Entimations.
A. S. WATSON & CO.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1882.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL commercial standing, men of wealth and
GENERAL CHEMISTS,
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 PM.
SHIPS AICINE: CHESTS REFITTED, PASSENGER SHIPS SUPPLIED.
Prompt Attention given to Coast Orders.
HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG
SHANGHAL
CANTON DISPENSARY,
THE
L'ANTON.
DISPENSARY,
FooChow.
TELEGRAMS.
Reuter telegraphs from London under yester day's date, that a terrible riot, originating in a
certain well understood, plainly defined, and thoroughly practical purpose. Anil. they actually found a large number of Chinese residents, many of them of high
street quarrel, has taken place at Alexandria. influence; but nothing had been arranged The natives made an attack upon the Europeans or decided on; in fact, many of those pre-
in the city, killing twenty, and severely wound sent attended under a mistaken notion asing the British, Italian, and Greek Consuls. The rioters were ultimately dispersed by the military. to the purpose of the meeting, whilst others actually knew nothing whatever of the ideas or intentions of its promoters.
LOCAL AND GENERAL, The result of all this was the exodus of the
The British steamer Remus came out of Köw-
barque Cen
VICTOR VALLINO, an unemployed seaman, for being drank and unable to pay chair hire, having cagaged a chair to cart him round without having a cent in his pocket, was sent to gaol for five days
by Mr. Thomsett who very properly does not approve of chair coolies being taken such a mean advantage of,
TRIUMPHON DA CRUZ, a tallyman, and his wife, Marcelloa da Cruz, had a slight difference over house expenses yesterday, when the husband treated his better half to a caning. The noble wife beater admitted the gentle impeachment, which cowardly conduct Mr. Thomsett showed
da Cruz in the sum of $ag to be of good behaviour for the next six months,
European capitalists, as soon as Mr. Holoon Dock this forenoon, giving place to the is full appreciation of by binding over the gallant AME's preliminary observations informed them exactly how the land lay. If it be true as Mr. Ho Ame: stated-and we see no
realised $41,800.
THE return of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ended joth June, 1883 :—was, Eu- ropeans 87, Chinese 1,317; grand total, 1,404.
WE note that a sculling match for £400 aside, has been arranged between Robert Watson Boyd, of Middlesborough, and Elias Laycock, of Sydney, New South Wales. The race will be rowed on the Tees on July 3rd,
HONGKONG HUMANE SOCIETI.
ANNUAL MEETING,
THE AMERICAN MAIL.
We take the following items from our San Francisco exchanges, received by the Pacific Mail Company's steamship Cify of Peking, Capt. Berry, which arrived in Harbour this morning:
DUBLIN, May 9th, The newspapers are in mourning. It is stated that the police are hopeful of capturing the assas sins. They have received evidence which en- ubles them to identify the murderers. It is also said the car in which they escaped has been traced to Leixlip, ten miles west northwest of Dublin, where the assassins alighted to procure liquor. Charles Moore, arrested at Maynooth on suspicion of being one of the assassing, has been brought to Dublin. The evidence against him is weak.
drove the assassins. He cannot account for An important arrest has just been made at Tuam of a man believed to be the carman who
closely resembles the description circulated by. the police. An order has been issued to arrest all strangers and tramps unable to account for
LONDON, May 9th.
The annual meeting of the above institution was held in the Chamber of Commerce room, City Hall, yesterday afternoon. The attendance was not so large as could have been wished, Tuz 19 shops in Endicott Lane sold by public AFFAIRS in Egypt would appear to have at last considering the importance of the meeting, and it reason to doubt it--that the outcome of auction by Mr. J. M. Guedes, this afternoon, reached a climax. According to a Reuter's tele is to be hoped that fresh additions to the ranks himself. He gives the name of Clooban. c
gram (published elsewhere) received this morn-of the Society may be made, as the typhoon We would remind our readers that the Banding, the natives of Alexandria have made an
season is very close at hand. Amongst those mann-Beaudet Combination will appear to-night attack on Europeans, killing twenty, and severely present we noticed the Hon. Phineas Ryrie, the their movements during the last three days.
wounding the Consuls of Great Britain, Italy, President of the Society, Messrs. J. A. Sampson, in Shakespeare's tragedy, "Romeo and Juliet.”
and Greece. The military eventually dispersed. R. White, Win. Schmidt, G. A. Caldwell, T. R. Three more arrests have been made in Kildare, SAYS the Mercury of the gth inst.—The steam the rioters. This daring outrage is said to have Fisher, J. J. de Souza, &c. On the President, the The body of Burke will be buried to-day in ship Glenorchy passed Chinking at 9 a.m. toriginated in a street riot. There can be no Hon. P. Ryrie, taking the chair, Mr. T. R. Fisher, Glasneven Cemetery, suburbs of Dublin. day; with a cargo of Tea from Hankow at £355. doubt that this latest outrage will hasten the the Secretary, read the notice convening the meet-urier of Cavendish and Burke was done by The Times says: Even if it be true that the The Flewys Castle is making fair progress at
course of events in the land of the Pharaohs, and ing, and the pinutes of the previous meeting, American-Irish desperadoes, we must not forget will probably lead to the military occupation of which were confirmed. L2 138.
that Parnell has boasted of consolidating an the country by Britain and France.
alliance between the Irish in America and those at home. We are unable to accept the plea that The following chaiters, says the Gazette, were
the men who have pursued the Land Leaguers Blankenese, (,000 peculs, to Surabaya and effected in Amoy during the past fortnight-
course are divested of all responsibility for the 'crime they now denounce. back, 30 day days, $1,900.-tama, 8,000 peculs,
The Timer says of the Parnellite members of Parliament: It is morally impossible to enter into any understanding with those who denounce the outrage for the first time, when they feel it cripples their operations, though they profess to negotiate in the House of Commons for the blood-thirsty clement of the Irish people. They are only powerful to excite disaffection, they can not diminish the malignancy of the whole class, who wallow in blood like beasts of prey.
the disastrous speculations in land has been the complete stagnation and paralysis of the trade of Hongkong" the general com- mercial prospects of the Colony are so seri- ously affected that it is clearly apparent to us, as it must be to all other disinterested persons, that something must be done, and SHANGHAIPHARMACY, | thái speedily, to remove the general de | pression. The governnight, as well our | leading merchants, have an interest in sec- ing matters generally, return to the gala quo, although how far they may be respon- 17sible in the matter is quite another question. Sympathy for the persons who have been the cause of all these troubles would be It is requested that all communications claquite thrown away. Unscrupulous specul- ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &e, be adators of the class "cornered" by the dressedtothe Mangger, Hongkong Telegraph" | bursting of the land bubble deserve neither and not to the Editor.
Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The sympathy, nor consideration. They went Elitry and not to individual members of the into the business with their eyes open, and it is but just that they should suffer the Communications intended for publication must be accompanied by the name and address of the consequences of their grasping greed. No writers, not necessarily for publication ; but as doubt there are many respectable Chinese evidence of good faith.
Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele merchants and chizens, who have been graph will always be open for the fair discussion made the innocent victims of their own by correspondents of all questions affecting public
blattf
NOÍRIES MÓ CORRESPONDENTS,
|
Taiwanfoo to Chefoe and back to Amoy, 28 lay
Tite Courier is informed that the directors of the Selangor Tin Mining Company of Shanghai met on the afternoon of the 6th inst, for the purpose of making an allotment of shares, and that out of the total number of 2,503, 1,050 shares were allotted to Chinese, applicants.
days, $2,100.-Proklich, 3,200 pecula, New- SHANGHAI seeins to be extremely fortunate inchwang to Kobe, 20 lay days, 17 cents per pecut connection with the Manila lottery. We(Courier) (at Nagasaki.)-Hugo & Otto, 9,500 pecnis, bear to-day that the first, second and third
Foochow to Tientsin, 20 lay days, $3,375.- prize tickets have been purchased here. The Drient, 11,500 peculs, Reclung to Shanghai, 14 numbers are-1st prize, No. 199: 2nd, No. lay days, $2,20 per ton (at Hongkong).—stesias, 16,773. and 3ith No. 19,557; the 4th prize is 5,800 peculs, Taiwanfon, Amoy, Ticutsin, New numbered tc,192.
chwang and back to Amoy, 33 lay days, $2,850. inna Deutschmann, 4,000 peculs, to Tamsui and back, 12 lay days, $40. ANOTHER earthquake, says the Foochow Herald of the 8th instant, was distinctly felt on Saturday
Hts EXCELLENCY, Tsu-t'sung-tang, says the Courier, left the Kin-le-yuen wharf this morning shortly after nine. The steamer that brought him down to the Arsenal towed down three
The Chairman then read the Society's report for the past year which is as follows.
of the Society have had an opportunity of dis- playing the utility of the institution.
"Since the last general meeting the members
"On the 14th October last year the Colony experienced one of the severest gales that has visited Hongkong for some years; it continued from 9 am to 4 pm, but raged most severely from 1 to 3 in the afternoon. During the time the storm lasted the members of the Society were out along the Praya doing good service, and succeeded, with the aid of volunteers from the Sailors' one and European members of the Police Force, in rescuing over 150 persons from sinking craft in the Harbour.
attendent the practices with the Rocket App- "During the past year the members who have
aratus have shown themselves thoroughly efficient
interests, it must be distinctly understood thredulity by unscrupulous scoundrels who house-boats, containing the Viceroy and his suite last at twenty three minutes to twelve in then their various duties. the Editor does not in any way hold himself resought at the present moment to be into Wobsung. After making an inspection thereforenoon, and lasted over a minute and a half. ponsible for opinions thus expresset.
Victoria Gaul, but even in these cases it, is he will return to Nanking.
The commotion was sufficiently severe as to stop TO ADVERTISERS.
There has only been one Committee Meeting
Miss Anna Parnell, in her letter to the Times, ciliation, when a family in Clare, whom Forster says she doubts that the new policy is one of con
turned out, are living in hovels, and 600 people in one county alone are liable to death from ex- pasare, it being illegal to help them. It must not be forgatton that there is such a thing na kuman Hature among Irishmen.
The rumour is current that the forthcoming Protection bill will provide, in certain cases of murder, that the trial by jury be suspended and the accused be tried before three Judges, with the
The Queen last evening gave audience to an officer Bearing dispatches from Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Spencer is expected to Ireland he will be accompanied by his wife. arrive in London to-morrow. On his return to
hard to draw the line separating those Says the Japan Gazelle Since the opening off the movement of the pendulum of a clock which during the year as the business to be transacted right of appeal.
Advertisers are requested to forward all notices intended for insertion in that day's issue not later than TER OCDKK so as not to retard thinking, that the "cornered" Chinese each port to afford protection to Japanese sub. The closer to the river's boundary, the more carly publication of the paper.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
sinned against from the sinners. The only reasonable claim therefore, to our way of
speculators van advance why they should Arrangements have been made in publish recive assistance either from the govern The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 4 PM. Sub-ment, or from foreign capitalists, is that of scribers in the central districts who do not receive their copies before Five O'Clock will oblige by at once communicating with the Manage
The Hangkong Telegraph
the public interest. It is not a question of sentiment; but a simple matter of pounds, shillings, and pence, and on no other plat form can it be fairly argued.
Government to assist them. And we think that had these troubles been caused by misfortune, instead of being the outcome of most disgraceful speculation; had the petitioners been deserving persons ruined by the visitation of God, or by war, or by, any of the hundred and one misfortunes always hanging over us, instead of broken down unscrupulous gamblers, their appeal might have received favourable considera. tion from Her Majesty's Government. We see that Mr. GLSTONE has consented to
jects, and it has been found necessary, to further strengthen this force by establishing a marine battalion on shore at each place. The Shanghai Courier hears that a Chinese paper is shortly to be started in Tientsin. The projected journal will be the organ of the La party, and the editor, it is rumoured, will be a German gentleman at present in Shanghai, who, both from his proficiency in Chinese, and his knowledge of diplomacy, is considered by the Viceroy as emi- nently qualified for the post.
WE are glad to hear, says the Shanghai Courier, that the idea of forming a Portuguese Company of Volunteers is likely to be carried into effect at no distant date. A circular has been issued by Major Holliday inviting the names of intending members. The company, we understand, will be composed of the limited number of 60 rank and tile with two subalteras and a captain. As soon as a sufficient number of persons have sub- scribed their names, à meeting will be held for
was trifling.
"It is much to be regretted that the Society kas during the period under review lost several of its most valuable members. The untimely death of the Rev. C. G. Booth is greatly to be
his share of work when occasion required. The deplored; he was ever ready, and cheerfully did removal of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 10 Singapore deprived the Society of two most ac- Odlier members have also left the colony, and at tive members, Licut. Windium and Mr. Bridges.
the present the only 18 members remain, but t is hoped that the Society may obtain a consider-
able accession to its numbers before the com- niencement of practice this year,
It is interesting and highly gratifying to note that the Home Government take an interest in the Society's work, the Board of Trade having recently applied to Mr. H. G. Thomsett, Har bour Master at this Port, for particulars of the manner in which the Society is conducted, the means of saving life at its disposal, and the num ber of lives saved during the last five years. The necessary information has been forwarded by Mr. lyric, the President of the Society.
|
The Queen will visit London to-day and give, audience to Gladstone,
It is stated that John Holmes, Junior Lord of the Treasury, is to succeed the late Lord Cavendish as Secretary to Ireland, and, Herbert Gladstone is to succeed Holmes in the Treasury,
It is rumoured that the Under Secretaryship for Ireland has been offered to Blake, one of the special magistrates appointed by Forster,
DUBLIN, May 9th.
At the inquest o 1 the bodies of Cavendish and Burke, medical evidence was given to the effect that the victims apparently, liad been stabbed simultaneously, from before and behind, with long bowie knives.
Suspects have been abandoned.
luminations in honour of the release of the
DuDIN, May 9th. The body of Burke was buried in Glasneven Cemetery to-day. Crowds of people lined the streets. Nearly all the shops were closed, and mourning was won by inany people.
the Corean ports, Fusan and Genzan, to Japan, awe noticed at the time of the occurrence, although man-of-war of the latter has been stationed at hardly so violent as the last one experienced.
perceptible are these perturbations, which is fully exemplified by the fact of several of the com munity whose residences are situate away from Earth at all on either of the last two occasions. the water, not having noticed the quake of the
longer any chance of Sir John Hennessy being THE Liverpool Mercury says:--"There is no eposed by the Foreign Office for what he has done in Hongkong. It is true that he has raised the Colony against him for what, he has done to prevent slavery, and to root out a terrible abuse; and when first the outery was raised even-Lord Carnarvon blamed the Govenor, But the publica tion of the blue books shows that the system he sought to suppress is as miserable as it can be, The brothel slavery which exists is something horrible, and it has been fed and sustained by official sanction.. The first to move in the mai ter was Sir John Smale, and Sir John Pope Hennessy followed him. He will, it is under- stood, go back to Hongkong in order to root up what is proved to be so mischievous," · China Mail please copy what an independent home paper says of your béte noir, "the late Governor." À CORRESPONDENT of the Japan Mail writes: "The British steamerAfary Tatham was wrecked ing free starage for waggon and apparatus. There on the Coast of Vero some time since; and al-has also been a considerable reduction in the charge for coolie bire. Though the amount in though she had some seven hundred passengers on board a strange silence has been maintained
the hands of the Treasurer is small, only amount-charged. regarding the disaster, and now it is rumoured ing to $63.00 it compares favourably with last that sume of the officers and crew who have been year's balance sheet which was considerably on here for upwards of three weeks are to be sent away before any enquiry has been held. It further appears that amongst those to be sent away is the third engineer, who was on watch when the vessel struck, as well as the man on the look out. In the public interests and those
the election of officers.
of all concerned this should be looked to." Fur
traced from Chapel-Izod back toward Dublin to
The car by which the murderers fed has been
Inchicore, and thence toward Naas. It is sup- "It is a matter for congratulation that the work-posed the assassins took the train at Calbridge, ing expenses of the Society have been reduced getting back to Dublin at ten o'clock.
The officers of the guard ship are dragging the considerably, the item of tent being no longer in Liffey for the weapons used by the assassins.
curred in consequence of the Government allow.
the debit side.
"At this meeting officers will have to be elected for the ensuing year."
The Chairman in reviewing the report of the Society, said it was a fairly interesting one, and showed that the Institution had proved its use fulness to the Colony during the past year, and would, in his opinion if required, be as ready to do their duty in the future. It was to be regretted that the Society was so numerically weak through
Clochan, supposed to be the carman who
drove the assassins, is remanded for further inquiry.
Moore has been discharged. The Limerick prisoner and Bailey and Arman were also dis.
An Irishman from America has been arrested at Castle Billinghain, and two other prisoners are under remand at Monaghan.
A
LONDON, May roth. The Government will offer a reward of £1,000 for information given within three months which leads to the conviction of the murderers. reward of £1,000 is also offered for private in formation. The Government will also grant a free pardon and extend the special protection of the Crown in any part of the Queen's domain to any persons, other than the principals in the crime, who may give the information required.
The corporation of Cork bas voted £100 to- ward the fund for the capture of the assassins.
At a public meeting at Cork (600 were sub- ever, the number on the ralt at present was exactly scribed on the spot for the apprehension of the the same as last year, and as it has usually been
murderers. Subscriptions to the reward fund now amount to £2,000. selves minus a number of members, owing to community of which changes every year, there the peculiar circumstances of the Colony, the was nothing very alarming about it as they would, doubtless, soon have some additional members on the roll.
Mr. Ho Am's resolution That in view of the present alarming state of affairs ia the Colony, the Government be requested HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 13. 1882. to advance money on mortgages on landed property at a low rate of interest-say at It could hardly have been expected by the five per cent, per annum. is, to say the Chinese members of our commercial com- least, a strikingly original one, and if the munity, under whose auspices, the public government could only be induced to open meeting of Saturday last was convened its heart and its coffers to the tune of eight and held, timt an impromptu discussion of millions of dollars, to doubt such paternal the land question, or the adoption of in-solicitude for the welfare of its subjects would formal resolutions, could lead to any prac-be highly appreciated by those persons. tical results. In the face of this truth, who are unable to procure the money they which must have been apparent to all require on mortgages at twice five per business men acquainted with the extra- cent. We quite agree with Mr. Ho AMEIe is a good and joyful thing for brethren to twell that the Chinese, in the hour of their ad- together in unity. This sentiment doubtless ordinary circumstances which have led to the present financial crisis in native circles,versity, have a perfect right to appeal to the flashed through the mind of the Vicar of Perrivale it is difficult to understand for what object
when lie held his Easter Monday vestry. There the meeting was convener, and the co-
was not the slightest opposition to the proceedings. The vicar took the chair at the appointed hour. operation of European capitalists solicited.
Hemoved and seconded and carried the election The suspicious manner in which the
of the people's warden. Next he moved, se- preliminaries of a public meeting to dis-
conded, and carried a vote of thanks for his able euss matters of the highest public import
and impartial conduct in the chair. Haying ance, which it cannot be denied affected
brougin: this pleasant business to an end he closed the interests of the entire community, were
the meeting and retired. He was the only person arranged, effectually prevented Europeans
present. If they could only emulate this sort of from identifying themselves with the move
thing at Hatcham and elsewhere we should have nient. An anonymous notice in the news-
fewer church seandals.
ther particulars we have received concerning the papers, a circular inaccurately stating that
LAU ATAI, a boatman, was charged before Mr. Mary Tatham would seem to show that the the meeting was called by the City Hall apply the Irish Church Fund, surplus for Thomsett with stealing a bag of rice, the property vessel had at the time of her wreck a far greater various members having left the Colony; hawi Committee, a highly colored and mislead the benefit of the tenants in Ireland, so that of Leung Aking, a shopkeeper. It appears that number of Chinese passengers' on board than ing paragraph in our morning contem after all, the appeal of the Chinese, had it the shopkeeper hired the boatman to land 102 she was passed for by the Emigration authorities porary from the pen of a person who says been made under different circumstances, bags of rice from a vessel in the harbour; defen- in Hongkong. Nothing, strange to say, has yet the case at their annual meetings to find them. he is a property broker, and a generally would not be so ridiculous as might at first going on board his boat he found another bag of a serious responsibility must rest somewhere, dant landed the 102 bags, but on complainant been heard of the abandonnent of the vessel and believed and apparently well founded re-sight appear. The framer of the resolu-rice marked similarly to tlie others. Not getting The result of the enquiry will probably disclose port that the originator of this panacea for tion also lost sight of the fact, that, al- a satisfactory answer as to the non-landing of the the existing monetary troubles of our Chi- though our local government is, thanks to other bag, complainant gave prisoner into custody. interesting particulars of this rather enig nese friends was' none other than the ubiq- | Sir Jens Pore Hexxessy, passing rich, the Prisoner in his defence said he landed the 102
The Chairman exhorted the members to keep uitous THOMAS ID Bowie, could only sum required to replace that withdrawn bags and then found an extra bag left which UPON the departure of the Russian corvette
their spirits, and alluded to the state of the have one effect on the minds of the Euro- from the Chinese by the European banks could not belong to complainant as he had frica, the Chinese soldiers at the forts appear finances which were in a much more satisfactory
The body of Lord Cavendish has been fald pean community, and that was, that the say, eight million dollars-is far beyond landed all the bags belonging to him. Prisoner to have been considerably alarmed by the dis condition than last year, when they had a debit whole affair was a childish farce, got up
who did not remember the name of the ship the charge of guns in commemoration of the natal against them. He had no doubt that when funds out for public view in the chapel at Chatsworth. Mr. Ho Aset and his friends rice cante from, was fined, ten pounds with the day of the Grand Duke Nicholas (successor to were wanted to renew their gear and farther ex-The features are calm. Only one scar is visible tend their sphere of usefulness, that they would -across the rose. The Queen sent special
and this matter would be con
messenger with wreath for the coffin. The ment will not assist the "cornered." specu- possession. The rice to be forfeited if the owner following account of the Africa's trip down river, sidered when t It is fair to assume from the number of laters out of their present troubles.
written on board the pilot boat Marle imme as also the placing of life lines on Stone Cutter's lasting flowers, and has her card attached to it influential foreign capitalists who were The, second resolution-"That the fo-
diately after lier departure:-"At nine o'clock in Island and Green Island, which had not been with the words inscribed, "From Queen. Vic- toria." A letter of condolence addressed to Lady present in the St. Andrew's Hall on Satur-reign banks be requested to renew their day afternoon H.M.S. Daring steamed into port, nway from Pagoda Anchorage, down river. the adoption of the Secretary's report and state. The interment will take place at diness at the
SAYS the Hiogo News of the 1st inst. :-"Yester the morning we weighed anchor and steamed overlooked, and would be carried out very shortly. The Chairman concluded by proposing
Frederick Cavendish accompanies the wreath. day afternoon, that the position of the Chi- cenfidence in the Chinese banks; as by and was followed during the evening by H.M.S. Having passed the Mingan Pass, the buglement of accounts, the motion being seconded by. o'clock Thursday afternoon. Business in the nese in regard to the present unparalleled their withdrawal of capital they have Ferhound, also under steam. These two vessels and drums. called the ship's company to Mr. J. A. Sampson, and unanimously carried, surrounding districts will be suspended during depression of trade owing to the reckless seriously crippled the general trade of are in advance of the main body of the cruising muster; the officers appearing in full uniform Mr. J. A. Sampson, foreman, Eastern District; of the Devonshire Irish tenantry from Cork will The following office-bearers were re-elected the whole day. It is expected that a deputation land speculations, had excited the interest Hongkong, by disminishing the power of squadron; and the remainder are expected to with side arms, and the crew in cleanly white fr. R. White, foreman of the Western Dis participate in the funeral procession. A special of their European brethern. Such men as Chinese merchants to make purchases and arrive during the course of to-day. Upon the attire. Upon the Admiral appearing upon deck, in trict; Mr. Fisher, Secretary; Mr. G. A. Caldwell, train from London will convey the Ministers who the Hon. F. BULKELEY Joussox, Mr. F. D. sales--has our hearty sympathy, as it Daring coming in it was noticed that her boats full dress uniform of the richest description, the Treasurer; and Dr. Stockwell, Honorary Sur-will act as pall-bearers,
The SASSOON, Mr. C. P. CHATER, Mr. EDMUND has already received our advocacy. It is and davits on the port side had been carried Russian standard was hoisted to the mainmast Econ. Mr. J. Cook and Mr. de were both als sent from the Colony, but were both expected SHARP, Mr. GRANVILLE SHARP, and other in fact the key to the situation; the only away, and an exactly similar state of affairs head, the ship's company saluting the same by back shortly, and these gentlemen were also re influential residents, were hardly likely to practicable solution of the present difficut able to ascertain the damage arose through col-caps; after which church service was held on
exists on the Foxhound. As far as we have been raising their peculiarly shaped three comered elected.
The Chairman said they would be glad to hear have taken the trouble to attend the meeting ties. If the foreign banks can see their lision under charkable circumstances. The the lower deck. At about noon, having passed any suggestion as to the working of the Society. out of more curiosity, We are willing to way to renew their confidence in the Cht- squadron was performing, some evolutions under the Kimpal Foris, the Russian ensign was hoiated ter's Island, and Mr. John Keller, Sailor's Home, Messrs. J. Livesey and G. Weht, Stone Cut- believe that each and all of these gentle- nese banks, the crisis will no doubt be sail on the way up here from Nagasaki, and at the foremast head, and simultaneously, a were proposed as members by Mr. J. R. White, men came to the City Hall ready and tided over; and if proper securities are wound up with gun drill. The firing brought on aalute of twenty five heavy guns was given in and were placed on the mil. On Mr. Wm. Schmidt willing to give the Chinese, under certain forthcoming there appears no reason why a dead calm, or at least a dead calm came on, honour of the event. I left the vessel steaming be sent round to the members, as he had seen no suggesting that a notice of the meetings should circumstances, whatever advice and assist this should not be. To affect this desirable and the Curaços and Daring drifted foul of one away northwards, en route to Chefoo, with flags notification of the present one, Mr. Fisher, the ance-lay-in-their power. They attended arrangement should be the aim of our Chinother. The Foxhound set to work to tow the flying from her three mast-heads and presenting Secretary, explained that the meeting had been with the expectation of finding a properly nese friends whose interests are involved, Daring clear, and in so doing collided with her, an imposing sight," The Captain of the Africa advertised in the newspapers for a considerable organised meeting of the representatives If this can be done, the meeting of Chinese We believe that when the squadron left Hong- nese soldiers at the fonts should learn the real
when the injuries already mentioned occurred.seemed particularly desirous that the scared Chi- time, and that expresses had also been sent of Chinese commercial interests, gathered in the City Hall will not have been held in kong, the intention was to make a stay of only occasion, for the tumult and so have their fears by Mr. J. I. de Soura, and carried.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman was proposed together with unanimity of feeling, for a vain,
| two or three days in Kobe."
allayed as soon as possible-Foochow Herald. This concluded the meeting
its means.
matical disaster.
up
PORTLAND, Me., May 9th, and a resident of this city, makes this public an George Kelley, a native of Galway, Ireland, nouncement: "I have this day deposited $500 in the Canal National Bank of Portland, which I will pay to
to the person or persons instrumental in the arrest and conviction of the cowardly assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish and
Under Secretary Burke
for self Interest, notoriety-or Heaven may safely rest assured that the govern { option of three months' hard labor, for unlawf the throne). We have been furnished with the forth the Socicly had more funds in hand, wreath is composed of yellow, and white ever.
knows what,
cannot be found.
round..
police are guarding the warehouse of A. S. Henry & Co., in consequence of the receipt of information that an attempt will be made to des- troy the place. The threats are supposed to have arisen from Fenian displeasure at the course of Mitchell Henry, who is a partner in the firm.
LONDON, May Irth.
station yesterday to witness the departure of the A large crowd gathered at St. Pancras railway special train conveying mourners to Chatsworth, dislu. Among them were the Prince of Wales to attend the funeral of Lord Frederick Caven and Duke of Edinburgh, representing the Queen; Gladstone, Lord Granville, Forster, the Attorney General the Postmaster-General, and many other distinguished persons.
One of the most conspicuous features of the funeral was the assemblage of 5,000 tenants of the Duke of Devonshire, father of Lord Caven- disk.