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DRUGGISTS,
GENERAL CHEMISTS,
flections on the impossibility of effectually coping with the fire-king with no water, supply at command, an incident which occurred at a comparatively recent fire,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TELEGRAMS. Reuter wires that the House of Commons has read for the first time, a Bill, providing for the
Fund surplus.
For having a quantity of stone on a road near Quarry Bay on the 15th instant, whereby injury might accrue to the read, and danger arise to passengers, a contractor was fined this morning
imprisonment, and was furtherondered to remove the obstruction within seven days.
17HOLESALE ASP RETAIL\at which we were present, came back to payment of arrears of rent out of the Church Jackets and the seaman having disappeared by Captain Thomsett, five dollars or ten days'
AND
Manufacturers of the following AERATED WATERS,
viz:
SODA, TONIC, SARSAPARILLA, AND
POTASH, LEMONADE, GINGERADE, RASPBERRYADE," AND-
PHOSPHORIC CHAMPAGNE.
Deliveries in Town and Harbour from 7 AM to 7 P.M.
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Prompt Attention given to Coast Orders.
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CANTON,
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THE
Foochow
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS,
our
recollection. This was the vision of
a clerk from one of the Insurance Offices, who rushed wildly up to where we were standing, nozzle in hand, playing on
A telegram dated London, 17th May, received this morning, announces that an attempt has been made to blow up the Mansion House. It the burning house, and inquire! of a is satisfactory to know that the miscreants failed group of European firemen if they in this daring outrage, the attempt, according to thought there was twenty-two thousand.Renter, having proved unsuccessful. ̧* dollars worth of stock in there." As the Office which this gentleman represented bad insure:l the goods within the burning building for the amount he named, it was AN eclipse of a small portion of the Sun was reasonable enough to suppose that the pol-visible in Hongkong yesterday evening.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
was ordered to be restored to the owner.
icy had not been granted without a proper THE German barquie Herum docked at Aber. and bristling chins may be looked for in the deen, this morning. The steamship Thaler will
enquiry and inspection-and yet we had
our doubts, as the fire was a very suspici- undock at Kowloon, this evening, and the Any strike of barbers is certainly something novel fights are of frequent occurrence.
ous one, and the stock-in-trade, to a cur- sory observer, scarcely gave the idea of its being worth anything like twenty-two thousand dollars. However. from one point of view, that was the insurers' busi. ness in accepting the premium, they Had also accepted the risk.
We have always believed that the aan-
ual epidemic of fires in Hongkong, is 17 caused. to a very considerable extent at feast, by wilful fire raising, and we happen to know that our views are shared by men
will be placed in the vacant deck.
A jisRICKSHA coolie, who had failed to answer at the Police Court to a stimmons charging him
with being an unmitigated street obstructionist, was fined this morning two Mexicans or seven days' imprisonment.
ALBERT THORSON, 20, of Norway, an unem-
ployed seaman, was up this morning at the Police Court, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly In the complainant's house, on the 17th instant. The complainant, Marques Prehen
A SEAMAN of the Hing junk, who walked off from the junk, with two jackets, the property of the captain, was sent this morning by Captain Thomsett to six months' hard labour. The
simultaneously, led the captain to suspect the prisoner, who afterward admitted having pawned them, delivering up the pawn-tickets as the only form of restitution in his power. The clothing StartLy before ten this morning, just as people were returning from divine service in the Ca. ACCORDING to the Sportsman, Paris is threathedral in Wellington Street, a most disgraceful row was in progress at the cross-roads opposite tened with a hairdressers' strike, and the lordly Messrs. De Sousa & Co.'s, among a lot of coolies, Frenchman sees before hins the prospect of go who were having a free fight with bamboo poles, ing unshaven and unkempt for some weeks to heavy women seats, &c., a very large, yelling come. The knights of the pole have decided to
crowd being collected. When all was over, a ask the sum of twenty-five cents for a shave, and solita Sikh Police Sergeant appeared on the the people to whom shaving is a necessity are
scene, who did not make any attests while we "kicking" against the impost. As Frenchmen
were near the place. People living in the vicinity never shave themselves, this is rather awkward complain of the want of police supervision over the refractory coolics who cong cgate just above French capital during the ensuing month. A the cross-roads in d'Aguilar Street, among whom There is always une thing in Figaro's favour, he can generally demand what he likes when he has is publishing the following curious anecdote of General Skobeleff, the Czas expressly guarantees the razor over his victim's jugular vein. LEONG AKWAI, a cook, was charget this morning the authenticity of every detail therein set forth. before Captain Thomsett with cutting a tailor It would appear, says the Telegraph, that, with a kaife. The tailor said he lived in Welling-whenever a personage of high rank and im ton Street, and went into the street about 7 p..portance visits Warsaw, the Imperial police authorities commission their secret agents to yesterday, where he saw the cook with some other boys, two of whom struck him (the tailor). watch every action of that personage by day and the cook cutting him with something, he did not night, as far as may be compatible with the know what, on the left side of the abdomen. respect due to his exalted station, and to report The boys ran away, and he ran after the cook the results of their observations regularly every and gave him in charge. The tailor was sent to morning. One of these reports, handed in to the A certificate was sent in by the Hotel d'Europe, where Skobeleff lodged during
to the effect that the tailor, described as a boy, textually reproduced in the columns of the Czar. has a lacerated wound on the left side of the
It runs as follows: "Last night, at the hour of abdomen, seven and a half inches in length, but nine, his Excellency the General deigned to leave not dangerous, wherefore he was allowed out to
his hotel. He wore an elegant silk hat and a no
he might be sent back to the hospital when done a walking stick, Ilis Excellency condescended with. The case was remanded till the 25th into hire the droshky No. 217, and, seated therein, stant, hail being allowed in two sureties of $25 to drive to Zazu, where he alighted, and straightway disappeared. His Excellency did not return to his hotel until seven o'clock this morning, wearing, however, a jacket and cap, both of which were covered with mud. It was, moreover, his Excellency's pleasure to appear considerably intoxicated." "This report," con- cludes the Cras, "is absolutely authentic. We
was not yet healed.
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LUM Akwal, a carpenter, was charged before Captain Thomsett this morning with entering house No. 1 B, Aberdeen Street, with intent to commit a felony.-A Chinese Police Constable saw him go into the house at 2.45 this morning The constable went to the door and brought his light to bear on the staircase and upon the de fendant's form thereupon, who, when he spied the lakong, run down the stairs past him. The constable blew his whistle, with the result that another Constable arrested defendant as he was doing a ran.-A Chinese broker living at 29, Gage Street, said that upon going home this morning at 1.35, and proceeding upstairs to his domicile on the second floor, he knocked his head against the trap door. He went down to call to his servant from the street, to open the door, and upon re-entering the house found the defendant behind the street door; he ran away. The broker called out "Thief," but
was too much afraid to arrest the fellow himself
A Constable coming, they searched the house
and found the chisel and wire produced on the staircase. About 3 o'clock, the broker, hearing- a noise in the street, went down and found defendant, whom he recognized at once, in custody. Inspector Lindsay produced prisoner's record, shewing that he was sentenced to two years' hard labour on September 1877 for - burglary: to four years penal, servitude in February 1878, for a like offence; and to a year's hard labour in March of last year for larceny in 'n dwelling house. The Inspector, said the man was a known bad character, and he applied for
a rewand to take further enquiries about him. --The case was remanded till the 25th.
It is requested that all communications tela. who have had a great deal of practical banman, not appearing, defendant was discharge. the hospital, and had to return thereas the wound police-office of the district in which is situated SIGNOR Tavallini has published in the Elettorale dressed to the Marager, Hongkong Telegraph not to be slighted. Frankly we are also JOSEPH Warre, Sexton, charged his female ser the Acting Superintendent of the Civil Hospital his recent sojourn in the Polish capital, is between the late Signor Lanza and Prince
ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &e, be ad
and nol ́to the fixlitor."
"Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to The and not to individual members of the
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experience in fires, men whoto opinions are
of Casale an interesting account of an interview
Napoleon, which he heard from the former's own lips. After having said that in the year 1870 all his colleagues in the Ministry were to go to
be accompanied by this name and address of the insuring property, for amounts far beyond i did the work very badly, and swept water on to attend the Magistracy Dr. Stockwell requested less elegant overcoat. In his hand he carried Rome, Lanza added: "Who can say whether
vant Tsang 1, at the Police Court this morning. of opinion that for many of these suspicious with disobedience of orders on the 13th instant. conflagrations the insurance Companies Complainant said the directed the defendant this Communications intended for publication mast
are indirectly responsible. The custom of morning to clean a yard with a small brush. She
writers, not necessarily for publication; but as its value is generat; a reprehensible prae- the street. She had also been very insolent.--fu evidence al good fait
Whilst the columns of the Honghong The tice, which frequently proves a temptation her defence, Tsang I said the place was so dirty, gruph will always be oper for the fair discussion to the unscrupulous and needy. The she had to use a large quantity of water.-De- by correspondents of all questions affecting public home custom of thoroughly inspecting the fendant was discharged. interests, it must be distinctly makerstood that the Editor does not in any way holl himself'res- ponsible for opinions thus expressed.
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property, or goods, to be insured before taking a risk, is not strictly carried out in W take the following from # Comercio of the this Colony, nor have werever heard of toth instant-We hear that Mr. Chiarini has received information, from his agent in Hongkong, the existence of a visiting inspector, whose to the effect that he is not allowed to erect his duty should be to make frequent periodical pavilions either on the Cricket or Parade Ground, visits on behalf of the Insurance Companies, the places best suited for such a purpose. There more especially to properties heavily in-fore, they will have to be put up at a place very sured. It is all very well for Insurance far away, near the mce-course. Frankly, we Companies to undertake heavy responsibi- thought that the English in Hongkong would lities as a mere matter of speculation, re-afford more encouragement and facilities to ceiving heavy premiums for the extra risks Chiarini's Company. they incur; but the public have also a voice in the matter, as there can be no manner of doubt that the system in vogue of almost
THE report of the Commission of the Roman Chamber of Deputies on the Bill presented by the
each.
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fers' trade. They have called me," says Sir
a
have seen it, and are fully responsible for its Pablication," If our Slay contemporary be in position to prove its words,, we should imagine that the police official who has betrayed the secrets of the Warsaw Detective Department is likely to hear of something to his disadvantage from the hot-tempered and impetuous victor of
we should ever have succeeded bad not the
Franco-German war burst out like a bomb? No one thought it so imminent, and even. Napoleon-who, whatever may be said, was a great political genius-was taken by surprise.› 1 remember, as if it had happened yesterday, how Prince Napoleon tried to induce us to assist poor France, and tow. his words affected me. The Prince, after receiving a concise refusal, did not lose courage; he remained in Turin, where the King also resided. In agreement with my colleagues I left Florence for Turin, immediately asked and obtained an audience from the King, and drew his attention to the fact that' the long-continued residence of Prince Napoleon in the same city as himself would arouse suspi. cians in Germany. As his insistance is quite useless,' I observed, 'and our refusal irrevocable, he ought to be persuaded that his remaining here can do him no good, and might do us great Mail ult. harm! will you replied Victor Em induce the Prince to go but he is not to be per- suaded; he obstinately hopes to obtain some thing. Do what I advise, Lanza. To-day three o'clock the Prince will come here? tell him that you have arrived and desire to speak to him? and you must persuade him to leave Turin.' 'Your Majesty, replied, "I am at your service.' At three precisely I returned to the Palace, and a few minutes later was shown into a salcon, in which the Prince awaited
Poor Sir Wilfrid! He is a jester and a right merry tectotaller, but he barely deserves the op probrium cast upon him. Water drinking and dullness, tea drinking and melancholia, are generally supposed to run in double harness. This, however, is not the case with the genial member for Carliste, who is ready at turning a pun, cracking a joke, or recling off a jest. With characteristic humour, the worthy baronet has made a selection of the elegant names bestowed upon him by the organs of the Licensed Victual
Wilfrid, "that Old Cracked Tea Pot, the Watery Jester, the Demented Creature, that Washed-out Water Party, the Drivelling Idiot, the Brainless The following interesting items of Russian news
Confiscatory Coddle,
Handle, the Tea drinking Twaddler, the Pop bottle Pump Orator, the Permissive Platitudinist, the Peripatetic Agitator, the Utopian Dreamer, the Maudlin Mountebank, the Crooning Clown, that Foal of Fools, the Wailing Cant, the Arrant Humbug, the Apostle of Slops," After this Sir Wilfrid should become case bardened.
Geok Tepe.
Hongkong Telegraph finister of War for the new and extnostimary Fanatic, the Commucalory Molly Callie, the appert in the Opertand out of the 7th all names. What was yes i reali, Viene if s
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1852.
Atralay weare not disposed to question the veracity of the old saying that the rain, it raineth every day," it is a matter of certainty that the Island of Hongkong, has not been greatly favoured in that respect either daily or weekly, for a considerable time past. Ip fart the continued drought,
cent, and the Government will purchase these pieces abroad..
I will
and property more insecure than would be
It cuts down to 127,880,000 lire the grant of
is reported. On March 30th General Strelnikoff, the case if proper precautions, were taken. 144,180,000 life extending over five years, de
holding the position of Public Prosecutor at the If property were insured only to its baremanded by the Minister. This reduction, however,
Kieff military tribunal, was shot in the neck while value, no inducement would exist for un-
is more apparent than real, as the chief item
sitting on the Boulevard at Odessa. The ball scrupulous traders to try their hands at composing it, viz., 11,100,000 lire, has been struck
penetrated upwards into the head and came out fire-raising. Although the crime of arson out, with the consent of the Minister, on the
through the forehead. The General expired technical ground that the object it is asked for, has never, to our knowledge, been clearly the reorganization of the army, still awaits the The talented author of "Editorial Notes" in the fately after the shot was fired two men were within two minutes after being strack. Immed. brought home to any person in Hongkong approval of Parliament.
The report says the China Mail, the scientist who pronounced the seen to leave the spot where the general had been there are ample grounds for believing that
100-tun guns for const defence made at the
electric light a failure, and inferior as a lighting sitting, and to run down the boulevard towards a a very large number of our annual fires Government factory in Turin have proved incf-medium to gas, apparently has a supporter, aldreschky stand. They jumped into one of those me, alone. So it seems, he began as son h are not the result of accident. I; will be
thnagh on very different grounds, in Sir Erasmus conveyances, but were stopped before they could entered, that Italy is determined to earn the name of ingrate.' 'No, your Highness,' I replied. remembered it was currently believed that
Wilson who does not like the electric light. He drive off. The assassins violently resisted arrest, the terrible conflagration of Christmas
thinks there is too much of it. These sentiments, and in the struggle which ensued, wounded three Italy feels the misfortune that has overtaken 1875, which laid a large portion of the
says a contemporary, may have been engendered persons with revolver shots and poignard France more than you can imagine; she has not city in ruins, was a "put-up" joh, and not know how the proceedings of yesterday at by the fact that Sir Erasmus is chairman of the stabs. They were, however, finally overpowered forgotten what France has done for her; she does
Exeter will be mentioned in the organ of the although evidence was not forthcoming to
a strong guard. They were both young men,
not ungrateful who is absolutely incapable of ass- Electrical Exhibition, as everybody knows, is convict the person accused, his dismissal Salvation Array, but as they stand in the police Crystal Palace District Gas Company. A big and conveyed to the nearest police station under not deserve the name of ingrate, because he is
records they form anything but entertaining read-
now being held in the Crystal Palace itself, and and declined to give their names. The deceased isting his benefactor, but he who, being capable, from the bar did not convince, the com.
ing. Contrary to onlers the Salvation Army doubtless the chairman thought it his duty to try general had been despatched to Odessa in order refuses to do so. What you cannot ex munity of his innocence. It was certainly rorps set out upon its nightly tour at Westou and console the shareholders of the neighbour to conduct preliminary judicial examinations con- claimed the Prince. We only ask 70,000 men provel that he had insured his stock far super-Mare. Directly afterwards a rival proces hood, who are wondering what things are coming nected with some important pending political fronta nation of 25,000,000 of inhabitants. Jiha beyond its value, and the whole of the sion was got up, and marched forth under ato. in the face of the success which has attended trials. It has transpired that three men were few days you could have such an army on the circumstances connected with the case, banner inscribed with the words, "The Skeleton the great electric show, Sir Erasmus had to be immediately concerned in the murder. One frontier, throw it upon Lyons, and there our routed Army." Coming into the vicinity of the Salva- circumspect in his remarks, He admitted that made his escape. It is said that the Emperor troops would gather once more around you. Wo were more than suspicious,"
tionists, a free fight ensued, in which the banners he did not mear to say that the electric light had Alexander, on being apprised of the murder, gave de not so much need material as moral assistance; of the two arasies came to grief, and the band been a failure, for under other circumstances he orders that the two prisoners should be executed at thenewsthatafriendly nation undertakes ourde. We endeavoured a few days since to ob- week or two ago, our fire extingulshing instruments were broken. The Salvationists thought it might be admirably suited for the pur- within twenty-four hours. His Majesty, however, fence, at the sight of your army, fresh and undis-
lasting for months, had become lo wear a serious aspect. causing stoppages in our drains, spreading fever throughout the overcrowded districts, and inducing the Tung Wali Hospital magnates to send up special prayers that the flood gates of heaven might be specially opener for the benefit of this Colony. Two or three weeks ago we were really beginning to feel some anxiety about the water supply of the Colony, as there were no indications of rain, and our eyes resting on the limited quantity stowel in Pok-fon-Jum Reservoir, saw it gradually sinking lower, and lower.
Had a fire broken nút in the Colony a
SAYS the Sportsman of March 25th-We do
tain some reliable Information on the pro- | apparatus would have been quic useless dnally took refuge in their 'awn barracks, many, Labilities of the supply of water in the re- owing to want of water. Fire Engines | on both sides, having received injuries. This is servoir proving inadequate to meet the re- could not have drawn supplies from the muscular Christianity with a vengeance.
quirements of the community in the event mains, as there was not sufficient water of continued drought, from the official who in the reservoir to feed them. Hap- is known, amongst the Chinese, as the pily the danger has passed over, and "water devil"; but although the serious the heavy rains of the past few days and rather anxious look which came over have rendered us--so far as a sufficiency of
Lovo's agent at Mollendo, writing under date of Feb. 18, states that Mollendo had been strictly blockaded by the Chilians since January, 1881, but, through the influence of the Foreign Minis ters at Lina, the British Minister principally,
the weather-beaten visage of the Inspector, water is concerned--secure for months to permission had been granted by the Chilian as we quietly broached the subject, gave come, The heavy rains of Wednesday Government for steamers to call and take away A LONDON Contemporary, commenting on the as an example to the fleet. At the place of already signed the treaty which you may please
us a strong impression that matters were not quite se satisfactory as could be de- sired, that worthy officer was not authorised to give us the information we desired, so that there was no help for it, but to charter a rickshaw and two of the most stalwart
I know that you can do much,
strect obstructionists we could find, and heaven and earth to realise on their ad-shipped. What are the future intentions of the certainly possible to have 100 much Jumbo, the fact has been reported to their respective frontiers? Ask our technical men, and they will
hie straight away to Pok-foo-lum, to make our second personal inspection of the re- servoir within a fortnight.
Affairs certainly looked serious, Signs
vances, and commercial chaos reigns suprente, a fire, or a series of fires, would not greatly astonish those who know the desperate straits to which some of the un-
pose of diffusing light. It was, however, very subsequently countermanded this, and the culprits couraged by defent, even our soldiers will take possible to have too much of a good thing, and were tried by a court-martial on April 1, sentence heart, enthusiasm will invigorate them, and Italy one of the objections to the electric light was that of death being passed. They were executed on will save France. Don't you see that the sacrifice we ask of you is very litle, and that with so little It afforded too much light, the consequence of April 3.-On the same day as the murder of Genc-
you can save us? Have you the heart to refuse which was there must be too much shade. Heral Strelnikoff, was executed Marine Lieut. Souk-
us this also ? The Prince's voice became more believed the moderate light of the gas lamps was banoff, recently condemned for high treason, whose and more animated and touching: I was in tor- infinitely better suited for the purposes of a large sentence to be hanged was changed, at his own tures. The Prince grew hotter. Here, he city. This reminds us of the okl fable in which solicitation, by the Emperor to the less degrading said, putting a sheet of white paper with the signature of Napoleon III. at the bottom into my the currier stated that for defending a city in a one of death by shooting. The condemned man hand, 'I have full power to accept whatever Has state of siege there was nothing like leather. seems to have been taken to Cronstadt to be shot conditions you icapose, and the Emperor morning added no less than 14 feet to the all the foreign produce lying there, some 8,000. Adiculous sensation created in the metropolia in execution were drawn up representatives of all Decide, Lanza; say yes? Highness, I replied, quantity of water in the reservoir, a result tons in all. The Pacific Steam Navigation Com-connection with the celebrated elephant" Jumbo," marine troops and sailors at Cronstadt. The rest it is useless. Even if I wished, it is impossible which will be hailed with satisfaction on pany's steamer Coquimbo had already taken
to help you. We are actually disarmed, all sides. In these trying days of burst-up 16,666 packages of wool, bark, hides, &c. The observer:"After all it is a good thing that of the Nihilists who were recently condemned to
Jumbo has at last got safely aboard the vessel death have had their sentences conmuted for and the Roman question keeps all the forces land speculators, and broken-down com steamship Ecuador and others were expected which is to take him to America. It is possible penal servitude. The arrest of nine soldiers we can dispose of employed in protecting our how much time it would take to put 70,000 men pradores, when mortgagees are moving the following week, and it is presumed that in
less than a month all the produce ready will be to have too much of a good thing, as the cat of the Preobajensky Guard for Nihilism has internal order. Does your Highness not know on a footing ofwar and concentrate them on the said when she fell in the milk-pail, and it is caused great excitement in St. Petersburg, and Chilians as regards Mollendo is not known; but
answor Not less than a month." Before the the general opinion is that it will be opened through weeks, been filled with grish about the luck-
Our morning papers have, for the past three Governments by the representatives of foreign end of that month the fate of France will bo Powers at the Russian Court. The names of decided. The agitation of the Prince increased the military occupation by Chilian troops.
less elephant. The peripatetie salesmen of the the men arrested cannot be ascertained, as, for
at every word I spoke, and when I had finished strect, who generally devote their attention to certain reasons, they are kept secret by the he burst into a real storm of anger. He rapidly our ingratitude, his sorrow that France hal mice, and other triffes, have thrown these over-in some London papers, has caused a good ever aided us, and other things that I regretted board in favour of Jumbo. The side-walk artist deal of surprise in St. Petersburg; and it is from my heart. I remained silent, waiting till be who picks up a precarious living by drawing a noteworthy circumstance that this denial ap- should become caliner, and when I thought salmon and sunsets on the pavement, has changed peared in England only, and was not published the mipment arrived, I said: Highnessy his subject, and devoted his energies to depicting in French, German, or Italian journals.A retire. But first allow me to do my duty, how. ever painful. Your Highness can no longer hope Jumbo and the widowed Alice. The worst case, telegram received from the Curator of Kief Uni- for anything from us, and, on the other hand,, apparently gone wild on the subject. One several armeil with revolvers, have assembled cupted the Prince.
you will expel me ? inter No Highness". sep. journal has positively committed itself to a poem, and demanded the liberation of their comrades that is not the word. Well, he rejoined, of which the following is a quotation :--- arrested during the recent tumults at Kief-It me my passport and I will go. It shall be here
The good new shall be true;
is stated that the Khan of Khiva will go to Mosin an hour, I said.. 'However, I added, 'remem- Then nach work shalt be done Arsha House never knew
cow, with a numerous retinue, to attend the ber that one day, recalling this conversation and Coronation of the Emperor, and that the Ameer the position in which we are placed, your High-
ness will admit that I was right. Remembe of Bokhara will be represented on the occasion that whatever happens, we shall consider our by a special Embassy Success has attended selves fortunate if we can be of use to you' An the first Russian cominertial venture to Marv hour after Prince Napoleon received his passport.
since this scene, when one day I received a letter from Prince Napoleon. He reminded me of my plished on its route a survey of the decerts be- last words, and gave me the title of Comte di
Moncaliero
of rain were as far distant as ever; and successful seekers after casily won wealth A SILVER-SMITH, who would seem to have liad toothpicks, combs, penny Bibles, mechanical authorities. The denial of the arrest, published paced the room, muttering incoherent words on
the water stored in the reservoir was almost exhausted. We could not avoid reflecting, as we gazed at the gradually diminishing water, what terrible havoc a fire in the higher levels of the city would play, with
I will
have been put by the explosion of their no silver to exercise his craft upon, was caught schemes, It is, therefore, some consolation yesterday in the act of picking an opium boiler's that Jupiter Pluvius has placed us in a pocket of seven cents, thusgahibiting a tendency position to meet the worst. However, to degenerate into a copper-smith-Fourteen there is a moral to be drawn from our re- days' hard labour rewarded the artisan's enter
prise. Another man, a hawker, was sent to keep nothing to oppose its progress. It struck marks which should not be lost sight of. him company for the same period for picking a however, is that of the newspapers who have versity announces that a crowd of students, your prolonged sojourn here might create great us that now would be the time for sundry As at present constituted, our water supply famer's pocket of 67 cents. Pickpockets in China of those ratten, and flimsy-work shop is unsatisfactory and uncertain. It is our
would seem to be a lot of sorry bunglers, as they keepers, whose stocks are insured for duty, in the best interests of the com- are generally caught in the act of withdrawing treble their value, to try a paying stroke munity, to use every possible effort to in their hands from their victims' pockets. We have of business by fire-raising. Arson is no duce the Government to carry out some heard of adepts belonging to the light-fingered doubt a very serious crime in European well devised scheme for providing an ample craft at home, who could abstract money or valu eyes, but judging from our annual ex-supply of water to this city without further ables from the most hidden recesses of one's pariances in this Colony, the Anterpricing, delay. The large surplus in the coffre of habiliments without their victins ever feeling Celestial evidently looks upon it-so long the Colonial Treasury belongs to the from these professors would be of infinite ad- that one of our Itading daily contemporaries yes. The caravan has returned in safety, having ad- and left for France. Several months had elapsed' as it offers an easy way out of business | Colony; we have a right to claim that a vantage to the Hongkong bunglers, who exhibit terday printed the above quoted twaddle, with a vantageously disposed of its goods, and accom troubles and financial difficulties as a portion of it be expended in this mucha sad lack of science in their manipulation of few verses appended to it. Assuredly Jumboism very minor offence. Continuing our re- I needed Improvement,
pockets.
Since first speeches were spun. Thee our dyes aluli not ria,
Nor each tract wax a tone,
Nor our stroken weigh pine “istun,”
When uld Jumbo cuineshoma
that they had been even touched. A few lessons Incredible as it may seen, it is nevertheless true
• hath turned the people mad.” „
Iween Akhal Tekke and Khiya.'