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A BERLIN telegram to the London Standard | AMONG the few imports from Japan to China states that the Grand Duke Constantine Nika (says the Japan Mail) the Ginseng root is pro- laicvitch, the oldest uncle of the present Car,minent, taking with the Korean product the first rank in the prices quoted. Western physicians five decided that its medicinal virtues, if it
declares in a letter to a Russian friend that he
will never return to Russia for any lengthened
stay. He has ceised all connection with Russia. Iis fortune amounts only to eighty thousand roubles a year. Thus his position was untenable. The faults and imprudence of his nephew were less indulgently treated by the present Czar than by the late Emperor. The Grand Duke allows
that he had had some relations with the Radi- cals, but none with the Nihilists. He also accuses the Russian Naval Administration of grave and numerous faults.
Dy Boxing night a causeless panic was created in the New Grecian Theatre, City Road, London About twenty-five minutes past seven o'clock, very soon after the curtain had been raised on the pantomime of "Happy-go-Lucky," a quaire! be- gan in the gallery. It resulted in blows, and while the performance was thus momentarily In-
possesses any, are limited by, at the atmost, some slightly aperient qualities: but the Chinese credit it with almost supernatural efficacy in the cure or prevention of almost all known maladies. It is not recorded, however, the purpose for which it is chictly commended and employed with profound faith in its efficacy by the males of the race of Han, namely as a potent aphro- disiac.
Tun Japan Gaselle, translating from à native paper, says that "Geographical discovery is not being the latest successful explorer of a new at an end in this part of the world, a Mr. Sanada island in the Chichina (Kurile) group. The island is said to be a prolonged oval in form, having a circumference of about ninety miles. It is called Herutsufashima, and has never been
ACCORDING to Intest news from Cape Town, | A CURT telegram by Reuter states that “Brad- Major Musgrave, the British Resident in Damara- laugh has been expefted and a new writ issued, land, had left that country on board a passing This, we presunie, may be taken to mean that vessel. The war between the Damaras and the obrasions member has been expeiled the Namaquas resulted in a victory for the former, Ilouse of Commons and a new writ has been who are now marching on Walwich Bay. The Bri-issued for electing a member for Northampton. tish subjects there are much alarmed. A ship of A very few more words buld make Reuter's war will probably be sent for their protection.telegrams a great deal cager. Basutoland is still unsettled. The Colonial Go- vernment is asking for the views and intentions of the Home Government, and urging that if the award is enforced by the Colonial troops a final settlement of all matters, including the land,
must be left to them.
THE community of Hongkong are indebted to this journal, apparently, for a new departure by the Daily Press. No person in the Colony can remember the occasion upon which the morning paper published anything on a race day beyond an account of the races and the advertisements, printed on a half sheet, before this, the 25th February, 1882, when the Daily Press ap
A ecclesiastical scandal of a painful kind is creating a "sensation" in Armenia. A bishop is about to be tried on a charge of wilful murder-peared in full form. The alleged murderer is the Bishop of Bashkale, and the preliminary inquiry, according to an Armenian journal, was conducted before the local medjüss, and the minutes of the case, showing strong prima facie evidence against the Bishop, tenupted, some one at the back of the pit gave populated, nor received any attention. On tand. were forwarded to the Sublime l'orte, the resuk that the German Goxernment has demanded an ing, sanada' found wide plains suitable for culti being that the Armenian Patriarchate has been vation; there are indications of copper and sul-requested to divest the accused of his sacerdotal plur, and the sex is said to abound with fish and sea-otters. Mr. Sahada and friend are about to
colonize this island." raise a capital of 10,000 yen, to begin with, to
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appeared to be a bishop was seen being carried stretcher. This tumed out to be not really a through the streets by the police strapped on a bishop, but a pickpocket in episcopal garments, station.-St. James's Gazette.
We published a private telegram a few days since relating a war-like speech, made in Paris by General skobeleff, the Russian Minister to the French capital. We now leam through Reuter
explanation of that speech, a natural sequence that any one must have foreseen, and one which no doubt will be forthcoming, as Russian policy hitherto has not been to show their canls with out good cause.
ont the cry "Fire?" which was instantly taken up and repeated by equally reckless and cowardly persons, and in a few moments the entire audience became a seething mass struggling to escape from within the four walls. The New Grecian, with its 5,000 auditors, was better provided for such a crises than many other places of enter- tainment, and, notwithstanding the great "rush," not a solitary life was kist, and, so far as can be 7 ascertained, not a single limb was broken. A number of those who occupied side boxes leapt upon the stage and fled across it in an affrighted way, thus adding to the terror of the rest of the Shimbun, who has been released from prison at who, on being detected, refused to walk to the deliver upon their receipt, the consequences are audience. The pit, where there were probably 1,000 persona densely packed, rose en massé. For the space of possibly five minutes-perhaps not even so long-this scene continued. Those who saw it from the stage and the private boxes
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agonising description. An actor said."Never shall I forget the sight of those faces. It was such a picture as no one can imagine." For tunately the panic subsided almost as rapidly as it had arisen, and the performance proceeded.
A GENTLEMAN who has recently visited sheeps- head Bay Race track near New York writes:
EDITORS who offend the Press laws of Japan hardly get the treatment one might expect in a country which has made a considerable advance in civilizationccording to Western ideas. The Japan Herald says that "the clitor of the frota
the expiration of his term, says that he was kept for five days in Kajibashi jail, and then removed to the jail at Ichigaye. On that day he was not
THE news which was received here (writes the put to work, but the next day he was told off to
Standard correspondent from Constantinople on grind wheat. If they found any fault they abused the 12th ulto) by telegraph three or four days and beat him severely. The food was very badago, to the effect that England and France had and the clothing thin; four men were put into a addressed a Note to the Viceroy of Egypt making
small cell during the night, so that they could not help disturbing each other whenever they moved. On the whole, prisoners are having a very bad time of it there."
THE late defalcations in the matter of Messrs. the cause of litigation shortly. It appears that Norton & Co.'s trusted servant, will, we hear, be several Chinese having quicksilver stored in the property from the banks, and now the flasks are godowns of the firm obtained advances on the nou est and the firm have no quicksilver to
bound to be serious to all concerned. We hear that the Hongkong and shanghai Bank is rather deep in in this affair, and that the company yesterday caused a writ to be issued against ont of the bonniers.
We hear that Mr. J. M. Guedes had an awfully
narrow escape in the matter of a parcel of quick- silver stored in Norton and Co.'s godowns. He had for some considerable time 1,800 flasks placed there, but fortunately sold out during the week preceding the Chinese New Year, and having completed the transactions by Friday was enabled to pay into the Mercantile Bank on the
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SOME very just comments have been made by a forbids foreigners to pass beyond the treaty local contemporary on the illiberal policy which limits, making them liable to severe, and possibly
THE Avenir de la Mayenne reports the most abnor.nal and really extraordinary fact, if true, of
mad at the same time. This family, which lived at Andonille, Mayenne, is composed of Pierre Lechin, aged sixty-four; his wife, about
whose ages range between thiny and twenty four. All these persons are afflicted with the same hallucination. They believe that the have been poisoned by witches, and that the Devil has concealed himself in their clothes. These poor maniacs have just been taken to the Asylum of La Roche Gaudin; but for some time previous they are said to have prowled about the country dining the night, in the scantiest of clothing. On one occasion the two sons and two daughters were found bathing in a pond when the thermo- meter stood near freezing point. Lately their hadaess has assumed a dangerous character, for they attacked those they met and pelted them with stones.
an offer of support in the event of complications arising in that province, has caused considerable commotion both at the Palace and the Porte. The Sovereign of this country, who is particularly jealous of his suterian prerogatives, is, as might have been expected, indignant at this fresh in- terference in Egyptian affairs at a time when
Foreign Powers, without their having the com-
the same. As the goods in the godowns appear mon courtesy to inform Turkey of the action taken. Yesterday a Cabinet Council met at the to have been removed between Friday and` consider what measures it was advisable to take the few preceding days must be considered most under the circumstances. The sitting lasted, I fortunate for the holder. understand, until the small hours of this moin ing, without any decision being arrived at. But it is rumoured to-day that the Porte will probably address some sort of protest to the Powers against the action taken by the English and French Governments.
JAMES BOWEN, of the village of Knockholt, is a careful saving man. He is not, however, fond of savings' banks. Probably he has had his confi. dence shaken in the bank system by the failures which have been reported from time to time. Anyhow he preferred to keep his money in his own fashion. Ile accordingly placed his pounds, and then buried the jar in his raspberry planta- shillings, and pence in a jar as they accumulated, tion One day this week a man presented him self at Bowen's house, and asked for a day's em- ployment. The labourer was duly engaged, and,
At a recent meeting of the Chapter of the Order of St. John,, held at St. John's Gate-General Bir John St. George, K.C.B., presiding the silver medal for deeds of gallantry on land was awarded to Mrs. Marion Smith, widow of Bandmaster B. sith, 94th Regiment, for her courageous ́self- devotion in remaining under fire during the action at Bronkorst spruit, on December zoth, 1880, alleviating the sufferings of the wounded in every possible manner, even tearing up her dress to make bandages; and also for the good service rendered by her for a period of three months, when she voluntarily remained with the prisonera
she displayed unremitting attention under the [of war, many of them wounded, to whose comfort
most tiying circumstances. Mrs. Smith's hu manity and courage were made the subject of a special district order, published by Colonel Bel-
THE Paris correspondent of a London paper re- cently telegraphed:-I learn from a trustworthy
source that the English and French Consuls Ge-
The classes of ignominious, peralties in the event of trespass. cheque cashed, and requested the jeweller to the jar with its contents had gone. He imme. Preliminary step to a military intervention, I may
that contingency has not as yet in any way or form been discussed by the English and French Governments. The Collective Note is merely a
state on absolutely unimpeachable authority that
IT has been a set phrase in the local papers of this Colony for many years that Hong- kong is the receptacle for the "rascaldom of the Kwangtung province," and the number of prisoners in Victoria Gaol and that of criminals appearing before the jurlicial authorities in the course of a There is not space in the compass of an ordi-year have been totted up and presented introduced into the work, but it may be fairly crime. No one will attempt to deny that burn and Hindoo, resting after a successful cam ful stud. fourteen in all, including Luke Black- asserted that no such Directory has ever been this "dot on the ocean" is admirablypaign. A new racing stable has been established Jablished, either in Hongkong, or any other partsgated as a retreat for those of the neigh-by Mr. J. R. Keene, and he has ten yearlings, the same age; two sons and two daughters, Palace, under the presidency of the sultan, to f Monday, the disposal of the quicksilver during
houring mainland who, having left three ready to be sent to Europe in March.
seek a home elsewhere, but we are their country for their country's good," | Amongst them is the sensational-priced Bolero, by Bonnie Scotland out of Waltz, which is en- of opinion that the number of crim-tered in the Derby of 1883, and for which Mr. Keene pakl 8,000 dols. Others were sired by inals in this Colony, in gaol or out.
Virgil, Alam, Pat Molloy, &c. Bolero has just would not be found to be so excessive as
arrived from Nashville Fenn, having been pur the local papers of Hongkong have for chased from Capt. Connor, who bought him last some time past been attempting to make April at a yearling sale, paying 5,000 dots, for A DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE out is the case, were a comparison insti- him. At the same sale Dwyer Bros. gave 7,000 TREATY PORTS IN CHINA AND || hotel with the criminal statistics of other dels. for a full brother to Luke Blackburn. Close
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places, which plan the Hongkong papers by Keene's stable is the establishment of Byron have never yet adopted, and for the best rea- 'Lelland, some time trainer for the late Price M'Grath, of Kentucky, who was the owner of son, that such a course would probably show
some superb racehorses, Tom Bowling, Aristides, their statements to be baseless and turn their
Calvin, &c. Melland has a fair string of i arguments against themselves, The re- thorough-breds under his care, and one yearlingA DAKING Tobbery says the Paris corespondent rently issued Municipal Police Report of colt in particulur, by Saxon out of Lizzie Lucas, of the Standard was committed on January 12th Shanghai-for-the past year shows that the and therefore half brother to Gerald,-our-Derby at a jeweller's shop in the Rue du Quatre sep Model Settlement has a very fair share of favourite. The former is owned by the brother tembre. Towards five o'clock in the evening crime within its boundaries, notwithstand-of a gentleman well known in London as the two persons, fashionably dressed, announcing THE CONDITIONS OF TRADE WIT77 ing that it is far enough removed from that founder of the system of electric news delivery," themselves to be Americans, entered the estabamongst other duties, was set to hoe the rasp.lairs, at Pretoria, on April 5th.
hot-bed of rascaldom --the Kwantung He is a modest sapporter of the turf on the other listinent, and selected jewellery to the value of berry plantation. He worked a part of the day province." - The total number of native side, and enjoys it as a real pastime.
246,000f, which was placed in a leather bag and then left off, and returned no more, not even brought by the purchaser. One of them then troubling to demand his wages. "What was still THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY Prisoners apprehended during the year
more strange, the poor man was noticed in the left, professedly to change a cheque to enable 188: by the Shanghai Police amounted to
him to pay the amount of the bill. On his village to be spending money in a remarkably | neral at Cairo do not take identical views of the close upon ten thousand, anil the Report
return in about half an hour' he alleged that he free and aristocratic fashion, These circumn-Note recently presented to the Khedive. As it says "the crimes committed by natives are
had been unable at so late an hour to get his
stances came to the knowledge of Bowen, who at has been asserted in some quarters that it was a once rushed to his secret hiding place. Alas, extensive and serious." crime in Shanghai are equal in all respects We cannot but condemn the spirit which dictates keep the bag of jewels until the morning. The diately put the police on the track of the labourer, to those which give the authorities of this the continuance of restrictions however necessary
two gentlemen withdrew. On examining the Colony so much trouble in attempting to they may have been in the past japan can
bag the jeweller found to his consternation that who was secured and duly brought before the suppress-murder figures in the Report,gain nothing by such a display of exclusiveness the precious stones and jewels had been replaced agistrates. Prisoner's plea that there was no for which there were three arrests; there and mistrust; and we would fain see her attitude by pieces of metal. How the accomplice of the evidence to show that the far had ever been thief succeeded in effecting this change without placed in the plantation, or that it was there were 66 cases of burglary and house towards us in this matter somewhat more con. HE HONGKONG DIRECTORY breaking; only one case of forgery is re-
sistent with her own proverb-" Uwogakire detection is most mysterious. The thieves have
goes to gaol for eighteen months. Mr. Bowen THE
areba, midza-gokaro ari." Like, begets like. not yet been traced, portell, but there were to cases of fraud; The large measure of consideration with which
will probably prefer the bank to the raspberry bed in future.Sportsman. and of nearly'a thousand cases of larceny, she is regarded by Western nations to-day is due 54 were committed by servants; gambin a great measure to her liberal policy in the
RATEPAYERS of Richmond may congratulate been discussed, or proposed, and diplomatists, immediate past; and she may be quite certain
themselves, says the Sportsman, upon the fact the very emphatic joint declaration will render kidnapping which appear in the report are that the adoption of new codes and the reforma-
that in no part of country are the morals of pau any more practical measures unnecessary. Both probably not a tithe of the undiscovered tion of her judiciary will not help her to recover
pers more carefully looked after than in their own Governments are fully impressed with the neces offences of this nature. The list is swelled her sovereign rights so much as some practical
particular work-house, and by their own parti-sity of acting together, but if ulterior measures by a variety of serious crimes which it is evidence of her readiness to grant foreigners the
cular Board of Guardians. Some time ago cer-
should be necessary their freedom of acting is satne privileges that her own. people enjoy. At
tain members of that now famous body brought not necessary to detail, receiving stolen
fully reserved. the same time we cannot endorse our contem
forward a resolution that a penny illustrated property 32, destroying property 36, ut-porary's condemnation of the terms in which tering base coin 13, and the like, which all this article forbidding travel, without passports
supplied for the inmates on the ground that it ENGLISH soapmakers it might reasonably have o to prove that the Chinese in Hongkong is couched. For it is to be remembered, in the
gave the paupers false views of life and "en- been considered, have not much to learn in the are no worse than their compatriots in first place, that, if these provisions are to be
couraged thera to be proud" On Thursday a way of advertising, however much other trader. some other places. The number of minor effective at all, the local police must be cutrusted
rather excited meeting of the Board took place to men may prove their shortcomings in this respect. offences punished in Shanghai, it may be with the power of enforcing them. To restrict
consider what amusements should be allowed in still it seems the Yankees can teach them a good the myrmidons of the law to verbal remonstrance
the workhouse. It appeared that it was proposed deal yet, if we may judge by the following charm. said, go to swell the roll to the extent pre: would be ridiculous. They must be relied on
shortly to produce for the benefit of the inmates ing little expedient for a gaining notoriety. some sented by the report, as no less than 4,047
not to resort to force unless its employment is proaching it. Indeed, hereditary nobility is un- selections from those soul-stirring plays, "The days ago a well-dressed gentleman, was walking ricksha coolies were "run in" for having have shown, themselves almost invariably competitive examinations. The descendants of the Builrushes." Mr. Carlisle, however, intimated ly fell down, apparently in a fit. He foamed at vagrants were captured, and 2.381 jin justified by the conduct of the offender. They known, office alone giving rank in that land of Rivals," "The Thracian Robber," and "Moses in along the streets of New York, when he suddden-
their vehicles in a dirty condition whilst courteous and moderate in the past, and it seems Confucius and the Manchoo family have had that the Board did not like "Mosta in the Bull- the mouth, and appeared to be suffering severely, plying for hire. But in Hongkong by far unreasonable to anticipate that they will be less some glory of this kind attached to them; and to rushes" being in the programme. Capt. Tulley A crowd soon gathered round to sympathise the greater number of offences are of a so in the future. And, in the second place, distinguish the five degrees of honour paid to the gently ventured to suggest that Moses in the with him. They unfastened his neck-tle and similarly trivial character-hawking with among the provisions whose violation is punish- Imperial descendants, the Jesuits designated bullrushes was really a very pretty scene, taken unbuttoned his coat, took off his hat and fanned out licence, being out without a light or able by a fine of 100 yen, is one forbidding trade them by the five degrees of European nobility. from the Old Testament. "There was a child his face. Then as the foam at the mouth seeme pass, selling fish and vegetables outside beyond treaty limits. It must be plain that, un But after the fall of the last Chinese dynasty a laid in an ark, and a great alligator came to cated to increase in volume and bulk someone of der certain circumstences, a man might find it vast number of the ejected family dropped the him up."? It was rather a funny scene. "Funny, the onlookers suggested that the man was sham- places set apart for the same, and so on.
well worth his while to incur this, and possibly a yellow girdle, and at no time did any one dream | sir, do say ?” rejoined the Rev.. H. 'Wakefield, | ining. The sufferer at this remark sprang to his If a comparison is made between the very much heavier, penalty. Certainly from this of applying to them the title of duke, marquis, and this awful ejaculation seems effectually to feet, and unblushingly admitted that he was nature of the crimes committed in Hong-point of view-putting aside the question of count, and so forth, until the egregious vanity of have silenced poor Capt. Tulley, Mr. Edward shamming, but said he had the honour of res kong and Shanghai, it will be found that whether trade ought to be 10 circumscribed at Tseng and the snobbish Ignorance of a certain Tenry, the comedian, objected to mixing up presenting the best soap-making firm in the there is little to choose between the two, all-the proposed law errs just as much on the class of English society revieved one of the secular and religious matters, and pointed to the world. It lathered well as the bystanders had and this goes to prove that the local papers side of leniency as it does on that of excess when ridiculous titles in his person. We have, how fact that the very next item on the programme to seca. It was delicate in davour as he could are either ignorant of the condition of it subjects a foreigner to arrest if he fails to carry ever, yet to learn that the 'Marquis Teng' is the scene on the Nile was a song entitled "Old testify, while its manyfold good qualities ruights affairs in other parts or that they wilfully alantem while journeying at night. It seems to the descendant either of the great philosopher or Timbertoes," Altogether this meeting of the be found from a perusal of the circulars with ignore them to bolster up their own mis- us that a differentiation of the penalties attaching one of the Imperial household: Above all, let Richmond Board must have been as good as a which he had the honour of prescating his statements as to the preponderance of the violations of the passport conditions is all that us draw the line at titles to the ladies of his play in itself. In the end it was decided to cut dience. This trick, we presume, would be re
is required. Certainly we cannot consent to call | family, for even in China these absurdities are Moses out entirely, and the' blg alligator will peated in different places as circumstances! criminal classes in this Colony on account those conditions "absurd and trivial," since three unknown. If this kind of thing goes on, we shall have to wait for his prey until that hoary-headed favoured. Such a method of advertising would of its proximity to the province of Kwang- of theni at any rate are directed to the preserva-in time have Lord Get Who, his cousin, and the old bogie, "Bumbledom," is slain by the good hardly be successful in England. The operitor tung,
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