No. 4879-JULY 14, 1877.]
THE CHINA MAIL.
to have been in gaol before. He was now NORTH-CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY. Į about ten or twelve guns; and this was all that Bent to six months' hard labour, and was to
be brought before the Magistrate at the end of the sentence..
A TROUBLESOME HAN.
Frederick O'Hara, a seaman unemployed, was charged with being drunk and trou blesome at the Ballora Elome. He was drunk and was stripped half naked, chal- lenging people to fight him. He struck an officer, and was a very troublesome char- Botor. He only came out of gaol yesterd›y morning. Fined $3 or 14 days' hard labour.
Manila.
(From the Manila Popers/) The agents of the German barque Hum bolt have obtained permission to load her with timber in the province of Tayabas for China. And a Chinaman has also been
permitted to export to Hongkong the sum of $331 in foreign coin.
The duty collected in the Manila Custom House during the month of June last was $112,886.99 against $89,905.47 same time Isnt year.
Thus showing an increase of $22,800.52 this year, whick le, no doubt, very satisfactory for the Government.
A further sum of $10,000 has been grant- ed towards the expenses of providing the Manila Mint with another new steam me chine and other necessary apparatus.
Mr Julius Heymann has been appointed acting Consul for Russia at Manila; he entered upon the exercise of his duty on the 23rd June last,
Mr Cornelius Robert Blair Plekford has been appointed acting Consul for the United States at Cebri,
E. B. M. Consul at Mazila has notified to the Spanish Government that during his temporary absance in Hongkong, Mr Georgs Mackenzie will not for him.
The Parig brought the other day from Hongkong $41,000 worth of gold.
During the second fortnight of Jane, the importation of gold and silver into thene Islands has been $1,055 worthi in Spanish gold coins, $80,000 in foreign gold coln, and $4,599 in Spanish silver coina No exportation reported.
The following is the list of articles ex-
ported, subject to the exportation duty, during the month of June 1877 :-
Total, 1,372,846 26,535.92 A man named Vicente Dimano, in the province of San José, Batangas, foll victim to an electric discharge on the afternoon of the 2nd June, while gathering his cattle in A shock of earthquake was felt in Manila and in some of the provinces, at 12.07 pm, of the 6th July. Its movement was oscila
the field,
tory, from W. 5° 8. to E. 5° N.
pensable articles of food.
1876-1877.
- STATEMENT OF 1875 account."
To Not Fremia To Interest
To Commissione To Fees......
To Balance
To Balance on 80th June, 1877.
By Charges, Commissione, s. By Losses and Claims. By Exchange By Balance
By Amount placed to
Reserve.. By 1st Dividend, 9th
May 187
1876, Tia. 60 By 2nd Dividend, 9th
per Share
102,459.66
69,000,00
May, 1876, 6 per cent By 3rd Dividend, 24th
on premis contributed 58,569,04 Oct., 1876, Tis. 40 per Share
By 4th Dividend, 24th
40,000,00
was undertaken yesterday. The morning, at ten o'clock, we are informed, the blank powder drill will be resumed; but on the .1,029,622.84 occasion of the Viceroy's visit, shot and 80,550,72 sheil are intended to be fired, at targets, - 1,617.80 which, it is said, The Terror of Western Na
95.00 tions will lay out.
It would be an omission to close without 1,061,825.00
mentioning that there was a great display 300,489.78 of flags in the forts and barracks, and that 90415.92 in the quadrangio (if it can be called so) of the first, or river fort, some hundreds of 106,589,84 infantry were drawn up, armed with rifles, 556,167.11 apparently as a guard of honour to the 8,302.68 Military Mandarins Li and Chang, from 390,488.78 the Koo-Chang-misou Arsenal, and some two or three foreign officials who wore also 1,061,825.86 present. The guard had piled arms, and It was easy to see that their rifles ware not only of mixed make, bat were ill-cared for and in many instances extremely rusty, The men, too, were lounging about quite Careless of surroundings; but it is right to say that they were civil and obliging, even going to the extent of using bamboos to drive off a too inquisitive crowd that gathered round the two or three foreigners
500,077.86 90,405.92
Oct., 1876, 4 per cant on premis contributed 39,049.16 By Balance
• 390,483,78
STATEMENT OF 1876 account.
To Not Promis,、 To Interest... To Commissions To Fees... To Exchange
To Balance
To Balance on 30th June, 1677...
By Charges, Commissions, &c... By Losses and Claims, By Balance
By Amount placed to
Reserve
100,000.00
***** 92,760,00 By 6th Dividend, 18th April, 1877, Tis, 100 per Share *** By 6th Dividend, 3rd May, 1877, 9 per cent on premia contributed 107,240.00 By Balance .....
Tis 1,192,399.52 88,482.05 9,428.01 89.00 28,719.69
499.264.98
who visited the forts.
The visit of the Viceroy next week will, we hear, be marked with the samegorgeous military and naval ceremonial as it was last year, and for which the new Taotai of Shanghai is already making preparations. -N. C. D. News,
THE DARING ATTEMPT TO PASS COUNTERFEIT COIN AT SINGAPORE.
Quotations.. Horazowe, July 14, 1877.
oredit,
Old Patna, cash,... 560
credit,
New Benares, cash, 565
credit, Old Banatos, cash, 550
credit,
New Malwa, cash, 576 credit, 590
*
The principal dimensions of the hull are give to crossing-sweepers, and almost never Length for tonnegg, 167ft.; heim, extreme to strect beggars, so I paid no attention 27ft. Gin.; displacement. tonnage, 581 tons; whatever. Then came the same plaintive area of midship section, 202 square feet. small voice again:"Please, sir, is it far to | OPIUM-New Patna, cash....$567) With an addition of 20ft, to the length, and Britton Hill?" And now I turned at once, more engine power, the Sunbeam presents a and looked full at the speaker. Instantly type which might be found eficient for the scene at the corner of London Wall and naval services in distant waters, whore good Moorgate Street of a month ago flashed back sailing qualities are essential, and large upon me. It was the same innocent, op- ships are not required. On looking back, pressed, ingenuous chlid, carefully got up and contrasting the anticipated difficulties on the model of the Oliver Twist in the with the actual experiences of the voyage, earlier illustrations to Dickens' master-pisos, the case and certainty with which every so guileless, so forlorn. And as I looked at "Is it very passage has been made are truly surprising him he repeated anxiously Our track has been for the most part within far from here, sir?" After gazing for a the Tropics. The storms off the Cape of moment fixedly into his wistful face I said; Good Hope and Cape Horn have been avoid- Ah! and your mother gave you a penny, od in the inland passages of the Straits of didn't she? In a second, in a flash of CAMPHOR, Magellan and the Suez Canal, We have lightning, such a change, involving a whole encountered no continuous stormy weather, volume of expression, came over the young except during the four days preceding our rascal's look; and before I could say another arrival at Yokohama. We have suffered word he was off, like a deer, into Bucking- discomfort from heat and detention in calms, ham Palace Road and lost to sight. He but storms have disturbed us seldom, and could not have been more than 9 or 10 years they have not lasted long.
old, and yet it is safe to say there is no better actor, for his peculiar line, in the French company at the Gaiety.
A daily contemporary animadverting on the unreadiness of the British army observes that For want of those pence, shillinge, and pounds in which England abounds more than any other country, we find our soldiers are few, that they have no gaiters and no buttons to them. This is a little too hard upon the War Office. How, asks Punch, could the troops possibly have any buttons to no gaiters?
The navigation has presented fow difficul- ties. All the coasts that we have visited have been surveyed. Lighthouses are now na mumerous and efficient on the coasts of China and Japan as on the shores of Europe. Such is the perfection of the modern obrono- meter that innar observations, the only difficult work in ocean navigation, are o longer necessary: and the wind charts pub- lished by the Admiralty supply to the amateur navigator accumulated information and valuable hints for every stage of his voyage. How infinitely easy is the task of the modern circumnavigator compared with the hazardous explorations of Magalhaene
Mr. Reeves Smith, manager of the Bright- and Captain Cook, when the chronometer on Aquarium, writes that they are suc We regret to learn that nothing whatever was an instrument of rude and untrast ceeding admirably in their nursing of the On May 30th Mr Smith was has been discovered by the Police with re-worthy quality, when there were no charts, sea lion. gard to the origin of the forged American and the roaring of the breakers in the dead summoned again to a scene in the deu. 1,258,052.06 trade dollars, which were attempted to be of night was the mariner's first warning that The infant sea lion was in the water for passed upon the Mercantile Bank the other a coral reef was near Our comprehensive the first time since his accident, and this day. It is surmised that they come from and varied cruise has strengthened my time he fairly plunged," exhibiting great 199,284,98 America itself, but this is only a surmise, former convictions that the disasters due to strength in his swimming. Some spectators and it cannot be said that Chinese inge negligence bear a large proportion to the making a noise, the young lion disappeared 116,768,80 naity is not equal to their manufacture, number of inevitable losses. Every esast is below the water. The mother missed him, 848,066.88 They are made by merely paring off the dangerous to the careless commander; but and ducking her head, grasped him by the 109,284.90 ontside of the real dollar, rim and sil, and there are no frequented seas where, with the neck, and then, to everybody's astonishment, covering lead or other metal with the silver exercise of caution and reasonable skill, the plunged below the water, and then bounded 1,258,052.06 skin so obtained. Outside and to look at, dangers cannot be avoided. These remarks upon the shore. It seemed a necessity for they are perfect, and impossible of detection, do not, of course, apply to cases of disaster her to take this action to land her offspring, which can only be done by testing their from stress of weather. In fags there musta natural habit of these amphibious crea- Ttures to gather strength. The old lion weighs sing upon a real dollar. There are said to be delay, though not necessarily danger, be a good many in circulation in the place, am bound to commend the efficiency of our nearly a ton, and when he takes his plunge and It is certainly very unsatisfactory, we Consular Service in the remotest outposts of the young one is in danger of being tossed may say, alarming, that the Police should civilisation which we have visited; and evi- out of the water. be so utterly unable to find out anything dences of good colonial administration are whatever as to where they come from and abundantly manifested at Hongkong, Sing 199,29108 who brought them. It will be remembered apore, Penang, Ceylon, and Aden, in the
That, towards the end of April, a most prosperity and contentment of the people.
ingenious forgery of $800 Chartered Bank notes was detected by the Bank's Cashier. We are Informed that the Pollos have been quite as much at fault with regard to these forged notes as with regard to the recent
300,000,00
499.
ROUND THE WORLD.
LONDON GOSSIP. (Pioneer)
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Shares. Hongkong Bank, 881 % prem. Union Ins. Soalety of Canton, #775 China Traders' Ins. Co., $2,700 Chinese Insurance Co., $245 Yangtze Ins. Association, Fle, 750 North China Ins. Co., Tis. 860 B.K. Fire Inn, Co., 6885 China Fire Ins. Co., 150 E.K W. Dosk Oo., 27; % dis. a.K, U. M. S.-bost U.; 7 % ála. Shanghal Steam Navigation, The 80 Hongkong Gas Co.; 975 Hongkong Hotel Co., $60 Chinese Imperial Loan, 8103 Temperature.
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There are (says the Whitehall Review) now on the Thames two gunboats which have been built for the Turkish Government. As THERMOMETER 9 A.M.... they cannot leave our shores, they will, we are informed, probably pass into the hands of the British Government for, as the phrase goos, a rhere song." The ironclad built on the Thames for the Porte can, wo believe, bo removed, inaantieb as the Turks were sharp enough to commission her before the war broke out, and international rules will allow sufficient coal to be taken on board to carry her to the first port.
Two brokers, named respectively Moora and Owen, failed last week on the Stock Exchange. The following lines were posted up on the walls of that institution:--
Do,
Do. & P.M. Do. Maximum
Do. Minimum over night ....80.
Shipping Intelligence. The following is corrected from the latest London and Colonial Papers
When left. Name,
Dec.
Remarka
VESSELS TO ARRIVE,
AT HONGKONG, From
New York
Cardiff (Brest Feb.23 v. S'pore
22, Sophie, Feb.
5, Carrizal,
Mar.
28, Janet Ferguson, Glasgow
Antwerp Cardiff
8, Khedive, 9, Pilgrim,
15, Gage Crosha: Curder 17, D. McB. Park,
Astrea,
Sunderland v. B'pore New York
Swansea
Cardif for Canton
Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff
London
Antwerp
Lordon
Cardiff
London Cardiff
Bambarg Cardiff
New York Antwerp
Cardif
Hamburg
Antwerp
1, Antipodes,
Cardiff
Penarth
May
3, Staghound,
Liverpool
4. James Shepherd,
London
Hamberg
Antwerp
Antwerp
Newcastle (N.S.W.)
Liverpool
THE WOOSUNG FORTS.
I heard another story last night, of which 4th) the new Chinese forts at Woosung
It was announced that yesterday (July) trade dollars.
I can only say-Credo, quia incredibile. If The women, in whose posselaion the would fire blank cartridge, and that vessels forged dollars were found, are still la it had not been trus, no one would have told Artials. Kilogram. Value. Duty.
passing were not to alter their course on custody, but, as we understand, & counsel anything so improbable. You may know perhaps that last year it was very much the Raw Hemp, 8,662, 179 $356,262 $7,924.94 that account. It is not, we understand, the lor learned in the law has been retained custom for ladies to wear their pockets out Hemp Rope, 220,872 23,390 441.74 first time the Armstrongs and Krupps in with a view to procure their release. Now side the dress, and low down to the side, Indigo,
18,749 13,348 187.40 these forts have been fred; but it appears it seems to the that the authorities would almost behind in fact nearly at the back of Sugar,
11,000,741 788,226 15,821.40 that on this occasion the blank practice not be justifled in releasing these women the knee. Of course this arrangement Moore and Owen failed to-day Coffee,
573,827 188,284 1,721.48 was simply a "getting ready" prepara- without exhaustive Inquiry and without a combined every inconvenience. The wearer
Through Owing More than they could pay." Dyeing-wood, 223,684 4,396
89.47 tion-to see that all was right, "by the full confession on their part, if they are of the pocket could hardly get at it, while
General Grant is, unlike some of his expenditure of a few score pounds of innocent, of where they got them. And, nothing could possibly be handier for a thief, gunpowder, before the arrival of the without confession, it seems to us that Notwithstanding, however, the recommend countrymen, a silent man. When President, Viceroy of Nanking, on his annual tour of they can be treated only as forgers and ation of its absurdity the fashion has now however, he was auce brought into contact inspection of the defences of the Yangtze, criminally punished accordingly. The early, gone out, but apparently not quite. with a citizen as silent as himself. The at the end of the present Chinese moon-Poline were unable to trace the forged An elderly gentleman told us last night that, occasion was the presentation of a vase to about Tuesday or Wednesday next. Chartered Bank Notes, and, we believe, as he was mounting the stairs, slowly and the General, which had been purchased by These forts, of which so much has been professed to be unable to take any further painfully, in the crush at the Private subscription. The deputation with the vase said and written during the course of their steps in the matter, because the forged View of the Royal Academy a fortnight appeared at the White House. This is construction since July, 1874, may now notes were found in possession of a highly age, a young lady ascending by his side the mug," said the leader of the deputation. be said to be in a state of completion; respectable trader, who stated that he had suddenly addressed him in a low voice: "I Ah, that's the jug thank you!" replied that is, so far as Chinese ideas, based on received them in the ordinary course of am very sorry, sit, but you have got my the President. Not a word further passed.
19, Victoria, A letter from Agans, Marianas, says that foreign instruction, can be brought to bear business, but from whom he could not say pocket. The gentleman was startled into The following story is true:-The late
19, Cygnus, on the 17th June a typhoon passed over on the development of castramentation. Straits Times,
exclaiming aloud God bless me I got Duke of Wellington was accustomed during 20, Springfold, there, blowing from the N. E., which con- Looking riverwards, the forts present a
your pocket P And of course, as he says, the latter years of his life to drive himself
20, Warrior, tinued for all that day, causing a consider formidable appearance; but a walk along
everybody around must have taken him for about in a ourriele, a habit which caused his
20, George, able damage to properties. A large num- the banks of the Hwangpoo and Yangtze, MR BRASSEY'S YACHTING VOYAGE pickpocket. It turned out that the young family considerable uneasiness, since, from
22, Birling (6.), ber of houses were blown down, the paddy at the junction of which rivers the first or
lady's pocket had become detached from her his increasing years and falling vision, it crop, which only wanted mowing, was com chief fort stands, soon disalpates any idea
skirt and hooked itself on to a button of his seemed probable that he would meet with 26, May Queen,
{ 27, Selndia, pletely lost.
Cocoanut and other trees, as to their capability of resisting even the Mr Thomas Brassey, M.P., has published paletot. Our narrator went on to say some accident. The Duke's well-known 27, Fortuus (3.), which had commenced to show signs of gun-power of the smallest vessels of war. a very interesting account of his voyage in observed rather grafly that I hoped she did character, however, was such that nobody
29, Commissary, vitality after the typhoon of the 2nd Dec, Such craft as the Frolic, the Kestrel, or the yacht Sunbeam, which shows that he not carry her purse in her pocket, or it dared to bint such a thing to him, and all
Apr. last, are all destroyed.
the Mosquito, would demolish them, as has made good use of opportunities for might be awkward for other people less to the roundabout methods taken to induce
Rota, The Esmeralda brought on her last trip fortifications simply, in a short time. In making "notes." The voyage is certainly blame than herself. Oh, no, she replied him to abandon his charioteering having, Katsow, the sum of 855,000 to Manila.
fact, the gale of Tuesday has, in two or the most complete thing ever accomplished with a complacent smils as if she were a failed, he was left to enjoy its pleasures in 10, St. Elmo, The new tax or impost of one dollar-cent three places, notably on the fronts exposed in yachting experience. Mr Brassey says model of prudence, I keep nothing but a peace. What rendered this so extremely 10, Adolph, on every pound of beef or pork proceeded to the force of the wind, so loosened the
10, Galatea, The expedition is in some respects un- handkerchief in this. Now, I ask you, dangerous was his babit of going off suddenly
11, Benefactor, from the slaughter house, imposed by the mud and chunam, that large sheets are only precedented; a circumnavigation of 36,400, Mrs. continued the old gentleman to sleep, which brought him so many Government to defray the expenses of in-waiting the application of a slight additional miles has never before been made in the addressing our hostess, "what are you to hairbreadth escapes that at last it was 11, Woodhall, troducing water into Manila, came into force to bring them to the fosse and expose short period of forty-six weeks, from which say in defence of ladies' fashions after arranged for some member of the family to force on the 1st July instant. The butchers the whole of the casemated protection of a must be deducted 112 days of well-earned that?"
accompany him whenever it could be done 11, H. S. Sandford,
13, Vega took this opportunity to charge from four number of the guns. On the river front, repose in harbour. We had, it is true, the I will finish this letter of flimsy scraps without awakening his suspicions. One day to eight cents over the naval sum per and especially on that of the battery advantage of steam, without which such a with a little incident which happened to his second son, Lord Charles, contrived to 13, Penshaw, pound. The community is indignantly facing the Hwangpoo, wide cracks are perfortage of said have been an impossibi- myself. It is nearly a month ago since I be honoured with the perilous invitation. against those engaged in this line of trade, visible from embrasures to ports; and tub vee travelled. 20,617 miles under got out at the Moorgate Street station on my After driving a certain distance along the 1 Titan, and suggests the Government to lasue one could not help, imagining, in presence sail alone, and the consumption of coal has way to London Wall. I had transacted my road, the Duke went off into a nap, and one. tarif to regalate the price of these indis of the Juno, at anchor about two miles not exceeded 360 tons. The Sunbeam suited business, and had reached the corner of of the reine fell from his hunde, while he and a half away, what would have been from Cowes on the 6th of July, called at Moorgate Street again when a small boy, kept hold of the other, still feeling the
7, Woodville, A good measure has been taken by the the effect of half-a-dozen shells from her Torbay, Madeira, Teneriffe, and the Cape about 9 or 10, after a shy glande or two horses mouths with it. The result was that Metropolitan Government which is to com- pivot-gas, dropped, as they could be, into Verde, rossed the line on the 8th of addressed me timidly. Please, sir, is it the animals were gradually edged towards a 10, David, pel every 1st and 2nd engineer in the dif. the enceinte of the chief fort, standing Augast, and, carrying a favourable breeze far to Brixton Hill 2 I said:"Upon my deep and steep ravine which bordered the 21, Naworth, ferrent merchant steamers engaged in the exposed, as it does, to attack from two in the south-east trades, without even a word, my boy, I don't know." But a road. The Duke, however, continued to 11, Papillon, Philippines to subject themselves to an sides. It is, of course to be hoped that momentary lull, a distance of 2,500 miles respectable clerklike man who was passing nod and to pull, until at last, as the horses 12, Chan, examination as to their competency. The such a trial of strength will not be neses- arrived at Rio Janairs on the 17th of August. heard the question and answer, and inter-were on the very edge of the ditch, Lord 13. Chandon,
Meteor, examination is to take place during the sary but to anyone at all acquainted Following the coasts of South America, we posed with Brixton Hill?' I should Charles seized the fallen rein, and, giving it 18, Alstra,
with the strength of the casemated granite visited Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, and En- think it was Five or six miles at the a pluck, pulled them short round into the In the suction for the conveyance of to- fort at Garrison Point, Sheerness; or senada, steamed through the Straits of least.". "Besanse," continued the poor road again. With the sharp turn the Duke 15, Sophia, with 16, Meteor, bacco leaf to urope, held on the 27th of the two granite forts in the Medway, Magellan and Smyth's Channel, and reached child, looking first at me and then at the awoke, and seeing the rein in his son's hand, 16. F'dinand Brumm, London June last, 16,000 quintales have been ad- intended for the defence of the approaches Valparties on the 21st of October. While other of us, in the most scared and pitecus asked, anguly, What are you doind word
17, Samos, judicated to the ship Bloans, which is to to Chatham and its dockyard or the new on the coast of Patagonia it was our privilege way, mother sent me to take this parcel the reing, be loaded at Boile, at 42 scales velion per bill forts at Portadown, for the inland to rescue a crew of fifteen hande from the to Brixton Hill," (showing a small whitey Charles, "the horses were going straight 19, Melusine, quintal ($81,000); and 6,000 and 5,000 to defence of Portsmouth from Hilsen lines barque Mark's, Haven, laden with an in- brown paper parcel), and she gave me a over the edge, and I just pulled them off it 10, Oneida, the Pepita, to be loaded at Manila and Ile or the Spithead defences of Nomar and damnable cargo of smelting coals, which penny to go with and here with anxious to prevent us being smashed to pieces." 20, Hesperia (9.).
26, Alexandra, ilo, at 40 and 43 reales vollen per quintal Gilkicker-to say nothing of Batten, had hen on are six days, when we most honesty he exhibited the coin in corrobora. The Duke looked at him sternly and said, 26, Martha Jackson,
"I'll trouble you to mind your own business. respectively (822,500),"
Edgecumbe and Maker at Plymouth-the providentially descried her signals of diss tion. Well!" exclaimed the clerk re- There is such a sameness in the menus 27, Kate Carnie, The requens of Mr O. I. Barnes, the local weakness of these new forts will be aptress.
fectively, a penny won't do much towards agent of the Hongkong Bank, for the ocin parent in a moment. But it is in their
On the 30th October we commenced our taking you there, but two-pence will so this season, that the following dishes, which 29, Patroclus (6.), ing of $850,000 in the Maille Mint, pre- armament that their strength lies, And vious to the reparation and installation of what is it? Some twenty to twenty-ave long and lonely voyage of 12,330 miles here's another penny for you. Now, what were served at a dinner given by His 0, 0. R. Bishop new machinery, has been refused. Armstrong and Krupp guns; the former teress the Pacific. We touched at Bow you've got to do is to find your way over Excellency Kuo at the Chinese Legation last 30, Clare,
predominating by about three to one, and Toland in the Low Archipelago, Maitea and Blackfriars Bridge and there you'll find a Tuesday may be interesting and instructive: 30, Oilarnum, all in such a condition. (with about three Tahiti in the Society Lalanda, and Hawaii tram-car, which will take you to the foot ofas teal, yil o'he tang, kuo shao yu, June
the Sandwich group. On the Brixton Hill for two penue. But it's a ohiang yas oku, kuo shao ya, chisstaz, exceptions), that the newest gunner in the and Ohau English service would blush to see, even if 1st January we sighted Assumption in the shame to send such a child, as you on such bombe à la Ignatieff." The first plat
London he were permitted to let them remain so. Ladrones, and on the 28th arrived at an errand," So saying, and giring the boy strongly recommended; it is the celebrated As an illustration, we may mention that at Yokohama. While in Japan we were pea- a penny, the kind-hearted clerk (or whatever allow nest soup, Natureliste still differ
AT SPANDHAT. Out now Governor seeme quite willing to least four guns, requiring delicate attention sent at the opening of the railway from he may have been) hurried off. The poor as to whether its principal components are of
28, City of Aberdeen, London put to his hand, in order to correct, as far in cleaning after firing, we noticed the Oraka to Kioto by the Mikado, and sub- little fellow still looked perplexed, and then animal or vegetable production. Anyhow,
The Poet Laureate's sonnet to M. Victor Mar. as possible, existing abuses; and he is likely gunners, left to themselves, using a sort of sequently cruised in the Inland Bea in severe he pleaded-But, please air, which is my prejudices spart, it is excellent, and they
9, Caller Ou, to find enough to keep his hand in for quite small footbath to hold the water, instead wintry weather. At Simonoseki we found way to Blackfriars Bridge?" I pointed say nutritious.
of the pail which, it is to be presumed, the people much agitated by the recent out-down Moorgate Street, and told him it would There have been several daring robberies their foreign instructors taught them the break of the Satsuma clan, On the 19th lead him to the Bank and Mansion House Hugo, which graces the Jrine issue of The
26, Wigton, in the placs within the last few weeks use of the inevitable resalt being rust and Fobrnary e bade a reluntant farewell to which he could hardly mistakej berides that, insteenth Century, has produced a obarad 10, Sir Langslot,
several policemen, who would give him fur week with its line One of the post offices, one day, had its peglest; in fact, more attention seemed to Japan, and, following the most direct route before he got there, he would be sure to pass teristic reply: We quoted the sonnet last 18, Coldstream packages made up to send to a distant city; have been paid to the cleaniinces of the to England, visited in succession Hongkong ther directions. I then, in my munificetica, Who dost not love our England- they say. 28, Isle of Erin,
Here is the response-
Apr among the packages there were about fifteen casemates and gun carriages than to the Canton, Macao, Singapore, Johore, Malacos, endowed him with two-fence for his return
6, Coret, hundred dollars; a man was passing ap guns themselves and it is not difficult to Penang, Galle, Colombo, Aden, Alexandria, journey from Brixton and an additional "Alfred Tennyson, my smident and dear
7. Saraden penny, as I told him for a bun on the colleague-I have read your superb liner, parently by, but sprang it on the bundle foretell that, if at any time (say during the Malta, Gibraltar, and Lisbon. and matched the money, which he got in Viceroy'a veidos win front is attempted and safely round the globe claims, a brief to thank me much, but he did murmur some my gratitude. Who dared to say that I did 18. Strathearn,
The vessel which has carried us so rapidly road. The shild seemed still too nervous I send you the expression of my emotion and 10, F. B. Watson, anfety to the street, where he was joined by some bad aceldent will result. two or three others who helped him to take The gun fired resterday were taken in description. She was designed by Mr St confused acknowledgitents, and moved off not love England? How could I fail to love 18, Rachel,
a country that produces men like you? 28, Duke of Absttort, Londes care of the treasure. The robbers started to slow time, and it is only just to say that Clare Byrne, of Liverpool, and may be tech-in the direction I had indicated.
I had utterly forgotton all this when last do love the England of Wilberiotos, Milton, May run as fast as they could with their plunder some of the gunners knew their position nically defined as a composite three-masted but the men from the ice followed and with respect to the muzzie, tangent, and topsail yard screw schooner. The engines, Monday (or Tuesday, I can't be sure which) Newton, and Shakespeare. I double In, Goodall, raised a cry which was responded to by the breech of the gun- but many were plainly by Mears Laird, are of 70 nominal or 350 I was detained for a minute or to at the one love and respect your fatherlauft and B, Abbey Cowper, London neighbours, who very soon succeeded in at fault, having probably been trained at indiosted horee-power, and developed a crossing at the lower and of Grosvenor Place mine. For me England to France, we make 13, Edward Barrow, Antwerp recapturing all the booty and two or three of guns requiring a different drill, The men steed of 10.18 knots on the measured mile. by string of carts, cabs, or carriages. but one people, burty and frith make10, Norman Court, Gravesend the rascals. They are now in prises, and worked well, but it was easy to see that The bunkers contain eighty tons of coals Here & email urchin, sising the opportunity one light, I love all man, and I admire 80, Wyle, are not likely to get exply of -y: G. D. powder weg new to them. Some six ar The sverage dally consumption to dous tons of my detention began with the us your noble verses. Beceive my must sordial une
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