POLICE COURT.-THIS DAY.
SWINDLING STOREKHEJ ZRS.
The subjoined regimental notifications, pre gazetted-3rd Battalion, the Bulls (East Kent Regiment): Licut. Francis Douglas Carlyon Carlyon siamens resigns his commission. 4th Battalion : Lieut. George Wyndham Chichester Knatchbull resigns his commission. 3rd Hat- talion, die Royal Inniskilling Fasiliers: Lieut. George James Francis Nailon resigns his com- mission. 4th Battalion: George Alexander Lestie Buchanan, gent, to be Lieut."
The authorities are now convinced that the fire which occurred at Devonpon Dockyard last week was not due to incendiarisin, but to spon taneous combustion. In consequence the Ad moralty have issued an order throughout the dockyards for, all the cakuns in store to be opened ut and exataited. Hales when opened have equently been found much heated in the in- teruse through Having been compress of while in a damp state.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
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century shakespeare, whose works Dom Luis has, since he posë ta kitship, translated for the Dona Maria Theatre, was his literaty átel. The Duke of Epistla enjoyed thọ society of Prince Napoles, who lead sailed about the world as much he had himself, and was a reader and thinkce. The friendship be struck up with him and the Frincess Mathilde led to the marriage with Main Fin, of Italy.
Messrs. A. Tylor and Co., have secured the an evident disadvantage to the shipper at Bom settlement, although we did not, bear of it until | and asked him to come and see him, but before contract for the supply of coals to the Govern-bay, and furthermore an unfairness, is proved by to-day. Mr. Shimizu Laesuke, head of the Yaku- the mate could respond to the suptuous, the re ment Dockyard at Hongkong.
a special committee of the Bombay Chamber of bunsha ji Yolulama, and known as a Japanese port of firamis was heard is the captain's room, Commerce in 1879, when wheat at 16 cwt, to the lawyer, has been arrested on a charge of forging and on the mate going in, Kaptam Corbelt was In the eag in which the bay Anthony Suntos
ton was shown to represent about 36 cubic feet, securities and other documents. We hear that discovered lying as the cabin door, shot through Spencer is charged with stealing a clock, valued
instead of 40 cubic feet. At the other places, the nuts are large, reaching to many thou the forehead. He was carried at $30, from the lunge of Ur. Eastlake, Will clerk
Madras, Cochin and posts of Ceylon, the custom sands of dollars, and that several foreigners are curls were mads to resultatet sk, and tim, but without Easilike, student of medicine, son of Dr. East
is the same as at Calenta, viz., "the same weight likely, if the alleged forgery is substantiated, to avail, as life proved to be extinct, a pration of the lake, deposed this morning before Dr. Stewart that
and measurement for both ships and steamers," he victims. At present we must await the devetrain protruding from the wound. Fine weather, une evening about the end of November last des
but there is more or less need for å scale uniformslopments afforded by the new procedure inangu continged up to Feb 6th until, when zo miles off
In London, the Paranguese Princes heard of fendant, accompanied by three other boys, came
with other ports.
rated by the penal code which came into force saguni, a heavy westerly swell, with wind, the dutygroups Playss of Queen stéphanie. The to the house bent seven o'clock, and inquired
We have to announce the death, at Southamp-on the 1st of January last.
caused the vessel to roll and labor so heavily as news then reached them that she was dead, and for Dr. von der Horck, who was out. Next
ton, of Surgeon-Major Andrew Moffitt, a distin- According to a vernacular newspaper published to carry away the backstays, when immediately Dan Pete mid a younger Inother dying of it day about the same hour, defendant returned,
guished officer of the Army Medical Department. in Tokiu, a company is being formed with a capi- the fare, main, and wiren top-masts went over was supposed, typhoid fever. They had all been accompanied by only one boy, younger than him
te was brought ender the netice of the War tal of 500,000 yen for the purpose of introducing the side, with the fore topsail and top-galau taken ill after a huntien jy in the Royal dos self. He enquired again for 12r, von der Horck,
Office authorities for his valuable services in the the electric light to the metropolis. If the result yards and all canvas. The fore-mast head was ntain of Villaricio. Before Lats and Juan had and said he came from Mr. Woodford of the
China war of 1860, and received the medal. He of the experiment proves successfit, it is not in- also broken short of The wreck was cleared fine to embark at Southampton, the former was Hongkong and shanghai Bank. Being told that
also servest in the operations around shanghai probable that similar associations will be orga-away, and next day, the 7th February, a fiente hailed King of Portugal. The latter was seized Dr. von der Horch was absent, defendant said
against the Taupings to. 1862, and was present at nized in the other large centres of population, westerly gale set in, against which the vessel in
on the page with a fatal malady. A cry went Mr. Woodford had something the matter with
the capture of several cities from the rebels. The At present, Osaka, Kinto, and the native town of her disabled comition could do nothing, and she up in Bhatgal opust the Migaelites, who were his heart, and was in great pain, and very nous
entered the service of the Emperor of China at Kobe are wretchedly lighted, but the example of accordingly had to sun before it for about zoo accusel of poisoning Doa Maria's sons. It was to have anedical attendance, idealant pra
the same time as Colonel Gordon, R.E., and Tokio cannot fail to excite emulation if the new miles off the cost, when the weather moderated even reacted that at a banquet in Englanti, poi- posed that witness should go for the Boston, but
served with the disciplined Chinese force as project proves prosperous. Residents in the fo and a couse was again steel for the land. Au soned food intended for the sailor Prince by the witness declined, and then defendant asked Sir Evelyn Wood, accompanied by his aides principal medical officer until its chssolution, bereign settlement of Kobe are fortunate in haring the 4th Mardh she was taken in tow by the steam Legitimists was absorbed by the Prince Consort, whether he could wait, and wished to sit de camp, Captain Stade and Major Fraser, K.,g present at thirty-three engagements against already secured through the enterprise of the sent out to look for her, and brought into har who died in the following month of, appa down in the parlour as he was tired. Witness arrived in London on the rath inst. from South the rebels. He was presented by the Emperor of local gas company, an illuminating agent which
bour on sunday morning, the 15th March. Pasrently, typhoid fever also, The sy was, told him there were seats in the hail, but defend- ¦ Africa, phi Egypt. Sir Evelyn called next day China with a
sage, 194 days.-Japan Herald.
that as the captain of the artholomeu Dias service meal of the second ant asked again to be allowed to go into the at the War Office, and had interviews with the
have b
o everyone that if
es the gist of the evening, the highest place parlour. Witness then allowed him, and defendant Duke of Cambridge, Mr. Childers, sir Game class. He was made a surgeon-major in 1873, the Governinent really camest in the en-
was offered lum, bit that he refused to sit above. and his companion went in and sat down. Wit Wolseley, and the heads of the departments, and Major H. Oldham, of the 79th (Chierm High-deavour to punishe e liberal papers of Osaka; |
the Queen's huslaul, anal was saved by his ness went inth the adjoining room to dinner, and subsequently lunched with the secretary for War anders) Regiment, has been anuanced as the the juggle of a suspended newspaper reappearing
modesty, Dom Juan, wan kept his place, was shortly afterwards looked into the parlour and Commander F. A. Wetherall has been appoin- successor of Major Pardo, in the deputy-assistan- next day under different title would not longt be missed the defendant. His companion wasted to the helloisle, additional for Coastguard, adjutancy and quartermaster-generalship for mus permitted with impunity. The authorities have
The decree of the shaigh Coat in the above. This explanation of the sunblen and standing near an open window. Winess went He served in the 1ick sea as midshipman of the ketry the Cork district, Major Oldhain served how shown conclusively that no mere nominal,
case was entered on the 22nd inst., as follows mutality in the Royal House took hold
Charles Ericksen, et. al, seamen on board the sensational legends."
of the national imagination. The crowd likes back to the dining room, and, on returning to the Hannibal, Rodity, and St. Jean d'Atre from with distinction in the China war of 1860, taking penalty was intended for the heinous, offene pardouin about a minute's lisse, forul defend- December, 1854, to the end of the war, and was
American ship Sunrise, having by their atidavits King's interest to contradict this one. part in the capture of the Taku Forts, aial was criticising their proceedings, and thus the journals filed on the 5th and 16th days March, 1882, odour inte which it throw the Ligitimists enbled The bad ant's companion had also gone. Thinking it present at the bombarduten of Kenburg, and present at the surrender of Peking. For his ser- substituted for those under suspension hare very strange, he mentioned the matter to Mrs. siege and fall of sebastopol (Crimean medit and vices he was awarded a medal with two clasps.
Dom Louis to sell the church" lands and effect suppressed altogether. The great city of Osas changed, their master Robel K. Clarke, Chief Ofer William Mackenzie, and Albert Gifford, Eastlake, and soon after began to fast round to Turkish and Sebastopol clasps).
the commercial capital of the Empire, may be
many reforms. the second mate, withreach treatment while on see whether anything was gone, and found that
accurately said to have no newspaper in the or
the voyage from New York to shanghai, China; the clock in Court was missing from the wall of
dinary acceptation of the term at the present ino
which were replied to inder math by the accused, the parlor. The clock was there when he
ment, inastunch as the sheets of frivolity and
and March 18th, 1882, at to delock a fixed showed defendant and his companion into the
lewdness which apparently fiul favour or coun- tenance from the Government, are but sufyingly, and having heard all the evidence submit parlour. Witness was quite sure Brat no me
for bearing; the same; the case came on accord- was in the room except the defendant and bis
substitutes for the suspended papers. The policy tell under oath, it is ondered: companion. Went at once to the Central station
adopted towards the vernacular press must in the and made a report.. At this stage, Mr. Cakiwell appeared and wished to withdraw from the defence, defendant, in reply to the magis trate, stating he did not wish to have any other legal assistance. In answer to the defendant, witness stated he was quite sure de- fendant was the person who went to his house on the day in question. The accountant in a Chinese pawn shop then gave evidence of the clock having been pawned by the defendant on the 27th November, and, in reply to the latter, said he was quite sure of the defendant's identity.services are applied for in that capacity. Defendant having reserved his defence, was com- mitted for trial në the next Criminal sessions.
Defendant was also committed for trial on a charge of obtaining goods fraudulently from the firm of MacEwen, Frickel & Co., the coolie who
took the order, and was originally charged with the offence, having fully identified spencer as the person who gave him the order and received the
ods. The coolie was discharged.
Unexpectest orders have been received at Cha- than Dockyard directing the armour-plated for pedo ran Polyphemas to be commissioned at once for "particular service." It was not expect ed that the vessel would have been commissioned for some tuonths yet, and the order occasioned considerable surprise.
The Thatha, 8, screw corvette, Capt. Church, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Nowell salmon, V.C, CB, left Hymouth on the roth inst, for the Cape of Good Hope. The crew will change into the radicen on her arrival out, and the Thai will then return with the Boudiera's crew.
The Under-Secretary ofstate for War has noti fied to the Admiralty that in future officers of the Royal Matine forces will be considered as eligible for employment on the personal staff of general officers of the Army as aides-de-camp when their
The Directors of the Royal Seamen's and Marines Orphan Schools at Portsmouth acknow- ledge the receipt of £6, the proceeds of an enter tainment on board die Comics, at Hongkong,
It is saiti that an Army Corps will be assembled at Danmor in the autumn, and that an or portunity will be afforded for the attendance of about 109,000 Volunteers,
SHANGHAI
A griffin auction was held at Loongfei this afternoon, the 22nd inst., and the bilding was very dull, one pony was sold at Tls. 75, and one or two more in the vicinity of TIs. 30.
Although this was a galloping morning, there was little of interest to note; there was a mile and a half pow between several punics, Lothair coming in first in 3.25, Mr. Fearon's griffin next, a length or two behind.
The Daily News this morning has an article devoted to politics in China, in which he calls the Empress-Regent an aged Indy"; she is about 45 years okl. Then he calls Teo Tsung-tang, a. bluff honest soldier." T'so is a fi'craty manda rin, a Provincial Graduate, and rather distinguish- ed for his knowledge of the classics.
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end defeat its own object. In all other countries similar attempts to crush unfavourable criticism have failed ignominiously, and there does not seem to be anything abuoinual either in the feelings or character of the Japanese people to make their case different.-Hoga News.
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YOKOHAMA.
The Hachi Shimbun mentions that hitherto the
Teachers of the primary schools in Kieto have been privately, but strictly, warned by the local The telegraph is being rapidly extented over authorities to abstain from corresponding with China. A line has been laid by the Great Nothern Telegraph Ca from Chinkiang to Nanewspapers, or delivering public orations; and several, dissatistical with the restriction, have re- king; this is to be extended to Wuhu, thence it signed their posts. will be carried on to Hankow by the Viceroy of the Liang Kiang, Li Han-chang, Soue of the stations between Chiakiang and Tientsin are to be closed, as there is at present insufficient cra- ployment for them, which is not surprising,
We are informel by Messrs. Adamson Bell & Co., that the Stirting Castle has made her trial trip with great success. She steamed fairly out to sea and back, 120 miles without stopping, and the average speed was eighteen knots and a half she then made six runs on the measural mile and averaged close on nineteen knots, The engines are said to have worked to perfection. There is no doubt she is about the fastest ocvan steamer alloat, and it is contalently expected that
Japanese Gorerament has constantly endeavored to persuade that of Korea to employ specie in order to facilitate commerce, but that the latter has alatinately refused, on the gound that to let gold and silver go abroad would be the same thing as to sell the peninsula kingdom. Of late, however, the scoal authorities have deter nined to coin new cash. It is added that large quanti ties of precious metals are kept in the national vaults, two of which are filled with ohl Japanese koban.
The fallejo, Thomas, which arrived at Gree. The other four cases of frauds, or attempted suck Feb. 9, from Java, reports that on Jan. frauds, on storekeepers, Mrs. J. F. Rose, C. L. 10, in lat. 48.43 N., Jong, 22.25 W., she passed Thevenin, Fournier & Co., and Lane, Crawford a derelict and disasted ship, of about upcɔ & Co, we remandes till 1st April on the aptons, apparently of American build, and loaded
Nothing was standing but buwspuit am! mizen. plication of Inspector Lindsay,
mast, am a stump of the foremast. The derelict did not appear to be water-logged. she was right in the track of homeward bound vessels from W.s.W. for the Channel, and therefore very
News from Korea has been received that on the night of the 27th Jamaiḥ a fire broke out in dangerous. The Messageries Maritimes steamship Sagka-
The action of the Egyptian Government in Hen, Captain Rolland, from Marseilles on the protibiting the employment of European pilots she will make the run from Woosing to London the capital, resulting in the dest.action of a new palace which was being erected. Great excite 19th utt., and Saigon 24th inst., mived in lur-in the navigation of the Suez Canal has been the within the four weeks. the sails from Londonment prevailed and wild sumours as to the cause of the fire were afloat till it was found that it beur carly this morning. The following flems cause of the frequent detention of vessels in to-day (and}, are taken from the London and China Express five days between Fort said and Suez, and rice
THE FRENCH MAIL.
of Febratury 17th -
Major-General J. N. „Sargent, C,B, who is to -succend Lieut-General E. W. Donavan as con- mander of the Fortes in China and the straits
ment.
transit. Several steamers have taken for and
versa.
The Piron arrived at Boston on the gth inst. from Hoilo with rubler gone.
Advices from Chill report the arrival of the settlements, left Gravesend on the 15th inst; per barque de Carter at Valparaiso on the 12th Pand, steamer Australia which corresponds December from Hongkong. The Abbie Carver with next mail-en ole to take up his appoint- experienced terrible weather in the China sea, having encountered a cyclone which lasted for mander of the Forces in Ceylon, will leave for 143 F, the watch on deck saw a small black Major-General Sir John McLeod, the new Com-three days. On September 11, in lat. 43 N., lon. his post by the mail from Marseilles on 5th prox. speck on the water, and Captain Carver imme- sir john will be accompanied by Lady McLavd. diately tacked and ran down for it. It proved was admitted on the sth inst, as at the eleven men, the crew of a Japanese fishing
Gran Nguyen Han, a naive of Cochin-China, to be a boat containing the captain, his sum, and First Chamber of die Paris Court of Appeal. He set. Their vessel had been blown out to sea has completed all his studies in Paris.
capsized in a storm, and they had been in the The a
boat fifteen days when the Abbie Carver fell in
e appointment of Mr. George Vanderspar as German Vice-Consul for the uthern Province of the Island of Ceylan, to resides, Calle, is gazetted, A telegram has been received in London to the effect that the spaniards have landed some troops on the coast of Hornen. They are stated to be on their way to the newly-acquired territny of the Tawi-Tawi Islands, where spain has Boisted her dag. A reference to the map shows that these islands lie off the E.N.E. side of the island of Porce
and
with them. For ten days they had eaten nothing bat coir rope boiled in salt water. The men were in an exhausted condition when taken on board the barque. Medicine and nourishment were administered to them, and they subsequently regained their strength. Captain Carver took the men to Valparaiso, from which place they will be sent home.
this
Shimbun.
The great stagnation now prevailing in the increase in nominal value of paper inoney, can be yain trade at this post, notwithstanding the steady easily understood when the fact of the state of deliveries in Tokio to the country buyers is known, statistics just made show that only one-tenth of the usital purchases for retail purposes has been inade since the 1st January of this year. That is barely reached 1,500 tales since the commence to say, the deliveries to the country buyers have would be that, instead of 15,000 bales, which would be the usual quantity in the normal state
of trade.
It was not for the new
Dom Luis was two years on the throne when he set himself op with a wife. Queen Maria Pia came to Listen escorted dy the united fleets of Portugd and Italy. She was scarcely fifteen, Kang has never been uxoritms, but is chival an a rather nice-looking school-gir!. The
ously attentive to his wife, whom he used to call, lower transplanted to a hothouse. She is very in the early days of their marriage, an Alpine
foal of elegant clothing. He lets her have as zouch of it as she wishes, but has reluced the
and established a system of palace
1st.That Charles Ericksen, struck by the master with a belaying pis on the head, and Neils Linbeck, strank in the mouth by the as- ter with his fists, he and they are hereby clis- charged from the said vessel, with three months extra wages each, for the reason that such treat-eardship which has cut at the root of waste. ment was unjustifiable on the past of the master, In a hard year, he, of his own accord, proposed and the said complaisants having refused to
the reduction of the civil list. Fontes Pereira again go to sea in said vessel because of the cra- el treatment received from the master and his tell, the actual Premier, gets round the ladies officers.
at Count by quietly resisting the King's wise eflutts to retrench. The Conservatives preach -William Mackenzie, the chief officer, is
that a showy Court is guad for trade, and say that discharged from the said vessel, because of his
Dan Luis must have studied political economy cruel conduct towards some of the crew during under a naval purser. the said voyage to Shanghai; and as a further punishment he is committed to the Consular goal for the period of ten days.
3rd-The second officer, Allen Gifford, is fined $15 for striking Henry Hendeck with his list while on the bowsprit, thereby endangering his falling overboard,
THE KING OF PORTUGAL.
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In the lives of Queen Victoria and the King of Portugal, 1838 and 1861 are red-letter dates, Her Majesty was crowned four months when she received official notification of the birth of Dom Luis, the beginning of whose reiga coincided with the death of the tate. Prince Consort.
The
care was taken with their technical education in
as
Dom Luis writes elegantly. In his speech there is maritime directness. His Majesty has a terse manner of stating a case or raising au ob- jection. When Prim asked him to reign over Theria, he said to the spanish envoy, "I can't afford to pay double or treble premiums on in- surance policies on my life." It was then, pro- posed to give the vacant throne to Dom Fernando, with reversion to his exlest son. The King re- plied, "The Suits lost Scotland by going to London. If a Braganza were shot or poisoned at Madrid, there would not be a grave in Portugal to receive his corpse."-Truth.
STEAMERS EXPECTED.
The Austro-Hungarian Lloyd's steamer Vor- towerts left singapore on the 21st instant, and may be expected here on or about the 29th,
4th instant, and may be expected to arrive here The steainer Massalia lef Singapore on the
about the 31st instant.
The steamer Breconshire left singapore on the 25th Marclt, and may be expected to prrive here
about the 2nd April."
The steamer Lenuer left singapore on the 26th March, and may be expected to arrive here about
The Union Line steamer Antanio left singa- pore on the 25th March,' and may be expected here about the 2nd April.
MANILA METEOROLOGICAL
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BY TELEGRAPHL~THIS DAY,
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King of Portugal is the second son of Maria da Gloria and Ferdinand of saxe Coburg Kohary; in his cradle he was dubbed Duke of Oporte, and called after the Virgin Mary, three archangels, It is reported that at as interview that a well-ad resulted from an accident-Nichi Nichifour Iberian saints, and divers Bourbon, ira- known investor in read estate, a military man-
ganza Austrian, and saxon ancestors. It was
The O. s. 5, Co.'s steamer Orestes, from Liver- darin, had with Tse Tsung-tang at Nanking, the
also decided in the nursery stage of his ex- Viceroy asked him-What amount of money he was worth, and where it was invested? In reply
pet service of the Braganzas. The palace in istence that he should go into the navy pool, left singapore on the afternoon of the 24th March, and may be expected here about the ist April. the general said that he was hardly, worth 15
which he was reared commands a fine view of 100,000, that it was all invested in property in
the Tagus at its widest point, and, across a tongue Shanghai, and that he had no more. The
of land, of the Atlantic. The sight of the ship- Victoy ther said, I will accept your valuation of
ping in the river, and the sea-scape farther on, your propaty in shanghai and will immediately
stimulated the maritime tastes of the young the value of it, all over your valuation will be
of discovery. Dom Ferdinand, who has a peta-anion I send a commission to Shanghai to enquire into
Duke, who often longed to sail off on a voyage confiscated to the Imperial Exchequer. In con sequence of this the Chinese are busy transfering
gogic vocation, told the boy of Dom Henrico's Vasco da Gama. Cambens' de- seamanship For Swatching the Chinese warlike preparations with farn from the wreck of the forward ife, re- navigator, was almost the first pocin which the
their land to foreigners' names, as fast a possible.
spirit of geographical enterprise, and of the bold We hear from the North that the Japanese are Captain Carst, who returned by the Kokonaye scription of the doubling of the Cape by that great care and take drawings of every fort erected,
ports as follows: On arrival, found the ship ly-
sons of Doña María learned to recite. If a British and all particulars. Both countries are showing ing in 7 fathoms of water, with her back broken, man-of-war touched at Lisbon, the youthful Duke Canean youths are to arrive; they are well-con- bilge; mizen mast and jury masts unshipped, and the greatest friendship to each other. More decks mostly gone, and ship laying on he port was sent on board, He was, when promoted from frocks to jacket and trousers, placed under nected in Corea, and they are really Hostages so
over the side. The first day of auival, there was an English naval instructor and taken on a short that Corea may carry out China's requests; the rough, cull weather during the night, the thermo-craise. Dom Luis tells his sons, who have not pretext is their education, but the Chinese Gometer registering at day-break 23 degrees for his "go," that were the worst to come to the vemment care little about their education, and
several mornings, and two mornings as low as worst, he could take charge eľan Atlantic steamer, old prefer that Corea should remain as it is.
or a sailing vessel, of no matter what tonnage. 15 deg. to 18 deg. During the day, there was To foreigners Li preaches that he is trying to open sunshine, with the exception of a few days' snow, As Dona Maria lived in dread of Miguel, the Le- An incident has occured in the West Indies Cures, but if she is ever opened it will be through the surrounding mountains being covered with it.gitimist Pretender, and the Liberals, she was an which has led to slightly strained feelings between pressure from Japan, and not by Li, whose great sometimes there was a heavy swell on the beach, xious that her five boys should, when they grew His Majesty King Alfonso on the 11th inst. the officers concerned. When the Rayal Mail power, moreover, is considered to be undermined but afterwards weather moderated, and they had up, act as a rampart to her throne. The most received the new Japanese Minister, where steamer Don reached Barbadoes from Southamp-Peking.
some very fine days, the thermometer at noon sented his credentials to his Majesty, His Ex-Lou, Major-General Gamble, Commander-in-Chief the China Merchants's 5. N. Co. has been ordered employed during the time, in recovering what Luis, of course, was a quarter deck lad at sea, We hear from the North that the Manager of being as high as 38 deg. The divers have been preparing them for the army and naby. Dom cellency in his address expressed the wish of the of the Forces in the West Indies, took passage Japanese Government to maintain friendly re-in her to Jamaica to make his annual inspection to prohibit the railway from running; the order they could, in the shape of metal, iron, blocks, but he was really inured to hardship, and knows lations with spain, and King Alfonso replied in of the forces in that island. On the Dos passing must have been given by Li Hung-chang and ship's gear.
a good deal about the forecastle. In a trip which is the effect of the Censor's Memorial and is bu equally amicable terins.
The Hochi Shimban, of Saturday last, men he and his eldest brother made to the Atores, Morant Jamaica, en route to Kingston, With reference to the scheine of a railway in Captain Fawkes, aide-de-camp to General Gam-miliating to Li, The Chinese there are discuss. tions a rumour that the attention of the Govern- they were nearly lost in a storm. The captain | Quantity failer Johore, which has been so frequently mentioned ble, tendered Captain Woolrand a written request the Memorial to the Throne is got up to find an ing the Memurial a good deal, and it is said that
ment has once more been turned to the state of made them go below, but allowed them to he and often advocated by ourselves, we hear that that he wonk huist the flag of the Commander-
the paper currency, but according to this state- helpful as they wished, when he had weathered steps are being taken to accomplish the object. | in-Chief at the foremast. The desire was
honourable way of retreat out of the Kaiping ment, so far from the Government attempting to the gate and was making for port in a shattered The first portion will be about twenty miles in promptly responded to, but on arrival at Port lines, as there is no coal, and if they are stopped
rehabilitate its paper currency, if it has ever really vessel. As a middy, Dom Luis paid tribute to length. A few persons interested in the work Royal a boat's crew, in charge of a lieutenant, by the Emperor's order the shareholders cannot had any such wish, all withdrawals of sassy are Neptune in crossing the line, during a voyage to are, we believe, energetically pushing matters put off from Her Majesty's ship Phenix for the complain. It is true that no coals have come
to cease at any rate for the present-until the Brazil. He was sent to Rio Janeiro to make the forward in this county, and a public company Dan. The officer caine on board with the verbal down. Then some say that the Manager of the government has accumulated a reserve of thirty acquaintance of the Crown Princess of Brazil, to will probably be formed very shortly. We also request from Commodore Brown to Captain China Merchants' drove up the shares to Tis millions in specie. When or how this is to be whom he would have been married, if the late understand that his Highness the Maharajah of Woolward that the flag should be hauled down.
280 so, thinking it was Johore will guarantee the interest on the capital Captain Woolward, acceding to the wishes of people in Peking warned the shares, and there done must remain an object of the wildest con-
jecture, and it remains to be seen what steps the "Doña Maria, a plethoric stout woman, who had required for the undertaking. The contract for Commodore Brown, directed the flag to be
fore backed up the Memorial. Others say that Minister of Finance will take to accomplish this a good spice of cayenne pepper in her temper, the construction is be finally settled in a few lowered, General Gamble's remonstrances being if it has to die away, the sooner the better and. end. The easiest and wisest plan would be to was called to another world in 1853. Dom Fer
in vain, as the officer seized the flag and took under the plea of an Imperini Edict; otherwise conclude a foreign loan, which could probably be nando became Regent, and the guardian of seven cholera breaking was, however, subsequently surely the great Li, proad as he is, who cannot
secured at a moderate rate of interest, but it is children. During his regency, brook to have any of his schemes attacked, would difficult to know if this will really be done, for it out at Lisbon, the young King- and Duke of
Persons about to marry, remarks the Daily not have given the order to stop running the
is well known that there is amongst certain Oporto were sent on a tour round Northern News, are, if police reports may be taken as a railway already.-Mercury-
members of the Ministry, a strong objection to Europe. They paid a visit to Court of England. gauge of existence, in a very malleable condition. adopting this method of relief from their embar Saxe-Coburgs, they were affectionately Even widows, despite their proverbial power, be rassments, The Hockz suggests, as an alter received. They were nice, good-natured lads, come at times even as clay in the hands of the mative, that the money should be raised in the but apt to run into hare-brain adventures. The potter. A most unhappy widow presented her- country, but this would appear impossible. 50 Queen did not hesitate to scold them when they self the other day before Mr. Partridge at West- Early yesterday morning (15th inst) a fire far as can be judged, the Japanese do not heard disregarded the sage
caught them rifling a hot-property from a young man who had promised intelligence received from Kuldja states that
hundred houses before it was extinguished. were they sufficiently comfortable in their worldly house vine of unripe grapes, took and fruit from to marry her, but hod failed to do so. The cir 100,000 inhabitants of the new Chinese Kuldja made for steam launches to carry the pilot in It has been decided that the treaty revision circumstances to have territory, including at,864 residents, the nomad. front of a steamer, and the delays occasioned by conferences, which since the arrival of Sir Harry so, and the prospect of the wherewithal to do them, and boxed the ears of the youngest Princc.cumstances were curious. The lady was of the finding thirty millious-in He was nicknamed "Port Wine" by his juvenile mature age of forty, and was a widow. Being Parkes were held every other day, are now to be silver in Japan seems a most chimerical, if not held once a week, the Govemment taking as a impossible one. It extremely probable ther/glish cousins. The Prince of Wales called at of the precise age assumed by his late Majesty Lisbon on his way from Portugal, and was re-King George IV. to be most attractive to man basis, it is said, the Austro-Hungarian treaty of the whole amount of filver in the country-ex-minded by Don Luis of funny incidents in the kind, she not unnaturally looked for a second 1870. It is said that the progress of the work is cluding the small balance of the Government Re-visit to Osborne, which he had well-nigh for husband, and fell into the teils of a young. far from favorable, and that the said treaty is of serve-does not amount to a sixth of the pro-gotten.
man who proved utterly unworthy of her trusting a subversive nature. Hochi Shimbun.
posed sum, and it is therefore evident that if the The Duke of Oporto returned to England in heart. Her story is most touching. she not only Finance Minister wishes a large scpecic reserve, Occasionally local thieves find they have gone
1861 as captain of the Bartholomen Dias. He let that deluder have the sum of fifteen pounds to a considerable amount of trouble and risk for he must sooner or later resort to a foreign loan. had with him his brother Dom Juan. They had sterling but her wedding-ring and keeper. Mr. nothing. The other night some of these worthics The Japanese barquentine Tameioma Maru, left that scam corvette at Bordeaux, and gone Partridge was naturally a little scandalised removed a statue from the grounds attached to which had previously been reported as being off north by way of Paris, where they made
alt this, the General Hospital, evidently under the in- the coast disabled, was towed into harbour yes of some weeks. Dom Luis was short, thick-set, took the rings "by force." The widow was pression that it was made of metal. After getting terday (Sunday) morning, she is under com- and bronzed. His white forehead gave his face obliged to explain that, as they were just going to it safely over the fence, the thieves discovered mand of the mate, the captain having committed a picbald appearance. The teeth were fine, the be married," she thought it was all right," Her that the statue was of ciny, and there they suicide on the 5th January. The following is hair was fair and curly, the eyes were blue and confidence was not justified by the event, and abandoned it in disgust,
her report:-"Left London for this port on the candid, and he had, in his naval uniform which berwant of moral fibre in giving up her wedding. The Mainichi Shimbun says that H.I.J.M.S. 22nd August, 1881, and encountered heavy he wore at Court, a bluff, sailorly air. It was ring and keeper was severely punished. When Tsukuba kan, which left a few days ago for weather and cross seas with variable winds. On observed that there was no taint of pollssonnerie her young man took her to get married they New Zealand, will, either in going or returning, November 16th, shipped.a heavy sea which in his gallantry to ladies, and that he laughed stopped at a public-house, and after the bride call in at Hawali. This is in consequence of a started the pumps and stanchions round the like one who had not drunke the cup of "had waited a long time she could not find him, request made by King Kalakaua when here last main mast, filling the boats, smashing and cat pleasure to the dices, At Compiègne he and had not seen him since," By some occult year that any japanese man-of-war, finding itselfrying away everything about the deck: this heary witnessed-some-droll-plays-got up under the means the had apparently become aware that he near the Sandwich Islands, would make a call weather lasted till December 18th, when fine stage management of the Duc de Massa, and wore her "keeper” on his finger and had there. With a view to this, the Tsukuba-Raw weather was experienced. On the 4th January betrayed his crudition and taste for classic liter pledged her wedding ring. Mr. Partridge na takes a handsome pair of vases for presentation spoke the American ship D. 7. Tenney and re-ture in a conversation with M. de Sacy. The jurally could not see his way to help the deserted to His Majesty.
ceived from her supplies of fuel and water. The taste of the Portuguese Prince had been formed widow, and his decision was simply "a foolish following day the steward reported to the mate in the study of Goethe and schiller, and of the woman." The question arises, what kind of that Captain Corbett "looked queer and wild, English and spanish dramatiķis of the sixteenth | animal could her "young man " bo 7.
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We hear that the Blue-book on the affaits of it on shore. North Borneo will be laid on the table of both returned to the Commissariat. Houses of Parliament in the course of next week. It will, we believe, be very voluminous, not only containing the recent official correspondente on the subject, but also going back some years in the history of the country. Various other docu- ments and letters relative to the subject will also be included.
At the annual meeting of the Chamber of shipping, held at the Canon-street Hotel, on the 10th inst., the subject of the quarantine regula tions in force at sues was discussed, and it was decided that steps should be taken to lay the views of the Chamber before the Foreign Secre tazy, the unreasonableness of quarantining a passing through the canal, the exorbitant charges
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Queen Stéphanic had not died childless.
Berometer, level of the sea in laches, tens park dene. aleesia, asesinareter, in Falzontieit degreet and tews kept in the air in a shaled situation.-Direction of Wiad, is registered every two points, N., N.N.E., N.E, Face of Wind, calm. to 3 light breeze, 3 to 3 mode. rate, $7 fresh strung. Btu so heavy roto 17 violent State of Weather #. Clear blue sky, C. Chudy, D. Dintly, F, G. Poger Tail. L. Light ning, M. Minty, the Overcast. 2. Passing showers, Q Sally A. Rainy S. Snow. 7 Thurler, U. Dao, threatening. Visibility. #, Storm, Z. Calm. The teriors ato repeated to indicate any increase over she mean average of this signification. Rain-To hours of aniu for porvious 24 hours pra a.m.), ato registered from 104 the quantity of water Liza indicated la inches, teas, and landisde
A telegram from St. Petersburg announces that vessel with a clean bill of health and merely broke out in Osaka, and destroyed upwards of a silver like the natives of Chunn and India, event nor, and she one day monitions of their gover- minster, to ask his advice how to recover her
families of seven Kirghese districts, together with 9,058 inftabitants of huts, have expressed a de cided wish to the Russian Government to settle in Russian territory. Another telegram from the same quarter states that the Bourse Gazette publishes intelligence from Kiachta stating that the Chinese Government contemplates settling *several thousand families'in Manchooria. The same paper states that the construction of the Tientsin-Peking railway will be commenced by the Chinese in the course of the present year. We have, however, received no confirmation of the last sentence. M. schischmaroff, the Rus sian Commissioner, accompanied by the Russian Consul a Kuldjn, has proceeded to confer with Chinese representative concerning the mode trangerring the ili territory to China. should no obstacles arise, the transfer, will be effected by the 23rd instant,
Commander John Hayes, who has been ap. pointed to the Repulse, additional for Coastguard, served on the China station during the China wat, and received the medal.
With the new financial year the sick quarters staff at Yokohama will be reduced. The tran- sport of invalids from Hongkong to Yokohama is also to be re-arranged.
this system being dwelt upon. At the annual dinner in the evening, sir Thomas Brassey, M. in proposing the principal toast, expressed his satisfaction at the general state of the mercantile marine, and recommended the shipping interest to co-operate with the Board of Trade when invited to doso. The Chamber has since received reply from the Foreign Office, in answer to a leuer addressed at their request by the president, Mr. Richard Lowndes, to Earl Granville, respect ing the interruption to traffic in the Suez Canal. The reply states that the matter is receiving the serious attention of Her Majesty's Government.
The East India and China Trade section of the Incorporated Chamber of Commerce of Liver- pool have issued a report upon the equalisation of tonnage scales at the Indian ports. It is the desire of most leading merchants, at home and abroad, to have uniformity of usage at all the Indian, Ceylon, and Burman Ports. The Cal cutta scale was revised some time ago, and goods were then ranged, for the most part, for both ships and steamers, under the standard ton of 20 cwt, for weight, and so cubic feet for measurement. The result is that an almost general and simple customa prevalls there, Kuriachee stands next in order of arrangement and fairness. There is
The Hachi Shimbun states a circumstance which seems to be well known throughout the
and asked whether the wicked
young man