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altogether as the cost of the expedition, assuming that all Europe delegated to us the task of restoring order in Egypt, and none of the Powers showed jealousy, or adopted
Ir has been settled at the Admiralty that detach- ments of Marines embarked in war vessels are to be landed for drill once a month. All ships in company are to land their detachments at the
to meet any extremity rather than yield to us. Of course the opposition can avail nothing against the might of the British Empire. But, all the more for that reason, REQUISITES the spirit animating the people should not such an attitude as would compel us to in. I same time, so that the men may be drilled as one crease our army and navy. Were compll-body, while they are to be drilled on board their respective ships once a week. Each detachment. cations to arise, the cost of course would is also to be inspected in imarching order once in be greatly augmented, and might be mul three months.
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(a.) $100,000 for the Tytam Water Works, and (6.) $10,000 for the completion of the Break- water.
3. The Committee did not think it necessary to call any evidence regarding the various votes submitted to their examination, as the minute of His Excellency the Administrator read at the meeting of the Legistative Council” on the 11th It is quite refreshing to see Magistrate, animatet instant, together with the Explanatory Notes that by n strong sense of public duty, send a fowl accompanied the Estimates, supplied them with stealer to six weeks hard labor, instead of rele-ill the information they required. gating him to the stocks to be grinned at for a few hours by his compton We are interet to Captain Thomset for this display of a vigorous administration of the law, a coolie, who was con- Evicted this morning of stealing a fowl valued at the high figure of ten cents, being sent to dur
tiplied many times; but on the most fil-We read that a French electrician has suggested vourable hypothesis the cost would amount a new.method of utilising submarine cables. He to five or six millions sterling, or about the proposes that they should be buoyed at severat yield of a three-penny income tax. There points, and that the boys should be furnished would still remain the cost of occupation. with lights and the apparatus necessary for send vessels may have the means of sending a message without touching at a port to do so. The idea,ance vile for that period. it is said, has been favorably received by M. Cochery, the French Minister of Posts and Tele- graphs.
try and disband the army, we cannot with draw our troops until we have organized some kind of defensive force; and the question would then arise whether we were justified in taxing Egypt for the mainten=" ance of our expeditionary corps, while oc- to defend Constantinople against the Rus-cupying it for the protection of life and sians, it espended up to the end of March, property: If the question were answered
General Assembly of the Established Church in A CURIOUS petition was lately presented to the Scotland. It seems that the Rev. John Campbell, Minister at Iona, uses his church for strange and unusual purposes. At one time, pigs were kept in it, at another cattle were housed in the sacred
it has been converted into a stack-yard. On one that service had to be hell outside. During the past six months the church has been closed altogether. The petitioners ask that Mr. Camp bell should be requested to devote the church
farming purposes.
4-The only recommendation the Committée
desire to make in that provision may be made for the erection of a Police Station in the vicinity of Mount Kelict, for the beer protection of the re- sidents in that locality.
FREDERICK STEWART, Chairman, The Administratorinformed the Council thathe
at the Gap, which was recommended in 1879 by had included an item of $4,500 for a police station the Captain Superintendent of Police, and ap proved by His Excellency the Governor. Dr. Stewart next moved the second reading of the supplementary Appropriation Bilt for 1881, and of the Appropriation Bill for 1883, Mr. Delilios
1878, three and a half millions. At ibat in the affirmative, the charge under this however, recently, when the Home Secretáry, in precincts; while every winter, for some years past,referred to page 32' of the Estimates under the time two army corps were being preparéel, head would be transferred from the British | by a gentleman who asked if he knew whether occasion, the church was so full of corn and straw,naked if, the item of $10,000 for drainage but the preparations, it will be recollected, were continued until peace was assured by the Berlin Congress; while the three and a half millions to which we have referred were
expended by the end of March. The three million a month would continue until the Office Well" was the unabashed answer, "you to the object for which it was built, and not far adopting a sanitary measure in that direction, as
and a half millions, that is, were only [431 a part of those war preparations, and we may safely, therefore, assume that three and a half millions will be, now expended It is requested that all communications rela-if it is necessary to fit out an expedition ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c, be ad against Egypt. According to the received- dressedto the "Manager, Hongkong #elegraph" | reports it is intended to get ready at first and not to the Editor."
to the Egyptian taxpayer, or rather per haps, we should say, to the Egyptian Bond- holders. But if it were answered in the negative, the expenditure of nearly half a
remate period arrived when we could with- draw our troops from Egypt without ex- posing it to anarchy within or aggression from abroad.
LOCAL-AND-GENERAL.
SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT'S" pompous official manner is well known, and it is probable that he often finds it pay. This was not the case, walking down Parliament Street, was accosted
a certain house was to let. Sir William professed ignorance, and was immediately asked the same question about another house. "Pray, what do you take me for " queried the head of the Home
looked as if all the street belonged to you," AN American contemporary is responsible for the IT is a melancholy reflection that the fairest following bonne bouche-One day last winter a portion of creation are generally at the bottom well-dressed young lady was passing along of mischief. An amorous salt-smuggler and a Washington-street, in Boston, and, the pavement stone-cutter, fell out, it appears, yesterday at being coated with ice, she slipped and fell AnYau-ma-ti over a fair, frail one, and went for sthetic youth of refinement and culture has the each other, the stone-cutter using his long pipe as a weapon, while the romantic salt-smuggler lady arose and indignantly exclaimed: "Your conduct shocks me. I have seen enough of you to wood. The result, however, was that the stone- convince ine you are no gentleman." "Ya-as, cutter was found shortly afterwards by the police retorted the reproved youth, hesitatingly, and lying in the street in a mariband condition. He I—I've seen enough of you to convince me you was taken to the Station, where he died in a few minutes after arrival. The body was sent to the are so gentleman."
Civil Hospital, and an inquest has been ordered for this afternoon. The salt-smuggler and his
cutter's demise, but the police are on their tracks, and hope to soon overhaul them.
Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The Fone army corps, consisting of two divisions THE steamship Fokien came, out of Aberdeen bad taste to indulge in a loud laugh. The you digged his rival in the ribs with a piece of fire. watersupply would not be polluted. Mr. Marsh
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The French steamer Nam Vian, which arrived to-day from Hothow, has been placed in quaran fine.
Editor" and not to individual members of the of infantry, a brigade of cavalry, and the Communications intended for publication must requisite gans and atiendant corps. To be accompanied by the name and address of the fit out this force it is said that six or eight writers, not neerssarily for publication, but is thousand men will have to be called up 'evidence of good faith.
sents the home of fire Hongkang Tele- from the Reserves, and that by their addi- gruple will always he open for the fair discussion tion eighteen thousand men can be landed by corresjulents fall questions affecting public interests, it must be distinctly understood that Egypt, who will be reinforced by ten Central Fire Brigade Station' at 4.15 p.m. to-day, the City of Glasgow Bank director, having en lady-love cleared out on learning of the stonë. voir, Mír. Marsh said he was under the impres the Editor does not in any way hold himself res thousand men from India, and, if needs be, “ponsible for opinions thus expressed TO ADVERTISERS.
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The following admirable article on the Egyptian Question appears in the London Daily News of July 4th-Our Constan- tinople Correspondent, in a telegram which we publish this morning, encourages the idea that the Strax may after all comply with the request of the Powers and send an armed force to Egypt. His Ministers are said to be of opinion that Turkish troops and ironclads should be at once despatched thither. Though they have not yet brought the SULTAN to be of their mind, "the question engages, we are told, his gravest consideration. It is not wise to be. conficient as, to what the Sutrax will do until he has done it. A feigned disposition to consent is habitually with Turkish diplo- macy a means of delay' and refusal. We
A PARADE and Inspection of the Government and Volunteer Fire Brigades, will take place at the
by an additional fifteen thousand men band-of-die-Bus will, weather-per-bail the other day, and received eight-months This would make a total force of forty-mitting, play in the Public Gardens on Monday three thousand men. Possibly this force evening next, the 28th instant, commencing at
nine o'clock
hausted condition. The man died at 9.30 this
with little ones.
heading of "Roads, streets and bridges," and
and sewage included a preliminary charge for constructing drainage at the Gap for the houses there. The honourable member impressed upon the Council the advisability of making-a nieveand
were the sewage from residents at the Gap to. percolate though the strata and, mix up with the water supply, it should be very injurious. New houses were being erected at the Peak, and the number of residents was increasing, and in view of the Tal-tam water works, he thought, it was high time that some scheme of the kind were carried out so that the
said he could not give the details of the scheme, and that the water would come from Tai-tam and no other place. No scheme had been prépared- by the Surveyor General. The Colonial Treasurer having made some remarks on the subject, Mr. Johnson said that the drainage should be prevented from going into the Pek-foo-lum reser- sion that strict regulations were observed to prevent drainage going from the Peak into the reservoir, Mr. Johnson piked If these regulations were observed, to which the Administrator replied that he did not know. His Excellency then for the Tai-tam water works and $10,000 for the asked, the Council to vote formally $100,000 completion of the breakwater, as the sums had not been included in the Appropriation Bill. The Attorney-General introduced a bill to amend certain provisions of the Supreme Court Ordi- Ordinance 12 of 1873 providing for a vacation nances. The object was to repeal the clauses of
of two months, in August and September.. Only certain business was transacted during vacation, and it was desirable to repeal the fixed term of two months and leave the arrangement of
the approval of the Governor in Council. present pleas could not be filed during vacation, and business was brought to a standstill by the hard-and-fast provisions of the Ordinance. He proposed the first reading of the bill. Sir Georgo Phillippo seconded, reserving to himself the right to suggest any alterations. This terminated the proceedings.
would suffice if the Conference were to delegate to England the task of restoring A CHIMAMAN named Apo was sent to the Civil the state quo aute, it no jealousy were to Hospital yesterday by the Police at Aberdeen, be shown by France or Italy, and if the having been taken off a wreck in a very eX- Suras were acquiesce in the arrange morning, 19, Stockwell stating the cause of ment. But plications arise with any ave been fever and exhaustion con: other l'ower, it is quite clear that we should sequent on exposure. An inquest has been haye to prepare an additional army as a ordered for this afternoon. precaution. Apart from complications,' however, and bearing in mind the stub- bornness of the resistance at Alexandria, and the spirit which evidently animates the Egylian army, it is not quite clear that into the fortified positions of the enemy. It is one law for the rich frut one for the poor. The having cylinders of 12hin, and 21in. diameter. the vacation to the Chief Justice, subject to
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Tu Buenos Apres Standard of May 16th con- tains the following:-" Another terrible case has occurred in the Bands Oriental, which will call for the most inmediate and determined action on the part of the French and Spanish Ministers, A CARPENTER was sentenced to six months' hard
A Frenchman, nanied Louis Napolle, labor this morning by Captain Thomsett for of Da. Leon Lergerad, and had employed six had taken a contract to wire-feace the estancia stealing a bag containing £130.10 from a fellowFrenchmen and one Spaniard. While they were passenger on board the steamship Tanundice The man from whom he stole the money is gold-digger who had lived 20 years in Melbouine, and was returning to enjoy his acquisitions. The money was in a carpet bag, which the carpenter
preserves.
SAYS the Referee :-Mr. James Nicol Fleming joyed a long Continental trip, surrendered to his imprisonment. The whole thing looks as if James, like a canny Scot, lind an inkling that SAYS the TimerThe last of a series of four his punishment would be a fleabite, and gave torpedo boats, which have just been built for the that is impossible; but none the less the sex of Poplar, underwent its official trials on June himself up accordingly to get it over. Of course, Brazilian Government by Messrs. Yarrow & Co, tence shows how big sinners fare as compared 27th, with thorough success. The trials were Take the case of a little one superintended by Captain C. J. de Mello, naval which is in the same day's newspaper. Charles attaché, and Captain, Lobo, engineer officer, on Jones, a half-starved boy, was charged at Wrex-behalf of the Brazilian Government, and were Fourteen days' hard labour and four years in a Yarrow. The boats embody several recent im ham with stealing a sweet, value one halfpenny, carried out by Mr. Crohn, as representing Messrs.
reformatory. To steal a bull's-eye is evidently provements, and constitute an advance upon a more serious offence in the eye of the law than those of this class previously built by the firm. to issue false balance-sheets, and by a policy of They are 1 taft, in length, with 1aft. 6in. beam, fraud ruin thousands of families. There is not the engines being compound condensing, and oftener this is insisted upon the better, as it is a respectively, with a 16in, stroke. The propeller fact people are slow to accept.
is a screw 4ft. gin. in diameter and 6ft. pitch. The air pump, circulating pump, and feed pumps are worked by independent engines. The coal space is sufficient to carry fact for a run of about 300 miles at a moderate speed. These boats are provided with two rudders, one at the bow and another at the stern, the steering being the aid of steam steering gear, which, with the effected either by hand in the usual way or by two rudders, enables the boats to be manoeuvred with remarkable rapidity: The armament of each boat consists of two Whitchicad torpedoes, the necessary launching apparatus being pro- vided in the bows of the boat. In addition to these' torpedoes, which will be carried in the boat will carry twe spare ones, which can be launching tubes ready for discharging, cach rapidly loaded into the launching tubes for use after the first two have been discharged. Be- sides the torpedoes each boat will carry a Hotch-
contract were that on a continuous run of three houry with ratons weight on board à inean speed of 18 knots, should be realized. In the boat which was tried yesterday there were 12 tons 13 cwt, on board, and she was run continuously for three hours, during which timo she made 6093 knots, being equal to 2031 knots per hour, The engines were making over 440 revolutions per minute at-11lb. pressure, from which it will be seen that the test was a very severe one, not only for the engines but for the. boiler, the con-- sumption of coal being at the rate of one ton and a quarter per hour. During the run of three hours three pairs of runs were at the measured mile at the Lower Hope, the result of the three pairs of runs being a mean speed of 20.414 knots. In the three boats previously tried the stipulated speed was also exceeded in each case. The re sults of the trials having proved thoroughly satis factory to the Brasilian Government the boats will be forthwith despatched to Rio. To this end they will be fitted with masts and walls, and, will be navigated thus to their destination, fol- lowing the example set in other boats built by Messrs. Yarrow for other foreign Governments.
CORRESPONDENCE.
(We do not necessari?? endure the opinions, expressed
Correspondenz in this column.]
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TO THE FUITON DY THE "Hongkond Talucraru." REMR. D. E BANDMANN THE "OWN: CORRESPONDENT" TO ..
· FRIEND OF “INDIA', AND ̧ STATES-
MAN, CALCUTTA."
-----I do know him, a neitoriaux Has, Think him a great fixed, solely a mari i Yet these fixed evilu sit do fir ta hing. That they lake place, when virtue's kleefy bonas Look bleak in the cold wigd ***——
SHAKREPRARR
THE French Government has brought into use a portable electric light plant for service in the army. It enables a powerful light to be thrown also intended to be used for const defences. The (even 15,000 men would be enough. It
whole is placed on a four-wheeled carriage, drawn would be a very penny wise and pound by two horses. It is claimed for this invention foolish policy to limit our preparations to that if renders it possible to throw a light of 4,500 the lowest estimate of the military autho-candle power 10,000ft, into the enemy's position, rities. Before the troops are many days while it promises to be useful in making nocturnal in Egypt we venture to predict it will be explorations. found advisable to extend our prepara- tions very considerably. Not improbably we once engage in military operations it will be found necessary to call out
at work making the fence on the 3rd instant, an a' not inconsiderable · proportion, of the
Oriental officer, Captain Ortega, with a group of 58,000 men in the Army and Militia
Oriental soldiers, came up to the estancia, and Reserves. It is to be borne in mind,
ordered Napollo and all his men to march off to as we pointed out yesterday morning, that
the 'Cuartel The Frenchmen refused, and Na both in the Soudan and Abyssinia Egypttracted the bag containing the sovereigns. 499.10 foreigners they were not subject to military ser: it appears, cut a hole in, through which he ex-palle explained to the officer that as they were al has very troublesome and hostile neigh of the money was found concealed in a jar of, vice, and lit the job of work was a matter of bours; and that also the Bedouin tribes
importance to them, some 4co patacons, and they have to be considered. If Arau were, to
could not abandon it. Captain Ortega thereupon avoid an engagement, to retreat before our
swords, and make them all prisoners. The soldiers led these poor fellows with their hands behind their backs, and collared then two and two, and they were driven thus to the 'Cuartel, where, when they arrived, their hair was cut and their beards were shaved. They were obliged to go through military exercise twice a day, and at night they had to sleep with their legs tied. A few days afterwards the sergeant brought them each, a blue military blouse shirt, which they were ordered to put on. Tho Spaniard José Olivaras, was the first to whom the blouse was given. He threw the uniform on the ground, and swore he would never wear it, being a foreigner. The pergeant drew his sword and cut him down with a blow on the head. Shortly afterwards Captain Ortega came in and, kneeling on the prostrate form of the wounded Spaniard, cracked his skull with the butt-end of his pistol, That night the Spaniard died. His corpse was sawn up in a hide by the soldiers, and, in the hurry of getting it outside of the Cuartel, the Frenchman Napolle cut the sogn' by which he was tied and escaped. His description of that Cuartel' is caough to make the hair of our readers stand on end. He says there are
do not know whether the occupation of troops and to attract the Bedouins to his jee Nowrojee got three months' hard labour this ordered his soldiers to dismount, draw their kiss gun at the bows. The conditions of the without farther “loss of time" whom "Our Own
A CELESTIAL baker in the employ of Mir, Dorala-
inoming at the Police Court for stealing 8lbs. of biscuits and r4lbs. of flour, the property of his master. He aggravated his offence by charging the complainant, Mr. M. Rustomjee, with being in the habit of selling Mr. Nowrojce's biscuits, flour and coals. Mr. Dorabjec Nowrojec ap peared and testined to the perfect honesty of Mr. Rustomjee who, he said, had been in his employ eleven or twelve years, during which time he had
As the weather, has cleared up and looks settled, the opening performance of Signor Chiarini's talented and gigantic company will be given this evening in the marquee at Bowrington, East Point. Everything has been made ready for the recep tion of the public, and a brilliant programme ar- ranged in which the greater portion of the arflates as well as of the fighting. Probably this will take part. It is to be hoped that Signor view will be taken, as the finances of India Chiarini's great enterprise in bringing to Hong. just now are Bourishing. If so, this coun-kong a larger and more complete company than try will have to bear the cost only of the has ever been previously introduced to the public eighteen.or twenty thousand men furnished here, will meet with that success which it so well by it. In the Zulu War Sir STAFFORD merits. The charges for admission are very mo NoRTHCOTE stated in the House of Corn-derate, so we anticipate a bumper house this mons that the cost of the operations in the evening, and a successful season to the "Em field averaged about half a million a month. kon
„Egypt by Turkish troops is really to be standaril, he might protract operations for desired. It is hard to see what security many months, especially as, for Europeans, can be taken for their good behaviour, and the season is unfavourable to operations. their presente there may possibly aggra.... As regards the cost of an expedition, vate the evils which they are sent to sub-then, we have first an estimate of about due. In default of the SULTAN's under three and a half millions for the prepara taking the task which is urged upon him, tions at home, and, in addition, the expense the work will, we suppose, devolve mainly of transport-perhaps a million more. upon England, with or without the co- Next there arises the question whether any reason to find fault with him. operation of France. The military pre- India" is to bear the charge of the con- parations which are being made show that tingent she will furnish, or whether we shall This possibility is present to the minds of defray any part of it. It may be argued, our statespien. Whoever undertakes the not unreasonably, that India is as much work, it is not likely to be an easy one, interested as England, and therefore should. Official persons, with that faculty of being be required to bear her share of the cost wrong at a critical emergency which characterises them, were never weary of tulling us that Egyptian soldiers would not fight. It was enough to show them the stick and they would throw down their arms. That delision has been dispelled. The courage with which the Egyptian artillerymen stood to their guns on
over 100 Brazilians, Paraguayans, French, and Tuesday leaves no doubt of the spirit
Spaniards in that yard, tied and collared, and with which they are animated. While The army engaged in Zululand was smal-A CHINESE broker and a hawker were charged that the horgprs which he witnessed there he A meeting of the Legislative Council was held the forts were being knocked to pieces ler than that proposed to be sent to Egypt; this morning before Captain Thomscit with can never detail. He has on his hands the this afternoon at the Council room, Government about them; while the very guns they but, on the other hand, the country was entering the house of one Mr. Riogo Cistre, at marks of the sogas, where his fingers were tied offices. There were present: His Excellency were working were being, dismounted farther from the base of operations, and "No. 16 Elgen Street, with intent to commit and almost disjointed. These reclama. the Administrator (Mr. W. H. Marah), Sir and shattered, and they themselves were was itselfincapable of maintaining anarmy pening to awake at 3-45. this morning, heard the with blood. The lives of foreigners in the camps Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. E. L. O'Malley, felany. The house coolic at the place, haptions come now in phalanx, and are all stained George, Phillippo, Chief Justice, Dr. Stewart, being slaughtered in heaps, they held We had to convey by sea everything neces-footsteps of some one walking on the first floor of the Banda Oriental are hardly worth an hour's Attorney General, Mr. J Russell, Colonial Trea- their places, and doggedly replied as best sary for the maintenance of the army, where of the house, and, going to take observations, purchase, if the despicable weakness of the surer, and Mestre, Ryrie, Ng Choy, Johnson, and they could to the fire. of their assailants, as in Egypt we should find a rich country saw the broker and the hawker in his master's Oriental Government is to form a subterfuge and Belillos, unofficial members... Even more significant is the conduct of well provided with the necessaries of life. office, the hawker beling concealed underneath Rescue it from the consequences of such outrage. The minutes of the last meeting were read by Akar and his fellow leaders. When theyIt is probable, therefore, that the cost of the
the table, while the broker was crouching be bus acts. Some joint action by the foreign Mr. Seth, Clerk of Councils, and confirmed. The found the forts untenable they still refused the greater force would not exceed thehind the door. Upon being observed, the two Ministers is certainly called for. If President Acting Colonial Secretary then read the report of to surrender them to our Admiral, and cost of the Zulu campaign, which would did a bolt into the street, but were achinated Santos repudiates the conduct of his outer the Finance Comunice or the Pathrates for t Jetting loose the convicts from their prisons, be an average of about half a million
Ortega, who so cruelly murdered this poor which ran as follows, and moved its adoption ---- handed over Alexandria to pillage and
Spaniard, then we suppose be will be tried and The Finance Commites have carefully flames rather than allow Admiral Seruota
mapped in the camps and compelled to military the Lock Hospital Estimates," and have to report shot; but the 100 unfortunate foreigners kid. considered in detail the Estimates for 1885, and to get possession of it intact. This fact
service, manacled in that 'Cuartely should cer--that they meet with their approval indicates that we are dealing with desperate
tainly claim some attention from the Ministers 2.—They spprove also of the following volcs, and unscrupulous men, who are prepared
in Montevideo."
to be paid from balances, namely -
month. Under the most favourable cir- cumstances we could hardly expect a ter mination of hostilities in less than two months. This would be an additional mil- lion, which would make about five millions
peror of horse trainers,"
there, a Sikh police constable arresting the broker, while a district watchman seized the the employ of Mr. Ölstre for six months and was hawker. The broker, it appears, has been in discharged ten days ago. A sentence of six months hard labor each rewarded the defendants' enterprise.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
MY DEAR MR. EDITOR,--That you may know,
Correspondent of the Friend of India and Stalcimas" is, I write you at once-though I should imagine that anything about Bandmann or, of Bandmann-would lack interest, and be unworthy a thought. True, he hath eated' you some trouble, but then, a goose once saved Rome, and you are not the first man of brains and breeding that a-Vermin has troubled.. myst confess to some astonishment, that you did not, at once foot convinced that, "Trompet Blower" was "Our Own Correspondent." The similarity, of word and thought, with his "Correspondence," and the verbiage of which he sent you "galley proofs (am I right?) should have at once convinced you that one was a ic hash of the other! Nor does it need that I should say, (which I do) that of mine own know- ledge-I know that he (D. E. B.) corresponds with the Friend (2) of India.
"Pshaw, man, these schemes are thin an glass,
The very light slides through them mak Bandmann-throws around all that is, and of The plausibility of friend Tocksniff—1 mican him, darkness, made visible to those that know him, I could not help smiling. when his Lordship, the leamed judge sat upon you) was endeavouring to explain the application of "Dragic Bower one para.. graph especially Ven he blay Omelet he dell to Ovelia go do a nonnery, he dell her zô Hardt zat her eye it come quviet plack." The author of this, skit whom I knew most in- timately; poor "Oofftigoofft" (since dead) ex- plained to me, this bad, special reference to Bandmann's treatment of Miss Milly Palmer, and for which he was rather roughly handled by the supers of the theatre he was then playing jo. If D. E. Bandmann were worthy of my idletime or the space it would occupy in the columns of your most valuable journal, I could fill pages, ac- episodes of his confront every city-of-town- counting ridiculous, contemptible and cowardly
he has been in would prove my words. There is and Police Courts of almost or hardly a city where he plays, but he must quarrel with the respectability thereof a theatre whose management will take him again, or a company with whom he acte, but some manly man makes D. E. B. fully worthy of Shakespeare's lings.
A most absoluto coward
HONOR. D'ORSAY OGDEN.
Hongkong, 24th August, 1882.
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