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THE "DOUBLE ACROSTICS FOR THE lations, without sufficient allowance for the

SERVICES."

The "Double Acrostics for the Services" are distinguished by the two principal words being connected with the Naval and Military professions; such for example as "Sword," "Marline-spika," Platoon," &o. No such restriction applies to the lights. ... All solutions should be sent to Erron, China Mail Ofice, by noor, on the Friday fol- lowing the publication of any one Acrostic, with the word "Aerostie" on the envelope. Any arriving subsequently will not be entertained.

A premium of $10 will be given to the person

tione by New Year's day.

giving the greatest number of correct solu-

Every Saturday a new Acrostic will be given,

together with the solation of the one of the

previous week.-The successful names will also be published.

ANSWER TO ACROSTIC NO. VIII.

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IX.

Immortalized in churches every Sunday, Should there be services, again on Monday. To love's sweet messenger be thou the motto Be the dear trysting plans or grove or grotto;

strong reasons others may have to offer for a different roading of the same provisions.

There is altogether in this whole pamphlet a sigual absence of calm, wide-hearted and impartial discussion of the real nature of the difficulties which lie at the bottom of the international relations of China, and consequently it is utterly hopeless to find in this brochure any real help for a healthy solution of the problem the existence of which is undeniable.

THE CONTENTED SUB.

soil,

When the island of Perim became British Many pounds on a lighthouse were spent; And to show British power, and replenish

the oil,

A Sub., and some Sepoys, were sent.

But Perim is lonely and barren, and hot,

Not a vestige of life in the place; And many who've seen it consider this spot,

A blotch upon Nature's face.

Bo the duty, though simple enough of its

kind,

Wasn't fancied as much as might be. Sub, the first-sub, the second-went out of

his mind,

Sub. the third drank himself to D. T. Sub. the fourth, finding Christmas unbear-one

ably slow,

Very nigh brought his prospects to grief,

THE CHINA MAIL.

[No. 5128-DECEMBER 13, 1879.

But when the tree shakes, look out for 9

fall.

The eye of O'Leary is fixed on you all.

CHINESE SECRET SOVINTIES, The Penang Gasette of the 11th instant thus disonases the letter from "An official source" which we recently published:-

"Chinese Secret Societies" have been letter thas beaded appears in the "Singa- at ab hoste doceri." This letter Fas est at ab hof November 7th signed

annually.

within the means of my creditors.”/

“We wish," said a Texas paper, "that a few of our citizens could be permitted to

show the world what a magnificently healthy country Texas really in??

The child probably destined to be the born. He lives in Tennessee, and a the greatest of American naturalists in already

author of the remark that f'a juokasa in - hy only animal that winks with his ears.” --

BEFORE a Nevada witness goes on the stand he anbuckles, and removes two revolvers and a bowie knife, and the lawyer calls him Mr. So-and-so, and is very careful not the refer to anything unpleasant which has ever occurred in the witness's history,

"HAD GERED.” You will not at ones guess what these symbols are intended to the charge-sheet of a Contt of Petty created. magistrate, and are intended to Sessions, in the handwriting of 4 lately.

By signalling "stop" to the mail P. and O. the word. I have never been prejudiced. side, and the sympathizers with the old discussed in Straits papers before now, a represent. Yet they are to be found on

And asking for pudding and beef."

"T was resolved then to send off a pair at a

time;

MAX. O'LEARY ON LOCAL TOPICS. over to Macao, and at that port did that are to do so at this period laid her amenable to kill a living man, put the whisky into

The Hongkong correspondent of the ship take in a cargo of boiled opium, from to the law. In answer to this argument, him."

her kelson clean up to the hurricane deck, the defendants claimed that when she was Is is proposed to convert Manchester. --- Shanghai Courier writes under dato Nov. and being so loaded, she proceeded with brought out some fifteen years ago, her into a seaport capable of accommodating that dospatch so customary with this owners were uncertain as to what disposi steamers of the largest class. The cost of 20th as follows, to his principal:-

Time has brought us round again to the vessel, down to Australia, where the cargo tion they would make of her, and therefore the work is estimated at £8,500,000, and season of Legislative Council meetings, was to be sold at a fabulone profit. I took a license in case they decided to trade it is calculated that there would be a sa and it has opened, as banal, with pleasant write theso things because it pleases me, with her on this coast. But from the first recriminations, cheerful contradictions, and and because I know it will increase the she had always been used as a tag, there g of 68. 6d. per ton upon 4,000,000 tone warm debates. The difficulty this time happiness of the new opium farmer when had been no need of ever taking the

A BEWING MACHINE agent, who was very aroge out of the alleged. laxity of the he comes to read it, but I don't think there liesnes, but it had dropped into a castom, Governor in regard to the deportation of is any necessity for me to go further back and the owners had never taken the trouble ill being told that he must prepare to pay criminals. There generally is some trou into the early history of this opium busi. to inquire into its necessity. The indepen the debt of Nature, wanted to know it. It There is no need to tell you dont magistrate ruled that she was not a couldn't be paid on the monthly instalment ble at these Council meetings, and it is an nos. enjoyable place to, go to, for people who how the present lesece of the form came up trader, needed no license, and the scheme plan.

A MAN being accused of extravagance, like it. Since Governor Kennedy left, from the Straits, judiciously trapped some fell through. If the independent magi- there seems to crop up some question to oney in fertile places, put in a heavy bid strate ever runs for alderman of the ward I declared that the accusation was unjust, fight about almost all the time, and no and ousted the old occupant. I need not live in, he will get my vote. I will canvass For," said he," "I sta very careful to live opportunities are neglected. It is difficult tell how the latter picked up his boiling this neighbourhood, myself. I am a men to say which side is in the right; probably, utensils and transferred big business to of few words, but I are influential in this neither altogether so. While it is certain Macao, where if the facilities for shipping section and will take the stump. I have ly unpleasant to have too many thieves were diminished, tho ront of the farm was said my say, and this performance will now live till they died a natural death, so na-to- targed loose on the community, and proportionately decreased. I need not tell close with a sweet original stanza:

Rock-a-by gentlemen on the tree top, andesirable to have our worldly goods of the sinful artfulness with which he has

In the soft summer breezes your cradle sonched from us too freely, yet a fault contrived to induce ships to go there for

will rock; that leans to Mercy's side is not unpardou his opium, in open defiance and derision of able, and in fact, I didn't start in with the the laws enacted in this colony for the intention of elucidating this deportation protection of itself, nor need I describe the problem any way. There is too much to growing warmth with which our Governor bo said on both sides, and it is of too little has contemplated his protégé's waning importance after all is said. I do not deal solos. I will not occupy time mod spice in fancied injuries; it is my province to with a rehearsal of this public gossip, for record matters of lonal history, and to the whole world knows it. Have not the rectify tangible wrongs. I am coming to papers teemed with it, and have not the indignant winde børne it on their reluctant presently. I do not readily adopt bigoted or extreme bosom, and skuated it around the globe?

For months the bitter feelings of these views, nor am I a partisan in any sense of

contending factions, the government on one otherwise than in favour of the Governor, and he may easily be, and no doubt is, a farmer on the other, have been growing But wrongs that stronger and stronger, and the Governor better man than I am. are publicly made (saith our good physician) has made use of all his eloquence, and all But once tried, 't was abandoned as cruel; should be publicly atoned for, and although his official power, to stop the traffic from should be read to be appreciated, and ex-| indicate the postponement of the business Should she be there, I trow is found tho For monotony drove them to quarrel and I point them out sometimes, yet ne mish Macao. His success hitherto has not been tracts would not be fair to the latter as of the court to a fature date, an

that lives can say that Maz. O'Leary ever startling, and in view of everything that has whole. Latter writing was once a favorite

INSTRUCTOR: "What does Condillac say injured him, or made a jest of his mis-turned up since, it would have been better exercise with Masters of the English lan about brutes in the scale of being Stu fortnues. More than all, I never exag. perhaps, after the irrevocable mistake was guage and as a manipulator of words of gerato. I would scorn to do each a thing. made, after the old farmer was driven off, three or four syllables in a style of com- deat; "He says a brute is an imperfect

Student: "Man is a perfect brute,” I have handled the Supreme Court with to make the best of an indifferent bargain position which in to that art what Mr Roman Instructor: "And what is man fo

and lot melters take their course.

berts' Legerdemain is to the ordinary play- some severity I admit, but with not half as

PAPER is worth six cents a pound in much as I know it requires, for I have sionate resentment is but a poor instrumenting of billiards Faa est et ab hose docerl watched it long and well, and indeed my with which to remedy unfortunate errors. is evidently, to keep up the latinity, fuelle The farmer was bound to pursue his

depreciates about fifty per cent. princeps. conscience tells me I have been foolishly business and make all the coin he could,

Comparisons, said some one, ara odious. weak with it in some respects. Passion and no man can question his right to do it. Comparisons, said some relation of Mira burgh Exhibition of 1881 has been ordered Tur iron framework for the St. Peters- to and prejudice have now brought its de

Precipice or destruction, and aiready it doubt, for the host interests of the color used, they are a happy way sometimes of weight of 100,000. pounds, costing four sperate footsteps to the edge of the dark The Governor's first intentions were, no Malaprop, are odorous. However, fairly at a foundry there, and will be of the stands quaking on the brink. I have not He probably had no personal interest in effecting descriptive alto or basso-relievo, overforgotten it, and I apologize for neglecting the matter farther than this, and we will duet as it were with this burden, Stickoubles per pound, fixing included,

it so long. I am only saving it up until I allow it was not possible to provide against ona up and stick one down. Mr. Picker- can find leisure to go for it. Sonio estates calamities which could not be forseen. But ing and Major Dunlop have been played on to this tune before, and are so by "Fas have been swallowed up in its rapacious when disaster followed, when his cherished maw, some widows and orphans have learn- project fell through like a house of cards, est et ab boste doceri" again. He says ed to lament its existence, some innocent it would have been wiser to have thrown ble personal knowledge of Mr Pickering men have suffered the unspeakable wrongs down his hand, retreated in good order and is he is too brasque for his post, and lays with dignified silence, and not chipped in the faults of the Straits policy in rela of injustice that never can be righted, some prisoners have been detained in custody until he saw a favorable deal. Ha may tion to Chinese Secret Societies on this after juries have declared them guiltless, have enemies who would rejoice just the gentleman. We need not be perepaal, ling, stopped at an lan much frequented same in the failure of any of his schemes, and we have not, as Fas est at sb hoste by wags and jokets. The host, not hatng these despatches shortly, which will be for their own benefit or otherwise. There doceri seems to have, a down on Mr used to have a clergyman at his table, any circamatanse, find dark villainy in any amused at a correspondent advising an used all their artillery of wit upon him innocent speech, distort his arguments, Editor of a paper not to mention the name without eliciting a remark. The clergy rake up invisible grievances, complain of even of so conspicuous a public officer as man ate his dinner quietly, apparently imaginary wrongs; but let him do sa I do. the Protector of Chinese for fear it should without observing the gibes and sneers of Let them sweat. No, this mild and make him vain. If Mr Pickering is not his neighbors. One of them at last, in eminently Christian policy would not do already vain at having wrestled with and Jespair of his forbearance, said to him, The Fame had assisted the energy; she had overcome the Chinese language, he willWell, I wonder at your patience! Have apou not heard all that has been said to no license, and the time was now. ripe to hardly lose his balance by getting strike a decisive blow. Now he would seize critical notice from our contemporary. you ?*. "Oh, yes; but I am used to ft. the ship on the ground of illegal trading, There is, however, an interest outside of Do you know who I am?” “* No, sir,” and now he would bring down the stout personalities, which we should with not to Well, 1 will inform you. I am obsplajn hearts of some of those gentlemen who bad be fauned by publication in our amall Eng of a lunatic asylum. Such remarks have lifted up their voice in council, and opposed sh speaking community, in some of the no effect upon me.” his policy at the public mesting last year multitudinous toplos touched upon in this and elsewhere. The Fayu was accordingly remarkable letter. It seems difficult to is right to work with or without Secret

second,

If that with Orthodox she would be reckoned, Go seek the tented field, the watery plain, The springing turf Behold this word againt If with this life you care to have your por-

tion

These words together must be used with

caution.

1.

Sometimes three and sometimes four, It's balk may swell to many more. Though better 'tis for human peach The number greatly to decrease.

2.

I wish to cast upon you a reflection;

crime, And they laughtered themselves in a

duel.

The Gov'nor of Aden, he raved and ho

stormed,

His mind with porplexity laden. "A duty's a duty, and must be performed, But how ?" cried the Gov'nor of Aden.

"I don't like dispatching young subs.

their graves; Still a duty's a duty they'll own: So send to

that little place

the waves. Lieutenant Mac Odio' Alloan."

Lieutenant Mac Odio' Alloan very soon

Took command of the feeders of oil;

And the Gov'nor wondered, as moon after

moon

Found Mao Odie' Alloan at his toil.

I trust the colour matches your complexion. And he wondered the more when a letter one steps will be taken by the author of

3.

If you credit Holy Church, I don't exist

On mother earth, since Adam ate the apple; A fellow in the dock will this resist:

So leave the "Devil's own" the truth to

grapple.

All the colours of the rainbow,

All the sweetest sounds we hear,

Easily are comprehended

In this word to artist dear.

5,

Initials of an order second-rate

Not found in Lodge's Peerage much of late.

YORICK,

FROM THE "CHINA REVIEW."

An International Court for China. By Jas. Joseph Henderson, LL.D., Counsellor at Law, Shanghai, 1879.

The China Review not being open for political discussions, we can do no more than briefly analyse the raison d'être and aim of this pamphlet. In 1875 an International Court was established in Egypt by a special

from Mao Informed that, so far from disliking

Pas-

a

Peru until it is made into money; then it

The investigation of the German Hall- way Department Into colourbiladner shows that on the State lines one employs in 125 is affected by it, and on companies' lines one in 200; but these and local decrepan dies in the return imply that the test applied was not uniform.

A GEEMAN olergyinan, who was travel-

The post, ho'd at present no wish to come strongly calenlated to shake it up by the may be those who will make a handle of Pickering, but we cannot help being looked at him with surprise, The gucata

.back,

And considered the scenery striking.

"at last

"By Gndefied the Governor, okuckling, We have got the right man, I should say; And what's more, as he likes it, we'll keep

heels.

But I have no more intention of discuss ing the crying evils of the Court in this letter, than the deportation squabbles. I intend to make a few general remarks ou the present unsatisfactory administration of our government, and to deal particularly with a certain unholy scheme attempted here a short time ago. I allude to the illegal seizure of a vessel in these waters, At the end of six months or so, Mac again This high-handed action was, I think, deserving of more serious attention than has yet been given it, and just by the merest flake escaped being attended with

hita there fast

As long as the beggar will stay,"

wrote

That he liked his retreat even more.

He could never again take to collar or coat,

And trousers would prove a sad bore.

cajole,

The following "boar story" is worth the gravest consequences. Admitting for indicted under an old ordinance requiring make up the official mind as to whether it quoting from one of the month is: “A argument's sake, the statement of the all vessels engaged in the consting trade

young English farmer, in the township of Compton, provinge of Quebec, noted a "He'd no letters to answer, no duns to Chief Justice, that we sometimes have tidal from this port, to carry a license. On what Societies, but right or not it seems clear tittle for his convivial habits and his great waves of crime, it cannot be denied that we at first sight would seem an exceedingly that Government thinks it better pro tem personal strength, was returning from the also occasionally get an overflow of law fortunate chance, the casa came before: to work with them, and it can hardly be from the bench. We are now absolutely certain magistrate on whom I have had doubted, whatever Government thinks, the village to his farm, in that state gommonly inundated with government.

known among sailors as 'three sheets in We could occasion before now to bestow my highest individuals who are the headmen of the the wind On his way home he met a dispense with some of it, and get along just consideration. Had this gentleman not Police have made up their minds as long bear, with whom he alleged himself to have as well.

"Government at its best," says had the handling of il-and indeed it was as liecret Societies exist, to be on good had the following rencontre-- About a mile

ovil, tench and go whether he would or not-we terms with the headmen of this class of and at its worst, an intolerable one.

No visits, no peuderous feeds, No trouble but now and then calling the roll, And the rest of the day to bis weeds-

"Lounging about in a jolly long laze, Said the Gornor "As long as it suits him,

Very like lotus-eating, in fact."

be stays,

cracked."

Another six months, and a letter that said

That Lieutenant Mac Odic' Alloan Was quite ready to stop a successor instead,

Bo-attached to the island he'd grown.

convention between seven great powers res presenting over a hundred thousand aliens residing in Egypt, the object, being to pro-Ob, pray let him stop," roared the vide judicial organisation for the trial of

hor,the muff! mixed esses. A special codo had to be A successor'd be awkward to find. elaborated for the purpose, a large number Somo day, I suppose, he'll be crying of judges were appointed, a considerable

ough!' staff of interpreters enlisted, and Attorneys

I wish they were all of his mind."

and Barristers find happy hunting grounds

'En-

great philosopher; "is but a necess, As might have had a repetition of the strange associatious. There Is a good deal to bfrom here last night, gentlemen, I met a

in Egypt now, while the Khedive complains So Mao Odio' Alloan stopped a couple of reflection that they are compelled to furnish now, when I come to moralize on this improved tons of the Chinese here to the

in vain that this Court absorbs "and over-

rules his sovereignty, "but he was informed

that he must submit." That this is a his-

big, slouching-looking fellow in a buffalo

wrestlers, as I pride myself on being- when you meet a big man in a fur coat who wants to try a fall with you, let him go by ???

it is often asserted that government is justice meted out to the Kinshan the time said for both views, bat there is a danger coat, who refused to let me pass bim; 40, But I'm hanged if I don't think he's aesential to society, it has come to pass she was fined for carrying an excess of of Inspeptora General and Superintendents, of course, I took off my cost and closed that some among us believe them to passengers. You doubtless remember how though of course thegs are invariably very with him at once. I never wrestled with be ono and the same thing, and that they fondled her to the tune of ten thousand longheaded follows, sometimes Intending such a rum customer before. He did not rigorous discipline of some kind is necessary dollars. The Governor, by the by, has to utilize the headmen of Chinese Secret use his legs at all, but seemed as if he to existence. Where society is always since romitted half the fing, and therefore Societies, but instead being playfully utili wanted to hug me with his arms At last, a blessing, government is offener a bane. I credit his account with five thousand sed themselves, without knowing it. But however, I tripped him up, and down he One is the outcome of our wants; the dollars, which he will please pote. It was time will work wonders. We shall soon went in the snow, Bat, gentlemen, you other, the result of our wickedness. As a wise thing and a good thing, but it would have all the Cadets speaking Chinese, a take my advice unless you are good man is gregarious, he could not exist with have been infinitely wiser and better had then no doubt the Chinese Secret Societies Gor'-out society, but if all were pure and honest he written off the whole amount. The will succumb to the machinations of

like ourselves, gentle reader, there would facts did not warrant such severity, the department skilfully organized, either at be no need of governments. Therefore opposition line got off free when charged Downing Street or Government House, when a government or a governor becomen with the same breach of law, and there is Singapore, and manned, that is to say every distasteful to the community, they not only no doubt, the decision against the Kinshan post worth having, by cadets. vary naturally kick against it, but their established a good precedent, to be avoided

"Fas est et ab boste doceri” ascribes the. mortification is not lessened by the bitter by all magistrates to the end of time. And the means through which they suffer. They theme a little, what a curious phage in influence of auch Chinese as read the "Singapore Daily Times." It is to be must find the supplies, and therefore human nature is the readiness with which can say that people derive any advantage vast ideas. Another curious aspect it Gazette" distribute the blessed seed in a like manner. The acquisition of the lan. from this sense of oppression. Nobody presents, is the difficulty with which it can assert that the best part of that lawful resists the temptation to abuso irresponsi guage, especially where the result is some order which obtains in this colony, is the ble power. What a small sum seems two thing like pigeon," need not alter a man's effect of government. We would be just as thousand pounds to a magistrate. How character, bat as a matter of fact what 5, Alexander, virtuons as we are now, without coercion. easy to inflict it as a fine. A more baga-educates natives here is not newspapers, Every bit as virtuous. Knowing all this telle, sir; simply nothing. An amount so though they are admirable things in their therefore, we can indulge a passing smile triding, when another has to pay it, that way, but two schoolmasters of a different when we hear it gravely asserted that we he can contemplate it with no other feel-ort, one called British rule who teaches them something when they take their walks. have no right to criticise public business&ings save serenity and bliss.

abroad as the elderly party in Sanford and smile at the asinine vanity which could

Merton did his charges, another called prompt such a statement, for we know that

**prosperity" which keeps up the process in the privacy of fadoora, the days of the iron rule of autocratic ignorance have gone by.

Fears, "Which," he wrote, "had too rapidly

fled."

torical fact, we have no intention to deny. And now very strong grew the Governor' minister to their own discomfort. Nobody the mind of man tackles and throws hoped that those who read the "Penang

although we cannot see what analogy there in between a bankrapt State like Egypt, on the one side, consisting of a heterogeneous popu- lation without an indigenous code of law,

fears That the lad must be wrong in his head.

or literature and without a national spirit, And they grew and they grew till he swore

by the Lord

That the youth must be mad as a hatter; And he sent off to Perim a medical board

To see him and settle the matter.

(tributary moreover to another equally help- less power, also on the verge of financial and political bankruptcy), and between a Stata like China which, with all her back- wardness in outward forms of civilisation, with all her slowness in adopting modern To Perim the cargo of doctors soon ran,

mechanical inventions, forms a political unit

But they found not a trace of the Sub.;

of several hundred millions of people united He'd been living, this very contented young

by their common bellef in a common descent

by one vast mass of literature and law

a

man,

At home, for two years, at his Club

I said the Fame was perhaps fortunate in

second thoughts, I now consider that a the magistrate who heard her case, but on somewhat hasty and superficial view to take. The good luck was on the side

Miscellaneous.

A LAWYER once rushed up to Jerrold in the street, and said, with a flushed face: Mr. Jerrold, I've just met a scoundrelly barrister,” Jerrold looked at him with a bland smille, sud simply answered ; ** What a coincidence ! "

AFTER describing a newspaper scrimmage

Shipping Intelligence. The following is corrected from the latest London and Colonial Papers, dro

July

June 27, Pym,

B, Glenross, 19, domus,

VESSELS TO ARRIVE

AT HONGKONG

Loft. Name May.

From

Penarth

-31, Newcastle,

Antwerp

Autwerp

Antworp

Glasgow

24, Primrosa,

Penarth

Aug.

9, Eliz. Rickmers, 12, Papa, 14, Hesperus,

Penarth

Hambu

Cardiff

16, Minnie Carvill,

Cardiff

Antwerp

Antwerp

Hamburg

13, Heels,

Pearth

13, Carmelita & Ica,

Cuxhaven

17, Jávingstone

Cuxhaven

20. Lucia,

London

Oct.

3. Parnas,

Darli

9. Ganymede (»)

Liverpool

16, Peru,

Floraing

17, Chili,

Flushing

20, Palestine,

London

26, Bernhart Carl, (for

Swatow)

Pagith

Liverpool

17, Coldstream, 18, Glandinorwig,

Sept.

18, Bansu,

We for ourselves as advised by the Edi- It was Archimedes who said that if he

tor of the "Stugapore Daily Times" have almost utterly unknown to the outside world,From “Lays of Ind" by Aliph Oheem." had a good place to stand on, and a sufficient of the authorities, Had this piratical judged of the good taste which dictated this and in possession of sources of zational

grip with his teeth and toe-nails, he could seizure been supported by the local courts, production, but taste is taste after all, and wealth which have never been tapped yet.

lift the world. It did not seem to occur to that circumstance alone would have been de gustibus non disputandum eat; however We cannot comprehend how the author of

this philosopher that the world is con-enficient condemnation, and the appealFas est et ab hoste doceri" has given us this pamphlet could tacitly assume that ÅRRANGEMENTS are being made. (says stantly on the move. He never stopped to therefrom was certain and the reversal sure,

a good laugh, for which we should be un- China would ever submit without a struggle the Melbourne Age) for the organisation of think of how it sweeps round in its wide I never saw the people so unanimous or so which would convulse Europo as well as summer excursion tour on a large sesle, orbit, at the rate of about a thousand miles determined in anything before. There grateful if we did not heartily thank him, Asia to having her sovereignty absorbed and It is proposed to form a party on the plan a minate, and before he had a chance to would have been a clear and distinct issue overruled in the manner of Egypt. With of Cooke's tours, and to vials Tasmania, get his plank under one corner, it would go between them and the Governor, and one this objective fact of an international Court New Zealand, and New South Wales in tearing past him, and he would have to wait or the other was bound to occupy a back. in Egypt before him, the author of this fifty days, the total cost (excluding only for a year before he could get aboara again. seat, and well in the rear at that. They pamphlet evidently combined a subjective wine, dec.) to be £80 a head. The party is Poor fool; the rush of its mighty atmos- would have been reused at last, and the impulse that prompted him to publish his to consist of not less than sixty, no more phere would flip bim off his standing place, home Government could not turn a deaf pamphlet. It seems to us that he must than seventy gentlemen, except by general the waters of its vast oceans would splash ear to the cry of the whole community, have had a share in the little quarrel he consent. A special steamer is to be char over him, and instead of raising the world, who would be thus forced to look to it for details (p. 16 éto.) between the U. 8. Courttered for the trip.

the conviction would force itself on his justice, and the protection of their rights for the Consular District of Shanghai on the "Tex first step toward getting reman- dazed brain that he had raised merry blazes of property. No merchant could feel se one side, and H. B. M. Supreme Court for erative employment," says the Boston on his watch, and got into a position from cure in his banese, no mariner would dare in Virgiola, in which both contestants were China and Japan and H. B. M. Consul on Transcript,e to learn to do something which he would find it most difficult to enter a port where the law was subject to very badly beaten, the Chronicle of that the other, At any rate he clearly shows an that everybody can't do.”.

extricate himself. Thee it is in political such startling interpretations, and the city remarks: “The spectators agree that animus arising from this affair the details FOOTE, the great wit, abot many an arrow matters, that the governor has assumed a terrified citizen would start from his the battle was a draw. Any fight between of which do not concern: u5. This same animus betrays itself in his absurdly calling that remained quivering in the wound for very owlish platform, and it is for this troubled sleep with the chains of slavery newspaper men which terminates in a draw into question the treaty status of that long time. When come one, with bad taste, reason that I will put forth my hand and rattling in his ears, or see in s ghostly is thoroughly unsatisfactory, and reflects Excambia

nightmare, floating in a black December discredit on journalism Flintshire. Supreme Court, as if a Treaty which gives anteness, he turned on his intruder and It is just possible that I may be laying wind from the high pinnacles of our

raised a laugh against him on the subject of

**GENTLEMEN of the jury," said bin Ho England absolute criminal jurisdiction over her own subjects in China did not thereby remarked sharply, "Why do you attack myself open to the charge of gossipping temples of justice, the skull and eroes bones nour, do you find the prisoner guilty of Corea. give England power to make any arrange my weakest part. Did I ever say anything about public business. I hope not, bat of piracy. The decision would have simp not guilty 3" We do," answered the fore Crossfeld.

anyhow he certainly did, as I understand ly been reversed, the same as if it had been man, and the prisoner turned pale ments whatever for the purpose of exerol-about your hond ?"

Max eat too much, fret too much, ezer it, charge the tag bost Fame with towing rendered by the Chief Justice himself, but ring that same jurisdiction. The same Ar earnest Methodist was hauled over the without a license. It was generally under fortunately for the administration the also too little, sleep too Hitle, and then enimas unfortunately appears whenever our coals by a council of brother ministers for stood that the penalty for a first offence of matter did not go so far. The Indepen druk, hleb Zet them turis themselves author touches on British interests or British the sin of exaggeration. Ho arose and said, this kind, would be confiscation. If they dont magistrate nipped it in the bad. It into the fresh air, est simple food, sleep Consuls in China. A third blatch, in theThe punishment they had jadged him was ever did it again they might expect some was contended by the Crown Solicitor that enough and they will be more healthy. Hesperia pamphlet is the assumptions the anthor just. He knew his ain. He had shed ber la verity. A word to the wise is sufficient, the vessel was a trading steamer had been Says Dr. Guthrie, is If you want to keep. Nxalifa makes in his interpretations of Treaty stipu, i af tears over it,”

The Jame had towed the Orange Gross taking out licenses for yours, and her fall- [ doad man, pos hini la' whisky y if you want

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29, Tauber (6.)

"LOADING FOR OKINA, AND FAU AR FORS At London.fiteamers via Star Canali

Gleniffer.E -Breconshire,

Sailing Pescia,

Charlwood,

Mensians (s),

Boyne,

At Liverpool

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At Hamburg

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