FOOCHOW.
[Poochow Herald].
H. E. Chon Yü. Ying, the newly ap pointed Governor of this Province arrived at Pagoda Anchorage on Satar. day afternoon, the 30th instant, and was greeted with a salvo of artillery which made the barbour resound. His Excellency proceeded to Foochow 'took over the Soals of Office from His Excellency Leb, the late Govornor,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10TH, 1881.
Houso, has lately been appointed Minister to Washington, and he is making ready to repair to that e ty at the close of the summer.
TIENTSIN.
28th July.
Word reached us last night that the United States Minister at Pekin bad received intelligence from Chi nan Fu,
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
August 9, Miramar, British steamer, J. K. Clarke, Chinking 4th August, Rica. Batterhold and Swiro. August 9, Foochow, British steamer,
from Canton.
August 9, Stosch, German corvette, 2300, vou Blanc, Singapore 30th July.
and at once entored upon the duties of dated July 20th, to the effect that all August 9, Diamant, British steamer,
bis office.
We learn that Captain Palmer, late of the Chinese Revenue Cruiser Péng Chao Hoi, has been appointed to the position of Assistant Tide-Surveyor at Pagoda Anchorage. Captain Palmor is expected bere by the Kangtung due to-day,
personal dauger to the missionaries was then past. The case has been brought to the notice of the Foreign Office, and it is hoped that no farther difficulty
inay arise.
An important discussion is now being carried on, and the Chinese rulers are
814, R. F.Cullen, Manila 4th, August, and Amoy 8th, General. Russell & Co.
August 10, Fu-you, Chiness steamer, 920, Croad, Shanghai 6th August, General C. M; S. N. Co.
Scientific Notes.
MacEWEN, FRICKEL & Co. GENERAL STOREKEEPERS, &C. TAVE FOR SALE.
HAV
The success of the electrical railway at Berlin has been established, and a speed of eighteen miles per hour has been attained. In the roan time Edi- son's British patent for an electro hold Stores. magnetic railway has been published.
One of the principal features in the lattor is the employment of magnets on the locomotive, which exert an at- tractive force on the rails, thus adding to the power of the driving-wheels.
A gontleman in Baker-street, Port- man-square, has established a garden on his house top which bids fair to rival those situated on terra firma. His French beans and cucumbers are flour- ishing, and an excellent crop of straw-
in such close proximity to London chimney-pots.
and will at once enter upon his duties, learning many things about oniom August 10, Yangleze, British steamer, berries shows no sign of being reared
Mr. E. V. Breuan, the present Har bour Master, who goes home on leave in a few months, will be succeeded, so it is said, by Captain Palmer as Har- Mastor.
SHANGHAI.
[Mercury]
Chief Justice French, we are glad to bear, has greatly improved in health during his stay at Kobé.
We notice amongst Messrs. Tinsley Brothers' list of forthcoming publica- tions a work by Mrs. Thomas Francis Hughes, a lady well-known in Shang- liai, entitled "Among the Sons of Han; Six Years' Experience of a Lady in China and Formosa."
NAVAL Admiral Willes sailed from Yokohama on the 25th alt, for Hako-
date in H.M.S. Vigilant, from which port he was expected to proceed to Vladivostock. The admiral, with his staff, was presented to the Mikado on the 25th. The Mosquito, which arrived at Yokobama on the 24th with invalids, was to remain there until the arrival of the mail, to take up the Admiral's despatches. The Iron Duke and Zephyr left Nagasaki on the 28th altimo for Passiat.
Captain Parker, of the steamship Newchwang, has been appointed to the opium-receiving ship Wellington, in ruora of the late Captain Bennett.
The Swatow Guild strongly resent the obstructions placed in the way of discharging cargo by the Commis sioner of Customs at Swatow, and they have suspendel business at the port. The matter looks serious and
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which greatly surprise them.
The principal fact that has become plain is the very large dimensious of the native produco of opiam, and the rapidly increasing growth of the poppy.. To obtain estimates of reasonable cor- rectness is not possible, as the growth of the poppy is, in many places, consi- dered to be against law, and some transparent fictions are used to check the industry, which, notwithstanding, spreads, and thrivos, Native grown opiam is fast taking the place, in seve- ral provincos certainly, of the Indian drag, and much of the Shansi opium is now of such good quality as to rival in all desirable properties the best Malwa,
The Chinese have also learned, and to their surprise, that a largo part of the Indian yield of opinin--probably one-half-is consumed in India. The Indian peoples who are given to opium, generally eat it or take it in an infu. sion of solvent liquid, and, apparently, without bad effects. The fumes of burat opium may be especially injuri ous. Nor was it known that the con- sumption of opium, as opium or as laudanum, was very common in the cotron and woollen mauufacturing towns and villages of Yorkshire and Lancashire. The quantities of the narcotic taken by the mill bauds are very large, and the effects are some- times deplorable. The male consumera of the drug suffer in the least do gree, but when mothers of children take to the vice, for such it is, the ill-effects
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Schultz, from Canton.
DEPARTURES.
August 9, Forwaeris, German ateatuor,
for Hoihow.
August 9, Citadel, British 3-m schoon
er, for Tientsin.
August 9, Ningpo, British steamer, for
Canton.
August 9, Miramar, British steamer,
for Canton.
August 10, Laertes, British steamer, for
London.
August 10, Hwai-yuen, Chinese steam-
er, for Shanghai. August 10, Ping-on, American steamer,
for Hoihow.
PASSENGERS.
ARRIVED.
Per Diamante, British steamer, from Manila and Amoy, Captain Tirtoff, Mesars Crogeon and Franckel, 4 Bu ropeau and 30 Chinese deck.
Per Fu-yaw, Chinese steamer, from Shanghai, Captain Nelson, and 97 Chinese.
SHIPPING REPORTS. The British steamer Diamante, from Mauila 4th Angust and Amoy 8th, re- ports, light Westerly winds and fine. weather to Amroy, thence to port light variable winds with rainy weather,
The last new discovery reported from America is that of a well, con- taining jet black oil, having as far as is at present ascertained, all the pro- perties of coal tar. It is believed that the liquid can be usefully employed in the preparation of lampblack, if not in the production of aniline dyes.
The proposed Channel Tunnel works. continue to progress in a most satis. factory manner, giving every hope that the bold scheme of uniting two countries by such a novel roadway can be brought to a successful conclusion. The boring at Abbot's Cliff, which now extends about 350 yards, is drilled by one of Col. Beaumont's compressed air engines, which pierces the chalk at the rate of fifteen inches per hour. Good ventilation in the heaving is maintained by means of the spent air from the engine,
The Brush system of electric lighting has lately been adopted in the sorting room of the General Post Offico, St. Martins-le-Grand. In this department of that busy hive, the newspapers and circulars which now form such a large part of the postman's burden, are sorted according to their various destinations, and about four hundred The Chinese steamer Fu-yew, from
persons are engaged in the work. Sixteen Brush lamps, each afford Shanghai, reports inoderate S.W. mon. soon and fine weather to Chapoling a light of 2,000 candles, have are soon seen in infant mortality or the Island, thence to port light variable replaced 400 gas jets, with the results winds and squalls with heavy rain. August 7th, at 10 am, passed the wreck of the Annic S. Hall, with an-
sickly and stunted growth of children: In Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Essex, and parts of Northamptonshire,
much
that the labor of reading the addresses ou the wrappers is much facilitated, and the temperature of the room is
the Tuotai of Chao-Chao Fu and opium is used, but the use is a physical chors down; timbers showing above reduced by ten degrees.
General Fung caine down on the 25th ult, to investigate it; a number of troops are said to be collected in the neighbourhood, as disturbances may be apprehended from the thousands of coolies thrown out of employment. The farmer of the lekin tax losos about Tls. 40,000 a month by the cessation ofbusiness, and he went to Canton on the 27th ult., to interview the Hoppo. The coast steamers calling at Swatow carry only mails and passengers, no cargo. It is rumoured that the Swatow Guild have engaged privately several hundred retainers from the country for their protection. No war vessels in port at the time of our latest advices. General uneasiness prevailed at Swatow, both amongst foreigners and natives..
[Courier].
The Commercial and Emigration Treaties between China and the United States have been ratified at Peking.
It is reported that H. E. M. von Brandt, the German Minister at Peking, is to make a tour of inspection of the German Consulates in China. Ho will arrive at Chefoo in the beginning of September, and the Hertha will convey him to the different ports.
Nearly a year ago, says an American paper, speaking of the singular attitude assumed by Mr. Chen Lan Pin, Chinese Minister at Washington, and of the scandals caused at Now. York by his. nephew and others attached to the Embassy, we announced that the Minis- ter would be recalled this year in June, for the reason that his mission would then expire, and that the Chinese go- vernment would decline, for causes then explained, to yield to his earnestly ex- pressed desire for its further prolonga
tion. He had no desire whatever to return to China, where he could make less money than in travelling about Europe and America, both by land and Boa. There seems to be no doubt that Mr. Chiang Tsan Yu, one of the prin... cipal-directors of the Chinoso Custom
necessity, and enables the people to enduro, the vapours of the fens and
marsh lands.
Indian opium is very heavily taxed. A chest of Malwa, whose value to-day is about Tls. 520, has paid to the Li- dian Government for export duty, Tis. 288, or Rupees 700, and Chinese Cas- toms duty, Tls. 31.50, total Tis. 265.50; leaving Tis. 255.50, from which must further be deducted charges in Bombay and China, freight to Shanghai and Tientsin, &c., so that but little is left to the growers out of Tls. 520. Now the best Manchuria opium, which has already paid irregular taxes, can bo bought at Tla. 250, a price that pays the grower a very great profit. Pro- bably the cost of production is not more than Tls. 125, or at most Tls. 150.
There are signs of a considerable change in the trade of this place; as, owing to the exactions, robberies, and general bad conduct of the master carriers, the Russiau firms are consi- dering whether the tea trade would not be carried on with more regularity, dospatch, security, and cheapness, via Vladivostock and the Ousuri-to the head waters of the Silka-Amoor. If accommodation can be provided on the Russian rivers, the transit trade will leave Tiontsin. The loss would bo great, as the various Russian houses of Tientsin in an average year expend 14 million of taels-to the Chinese carriers for carriage from Tientsin to Tang chow, Kalgan, and across the desert to Kiachta. If the Russian route should be adopted, brick and fine teas will go from Foochow or Hankow to Vladivostock, and from that port will be carried in lighters towed by steam vessels to a point about 120 miles from Baikal Lake. The land transit of 120 miles
be provided for by a special may scienco, The distributing centre will then be shifted to Irkutsk from Kiaohta.-N. O. Daily News.
Why is two like vice ?-Because it ends in wo-e..
water (no spars).--Bearings-Heachu, ` N. by E. true; High Chikhok, N.W. W. true; and Soudan, W. S.
true.
MAILS.
The following mails will close:- To-day, 10th Angust,-
For Canton, per Fu-yew, at 2.30 p.m. For Shanghai, por Ancona, at 5 p.m. For Shanghai, per Glenifer, at 5 p.m. For Shanghai, per Prinz. Heinrich, at 5 p.m., instead of as previously notified. To-morrow, 11th August,
The conversion into steel of common
kinds of iron by means of the Thomas- Gilchrist dephosphorisation process, which has met with such success in this country, will, it is stated, not be worked in America The Bessemer Works there have purchased the sole right to use the process, but prefer to suppress it rather than to go to the expense of altering their existing plant.
The Japanese seamen have a clever way of estimating their distance from land in foggy weather. They blow their steam whistle, and calculate the For the United Kingdom and Eu- distance from the tine which elapsea rope, via Naples; to Saigon, before the echo of it reaches their cars. Straits Settlements, Batavia, Bar-Professors Ayrton and Perry, acting tnah, Ceylon, the Australasian upon this hint, have suggested that by Colonies, Pondicherry, Madras, use of a vibrating roed sunk some feet Calcutta, Aden, Egypt, Malta, and below water in the region of eternal Gibraltar, per Djemnak, at 11 a.m. calm, its echo might be made evident For Swatow, Amoy and Foochow, by applying the oar to a wooden surface per Namoa, at noon. For Straits dipped into water. By like means the and Bombay, per Avoca, at 3.30 velocity of sound in water was deter- mined many years ago by experiments on the Lake of Geneva, an account of On Friday, 12th August,~~
For Manila, por Diamante, nt 3.80 which may be found in most physical text-books. The idea seems to be worthy of consideration.
p.m.
p.m.
On Saturday, 13th August,--
For Straits and Calenttif, per Lennot, and Japan, at 2.30 p.m. For Amoy, Taiwanfoo and Tamsui, per Albay, at 3.30 p.m. Monday, 15th August,-- For Saigon, per Pernambuco, at 4.30
On
p.m.
The Duke of Edinburgh, it is said, once asked a gentleman who a few minutes before had been introduced as the greatest musician in the world" the following question, "Can you tell mo how it is that there is no horn. On Thursday, 18th August,- player to be found sure in the high For the United Kingdom and En-notes, except one man I had on board rope via Brindisi; to the Straits the Galatea?" "I can," said the musi- Settlements, Batavin, Barmah,cian. "How so?? Because on board Coylou, India, Aden, Egypt, Malta, ship tho man always practices on the and Gibraltar, and Mauritius, perihigh C." Tableau ! Zambesi; printed matter at 2 p.m. lettors at 3 p.m.
A
On Friday, 19th August,-
For Nagasaki and Yokohama, por Sunda, at 5. p.m. For Kobo and Yokohama, por Niigata Mara, at
5 p.m.
He was from the sequesterod valo, far from the bashy haunts of mon, and was buying his first glass of soda; but he was not to be taken in, and sternly said, "I wish you'd skim off that akum, boss; I ain't payin' for no froth, you bot."
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American Stores of all descriptions. Huntley & Palmer's BISCUITS & CAKES, BUTTER, Danish & French, Philippe
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CHUTNIES & CURRY POWDER, TEYSSONEAU'S
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NEYEN'S (BODEN) BOUZY,
pts, and qts.
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