No. 6719,-FEBRUARY 6, 1885.]
issued to-day the important provision to the effect that coal is not to be supplied to the same belligeront vessal more than one in three months in alua omitted. These are the only important points on which the two notifications differ from each other.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. PABBED CANAL-Deucalion, January 15; Sarpedon, January 19; Bellerophow, January 20.
Ir is so seldom that lovers of art have the opportunity of seeing high-olak water. colours in this part of the world that we draw attention to a small collection now on view in Messrs Lane, Crawford & Co.'s the work of promians The pictures aro artists of good standing at home, and are
woll worth a visit.
with this subject:--
THE CHINA MAIL.
TONGKING...
FROM 3GI TO THE FRONTIER OF
KWANG IL
LANG-HUN
Mail boats (Paquebots-paste), boing rossels
are surmounted by a parapet pierced with MAJOR GENERAL William Gordon Cameron, C.B., is announcext as the successor of belonging to Navigation Companies which
possess an organized sorvios, sanctioned by loopholes and crowned with a palisade of Lieut-General N. J. Sargent, O,B., in the air Government, for the regalar convoy bamboos. The east wall forms one side of The next Fasnou MAIL, by the M. M.
a street inhabited by merchants und meant. Co's stommer Sagalica, left Singapore command of H. B. M.'s land forces in ance of the mails of the Government's for Saigon and this port on Wednesday, China and the Straits Settlements. Major postal service, enjoy some of the imunities
of public vessels. This privilege is granted aineor and Anumite soldiers. The north- the 4th inak, at Noon, and may be Gonoral Cameron was born on the 16th to cable them to keep up the regular een wall faces to a public market, whors aro
Wednesday, expacked here on or about
October, 1827, and is now, therefore, fifty. mail-service which they have contracted to also found a number of dwelling houses. the 11th instant.
He oramencod bis koop up under the direct control of their re- The next AMERICAN MAIL, per the P. M. oven years of age,
spectiva States. These immunities have
At the south-east cornoz a hill rises to about B. S. Co.'s steamer Olty of Piling, loft military career in May, 184, when he regard tu exemption from arrest or detent forty or fifty worse in height, fanked by a
to other facilities Yokohama on Thursday, the 5th inst.. and may be expected hero on or Joined the famous Black Watch' as an tion of the VR with regard to fiscal pagoda pretty aituated and commanding
granted, especially
De Fostal conventions. the citadel. It is there that the mandarina tresties Dr about Wednesday next, the 21th in ensign. Threo years later he was trans-
ferred to the Grenadier Guards, and In all other respects mail-bonts have no
In July. 1863, i pointed lieutenant, obtained & captaincy in the Geards, and remained in them until the 20th March, 1857, when he was removed to the 40th foot, now called the Barkshire Regimont.' Ho wa gazetted a brevet Major on the 24th April, 180, and received his full Majority on the 23rd October, 1857, whon
*stant.
matters, by
1
CORRESPONDENCE.
A PROPOSAL
not.
The S. S. Wingsang left Singapore for while serving with them, he was a mora privileges this any other private or mout to celebrate to public sacrifice. The tion hers, yet I regret to and flint it is month of August, and we have the evidence. able. Atter a brief struggle, which the
this part on the 30th ult. The O, S. S. Co.'s steamer Agamemnon, from Liverpool, left Singapura for this port on the 30th ult
THE Vury Rov. Julian Tenison-Wooda -will preach in St. Josepli's Church on Sun
day morning next, at 9 o'clock.
merebant vessel, to wluch class they be-west gato is blocked-up with a pile of stone long unless it be expressly stipulated other and earth, completely filling up the archway, wise by treaty.
The citadel is inhabited by the Governor, (a Tuan-phu) a Quan-bo, a Gunn-an, and a Lab-binka, bovides two other oflicers (Bam- bien) charged with maintaining the rela tions with the Chinese military authorities represented by the chief of a detachment
Tur. Shanghai Courier hears that a foreign bank has been established in Poking, the chief promoters being Mesars Jardine, Matheson and Co., who have received the support of the Chinese Government,
Hud would hold mo responsible; the more 8th of August, and on the following day the riority in arms, tactics and organisation, Turke has been zopo discussion hore na
so as your passport states that Lang-son is plaintiffs requested the defendant to insert but never despaired of being able to wear to be the end of your journey," I answered the word "Bexse between Sunder and out their ousing. The Hollandera found to whether or no the steamers of the Mos
him that if he liked I would take all respousi- cartridges, an that was the kind of goods that, though the Chinees were greatly in- sagories Maritimo Company should be re-
bility upon myself by informing him in writ bargained for. The defendant inseriad the ferior in warfare, their forces increased. garded as 'public vessels and treated on
ing of my wish to extend my journoy beyond word as required. He states, hawever, steadily in numbers the longer the opera- tlio same footing as the Fronela mun-of-war
the range of the passport, and without escort, that he told the broker that he was put suretions were protracted, and therefore became contenting
more and mere anxious to come to turme. daring the present trouble. The following
The citadel of Langson forma a span of Even in this case, he said, he could int lab the 11th August, just two days afterwards, 4 compromise was offered by the Chinese
ng myself simply with a guide whether these could be obtained. But on extract from Mr Ferguson's Massal of Frendly 400 metres to the side. It has nel-me got gift without escort ; such was the the defendant entered into another similar and accepted, whereby the Dizich ware to
rulo ternational Law, now being published, doals ther moat nor bastions. The outer wall, would see the Chinoso chief whose soldierment in writing with another party for ecoupy Formosa, to which the Chinese
He assured to, howaror, that ha
tho supply of a very much larger quantity to have had neither claim nor
title. The throo matres in height, ard built of brick and ardelite-route, and request him to give of the mme description of goods, in-1 Datoh wont to Taiwan in 1624, where they
orders to insure my safety.
dependently of the rule of law against found several Japanese trading settlements. admitting evidence to alter or very a writton The Spaniards established themselves "BOOR contract, it acerns to me that the sale of the siler ic
The stronghold at Keelung, Boxer cartridgos was inade, without Dutala at
at Arat confined themselves to com condition, as they are the cheapest kind mergial operations around thrir fort at Toi- mado, and To the Editor of the 'Cirina Mata.'
the defendant anticipated van, but soon came into collision with tho no difficulty: On the 21st August the Japanese, the quarrel with whom was ur- Hongkong, 6th Fub. 1885.
Jesuition policy comprising Sr,-As an important point in the odu plaintiffs were informed by the defendant ranged by a
two abject nets,the surrender to Japan of cation of the youth of this Colony remains that the contract would not be car- overlooked, I hope I may be allowed the ried out. The plaintiff, however, according their Governor who had seized two Japanese to the defendant's own account of it, insist- junks, and the suppression of the tokening medium of your valuable columns to drewed on the fulfilment of the agreement, and of Christianity in Forest, the conveits to attention to it
Though gratified to observe the impulse the defendant had up to the 8th of Novem which were than being perssouted by the which is being given to the cause of educa of the kind wandel ingreased from the with the Spaniards was from the first inevit ber to perform it. The price of cartridges Japanese in their own country -Conflict
directed in a way from which fasting bo- nefits might be rasped. Considering the of ones the plaintiffs that he bought the Spanish commandero could not molatain
stao kind at the end of September at 89 owing to want of support, the Dutch be tender age at which school-boys are enploy-
por 100; alno at $2.00 per 100 at the same masters of the three strongholda or ed cro, generally at sixtoons or seront no beginning of October, and at 22 it the end Fordesa, Koelnrg, Tamsui, and Taiwan. and the elementary instruction imparted to
of December. The evidence of Mr Alfred 3. The Dutch exceeded in establishing Jackson, who has special knowledge of the themselves in Formera without any great them, it can hardly he doubted that, when their short anhool-days are over, much ra- majus to be done in order to complete act, in, that the cost of a quantity of expenditaro of men or money owing to the about 200,000 cartridges of the Boxer kind disorder in the Chinese empire consent on their education. Under the present Rye tour towever, they are-at-listage left was about $1.80 per 100 at the beginning civil war and foreign invasion. Only small as if they were perfectly educated. Then
ZA the price ut which they
found by tho Ďatch on their arrival, scat- could have been bought an the attored köre and there along the westcen their dovoloping winds, and though many
insur-
nur tilf has fixed to estimate the damage to escape the horrors of war, Thoes formed next. English mail; and we may add that shegiment. While in this regiment he was capable of being employed in propelling village about twenty minutes journcy are inclinod to do so at leisure, the inade October, and is the figure which the plain-mast, who had crossed from the mainland
literary encour- will be much missed by all who have had the promoted to be a Lieat. Colonel on April tricycles, &c., if the rider does not mind from ile citadel, from which is is so quate means at their antpoolt present The defendant seems to have got hold the nucleus of the 2 or 3 millions of Thin
of a strange notion of the construction to be now in Formona, who, having first settled the agent cimployed-gun-cotton. The parated by the river Song-Ki-eng. This
hour pleasure of knowing her.
in life's General on the 25th June, 1875, and, in į this substance, something after tho mouner place is situated upon a plain which forms therefore, th them. It is not alrange, placed on his contract. He says that the on the plain, have steadily carried on the
power is produced by minute explosions of
a largo tasin in the middle of the surround spring-time, which might otherwise be use words in his contract. The goods to arrive preoces of pressing onwards and driving within 2 to 3 month from to day, or this con back the aborigines into their Rouullin in a gas-engine.
ing mountains, and which, in covered with fully employed, is lost in dissipation. That out to be null and void stimuld be con- forests. The Chiceso settlers at first de-
some adequate menus of self-culture should The Singapore Free Press learns that the rice ields and villages similar to those of be afforded them is apparently of the almost strued in his favor, for that the goods not cepted gladly the Dutch rule, but owing to
having
arrived at all, he is not liable for various reasons became unfriendly, then Grst prize in the Manila Lottery for De- the delta. The crust of the encircling importance. cember has falion to Mr. W. Shop. mountains are easy of accuss Rud from their modern city is indeed the facility with upon. It was argued that, this contract blow to the Dutch rule, which had been One of the principal features of a great my damage, because in that event the con bitterly opposed to the Dutch, and oven- trast is null and void and cannot be aned tually enabled Koxinga to deal the death. person, a travelling agent for a London summits every detail of the interior of the which these means are procurable in a li firm of chemists. He bunght four tickets citadel can be dietinelly seen. The latter brary or athenaum which, while ennobling should be considered like a bot of contracte maintained throughout by means of con-
the city with architectural
holds. certain strongho in Japan when he was travelling there, and
adorn the youthful explo, the agreement to sell "; to arrive a particular ship, and
4. The reasons for the Dutch downtall' & Co., of Batavia, a very useful catalogue body; and in 1875, he commanded the one of them, No. 17,704, is the winner of could never resist for a single hour the fire much slao te ennoble and ncies, tend where & conditional sale iskes place, as for sidetable garrisons established in their three
the first prize of $50,000. He is now of good artillery, which could operate from muda with their laterury treasures. Though guilher o ship or the goous arrive. were:-
I. Divided counsels and vacillation; the a distance 500 metres, et the same time au emporium, Longkong is in this respect Several of these cases word cited. The dra quite an insignificant place, for it does not
It tract which was made is of a very different incapacity of the governing body at Batarin
kind.
The sale was made out and out to greep the real state of the situation, ogue may be bad on application to the command in the ordinary routine in March As the steamer Stentor was going to the commanding the village of Ki-luu, two kilo afford similar educational advantages.
metres distant and which is the central may be said that the City Hall Inbrary of certain specific things, and tile time for though, falle farmaci by exceptionally
answers the purpose, hat only those who of position of the Chinese regulars who are have not seen there will any go. No modern delivery here was warranted to be not later able and strong Governors; their disinclina
to expend
money charged with the defence of Laug-son books are there-almost all being incouthan three months. The defendant could tion te
plete, second-hand volumos which might have insisted on the plaintill icing the fences and navy, precisely the same causes. up till the end of three months; and which brought about the downfall of the against the reis
of the seventeenth century, but which are
contract as rescinded on the 21st. August, II. The injudicious system of government age. Nor is there represented there a which are sculptured round the sides nua-branch of modern literature which anho could aut fulfil it, they did not choose of the people, coding in turning then inte the bars of religious, statues. The entrance to doubtedly exercises considerable influence to do so, but tronted it as subsisting, and active enemies, who, siding with Koxinga one of these grottoes, which is in the side on education-respectable journals. Only waited til the end of the term. It may be expelled the Dutch after an occupation of
stale local newspapers are laid on the hard on the defendant that his agents some 46 of the hill, is twenty instres underground, ble, the current ones being reserved by done, but a bargain is a bargain, and the Forzzess the teaching of Christianity, in ot
should have acted as
as be they have III. The policy adopted of suppressing it One obtains an entrance to the cave by the stumdant for his exclusive use. Tot plaintifs are entitled to the benefit of it, as der to secure and maintain trade with lupan, macans of steps which are practicablo to the provided with was, the care they would have had to bear the loss if the thus retarding the progress of education,
The on war
wouk days at the time when young sleeks
I therefore give jodg and giving the untives a poor opinion of thei ative ponies, which are not shod.
can possibly have somo leisure, and it is market had fallen.
standard of morality. inhabitants of the grottoes are a priest, or wholly so on Sundays. The few visitors, ant for the plaintiffs, with custs.
As to the oth C5
other
(that brought by mainly benchcombers and little schoolboys, Grossmau against the plaintifa for tion and rule wore: fret, the arrival of small are almost daily disappointed as not finding $157.57 as balance of necount due), the communities of fugitive Chinese settlers; bonze, and a number of bats.
Lang-son and its environs is healthy;
Mas Marsh will leave koro for horas in the 16 joined the 4th fook, or Tancaster Ro. A SMALI. motor has just becu brought ont, of Imperial troops quartered at Ki-lun, 15 the most favourable time to cultivate Ovember. This is the lowest figura colonies of fugitive Chiuso settlers were
Tas trusport Bichon, says the Saigenais, has arrived at Saigon, from Tunquin, with ont passengers, and will shortly leave for France, with 258 Asiatic convicts, who are to be transported to the Colony of Guiana.
Ws have received from Mere G. Kolff
of books pablished by the Government of Netherlands India. Copics of this catal-
Menara Koli!.
lat, 1873.
He was created "a Major
October of the same year, he was appointed Briandier-General at Aldershot, From the 7th August until the 31st October 55, he was Major in the British German Legion, and from 10th Nov. of the auno your until the 31st Nov. of the following year, he was Liout.-Colonel of the esme
Infantry Brigade at Gibraltar.
Licut.-General Sargont rotives from his
next, and, we believe, he and his family will take their departure for home, about the end of that month, in the P. & eteamer (Tus. During his stay hore he
travelling in Java.
Tanjong Pagar Wharf at Singapore, about 1 pm. on the 19th uit, she min' down a tongkang laden with can just about op posite the Borneo Company's Wharf. The
mountable abatacles. agement
many on
where
on their colonial, de-
In front of the South gate aro iwo large have been interesting to an old gentleman though the plaintifs might have treated the Spanish 'aupre.oney in the East, has, beou.xpceived with the greatest satin. all clades, and his acts have repeated wharf. The Master Auendant, upon being grottoes in the rock, in the interior of not so to a young scholar in this enlightened when the defendant gave them notice that which did not aim at securing the goodwil
GENERAL Briera do L'Isle is shortly, ac cording to the drear du Tonkin, to be promoted to the rank of Guneral of Divi. alon. The news of their chiefs promotion a tiago himself extremely popular with saved themselves by swimming to the informed of the case, cont divers are the receiving cargo boas Bruni to raise the coal and remove the tongkang from channel. Free Press↓
faction by the military and sivil Fronohy shown that he has tried his utmost to furor the best intervals of the colony. He population of Tonquin,
han hear equally popular with the garrison, THE B. 9. Jan Feble, with mails &e., from the eficiency of which as regards discipline San Francisco to Donember 1901, arrived at and drill is undoubtedly admirable. The Yokohama on the 5th instant, and wilt opture of Mrs Sargont and her daught Lors will be greatly regretted by the foreign for this port to-morrow. No further in- formation regarding the Sax Fable haaleenmmunity generally. Their sociableress and affability have won for them golden opinions from all with whom they have
received by the Agent than that contained ''in the above announcement. It is supposed by the agent that the steamer had not re turned to San Francisco after all. It is now
ported to have loft Bar-Francisco.
Rumors have been lying about-to-day to the effect that severe fighting had taken place between the French and Chinese forces
como li aontact,
ANOTHER now explosivo. This time its oponent parts are derived from common cual-tar. The product je sinted to be a powerful and safe explosive for inining par on the Langsou read, and that some two At the time this intelligence reached Lordoso, or even firearms. It possesses the hundred French wounded had arrived at Wolseley, the coinmander of the advanced Bare density as gunpowder, and is very Hanel Wo have boon unable to find any force of the British expedition must have cheaply manufactured, the elements en tering into its composition being altpetre, foundation for the report la say telegrains bien exposting daily to have the plenanre of shtyrate of potash, and a solzil hydrocarbon, received in the Colony, but, as our corres- taking General Gordon by the hand. The such as pitch or asphaltum. The solid ingredients are powdered, and the mass is pondont stated in has last latter, an advanen British troops had reached the banks of the then treated with a liquid hydrocarbon, was expected shortly, it is possible that Nile, one hundred miles below Khartoum, such as benzina ur gasoline. there is some foundation for the report.
aftortheir arch across the desert, and on the 24th of last month Colonel Wilson, the head H.K. SHAN-CHING, Tartar Generalissimo We hear that Captain Thomasett, our worthy of the Intelligence Department, is stated of the Banner and Green Corps in Chinli, Harbour Master, will leave here for Eng. to have left for Khartoum.
has been ordered by Imperial Decroo to
the country is rich in rice, cotton, and, above all in anise seed oft, a product which
Police Intelligence. (Before H. E. Wodehouse, Esg.) Friday, Feb. 6.
VERTO
5. The chief steps in the Chinese coloniza-
News couches us from the rerth that Bir Kinder, formerly of the Kniping minos, las been appointed chief engineer of a railway to be constructed between Teking and Si- shone mining coutro fill miles west of the capital. The construction of this line, as understand, is not approved by Mr Kinder,
to attend to them. an introduction of railways into China, wo
anybody
So far this institution has not received
claim is admitted and has been paid into second, the rule of Kerings and his son but, Prince Chuu has determined to make
costs.
proper. The isolated position of the island. it, as it is one of his pet Achants,
much attention. Nor is it strange that the Court, but there was no need to bring the and grandson; third, tao Chinese cuis Mr Dennys, of Messrs Denuys and and the absence of inland communications The plant for the line has already gone merits partionlar attention. The population Gover yet done su little for it. Laction, and I make no order as i
that but a few years ago the Mossop, apparel for foi Hai Young and led to the semi-independence of the local 48 days since the date on which she is fe- Ir is distressing to learn that, when the nortli, at lunet so var correspondent says.is very hospitable, but the trice of Chinese Colony had not as at present so many others, and Mr Wotion, of Messrs Wollen officials, which here, as elsewhere in Chiou,
foreign youths prosecuting their studios. rescue of General Gordon was apparently Shanghai Curler.
is already noticealdo. The dress of tho
Τα the absence of the advantages derivable and Douron, represented Messrs Grossmunn meant misrule, oppression, discontent, and
frequent rebellions. The only noticeable within measurable distance, news was
from a high-class education, it would indeed & Co. natives is no longer similar to that worn in
provement in the administration has come the provinces of the basin of the Red River, bo a boon if the Government, se praise-
with each of the occasional 'scures, nut- received that Khartoum had been captured
it is a mixture of Chinese and Tongkinese.worthily elicious about educational al-
ably the Japanese expedition in 1874, ture, should provide this instituken with a and that General Gordon was believed to
and the threatened action of Itussie in 1579, be a prisoner in the hands of the Mahdi.
In all the villages there are a great number complete collection of the ancient and
The toare over, nothing more was done till the of half-breeds, the Chinese merchants, withoudern classics, some good works of refor-
bave tew London
next one. The Chinese not yet ense, the local pupera," and
The cases before the Gourt this morning
and, tempted the development of the , dependient as it mist be upon the im- very few exceptions, having espoused native onts, such as the Times, the Illustrat d wives. Many of these traders ordinarily London Nests, and the Gruphic. Financial live at Buroi, only coming to Lang-son rawns might perhaps discountcuando this La Ali, cook, was sentenced to six manisations, a most expensive and dificult this were particularly devoid of general interest, provement of the harbours and inland com- useful project, but if the runterial improve- once or twice a year to obtain from their ruent and onbellishment of the colony are months hard labour for snatching a pair of taak, owing to the physical difliculties wives an account of the funds left in zealonely and liborally looked atter, much earrings from a woman named Tung Alai, and the bad climate.
while she was chin-chining joss in the 6. The permanent occupation of the their bands, and which they should employ more so should be those of the minds of
youthful inhabitants. Such a library would Man-mo temple. Lau Atung, a crolie, who island, which was diffionit 250 years ago, was charged on the 1th ist. with atualing is less easy to-day, when the Chiness pope- for their joint benefit in the trade in opiumioubtedly benefit and stimulate the stu- from Kwing-st, oil, medecines, etc. There diuus youths more than the scholarships do. $10.note from one Yang Akwai, while the lation has so largely increased, and the ruto. There are now in the colony too many latter was purchasing an umbrella in the of the Imperial Government has been oon-
Queen's Road Weat, was sent to do three siderably strengthened, To Bcholarships.
would heOPM The competition
10 occupy ard harder, and the success
Be to the
impecutio is tailor named profuse. As to
mitted a charge of stealing cong ad- would necessitate the maintenance of strong
clothing worth Home it in to ba
Woli-
gurrians in an unhealthy olímute, and the Bone Scholarship, to scheiber, unless $16, from a tailor's shop, excusing himsel stationing of a considerable feet on a const he be a prodigy, can, in the allotted upon the ground that he was in difficulties notorious for its inclement weather.
and wanted to get to Canton. He was sent 7. The lessons for England are: (a) the four years, become a competent
interests and feelings, time of only
colonial other Scholarships, neither upon hun, amounting to $2.80, was handed previation of ing the many
(b) the danger of divided counsels and voil- Victoria
nor St. Joseph's College is yet in over to the complainant in the cas a position to produce candidates worthy of William Welsh, a gunner in the Royallation, (c) the necessity to safeguard ils ply Artillery, was charged with asanlting a interests and trade supremacy by colonial valuable gifts. The training is simply butcher named Chan Ayung, and also the defences and naval forces, (d) the
not
danger itpolicu, on the 5th inst. According to of 'soares,' with their hurried, ill-considered complainant's statement the gunner went preparations, bardly commenced before into the Wanchai Market after 4p. getramored.
and bargained with him for the In the consideration of these pointa there.
"balleek's tongu2
Dom is ample food for reflection for every Eng÷
A. R. ColanHÇÜN.
It was 35-
is sensible difference between the native raco hers and that of the delta. The
land by the last rail in March, in the sumed that Oolonel Wilson started for place some 16,000 men at strategic points, features of the mountaincers are more. honours were less Cer, if the months' hund labour in Victoria gaol. An bring the island under effective control
▾
steamer Chausen, for a holiday. During his Khartouta from Metarameh, which, accord. absence, Captain Rumsey (the Assistant ing to the previous day's telegrams, is Harbour Maator) will, of course, act as been captured, but lator advises informed us that Metammeh was still held by the
Khartoum there will be some doubt as to fato, especially if he successed in rauch
Harbour Master.
commencing from Pa-li-ki, track, the complarian is darker and chow, to the boundary lines of the pre- fecture of Tientsin. From this Just point their muscular strength is much greater, to the sea coast it
presumed that Li Chung-tang has received orders to sou to but their character is equally gentle and their proper defences. Tho Arautal has machine guns, four of which have been sent to Tatar General Shan. Ch'ing's corpa az Tungshow, and the rest to Shou Hai Kuan,
It is also said that Mr. Instica Russell rebols. If Colonel Wilson did leave for turned out 20 farge calibred home- they do not appear to be much more war. Jawyer, physician or civil engineer. Regard-UP for six weeks and the money found valua of information regarding and true ap-
goes home on leave by the same mail. We have not yet heard who will act as Paisse Judge during Mr Russell's absence;
ing the place.
The nows" is doubly” serious because it
-Courier:
uut only indicates that General Gordon is W (Singapore Free Press) has there is prisoner, or has been killed, but it also no truth in the rumour that there are affords grounds for assuming that the further disturbances in Bruna. The gun- difficulties in the way of the expedition bout Fadhound has gone thore, in nocort- ance, we believe, with a request of Gover- have been very considerably increased.
nor Treacher, but it was only a precau
few
like in temperament.
There are silver mines near Lang-and even thus tho hoys do i
A SKETCH OF FORMOSA.
Publications.
If this proposal should meet the approval
The following is the concluding chapter of of our kind promoters of education, the the article on Fermoss (by Messrs Colquhon hrary
management different from those of
J. H, STEWART-LOCKHARE,
CRIVA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
AT 4 P, M.-FZERIAZY 5.
Station.
REGISTER.
Wind
E
NE
but they are not worked, if 1 am to believe those who informed me. I used every seem to he efficient. About a year ago
ol boy was endeavour at different times during the chanced that a Central School
asked the
meaning of the word Commerce. Tax thieves are still engaged in larying
oight days which I spont in the sitedol to To the as-orishment of all present, he did purcha a dba their new year exactions upon the house
get conducted over these argentiferus not know it, and when told to guess, said holders on the upper levi's, and people are
lands but found it impossible to induce the after much hesitation that it is the beach plainant to burn the price was thirty izabrand in the Colonies or Mother Country- where judges sit upen." And yet he was cents, whereupon defendant took up the quadarins to grant my desire.
Would it not be tongue and flipped it against complainant's then in the highest class. at a loss to discover why the Police are so far at sea in preventing the persistant sue-
The merchants themselves gave me little beter if money tlius squandered is scholar faco, P. C. 328, Muk Yat Chan, saw the blic incident and spoke to the defcidant and were spent in organising a public | cess of the raiders. That the heavily-Khartoum will now have to be cap-onary measure, and there is no actual assistance in my exquirios on this subject, fhrary, benefiting pupils, generally instead tried to arrest him, receiving one or two hooted Sikh should over get a chance of tured by the British troops, who are disturbance going on, and it is likely that and that with great unwillingness. I was of individually? By so doing not only the blows in the attempt.
Defendant stated that he was drunk and sotnal but also the former pajila of Choro catching the light-fingered and nimble not properly equipped for laying zitge none may happen. The Curacon only went obligel to be content with the most megstitutions would improve. Victoria and did not know what occurred. Lo was fined
and returned in footed thief, is intelligible enough; for you to any important stronghold. To take put hours, and did not leave for Borneo, information upon this interesting question, soph's Colleges could not do better 52 for assaulting the butcher and $3 for can hear the tread of the gallant Punjabes say fortified position by storm, Lord as our contemporary stated. The Fox-but it is very certain that if these mines than ask from the donors permission to lay reaisting the constable. half a mile of But the Pelics Forca com- Wolseley's troops would have to abandon, hound would not have been sent, as she
library with important future prises other elements than that from the in some measure, the square formation, was homeward-bound, but no other ship wore not worked by the Chinese, to whom aside a scholarship each to supply the
could be spared front the station, and the Annamites could not refuse the entry, Punjab; and the small success of the force which is so offective in resisting the attacks when she arrived here she found orders. I should not have encountered the same
Bolinao... Manila... 29.05 80.661 in this matter is becoming a little note of overwhelming hordes of savages, and in from the Admiral to go to Boruco.
difficulties in obtaining access to them.
As soon na I had depositod my baggage in have to be under regulations and Stewart-Lockchart) which appears in the Haighong, 20.0761.478 worthy, Fecble sentences passed by the Khartoum the Mahdi has now probably
Hongkong 29.058 09.099; Magistrates on known bad characters, massed at least fifteen thousand of his As important piece of news sppears in
Ainoy...... 30.0155.0.87 the house of the Quan-an I went to pay the actual one, or the youths, principally latest issue of the Chic Review :—
To sum up briefly, the most important facts Shanghai, 30.1149.582 EXE however impolitic, ought not to prevent fallowers, ready to rush upon any force the Shin Pu from Peking. Tang Chung, visit to the Governor of Lang-son, who re
Nagasaki 30.17H the Police from capturing native burglars,
1. Formoss was practically a terra inca. W stook 30.12 5.9- which may attempt the captors of the place. ex Governor of Yunnan, and Heü Yen-beü, Even at Metammeh the advanced columna ex-Gerorner of Kuangsi, have both bean ceived me, I must say, most aftably. At
AT 10 AM---FEDNUARY 6. On the 22nd January last the Central Pri- of the British soom to have found it sontonred to decapitation after the autumn first sight the expression of this mandarin the new ons would render unnecessary. it until 250 years ago, although its sol-
ting manner, viz. the loan returned to to the Chinges on the mainland. The Chi. Bolinao... son at Saigon was completely destroyed by advisable, or necessary, to wait for reinassizes for having permitted the loss of appeared to me hard and disagreeable but might than be disposed of in the most fit-ence was known to western navigators and
The Go- the owners, and the donations generously nose records are nearly valueless, while the Manila... 20.0776.71 www. Bacinah; Li Hung-chang, Tao Tsung-tang, this impression soon vanished. fire, nothing being left of it but a portion forecmbuts. One noteworthy feature of and Tiug Foo-chen, who interceded on vernor, or Tuan phu, he is called, is a and beneficially prescuted to the Naval, Dutch reports are greatly inferior to ituse Haiphong 30.01.08wsw
Military and Police Forces, the Temperance on Japan drawn up by the satent destors Hongkong 30.01.00.020 of the central tower. The fire was discov this new position is that there can no their behalf, have been handed over to the man of shout forty-eight youa old. He is Hail, and the Sailor Home after reserv of the Dutch East India Company. Most Amoy. 20.0155.004
Board for the determination of a penalty ered about 8.20 p.ra. in that part of the longer be an Beyptian garrison to rescue while Tu Trang-yin and Chang Chih-tung, entrusted, under the orders of the Tang-dosing a for rare volumes for the new library, of our information regarding the island in Shanghai 30.11.03NG
Nagasaki, 30,0 building which borders the Capa St. James' at Khartoum, as well as a British General who recommended tha to the notice of of Bac-rinh, with the administration of the Which might be hippily called the Victoria the result of the journeys and observations Wlastock (30.19 20-N
Atheneum
made by missionaries, merchants and offi- road, and it was not long before the fire Most of the Egyptian troops there, hew. His Majesty, are to the tried for the offence
The good which might thus be gathered cials who have been resident in the island The barometer yesterday continued to over, showed themselves to be such arrant
may be better imagined than excribed, since 1660, when the Treaty of Tientsic fall along the Coast, but the fall is now checked. The temperature has risen, the The inhabitants of the uity, the seamen cowards, that they hardly deserved to be
and I conclude here thanking you for the threw open the ports to foreign trade.
2. At the commencement of the seven humidity remains high add - the weather is insortion of this in your valuable columns. from the man-of-war, Chinese and natives, rescued, at any rate by a costly British
DOOKWORM. tacuth century the whole Eastern trade overcast along the count.
was in the birds of the Portuguese and
W. DOESHOE, all displayed the greatest eagerness to ron-expedition. It is strange that treachery
Spaniards, their respective bases for trar,
Government Astronomer, der assistance in the emergency, but the should have led to the fall of the place at
tag and military operations in the Chan
Hongkong Observatory, February 5. want of more pumpa and farlders, enngled the eleventh hour, when the garrison must
Maquo and
and Manils. The aeus being
had recently recovered their in
ortonded to the rest of the edifice.
Poilun is.
A severe penalty is to be passed upon Chên provinces of Lang-on and of Cao-bang, of Pao-chen, Assistant Commissioner for the which the local governor is only of therank Dafence of Southern Ports; while Chong of Qusa-bp. The Tuan-phu came originally
degraded and su zummarily moned to Peking t
to answer the charges of from Hanot, where he had soen Europeans cowardice brought against him in conpec- before he returned the last time to Lang son, tion with the bombardment of Pagoda An- of which he has twice been Governor...
The Decres in which those o chorage.
orders
He asked me, at the beginning of our with the published concludes
former Grand Co intima-
those who an employed, would be unable to enjoy the blessings derivable from it; elicited are the following:
and the present collection of books, which
SUPREME COURT.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
Friday, February 8.
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with the small supply of wator, rendered it have well known that the raising of the tion that as the ferug Councillors, vonvocation, if I Letended to continue my (Before the Hon. J. Russell, Puians Fredge in Europe, having established their best, and to the level of theses in inches, tenib
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impossible to successfully withstand the siego had becoms only a question of Prince
have journey or to return to Hanoi. I sold him sus ad auficient punishment, already
they
East India Company, determined to secu spread of the terrible comflagration. days. Only widespread treachery is likely are to be exempted from further expresion that I purposed going as far us, the frontier Bor TAX TIUNG AND OTHERS & GOSSAS for themselves this trade, and commensed z struggle for supremacy in the Eastern The saving of the prisoners was affected to have had such disastrous results. It is very of the Imperial displeasure. The sentence of Chins, only a few hours travel from with great presence of mind and coolness likely that the Maldi will now remote Geapon Trang Ching is, there is reason to Lang-son. He offered few objections to this CROSSMANN & CO. v. HOI SAT TTUNG AND 1995 They besieged Harao, and, being re- hope, of a formal nature, and will not in little trip, but was frightened at the isles I
pulsed, seized upon a strategic point of by the Dirsotor and guards of the prison.neral Gordon, if he be a prisoner, from place prom The ex-Governor of Yannan is an afterwards expressed of proceeding to Cao
great value, namely the Pescudares, and be cancelled at the autumn re- probably
Hi Lordship delivered the following built there a stronghold. To this the Chinese There was not a singlo casualty to report. to place in the Soudan, and thus leadcellent, trustworthy, and able offer, hang," "The route 'most dangerous, he judgment this morning :-The plaintifs objected. Negotiations were entered into, Seale.
The loss is estimated at $60,000. The the British troops a pretty dance after him.
and his decapitation would amount to little
elain on a contract entered into on the 8th broken ctf, and resulted in reprisale alang origin of the fire is not yet known for certain, As there is now no garrison to rescue, pos less than fudicial inder. As for Chang said, there are brigands and tigers to be of August inst, in which the defendant the Cains coast, followed again by further contracted to supply 200,000 bozar Suider negotiations and reprisals, much in the but it is believed to have been caused by jsibly negotiations for the release of Gordon / P'ei-u, who is an offonave and cowardly feared; the road in most difficult to traverse cartridges within two to three months from samo manner, that the Frenca operations | qeqasily, "rain, » snow, ‡ thunder, visibility
braggert, we trust he will be made another on foot or on horseback. If you the date of the contract. It appears that have for some time past heen aarried on some convicts who were shortly to be sent may be the best means for putting an end to Ample of His country would wet ou quit should meet with any accident the Court of the contract was reduced to writing on the The Chingas at lest disapeared their infa.
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to Cayenne,
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