Portfolio.
SILENCE.
For an ocean of rapturous melody!
Less control o'er the heart to a tempest is
given,
Though it bound like a peal from the organ
of bearen,
Than to echo, scarce heard in the ravine's With a thrill of Eolian tenderness,
700658,
-William Harry Rogers.
SHADOW AND LIGHT. The sun may usher the glittering morn
With dew-drops hung,
THE CHINA MAIL.
[No. 4889.-MARCH 8, 1879.
be made to diffuse information in England local management such agencies would be | Japaneso humour, but also because thereby spoonfal, then to a quarter-spoonful, and circle named there are added to the popula- concerning that country and its inhabitants. productive of unmised good to the Chinese. may be learned what feelings are pro-gradually down to fifteen, ten, and fire tlon 206 persons every day, and 75,000 To most Englishmen, China is at the pre- I have often thought that, if every Euro. dominant regarding the questions of the drops. The medicine is continued for a annually, Ledon has 7,000 miles of sent time an utterly unknown region. Its pean Settlement in China had from the day,-political and social. Evon bere do ported of from five to fitoen daya, and in streets, and on an average 28 miles of now O silence oft whispers a lovelior tale geography and history are never taught in beginning maintained some institution for spotism is tampered with epigramos, spoken extreme cases to thirty days; seven days streets are opened and 9,003 now houses Than the voice of the harp or the nightingale, our schools. Until quite recently the study ministering in various ways, and on a con- and written, and thongh but few find their is about the average, Dr. D'Unger has built every year; 1,000 vessels and 9,000 And a sigh unrestrained from lips that are of Chinese was not in any way recognized siderable scale, to the wants of suffering way into print, such antires on Government cured 2,800 cases of the worst forms of in-sailors are in part every day. Its crime in
mute
by our Universities. In ordinary times the humanity, our presence in China would not men and measures as do seu the light of temperance by this treatment. He takes also in proportion to its extent. Seventy- Wakes sweater emotion than laughter or lute.editore of our newspapers, reviews and only have been a source of untold blessing publication, give the student of Japanese nien debauched by liquor for years-used three thousand persons are annually taken magazines seldom think it worth while to to myriads of enfferers, but we should also politics many a hiut of the feelings of the up, demented, loathsome sota," and in ten luto custody by the police, and more than Yes 1 richly the treasures of music may roll, give the public any news of what is passing bave created a far more favourable im- people. The oelebrated parrot, who didn't days, as a rule, makes sober respectable men ono-third of all the crimes in the country In China. Under these circumstances the pression on the Chinese than we have now talk much but was a beggar to think was of them, with a positive aversion to liquor to committed within its borders. Thirty- But music imagined flows nearer the soul; And I ne'er would forget the dear chord of a ignorence of even eâncated people amongst done. We should have boon regarded with a caged bird, we must recollect and, under in any form. The editor of the Chicago eight thousand persons are annually com us in regard to China is soarcely to be reapest in many cases where hitherto wa the rigid grasp of the corrupt and repressive Tribune, who takes a deep luterest in the mitted for drunkenness by its magistrates. sigh
wondered at, though it is certainly a matter have been only looked on with contempt; bureaucracy which now ens aves this new remedy, gives the following account of The metropolis comprises considerably up- It contains more. for regret. Would it not be possible, and we should have elicited foelings of gratitude country, free speech le impossible. But it one of the cases in which a perfect oure was wards of 100,000 foreigners from every would it not be worth while, to establish and good-will where hitherto we have been a dangerous for a Government when its lately effected:One of the first oitizens quarter of the globe.
aubjects are beggars to think thought of Chicago a few years ago became a com- Roman Catholics than Rome itself, more some organization for improving this stato met with only suspicion and dislike.
To sum up in fow words what has now denied expression in speech breeds action, mon drunkard. He fell into the lowest Jews than the whole of Palestine, more of things?
Welshmen than been said :-there is room for the existence and the blow falls without the warning of a depths. He grovelled in the dust. His Irish than Belfast, more Scotchmen than
Unfortunately it is difficult to a wife, a lovely woman, got a divorce from Aberdeen, and more of a permanent organization for carrying word. out the following objects; Istly, to awaken foreigner to catch the meaning of the him. At the last moment, when ready to in England a general interest in Chinese illustrations, which are often based on plays die, the unhappy man's friends. tried this affairs; Budly, to promote the welfare of on words, and therefore incomprehensible wonderful remedy for four days; his ap- Chinese immigrants to the colonies and to those who are not well acquainted with potite came back, and in a week he gained dependencies of Western powers; 3rdly, the language. Still, with a little explanathe use of his tongue, hands, and brain, to raise contributions in this country for tion a good deal may be made intelligible, The colour came to his cheeks, and in a carrying on works of philanthropy in China. and as we daily devoto space to the news fortuight he was a cured man. He has no Such an organization would, I believo, papore of the Capital, we have thought it longing for liquor. He bates the sight of commend itself to nambers of persons who might amuse some of our readers wore we it. This reformed and oured drankard is have both the will and the means to be occasionally to occupy ourselves a little with now going to be married again to the loving wife who had to leave him a year ago, and generous. The objects above enumerated Punch as well
who with his children is delighted at the are all of them more or less allied one with the other, and with the object for which
blessed change in his condition," the Auti-Opiam Society exists. All of them slike concern the real interests of the Chinese, and everything we can do to promote those interests will help to establish Western right relationship between nations and China. China is now passing through a crisis in her national history, She needs now, and will need more and more as time goes by, the generous, unobtrusive sympathy, and the disinterest ed good-will of intelligent foreigners. An association of such persons, determined to avail themselves with tact and discretion of every opportunity for manifesting their good-will towards the Chinese, might ac- complish a work, the importance of which cannot be overstated. Not only would they be able to confer great and immediate benefits upon the Chinese, but the work they accomplished would not fail to produce hereafter most satisfactory results in affect lug the relations which Chine will sustain to other countries, when at last she fully emerges from her solitude and takes her proper place amongst the nations.
And a golden light that in heaven is born
O'er earth be flung:
"But night will come and shadow the light,
And pass away.
The Summer comes with her rosy charms
And blossoming flowers,
And the earth lies warm in her sheltering
ATILE,
All the sun-lit hours; But Winter stern with his joy stride
Draws darkly near,
And Summer is laid like a faded bride
On an autumn bier,
Our hearts may be light as the summer air,
Enciroled by love,
With a thousand hopes of a future fair
Known only above;
But sorrow with eager malignant band
Will darken our life, And our hopes are slain like a fashing band
Struck down in the strife,
A golden day and a summer glow,
Then winter and night;
And what is a moment of fleeting blies
That is born to die?
A clasp of the hand, a tender kins
And the rest a sigh.
-Emily G. Rogers.
THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE. My Fraude, in an article on Science and Theology, Ancient and Modern," which ap- pears in the current number of the Intertia tional Review, sume up his hopes for the future of religion in the following words:
Man's nature is the same as it always was.
I once heard it observed, by one who holds a foremost place aronget English Sinologists, that The Friend of China might become a perfectly invaluable publication if its scopo were enlarged and it wore well supplied with contributions of a first-rate order, written by men whose names were guarantee for the reliable character of the information which they furnished. A pub. lication of this kind would never have more than a limited circulation, but a Society which made provision for the delivery of popular lectures on China, and which aimed at introducing into the periodical literature of the day, short and interesting articles on Chinese matters, might do much to stimu- late a general interest in that country and its people. The awakening of such an interest would help, at least indirectly, to draw public attention to the question of the pressat palicy of Great Britain in the mat ter of the Opium trade, and thus, sooner or later, to make a continuance of that policy impossible.
I am, &c., ARNOLD FOSTER.
Cardiff. Its beershops and gin palaces are so numerous that their frontages, if placed side by side, would stretch from Charing Crows to Chichester, a distance of 62 miles. If all the dwellings in London could thus bave their frontages placed side by side they would extend beyond the city of York. London has sufficient paupers to occupy every homes in Brighton. The society which advocates the osssation of Sunday labear will be astonished to learn Among the illustrations in a late number,
that 60 miles of shops are open every Sunday... With rogard to churches and chapels, the we observe a young lady, sested in a shop,
It is said that there is a "Book of Heir Bishop of London, examined before a com- as indicated by the sdalo, saroban and chumen lying around her. Under the essos" in circulation amongst the young mittee of the House of Lords in the year drawing is the following Japanese proverb: men. The compiler has devoted much time 1840, said:"If you proceed a mile or two The place of the mekake is not in the and trouble to his work, and has appeaded eastward of St. Paul's you will find yourself shop," the meaning of which is, that notes relating to the ages, temper, good in the midst of a population the most matters of a private nature had better be looks, and celal position of the various wretched and destitute of mankind, con- kept out of the sight of the public,What entries 1,200 a year, or its equivalent sisting of artificere, labourern, beggars, and is here referred to may be inferred from a in ready money, is the lowest qualification thieves, to the amount of 300,000 or 400,000 roll of paper which the damsel holds in her for admittance to the work. Notwithstand souls. Throughout this entire quarter there hand, and on which the word Kunzisha caning the talk about hard times, ruined for is not more than one church for every easily be deciphered, while in the back tunes, and prevailing distress, it la stated 10,000 inhabitante, and in two districts there ground appear the outlines of the Kunaish that the list is a very fall ere, and contains is but one church for 45,000 sole. building. Many Japanese hold the opinion prizes far more valuable than those of the that the Imperial Household Department Parisian lottery. ought to have nothing to do with politics, and that the designation Sho, which makes ft of equal rank with the Galmasho, Okurasho, etc., is out of place.
On another page we find our Ministers hauling in a precious fish from among the Reeds of foreign shores. The two fisher men are depicted as Punch always depicts high Government officials, viz., with a head like the fish Namarus, which la characteristic for its long moustache,a thing which all Government officials are very anxious to rains. The coat of one of the fishermen is of a navy anchor" pattern, while that of the other is embellished with telegraph poles and other insignia of "public works" very sufficiently indicating the particular Ministers alinded to. The stones of the beach form the word "Nippon," while the enormous fiah just hooked is of the shape of Yebisu, one of the gods" that bring wealth," but also suggestive of the term "Yeblan" (barbarian), once applied to foreigners. Behind the fishermen appears
LLOYD'S,
The Underwriters' Room at 'Lloyd'a to
Bcience has much to teach us, but its message or even in San Francisco. These outraged | IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF SIAM. the sumptuous mansion in which the in the management of the affairs; and if started--may oven be at the bottom of the
LONDON GOSSIP.
of
The
IL. In an interesting article on The Chinese as Colonists," which appeared in The Nineteenth Century for last September, from the pen of Sir Walter Medhurst, allu- sion is made to the growing disposition
Mr Stausfeld, M. P., spoke on Tuesday which the Chinese show to leave their native country in order to colonize other lands.
night at a meeting at Halifax on the im- day is a splendid hall, with Scaglioin there was only one safeguard for Liberal mahogany tables placed at Intervals all In that article si mesingstakes
portando of political education. He said columns and richly decorated ceiling, and warious proposals. for improving the type
politicsi opinion and administration base round the room, What an animated, yet and condition of the Chinese who emigrate. He thinks that international arrangements
upon an extending suffrage, and that was domare, hubbub is here!" says & French While the world may last it will ever be so, might be made between the Government of
the edunation of these who had to choose writer. "One might fancy that the sea, Bhadow and light--
China and various Western powers, whereby
the legislators of the country. To a certain with the thoughts of which every brain in the umigration of the Chinese would be pro-
extent this political education was conducted accupied here, had imparted some of its perly regulated, and the welfare of the
by the press, but they must not rely agitation and uproar to the business world. exclusively upon the press. They had The current of news, transactions taking emigrants, in their adopted countries, would
learned some lessons about the press lately.place, and shat going on, runs from one be provided for. But, even supposing ar-
[We are heartily obliged to Mr Foster
Where the constituency which bought the end of the hall to the other with a kind of Those going to rangements of this kind to be, made, one cannot overlook the danger of oppression, for this letter. His experience as Honorary
paper was sound, there they might have deep marmuring roar." which always exists when a weaker race Secretary to the China Famine Relief
sound and reputable papers, as the best and fro are of two very distinct alesses- comes into contact with a stronger one, nor Fuud, entities him to bear testimony to the
provincial papers of the country were. But the insurers of ships and the insurance can one forget how, by means of this op kindly feeling of many in this country
when they came to a vast unorganized brokers. The latter have become very towards Chins. We commend his engges
population like that of London, with very acessary, the reason being as follows: pression, the seeds of a lasting enmity and hatred are down in the minds of the options to the attention of our readers, and
little political character and individuality. The merchant who wishes to insure a ship, or a certain kind of merchandise that he la pressed against their oppressors. Happily shall be glad to receive their thoughts upon
where the bulk of those who read the the gross and barbarous cruelty which has the proposition to enlarge the scope of our
papers did not read them because they about to sxport, may by no means always were politicians, but read them for racing, meet the underwriter who is prepared to been practised upon the Chinese coolice in Boolety-ED. FRIEND OF OBINA.]
theatrical, or Stock Exchange news, such take that particular risk. While he is try Cuba, has never been equalled in Australia,
papers wore not safe guider for politicians tag to insure his ship she may have already upon humanity have attracted the notice of
be were not mistaken, before very long, in sua. In the latter case a delay might be The exports do great credit to the country.catoh" is to be put up. is not the last nor the highest. If we may
the Anti-Slavery Society, and have called
The number that appeared on the 8th spite of the boast and the confidence which fatal, for the news once arrived that his infer the future from the past, a tine will forth its sympathy and active interference; They are of a useful character, if we except
bat even in Australia and in San Franciscs, the betel and tobacco. And the Export list inst. aontains a drawing that shows to what existed, the Government would learn that ship had been wrecked, he could not, of come when we shall cease to be dazzled with
He therefore the thing which we call progress, when in- cause of harsh and unjust dealing with shows a gradual increase in quantities, and causes the Japanose principally attribute it had placed a mietaken confidence to the course, effect any insurance, oreasing wealth' will cease to society, Bay, Chinese immigrants have not been anfre- there have been addition to the list of ex- the present flood of paper-money Wrestl applause and extravagance of an adalatory goes to a broker who knows the habits of
ing matches are often held at the Shokonsha preen.
the place, and probably the very under- Retrenchment is now the order of the writer whose menne or known predilections may be found incapable of being produced quent, and any Society which would station ports and now ports have been opened.
In the exports, rice heads the lin. The festival at Kudan, in honour of the warriors or preserved except when relegated to
agents in those countries, to watch the in- secondary place, when the illusions which terests of the Chinese, to take their part country has had abundance for its own that fell in the last rebellion, and who bave day at St. Petersburg. The cost of the late for certain forms of investment will make have strangled religion shall be burat away when they are unfairly treated, and to en-consumption and has on the export list now become spirits, Kami The currency war has entirely crippled the Russian him desirous of taking the risk. and the immortal part of it restored to its
furge the laws that exist for their protection, 5,487,689 dollars worth of rice, 27,826 of of the Empire is also Kami (paper), and exchequer, and even if Turkey should be business of Lloyd's is conducted by a com- rightful sovereignty, A long weary rond may lie before us. Not easily will an in- would desurve the lasting gratitude, not paddy. Among the exports amounting to the illustration shows us the Sheleton-kami able at any future time to pay part, of the mittes of twelve influential members, while only of the Chinese themselves, but of all more than 100,000 dollars each, are raw wrestling with the fat Bank-kamt thereby war indemnity stipulated for at San Stefano, the working staff. includes a scoretary, violable atmosphere of reverence forra again who desire the happiness and well-being of silk, sticking, sapanwood, teak plauks, teak suggesting that it is to the enormous ex-it will go not much further than pouring a clerks, and a staff of assistanis technically round spiritual faith to warn off the insolent mankind. Here, then; is another object timber, pepper, salt, salt fab, mussole, penses incurred in civil wars that is to be few drops of water on a hot stone. So known as "waiters," which would make it intrader. Piety, reverence, humble adara-which must surely command general sym-hemp, hides, horne, hoots, bones and skins. attributed the present "flourishing" state long as the state of war lasts and a large seam as though the odour of the original Russian force is kaps south of the Danube, Lloyd's Coffee-house still clung to the body. tion of the great Maker of the world, are in themselves so beautiful that religious faithpathy from all the friends of China, and Of dried fish there are more than 200,000 of the banks. Funch asks," What will the
ther in the long ran the bank-wrestlers will ends mest. A special committee has lately be termed, are large, and are used to great. might have remained for ever behind that which would not fail to receive support dollars worth on the list, and more than rosult be 7 and is evidently in doubt, whe- there will be no possibility of making both The funds of Lloyd's Association, as it might
200,000 dollars worth of toelseed.
The Report of Imports as furuished by not be knocked over, and the skeletons been instituted to inquire into the means advantage: partly in charity bestowed up- enchanted shield, if imaginative devotion from the general public in England.
III. For many years England has con-
of cutting down the public expenditure. on deserving, though unfortunate seamen, could have kept within bounds its wildtributed large sums of money for carrying .-S. Ma. customs for 1878 at the end of gain the day.
A hurried notice is all we can flad space This, however, is generally thought to be and partly in roward in various forms, demands upon the reason. Not till Catholies
on missions in China As a missionary, the year is instructive the very largest had piled superstition on superstition, not till Protestants bad elaborated a speculative have often wished that we could show the figures on the list are for. Opium 384,580 | for to-day, but on a future occasion we will a more blind, for it the Czar means to to special cases of merit. It costs an un- theology which conscience as well as intellect Chinese--who are an eminently practical dollars. The next largest figures are forgive a longthier review, with a few extracts reduce the estimates, bis financial secretary derwriter £60 entrance fee and 213 annual it. The late Emperor Napoleon III. used are let off for about half the above rates; at length flung from it as incredible, did the people more of the practical results which liquors 358,720 dollars, and lu these last from the text, as well as explanations could very well tell him how to set about subscription to belong to it; the brokers.
to say that a good policy would produce an ordinary subscriber pays £6 per annum angels which guarded the shrine fold their Christianity has produced in our own figures are not reckoned the spirituous some others of the cartoons.
good finances. The present policy of for the privilege of entering the rooms of wings and fly. The garden of Eden is desc- country. The truth is that the Chinese liquors made in the country, which afford
the Association. We have now traced the hare net sean much of the brightest and one of the mapst lucrative incomes to the orated now by the trampling of controverty, best side of our modern civilization. They government. I do not know but they Capt. Boyton, who has just returned to Russia is one which must necessarily stralu and no ingenious reconciliations of religion
the world, one that could only belong to a and science, no rivera of caanistic holy water, have seen our steamers and our appliances would be ashamed to say how much was New York after three years' absence in the slender resourous of the empire to the history of the greatest maritime company of can restore the ruined loveliness of tradi of war, they have heard a great deal of our given tho government for the privilege of Europe during which time he has been en utmost, and by keeping the army on s
Its Stirring fionary faith. But the truth which is in railways and telegraphs, and they have monopolizing this department of prouno gaged in demonstrating the value of his constant war footing, prevent the country great nation. No other could deviac, ninoh
The Chinamen made quantities of "life-saving dress," appears to be well from recuperating. That the existing less support it.-The Sea: religion will assert itself again as it asserted long been in the habit of purchasing our tion. itself before. A society without God in the manufactures; but they have had little or sugar and molasses and even export in this satisfed with the result of his expedition. Russian policy must needs and in national Story of Adventure, Peril and Heroism.
THE Melbourne Argus publishes the beart of it is not permitted to exist; and no opportunity of seeing what Christianity, department, There is imported quantities He has, as he informed the reporter of oue bankraptoy, despite of retrenchment com
The Pope has sent one more ebayolical following description by Str James when once more i spiritual creed has estabas distinguished from more material proof classes 827,289 in 1878. This is un-of the New York papers, visited all the mittees, admits of scarcely any doubt.
Anderson in a telegram to Col Glover of lished itself which men can set on in their gress, has done for Western nations-doubtedly to be converted to alcoholic principal countries in Europe. The French
the new duplicata Australia cable between lives, and believe with their whole souls, it specially, in the way of mitigating every drinks. There used to be stringent laws Government has adopted his life saving into the world. In it he deplores the de is to be hoped that they will have grown form of suffering and distress. Here and forbidding Siamess to smoke oplum. They dress, and he has been drilling the French pravity and perversity of the age, and
adda that in Col. Glover's opinion the wiser by experience, and will not again leave there they have seen, and thankfully availed have been repealed. All smoke promiscu-sailors in its neo; the English Government obletly impagne that cause which is repre- themselves of the advantages of a Mission ously, and the effects are terrible in the has it in hand the Italian Government sented by those three barbarians"— the most precious of their possessions to be Hospital, but would they not have formed thisving department. Opium nafits for is delighted with it; and as for the Russian Scoialism, Communism, and Nihilisms; a ruined by the extravagances of exaggerating a truer estimate of our Christianity, if they hard work; but creates an imperious de Government, Capt. Boyton says the first he warns all the chiefs of the secular power credulity.
had realized what effects it has produced mand for money. It must be had, bars Turkish gunboat blown up in the Danube to look to the church as the most efficient pay for interest on the loan for the cost, in creating amongst Christians an entha. and bolts cannot hinder the devotes to its
was destroyed by a torpedo guided by a auxiliary ia the war they now wage upon and, moreover, that duplicating the able siasm of humanity," evincing itself in effects, from places where there is ang-Russian sailor dressed in the life saving this modern bydra. Pio Nono used to trace will probably cost £100,000, for which no To the Editor of "THE FRIEND OF CHINA,' countless forms of ministry to sufferere of thing that can be so exchanged as to secure costume. Capt. Boyton has dore en im all the diseases of the social body to the equivalent will be received by the Telegraph mense amount of swimming in his dress. spoliation of the Holy See and to the sup- Company. This is surely taking rather too almost every description / We have amongst opium. Thieving is among the common S-Permit me to make a suggestion to ourselves homes and asylums for the events. And there are rooms that sell. He grossed the English Channel in two ty pression of its temporal sway. Leo XIIL, much of a pessimist view of matters. How
stolen articles at very cheap rates. I heard four hours, floated down the Rhine; a dis-
on the contrary, does not touch upon this much, we may ask, did the Company lose the friends of the Anti-Opinm Society, fatherless and the widow, for the blind,
tance of 400 miles, avem the Danube from topic with more than just a passing lament-fast year by interraptions in the cables Might not the end which they have in view the insane, the incurable. "Why should not it remarked the other day, that a vertain be moro effectually gained, if they were to a Society exist for the purpose of carrying high oficial made his purchases at those Linis to Vienna and Buda Festh in eishty atlon, and altogether does not seem at all between this, Penang. Medras, and Aus unite with what has hitherto been their out words of philanthropy in India and in rooms, they were to be bought so muon eight hours and his journey on the River anxious to be dubbed "the angust prisoner tralia I may state that the apare cable Po iu Nov. 1876 amounted to a total dis. the Vatioan," like his predecessor. There are now sending out in the Sherard special work, some other work of a more China? In both those countries there ie oheaper there that elsewhere.
Thirty years ago drunkenness was a very tance of 740 kilometres, which he swam in Jesuits, who need to do with the late Pre born is patented as follows:-Core is firet together by another tape with some kind general character, caloulated, on the one at all times an amount of poverty and hand, to interest the public at home in what want, of which people who have never left rate occurrence in Sism. It is now an 170 hours. On the Arno, from Florence pretty much as they liked, are utterly discovered with tape, then brass ribbon held relates to Chins, and, on the other hand, to England can form no idea. Have we no every day event. The Siamese love ez to Piss, in Dec. 1878, he awam 10 mayed, and vow and declare that the Pon of marine glas recently invented, and the be beneficist in various ways to the Chinese good news of God's care for man's physical citement better than any other sensation, kilometresTM in sixteen hours and on the tifaal Sse will be utterly ruined-anless LED | external wires are smeared with same stuff, necessities to take to the heathen If ws and strong drink is one of the easiest ways Tiber, from Orter to Rome, 200 kilometros resumes the practice of hurling imprecation and covered with two-layers of tape themselves?
in thirty-one hours. He swam from the at the bead of his poli taal autagoniste. At present the Society has two great have not, our Christianity must be altoge to get it.
in patented, and I think we simply have a They have one very effectual way to island of Capri to Naples in sixteen hours Some go so far as to predict that Loo will protested in came manner. The componnd diftiouities to contend with in calling public ther unlike the Christianity of Christ, and attention to the evils of the Opium Trade, it will be long enough before it makes make drunkards. They make bitters and traversed the Biralts of Mes loa from Seylla eventually tread in the footsteps of his pre- very durable but not obesp table. New much way amongst unbelievers. But it is medicine, in which the liquid in their to Charybdis in fire hours; went down the decessor, Clement, the bore the same num- large amount of indifference. The majority my firm oonviction that this question only whisky, and if you accuse them of a whis Rhone from Beyssel to Lyons and Arles in bar, and who abolished the order of Jesuits machinery has had to be made for this needs to be properly ventilated in this and ky breath and begin to warn them, no, sixty hours; awam from the Cleau d'If about a hu dred years ago. This, however, cable of much stronger description. Our other Christian countries in order to elicit no, no, is their explanation we are not rum and the White Rocks to the port of in not to be expected, although a great deal great desire is to have such a cable as will
gapore Timer. drinkers, we but take medicine to help Marsellies; went down the Somme from of acrimony will probably continue to exist prevent heavy repairing expenses.”—Sisa that it sometimes seeme almost impossible a warm and generous response.
A RETURN has been published giving tite Within the last few months, as the result our infirmities and give us strength to Amiens to Abbeville in twelve hours swam between the Pope and General Becks as to secure for the Opium Question the st
the Loire from Orleans to Nantes in six long as either lives. We used to think gambling was Slam's days; crossed the Straits of Gibralt z in A sorrespondent of the Birmingham Poet nationalities of the officers, non-commission tention which it deserves. Then there is of a special appeal for belp, a sum of nearly work. The doctor ordered it.
ed officers, and men at presont serving in prejudice in the pubile mind against the 50,000 has been raised in Great Britain Anti-Opium agitation. A vague but very and Ireland for the purpose of sending stone of stumbling, but now it seems to stormy weather in coventesh hours and dads to that paper an account of a sermon the Army. The figures which it affords,
sware down the Seine from Nogent-sur-la a nelgi bouring enrob which he heard general impression prevails in England that relief to the enfferere by the recent famine yield the first place to whisky,
In whatever direction we turn the out- Bains to Paris in seventy-five hours, besides last Sunday, in which the preacher insisted, show that it is entirely a mistake to sup The evils of the opium traffic have been in China, and that almost immediately after exaggerated, and although this is only an handsome contributions had been made in look le discouraging for the people as a taking asveral other voyages. He has been with bitter vituperation," that the barn pose that Ireland furnishes the bulk of our Irish; walle of the non-commissioned officers impression, it nevertheless operates por-every quarter of the kingdom for the relief whole. The old people are passing away, decorated in every sounity, and when in ing of the town library was an act of sporite. Of the officers, 6,738 ars described Godless education in the board schools," and rank and file England supplics 124,708, septibly to create a prejudice against of the sufferers by famine in India Our the young people are very generally fast fall fig" is, as he remarked, blazing all God's judgment upon the town for Itselle 7th an Buloh, apo 1,00 58 General Tom Thumb died on Jan. 2, * Scotland 14,235, and Ireland 39,121. It is Society which avowedly exists for this Bois countrymen resident in the East, who are people. They are learning how to use a over with medals and crosses,
The physicians and temperance man of Object the Buppression of the Opium always ready to come forward with pe- great deal of money, and multitudes shirk
cuniary assistance for the building and getting it is the only true, reliable ways Chicago aze very much excited over a new his native plane, Bergen, in the province of remarkable that during the last ten years the Trade.
I cannot but think that if the Ecciety maintenance of mission hospitals, hateremunerative production adding ez remedy discovered by a Dr. D'Unger, West Friesland, in land, whither be number of Sectoh and Irish soldiers han were established on a somewhat broader handsomely supplemented the contributions ohangeable raide to valuable objects which, it is asearted, not only cures in- had only recently retired after realising gradually decreased, and the number of temperance, but leaves the drunkard with bandame fortune from exhibiting himself. Englishmen serving in the Army has corro
apondingly increased. On the 1st Facin basis, it would appeal more successfully raised here for the relief of the sufferers by Sam Advertiseri
an unconquerable aversion to spiritus to the chief countries of Europe aud than it does now to the sympathies of our famines The effect of what has been done
liquors. The medicine is red Peravian bark America. The cause of his death was 1865, the numbers were 108,810 Englinh, countrymen, and would attract to itself is most satisfactory, The lives of tone of
(cinchona rubra), oiled by druggiata" quill dropsy. The real name of the general was 17,011 Scotek, and 56,683 Irish. The religious denomizations of the rank and file -many supporters who would not otherwise thousands of our fellow-men have been
saved but more then that one they say, The Maru Maru Chimbun--the Funch of bark," because it comes from twigs about Banemana doga
London (with all its suburbs) covers with- of the Army correspond very nearly with connect themselves with it.
Taree objects occur to me as being well without fear of contradiction, that the the Japanese-which towards the end of the site of a quill. A pound of this bark is worthy of a place in the Sotlety's pro moral affect of this act of generosity last year incurred the displeasure of the reduced to powder and soaked in a pint of in the 15 miles radius of Charing Cross the numbers of the various nationalities, gramme, and with your permission, I will towards the Chinese, on the part of Government by too vehement onslaught on diluted alcohol. It is then strained and nearly 700 square miles. It numbers there being 14,360 Fresbyterians and 40,097 Say something about each of thems Englishmen, is aloes without a parallel satue of its prominent members, was allowed evaporated down to half a pint, so that it within these boundaries over 4,000,000 Roman Catholios; the Church of England Considering the past and present in the history of our international into reappear shortly after the new year. It is in fact a pound to a half-pint The inhabitants It contains more country-born with 117,868, sud "other Protestants with b of course, a little more guarded now, drankea man is given a teaspoonful of the in abitants than the counties of Devon and 6,846, accounting for the greater part of greatness of Ching, and considering also the tercourse; Important part which the Chinese nation is There is no reason why an attempt yet it still shoots many arrows against those medicins every three hotirs, and bis tongue Gloucester combined, or 87 per cent. of its the remainder. There is one dew in the nquestionably destined to play in the fu. should not be made to maintain per. who are not in favour with the people, is occasionally moistened between the dones entite population. Ersty four minutes a cavalry and Mahomedane, Hindoos, and kure history of the world, it is in every minently various benevolent agencies in study of the Japanese Punch repays itself, during the first and second days. The third birth takes place in the metropolis, and those whose religion is not stated, membr
the 1,7001 way desirable that some activa effexto okonid | Ching for rollering distress. Under proper not only because it given one an idea of day the done is generally redhead to a ball, every piz minutes a dobil,
AN IMPORTANT SUGGESTION.
In the first place, it has to contend with a
of Englishmen take so little interest in
anything that concerns China or the Chinese,
THE JAPANEBE 'PUNCH.' (Japan Gandits)
this gort and port Darwin. The Argus subsidy, of 832,400 per annum will merely