No. 4952-MAY 22, 1879.] The Chinese have an expression which seems to point to the conclusion that they too must have closely observed the
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In Mr Guthrie's interesting work Through Ruzsis we read “The appellation of uncle in -Russia does not always imply relationship; a young man speaking familiarly to an older friend will often call him uncle." Old unele" is a Cantonese way of addressing elderly strangers.
of wool to Japan early in the next abearing season, and states that the Japan Govern- ment are determined to relinquish their efforts to introduce merino sheep into the country, and will encourage the importa- tion of wool instead. Mr Wildaah points out that Port Darwin would form an excel. lent port of a ipment for ostile, in the event of no suitable. place being found in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
RETURN of Visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending May 18th :--
European. Chinese
62 Monday, May 12th,. Tuesday,
13tb, 69 14th, "It is Armenian etiquette that the Wednesday,
€9 bridegroom should steal the bride from the Thursday,
Friday. unwilling parents," This sentence is also
Saturday, taken from Mr Guthrie's work. We have Sunday, more than once pointed out in these Notes the existence of a similar onetom amongst other Asiatic peoples, but we have not yet baen able to trace it to the Chinese.
15th, 70
613 878 364 369*
16th, 68
Totals, Grand total, 8,050.
17th, 69 18th, 68
466
878 398 Sunday
2,385
THE CHINA MAIL,
latter from Chefoo--and will reside at the Dr. Elmore, the popular and adroit Min- Botel de Peking of Vrard & Co. ister for the Peruvian Republic, hopes to leave for Japan as soon as his diffenit business with the Tsang li Yamen is cop. ducted to a final saccess. He has worked well and long enough for it
age. He was employed on the Peng Chao wages upon this being siso rofused, wheisters are daily expected to arrive-the Hai as a seaman; and on the 10th instant became very abusive, and returned several turbance. She also annoyed the complain. he went on board a smuggling junk, with ties to the house and created a great-dis. two other Chinese, and a European quarter- ant, in the street. Defendant alleged that master; they were to take the junk to her master had slapped her face, and his wife and concubines had prevented her Canton. I identify the body by the clothes, taking her boxes. This made her excited, as I gave the jacket to deconsed the day he The evidence of the Police went to show that she had behaved very quietly at the left the vessel.
station His Worship suggested that the complainant should pay her $2 50 as com- pensation in lion of notice, and ordered the defendant to enter into her personal ro-C. D. Neur. cognizances in $10 to be of good behaviour for two months, at the same time telling her that if she caused any more annoyance to the complainant she would be punished very acverely.
Dr Wharry deposed as to the cause of death. The kody had been dead, he said, more than a week. The flesh was eaten off the head, and the skull was laid bare, There was a triangular wound on the skull, which was cracked right across the top. That was the only mark of violence he saw on the body. The wound must have been inflisted by a violent blow, but there was no guide as to the nature of the weapon used.
Inspector Mackie deposed to finding the body at Stanley Bay on the side of the rocks. He notified Captain Palmer of the Peny Chao Hai, as he thought it was one of his men; he had the body sent to the Hos- pital. Witness had been unable to precure
any other evidence.
STEALING IOR TICKETS.
Chan Akiu, a coolie, employed at the Ice House, was charged with stealing $37 worth of ice tlakets from the compradore's drawer, $15 worth were found upon him when he was arrested, and be said he left some at a house in the Hollywood Road, and the balance he bad lost.
Mr Bain, one of the partners, said that the defendant was in receipt of $7 a month, and in the summer he got $8 when the
work was heavy. Defendant was in steady Amployment.
Mr Von Sohenok, the present German Chargé d'Affaires, and Mr The, the late Chargé d'Affaires for Japan, will very soon leave for their respectives countries.-N.
Japan.
NAGASAKI.
3
of which was stated in the last published by the accounts, estimates at an exchange accounts at 151,5607. The bank, as appears of 1 d. per rapes any orentual loss by exchange on abilities, repayable to the public in sterling," whereas the Oriental Bank has taken the exchange at Is. Bd. par hows, as immediately available ressuroes, upes The Chatered Mercantile Bank 2,222,6781, of coin and bullion, 389,405 in caan at bankers and at all, and 1, 42,909 in Government Securities; as against 3,991,0828. of qurrent and fixed deposits," sud 4,9.6,484 of "bills pay- able, notes in etrculation, and other nume due to the public."
The report of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and Okina has been listed. It states that, after providing for bad and (Rising Sun, May 10th.)
-doubtful debts and bringing forward a The coming Exhibition at Sydney has small balanes from 1877, the net profits of already begun to attract attention in Naga- the past year um uuted to £48,766, An saki, and by last night's mail to Yokohama,interior dividend of 6 per cent for the firs Mr Sasaki-a gentleman well known to six mouths was declared in October; a many of the foreign residente-left on his second dividend of 4 per cent, for the final way to Australia, where he will act as re-six months is now proposed, making a total presentative of the native merchants here, of 6 per bent. for the year. Two years ago who are desirous of forming trade relation the directora took the timely precaution to ships with the merchants of the far south. value that portion of their funds perman- We wish the movement every success, and sully eurployed in the East at 18. 8d. per trust on his return Mr Sasati-will-report rupes and 4 per dollar, and they now |...ave the gɩtisfaction to be able to tell their H.M.S. sylvia left on Thursday for a co-proprietors that if it were necessary to favorably on the results of his mission.
bring home those funds the loss would not. exceed £25,000. All the other funds have been valued periodically at the prices and rates of exchange of the day. This is the proper pruople upon which to act; and e directors of this bank find their reward in secured profits and rising credit. Those of their competitors who have not early
cruise.
IN Amerion they have rumours as to General Grant's failing health, which as Chu Hi, commenting upon one of the Shisuredly his appearance bere gave no occasion King Odes, in which a son is reproached for. He is bals, hearty and healthy, and for having committed the crime of incest although not so lithe and lively as he was with his step-mother, says that "the morala thirty years ago, is far indeed from begin. of China of this period differed not from ning to fail yet ; and long may be be. The fence; it was not much, but it was all that and sentenced the defendant to three du Japon — those of the barbarians" # General saya that it is not yet many years was procurable. There was not much avid months' imprisonment with hard labour.
It is evident from this that in Chu Hi's time the word was by no means a "term of endearment," (unless it be of the illicit endearments described in the ode).
since he was able to get up on his horse if only he got his foot in the stirrup; he did not care much what the horse did after that; ke was all right. But now he begins to feel that he wants the horse to stand still if he is
to
get on. What we refer to as the unhapply
rumonce in America are of the nature of
LOCAL AND GENERAL We are requested by Bishop Raimondi to the appearing in the Louisville Courier Journal which says:—“A strange story. state that a Te Deum will be sung, on
condition of Grant is really preparlous, and there is every likelihood that he will be in nobody's way next year."
The Coroner said this was all the evid-
ende as to the cause of death, and very little as to identity. If the jury were satisfied that the identity was made out, it was for them to say so.
The jury said they were satisfied of the identity; it was quite possible for a man to be identified by his clothes
A verdict was accordingly entered that deceased was found dead on the rocks at Stanley Bay, but how he came by his death,
Saturday evening next, at six o'clock, incomes to us that the mental and physical there was not sufficient evidence to show.
the B. O. Cathedral, on the ecossion of Her Majesty's birthday.
We are requested to state that the jurors aummoned to attend to-morrow morning, will not be required until Tuesday next at 10 am.; the Sessions will, to-morrow, be formally adjourned till that date.
THE Christy Minstrel entertainment at the Garrison Theatre was repeated last night with a succes and smoothness exceeding that of the first presentation. The troupe are highly to be congratulated on their ability and enterprise; the entertainment they provide, taking it as a wholy and bearing in mind that they are quite new to this partloniar bolpeas, and have bad very little practice in pulling together, is wonderfully excellent. We trust to hear of them soon and often,
de Carvalho.
a verdict of "accidental death."
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The Athenæum of Marob 22nd, says: "The public will most likely ass at the forthcom-
read in the Paris letter of a recent London contemporary, that a young Ja panese, fifteen years old, born a Buddhist, has been received as a convert to Catholi- cism, with great pomp and ceremony, by Mgr. Caverot, Archbishop of Lyons, who in the Cathedral baptised, confirmed, and gave him his first Communion on the same day The neophyte was one of a batch of Japanese ladasent to Lyons for a European education, and they were confided to a former Consul at Nagasaki, who is a strict Catholic. He placed them in the hands of the priests. The Lyons silk manufacturers, who have reaped great advantages from the increased intercourse with Japan, are afraid now that the friends of the young scholars, who did not bargain for conversion, will take them away.
with these measures,
CORRESPONDENOS.
VERY GOUD."
To the Editor of the “CHINA MAır."
May 22nd.
SB-Mr Deane's definition of " Very Good," as exemplified in your iseus of laat evening, is probably as grossly misleading se any official utterance ever penned. The community will, I think, thoroughly en dorse the views taken by His Excellency in reference to the importance of night Instead of a fine of daty by the Police, $0, I think that eighteen mouths' hard labour would have met the case with greater justion to the community,
It would be curious to know what crimes were committed in the Houg Hom district during the term the inhabitants were fa youred with protection under this mau Freeman,
Perhaps the Special Fand might be drawn upon, to present the Captain Super intendent with a
THESAURUSA
His Worship said it was a very bad case,
ALLEGED FINJOY.
The following items are from the Echo The son of the Prince Imperial of Germany is expected in Japan about the 20th May. Several officials of the Home Tang Ying San, a hawker, was charged, office and of the Foreign office will soon by Inspector Cradock, with being con- set out to receive the Prince at Nagasaki, cerned in a piracy committed on the high Kobs, Osaka, and several other places.
The regulations for the sale of opium seas in the vicinity of Hongkong. The one was remanded at the Inspector's re-will be put in force from the 1st of May. In Tokio there are 45 special establishments for the sale of opiam. quest, till Thursday the 29th instant.
RETURNING FROM DEPORTATION.
Lam Asam, a coolie, was charged with returning from deportation. He was one of the men who escaped from the obain gang in September 1870, and was zo- captured and sentenced to eighteen months hard labour, in addition to the He balance of his previous sentence. received a conditional pardon in 1876, and was deported for life..
The Minister of the Imperial House bold has just sent to Colonel Kabayama the sum of 500 gen, for the purpose of raising in the Shokonaha temple a mo nument to the memory of the soldiers of the Imperial guard, who fell during the southern insurrection.
The directors of the railway from Tokio to Yokohama have just decided that from the 18th inst. (april), the daily trains will be driven by native engine drivers. Night
en ugh reougnized the course they ought to poraue, and in consequence have had to write off such amounLS NOW AS Sweep AWAY their reserve funds, are entitled to the plea in extenuation at the circumstances were dovel, and that they did not clearly see their way where they had no experience to les, hat the present depreciation is by no xurde them. But we must sad, neverthes meane uprecedented and therefore that instruction might have been drawn from the experience of other countries.
Quotations.
HONGKONG, May 22, 1870,
26th May, pending instructions from H. E. trains only will remain entrasted to the | OPIUM-New Patha, canh........$552.
The case was remanded till Monday, the the Governor as to prosecuting the man.
China PEKING.
May 1st.
The infant Emperor returned safely. from his journey to Tang-ling, and it is said that his juvenile mind has been much impressed by the way in which the last concluded that Imperial power, splendours, honors were paid to his predecessor, and and other high honors in life, would, after death, be condensed in the four words of the. ancient Latins-Sic transit gloria mundi.
management of European drivers.
All the steam-vessels at present plying between Yokoska and Yokohama have just been sold to a speculator of Tokio called Fusikura, who proposes to continue the line and to add to if another between Tokio and Yokohama.
The following are from the Saikai Shimbu
It is said that the government is occupied. just now with a discussion on the question of raising the tax on Sake, and of reducing the land tax throughout the whole country down to 1 %.
THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE BANKS.
By the last mail the report of the vations Banks Associated with Trade in the East
ing exhibition of the Royal Academy a WE find in a Home paper the following taxed," and then present it at the next week; then the gentlemen and lady (10g a large amount recently advised from
half-length portrait of the young_Chinese
the subject of discussion in Parliament, and of telegrams from Reater received here:-
Treasury.
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With respect to the coming visit of General Grant, displays of fireworks will The monotony among the foreign retake place in his honour, and the principal sidents of the Chinese capital has been asenes of battle during the late rebellion, lately broken by the arrival and meetings as well as the porcelain manufacturing of the missionaries and by the banquets of town of Arita, will be shown to him. the diplomats. Every year at this season Axa recent meeting of the Chamber of
the Protestant Missionaries from Tientsin, Commerce of San Francisco, a long com-
Panting foo, Tungchow and Kalgan, come munication from the French Branch of the
and hold their religious meetings in Peking, International Commission, Ferdinand de
A REASONABLE GROWL where are the headquarters of their Mis- Lesseps, President, having in hand, the
sions. The Americans assemble at the To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL.'
Union Laa, Society of Canton, $1,300 ex div. ~TEE adjourned inquest on the body of a manner of the construction of the inter-
residence of their learned countryman,
China Traders' Ins. Co., $1,876 Hongkong, May 22nd,
North China Ias. Uo., Tin. 1,250 ex dlv. male child, aged 11 days, who was suppose oceanic caual soross the Isthmus, was read,
inviting the Chamber to send delegates to Sta,1 am really at a loss to know the Doctor Blodget, of Tan-shieow Street Mis.reached Hongkung, and of these we now. The twenty-ei hth annual report of the
Yangteze las. Auoc, Tls. 730 ex dir. to have died from ouffation, owing to his the Convention to be held at Paris on the why and wherefore of the matting that sion, and the English at the residence of append & brief summary -
the well-known Doctor Dudgeon and Rev.
Chineas Insurance Co., $280 being strapped on to the back of his sister, 16th of May. The letter was accompanied sovered the windows of the Court House G. S. Owen. The principal sim of these Court of Directors of the Oriental Bank
H.K. Firens. Co., $750,17 was resumed to-day. The jury comprised by a lengthy report of the International having been taken down. Where one used meetings is to report the progress made Corporation, submitted to the proprietors
Obina Fire Ins. Coy $182) HK & W. Duck Co., 8 % prem. Mesara G. Allen, E. C. Chastel and M. A. Geographical Congress on the same subject. to sit before comfortably, and kept his head through the expiring year by each Mission at the sunnal meeting on April 17, was The President having stated that he felt cool, it has now become a furnace, by the and Schools, exchange ideas among them looked for with great interest. The earn-
ings of the year's business (including 5,6874" B.K. C. & M. S.-boat Co., $7 dia. The enquiry had been ad-assured that the Chamber was in full accord effects of the rays of great Sol, agalust selves, establish new Missions and Schools, 129. Id brought forward from the last Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tls. 13 ez div.
so calculated to which the matting was a very great protec introduse improvements if seen necessary,
China Coast St. Nav. Co., Tis. 95, ex div. journed in order that a post mortem exam benefit the commercial interests of the whole tion. Shadrach, Mesech and Abednego and expand the area of their Christian account), after defraying all current ex-
Hongkong Gas Co., $70. ination might be held; Dr. Wharry now world, said he thought there would not be disobeyed Nebuchadnezzar's mandato, and labour for the following year, especially in Pnses and deducting suma written off for the first half of the year, amounted to
Hongkong Hotel Co., $65 gave it as his opinion that death was time enough to send a delegate from this city. were made to suffer for it in the furnace the province of Shantung, where the Rev: 198,7271. 7; out of which a dividend at
China Sugar Refining Co., $137 caused by suffocation. Te jury returned Mr Christian Christiansen, till lately a but what have the jurors dous that C. A. Stanley, of Tientsin, has worked hard
Chinese Imperial Loan of 1874; £113 member of the Chamber, was now residing they are made to suffer very much in
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of 1877, £110 in Paris, and perohance there might be some the manner I have above referred to? It and well for the last thirteen years, and the rate of 10 per cent. per annum for the actual members there also. Thereupon, up- is not the head of every one that can stand which promises to become a vast and suc-half-year was declared, and divided amongst
Temperature. The directors now extremely regret to A LARGE amount of bullion, consisting of on the motion of Captain Oliver Eldrige, such a heat as I have experienced on the cessful field in a near future. Consequently the shareholders in October last, leaving. the Chamber resolved to authorize Mr two days when I attended the Court-House, & resolution has been adopted to request an appropriated amount of 123 7271, 78.
the Home Mission to send a few more Mis-
announce that, through the depressed con- (Taken at Messrs Fulconer & Co.'s Premises, Japan subsidiary coins, &e, valued at about 14 lakhs of rupees, recently arrived Christiansen to appear at the Convention as as one of the jurorssummoned for the presentsionaries to this section of China. The dition of trade, and the commercial crisis!
Queen's Road) their delegate, with power to appoint any Sessions. We have heard a great deal of Lady Missionaries are also here in goodly which has been experienced during the last at Calcutta port by the China mail, and was
member of the Chamber residing in Paris to
Bonezonu, May 22, 1879. "oursiderateness" and "merofalness" in made over to the Calcutta Mint.
The religions conferences of the Pro. six month, ve y serious losses have been act with him, in expressing the accord and hiab pisces; but what I have referred number, in company with their children, sympathy of the Chamber in the construction to is like doing things a la Nabuohad-testant Missionaries will be at an end on sustained at various pints. These losses, BAROMETER 9 A.Man
nezz.r. I suppose jurors can send in their of the canal.
doctor's bill to the Colonial Surgeon to be Saturday, the 3rd instant, or early the with provision for doubtful debta, includ missionaries will return to their homes Australia, have exceeded the unappropriat with renewed vigour and zeal for theird earnings, as above shown, by the sum of lady commonly known as the Tettering note of the Island of Matacong, the occupa-
ONE WHO WANTS TO KEEP HIS HEAD Christian labour. Rev. Mr Noble, of the 120 130l. 98 3d. The direotors have also American Mission, has been elected take into account the axisting deprecia Lily,' attired in her native costume. The tion of which by French troops was recently
Treasurer, Librarian, and Superintendent tion of their public securities held in Lon don and at the different branches, and wife of the ex-Chinese minister sat to Mr
of the Missions' printing establishment. Walter Goodman for this picture.”
The buildings of the Inspectorate General although they trust that, as regards indian THE Government of Goa, saye a native The Island of Matarong is about a mile
of Customs have always been in the North- Government Securities, this depreciation is east part of the city, not far from the only temporary, as depending on the rate Indian paper, has transmitted to the Bom and a half long, and is about 60 miles from bay Government Rs. 2,000, and some effects Sierra Leone. It possesses no harbour, and
Tenng-li Yamon, and a very long distance of exchange between this country and India, of Narsey Kessoj e found in the posses the steamers trading between the coast and
Li Achan, a shop cookie, was charged away from the foreign Legations; but since they have valued all the Government rupee 81, and for that portion thereof which three men are to be kept in custody and off when they have occasion to call for cargo. the exemtion of his duty. The pon. with offices, hothouses, and large garden, stands in the bank's books in London, and sion of his companions, and inquired if the Liverpool have to anchor about four miles with assaulting a police constable whilst last year, however, & magnificant reeldongo, paper at the market price in lodia at Dro sent to Bombay. The Bombay Government The principal articles obtained are gum, stable, it appears, was ordered to keep in the immediate neighbourhood of the Le. are said to have replied that what they ponnuts, india-rubber, and beeswax. These, people off the Canton Steamer Wharf whilst gations, has been in course of construction is therefore subject & exchange, a rate of "WantTM 15 Nurwy "Kesurjes and not bis howevery are not the production of the men. So they are released. Probably the island, but are landed there by coasting the pasangote were being counted ; and the under the direction of Messrs. Castler and le. Bd. per rupee has baeu assumed. They movements of these persons may afford vessels, the place being used as a depot. defendant, who was prevented from going Ohimer, and it is understood will be oebars further made provisios for the return olue to the whereabouts of the runaway There are French and English houses at on the Wharf, besame very excited, and cupled by Mr Robert Hart neat winter, of all funds invested in the East at the gea are those of the Customs, but it is portion of the bank's papital as is allotted to each branch for its local permanent use. Matacong, the principal being that of Messze. committed the assault with which he was The only houses in Peking lighted with exchange of the day, excepting only such
certain that the new ones will also be
These two items together have occasioned Fisher and Randall, of Manchester and obarged. Mr Placket fined him $5.
lighted by gas if not by the electric light writing off against the reserve fund of In a report on the plague lately submitted Liverpool. Many American vessels also by the Surgeon-General of the United tonch at the island, chiefly to load peanuts
at which improvement we should not
Dader the head of Foreign Securities States Marine Hospital Service, an attempt and hides, From Matssong numbers of
done for China by the Inspector-General la made to trace the disease to China. This bullocks are sent to Blerra Leone, which is
wonder, considering what has already been of her Maritime Customs. The ground they also regret to report the heavy da American authority points out that for the the principal trading town with the island,
for the new building and garden has been preciation of 91,0302. 34 4d. on 818,8087 31 40 in Chilian Government Bonds, 80 years before 1878 the true plague was Matecong is not noted for the growth of
purchased at a high price from the French which they hare held as an investment. extremely prevalent to the Chinese Empire, any particular produce, the soil being con
Missionaries, the Lazarists, who owns the time of the issue of the loans of ropean medical officers. In 1878 the not thickly populated, and is not very often
large amount of real estate in Peking: 18 3 and 1876 While writing off this as is shown, he says, by the reports of Eu-eldered rather sterile than otherwise, it is close was said to be extinct, but it visited by the whites of the other part of
Tientsin, and in fact everywhere in this amount, as shown in the profit and loss lingered on till quite recently in Tunnan, the cost. In many quarters the island was
The social relations between the distincount, the directors, from the assurances From Chins, says the American Doctor, looked upon as an open part, where the
quarter of the globe. guished members of the various Legations they continue to receive from Chili, and the virus was carried to Persia, from Perais ativas could sell the land and the
are of a very cordial character, and the from the acknowledged good faith of that Government are sanguine that these to Russia local conditions in each case purchaser would be under the protection of while
same might be said in regard to the happy favouring the development. Theories of the Government to which he belonged
Chil Apth and Chu Adan, coolles, were young sindents of the British Legation and corities will to a great extent recover this kind, remarks the Pioneer, are of great by others it was considered to be under the
The dances above mentioned not only political importance, for they will hasten protection of the British fag. When the arrested on suspicion of being conterned in of the employés of the Custom House, their value.. on the time when the sdministration of last steamer left Sierra Leone it was not a highway robbery at Mobgkoksal, the who meet together in a brotherly way China by some Western Power or Powers definitely stated that the French had one night batore laat, and stealing about $23 nearly every week, and make rural exons. render it impossible for the directors to will be locked on as an absolute necessity, dupled the island, although there were from the person of one Cheung Achin, alone for the purpose of giving life to their declare any further dividend for the year,
rumours of something of the kind having shopkeeper at Yow-ma-ti. The case w.
but necessitate the appropriation of nearly Mr F. J. O. Wildest, a Queenslander who taken place."
remanded till the 28th Instant, as the
the whole of the reserve fund, together complainant has gone to Canton.
with a surplus valse on the bank premisen, has been on a visit to Japan during the last
which has hitherto been regarded as a sot. off against temporary fl-istations in the securities. Provision, however, being now made for depreciation in the manner above. explained, the surplus in question, 85, 400%, afirmed by valuation at the close of the Glenroy. year, has been brought into the adjusting The directors of the Chartered Mercantile account of proft and loss. Bank of India, London, and Chins for the Ant time in the twenty-one years' experi ende of the bank, afe dnsble on this ocdn. olon to Besomeand the declaration of soy Anchises ()
bankrupt
few months, returned to Brisbane recently. THE "PENG CHAO HAI” AFFAIR.
He speaks most hopefully of the prospects
of establishing a trade in Australian pro duos with Japan, the opening being parti eularly good for our catile and WOOL
The
THE INQUEST OF THE JODY OF THE CHENICE SEASAN
Japanese Government afforded him every
An ingtiest was held this afternoon on the aid in his attempts to gain a knowledge of the country and its productions, and the body of a Chinaman named Leong Choi Kit, officials with whom he came in contact a seaman on the Chiese Beventie Cruiser showed bit every courtesy. Mr Wildash has brought with him a splendid collection Fong Chao Hai,
of specimens of natural history and botany, Leng Acheong deposed -- ant a seaman for presentation to various colonisi acolime on board the Peng Choo Eai; the decessed tisation and horticultural Societies, He kopes to be able to strange. for a shipment is my brother and was forty-five years of
DRUNKENNESS.
Joseph Lavery, seaman unemployed, was fined $1 for being drunk and disorderly in the public streets.
PeTrỶ tact.
Chan Akum, a coolio, was cent to four teen days hard labour, for stealing two rattaus valued at three cents. He admitted the charge, and said that he saw a heap of rattans lying in the street and no one watching them, so he took a couple
UN SUSPICION
a
poetical imaginaidon quite consistent with their impulsive age and robust physique, Peking, as far as the foreign residents are concerned, may fairly be called the Phin delphia of China.
UNING ANUSIVE-LANGUAGE,
By the end of May it is to be hoped that Chua a Ng a widow, and lately employed the corps diplomatique at Faking will be servant to one Cheong Abol, coal au grand complet. Monsieur Fatenstre, merchant, Praga Central, was charged with fine specimen of a Frech Diplomats, having been guilty of disorderly conduct, has arrived, and made a very favourable In that she used very abusive language impression, It could not be otherwise, He towards the complainant. It would appear being fresh from the intelligent capital of that the defendant was engaged as a servant the sivilised world-Paris, to complainant's family, receiving $1.80 and The Japanese Minister, Mr Lysido, has her food. She was discharged on Monday been in Faking sings last week, and took last, and begged to be kept on, as she was up his residence of this dapanese Legation, very poor. Her master would not do this, which is very distant from all the others. and she then naked to be paid a full month's | The Bellah, German, and Data Mig.
185,6677. Se.
dividend, and the tank has, moreover, fost
London
Shipping Intelligengs.
The following in corrected from the latest and Colonial Papers, de-
VESSEÜS TO ARRIVÈ,
When lofh Des
Name.
17. Blenheim, Feb.
From
Flushing
8, Vale o' Donn,
Antwerp
12, South American,
Penarth
13. Vigilant,
Cardiff
28, Grossfarst Constantine, Hamburg
Cardiff
Cardif
Hamburg
23, Monte Rosa, 23, G. G. Trufant, 24, Edward Barrow,
Mar.
4, Chodorus, B. Windhover, 7. Oadis, (s)
16, John A. Briggs, 27, Agnes Muir, 28, Adam M, Eimpson,. Apr.
2, Wabu, (*) B, Ulaf, (a) |
Spion
5. Achilles, () 8, Leon, **Elegira (s)
London (cla
Cardiff)
London
Liverpool Cardiff
London
Cardiff
Liverpool) Dartmouth
Cardif Táverpool Liverpool London
LOADING FOR CHINA AND SAVAN PEERS, At London-Steamers via Sus Canoli
Benarty, Sailing Pearer
Bonscoord. Whiteaddar Douglas Carije,
Stentor (s)
Harter: Ombs. Werfa
| practigally-all its reserve fund, the amount. Charger,
At Elemprot
At Cardif