No. 4349-JUNE 9, 1877.]
"THE CHINA MAIL.
Yours,
In the enjoyment of sacred poetry the time of the wise passeth away? But the time of foola in dissipation,
slumber and strife, So wa solemnly repeated these lines over the cnried-up forms of our snoring sailors, blanked them all round, and retired to rert
(To be Continued.)
Shanghai Courier.
lest it should be erroneously supposed that I sixtoon umbrellas to surround it, which wrück behind. Still we can distingtiy Wo had intended to make some progress the New Missionary Bishops wore in any messurement we cautiously repeated the remember the horror with which, as a by moon light this evening; but the sense parties to the resolutions, which form other way round and with the same result; child, we listened to the story of a wicked boatmen, wiser in their genoration, had bat after all the length of the umbrella re- boy who threw down the Bible and stamped foreseen a dark night and gone off quietly the subject of your strictures.
mained an unknown quantity and will con- npon it. The reverence is the same, only to bed. Now the author of the Hitopadesa C. M. S. tinue so until civilisation regained supplies confined probably with as to the narrow telle ne in one of the early slokas of that
us with a foot rule. Shortly after this we limits of a single work, whereas with the tedious work that- came upon a small market-town or fair, Chinese it embraces all literature-the IRRESPONSIBLE AUTHORITY,&
which was in a filthy state owing to the late pregnant utterances of the age, the ribald To the Editor of the "CHINA MAK” rains. And the emellet those saored smells, songs of the Suburra. Beyond the stove, in the very midst of which Chinamen live and overhanging the precipitoas bank of Hongkong, June 9, 1877.
and breathe and have their being, they the river, was a small temple dedicated to Sin, Is it faot or fiction,
We gently pushed That public opinion is the only appeal were there in full bouquet that day. So we the God of Literature.
time to observe a large aquare of covered himself-but another old gentleman in the ourselves. against the official acts of the Right Rev. Aurried through with speed, just having open the door and behold-not the god Bishop Burdon.
That the rev. gentleman referred to has, sheds-evidently the market-place--sur- act of having his head shaved. He rose to during his short career, alienated himself. rounded-on all sides by shops, and forgett-welcome us, but a glance shewed us that any rate temporarily, into a dwelling house. from almost every Society and public body in our anxioty to breathe, to ask the the oi-devant temple had been changed, at Later on in the afternoon, we sighted There was nothing to attract our attention, with which he has been brought into con- name of the town. tact, and that he has spent a great portion Yu-king, a busy and prospecons place; its and accordingly we beat a hasty retreat. of his time in correspondence srlaing there.
prosperity being due of course to a delicate To thoroughly interpret the soone, we need That ho took a leading part in the forms. adjustment of Feng-shul in the shape of only beg the reader to picture to himself a several correctly placed pagodas in the gentleman being shampooed in the nave of while President and Acting Secretary of that body, ha withdrew his support, and on Chou, the news of our arrival had preceded his sorvants are frying sprate in the chancel It was moreover market-day, and the crowd little volume of poems for the young, being questioned by the members, indig; and the prospect of a novel spectacle So we bid adieu to the String-of-Pearis nantly refused to be dictated to, and then drew many a blue-coated idler to the bank. Pagoda, calling to mind as we did so a resigned.
was unusually large. Men, women, and entitled "Pearls of Thought strung in children were ranged in close packed tiers, Rhyme," presented to me some years ago and were straining every eye to get a sight by no less a personage than the authoress we placed a chair on the little dook outside deep into our very soul, abiding in peace of the wild man. Not to disappoint them, herself. A stanza of one of these had sunk
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rent that I shall write about, because, the I to the rule. The registration foe for house- Chinese here are numerically preponderant, holders is $3 each, and every change in and it is only natural that legislation should tenancy must be reported, in each instance be more directed towards them than towards entailing a further fee of 25 cents. By any other seation of the Hongkong com- these means a large amin is annually raised, munity. Having promised thus for I shall of which the foreigner does not contribute proceed to view the Night Pasa' Ordinance. one cent unless he wishes. Thus so far, the It is undoubtedly a piece of class legis- Ordinance is unjust as regards the Chinese. lation, but it has been in force in the Colony It is also unnecessary, as the Ordinance for twenty years now and has been found to having been worked for more than ten years, contribute much to the safety of the Colony. what good has it done? It is utterly im- On the theory that no class legislation is potent as a measure for regulating servants, desirable, it ought to be abolished, but in while it is burdensomo on both the master practice it should be maintained, and and the servant himself. If it was misant 1 personally, would be very sorry to see as a means for securing a better class of the night pass system done away with; servants, the object has most lamentably but by all means let the carriage of failed. As a means for enriching the coffers lights in addition to the pass he at once of the Government at the expense of the rescinded. His Excelleney the Governer Chinese, it is undoubtedly a success, and ..has power to do this ander Ordinance 14 of whether it is a right thing for the Govern 1870 without the necessity of having it ment to do or not is a question on which repealed by a special ordinance. He has there can be no two opinions. As a means simply to publish an Order in Council in for rendering residence in the City more the Government Gazette. The carriage of secure by a system of registration, it is also of the place, nor does it help the Police a annoyance and inflicting hardship on the bit in the detection of criminals. On the Chinese householder particularly, it has contrary, a light in the bands of a thief is succeeded wonderfully well. The worst likely to throw the Policeman off his guard. feature in this Ordinance is the vicarious
That he has separated himself from the The enforcement of this provision is, there responsibility thrown on the registered fore, only to make the operation of a piece householder by holding him answerable for of useful class legislation as irksome to the the acts of his tenants. Section 17 says: rotssionaries as a body; that on being re- Chinese as possible. Were there any benefit" Whenover a fine shall be imposed upon quested to take united action with them in I should be the last to advocate its abolition, being a householder within the meaning of "Oh dear no I would not defile your the bonsed part of the boat, and calmly side by side with other flowers culled at to be derived from the carriage of lights, any person, resident in any house and not an address to Sir A. Kennedy, he wrote, notwithstanding the inconvenience it might this Ordinance, for any violation of the name by writing mine in there su por: prepared to run the gauntlet of about four random from the
no united action is at present possi cause to me personally. But there are other provisions of the Ordinances, that is to say:
as our boat was polad slowly by at a dis- subject was the sailor's life, its infinite SALTPETRE, olaas legislations which may be fairly done No. 11 of 1844; No. 14 of 1844; No. 12 of ble;" and that he is unable to work in thousand eyes. Hardly a sound was uttered magnificent literature of England. The QUICKSILVER, ... away with. My proposition is, keep those 1887; and No. 7 of 1858 (since incorporated harmony even with his colleagues that he tanes of some ten or fifteen yards from the hardships and danger; and the verse in
That he is Bishop of Victoria; or that are useful and repeal those that are with No. 11 of 1844); every such fine ole the Missionary Bishop of South China, shore. The crowd seem lost in astonish-question ran thus:
ment at a hunian being wearing a different any part thereof, in casa the same shall not As to class punishments, I think few have been recovered from the actual offender, the Loochoo Islands, and Japan,
That the Church Missionary Society sent dress from their own, and with facial provisions in the Ordinance book can be may be recovered from the householder by more unjust than the following section (No. action at law or by a summary warrant of to Hongkong six of their students in the lineaments of other than Mongolian type. 26) in Ordinance No 10 of 1844; In lieu distress to issus out of the Court by which care of the Rev. E. Darys, now Acting They stared and stared as if their very of the whole or any part of any penalty fine shall have been imposed, and to be Colonial Chaplain, and that the Bishop's eyes would drop out, but there was no and here we are again diverted momentarily Documentary, 6months sight,”
civility. Behind the crowd on the bank, at least of the splendid literatures of Caloutta, provided by any law, statute or ordinance executed against the goods and chattels of arbitrary action has almost totally ship excitement and not a word of questionable from the main issue by our allusion to one
That the Bishop made a solemn promise the upper windows of one and two storeyed the West. For it is almost our daily fate Shanghal, demand, whatsoever, it shall be lawful for the Court such householder without prejudice to the wrecked this missionary scheme. or Justice, before whom the matter shall be further power given by Section 19 for the adjudicated upon, to sentence any offender, recovery of such fine; Provided always that to the Acting Colonial Chaplain and the houses were crammed to overflowing. The when conversing with Chinese strange to being a native of China, or a native of Hong the amount of every such fine howsoever students that he would send Mr Coghlan, owners, if they had only the wit to think the ways of itfe of the European to be ask Bar Silver, 17, dwis. B.,
and cleared perhaps their quarter's rout even if they have pens and ink. These Gold Leaf, kong of Chinese origin, to undergo such recovered from every such householder or one of their number, to Pakhoi in May; of it, must have let them at a good figure, ed if foreigners have books-sometimes Mexicans, punishment, in conformity with the enges voluntarily paid by him may be recovered by that he suddenly introduced a now set of of China, as has hitherto been usually such householder from the offender primarily rules favouring his absolute control over for our own part, we now began fully to are probably the most irritating of all English Sovereigns, inflicted on natives of China, committing liable for the same in an action for money the students; and that on being questioned realize one of the intense discomforts of questions that could by any ingenuity bs Australian Sovereigns, ***
as to whether these rules abrogated this royalty. To be a mark for every evo, & invented to discompose the serenity it is so Discount,
Shares. offences in this Colony." This provision has paid to his uee." Section 18 is still more promise, he announced that he had changed bull's-eye for every well or ill directed necessary to observe towards Chinsmen of
It provides that in case the given rise, I suppose, to the present practice vicarions.
moving. He's shutting his eyes! He's they enquire if we have beef, mutton, rice, Hongkong Bank, 81 of posting a placard on the backs of of-actual offender cannot be found er brought his mind and did not mean to keep his place of vulgar criticism Seel see! he's all renks and classes. We can smile when
Unton Ing, Society of Canton, $750 fenders while exposed in stooks, in which the to trial, the householder shall be liable promito,
That he expelled Mr Coghlan from St. folding his arme! He's blowing his nose!" com, and pork, in that mysterious land
Chinese insuranen Co., $225 names of the parties exposed and the offences to any fine which might have been im- of which they have been convicted are given posed upon him as if he had been the Paul's College because that gentleman is indeed a high price to pay even for the which lies beyond the utmost limits of the China Traders' Ins. Co., $2,400 in large conspicuona letters. practice is adopted with regard to meno comment. Section 19 anthorises the that understanding.
That on Mr Davys expressing his inten-paying the price without enjoying the weareruled by a perpetual dynasty of women. K. Fire Ins. Co., #547 whom is made to walk through the streets not paid, and the rents used to defray it,tion of keeping the promise to which he throne. But the babies-as the mandarins | All this can be passed over with a laugh HL 4 W. Dook Co., 30 dis, sentenced to be publicly flogged, each of landlord's house to be seized if the fine is to the whipping post with a similar placard The hardship inflicted by these provisions was a party (and which he was bound to call them were evidently enjoying them and be quietly and briefly explained; but on his back, the object being I suppose to need be only illustrated, and I shall give an keep as guardian of the young men), Bishop selves. We were to them an object of deep to be asked if we have books, we, the put him to greater ignominy, as if logging instance of the way in which these sections Burdon charged the Colonial Chaplain to wonder, if not of admiration. Perhaps heirs of all the ages, whose very children stealf was not sufficiently degrading. Now of the Ordinance are worked at present, abandon his intention on pain of withdrawal there were not ten amongst them who had of ten and twelve years old possess more evar seen a foreigner, before, and it may real solid knowledge than all the members man thus shamed will care for nothing in Let us suppose a number of man are taken of his license.
That Bishop Burdon also wrote to the be some time before they see another. We of the Han-lin Academy put together-this future; his character is blasted for life, and up charged with gambling in a house. he has no desire to reform. When punish-Ordinance 14 of 1844). The informer and present Colonial Chaplain, to know whether mean a bond fids foreigner, dressed in the is trying indeed. Especially so when are a few. French missionaries scattered saquaintance with our literature could comes to possess a character of vindiclic gambling in the house, the men are fined, who had received the ejected student, was tiveness, but the object of punish-the manager in $200 or six months' hard prepared to face the withdrawal of his about the hills at no great distance from convince the self-satisfied Confucian that license unless he should instantly turn him here, but they wear Chinese clothes and we have anything to compare with his own shave the head à la queue de cochon. And most sacred store. But in half an our we ment is not to be vindictive but to be deter- labour, and the others in various sums or
Do. That Mr Coghlan has been enjoying the the conversations that will be held over the cannot give him this, and, so he goes away, rent. Now exposure in the stocks, or the imprisonment for various periods. Those out of his house, placarding of an offender, the practice of who cannot pay are of course sent to geol. which this provision has given rise to, dous Now acting on the provisions of Section 17, hospitality of a friend until to-day, failing rico-bowl and pipe when the crowd before believing perhaps that we actually have not carry with its infliction any deterrent the authorities comas upon the landlord to the shelter to which he was entitled from us he separated and gathered again, oach booke" in our wild barbarian tongue, but effect beyond holding him to shame before recover the amounts of the fines still unpaid. bis Society, and that he left for home in individual mombar at his own domestic settling it once for all in his own mind THERMOMETER 9 A. M.... the public, and, as I have pointed out before, A summons is issued from the Police Court, the French steamer Aux, his former fellow hourth How they will tell the unlucky that they would be of no earthly advantage was bearded like the-pard, and wore a 31st. The boatmen woke us up before: this exposure to ignominy will not only and the first intimation the householdor students being forbidden to say farewell to asent ones that the red-haired barbarian to the gifted citizens of the Flowery Land. That two of the other students wero queer-looking hat. That at the moment daylight by what was for them a most fail to have the deterrent effect intended, comes to know of his liability is the writ, him. but will cause the man to become mere re- He appears in pursuanco of the summons, frectory, while carrying with it the cha- when the case will be formally proved by obliged by the Bishop to sign a bond to he did not appear to be drunk or eng unusual anxiety to get under way. Wo the production of the minutes of the original return home, by first mail thereafter, before aged in knocking any one's brains out, were not long in discovering the cause. At as reputed to be the usual occupations secluded point in a bamboo-shaded bend racter of being vindictive.
But perhaps of the river, they ran the boat alongside In my last letter I had referred to Section cass against the gamblers. This is taken they were allowed to leave the room.
That, on finding Mr Davys did not take of foreigners in China. 8 of Ordinauce No. 9 of 1857, and 1 must as sufficient proof and he has practically no revert to it for the purpose of elucidating the defence to make, at all events no defence the Bishop's views as to the treatment of bas, at like, watching his oppor- the bank, and were instantly met by a de the students, the Bishop removed Mr D. tunity, reculant pour mieux sauter, (or ber of suspicious-looking gentlemen with as the Chinese put it, Ch'ayih ok'u then baskets who scon relieved them of the smug- subject I am writing about at present class will avail him; there is the fact of the men legislation, with its consequent class punish having been convicted of gambling, and it from the post of theological tutor to the
harvest of Chibamen's eyes and hoarts. tions. We had noticed the night before ment. The Section reads thus: Every only remains to be proved that their fines students and put a very young man in his yay), and spying around in search of a rich gled salt and separated in different diroo-London and Colonial Papers:→→→
place.
That the Bishop further Informed Mr Whatever might be the sense of such home the absence of our captain," but we Davys that he was not to enter St. Pauls gossip, what would we not give to overhear thought he had only gone to visit his father it ? The torture of being stared at would and mother, who, he told us, resided in the That the demeanour and character of become a penance of love if it could only neighbourhood. This little affair com College until such time as he was sent for. Mr Davys, the Acting Col. Chaplain, is teach us what the Chinese really think and fortably arranged, we glided quietly on worthy of the greatest consideration, from feel with regard to ourselves. It may be until within a mile or so of Chang-lé, when 12, Leading Wind, his personal qualities as much as from his safely asserted that no one as yet knows the water became so shallow that we stuck 17, Therese Behn,
this; for Chinamon do not talk uncon fast every minute. We then awaked to 18, Batchless, 10. Cactus O., That the Bishop also dismissed My Davys strainedly in the presence of foreigners the fact that the rain, which had caused so
Chinese. But from our press they can really been a great boon and had enabled. 19, Maipu, stituting him by Rev. J. Henderson with-
learn in what light we regard their manners us to reach this point without any serious 20, Penrith, shall think it and the offender shall be is given him so that he cannot even appear aut consulting any one on the subject. Chinaman) of not more than fifteen nor less to watch his own interest, in point of
That the fourth student was, the other and customs, their dress, their supersti stoppage. But now no rain had fallen for 22, Enid, than five blows." Now, why should China-fact he is judged behind his bank and
Cardiff we are still without this source of a traeringly. So the boatmen set to work in real 27, Gold Bunter, men alone be singled out for castigation rulated with a closed mouth. The broad day, sent to Japan because the medical tions, their vices and their virtues; while some days and the river had sunk accord 22, Osaka,
adviser was afraid the Red Sea passage
Sunderland v. S'pore in this manner? Is it to be thought principle of English law is that no one shall would be too much for him; that when insight into Chinese thought than can be earnest to push the boat which drew say 23, D. MoB. Park,
be punished without giving him an opportu-ed by the student what books he would gathered from the lips of a pedantic and two feet, through more than half a mile of 28, Janet Ferguson, Glasgow
v. S poze that he does not possess sense and son-
Meanwhile we are water nowhere over one foot ten inches in Mar sibilities in the same way like another nity of making a defence, Yet it is practi-road in continuation of his studies, the interested teacher.
man being? At first I thought this cally so in this class Ordinance. Some may Bishop waived the matter and said he is far behind us, and the gaping crowd, still thing hideous, even for ears well habitanted
moving slowly but surely on. The town depth. The uproar they made was somé- 1, Isles of the South, Cardia 1, Brown Brothors, Cardiff obnoxious law, from the fact of its gross urge that the landlord must take care not
would give instructions before he left;
1, Khedive, injustice, had been repealed, but on fur to let his house to bad men, and he must that on going on board the mail stoamer a lingering there, fades into an indistinguish to the melody of six or seven Chinemen all
2, Parasca, ther research into the Ordinances, I find it know the character of his tenants. This is goalad letter was handed by the Bishop to able bank of blue, until a bend of the river talking at once. They screached; they ran
8, A. S. Davis, had been perpetuated by the new Fire only a presumption, and guilty knowledge the student, with orders that it should not burries away the scene and sweeps it into up and down the boat; they stood on their
heads or at any rate appeared to do so, 4, Nimbus, Brigade Ordinauce, No. 4 of 1868, Section 7. should not be presumed, especially in a
30th. An early morning walk through with their legs far up in the air on the high 4, Jala, The presence of such an unjust clause con- matter so highly penal. The latest case of be opened till the departure of the steamer; that on the letter being opened (the steamer's taminates the Ordinance book, and the ro- this nature was that of an old man who was. tention of it until tife present year of our made to pay $210 for the sins of his tenants, departure having bees poden rete and put drying mud brought as to an elegeut prow of the boat and their shoulders on the 13, Golden Spur,
tents informed the student briefly and pagoda of somewhat unusual form. Over huntpoles down at the very water's edge.15, Antwerp, grace, the present age of enlightenment, His case really deserves the merciful con- does not speak well for the English nation, sideration of His Excellency the Governo coldly that he was no longer a student of the entrance, on a slab of blue stone which Then some of them would get into the 19, Victor which is a nation renowned for the liberality The only defense the poor old man could St. Paul's, but had been appointed a cate doaked very like siste, were carved the two water, and at length by dint of many long 19, C. W. Cochrane, Liverpool and justice of its administration. What make was that he did not know of this chist at Rakodadi at $60 a month, and that characters (lion chu) strung pearls. The shoves, and strong shoves, and sbovse 20, Springfield, ever the necessity might have been for each affair, that he was too poor, that he had to the student) was to put himself, underbird (of course t'a) seemed to have been altogether, we positively found ourselves 20, Warrior, clase distinctions of race twenty years ago, been a resident in the Colony for twentyder of the indonesia at that pork broken violently of ss if by some malicious abreast of the district city of Chiangle. 20, George,
That the fifth student has also been hand; but the slab being let deep into the Bat nothing of it can be seen from the 99, Birling (3.), that necessity no longer exists now, and this years and that during all this time he had ordered to Japan owing to his weak state wall, we did not see how this could have river: the city lies half-a-mile distant from 26, May Queen, even the most anti-Chinese-minded will, I never offended in any way.
As to the provision which gives the land of health; and that one student only of the been readily accompliebed. Making on the shore, and so law that its streets are Scindia,
quiries among the few villagers who had usually fooded for about two months out 27, Fortuns (s), am sure, readily admit,
Passing over several minor points of class lord power to recover the Anes from the six remains in the College,
That the students felt they were so badly collected to watch as, az an old man directed of every year. The captain then presented 20, Commissary: legislation to be met with in the Ordinances, actual offenders in a civil action, it is only a such as the holding of Chinese to security farce, for if the men could not be made to provided for at the College, that they up- our attention to a root of the deadly banian himself before us with a long face and said 39, Oygnus,
8, Rota, for twelve months (Section 21 Ordinance, & pay under imprisonment with hard labour, plemented the commisariat out of their which he said had forced its way us usual he regretted that the state of the water pr
Sydenham, of 1858), and the easy method by which he how would they be expected to pay when all small incomes of $12 a-month, notwiths. behind the stone and at length broken off would not permit him to accompany us to
could not understand why it should not traveller can proceed by water and whore it. 7, Kalsow, can be deported out of the Colony, Ithe prossure that could be brought to bear tanding that all expenses were arranged piese. This was unsatisfactory, for we Ch'i-ling, the farthest point to which the shall refer myself particularly to Ordinance was only imprisonment in a civil gaol? I to be defrayed by their Sublety,
That the Bishop formally applied in rather have forced out the whole stone becomes necessary for him to cross tho 10, St. Elmo, No. 7 of 1868, the Registration Ordfe- have yet a deal to say on the subject of class February last to the Church Missionary instead of merely snapping off about a hills in the sedan-chair. He had however 10, Adolph, ance. This is decidedly the worst of leglalation, but as I have again travelled ell class legislation. The whole Ordinance beyond the proper length of a letter, I shall Society Committee of home for the absolute third, and that third at the thinnest part, sent off for a couple of lasal boats which 11, Benefietor,
China age is authority, and no one dares travel much faster. These were alongside 11, H. B. Sandford (a.) Cardiff in directed against the Chinese, though "rein up" now, and beg to thank you for drawal of Mr Hutchinson from the me 4 of an inck thick. However, in drew less water that his own and would 11, Woodhall,
Mission work in Hongkong. the foreigners are incidentally drawn into the space you have kindly allowed me,
That these circumstances, if true, tend dispute the dictam of those who, in the it a few minutes and were ordinary open 12 Galatea (6.), the operations of its provisions, but it
tolower the Church and our common Chris. exquisite native idiom, are "drawing near sampans with a bamboo mat, bent over the 18, Vega, danity in the eyes of the community, and the wood (hiang chis mu yil). Yet middle part and open at both ends; very 18, Penshaw, that it is absolutely notessary some check Confucius warned his disciples against a different from the luxurious two-roomed 14, Antipodes, ho placed upon the acts of men in high contemptuous treatment of youth, pointing house-hoste, with doors (though poroas), 18, James Wilson, places who are unwisely saddled with no out that the fature of any young man may, in which we had made the journey so far 18, Titan, large a share of responsible authority for aught we know, be superior to our own Yet there was nothing to be done but to 26, Nankin (5.), and arbitrary power.
present. As it was we accepted the get our baggage moved on board as soon as patriarch's verdiet with a bow, and passed possible and while fixing up a mat at one on to examine a little kiln for burning up of the open ouds and two half doors at the written paper which stood in front of the other, we comforted courselves by reflect pagoda. What a glorious sample of self-ing that after all it was only for a single or other Asiatics, he is exempt from the the attention of those interested in the
deception in this Harmless custom, which, night. So wo sat down to a delicious provisions.
This Ordinance, is divided into two Bishops who agreed to, the Resolutions A THIP FROM SWATOW TO CANTON, by the way, presses upon the corns neither glblet soup, hoping for the best, and at the of merchant, missionary, nor diplomatist. same time arranging both a great-coat and (Continued.) branches, viz. the registration of Chi- noticed in four last night's issue, were the
To believe that the sparit of the heavens macintosh within reach. The cup-of nese servants when engaged by foreigners, Bishop of Bombay, Madras and Ceylon, in
20th-The morning broke cloudy but born sages who centuries bask in the sherry-was actually at our lips, when and the registration by Chinese householders Conference, under the precadency of the of their houses. I say this is the worst of Metropolitan the Bishop of Calcutta. Dra without rain. We accordingly elected to immeasurable past gave the art of writing without we heard a gentle sifflement, fol- all the class enactments, because, as apart Caldwell. (S.P.G.), and Sargent, (C.M.), make the best of the flying hour and enjoy to raen, has mingled with the vile substance lowed by that sound we knew so well, and from the very serious consequences and great the new Missionary Bishops of South India a walk upon the bank. As we lauded, the of the paper whereon a single character in a moment both candles were blown out injustice of its working which I shall pre- were conscorated at Calcutta on the Sunday boatmen discovered a fish trap set close by is trased, is just one of those strained by a gust of wind, and rain began to patter sently shew, it imposes an indirect tax on following the passing of these resolutions. and at once drew it up to possess the theories which the Chinese delight to hold distinctly on the miserable covering over- the Chinese, to the benefit of the foreigner. It is significant that the only one agreed to selves of whatever spoil might be found in Luckily it does no harm to any one, and head. We put down the antasted sharry, The fee charged for the registration of a unanimously after these veteran missions it. But they were disappointed, and threw they may go on piously collecting each lighted one of the candles under the table, errant scrap and building rotire stoves for and prepared for the worst. Happlly the servant is 25 cents each, and this is supposed ries became Bishops rec timends that the it back with a growl.
Passing a bage banian, we were so strucks the consumption thereof, until they and worst had come. It was nothing is false. to be paid by the servant himself, though solergy and lasity of the various dioceses be find master sometimes pays it for him. consulted as to the desirability of forming by its immense girth that we proceeded to their precious armbels of thought shall alarm but the sky outside looked threaten Liberality of that kind is only an exception Dloccean Byurde. I altsply mention this rucnsure it with up umbrellt. It took niko Kore passed away and left set e lingly black, and the mean forget to rise.
person whomsoever required by the Snperin tendent of Police to co-operate with any Fire Brigade, whether consisting of volunteers or not, so that the same be approved by His Excellency, or in the working of Fire Engines, or in the suppression of fire, shall he bound to obey such requisition under the penalty, for every oase of disobedience, of Cot less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, to be imposed by any Justice or
have not been paid. He must pay up or incur the further expense of a distress warrant or of the seizure of therents of his house. Now from beginning to end, the unfortunate householder has not the opportunity to say a word for him- self. He cannot question the legality or otherwise of the gamblers conviction, the mere record of their conviction is sufficient. He had no locus standé in Court when the gamblers were tried; he cannot be represent-
antecedents.
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VESSELS TO ARRIVE.
AT HONGKONG,
When left. Name.
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Justices of the Peace, (or if such Justico ed at that trial, and no notice of that trial from the post of Military Chaplain, sub any more than we do in the presence of much annoyance a few days before, had 19, F. P. Lichfield,
is only because of their connection with the Chinese. For instance, the foreigner may be fined for his engaging a Chinese domestic who is not provided with a regie- tration ticket, or the non-registration of his tenements when they are let to Chinamon but this is all because he chooses to cogage a Chinese servant or let his premises to a Chinaman, and if he deals with a foreigner
Yours faithfully,
A CHINAMAN.
THE CONFERENCE OF BISHOPS AT CALOUTTA.
To the Editor of the "ORINA MAIL." Hongkong, 9th June, 1877. St-I beg to call your attention and
question, to the fact that the Indian
Yours 20,
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