A MINISTRY OF FINE ARTS. FOR
ENGLAND.
(Pati Mall Thudget. J. The recent writer has called attention to the questions which relate to the organiza tion of the public service and the application the public funds in connection with the
of
by the creation b. a now departmout of the exsentivo
under the title ive gorachment.
thir
of
of much a reorganisation of the public services as we are contemplating, the office of the First Commissioner of Works world naturally be merged, in gront part at least,
the Ministry of
of Fine Arts. The con- atraction and the decoration of public buildings are matters which bear closely. not only on the growth and prospects
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amount to half a million sterling. If it consisted of the fragments of apparel Englishmen recoil frous this gigantic soleme nearest at hand. Had chance thrown to him of a working partnership between a Chris.... a court single-breasted cont, with a bishop's sinn State and the Moslem Church, Mr apron, a kilt, and top boots, in theso ko
Blunt warns them that the position which would have inade his entry." Many storiesBANKE, they abandon will be eagerly grasped by were told of his strange practice of nocturnal FLK. and S'hai ฟุตบ
me less scrupulous neighbour. The reable round Edinburgh for 2616 walker, Bank... 40,000 8 125 125,8 2,100,000 € 48,092.45 40 111 112% fine arts in the country. In France the nationalart, but on the dignity of nationalphate is a weapon forged for any hand in frime, ho was an indefatigablo
Russia's át Bagdad, for France's at and he carried a small L'a same order of questions has just been solved nic... To 4 remodelled apartinent of Publio | Damascus, or for Holland's (onll it one day dark nights. It is said the lantorn on Nth.-China Ins. 1,000TI. “2,000|TI. 600]T). 238,600/T1,251,064,91|TI. 75 +T. 1175 p. sh. Alin.
would lay down to accasionally he Yangtze Ins.... 1,200 TI, 350 T1, 350)TI. 600,488T). 18,447.76 12 %§TI, 880, Works under a Ministry of Fine Arts, with Germany's) in our stead at Mecca,”
on the road-side Union Ins. Soo. or hedegrows. :: When": at China Traders' Ministry of Arts. The debates to which the aid. vorkape, of some sort of specially Blunt's concluding prediction as to the or in the woodie
600 81660.068 5008 476,000$ 91,928,40 20% 381600 Arte in the French Miami- nelected council, we might fairly look for future of Islam is very atrikding.." Mabois- hems, archy, his daughters in the Luaswade Insus in ce...
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not despair even cottage, he generally epent, the early parts Ctan Ins. Ofice 10,000 250 50 ber cannot but have afforded food for reflec. 15 more effectual initiative and a more-of-their political-fortunes-I-foresee for oftar evening in their fociety and one of Chinees Ins. Co. 1500 8~~1,000 8-2008-109,3788 42,869,79 6% +$280
cious control
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spiritual inheritance of Africa and them present.
this charming picture o gives
871 $8070 vious that our own administrativo agro arises
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#der with which' wo are not likely vory much longer to redesimble for Government to extend its the level of their present ruiors, and Eu- ↑ his own delightful way rather than reading] HK. Q. and
the
of those historical protection
weary of her work, shall have alau- the news, would on questions from this one main content. Public interest has of late care to
often including years hoen pertains to the fine arts; neither in that inter property, not of the State, but of corporate temporal inheritance too. How long this young friends of his
Of the or visitors from distant places, est confined to particular classes of the conf-bodies or private individuals. This is a shail be delayed we kru munity or to partisular qontres of population: it upon which public sentiment is betimes and Ressons knoweth no man," was the subject with auch n-wealth
inning to gather comptesicy and face, the confession of a greater propios shan Mr of old of
lik y prove before long to be both a pak the measure proposed by Sir John, Lub Wilfrid Blunt, but prophecy is not the of brief past or present experiences
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turies are but yesterday when it is with, as those nights were exceptions in To sum up, it would stom at Trst sight d'all Medl Gazette.
which he did not set something on fire, the ty to which the encouragement and control the degrable-alıks in the interests of art
corponest incident being for somo ono to with propriety
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At t recout Mansion Honso necting. takings, and of the futuro conservation of
by our lustorical monuments--it would for all Cardinal Manning, poisoned apparently
that new ir C. Aitcheson's one-sided report, ailemd these is set desirable that a new decoration of public editivée, sind in department of the Excentive Cinetuiment that is whole antive fupulation of Briting Prius ir statea tant Mustapha, ex-
should be organized
was ments; the piorget. nnd entervation of control of a responsille: Minister of them. De ruled body and 5914, by / Frime Minister of Tunis, who now resides▾ For half-year ended 31at Doo., 1991.
put mador the
offthe opium monopoly in Paris, ia only 34 years of ago, and is Twenty about two millions sterling. might have put forward Do Quincey in an Property Cro Such a department would com
art of an argument that the consumption yours ago he was a barefooted and bare a large qart of the functions at prest of the drug is not so fatal na its enemies headed street arab at Tunis, and thought it Hongkong Rates of Postage. c, all of the same weight, to addresses in An antter of fact public moman al-xercised by the Science and Art Dejart
-assung Do really systematically expended wider the ment The Commista of Coucil on
Quincey began to taks opiuma za privilege to be allowed to pick up others at control of the State on all of theau objects, |
1804 at Oxford, which he was attacked cigarette ends in the European cafus. Maliy Education, with pare
honest cafetier still
still livine hua oktoni except on the conservation of mumcuta
texercised by the Cffice of Works by nonalgin, at the age of nineteen. From a present which are private property. But they would undertake, in addition, the task that time to his death, at the close of 1859, soundly cuffed his Excellency for over zoul is
expended an
and the control axervisal by
of the Executive having of initiating and controlling, with the mid Songtines the preferred it in sticks, emo- deileiva. Ha sextet much appreciated
In the following Statements and Tablez various departaments
or which should take ho
luk out of th well-defined relations boards having
a decanter, which stood on barber's apprentice, and at fiftoon struck Lotters per half once; for Books and dional
expulitare"tipon-the
ilin table by his side. Hie daily allowance out a line for himself xa qurtier. This Patterns, per two maces. either to Government or ter
By the first of our four metropolitan musuma of art; as wel
varied from 320 grains or 8,000 des to 40 was in 1869. Since then he has somed a
Newspapera over four dunces in weight Thus, with referente
that of organizing the toolmical, and con the Al the RC of the (g of I
(a system of co-operation red headings the Pitary,
1,000 drops. For some tins, hur royal princess, und gone through every are charged as double, treble, &e, as the firg the years 1817, 1818, d. 180 de arcane a Prime Minister of Tonis four papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two be inserted in stich Pattern Packots.
his grade of the non-existent. Tunisian army. case may be, but such papers or packets of 10% certain extent alen thin the inces. Finally, it would be reja nurmal natintaa was 2,000 droja, but he education of the comtry have
Hu can write his casirindly increased the consumption to years ago. Lust five-and-twenty years bien organizehtover pushes might hereafter excesive total of 12,000 dropa per pily, and ear spenk only hi Nuwapapers must not be folded together as Langone, nor must anything whatever bu inserted has been He has diam This was the
decorated of the opinnage,
PARCELA The public is rounded that by overy except bona fide Supplements. Printed
Parcal Post Livingstonic Samall horrors so vividly described in bis Con- | Power in Lorope except England, and, after mattor may, however, be enclosed, if the thora is no such thing as le restricted his supply, as a rule, to a daily French press for twelve months, received rent-may paid either as Newspapers or pointinent are caused by persistent attempta Long Len
of 100 dups..
No man lived inore from the hands of Monitur Grèvy in July¦
to send, all valuable trifles through the La King Shan Post. Fans, Carios, Articles of Dress, Macy, Ü.H. Commercial Papers signify such papers Work, and similar presents are con his inental, nor his ingrail, nor his distinction which ho shares with the
H. M. S. the character of an actual or personal correoften spent more in Postage than would . H. Madelay, H.M.S., Albatrors, 1 letter. Bu considered himself a uvuvigns of Europe, deterioration.
sponderce, such as invoicos, deeds, copied have paid the freight by atanmer. No. Savage, H,.8. Albatross, 1 loiter. of its con- tho <xpert in profund
seigneo
music, do. The charge on them is the same and that he could exactly regulate. Bunjtion, she dose with referencu to the object of the ntiunt, whether this was a desire to escape or to obtain an intellectual stimulant
art
its sciolific fucation, along"
with
under separate departeent ment of the President and Vice-President of the Comrnittee of Council on
to Parliamen for the execution ase loptul for
the conservation of historical
far from We azuments.
are far to the dwbacks ntialing any ex- blind Education.
life.
own
In connection with the work of this depart fordon of the central executive authority Serious. During the latter part of his life being the chrome object of attack by the whole he paid at Book Rate. Prices Curto Europe, & Much trouble and disapLong Geo me, and under ita aclusive control. The new departments of the intiant the intoxication of opium; yet, the Grand Corden of the Legion of Honour
nainai
Now there
But the proposals ughly sketched out a[ s[ l* chief has hunn establish on nut suuth Kedore are propale of runrganization rather metropolitan sus, thin sington Other quasi-public
of Art ut
Books.
institutions than of extension. We shall probably re-vaical powers watered any permanent Prince of Wales, and alment all the reignings, though Writion by Hand, do not hearinually borng refed, the senders having
tura antlior day to the fuller consideration both of the advantages and the incon venioneus which they involvi
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Fregi
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1
as for books, but, whatever tho weight of refund can be made on mich parcels of the S. Jenkins, H.M.B., Albeirors, 1 istior.
packet containing any partially written Value of Stampe obliterated before the paper, it will not be charged less than 5uture of the contents was discovered.
Shipping Intelligence,
The following lists are orrected from
cents.
time to parliamentary revision, Wagazines ls cs in which Mr Will S. exhilarant. He asserted, indeed, that the latest London and Colt Papers, and
for
dutail.
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by
alliance and the
and
vided an
regular recourse to the drug
an effective
specide for the hure Pro
·OWN |---
e are invited in the
for the higher kind of art aducation in and the Academy London are the Royal
Liversity College, School
bath of them maintained by private funds, and accordingly exempt from Government
THE FUTURE OF ISLAM. except in so far as the constitu
from time to The most remarkable paper in the January be subject tion of either may
by no
Bhat ring to a conclusion the series of
|from other sources. Consi means imply that it would he muy part of the busimas, of a State department of Fine articlos he has been contributing to the
on the Futuro of Islam.minary consumption to which it was sup- to communicate with lid Kesieur Purtaghtly
むし ed he WILS lible, but medion restimony Arts to suporviss, stil: less of course
ovont of any inaccuracy ocfing in this ourtitutional supersede, the work of independent instit 21 Blunt points the inoral of his sever
thes
complaint was not of this nature, but was a slow ur list as compiled from the papers and other tions like theso; although no at the the startling singgestion that England should maintains that his
of the relations of the loyal to the song is a flat stor pro alias of intermittent uisenation of the ptosasons, information at his command. The Editor
Malem roligion. This working a domy to such a department wonki, call tween the Defender of the Faith tul
information
ation is taken from the Latest careful consideration
seotud heading, Caliph of Islam Mr Bhunt believes to 60 biographical notion of the queer little opinm. with, at all time, so glad to receive any With roference to the nominition of verks of art for the dictated alike by the necessities of our cater, a well-written and sympathetic mono addition to the list from those who have
published sition and the promptings of graph by Profesor Masson, just nation, and their preservation in publicitarian husitem.
hem the English Men of Latters" series, later advices, private or otherwise, than his and galleries, there e
exist, in total
cannot destroy Islain, nor dissolve sited by Mr John Morley. independence of the Education Departner own connection with three portant metropolitan unerseuns of
small-litibed, industrious, alsant- aft-th Beisish Mascun, which is also the in God's naine, let her take Lalan by the
hand, and encourage her
** boldly in
woo in- great untional Portrait Gallery.
library, the National Gallery,
tug" The conception is a and the at
Fach of
tellectual wizard." Professor Masson, who Aug. and Mr. Blant work it out unswerving, wot
with
De thess is
on two or three occasions, is placed under the management of a
the last detail. In his eyes the separate body of and trustees Flusse
Mkommedans will is entirely Carr hud has collected all the boards of trustees are va ure
appointed
Europe and
Norio odkl habits, shores apon the and constitute, that of the being the
12. Although |
ad the best
ugh Octanam Empire will vanish like an evil heterogeneous in its
at Lasa- Nov. 2, family Grea, but Islam, which recodes in great dignitarica of the State many of the gre
in the town. He would fit from street In the decay of Buddhism Islam África. on one or after of these boards, yet and not Christianity will
nity will be the forta under street, as each set of rooma becaine in of the three has any atlarized representa
the moners-of W tives .
which God will eventually be worshipped time snowed ap" with a lumber of books, Afraid less his Government. Neither is their spin the tags," As a moral and intellectual pers
sufficient worldly knowledge and daring to sibility to Purlaucht testly defined. In free moulling the lives and dominating store should be lost, and unable to grew up the dedinics of aen Islam will derive new
of the rant pay off the and remove bis treasures the ar
of their finctions they are oxercise practically subject to the Tre uy; directly be destructief the Satan, elsewhere, he used to retain the lodging in
mal, in
tusexts at
say,
of virtue.'
her. Therefore,
Thore is no more eccentric character in English literary history than this shy, sen-
in the bath dd-mannered, brilliant, "
of
Bathan Africa. Constantinople will full the Lasswade near Dan anecdotes of
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been
Gu
in close
to
better, and
the
time. It was
cun-
Minnic Allon, Chattanooga, Lady Bowen, Melrode,
W. H. Besse,
LOADING
London
Australia
Australia
Australia Australia
FOR CHINA AND JAPAN PORTS. At London. Steamers via Suez Canul; Canquis
Glamis Custle.
Tetuan.
Stontor (4.)
Benlder.
Antonio- Gleneagles.
Belted Will,
.2
Agamonnon (a)
Sailing Vessels,
At Liverpool.
At Glasguic
At Cardiff
At Sunderland,
NAMES OF VILLAGES. &c;
of Works,
buildings and inaintenance. And the Treasury, exorcises its functions of calung | the-problem of civilizing Southern Asia had sometnes at least four separate Jan. 11, Glantis Castle (s), London down the national expenditure With forty millione, rapidly bec
tency. in his becoming
fifty
One special chatic cristic was the absolace morelessly in connection with this than
millions, of Mussalmant in India, a heitrsey. with any branch of the pollie service; a Minister whose business it is to defend such, in
with the Faithful synthy
novunicuts at any pared under somet
ela- gratuitous fear of being pursued by expenditure to his coleagues and to Purlis, in sughout the world, willi a vital interest astotod fers or
interest in Syria, ment, has been
Iraa
pointed out
out by a Egypt, a secondary intere
morous landladica, and that the suspicious- erade on hand for the suppression of the the writer to whom we have alreway. share trade, and a vast Kaffir population in Jess became "an ingrained habi ferred, DO
proposals on binhalf of the national
,
Deeting itself "with his astounding incam- South Africa which promises to become collections which both Parliament and the Mulan, England's role in really butters of personni business the integrate
petence in
money matters." Indeed, in constantly public would gladly sanction, zru
upy Esim is, in Mr Blunt's opinion, very plainly of 1
of Ricardo was helpless as an infaut." in danger of being nipped in the bud at the
Teasury, The most desirable and splendid marked out as soon as the fall of the Otto Ho was treasure-trove to beggars, and his
Empire clears the way for the
great elitellite
c moxperience and to termine acquisitions for the British--Museum-and-ge. It is this The Co often involved him in tempor the National Gallery have more than once. been only effected by dint of sustained longer an ampire, but still an independent often involved. to him. There is one Glenorchy.
appation of this feature of his exorcise of the social and parliamentary to enstance, listurbed by furtherature in a story told by Mr Hill Bu agitation in the press, and of the vigorous sovureignty-must be taken under British or what ap
protection, and publicly guarantond its poli- matt intiuence of individual trustees. At the
night, very late, D's Quincey same time, it would almost certainly be aggression from Europe It will thou bo which Professor Massi quotes: Ono aeriving at i mistake to abolish the systom of museum for Mihomasdans, and especially for the
Friend's door, and having obtained admis- of musetim Mahommedans of
of India, to lecile apon the ion with difficulty, explained, with all the management by trasteus altogether, ought not to be impossible so to modify stilltropolis of their faith. If Syria e skill, and pathos of his beautiful rhetoric,
KOM the Otitution of these anomalous boards as i Irak, Bagdad; ur it may be in Egypt, or be provided at once with 78. 6d. On per- Truth.
free, that metropolis may be
be Tamasons; tinct it was absolutely essential he should Susuno. to convert them into the most valuable af
*** councils for the Arabin, or Contral Asia. It is manifest, councils
ceiving surgirias on his friend's face, ho permanent administrative coun guidance and ussistahes of the selityst
explain time he find & docu- is concerned, the further it is provedou to
tinent one inconvenience arising anat
Lis in Christendom the
possession the transference of such central fran the absence of any
authoremoved from
I have which to his friend's care. would probably rity
ias too great parsimony in expenditure on the more easily accessible by set
obviato is hesitation; and then, after it as my opinion that already given behalf of the metropolitan muscame, another
mmaging in his pockets, and fetching will be made, is the lack of any syster
Hove, when
one monthwarda, of y inconvenience is
hutwen these and the various and ultimately to Aralia. But it may well miscellany of small articles out of these, he A-kung Ngain. San Trun
varionon that its firat stage will be no further/produced at last a crumpled piece of paper Cheung-eban Hom. Shai-tsai Po.
Apli Chau co-operation simtar
institi
liich be which private
be tendered as
as security. It
It was corporate munificence is fast establishing than Cairo. The Caliphate reached Con-50 note, and his impression was that if Chung Hom.
The
stantinopla through Egypt, and may of
for the exchange
Chung
Wan. throughout the province
Are certain
Fo-ang. A museum of art in, shove all things, adusa by the same road, and there and he had kept the note Honal The Department of Science and quite recent symptoms which seem to point 78. ed., he would have heard no more of
the transaction, and indeed that, before Hawan, Art has from the first recognized this fact, the direction of such a curse being coding to
his door, this is.
Quincey De
had
Kong Tisi been Supposing that
negotiate the exchange at a
(Aberdeen). a serios by sirculating among its affiliated schools one taken."
For course taken, and after a temporary stay at of shops,
and had failed
exHok-taux. Cairo, the Caliphate is shifted to Arabia, collections at the Blunt contine Ratablished at koopers."
Hok-tsui Wan. scepticista on
of the on the only through ex Edinburgh literary society. Hukia.
ba- Mecca, our duty of protesting the head of
Euria Koh the Mussulman
man religion would be compact but he could only be induced to show
came eager to meet this brilliant essay Hung-heung Lo.. attended with risks 'dud drawbacks.
inilitary
sire intervals. Appointments were seldom Hung-hom are other maades in which a central State tively a simple one. Hejaz for all organization' could work with still greator Purposes is inaccessible by land for Buro but when he was lured or
conveyed Kaung advantage for the benefit of provincial Peans; and Meica., were it cossary at into attendance, his
•Hill Burton's dog. One such mode would bo by any time to give the Caliph a garrison of the guests. He conversation, delighted Kass Wan, musauma.
Musulman troops, is within a might be scription of his appearance at one important responsible inspection and advice, combin of the const ad, perhaps, in curiain cases, with grants declared the Arabis
of natural appanayo in oid: Another mode would be by arrang-dec ing for the joint purchase on behalf of the phate, the Stats Pontificali of the suprente in the half as if sopas dog or
Lapp Wan. the Mussulaan religion. head of the
forced his way in. The OME ther of collections which might be adran internal organization we should have not a friendly guest tells him of the arri metropolitan and provincial museums togo-
Thể họ uni. Ma tàu Chung tageously distributed between the two, cause, to interfere; nor would its protoval: he opens the door and fetches in the 19-tau Kok * Perhaps the most useful of tion from without involve us in any outtle etranger. What on it be? A streets-tu Tran. hother and all would be by providing for the issue the lowest possible rate of facsimiles of the as & Government undertaking, a boy's duffle graat cost, very throad-bare, Mong-kok
of the various branches with standard examples of art preserved in the graat metropolitan thoroughly ausos; such facsimiles being for edna
in the provinces original" and act industry the
from
and
que. But the air. South Kensington Museu culation of valuable originals is
is the
to
attromia?
the
orch Cali-
kept,
shop-
at
IN OR MEAL KONGKONG. (Corrected Spelling.)
Wan.
Shok.
18 Mr dinner-party :-Thefestivities of the after-Kung Chung noon are far on when a commotion is heard Kung Kok
ther In its
animal had
Kun
A systematic development of t
01 some sort His costume in fact, is Matau Wai. construction of
from with a hole in it, and buttoned tight to
the ent of in. where it the stablishment Jeddah lines ·
fragments of a Ngan Ping. of nara parti-coloured beloher home are on this Ngrag-shin Chau.
ateginara all
and the
the fram meeta
tional purpose often of all but equal value from the printinel Mohammedan porta, feet are list-shoes, covered with snow, for Pak-shni Wan.
with originals.
Passing to our third head, that of the superintendance of public edifices and momumenta, this is a charge already en trusted to a separate department of the State, the Office of Worka, In the event
maltons which would amply ropay their it is
& stormy winter night, and the trow Pokfu Lam
east, would every year, add a new prestige acral Some one suggests that they are Naiwan Tuni.
to English indounce. This might be still mere lineu garments flickered with rit Sai Ying-pun. further enhanced by the very simple mese
Shai-wan.
Shan-shui Po.
Shau-ki Wan.
-Shek-o Shek Chek Tong.
Teni
Shui-tsing War.
So-kon Po Tai-kok Tsui Tai-long Ha
Kung ML Tal-ping Shan. Tai-shek Kok. Tai tam. Tai-tam Tuk. Tai-wan Tai-1
Wong Kung. Tang-lung Chan
e-mutij: Trim-sha Tsui. Too-pal Tend
To kwa Wan. To-ti Wan.
Wan
Wan-taxi Wong-kok Tenn. Wong-ma Kok Wong-nai Chung. Yau-zat Ti.
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