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THE CHINA MAIL.
EPISCOPAL ESCAPADES.
A worthy Bishop at him down
Ha
In weary mood to think,
itroked ils venerable beard And sipped a cooling drink.
I'm tired of all these arguments ;"! And a heavy sigh sighed he
I really can't agree, With the clergy of my diocese
They have the Impudence to say My views are sometimes wrong On questions theological
That's coming it too strong, konstr
My voice should here be paramount, A simple Ipse dixit' In any matter of debate
Sufficient quite to fix it?
He rose and out a esper : He paused awhile, then suddenly "Boy bither bring a tonto bright, And a quire of foolscap paper?
I have concolved a glorious plan, An Inspiration quite: All details of it I'll work out
Before I sleep this night.
VIL
Siz students of theology. Fl send for straight away, To live and learn beneath my roof
The C. M. 8. to pay.".
"These infant parsons I will train
To listen to my voice;
No. 4476.-NOVEMBER 3, 1877] others that it was merely a commutation of connection with Sir Rutherford Alsook's dues on trade, Every three years since Convention, and will not be disposed to try 1360, however, an Ambassador was sont to it again, especially as so long a time he Canton, with costly presents for the Imperial elapsed. Whatever is done here will there ruler. Second That letters from Peking fore be accomplished in a quiet way. At had been lately received, of a peremptory the same time I have good reason to believe nature demanding a resumption of this eus- that people are not altogether intro and tom. This I had from high native fand that several good aggestions have already tionaries who may be presumed to know been sent in to the tovarniment, and some almost as much about it as the journalists of of them will probably be acted upon. It is the Straits Settlements. Third That Siama curious fact, however, that some here, must resist any such imposition or stultify who ought to be well informed, consider 12" herself. Surely "it needs no ghost come most likely that the Government will in the from the grave to tell us that." To any one end not see their way to ratify the Conven- with a head of the capacity of a snarlet tion, and affairs will then certainly be in a maner, the fact is self-evident. Fourth very pecallar atate. Altogether there has That preparations for defenes were boing never been so extraordinary a muddle made; natively undertaken in Siam. This state- and the general feeling here seems to de. ment came from personal observation. Even one of so much disgust at all the wavering How as I write, the forts at Faknata are and delay as to lead to a disinclination to being overhauled and renewed. The 25 ton have anything to do with the subject. and other guns of large calibre have been A deputation has waited upon the Ohl got out and exercised. A torpedo force is nese Minister with respect to coolle emigra being rapidly organized, and gatlings are in tion to Cuba. What the Chinese Minister active demand. The operations on the tele- here has to do with the subject, it is not graph line have been suspended and the easy to porcelve; but it seems now to be proposed railway survey temporarily aban-accepted that he is to be a kind of referee doned, in order that all the foreign employés about all China grievances. He may be of the Government may be rendered avail-doubted whether dragging him into every- able for the one engrossing question of thing in this way will much improve his dofence. If your engusions contemporary influence at Peking, and it certainly seems meant to imply that it was improbable that undesirable so far at his special functions war was imminent, you will kindly bear in here are concerned. It is stated that the mind, that I never said it waa; I simply Chinese Minister shows some disposition to ahronicled facts. I offered no opinions and raise a point in favour of the ratification of drew no inferences. As perhaps a few re- the Convention on account of the Chinese marks on the circumstances of this tribute having already performed their part. may not be uninteresting to your readers, I this shot be fred It will be rather an awk append a few, gleaned from various sources.ward one to meet, though of course it is For more than a thousand years Cores, to be borne in mind that the Chinese were Nepaul, Cochin-China, Lâu-Chin, and Siam, aware that ratification was a necessary for have been tributaries of China and regularly mality seeing that it was in consequence forwarded tribute to Paking. These pay of the absence of ratification that the AL. ments were made at intervals of years, cook Convention fell through. varying somewhat, Siam paying every years, Burmah every 10, Cochin-Chine the same sa Siam. Many feros, and sanguinous wars, have grown out of attempts on the part of these States to shake off this vas- salage. In 1767, 88, and 69, Chinese armates overran Barmab, until utterly worn out she succumbed and agreed to pay her tribute as nsual Cochin-China resisted also at a date not given, but at the time the capital was at Tangkea. The then Governor General of Kwangtung raised an army and put down the rebels, enforcing the payment of the tribute. Biam continued to pay until 1652 Just previous to her treaties with the Western powers, and the opening of her ports to foreign trade), when the Ambas- sador bearing the tribute, while on his pos- sage from Canton to Peking, was beset by robbers, his baggage rifled and many of his escort killed. In 1870 (testo the N. I notice that the Right. Rev. Dr. Alford, Herald) an application was made by Biam to formerly your respected Bishop, in appointed be allowed to send an Ambassador by the to a church near Seven Oaks, which has way of Tientsin, with presenta, because on however yet to be built. I presume, there. the overland rente from Canton they had fore, his appointment to the Protestant been attacked and plundered. The Chinese ohurch in Rome is only of a temporary Government replied that no departure from character and that he will come back to his ancient custom could be allowed, but if the charge here. Ambassador was sent to Canton he would be protected. Here the matter would seem to have rested. The Siamese Government in deed assert that soon after the death of the late King, the Begenoy intimated to the Government of China that they wished to send an Embassy to Peking, provided it should be treated as those had been sent by Western nations. To this the Chinese Go- vernment was unwilling to agree, and negotia- tions dropped. I need scarcely say that any attempt to enforce this tribute at this late stage would be met by the most strenuous resistance, and would probably fail.
The Dutch barque Edith Rose arrived from your port, on the 14th inst, after a pleasant little passage of 74 days. She off the Paracels, which caught a "sneezer blow away most of her sails, and started her leaking at the rate of 8 inches an hour. Then calms and light headwinds until she drifted over to the Natanas, where for tunately she got some fresh provisions, which saved the balance of her crew, most of whom were dead or dying of scurry. The officers were not exempt from this dreadful scourage, the master having a very
As the duties in Stam are all ad valorem,
think of the strain on the conscience of
values his Chind Mails at.
a
The P. & 0. Company have for the last few weeks been hastening their mails and twice running they have been delivered on the Friday instead of the (subsequent) Monday. The M. M. Company are however evidently not to be outdone and the next French mail follows the P. & 0, mall delivered to-day only three or four days. I suppose the P. & Ó. Company are increasing their speed somewhat in anticipation of the renewal of the contract next year,
Commercial affairs still continue anything but satisfactory. Blik has had a slight apart," but it is not thought the tone of the market will be sustained. The Tea market has been deluged with new arrivals, which have of course made it still more flat. then it was before. A company in nounced to work the buddess of the Hong- kong Sugar Refinery.
A work on China, by the Ven. Archdea. con Gray of Canton, is announced an in the proas
CORRESPONDENCE.
AFFAIRS AT BANGKOK. (To the Editor of the "CHINA. MAIL.")
Bangkok, Gotober 22, 1877. 618,-Your Bangkok correspondent sp. pears to enjoy exceptional flights of imagin ation and fancy. His letter in your issue of the 26th September contatus in most of its paragraphs such wonderful misstate ments, that you, Mr Editor, and your readers, I have no doubt, will be glad to lesra the facts and to know how much your correspondent is to be relied upon..
'I' faith in that I'll take good cara
They have but Hobson's cholae.
IX.
The noses of my enemies
Will then be out of joint, Revenge in sweet; maakee expense,
So that 1 make my point.”
Interval of Eighteen Months.
We've seen the upshot of this scheme i
Imagine the expense. Converting heathen is'nt cheap," Thinks sober Common Sense.
When next our friends the O, M. 8.
In solemn conclave meet.
And the Treasurer brings forth, slack!
A dismal balance sheet j
XII
There'll be, I very much expect,
A resolation passed · That on the Bank in Salisbury Square
South China's drawn its last
XIIL
A moral; not irrelevant,
Look at it how you may: It does not do to obange one's plans
More than three times a day.
Q..IN THE CORNER.
from other sources//
defend the passage of the Jantra. Me- further loquaintanos with that location was He demurred somewhat when he learnt that hemet's army is compated at 100,000 med, postponed for the time, da ne done he was not to operate on the editor of this, without frregulars. A telegrams from our How majestically the train of ten hugo our hebdomadal evangeliet, and turned Special Correspondent at Johipia dated locomotives, plough in front, advanced to little pale when he found the patient was a Monday morning, announces that the Turks the charge. Snow in masses had gathered full-sized mountain cat just sent us as a had just commened their assault on the on the rails in the interval. It was sont present by Buffalo Bill, the great hunter. Bussian positione In the Paz Bulelman fying out of sight into the darkness. There However, he set to work with his tweezers Pasha directed the movements to perion. was pushing in that cutting, and screaming up his arm, and a ghastly observation some- A later tologram states that Fort Nicholas and hissing of steam. The mass of snow thing about Poor pussy," and got firmly has been captured, and that the Tarks against which the plough had formerly hold of the two largest fange-right between have attacked the Romans in the rear pressed--it was solid ice by this time, the palm and the back of his hand. He This intelligence la confirmed by telegrams yielded back, and back. Quietly it went, seized the remaining four teeth with the elf Bagno and allowed the immense forse behind to of his leg very successfully, and even tried From The Standard, September 19At peok it solid. But there is a limit to the to remove the brute's ingisora with his nose, Playns the bombardment has not been re-yielding powers of snow. Ten of the most After 10 minutes' hard work, he gave the newed, and both rides remain on the powerful kind of locomotives cannot move thing up as a bad job, and retired to his defensive, except that the Turks are firing everything on earth. The snow, quiet as it bed, diegusted with his profession and en at the Grivitza redonds, which is still held was, brought them all up standing. The veloped in court-plaster should wrysipelasy by the Roumanians; From the Rohiplas crude substanos defeated the efforts of set in, we shall be pleased to attend his Fant we hear a very different report to that solence and skill. Neither the hisang nor funeral. In the meantime further Bids are!! which was first sent respecting the struggle screaming affected it a bit, The last big solicited. at Fort St. Nicholas The Turkish tele effort with a full head of steam the ten gram states that their two brigades which engines pressed against the snow bank. The drove the Ruslans from the fort havé, for foros lifted the snow plough off the rails. strategies! reasons, retired to their former There was a top to farther proceedings for. positions, but the Russian official report the night. The engines got back to the represents that the Turks made a sudden station. There were such yarns. It was attack along the whole line, after a admitted to be the biggest blook of the sen bombardment of five days, and were reson, and the depth of the mow was, for the pulsed with enormous loss, the Russian occasion, calculated some 90 per cent. less list of caualties being also considerable than on former occasions. To as it was ten- Reinforcements are rapidly coming to the feet deep. It grew to be 100 during the Russians, whose Imperial Guard reached winter. Bucharest yesterday, These and other troops which are being burried to the front are to concentrate at Simnitas. From Asla It is reported that an attack on Erivan l contemplated to pay and From The Morning advertizer, Sept. 20 But little news from the seat of war arrived yesterday. Reinforcements con- tinued to pass through Bucharest on their way southwards. General Skobelaff, who is suffering from fever at Bucharest, has been appolated commander of the 18th Division at Plevna. The Roumanians un successfully attacked a strong redoubt at Plevna on Tuesday,
The sleeping cars were mostly left to the ladies and babies, of whom there were some six or eight on the train that night. During the day these cars have comfortable, easy, roomy seats.
At night, they are converted into sleeping berths ship fashion, ona m top of the other. Each compartment accom medates three passengers; two sleep in the lower and one in the upper berth Thera are partitions of timber at head and foot of each bed. A double line of curtains, one enclosing each line of berthe, and leaving a passage about two feet wide between, make up the sleeping car for the night. For this accommodation, about 88, each passenger additional is the charge for each day's and night's cosupation of a sleeping car,
Before darkness came on the scene the
ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT following evening, some 300 mon were at
BY RAIL. (Queenslander.)
work on both ends on the blocked-up outting, The snow was loaded into waggons, hauled out and discharged over embankmants: After four days and four nights of unscas ing labour the block was cleared, and the eight trains, by that time congregated, want on their way to the far east, and made the tourney of some 2000 miles on rails without further stoppage by snow.
The railway is available from San Fran cisco, or rather from Oakland, a suburb of that city. The travelling is very comforta ble, even in the winter season, and with its attendant risk of a block in the snow. That was our fate. After forgetting almost what sort of a thing snow was, the train, during the second night out, was brought to a On these railways, the passenger goes on standstill in a snow, b
bank fully twelve feet or stops for a spell as seems most fitting to deep.
him. He may either retain his baggage or let it go on to his destination. The ticket taken out for a journey is good until the journey is made. On their face, these tokets say they are not transferable, but the rule is not enforced. Tickets that have been used for a portion of a journey are pur. chasable all over the country. The custom enqurages railway travel. In the end, the companies are the gainera, a
THE NEW TRACK FROM CHINA TO
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Shipping Intelligence.
The following is corrected from the latest
VESSELS TO ARRIVE AT HONGKONG,
2, Northampton,
From Remarks
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The situation was novel and exciting at first. It was at no time very disagreeable, although the block lasted four days and nights. With all its faulte, modern civili sation does take the keen edge off such mishaps. The night was very dark; the train was going along nicely about twenty miles an hour. There were two engines hauling and immense, big ponderous silaire these engines are on the Central Pacif Road. In front of the train was a snow plough, the first seen by the writer. outline this contrivance is like unto the double monid-board moulding plough AUSTRALIA, AERO
The Cooktown Herald has the following used by farmers. It is considerably larger in regard to this subject One of the most DIARY OF THE WAR. From The Daily Telegraph, Sept. 14 That sketched in our engraving reaches high important discoveries made during the last A telegram from the Russian head-quarters as the smokestack of the engine, and that is at Poredio, dated Wednesday night, statos just about the height of it. The thing is on few years in the Coral, Sea, since Captain has been accomplished by Captain Miller, of that on the previous day Flevna was can wheels, has a truck under it, and behind Moresby's well-known survey of ew Guines, nonaded from daybreak till three o'clock the face, and what may be called the mould the E. A. and M. Co, steamer Bowen boards of the plough, is a snag little den
ing the great highway between Australia in the afternoon, when the assault was fade, and resalted faslly in the capture of some & hy B feet. Shovels and picks and which is of all moment to marinas travere three redoubts on the southern front of the other tools, and as many men as could era and China. The new track oponet by the zigzags of Captain Moresby's without Turkish positions, and the great redoubt into it were in this caboose. Thord was a of Grivitza. On Wednesday a vigorous wood stove with a fire in it, and so was the Captain Miller is a direct coarse, evading all artillery fire recommenced along the whole writer. And the "mowa," the gang of danger of any serious, nature, and giving line, the Russians being stationed in front men in charge of the machine, were telling deep water all the way. We give the dis- of the captured Turkish fortifications. The tough yarns about saw banks and things covery as reported to as by Captain Miller, The 200,000 Ticals said to be paid out in losses are stated to have been over 5,000 In the hearts of these men--they were hig and trust the Marine Beards down South
that, on that identical trip, they should be one week by the Borneo Oo. Limited for wounded, the number of the killed not braway, strapping fellows was a desire will take cognizance of the matter, and paddy purchases would have been sufficient having bean secertained.
From The Standard, Sept. 15-In spite landed in the biggest kind of a snow bank. spread the important intelligence all-over London and Colonial Papers to pay for 3,000 coyana-63,000 pleule
Captain Miller intended, as usual, to come Nasuan Rice quantity it would be of all the efforts of the Russiana, contlaued And they were, but not in a bank so deep, the Australias. "On the last downward imposible to take up in even a fortnight, for eight days, Plevna is not yet taken, by 100. feet or so, as some we had been trip of the Bowen with teas for Sydney, but 1 will not say more about it, as this and our Special Correspondent with the hearing about during the evenings Captain Moresby's track, as shown on the When left. Name. strikes even your correspondent's fanciful Russian army, who sends a long telegram described around a roaring fire, snow banks chart, but in thoroughly examining it, you May narrow escape of his life.
descriptive of the artillery duel and fight- enlarge immensely. The train came to a Pessons sending files of papers to their mind as exaggerated.
The division of the Bangkok Mills into two ing between the opposing forces, remarks standstill, after pushing a gathering mass of will find that a vessel has to pass through 10, David, friends in Sista should be very careful to forward through the Post office or by some sets, viz. three great and some half dozen that the Russians have unsuccessfully snow steadily before it for a few hundred a group of unsurveyed reefs, seen by 11, Naworth, steamer whose consignes is not inimical to smaller concerns, is equally fanciful, because attempted to imitate Sedan. From another yards; and all hands had moved before the D'Entrecastean, which at any time readers 12, Chandos the party receiving. A case has been one of the so-called smaller mills worked by source we learn that the Turkish comman-call "Tumble out boy!" was given. Then the navigation dangerous, especially at 18, Alstra, brought to my notice where a parcel of Europeans with Siamese capital, has turned der had retaken two redoubts on the we saw a solid wall of snow in front of the night. Captain Miller, wishing to make a 20, Martha Jackson, home papera sent by a steamer arriving here out daring the years 1875 and 1876, a larger Loftcha road. In the Shipka Pass the plough some ten feet high. The train was rapid trip with his new teas to Sydney, and 26, Alexandra,
Russians have sustained some further re in a cutting. There had been a slide, and feeling confident he could shorten the track 30, 0. R. Bishop,
of Moresby's, determined to try it. On the 7. Fdland Brumm, Portsmouth on Sunday could not be obtained until 12 quantity than two of the great rice mille.
I have no experience about the brain verset. Suleiman Pasha bas telegraphed the cutting was blocked, the banke, trees on with less intricacy in navigation than that June o'clock on Monday' delivery being refused on. the on 16, Henry Lippett, manifest and that a Custom House entry freight market hare in no puzale to anybody artillery, in that place, and that the Rus. that stood upright looking quite short; they of D'Entrecasteau in the exact position as 19, City of Halifax, Cardiff must be passed before it could be landed. acquainted with charter and rice business, sians have suffered enormous losses, chiefly Were heaped up with snow. The huge had laid down by him, and then determined to 21, Olara and like many other markets it in regulated by the explosion of ammunition waggons, light lamps in front of the plough and the steer through the Lousisde Archipelago to 23, Cuba to a great extent by the demand and supply. From Kars our Special Correspondent engines made the soene in front very visible, the eastward of Moreshy's track, feeling July
The S. 5. Flintshire loaded at 5 senta, telegraphs that the Russians had attacked and also the darkness beyond, although confident he could shorten the route, and man who is compelled to swear to what he
He must either then the 8. 3. Danubs at 10 cents, 8. E. the right wing of the Turks, but had snow was falling thickly, softly, and quietly succeeded in discovering a clear straight 10; Niagara, perjure himself or name a price on which Zamboanga at a similar rate, and the next under-estimated the strength of their all around. The elevation was some 3500ohanuel from D'Entrecastean's Trobriands 11, Horea,
week the Rajanatianuhar at 923 cents, all enemy. The Turkish troops were not feet above sea level. The air was bracing to two islets marked on the chart position, 18, Jessie Jamieson, The month of hot weather which always outside the bar. The rates of these four shaken, but drove back the Russians, and and exhilarating. A good solid supper had latitude 11.86 8., longitude 151.60 141 14 Jela Jam intervenes between the monsoons has set in, steamers show, I think, pretty clearly pursued them for some distanos, but a been eaten, about an hour before the blook am on the 28th, Captain Miller found him- 16, One Ritter,
Amongst other recourues of the oaboose self among a group of islands, then steering 25, Globe, and the foreign population are on the move. sising market, but when the 8. S. heavy rainfall soon put an end to the firing. occurred.
was a supply of "plas mote," and iron by E. for the Joward entranos, which 30, Ferdinand,
were named after the second officer of the 81, R. O. Rlekners, The watering places are filling and the town Java came in, all the larger Chinese The evacuation of Ardahan is also report- ls emptying. The American Consul has Hongs were sufficiently interested in rice, ed.
From The Morning Advertiser, Sept. cages for burning same. These knots burn steamer, the Northey Group," he having Aug. just returned from the gold mines at Pe- the demand therefore was less eager and a ohim, and Consul General Knox has gone up decline el 5 cents had to be submitted to. 17-A despatch of the Grand Duksus, we usefulle of moys were all but blod seen them first. They were low soral isiende, 10, Papa,
lighted up the warroundings brilliantly. to see what his Yankee confrère was doing The 8. 8. Kjobenhavn was not chartered Nicholas, from Poredin on the 15th inat, ut two osgefalls of knots were ablaze, and covered with vegetation. From indications, 11 North Star,
clear passage through them, and deep water, 14 Regulus, there. The German Consul is at North here but in Singapore to load at the Patrow says that on the 14th the Turks, after a bures, and the Portuguese and the new Rice mill on the Bang Pa Kong river about heavy fire, assaulted the Grivitza redoubt There might have been Indians, wolves, Captain Miller was confident there was a 11, E. P. Bouverie, French Consul are en route for Petren. The 10 to 19 hours from Bangkok, with orders but were repulsed, the whole affair last, ati er vorming in the vicinity so he hauled to the eastward, and steering 14, Moss Glen,
ing three and quarter hours. The Rus They put in no appearance, though.
to the eastward of the Northeys he saw 17, John Posta, old Consul has been removed, and his suc- to call at Bangkok, cessor is a splendid fellow who has already The Sippant way in which your corre slaus continue the bombardment, and the The snow bank, as stated, was some ten by E. with the intention of passing. 14, Patelo, made himself a general favorite. No more spendent speaks of H. E. the Foreign town is barning. The total loss of the feet high in front of the plough, and there another group of threatlands to the 19, Felix Mendalssohn, Londr scandals like the Marguerite are likely to Minister needs no comment 1 merely Ruslans is about 800 officers and 12,500 hd hd bass made by putting the eastward, which were named Miller's 23, Botapas,
tween them through a fine channel five 28, India, tramadre under his administration. The state I know for a fast that H. B. was for men killed and wounded. Osman Pasha This wall had been made by pushing the rice mille are all stopped and the appearance ons week in Paris and not even in Europe telegraphs to the Forte, under date of 14th, snow along as it was met The Tides of the Group The Boter was then steared be-27, Charger,
After reson that since the previous Saturday the enemy outting prevented the machine from scatter miles wide with deep water, and, as 800 Sep of trade extremely gloomy The news from for some years,
The Yacht spoken of in such flowing had made assaults day and night contin- ing it as in the open ground.
danger. After passing through the bith- the agricultural districts is very dia
4 Humbolt, 7, Heals couraging, and the prospects of the removal terms was built by Meters Cunlife and tiously, and that they took the second noting the situation, the train was backed from the masthead, entirely devoid of 5, Andreas, Captain Miller Gatherer, of the embargo much less distinct than they Dunlop of Glasgow, sent out here marked redoubt on Tuesday, which was, however, some few hundred yards, and both engines erto unknown waters, steered straight for sppeared some little time ago. Bates of and numbered (like many other small recaptured the following day. The Rus got up all steam, gathered breath, so to the Tomará entrances freight offering to Hongkong to-day only launches) and was merely rivetted together risus lost three guns and some ammunition. heb, the desire being to pin the states that this new track is shorter then 10, River gan ten venta par meti, but it is hoped that the here. Her satis and rigging were made by The Roumanian force was defeated as the bank, the desire being the pub the Morsity's, with far lase dangers from reefs, 19, G.,
As much living weight as the of course. The Bowen's course was only 18, Wildwood, arrival of the next. Singapore teamer will Mesars McEwen, Friske & Co., of Hong. Dubnik with the loss of night guns Ten Boomlated now tools welke st the avoids his sigrag and the constant altering 10. Passes ( bring better reports from your port, and kang, and her spars and beats by the Patent thousand Roumanian infantry and a regionboose would hold got inside of the show altered once and that for half an hour, 20, miomed (a)
lip and Dook Company at the same port. Bent of cavalry are posted on the The night the Yacht was launched, shambanie road. General Skobeleff lost half plough to keep it solid down on the from a straight one, although the discove 20, River Lage, pagns dowed freely and colored lights were of his raez and thres guns in his six he effort was not successful. The snow
23, 0. $. abundance, and possibly the combined assaults on the redoubts at Plevnes Gel yielded for thirty or forty yards then they was made at night which was moun effects of these may have had some infiuence vifas le efill in the hands of the Russians bank ahead was higher and older than light-the steamer going full speed all the
It was a beautiful night as the
27, Maxims engagement on your sorrespondent's pen. The Roumanian loss in the last
HARD LIBS---Lätile Fots: “What i rus | Sipkede d The enormous dividends pald on Dock I 1,800 men, Chefket: Pasha has gone to engines advanced to the charge to wes the shares to Hongkong, according to your join Osman Pasha with reinforcementa.mar of snow sent Sying twanty or more Thar boets as pratens to be the greatest correspondent, contrast strangely with your telegram from Constantinople announces feet in the air. There was brief consultas mours of Peace! And I've just been and 1, Carl Wilhelm,
At London. Sommere vin Bum Cunsk possible apathy there with regard to China own quotation, on page 8, of the HK & the final capture of the Shipka Paas by on amongst the engine men and conductors, bought three war mapa111MeBouPHE LOADING FOR CHITA AND JAFAR FORTS,
supper had been obtained, and talegra PERILS OF TOOTH-TWIG The com Affaire în general and the Cheloo Convention W Dook Coj at 20 per cent, discount Saleiman Pashe, who now threatens Tieng the train was pushed back to the place where Punch In particular. The Goverhtient hate aus. / Hoping your corespondent has not inverted va, which it is stated is being evacuated. – sent Away to the division station for addie' | petition among the dentists in San Francisco Genlyotu
Mahomet All continues his muccessful A LOVERS OF FAIR STATEMENTÍ,
advance, and à baitle at Bleials Emmi-tional engines and other help. This bug (sys the News Letter) in getting to be Glangyles radway it worked in a series of divisions, as deres as the resent war among the cheap Zanzibars eeded very thoroughly in whad kooza
sant of which has its engines, and full clothiers. We retently advertised for bida state of Alabama, edearly to have been their object in delap | Wa san apsak only of the last paragraph |
From The Daily Telegraph, Sept. 181-9 and have now nothing to tear from public of the above, as it relates to Hongkong telegrams received Isst night relative to the working staff, frein the plebeian shows to have six teeth extracted, and received in **enstmons dividends" re situation at Florus confirm the Turkish and ** shoveller" to the majestio conductor reply at offers from legally qualified malas-
Two hours after the block, engines began wrenchers. The lowest bid was idol, and Eliza Bhaw. SEO, the redoubt of Grivitza alone re- it; as respects those marvellous negotiations, ferred to was perfectly Nothing in the form of a representation to be "sarkusm," and so a joke is ast The losses of the Liter are estimated at now plough, had a position on the spray, and a new set of teeth thrown in. Lodars.
20,000 zaam. According to a telegram from second angine, It was pather cold by the) We assortingly sent the doofer word that from the Chambers of Commerce here will, deals with after the manner of statisdos, or, the victory of Mohemal All ta time, but although the person was sccepted, minus the new Manslaus (6) It may be taken as derining how be made, generally A Lover of Tais Chataponta sombrased he baring defeated the Bus in the stars of the offense, the poutlier torte, which were not required, but for P. J. Garjoten
plan 150ks Corpo: which attemptąd ta 198 * proving squeeze ware rather meal, de l which he could, of course, slow secartslag, People bad enough of that kind of work hes erred on this point,➡ia 6 K}
the duties would ruin him.
raise the rates a little,
DEIRA AFFAIRS AT HOME,
(From our Landon Correspondent)
Leapon, Sept. 21, 1877.
in this company largely, I remain,
a
ment.
before.
end.
Mar
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