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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, JUNE 28TH, 1881.
heading "Mr. Consul Hewlett and his Missionary friends." The articles in question refer to the action of Mr. Hewlett, Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, in refusing some months ago to renew a passport for interior travel to Mr. Selby, a Canton mission- ary. The facts of the case must be perfectly well-known to our readers, as the missionaries, or at least a section of them, did not forget to blow their own trumpets at what they considered Mr. Consul Hewlett's Deliveries in Town and Harbour from unfair and high handed treatment,
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thoroughly understand that, as the ered to the country in the cause of political exigencies of the empire freedom of trade and civil and reli- necessarily circumscribe their legiti-gious liberty. mate sphere of action, the applause from Exeter Hall, and the approba- tion of the Home Missions, must not be allowed to over-ride the interests of Great Britain in hor political and. commercial relations with the Celes tial Empire; practically, that profes- sional ardour in converting the heathen, must not be carried beyond the bounds prescribed by well con- sidered Imperial enactments.
In the Government Gazette of the 25th instant, notice is given that one month from date, or as soon there after as a meeting shall be held, the Hon. P. Ryrie will; on leave being obtained, introduce to the Legislative Council a bill for the construction of tramways on certain of the high level roads in the Colony, and to Aberdeen, via Victoria Gap, on the continuous steel wire rope system
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and Iron Ship-builders has just been issued. From the introductory re- marks of the General Secretary (Mr, Knight), which are, as usual, tem- porate and judicious, we gather that during the past year the ironworkers have experienced a solid improve. ment in trade. So far as they are concerned the recent depression has entirely disappeared, and prospects are fairly satisfactory. The revival in trade has led to an increase of wages, and taking the average ad- vance per member at 2s. per week, the increase over the whole members of the Society amounts to £1800 The Mattie Taylor Troupe gave weekly, £7200 monthly, and £93,600 their opening entertainment in the yearly. During the year £44,237 Theatre Royal, City Hall, last evening 2s. 7d., or an average of £2 10s. 04d. to one of the scantiest audiences we per member, was received as contri- have ever seen in that building.butions. The sum of £2161 15s. The weather no doubt had a most was paid to disabled members, and deterrent effect against a full house, £8733 13s. 7d. was spent as "sick and even those who did attend seem- benefit." The latter sum is substan- ed more or less to have had their tially less than the amount paid for spirits damped on the way to the the same purpose during the preced- theatre, as the applause rendered ing year, and the inference is that when a happy hit was made, and the improved state of trade has had which Hongkong audiences never a salutary effect on the health of the fail to give when deserved, were members. To unemployed members neither so frequent nor so. demon- £6920 17s. 7d. was paid during the strative as usual. The programme-year 1880, which was a decrease of commenced with alight comic sketch no less than £25,056 2s. 1d. as com- entitled "Matrimonial Masquerad-pared with the preceding year. The ing, in which Mr. J. H. Taylor and total expenditure of the Society for Mrs. Jessie Taylor took part. Do the year amounted to £34,054 3s. mestic difficulties arise between the 54d. An increase was made to the pair which result in mutual re Amail will leave Singapore for criminations of unfaithfulness, and of £14,099 5s. 8d. making the accu- accumulated capital of the Society Bangkok to-day at 3 P.M.
mulated fund reach the total of £23,294 4. 8d. During the year 6 new lodges were opened, 3 in Eng- land and 3 in Scotland. There was an increase of 1400 members, bring- ing the roll up to 18,388.
and the whole affair was consequent We must, in conclusion, express ly widely discussed, before being our regret that the editorial columns submitted to Sir Thomas Wade, Her of any so-called independent journal Majesty's Minister at Peking Mr. published in this colony, should be Hewlett is justly considered one of placed at the disposal of such an un- the most inipartial consular officers scrupulous partisan, as the writer of in China, and few people who knew the two communications we have anything about the circumstances of called attention to. When will it his dispute with Mr. Selby, questioned be properly understood that officers the correctness of his judgment, or of the Crown, although legitimate doubted that his reasons for declining game for honest, impartial criticism to renew that gentleman's passport, in all their public acts, are not would receive Sir Thomas Wade's to be black-guarded and bullied anqualified approval and support. by every anonymous scribbler who As a matter of fact, Her Majesty's may feel himself aggrieved, and who Minister has officially approved of by favor, or some
other potent the Consul's action, and one result of spell, has whatever influence may this decision may be found in the be possessed by a public newspaper, two articles in our evening contem- placed in his hand to work his own
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HONGKONG, "28TH JUNE, 1881.
sweet will without restraint.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The s.s. Salvadora will be docked at Kowloon this afternoon.
We assume that no person save a missionary, deeply interested in the matter, could have penned such a concoction of contemptible, ill-natur- ed venom, as the China Mail articles. The remarks directed against Sir Thomas Wade may be, and probably are libellous; but they most cer- tainly indicate a bitter animus which could only emanate from a mission- ary; and one of that class of whom Ovid said parva leves capiunt animos. Taking the question in dispute on its merits, we think that every un
The steamship Sues, with the In- prejudiced person who is acquainted dian mail of the 18th June, left with Mr. Hewlett's past history and Singapore yesterday and may be ex- connections with English mission-pected here about the 4th proximo.
aries, will, without a moment's hesit- ation, acquit him of the charge, that his action was unfair and high handed, and based on nothing more
The steamship Merionethshire is notified as having left Singapore for this port yesterday.
We are not a "Society " journal, but the following extract from a re- cent issue of Vanity Fair is too good to be missed:
each, to keep up the dispute, sem- bles affection for another, and in turn personates the rival. Several little ludicrous scenes are the result, but on the whole, the piece was not calculated to bring out the abilities of either performer. This was fol- lowed by a clever performance on two banjos by Mr. Taylor, who ren- dered the chiming of the Bells and the air "Home, Sweet Home," to Mrs. Taylor sang with much sweet- the appreciation of the audience. During the last few days society has been full of a most desperate ness a pretty aria, after which fol- | scandal. A To-day being the anniversary of
young man, bearing one Her Majesty's Coronation is ob lowed the chief attraction of the of the foremost titles and one of the served as a holiday in the several evening, "The Little Orphau." most historic names in England, Government offices, as well as in the Mattie represents an orphan left to the who is not one-and-twenty, and who Naval and Military Departments. tender mercies (sic) of a maiden aunt has been religiously and devoutly The Royal Standard is flown at Gov- (Mrs. Taylor); on the wintry side of brought up by an excellent mother, ernment House, Head-Quarter House, thirty, but who insists that she is has suddenly departed from England the Naval Yard, and the Victor Ema only twenty-nine, and is as fre- for the Continent, accompanied by a nuel, and a Royal Salute was fired at quently contradicted by Dennis (Mr. married lady who has been for eight 12 o'clock noon.
Taylor), a confidential servant. The years the wife of a country gentle- playmates and school companions man, and who is besides known as of the orphan are
one of the very pretty women who the house on the occasion of her have most attracted attention in birthday, but having committed some London. Mrs
has a very pretty trivial delinquency she is ordered to little daughter, which makes the be confined to her room. An oppor-matter heartless and disgraceful. The. tunity is thus afforded for Mattie to pair fled at the end of last week to make her appearance in the charac Strasburg, the lady leaving behind ters of the various schoolmates who her two letters one for her husband call to take part in the birthday and the other for a friend. They festivities, and songs, dances, and were shortly afterwards followed by drum and banjo solos are introduced. the lady's relations, one of whom is Mattie sings and dances well, and said to have administered a very carries herself on the stage with the thorough thrashing to the Earl, who greatest ease, giving hopes of one is reported to be beaten black and day attaining a high place as a blue. This is right and fitting so far talented serio-comic and variety ac as it goes, but in these matters it is tress. A second entertainment has never the man but always the woman. been announced for to-morrow even- who is most în fault. The whole ing with an entire change of pro- party are now back in England. gramme, when we hope that a larger attendance may be vouchsafed to the small but enterprising party.
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than the idle creation of his own brain. It is perfectly well known Our worthy evening contemporary that throughout his official career the China Mail has always borne a Mr. Hewlett has been essentially the saintly reputation, and doubtless great friend and patron of mission- deservedly. From time immemorial aries and mission work, unique almost, a halo of ecclesiastical glory among consuls, a regular Saul among has encircled the portals of the sane the prophets. A reference to old tum sanctorum in Wyndham Street; Consular reports in the Parliament-
A large party of the Independent that chaste retreat wherein the sa- ary Blue Books, will at once show Order of good Templars and their pient utterances of the great and that Mr. Hewlett was the only Eng-friends went for a trip round the island good first saw the light, prior to lish Consul who heartily sympathised in a steam launch this morning, being scattered broadcast throughout with the true English missionaries although the weather was none of the four quarters of the habitable in their labors; and his special fe- the most inviting for an outing globe, to invoke universal admiration port on the mission work of the Eng of this description, and later on and applause. The claims of the lish Presbyterian Church in Formosa, they will hold a tea party in the China Mail to be considered the printed in the Blue Books above al-Temperance Hall, when they hope great champion of the missionary luded to, proves that he would be the to enjoy a pleasant evening with cause are based on no unstable found last man in the Consular Service to few choice vocal and instrumental ation. The columns of the evening place obstacles in the way of an journal have always been open English Missionary in China. Further for the poor injured missionary we have evidence to prove that Mr. to plead his own cause, and tell his Selby's action in relation to Mr. own story in his own peculiar way. Hewlett, has been condemned by What has it mattered that mission- some of the best missionaries in aryadvocates in the press, have Canton, so that the ex parte state. almost invariably been in the wrong; ments of the China Mail correspond- that their communications have con-ent, must be taken even on questions spicuously been all hatred and un- of fact, with a good deal of salt. charitableness, and their works and Doubtless there are missionaries and acts in every respect a glaring missionaries. This Mr. Selby contrast to the life of Him is evidently a missionary-mosquito, whose doctrines they pretend to a Minister of the gospel more suo. preach! The China Mail has such After what had previously occurred, a deep-rooted devotion for the poor Mr. Consul Hewlett was justified in exiles, who left all the good things believing that if Mr. Selby were let of home, sweet home, to exist in loose among the Chinese, grave po- mud huts in pestilential Hongkong, litical complications would be the and to struggle for a bare existence certain result, and acted wisely in amidst unteld dangers in the wilds of firmly refusing to allow such a cleri: uncivilised Canton, for the great cal firebrated to go beyond the limits purpose of carrying out the noble of the Treaty Ports.. mission of rescuing a few more heathen souls from the great bottom less pit, that, if contemporaneous rumour may be belioyed, the great missionary organ, not only stands up through thick and thin for its cleri- cal adherents, but is supplied to the select fow at half the usual cost.
We would respectfully direct the attention of the public to two articles which appeared in the China Mat of Juno 23rd and 24th under the
Missionaries have been the direct cause of so much political mischief in China and elsewhere, that any decided action intended to keep our spiritual advisers within reasonable limits will certainly meet with public approval
It may be frankly admitted that the missionaries, as a body, havo at various times, done an immensity of good work in the several provinces of China; but it is time they should
H. I. R. M. cruiser Europa, 8, Captain Gripenberg, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Lessowsky, arrived yesterday afternoon from Yokohama. On dropping anchor she saluted the port with twenty-one guns, which was acknowledged by the Royal Ar tillery, after which she exchanged salutes with the Victor Emanuel and Freya. Admiral and Madame Les- sowsky proceed to Europe by the next homeward bound French Mail. The Europa will probably go into dock on Thursday or Friday.
The population of Birmingham, which in 1861 was 296,076, rose to 343,787 ju 1871, and now stands at 108,004, showing an increase during the last ten years of no less than 64,217. These figures would lead one to infer that, in spite of free trade, strikes, trades unions, and foreign competition, busines in the hardware line" is still prospering in the big town in Warwickshire,
The Liberal working men of Bris- tol intend immortalising themselves by presenting to Mr Gladstone a silver olurot service, value 70. guin eas, as a slight recognition of the valuable services which he has rend-
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