No. 5414-NoOVEMBER 16, 1880.
of
THE CHINA MAIL.
TINTSIN.
from Shanghai ex route for London, ber the goods saken, but witness believed they
boon introdued by the Government, under Captain, Mr Johannsen, whose general must amount to almost $250. Defendant An occasional health appeared sufficiently good for the had boon head boy in Dr Ayres' employ, and cury write a morrespondent of the Mer-which grants of land to the actant of 6 000 agres por mile will be made to companies le navigation of his rassel throughout the greatest confidence had been placed in Iroad your Peking correspondeul's Jettor, undertaking the construction if railways in heart disease. her lurg, voyage, suddenly expired from him.
which certainly was true, but the Grand the laterfor, the Government to guarantee greatly respected by all who know him in that already given by Me Wotton, and also the second, the Grat was on the 15 Septes-
Captain Jehannsen WA Dr.Ayres gave evidence corroborative of Council held on the 19th September es interest on one third of the cat If tha China, where he had heen trading for a said that the boy had never had charge of ber from 11 p.m. to Sa.m.
hill is passed, a line will be made from number of years, and was mach beloved by the key of the store-room; he might have hear on good suthority that Ohine will
Roma to the Gulf of Carpentaria. bis officers and crew all of whom seemed had it given him occasionally to get out any not fight, even if the Russian army should visibly affected by his death. The sad store required for immediate ase, but it march to Peking. If so, the Peace pazly family be loaves behind him, will reach Ger- who had charge of the stores nowa to be conveyed to the wife and large would be at once returned to Mr Wotton, are seven-tenths. In regard to Chang many sufficiently soon to mar the expectat
Obih-tun's memorial, where are the veteran Mr Deons, after cross-examining wit soldierz of Calan, and how many remain 7 pleasures of a large circle at Christmastide ness, requested on behalf of defendant, that and there Generals, of whom there are only
their own buseholds, manoh less an amy
few days, and stands to-day at $627) to from Auvan, Bupab, Anhwai? Certainly the only ones a little like soldiers are those indues business, and a handful of chests bra method of selling by weight has tended to of the beet, General Grant, comparing them about $600 par chest. Though Old Benares of Ll Herchang, and even those, the best been taken, bringing the price for it at with
NUISANCES,
(Before the Ho Ng Choy.)
BREACH OF OPIUM ORDINANCE.
50
and therefore, advised Ohios not to fight
COMMERCIAL.
Nov, 16. Though the market for Bengal Opiam has not been characterised by ang naimation, a good Business has been done in New Patna,
since the dispatch last mail. The rate
Japan, so China dropped the Loo-choo dit requirements, the rate for it has been fully culty, for want of the veteran soldiers and supported; and stands to-day at $580 to Generals, bioli Chang Chih-tung seems to
$5824. have an dis brain. The Uhiness as well-anp 3,772 cheats, against 4,463 chests to the The receipts for the month, so far, maks- foreigners are pazzled to know what Rowis intends to do with her great feo, and theaterval sorus 1,200 chests have been taken corresponding period last year. During the armies gathered around Wisdiwostook; by the local consumers, against 800 chests now that the notion about Coroa kaa gove some seem to any that Russia maane to an us the corresponding interval last year. ner Japen. There was a rumour that Li This, with the exportations, leaves the Hung-chang had dined in Trachalin with available supply computed at 2,400 chesta Admiral Lasofsky, but it could only have chests same time last year. Of this last, (530 cheats being Old Patos), oggidst 1,350 bears the paymaster of the Nerpa,
The war, if there is war, will be, as your quantity 450 chests were Benares, of which Peking correspondent says, between Li and
kind the present stook comprises 350 chests. ibe Too party, which means Taeng Kossus. and Pao Chow against Li.
remain, but added to them and revived heation. Thus had science, triumphing | Tarrantchees, and others, voumearity And copied those that were decayed. over scemingly unstrinonntable diffen) su natted to thesway of the "while Czar. There were therefore in his kingdom Ac. ties, proved sew that she could pere- a high mountain range forms the cadian, Babylonion, Assyrian, Miloan rate and lead her votaries into the very southern boundary of their country, as and Persian texts, dating from 2800-500 heart of the mystical history of long well as of the high Pamir Plateau; and B. C. After the fall of the Persian doni, forgotten uges. The progress was rapid, from it a torrent flows down called the nion the graphic system came into disuse, the march onward sure. The Assyrian Shan su, to the river dk-se, which is the being replaced by a newer and leas diftablets, like the Persian, give us the main-head stream of the great river at ficult systems, and in two centuries after names of leg lines of princes; they tell Turkistan, the amoo Dirga or Oxus. the death of Darius zo ong was able to us of Nineveh and Babylon, of direct The Aksa flows from the North of the explain any of the monuments, whether sherpa, and Enoch, of Nikarod, and of Hindon Koosh mountains, where they Tersinn or otherwise. Centuries passen| Noale Bel, Moloch and Astdete, of Sojin the Himalayas, being really dis by. Then Don Garcia de Figúgreida 'at-mittis, Nebuchadnezar, and curdansju-ferent only name, and through their
Cuneiform Inscriptions, and a Roman Brunia and gave us au aiudst broken into Kashmeer, now quite unguarded, The funeral took plac the following after- and the prisoner was sentenced to be im- made them incapable even of managing for the drug has advanced daring the past the grounds and gave to the world aftively for more than 1,500 years. The Resian Czar can march, when he the officers" ludi.g the greater part of fourteen days in solitary coufinement, and Surely he cannot mean those Intely arrived $630. In the disposal of Oid, the novel nobleman Piettro della Valle verified history of kings who reigned conseen- and beyond British control, so that theo at 3 30 attended by a large encourse prisoned for six months, the first and last
of followers, detailed account of what he saw. The lecturer concluded as follows:-- pleases, an army from the Kara Kirghizars and crew of the vessel, the the remainder with hard labour.
of the Anchorage residents, an connection of Chardin half a century of what inestimable practical value are
country of the Pamir Steppe, along the well as several of the town residenta do, later, and of Dr Hyde, an English these store documents; how prophelie the course of the Shan-su to its junction dre. The coffin was draped with the Uer- Soveral prisoners appeared on summons Orientalist, and Krempfer & German in witom of their indestructibility The e-with the Ak-su, sad up that river to its an Bosign, and decorated with four issued by the Inspector of Nuisances on 1780 were dealt with,it being shown graved library of Assurbanipal was collected source in the Hindoo Kcosh, the whole wreaths and cross of evergreen and im- charges of emptying or leaving rubbish în 1. the Japan suldiers, ounsidered a rabble, has beed rather sparingly dealt in for local
ider the supervisions of the wisest scholars distance not being much more than a how the misconceptions of the former, his realm. Over 39,000 Inscriptions hundred miles, from Russian to Indo. friend. The burial service was read in a
mortelles placed thero by a kind lady improper places, and were fined from remove by the latter, put an end for
cent to $1 each. presented the literary activity of more than
very impressive manner by the Rev. A, J. some time to all investigation. Augustil 2,000 years, From all parts of Assyria,ritish territory. This statement will Warren. The late Captain Johannsen was Duperron, a Frenchman of grent learn-Armenia, Babylegia, Chalden, and Accudia Lake people by surprise, whose attention the senior. Captain in the Company and ing, gave to the world the first francopies were sent of the still extant monuments; in fixed just now on the Afghan "buffer"; had been a number of years in their om- slation of the ancient Persian shared half ruined, texts, erambling phelisks and whereas, in truth, there is no buffer au ploy. The chief other, Mr. Wagner, takes works and thus nèquainted Disrope with fallen temples were examined and reeled all ou the northern froutier of India; a the vessel home. the sacred language of Zoroaster. The then transmitted to the King's ibrary, the Ak-su valley can scarcely be said to
Chen Aluag, 36, carpenter, and Fo Zond immediately became of great im- proof of his genius and civilization.
Grammatical lists and syllabaries,
bave a master; and la quite unfoundedly
Alung, 36, doctor, were convicting of selling portance and Sanskrit an object of foundation of our present kaouhige f
set down as part of the Khanat of Bge, it would be folly to decry as impractic-plum without a license, and were fined
·The fof.
firat defendant $30, in default to be im- eager and interested research."
the
dituaries dukshay, although the Khan has litle or abir, te mooted," says the Montreal Wilkes, prisoned for six wake, and second defend languag Tenderous discoveries of Nieblur, the well-known of Assyrian and Arcadian-ooms, all of
no control over it, drectly or indirectly:Mr F. N. Gisborne, superintendent of the ant $20, with the alternative of one month's Danish orientalist, and Tychsen, were the form of the west. -ing Now, the conching is, that the c-Dominton Telegraph Signal Service, being imprisonment. The opiam to be forfeited. next explained, and a few words devoted historical and chronological tists, among croachments of Russia' on
which, to the humorous side of these great which establishes the Old Testas on,Chinese Tartary are far more formidable than to connect America with Asia and
is the invaluable Eponym
mentioned se the author. It is no less recorda On the 4th September and chronology (so often attacked and 1802 Georg Friedrich Grotefend rend disputed) Bow
Europe, under British auspices, by a syn acknowledged, univer- before the Academical Society of Got-ally, to be almost without flaw proving
Pacifio, through Caunda, is to form a park, tom of which a lios from the Atlantic to the tingen his first papers on the cuneiform the Jews, as they appear in their sacred
fo effect this portion of the scheme, a line
DISORDERLY CONDUCT. transcriptions, in the same meeting in teoks, to have been the grandest type of a
from Edmonton, Northwest Territory, to Leong Ayan, 26, and Wong Aman, 17, which Ileyne propounded his discoveries livistic people-the one-time worthy follow
Cache Greek, British Columbia, remains to water volles, were fined $1 each, in default he bullt.
cable from Vancouver Island to be imprisoned for five days with hard collection, were essays on mysticism fend's discoveries taagst the ruins of treatises on Mythology and Astrology and
a portion of
their water backets at the bydrant. le connection with Asis, Persepolis were fully and interestingly demonology, with wierd charms, exorcismus
few minor links remaining to complate dealt with by the lecturer, the first and magie formulae were on Chaldean
an slectric girdle around the earth, with
PUBLIC GAMBLING. staps taken by his investigations ongie as-received from the old Accadians
Britain's usuds on the hole. - cable Au Afuk, 21, coolle, and eight others towards the successful discovery of the the Rosicruelans of antiquity ledgers and
from Japan to Australia by way of the wore charged by Inspector Perry, with cient alphabet heing detailed. To diaries of private citizens and merchants,
Karile Islands, la a inpplements) part of public gambling at house No. 16 Tai-ping- Accounts of the Royal Palace and Hunting Professor Grotefeud certainly belongs, Parastronomical motions of clipson of he said, the credit of being the first to
sun and maven-of appearances and disaning a blow, the passes being undefended! Imperial interests. The consummation of defendant was convicted of being the keeper nearly £65,000, the Customs ravanuo shows have remained dull. There has been very
the entire proj of would give the Imperial house of antiquity. In deciphering the exhaustivo treatises on religion-lists of cannon. It is plain, then, that Great munisation with the principal possessions open.a gallery into this rich treasure-pearances of remote heavenly bodies by a single sepoy, "red coat," or British Government facilities for instantaneous cou name of Darbawusch Küschharsehn and Gods, side by side with almost Platonic or Britain bas overy reason to look with of the Empire, which would be a boon of Visseltash be determined nearly a third Aristotelian ceanys. of the entire siphabet, and thus at once countries, of the conquerors and conquered/ttempt of Russia to intimidate Ubinatique in the extent and remoteness from demeanour, ware Sned $40 each; in default increase of £297,400.
Lastly among the names of the cities and anxiety, if not alarm, on the present incalculable value to a power that Atands
Western Chinese Tartary, especially, in Into the cassion of new territory in berself and from each of her colonies.?
discoverion.
Ts of
the
Western
"A vas telegraph sohems, which, in this
HENDIGAFOY,
A dumb boy was charged by P.O. 673 with begging in the street, on the 16th instant, and was discharged with a caution.
Australian Items, NEW SOUTH WALES.
SYDNEY, Oct. 1.
in the Egyptian Hieroglyphis Grote inspired leaders, Here too in the against the Chinese capital; ang similar the aleutian Islande will constitute the labour, for fighting together when filling 30th September amounted to £2,055,278;
supplied an ample and sure basis for we read Lebanon and Damascus, Tyre, and further investigation, In 1820 Monica, Cyprus and the Mediterraneau, Joppa Saint-Martin resumed the labour of in Juzusulera, Egypt and the Nile, Ethiopia vestigation on its being abandoned by and Abyssinia of Maunsses, Jehu, Ouri, Erotefend, succeeding only so far in Ezeklit and Hezekialt, of Necho Terbaka giving strength to the arguments of the and the Pharoahs, German Professor. Further discoveries, Finally, in
there not a sentiment of vivid
io Great Britain, from ber Indo- British standpoint than to China itself Kulja is 2,500 miles from Peking; and A Russian army of 100,000 men would not sutlice to ensure even the shadow of a success for a military expedition attack from Buntok or Vladivostok, or Nentzin, being equally as chimerical. But from the Pamir Steppe, a horde of Tartar horsemen under Rasaian officers could ride down in a week from Russian territory, into the Indo-English vassal State of Kashmeer without sirik:
Me R. Bre's Freight Circular for the Mail of Wodnonday, 17th November, Sky 5
There in but little change in freights to report since issue of last Circular." Arris vals of disengaged Tessela have been more Homewards and Coastwise is limited. abundant, but the demand for tonnage both -
was issued to-day. The balances on the The statement of the quarter's revenue
the revenue for taxation for the quartering from this port, a fairly active demand
Homewards, very little business is offer $416,235, showing as incresss of £41,220 for vessels to load in the Philippines for There is an increase of £165,000 on the niy one settlement in on the corresponding quarter of last year. the United Kingdom has continued, but land raronne, and £46,000 ingresse for in
reported. tereak on conditionaly-purchased land.
Coastwins, a good inquiry for smaller. vessels has latterly sprung up from Bang- kok to Java, but other directions freiglits
Mr Gisborne's soheme, of great moment to shan Street, on the 15th inst. The first The railway receipts show an increase of of the gambling house, and was fined $75, an increase of £31,000, and the revenue months with hard labour; second and in defsut to be imprisoned for three from stamps amounted to 129,150. The uinth prisoners convicted of siding and £1,224,307, which, compared with the cor- total revenue proper for the quarter is abetting in the commission of mis responding quarter of last year, shows on
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& Southern direction, towards the North- In an exhaustive paper on general topics, ern frontier of India, although, it must road by the Bishop of Melbourne the other be remembered, that the Aksu valley is day, at a meeting of the education accion rather neutral ground, claimed by the
of the Sucial Scienes Congress, he thus re-
which were detailed, were mus being is tasty retrospicetions of dis Khan of Badukshan; and now maybe tarred to the Pross an an educator: Professor Rusk, M. Burnout, Professor pleure, that we have or another world,"bufer" than the Afghante Amcer's
| regarded as a faz more important Populous, animated, full of new personages
Lasson. It was only in 1835 that whs ning live again in our thought Stats-Contributed. England entered on this field of dis- to evoke at will-and yet to a feeling covery. Sir Henry Rawlinson, (aben of pity for the dieguy and extinction of Col. Rawlinson) undertook the insesti, kaightly rates who left so lumineus gation of the cuneiforma eharacters, and track in the history of science and urt and have no descendants Tempatning
sied
table sentient that throws its addon over
eurtouts are mangled with the movi all things and draps its bitterness to all our pleasures-for wu can any let that we have, in these retrospections, a line coLLU the spectaule, of an hour-which is lite!
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS..
[SUPPLIED TO THE "CHINA MAIL"]
THE FRENCH MEISTEY.
Jordon, Nov. 13.
The French Ministry have resigned, but
two months' imprisonment with hard labour. The other prisoners fined $7 Bach, for haunting a gambling house, in default three weeks imprisonment with hard labour.
Who can exaggerate the educational lo- euce of the daily and preakly owpapers in this golony? To a degres unknown and suspected at home, these term the sole literature of large chieses of the population Nor are they, on the whole, unmindful of in charge. the larger scope of their publication. Whore in the Times, or in the larger daily as are common bere ofs sermone or lectures. on Mioan great and solemin questions which this age is investigating afresh" with co Editors and others caunot too often remiad idols of courage, truthfuluese, sad hope
A DANGEROUS BEAST.
title demand for steamers from the South-
sen Rice porta.
the British back Oldbridge, 951 tons, the The American back Penobscot, 1,183 tons, derman bark Dr. Petermann, 737 tons, and the Gerasa bark Walkyr, 80% tons, proceed to the Philippines under chackere
home ceeds to Hilo to load on owner's Account. The German bark Alma, 933 tons, pro The German bark Adolph, 807 tone, proceeds to the fanning falands (South L'acific) under charter effected at hams
The disengaged tonnage in port amounts to 22 vossels, registering 9.917 tona, steamers not included.
The following are the settloganta to New York, 38 shillings per ton of 40 Amorioan harque Je a R. Stanhope, 407,
c. fi.
to
American barque Belle of Oregon, 1127, New York, Pavate, Gorman
barque London or Liverpool, £2 15e. per ton Sugar; £35s per ton Hemp.
Wesor, 916, Manila to
Bangkok to Hongkong (Timber), $12 per American barque Com. Dapont, 450, ton of 50 a. ft.
The conferative of land delegates passed a resolution that the existing system of in-effected at discriminato conditional purchases was ad. verse to good settlement, and that in any futuro legislation land should be sat apart for select foti by sub-division and the cancel. lation of part of each existing Crown lease. Oheang bun Tuk, 47, coolie, was char- The principle of selection by families wan ged with driving a bullock in the public also firmed. A discussion took place on streets to the common danger of passengers, the question of auction sales. A rusu u and thereby injuring complainant, Lenngton was moved that such asles be regulat d Achat, a widow, Complainant was walking by laid boards, upon which an amendmout along the Praya Central, when she was was moved and married to abolish land suddenly knocked down from bebind by the sales altogether. The principal argument bullek in question of which defendant was used was that the squatters secured the pick of the count:7, Which gave selectora $2 ameads to complainant, in default to bu
Prisoner was Goed $1, and ordered to pay | no eliance.
The eiequeat on the body of Captain Ed imprisoned for seven days with hard labour. mondson, of the Susanne udefroy, is stil: "unconcluded: Evidence was obicited of the thorough unseaworthiness of the yeasel, and that the basis of the vessel had oars, but Ahing, 25, Coolies, were charged with cited as to why the lifeboat and the Gov- Chang Atso, 28, Lo Atsun, 28, and Linolther mass nor tails, Nothing is yet eli
pat off to the Row, on the 15th inst.
but the barbour-maaree The charge against the first and third he gave orders that boats should go defendants was withdrawn by Inspector appeared that Henry Croaker and out. It Bremner, and they were discharged. The Co. and G..F. Blix, marine surveyors, ex- second defendent was convicted and floed amined the Susanne Godefroy at the wharf, $76, in default to be Imprisoned for three after the repairs to her, sod, gave a certifi German barque Gustav & Marie, 954, to cate that, as far as they could see, the Bangkok $450 in full; and from Bangkok months with hard labour.
Yerel was it to carry coals to any part of to ourabaya, (inside the Ba), 40 cent the world. Special subscriptions are being raised here on behalf of the widow and chil-par pical; (outside the Bar), 35 cents por dren of the late Captain Edmondson.
planl
British barque Davina, 425, Bangkok to z Sourabaya (taside the Bar), 40 osata per (outside the Bar), 30 mis per ploul, Briksh schooner Aire, 206, Bangkok to Sourabaya (inside the Bar), 40 cents per pioul; (untaide the Bar), 9 cents per plouls
PU10 GAMBLING,
Shanghai (flabor), $18 per ton of 60 c. ft. Gorman barque Ecoms, 291, Bangkok to German barque Mauila II, 511, Chotoo
the Obamabar of Deputies laring passed a themselves that they wrile, not only to publio gambling at No. 36 Lower Lasoarernment steamer did not stated that to Hongkong, $2,400 in full, 80 lay days.
vote of confidenca in them, they withdrow
in 1937-38 published in the transactions with even consciousness of just glory! of the Royal Asiatic Society the first the strong and this beautiful, the gracious, ki. B. d. & C. Tebgraph Co.'s Line. Luton papers, will you find sob reports complete translation of the Great De- und pistic the outique dignity nad s histan inscription concerning which | plisity, the rising and expansion of ranny some interesting particulars were given fores, where are they? sad uni silent oli. by the lectaver, Dr Hincks of blin Our pleasing impressions of womter and grati and Professor Oppert added to this most important translation of Rawin Ron's many grave, and valuable is sertations, so that in 1850 the gram- at and lexiongraphy of the old Persian language were permanently fixed, and it could be justly sail that the Persian inscriptions were, amil could be translated with necuracy and perfect comprehension. Up to 1871 ing scriptions of Cyrus Cambyses, Darius,
THE RUSSIAN IMBROGIO WITH CHINA, FROM AN INDO-BRITISH VIEW.
A glance at the present stage of the Xerxer and Artaxerxes had been trandilletty pending teen Eussia and sinted with great success, inscriptions Chum from a more extensive port of teeming with bisturicel interest and view, than the narrow frontier line of lealing with a time and people concern- | Kuidja, about which the disputo origin-
their resignation.
THE DULCIGNO QUESTION.
amnac and sel, but to teneb, to elevate, to educate. In a free country like this the whole range of political, philosophical, and religions thought is open to then They bayo no need to he vile or want of subjects. LONDON, Nov. 13.
Double entendre may be excusable when the The Albanian Chiefs have agreed to thesis gegged; stimulating appeals to the lowest passions may be less disgracefal Cession of Dulcigno.
when an arbitrary Government forbids its subjects to think aloud on religion and phuc; but it is a baseress unspeakable Tur writers to whom the whole range of garbage. Writers for the Press in our time human though is open to seek such
They have immense responsibilities; and if was fed 25 cents, and ordered to pay 20 are ́amongst the most pɔtens of educature.
The
Tho
LOCAL AND GENERAL. next AMALICAN BALL ay be expected here on or about the 18th inst., (Thursday next) by the F. 31, sleazer City of king, which
PATTY LABUENE,
Pan Achu, 27, bricklayer, was sent to gaol for two months with hard labour for stealing a bamboo worth about 15 cents.
DRUNK AND DAMAGING A STREET CHAIS
Thomas Henry, 44, of America, engineer,
VERFOL
VICTORIA,
Melbourne, Oct. 2 At the instance of the Legia'ative Coaa
$850 in fall, 10 lay days.
Gorman barque Tekli, 350, to Balgos,
$438 in fall, 10 lay days,
German barque Talee, 342, to Bangkok,
pioul;
ing which, on account of differences in aliy acont, may not be one of place hre, | Tho cest Farsen MAIL may be expected here truth to those of party. to resta of ; cents to chair ovalie, in default two days' cil, a confereads was held on the Payme it and from Java to Sydney, £1. ɓa, per ten lungs San Francisco datus to the 19th all they vonture to postpro jest at apered isprisonment, for being drunk audslightly (f embers Bi, the result being that the of 20 cm: it to Melbourasy £19, G. per
especially if it should appear that Gro
initais, as mistress vi Ladia, bus special Russian reasons to keep a close eye encroachments in Western Chinese Turk
ou the Sud or 23rd just, by the i. M pleaware, which bangs Landouts to win a out laugh, or to dates to Dctober 10th.
authorities and jucity of tradition, the world knew nothing. The lecturer having reviewed thus briefly the history of the Persian inscriptions came next to the Assyrian discoveries which he traced istan. It will hardly be believed that WE are informed by the Agent of the H. E. from the first step towards them in 1820 Russia has, within the last few years, Chios Telegraph Coy. that the hy Riche, political Tesdeat at Baghdad. brought down bor Central Asian frontier French Mail luft Singapore at 6 p.m. yes
no to a point not much wore then one "terday. hundred miles north of the Indo-British
with oternal pricoiples, as the light felld ; damaging a chair. do, in the sorry ambition to be thou ht smart writers, the day is coming when people, as has happened to all unfaithful they will have to reckon with an awakened priesthoods in all sixes,
in its London correspondence in the issue The Manchester Guardian has the following of 23rd September last
巍
of
China.
FOOCHOW.
(Herald, Nov. 11.)
Bill was divided into two, one providing ton of 20 ow. for
payment of
the Assembly, members of the
Dut and the other for payment of members
brig Trio, 203, Bangkok to Java of the Council The Connell passed the for-side the Bar), 36 cents per pical; or Bang
(inside the Bar), 40 seats per pecul; (out-
mar and rejected the latter bill, thus de- alining payment for themselves, while
We understand that it is the intention of allowing it to the Assembly, the Provincial Government to introduce the authorising the isene of Treasury bonds to A bill has been passed by both Houses
lutas semetime since, originally intended the more pressing wants of the Govern: slentric wire within the city walls; and the the amount of £50,000, in order to meet line to the Kimpai pasa, announced in our
to
In 1840 Rotta sent out 250 laboriously correct copies of Assyrian documents to Europe, and the work of comparing and northern frontier line of the Maharaj, of IN consequence of the iqdisposition of the investigating now fairly commenced. It Kashmeer, In 1878, the Czur by an was found that whereas the Persian portal coles, declared the territory of Paleno Jadge the opium case was not pro- Alphabet in ita Cuneiform Inscriptious the Kara Kughizes of the Pamir stoppe seeded with to-day; it stands adjourned contained only 42 signs, the Assyrian had formally annexed to the Russian Ew sill Thursday, more than 400. „Tu 1840-50 the first pire, as a dependency of the newly con- earnest labours commenced. Up to that stituted Province of Forgana, established We would again remind our readers that date the complicated graphic system as two yours before nudor General Skobeleff, the mail which closes tomorrow is that well as the want of workers had rendered and formed opt of the territoira wrested a final success very denbtful, but from China, in the Ili egion, whereor which is timed to be delivered in London needed. The vessels which have been tele-Yen Kai, the sub-Profi ** through the untiring investigations of New and Old Kuldja
2
are principal towns, eu Deo. 28rd, and that therefore all Christ. few determined orientalist satisfactory about twenty miles apart, on the north as good wishes shouki by sent home by Fand the clippers Rasbygedat both to be removed frora their stations here servico have been, or are about to) commencement was made, Sir Austen bank of that river, This new Russian the present opportunity. Layard was in 1846 Consul st Mosul, province comprised the so-called "Kuldja
N
sution of th
kok to Singapore, 25 cents par pioul,
British steamer Bombay, 740, Shanghal
to Swatow, 23 Tuol cants per pioul, Baigon, $4,000 in full.
British steamer Chas. I. Hook, 802, to
British steamer Charlton, 788, to Haigon,
$39,250 in full,
Quotations.
⠀・ Hongsong, November 16. OPIUM-New Patios, cabe 6274 a 50
coal,
New Benares, cash, 620 cash, 680. New Malwa, oredit, 785 Allowance, Taels
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32
Old
The Government la eviting down the de-
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the oldest and most efficient officers in the
.
to extend to the Southern Suburbs, is now ment. The bonds, which will bear interact I am informed that In the event of affairs to be connected with the yamen in the city. at per cant., will be issued in three series, at Daloigno taking a serious turn, and Yet another barrier fengshuite imprese falling due respectively in one, two, and rapture between Rumis and Turkey, six
is thus overcome. bility is
three years' time. the best vesels belonging to the China spectators at the burial of a two-headed There was a large concourse of native
In the Council a ki
to alter the consti ran, and the romainder will follow as Chinese child, 2 days old, last Saturday. aquadron will return at ones to the Mediter
Chamber has been read m cond time. The bill is practically the Consequent upon the illness.of ** e Prefecte as that passed by the Council in 1879. graphed to hold themselves in readiness for
kut (Hai Fong, Ting) partments in all directions, and several of return are the trigates Afinin and Pajarsky Wave
Naa superceden him. The Min and Houkwan Magistrates are Djigit and Crays
be, All these are teavily- - carry the latest improvement in owing, it is said, to their inability to capture moved. amongst those who retire are Mr. torpedo warfare, The Commander-in-Chief the band of robbers who attacked the cach Gurner, Orown solicitor; and Mr L'Es trange, chief clerk; Bir J. Chatfeid Tyler, Owing to the death of Chang opium Taotai assistant commisioner of custome; A Etting out the Peter the Great and sending a short time ago, one of the members of the
of the same department; and Cap- Lassofeky's aquadron, but this report is not the charge of the opiuma revenue at this port. Lands department, 71 officers have received BD well confirmed as the rest of the informe-
Cheng has been appointed to succeed him in fais Payne, chief ha bour master. In the ton shout the Pacific fest. It should be built for the lee Company at the Fooobuw
A new and powerful ateam launch is being notice of dismissal
the site of ancient Nineveh, Imone-Triangle," whose apex is placed at the THE pedestrians who were out in the streets would be Admiral Lengafaky, lato Min- shop as reported in our last issue. diately upon his arrival he began ex-point of cession of two mountain ranges at the west, ond of the town yesterday fister of Marine. There in also a t∙lk of
Eray anuarin on the lice of its afternoon at 5put u'glock were treated her and the frigate Generul idiniral to join. -called Board of Foreign Trade, named Boe, chief clerk of custom, and Major |
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·H.K. & W. Dock, 8 % preto Cosmopolitan Dock, par, nomina). 1.K. 0. M. 9-boat Co., 828 prem S'hat Steam Nav., Ti 8 per u. nominal. Cains Coast St. Hav. Co., Fla. 124 pc share, Hongkong Gas Co., $80 per shares kristus Hongkong Hotel Co., 072 per share, sales, China Sugar Ref, Co., $178 pershare, Do. Debentures. 3.p.2. prezzi. Chinese Imperial Loan of 19%, nominal.
of 1877 Temperature.
haring the ruined palaces, and with the enclosing the Ili Valley; and leaving the assistance of Sir Strafford Canning Qu•**** tained funds from the Government to base, supported by ladjent, and behind to quite an expiring hunt. A buffalo which prosecute his labours. To Layard chiefly it by Tuskkendt, the seat of Government appeared to have gone mad, escaped from we owe the incalculably valuable monu- of all Russian Turkistan, Fort Narin in its owner and in the course of about half ments, obelisks, tablets and briek now in connected by an excellent military road hour threw the inhabitants of the dia- available for setive nervios when the last Bock to ply on the river for foreign oharter, that great repositary of antiquities, the with Fort, Vierny, from which another
The Parliament of new South Wales has British Museum, Lowenstein and de very good military road runs to Kaldja, trict into a regular panic. We regret to war occurred with Turkey, and hence Russia on either business or pleasure. The launch Sauley, both philologists of note, were the north eastward; and its main brauch hear that several persons were more or less selles. In 1878 the engines of the Peter the side. Ehe will be well fitted for passenger
did nothing in the direction of the Darda la to be 60 feet long, 3 feet beam with 6 feet been prozogued to October 20,
An extraordinary railway accident hab first to give a reading to some short goes back by Hodjent to Tashkendt, injured by the bouts in its wild onceer, one Great and Pojarsky were still unánished; accommodation, having a saloon 12 feet loug, occurred on the Wellington and Greytown Assyrian texts. It would extend the being in every place practicable for man being bedly gored: The buffalo even-
the Respornik, Day at it, Minin, and de decked fore and aft, and her draught is to railway, New Z land. A train was pass- lecture to faz too great a length were cavalry and artillery, South of Fort tually got up to the Pokfoolam Road, banda and the Dyit and Orays were to be much more powerful than those of the
neral admin were all in the builders not more than 3 feet. The engines are ing through a parrow görge, when a violent it to attempt follow the gradual pro- Narin, there are two or three quite wer
gust of wind blew the carriages off the line, gress of the solution of the problenis viceable passes leading ou to the Famir where it was pursued and abot by the engaged in a distant cruise in the South present launch, and a high rate of speed is One carriage was smashed to piegia, and which, although of the deepest interest | Plateau; which, us stated, is now be. Pulice.
to be bud with this boat which, we hurled down a steep embankment a distance expected to
will be completed in January next, of 100ft. Three children were killed, and presume and importance to the student, are come Russian Territory, us far as a faw
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walk to the Tartar Camp, now used for several training ponies for the races, 1
persons were jured. The Sea Hipple was attacked by natives hilerating in this lovely Antang weather, at Bougaioris laland (Solomon Group), and although one has to traverse a large on August 9. Captain Ferguson was killed, treet of dirty, narrow streets, teeming wit and several of the crew wounded-ons of all manner of filth, before he arrives at bis them, & Kanska, dying afterwards of his in destination, still the satisfaction remains urles. The Lativas wore altimately benton that but a little time longer will suffice to 50 of them being killed, bring the various atseda to such a fair steaderd as will enable their owners to bring them to the new lately-oquired: Recreation Ground and Race Course Training her commepood, but is still far from being in full force, only two of our numerous sporting sommunity being now on the Bald. The obstructire taction. During some remarks. pontes neum to be in good condition and by Me Douglas in referezon apparently relish their morning gallop over desies v. Af Choraith, commenting on the (Taken at Muzere Falconer & Co.'s Primiies, the firm turf, BERGAY
sation of the Pretuler and Colonial Soéraláty Our potion has been desen to the para in retaining their seats, the 'remier inter graph in our issue of the list ultimo, which jedted the word "coward,” which was to the Royal Asiatic Society, whose originally palapa of the same stock. The The Foochow paper of the 11th lust, to
related to the late trial of R. (Hoga) a reported to the Epeaker, who ruled it ent| THE LARDENT OF STORES, LIO, BY A HOUSH Brockett on a charge of embezzlement and of order, and requested the Premier. to committee declared itself apop compar Russian Military Eugiusors of General
stealing It was therein inadvertently stated withdraw the word and ing the translations perfecily convinced Kauffman in a stun gid Chart published band to-day, gives further particulars of the
Kwo Achrang, late servant of Dr Ayres, that the charge had been dismissed owing, to House, which he did pologise to
ogise to the of the fact of successful interpretation, last year (1878-9) gite the southern Ludden death of Capt. Juhanson of the appeared on the remantled charge of steal the insuffefenty of evidence. We would notice has buen panetted that foreign and in order that all the world might limit of the Kara Kirghiz contry at Besparia which we noted briefly some days ing a quantity of stores, ato.
here corrent toy impression prejudicial to ateamers using Queensland ports whilst on likewise be assured of this great and tri- near 38 N.L., with a few minutes ago. Our contemporary enya ma
Mr. Deynys appeared for the prisoner.
the defendant, that the expression might a foreign voyage will have pilotage and umphal achievment the committee had difference. It appears that their 4
Mr. Wot-on gave further evidence with convey, by stating that upon information light dues remitted, except in respect to su the translations of the four Orientalists us (white bearday or henden, seeing happened at the Anchorage on Monday been stolen from the store room. It was dismissed with costs, the defendant not cargo landed or shipped at each ports.
An auasual and painfully sad occurrence regard to the quantity of atores, which had that has bean given to us, the charge was amount equal to la, per ton on freight and printed side by side in a separate pub- the fate of the Terlame of Kuldja, the last. Upon the arrival of the B. S. Hesperia impossible to estimate rightly the value of having been called upon for his defence. ⠀ To the Queensland Assembly, bili han
Kuropean
Moa. Nov. 8h, BL
9th,
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1 37th,
12th,
U
» 28th,
18 14h, Sunday, Totals
184
of little value in the pyes of the minutes north of $8 N.L. The Kara AMONGST the passengers whe arrived in RETURN of Visitors to the City Hall world at large. In 1807 the Royal Kirghizes occupy those stoppes, being Hongkong from Shanghai per the F. & O. Mussam for the week onding Nov. 14:- Asiatic Society called for a decisive nomadic tribes of Tartar stock; by some S. 8. Zambesi, are a party consisting of six proof of the possibility of tran-thographers confounded with the gentlemen and a larly, on a four round the Caes. slation, proposing to several savants Kirghiz Kapaks of the Aral Lake that an inscription of sight hundred lines steppes, about whom & Russian writer world under arrangementwith Cook of Lou Wed. Thur. should be translated by the loading and traveller, Alexis Leflian, badon, the well known travelling agent and
Fri. Assyrialogues simultaneously and with published an interesting book entitled, organizer. We understand the party, Sat, ont connection with each other. To Opisanie Kirghiz Kaysakky, ii, Kapake whink arrived at Shanghai from Japse and Sun: Hincks in Dublin, Rowlinson and Foxy Ord i Slopes à decuription of the San Francisco, after visiting the shiol Talbot in England, and Oppert borden and steppes of the Kirghiz Ka places of interest around Hongkong, par- France, copies were sent, none of the pake or Kayenky," in which work he Orientalists knowing at the time either refers to the Kara Kirghigos of the Pons proceeding to Singapore, and thence who were the chosen interpreters or the Pamle steppe as the Black Kirghizes to Ludia, which they will there roach in the contents of the text. On the 26th of distinct, he thinks from the Kajzake, plenastest time of the year, and May of the same year they severally re-who is aleo ways are not to be zoufound buy proused home, doing Egypt in the way. turned the copies with their translatinised with the Kopaks of the Don, although
and from Bom.
Grand total, 2,812
913 Sunday
2,108.
Police Intelligence (Before the Hon. 1. §. Tonnochy).
Tuesday, Nov. 16 -99.
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