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HONGKONG, 22ND NOVEMBER, 1881:
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UNDER date the 18th instant, our Macao Correspondent writes in reply to a letter on the Macao Lyceum which appeared in our issue of that date, as follows:-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd, 1881.
coum system of education is, to a great extent, worthy of hearty ap-. proval, but we regret that the reasons he states for this conviction are so threadbare. His statement that it is impossible under present existing
circumstances for a Machoese to re-. ceive a thorough education has not even the merit of truth to commend it. What is a thorough Macaoese education? Would it not have been quite as well if the learned philolo gist had stated in comprehensive English what are actually the educa- tional necessities of the rising gener- ation in the neighbouring colony, instead of indulging in vague genera- lities and idealistic vapourings? He admits that St. Joseph's College and the Commercial School may prepare young men for business fairly well, but asserts that at these institutions a scientific or classical education is impossible. He has also been “cre- dibly informed that there is no one who has any knowledge of the Greek language in the Macao Schools.” For all we know to the contrary there may be no opportunities of acquir- ing a scientific or classical education in Macao, and we should consider it likely that the Greek language is but imperfectly understood at St. Joseph's as well as at the Commercial School. But what we are anxious to know is the necessity which ex- ists in Macao for anything of the kind. Now let us look the situa- tion straight in the face from a prac- tical point of view, and we shall be in a position to estimate the exact value of a scientific and classical education, and a knowledge of the Greek language, to the rising genera-
The newly appointed Haifang Lau Sook Kin arrived yesterday in the steamer Thales from Foochow and will, we hear, take over the seals of office on the 1st of the next moon, 22nd November. The former incumbent Pang-him leaves shortly for Foochow.
-Amoy Gazette:
against the Czar is reported to have A new racoification in the conspiracy been discovered. Nihilists are said to
that the Portuguese at home have men who apparently cannot under the utmost contempt for their Ori-stand the requirements of the future. ental clansmen. Besides, what scope From the Portuguese Government, is there in Portugal for the classi- with its lately developed progressive cally educated natives of Macao tendencies, better things than this Is it not well known throughout the miserable Lyceum, with its shallow world that Portugal, without manu flammeries, might have been ex- factures or commerce worthy of the pected. It may be an honour of name, without resources and almost course to have the Macao National without energy, cannot even find Batallion the most learned and worst occupations for her own children? paid body of military policemen on For what purpose then must the the face of the globe, and possibly have introduced themselves into the young Macaoese be classically and the Lyceum may achieve this desir- telegraphic service, and to have betray- scientifically educated ? pected that the higher posts of the stitution of any system of classical or
Is it ex- able (1) end. Joking apart, the sub-ed on various occasions to the conspi. rators the contents of messages relat- Government service will be open to scientific instruction for a thoroughly in to intended journeys of the Czar.-- the natives of the colony? This is commercial course of education must,
London and China Express.. so unlikely that it may safely be left in a place like Macao, end in a miser- out of serious consideration, but even able fiasco. Ex quovis ligno non fit were it tolerably certain, is a know. Mercurius, which the learned gentle- ledge of Greek, philosophy, philology, man who figured in the columns of and other scientific subjects a sine the China Mail will tell his friends, qua non? The profession of the law means in homely idiom, "You can- may be open, but are the classics and not make a silk purse out of a sow's science a necessity for the advocate ear." or attorney f
For the first time, since the Ordin- we notice the posting of the valuation ance (12 of 1875) came into operation,
statement, as required by section 13.
the Catholic Cirole on Sunday the 27th A bazaar will be held at the Hall of inst. at 1 p.m. in aid of the Society of S. Vincent de Paul. Public patronage ia rospectfully solicited by the Com
We learn, says the Amoy Gazette, that the Spanish Government has ap pointed Senor Don Antolin Pita y the Consulate General at this Port and Casamés to be Vice-Consul attached to
from Europe. that he is shortly expected to arrive
The German barque Francisca docked at Aberdeen this morning, and Messrs. Douglas Lapraik und Co.'s steamship Kwang-tang will go round this after- noon. The German barque will go into the Cosmopolitan Dock during the course of the day.
A telegram from London, dated the 20th instant, states that the German Parliament has been opened. The speech from the Throne was read by
the Chancellor, who said that the main
tenance of peace in Europe was surer now than it had been for the past ten
years.
The great prizes of the age are to be found in the wide field of com- merce. There are Portuguese mer chants in Hongkong whose incomes are three times larger than that of Governor Graça; there are scores of Portuguese clerks whose salaries far exceed those of the highest paid officers of the Macao Government. A thorough commercial education,mittee of Management. which includes an acquaintance with two or three modern languages, is the stepping stone to affluence and independence. A scientific and clas- sical education for boys, many of I beg to express my undivided admira-
whom will eventually shoulder a tion and warmest thanks for the lucid
musket in the National Battalion at manner in which Mr. S. is advocating the
less than eight dollars per month, is cause of the Macao Lyceum. The institution of Macao. tion has undoubtedly received a mighty The future of Macao is quite clear, serious to be laughed at. It appears a ghastly mockery, which is far too impulse, and will, in course of time, prosper and flourish. The Government having presuming she has any future, which to be a great ambition among Ma- taken the matter up, and with the valuable under existing circumstances is ex- caoese to be Professors or Doctors; support of S. it is surely bound to com- mand universal sympathy, both here and ceedingly doubtfulher only chance useless scientists, weak-headed vi in Portugal! In Portugal particularly, lying in commercial prosperity. An sionaries. We have had a few mem- thoso few who have been Intely perusing a increased commerce is her sole hope. bers of the persuasion hanging about tiny pamphlet on the subject, will investi-The present revenue of the col- gate the question no more, but will give ony is like a house founded on
our colony for a long time, utterly implicit faith to the self-made oracles of
useless for all practical purposes, and the Far East. It is pleasant, it is refresh-sand, which the rising tide may ut- far from being ornaments to society. ing, to listen to these oracles, when one terly demolish at a day's notice. Professors and Doctors of the class finde argument and sound reasoning some- We are in posession of statistics which which would apparently satisfy the what outlandish, vulgar, and dry. But as
prove to our satisfaction that by an I am differently constituted, I will go on amended and improved form of Go-nists are as thick as bees on the con- ambition of our neighbouring colo- with my crooked dissertations on the Lyceum, provided you will allow me space. vernment, Macao can exist prospertinent of Europe. Degrees, like I may also add that I have given up reply- ously on revenues derived legitimately ing to any attack of the kind indulged in without the aid of Wei Sing, Fan- by Mr. S.
tan, or Opium. The great aims of Wishing to allow both sides of a advanced government are to secure question, which is certainly of very prosperity, peace, and safety, and to great importance to our Portuguese attain the various ends of civil so- friends, to be fairly heard, we gladlyciety. The most important obliga- gave our correspondent "S." space to tions devolving on any government, defend what he asserted was the are the development and increase of views of an important section of the the country's resources by every legi- Macao community. We should have timate means, the protection of the preferred leaving the two disputants, rights of citizens, the perseveration S" and our Macao Correspondent, of their morals, and the defence of to settle their differences of opinion, their independence. It has been said without any assistance from our-that while the philosophy of govern- selves; however, as the usual acrimo-ing constitutes the science of politics, nious personalities apparently could the art of government consists in the not be avoided, we are glad that the application of that science to the controversy has very properly termi- particnlar requirements of each in- nated without being carried too far.dividual state. The Ancient Greek Our views on the question of edu-writers, like the promoters of the cation in Macao have already been Macao Lyceum, treated politics with plainly expressed, and but for the reference to an ideal perfect state, school-boy stupidities for which some and when such a thing exists, doubt- self-opinionated blockhead is respon- less their speculative views may sible, which appear in the China Mail prove of some practical value; until of Saturday last, we should have con- tentedly allowed the gentleman who theories of philosophic dreamers can that remote period the Utopian is our special correspondent to demol play but a minor part in the history ish the foolish theories of a parcel of of our time. If, therefore, it is ad- Utopian dreamers, without our in- mitted that the future existence of terference. The writer of the letter Macao depends on commerce, it can in the China Mail is apparently one hardly be denied that the necessity of the eminent professors, doctors of for a thoroughly commercial bring divinity, or philosophy, or philology, ing up for her suns is glaringly ap- a class of noodles which it is, the parent. The future of the youth of ambition of the promoters of the this Portuguese settlement is plain Lyceum to see reared in Macao. enough. They must either cast in We form this opinion from the utter their lots with their native town, pre- childishness, which is the leading pared to stand by her prosperity, or characteristic of his communication. fall with her degradation, or carve No man with any practical know- out an independent career for them ledge of real life, or the absolute selves in Hongkong, or at one of the necessities of a colony so peculiarly Coast Ports of China and Japan, situated as Macao has been for years past, could have penned such feeble, illogical trash. We do not question the perfect right of this Professor we give him this title for the sake of convenience to believe that the Ly
where many of their countrymen have risen to positions of honour and re- sponsibility. Portugal is no home for native-born Macaoose. It is well known, however much our good friends may try to disguise the fact,
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titles of nobility, can be purchased No. 618 S.C., held last night the At the Regular Lodge of St. John, at many Continental towns for a mere song. We have met many of following officers were elected for the generally found them grossly igno- W.S.W. these gentry in our time, and have ensning year:-
R.W.M. Brother James Christie.
T. M. Leatherbarrow quainted only with abstruse absur- Treasurer rant of practical knowledge, RC-
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Lawrence Wells. dities which had been for years Secretary
J. Cook. "spooned" into their empty heads. S.D. The only practical test of the value J.D. of different kinds of education is to D.O. place them in the open market. It Steward is long odds, in Hongkong, or in
J:G.. other mercantile emporium, that the Tyler learned. Professor acquainted with a dozen unknown tongues, and all the
As we predicted would be the case, abstruse sciences; who can recite
Mr. Joseph Maxwell, from Australia, ancient Greek poems in the original, printer and gentleman at large, has and discourse eloquently on the Court, this time before Mr. H. E. made another appearance at the Police cuneiform inscriptions, would fail to earn a crust, whereas the business man, an enforced one. On the 15th inst. Wodehouse. Joseph's visit was of course sensibly educated, speaking two or Dr. Stewart sentenced this gentleman to three modern languages, possessing four days' imprisonment for being drank a knowledge of figures and writing and incapable, and as on the 19th, the a bold commercial band could work day be was released from durance vile, his way to the front, and command he was again picked up in the same a real return for his practical attain- condition, Mr. Wodehouse sent him ments. The boys and girls of Macao back to gaol for a week, and ordered have no earthly use for the Greek him to find sureties to the tune of £10 language." They are not likely for his good behaviour for the next ever to visit the Hellenic kingdom, able to obtain the sureties, and so of three months. Mr. Maxwell will not be
any possible means utilise their in the printing department, he will be and if they were, they could not by course he will remain in prison, where, knowledge of the ancient tongue in found a most useful man. This man these modern days. We spent a num- ber of years in one of the first Uni- and is left to himself will quickly drift is apparently an inveterate drunkard, versities in the world-not a pinch-into a drunkard's grave. We have a beck Continental institution where Temperance Hall in this colony, which any noodle can obtain a degree by is said to do good service in the cause paying for it--and wasted many of temperance. Is it not a portion of the valuable hours, which might have mission of this institution to endeavour been far better employed, in the to reclaim that class of pariebs usually study of the Greek language. The the Temperance Hall is a mere teetotal denominated confirmed drunkards? If usefulness of our devotion to this lodging-house it has really little claims branch of modern education may be to public favor and recognition. If on guaged, when we confess that we have never once opened a Greek work name indicates, we would ask if any the other hand, it is actually what ita since we left our alma mater.
attempt has been made by the apostles of temperance to save this man Max- well from himself.
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We regret that the educational prospects of Macao are in the hands of
A government notification in Satur- day's Gazelle states that in accordance with instructions from the Right Hon. the Earl of Kimberley, Dr. Bitel is in the Central School in addition to the future to undertake the Inspection of
Inspection of the other Government -- duties he has hitherto discharged in the Schools of the Colony.
Opposition to another of our old established local institutions appear to have become an accomplished fact. We are informed that Mesars. Kwok Acheong and Sons' steamer Kiung.chow, the Canton river service, between that Capt. A. N. Love, has been placed on port and Hongkong, running as a night boat. She has obtained a licenco to carry 159 passengers, and left on Sunday night on her first voyage. It is intended to run the Kiung.chow on the nighte on which there is no Com- pany's boat.
graphic notice received this morning The following translation of a telo. from the Bureau International des Ad- ministrations Telegraphiques, Borne, bas been placed at our disposal by the courtesy of Mr. J. Enston Squier, Su- perintendent of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Co.: "The Transvaal Government having closed all the Telegraph Offices, tele. grams can be sent only by post from Newcastle, Natal." This would appear to indicate that further troubles in the Transvaal are imminent.
TRAINING NOTES.
Actual business at the race course may be said to have practically com- menced this morning. Although the
pearance, and close upon a score of the weather was threatening, a goodly number of sportsmen lodged an ap subscription griffins were at work. Mr. Grammont, generally first in the field, trotted three or four of his ponies, finishing up with a smart canter down the straight. The courae was rather heavy going, and as griffins can hardly be accurately judged cantering alone, we feel diffident in exprossing any decided opinion as to the capabilities or prospects of any of the ponies from a first inspection. Mr. Grammont's ponies went in fairly good form, and doubtless satisfied that gentleman im. mensely. The big bay pony, the pro- perty of Mr. L. Poesneaker if we re. member rightly, made a very poor show, and we rather fear he is one little grey, on the other hand, moved of the useless division. Mr. Reinera
must in this case reserve judgment along in fairly good style, but we until we see him extended, Mr. Henry's team, two browns and a grey, trotted and cantered, a brown with a patch on his muzzle, going much the best of the three. Mr. Gordon had a long string doing gentle work, including the old ponies Dauntless and Lord of the Isles. One of the griffins in this lot, the big grey so much fancied at the time of the on going on the course, attributed by: draw, exhibited a good deal of temper
pony's former racing experiences in the our friend Mr. W, M. Morgan, to the
far north. However after trying his
it into his head to gallop, and ap hardest to dislodge his pilot, he took
peared, although with bad front action, to get over the ground. Mr. Barretto's iron grey, and Langayne (late The Leader) trotted and slowly, the boro of the twenty feet jump displaying a good deal of unwill. for sporting bots on the results of the ingness to canter past the stand. A Valley Stakes and German Cup were booked between the stables of Mr. would appear that compilers of books Paul and Mr. Gordon, from which-it-
no those events are willing to lay 20 to 1 on the field; a very liberal rate of adds it must be admitted.
cantered