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Messrs. James Allen (author of All These Things Added, etc.), E. H. Seppings, and others, includ- ing, of course, the Editor himself, who has several articles. "Notes and News and "As Others See Us." a discussion on reviews of the first number of Buddhism, are very readable. The only thing to be regretted is the absence any translations from the Pali in the present number; though Mr. Maung Kin's Legend of Upagutta," from a Burmese translation of a Pali tale, is very interesting.
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The illustrations are capitally reproduced. as in the first number. They include portrait of the Thathanabaing and a scene at the Durbar when he was installed by Sir Hugh Barnes.
China's Business Methods and Policy. By T. R. JERNIGAN, Hongkong and Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh.
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subject will certainly commend themselves to finches in diameter there is no lack of bloom. readers in China familiar with the conditions The general colour of the flowers reminds one and the advantages of an efficient consular of peach-blossom, but the lower petal is varionsly service.
marked with purple and yellow. To show how The subject of missionary effort in China, to this tree revels in producing flowers we may which the author devotes a chapter, is one which say that seedlings raised from seeds sown at the usually creates a controversy, but the critic will end of last June are now in flower. The species not find much in the chapter to dispate. When, has been known in Europa for more than two however, Mr. Jernigan says that the opinion | hundred that would exclude missionaries from China, or that which discredits their work, cannot d ny numerous to mention in these short notes, com- There are many other trees and shrubs, too the right of missionaries to reside in China and ing into flower, but we must not forget to say a pursue their profession," it is open to the oppon-word or two about the big masses of Narcissus ents of missionary enterprise to retort that this now in flower near the Bandstand and under the night of missionaries to reside in China and Erythrina at the oud of the Grevillea walk. pursue their profession has only been regulari-ed They make a grand show, and the scent from by resent treaties; for it is a fact that inland them is delightful. missious were carried on in China for upwards of forty years under the æg sol a very equivocal transaction when the Frauco Chinese Treaty of 1860 was negotiated. A cause was smuggled into the Chinese text ouly of the treaty. unknown even to its uominal negotiator, Barou !! Gros. The proceeding has beea deccribed us
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CANTON NOTES.
[FROM THE CHUNG NGOJ SAN PO."]
THE VICEROY.
Viceroy Shum is a man of little pomp, but Preat at work. For the most part he depreciates Fainglorieus ostentation.
Shortly before
a fraud, audacious and digitious," and this description seems to be warranted by the knowu facts. Though the recent treaties have re- gularised the proceeding, and the right of the
hina New Year he circulated a note amongst missionaries .o res.de in China can no longer be his subordinates ordering that no officer, either denied, it is equally true that there is a
ivil or military, should visit Cauton to offer
and other grounds to the exercise of that right; siderable body of option opposed on political New Year respects to him. Officers in Canton, moreover, were prohibited from spending but Mr. Jernigan is amp.y justiliei iu claiming money on bands, theatres. and like frivolities. for the missions that they are great civilising This unusual action most probably gave rise agencies, that commerce is indebted
to the effect that the missionary for many valuable markets, aud that Empress Dowager, who was reported ill some the world of literature bas benefited by the days ago, was dead. standard work on China whica missionaries bave producsd.
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A FIRE AT TONG-U-LAN.
A disastrous fire broke out in Tong-U-Lan,
The
At some time or other, especially at the commencement of his career in China, the commercial man must have experienced the need of a volume giving in a comprehensive manner an account of the business methods which obsiu among the Chinese, and M. Jernigan, who for some years held the post of Consul-general for the United States at Shanghai, has, in writing such a volume, rendered a service for which many will doubtless be grateful to him. The old China band may not perhaps find in the book much that he does not already know aboufrth administrative system, land tenure, soure-s of revenue. interior trade routes, the guilds, banks, the tread of commerce in China, and various other branches of the subject to which the author devotes separate chapters, but even for such readers the author's ..men's on the policy of China and the commercial riv dry of the Western nations in Gun cannot fii to possE58 on the whole the book is one which wilWest Canton, at 5 o'clock on the morning of some attraction. In addition to the subjects just serve a useful purpose and should command &
the 24th inst. It originated in a dyeing enumerated, the book contains chapters on the good side.
stablishment in Ha-Chan-Tong Street. 'The judicial system of China. the Imperial
flames spread rapidly, there being no hose Household, family law, the educational
connection in the vicinity, and wells near system, extraterritoriality, the Consular system.
by for the most part being dry. Ou an alarm and 00 missionaries. A special chapter is devoted to the administration of Shanghai. staged The Belle of New York the play they could, but the streets were so narrow and On the 2nd inst., at the Theatre, this Company fire engines hurried to render what assistance being given native brigades and the Shameen This enumeration, which is still incomplete, which had suen a successful run at the Duke of crowded that their progress was much delayed. sufficiently indicates that in the space of about
York's Theatre in London. 450 piges Mr. Jeruigau has given a comprehen- seemed much more at home in this production plundring wherever "openings "made by the The Company Thieves and vagabouds took the opportunity of sive digest of information with which it is than in the preceding comedy. The Runway excitement of the moment permitted. desirable, if not essential, that the foreign | G.rf, and the audience testified their approval by sceus of fire was a densely-populated neigh. resideat in China should make himself familiar. ; repeated calls for
Beyond saying that the information appears; Kuight, who has earned a well-deserved popu- [there were several rambling and eating-houses, Encores, Mr. Percival hourkood, frequented by the lower class, where to be accurate as well as terse, there is little larity during his stay here, was very amusing and brothels. Owners of the latter were seen else that need be said in a review as regards the chapters which describe the facts of Chinese Cigarette zociety, and Miss Alice Wade, who by ropes, fearing that they might be stolen in the character of the President of an Anti-dragging hand-tied women along the street law, customs, and business arrangements! enthetically, however, we are curious to know, credit, but her
"ar-, undertook the title-rile, filled the part with and re-sold to other keepers. Nearly all build- whether in the chapter ou the Imperial Huse been
#real efforts might haveings in the following streets were razed to the hold Mr. Jernigan has intentionally given
improved upon. The
of the ground: --New Tong-U-Lan, Old Tong-W- _80, Koreinga, rather than Koxings, as the name of
con any supported the central characters in a Tin-Lo-Hong, Sup-Y-Kau. Tsat-Kum, the "Sea Quelling Duke," who, refusing to
very able manner, Miss Violet Frampton, as Chan-Tong, and Chan-Tong-Nam, acknowledge the Manchu yoke in 1643, drove duet Teach me
Fi-fi, being heard to piensing advantage in the ber of houses completely gutted is estimated at the Dutch from Formosa aud constituted him-
How to Love." with Mr. jabout 350. Frank Cochrane, as self king of the island. In the chapter on the
Harry Bronson. The commercial trend, Mr. Jernigan passes а comment on the Mackay treaty to which it may be useful to draw attention. After pointing out that the trea'y is still ineffective from the absence of agreement among the Powers as to certain more or less important details, Mr. Jernigan insists
that the coming treaty with China should simply ordain that there shall be оде fax tariff, and one only, levied on imports at the port of entry, the payment of which should A very fine creeper, Beaumontia grandiflora, entitle the imported merchandise to o free trained over the deer peu entrance to the new throughout the length and breadth of the Em-garden, is now opening its flowe s When the pire, and he hopes that before an acceptable majority of the flowers are open they make one finality is arrived at in regard to "the so called of the finest floral displays to be seen at any Mackay treaty' an unmistakable agreement time in the gardens. The indivional flowers will be reached whereby the first tax on imports are white, about five inches in length, and be into China shall be the last and only burden. tween three and four inches across, shaped very In the chapter on
"Consuls and a Consul much like the white lily so common iu Hong System" Mr. Jernigan makes an appeal for kong, and are produced in cymes at the ends of the reorganisation of the United States Con- the branches. The leaves are opposite, varying sular service, and also for a higher scale of pay.in length from seven to twelve inches and about ment. He mentions that that the annual salary of the British Minister at Peking ($32,500) is more than half the total salaries of the twenty- seven diplomatic and consular officers of the United States in China. The author is fully 'justified in describing the salaries paid to the United States officials in China as meagre, and it would be unwise on the part of the United States Government to ignore the ex-Consul General' sap peal. The author's views on the
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performance will be repeated to-night.
Act, when Mr. Gaudolf › Marzillo, of the Ven- A pleasing item was introduct in the second geance, played selections on the violin, exhibit- ing considerable ability in two Fantasias by Artot aud Berint.
NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS.
PAKHOL
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(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
Pakhoi, 23rd February.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL KILLED BY
ROBBERS.
News having reached Loongmoon on the 11th instant that a band of robbers were encamped at a neighbouring village, called Sam Liang Wan, the Brigadier-General, or Loongmoon Hip-tai, immediately proceeded there at the head of an expeditionary party. On reaching the village he was informed that the miscreants. had left for the next village, called Ping Ngan. ite continued the march thither in double haste. The robbers. on the approach of the soldiers. showed a bold frout, firing on the troops with such determination that rome forty men and the Brigadier-General were killed, and the remainder of the force, being then demoralised, escaped to Yamchow. despatched to Pakhoi for assistance, and the A telegram was at once An-lan was despatched to Yamchow, with only a few available men, under the commander of the garrison here. The An lan has since Bauhinia variegata, a native of the East returned to this port after landing the few men Indies, forms a small tree and is a very conspi-at Yamchow, and confirmed the news of the cnous object when in flower. A specimen may disaster which befel the expedition. be seen on the east side of the steps just inside Brigadier-General is named Foo Kin Wan, a The the Albany entrance. The flowers are arranged native of Loongmoon, being specially appointed in small terminal corymbs, but as these are by the Viceroy of Canton as a fit man for the abundantly produced and each flower about three post only a few months ago.
half a broad. This fine creeper is a native of the Eastern Himalayas, and has been known in England for nearly a century.
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