she had been guilty of any wrong and trusted In God's goodness.
No. 4881.—FEBRUARY 27, 1879.)-
of petty pilferings which are continually going on there. The Government ought to
Hle Lordship sald she had been found be the last to hold out temptation to the guilty and that she was evidently no novico wrotched half-starved coolics who are al-at the business. He then sentenced her to 2 ways prowling about the Colony in search years' imprisonment with hard labour and solitary confinement for 2 months in so of any kind of likelihood, honest or other parate periods of 14 days each. The third prisoner, Ng Min Chal, he said, was hardly as bad as the second, and she was sent to one year's hard labour and ordered to be subjected to one month's solitary confino-fitable business, ment in a separatis periods of 7 days each.
WİKO.
The rather unpleasant change in the weather looks anything but promising for the Sports on Saturday next. The ground will be somewhat heavy for running. Apropos of the weather there was a beavy fall of bail-stones early this morning; the bail-utones were very large, varying from tot of an inch In diameter, and they could be gathered in handfulla, We believe that no little
damage has been dono to plants and shrubs by this unusual peppering. What with thunder and Rghtning, heavy rain, hall stones, föge, damp and a wretchedly muggy atmosphore, residence in our bleased little Island is anything but enjoyable at present. A month of such weather, and we should all cease to smile, even though there should be a chango for the better in the rate of exchange. Against this, of course, must be placed the incomparably fine weather of the last three or four months,
SUPREME COURT.
IN ORIMINAL SESSIONS.
The prisoners who had been found guilty
Low Abo: The prisoner was found guilty of stealing 50 bags of flour on the 25th November from the American barque Coloma. There were also several previous convictions against him. He stili denied the prime, saying that ho was not the man. Had he been the thief, he said, he would not have gone back to the ship and thus have run the risk of detection.
His Lordship said that, fortunately for society, great thieves were generally great fools, and consequently got, canight. He thought, looking at the long list of crimes for which the prisoner had been punished, that it would be an economy to the Colony to keep him in gaol, and the sentence of the Court therefore was that he be kept in ponal servitude for 6 years,
{Some one hero gave a low whistle].
THE CHINA MAFL.
of the contral maximum group aliould yield intermediate results, and when taken together, should form a well-marked inter- in,mediate group."
New Groups Rainfall of of Sunspots. Pokán in
+
the payment for protection should be pre-observed during these years are also ap following yours). The years on both sides portionate. With the present very imperpended. feet methods of communication, inadequate water supply, defective means, and want of organization, together with the monstrous abuse of fire which is constantly permitted amongst the native population, I consider the rates charged are insufficient; and that Fire Insurance in Hongkong, instead of being, as it should be, a safe investment, is a very speculative, although usually pro-
Minimum sunspot year
:
Maximum
1848 sunspot
year
1 take issue altogether with those who think that we may make too great pro- vision for preventing fires, and thus, by discouraging insurance, injure the fire stock. These are better days for Fire Insurance Companies than when they could get risks paying six per cent, per annum, be fors the establishment of the "Hongkong" and the "China" and there will be & better ohanos of these Shares approaching in value that of the best of the Home Com- panies, viz., about 1,000 per cent. premium, when, owing to a great improvement of the means of security, the rates of premia may Minimum be safely lossened. Shareholders, after they have received a good dividend upon their capital, may well be satisfied that a portion of their surplus be expanded in the proven- tion and extinction of fires, rather than that their capital, dividends, and reserve should be alike endangered by anch conflagrations as that of Christmas 1878.
Yours &c.,
BUDspot
year
28 3 8 324925* * *28 a 281284 –ave not yet been
Adopting the method suggested by Messrs. Lockyer and Huntor and applied by them to the ralufell of Madras, we find the fol lowing result in the case of the Poking rainfall
TABLE IL-RAINFALL IN GROUPS.
members emigrating west of Chicago. It is believed that many will accept, as the amaller, quarries mostly remain closed.
Berlin, Jan. 20.-Bismarck has written and caused to be published a letter appeal- Ing to the agricultural community of Germany to afford him their united and vigorous supportio his work of fiscal reform. Ho refers to the new duties to be levied upon imported corn and seattle, and ex- preezer the opinion that such taxation has become an unavoidable necessity.
Annual
Annual |
At Breslau the police prohibited the col- Rainfall Aver- Rolutive Aver-lection of the contribution of money soli-
(Mean age. No. of
cited by Socialist leaders, and arrested a Cycle). Bunspots man for soliciting in violation of the pro-
hibition.
1841 102 1842
68.
28.3 28.Q
1848 B4
20.0
1844
52
24.7
1845 114
31.9
1846 167
23:8
Feara.
1647 257
-19.6
330
31.4
Minimum ingles.
Group-
1849
28.8
11th year of 16.77 )
57.87
1850
186
23.6
1861
151
22.5
1nt rena 20,02 20.22 54.60
21.87 2nd cycle
87.41
1853
120
23.9
1853
91
88.9
Intermediate
1854
67
13.2
Group.
1856
#8
24.0
Brd
21.80
152.91
4th
Fear of £1,80
menn
1856
34 wanting
9th
24,53
10th
cycle
22.25 116.87
$281.24
21.65
89.75
1857
98
Maximum
1858
188
Group,
1859
206:
gy...
Gtk
20.68
Maximam sunspot ...year
Báb
year of
29.05
1800)
210 !
-27.85
18.2
TU Bib
28.27
cyclo
26.51
273,21 $233.41 165.79 154.50
1801
*204
21.5
1862 160
wanting
1868
25.7
1884 1865 1866
113
40
20.0 15.5 10.0
year
Maximum Bunspoi year
Minimum
sunspot 1867 17
1868 1869
[1870
224
15.2
22.8 16.0
403
30.1
1871
271
44.0
1872
186
30,0
1873
36,0
1874
25.5
1878
17.0
1876
34.5
1877
19.3
1878
80.3
His Lordship asked if the man Olson was
GRANVILLE SHARP. custody, and the Attorney General said he was not. His Lordship remarked that
[We fully sympathiso with Mr Sharp in that cane the prosecutors might consider regarding minorities, as the China Mait themselves fortunate that the man had been represented the very small minority" in forthcoming at the trial, The morality favour of the Stamp Act, to which ho amongst the crew of the Colonia, he said, belonged "a many years ago." This, how- was very bad and he hoped exceptionable. ever, has very little to do with Mr Sharp's John Lustrom and Edward Caroe, wore reasoning on the subject of a tax on fire then discharged by proclamation. They insurance, which we recently characterized had been charged with cutting and wound- as fallacious; nor does his letter which (Before the Chief Justice Sir John SMALE.)ing on board a ship at Yokohama. His appears abore seem to us to put the Lordabip read them a severe lesture and question more fairly. The position we 27th February, 1870,
Advised them strongly to remember what take up is that tire, being a public enemy, they owed to themselves and not give way should be guarded against by public money to their passions. He said he hoped they not by the funds of those who buy or sell would never forget how near they had been security from fire as a matter of legitimate to spending soms of the best years of their business. may sometimes pay under- They were then die-writers-and it has paid them here in times live in a prison, charged.
gone by to employ means, at their own expense, to assist a feeble Executive in the extinguishment of fires; but it is no part of an underwriter's duty to keep an engine to put out a fire which ought to be ex- tinguished by the Government officials paid to full that duty, still less to save tho premises of a man who refuses to buy the
By analyzing the above statistica and security which a policy gives him. A tax arranging so that the rainfall in the maxi- levied on house property or upon house-mum sunspot years shall fall in the sixth holders would, to our mind, be much more column, we find that there are three opales fair than the proposal made by Mr Sharp. from 1843 to 1877, both inclusivo, It would include all the underwriters as
TABLE 1-RAINFALL AT PEKING, holders or occupiers of property, but rightly would not tax them as anderwriters.-ED.
J
(Before Mr Justice Snowden.) The following sentences were then passed by Mr Justice Snowden :-
were brought up for sentence:—
Taug Ahoi, who was found guilty of kidnapping a child aged six years, was sentenced to two years imprisonment with Lard labour, and ordered to be subjected to three months' solitary confinement in three seperate perioda, each of one month In passing sentence His Lordship remarked that, although he was willing to believe that the prisoner was not implicated in the Chan Aeze-Stealing one box of cloth. Driginal stealing of the child, yet he coning, or attempting to steal it, from a junk curred willingly in bringing the child to the at Yow-mah-ti, and further being found Colony. This was the case in which the armed with a knife-8 years penalservitude, Jury had been unable to arrive at a unani. and to be once privately whipped 25 strokes, mona verdict for some time, and wore sent within the first six months of his sentence. back three times by His Lordship in con- sequence.
Chan Asing and Lam AkorThe prl. soners, who were found guilty of larceny from a dwelling house, were sentenced: the first to 12 months' hard labour (this.] being the first offence so far as the Court knew); and the second, against whore there were two previous convictions, to 4 years' penal servitude.
Leo Aoblu The prisoner had pleaded guilty to child stealing, His Lordship paid that the ones was a very obar and at the same time an exceedingly bad one. He had stolen the child of a clansman in whose house he had been living, and bad taken advantage of the hospitality shewn to him
Tam Ahing and Tam Alaong-Both. by stealing his friend's child. It was evident prisoners had been found guilty: the first the prisoner knew what he was about by for larosny and the second for receiving the manner in which he had bebaved property stolen from the house of Mr when he arrived here. It had evidently James and the first prisoner was further been the prisoner's intention to sell the charges with stealing a watch, valued at child. "His Lordship then sentenced the prisoner to 2 years' hard labour, and ordered $35, the property of Mr Arnhold. him to be privately whipped twios, 20 strokes each time, with the regulation instrument, within the first 6 months
of bis sentence. His Lordecip then said:
of the inflaction.
The Acting Attorney General asked His Lordship if he had said the regulation
instrament.
His Lordship said he had, it was neces-
#sry to mention the instrument.
The Attorney General concurred,
It was the duty of the judges, continued Bis Lordship, to administer the law as they found it, and he should have no opinion except in so far as the law required him, Many had refused to become judges on this account, to their great honor be it said.
THE CHARACTER
To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL. "
Feb. 24, 1870. Fig-l your issue of the 22nd inat, the writer of "Chinese Notes" oalle attention to the Character, neither of the con- stituent elements of which appear to be phonette, but both ideographic. The sound which properly belongs to this wombination is undoubtedly the Cantonese Hut, or or its dialectio equivalents; Fooch.
first prisoner said that, he appeared to be His Lordship in passing sentence on the a dangerous character, and the Colony Hak
WAS
penal servitude. The 2nd prisoner, who bore an exceedingly good character from his employer (or Kyrie), in whoso service he had been for 8 years, was sent to months' hard labour...
This closed the business of the Sessione.
CORRESPONDENCE.
DUTY UPON FIRE INSURANCE, To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL.”
February 26, 1870.
Minimum sunspot year
I
Z
N
ascertained
1848-1877.
Years 12
1843-55.
319
1865-77. 15.5 1856–67. | 24,0
wanting wanting
Cycle.
Mean
Means.
Variation.
Sanapot
Variation.
Rainfall
3.56 1.71
1.72 2.28 2.00 5.47
Years
of Cycle.
5
6
7
ន
9
10
11
90.62 57.877.68 85.36 128.46 88.13 20.61 10.78 28.41 55.63 87.41
т
4.69 2.93 0.95
1.93 4.81
++
1 − ] + 1 + 1 +
-50, 26.0 |24.79anting wanting 182 28.820257
4
128.8 19.6 31.4*
10.0 15.222.316.0 30.144.0 30.0 36.0
| 20.02 | 21.87 | 31.86 21.30 26.58 29.06 28.27 28.51 24.53 21.667|18.77 21.83 17.55 23.55 23.05-17.80 26.56 | 31.43 26.80 | 28.06 | 23.18 25.80 16.90 19.50
* Maximum Years.
5
6 7
8 19
10
11
12
18.2 21.5
20.0 15.5 25:517.0 24.5 19.3 23.9 35.9 18.2 24.0 10.0
15.2
| 13
The rainfalls in the years of maximum suuspot, 1848, 1860, and 1870, are placed In the same vertical column, and the rain falls in the fire preceding and seven tioal columas, respectively. following years are given in the other ver-
age.
Bismarck is preparing to submit to the Federal Council a law for the regulation of 66.61 railway tariffs.
Јарап. (Vail)
The following notification was issued on the 18th inst:- 147.06 NOTIFICATION No. 8 BY THE DAIJOKUWAN.
It is hereby notified that those persons who have hitherto been trading in Mexican Dollars, at the port of Yokohama in Kunagawa Ken, are hereby strictly for biddon from so doing, and those who in 201.78 future wish to establish and carry on the business or trade in Mexican Dollars should, in accordance with the rogulations for Stock Exchange officers, notified as per Notifică- tion No. 8, in May, 1878, make application to the Minister of Finance.
"Note. The amount of capital for such an establishment should be 150,000 yen or upwards, and the guarantee not less than 3 por cont."
From this we eus that the average rain- fall of the four maximum years of the aleven year moan cycle exceeds the average Annual rainfall of the four years composing the intermediate group by 5.02 inches, and the average annual rainfall of the three yeare forming the minimum group by 7.13 Ibabes.
On the other hand, the average annual number of sunspots of the maximum group exceeds the average ananal number of the intermediate group by 54.07, and the averago annual number of the minimum group by 135.09. We think that in case of murder. After the official inquiry into the the rainfall of Peking there is strong evid-cause of the death, one of these fouths was enca for believing that this coincidence is held to answer. for the crime, the other not a more accidental one.
A, H.
TELEGRAMS BY THE AMERICAN
A fatal stabbing affray is reported from Hiogo, the victim being a young French sailor of the corvette Cosmao. Three young men, apprentices and ordinary seamen of the British barque John Milton, were arrested of being concerned in the
two being discharged and gent on board their vessel. The Cosmas was under orders to proceed to Yokohama on the day following that of the tragedy; but her departure was delayed for some time.
Mr Blundel, an employé of the Govern, London, Jan. 16.-M. Comas & Co., Lon-ment of the Straits Settlements, and a don merchants, have failed. Liabilities passenger by the steamer Glenorchy to this
£80,000.
MAIL.
The Berlia National Zeitung, referring to port, was shortly after his arrival arrested the project of the Russiau loan, saye Luby a constable of the British Consulate, on authority received from Singapore, ropean capitalists will only supply money Binndel, who is well connected, is charged if Russian armies in Turkey are withdrawn with the embezzlement of Government and Russian forbears to engage in a fresh funds. Sufficient evidence was taken b war in Asia.
remanded until the 18th instant, and lodge justify his detention, and he was then for custody in the consular gaol.
The Gorgan Government, In consequence of the refusal of the Samoans to comply with its demands, has instructed the Ari- adne and the gunboat Nautilue to exact satisfaction by force, it necessary.
A Notification, having for its evident object the restriction of the business done in the purchase of satsu, especially se re- Berlin, Jan. 16.It is rumoured that Bis-garde time bargains, has been issued by marck is preparing a bill authorizing the the Daijo Kwan. Exchango shopa must opening of all letters at the frontier.
Berlin, Jan. 17-The Fost says that Bis-operations in accordance with the regula obtain government licence to carry on their marok has declared privately that he was tions, issued last year for the ocntrol of indifferent as to the fate of the Parliament-stockbroking. The capital to be employed ary Di cipline bill, which, he said, he pro- by each firm of exchange merchants is fixed posed solely in the interest of the Reishatag at the high sum of gen 160,000; and at Itzoli.
London, Jan, 17.-Thos W. Rooker and least three per cent of this to be lodged with the Finance Department as a guaranted. Co., Glamorganabire, iron masters. have The regulation is an ingenious one; and if failed. They owe the Bristol and West of enforced cannot bat tend, by the suppres- England Bank £600.000.
sion of more gambling in paper money, to London, Jan. 18.-The Middleboro, Rose-pit a very necessary and legitimate business dale and Ferryhill Iron Company has upon a better footing than it now occupies. falled. Liabilities, £280,000;
assota, The low, appears to be enacted for the £350,000.
Kanagawa Kon only, where operations Stockholm, Jan. 18.-The branch office of which are merely fetitions, having no the Gottenburg Commercial Company has actual financial basis, are most common. zuspended payment.
It bas been suggested that it will have the St. Petersburg, Jan. 18.-The Agence effect only of changing the venue of the Fuse says: The proposal to extend the speculators; but this theory is not war- functions of the Commission for reorganizaranted. If even the gamblers should tion of Eastern Roumelia has received the betake themselves en masse to Tokio, & aasent of all the Powers, but such pro-most inconvenient locality for them, it will longation does not constitute a violation of he no dificult matter for an absolute the Treaty of Berlin. The Russian Ad-government to make the decree applicable ministration of the Government of Eastern to the capital. By no code of fair criticism Roumelia also la thus prolonged until the can the strictures which are passed by labours of the reorganization Commission foreign commentators upon every measure
of the Government be justified. London, Jan, 18.-Edward Mathew Ward, committed autoïde.
Quotations. London, Jan. 18.-Weston started this morning from the Royal Exchange to walk
HONGKONG, February 27, 1879, over highways 2000 miles in 1000 hours, and deliver 50 lectures.
ORIUM.-New Patna, pash....$575
Old Patza, cash,...
are concluded.
London, Jan. 19,--The cotton mills at Preston have given notice of a reduction of wages of from 5 to 10 per cent.
The Czar Russia has ordered the authorities of East Siberia to immediately despatch overload a sledge, expedition, to ascertain the whereabouts of Nordensjold's expedition.
London, Jan, 19.-The North Wales Miners' Association has resolved to vote £7 to every member of the Union who desire to ealgrate to America and £14 to emigrate to Australia. Notices were posted on Saturday by the Iron Trade Employer Ass station in the iron shipbuilding yards
and foundries in Liverpool and the district around of a reduction of wages of 7 per cent. after the 31st of January. It is thought the men will strike. At a meeting of the Great Northern Railway's employés to-day, the mon pledged themselves to oppose any reduction of wages. The de cision of the Directors of the road will be made known on Tuesday,
"
credit,
credit,
New Henares, cash, 5471
11
credit,
19
Old Benares, cash,
12
credit,
33
credit,
"
t
Bank,
"
Now Malwa, cash, 800
Allowance Taols Old Malwa, cash,
Allowanca
credit 810 Tools,
Exchange.
Wire, ..........
13
17
3/52
... 8/7
would be the better of bis being kept in Kik, &o. These follow a law of change : - I have always hitherto, when I have son- gaol. He was thon sentenced to 12 years corresponding to Grimm's Law in the Aryan penal servitude for stealing the watch and languages. But why another sound for the tenord' an offender to be Bloggud, directed that he should begged in public. in counts on which he had been found guilty in book interpretation of the word aalla to 3 years' penal servitude on each of the three word in Canton and South China? The dividually I hold that the deterrent off at of connection with the robbery from ir mind a custom so prevalent in the East even Blogging as a p.evention of crime-brutal and James' house, but this sentence brutalizing as it is-is in the publicity of
concurrent with the former sentence, so that till this day, of holding intercourse with the that punishment. This has been the ex-in reality he has only got to serve 12 years' unseen (), respecting which an able pressed opinion of each Judge who from
article appeared some time since in the 1866 to 1878 has from this Bench each
Contemporary Review, which may be supple- directed the flogging to be public. I could
mented by the interesting note of Dr. not depart from auch uniform procedenis, but Mr Justice Snowden has held that the
Caldwell in his Eravidian Grammar. Now Court is not bound by such precedente, and
I am strongly of opinion that we have la he has uniformly directed the fogging to
the Cantonese Sheng a connecting Ruk be- tween the Chinese, and their neighbours. be in private. I may well defer to hìa high
The Burmese Nat (the Karen Na) is familiar authority; 1yield to it inasmuch as under the
by name to all readers of literature relating circumstances it da practically desirable to do
to the East. With reference to the Karen so, but must repeat that I should not have
Na we may observe that Dr. Masona felt myself justified in departing from the
reliable authority on matters touching Bur- courses curia in this matter, ever since the
S-I regret that you should feel called is analogous (in meaning) to the Burmese mah and the neighbourhood-thinks that**it ordinance was passed in 1865. I know that public opinion throughout Europe is on the upon to characterise as "fallacies" the re-Sung." This word is also found under the Whole greatly opposed to flogging, but this marks made by me at the meeting of the China forms Son and Song, and is defined as a La a question for the legislaturo, not for the Fire Insurance Company; and would remind Bench. It is the duty of Jadges to inflict you that we have seen some other fallacies witch or wizard, the gender being indicated whatever punishments the legislature by in which I indulged many years ago become by the qualitative masculine or feminine statute direct, and to be merely the medium substantial and accomplished fiscal facts. Aal have the power of life or death.
affix. This Sung is further supposed to formerly ventured, in a very small minority, to support the policy of Sir Richard Graves made a note of this, but have allowed it to I can merely say that I some months ago MacDonnell in the imposition of a stamp stand over, awaiting an opportunity to carry tax upon commercial transactions, so I am now prepared to hold that a duty on the cut the investigation further, and trace t premia received upon fire insurance is al. possible the connexion between the Can- tonese Shing () and the Burmese Sung. together consistent with equity,
Whether this be levied ad valorem upon This I have as yet been unable to do., policies issued, or as an assessment upon the With regard to the Cantonese pronun- total annual sum received is a matter of diation Hat, I may remark that those who indifference; the principle remains the same.
The justification is found in the paramount are fond of finding phonetto equivalents-for necessity existing for the prevention and Chinese words in Aryan languages, will find extinction of fires, the large outlay and that in Old Norse a wizard was called Bleida, Fung Achol, Lo Ang, and Ng Min continued expenditure involved, by which and no legs a writer than Bunsen supported Chai The three prisoners (women) were the interests of a special class are primarily the ides that Heide, meaning heathen, was found guilty of unlawfully detaining and especially conserved. Upon the under derived from this word rather than from female child under the age of 14 years, and writers therefore who are mainly benefitted, the word for heath, so that heathen were
The mean anngal rainfall for the mean the 2nd prisoner was further charged with a portion of the cost should fall, and the not people from the heath, but sorcerers, bringing the child into the Colony for the remainder should be borne by the public, Pharmakor seems to favour the idea; but 23.58 inches, and the mean amount of followers of wizards. The Greek word period of eleven years we find to have been purpose of selling ber, but the Jury had insurers and uninsured alike, acquitted her on the second count. The I quite agree with you that ander an on the contrary we have the testimony of sunspots 160.28. The variations from these
sficient municipal Government the duties the German heiden, Gothic haithng, and means are shown in the above Table.
The year of maximum rainfall falls in the of Fire Insurance Companies to extinguich such words as Pagan, Kaffr, &c.
I think the change from the book ex-seventh year of the mean cycle instead of res may be fairly relegated by them to the public fire brigades but only upon the planation of to the local, is not a great for by the rainfall of 1871, which amounted in the sixth year. This may be accounted condition of their compaunding with the difficulty. It seems to indicate that the to 44 inches, exceeding by 12.6 in that of munisipality for the performance of this business has gradually passed out of the 1848-the heaviest rainfall in the three Has Lordship said he had tot forgotten
hands of the men, and that females-as I maximum sunspot years, My suggestion was that a duty of 24 por am told is the case in South China st leant. the recommendation of the Jury. He was
In comparing the Rainfall and Sunspots willing to believe that the prisoner had sent upon the gross earnings be assessed. intended the child for the matriinopial
exhibited in the abovo This would appear to have been the are the chief agente consulted for die variations
Table, we find that in four cases they fall market, and not for a more disreputable 48sessment intended by the framers of the covering the mind of the one. Ele reminded Mr Ng Choy that he sot (28 & 29 Viota, esp. 90) for the estab
togather under the mean, namely, in the London, Jan. 29--Right Hon. W. E. 10th, 11th, int, and 2nd years of the Forster, speaking at a soiree of the Bread. might damage his clients case if he asid toulishment of the London Fire Brigade by
elevan year mean cycle, and in three cases ford Obamber of Commerce, said that he itob, and aid that if there were no auch which a payment is required from all Fire
rise together above the mean, namely in did not deny that the strength of protec persons as the prisoner to buy children Insurance Companies in the Metropolis of
the 5th, 6th and 7th years in the 3rd tion in the United States was particularly there would be less reason for stealing £38 per million sterling of their risks, the
and 4th years the rainfall is under the zean, disheartening, but he th ught that no them. He asked the prisoner if she bad average premia upon which may be eati ever reflected on the misery she had caused acted at something over 2/6 per £100.
It is announced in the Prking Graette of whereas the ennapots rice above the mean threat of imposing counter duties would the parents of the shild, sud asked her to Whilst entertaining the highest respect the 21st December last that the Governor In the 6. and Fib years this is reversed: bave any effect. The United States would (Taken at Moners Falconer & Co.'s Premist
Queen's Road) take the matter home to berelt and think for the opinion expressed by the Hon of Shun-tien (Pekin) has presented a It should be remarked, however, that the only thereby be provoked to make an issue, how she would feel if abe was a mother Chairman of the meeting, I cannot but memorial to as throne, reporting that numbers of their variations under and to see which side was the strongest. Beside, such a policy would be impracticable,
·BONGKONG, February 27, 1879. and had her shildren stolen from her. The believe that an ordinance prepared by the snow had fallen in the Capital to a depth above their respective means are identical.
"At page 697" of the Nineteenth century because, to bring serious pressure on the BAZOMETER AM.. fary had recommended her to mercy End Attorney General of Hongkong, if approved of more than three inches.
United States, it would be pecessary to tai no would give that recommendation the by the Governor in Council, and confirmed
The average annual snowfall for the nina for November 1877, Mesara. Lockyer and falloat consideration he could give it, and by the Hue Government, for the purpose of years from 1862 to 1871 [excluding 18881 tnter, in their joint Artials on "Sunspots such vital necessities as wheat and cotton,
London, Jan. 20, The North Wales sentenced her to 8 months' imprisonment imposing a contribution towards Fire Brigade was 8.7 in: the years of greatest and lease and Fatnines," remark
expenses upon all Fire Insurance Companies fall being 1864 and 1869, when the depths "The spalle coincidence may be tested Slate Quarrymen's Veion: has &ffered the Lo Abing, the second prisoner, and an in Hongkong, would be effectual for the were in, and in, respectively, in another way. If there is a irtie coinct same premiums to its members who will bid woman, pleaded that she had lived her purpose, and that the agents of Home Offoss The rainfall at Peking from the year dense, it should disclose a well marked emigrate as those offered by the North several tens of years and that she had never doing business in the Colony would be 1841 is here given in extense and in order minimum group as the extremities of the Wales Miners' Association, namely £7 to been before the Court. She cried bitterly little able as they would be disposed to to test the theory of the supposed concycle (in the eleventh, first, and second those smigrating to America and 414 to And pleaded for mercy on account of her resist its application,
motion between Solar Spots and Rainfall years), and well-marked maximum group those desiring to go to Austrails. The pd age he did not know, she said, that
the numbers of the new groups of aarpots in the middle of the eyele (the Afth and Quarrymen's Union offer £2 additional to
first prisoner had been recommended to mercy by the Jury, and her counsel (Me Ng Choy) urged this upon the notice of His Lordship, saying that elie had not known the child was stolen and that she had in tended to adopt it.
with hard labour.
work,
An Okina ibe dangers are sappelye, and
Yours truly,
RICHILDE.
RAINFALL IN CRINA.
By taking a mean of the first and third maan, and of that mean and the second mean, and so on, we obtain from the thirteen means eleven now means, the first of which corresponds with the years 1844, 1866, and 1866, and the ith with the years of maximum zusapot.
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Coruna, Spain, Jan. 19.- Spanish has arrived here in a damaged condition. steamer, from Baltimore, via Liverpool, She reports that she collided with the British sailing vessel Lancashire Witch, which sack, with all on board. The stea mer's bowe were broken.
at Huddersfield have locked out their London, Jan. 19-Siz engineering Arms workmen for refusing to consent to an extension of the hours of labor.
Zonden, Jau, 20. - Oxford University Boat Crew has declined to row with the Harvard Crew, because of the lateness of the date named.
30 days' night, 6 months' sight, Credits, Documentary, 6 months' sight, 3/71
218 India, Wire,
demand,... 210 722 Shanghal, demand,...
80 days sight, 73
*** Bar Silver, 17 duta. D., 1001
Shares. Hongkong Bank, 44% prem, Union Ins., Society of Canton, $1,500 North China Ins. Co., Tis, 1,800 Chios Traders' Ins. Co., $1,400 Yanglate Inar A800., Tis. 715. Chinese Insurance Co., $300 I.K. Fire Jne. Co., 6820 China Fire Ins. Co., $180 H.K. & W. Dock Co., 14 dis, as div, H.K, C. & M. 8. boat Co., $10 dis, Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tls. 16 China Coast St. Nav. Co., Tls. 105 Hongkong Gas Co., $80 Hongkong Hotel Co., 465 Chius Sugar Refining Co., $130, ez dir, Chines Imperial Loun, £112
of 1877, £118 Temperature.
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