to go into the the Douglas $5,000 for hauling the ground Interior for some distance, and gray od vessel off, an operation which coulding a long-cherished wish of seeing some-
war on exertions and strong influence with the is
light
not be performed until the Surprise, had thing of the domestic manners and bustomsearch of a note when the northern
You can sen a haze heer, lightened of some of her spars. She of the Chinese, at points where they had
datang dad is to be repaired at Foochow The Yes, never been brought into contact with
are visible. There is no corn raised in the northern which brought the newe, ought also to have Europeaus. brought from Amoy, a young gentleman
regiond-yet when the Esquimaus
beep
who was in charge, not only of documents overland by easy journies, ranching Han- breakfast it is an Indiati niaalay cannot keep your-foot on the same spot for ue expect that it will continue to do so in { rlocity owing, donbiles, to the fact that
I left Shanghai in March, and travelled
elating to the accident to the Surprise, how in Blay, intending to descend the
hat also of letters intended for despatch by Yangtae-Kiang river, stopping at the various
porta (with the exception of Nankin, then occupied by the rebois) to Shanghai. Ibral
the American Mail on Tuesday next. That #young, gentleman, it is said, went ashore at
Amoy during the Yeo's temporary stay letters of introduction to several men of there, and did not return in time to catch note at Hunkow, and was received by theru the steamer. It is supposed that he missed very courteously.
lus way in a déiwe' fog which prevalled Lat One day my boy announced a Chinese us hope that he has enterprise encugh to gentleman with a most unprononcable charter a junk for himself; if he has, be ame, the induced by his great desire to Juay be here in time-if he bas'nt he won't see and become acquainted with a foreigner, be, and then there will be some weeping in had called upon me without a formal Mie wilderness,
introduction.
it.
of the stones you can see that a few inches even when the Sgures are "corrected" and kiled while so engaged: below the surface, it is actually red-hot socording to this presumption, the disasters.
tö
You thrust in the end of your stick of last
and the assertion that
The principal Amusement is old sledge though they societimes have a now one The unexation of Alaska to the United States will not probably inorcise the pole for a moment and you pull it out char have been, 600 more than they should sandy and level expanses of the Great Basin is exclusively the work of Chinese ganga. red. Over all the farthing half of the ara The immediate question before the public. The tracklayers am whito. The Chinese tax.
When the prodigal ann went into a furter there hangs a dense cloud of smoke is this:--In what proportion, and to what laboror is light in frame and flash, with fair and vapour; all around you theto in extent, are these casualties preventable muscle and patient, obedient disposition. country, he probably stopped in Alaska.
an atmosphere of sulphus which sets you We have adopted and developed. certain Not one in a hundred can be called a large The people there don't care for the turn coughing from naimberless small holes measures in the way of prevention year man. Their high obeek bon of spring. When the rivers begin to run, about your feet there issun with a hina sul-after year. For instance, we survey our seas,
bones give their they say its snow matter
jawa a sunken look, and their sallow com The territory is well defended against purua juts of steam which nearly oboke wo light up our coasts and shoala, we give plexions strengthen the delusive impression around here je s shiver de freze all look dors into the actual abyss you are fase woning of danger by storm. signals, and that they are zother hardy nor strong.
are face we have set up weather-glasses in most of They have both of sight and sound which perhaps the excellently organised, and we take some they are not stout enough to be miners is face with the must appalling phenomena our ports. We have also a lifeboat servico railroad laborées, and elves to be efficient whole of Europe has to offer. Amongst the pains to secure the competence of navigat no longer made, save by those Irishuieu crowd of strange sensations that are expe. Ing-masters. Yet still the evil grows upon and Cornishmen who are determined that rouged at sport a time the phenomena of us-grows out of all proportion to the shoy shall never have a trial. The Chinese sound are perhaps the most wonderful of growth of trade, until we have at length to railroad laborers live chiefly on rice; not all. What masts the ear is, if anything, announce the sacrifies of 3,838 lives, and that they are not very fond of certain kinds evas more terrific than what mosts the eye. the loss or damage of 484,000 tons of ship of animal foud, but their pay is awall and Even to sight the eruption is not exactly ping his single year. The report itself their habits frugal so they stick to rise be the pitnositation point at the end of the It doesn inagination paints it beforehand, ascribes a large proportion of casualties to cause it is cheap and of itself will merly preceding paragraph) our reporter took list does not consist, as the pictures necessa- defective equipmentor careless management, sustain life-suri Republican.
rily lead one to suppose, of a continuous and a letter which was published last monté On my arrival, after the customary cilp letto speak more exactly, he took se shower at all Still leas does it consist of a from a competent observer, bir Hall, 15
RAILWAY INTELLIGENÒE—¤ & WaÏÏ of tea had been drank, he conducted me
contiannus shower of black ashes ebot out Newcastle, showed how great a number of
known American is, at present, "out of from a fire blazing on the top of the moun these annual losses might be regarded as through his house and gardens. The walls of the rooms were hang with long strolls
tait it is rather a series of explosions. emblazoned with Chinese characters, con
ehips known to be unsonworthy are con A FOUR countryman being summoned for. But the roar and glare of the great abyssalinoat wilfully incurred. In a few words, luck," he may be looked upon in the light taining extracts from the works of Cen arrears of poor rates, was asked on what continuous. You look into the pit, and stantly seat to sea, and often with loads faoius, and other of his country's writers, ground he objected To which he very though you so no actual flame, yet its sides which would be excessive for the soundest metal axioms, pitly proverbs, words of innocently replied. "Lord bless you, genere in a state of constantincandescence from and strongest vessels. wisdom, da
tlemen, I bave no ground at all, mine's the mouth of it there roars up incessantly We can hardly convey a mors startling This custom of decorating the rooms I only a cottage,"
La deuse cloud of steam; and in the depthe impression of the facts than by saying that
We chatted through an interpreter for some time, and I found him, though of a grave and studious mian, a pleasant ancial companion, and though deeply yersed in the lore of his own country, very ignorant of but very anxious to acquire foreign ing formation.
ME CAMPBELL, Beretary to the Inspector General of Customs in Chins, arrived in England early ht November, carrying with him 160 gold medals, lately struck at Pakit by the Chinese Government, for distribut tion to the officers of the forca recently known as The Ever Victorious Army After & brief call he invited me to spend The Inedals are to be given through Litut the following day with blu at bis residence, Coložaí C. Gordon, R.E.; O. B., inte com a few miles beybut the city walls, which in hander of the force. It is duderstood that vitation I accepted. official application will be made to the British Gonment for leave to accept and wear the decoration,
TO-DAY'S FOTICE. Mt May on the Bench. Theodore Miller, barkeeper at the British Hotel, hat his silver which stolen the other Hay by the night-soil coolie, who picked it up early in the morning. Being suspected,
It is a good place for eratura. Even the whales spout
Bordes are not vary numerous, though there are some fine bays on the coast.
Education is very general. The whales in schools. The hunters do not always stop to read their letters when they open the seals.
At this point (the point referred to is
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veral of his leaves, containing his notes of the lecture, American paper.
of a "down Train"
De Chalmers was won't to say, a house. going minister makes a church-going peo plus as the people are sure to show the courtesy of returnlug the minister's week day visit by a Sabbath-day attendance,