The British stonmer Hain in from Haiphong and Boiliow, reports loft Haiphong 24th July at 9 aan., arrived in Hoihow; at noon 25th, and left at 5 nm. 26th, fine weather throughout. In Hollow, schmers Conquest, and Kang-chi, HM. ships Sheldrake and Magpie.
The British steamer Kanglung from Coast ports, reports Foochow to Amoy light South-westorly winds and fiue weather. Amoy to Swatow, same wind and cloudy. Swatow to Hong- kong, light variable, winds and fine weathor till 4 am, then freshening breeze and cloudy to part. In Foochow, steamer Outlerflua. In Amoy, steuner Hollow. In Swatow, steamers Tunis, Tarch, Alholl, Hardwick, Oaklands, Miramar, Pakhai and Keelung.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1881.
During the service which was hold in the Chapol, the British seamon who composed the firing party formed in two lines at the houd of the grave, and the Russians in two more at the foot. The service at the grave was impress- ively performed by the Rev. Mr. Graves, of Hongkong, and at its con- clusion, the English and Russian firing partios oach fired three volleys alter- nately, over the grave. While tho. service was boing rond the Russian seamon stood bareheaded. They fired tho volleys without unfixing. bayonets.
The lato William George Scott was born on the 11th February, 1841, and was the son of William Hugh Scott, rector of Maiden-Newton, Dorset, and prebendary of Saram. The grand father of Commander Scott was Hugh The British steamer Athay from Tai-Scott, eleventh Baron of Hardon, who wanfon, reports loft-Taiwanfoo-at-155-1-claimed and was allowed the Barony of p.in. on the 26th July, and arrived at | Polwarth by Parliament in 1835. · We Hongkong on the 28th, had fine woa- believe that the deconsed was ther with smooth son and light W.S.W. married. to W.N.W. winds the whole of the passage.
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Loss of the "Aberdonian"
The first news of maritime disaster owing to the late typhoon came to hand this morning. Four seamon of the - three-masted schooner Aberdonian came from Ningpo in the Kianglean, and For the United Kingdom and Eu- reported the loss of the vessel, about ropo, via Naples; to Saigon, 11 p.m. on Friday last. Sho was Straits Settlements, Batavia, Bur-driven ashoro by the gale on a rock mah, Ceylon, India (via Madras), near L'uotoo, and dashed to pieces; the Australian Colonies, Aden, six men were washed ashore on pieces Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar, por of the wreckage, and scut to Ningo Saghalien, at 11 am. For Manila, by the fishermen; two of them stopped por Diamante, at 3.50 p.m. For there. There were 25 hands on board, Wladivostock and Nicolajofsk, per and the fate of the rest is uncertain; Fyen, at 8.30 p.m. For Straits Captain Boig was seen to strip himself Settlements, per Marlborough, at and jump overboard after warning the 5 p.ni.
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SHANGHAI.
The following account of the funeral of the late Commander Scott is taken from our Shanghai ex- changes :-
FOOCHOW.
(From the Foochin Herald).
News reached us by yesterday's Courier of a serious disturbance about twenty miles from Ch'aan Chin (Chang Chow). It sooms, so we have since learut, that the Provincial authorities: have despatched some 600 soldiers to quell this disturbance, of which we have not as yet learnt the fall particulars.
We believe that it has been decided to hold a Race Meeting on the Now Race Course in November next. A "Cup" subscription list has beon al- ready circulated. We hope the affair will turn out to be a success.
rin. Dawning intelligences which have sufficiently dawned to grasp brond effects, and are not sufficiently broken into day- light to observe subtle distinctions, will refuse to see why, if modern scholars can improve part, they cannot improve the whole. Directly the New Testament he- comes the work of modern scholars, it loses its intrinsic value as a divinely authorisod religious guido, "Revised" is not the word to apply to this new version-
tiakered" would more fully macet the merits of the case:
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There is just one remark which, în à perfect spirit of reverence to the subject, I would ventura to make. There must be a large class of thinking people who will find it very difficult to justify the learned revisers assumption that they have had the divine assistance in their task. It cer-
tainly seems presumption on their part to assume such collaboration, but that they do assume it their preface makes clear. Divine assistance means divine inspiration, and therefore the work should be infalli- ble. But the earlier work was also divinely inspired; therefore, why does it need revision? It is perfectly competent for those who object to this "improving of the Scriptures" process to recognise another hand altogether, and to suggest that the process of weakening scriptural authority by nineteenth century maudlers and mud- dlers is far more likely to have received assistance from below than from above.
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I merely put this forward to show how the religious mind may be affected by the new and revised version. Far be it from me to urge such an argument myself. But that the way in which the work has been done should already have provoked a war of criticism is in itself deplorable. If the stood, no select party of elderly gentlemen, Scriptures were not good enough as they meeting once a month for eleven years. and putting their own notions of what ought to be to the voto, is likely to make them better,
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The nice sense of delicacy which has prompted the authors of the new and ori- ginal New Testament to substitute the words "He shall be condemned" for
He shall be damned," deserves recogni- tion in all young ladies' schools and Young
Mon's Christian Associations. Ten years hence, revisers, grown nicer still, may sug gest "He shall be d-d" I knew an old lady once who always read aloud to sor- vants that Adam earned his bread "with the perspiration of his brow." She thought "sweat" so vulgar. Surely she must have been the mother or the grandmother of
one of these learned revisers.
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Perhaps the most glaring act of all is the spoiling of the Lord's Prayer. "Deli- us from the Evil One," instead of Deliver us from evil," is an abominable alteration. That certainly must have been altered in the Devil's interest, in order to strengthen his position--a position at pre- sent very hotly assailed by hundreds of the clergy themselves, who openly doubt his existence as a spiritual power.
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W. H. Smith is doing a roaring trade in New Testaments, and his little boys regu- larly "shrick the trains" with them. By- the-by, why does that notice stare as in
the face on the front
"All rights page, reserved ?" Is the revision merely a com-
mercial speculation, after all. If not, why areall rights reserved?
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His Grace the Archbishop of Canter- bury, says the "Court Circular," had an interview with her Majesty, and presented her with a copy of the revised New Testa- ment. Why interview? Why not Tait-à- Turt?
when the entries wero first published in the Bulletin Oficial after the time of closing, and were consequently omitted from the outrios published in the Rac- ing Calendar. They were subsequently added to the entries in the Bulletin Oficial, but attention not having been drawn to the addition, it was not made in the Racing Calendar.
6, Old Burlington-street, London,
W., May 21st, 1881- "Boris" of the Referee common ting on this matter observos:-
"Amongst the latest nows is an item to the affect that Mr. Koene's horses, Poaball and Bushman, should have been included amongst the entries for the forthcoming Grand Prix do Paris. As will be soon by a paragraph in an other column "the above horses were entered for this raco at New York in 1870," but by some inadvertence were not included amongst the entries when first published in the Bulletin Official. At the present time it is useless to throw. discredit on this story; but surely Mr. Keens has had plenty of time to know whether the onirios wero received or not, as the names of the candidates for the race in question wore published months and months ago. If mistakes such as these are allowed to pass by so long unnoticed, we shall hear next at the clevouth hour that the name of a crack three-year-old should have been included amongst tho horses engaged in the Epsom Derby. It is the duty of the French authorities bo- fore accepting these cutries to show. duly authorised to receive ontries for that they have an agent in Amorica
the Grand Prix. They have also to prove to the other owners of animals engaged in the Grand Prix that they are fully aware how the mistake occur. red. The addition of Forhall, to the Grand Prix completely alters the whole complexion of the contest. His secoud in the City and Suburban proves that he is a horse of exceptional merit, whilst the running of Scobell and "Tristan shows that, with the exception of Sir Charles, who has not been soon in public, the race is nearly at the gorey of the Americau colt. It is just possible that a certain amount of bet- ting has already taken place on the result of the Grand Prix, which can hardly stand under existent circum- stances. In my opinion, should Mr. Keeno's horso prove successful, the owners of the second would have good ground for objection."
Fochall, ridden by Fordham, did ne. tually win the Grand Prix; but whether an objection, or disqualification, follow. ed his victory we are at present unable to say.
[Since writing the above, by a tele- gram from Paris, dated June 17th we learn that an objection has been form- ally lodged against Pochall, on account of the informality regarding the pres- entation of certificate prior to the raco for the Grand Prix.-Editor Hongkong Telegraph.]
"SAVE me from my friends" is an old saying. "Save mo- from those who love me" might, however, sometimes be quoted in the case of dumb animals, whose experiences equal those of a little pot pony owned by a schoolmistress at Dover. One of those indefatigable gentlemen who are connected with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals somehow or other heard of the schoolmistress's pot pony and went to see it. The lady said her pot was in the stable. The officer discovered that the stable in question was really a cupboard under the stairs in the liv ing room. When it is stated that the cupboard measured exactly 5ft. by 24ft., it will readily be conceived that tho pony had a rollicking time of it when he went to bed. Nor does the pony appear to have come off much botter in the matter of food, for when us from Mossrs. Woatherby for publi-ho was liberated from his cigar-box
In our paragraph of the 4th instant Cus-referring to the winner of the Grand Prix de Paris wo stated that we were unable to find Foxhall's name in the list of entries for the race. Until the an- nexed notice was issued by Messrs. Weatherby the sporting public in Eng- land word not aware that the horse, which eventually won One of the greatest races of the year, was included in the entries.
The remains of Commander W. G. Scott were interred this afternoon in the New Cemetery. The coffin was borno from II.M.S. Lapwing in the cutter, attended by all the ship's boats, and also those of H.M.S. Fox- hound; and on debarkation at the P. & O. jetty, the cortégo was formed in marching order on the Band, where the Shanghai Volunteer Corps were Captain Cocker, of the Chinese drawn up, including the Artillery, toms Service, and Mr. von Hanneckon, Rangers, and Rifles. The cortege who is a military employé of the Vico
arched from the Bund up the Foo- roy Li, have been occupied for some chow Road, the following being the time past at Lu-shun-kou, Gulf of Peh- order :-Two of the Municipal Police; chilli, to ascertain its capabilities and 30. Sailors with arms reversed; Shang-fitness as a war-port for northern hai Artillery with gun carriago bear ing the coffin, and Officers of the Lap wing as pall-bearers; Ship's Com- panics from the Lapwing and Faliound; Shanghai Rangers (on foot); Nos. 1 and 2 Companies Volunteer Rifles; The following criticisms, and com- Naval Officers of the Palos (American) meats on the recently revised edition and Morge (Russian) gun-boats; Con- of the Now Testament, taken from our sular Officials of various nationalities, London contemporary, The Referee, avo and other residents, in mourning carri-worthy of attention. ages.
On the procession arriving, at the Defence Creek, it was met by a do- tachment of 26 Russing sailors undor the command of Lieutenant Egorieff from the Gunboat Morge, who gave a salute as the coffin approached, and then fell in after the procession passed, On the procession arriving at the en- trance t the Cemetery, Captain Mal-
China. It is understood that from these two gentlemen favorable reports have been received.
"This is certainly not the place in which to discuss. on theological grounds the revision of the New Testament. But a word of protest may be made against the have animated the learned revisers in their. the spirit of pedantry which seems to
work. Many of the alterntions aro stupid, some of them are positively ridiculous, and it is a very moot question whether the whole thing had not botter have been left alone. These are days when the School otsoff, the commander of the Morge science is making rapid strides, and very Bourd has fairly settled to its work, when ave a salute to the cortégo as it pas for things are taken on trust. Any inter
d into the ground, nid thou fell inferences with that which must bo takon
GRAND PRIX DE PARIS, 1881. ADDITIONAL ENTRIES,
The following has been forwarded
cation:---
Mr. Keeno's bo by Virgil out of Annis Bush, by Lamington, now callod Busk-
bc by King Alfanso, out of Ja- maica, by Lexington, now called Foxhall.
*Mr. M. H. Sandford's chic by Glonely out of Item, by Lexington, now call- od Idea.
*This was struck out of all on- gagemonte in time to save the minor. forfuit.
The abovo horses onrod for this
ith the procession in company with in blind faith as inspired or rejocted race at Now York in 1879, according taff Surgeon Wadsworth..
altogether must be mischievous in the longta_the_conditions, were not included
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stable he was so weak he could not stand. The schoolmistress had an in- vitation to visit the local magistrates, when she naively told the chairman that she loved the pony very much, as it was a great pot. The Justice thought suel exceeding love should not go un- recoguised, and ho quiety asked the schoolmistress to hand over the sum of £7.
Which are the four most Corpulent lotters in the alphabet P-Q. B. O'T- (obesity).
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What is the best way to turn poo-- plo's boads P-To go into a church late in thick boots.
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