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JAMES MCKNIGHT, an unemployed seaman, for A CUSHING critic in a fashionable daily describes. being drunk and incapable, and creating a dis: a young actress as having "a face a painter turbance in Queen's Road Central, yesterday, was might dwell upon. Probably because she looked this morning fined one Mexican, with the option. like a "flat,” of seven days' hard labor. McKnight being un- able to ante up, was marched off to languish for
a week in Tonnochy's hotel.
We are pleased to see Mr. Granville Sharp's letter re the subject of our yesterday's leader, in this morning's Daily Press. The questions SIR Henry Parkes, the Premier of New South raised by Mr. Sharp are of such importance that Wales, who lately returned from a visit to the we shall deal with them at: some length in our old country, amongst other diversions went in next issue. for a course of donkey rides at Margate, One We take the following advertisement from a day he was photographed in the act of mounting home paper-A married lady (no family) re- his Jerusalem steed. "D'ye think that's'n good likeness of me fac condescended to ask a friend, quires the services of an active, domesticated Young Lady, who, in return for a quiet, comfort. Capital, perfect 1" was the reply; but who is abic home and small salary of £6, would do the the fellow holding you by the bridle?
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THE correspondent of a London daily telegraphs from Berlin on August 25th as follows:-" Ac- cording to telegrams from Malmo, Sweden, a terrible epidemic is prevailing there of the nature of red thrush. During the past week, out of six hundred and seventeen cases, there have been forty-five deaths, an increase of fifty per cent, upon the preceding week. The tidings that King Oscar, prior to starting upon his Norwegian tour,
HIS nose was swelled, his eyes were black, and his clothes looked as if he had been passed through a scarifying machine, when he appeared before the Dubbo Bench as a "drunk” “Guilty or not guilty?" said his worship. "Guilty, but let us off this time, yer Honor, and Pil clear righ away." "You'll get right out of this district if I' let you go?" What'll you do ?" * 1 will vamoose, yer Honor; I don't want ier go ter gaol. I'll swag it down to Sydney and fill a long-felt want by starting a second moming paper. The beak, dropped a tear of joy, and discharged him with his blessing, saying "I think you'll regret not going to gaol."
WE read that a sensation has been caused in Athlone by the reported occurrence of a super
on a recent Sunday evening. Just as the priest natural manifestation in the Franciscan Church
had concluded his sermon a brilliant light is said to have shone down from the roof immediately above the figure of the Virgin Showers of stars descended on to the head of the figure; the eyes opened and rolled from side to side, the bands moved, and the figure, assumed the attitude of blessing the congregation, after whichit presented is former appearance. A scene of great excite- ment ensued, and the service, was suspended, but. the church remained crowded till a late hour,
Company's new steamer Honam left this morn- ing at 7.30 for her trial trip to Canton and back. A large number of shareholders accepted the in- vitation of the Directors to accompany the steamer, and a crowd assembled on the wharf to see her take her departure. We understand that A gentleman who died in 178ta lot of wagering has taken place as to the time directed his executors to lay out five guineas the Henam will occupy in her first trip to Canton, quite a number of people being willing to bet that in the purchase of a picture representing a viper biting the hand of a benevolent she will not reach the City of Rams inside 4 hours The person who had saved the creature from 30 minutes. We shall give an account of the trip insured his life for six hundred thousand crowns, but allowed the free ingress and pressure of wa
second.
In our next issue.
"strikingly illustrates the political pulse of that
country."
We observe that a volunteer force is now being A LONDON correspondent to a Scotel paper says: organised in the Crown colony of Fiji. It appearsIt may be interesting to note, by way of com- that more than 100 names have already been ment on the outcry as to the comparative poverty received as willing to be enrolled. It is to be
It is claimed that, for the ordinary purposes of navigation while a ship is at full speed, Sir Wil liam Thomson's new apparatus for deep sea sounding has proved its peculiar superiority. In its construction a glass tule filled with air is hermetically sealed at the top, but, open at the bottom, and prepared with red prussiate of potash," is placed in a-brass tube, closed at the bottom
it
be accompanied by the name and ackless of the years, the THELLUSSON property must guineas to her favourite, parrot, her hoped that the movement will prove a. succese of the Scotch Universitjes, that several of the most iron up the glass tube according to the depth to
Moony impudently, bequeathed to Sir FRANCIS BURDETT "a piece of friendly advice," to have nothing to do in future with contested elections, a bequest which
to those of Glasgow and Edinburgh, owing in its management, now that England has taken mainly to the size of the classes there.
From the sublime to the ridiculous, as the greatmajority of their number, somemo- NAPOLEON reminded the Aung DE RADT attive, good or evil, has governed thedevising Warsaw, there is but one step; and Mrs. of property. In 1760, Mr. NATHANIEL LLOYD, BURDETT'S absurd will comes in contact of Twickenham, made a poetical will; but with a famous English will which, in its he knew very well what he was about in vanity, its cruelty, and its vaulting ambition, bequeathing to "Dear Lord WINTON, at very nearly approaches the altitude of the Twyford School, not that at Winton, One sublime. In July, 1797, there died an old hundred guineas for a ring. Or some such gentleman named PETER THELLUSSON, niemorandum thing." Mr. Llovo's will He was of French or Genevese extraction was duly admitted to probate...So was the and by trading as a merchant in Philpot-musical will of the German musician, tane, London, he had amassed an immense BUSCHAPNER, PETER CAMPDELL, of Darley, fortune. To his wife and children he be who died in 1816, left all his household queathed an immediate legacy of one goods to his son Rocka, with the proviso hundred thousand pounds; and the residue that if any of his brothers and sisters, saw VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS. of his wealth, amounting to upwards of six ROGER "taking of tobacco" the property
hundred thousand pounds and landed was to be forfeited to them. Mr. Bax THE band of the Buffs, under the leadership of Mr. cstates of the annual value of four thousand JAMIN DOU, citizen and linendraper, left. Quinn, will play on the Cricket Ground from five hundred pounds, he placed in the hands strict injunctions that no Presbyterians, 430 this afternoon. The following will be the of trustees for the fulfilment of a purpose Moderate Low Churchmen, or Occasional programme which might more readily be imagined to Conformists should be present at or have have been hatched in the mind of the al- anything to do with his obsequies; while, chemist, BALTHAZAR CLAES, in Balzac's fic-in 1788, David Davis, of Clapham, left to tion, than to have been nourished in the brain MARY DAVIS, the daughter of PETER DE- lane, PETER TUELLUSSON ordained that the is sufficient to enable her to get drunk the enormous peculium which he left behind last time at my expense;" and in 1782 him should be allowed to accumulate at Colonel BLACKETT, Governor of Plymouth, interest during the lives of his three sons made in his will a last request to his wife and of their sons, and, when the sons and that, having been troubled with one old grandsons were all dead, then the entire fool, she would not think of marrying a property was to devolve on his eldest sur- viving great-grandson. Should no heir be in existence, the huge mass of money was to be made over to the Sinking Fund for the
fer from above. The brass tube is partially filed Ti is requested that all communications rela-reduction of the National Debt.
with sulphate of iron, and wherever this comes ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., be ad publication.of this astounding will excited porishing in the snow, and present the dressed to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph"
into contact with the interior of the glass tube it feelings not only of astonishment but of work to an eminent barrister, who, in the and not to the Editor.
turns into a Prussian blue. "The pressure of the fellers on Editorial matters to be sent to "The indignation and alarm in the public mind. opinion of the testator, had done him an
water compresses the air, forcing the sulphate of Elitor" and not to individual members of the Calculations were made, showing, or seek-injury in some law suit. In 1813 the widow Consumications intended for publication musting to show, that, at the end of seventy HENTER left an annuity of two hundred
as, with the exception of the armed constabulary, distinguished Hellenists that Oxford and Com which it descends. The glass tube, part of which retains its original color, is then measured writers, not necessarily for publication ; but, as, evidence of good faith,
amount to nineteen millions sterling. The faithful companion of twenty-five years. there is no other protection for the white popula-bridge have lately produced are meditating be Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele possibility of any one private person in- There have been sarcastic testators who tion of the above colony. Has the movement, coming candidates for the Chair of Greek in Edinara scale, and thus the depth of the sounding is
burg, which Professor Blackie's resignation has indicated. graph will always be open for the fair discussion hy correspondents of all questions affecting public heriting so vast a fortune was regarded as have left their eldest sons a shilling to buy to which we referred some little time ago, for made vacant. In emoluments, shortness of
It is astonishing, says Figara, how all the Me a national disaster. He might be supreme a halter, in case the sheriff should not be the resuscitation of our local volunteer artillery terms, and other advantages, there are no pro-diterranean nations are suddenly developing an the Editor does not in any way hold himself res over all the bulls and bears of the Stock provided;" and in 1806a bootmaker named corps come to hopeless grief? It would seem fessorships of Greek in England to compare now interest in the Suez Canal and claiming a share interests, it must be distinctly understood that ponsible for opinions thus expressed.
Exchange, rule the corn market, and break half the bankers in London by pay- intended for snertion in that day's issue not later ing in huge sums one day and drawing them out the next, He might bribe the
reminds US of the eccentric 'Houses of Parliament en masse." He
might bring over BONEY," the French, in old Mr. MoRDAUNT's will in Lord LYTTON'S "Money," There have been brass money, wooden shoes, and the guil- lotine. The will was universally scouted testators who have desired that after their as unwise. Illogical, preposterous, and, apparent deaths their heads or their feet moreover, illegal. The THELLUSSON fami should be cut off to make it sure that they ly resolved to test its legality, and an aphad really given up the ghost. In 1793 peal was made to the Court of Chancery, an English nobleman who died at Bou- ouch in 1799 declared PETER THELLUSON's death his right hand should be cut off and testamentary dispositions to be valid; and sent to his eldest son, to remind him of the Lovamoxova judgment was finally his duty to Heaven, after having so long. Ose of the most eccentric wills of modern confirmed by the House of Lords. The abandoned the duty which he owed to his times has, says the Telegraph, just been ancient maxim, however, that the law father." There have been jocular testators engineer began to smell a rat. Pretty soon the quietly set aside by Vice-Chancellor BACON,"abhors perpetuities," was seasonably and spiteful testators. in the Chancery Division of the High Court remembered; and in 1800 Parliment pas placable wife, who in her will expressed a of Justice. The document in question was sed a Bill rendering null and void all be- hope that her husband would in time find executed in May, 1868, by a Mrs. ANNE quests for the purposes of accumulation "some nice, pretty girl" as a second help- BURDETT, of Gilmorton, in Leicestershire, for a longer period than twenty years af- mate; and there was the ill-conditioned anil her leading testamentary dispositionster the testator's death. The last grand-husband, who wound up a long string of were nigde in a sudicil, which directed son of PETER THELLUSSON died in 1856. A testamentary dispositions addressed to his certain appointed trustees, inmediately dispute then arose as to whether the wife with the admonition, "If she does not after her funeral, to cause the windows and eldest great-grandson or the grandson of carry out my injunctions faithfully, I will should inherit the come again if I can." But of all the doors of every room in her dwelling-house PETER's eldest son
Once more the case strange wills that have amused or puzzled 'to be bricked up in a solid and substantial amazing hoard.
of Lords, the students of the Search Room of the manner, thus immuring all the goods and went up chattels in the house, even to the clock on which decided in 1859. that the grand-Probate Office the testament of Mrs. ANNE BURDETT is assuredly one of the very the mantelpiece, and to continue the brick. son of PETER's eldest son ing-up for a period of twenty years.. The heir. The fortunate young gentleman, oldest. It seems to be absolutely destitute kitchen only was to remain unsealed, and however, did not come into nineteen of any rational motive. Old PETER THEL- in this apartment some respectable married millions. It is stated, indeed, that af. SON's dream of creating a Cxesus or ter the expenses of litigation-for all the Count of MONTE CHRISTO was mad enough, couple were to be installed at a peppercorn rent of one halfpenny per week, their duty costs were costs in the cause-and acci- but there was plenty of method in his being to take care of the premises, and, in dents of management, little more than the madness. It was a splendid scheme for particular, to see that no attempts were original sum of six hundred thousand made to raise the brick blockade of the pounds was left, Fato, in her trony, doors and windows. In order that her seemed to have set her fiat against this preceding generations of his kinsfolk; but world has literally sung my song until my heart THE irrepressible "doctor" Brown was again out the writer, and, if discovered, will fearlessly directions should be carried out to the letter, certain benefits under the will were given to the trustees, which benefits they were to forfelt if the house ceased to be in "a strictly bricked-up and barricaded state. By another codicil, this lively and genial. testatrix directed that the windows should bo boarded up and nailed with good long nails, bent down on the inside, and then covered up with sheet-iron and tin. Of the property thus hermetically sealed up no effectuál devise was made. This extra-
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he Hongkong Telegraph A decre of Lord Chancellor Locurar- logne, desired in, his will that after his
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1882..
to
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House
was the
"recherche de l'absolu," and to have deter mined to upset the seemingly inexpugnable laws of compound interest. A colossal fortune, it is true, remained; but PETER THELLUSSON was not permitted to carry out his intent to create a veritable monster of wealth, "a man made of money" He was not the first donor of a bequest for an unworthy or an egotistical object; or who, while leaving enormous endowments for charitable purposes, manifested towards those nearest and dearest to him the most ordinary will was disputed in the Probate revolting hard-heartedness.-JAMES DONALD- Court, but próbate was eventually granted, sox, who left a quarter of a million to found Then, the parties who were dissatisfied a school for boys, overlooked in his will all took the case into Chancery, and no his old servants and retainers, and assigned fewer than eight counsel learned in only a few meagre annuities to those most
There was the
like it. The loyal citizens of Hongkong are certainly not endowed with military ardour, what ever may be their other accomplishments. MACCADE, the ventriloquist, was a great joker. Some years ago he was on the Mississippi, on board one of the steamboats, and making an ac- quaintance with the engineer, he was allowed the freedom of the engine-room. He sat downlo comer, and drawing his hat over his eyes, seemed lost in reverie. In a few minutes a cer- tain part of the machinery began to squeak. The engineer piled it and went about his business. in another few minutes the squeaking was again heard, and the engineer rushed over, oil-can in hand, to give the offending spindle another lubri eating. Again he rushed to his post, and again the spindle began squeaking louder than ever, Jupiter,' he yelled, the darned thing's be
a
witched. More oil was administered, but the
spindle squeaked again, and slipping up behind M'Cabe, the engineer poured half a pint of oil I guess that cre spindle down the joker's back. won't squeak again. And it didn't.
"
IT is pretty certain, says Figaro, that a Court of Inquiry will be held as to the cause of the colli- sion on the China Station between three vessela of the Evolutionary Squadron, viz. the Curaçon, Daring, and Foxhound. It seems that while the flect was working down from Nagasaki, to Kobé in close division, the wind suddenly fell to a dead calm, and as the fires were out and the screws up of every ship of the fleet, they were all perfectly helpless. The Curaçon fouled the Daring, while the Foxhound also fouled the latter vessel, while trying to separate the two former ships. The Curaçao carried away some of the Daring's boats, davits, and part of her bulwarks, and then became interlocked with her spars and rigging, while the Forkound lost all her boats and davits
on her port side.
the first steps towards assuming the practical control Spain is the last nation which has found out that its large commerce with the East entitles it to a voice in the matter, and the Spaniards are talking of sending an army of 25,000 men and a fleet of iron-clads to Port Said. It is to be hoped, however, that Spain will not again ba led away into any warlike adventures. It is certain that even if such an army could be raised for foreign service-which is doubtful—this could only be done at the cost of suspending all payments on the debt, and at the serious risk of provoking a revolution at home, where the army is still needed to hold down the Carlist district of the north and the Republican population of of the towns. Spain has still affairs about which she may more usefully employ hier energies than
in dreams of resuming her position, as a Great Power, or recovering Gibraltar from England.
THE whole available Reserve force of the British Navy may be said to consist of the following, viz. the Bellerophon, Shaynon, Conqueror, JUST before the doxology Deacon Braintey Agamemnon, Ajax, Devastation, Dreadnought, handed in the following note to the clergyman, who opened it and said, "Brother Bramley wishes Rupert, Colossus,Neptune, Edinburgh ;"onc
me to make the following announcement --- My Own Pet Bram, Are you never coming to see steam cruiser, Afercury; three large corvettes, Active, Volage, and Rover. Six other corvettes, Opel, Turquoise, Canada, Conquest, Constance, me again? I am dying to see my darling once and Satellite; armorplated gunboat, Water mummy that calls herself your wife will never and Fund three sloops, Hervini, Hyacinth, more and gaze into his beloved eyes, The old wiich; two gun vessels, Linnet and Avon, and find it out. How can you endure her? Come, a few gunboats. This estimate does not include darling, to one who truly loves you. Your own those vessels which could be got ready for sea and only-Mary." At the very first word Brother after considerable repair. These consist of the Bramley knew that he had handed up the wrong Audacions, Hotspur, Shah, Raleigh, Bac piece of paper. When it was finished, be arose Garnet, Emerald, Osprey, Pelican, Wild anger of his wife and spoke thus Brothers chante, Modeste, Sapphire, Cordelia, Druid, amidst the consternation of the people and the Swan, Egeria, Cormorant, Cracker, Fire and Sisters, may appear strange to you that lit, Elk, Boxer, Growler, Hart, Harned, I should ask your beloved pastor to read such a Lynx, Pest, Teaser, and four others. Can this terrible thing as that from the pulpit, but the best Reserve force, asks Figaro, in conjunction with way to fight the devil is to fight him boldly face the active list, be said to be sufficiently powerful to face. The writer of that vile note is unknown who is endeavouring to besmirch my Christian to guard our commerce, and to cope with the to me, but is evidently some depraved child of sin reputation. I shall use every endeavour to ferret combined navies of any two Powers?
tempt of all good Christian people." And then
und-anid-she-was- proclaim her name and hold her up to the con-
they sympathised with shameless hussy.
NEWS BY THE-FRENCH-MAIL: The Messageries Maritimes, steamer Patho Captain Champerols, with the London Malle of the ist ultime, arrived in harbour this morning, and China Express of September zat -----
IN the London City Press we read: "The author of 'Home Sweet Home,' T. H. Payne, a poor but genial-hearted man, was walking with a aristocratic houses in Mayfair, he said: "Under friend in London, and pointing to one of the most those windows I composed the song of Home Sweet Home,' as I wandered about without food, or a semblance of shelter I could call my own. Many a night since I wrote these words, that issued out of my heart by absolute want of a
and heard a siren voice coming from within those home, have I passed and re-passed in this locality, gilded walls, in the depth of a dim, cold London winter, warbling Home Sweet Home, while-1, the author of them, knew no bed to call my own. I have been in the heart of Paris, Berlin, London or some other city, and have heard people sing the almost immeasurable aggrandisement ing 'Home Sweet Home,' without a penny to buy of a single individual at the expense of two the next meal, or a place to put my head in. The the course indicated by Mrs. BURDETT is familiar with its melody. My country has
about half past eight, in the Praya East. Brown age-I have to submit to humiliation for bread. was calculated rather to diminish than to turned me ruthlessly from office, and in my old making a public show of himself last night had been amongst the "tangle foot and got enhance the value of her property. The only theory which it seems feasible to A PLEASANT incident of school life in connection mixed up, so lay down to reat like a bundle of adopt as to her object in directing that the with Sir Herbert Macpherson may be recalled at old rags. P.C. 294 came along and seeing the doors and windows of her house were to present. Many years ago, during a time of great-state the medico.wox.in, got him into a wheel. be bricked up for so long.a.period might public excitement, some of the boye at the Nairn barrow and had him conveyed to the Central be that she had a bitter spite against rats Academy conceived the design of quelling the Station. Brown admitted the drunk and inca. and mice-to say nothing of other vermin disturbances on the street by the use of artillery. pable" and said he wanted to get to Bangkoks
the Peninsular War lay conveniently at hand in of getting a passage from there to the Capital of We extract the subjoined items from the London and wished to gratify her vengeance by A small field-piece which had done service in he hoped to have gone to Swatow with a view starving to death the creatures which she the grounds of Ivybank, the home of the Gordons Sian. The doctor was fined 81 by Captain of military fame. The cannon was speedily Thomseti, with the option of four day's imprison- hated.
brought into position on the garden wall near ment, and anted up like a brick. We think this the academy, One boy volunteered to load it, gentleman has had nearly enough rope allowed and another to fire it. When everything was him, and are of opinion that it is high time some ready, the lad went forward and applied the thing definite was done with his carcase Time match. A terrific explosion followed, and the after time bas he promised the Magistrate that youthful artilleryman, as he emerged from the he would not show up in the “pen" any more, smoke, was greeted by his companions with and it now turns out that all the soft palaver he shouts of "Well done, Bentie! The firing of has at various times served out to His Worship, the cannon caused a great sensation, but did no toget his sentence lightened, is nothing more or less mischief except to bring down a piece of the than "blarney. On the last appearance, previous to garden wall. The offence, however, was of too his presentone, before the "beak" for being drunk, grave a character to be passed over, and the of Brown, he was let off conditionally on leaving The Whampoa, an iron screw- authorities summoned before them Bertie and the Colony that day, and now, after the lapao. of to the order of Meats, John M the other leader in the escapade. The late Mr, about a week, up he comes again with the same London, hat becas launched: by was on the Bench, and knowing the lads well, let men ofthis Colony are getting tired of being" bailed Grant, of Viewfield, a distinguished Indian judge, old yard. We are perfectly sure that the medical and Co Greenock The dimensions
ity, and them off with a reprimand, telling them to repress up by this drunken specimen of humanity, their military ardour until some fitting opportunity will doubtless be glad when he departs for good occurred. The " Bertie of this incident is Ge- from this dot of the Ocean Drink is so easily neral Sir Herbert Macpherson, the Commander procured in this colony by the loafer in Chief of the Indian forces engaged in the Brown, being blessed Egyptian campaign, and his companion, we quite a don amo mistake not, Col. Grant, of the Nile On many be past redempt a battlefield since then has the Nairn Academy open, in for the Govern boy who fired the gun deserved the compliment, home by an early steamer and * Well done, Bentle
colony of a guisance and pest.
TELEGRAM.S.:
LONDON, 6th October, ARABI BEY'S COMPLICITY IN THE ALEXANDRIA MASSACRE. The Times publishes a telegram from Egypt the complicity of Arabi Bey in the massacres at
the law appeared before the Vice-Chan- nearly related to him in blood.. ANDREW to the effect that documentary proof exists as to cellor on Wednesday, those who supported BELL, of St. Andrew's who enriched the the validity of the devise quoting Pore's well- university of his native city with a legacy Alexandria. known lines, in which the poet says that a of one hundred and twenty thousand testator may "endow a college or a cat," pounds, had the candour to acknowledge LOCAL AND GENERAL. and seeking to draw therefrom the infer.in his lifetime that his aim in endowing a We notice the arrival this morning of Mr. ence that Mrs. BURDETT was entitled to college was simply to raise a monument dispose of her own precisely as she liked, for his own glorification. The wife of this Tonnochy by the French Mail steamer Paiho, even though her testamentary Injunctions "pious founder," who probably knew more "THAT Paris letter up?" growled an editor the were of the most capriciously grotesque about his real character and disposition other day to the sub. No repiled the sub, our Paris correspondent is in the Central lock nature Sir JAMES BACON, however, very than other people did, observed that if the cogently pointed out that, in the case before Doctor owed fourpence halfpenny he might and the police have impounded his copy him, the testator had endowed neither a possibly have paid the debt, but that had JOURNALISM at Paramatta would appear to be cat nor a college and he directed the it been on the other side of sixpence he must trustees to unseal and release all this have died before he could have achieved in a bad way. A local journal heretofore pub lished daily now appears weekly. A bi-weekly hitherto useless property, which must be so dreadful a sacrifice,
is about, to cease to appear altogether; and a distributed as the undisposed residue of The name of all the strange and eccentric weekly has four or five, libel actions pending
wills that have been made is legion; but, in | against it real and personal estate.
Shall I send round and ball him out?".
only
Mr. J. M. Price, the Surveyor-General of Hongkong, is booked to return to that colony by the mall leaving London on the 15th int, after leave of absence
The death is announced as having taken place, in his twenty sixth year, of Lieutenant S. G. Cooper, R.N. The deceased was in the Im-
China, with the Detached Squadron, Bo mortalité throughout her recent commission In
Mr. Bradlaugh, M.P. peaking at Oldhan declared that he could prove that the Suer Caus shares had not produced a farthing return to the country, and that the war with Egy Rundertaken solely on behalf
London, Berlin, and Pari
bad been bankers:
camer bullt
sel are Length 270 feet, breadth 34 feet 25 feet, and registered tonnage 1750 tons, is intended for the China trade
Captain H. C. St. John has been appointed the Audacious, the new flagship of the
Squadron Commander Hotham the Kestrel Major General: 18. C.B, has been appointed keep
Orders have?
the con