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No. 4422.-SEPTEMBER 1, 1877.]
Now frauds have been discovered in the Russian commissariat in Roumanie, and several contractors have boca arrested, and will be tried by court-martial.
THE EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM CF THE CHINESE.
(China Reniter)
the degree of chii jen is the next step. It These two years being ended, study for must be mentioned that those graduates who have not reached the standard necessary to for honours are obliged to wait till the soecad become enrolled in one of the three grades examination for a chi jen takes place, to wit, three extra years.
There appears to be no limit whatever to the age at which a Chinese may compete at the public examinations. beld to tender, no age is deemed too vonorable, that one should be disqualified to enter the lists on equal terms with the majority. According to the general rule, two successive years, out of every three, are davoted to the sui kae, or examinatione held by the Provincial Literary Chancellor for the degree of 'sin s'ai; the third year is for the kio kao, or the examination held by the Spacial Commissioner (che klas) for the degree of chu jen. In many cases, however, or examination. there is an irregularity, and, whether it be that famine, rebels, or other plague have prevented the holding of an examination, or whether it be that the Examiner has
the chu kuo, a special Commissioner appoint- The examination for a chu jin is held by
THE CHINA MAIL.
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But for then
A century ago a
been unable to do his duty for other reasons, Metropolis, not having, like the Chancellor, to the family of the girl. Of course these one of them--a stag and a good one too break bulk.". A large proportion of the ed by the ill-judged present of a pair of
a
GIBRALTAR.
or laden with goods intended to be landed abip arriving in the Port, whether in ballast or transhipped, shall come directly, and be and make a report in writing to the Officer fore bulk is broken, to the Custom-house, of Customs; and no article whatever can be landed until that condition is complied with, except passengers' luggage (Seo. 18) No goods may be unshipped, landed, or put on shore, unless in the presence of a Customs' Officer, and at times appointed by the Governor (Seo. 15). The explanation
Even
singing wild mathematical songe, rehearsing be that he would go roeling over Africs the Shorter Catechism, and otherwise cottish humour. The simple truth is that scandalising the native kings with untimely the boy of Lundoe is an irredeemably vi cious (avention, and the local Dundee all thorities ought to lose no time in suppress. ing him, and inappropriately punishing his misanthropical inventor.
NOTHING LIKE SCIENCE."One day last
Beforé pro-
siderable want of officers for the Russian | Chancellor holds a second examination (lish female who is generally bien majeure rather companion seems silently to exhort patience the purpose for which it is put forward, with British shipping, greator protection, army begins to be folt.
kao) of the two groups of graduatos, for than young, and who is frequently a friend by the intelligent glances he gives me as I Whon datiable goods in England are is needed for our commerce. Vienna, July 10A telegrera from Tir-honours (u ). This is also in two subjects of both families. Neither of those desiderata anxiously await the issue of the business. taken out nova, dated Tuesday, states that the sanitary only, prose essay and poetical composition, is, however, a ding quá nox, and, in somo We have not long to wait, however, security is held that they shall not be miral to stop the Huascar at any cost, there' of bond for exportation, courageous détermination of the British Ad- condition of the army is unsatisfactory, and lasta but one day. The result is an rare cases, the match-makers are even con- before a pair of broad spreading an- sold for home consumption, and thus avoid is no eaying what further insuits might owing to a scarcity of provisions and the nounced, like the result of the Magistrate's tont to reposo confidence in a professional tlers with tau beautiful tines rise gradu- the payment of the import duty. Gibraltar have been offered to the British fing, and overpowering heat. The "ying" ambai- and Prefeet's Examinations, by the posting go-between," whose standing is little above ally over the grass until their owner, all will be made a solitary exception to a what damage might have been done to our andes are overcrowded, and the roads are of a p'ai not, as in the examinations that of a lined by the pestiferous hodies of hundreds for the degrees of a tsai, chi jên, and household having confided to this mei jén of danger, etands in full view before us.
common procuress. The male soiled with wet mud and quite unconscious general rule, for there le no duty on tobacco trade."-Times. of train-horses. The supply of medicines is chin shih, by the issue of a pang. The p'ai, their aspirations, she takes an early op few seconds more, and he is stretched on the of tobacco; and, this being so, there cau A at the Fort, and consequently, no bonding thoroughly insufficient, chiefly in respect to or notice, is less soleman and imposing than portunity of paying a visit to the family of ground kicking furiously in his death-be no necessity for the requirement of a quinine and disinfecting cheniicals. the pang, or official list. The bachelors (sit the girl, and, asking to see the master, is throes. Dropping the beast on the spot war bond directed against the taking of a duty-
A MISTAKE IN CONSTRUCTION, tatai) of each magistracy are now arranged invited into the court-yard (ta t'ing), where, indeed a bit of rare luck, and was Rocounted paying article out of store to evade the two souche, the New York Times says
Writing of the recent birth of a boy with in three grades (san teng), the first candi- with very little seremony, the subject is for by a bit of the shell, which strucks him fiscal law. Hence the governing example We might learn a lesson from the results date in the first grade of each magisterial bronched. Let us assume that the advances rather high, injuring his spine. My satis adduced by Lord Carnarvon does not apply which have attended the construction of group receiving the title of fin sheng, which made are agreeable. The girl's friends, with faction as I stood admiring the grand pro- to Gibraltar, enables him to levy a contribution of about Chinese caution, confine theme ves to set portions of the fallen stag was slightly render the regulation advisable; and if boy with more than one pooket would have
Political expediency may boys with two pockets. 800 cash from each of the Bachelors of his phrases, such as "Marriage is an affair of mingled with remorse when I thought of the the act can be justified on international boun regarded as a lusna nature; but now magistracy who have competed at this ex-destiny, in which men have little to say," rather dirty advantage we had taken of the grounds, the interests of the inhabitants every boy has two pockets, and boys with amination for honours, and qualifies him to "It appears that the fates have pointed to poor animal in our method of circumventing of Gibraltar will, we supposo, havo to three, or even four pockets, are by no means act as the spokesman and introducer (as the son of your employer as a mate for our him. The beam of his horns was only 5 be sacrificed, while the measures to be the bachelors or undergraduates of his consult with our friends." After a little by length and a span of 33 inches within operation of the law will devolve upon carry about his person not more than a peek mentioned above), in all matters intereating daughter, and this being the case, wo must inches in girth, but this was made up for taken in regard to those injured by the change. Whereas a
rare. Mark the result of this unfortuostė boy could formerly magistracy. No youth is
time, the girl's family send for the "go-the bend, conclusion, upon which she busies herself moved downwards in company with several siderable number of the 4,000 hands will able property in one pocket, and conceal The next day the beaters Bor Majesty's Government. The Colonial of miscellaneous hardware, glass, cutlery, between" and inform her of their favourable ascertained by the tracks that a stag had Secretary, however, hopes that no con- and tops, he can now put all his own porte with handing to each family the pa tez or hinda. Keeping well on the alert for any be rendered destitute. so to speak-baptismal register of either movement in the brushwood, we followed informed that, with regard to entries and perty in the other. If we provide our boys Lord Napier is fully one-half of his father's personal pro contain a very few simple words. party. These are written on red paper, and cautionsly on the broad trail until suddenly clearances, no further formalities will be with extra stomachs, we may be sure that male alement (ch'ien), name
The stampede is heard ahead and we get a required in the case of ships using Gibraltar they will be constantly filled, either openly momentary glimpse, through the trees, of an a Port of call than at present, and. that or by stealth. The boy baby with two date of birth; age; year, month, day, and one of the brown-hides vanishing into it is the intention of Her Majesty's Go atomache will have twice as much colic as which may be of months or years according animals have become alarmed, our only worked as to offer no annoyance or ob- hour of birth, etc., sto." After an interval, a dell a short way in front. As the vernment that the Ordinanco shall be so the usual baby, and will ruin his father by ed by the Emperor to each Province for each to the age of the betrothed, the man's family plan row is to n forward to
an inordinate consumption of paregoric, This functionary is send a message to the effect that they pro- place where they disappeared on the chance This is so far the most satisfactory part of matism to the grave by the constant trot the struction to vesela merely touching there. and bring down his mother's knees in rhen always accompanied by an assistant expose to send presents. A day is chosen for of getting a snap shot beyond it. Fortune the explanation tendered, but we should sing which will be necessary if he is to bo aminer (fu chu ko), and occupies the this, and a pair of gold bracelets, a pair of is so far kind, for on reaching the place all like to know the exact meaning of the words successfully jolted into quiet. Many an Town Hall (kung kuan), of the Provincial earrings and a few taels in money are sent breathless from running, I catch. sight of quoted namaly ships which come to honest and industrious man has been ruin- the sui and k'o 'ao will fall together, in amination is much more severe than that for to the wealth of the parents. If the bride's looking back within easy distance below me. and the Mediterranean call at Gibraltar ou legend as the box of Pandora. One boy a yamen appropriated to his use. This ex presents are more or less valuablo according through a vista in the trees as he stands steamers from and to the United Kingdom twings-a gist described in the old Greek which case a year remains vacant. More six te'ai, the duration boing nine days, in friends receive these things there is, no re- The hanging smoke prevents my sesing the their outward and homeward voyages, and with two stomacha will be fully as danger. over when an accession to the Throne takes three bonts of three days each, during each treat: the money and jewels are regarded as effect of the shot, bat the sound of the drop packages and parcels thers, sad also ous as a pair of single-stomacked twins, place, or a male heir is born to the Emperor, bout of which the candidates are rigidly earnest money to a bargain. It should here striking bullet seems to denote meat. "He's passengers, For instance, the steamers of and we can imagine what will be the effect an extra k'o k'ar, which goes by the name confined, night and day, to their examina-be mentioned that marriages never ander down! breathlessly exclaime Ramsan feel the Peninsular and Oriental Company touch of two duplex-stomashed boys upon of ngen k'o, is granted to each Province,
tion calls. The first three days are devoted any circumstances take place in the 1st ing for his knife. But this remark is imme- there, and in the course of the year many any father of moderate means, Let us take a youth A.B. and follow him to essays upon subjects taken from the Four month of the year: any other months are diately followed by a much less exultant tons of tobacco, the produes of British In- were the boy of Dandee to grow up from the school to the chaplet of honour. Books (& shu); the second three to essays available, but the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th one "No! he's up and off again! Oho! dia, are landed His first step is to enter his name at the
on the Classics (ching); the third to miscelare the favourite ones.
the Port. Are these ships, and become an African explorer, he yamen of the magistracy, or hien, of his laneous essays upon subjects chosen at been fixed on for the consummation of the appointment made with tongue and teeth. hours, to remain at anchor till the morn them with water.
When a day has tzh! tzh! tzh!"-nsual interjections of dis- if they enter the bay after the Custom house would not waste his stomachs by filing birth. To this place he botakes himself random (ts'ê lun). The candidates are no nuptials, the ceremony of sung kang is to No venison, however, do we find on going to ing; are the Crews not to be allowed to break earliest youth to take a little Scotch whis under the guidance of the lin sheng, or longer ranged according to magistracies, nor be gone through by the bridegroom. This look for it, although my old companion bulk before they are entered inwards; and key for both his stomachs sake, we can Accustomed from his senior graduate of the magistracy. (This according to the date at which they takes place a day or two before the wedding positively declares to having seen the animal must they not leave till they are entered easily imagine with what he would fill thei hande in a tsʻë tsz, or slip, inscribed with grudanted as siu ta'at. Perhaps two hundred morning, whom bearers are sent with chests on the ground toes up after the shot. All outward 7 Section 11, however, of the in setting out with the expectation of meet- term will be explained farther on), He hie name, age, village, the names of his will be a fair average for the number of oh containing eatables for the deleotation of the attempts at following on the tracks for any Ordinance enacts, that the Master of every ing with a desert. The consequence would father, grandfather and great grandfather the name of fu pang are ranged those who other of hut hech mao on the part of the and large ones here leading in all directions, jer degrees allotted to each Province. Under bride. This civility is reciprocated by an- distance are frustrated by numerous fresh his son tai. No one can compete at Public Examination whose genealogy will have reached a high standard, but who by bride, who sends to her swain a pair of boots, and there is no blood to assist us. So I turn not go back this far at least. His "three above the number allotted, owing to their ture. Finally the brido's tromeseaz and Ramzan and the other Cashmerees tzh! tzh! special favour receive a degree over and an official hat, and some articles of furni- my steps campwarde lamenting, followed by generations are not elaar" San tai pu ch'ing.great merit. In about a month the chu kao outfit are sent over to the house of the tzying in the most aggravating manner all Also are excluded from the liste barbers, issues his list (fa pang), in which the first bridegroom-pan chuang lien-followed the the way. play-actors, personal servants, yamên-run candidate, among all from the Frovince, next day by the bride herself. The bride, ners, nail-cutters, scavengers, and others, obtains the title of chich yian, the second with her father, mother, brother and sisters, and also the descendants of these to the that of ya yuan, and the third that of ching is supposed to pass the morning of her mar third generation. The magistrate collects at all purely honorary titles. The rest ringe in tears of sorrow at parting. She these slips and, in the early autumn of of the successful ones are termed en kuci. partakes of a light repast in the morning, copy of the reply of the Earl of Carnarvon of Lord Carnarvon may be reconcilable
(Shipping and Mercantile Gattite. ) In a recont impression we published a every sui kao year, issues & notifioution, visit is now first made to the Provincial and is robed in a dress of red, her features to the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce naming a day for the hien kao or Magis Governor (fu 'a), and afterwards to the being concealed by a thick and impenetrable respecting the proposed legislation on the with the law now promulgated. We take summer an oli fanser and his wife were in trate's examination." The entering of the chu kao, by all the graduates who have veil. At about eight in the morning she is name at the yamon entitles one to the ap- thus taken their second degree. The ex- placed in the hired hua chian, or embroider. Shipping Trade of Gibraltar. We have also it for granted that there is no desire on the Detroit photograph gallery to have some pellation of ung shiêng, er undergraduate. aminations about described may be translated sedan-chair, which, also, is draped with rial from the Chairman and members of the legitimate trade through those sources with coding to business the farmer took the The examination is held in the Magistrate's ed by the analogous terme, "matriculation," red. The doors of her house are looked, and Exchange Committee of Gibraltar, Ship- Gibraltar; but if entries and clearances in artist aside and confidentially observed,
received his Lordship's answer to the memo. part of Her Majesty's Ministers to stop pictures taken of the wafe. yanien, where there is always accommoda-little go," Bachelor of Arts," Master the chair is deposited in the court within. tion for five or six hundred undergraduates. of Arts. Success (du) follows as a matter of course, Chancellor in "going circuit" to ascertain gates are opened and the chair is received obtain the withdrawal of the Ordinance; free-trade sense, will be rained as a Port of to do me a favour. She's got eara like a
The third year is spent by the When she has been securely shut up, the these documents, failed in their efforts to commissions augmented, Gibraltar, in a
owners and Merchants have, we gathor from such cases are insisted upon, and Brokerage The old lady was bound to come, and I the test being only a nominal one, and none the literary merit of each township.
couldn't prevent. ber, bat now I want you bat the egregiously ignorant being discarded.
The examination for the degree of chin-waiting outside and who convey it to their been issued, we can only appeal to the ships loading or discharging cargoes at the by the friends of the bridegroom, who are in and as the order for its promulgation has call. The eniries should be confined to The examination takes place at about 8
cow, and the biggest mouth I ever saw on a.m., and the subjects are salested by the shih takes place at Peking, in the third own house to the sound of the flute, the anthorities to make the practical application Port, and not to vessels calling en route,
a woman. Her pisture would be a langh Magistratojo presumés of theundanguedunting,
month of the year succeeding that in which ovnbal, and the
ing-stock for all the children, and the chu-jen cammation was held. A chu-crackers are fire of and a mort
Along the truth after the doors are closed. One theme into, generally an officer of high rank, greets the chair as it approaches the dwell the Trading community as the nature of the
she'll take best in cold weather, and then prese, and one in verse (w chang shih) assisted by a fi-chu-has, are appointed by ing of the man. The chair is deposited in arrangements will permit, The Colonial
THE SHAH AND THE HUASCAR,
I'll fix the reat." The artist performed his are hung up within view of all. In about the Emperor to hold this examination in the the court, and approached by two of the ment have been influenced in framing this English gentleman who was an eye-witness when old zero was just hurling himself three days the list of retained candidates is Great Hall (Kung-yan) at Peking, The luckiest old women in the family, who open municipal law for preventing its Ports being of the engagement between the Peruvian hoarse, the same pair returned to the
Secretary states that Her Majesty's Govern.
errand, and th woman went away both We have received the following from an disappointed and pleased. The other day, exposed outside the yamên (bua pai), the subjects are the same as for the chi-jen, the door and invite the trembling girl to used as the bases of systematic smuggling ironclad turret ship Huescar and the British gallery, and the farmer seated his wife as first in order receiving the honorary title of and the ordeal lasts nine days, Not more make the proper oboisances. "Magistrate's choice" (en pi). The single than a dozen or thirty from cach Province made by both herself and her betrothed in
These are of goods into an adjoining country; and that unarmoured men-of-war Shah and Ame- advantage which attaches to this honour is are successful. The first candidata receives the court, she remaining closely veiled all in the enforcement of ita Uscal lows,
one nation is not bound to araist another thyst
ar from the s eve as possible, and ordered that, as a matter of courtesy, the Prefect, at the honorary appellation of hui-yan. This the time. The pair first hetow to Heaven although the Court of Exoboquer has ofin, iron, a thick backing of wood, and the next examination, will endeavour to is succeeded by the tien-shil, or honoura and Earth, then to their ancestors, next to held that a contract which involved or inside iron skin. She steams a good 11 ad success! Mouth and ears reduced to
The Huascar has 4in. platos; turret,
her to be "taken" at once.. Ak the artist urried to obey, the farmer cornered him, place his name among the first ten.
examination, held by the Emperor himself, the parente, and finally to each other, The
and whispered, Magnificant and unbound- fu kao takes place, at the Provincial Metro-published in the Peking Gazette. The first perienced, escort the girl to her apartments if it were contemplated to break "the turret, three shell gune on upper deck.
About a month after the hisa kao, the who selects the themes, which are at once officious old ladies, discreet, lucky, and ex-contemplated a frand upon a foreign State, knots, having just been fitted with new
was not void on that ground as it would be boilers. Her guns are two 300-pounders in cold contracts!
one-half in size by the cold! Heat expands, polis. Thither myriads of undergraduates candidate in the Empire is called a cheang-and cheer her up with words of encourage ordinary municipal law of a foreign coun- wend their way from each magistracy to goyian, the second a pang-yen, the third a ment, with cups of tea, and with even try." On strong grounds of morals and 7in. 6-ton guns, eight 64-pounder shell
Go ahead sfore she "The Shah has two 9in. 12-tou guns, 16
thaws out! Hooray for science and me!" through the formal and unprofitable Prefect's tan-hue, and the fourth a chuan-l, terms a cake or two. In a few moments the dread policy it has been made incumbent, says guns.
-American paper. examination. A notice is issued, and the which may be rendered by the analogous event of raising the yeil" takes place, Lord Carnarvon, to regulate the trade students assemble according to magistracies senior, second, third, and fourth wrang tiao kai-tons to; the bridegroom stepping of Gibraltar afresh in such a manner that, guns. in the provincial Examination Hall (kung lors." The remaining chin-shih are rarged in armed with a carpenter's foot-rule with while the operations of legitimate trade
The Amethyst has 14 64-pounder shell yan), when five successive examinations in three grades (san-ting-chia), the first which he twitches off the veil which cover shall not be materially hampered, the Port distance of from 400 to 3,000 yards, the are held in the following manner. Suppose grade of which are drafted in the Hanlin his bride. Ho seats himself on the left side shall cease to offer peculiar facilities to only damage to the Huascar was one 9-in. "After firing for nearly three hours at a there are ten thousand in all. After the Academy, the second of which become patty of the couch, with his betrothed on his the habitual depredators on the Spanish shell through the side, bursting in the side first bout perhaps ten per cent, are excluded, Oficers at Court (siao-ching-kuan), and right, there being a small table between and the names of the others are hung up the third of which are appointed by lot to them. No remarks are made on either sido strangers who resort to the place to carry in the opposite side. The holo was com revenue who are not British subjects, but and killing one man, while the pieces lodged outside the Hall, according to magistracies, expectant offices in the Provinces (chi-pa). The discreet old ladies next bring in two out their smuggling transactions, while the paratively small, and might have been the first ten in each magistracy being The subjects for the tien-alik are the Five small cups of wine which are poured one specially noted.
This is continued five Classics, and five pages of prose composition, into the other as a symbol of indissoluble part played by the community at the Rock easily plugged if required. One in. shot times, the Prefect each time excluding about
Lastly comes the ch'ao-kau, or vita voce union, and handed to the happy pair to these persons in open market. The Mer effecting any material damage. There were is no more than that of selling goods to also penetrated 3in, into the turret without ten per cent. of the least meritorious com potere. The result of the fifth heat is that motion by the Emperor, who puts five desin. Mireia interesting juncture the old chants of Gibraltar, it would appear, do nearly 100 dents of various depths in the
questions to each chix-alah (sé-woën-wu- | dames retire, upon which the bride turns about one tenth of the whole number of each) According to His Majesty's preposher feee round to the wall in such wise that not ask buyers what they are going to do plates, but none of sufficient depth to ma- magistracy is selected; the names of the ten bent of each of these are specially prominent, session is the candidate marked out for any it cannot be seen. The husband, for such any bond from them to prevent smuggling. boats, and everything destructible by shell with the articles they purchase, nor take terially injure the plates. The upper works, and the first in cash ten receives the special duty or office.
he now is, probably divining that, what The above outline of the Chinese curricu-with the ceremonial slothes, the enforced Her Majesty's Government, therefore, with were of course destroyed. honorary appellation of "Prefect' schoice" (fulum is necessarily incomplete, and is here- modesty, and the general stiffness of the view to comity and a desire to promote "According to theory, all the Shah's p) The advantage gained by the fu p' with submitted for correction. Any short.situation, things would be slow if he good neighbourhood," are determined to guns, the 64-pounders exccpted, should have is that, as a matter of courtesy, the Literary comings which may be pointed out by letter, remained longer, now loaves his wife (sin carry into effect the rules to which we have penetrated the Huascar's sides ap to 1,100 Chancellor will, as of course, pass him for to the Editor of the China Review, will be jen) to her thoughts, and rejoins his friends referrod. The Ordinance contains special yards, and the 9-in. up to 3,500 yards. The his Degree. All the other distinctions, con-noted, and on some future occasion an outside. Once more the old ladies rush in exported from Gibraltar in packages of hardly a shot struck at right angles to plates. sequent upon this quintuple analysis, count amended sketch will be published for refer and befriend the disconeclate girl, who sits less than 100 tons burthen, and an
not to be feats are very different, doubtless because Bank, on demand, for nothing but local and ephemeral honour
30 days' sight, The Hasscar was beautifully handled, in the same place until the male festivities exporter must furnish a bond to show that and offered a fair broadside to the Shah's Credits, amongst one's friends. Nearly all candidatos
6 months' sight, Are retained" (liu) as eligible for the called pa-kung, ngan-kung, fu-kung, yu-early one in the morning,
Meanwhile there is a class of graduates are over, to a late hour in the night or an the tobacco has been landed at the Port for guns, her objest being evidently to avoid Documentary, 6montha'sight,.. 3/11 degree of stu t'ai, as of course.
During the day, This takes place generally in the eighth kung su-kung, generically the five kung-for all the above takes place in the early which it was cleared, or otherwise accounted lose action. She was a perfect picture of a Bombay, demand Rupees, ... 222 month of the Chinese autumn. The Literary be gratefully received,
(wu-kung), about whom information will morning,male and female friends are
It fighting ship, and if her gunnery had been Caloutta, is obvious, writes the Secretary for the equal to her manoeuvring it must have Shanghat, demand, Chancellor has a yaman of his own and.
entertained, and the newly-married pair, in receives a Commission for three years. The
X.T. Z. their best clothes, entertain their friends of Colonies, that the band will be bat a form fared very badly with her antagonists. Her
30 days.... both sexes, first two of these are the sui kau, or years
The husband rejoins his wife ality, involving no pecuniary loss to the shot all fell in close proximity to the attack- Bar Silvos, 17, dwts. B.,
honest trader who exports tobacco as a ing vessels, but evidently those in com- Mexicana... for examination for the degree of sui te'al
when the festivities are over, and there is lawful article of merchandise to any Port mand had not sufficient science to estimate Gold Leaf, The subjects are, as in the case of the
now no further ceremony between them, and where it may be lawfully introduced. The the deflection to be allowed for the speed of English Soveraigus, Magistrate's and Prefect's examinations,
consequently nothing further to describe.honest exporter, eays his Lardship, ought the attacking ships through the water. prose and poetry, but the Chancellor devotes Marriages in China are not, as with the newly-married wife returns to spend if the manufacturers of tobacco may sell to that her crew got thoroughly demoralized
After sleeping two nights in her new home not reasonably to object to such bonds; but
Australian Sovereigns, one day to each. An average of perhaps us, private agreements concluded between day with her family (ning chia), returning foreigners, and are not themselves the ex- and the officers had to fight the guns. Sha
The shell fire was so hot on the Huascar Discount, ... ten par sont, of candidates obtain a prima the two interested parties. In England the same evening. facle degree, but before the list of the the tie of marriage most resembles a successful is issued (fu pang), a second test contract for the reciprocal enjoyment of
X, Y, Z.-
porters, we do not know what the value of beat a retreat to the foul pooky ground off Examination takes place (to) in order personal society and services. It has been
honds given by non-residents can be. If Nopoint, after about two hours fighting, Bongkrong Bank, 40 % prom. to guard against imposition, oribbing," a much-disputed point with the modern for each of the four latter dates, viz. the years states, in open market is to be at liberty town, where the British ships could not fire China Traders' Ins. Co., $2,000
The two cyclisel (male and female) characters the Merchant who sells, as Lord Carnarvon and eventually got under the cover of the Union Ins. Suulaty of Cant m, $800 prompting, &o, &c. Generally about eight jurists whether the Bomun marriage should month, day and hour of birth, are more strictly to trade as heretofore, the law will not per cent of the successful sorape through be considered a consensual contract of the called the pa tsz.-E. China Review.
et her, and the night being pitoh dark, sho Chiness Insuranca Co., $250 affect him directly, this second ordeal, upon which, after an nature of a sale, hire, partnership, or man-
though It must escaped, ran down to Iquique, and sur Kangtere Ins, Association, Th. 790 interval of ten days or so, the list of date, or whether it should be deemed a real
do so indirectly for it the bond of a for- rendered unconditionally to the Peruvian North China Ins. Co., Th, 860 graduates is suspended outside the Hall. pontract analogous to a loan, deposit, or
eiguer who visits Gibraltar to purchase Equadron, which she had engaged and beaten. K. Fire Ins. Co., 680 The next step is to buy an official hat, sur- hypotheo. The better opinion seems to be
tobacco is to be of force, responsible resi- off two days previously.
China Fire Ins. Co., 187 dents at Gibraltar will have to become mounted with a gilt awan in lieu of a button
.K. W. Dock Co., 20% dis security. This will drive away trade from
3. K. & M. 8.-boat 0, 12% dia.. (he mac), which ornament is only worn upon
the town, for the manufacturers are not the hat on this one scodelon flowers are
lik ly to give undertakings that all their
Hongkong Gas Co., $75 bom. Shanghai Steam Navigation, Ti, 30 mom. eled stuck in each side of the hair (tann hua). The successful ones must then visit From & juristical point of view the
customers will land the packages at the
Hagkong Hotel C., 60 nom, We soon reach the pool which is situated places designated in the entry out
Chinese Imperial Loan, £103 the Chancellor, dressed up in their official Chinese marriage would seem to be neither near the border of an undulating glade im- wards at the Custom-house. Then, again, This visit takes place at his a contract nor a transfer, but rather a mediately above the forest where the stag the regular trading vessele adapted for the
Yemperature. The graduates first turn to the manumission, a double manuminion enforced was heard. At the edge of an opposite wood Coast of Morocco and Tunis, of from 80 to north and kotor to Hie Majesty after by no positive law, and, until concluded, Ramazan selects a spot for an ambush, which 80 tons, will be thrown out of employment. that they turn to the Chancellot and involving no rights of the two manumitted merely consists of a few small green bran Thess bonds were formerly more required, kutes to him likewise. The chancellor ones as against the manudiittors, but involve ches stuck into the ground. The bellowing writes Lord Carnarvon, by the English addresses to them, dollectively, a few ing moral duties to carry out the agreement although now much nearer, is only heard at Government than they are now, but have valedictory words, after which the students to manumit as between the two manumitters, long intervale until at last so long a time to be exacted in the case of contraband of retire and proceed to their respective homes. The bride and bridegroom, as a general rale, elapsas without its being repeated that my war, and for spirits taken out of boad for A visit to the ancestral cemetery is an in- have nothing whatever to say in the matter hopes of a chance are fast subsiding. But exportation; and it is mentioned that the dispensable sequence of having graduated. of their own matrimonial destiny, Prossed listen! A low groaning sound comes froin Governor of Malta hac recently submitted This beremony is apparently to establish, ings are commenced by either the man's or the direction of the pool. Again we hear it an Ordinance to require molt a bond where before the manes of one's ancestors, this the woman's family, generally the former, this time in subdued grunts, and there is no datiable goods are taken out r2 bond for joyful evidence of continuity of honour in and at any age of the interested pair, but longer any doubt about its proceeding from exportation. This is iso, says his Lord the family. The next year a similar ez most commonly when the age of puberty has the stag as he wallows in the mud, although ship, the practice with the Spanish, and, amination to that just described takes pince, been reached. The first step is to see the we cannot see him owing to the rising perhaps, with other Government. This Ammediately after which the Literary services of 4 met den or "go-between," a ground between us and his "roll," My old | ling of argument is altogether gundled to
costume. gamén.
ence.
CHINESE MARRIAGES. (China Review.)
that it was no contract at all, but a mere transfer of property, or technically speaking damourrance of two wills creating a jus in rein.
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HANGUL SHOOTING IN KASHMIR. The following account of some of the most fascinating sport that can be procured in Kashmir is taken from the Oriental Sporting Magazine →→
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