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tory, or other commercial establishment which, about the middle of August, stopped business, and shut its doors for the next five or six months? And no bank, factory. or other commercial establishment should not be able to do what is done regularly by the establishment which has charge of the morals, the manners, the religion, and the well-being of the entire community.
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LONDON, 16th August. EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS. Water is failing at Alexandria. Sir Garnet Wolseley has arrived.
LONDON, 17th August.
will not go to Egypt..
It is certainly expected that the Turkish troops
THE mistress of licensed brothel No. 13, at No. z, A. Graham Street, was committed for trial this morning by Mr. Wodehouse an two charges:- purchasing two girls for the purpose of prostitu tien; and fraudulently decoying and taking the girls away from the Colony for sale at Canton.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
The ordinary half-yearly meeting of share. holders was held this afternoon at the City Hall, `→ There were' present Mr. H. L Dalrymple The Turkish troops have not proceeded to. The other day, at a meeting of the Salvation Reiners, H. Hoppius, F. D. Sassoon, A McIver, (Chairman), Hon. F. I. Johnson, Messrs. W. Egypt; but have landed at Crete.
Army at Chatham, a speaker informed his hearers M. E. Sassoon, C. Vincent Smith, W. S. Young, that he had been as bad as they were, and that F. T. P. Foster, E. Georg, L. C. Balfour, for twenty years he had been in the Devil's scr-
A. Coxon, C. P. Chater, J. T. Chater, H. Foss, E. vice. "Why, then," asked a practical non-com-J. Hughes, E. George, W. H. Ray, A. McCon- missioned officer who was listening," did you notuachie, D. Jones, H. Crawford, H. N. Mody, L serve a year longer, when you would have got a Fleming, J. Vernon, E. O'D, Gourdin, A. R.
REFERRING to the quarantine of the Belgic, a fall pension and a long-service medal ?"
Blandy, J. R. Anton, 1). McCulloch, E. Beart, C. Holliday, J. C. Hughes, H. G. James,
passengers of the Belgie content themselves with (Chief Manager). San Francisco contemporary says:-The cabin A. G. Stokes, fon. P. Ryrie, and Mr. T: Jackson W. Legge, J. F. C. da Roza, J. H. dos Remedios,
WE would remind our correspondent "Mate" of any description unless accompanied by the that we are unable to deal with correspondence writer's name and address.
to hold up the mirror to our arrogant in sular nature, and to teach us the modera- tion which should come of our manifold deformities and deficiencies. The only correct way of doing the work would be, as we have said, to discover-or, for the matter of that, to breed-an intelligent foreigner, Intelligent ecough and painstak- ing enough for the purpose. Certainly, whatever has been most surprising to En- Another matter which might well astonish CARROLIC DISINFECTANTS.glishmen in India, China, or Japan. would the intelligent foreigner is the way in which find its match in England in the minds of a our law actions are managed. Let us take Hindos, a Chinaman, or a Japanese. It the recent St. Paul's School case as an ex-
LOCAL AND GENERAL. matters not whether we take outward show ample. We have no intention of reopening Tax Hoikow cause cut of Kowloon Dock to-day, or inward manner. From the pompous this matter, which has been more or less raree show of the Lord Mayor of London warmly discussed; but it has taken upon mattianhar comes out of Aberdeen Dock this the Sea Witch taking her place. The Kaja to the sombre yet grotesque appearance itself a new phase by means of correspon-afternoon. of the Speaker of the House of Commons. dence in the columns of a morning paper. or the Lont CHANCELLOR upon the wool- Mrs. Sean wrote expressing her regret sack, all is hideous and unnatural. Our that the action should have endest as it did, FELLOW'S SYRUP counsel and judges cannot perform their without the defendant being able to state OSGOOD'S INDIAN CHOLAGOGUE, luties without clothing themselves in a her case in full. Immediately she was re-
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of the doctrines they are com- might be allowed to pass, as jurors are pelled by their positions to enunciate. not supposed to possess any remarkable What can the intelligent foreigner think capacity for grasping the true meaning of in these enlightened days of the great the arguments submitted to them; but principle of brains by birthright, of the "One of the Jury" went on to say that county franchise, and of the position of the the case collapsed because there was no agricultural labourer? What can he think of the extraordinary tithe rent charges against. Mr. Sextiros." To this Mrs. foundation whatever for the charges made Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The which-will, in the course of the next month Sexs replies that it surprises her to learn Editor" and noi to individual members of the or two, cause so much wachristian heart-that the jury should have made up its Communications intented for publication must burning in the counties of Kent and Sus mind without hearing any of the ninety be accompanied by the native. And address of the sex ? What can he think of the way in witnesses who would have been called for writers, not necessarily for publication; but as which the indigent sick and aged are evidence of good faith.
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Ciocci, the popular baritone of the Italian Opera Company at present in Alanila, had announced for his benefit a performance of Verdi's ever popular "La Traviata."
We observe from El Comercio that Signor
WHILE at work in Aberdeen Docks about & o'clock last evening, a Chinaman named. Fung Achan, aged 38, fell from a gangway leading to the steamship Esmeralda into the Hope Dock, receiving such injuries that he died in ten minutes afterwards. His forehead, nose and chin were
body. badly cut. An inquest has been ordered on the
A CHINESE shopman, a devotee of Bacchus, was found by constable McGregor drunk and dis- orderly in Hollywood Road at the rather early hour of 3.20 this morning. When taken to the Station he became very riotous. Capt. Thomsett Marked his sense of the early-up one's mis: behaviour by fining him or four days. The
fine was paid.
We hear that Mr. Bowler is on the war-path
with fifteen of Thomas's beloved Mexicans. We
walking the decks with their hands in their
pckets, and gazing upon the lady in black, who Stories have circulated that she is an heiress of tantalizes them by keeping herself aloof fram all.
no small pretensions, and is on her way to this
widow with three children, going to meet a second in the East. Another story has it that she is a country from China to lay claim to a large estate
intended.
On the quarter deck of the steamer a few pass the hours between meals at cricket. No new cases of small-pox have appeared to unsettle their minds or alarm the public.
Ms. MATILDA GUTIERREZ was summoned to the Police Court this morning, by her Chinese female servant, for assault. The complainant said her mistress got angry because she did not at once wash a child's napkin that had fallen into a tub, and gave her several blows.-Mrs. Gutierrez admited slapping complainant slightly napkins several times before.-Captain Thom- an the hand, as she had cautioned her about the sat said he was sorry Mrs. Gutierrez should have assaulted her servant, but that, notwithstanding his regret, he must fine her a Mexican. In a fatherly tone, the gallantcaptain advised Mrs. G. if she could not get on with a servant to send her away, as being a far better course than giving her one for her nob, and two for her heels.
presently? What can hethink of hundreds what is happening every day in Lon. again, this time after a coolie who has run of Jr is a singular coincidence that just at the mo- |
sary.
Canton steamer wharf early this morning, gazing Europe with his romance of a divorce, a story of are informed that the energetic one was on the tent in which Sardou, the brilliant French keenly and anxiously about for the missing one.
dramatist, is amusing thousands in Western
We hope he will succeed in capturing him and
a somewhat similar character has been enacted running him in to keep company with the
in real life in the Eastern half of Europe, and is "annexers" of his yacht property.
now the subject of talk in St. Petersburg society. Three or four years ago the member of one of married a distinguished St. Petersburg beauty, a the foreign embassies in the Russian capital member of a very wealthy family. The mar riage was childless, which irritated the husband. This alone, however, was not a sufficient cause The lady was accused of firtation; the firtation for a divorce, but it seems to have led to quarrels.
was next suspected to have taken a guilty direc tion; the case did not come before the court, and the couple agreed to a separation. But the lady, given her, retired into privacy, and lived quietly instead of indulging the freedom which was thus
at a country house of her father's not far from
charming company-and perhaps missing the the capital. The husband, after fe had lost her
libelled Mr. SCROTTON were absolutely don, To begin with, the ladies who
ignorant of the great principle which makes Tweedledum SQ different from Tweedledee-in our leading law courts. Į They expressed what was without doubt honest and well-merited indignation, but they fastened too hurriedly upon him they of the Buffs, proceeded to England this morning Two Sergeants, four women, and seven children considered to be the cause of it, and they by the P. & 0. mail steamer Shannon. The have got to pay very dearly for their in-women were sent home as invalids, their health discretion. The case, ScKUTTONA. TAYLOR, | having broken down. Two of them were wives proves what we have so often said here, of the sergeants, who were sent to accompany that women are--on account of everything their better-halves, and look to their comfort which recommends them most to the con- during the voyage, which, we trust, will have the sideration of men—as women, unfitted for effect of restoring the invalids to perfect health. the performance of onerous public cluties. At the same time we cannot help expressing have decided on substituting the comedy, "The Uros reconsideration, the sergeants of the BuTs unmeasured respect for the motives which "boots" at the "Swan" for "A curious case," in actuated Mrs. SCRR and Miss TAYLOR and their performances for the benefit of the widow such as acted with them. It will be as of Sergeant Marley to be given at the Garrison well if all interested in law process lay to Theatre on the 4th and gali proximo. The Boffs, heart what is the extraordinary moral of we hear, played this lively comedy at Singapore this case. An eminent counsel the other last year with great eclat. Mrs. Blake and Mrs. day stated in court that if Peace, the Pears, who took parts in the last performance at burglar, had brought an action against the City Hall, are in the cast. anyone who called him a burglar, the chances are that he would have gained exemplary damages, and the decision in the BANDMANS. FRASER-SMITH case can leave no doubt in our minds that the said eminent counsel was perfectly cor rect in his opinion. When the crucial test came, the judge would most likely have ruled that the evidence was Inad- missible. SQUEERS and DOTURBOYS HALL have been much quoted in connection with the St. Part's School scandal. The late CHARLES DICKENS never imagined the risk he ran when penning the most powerful portion of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY." Libel had not then become so epidemic as it is now, or Dickass might have learned to his cost how difficult it was to escape if once
We note the arrival by the Pekin yesterday, of Assistant Commissary General G. C. Murray, Ordnance Store Department, who has come out to relieve Assistant Commissary General March, at present in charge of the Department at this Station. Mr. March, after he has handed over the stares to his successor, will return to England. process, there being such a multiplicity of articles, The transfer of Ordnance Stores is a very tedious and at this station generally occupies some months.
very excitement of the continual ira amantium
and redintegratio amoris which it had provided could find no rest. He used to disguise him- sell and slip down to the chateau to catch a glimpse of his wife, possibly to discover whether other of her suspected lovers. It appears that a she was encouraging the attentions of one or
candid friend of his had charged himself with the very same task, and one day this friend said
watched, and I find that there is one fellow who to the husband, "Your wife has been very strictly
slinks about her house-two or three times every week. She has no other lover, and I cannot yet agement." The husband learned from closer find out whether she is giving him any encour
inquiries that this suspected Lothario was no other than himself. He sought an interview following days at Trent Bridge Grounds, Notting-tired from the world for us sake, and the couple In the cricket match played on July 6th and
with the beautiful hermit, found that she had re
ham, between Notts and Lancashire, the home county with 116 and 42 against 52 and 62 won by Ir will be months, says the Overland Afall,
burned the deed of separation.
44 runs. In the second innings of the County Palatine, Barlow, the well known professional, went in first, and carried out his bat.. He was at the wickets for two hours and a half, and scored for 35 runs) and Alfred Shaw, were dead on the 5 rurs-all singles. Flowers (who took 7 wickets
The Chainman having read the report, said he thought it would be consideral a very salis and added! a good sum to the reserve, which factory one. They had maintained their dividend,
now stood at $2,350,000. A comparison be
vious year, would show how the business of the tween the figures of 30th June last and those of the corresponding period of the pre-
Bank had grown, and prove the public confidence in the Bank. There was an increase in the deposits, and as business had improved during the half year, the directors took the opportunity of the past six years, which he was sure would afincreasing the reserve, in pursuance of the policy
perience of unexampled distrust among Chinese meet with general approval. They had ex-
merchants and bankers, but he was glad to inform them that owing to the business tact and discretion of their chief manager, by avoiding any loss from local loans and for other reasons, the Bank had not suffered.
Trade
the Bank was equally nfected with merchants, at present was dull and profits were low, and
They bad lately acquired a property adjoining the Bank, and it was in contemplation to erect building was too cramped and small, and un- suitable premises on the site. The present
worthy of the position the Bank had obtained. In conclusion, he would say that the affairs of the Bank were in a sound state, and he had to
happy to answer any questions. No question congratulate the shareholders on its continued prosperity. Before proposing the adoption of the report and the passing of the accounts he would
being asked, he proposed the adoption and par sing which, being seconded by Mr. C. P. Chater, was carried unanimously.
be
dividend warrants would be ready to-morrow An announcement by the Chairman that the
terminated the proceedings.
MAILS EXPECTED.
THE AMERICAN MAIL.
The O. and O. S. S. Co.'s steamer Belgie left San Francisco for this port, via Yokohama, on the 22nd ultimo; she will be due here on or about the and instant.
king left San Francisco for this port, via Yoko- The P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamship City of Pe
hon, on the 1st instant; she will be due hew on or about the 31st.
STEAMERS EXPECTED.
The E. and A. S. 5. Co.'s steamer Tannadice left Port Darwin on the roth instant, and may be expected here on or about the 23rd.
The Indo-China S. N. Co.'s steamer Kwong- Jang lett Singapore on the 16th instant, and mây be expected to arrive here on or about the 23rd,
The steamer Stirling Castle, from London, left Singapore on the 16th instant, and may be expected to arrive here on or about the 23rd
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of perception as he reads, but to particu- of other things which must strike anyone rise which we have neither the space nor the inclination. What can he think-and here we are compelled to go into details- Arrangements have been made to publish ) of the hideous clamour which has disgraced The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 41. Subcur House of Commons during the whole scribers in the central districts who do not receive | their copies before Five O'CLOCK will oblige by of the prosent session? Mr. GLADSTONE at once communicating with the Manager. an: his colleagues have at last managed to pass the first portion of a bill which even the Irish members themselves in their solur moments-if they have any sober moments-must admit to be highly neres. HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1882. -
But to pass it, all other public business of importance has had to be TRAVELLERS proverbially tell strange tales, shelver. Not only this, the once "most and the strangest of them, says the Referee, gentlemanly assemblage in the work!" are told about manners and customs--the has become a veritable bear garden, the iliosyncrasies of individuals and the pecul- scene of a series of Irish faction fights. jarities of Governments. Byen such travel- All this has been caused by the trammels lers as tell us nothing we did not know of parliamentary procedure and the neces- before show themselves remarkably sensity in the minds of our leading legislators sitive as to the difference between what for doing everything by means of estab- goes on here and what goes on in the lished precedent. There can be no doubt countries they happen to honour with their in the mind of anyone who has either read visits. No end of a pity is it that an in-or heard the recent debates, that all this habitant of one of these same countries trouble in the House might have been cut cannot in due course express his opinions short if not rendered absolutely impossible. about our (to him) curiosities of thought it was necessary to pass the Coercion and action. We are constantly told what Bill --and it was--surely it was equally the intelligent foreigner would say under necessary for Ministers to take such steps certain set circumstances, but up to the as would enable them to pass it speedily present no foreigner has been intelligent and without annoyance from a puny and unough or painstaking enough to give us tyrannical minority. The one necessity anything like a broad and comprehensive proves the other, and yet for months the view of ourselves as seen from any but our old and cumbrous machinery has been at own viewpoint. Now and again our work as if for the purpose of retarding nearest neighbour tells extraordinary. advance rather than of assisting it. In no sometimes shocking. stories about us. other place but the House of Commons These are, however, told in so exaggerated would Messrs. PARNELL, RISGAK, O'DONNELL. a way, and with such evident intention of and. Co. have been allowed such licence; In being funny at our expense, that they can no other assembly would the attempts to be passed over. And yet a valuable lesson suppress their rancorous and malicious op- might be learned from many of them. position have been so feeble. All this Werd if possible to discover a person pos- waste of time woubl have been bad en- Mr. SQUEERS, or whosoever considered he sessed of brains and the ability to use ough were Parliament a body which goes stood for SQUEERS, would only have had them, who had never been erlucated to re- on its way as other bodies unconnected with
to show that the cast in his eye made him gard our manners and customs as models the State have to go-ie, for the whole of unable to see what was going on to be the level of the China Mail by criticising the must have known, since the best informed people credit for six hours stoppage, would only leave apon which the manners and customs of the year, with a slight interruption for holi- regarded as irresponsible by the judge, all other nations should be based, we day, purposes. The House is now im- and his libeller would in such case be glad might be astonished at the way in which patiently waiting for its prorogation, heed of a compromise at any cost. This has he would express himself in reference to loss of the fact that, so far as the country at been shown by cases Innumerable before our much vaunted functions and institu- largeis concerned, the session has produced the SexurṛON-U. TAYLOR case was thought tions. The difficulty is for a true-born next to nothing. Now and again we hear of; and yet, though some of these Englishman" to diyost himself of his early vague talk of an extraordinary autumn cases were fresh, and on everybody's education and the prejudices which come session; such a session would be extra-tongue, the defendant thought, till the of it. Given the power to do this, he might ordinary in more sensos than the one in- be astonished at what goes on every day tended by its projectors, In days that are --at what is allowed to go on without any to come, when the student of history istold check or attempt at check, simply because that on an early day in August Parliament it has gone on from time immemorial, and rose for the year, he will think the historian must therefore be right and proper. Our is grossly exaggerating. This is not all greatest satirists have undeavoured to show Measures which are burked, and innocents how foolish it is of us to fall foul of what is which are massacred so as to enable mem- done in other countries for no other reason bers of Parliament to obtain their grouse than that we do differently ourselves, but shouting, their yachting, their rouge-et- our greatest satirists have failed signally to noir, or whatever it is they desire most, are complete the task they have set themselves. really burked and massacred, and not And why? Because while attacking the simply postponed till next session. With prejudices of others they have always a fresh start everything has to commence carefully cherished and encouraged the afresh-it was our fathers' custom, and so prejudices for which they had a kindly it must be qurs! If we could only take up feeling. No man was more ready to at the business where we left it we should be tack such plague-spots as he himself ob-half-way towards a much-wanted reform; jected to than Swier, but Swirr said no-but that would not be in accordance with thing offensive about the plague-spots to parliamentary procedure as already ar- which he was notoriously partial. The ranged, and so it cannot as yet be even so same may be said of THACKERAY and the much as considered. What, we wonder, and circumstance which appertain to the others who in later day's have attempted would be thought of any great bank, fac-office of British juryman.
an action for heavy damages is set going.
wicket.
before the dark cloud, which is now hovering over Egypt will pass away, and years before the damage caused by the recent events is repaired. That the course taken by the Government in behaviour, was the right one is not for an instant bombarding Alexandría, after Arabi's insolent
to be doubted. The only fault to be found with We have no intention of bringing ourselves to them is that they did not go far enough. They blackguardly and lying attack made on Governor in Egypt told them so, that Arabi would resist Both the editorial paragraph and the letter burning the town, would retreat into the interior, Hennessy which appears in last night's paper. at Alexandria for a short time, and then, after signed "Sigma" are quite up to the China and, if possible, damage the Suez Canal. To be fail's usual standard of falsehood and scurril-prepared for this eventuality they should have ity, and will impose on no one outside the "magic circle.". We, however, think it right to effect a landing under the guns of the fleet. But had a large body of troops at hand ready to
call the attention of the public to one passage in they hesitated, made slow, preparations which "Sigma's" letter, which will enable a fair esti hearing came on, that she was going to
it will take three weeks to complete, and the mate to be placed on this "caustic correspon- consequence in that, after a successful bom win easily. The mistake made by Miss the Home News of the interview which took in Alexandria have been massacred and the dent's" effusion. In referring to the report in
bardment, nearly all the Europeans remaining TAYLOR and the other ladies was that, place at Claridge's Hotel between Governor instead of discovering who was really the Hennessy and a deputation of ladies "epicene had not troops at his disposal wherewith to town sct on fire, because the British Admiral guilty person, they gave way to feminine women" is the term applied to the body of follow up his victory. If the Government had excitement, and accused one who it was gentlewomen who were introduced by Mrs. subsequently shown had no more to do Butler, wife of the Canon of Winchester), For all this, "One of the Jury" need not described Hongkong as a sink of iniquity, and with the details than they had themselves, "Sigma" states that Sir. John Pope Hennessy
have been in such a hurry to prove that he Now, as a matter of fact, Sir John Pope Hennessy denounced it and its British residents as infamous. and his colleagues had made up their did nothing of the kind. What he actually did proof of the way in which juries performing the horror with which State provision for vice minds before hearing the evidence. Such say, according to the Home News, was, in descri- their duties is unfortunately far from rare, especially as regards libel cases. When Canton had told him he could not suffer his son was regarded by the Chinese, that "a rich man in
the time comes for us to get all the reforms to establish bichself in Hongkong, because it was that are wanting, one of them will be the a sink of iniquity." It is hardly necessary to application of a slight education test, or state that the opinion attributed by Governor test of the possession of something beyond Hennessy to this particular rich man is by no mere shopkeeping abilities, to such as are about to clothe themselves in the pomp
means singular in Canton. We are unable to above cowardly slander, or the respectable and decide whether the unscrupulous author of the high-minded editor who gave it publicity most deserves public execration.
taken heart of grace when they first sent the fleet to Egyptian waters more than two months ago, had despatched troopships with a force of 10,000 men at the same time, all the latest and worst terrors
Seymour, even by almost denuding his ships of might have been avoided, Sir Beauchamp
fighting men, can only land about 1,500 blue. before it will be possible to put a stop to the jackets and marines, and it will be fully a fortnight
has fed into the interior with the troops devoted anarchy which is now raging in Egypt. Arabi'
to him, and goaded at last loɖesperate resistance- for he stakes his life on this throw--he will not hesitate to destroy the Canal and murder every remaining European in the country. whose head, then, will be the "blood-guiltiness" against the Boers? The nation will respond at of which so much was heard during the campaign
the next General Election, with no uncertain cry--that the present Ministry are culpable.
Upon
To Tux Extron of THE "Honggong TulograpIL,“
the following in your remarks on passe
SIR-In your issue of the 8th instant, I notice
of the E. and A. Co.'s steamer Bowen, which and from Australia," to wit, the Killarney's
about 580 miles further than Foochow to Mel performance bad holes knocked into it by that
hourne, and did the journey under at days. I went from Foochow to Wellington, New Zealand,
beg leave to inform you that the difference in distance is not quite correct. On reading your
the Beven steamed in her 21 days to Wellington remarks I called on Captain Craig in Foochow on Monday Jast, and on comparing logs we found
5,348 miles, and on the last trip of the Killarney to Melbourne, she steamed 5,170 miles Aix ours under 21 days, which, giving the Killarney the own to have bested her 115 miles in at days, or just knot per hour, which is nothing
chock-a-block. Be kind enough to close up the out of the way, especially as the Bowen was
holes named, and oblige. not nearly full up, while the Killarney wan
Youre, &c.,
HENRY O'NEILL,
Hongkong, 18th August, 1882: [We willingly insert Captain O'Neill's letter, and are glad to hear that the Killarney did so well What we wrote about the Killarney was this:-"The Killarney on her trip to Melbourne from Foochow, on the occasion of her beating the Douglas by some 40 odd hours, travelled much
distance than the Tamsui in almosL same time." We think the above will show that we did not mean to
Scaler
take even a scintilla of down, far less a feather, from the cap of the "Lake" steamer, or her gallant skipper. Captain O'Neill's letter shows that the Bown's "passage was a clinker. Being acquainted with the detailed working of the managing office of the E. & A. S. S. Co. in Sydney, we are in a position to state that, from the moment of starting to going alongside the pier, every single minute has to be ac counted for, no allowance being made for delays; therefore, the Bowen's passage was rear time, Caplain O'Neill credits his ship with a six hours stoppage, which makes her
Douglas against that of the Tamui orac
, even better than we said it was, but a does not improve her position with regard to the Bowen. From Sydney to Foochow the Bowen's record of 16 days 20 hours and 24 minutes is the best hitherto made. Should the O'Neill knock holes inthe above record with the Killarney, or any other craft, we shall be glad to chronicle the event, and shall use a specially prepared and hitherto unused goose-quill for the purpose.--Ed. Houghong Telegraph.)