No. 4989-JULY 4, 1879.]
monopolies, the merchants of Japan will | Saturday last, I have witnessed some of persevere in their opinion that the Govern- the refinement of the sweat-bucklers of the ment are responsible and not the people. Pacific Slope, and the perspicuity and Japan Gazette.
ornamentality of the language used by Tan Eastern press are filled with the them. I have seen also the counterpart particulars of the negro exodus from used in that morning "friend o' yourn," Louisiana and Mississippi. They are pack- ing up their amali belongings, and with and it struck me very forcibly that I had boxes and bundles, and the plekaninnies, also heard such language used between the and the old, the middle-aged, and the Dock Yard, and Keppel Bead Common, young, are wending their way towards the happy, land of Canaan, located, in their Hard Portaes, where I should say their simple minds in Arkansas and other States correspondent "Charley" used to be seen to the northward, for which they have so
hey have so every day, suffering from the chronic effects unceremoniously set forth. owners of the deserted Southern country of "calling time." His wit appears some. are in a terrible quandary. Cotten and thing like his letter, troubled very much sugar cane will not grow spontaneously and now that the honest toi er has changed his with the rambling rickets, which will spot, what can they, what will they, def The account for his playfully metaphorical negro has ever been a very domestic sort of aphorisms. However, I shall not dwindle an animal, especially in the southern conn. try ! Ule Marator" even since the down so low as stoop to vituperation Emancipation Proclamation, has had the as some people have done beforetime, but warmest corner of his trustful heart; hence simply lot Charley" know that 1-have the astonishment of "Ole Marster" soun
still left to them.
THE CHINA MAIL.
at this sudden change of base. Labour soffered a reacurrection since the 28th settlement, consequent upon the attitude that the governor of Hong Kong, who can
they must have--they will have. Sambo has failed them, and now they begin to look to John Chisaman to supply his place. Ip the existing condition of things, California is not able to meat the wishes of her sisters of the South."Chinese cheap labour" is in great demand here, and the number of disengaged celestiala at the present writing is very trifling. To Hongkong, then, must the planter look for desistance. in his hour of this need. The labourer is worthy of his bire, and if employed and paid for, his work will be faith- ful and effective. The South should open wide her deserted fields for the honest and industrious Chiness. They are the providential power to save her in this day of her tribulation. They are perfectly so- alimatized to the humid zone of the Southern
States. White labour cannot exist in many parts of the South, and even if it were possible for it to stand the climatic changes, the rates of wages would be an insurmount able barrier. Koopmanschap and others in this city are receiving many letters, saking information, and all the signs of the timon are, that "the Chinese must go Bonth "San Francisco News Letter.
TOWN TALK.
ultimo, and am to the fore again,
CORRESPONDENCE.
PIPS.
To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL" Hongkong, July 4, 1879. SIR,
Give the calf-more-repe,!!.
-Old Ballad.. "There was a fool snt on a stool,
And on that stool there sal a fool, Fool; stool:
Stool: fool: Big Stool:
Fool"
-Machine.
Your morning contemporary must be very hard up for material indeed, when he dishes out to his readers such insufferably thin alush as those interminable columns from the pen of the young man "Charley." The marsupialistic Charley, For Heaven's sake, Charley, don't write any more. Please, ple-a-u-se don't. Let it stop here.
The Editor is, no doubt, chiefly in the wrong for allowing it to appear, but even the writer himself must surely be aware that no man could wade through those ar
ment, or the slightest feeling of Interest:
I am not acquainted with the author, but I assure him on my honor I am not writing this maliciously, and I want him to clearly and distinctly understand that I am talking
But
3
He
you won't in the course of your legal
journeys,
Be required to cross the water To plead, as advised by 'cute attorneys,
For somebody's jilted daughter.
& 'cute attorney jumps with joy
When he hears a maid's confession, And chuckles to think how he'll bully the boy,
In revenge for his retrogression. "You'll get big damages, sure," ho'll say,
And cautiously remind her That her mother should bring her to court
on the day,
And her brother stand close behind her.
of ofl lately arrived has been severely have had him sent packing long ago from the most vital effect on his future course in BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. felt by importers, and the Governor of the scene of his misdeeds, merely, by re-life.
[Mr. Horsehell's motion for the abolition inconvenience as much as possible by office, matter alone, and passing over his graphio pages for the thrilling atory of the excepting whero actual pecuniary lose had Kanagawa han endeavoured to lorson the presenting what he has done in the post We must refer our readors to Dr. Smith's of actions for breach of promise of marriage, putting up temporary sheds adjoining the wilder and more outrageous freakaguch young student's struggles in forming the bean incurred, was carried in the House of Nakamura gedowns. One of the questions as the memorable glass-breaking enormity, resolution as to his future path in life-hia Commons by a substantial majority. to be dealded to-day was whether kerosene personal assaults like that in Kobe upon natural love of scholarship and books fight thus addresses an aspiring youth of the so stored should be considered insurable, unoffending Japanese, threatening to ing strongly against the influence to Temple, with possibly some reminiscence of and a motion binding the tariff offices to occupy Yokohama band with an armed evangelicism-planted in bis very nature the air of the judge's song in "Trial by refuse to accept the risk was, we understand, force, provoking a wretched quarrel in by his father, and stirred up by the Jury." lost, the prevailing oplaton being that England about Mr. Olmho's servant, violat encouragement of Chalmers. Of how even- freedom of action was preferable to an ing diplomatic etiquette and usage by send-tually he made his memorable decision to When you, my friend, are called to the Bar,
Your wit may be fresh and hearty; obligation of the nature of that to which ing insolent letters to the prime minister, spend himself in spreading the truth as it all the offices were invited to subscribe, ordering and effecting dismissal of a promin- is in Christ, and how, when the Church of You may be, as any young barristers are, The result of this will be that Importers, ent official because he called a green a queen, Scotland awoke to a sense of the reality of A somewhat jobular party. who are already in an awkward position depriving the treasury of its lawful revenue. its duties under Ita confession, which hae owing to the scanty storage at their die by a notification which he declared was for its motto, "And this glaid tydingis of posal, will not be wholly outlawed-that is, sanctioned by the government but which in the Kyngdome sall be prechoit through the some means of protecting their property truth was issued on the strength of his haill warld for a witness unto all natiouna, from the loss attendant upon a fire, are own independent audacity, habitually on- and then sall the end oum," Its. Committes liveoing his interviews with members of on Foreign Missions found in the enthusi With all respect for the opinions and the cabinet by shaking his fist in their faces, satis youth the man in all Scotland best judgment of the agents of fire offices, and and other mad pranks too numerous to be fitted to do their work in Bengal.
In May of 1880, after being twice ship with full appreciation of the motives which sat down in the space of a single paragraph. actuated them, we think that this motion But he has been allowed to go on hi wrecked on the, long voyage round the should not have been urged, The im fantastic way, until perhaps the steru ap Cape, the young missionary arrived in porters of all have been morally forced plication of legitimate authority is impera Calcutta, and was received by Lord William to take their property outside the tively required to check him. The idea Bentinck-then Governor-General--with a Christian sympathy that did much to cheer of the insurance companies and they are dispose of the matter at will, should be him and remove the memory of the friends now entitled to receive some consideration, requested to arrange it definitely and sum. he had left and the troubles of the voyage. which if not extended, because circum marily, was an excellent one, and we trust In the first shipwreck, his library of 800 | stances over which the importer have no it will be promptly realized. There is no volumes was almost totally lost; but the control have increased the risk, will not reason to doubt, if he consents to act, that young eveugelist, with a philosophy and add to the reputation of the offices for the affair may be terminated during his resignation worthy of St. Paul, resolved liberality. Insurance companies cannot sojourn here; that the British post offices that he would henceforth put his trust, not govern trade nor should they attempt to may be closed and turned over to those in books, but wholly in the cause of his do so. They may certainly interfere with who should rightly possess them, without Lord and Master. it fra most serious manner for a short the extortion of a dishonest gratuity for old it would be difficult to imagine-anything- time, but they must eventually find that properties, time-worn chairs and tables, more interesting than Dr Smith's account if only the beat risks are to be taken, and inkstands and pen-wipers, and the like; of Dr Duff's early efforts to establish the more trazardous ones are to be refused, that the Japanese department may straight College which, in opposition to the only irrespective of any question of premium, way proceed to exercise the functione that restriction laid on him by the Genoral the solution of the difficulty will be that belong to it, and that the ministerial Jack-Assembly of the Church of Scotland, whose the merchant must put the good aganat the in-the-box may be, at least temporarily, missionary he was, he found that to have `bad, and not insure at all.
fastened down in o the dimensions of his any prospect of success he must establish proper aphere. It can be done, beyond a in Caloutta, the key and capital of the It should be done; and 'twere wall Empire. He was fully determined in his doubt.
own mind that the primary essential to the
Having heard these speeches, it is our twere done quickly.
success of his work among the Hindoos was daty to express our opinion upon them. that he should not only teach them the The editors of the Gazette, and similar English language, but solence and natural foreign papers have condemned the gov philosophy, really the handmaidens of ernor's speech, and have, moreover, spoken truth, which would do most effectual work of it in a contemptuous manner. Such a in clearing sway the load of superstition view of this subject does not seem confined undor which the Bindoo mind was groan to the journals referred to, for the same ing. In this scheme he met much oppoel sentiments appear to prevail among English tion from many of the other missionarios; residents generally. Now these people,, venerable Carey, and by the passive consent view, bat their policy is that of inflicting equivalent to the real support of the injury on others for their own gain; and Governor-General, he inaugurated that no idea of a policy to the advantage of hath College which was soon to draw like a parties enters into their thoughts. They magnet the Hindoos on whom the efforts have never even dreamed of such a thing, of previous missionaries had made little and it is therefore in no way surprising that effect, breaking down those prejudices of they should treat the just arguments of Mr
We should like to know the names of the offices who refused to bind themselves to au arbitrary refusal of all risks on kerosene in sheds; we would gladly give them an adver- tisement gratis.
NAGASAKI.
From private sources we learn that the U.S.S. Richmond, with General Grant, Mrs Grant and suite, on board, arrived at Nagasaki on Saturday morning last, (2ist) the party being received with due honours.
landing."
A THING THAT MUST BE STOPPED
No, no. You won't grow rich as the Gurneys
Through acoustomed legal slaughter; To the courts no more shall 'cute attorneya
Bring somebody's jilted daughter. That species of oxtortion. I
Most heartily disparage,
And mean that kencoforward no judge shall
try A Breach of Promise of Marriage! Funny Folks.
A RAY OF HOPE. The Choya Shinbun, after noting the main points of Mr Hennessy's address before the Tokio Chamber of Commerce, thus remarks
"The case of "Joseph Howell, a ztow, ticles, with the faintest touch of amuse- An address was presented to the General on wards, colccident with the receipt of tele- but, supported by the active advice of the like Mr Hennessy, have their interests in
ard, unemployed," who was had up by the master of the S. 8. China, sa a stowaway from Yokobama, before the Marine Magis-
The Address was printed on white satin, in blue ink, and was to be embroidered with the Dragon, the Stork, and the Lotus. On Saturday night and again on Monday night, the Foreign Settisment was gay
general rejoicing.
trate on the 28th ultimo, appears to be rather & bard one; a four days' sentence, I Plainly so that he may get it through his illuminated, and there appears to have been inspection under the usual implied agree caste which stood an impregnable barrier to Hennessy as they have done. We admit
should think, would have met the merits of the case and vindicated the law, but four weeks' incarceration in fall, on hard diet and harder labour, is certainly beyond the bounds of justice; but I suppose sentences are, like a man's occupation, very pre- carlous, which makes a distinction with a difference. What in this poor man's crime and offence? He acknowledges having "loaded" about the averal Consulates in
simply for his good, and talking very, very head and benefit thereby. If anyone has told him he was funny, that man has done an unwise thing, and should take heed how a thoughtless word may be often not only prolific of future misery to the innocent. but tend to render one ridiculous who par baps if left alone would pass unnoticed and harmless. Poor, weak, deluded fool.
Japan. (Gazette.)
CALIBAN.
The following prices were realised at Mr
(Japan Gazette, Juna 24.) We had occasion yesterday to notices case of forty-four balen of silk being taken into godown for inspection and rejected without examination several days after-
grams announcing a weak and declining European market. Another case of similar character has been reported to us to-day. On the 18th instant 92 bales of silk, in six parcela of 6, 45, 6, 6, 18 and 18 bales, and, on the 20th instant another lot of bales, making in all 101 bales, were sent in for Official advices received by wire, from ment to purchase. Whether the home news all trus knowledge or religious life, and that the governor's speech, on account of Osaka, on the night of the 10th instant, luenced the intending purchaser or laying a foundation which bas for its super his short sojourn in this country, was in- not we cannot say, but it is a fact structure the vast system of General accurate in one or two points, but only in state that cholera is raging fearfully there and an unpleasant one-that-the-en-Assembly sabools and colleges in Eastern-minor matters. The main bearing of his On the day named, there were seventy new tire lot of 1 1 bales were r-jected and re- India, and, much better, the bringing of discourse, assuring us that our trude would sates and fifty deaths.
General Grant is turned to the owner yesterday, the 23rd countless precious souls of the knowledge prosper in China, and his wish that the re- advised by the Government not to visit instant. The only redeeming feature in of the true religion of Christ. After five sourses of Japan should be utilized in order Osaka, Kioto, ste,, at present. This chan- these transactions is that in neither case years of almost superhuman effort his noble that further extension of English trade ges the programme drawn up by Mr Bing were the foreigners British subjects. So frame gave way under an attack of jungle might be effected, is a correct and incon- ham, the U. 8. Minister Japan, who came to Nagasaki to receive the General, very questionable are these transactions fever, and he was fain for dear life, sorely trovertible argument, well worthy of the becoming that every mercantile firm in against bis will, to rovisit Eugland. At governor of the greatest English trading and is the guest of H. E. the Japanese Mi Japan is more or less compromised, while home be found the Church of Scotland port in the east. Such a personage as the alater to the United States.
A somewhat prolonged cruise in the the effect upon Japanese traders is serious was ripening for the disruption of 1843, speaker cannot therefore be compared with Inland Sea, relieved-by-cells at places of when a parcel of silk is taken in for in- and little interest in him or his mission ex- English residents, who are blinded by the Dr. Smith's description of eyes, and careless of securing mataal and ven Kobe, it is thought, regarded, and properly so, as a quota controversy. suggested. would be tabooad to the General, though tion. Telegraphic communication exists the scene in the Old Tron Church of prolonged benefits in the future.
between-bere and the principal silk Edinburgh, on May 25, 1835, when, before The object of the governor of Hongkong la was not nulikely the Richmond would districts, and the price at once springs. the General Assembly of the Church of is first to induce prosperity, and reap the con look in there just to see how things were
The trader feels justified, by tran- Scotland, Mr. Duff pleaded the cause of his sequent benefits. Should our trade not and whether a landing could be permitted sactions which are within his knowledge, in mission with an elequence which drew flourish, the effect upon English interests with safety.
paying any $600 for his purchases in the tears from the eyes of old and young among must be compromising; and should our interior: shortly afterwards he is diangree- his audience, is thrilling in the extreme. trade prosper, that of Great Britain will ably surprised to find the parcel of silk That oration resounded from Maidenkirk flourish. If our productions and exporta takin at $700, and on the strength of which | to John o'Groat's, and inaugurated the should increase, in the same proportion, he had based his calculations for new scheme of foreign missions, to grow in after must the importation of English articles purchases, rejected altogether, to be sub-years to gigantic dimensions and unbounded angment. Should our industrice decay and sequently bought up at $620 or even less. uasfulnes. Having stirred up his country our wealth vanish, we shall not be able to It is clear that this system is indefensible, men by a series of orations of unexampled consume English goods, and this must have but it is equally clear the Japanoss trader attractiveness, delivered through the length evil effects upon the British. Such are the has no remedy for, unfortunately, among and breadth of the land, to an interest in reusons why Mr Hennessy wishes to extend our merchant-consuls are to be found some his work, he returned in 1840 to Calcutta, the English trade at the same time as of the principal purchasers of silk. The visiting Egypt, Sinai, Bombay, and advantage accrucs to us. It is not neces- best remedy lles in exposure. This is the Madras en route, leaving characteristic sary for us to notice those Englishmen who third warning, and we deem it advisable to sketches of people and places to be em see nothing but the prout notually before say that if these practices are to be carried bodied in Dr. Smith's pages. The volume their eyes; but that the English govern- on it may be necessary to add the names before us concludes with an account of the and addresses of the foreigners who engage controversy in which the redoubtable mis- in them to the reported particulars of the sionary worsted Lork Auckland at the time transactions, of the accuracy of which latter of the first Afghan war, and the remarkable the two parties concerned in the rejections success of his mission up to 1843. recorded yesterday and to-day may be judges.
Japan, asking for assistance or deportation to Hoogkong; they refusing, he took the Felvet $230, Cynosure $32, Petrel $161. interest among the islands, was therefore spection at, let us say, "9700, that figure is leted amidst the heat of politlosland Church temporary and selfish gains before their
Cope's sale of racing ponies to-day Black Penguin $145, Pewit $145, Bay Griffin $71. Initiative and deported himself; but, A pair of valuable Settere brought the sum you see, it happened to be by the great P. of $211.
In commenting upon the practice of and 0. mail Steamer China, which compa-smoking opium, the Mai Nichi Shinbun ny are not over-liberal in giving passages, says that there are no less than four hun to any one. I fear that poor "Jack" dred Chinese and fifty Japanese in Yoko- bama who smoke the drug; and that the heno "sweet Uittle cherub that sits up daily cost of the indulgenas in this article aloft" looking after him in the far East, is thirty yen. The editor says that opium is amuggled into Yokohama through the and often has to chew the oud of a man medium of Chinese on board of the City of
ill-nature and spleen, which makes him feel that
"Want and poverty is a flaw
Severely punished by the law."
Many masters of ships in harbour have arked me if I had seen the bit of gratuitous information in a paragraph of your marn- ing contempo," vouchsafed to the last week concerning the vessels clearing their chains from turus (he meant keeping a clear hawse) as this was prejudicial in case of a Ty phoon!! Many have laughed at the absurdi- ty of the thing, while others have said "Pity, people can't mind their own business, and not talk of things they don't understand:" I bave assured them on most competent authority that this voluntary and seeming. ly anxious piece of information did not
Tokio.
On the 25th instant the. Governor of Toklo Fa addressed a note to the president and vice-president of the Fu-kuat, request ing them to attend at the Fu-cho to-day to consider matters relating to the reception of the ex-president of the United States on his arrival in Tokio.
We are informed by General T. B. Van Buren, U. 8. Consul, that General Grant was to leave Nagasaki to-day in the U. S. 5-of-war Richmond. The Richmond will anchor every night in order to avoid any risk, and also that a good view of the obtained. She will not call at Kobe, and beautiful scenery in the Inland sea may be is expected to arrive at Yokohama on the morning of the 4th July.
The Hochi Shimbun of this morning, however, says that a telegram has been received announcing that General Grant left Nagasaki at 4 p. m. yesterday after noon, and will probably arrive in Yokohama on the 3rd proximo,
f
MR HENNESSY IN YOKOHAMA. Of late the movements of Mr Hennessy appear to have been rather mystifying, even to the Japanese officials themselves. First, be most unexpectedly changes the luxurious apartments in Tokio, provided for him by the Japanese Government at a cost of five thousand yea, for the inferior accommoda- tion of a hotel in Yokohama. Then it is suddenly reported that his Excellency would take bis departure for Hongkong by the French mail on Saturday and a later account spirits him away to the hills of Nikko As evidences that the Japanese authorities are not made acquainted with Mr Homossy's movements, we learn from the Mai Nichi Shinbun that official Intima tion was received at the Kencho yesterday by an early train for Yokohama on his way that the Governor of Hongkong would leave
Foreigners have had much cause to com- to Hongkong, and ordering the Governor plain of Japanese broken contracts and sharp to send a pozas of police to the railway practice on the part of native merchanta, station to meet him. The police went, but if we are anxious to correct abuses of but Mr Hennessy did not arrive -Japan that nature and render their recurrence Gazette, June 26th.
impossible, we must first look to ourselves; and if no gentler means will prevall, organize a combination to put an end to radically bad system which damages the gaged in business in Japan,
a
erminate from a harbour light; and sa even land at Benten se, so far, all negotiations land to Kobe, probably by way of the reputation of all the foreign merchants en volume, and nothing that is to appost will no doubt gain the confidence of the
the Flagstaff ignores it, I assume that it È must have been the work of a person who used to run "a muck barge” between Dawlish and Mavigiale.
What is the punishment for defasing the Queen's coin? · I saw a Chinaman yester day in the Queen's Road, chopping several Hongkong dollars, and I drew the follow's attention to the fact that if an European were known to do such a thing he would have to undergo condign paalehment
The Hiogo News is given to understand that Mr Pope Hennessey, accompanied by a gentleman of Hongkong who came up It is expected that the ex-President will with him to Yokohama, will travel over. to bring about his landing at the English Tokaido, and after making a sbort stay in hatobs have failed, which is a great die the neighbourhood will return to Hongkong appointment to the foreign community. by way of Nagasaki and Shanghai. This During his short stay in Nagasaki, General is the arrangement as it stands at present, Grant appears to have met with a favour- but a prolongation of His Excellency's stay able intruduction to the reception preparing in this quarter might cause him to alter his for him on his arrival in Tokio, On the plane in so far as to compel him to go back 21st instant he visited the exhibition, the to Yokohama and return to Hongkong the celebrated temple of Suwo, and other way he came. places of note in the neighbourhood. That According to the Mai Nishi Shinbun Mr. pight there was as grand a display of Hennessy intended to bestow the honour Areworks on the summit of Kazagashira of a vialt upon Kobe and Osaka, but yama & might be expected to be seen in a becoming alarmed at the increasing death quiet, unpretentious town like Nagasaki rate from cholera in those places, he deem although past the time of year when it is ed it expedient to alter this little arrange- stomary to hold their annual Kitement and will depart for Hongkong on the Festival, the good people of Nagasaki 20th instant instead.
DR DUFF.
Hans
Shipping Intelligence. The following is corrected from the latest London and Colonial Papers, de
VESSELS TO ARRIVE, AT HONGKONG Name.
ment should with such obstinacy defend the barrier which obstructs the rising of our trade, must be the outcome of the policy of working for their own interests to the injury of others, and contempt of that by which others are made to prosper and benefits are derived from them afterwards.. "WRITINGS BY DEAD HANDS." From the arguments put forth by His
OR "VOICES FROM SPIRIT LAND!?
Excellency, it will be seen that the obstacle A book of the most absorbing interest is causes injury not only to Japan but to announced as "nearly ready," and but for England. Therefore Fukuchi, in his reply, one trifling circumstance, we (Standard) requested that consideration should be should cordially advise readers of all classes directed to the subject. to look out for the publication.----
**Now, As~M~ ficnnessy is a man who wes- selected by the Queen of England to govern There are twenty-three different papera, each by a different writer, in the coming one of her most important colonies in the east, his views, upon trade in that region has ever been published before, though
The Governor of English government, most of the writers could have com. manded almost any price for their work Hongkong having made such a speech as had it been previously offered. The first that we have referred to, we do not think that he will overlook the great drawback to A Home Paper, in reviewing Dr George paper is by Prince Albert, and is en- Smith's first volume of "The life of Da this is followed by The Home of may therefore hope that the time for re titled, "England and the Queen," and the expansion of eastern commerce. We Duff," says
Horace Greeley," by the dweller therein, gaining our tariff rights is not far distant Born in the bosom of the Gramplan Professor Agassiz writes on "Evolution," Hills, where bis father literally "fed his John Stuart Mill on "Immortality," and flocks," Dr Duff imbibed from his early Lord Lytton on "Metempsychosis. Some surroundings, with the susceptibility of anonymous author relates An Interview youth, a love of nature in her grandest with Edwin Forrest." Mr Charles Dickens forma, which afterwards enriched bis gives "Two Christm s Carole," oratory with images of lofty sublimity; and Obristian Andersen The Story of a Great when he came in turn to feed the Books of King," Georges Band (called in the fader human souls who in after years often hung George Sands) describes a "Château in the apon bin words, the impressions of these Midst of Roses," De Quincey writes of *cenes of his youth were made the means"An Opium-Eater's Dream of Heaven," A BIT OF VITUPERATION. national sport. A special entertainment was
of conveying truths of vital importance in George Smith, the Assyriologist, offers take no heed of the law on the subject, but got up for hir beneat and came off on the
language of irresistible beauty. Those "Personal Experiences." Abraham Lin (Tokio Times,) go on their own way, and evade the law all top of K. Dagashira-yama on the 22nd. At Little attention appears to have been who have heard him speak of the sunrise coln also contributes, as do Charles Kings. they can, till they are bowled out; and night the numerous grave yards on the given to the suggestions of the Japanese on the great hills, and compare it in his loy, Fennimore Cooper, and Dr. Living sides of the hills were brilliantly illuminated newspapers, that Governor Hennessy's visit beautiful language with the uprising and stone and when it is further said that then they plead ignorance. They are not with lanterns of many colours and present affords the opportunity of settling, in a very spread of the glorious Gospel of Christ, Herodotus has written a paper on "Pro- ignorant though, only pig headed, bombastic ed a spectacie not likely to be easy erased short satisfactory way, all the annoyances, will readily fill in the outline we have Historis Raves of Man," and that no less an authority than Titlan has been secured from the memories of those who witnessed complications and irregularities thrown into suggested. and self-sufficient, with a tinge of the rogue such an illumination for the first time, the post offies question by that inveterate
The son of parents of professed and active for the "Art Notes," it will be seen is not an ordinary book, in their composition, to say nothing of their On the 23rd General Grant visited the weddler and mischief maker, the British piety, young Duff was early dedicated to that this other nasty blemishes. I suppose it would Kencho, Saibanshe, Schools and the Ar Minister. The English postal agencies in the ministry, and by a series of portents, to One thing in partibular will strike senal, and then returned to the Kencho, Japan are in fact subject to the colonial the influence of which the Celtic nature is readers of the index, and that is, that all be of little use naming the number of the where a barquer was awaiting him. That administration of Hongkong. The repre- podially susceptible, he appears to have the writers mentioned are dead. But this honse I saw this fellow chopping these night there was another display of fire sentative of Great Britain has not, and been early convinced of the "work there is the point of the affair. The editors,
11, Southern Cross, works and the following day the principal never had, the faintest shadow of ri.ht to was for him to do." Specially favoured in Afargaret Fuller and Judge Edmunds, ars dollars At, se the Chinese run Hongkong inhabitants invited the General to ban- inte fere with them in any manner. Of his schoolmaster, of his debt to whom he also dead for the matter of that, but this now (while the Europeans are growing quet a la Japonnais at the Fukuseifi course he could no more help doing so than never cossed to have the most lively recol. does not destroy their desire to be useful 12, Alex. Newton, beautifully less and falling into nothing), temple.
he could help drawing the breath of life. leation, and to whom the East also owes to humanity. The book, as already men- A meeting of fire instirance companies No man's pie, within reach, could possibly who will say how much of the linguistic timed, is nearly ready and it is ander. and it would be unwise of me to interfere advertised to be held this morning (20th) be free from his ambitions fiuger. But, as / labours of Dr Duncan Forbes and the misstood that the foreign contributors have 20, Menelaus (8.) with their little game,
was attended by nearly all the agents of we hate always maintained, every step hesionary enterprise of Dr Tweedle, Alexander kindly consented to write in English. offices represented here. Unfortunately it has taken in obstructing the natural and Duff went, at the age of fifteen, to the "The purpose is "we are told in a sort of was resolved to exclude the press notwith: eimple adjustment of the affair, has boog in ancient University of St. Andrews, where preface, to teach the great truths of I allow that you have pretty aquelder-standing the master for discussion was of defiance of decency and propriety, if not of he not only carried off the highest hononts Spirit-life as expressed in the desire of its ably riled" the bristles of your morning considerable public interest, namely, the law. The obstacles he has interposed for of his time; but had the invaluable privilege Spiriteditor. it is the work of Spirits whe friend of the fourth estats, arent the storage of kerosene, and we are cross-two years past have been not only frivolous of listening to the sloguence of Dr Thomson she earth-plane attained to great emin. quently unable to furnish more than a mere and contemptible, but wholly in excess of Chalmers, then filing the chair of Moral | ence and those manications from them sore of that International match (raiber cnding of the proceedings. The want of bis powers and privileges, if the Japaness Philosophy, and of forming that friendship in Bpirit-life are well worthy of their earthlyDouglas Cantie
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