shipping.
FOR SAN FRANCISCO.
SHIRLEY,"
The Amr. Ship
Captain FeaquSON, will have quick despatch for the above
Port,
For Freight, apply to
RUSSELL & Co. Hongkong, January 29, 1869,
tt
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER.
The Britishi barque.
"NEPTUNE,"
R. 1 Buraret, Master, of 287 tams Register, carrying capacity 6,600 pivu.
For further Particulars, apply to
ROB. 8. WALKER & Co. Hongkong; February 10, 1869.
Notices to Consignee»..
FRENCH BARQUE “MASSALIOTE" PROM SINGAPORE.
ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above named Vessel are requested to send in the Bills of Lading to the Undersigned for countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of their Goode.
FREDERIC DRGENAER, 3, d'Aguilar Street. Hongkong, February 12, 1869.
fe19
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PUBLIC BECH SAN FRANCISCO.
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE. HAVE established myself at this port za Veneral Commission Merchant, under hs Style and Firm of GrFORD F. PARKER &Co.
..
GIFFORD FORBES PARKER. Saigon, December 20, 1867.
W
NOTICE
E have authorized Mr CLAUS BUDDE
to siga our Firm from this date,
DREYER & Co, Hongkong, January 1, 1888.
NOTICE
RD, O. CLARK retires from our Firm, and Mr J. MURRAY FORBES and M Mr. E., D.. BARBOUR are admitted. Partners from this date.
RUSSELL & Co, China, January 1, 1809.
july2
For Sale.
JUST ARRIVEDEX CRESTED WAVE, FROM LONDON.
WYE & BURBIDGE'S PALE SHERRIES
in Bottle, I dozen euch Case. No. 1. 2,
$7.
*
9. 10.
Also, FORT in Bottle (old, light and silky),
G. DUBOST & Co. Hongkong, January, 21, 1869.
TR of Cargo by the above 1847, $12 per dozen...
Véssel aro roquested to send in.
their Bills of Lading to the Undersigned for countersignature, and to take imme- diate delivery of their Goods,
Cargo impeding the discharge of the ves sel will be landed and stored at Consigneen' risk and expense.
GEO. T. BOWMAN, Agent. Hongkong, February 12, 1889.
jelD
**BELTED WILL” FROM LONDON,
ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the abuve
named vessel are requested to send in their Bill of Lading to the Undersigned for Countersignature, and take immediate delivery of their Goods,
FOR SALE
Jurt arrived, ex Overland Mail
Steamer "CHINA.
21fe
RIME OVERLAND HAM.
Do. Dutch HERRINGS, in Kits
of dor. 100 cases Andam CHEESE, each 1 doz
L. FRICKEL & Co. Hongkong, February 2, 1869,
·FOR SALE.
Ex Lote Arrivals,
ti
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New Advertisements.
Post-Office Notifications.
[No. 1778.-FEBRUARY 17. 1989.
MORRIS'S DIRECTORY
for
CHINA, JAPAN and
THE PHILIPPINES, &c., 1869.
DOARD and RESIDENCE at No. 5,
1.- the 1st October next, and thence- BOA D. BONNAN ROAD, W. Good Accommo- forward Money Orders will be issued at dation,
this Office and at the Agencies thereof at Shanghai and Yokohama on all the Money Order Offices, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for amounts not excoading £10, at the rate of Exobange Current for Esch Mail, and charged with Commission according to the following | CULATION,
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Apply to
they do when the host or image of thair city God is paraded in the streets; but the most affecting sight was when the elders of the city, about 100 in number, white haired men of from 60 to 70 years of age, cano forward and detainingly laid their banda on the chair, stid refused for a time to let the old man pass. - The condnet of the
THE above. Work is now PUB-people reminded one of some high religious
LISHED and READY FOR CIE-festival, and might easily have been mis
taken for atch, had it not been for the gay appearance of the Thespian stages which, at different places on the route, had been erected for the representation of snel bright. characters in the country's history as Teeng had copied or surpassed in his official es rear. The crowd beaded by the elders closed in after the chair, and fowed after
JOHN B. MORRIS.. Mcsers Bowra & Co.,
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It is a well known fact that Gold, is the dent upon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko. TABLE showing the Proposed Mova it like a rivor, through the city gate and
only Metal that will resist Atanospheric Oxidation; hence theso Photographs are Permanent.
The Prices are about half of the so called Permanent Ivory Types, on Collado-Chloride of Silver; the invention of U. W. Saro Esq., Editor of the Photographic Newa
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Hongkong, January 30, 1868,
Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700 Money Order Offices in the United King. dout, ahewing the Counties in which they are situated, are bang up for public refer- ence at this Office, and also at Shanghai
and Yokohama.
nients of the Mail Stensa Packets of down to the place where the Vicuregal barge awaited him. There, the people col- the P. & U. Company for the Year 1869, slected in such numbers that only the want approved by Her Majesty's Postauuster of standing ground prevented the city from
being entirely emptied.
General.
To be had at the China Mil Office, Wyndham Street,
Hongkong, December 26, 1868.
PRINTING of every description exe
unted at the "China Mail" Office
with accuracy, neatness, punctuality, and at reasonable charges, by
CHARLES A. SAINT,
6.Applicants for Money Orders must furnish, in full, the surname, and, at least, the initial of one Christian name, both of the Remitter and the Payce; if the Remit- ter or Payee be a Peer or a Bishop, his or THE TREATY PORTS OF CHINA diary title will be suficient, if a firm, the Norice. It is particularly requested that JAPAN AND NOTES AND wition of such fixa, such as all communications relating to the general QUERIES ON CHINA AND JAPAN.”
will suffice but the business of this paper be addressed to the "Baring Brothers pere term Mesars, suolas "Mesar Ri- Proprietor and in no case to individens
or the name of a Company tra- name. Much delay and inconvenience in vingtou
avoided.
»
Chinamen have a ceremonial for every occasion, and this may have been only the rehearsal of an old programnue, instead of
The
We acknowledge with thanks the receipt ing under a title which does not consist of the transaction of business will thereby be other testimonial amongst us, than it
EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS. (From the "Friend of India," June 4, 1868.) of the number for the current year of "Notes and Queries," a most deserving Anglo-Chinese monthly, edited by Mr N. B. Daunys, whose Treaty Forts of China and Japan" are so well known. From the names attached to the "Notos" we can see that the contributors include soras of the best Chinese scholars in the East. Its in terest is not confined to Ching, and it will be of valuable assistance to all scholars, who have directed their attention towards the subject of Buddhism and its literature, and generally to all who are interested in ori-
known in India.
the names of the persons composing it, such as "Carron Co." is inadmissible.
6.-The Remitter on stating that the Or
der is to be paid only through a Bank, to bave the option of giving or withdrawing. the name of the Payee; in such case, the Order will be crossed in the same way that Cheques are commonly crossed when they are intended to be paid through a Bank.
a
NOTICE.
ROUND COPIES of Vol, 2 of NOTES AND QUERIES ON CHINA AND JAPAN," are now on Bule at the China Mall Office, Price $6.75 per Volume.
Bound Copies of the FIRST VOL. (reprint) opinion. Besides the common practies of
7. When an Order is presented through Bank, a receipt by any person will be suf-will shortly be ready. the name of the receiving Bank, and be ficient, provided the Oriler be crossed with presonted by some Person known to be in
EST Hoth's Itopu, from 2 in. to 10 in, ental autiquities. It deserves to be better the employ of such Bank,
Orgo impeding the digalinrge of the Bdo du. Boltrupe,
Fessel will be landed and stored at Con-
signees risk and expense.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.
Hongkong, February 12, 1869, -
T
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HE following ones bave been landed
and stored at the risk and expense of the Consignees, who are requested to take Immediate delivery.
VO 827
Ex Hoogly S1st October, 1868.
à case Arms. February, 1869. GFC 15985€ 1 case chemicals.
Cambodge,"
C. BERTRAND, Principal Agent, Hongkong, February 2, 1869.
and Notices of firmis
NOTICE.
HC Interest and Responsibility of Mr
WILLIAM NEILSON in our Firm ceated on the 30th June last,
Mr TOBIAS PIM, Mr WILLIAM NIBBET OLMSTED and Mr H. SEYMOUR GEARY Bre authorized to sign our Firm in Hongkong and Chins from this date.
OLYPHANT & Oo, Hongkong, October 6, 1868,
NOTICE.
10.
do do Lanyard, 2
(From the "London Examiner," May do do. Seizing-stuff and Ratline,
16, 1868.) thri. to 24 thrd.
This really neeful volume ["Treaty Ports do. do. Signal Halliards, of Okina and Japan"] is intended as a do. do. Löglines,
guide for travellers and residents in China Wire Rope, from in, to 4 in. and Japan, and as a book of reference for Five tons of Hubbuck's White Zinc Paint, mercantile men generally, 1t aontains an Best JH, H. Gin, in white square account, historical and political, of all the
bottles; 1 doz. cakes. Holland Gin in shall and large bottles.opan ports of these countries, together with Feking, Yedo, Hongkong, and Maoso. It Manta's yellow Mutal, from 18 oz. to 26 has been carefully compiled and edited by
OZ.
French Salad Oil.
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JUST LANDED AND FOR SALE. *: NE of JULIUS LAYLAND & Co.'s cole- (brated HARMONIUMS, with ten
stops, in walnut case.
Apply to
J. B. MORRIs, Mesara Bows & Co.'s,
Green's Road. Hongkong, January 29, 1869. ielt
KR. WILLIAM JUDSON BLYDENBURGE,TION
11 and Mr GEOROR HUKLAUT are admit ted partners in our Firm.
Mr Hanes CUTLER LOW will sign our
Firm per provaration.
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COMPANY, for the year 1569. Hongkong, February 5, 1869.
New Advertisements.
Formosa, Ningpo, and
Mr N. B. Donnys; and the elaborate maps and plans, with which the work abounds, considerably enhance its valus. ***
We have thus given in outline some of the more prominent portions of the chapter devoted to Canton, as a specimen of the whole volume. Other chapters treating of Macao, fans of the frosty ports, we can only enumerate: The pages describing Poking, the capital, aru so interesting, and contain so much that is new to European readers respecting its history, publie buil-, dings, and general characteristics, that we would fain transfer them to our columns. A complete and intelligible plan of the Im- perial City and neighbourhood, gives us an accurate notion of the relative position of its divisions, streets, and places.
8.The signature of the Puyes of a Mo- ney Order to be affixed to the Order in the If the place provided for the purpose. Payee be unable to write he must sign the receipt by making his mark in tlio presauce of a Witness, who must sign his name, with his gddress in the mesence of the Officer who pays the Order.
9. Should the Payee of a Money Order desire to receive payment in the Country in which the Order was issued, at some other Office than that in which the Order was ori drawn, the transfer will be granted, provided the Onier be inclosed to the Postmaster of the Office in which it was drawn. In such case a new Order will be issued, the Commission chargeable upon which will be deducted from the amount of the now Order.
1-On the receipt of a similar applica tica, ortors will be given to stop payment of a Money Order, or to renew a lapeat Order. The additional Commission in the last case will be deducted from the amount
THE OKINA MAIL.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17, 1869. By & paragraph in recent North China papers we learn that another French inis sionary has been barkarously murdered in the interior of China. It is interest ing to spcoulato as to what action will he taken by the French minister regarding this matter. France makes her avowed mission in China that of promoting, or at least protecting, propagandim, and if she acts in accordance with precedent she will exact heavy retribution for a crime which besides being that of murder was accompanied by barbarities which arouse the lively indignation of all foreigners,
If a missionary be mobbed and beaten to
iniscarrying of being, lost, à duplicate will there is at least room for sorte comprehen 10-In the event of a Money Order death in the excitement of the attack be granted on a wristen application, from sible inotive being attributed to bis mur the Payse, (containing the necessary particulars, and accompanied by an addiderers; but the details which add such tional Commission) to the Office where the horror to this story as recorded can be Original Order was payable.
accounted for only on the supposition that the Chinese are as vindictive and brital when roused as the North Ameri on Indians, delighting not only to torture while alive but extending their savage fury to the inanimate corpse of their
sume of the Burlingame "shining cross," arrangement, the bitter falsity of which has been demonstrated in inauner to tally unforseen by the envoy or his backers at Peking when he left on his mission to all Creation.
Order
It was. Still we would hou. If doubtles of feeling. It may bars make a great mistake if on that account we bring it forward on every occasion. wero to think the people would readily. Chinese public are quite as discriminating, and perhaps less apt thau we are to giva an ovation to any mandarin,, honeror high, who has not fanly earned it. A very littlo enquiry on the part of suy who mitted the mistake, will convince them that it is a far more easy mattor to get up a subscription for a silver tea service or any wonld be to get up a Wan-min-ean, or a peen amongst the Chinese; although, in the latter caso, tho tes imonial haring no in- trinsic valio, a subscription nouns only the use of one's name, instead of a demand on the pocket. The Chinese, having no newe- paper, are almost entirely without any. means of manifesting the state of public posting up pasquina on the walls, they have no way of showing their dissent; but they 30 jalously uard the more numerous ways permitted them of indicating their approba tion, and so seldom inappropriately bestow their praise, that their silence acquires a significance which is only less fearod by the marins, than those popular outbursts in which the whole people of a district often combine to show their displeasure, -- b
by on such lawless not as the boating of a mandarin, or the pulling down of his for men. It is seldom, however, that they pro ceed to such extremes, or do anything to manifest their displeasure against a
patiently wait until the andarin during his term of office official to leaving its detected last time, and then assail him with kind of missile knowu to. western moba, including rotten eggs and fill of all kinds. It is not uncommon for an official, when bo is not sure of the temper of the people, to Lake his departure unexpectedly, or at warfed against the urobity of justice. night. We might mention many in- stances in which the Chinese public have of their rulers, but will montion only one. low-quoi-fan, when he held the position which Tseng-quo-fan with sneh honor to itself has just given up, was duuied ad- assion into the city of Souchow, and fred on by the militia of Tungehow when he • presented himself before that place.
every
The descriptions of Nagasaki, Yodo, Yo. of the new Order, Lapsed Orders must be MESSAGERIES IMPERIALER STEAM NAVIGAohama, and the other Treaty Ports of presonted with the application for a new victim. This is another xampte we pre- similar manifestation has been made on the
Tapan, are as elaborate and entertaining an fe19 those of the Chinese porta. A copioną in- dex and a useful appendix containing many hints and much appropriate advice to-tra- vollers and others, is also included in the volume. The eutire work affords a vast IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG-amount of information, pleasantly written, KONG IN BANKRUPTCY. ··· aud doubt not will be perused with THE interest and responsibility of Mr
GRONG WILHELM SCHWEMANN and of NOTICE CHARLES COLLINS, of Victoria, interest by many who will never visit the Mr RUDOLPH HEINSEN in our firma ceared in the Colony of Hongkong, second Eastern seas. on the 31st December 1857, and 31st Dec Clerk in the Magistracy, having been ad- ember 1868 respectively.
judged Bankrupt under a Petition for ad-
SMITH ARCHER & Ca Hongkong, January 1, 1869-
mal
Mr. FERDINAND NISHEN and Mr HER-Judication of Bankruptcy filed in the Sn. LION, HOFFIUS have this day been aduitted preme Court onthe Thirtieth day of December Sixty-eight, partners in our brm at Hongkong and in One thousand Eight hundred and China, which now consists of Mr Grouo & Public Sitting for the said Bankrupt to THEODOR SIRMSSEN, Mr WOLDEMAR Nis-pass his fast-examination, and make ap- SEN, Mr ADGLEH JOOST, MI FERDINAND plication for his dischange, will be held be- NASEN and ME HEINRICH OPPIUS. Bruk anda set, SIEMSSEN & Co. A
Hongkong, January 1, 1869.
Zapr
OHN CARNEGIE, M.D., O, M., MA, censed to be a partiter in the firm of JOEKS, CARNEGIE & Stor at Amoy and Swatow on the 31st December 1868.
In reference to the above the undersign ed hereby intimate that they will continue to carry on the above Medical Co-partner ehip under the name of JONES, Bourr & MULLER
OM JONES, F.R08, LRUP, CM SOUFT, L.B.CA.J.
Fere the Honorable Job Smale, Esquire,. Chief Justice of the said Court, at the
Supreme Court House, Victoria, Hongkong, on the Twenty-sixth day of February, One thousand Eight hundred and Sixtynine, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon pre- cisoly.
At this Meating, proof of the Debts of the Creditors will be received.
Frederick Bowley Huffam, Esquire, is the Official Aesignee.
Supreme Court House, Hongkong, 30th January, 1860.
fe2K
NOTICEAH perantis indebted to the AUG. MÜLLER, M.D., A.R.C.S., L.S EST 1E of the late Mr WILLIAM January 25, 1809.
fe25 GASKELL, of No. 67, Wyndham Street, and No. 2, Club Chambers, Solicitor, are, re- HAVE this day authorised Mr. 0.
to make payment and all persons queatul LANGDON DAVIES to sign my name. per having LAIMS against said ESTATE are procuration to all orders for goods supplied noulied to sand in their CLAIMS to Mr
auch
to the Hongkong Hotel, and I aloue an Edmand Sharp, Solicitor, Bank Building, liable to pay for goods supplied Брод orders.
I have further authorised Mr Davies to collect all debts due to me on Hotel a bount, for which his receipt will be a suth- cient discharge.
LEE AFGONG.. Hongkong, December 1, 1868.
NOTICE. HAVE this day established myself as a
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, AYKKÄGE ·ÅÞ«.. JUSTER and GENERAL, COMMISSION AGENT, C. LANGDON DAVIES.. Hongkong, July 1, 1868.
NOTIOR
FROM and after this date Mr GEORGE F.
BOWMAN will not as AGENT of the Pacific Mall Steamship Company at this Burt.
8. L. PHELPS, Agent Hongkong, August 16, 1867.
NOTION
HE Interest and Responsibility of Mr FARDERICE PEDDER in our Firu cosses from this dato,
Amoy,
spi2
D. BROWN & Co. December 31, 15C8.-
FRANCIS CHUMLEY is a Partner in Mour Firo, which from this date will be condotted under the Name of BROWN
H: D. BROWN & CO.
Amoji'January 1, 1889,
ape
on or before the 31st May 1869.
F. W. MITCHELL, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of the said William Gaskell, diceusen.
*Hongkong, February 15, 1860,
BILLIARDS,
BOWLS, AND
maxí
BAR
NOTICE HE URIENTAL BAB, BILLIARD ROOMS, and BOWLING ALLEYS, having beau hilargod auditted up in a very superior style unequalled by any in the Colony, the Proprietors Re-open the above on Monday, the 11th January, 1800, to their friends and the public, and trust with ovility, Good Liquors and the well known re putation of
of this old established House, to merita share ́ of their patronage, - Thore Are three first class Billard Tables in a Jarge airy and well-lighted tvoin, "The Bowling Alley needs no comment,
BROWN & Co.,
Proprietors." Hongkong, January 0, 1809.
PASSENGERS.
The following European passengers left this for Canton on Tuesday morning—
Mr E. Richardson and 2 others. The following Europian passengers arri- ved here from Canton this afternoo
Une Passenger.
POST-OFFRE NOTIFICATIONS. MAILS WILL CLONE:---
For SHANGRAE,--
instapt, at non.
20th kustant, at Îl a.M.
CUTTA.
For SINGAPORE, PENANG & CAL Per GLENGYLE" on Saturday, the
20th Instant, at 11. 4 M.
otherwise the Order will become lapsed,
been witnessed at Nanking since the En peror Kianlung visited the city. We have had to complain of Taung-kwo-fan ; but our differences are settled, und will, we trust, We would gladly regard him as
not rear.
a friend rather than au enemy of foreigners in folura. For it is evident in man in the
empire ranks higher in the estimation of
bis countryuton.N. O. D. News, Feb, 87
Tseng may, then, justly feel proud at tho marks of regard shewn to him by the people of Nankin for since the departure of Lan- tila chut, in the days of Tao-kwang, no
departure of Governor from Nonkip. 12-But when it is desired that wy
Even that is said t
I to have come far short of error in the name of the Remitter or Payee
the present. The number of mandarins should bo, corrected or that the amount
Money Order should be repaid to the
that wrowded round his bont to pay an Remitter, or that a Lapsed Order should
parting respects was enormous. There are few mandarins in this or the surrounding be renewed for payment in the Country in
British subjects will watch with much provinces who have not at one time or which the Order was originally drawn, Mordor This riosity the line taken by the French tion or protection, to him for prom
so flocked to Order Office of such Country. This Minister. It is possible that the pacific Wanking from great distances and in application must be accompanied by an instructions sent to Sir R. Alcock were additional Commission, unless it have framed to accord with the views of his escort as far as Chingkiang or Yang. great numbers to see him off or swell ference to a Lapsed Order, in which case the
The demand for bouts for this Commission will be deducted from the France and that similar directions have chow.
been given to the representative of Na-purpose was such that not a boat could be amount of the New Order.
obtained in Nanking for love or mency, 13. Repayment whether of au original, poleon IT at "the Court of Poking" during the time tho excitement lusted. or renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not None, however, out here, would be sorry Hundreds of them moved about, adorned be made to the remitter until it has been
to see France step in and exact a mate with: gay flags and freighted with mandarius Burtained that the suvico has been cauri guarantee from China for the frein all the glory of their feathery pride. Tha celled at the Office on which the Order was
quent outrages which occur under the suake-boats belebed forth, their salvoes of originally drawn.
of an Order must be ob- sanction of her officials; for Great Britain artillery; the steamers panted to be of 14.-Payment tained before the end of the Sixth Calendar must follow. suit in such a case. The the troops waved their gandy standards and Mouth after that in which it was drawn result of the murder alluded to may be a The day was fine; and when the Vicerega!
kept up
a continual discharge of musketry; for instause, if drawn in January, payment total change within a few months of all barge slowly floated away, everything, con Per MADRAS" on Tuesday the 23rd must be obtained-before the end of July, foreign relations with China--A change tributed to produce a moruing picture of and & ass Order (for which a second Cow we for one would be heartily such loveliness and grandeur, as has not
rejoiced to see brought about. mission, to be deducted from the amouut For SINGAPORE, PENANG & CAT of the Order, will be charged) will become
CUTTA...
100AL Per "LIGHTNING," Saturday, the Uнcessary, ler be not paid before the
15.-li an end of the Twelfth Calendar Mouth after Ir will interest our readers to know that, that in which it was draws,--for stance, by late arrnugements at home, all corres if drawn in January and not paid before pondence posted in the United Kingdom, the end of the following January-all claim by the French Packets, for Shanghai, to the Money will be forfeited, unless, Hankow, Kiukiang, and Chinking, will under peculiar circumstances, the Post be suade up in closed maile for the British Office of the Country in which the Order Postmaster, at Shanghai; and delivered by
A DREADFUL OCCURRENCE, was draw think proper to allow it. by whomsoever presented, the paying Office N. C. D. News.
One of the most terrible calamities which 16.-After once paying a Money Order as soon as possible after arrivals of the M. I. steamers, commencing this mouth.—
ever occurred on Westuru waters happened will not be liable to any further claim. If
on December 4, near Warsaw, about sixty five miles from Cincinnati. The United arong paythest, however, be made owing
States, of the Louisville mail Hus, struck to nogligonee on the part of any Officer of
the America upon ber bow, and in a the Post Office, the Featmaster General of the Country or Colony in which the negli-hung-chang, Teong-quo-fan's departure was moment atmost both vessels were the sceno of death in its most appalling shape. Both genca occurs will, if he see tit, require the delayed much beyond the date first leter
mined on. Li, fresh from the Imperial boats were heavily laden, aud crowded by Officer in fault to make gul tire loss.
17-No Money Order will be paid unless presence, would have many things of im- passengers of both sexes and all ages.
portance to communicate to his old friend part of the cargo of the United States on the advice has been previously received,
18-Additional Rules for greater secu.
and patron. The latter would naturally be sisted of petroleum, ranged in barrels upon anxious to discover whether his friends or the deck, and immediately after the colli rity against fraud, and for the better work- ing of the system generally will be made foes were uppermost at Court, and whether sion the coals from the furnica reached the as occasion may require.
there existed any ulterior motive for his oil, and the vessel was enveloped in flames. 19.Should it appear that Money Orders being ordered to assume the viceroyalty of The America drifted, or was driven, to the are used by tuercantile man, or others, the metropolitan province. However, the bank, and a lady sprang from the upper either in the United Kingdom or at Hong-feastings and theatrical representatious with deck and clung to the branch of a trees kong, Shanghai or Yokohama, for the which the ex-Viceroy entertained his young her daughter followed, and reached the transmission of large sums of money, the and successful protégé at length came to an same branch their united weight breaking British or Colonial Post Office, as the one end and on the 10th December, the all it, they both fell back into the water, tat may be will consider the propriety of in- but fuperial Tseng-que-fan- left the city again climbed upon the land. But, ircmi For each Newspaper not exceeding 4 creasing the Comunission, and will exercise which he had so long ruled more like a the United States to the opposite bank, the the power of wholly suspending for a time King than a Viceroy. There was no noisy scene was more terrible, the escapes towar demonstration on the part of the people, as For 200 yards the water was on fire, and the issue of Money Orders.
would have been the case in the West. Yet fu that fery deluge were women and the tanner m which they showed their children shricking in the horrors of the profound respect for the aged Governor last agony A correspondent, who wa was not less marked. There was no shout, prosent in the neighbourhood of the gall no huaj ao triumphal arches had been sion, gives suine further details erected over the way throngli which he was The two boats were fully loaded with sed oat of the city but all along the road passengers, including several bridal parties from the Viceregal palace to the West gate, After supper it was proposed on board the a distance of solne miles altars with end States to have a little dancing, and for an les and incense burung, had been erected; hour or so all were as inetry and happy and before these, in two long row, the health, and spirits, and excitement, and pooplu again and again bowed down and beauty could make them. When the ma worshipped him as if he had been a God. jority had retired to their rooms a few who Women held up their children to him as remained resolved to serenade the newly
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married couples, trifling piece of fa lives were event! were kept awake, a came they wore b selves. Between about ene milo ab when all was still a Jesa sound of the i wheels, those who sudden two whistl one from their o the America struc Jarboard side, bil cabin and the bo clean through into shock drove the the furnace, bur the oil. Within t were burat to the had foundered. 1 one only, was ther escape to those on.
when she swung r after the first recoil
bered from the ons
all saved; a boas
with men and wo
States, but it was
wheel, and all ha
chipa swung apart, rey any concaptio the scene that foll
The roar of the f with flames swolle wind, it raged frous of the Ohio ono va
ing here and there] ing on some plank Blood; the America ly towards the Tad ing crowd of hum and terror and gri madness; and, the prayers, the he rose from the burd agouy of death by the few remaining
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than plunge into river, were destroy
with the sinking
lives have been los
parted from their
infants, and the in are fraught with that every city for plunged into profe dame under my The ommibus whis ville took also à d Statee' navy, whos who bad gone mail He raved inoesSND) and every now a to his fast, and ar pity me; for my he son gone!" The 'during the conflag anything I have e
WHAT IS A FU
(Mitchell's Marit The Court of dismissing the app Steam Collier Com a question which on the interests but more particula sels are engaged in our reports
of th sions, it will have
was brought, in t
wist on Ste Mr Clarke, party for not load Archangel, with a By the terms of th rates of freight w and if other cargo thereon was to be thereto, in accorda
No oats, it appea cargo of tow was
light ing of a very half of the vessel ship, therefore, ha A substance çilled the Baltic rates, that codilla and te same.
The quest was, whether to filt the ship, W within the mean party,
The onl jury to determike, last term, was, whi
by customi be en doad freight on pied by the balla there was
suc
The verdict, by di Baron, was thara fendant. It was aut that the tow ( for according to plaintiffs had bee Insisted that a full On the case bui
in Banco, the C raised to be of a quire consideration
several days, the
diot was discharg then, that the proved, to the a ihat a full and put on board. ? hemp or flas dress samples of both, bulk and weight. marketable qualit half clean; and co
long and strong shorter and weake
still, and the codil standards of par are the Petersbur sighth, pass one- more than freight one-eighth,
Pass half more than Beven imperial qua to 10 tons of clean 7760 to half clea
The freight on OR
was to load, being
wheat, there wou
riving at the rate payable under the load up entirely wi their register tonni
to ten per cent insure the safety particularly since Abandoned the pr It is necessary to st tity of ballast & bern, the chief bal iron, stowed alias quently nard. Sui place wood innug stode orer all. T
the Court was calle to dead freight, or the ship, su convey Article, was entitle