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THE DOUBLE ACROSTICS FOR THE SERVICES."
THE TRIENNIAL EXAMINATIONS.
The Wucbang correspondent of the N. g. Daily News gives the following interesting
THE CHINA MAIL.
all gathered in, let us go to the town and build our housES,
4th. The Marquis of Chy, the Duke of Song, the Marquis of Ch'in, the Marquis of
at Kiien.
hand-stoves, tarns the principal atreats. Into a crowded fair.
ENGLISH COLONIES AND
[No. 5104-NOVEMBER 15, 1879.
- COLONISTS. Some of the remarks of a writer in the Pall Mall on "English Colonies in Foreign
...
ie quite willing to give an English sorvies, | in bold over him in terrorum." His tenure →
of office is seldom long.. divided among themselves, they never show However much the English may be
distinguished by the two principal words description of the Examinations lately held Wei, and the Earl of Ok'ing had a mesties and deatroying the morals of the disciples Towns" apply to English Colonies aa a inclination to fraternize with the natives of
The "Double "Acrostics for the Services" are being connected with the Naval and Military professions; such for example as "Sword," Marling-pike," Platoon, &c. No such zestriction applies to the lights.
in the Province *-***
The triennial examinations which bavo been held simultaneously throughout the All solutions should be sent to Errea, China eighteen provinces are now over, and dis Mail Office, by noon, on the Friday fol-appointed students, whose name is legion, lowing the publication of any one Acrostic, have to console themselves with the hope with the word "Aerastie" on the envelope. of "better luck next time." Any arriving subsequently will not bo
antertained.
A premium of $10 will be given to the person giving the greatest number of correct sola- Lious by Now Year's day. Every Saturday a now Aerostic will be given,. together with the solation of the one of the previous week.--The successful names will also be published.
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ANSWER TO ACROSTIC No. IV. Anchor.
Seaman.
Eo little has scholarship to do in the public estimation with a man's attaining his degree, that it is put down last among the five conditions essential to success, and good luck has the first place.
But
Proclamations were issued, es usual, warning gambling-honse and opium den keepers against harbouring bad characters,
5th. In the time of the Hla dynasty the of Confucius.
And there was the old whole :--
the country. Thoy Icok upon the land Imperial drum was placed on fest; during stereotyped edict from the Viceroy, calling
they sojourn in as a place in which to win a Necessity or hope leads numbers of every fortune to be spent at home. When pro the Shang dynasty it was sapported on on the students to behave courteously pillars; and in the Chow dynasty it was towards foreigners, and thus spread the nation to go abroad in search of fortune. sperity does not come quickly enough to fame of their good manuers to the regions Necessity on the Continent generally comise onable the first generation to return soor, suspended.
The students for the third time enter the outside the Middle Kingdem. Foreignere, in the shape of the conscription. It is the second may become less exclusive, Hall on the 14th day of the 8th month, and it was stated, had been warned, through curious effoot of this great terror of car the result is not such as is likely to encour have given to them a long array of questions their Consuls, not to come over from neighbours' lives that it is leading to the age English, parents in bringing up their five topics selected at the discretion of Hankor; but should any he found wanderfusion of the peoples," and so in a left-children abroad. The young ones fre the Examiners. The generally embrace, as ing about for recreation, the students were banded way hastening on the universal quently grow up like half-castes, possessed on this occasion
not to laugh at their qutlaudish appearance Republic which (some day) is to give us of the vices of both races
For the most let.-A critical examination of various and dress. As a fact, foreigners who have evetloating peace. These great nations, part they atudy the language in the billiard- readings of the text of the Five Classics, been living in the city for years went out with their military laws of ever-increasing room, and know its slang better than its with the appended remark that the present and in among these students every day severity, are, so to speak, peopling one literature.
A another's border towns; a regular exodus dynasty has paid much attention to the without the slightest inconvenience. purity of the text of these books, and great change has undoubtedly come overtaking place on the approach of the fatal We are free from fears of the students should therefore acquaint them- the bearing of the literati towarde foreigners reason. selves with the best readings.
in Wuchaug during the last ten years, and conscription, but we are more easily led
A mysterious dinner party, given some 2nd.--A long sorics of questions on dis- from being regarded by Consuls and mer- abroad by hope of gain. Wo make railwaya short time ago by an elderly gentleman, crepancies found in the best Histories of chants in Hackow ne a most dangerous and we open mines, wo cultivate esparto and whose name has not transpired, in the the Empire,
place to enter, Wu-chang is now one of the rice, in Afrion and in Spain. All this re Hotel Demuth at St. Petersburg, fa dog most peaceable, as it is also one of the most quires looking after, and a little English cribed at considerable length in the columns colony collects for the purpose. True to of the Herald. One morning the elderly beautiful, oitica in the Empire.
the national character, they try to plant gentleman in question called upon Mr their country abroad as well as themselves. Pintscher, the manager of the Demuth They got English newspapers; they buy a
First, says the oracle, luok; second, destiny, or an auspicious horoscope; third, Feng Guei, including the happy choice of a resting place for departed ancestors; fourth, good deeds done in secret; and fifth, study. The myriad luckless students who have failed this time will therefore comfort themselves in the belief that it was not their essays or poetry which were at fault,
3rd, a discussion of the merits of various but only the fates which were against them.
Of a candidate who died as he was enter-books of past dynasties on the subject of ng the Hall, it was currently reported that Agriculture, prefaced with the remark that he must have been a ginuer above all The Government of a country la founded others and the avenging Nemesis had pur-upon its Agriculture, and the produce of Correct answers have been received from sued him to the death lest he should attain the fie ds is the people's Heaven;" and
to higher honours. "Silenus" and "Jack and Jill." Unfor- tunately "Taeping" has taken the pains to erase the correct answer to light No. 2; the remaining solutions were right.
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Nuisance
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Camellia
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Olla (Podrida)
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B. N.
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7.
We differ greatly, much as doctors do, You scarcely can decide 'twixt any two; You cannot weigh us, touch us, yet aro we Subject with some of endless rivalry--- This I will say, tho' 'tis but a suggestion The less aspiring one will solve the question. Means to an end really a great assistance Should you require it for a certain distance, Though not the same by any means, 'tis
cousin
To what's my first (of those it has a dozen), And yet it has not! This is most confusing And what is worse, 'tis not at all amusing. 'Tis taken in and out, and hits its head, It's duty done, sinks quickly to it's bed.
1.
The more I am smitten
The better for thee;
I sheltered your fathers
And now you strike me.-
2.
Fair maid of atory; beauteous golden haired, Would that the sunshine of thy smile I
ubared; Royal thy lineage, in each act a queen, A very 'Queen of Beauty' now, I ween,
3.
Neglected oft times on the earth I lie, The prey of beasts that prowl, and birds
that fly,
-Yet can I boast descent from mighty sire
Whose praises many a tuneful bard inspire.
4.
Merrily, merrily round we go
Hither and thither with pointed toe, Lads and their lasses onward glide Arms a-kimbo and hand in side.
5.
Foo to the proud and haughty Pharisee, Foe to the subtle cunning Sadducee. On Syria's plains I held my strange belief Akin to Jew and Christian to be brief,
6.
To write about me will I'm sure mislead, So common is my origin, I plead, You cannot do without me, that I know, Whilst men require to plant and reap and
HOW,
7.
"Come fill up the Come fill up the can;" Now, comrade, no heel tap
And drink like a man:
I am sure you'll excuse me,
But if you desire
To enjoy me and eat me,
Then shew me the fire.
8,
Myatio in porphyry palace, 'Mid incense and priestly chant, The emblem of cruel passion A worship bloody and gaunt, Now wrapt in the shroud of ages Far from our mortal ken, Yet we trace in thy ancient story The faith of our fellow-men,
9,
Leader of mon! Nurtured before the time, Thy countrymen unworthy of thy fame, Love of thy brethren's liberty thy crime, Thy flowing life-blood Rome's eternal shame.
10.
Several others died during the courses of the examination, and, according to custom, their dead bodies were hoisted over the walls, from a superstitious idea that it would be unlucky to carry the dead through the Dragon Gates. Were the
concluded with the further remark, that as
many of the competitors have been brought the questions from their own personal ex- up in agricultural districts they will answer perience.
4th.-A list of queatious on the ancient geography of the province, and divergent country.
27th Uot.
A STRANGE STORY.
Governor of the province himself to die in statements in the old geographies of the have their way the subject will be forced And these are only the outward signs of post, paid the amount of his bill in advance
the discharge of his duties within the Hall, his remains would not be slowed to pass
these gates, but would be carried out through a hole in the back wail.
The examinations lasted nine days, from the 8th day of the 9th Chinese month till the 16th, with an interval on the 10th and 13th days.
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and choice fruits.
...
To the chlof waiter's
CHINESE IMMIGRATION. collection of books from Mudie, and start restaurant, and ordered a luxurious repast The New York correspondent of the circulating library. They smuggle out for six, of which he himself made out the Shanghai Courier writes, Sept. 24th, as fol- their very groceries from the Civil Service menu, selecting from the wine card the Stores, Their houses, dinners, and dresses costliest vintages appropriate to each suc- lows:
COBSIYO CONTAB, and indicating the exact The question of Chinese immigration has are almost severely English The men may assumed a new phase, and there are pos- sometimes do in Rome as Rome does, but degree of temperature at which be wished the respective clareta, burghundles, and sibilitios of a renewal of the discussion by the women never. They dress for church champagnes to be served in their barns Congress. If the people of California can in Tunis as if they were in Manchester. He asked for an estimate of the dinner's apon Congress at the opening of the session their inward nationality. The divisions of 5th. An examination into the author. in December. The San Francisco news. English society come out with the domestic and zeg tested that everything should be prepared for the entertainment of his guests ship, date and value of various celebrated papers have already begun the agitation. customs, very collection of twenty Kagat seven o'clock precisely the same evening. They claim that the voice of the State in lich famillos divides itself into aristocracy, Punctually at that hour be entered the collections of Essaye..
It will be seen from the above brief sum. the recent election was practically uns middle easy, and lower orders. The private room reserved for his banquet, and You will manager of the mine or plantation, the in- took his place at the head of the table, mary of topics that this part of the compe- nimons against immigration. tition would necessitate a vast amount of remember that the various party tickets for dependent merchant or flourishing com magnificently, aderand with rare exotics most careful reading to enable the student State officers were all hoaded with a decla mission agent, and their families, form a listed on the night of the 22ad inst, or
The list of successful candidates was pub- to answer the questions correctly. This is ration against the Chinese. The fact that select soci ty which sets the fashion and respectful Inquiry, "whether be expected the only part of a Chinaman's education the tickets thus inscribed were voted with moves in its own circle. They give one his friends to arrive 2000, as the dinner the 9h day of the 9th month. Groups of which travels beyond the blind routine of out any disposition to erase the declaration, another dioner parties, and even balls. was quite ready," he ropli.d. "They interested students and their friends were the Four Books and Five Classice; and is pointed out as suficient proof that the The lalles call and take five o'clock tea, are all here! Let the song, be served to be seen all day long discussing the prob- were a reforming educationalist to arise, he people of the State are determined to be and discuss the last fashions in the Queen. forthwith! By his express command able names on the list, Soldiers were on might here easily introduce a few questions heard and heeded. There is nothing now The men. subscribe for the Times, and the puzzled attendants then proceeded to guard from the Hall to the Provincial on foreign languages, science and interna- in this. Everybody has understood for a argue political queations when not absorbed help the absent guests to course after Treasurer's yamoa, where a cheap and most tional law, without much disturbance of long time that an overwhelming majority in business; for their conversation is apt course, setting down fail plates before the unsightly gallery, made of bare poles and the prosent balance of classical studies. As of the people of Californis is opposed to to smack somewhat too much of the shop. empty chairs, and pouring out precious straw matting, had been erected to receive things are, this part of the examination is the Chinese remaining. The trouble is Their clerks and the familles of the clerk wines into the groups of glasses stationed the Roll of Fame.
Denser than ever became the crowds in skipped by nosrly every student, and is that outside of the Pacific Coast States the form a middle class, modelling itself care- before each untenanted place. The elderly Under them, gentleman ate and drank copiously, now reckoned as having very little influence in popular sentiment, if not positively favour-fully on the aristocracy. the streets, and louder the hum of excite deciding the fate of the previous days able to the Chinese, is at least indifferent again, come "the lower orders," the work and anon clinking his glass against the Thess masterless goblets ranged upon the table ment, as the hour of midnight arrived
ess ys. Nine-tenths of the men are in to the question, believing that it is a pro- men and hangers.on of the colony. when the guns were fired, and the scroll blissful ignorance of most of the questions, bleta which the States themselves must hangers-on are one of the most curious to bie zight and left. With the first round was unrolled before the eyes of the waiting and hence the practice of carrying on cribs solve without assistance from the National features of the society they live by- of champagne be arose and made a speech. A recent decision by the Wherever a number of moneyed Rng to his imaginary friends, from the tenor of multitudo. Only sixty-one out of a total is universal. So great is the number of Government. of about 12,000 competitors, have gained students that it is im, ossible even to make United States Circuit Court in Oregon has,lishmen, whether workers, illers, or in which oration the watters gathered that the degree of Clú jen, or M. A., while only a pretence of searching them. Every man however, made it clear that the States valids, is gathered to other abroad, they they had been engaged in at ending to per nine others have obtained honourable takes with him as many cribs as he has have no jurisdiction in the matter. The become a prey to parasites of their aongea long slaca defunct. When the A floating 1opulation of elderly gentleman had concluded his re mention. Previous to the T'alping rebel- money to purchase, or room in his basket Legislature of Oregon passed a law pre-own nation. lion, Hupeh could only pass forty-eight to carry. If his basket be full of writing hibiting the employment of Chinose labor impecuniona adventurers, the double marks, he again went through the clinking men at the triennial examinations. The materiale, cooking utensils and provisions, upon street improvements and public of the more prosperous wanderers, they turn formality, drained the contents of bis glass, number was raised in consideration of vaat he diedaius not to stuff his stockings, the works. A firms of contractors undertook to up mysteriously, and go from one country and, turning to Mr Pintscher, chilled that sums of money subscribed to the impover-lining of his clothes, hat and shoes, and to disregard this law, and a suit was brought man to another with plausible stories as amazed functionary's blood by the following ished Imperial Exchequer of that time, fill his capacious sleeves with these aids to against them in the Circuit Court. The batt to draw money. Sometimes they are ghastly statement: "Today I celebrate and is a kind of bounty to the poople for memory. Several men sitting in adjoining Court decided in favor of the contractors, the widows and daughtera of Englishmen, my joyful meeting with my beloved re- the heavy taxes imposed under the name cells will also combine their efforts to save citing the provisions of the Burlingame dead abroad, in need of temporary relief; lativas- my dead wife, daughter, and three of lekin, which then embraced not only time in searching for the answers to Treaty, which recognize the right of or they are clerks or workmen on their way sons, two of whom fell in the last campaign. merchandise, but property, income and particular questions, and when these are emigration and assure the Chinese that to or from home, also in need of a littls Do not be afraid; I am not mad. It has found in the cribs, each student copies from they shall have equal rights with other for- temporary relief: this once obtained they dore me a power of good to spend this poll taxes that have since been abolished.
Of the sixty-one names on the list, by far the book, only making a few verbal altera eigners. From these provisions the Court disappear. Now and then a stranger turns 1appy hour or so with my famly You the largest proportion are men belonging tions according to individual taste, and declared, first, That the right to reside in up over whose past hangs a cloud, but who is may lo k fr me again on this day twelve to the departments of Wu-chang, Hwang with a view to hiding the plagiarism. a foreign country implies the right to labor obviously in no want of money. He cettlesouth. chow, and Han-yang, the more distant Failing that, they raske a guess at the for a living; and second, That a State has down, opens a business, and a time pro- The original departments of liang-yang, Ichang, and
answer, and care not whether it be right no power to Interfere with, or in any way duces a wife and family. Yüo-yung have failed to carry off even one
or wrong; hence the popular saying about limit, the operation of a treaty of the inhabitants fight a little shy of him; and.
MARRIAGE IN THE HUDSON'S their reluctance to make his acquaintance degree; while the Manchoos, from King- a man who is unable to answer, or wishes United States.
BAY TERRITORY, chow, who always send about 100 students, to evade a question: he balked it.
This decision renders null and void the is at last justified by the discovery that
In an interesting notice appearing in the have their allotted number of three degrees, showing further the vast number of fail-amendments on Chinees labour in the newly this is the Mr Jones whose sudden dis
The ages of the successful candidatesures under this beading on the part ovon adopted constitution of California, which appearance from Mudbury with somebodya'urday Review of a work published re- range from nineteen, a lad who is S4th of the best sayists, it is significant that declare that "no corporation now existing, else's cash-box lately caused such a scandal cently by Mr H. M. Robinson, entitled The Great Fur Land, or Sketches of Life Wrangler, to fifty-three, the oldest, who is whereas the Prize Essays on the Four or hereafter formed under the laws of this This of couse is a bad case; but the now- 14th on the list.
Books and the poem are always printed, State, shall employ, directly or indirectly, comer who is only suspected gradually in the Hudson's Bay Territory," and pu The age of the Senior Wrangler is.thirty- the Essays on the Five Classics are not so in any capacity, any Chinese or Mongo settles into some sort of relations with the blished by Messrs Sampson, Low and Co. one, and he comes from the Kwang-chi disinvariably printed, while the answers to the lian," and that "no Chinese shall be exa- older residents, Men do business with of London, we learn that the Hudson's Bay triot, where no doubt his success will be loss last day's questions are seldom, if ever, ployed on any State, county, municipal or him, if they do not invite him to their Company is very liberal to its servants. attributed to superior scholarship than to
other public work except in punishment for houses If he comes out penniless or falls The clerks commence on small pay, only. published. the rebuilding of a pagoda and a templo to the God of Literatura, which have Bribery is a thing not unknown on these crime." The decision hits these provisions into trouble he will probably be taken up £20 a year, but they get board and lodging lately much improved the Feng-suel of the occasions, though every precaution is takon precisely, and throws the whole discussion souuer: for whatever a follow-countrymau's free, and are clothed at less than cost price both on the journey from Peking, and after back to the abrogation of the Burlingame character may be ho cannot be allowed to from the Company's shops. Hence they The texts on which the three essays their arrival at the provincial capital, to Treaty, or upon Congress. Hence it is starve in a foreign land. The channel of seldom draw all of their salaries, and of the first examination have to be writ-prevent the High Examiners having any likely that the question may become an reconciliation will probably be the British what remains in the bands of the Company ten are taken invariably from the "Four communication with the outer world. They important issue in the next Presidential chaplaincy. But the chapla ncy is far more compound interest is allowed so that it Books," and on this occasion were as montb, and are escorted to their temporary
enter the city on the 1st day of the 8th campaign, which opens in the spring of than the legal refuge for the destitute soon accumulates, and when the time for That contest is likely to bo so Englishman, bonest or other wise. It is the retirement comes the clerk who entered follows:--
Jat. Tez Kung said Suppose the case residence by officials, who see that the doors ulosely contested that the vote of California only thing the colonists have in common. on such small pay finds he is a compara- of a ruler conferring extensive benefits are closed and sealed behind them. Here y decide it, and of course the party The various orders of society hold aloof tively wealthy man. Those of them who they are lamured till the 6th day, when lenders will be eager to gain the goodwill from one another; generally they are more marry usually allow the Company's direc upon the people, and able to assist all.
or leas divided by a multitude of little tors who have all along treated them so 2nd.-This rule (of conferring honours
their formal entry into the Examination of California at any cost.
In the meantime, there is talk of carrying equabbles, in which every new comer is well, to select their partner for life, and in Ball is made the occasion of a grand pro on three generations of ancestors) was ex-
When choice rather than deceptive beauty. One tended to the princes, great officers, scholars C39sion, in which all the civic dignitaries of the case to the Supreme Court for final expected, under penalty of being sent to such cases character in regarded in the and people.
the oily take part. The Imperial Examin- decision, where the Californians claim Coventry, to take a lively interest. ers are the honoured guests of the day, and they have reason to hope for a verdict in colony is very small, it is not seldom factor Mr Robinson mentions acknowledged deviation is as bad as holding to an ex- they are attended by the Viceroy, the Go- their favor. Their grounds for this faith like the mess of a certain gunboat, which the Hudson's Bay Company's seicotion as vornor, the Provincial Treasurer, Taotais, are presented in the following paragraph consisted of two lieutenants not on speaking follows:-"Received one wife in good con and a host of minor officials chosen from from one of the San Francisco newspa- terms. Only won the number of English dition, Hope she will prove good, though Subject for poem
residents in a foreign town is very great she is certainly a very ram one to look at.” "The azure precipice was half concealed the Magistrates of the prov ice, who have pere: in a mass of rolling clouds." The poem
"The three states or conditions pre-can they cotriva to establish a club: This must surely have been in years gone already won the degree of M.Á. or LL.D. was to be in pentameter verse, and eight Twelve of these form a sub-examining board scribed under which Chinese may come to then the cliques are big enough to find by, for if marriages are still conducted hy to sift the Essays as they are first handed this country are-1, curiosity; 2, trade, and pleasanter occupation than quarrolling. this means amongst the servants of the of the sixteen lines were to rhyme with the
3, permanent residency. These are dis- in this particular we present a great Hudson's Bay Company photography at last word of the text; the examiners for-in, while the others superintend the collect tinctions which cannot be lost sight of in contrast to the Germans, who are daily any rate ought to be brought into play to nishing about fifty or more rhyming words ing, sealing, stamping, transcribing, &o.
ko. Every Essay is copied in red ink, and deciding the case. There can be no doubt becoming more formidable rivals in the give a man some idea of the features of the that the Chinaman who seeks or accepts struggle for business. Wherever twenty selected one beforehand. Life in a Hud: The average length of each essay is about only the copies are seen by the examiners.
of that nation are thrown together abroad son's fort is said to be simple and meno. The 21st of September witnessed one of employment from a corporation or an thuse public pageants of which all China- individual to pave streets or boil potatoes they start a "Germania," where German tonous. But the climate though hard is men are a proud our forefathers were is not here for curiosity, as it is commonly beer and newspapers are to be found, and a healthy. Vegetables are seldom seen, and of the Lord Mayor's show in less stilitarian anderstood. Neither does he come under singing olub is formed. They have a poor bread is distributed sparingly. But the the head of trading. Digging ditches or box to help destitute follow country men, table is well supplied with such forest The students were naturally anxious to ramming paving-stones is not nenally and they make open bouse at Christmas, dainties as buffalo hump and moose nose. ook upon the faces of the men who had designated trade. The average Chinaman Whenever the number rises above thirty News in the remote regions may take a none of these things until our numbers are son train themselves to read one year for of the Empire, and who had been commis. permanent resident, if any. But it is a sioned to preside over the present compe- notorious fact that he does not contemplate counted by the hundred. Englishmen will another, and the file of newspapers is care tion; while the populace fucked in from permanent residence. He is not here with be hospi able to one another, excepting of fully put away and road as its date one year all quarters to see the procession of man- any such purpose in view. Instead of course to those who belong to the other after publication is reached. The great dating in gorgeous court costumes, riding being an immigrant, he is a forager. He lot." In their own houses they will smoke, craving of the Hudson's Bay people is for through the streets in open chairs. There does not even leave his bones with us. If drink, and play whist together; but to get society and a visitor is apturously wel was the usual grand turn-out of ragamuffin death should overtake him before he has them to act as a body, except in Church comed. Considering the enjoyment with lads, dressed in dirty green tunica, tinsel accumulated the fortune upon which he matters is apparently an fmpossibility, which these denizens in the forest welcome hate and peacock's feathers, Small regi- was bent, his remains are forwarded to And it must not be supposed that their any stranger from Europe going among ments of other boys bearing flags and China. Defunct Chinamen have long been union in that respect la of a very close them, it is somewhat melancholy to read painted title-boards, numbers of repulaiva. a large article of export. These facts are nature. It is rather a casation of mutual that when free to retire to Europe on a notorious. No one who has the right hostilities, that they may the more con- good income and to participate to the full looking gamen runners, ridiculous trum which experience confers to speak on the veniently assail the chaplain. This unlucky in European society, the servant of the peters, lame gong-bearers, gravo looking heroes in tall. hats, riding on horseback and subject will deny them. With this examina. man has need to possess in an eminent Hadson's Bay Company is usually satisfied bearing strapped across their backs in tion of the premises, the decision, as a degree the art of being all things to all with a short visit, and flies in disgust back yellow silk the seals and other insignia of matter of simple logic, falls to the ground." men. For no little England would be from civilization to the wilderness in which complete without its religious divisions, he has passed his life, eventually there to office; an array of fantastically carved
If it is large enough to have a chaplsinoy lay his bones. batons, pewter glass-bejewelled censers,
WHY, I hear asked, did not Sir Garnet at all, it is large enough to be divided into and deep flounced crimson umbrellas; and then came the foreign-armed troops gandily attired, carrying their guns with bayonets fixed, marching at a most funereal paces while not une burst of applause broke from
place.
3rd.To hold a middle course without
treme.
to choose from.
500 words, and the greatest amount of care
is bestowed on the first, which curiously enough is on exactly the same text as that given at Peking this year (see N.-O. Herald of 7th October, p. 377.)
daya.
1880,
Should'st thou be thus, I pray thee have a gib to the 10th day, shut up in their amall themselves won the higheat literary honours must, therefore, come under the bead of a they start a gymnasium. Now, we do year to come, Bat the Company's servants
care
Lest in the look-up' thou should'st take
thy share;
At all events be sure of what you take Or morning's sun will bring thee many an
sche.
11.
A smiling babe would come, it's parents'
The students are in the Hall from the cells four feet by three, not so large or
comfortable even as Kirke White's **Closet just slx feet by four,
floor;
With white-washed walls and plaster So noble, large, 'tis scarcely able To admit a single chair and table.” The Chinaman'a study cannot boast
“A window vainly stuffed about
To keep November's breezes out,'
In ancient days a woman felt disgrace Conid she not gaze upon an infant's face¿ Should it so prove, the lady took to praying for it is exposed to the full force of wind Forgive me, gentle reader, what I'm saying) and zain, being only one of a long line of And sure enough ere long: Oh! wondrous brick stalls, open in front, and covered
pleasure,
with a slightly projecting tiled roof.
But like their brother poet of the West, these aspirrats to fame would doubtless sing
No dungeon's well, no cell confined, Can cramp the energies of mind.". And so, under the most unfavourable or cumstances, ten thousand sons of a rhyming
treasuré,
Bo felt our lucky Hero, now a sire
Of gracious offspring as could man desire.
12.
In London and Paris, Berlin and in Rome 1 atretch out my sinuous way, Wherever you travel, where'er you may
roam
You'll find me as sure as the day. My name it is legion! My distance immense In fact, my sole limit (in size) is expense. YORKCE
Face
send home Major Marter with the official High and Low, and there will infallibly be A ZARGE Vessel is to be built for the use Major was the actual captor, though Lord hortus siccus of Dissent. There is the of the Indian Government, which is to re news of the capture of Cetewayo? The representatives of various divisions of the
Pursue their studies con amore,
Giford was chief king hunter. I can only zealous lady brought up in the strlatest main in Indian waters. It is to be like car And wanton with the muse of glory." They enter the Hall again on the 11th, the crowd, but a death-like stillness and fer the question by reminding the Evangelicalism, and the equally zealous large troopships, and will be of great value and this time have five more Essays to silence prevailed as these great rulers of an queriste that Sir Garnet J. Wolseley has a lady who would sook heaven through in any emergency. Its services will be ro taste for noble envoys, sud seldom sends Ritualism. As they both subscribe, they quired in the transport of regiments. from write on texts selected from the Five abject people parsed along."
the news of his triumphs by ordinary men consider percentage of the chaplain their one part of the sea coast to another, and, Classics. These were as follows ;-..
The examinations ixing not only stud- as messengers. The Hon. Henry Wood, dae, and exercise the right of ownership by as it is made for the accommodation of 1st.Of suspended bodies none can ex-ents, but thousands of other strangers, to son of Lord Halifar, was the ambassador dictating his opinions to him and directing troops, it will save much sickness and diss ceed in brightness the sun and moon. the city; so that the streets, teashops, and chosen to bring the news of the capture of his uctions. It be be at al in earnest comfort which are inseparable from the “I teine," said a farmst, the other day,
2nd.--Tas articles of tribute from this places of public resort present from morning Coomassie to England; and Sir Garnet only about his du fe he will offend the bus packing of a large body of troops, în a "I should make a good Parliament man,provings in the time of Yu, (B.O. 2286) to night the most bustling and animated follows his own precedent in sending Lord bands, who look upon him se chiefly there small coasting steamer. The Government for I use their language. 1 received two were Oh'ua wood, yew trees, nedars, grind appearance. There is an extraordinary Gifford to make known the capture of the for the benefit of their wives. What they hope soon to save the cost of the ship, as bills the other day, with requests for stones, whetstones, arrow-headed stones, display of new book stalls and book shop Zula King; and Lord Gifford will of course, want him to do is to let them slona, and they will not have to employ private aboumers Immediate payment; the one I ordered to and cinnabar. Also wood of the Kwan, and the exhibition of every variety of article come in for his Royal interview at Balmoral take his part at a rubber now and then to carry troops. Indis has had many did. be laid on the table the other to be read] Lett, and Hn trees,
likely to tempt a scholar, from paper, pencilsor Windsor, and possibly for a decoration. The Nonoformist missionary, who is vantages from the doing away with the Bri,-9 my husbandmen, the harvest tu i and grenkery, to emy-bage, mataben and | Atlas" in the World,
there for the conversion of the pativon but · Indian Navy, that day six monibe,"