THE "DOUBLE ACROSTICS FOR THE SERVICES."
The "Double Acrostics for the Services" are distinguished by the two principal words
being connected with the Naval and Military
ONE DAY IN INDIA. Sir Ali Baba, K..B., speude a day with the Collector, and sende an account to Vanity Fair ---
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE CULTIVATION OF PERFUME`
DE PLANTS.
No. 5110 NOVEMBER 22, 1879.
COMMERCIAL.
Scented Teas. Our market has been more
In England the Collector is to be found no doubt that in the event of an advance riding at anchor in the Bandicoot Club. by our forces, the Burmese will endeavour He makes two or three hurried cruises to to try the effects of some of them on our his native village, where he finds himself vessels. They are not difficult of mana- Was it not the Bishop of Bombay whe half forgotten. This sours him, The facture, while gen cotton, the powerful said that man was an automaton plus the climate seems worse than of old, the means explosive agent, is easily enough prepared of locomotion at his disposal are incon by soaking ordinary cotton in nitric and professious; such for example ne “ Sword,
No such mirror of consciousness? The Government *Marling-pike," "Platoon," &c.
of every Indian province is an automatum venient and expensive; he yearns for the sulphuric acids. restriction applies to the lights.
returns an older and a quieter man. The contemptuous way in which we have seen All solutions should be sent to EDITOR, China plus the mirror of consciousness. The Seunsbine and elephants of tharibpur, and It is only to be hoped then that after the
lowing the publication of any one Aerostie, form the automat in. The Coliaator works, afternoon of life is throwing longer aha- the powers of resistance of the Burmese this culture. It is not intended that the this port have not been large, but from Matt Office, by noon, on the Friday fol- oretariat is consciousness, an the Collectors
dows, the Acheron of promotion is gaping talked and written about, we shall not with the wordostie" on the envelope. and the Secretariat observes and reglaters.
To the people of India the Collector is before bim; he falls into a Commissioner make a falso stop or meet some serious disaster at. the commencement of hostili- Any arriving subsequently will not bo
He watches ship; still deeper into an officiating seat on entertained.
the Imperial Government. A premium of $10 will be given to the person over their welfare in the many facets which the Board of Revenue. Facilis est descen- tios, should we be compelled to enter upon He establishes-88, etc. Nothing will savo him now them, by undor valuing our enemy. We giving the greatest number of correct solu
reflect our civilization. tions by New Year's day.
officers and artificers in their employ, who could teach them to give us a great deal of trouble, if they would only allow themselves THE CHILDREN OF YAKOOB BEG.
to be taught. Some of the Burmese officers The announcement was made in a recent are themselves clever and scientifically issue that the Anti Opium Society had trained men, whose counsels might, pos- addressed to the Chinese Minister in Loa-sibly be listened to where those of for- Thore can be no doubt of the ultimate don a remonstrance against the decree by eigners might be disregarded, which the sone and grandsons of Yakoob Beg were condemned to mutilation and sla- and speedy issue of the struggle, but it very. Subjoined is the text of the Society's no use courting an Isandula at the outset memorial and the reply of the Marquis by having too great a contempt for our
enemy.-Rangoon Gazette.
Every Saturday a now acrostio will be given, schools and dispensarles for their children.transmigration bas aet in; the gates of must remember that the Burmese have 160,000 gallons of handkerchief perfumo consequently been on a more moderate together with the solution of the one of the Raols for their troublesome relations and Simla fly open; it is all over, Let us pray some scientific and experienced foreign yearly; the English revenue from Eau de acale; there is no change to make in quota-
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Deighbours, and courts of justice for the that his halo may fit him. benefit of their brothers who can write and talk. He levies the rent of their fields, be fixes the tariff, and he nominates to every Appointment, from that of read sweeper or constable, to the great blood-sucking offices round the Court and Treasury. As for Boards of Revenue and Lieutenant-Cover- nore who occasionally come sweeping across the country, with their locust hosts of sor- vants and petty officiale, they are but an occasional nightmare; while the Governor- General is a mere shadow in the background of thought, half blended with "John Com.. pany Bahadur" and other myths of the dawn.
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tions, bat the market closes strong for all kinda; the teas now offering are for the most part of indifferent quality, and deficient in acont.
Pekoos have been dealt in to a trifling
extent, and prices have ranged fully as high as before; business has been confined to "long leaf" kinds.
The following is a summary of the fo
night's business
Oongon, 3,800 boxes at Tls. 16) a 32 per
13 a 28 per picul; Scented Orange Pekoe, pioul; Scented Caper, 8,900 boxes at Ta
1,000 boxes at Tls. 23 a 30 per ploul
The Australians are turning their atten- MESAS DEACON & Co.'s Canton M tion to the cultivation of perfume plants, Report, dated Canton, 20th Nov, says,
There has been a moderate busine and in view of a possible failure of scent- bearing flowers in the places where they are passing in Teas, during the past fortnigh now oultivated, in England and in the south but the firm tone advised in our last report of France, a certain Bond Street perfamer still prevalls.
Congous-These tess continue in good Australia, for the purpose of encouraging demand at former prices; settlements at has thought it worth his while to visit
perfumes should be manufactured in the Macao considerable shipments have gone colony, but that the plants should go through forward. some partial preparation so as to reduce their bulk and render them fit for transport. sparingly supplied with Capers during the British India and Europe consume about past two weeks, and transactions have
Cologne alone is about £8,000 a year, and the total revenue from imported perfumes is estimated at about £40,000. One great perfume distillery at Caunes usce about 100,000lbs. of acacia flowers, 140,000lbs. of rose petals, 32,000lbs. of jasmine blossome, 20,000 of tuberose every year, besides many other fragrant plants. Most of the flowers which provide the material for perfumes grow more luxuriantly in Australia than in any other part of the world, and many of No doubt Australia should be a perfume-pro- the native plants yield a valuable scent. ducing country, but might not India do some thing in that line too? Jasmine, orange flowers, gardenia, sweetbriar, daphne, tuberose, and Consul Tremlett, reporting to our Foreign many other richly-scented plants, flourish from the Executive Committee of this Office of the trade of Saigon and Cochin luxuriantly in India, while verbena grows Society, it is my painful duty to address China in 1878, gives an account of the go- in large shruba in many parts of the hills. your Excellency in reference to the seu-verment of this French colony, prefacing The advertisement of a capitalist manufac- tence passed by the Judicial Commissioner of his statement with a list of the 14 governors turer that he will buy any quantity of Kansub upon the three sons and the graud. who have ruled the colony in the 23 years specified flowers, roots or plant at a market- son of the rebol chief Yakoob Beg. The which have elapsed since the conquest. The able price, might tempt some enterprising attention of the Committee has been drawn Governor is assisted by a Privy Council persons, native or European, to lay out a to the translation printed in the newpapers and a central baresa of administration for few acres of land for the supply of this of the reports of the Judicial Commissioner internal affairs, and there are also 50 An- want, thus laying the foundation of a new and of his Excellency the Governor-General namite préfets and sous-préfets distributed export trade." The "Champak tree," whose of Kausub, in which it is stated that those throughout the country. Cultivated State" odours faint were immortalised by Shel- four children, the eldest of whom is only land, or land bearing trees in fall growth, ley, grows in the Dun and probably in other five, the innocence of all of whom is ad auction is by candle, the dying out of three perfume, mitted in the very documents which contain lights before a higher bid is made settling their sentence, are condemned to suffer a the matter; uncultivated land is valued at cruel mutilation and to be sent into sla-10f. per hectare (23 acres), and all except The military force is some 3,000, very; and the confirmation of this sentence free grants pay a registration fee of 2 per by the Imperial Government is request- cent.
The Committee dogire most res. and the native troops number about 4,000, ed pectfully to make known to your Ex and the police about 250, this last force collency the sentiments of astonishment consisting mainly of Asiatics of all nation- and grief with which they heard of the alities, Chinese excepted. The city of borrible fate to which these innocent Saigon is said to contain 5,000 inhabitants. Achildren are condemned for the crime In the interior there are, according to the
The Collector lives in a long rambling
bungalow furnished with folding chairs and tables, and in every way marked by the provisional arrangements of camp life. He Elkanah
seems to have just arrived from out of the Street
firmament of green fields and mango groves Correct answers have been received from that encircle the little station where ho lives, or he seous just about to pass away "Jack and Jill" and "Silenus."
into it again. The shooting howdahs are lying to the verandah, the elephant of a neighbouring landholder is swinging his Found in most churches, churah-yards, pat- hind foot to and fro under a tree, or switching up straw and leaves on to his terns, books,
circle making babbling nois-a, and tents are Remarkable for disagreeable looka,~
pitched here and there to dry, like so many A half-bred thing at best-no pride to me
white wings on which the whole establish ment is about to rise and fly away-fly The glory of ancestral pedigree! Way for the Second! Though they oft are away into the district," which is the correct expression for the vast expanse of lumber,
level plain melting into blue sky on the wida horizon-circle around,
Their names, varieties, one cannot number: They live, move, drink, and when at length
they're dead
To his Excellency the Most Hon. the Marquis Tseng, &c., Envoy of his Ma- jesty the Emperor of China. Your Excellency-Under instructions
COCHIN CHINA.
Export of the various descriptions of Teas shipped from Canton Waters, (Hong- kong, Canton and Macao) to Great Britain to date :-Nov. 8, 8. S. Choalior, Congón 120,186 lbs., S. Caper 98 602. 102., 3.0. Pekos 184,888 Iba., total 553,576 lbs.; 11, 8. B. Agamemnon, Uongou 128,470 lbs., S., Caper 142,872 iba., S. O. Pekoe 23,450 lbs., Serts 750 lbs., total 295,042 lbs-making with previous shipments, a total for the season of 17,570.3101ba,; against 18,346.644 lbs., for season 1878-79.
back, a dozen camels are lying down in a fourteen years old and the youngest but can only be had by public salo, and the places also, and would produce a delicions reels were 175 bales, and since then only
He is
The Collector is a bustling, manı, always in a hurry. His multitudinous duties succeed one another so fast that ono In countless ways on man their blessings is never ended before the next begins.
shed....
Joined with the First, we often form a rest To sailor wandering on ocean's crest.
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A Poet from all Nature tunes his lay- The rooks, woods, streams alike their daty
pay.
Emblem am I of Life! aye, e'en of Death," When the Great Master calls the ebbing
breath.
mysterious thing called the Joint" comes gleaning after him, I believe, and complete
the inchoate work.
last statistics, 1,671,269 persons, of whom very few indeed. are Europeans, 1,400,668 are Annamese; there are some Cambodians, Malays, and Hindostaners, and 48,889 Chinese, but it is stated that there are larger numbers of Chinese who are pot included.
Dead Letters. Ahlborn, A., 74, Regent St., London, (.) 1
chwang, Allen, J. P., Barque Northern Star, New- Barrett, Mrs. F., 12, Clifton Terrace,
Knowle, Bristol,.. Bartolini, V., 101, Landsdowne Place,
Brighton,......... Bellanova, A., caro of L. da Costa, Elong-
kong,
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Benland, Mrs. S.S. Karo, Port Said,... Benton, Claus, barque Hermann, Swatow, Bigley, J. H., 173, Sutherland Road,
Sheffield
Blechlock, H. H., Custom House Terrace, Victoria Dock, London,....... Brannan, Miss A., Royal Hotel, Band-
ridge, Melbourne, Carey, Captain, Star of India, New
chwang,
Carter, W. H., London,............ Chang Woo Gow, Hotel Lamm, Wien,
Austria,
Melbourne.....
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SILK. We have to chrontele a period of
of the past fortnight settlements of Teatles inactivity in this article. In the first week.
125 balos have been taken, say in all 800 bales. Notwithstanding this apathy on the part of foreigners, native holders refuse lower prices, and they assert that rate. the country have advanced, The gr*** portion of the sixth crop yield has now arrived in Cantor; nearly 70 per cent of the crop is yellow thread.
Long reels. Settlements for India are said to be 50 plculs of Seulam, Kowkong,
Re-reels have been little wanted, and
1only 260 boxes of Ourechuck and Eucklow are reported booked. There are still con-
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siderable contrasta uuexecuted, and much difficulty is experienced in getting the reelers to manipulate finest thread, wa
Stock in Canton is computed at 2,500 balen Teatles 100 bales Kowkong, 200 bales 1Uumebuck & Lucklow, and 200 to 300 balen
of inferior sorts, .....
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Export of Bilk-Export to date: To Lon ..(~.) 1 | 'don, 4,281 bales; to Continent, 5,546 bales;
to America, 5,486 boses; to Bombay, 1,680 - ........(6.) 2 | piouls; total, 0,827 bales; and 6,486 bozes; 1,630 piouls. Of Waste, 5,151 bales, and Pierced Cocoons, 2,054 bales for Europe.
Waste. Settlements are 600, to 700 bal:-
of their parents, and their earnest hope that the Imperial Government will not ratify the just sentence.. They are The verandah is full of fat black men in convinced that your Excellency will give clean linen waiting for interviews. They them credit for nothing but good intentions are bankers, shopkeepers, and landholdors, in their expressing feelings which will be
Distributed throughout the who have only come to "pay their res- sympathised with wherever throughout the
civilised world the news of this trial is car colony, under the authority of the Bishop, are some 60 European and 26 native priests, Creature of fashion! of all shades and hues!pects," with ever so little a petition as s
corollary. The chuprassie-vultures hover ried. The sincere friendship felt by the To use and cherish thee, men can't refuse.
about them. Each of these obscene fowls members of this society for your great beeldes 75 Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres, bas received a gratification from each of the country and their carnest desire to promote who render invaluable service in various clean fat men; else the clean fat men would a good understanding between China and capacities. The revenue of the colony has not be in the verandah. This import tax the Western world urge them to give been recently increased by an export duty is a wholesome restraint upon the excessive utterance to the feelings of their hearts. on rice, occasion being taken, on the other Clara, care of Postmaster, Williamstown, of They cannot refrain from pointing out hand, to reduce the land tax vory con- visiting tendencies of wealthy men colour. Several little groups of brass dishes to your Excellency that the execution siderably. A heavy annual payment is filled with pistachio nuts and candied sugar of the barbarous sentence would excite made to the Home Government, The are ostentatiously displayed bere and there; universal loathing, while its reversal would Consul gives some account of the island of they are the oblations of the would-be cause the Imperial clemency to be praised Phu-gooo, having been several times called visitors. The English call these offerings throughout the world Begging your Ex-upon for information concerning it. As "dollies;" the natives dáli. They repre-cellency kindly to forgive this intrusion there is the possibility of its turning ont to sent in the profuse East the visiting cards upon your Excellency's time and attention, is very valuable the Government take I have the honour, on behalf of the so- precantions that it shall not be uselessly of the meagre West.
Although from our lofty point of obser.ciety, to subscribe myself, Your Excellen-parcelled out. Land is granted only to those who intend to cultivate it. The vation, among the pine trees, the Collector ey's most obedient, humble servant,
prieo fixed is 10f., per hectare. No taxes seems to be of the smallest social calibre, a
Are levied for the first six years. The mere carronade, not to be distinguished by
the right to all Government reserve any proper name; in his own district be is
minerale. The sea shore, to 275ft. above a Woolwich lnfant; and a little commu-
high-water mark, is also reserved, and no the erection of objection can be made inspectors of schools, and assistant magin-
fortifications or to the making of roads trates, look up to him as to a magnate.
They tell little atorios of his weaknesses
upon or through any concession. In 1874 Combined with number "three" of this and eccentricities, and his wife is considered
mining company was granted gratuitously a person entitled "to give herself airs"
a right to make researches in the island (within the district) if she feels so disposed;
for three years, and in case of success to Acrostic (Perhaps you'll find the rondering somewhat while to their bigh dinner is allowed the
have the sole right of mining for a term of nine years; but the coal found proved use of champagne and "Europe" talk on caustic)
sesthetic subjects. The Collector is not,
of little value, and the company did not I form the self same thing! yet now my however, permitted to wear a chimney-pot
succeed in finding anything else. Some pepper and coffee plantations were started, wish is
but suffered from want of labour and general mismanagement.
3.
In one sense I can quote without remorse The Brabant motto "l'Union fait la force," And Theologians try to prove in vain That they, regarding Truth, at it remain. The French Republic is another case;— How thoughtless men this little word mis-nity of microscopicals; doctors, engineers,
place!
4 and 5.
To take a wriggling journey with the fishes; Aye and on land too, oft my way I make Should number "five" in form my fancy
hat and gloves on Sunday (unless he has been in the Provincial Secretariat as a boy); a Terai hat is sufficient for a Collector.
F. STORES TURNER, Secretary. To the Secretary Anglo-Oriental Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade:-
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Tsatle.............................Curio, $470
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No. 1, $450
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3. $410.
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Cum buck
Lucklow, ...... 1
Re-reeled Cumchuck
- $420
Bad Lucklow Best $550
No. 1, 3510
27.2, $490
$470
Colson, Mrs., Colomb, Ceylon,............2 Carren, T. H., H.M.S. Nymph, Sydney, 1 of No. 2 Gum st $87 a $88 per picut, Dickenn, Mr., Barrister, Victoria, Amo-
Harbour, Point de Calle............. Diver, The, employed in dredging the
Park, Surrey,................... Elaon, Mrs., C., Sparrow Farm, Waster Faulkner, Mra. John, Emerald Hill,
Victoria, Australia,.. Fleming, T., Hotham Terrace, Mel-
bourne, Gardine, B. HL, S.S. Indus, Point de
Galle.....
..... 1 Gray, J., Singapore,- Hallett, Mr., 8, Bull Inn Yard, Aldgate,
London,...... Haugen, E., Cooktown, Australia,......... I
Street, Glasgow, - Hopbourn, Mrs. James, 68, Gumaden Hughes, J. I., care of Messageries Mari-
times Co., Marocilles................................ 1 Jamce, Richard, Post Office, Melbourne, 1 For Europe, 300 bls.
United States, dc., Re-reels,.. 260-bze. 300.bxs. Bristol,.............................. Jobes, Miss H., 10, Chatterton Square,
Bombay 80 pla, 80 b. 40 pla, 50 þ. Davas AND SPIORS. — Cassia Liguen ë Kallao, Tortrash, Takhabad, India,....... Kiddle, F., Chemist, Penang............. Koob, Frau W., St. Pauli, Hamburg,... 1 Loting is quoted at $10.15 in mati Ledwell, Mrs., 28, Thorne St., Wanda. and $10,40 in-boxes. Bales ; 18.000 plents,
worth, Surrey,
Stocks of Loting 1,000 picula; of T Macnabb, D. C., Rawal Piudi, India 1 Wo, nil Alum, $1.60 a $1.70 per pion Camphor, $20.00 ₫á $20.50 per picul, packed MoMichern, Captain, British Barque
E. M. Young
SUNDRIES.Fire Crackers, 73 a 78 cent Michel, G., 26, Kue de Vaugirard, Paris,
land...... Moore, Miss, The Avenue, Salop, Eng
Sir, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the communication which, instructed by the executive committee of the society, you did me the honour to address to me on the 19th of September, and in reply to it, I have now to request that you will have the good ness to inform the committee that, though I have. received no reliable information regarding the sentence which the Judicial Commissioner of Kansub is said to have passed on the sons and grandson of Yakoob Khan, yet, sympathising with the bonovo- lent motives by which the committee are A Collector is generally a sportsman; actuated, I have forwarded their represen when he is a post, a correspondent, or atation to my Government, who will doubt- neologist, it is thought rather a pity; and less give it the consideration which it de- he is spoken of in undertones. Neology in serves, not only on account of its intrinsic, beaded especially reprehensible. The merits, but also on account of its containing junior member of the Board of Revenue, the views of a society which has for its or even the Commissioner of a division (objects the best interests of China. The he is pukka) msy question the litoral in- committee are, of course, aware that, as spiration of Genesis, but it is not good form the subject of their communication does for a Collector to tamper with his Bible. not fall within the sphere of my action, it A Collector should have no leisure for is impossible for me to promise that their recommendations will be adopted, and that I have said that a Collector is usually having submitted it to the Impe.ial Go. In this capacity he is fre-vernment, I must henceforth leave the a sportsman. To prove the North-East Passage is no easy quently made use of by the Viceroy and matter in their hands. I have the honour It was his vessel Vega that accompilab'd all gebore Governors as he is adopt at to ba, Sir, your must obedient, humble sides the halfcaste, and his family alreadyPaulling, Miss 8., 40, College Place,
showing sport to globe-trottera.
tako.
YORICK.
THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA, A PORTICAL NORTH-EAST. PASSAGE.
"We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea."-Ancient Mariner.
It was Professor Nordenskjold that sail'd
the Arotic Sea,
as can be ;
the way, From Sweden round Siberia's length to
Yokohama Bay.
First coasting Lapp and Flamark's shores,
by white King Winter bleach'd,
Past Waigatach, thro' Togorskoi's Btrait,
Karakala's Gulf is reach'd; Thro Kara Sea to Yenesel, past Nova
Zembla drear,
The Tajoyl and Tendskin (North-most Asia)
did they stoor;
Were four days icebound, but at last they
sighted, to their joy,
The Isles of Toumatek, Liakhov, and
Khangalaonnoy.
a sterner abape.
At Vankaréma, Kólims, Kollatschia, and
Cook's Cape, Came Polar perils, which assumed each day Nine months ibo ics held like a vice the
ship, 'mid-darkness grim, No sun was soon, except its arm-that la,
ita "upper limb."
Although the Tahuktohees brought them
furs, these zero-seamen shiver'd,
opinions of any sort.
The vil servant,
lagers who live on the borders of the jun- gle will generally turn out and beat for the Collector, and the petty obial who owne the jungle always keeps a tiger or two for district officers A Political Agent's tiger is known to be a domestic anicnal suitable for delicate noble lords travelling for health; but a Collector's tiger is often believed to
to be driven.
TRENG.
JOHN DUNN,
China,
Who is John Dunn, the Zulu chief? I hear many people ask. John Dunn is the son of a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, who was killed by an elephant in Natal many years ago. Joha married a half-caste woman but when he settled in Zeinland Masanti, Giacomo, Artilleria Laggiera,
Canaria, Italia, .... most of the chiefs, by way of making him thoroughly at home, sent daughters as Osman, Ali Serang, S. 8. Cooshiden, offerings-gifts he could not well refuse, He has, for an Englishman, therefore, Palmeirs, Dolorer, aongkong,.....
Cubit Town, London,.... are twenty Zulu bouris in his harem, be- rather an unusual number of wives; there Payne, Mr J., 19, Stewards Terrace,
consists of ninety little Dunne. His pro- fession for many years past has been that of gun-rurning, in other words that of smuggling firearms across the frontier into Zalalund, an operation he long conducted with noted success, thereby laying the foundation of his wealth. As the great Sir Garnet has decreed that gun running shall cease; he has set a thief to catch & thief, and Dunn, no doubt, will prevent everybody he can from indulging in the profitable trade.-World,
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Chelsea, London, ... dengi Baoust, Justin, Hongkong...1. Saxoner, M., Commissariat, Camp, Ab-
medabad,.
Scott, Elliot, Mrs, 68, Princes Square,
London,
Smith, Mr A., 501, Keppochill Road,
Glassgow,...
Sorab, J., & Hollywood Road, Hong-
kong
Sterling, R., 68, Clarendon Street, Lon-
donderry,...
Waste Silk,........ No. 1 None.
2, $ 88 Cocoons Pierced,.... 1,
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SETTLEMENTS FOR THE FORTNIGHT.
1870-80.
1878-79.
600 bls.
per box for Gowqua's No. 1 gold cho Vermilion: $32.50 a $88.50 per box. Mattir Fine contract, White 4/4, 11]) cents, 5/4, 1 cents, 6/4, 16 cents per yard; Red Chec 14/4, 13 cents, 5/4, 15 cents, 6/4,
cents; Double Extra Imperial, white 4
1 14) cents, 5/4, 17 cents, 6/4, 20 conta, 1 Red Check, 4/4, 16 cents, 5/4, -18!" "cents, Inew, in syrup (Chyloong) $3.76; Mandarin, $4.25; Young Stem, $6.00 per case of 6 6/4, 215 conta, per yard. Cargo: Ginge
1jara. Soy: 84.40.per ploul
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IMPORTA,
LEAD-Our quotations are nominally the same as those of a fortnight ago, there being very little demand here.
QUICKSILVER is quoted $57 a $57.60 per
SHIPPING.
1 picul
The rate of Freight to London, par steamer, is £3,14/a £3 19 and per sailing 1 vessel, 55 per ton of forty and fifty, cubio (e) I feet, respectively.
At Hongkong-For London. Toowoom
ba, (cleared) Radnorshire, str., Clare Babu yan, Stentor, str., Achilles, ate, Quizen of India, Flensborg.
For New York-Glamorganalire, Emerali Tele, Miriam, (via Iloilo City of Boston, Alida.
THE SITUATION AT MANDALAY.
If, as our Mandalay correspondent says, there was a rumour of an intended massacre of the people in the Residency set afloat by the Burmese Government a day or two be almost a wild beast, although usually before the former's departure from Man reared upon buffalo calves and accustomed delay, with the view to intimidate them Of course the tiger which into leaving the country, all we can say ia
Suell, Charles, Shanghai, Van Bunit, F. B., Hongkong....................... I The rate of Freight to New York, per the Collector and his friends shoot is quite that the Burmese in trying to overreach an inferior article; a fierce, roaming cres others have rather injured themselves.
steamer, is £4.19, and per sailing vessel, An entorprising grocer in Westville, Con- Vadhoorebcke, the Pleremont, 17, Rue de
Presboury, Paris (registered) 135/ to 37/6 per ton of 40 cubic foot ture that lives upon spotted deer when it Coming as such a romour did after the can get them, but is often quite savage Cabul disaster, and knowing as every one necticut, comes out in foros in behalf of from hunger. The Collector, who is always did, that the King had been heard to mutter bis celebrated Tin Tag Cigars. In a modest Von Fabte, Franteio, Visser, Germany, 1 LOADING AND ON TER BEETA-At Wham- the most unselfish and hospitable of men, threats of repeating that event in Mandalay, circalar gently urging their purchase and Williams, Mr., Horris Tavern, Bother-poa-For London, Jessie McDonald.
hithe, London,******
For New York. —None. only kills the fatter tiger for persons of our representative was no doubt justified in use, he says: The tobacco from which the Wilson, Alexander, Mount Emu, Victoria, 1 distinction with letters of introduction, belleving that the rumour was not without Tin Tags are made le grown entirely in con-
Holloway, Londoßy ................................ 1 Any common jungle tiger, even a man foundation. The Burmese have no reason, servatories, and the cigare are made on Wolfe, Mrs., 51, Grove Road, Uppor eater, is good enough for himself and his however, to congratulate themselves on the mahogany tables by thorough-bred Cabans
The above letters have been returned success of their scheme in this matter; in in swallowtail coats and white kid gloves. friends.
The Collector never ventures to approach trying to get rid of the trammels imposed When a man smokes one of these cigars, he from various places at which the addressees Simla when on leave. At Simla people on them, as they doubtless thought, by the walks on air, and dreams that he has a cannot be found. If not claimed within would stare and raise their eyebrows if they presence of our representative, they have diamond scarf pin and a sixty-five-dollar ten days they will be opened and returned | heard that a Collector was on the hill, but forged for themselves heavier chains. suit of clothes on, and just married rich, to the writers-(S) Posted at Shanghal. They would ask what sort of a thing a They may think they have frightened away It makes the breath sweet, and keeps the General Post Office,
The Press Commissioner the late representative of our Government, teeth white, and will force a mustache on Collector was, would be sent to interview it. The children but they may they will have to receive the smoothest lip in five weeks. It Im- at Peterhoff would end for it to play with. Resident whom they will have to receive proves and beautifies the complexion, A STORY comes to us, says the Boston So the oled hopping Collector goes to Naini will be so situated as to be beyond their eradicates tau, freckles, and dandruff, and Transcript, of an incident in a school in Tal or Darjeeling, where he is known either powers of intimidation, for he will he is enjoyed by all the smoker's sisters, Southampton, England, some years ago. as Ellenborough Higgins, or Higgins of fortified Residency, and, in all probability, cousins, and aunts. It permeates the The boys were being examined in the house, window-curtains, closets, and clothes history of England, and the answers were Gharibpur in territorial fashion. Here he four or five hundred men for a guard,
What the Burmese Government was to with the delicate odours and exqu'aite mainly dates of events more or less im THE King and Queen of the Sandwich is understood, Here be gan babble of bla Bandobast, and Balbacha, and his Bawar gain by thus hoping to rid themselves of fragrance of Heliotrope, New-mowo Hay, portant in the history of the British Em Islands had a swimming race while at a chikhana; and here he can speak in familiar the British Resident it would be interesting Jockey Club, and White Ross. It will pire. Among the pupils was the son of an recent excursion. James G. Tais, the accents of his neighbours Dalhousie Smith to know, unless it be to prevent their war fasten the front gate every night, and carry American sea captain, a bright specimen of Nevads millionaire, who was then visitin, and Cornwallis Jones. All day long. be like preparations being spied upon. There in the paper in the morning, obase the cats Young America. Being questioned con the royal family, says that the party could All honour, then, to Nordenskjold, all strides up and down the olub verandah seems to be some coloring to this view, as off the garden, drive the hens to water, and aerning dates in English history, he not land from their steamer for reaso
praises to his crow,
with his old Haileybury chum, Telgamouth we hear that since the departure of the hardly ever fail to make one feel better manifested an ignorance bordering on the breakers The King said that Let's give King Oscar, Dickson, and Sibe Tompkins; and they compara experiences Residency staff large quantities of firewood all over. No well-regulated family can stupidity. The teacher whose patience ought to swim to the shore. The Queen
riakoff their due,
of the hunting-field and office, and de- have been atacked on the river bank at properly keep house without them, for the war exhausted exclaimed: "What! Don't sesented, and the pair jumped overboard For money and encouragement; while nounce in unmeasured terms of Oriental various points, while guns and cape are man who smokes this cigar will never out you remember a single date that marks in together. They bufeted the water, with
Sweden welcomes back
vituperation the new sort of civilian who being collected as much as possible: show wood too long for the store, never swear Important event in the history of Eng, skill, and soon reached land. They not only moves about with the Penal Code under his ing that they are preparing for hostilities. when he puts up stovepipes, never step on land? Why, yes, sir answered the boy, went where no boat could go, but braved arm and messures his authority by statute, As before stated, torpedoes are also a ledy's trail, jola a club, or go down to "I do know one." "Well, out with another dangery for the place was hitaA WALL
being made with all despalob, and we here | the post-odies after support!.
aid the teacher, "Fourth off NATI plause, and section,
And felt like parcels pack'd in ice, that
could not be deliver d.
At length their ark once more afloat, Cape
Kekournoi wAS WOD,
Then Bhering and Alaska gain'd, and so the
deed was done. Ne'er had explorer sail'd so far, not Maigyn,
Shukaroff,
Koskleff, nor Mesin, Muravieff, Deschineff,
nor Schalauroff, For now no more that frozen shore in dim-
news in involved,
The great (North) Asian Mystery
ages has been solved.
of
eting warm her Nordenskjold, along
Vervarer Back.
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18th Nov., 1879.
DEPARTURER —— From Whampon.- For London-Davina.
For New York-Nons.-- From Hongkong-For London. Star of China, Agamemnon, str., Benledi str.
For San Franciscodexander Yeats.
For New York,-None