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Road East, near the Mufray Barracks, has been engaged to make the uniforms, and that application can be made to him accord
THE CHINA MAIL.
dead,
THE HOLY WAR.
And this in Christ's name! Strong men lying Alf hacked and spoiled, the images of God."
bread,
ingly. It is requested that each gentleman employed ; some of the colours and designs | cords, and white metal buttons. White than ten thousand persons have died of Bay, was furnished to us upon unexception Wounds, hanger, thirst; no fire, no help, no
upon applying for his uniform will leave his name in full with the Tailor.
NOTES ON PAKHOI & HAIPHONG. In continuation of those we published on Hainan, we now give a few notes on Pakbol, made about the end of last year.
November, 1877.-Thursday.-Pakbet in a wretched hole; the people are surly and dirty; the streets are stinking lanes, And the shops dirty, while the country (soft) is arid and dry. Fowls, wild duck, and pork are obtainable, and the, fish is good, while the same may be aald of the sweet potatoes. Of fruit, the pine-apples are small and in- sipld, while the plantaine are good all the year round, and oranges, wompaes and Hichees are good when in season. About 120 junka arrived during last twelve months, with Pises Goods, Cotton and general cargo from Macao. Sugar is exported, as also varions oils; while Cazala goes overland to Canton; and Tanned and Raw Hides, Tal- low, Glue, Lurgans, Indigo Fluid, Fire- crackers and Crockery-ware figure amongst the exports. The passenger trado is large, but is in the hands of the junks. Com- pradores were established here al months, but gave it up as a bad jab.-Leen-ohow- foo is 20 miles from this by water, and 18 by land; and a fresh water stream (naviga. ble for Est-bottomed boats) runs through the city. Bung chew, about 83 miles NW. of Pakhel, is a great mart for oll, and takes large quantities of Opium, Plecs Goods and Cotton. The capital city (Leon-chow) takes a large quantity of the goods imported into Pakhol, The, people here are not partiou larly favourable to foreigners, and great difficulties are therefore experienced in getting houses; Bishop Burdon was in treaty for about fifty houses, but always broke down at the siguing point.
Saturday-Arrived at anchorage off the French Concession at Haiphong. The natire village is a wretched, dirty place, situated on both banks of a deep oreek; this site, like that of the Concession, has been formed by throwing up mud from the adjacent paddy fields, and is of small breadth only one street, with pative and Chinese houses ou each side. The native houses are built of matting and bamboo, and are supported, pour the water, ou bamboox and piles. The trade is principally Bice, with a small quantity of Silk, dam. biet, Tin, Varnish, and Lacquer Oll, all of which came from places some distance inland.
nature, the Asamese being neliher extrava- The uniform of the corps will be supplied gant nor fond of dress or ornament. Inlaid by the Colonial Government, and will consist hot work is one of the principle branches of of a loose fitting smock of dark blue sorge industry, and at this work whole famillies are with scarlet collar and cuffs, white shonider are exceedingly beautiful, but the woodwork trowcore in summer, and in winter blue serge is coarse and not well finished. The meat trowsers with narrow rod stripe. White shops are very numerous-beef and pork; pith solar helmet and pugree during the and here, after an experience of eighteen summer months, and in winter round blue year of Chinese life, I for the first Hima forage cap with white band. A white waist saw shops for the sale of dog meat, where a belt for ammunition pouch when necessary.
The Corps will be armed with Snider large business was done. At these shops, which were clean and well found, Dog in rifles and bayonets, and members will be every ocoked form could be bought ruast taught the manual and firing exercises by dog, boiled dog, dog-sausage, and to judge the military drill instructors, as for as may by the numbers of customers, these dishes be found practicable without undue inter appeared to be in great request, There ference with their gun drill, The manual was no raw meat; but there was no disguise and firing rifle drill though of importance attempted the whole animal is cooked, subordinate to the artillery one, will be with head and trotters, like a sucking-pig: essential in the event of alese quarters.
With the concurrence of the Military and the flesh is in appearance a little paler than young pork.
Some of the native Authorities, the Commandant of the Corps houses we visited were clean, and the lady will be appointed by H. E. the Governor, of the house was very attentive, offering us and will be a Regular Military officer. tea, betel nut and paper olgarettes. As the
His Excellency will as far as possible people have no wells all their water for select the other officers from a list of names household use la carried from the river in chosen by the Volunteers themselves by buckets, and the water-carriers (all of whom election. are girls and women) are quite an important glass of the community. Nearly all the clothes worn by the people are of one colour, viz, the dingy brown of the gam- bier; the head-dress is a turban of dark blue cloth; the hair being worn long and twisted in knots round the head. Women sometimes
The corps will be formed into companies bind rolls of white cloth in their hair or batteries; each company or battery to be rosawiao, Black satin trowsers are worn lettered A, B, C, D, eto, according to the by all women who can afford to do so; but number of volunteers, and to have a certain the general dress consists of a skirt waist anmber of offloers and non-commissioned cost and long coat, eut like those of the officers.
Hours and places of parade will be duly men, so that it is often diftant to dis- tinguish the men from the women. The notified to the corps. An office or orderly latter wear broad fiat hats with a very deep room will be opazed at the Government Of- edge, while the men's tiles" are smaller fices (on the ground floor-opposite the Co- and of a mushroom shape. The interior of lonial Treasury), where all the business of the houses contain a low stools, but the the corps will be transacted and all returns principal piece of faralture is a raised kept conuooted with its equipment and platform which fills up nearly the whole movements. of the space on this they eat, sleep, dance, and lounge about; and it is generally made
of polished hard word.
visit the coal regions, but did not succeed November 19.-Tried to get a boat to as the Chinese apparently did not relish the idea. Met one of Pouey's men, who had worked coat, but could not get a Govern ment grant, when his mine was closed by the Anamese. With his assistance got two boats, and started for the country. Fass lng some strange-looking bills sald to be the town of Gaan yen, and soon afterwards composed of marble, reached and passed stopped for want of water. At a large Anamite farm-house we were made very comfortable, as we had our own blankets and pillows: the doors were securely barri caded against nocturnal visite of tigers ere
Monday-Made preparations for a four-we went to sleep.
November 21.-Over the hills to the ney to Anhol, the capital of Tanquin. "The oficials and troops here are well housed in Coal fields. The country is beautiful
mountainous and wall wooded, except where well-built brick houses, which are quite the woodcutters have left only the 18 inch now and have only been occupied for a few months: the bricks are inde close to the atampa; sooms of coal are visible lu many spot and are very good. This place bids places, as well as great quantities of iron fair to become a large place in the course ofore. This coal could be easily worked, time when the trade with Hainan is fairly and with a little expense a canal already opened. The Chinese do nearly all the formed by nature could be made deep bustness that is done, the natives being batough for fat-bottomed boats. The dis Indifferent traders; in fact, amongst the
tance to the banks is not quite a mile, and this could easily be covered by a tramway. latter, the women do all the bargaining and Sugar-cane, aoffee, rles and potatoes would are Bcknowledged as the medium through suit the soil; and the thing could be made which business la successflly sarried on,
to pay without a doubt. At a short distance easily accessible by water there are high lands where coal may be got in abundance; and it is also reported that the hills contain Iron, tin, copper, allver, and gold. All trade is carried on under the supervision of the French Gov- ernment, which, after the failure of Da Pouey's expedition, made treaty with the Anamese by which it becomes the protecting power for all Europeans. The Chiness, being under Anamite rule, have greater facilities for trading that foreigners, sa they can proosed into the interior and can The Anamite mandarine are own land. very jealous of foreign interference, and throw many obstacles in the way of trade. The people are of a light brown complexion and are in many instancos quite fair, more especially the women in the towns, who as a rule bave good and regalar features and nice figures. They have an unfortunate Li Apo, a coolie, was sent to three months' custom, however, of blackening the teeth,hard labour for stealing two pairs of shoes which it very ugly, which they orense (both from the steamer Tease. men and women) on the ground that a dog has while teeth, and they can't stand that.
Police Intelligence. (Both Magistrates Sitting.) May 11, 1878.
DRUNKENNESS.
James Cameron, fireman U. S. S. Ranger, was charged with the above offence, and ordered to pay 40 cents chair-hire.
Kally Charum, coachman in the employ- ment of Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co., was find 20 cents for drunkenness.
LARCENT.
Lau Aohenng, a coolie, was sent to 2 months' hard labour for stealing a pick, the property of a contractor at the Hong Ham Battery.
Non-commissioned officers will be appoint-
On the most frequented roads, there are fertile tract of territoy with the Sultans of found every day those who have died of Brunei and Sooloo than the account which hunger. In this place, the capital of the appeared in our columns on the 23rd Feb province, in the course of ten days more ruary last. That account, we are bound to hunger and cald, being buried in the snow. able authority, and was published in perfect As great a number of deaths occur also on good faith, and corresponded in every par- all sides. Women, man, and children come tonlar with similar accounts, which appear- here to the four gates of the town to receive ed in the columns of our Hongkong and the bowl of soup which is distributed by the Shanghai contemporaries. Even tho Sare Government every day, and which consists wak Gazette, which would now appear to of a little millet, together with a very small have turned more or less against the entar- portion of corn flour. Our Christians are in prise, remarked in its first notics of the news the same condition of extreme misery on all that there was no room to doubt its aa- sides. They come to us every day to receive curacy. It now, however, under the in some help. The hourt is rant with sorrow fluence, apparently, of Bajah Brooke's visit simply at beholding them, half-dead with to Brunet and Gaya Bay, and of H. H's. hunger, ill-olad, shivering with cold, espe- discoveries and conclusions thereupon, pro- cially now that we are in the depth of win- nounces the first roport very inaccurate and ter. Although we afford a little help to as representing hopes rather than facts. these poor Christians, nevertheless men and Well, after dus perusal and consideration of women also resort to the gate of the town to the Rajah of Sarawak's statement to his receive the bowl of soup,
Council, as well as the interesting diary following of the visit of the line, it seems to us that all that can be said in the matter is that the first account was rather rose- coloured, as any one raight have guessed who gave it a moment's thought, for travel. lers and those who go down to the dan in ships have been proverbial, from time im- memorial, for giving the most favourable accounts of their adventures. But in this matter of the British Bornce Company, it appears to us that the great substantial facts are perfectly correct. There exist the elements of a British Company, whether powerfal or not remains yet very much to be seen, and it is, at all events, already
On the great roads are to be found every day dead children, as well as the living who have been deserted by their heathen parents.
the de- A Christan of Tungyusn-fang, partment of Caolingsien, who came to visit me, said that during his journey, which ed by the commandant. The drill instruc-coupled a day, he had found dead men tors will, with the concurrence of the Officer Iying here and there, and had counted up Commanding the Forces, bo selected from to thirty. We receive in cur dwellings among the most competent regular military and in Christian families, the deserted non-commissioned officers on the station.
children. We have already takon more than 800, and who can tell how many more we shall have to take in during the ensuing months?
This state of famine and extreme misery will not even come to an end next year, because that nearly throughout the province it has not been possible to now the corn, for want of rain at the proper time.
From this same canso a great number of persons die, through having made use of a kind of white earth brought from the mountains, which (although it is simply earth) has much the appearance of corn flour. Still many of the people, for want The preliminary squad drills will take of other substance, support themselves upon place on the green formerly, the Parade it. In many places, too, it is impossible to Ground of the old Volunteer Corps, situated see any truss with the bark upon them; it opposite the Government Office. The sub-has all been stripped off to be reduced to sequent artillery drills will take place in powder and so consumed as food. Wellington or Murray Batteries as the Mili- tary Authorities may decide.
When the Volunteer Companies shall have mastered their gun drills, they will be ex- pected to continue them periodically by way of practice at the different batteries to which the Military Authorities may hereafter as sign them.
In the event of war the corps will be placed under the orders of the Officer Com- manding the forses, to assist the regular troops in manning the gune, in guarding the fortifications, and in all artillery duties con- neoted there with,
The following are the batteries to which the volunteers are liable to be detailed on duty
1-Belcher's Bay Battery, situated above the Western Slaughter House.
2-West Point Dattery, immediately above the Roman Catholic Reformatory.
3.-Bonham-road Battery, above and near the Berlin Mission House,
4.Wollington Barracks Battery, 6-North Point Battery, on the road to Shauki-wan.
Uhina. SHANGHAI,
(News).
We hear that the steamer Galley of Lorne is aahore at Woosung.
In this same province, at King-yang-sien, three priests, one European and two Chinese, were obliged to save themselves by leaping from the top of the well surrounding the city. The good God protected them and they met with no hurt.
and flame,
They groan their souls out on the blood-stain-
od sod; White War's dread monsters belch forth smoke Till this fair earth pats hall itself to shame,"
See the carrioni And this in Christ's name!
Dig out those eyes, that, when the evening.
camg...
Ow
Good wife and children round-were wont to With kindly Love and fond affection's flame.
grow
No more those syen alall beam with love or
light, They look but now on Death, and Death's black
night.
And this in Christ's name! Wailing, weeping,
A
end;
Sos hosts of fugitives with hollow eyes— hideous sight of horror driven mad, t Dying they drop, and curse the conquering fos
And not one gleam of hops in all Ged's skies.
Who in that blessed name brings all this woe, And this in Christ's name! O, ya kings of man,
Who sit, and wait, and bido your time to resp.. Kings by the grace of God! Nay, wolves in dan,
And worse than wolves that tear the guileless For ye are shepherds; yet your hands aro red
Bhoop. with blood of helpless ones mest wrongly shed. Aye, let your anthems rise, and roll, and sell,
In plous praise for all this-hideous wos. Yet yo are wrong. Howl down your praise to beli, Fight, slay, bara, murder, if you will, but conse
It is too thick with blood to upward go.
that high namo, the Prince of Pesse.
For when babe Christ was born long years ago,
Was mild Peace sent to earth to be man's
guide,
fame.
A REFLECTION ON THE SEZ.-Jones was She never can remember, anythin," said always complaining of his wife's memory.. poor Jones; "it's awful!" "My wife waS just as bad," said Brown, "till I found out
"What is it" said
Quotations.
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credity
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powerfully represented by Baron Overbeck and his new steamer the America. Far- thermore, there has been a cession of a large tract of territory, to the Baron by the Sultan To enil of Brunei, with the title of Maharajah of Saba or Sabat, but the extent of the ter- ritory, the instalment of the Maharajah, and the exact terms of the cession appear to be matters of more or less uncertainty The Christ ye do claim; but weeping Peace? ahl no; only matter regarding which Baron ver From Court to Camp she goes, her tears to. beck's proceedings would seem to have been
kide, open to question, if not reprehension, was And wailing, Ries to Heaven, in bitter shame the dexterous use he is said to have made of To hear her Christ blasphemed with sward and the presence of H. M. S, Hart, and the Act- ing Governor of Labuan, at Branel, during The chief mandarin of this place, whose his negotiations with the Sultang of Brunei name is Sung-fu, bought two months ago a and Bagloo. The Natives would appear to large field of about 20 mow, for the burial have been under the impression, an impres of the dead (among the poor), who from sion as to which no attempt was, appar all sides come here to receive the daily ently, made to undessive them, that the bowl of soup given by the Government. negotiations were in some way specially Deep pits have been dag, but now they recognised by the British-Goromment by a capital recipe." are all nearly fall of the dead bodies, so the presence of the Hart and Governor Jones, aagerly. "Why," said Brown, that there is no more room in the field Trencher. We have been informed, and "whenever there's anything partionlar. I to dig moro, and it will become necessary have good reason to believe that the want the missus to remember I write it to parohazo another plot even larger than are was present by accident, merely, down on a slip of paper and gum it on the in Brunei, en the arrival of Baron Overlooking glass. Sea? Jones is now a con- this one.
On the matter of Shensi, Mr. Monilleron, beek in the America, and that Governor tented man.-Judy. & Missionary from Hozan, the neighbouring Treacher was on board the Hart as a pan- The Prince of Battenberg, who has been province, wrote, under date 13th January, senger only, and not in his official capacity, mentioned as a probable candidate for the 1878-Two of our Christians who arrived either as Govenor of Labuan or Consul throne to be set up in Bulgaria, is the son of from Shensi, say that the misery is still General for Borneo. Furthermore, we have Prince Alexander of Hesse-Darmstadt, a greater in this part of the Celestial Empire. been informed that both Captain Evans and brother of the Empress of Enssit and the Corn is sold at taels 32 pienl, and some-Mr Treacher specifically warned the mem-Princess Julia, aister to the Polish Count times at even a higher price. The living bers of the expedition that they would be flanke who fought in the insurrection feed upon the dead. At Pou-sheng-sien held liable for any trouble which might against Russia under the name of Bosaak in the pagans have killed their Mandarin, be- arise in consequence of their unauthorized 1863-4, and was killed in the Franco-German cause he did not distribute help to them as action. Prima facie this looks likely war while holding a command in the French abundantly as they wanted it. Women and enough. It would have been strange indeed army. Of the young Prince little is known girls are sold for 2,000 cash, and even less, to have seen the Captain of one of Her Ma- except that he fought on the Russian side in apiese. A mother, after having with her jesty's men-of-war and a Colonial Governor the Turkish war, and distinguished himself 6-Kowloon Dock Battery, Kowloon. husband eaten their little boy of six years take it upon themselves not only to diere by his bravery. His father, however, haa 7.-Teim Tes Tsui Battery, Kowloon, old, whom they had themselves killed, pre-gard but to actively break through what is played a considerable part in recent military near the Offloors' Quarters; Military Canton-pared also to cut the throat of their little now a cherished principle of policy with the history. He was an Austrian general at the ments, Stone Cutter's Island Battery. danghter of eight years. This little girl Homb Government, be the Ministers of the battle of Solferino, and gained the order of Until the office of the corps is opened, began to weep at the sight of the fatal knife, day Tory or Liberal, namely as little inter- St. Theresa for his bravery in rallying e any further particulars which intending and the neighbours who overheard arrived ference as possible with Natives, and no an- regiment which had fallen into disorder and volunteers may require will be furnished to just in time to save her."
nexation of territory under any cironm-leading it flag in hand to the attack. Re them at the Colonial Secretary's Office. (Note by Père Aymeri, "Sometimes par-atanoon. Perak Btate is a caso peculiarly afterwards entered the Russian nervice, and Although neither the morning nor eveningents, so that they may not be themselves the illustrative of the tenacity with which this was finally appointed to the command of the drills are compulsory it is earnestly hoped horrible executioners of their own children, modern principle is acted upon by English army of the German Confederation in 1806, that volunteers will makes point of attaining agree with other parents-I will kill his statesmen. It is supposed not be annex- The Prince of Battenberg, besides being proficiency in their new military duties as child for him and he shall kill mine.”) ed, and with as much reason as childron related through his father to the Emperor of soon as conveniently possible by attending,
play at make-believe, but it is practically, Russia, is also related to Queen Victoris if not both, at least one drill a day.
and to all intents and purposes, governed by through his cousin, Prince Louis of Hesse. the Governor of this Colony through the Resident and his subordinates. The Promo- tera of this undertaking, therefore, must be very sanguine men, indeed, if they expected aid or even countenance from England, and HONANMgr. Volonteri, Bishop. it secras to us to have been had policy to 14th December.-I am quite unable to have made the slightest pretenos to such aid express, in all its saddening reality, the or countenance, since not improbably it may EXTRACTS FROM LETTIES ON THE FAMINE,
SHENSI-MGE, CHIAIS, BISHOP, state of great and goueral misery which provoke even active hostile interference by exists in this province. Let it suffice to say way of resentment, and thus the Company Si-ngan-tou, 15th October.
does not send us another that beginning from 100 to the South of may have to oneounter the opposition not sum of money, I do not know how we shall Nan-yang-fou and continuing towards the only of Holland and Spain, but also of Eng- bo able to go forward, since day by day North to beyond the Yellow River, the land.
It is only right, however, to say that all there is an increase in the number of little beautiful country of Hogan has been changed. Among their accomplishments are theft and Un Atab, a hawker, was charged with children exposed in the roads and in the into a desert of dry sand. The people, after the above allegations have been streneously untruthfulness: they steal and lle naturally; ereating a disturbance in a brothel and fields, whom we cannot do less than receive they had exhausted the scanty harvest of dented, and, on the other hand, the Promo- while, if all accounts be true, the women breaking some crookery. The complainant into our care. The famine is becoming more spring, finding no supply in the crop of the tere may know their own business best, and are not violently enamoured of chastity Tean Tsun Kum, one of the inmates of the and more horrible. The Christians come to autumn (the most necessary for the people may not have embarked in this enterprise and all the attendant virtues. The num-brothel, No. 16, East Strost, said she had us from all sides to obtain help that they and for the poor), which has been entirely without having made a due forecast of the bera, or rather awarma, of children one knowledge of the defendant before. He may not die of hanger. During the forty destroyed, began by selling the animals difficulties they would have to encounter, as CAMPHOR everywhere meets with are astonishing; came to the brothel yesterday and remained four years that I have been in China, I have necessary for agriculture, then the imple-well as the advantages and profits success QUICKSILVER, 2 and it is noteworthy that infanticide until to 1 o'clock, but did not engage her, never see or heard of a famine so dreadful meats of culture and the most necesary would bring them. It is possible enough SALTFETRE, bas no place in Anam, though small-pox so she told him to go away. He became in character. It is needful to add that up utensils of the houses; and several, not they made up their minds that no assistance
Exchange. carries off large numbers of the youngsters, angry and broke some crockery. Defendant to the present, for want of rain, it has been being able to sell or to mortgage their lands was to be locked for from England, or any and many seem to be subject to scrofulous said that he had known the defendant for impossible to sow the corn, and if it should at even a very low price, have destroyed, other power, except fair-play, and that they
30 days' sight, ailmonts. Snipe, wild duck, geese, plover, 8 years and during that time had spent large not rain now it will be too late to sow, and and are still destroying, their houses, ex must rely on their own courage and judg
6 months' night,... and surlew ato very plentiful, Plantains sums of money upon her, and when she was
so there will be no hope even for the year changing the bricks, tiles and wood work, ment to attain the object they sought, that, and oranges are the fruits available; and poor had supported her; last night she was following. How will this end? It is very not for money, but for grain, which, many namely, of opening up a sparsely-populated, Credits, pork, fowls and duck, with some tolerable drunk and they had a quarrel, and the certain that a vast number of persons must times, as we have seen it more than once neglected, but rich and fertile country to Documentary, months sight, 3/11
from our own home, scarcely have they trade and agricultural enterprise. If that Bombay, demand Rupees, beef, are the principal artioles of food. things were broken accidentally,
perish of hunger. Good ish can be promred whenever the
Ordered to pay the value of the broken vince becomes more complete, and terrible saw, so as to appease the banger which is and agricultural resourses of the country, shanghai, demand,
6th November.The famine in this pro-received it, but they devour a handful of it is so, and all the descriptions of the mineral Calcutta, fishermen take the trouble to seek it. articles.
as well as the disposition of the natives, are
30 days Oysters are to be found in 'abdance, but
from day to day. We continue to take in tormenting them. large and coarse, and fit for food only
The greatest number of those where the anything like correct, there should be no Bar Silver, 17, dria, B., little children who have been, cast out, but when fried or stowed. The men are Isty, HONGKONG VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY our means are failing us, and to our great drought has been most desolating, not being reason why, by refraining from being too Sycas, arrogant, and addicted to opium-smoking i
sorrow we shall not be able to receive them able to sell the earth and straw, the material ambitious or in too great a hurry, and by Mexicans, of their poor houses, abandon there, having the exercise of tact, judgment, and kindly Gold Leal, while the women aro very industrious.
for the future. Tuesday.Started in a steam-launch for
80th November. With a beast full of first closed up their doors and windows with consideration for the Natives, snooses should English Sovereigns, Anbol. The river, shallow and tortuous, Corps is to impart to as many volunteers as Borrow, I must speak to you afresh of the plaster work They migrate to other places not attend and reward their efforts and cal- Australian Sovereigns, ** flows, through a country low and fat, with possible suficient military instruction to horrible calamity which has come upon this to seek, I will not say that they may be culations, and there can be no season at any Discount, one exception, vix, the lephant Mountain, enable them to assist the regular forces in province by reason of the famiro, the like to able to live, but that they may not die quite rate why every one should not wish saosed At certain seasons, when the river is low, time of war or danger of attack,
which nothing has been ever seen in time so soon. On the roads these families are to to attend their enterprise.
There are some, however, who think the Hongkong Bank, 63 % prom there are but three feet of water on the For this purpose the volunteers would be past. A great number of pagans are con be found in orowds, emaciated by hunger,
the core and Union Ins. Society or Uanton, $1,825 different sand-bars, whilst at other places expected to go through the following course stantly dying of hunger and cold, and some they sell the wife, and abandon their child pertain to result only in loss, perhaps misery China Traders' Ins. Co., $1,800
frozen by the cold. At the first opportunity whole enterprise unsound there are from 8 to 6 fathoms at low water, of instruction
Christians also have died of hunger. The The flood side is felt for about one third Each member to be drilled at least once a number of Christians who come to me to ask ren; so sometimes in a few days large in every way. It is painted out that the Chirata laaurence Co $270 of the distance, beyond which it is a con- day, either morning or evening as he me help increases from day to day, besides families are dispersed and extinguished, sum promised to the Sultan is out of all Tangere ins, Asson, Tia 886 tinuous downward stream. The few laun-elect, for one hour in squad drill as laid which the cold weather is now quickly come who in former days very often have been proportion to any revenue that can possibly North China Ins. Co., TL, 960 chies that run take 24 hours to make the down in the Beid exercise book, copies of ing on. A few days ago an old Christian, rich and at ease. In this manner in several be derived from an unsettled country for BLK, Fire Ins. Co., 1700 run up, and about 18 beurs on the return which are being printed for distribution, who had come from a distance to get to us, districts the villages have been altogether many years that the Company has little or China Firs inn, 00., 31778000
no capital, if it exists at all as a regularly AE, & W, Dock Co., 8 % prem. journey. The banks of the river are law, Squads to be formed under drill instructors arrived at the gate of this town. Not have deserted
You will see from an extract of a letter formed Company that there are rumours LE, 0, & M. 8.-bost Oc., so dis and but few villages are to be seen, most from the regular troops,
ing enough to go to the inn, he went into of which are small, but inrgaly stocked with Members will be moved progressively from pagods to pass the night, and having eaten from Pare Gabriel Cicalero, who is situated already of heavy taxas having been imposed Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tin. 85 children, and noted for the gaping, opene quad to squad according to proficiency, and nothing he died there of hunger and cold, thousand and more beyond the Yellow on trade, and oppression towards the Na Hongkong Gm Go; $75 moothed manners of their inhabitants. to arrive at the frat aquad as soon as as on the second day another poor Christian River, what he has written to me of their lives; and that the country, so far from Hongkong Bots! Co., 185
we miasty and yet we are only at the begin being an El Dorado of mineral and agrical Obina Sugar Refining Co., % preti. seen him there related to Ar the rice crop in being harvested, the posible should be an object of ambition to all. houdiately sent to ones him, but the singlof a heavier desolation; because of not tural wealth, has beraghs which has made Ullarse Lunpertas Latt, 2106 whole country looks as if carpeted with After qualifying in this preliminary in-
Do. at 1877, 4102). golden grain, varlegated here and there fantry drill, members will be instructed in pagans of the pagods had already carried having been able to sow the wheat for the six months from a drought which has made
Temperature. with patches of indige and sugar cane gun drill, but no member will be eligible for him away. If we are now already in expring crop of 1876. That fast reduces the it resemble Aden mass than the planter's Ancliored for daylight.
the latter unless he shall have passed the tremity how will it be in the depth of the people to the leat extremity not only of paradise it has been described to be.
jaisazy, but of despair From the number Buch conilleting views are always enter" (Tasken at Zeure Falconer & Coʻi Premiers' Wednesday Atrived at Banci at balf- fret squad,
December 28th-The horrible famine of of little children that we find about, can be tained with regard to every new enterprise. The first squad after completing its pres pest 11 am, and anchored in 6 fathoms
Queen's Bond.) close to the shore. The French have here liminary infantry drill will be placed under which I have spoken to you in my letters of argued the miserable state of the population. It is for every man to use his own judgment
Boraxoro, May 11, 1878. agobeton, at at Haiphong, with a the tuition of Royal Artillery non-commis the past monthe, I must now tell you We do not receive those who are more than as to what views are of are not unsound.
BAROUKTER 9 de Mar Consal, Cozamandant of troops and 100 ioned offears under the supervision of the becomes from day to day more shocking ten years old, not those who many And slide
Do. soldiers, do, but what they do is a mys Officer Commanding Royal Artillery, In throughout the province, and more especially where any resources or means of subsletenos. Tas art of photography has vertainly
tesshed a very high state of perfection. .........A Do. tory Hanoi is a city of about 20,000 such numbers as he may be prepared to in several of the towns, that is to say, in all |
photographer of our acquaintance hat THERMOMETER) AM, 100 inhabitants; ite streets are wide and clean, receive, and they will be instructed in the the departments of Fu-long-sien, Ul-nan
Do, fak biruses and shops on both sides, but dfill of the different descriptions of guine in Fueping, Han-leng, Fe-seni, Fu-ven-fit, (Strate mes) actually gone down into the country with
The extracts givett toaday in another the intention of taking the air ---Fun
Do, Caoling-sien, Ling-fung, Yan-ynen, Oings not paved, so that they are very muddy on the command
THAT gun you sold me bursted the first ralay days as only mandarins and known These artillery delila will take place daily, rang, in-ping, Fu-fung, Li-cinen, Ci-fan, solumn, from the Barateak, Guette of the wealthy people are permitted to wear shoes, morning and evening, at the same hours as Fuog-sang-foo-gung-sign and also, 34th intact, throw somewhat diferent time I fired it of said su irate sportsman which distacks the natives but little. The de preliminary infantry drills Members although to somewhat less degres, is light upon the recast proceedings of Baron to Mr. Shoot Urhad's very strange," jela shops sppeared to be fably well supplied to select either the morning or evening drills several other departments and many other Overbeck is the Northeast of herpes, and the latterjallià noves did so haters. You
towns in the previNCE! with goody, but noticeably only of a cheap | sa maay suit their sopranienos,
his Tranty for the armies of 1 légy and must harp baja rustig gevier in liga
AN UNGRATEFUL "HUSSY."
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