No. 4846-JUNE 6, 1877.)
the Throne when they think they are in 100, malarla in the air and salt water to difficulties beyond their strength. Shang-drink. hai Courier.
THE GESINA MAIL.
ing the disbandment of the pirates, so na to secure them for due punishment... The steamer Dale, of Leith, arrived here Amid the peace and security of the from Labuan on the 8th. She belongs to defenceless people of this island, sad news Ride cargoes from Saigon to China from the Messrs MacGregor, and is intended to however came to disturb their tranquillity. run on the line from here to Hongkong, A boat from Cuyo (Calamianes) happened 16th to 30th May-
giving us a steamer every 10 days. The to put into Aborlan with a broken rudder; May 16, Flintshire, 81,000 piculs; 16, entorprising ownem of these steamers have the pirates robbed her, and murdered three Montgomeryshire, 21,600; 17, Gadsbill, another on the way out, intended for the out of the four of her crew with the most 34,000 picule; 17, Pearl, 20,000 picule (for Singapore route. The Rajah Brooke has unusual cruelty; the fourth however suc- Amor); 18, Helene, 9,280 picula (for Amoy); been taken off that line and put on the seeded in escaping in the tumult, and flod 10, Cyphrones, 36,000 plouts; 24, Galley of Sarawak. The Bangkok has gone up the to the jungles, but he was met by other pionis 25, Mecca, 20,000 piculs; 26, Ama zone, 5,157 picula; 28, Fernambuco, 19,000 plouls; 28, Ningpo, 23,000 piculs; 29, Macgregor, 31,00 picula; 29, Kandanghauer, 24,750 piouls; 30, Yangteze, 20,000 picula
"It is my opinyn,” said the leading female, that you're a scoffer and a wretch Tour mind is in a wasser bealouded state than the poor negroes we are seeking to aid. You are a groper in the dark cellar of ein. O sinful man l
There is a sparkling found, Come, O come, and drink.” No: you will not come and drink."
Yes, he will," said the landlord, "if you'll troat. Jest try him.
"As for you," said the enraged female to low and walgar to talk to
"This is the sparklin fount for me, dear sister!" cried the Isn'lerd, drawin and drinkin a mug of beer. Having attered which goak, he gave a low rumblin lart, and relapet into silence.
Exchange.
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instant revealed to us, what strange dramas would see the light-dramas more terrible Bank, on demand, ... in their bald and bitter truth than the five-
90 days' night, ** not tragedies of the Porto St. Martin!
6 months' sight, ... Credits, While the sweets of art and refinement, and the rofreshment of science and literature, Documentary, 6 months' eight.... are a dead letter to fashionable people, as Bombay, ... long as noise, gossip, and expenditure are Calcutta, the surest mode of attrasting notoriety, and
Shanghai, demand,... wield the magic wand, and unclose at willBar Sliver, 17, dwts. B.s its devoted follower adulation, money must
30 days, i
formerly a simple country walk, a fow Gold Lea the realms of material delight. Where Mexicanis,...
Lorne, 34,000 picals; 25, Ferenla, 26,600 coast with troops, and we bave only the Moros in the Interior, and after being tied the landlord, "you're a degraded bein, too friends gathered unpretentiously round the English Sovereigns;
Police Intelligence. (Before C. May, Esq} June 6, 1877.
▲ SCHIMMAGE.
John Purvis, szaman . M. S. Charybdis, was charged with having quarreled with a girl and toru her coat. Fined 50 cents and to pay 50 cents amends.
NO PASS, 40,
for being out at bight without either lights A number of Chinamen were brought up or passes. Some were bailed out at the Those bailed
station and some were not.
not were fined 10 cents.
WARM-HOUSES,
Bun-yong seng and the Celestial to keep up our mail communisations.
ap, they cast lots to see who should have the honor of finishing him; but somehow or other he again succeeded in natying himself, and fed to the prays, where he constructed a buoy, with which he managed to arrive here after three days' straggling with the waves, when he gave the news of
éconrrence at Aborlan."
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The Siamane Government have at last bestirred themselves in regard to the traffic ia spirits. Formerly this farm was one of the principal sources of revenue, but lat- terly, in consequence of the extraordinary course taken by most of, the Consule in fostering and protecting Chinese and This event took place on Good Friday, others in selling liquor without licenses, Four days after, the Datto-Paulima Monac it has dwindled down so materially that of Aborlan and four ethers from the same. no one will bid for 1t, and the Go-place arrived hers. The Governor, seeing vernment have been compelled to take the possibility of the same. Datto-Paulima both the distillation and sale into their being concerned in the murder, demanded own hands. From these reprehensible from him that one of the Moros, who was practices there are, I regret to say, but his own brother, together with a companion, thres Consulaten which come out with per- should at once proceed to Aborlan and fectly clean handa-the British, German bring the five men whom the escaped and Swedish. The American was the priu. Christian said had committed the murder the Dutch and the Franch. The latter two Monso said that he was innocent and cipal offender, then came the Portuguese, of his three companions. Although the evaded direct connivanco with these awin- ignorant of this affair, he has been known dies very ingeniously. The first of them by the late Governor of this place, Do out were fined 25 centa and those that were naturalized every Chinese, who was willing José Sostoa y Ordoñez, to be the cause of this, but it is a very sad fact. Some are slaves and toils, and somehow it all seems BAROMETER 9. M....
to swear he had ever been in Java, as a the murder of another Christian merchant, Dutch subject, and claimed for him the and therefore it was decided he should be right to sell liquor without a license; while kept as a hostage till the return of those the second availed themselves of a clause in who had gone to look for the would-be the French treaty which allows the sale of murderers and pirates. The Governor bona fide French winos and liquors, which then ordered Monae and his companions to have paid the import duty, by the single be detained in the district tribunal for that bottle, thus:-Messrs Alloin and La Mache, night, and next morning were transferred a French house, soll say ten bottles of on board the gunboat Callao. French Brandy to a Chinese. They give him an invoice of it, and that invoice is produced when the Spirit Inspector asks for the lipense of the shop. The French flag flies over the shop, and the ton bottles Brandy remain la a conspicuous place in it unsorked while hundreds of bottles of sam- shu are sold under color of this purchase, I have seen myself at Ayuthia bottles of Claret and Brandy with three months' dust on them, which corresponded with the bill from this firm, and of which not a shop had ever been sold. The shop in which they were displayed was one of the most flourishing in the vicinity. However, the Government has at last been delivered of a scheme which has been approved by all the Treaty Consuls, and will I trust put an end to all these irregular proceedings.
Chol Ayit and fire others were charged with obstructing the public pathway at Queen's Road Wort, by sleeping thereon. They had put out bed boards, and some had opium lamps. It had become the austom, since the warm weather est in, for residents in that vicinity to sleep on the foot-path opposite houses, and when they were told to go away they would not do so. -The defendants said their bouts awers very hot inside, and they went out to the foot-path for coolness. Discharged with a cantion.
ANOTHER DUFE.
Chun Asang, a cook, unemployed, was charged with having falsely represented a worthless article to be ginseng, to one Chun Afook, a painter, thereby obtaining from him $1.80 and a jacket. The defendant repre- Bented the article as worth 20 tuols, and that he had picked it up, in the street and wished to part with it. The defendant was sent to thros months' hard labour and to be twice kept in the stocks for one hour each time at the Orons Road,
CORRESPONDENCE,
THE GOVERNOR AND THE POLICE
"
MAGISTRATES.
As soon as the Monae know of the return of the captive Christian, he became very impatient an evident proof of his guilt, but the prisoners were pretty well secured on board the Callao,
On the 9th April, however, at 9 a.m., the gunboat was preparing for a gun practice, and, be it as it may, the manœuvres on board necessitated their removal from the place of their confinement, and as so02 86 the Monao found himself free, although only for a moment, he gave a sudden jump and secured the rifle of the sentinal, who was walking with the gun on his shoulder, quite unconscious of the audacity of the prisoners. This being done, Monae also cams in possession of a bayonet, and with his two companions, one of which was armed by this time with a hand-spike, they engaged in a struggle with the few sailors who happened to be at the fore-deck The Commander of the ganboat, Don Antonio Solis, who was at the breakfast table at the poop, by this time immediatedy armed him- self and rushed to the assistance of the orew, but the cookswain and the seamen, with some poles and knives felled to the ground the Monse and one of his two companions, while the third, who had a bayonet wound, jumped overboard; the cockswain immediately loaded a Remington took effect in the head and killed him. In the struggle, two of our seamen were slightly wounded, and two or three others entered small contusions, all of a trivial
too much."
I gave negro as much as I could afford, and the kind-hearted lan'lerd did the same I said
NAPOLEON IIL ON THE CRIMEAN
WAR OF 1854. ̈
In March, 1864, when opening the Legis-or Switzerland. lative session, the Emperor Napoleon III spoke as follows of the coming war with
Russia 1-
A great fire broke out on Sunday, the 13th, about 8 o'clock in the afternoo, on the Creak known as the Klaung Ku Mal, near the Iron Drawbridge leading to the palace. originated in a lime-kiln, and as everything was like tinder, and a fresh breeze blowing, it soon cleared a space of some ten sores on both eldes of the Hongkong, 6th June, 1877,
canal. The tide being low the paddy boats To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL.". Sin-It is common talk in the Colony, and other craft in the creek were unable to get out and were burnt where they lay. and may consequently be regarded as a fair one or two dbabies who work for Europeans subject for remark that His Excellency the Governor, when visiting the Gaol about a lived in the burnt space, and trousers and and fired two shots at him, the second shot which becomes from day to day more great hit with the parrot. week ago, stated in the presence of several shirts were scarce in some neighborhoods, One unfortunate lost sixty pieces. The members of the Gael staff that there were a number of prisoners undergoing illegal German Consulate was in imminent danger, punishment-the Magistrates having for and was only caved by the personal exer Tome time past held erroneous views of
their powers.
tions of Dr. Stannfus,
Hverybody out of town. The King has gone to his Summer Palace at Ayuthia; the Regent to Pastchaburee. The English Coneul le off to Paknam, the U. S. Consul to Anghim, the Datch and German Consuls to Krókum, while the leaser lights in our social firmament crowd all the watering places and cool spots on the Fast Coast. Nobody remains in Bangkok except those whom inexorable business chains to the
character.
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family tea-table, an occasional visit to the Australian Sovereigns, theatre, or a new book, sufficed for a Discount,... tion and happiness, the middle-class ménage must have carriage and horses, costumes from the most ruinons dressmakers, and
Hongkong Bank, 27 My colored fren" I said to the negro, the courteous manner of the perfect gentle-China Traders' Ins. Co., $2,400
champagne suppers. Where do we find now
Union Ins, Society of Canton, $750 kindly, what is it all about P
He said they was trying to raise money to man, the refined amiability of the granie Chinese Insurance Co., $220 send missionaries to the Southern States in dama! We are never sure if we meet a Yangtanó Ins, Association. Tls, 695 · America to preach to the vast numbers of lady, in the street to what dass she may H.K. Fire Ins. Co., $5423 negroes recently made free there. He said belong; and as for forms and grades Ohina Fire lus. Co., $145
speech, the middle classes had best, unlearn they were without the gospel. They were all that the aristocracy can teach. A wife H.K. W. Dock Oo., 324 % dis
I said, "My fren', this is a seris matter. looks on her husband as a money-making H.K. O. & M. S.-boat the, 7% dis, I admire you for trying to help the race to machine; the contingency that the brain shatghai Steam Navigation, Tis. 80
Hongkong Gas Co., $75 which you belong, and far be it from me may give way and the machine bes Hongkong Hotal Co., $62 to say anything again carrying the gospel worthless rarely, if ever, arrests her go to them by all means. But I happen to and if they do not make money, it is as the among the blacks of the South. Let them thoughts. City men, of course, must work, Ohtrese Imperial Ioan, £103.19. individually know that there are some natural sequence from their own incom- timsands of liberated blacks in the South potency and fault. With the spur of a who are starvin. I don't blame anybody for equally potent, over at his back, the man woman's approval or reproaches, either
really too ill to work, some can't get work to turn to Dead-Sea fruit. There is none of to do, and others are too foolish to see any the cheerful consciousnoss of good work necessity for workin. I was down there last wintor, and I observed that this class about his doings; the phantom of money haunts him, and when his intelligence would had plenty of proanhin for their souls, but demand free play and the elasticity of akurce any vittles for their stummax. Now, if it is proposed to send Hour and carelessness, visions of unpaid bills and of bacon along with the gospel, the idea is hideous, possibilties cloud his eight and really a excellent one. If, on the other cripple his faculties-The World. hand, it is proposed to send preachin alone, all I can say is that its a hard case. The Commission of the French Budget has for the niggers. If you expect a colored obtained a retarn giving the amounts allotted person to get deeply interested in a tract last year in the principal States of Europe when his stummuek is empty, you expect and South America for religious purposes. According to this return, Great Britain comes first with a total of £4,480,000, and is followed by Spain, £2,586,123; France, £2,160,256; Russie, £1,926,666; Italy, Farewell, my colored fren', I wish you £1,245,827; Bavaria, £923,916; Austria well, certainly. You are now as free as the and Hungary, £556,277; Sweden and Nor-Wen left ouders
1, Robert Henderson, Buryport eagle. Be like him and soar. But don't way, £418,580; Wurtemburg, $311,790; attempt to convert a Ethiopian person while Prussia, £237,229; Belgium, £222,423 his stummuck yearns for vittles. And you, Saxony, £209,529; Portugal £191,340; ladies-I hope you are ready to help the Alsace-Lorraine, $132,340 Hesse-Darm- poor and unfortunate at home, as you seem stadt, £83,838; Greece, £68,026; Luxen- to help the poor and unfortunate abroad." burg, £15,278. In South America, Bolívia When they had gone, the inn lord said, is the first with £79,883; and is followed come into the garden, Ward." And we by Chili, £44,638; Brazil, £42,100; the went and culled some carrots for dinner. Argentine Republic, £30,617; Paraguay, Artemus Ward.
£19,298; Costa Rica, 23,038; and Uruguay, £2,046. The amount allotted in Japan is stated at £11,240; but the return is in oxemple, are given for Holland, Denmark, many respects incomplete, es no figures, for
A YAKE AVOTION.-A menagerie was sold at auction in San Francisco ten days. ago (saya an American contemporary), and a laughing hyena brought adol., and a big elephant 4,000dol. The auctioneer made a "Now, gentle- intimate, because the opinions which we men, here is one of the finest parrote on the defend are also those of the English people. American continent; swara like a Barbary- Germany, which the remembranos of former coast pirate, knows the whole First Testa- wars rendered still distrustful, and which meat, and can sing the Tra-la-loo like Jenny on that account has given for the last 40 Lind. How much 'm offered frive 15, Antwerp, The brother of the Monas, who came at perhaps too many proofs of her conta; guess you don't know what y're 10, Vitor Co yesterday with two slaves as hostage, as deference for the policy of the Cabinet of buyin', gents; ten, do I hear it? He talks 19, O. W. Contirane, Liverpool soon as he discovered (just in the entrance St. Petersburg, has already recovered her better 'n some of your Congress men; two 20, Springfield,
20, Warrior, of the port, from the cottage inhabitants), independence of action, and considers bits 'm offered. Why, gents, knows Tenny- the death of the chief of his family, freely on what side her interests lie. son all by heart, an 1 outswear any man in 20, Georgo,
29, Birling (3.), beheaded the two unfortunato slaves and Austria, above all, which could not see the crowd-jast the thing for children; returned to Aborlan swearing vongeance, with indifference the events which were only two bits bid. Here he stopped to 26, May Queen,
27, Beindis, Correspondent of the Diario de Manila
progress, will enter into an alliance, and take breath, and look reproachfully upon 27, Fortuna (8), will thus attest the just and moral character the crowd. The accomplished bird was of the war which we are undertaking. This, who came just in time to hear that the 29, Cygnus,
finally knocked down to a Methodist preacher, 29, Commissary, then, is the question as it stands--Europe The last partner in Falck's Hotel and
8, Rots, Post Boat line of launches from the bar to
engaged in domestic straggles for the last parrot could sing all Dr. Watts's hymus. 4
4 Sydenham, the town died suddenly a week or two
forty years, reassured, moreover, by the The old gentleman started out, highly elated
7, Kalsow, since, and the whole establishment will be
moderation of the Emperor Alexander in the with his prize; but when the disreputable sold at auction on the 1st of Juge next. If
year 1815, as well as by that of his successor bird told him to pull down his vest and go no one buys it and keeps up the lino, we
up to this time, seemed to doubt the danger to-not to heaven-he went back to the 10, St. Elmo, which menaced it from the colossal Power auotioneer, and wanted to swop for a camel, 10, Adolph,
11, Benefactor, aball be forlorn indeed. Even at a dollar
"whinh, by its successive encroachments, or something that didn't talk," per letter it was something to have com
A PRACTICAL JOKER.Several American, Woodhall, embraces the north and the centre of Europe, and Parisian papers give accounts of the 11, H. S. Sandford (6.) Hongkong, June 6, 1877.
munication with the shipping.
and which possesses almost exclusively two
Cardiff French 12, Galatea (6.), Sie,-It is rumoured that a stop is about
The affair of the Marguerite, of which 1
18, Vega internal seas, whenos it is easy for its armies extraordinary proceedings of a to be suzamarily put, to the grotaly in-wrote you previously, has been settled by
and its fleets to launch forth against our gentleman of independent means, whese 13, Ponshaw, human and barbarous custom of Blogging" the payment of $200, being double what
14, Antipedes, which has hitherto exercised so beneficial a was offered before, though only half what
civilization. An unfounded demand at Con-one object in life appears to be to worry repressive influence over the crime of the was agreed upon. There was no question
etantinople has been sufficient to arouse custom-house officers. He has returned to Colony, and that simultaneously, that of want of funds.
Europe from her sleep. We have seen in his native Paris, and everywhere railway 16, James Wilson,
officials have been warned about this pranks. 18, Titan, erying example of inequality and class realized a goodly sum, and the Chinese who
of the most profound peace, from his less "It is his wont," says the American 26, Naakin (s), legislation," the might pass systom, is to be saved it as well as the human lives, has done away with. The tender sympathies been done out of his honest earnings. The
powerful neighbour new concessions, and, Register, "to pack a huge trunk full of of both Church and State are aroused on general condemnation of the community is
because he did not obtain them, invade two trouser-straps, such as are worn with Deo. behalf of the scoundreldom of this favoured said to have been the cause of this rise in
of his provinces. Such a fast as this ought galters, using hydraulic pressure as if it 27, Uadine, "No, I'm darned if he is!" said the to put arme in the hands of those who revolt were necessary to cram five bushels into a Jan. island, but what is to be done for those
terms. It will be curious to note whether who, enjoying frequently the hospitality of this promissory note will be made an offset lan'lord, hastily retreating to his beer-casks. from injustice; but we have other reasons three-bushels space, then to lure the in-31, Forward Ho, friends, it may be even of Government
in the accounts of the sale at its expressed
"And yours shouted the excited fomale, for supporting Turkey. France has as much,spector to open it as a suspicious package, Feb.
"He is also your brother!" and perhaps more interest than England in when naturally the contents were overset, 22, Belted Will, House, and themselves obliged either to go salus, or only what was really paid. Had addressing me.
No, I think not, warm," I pleasantly preventing the influence of Russia from ex sud the whole force of the Custom-house 28, City of Aberdeen, London armed to the teeth, as was the case only a the matter been referred to Saigon I think replied. "The nearest we come to that tending itself indefinitely over Constantinople, was occupied for hours in putting them Mar.
9, Caller Ou, another device of his that was very snoozzy- 10, Sir Lancelot, colour in our family was the case of my for to be supreme in Constantinople is to be back. A powerful jack in-the-box was brother John. He had the janders for supreme in the Mediterranean, and no que fui." But more than this is currently 16, Goldstream, sev'ral years, but they finally left him. I of you, gentlemen, I think, will say that am happy to state that, at the present time, England alone is largely interested in that reported of this gentleman. It is his 24, Wigton, he hasn't a solitary jander"
sea, which washes 300 leagues of our const practice sometimes to leave a hamper of 28, Isle of Erin,
€, Cores, "Look at this man!" screamed the female. Moreover, this policy does not date from yes vary high game at a parcel ofloe, and not Apr.
6, Messenger, I looked at him. He was an able-bodied, terday; for ages every national Government take it out, simply sending messages to well-dressed, comfortable-looking negro. He in France has maintained it, and I will not inquire privately how the strength of the
7, Saracen, four good meals a day into his without s us What are you going to do at Constant at the parcel office could not endure the 10, F. B. Watson,
inople We are going there with England infliction any longer, and threw the hamper 10, Strathearn, period have been causing the desolation, murmur.
"Look at that down-trodden man!" cried to defend the cause of the Bultar, and one request the return of his goods Of 20, Moses B. Towers, Newcastle (N..W.)
away, M. Vivier would appear and politely 19, Rachel, the death, and the extermination of the de- fenceless people of Paragon and Calamianes, the female.
the less to protest the rights of Christians. Only three.centres of piracy are known Who trad on him?!! I inquired, We are going there to defend the freedom course a great dommotion would follow, 31, Alfred Hawley, Sydney ia Paragas, and they are Malucnuo, Aborlan "Villains despots !".
of the seas and our just induence in the which in every way, often by the aid of 22, Amboto (8.), and Grandford the first is ruled by a
Mediterranean. We are going there with lawyers, would be prolonged by L, Vivier 28, Duke of Abercorn, London Sultan, and the other two by Daltos, of
Germany, to aid her in preserving the rank to his intense secret delight Appeals to 28, Thermopyles, Boolooan origin.
from which, it seems, they wish to degrade Parisian courts would be threatened to 23, Oceana,
On one of the nature of court costs. The other princedome and dominions are
her, to secure her frontiers against the bumble village officials, who were warned 26, Strathoden, We are going there, in fact, with all those although professing the laws of the Koran, great distress in this quarter. Usually the with the general corruption of the sald Have you, sad middle aged female who desire the triumph of right; of justice, rains set in during the latter part of April, creed, so evident in the races of Malasia No. 2, who was a quieter eort of person, and of vivilisation:" and the air becomes cool and pleasant. It is and Polynesia, they are not hostile to our "hate you to rentiment-no poetry in your divilization and Christianity, There aleo soul-no love for the beautiful Dost never
HOW WE LIVE NOW. now the close of May, and we have only exist in Paragua, though corrupted, the go into the green fields to call the beatitiful been favored with ons shower of about na two sects of Islam and Omar, common Howard ??
We are such gregariotta creatures that we amongst Mahometanse da "I not only never dost," said the landlord dare not refuse to follow the fashion, at the hour's duration Everything is dried up,
Nothwithstanding the spcial wound al in an angry voice, but I'll bet you five cont of Heaven knows what misery to our the vegetation is withering, the creeks and ready caused by the More thieves and pound you can't bring a man se dares say I selves; and the fashion just at present is to make money, honestly if possible, if not--- canals are masses of black mud with crassa pirates last year, to the people of this urst
districts, a ferocions threat, followed by s The little birds, continued the female, anyhow. It is not worth while now to dise and Asaures from which pestilence votes savage and sanguinary deed came to ang dost not love to gaze onto them?" cuss in the spirit of ancient philosophy one and malaria ripes into the sis poloning ment, the anguish and the pain of the I would I were a bird, that I might fly whether pleasure is good; the nineteenth its ordinary gasses, while even at noap-tide pacific Christian inhabitants of this region to thou" I humorously aung, casting a century has decided that pleasure, and pleasure alone, is the goal of life. Not the water of the nvar in so brackish that it le not long ago when trustworthy reports street glance at the pretty young woman.
Don't you look in that way at my happiness-for of that we do not take much were made to the effect that there were the wealthier inhabitants are compelled to preparing Grandford and Borneo a dawter said female No. 1, in a violent account--but pleasure. Now pleasure, as send miles np the irar tu get proper squadron about forty vessels to invads voice; you're old enough to be her father." understood by modern epicureans, requires nd destroy the district, and lately the was an innocent look, dear madam," I a great deal of money for everything, from drinking water. The Soda Water maker Sultae of falugntic seat also a warning to softly said. "You behold in me an emblem horses to opera-boxes, and good dinners to is inuudated with orders, an bia beverages the people of Baonit threatening them with of innocencs, and purity. In fact, I start jewellery, coste large sums)
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This, ir, constitutes a very serious charge-especially viewing the laportance of the Magisterial office in a Colony like Hongkong and the high place in public estimation the Magistrates have held for many yesta past. I venture to suggest that it is due alike to the public, to the Magistrates, and to the Prisoners referred to by His Excellency, that there should be no delay in strictly investigating the matter.Yours faithfully,
JUSTICE.
HIS EXCELLENCY AND CLASS. LEGISLATION.
To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL,"
few years back, or else must remain unwil ling prisoners in their own dwellings from dusk to dawn? í trust, Sir, that no spuri ous philanthropy will be permitted to dis- turb the present security which the com munity, native as well as foreign, enjoys, thanks to a vigorous and effective polico And a Bench of conscientious Magistrates
Dr.
The property salved
the Governor there would never have allowed this matter to be so settled on grounds of public policy, if no other.
LIFE IN PARAGUA (PHILIPPINES),
Port Princess, May 1, 1977. I have some interesting news to commu-
THE NEGRO QUESTION.
I was sitting in the bar, quietly smokin a frugal pipe, when two middle-aged and stern looking females and a young and pretty female suddenly entered the room. They were accompanied by two umbrellers and a negro gentleman.
"Do you feel for the down-trodden said one of the females, a thin-faced and sherp-voiced person in green spectables.
Do I feel for it Pansered the lan'lord, in a puzzled voiceDo I feel for it ?
"Yes; for the oppressed, the benighted "Inasmuch as to which ?" said the Isn'lord. "You see this man ?" said the female, pintin her umbreller at the negro gentleman
"Yes, marm, I see him." "Yes!" said the female, raisin her voice to a exceedin high pitch, "you see him, and be's your brother 1
bent upon administering firmly and equiticate to you, all favourable to the suppres- † looked as though he might heave three or desert it. Let them not then, come and ask odoar was progressing. When the officers
ably the laws of the Colony.
Men who their duties know and know.sion of the piratical tribes which for a long
ing dare maintain.'
Yours,
DINER OUT
Bangkok (From a Correspondent.)
The absence of rain and the prolongation
"Well," said the lan'lord, "why don't you go to the willins about it? Why do You come here tellin as niggers is our brothers, and brandishin your umbrallers than the sparrit-rappera
of the dry reason are likely to be productive of agricultural districts, and the tuhabitants, round like a lot of lanyties? You'r wuss preponderance of a too powerful neighbour occasion. It is said that M. Visior blandly | Mur.
are all made of Hongkong water brought down to him by the steamers of MacGregor lize. Unless Jupiter Pluvius smiles on
us scop, it is impossible to pay what will
be the result, with the Thermaster at
therefore
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asked an old gentleman bathing at Boulogne 19, Bonale Morrie, if he had seen the shark: The awful hint spread as a fact far and wido. Next day it appeared that everyone had seen the Dec. monster No one bathed. M. Vivier 23, 1no, smiled, sipped his Bordeaux, and took his departure, thoroughly gratified. He had Mar. bis powerful jack-in-the-box with him to 7, Alcestie,
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an immediate invasions. Being acquainted for Home by the first train to-morrow to sit riches are the desideratum of existence. with this the active Governor of this Colony, as a model to a celebrated artist who is This is especially well understood by women (the Lieut. Col. of Marine and Gol, of about to soulp a statue to be called Sweet who, though not much versed in logio, are Infantry), Don Jacobo Aleman Gonzales, Innocence. Do you s'pose a sculper would generally right in the conclusions to which CAMPHOR, sent, in the beginning of April, the gunboats send for me for that purpose onless he know they jump. If we know all the secrets of Fi spine and Jes, to cruise about the N, WI was overflowing with innocenty Don't speculators, if the thoughts of all hearts QUICKSILVER,
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