boj, but, we are not told, and we should ha greatly surprised to learn, that he pronounced it “indubitably to bo tule, that, de anything, rise but what it obviously was—a lendon vnsket. of anciant date and ing workmanship coursining. custuin tagmentar el faneko humwa bones, together wills a beautifully white bonta: “MF, Hems's account of the matter in altogether inconsistent" and "howildering the cracket, was found, he tells Mug
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arely posillo, whilst a cousiderable reduction | upper portion of á skull, two thigh bonies, some in the torm of servico, with the colonen, would | finger bades, and a beautifully white kosili,.. distocats the system, and might fail to draw The discurora andenbtedly interesting (MECS NA rooraits in larger numbers. Still, a reduction from an wohæological point of view, hud da anot in the colour service la cortainly OBE of the it attracted ng little attention at the time. The makalifle with which we are tirastunet roliconry, was at ones inspected by Canon Sobt though Capt, Blond, does not enter upon that Robertson and Cañon Fonding, who, as the float question. He shews, too, that the Reserve, ans. of Folkoztone tells us, ““ pronounced it Indubit reached its mazintain strength and conuint be in- ably that of the Princes Danowythe --* In- erensed under the present system. That he isbitably" is good, it has the tens mediaval naturally catalogues under the head of died and hagiological ring about it... Archbishop vanlages. El also points out that the Reserve Benson, wo ure toll, was also "greatly inter- is untraired, and not be subjected to anualested in the discovery, as he naturally would training without jeopardizing the prospects of | The Reserveman in civil life. Our Reserve at tained its maximum strength (82,80% men) in 1895 bat at the, boglaning of this year it had destined to 18,057, and orlátiojol menures nen bizy resorted in in order th mainliinit of a strength of eighty thousand men. The force it inadequate, in Capt. Blend's opinina, for the
· requiremos ta of the Aring in war, and that vise is also andareed by the highest satherille. But there is no remedy, under the short service in the rubble of du "original" Norman, TE system, and this, again, is one of the most may be early 18th omtury, wall the Sorious defects of voluntary service. On the shorob, it will be observed, having been other hand, our system is not dougned to pro-founded, according to Canou Woodward, in daco a losge Army. It is tho stendy expansion 4.0.113) But, though the wall was or of the Empire, and our frequent embroglios ginal, the casket was not placed there, accord- with military Parora which have teil militrying to Mr. Hems, until many centuries, after. men ta domandu stronger "forceThe short wirde. If the monks were at the pains to service system was designed to gira ne sufficient transfer to their new church, such relies of St. recruita la food tho Amy in Jadi, to maintain Eanswytho as the Dagas had loft when they a Coloial Army of about 3000 men, and a wrecked her conved, some four conturzes after home Army which would enable us to put two her death, they would naturally enough, as Mr. army corys into the Bell with rapidity. Capt. Irms perveives, keep them for lucrativa expo Blond maintains stoutly that this ambition sition halla kaadama curinó” and not bidə has been achieved, and he is, therefore, die them away in the puddle of a wall, But the posed to be content with voluntary terrico wicked Old Noll" is conveniently brought in at least for the present. - Wo havợ zoen, to necians for tils strange deal of derkuest however, that voluntary service ayou the shart It in rocorded that in bis time many acts of service principle hos grave defects: At the | sacrilege were committed in the parish church.. present cemeat it is said that shall be The brine of St Emerythe fared as badly unable to spare two or three thousand men force the rest; the coffin was probably, torn open" The Soulan campaign íu consequens of the and rifted of any velnables it contained, and distaclause on the Indian frontier. Confront then thrust into its resting place al buit | with this fact, and with the glove of Lord up in the position recorded that is, Wolseley, a pessimist would declaro that voinning to the sama high authority, in the tary perviou had proved a failure.
vore middle of a wall, of original. Norman or Capt. Blond rightly traces the origin of com.thirteen cutury workmanship, whers no pulsory service to the French Revelation, and cufle we found, but only a lendon daskat or suggals that nothing lass the grave vettoral zolenary of insignifionat dimomstens How poril and necessity can ever be expected to lead ever such is the reasoning which sides thon to thataret min uginud. Bat with the natural who like to believe that the casket contained the loanings of a soldier, he proceeds to arges that relies of St. Ennsyyllis Now it sms to us popabery service is by no means the disadvanthat common sense, no less than a decent conso tage to a ustion which it is commonly repre-
of rarerence for the remains of the balluwod Banted to be. But there can be no question that dead would have tggested that the bones a very differant view of the onse is taken by the mass of Frenolmen and Germans, Still, traginote of the church and overed with a will be admitted that Capt. Blood argues skil. fully in defsnes of the attice of compulsion, There is rust fifßenlly fu ogtámating, even ap proximately, the amount of commercial less
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fublet or brass recording the fact of their discovery, and that the gasket should havo boon preserved as up archeological relic of great interest, but of origin and history utterly unknown. But this was not the course which
by the HONGKONG AND SHANG pulsory service. This long has been defined as commended itself to our modem haginoy Business of the above Bank is sonducted the amount of money which the troops ar gists had ears Canon Woodward," lin- HAT BANKING CORFORATION. Rules debaned from earring during service; bat ting mate of alabaster. In front of the aper may be obtained on application estinato is not accurate.
INTEREST on deposits is allowed at $4 It assumes that ture at crenwork brase grill was fastened by all men are equally producire, whereas Aeplaced when desired, and the whole in enclosed
ordizary corews; oupable of being removed and Pan Gust, por annum. Large proportion, ure flacs or axpròdnelivs from phe case or another. The conclusion Tached by brass door fastened with a Chubb's lock, by Capt. Blood is worth peeling. If the the key of which has always boen in my posse Army which a country is obliged to maintains We are not concerned to play the part can be maintained by the extatment of neer of advocatus diaboli over this very, silly busi- do wells, then the voluntary system le tbo ness. Dat such an official would have fine spurt cheaper; but if the Army as of such Bizz thot in dealing with the conflicting testimony of the Inrgo unmbers of the productive classes have to be drawn into it, then the compulsory system costs considerably be Captun Blood frankly, admits that the averago English soldier is Depredactive, and hence carder the relustare system cleaner for this country. Again, the voluntary syetem attracts the lower classes of the community, whilst compulsion bests upon
all cheser alike Hence it is, evident that
commulsion must. Improve the emoteney and disipline of any army, unless we are to allow enormans inflounce to the volunteer principle Againes l this must be considered the fact that compelson on the Conduent las led to extremely short service, while our voluntary soldiers serve for any more years at have thus a better aim to individual
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car who keeps the key, of Mr. Chapman, who as people's churchwarden at the time, and save there orgat to be no key because the so-called
is word replaced on the understanding that they were Bevor to be removed, and of hir Slingsby Stallwood, the designer of the ro liquary, who support the vicar sad buitradiola the briwarden. We need only say that such a confict of testimony about mutters of fact which occurred who twelve years ago is littla calcalated to inspire faith in the identity of the bones of a saintonly died twelve centuries ago.
Bat the most wonderful past of the whole |
stay is the tus made by the vicar of the ralis Hore, again, the conflot of testimony between Cazon Woodward and the correspondent who originally drow our attention to the matter is efficiently signilleant, but, as our correspondent Improbable as the introduction of compul seems to be a little stringent in his Protestan sion in this country appears to Le if in of lisa, we will, to avoid possible partiality, deal Bademin interest to note the probably watts only, with the facts as stated by the vicar him of such a system upon the itary strength self I am, he tells us, frequently asked to of the Empire, Captain Blood finds that it allow persons to 636 this almost unique, dis- would be easy to raise a fully-trained arms COTERY
but I feel it right, as a rule, to of:7.527,000 monilo ostimates that from decline bapt on St Eanswythe's day, 180,000 to 200,000 men would be available September 12 The strange sense of duty here for the anaval drafts into the army and invoke is scarcely less interesting paychologi that one half of this sumber might be calledcally than the original discovery of the reliquary upon to serve. He also sure the Continental is from an Ergheological point of view. Canon system of short, ervion, and than prohicca, on popor, a atanling Army and reirves of 401,000, 6 second line of 799,000; and a third line of 279,099. Nor does ha omit to posider the question of cost, although giving to definite Agaroa, It any bo assnied, no docht, that we could work the compulsory systors almost as
Woodward, 16 appesta, isso abrison that
one should be tempted to worship his pre- Dous reles that he will not even let s mere archmologist to the cabret except on St. Esas wythe's day. Then eil the world my sae, Ruuk whose chooses tang, bow-either to the altar, das
·Canon Woodward thinks they do, or to the re-
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sts amount is swelled by the contributions of the faithfel and superstitiose, come to w in bé quits sanceterial. The whole proceeding is a silly piece Every one must appreciate the fiue medieval of beluhod medievalisin, which is only not mis
retion of St Eanswy the at Folkestone, which likely to be imitated elsewhere, and, we, trast hoe latterly been appearing tu cue, columns, not rery likely to be repeated even at Folkestone, St Eanswythe was the granddaughter of King If Canon Woodward is well advised he will Ethelbert vao was couverted by St. Augustice, once make arrangementa for the decent burial Deseting herself to a life of piaty she beams of the remains, and then hand over the key of the first siater and afterwarde abbess of a Benedic reliquary to the server of bis churolt and allow tine priory Founded by her father within the him to exhibit it out of service to all who juay precincts of the old custio of Falkeatono, which | desire to inspect it. — Times,""
favour of the odifying story conegrning the shiorous spouse, being so silly, it is not of a W
The
bas long since been wrecked by the sea. origina) camlo sunil, with it the priory was, it di Bai, first destroyed, by the Danes und Eur! Godwin in 1952, But now priory, occapied by Bewerlysine nionks, seem to hard heon founded in 1995 on the same site ard removed shortly afterwards to u die adjacent to the prescut parish plural, wherait survived matil The issolution of the monastomm-fanNI- Woodward, she vicar of this church, which by dedicated to St Mary and St. Latenythe, tells us, in a letter whjob we print to day, that thự eminta ~ life of exactity and wolf-sacr fre BA Trúc Lon Our Hoy lov and vegetion of the people of this phaos in bygone days that "her" romajna-veres somóvel from church 46) rauni, as om aftör-ondßer was destroyed, until a Inst they found a lodgment in the pre- sont parish öhürch, which was founded A.D.- 11381 and that her Sgure finds its imprese upon the mayorelty sami.” In support of these states mente be invokes the authority of Ielund, writ-
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For Kutolinotre.-Per Hikosan Maru, to day, the 19th jutant, at 11:30 AM.
For Singapore, Samarang and Sourabaya. Per Hinsang, to-day, the 13th instant, at 11.30
For Bingapore For Sunda, to-day, the 19h fustant, at 11.30 AM, AN
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For Singapore, Penang and Calcutta-Per Arrution dpcar, to-day, the 19th instant, at For Tokoboma Per Comasia, to day, the 15th instant, at 2.30 P.M.
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125 6114
650 608, cellon
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61,$1.240, buyers
$131.60
liver's Mines, AB $20
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Du
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ing in the reign of Heary VILL and of CUTIEE PALMERA
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or what passed for them in the days when
relics of the kind were recognized sonite | 2ALS
of eoclesiastivul income, did find, a resting- ydeou in the church dedicated to bir mezory But nothing was knowa shout from excapt the fonts rounded by the maturiais,. Trbich "may be tahad for what they urs, world, subli soms twelve Tears yohon pria berglit ni zanny Jane morning, Alr Incry Her poetically put it in a letter we printed
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Hongkong, 33 Praga Central
APTER JORNSTONE'S
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FOR BALE
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CHAMPAGNE, 1880, WHITE BEAT, 4 hab. pok case of 1 doren quarts; 88.00 per case of 2 düren nint
LRESSMANN &
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on Tueday," that gortlenkit was engaged uij by month; it la of Supard Quality and of
emperintending cortaj, worke deration
and restoration waseeding it the snotuary of
the church." We were, be enys, constimiffen
La remove some small portion
Norman, or may 19 enr], 13th century, xerth |- wall
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INQUIRE where your FRESH WATER
12380
Buomater pa je kupata lag, -Temperatura, Benning,
ZENE
REGISTER
Highest open air némettrainers on the 1110 Lowest: Open", air temperature on the 71s
F. G. FIGG, Acting Dirndler. Hongkong Obervater, 12th November, 1897
Hongkong 4th August, 1897. 120. obtained by the Water Beats, as Four, MI: FALDONES & D'A REB, 1th Nor A
A POWERFUL PLANT OF STEAM WATTS He cause of manch Sickness on board | Farovieler VAH, 30% on 9 A
LAUNDRY MACHINERY, Makers Bule Bow
CALL FLAG W PALM KEY & CO.
BTEAM WATER BOat Company, Hongkong. Optober, 1896
1368
Thermom. I. p. 79. Thermom. S par M477 (picht)
"HONGKONG/TIDE-VABLE. Hộp * 130 to 19th November
tinib) 19.
Barometer 1. 2018 Thu 11% Marlare, &list & Co. and Thomas Braford We are the ONLY WATER BOAT COMPANT Baronieter 0.02 Mar (Wetkisik),70 &Co. It has only been shart time in main HosGzONG EXCLUSIVELY supplying Thom, Maximum 18 | and has been well cared for; 15 ls se good as FILTERED WATER, A
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