LITERARY AND ART GOSSIP
TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES.
M. Pivia do Olavanigs has finished his mura!:
Gonsal General Archibald, reporting on the Estairs at the Panthéon, Paris, representing ive countrue of New York during the year 1970, events furthe life of St. Genorivo, esrtoons of observes that the imporistima of "dry, gooda? which huvo beon displayed at the salons. thut the port showed a decrease of nineteen million:
The death of Mr Huck Wilson, prigipal pro dollars compared with 1875, and yet thor was prietor of the Edinburgh Enesing News, is an aniple, if not excousive, supply of goods in the Buded. The dodooned gentleman was formerly ulitor of the Amchester Evening News, and was well known as atiables daccomplished journalist. A fortnightly jorrund specully devoted to all allors conanted with British, colonial, and foreign trade marks, and for the proaction of complete system of international registration, soen annenneoil to appear shortly, with the titis, Trudo Marks.
The death of Mr. W. B. Frost, R, A., the well known parts of mythological subjects, in an bonpued. Mr. Frost, who was in his sixty moventh your, was a gold medallist of the Royal Academy fa 1933), Incate au usunclate in 1846, and was elected u Royal Artemisian in 1870....
Miss Elizabeth Suthorilor Thompson, the painter of the !! Roll Call," was repently married to Major William Francis Butler, at the Churel of the Soven Dolors, Felham-road. Cantital Manning porformol the marriage service, and Father abono and the saplial s
market, and the station.com, was frequently made the medium of distribution This was the roll of two causes which are bonstantly operat ing the increasing competition of domostio. fabrion and the exoreise of greater economy on the part of consumere. The prices of linen and cotton goods wero scinewhat lower than in 1876. The importation of British worsted staffs, the Cousal says, is douraming very much,- and their
strilution is not profitable, owing to the vast advantage, which the tariff gives to domestic fab. rios of this sort; and alpacas, popline, &c. formerly Iraported in large quantities, have been almost su tirely supplanted by home manufactures. Husicry and inulerelathing of low and medium grados; aro now supplied by American munafpoturars at a price with which importare are unable to competiz. In fact, says the Consul, ius commoral point of view the United States and Gemit Britain may be said in certain respects to be changing places, and with a rapidity which no ens adiicipated, facsimile reproduction in colours of FL. A though it has long boon pornoivad, that the Harper's celebrated picture. Sinai, the Mount tendency bas toon that way. The excellence of of God," bús, becaí published by Messrs. Lucas & some of the American manufactures, particularly Danes! In is priced in, thirty-four different of metals and cotton, is manifest, and cannot. shades of permanent colour. The original is on justly be dooriod by British importere. On the low at HuLean's Gallery, 7, Haymarket. contrary gagacione manufacturers who visited Major Osboku has nearly finished printing the the Centennial Exhibition bare fully admitted stond voluint of his work, Ilam wuder the that the dealing in wages and raw materiala in, Ambe!” In this 'valima the anther traoss the the United States and the ample, labour-saving various sports made within the pale of Islam to appliances, coupled with the intelligence and
dify the tenets of Mahometansin as embodied excellence of the work of the artinez, eust + in the Traditious, and endeavours to show Recessity produce a formidable compotitki With that all such oforte luze bean entirely masnoforeign productions. useffil
The Dutch Government has opened an arolii. Lastoral competition, in which foreigners urn al- lowed to take part, for the erection of a new
arcú voznity lanilding at Loyden. The author of The best Tan will be entrusted with the exsous fun of it or reedive a prise of 5,000 Borins, and the author of the second best plan will ́rucsivo'a prize of 3,500 Boring.
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THE INFLEXIBLE"]
A statement which has been published in The rates concerning Her Majesty's ship Lagarible gives rise to warious reflection: One lifes, has dominated for twenty years the building of our ships of war-namely, the protection of their Tidal parts against shot and bell by the use of ary sour. To this end we have sacrifood submarino attack from, tho torpedo and the rám.. phe maldais lawn of the Farquard ilustrated the Power of the ram, and recent events on the
The last short of the Douai Diary" Las been painted of, and the task of compiling the index Ima boen begun. This will be a long and lach, and have even disregarded the dangers of borinne hagiasie, as there are some thousands of "mimės, to register. Meanwhile, Father Law in engaged in preparing the introduction to the work, and spring no pains or research. The valine is likely to extend to 500 pages, and may te expected before the autumn,
It is well known that all the white presetsin
orbe have revealed clearly to Wie geural public the desirdetiveness of the torpedo. But we were led to think thus against shot or shell our latest creation, the Inferible, a8 AUTÓ ∙She is arousal of the way type, ret: cladi
sold at Boros Foury the mark of the maxinotory in armons like the early ironclads, no BRL under the glaze. A fraudulent work his couse rounded with a belt of armour like their su quently been introduced by dealers purchasing the white picous from the manufactory and affessors hat unstated ship supporting, surrounding, and enclosing an armoured citadol kerwards painting thean porficially, is as to the engines, boilers, sal magazines being within deceive the uninitiated. To obviste the impee the eltadel, and the subearing hull being pra tion, it is proposed to interlot the sale of any tested against artillery tire by a horizontal tren undecorated paradela at Sivres, unless the mark deck, of some thickness, six feet below the water. Is been previously offased by the wkovi
line. Thas to inngue the Inflexible, we have
The Athence was says Fow pointe in the history test to conceive a ship 320 feet long and 18 fest of the peotry of this century have been more im-high, novored with an armenced deck on this portant than the influence exerted by Festus, deck we place a citadel, with very thickly armoured at influence which, by the general public at letstidos, 110 feet long, 75 feet broad, and 18 fest las hanlly been estimated at its true value. high. We then add, at either end of the citadel, Theodore Watts called obtention to the mistier four columns last year, and those who read his antonred structure, to maketkatesaol hip. romarke will not be surprised to hear that a new shape and seaworthy but these additions are edition of Mr. Bailer'e drama will be pablished supposed to be exeresences, which are not of the irfan wanks, containing considerable additions ses of the ship, and Lavo certainly nothing
to do with her properties-as-a-menofemur,
· and variom important alterations
lannah the ship and find that her weights bear down the horizontal armoured deck six fest below the water line. This unarmoured ends may be hot away in notion, but & plunging shot will
The executors of the late Mrs. Bunny, why at a former of architect, hayo presonted to the Corporation of London, for the uas of the Guild. half Labrary, two pictures by David Roberts E.A.. the one,The Nare of St. Stephon's on the horizontal deck below. Let both Vienna," and the other, A. Stroat in Antwerp." that the submerged hall in the citadel will still unarmoured ends ba shot away, the theory is of the value of £1,150. Inaccordance with Mrs. Beat the ship, and spable her to fight her guns Extaning's will, they had been offered to the and work het ongines almost as well a sho Government to be added to the National Gallery did before. Bearing this in mind, the strength bat the offer was declined, with the explanation of her defensive amonere, the power of her that enangla apcimens of the artist's work ware 81-ton guns, and her capacity for dealing already lurg Lasce...
and undergoing punishmen; some aral oritics.
Sir Willina Gregory, late Governor of Cay-have instanced her as the ideal ship of len, previous to his leaving the island, caused to
war. They havo devised a fanciful systera of
be reprinted, in two volumes, all the amal marks, and put the ironclad through an imagi spesches delivered by the British governors whenery onmpetitive exacinatina, in which no ship precoded him, as the best means of afforcing to bat the inflexible receives full marks. While Ins successors and to the public austworthy he is marked 100, the Dandolo and Duitis, of sanmary of the past history and progress of the the Italian Navy, receive cob 92 marks, the island colony. The volumes will be published immediately and are expected to prove a valuable Aja 75, the French Foudrevant and our Dread nought 7, the Russian Peter, the Great 71, and wundbook of matters affecting not rely then on to the bottom of the scule. Those fanellat political, but also the social, religious, and lassifications unifestly depend, in the first in- dustrial interests of Ceylon.
Works have bsan cemminced recently at the stance, on the correctuoas of their data. There Luxemboing with a view of enlarging tant de ben revelations concerning some of the ansient palace by means of an entirely new gally foreign ships, espacially the Peter the Great, which have thrown doubt npr the lala
to be but on the ground floor of the Borthus, and there is reason for suspecting that in wing. This walls is to be a great size, lighted the most important instance the data are rat by cight largo bay windows-four opening on to the garden and four on to the court, and is coret. In March of last year Mr. Reed, is
the House of Commons, draw attention to the comparative strength of the British and foreign
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HF Company's Steamship
"PATROCLUS"!
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HE Steamship
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YESTERDANS TELEGRAMS.
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intended especially for the reception of works of soulpture It will communiente with the grizonglad navies. He spoke of the Dundolo and sent sculpture gallery by means of a four in the Da, under construction for the Italian Go-Tiermeineter attached 17070.5 partition wall, and thus will amply for overnment, for which the Ellowick Factory is extension of this side of the building.
Mr. Bullon, of the British Museum, in to take. applying guns of greater power than those of charge of the General Catalogue of the Caxton the ship which is similar to that of the my The 706 81.0 810
the Inferible. Exhibition. The Ribles are to be specially
Exterible, had been borrowed from a plan lis trasted to Mr. Stevens, while Mr. Blades takes sketched in his evidence before Lord Dufferin's For Thanneer. charge of tlie Castas. Lard B. Bruce will take Committes of 1871, which was intended to Wester an active part in describing blook books. The give great superiority to the first Power Exhibition at South Kensington was to be ho tuned out a vessel upon this, model opened by Mr. Gladstone, on the 30th of June. He though, however, that the person who say talen.. Mr. Gishtons will deliver an address, which had adopted his plan did not quite understand it, will be immediately after printed in old Caxton be vas of opinion that these vessels, when type. The Queen Las lent a book the Ments completed, could never be sort into notion with Exalterained at £3,000, to the Exhibition, safety, for if penetrated with shell in their un This is the frat printed book bearing a date, armored part above the armour dock they would viz., 14577 NON ENIM
capefte. Not annisrally, the Italian Depart
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BAT; oval af the sea in iucles, teas, and hardrals, TERMOMETER, Fahrenheit degrees and leze, kopy in the Trigon sirky a shaded sukuntum, fidant WAN
UMISTON OF Wren is registered every two poista, Nu
PRICE" ON WIND-ə “crint, 1 lu, 3 fight bereze, 2 k malente: fito 2 fra - strung. 8 to 10 leary, · JO to
vigleat
STATE OF WEATHER-I. Char' blun sky. - 6. Chuusly, D. Drizly Yag, Buggy. Ha “2. Lightning, 26. Maly. On Overmate. Hummus dioten. Squally, A. Malay, 3. Sure, Thunderà, Shreatening: Y Villility, Storm Z. Crim The letters, are réprated. to indicate any increvec, urat the mean, avenge, ale
They continus to work on the great wheal ment and Naval Constructors resented this window of the seath transept of the calledral of anticism, and Admiral Saint Bon, the Minister Chartres. The whole of the exterior of this at Marine, replied to the charge. The allega. elifice has been out down to s now face; the time soomed to be that the Dailio and Troncolo whole of the stained glass has been removed. differed from the Inflexible in this, that their cleared, the gapa supplied with new plans citadels had been curtailed of their proper matching very closely the old work, but not so dimensions in order to carry thicker mmour, closely but an experigood eye can detect the and that the consequence was that when the allitions; tho citrana have bee replaced. The anarmoured ands were destroyed the submerged famous sculptures of the choir screen at Chartres, bill and oitadel would not font. In other words, ruzissance works before the merit and delicacy they deponded for their floating capacity on the of which all other examples flinte shadow, moured ands, a frail real in action; whereas have been completely cleaned, but, so far as our the Incrible was quite indipendont of her and observations wont, without "restoration and see them shot away with complacency. A The retrospective exibition-as-Lyons orgatement has been made in The Times, that rised for the benefit of the suffering silk weavors there is ground for obarging the designers of anams to have gathered together a rich collection the Inferible with the same error which Mr. of medieval and renaissance works in furniture, Beed in 1876 attributed to the Italians. It is coramic, gold-smith's work, to, and the teoord that the anarmoured cuds are, în foot, tho tion of the various selles is said to be singularly corks on which she floats; that she cannot win Cage of the well known shippers, CUTLERY. harmonious with the objects exhibited in them without then; and it would appear that if she The section of painting is less important than Fet one she would size.
BIS.-Tim hours of rain for the previvum 24-Toruna (hum are megizkigu teian-1 to 94, sad the quantity of water frien indicited in imelics, tear and hundrede.
* CAMBLICS.. COLOURED DRESS LAWNS.
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by FIRST-CLASS Hands.----
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HONGKONG;.
AND AT SHANGHAI,
#GALDEW,
Captain W: Peterson, having the greater portion of her Carge engaged, will Love glick despatch as above.
-For-Freight,arplz to
ROZARIO & CH Hongkong, 25th July, 1812.
FOR SAN FRANCISCO. THE Al British Bark
TH
VICTORIA,”
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W. D. Trimble, Master will lead here for tho above Part, and will have immediata despatel.
For Freight, apply to
VOGEL, HAGEDORN & Co. Hongkong, 24th July, 1877-
FOR HAMBURG.
HE A1 British Hark
LORD MACAULAY,”-
18
Freight will be received on board nutil 4 rat. on the 3rd of August. Pureel Packets will be received at the Offie until 5 P.M. samo day; all Faroe! Paslenges, should be marked to ad dress in full; value of same is required.
Consular Invoice to accompany Overlan Cargo should be sent to the Company's Ofles in Scaled Envelopes, addressed to the Collector: of Custias at Sun Francisco,
Lelters may also be forwarded" to India by
The following will be the hours of CLOSING the Mails, &c.
-FRIDAY, 351 Angust,
5 PM., Money Order Ofice clósx-Post-Office closes excupt the Niat Box, which remains apen all night. "
SATURDAY, 4th August,
"Pat Oleo vystax for sale of-Stamps Registry of Futters, and Posting of all corre spondence.
103, Registry of Letters couser, 11. Post Ofoe closes except for Late Lot- 11.10 4. Inter (bat Fatters only) may bo posted on payment of a late neuf 15 cents extra pastage, until 11.30 AM.. won the Post Office CLOSES on
tinfy
MAILS BY THE UNITED STATES, PACKET.
The United States Packet" CITY OF PEKING” will i despatybed on SATTE. DAY, dhe 4th August with Mails for Japan,' San Francisco, and the United States, which will be CLOSED as follows:-
2.30PM. Post Office clases...
2.30 PM. Correspondance for Japan; the United States, or Union Countries orly, may be posted on board the Pacles with Late Fee of 13 cents extra Postage, until
2.50 P. when the Mail is finally clowed.
The following rates of Posfuge must be pre- paid in Hongkong Stamps Prepayment is com Paleory in the cases marked
Books
Letimas. Nuws- & PAT- 1. FATE 35. LKERS.
2.
United States, Canada*. Van-
couver and Pr. Edward's Ie.*, New Brunswick*, Nora Seu- tia, Bermuda, Brazil, Cuba, Caraçda, French, Sparish, and Date West Ladies, Guiana, Jamaian, Burianm, Trinidad (Registration & Cants).................
Ceuta. Cent. Centa
1
14
20
6
For xounty's sake, Skippers of Overland Aspinwall, Peram Cargo are requested to alorse on the Envelope Bahutace, Danish West Indies, the Harks and No. of Packages Skipped, to Hays... correspond with those in their Bills of Lading--Havstis Kingdom --
For further information as to Passige sud Mexica Freight, apply to the Agency of the Conway, Newfourdha (Begistration 12 No. Praya Central.
Cents) 16. RUSSELL & Co,
Peru, Dolivia, Chili, Ecustor Agenta
(Registration 12 Cents)...... 50 Hongkong, 30th July, 1877,
West Indias (except as named above), Costs Bich, Honduras, OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAM- New Granda Nicaragua,
SKIP COMPANY..
Turk's Island, Venezuela (Re gistration 12 Cenis). ...... 26 & 14 TAKING THROUGH CARGO AND FAS- Any articles found one csal in-Nowapapere or Book Fackets (as silk söarves, jewellary, ke.) BENGEES FOR THE UNITED STATES
will be confisentoà AND EUROPE,
IN CONNECTION WITH TẾU
The attention of owners, agents, and obacturers
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