&
Eutimations.
CHRISTMAS
AND
NEW YEAR CARDS.
SEASON 1882-3.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1882.
shall then have something to say about what is known as Hongkong law,, and Hongkong justice. In the meantime we have pleasure in directing attention to a leading article, which we extract from a well-known New Zealand, daily paper, the Wanganul Herald of October 5th, which is one of the fairest and most practical commentaries on the trial we have yet read. The writer of the article evidently knows BANDMANN well; and although his views regarding Sir GEOROR PHILLIPPO and Hongkong juries are considerably overdrawn, not to say a being correct, there cannot exist the long way from
shadow of a doubt that to many crown colonies they are peculiarly applicable. It THEY INCLUDE CHROMO LITHOGRAPHS is also a mistake to say that Hongkong is a Colony where there is little respect for women. There cannot be the least doubt that had the whole truth about BANDMANN been elicited at the trial, the eminent tra- gedian would have run a great risk of being lynched: As it was he had a nart
A. S. WATSON & CO. INSPECTION
NSPECTION is Invited of our Collection of CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS which have been carefully Selected in London
from the Stocks of various makers.
FROM
MARCUS WARD AND DE LA RUE, HAND PAINTINGS
ON
· CARD, IVORY, OAK AND IVÓRINE
AND
OTHER NOVELTIES.
www.
A. S. WATSON, & Co., CHEMISTS, PERFUMERS, &C. HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG..
[431
row escape.
The Wanganui Herald heads its article "A Great Tragedian," and writes:-HERR BANDMANN has been fortunate is getting a Hongkong jury to give him a verdict in his libel prosecution, for the evidence might certainly have led the jury of a freer com- munity to have arrived at a different con clusion. The evidence goes to show that this great tragedian" did use very rough | language to the ladies of his company. One witness stated that BANDMANN admitted to him that he had used to Miss MYLFORD some of the filthiest language I ever heard out of a man's mouth to a woman." Upon being remonstrated with, this interpreter be accompanied by the name and address of the of "the sweet swan of Avon," remarkeri writers, not necessarily for publication; but as that "you can never get anything out of a woman unless you frighten her."
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS... It is requested that all communications rela- Ling to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., be ad- dressed to the "Manager, Hongkong Telegraph" Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The Editor and not to individual members of the
and not to the Editor.
staff.
Communications intended for publication must
evidence of good faith,
tools or members of a colcrie whose ver- WHO lost the cat ? A hawker was seen by po. A COOLIE who had the audacity to strike a dicts are arranged in private, and whose lice constable Meldougall at 4.30 this morning lukong on the head with a bamboo yesterday notions of freedom and fair play are those walking along in a supicious manner carrying a when the constable went to suppress a "free of an oligarchy placed in the midst of un- bag which, upon examination, was found to con- fight between him and some 13 olliers, was enfranchised inferiors. The judge's almain a superb "mouser." A further search of taught by Captain Thomsett this morning what is promotion and to stand well with those staples concealed beneath his waistband, For law in the person of its guardians, by being sen the peripatetic's habiliments revealed two iron
a serious thing it is to outrage the dignity of the whose opinions will. tend to promote his the unlawful possession of the live and dead tenced to a month's hard labór. interests. BANDMANN may thank his stars stogiaforesaid, the former of which he said was his case was tried in a crown colony in given him by a friend, and the latter by his one too where there is little respect for brother, the hawker was sentenced by Captain women, where the judges are mere offi- Thamsett to 14 days' hard labor. Parties whose cials, and juries are composed of men very pussys are missing can inspect the animal now likely to feel a common interest with
at the Central Station; it is a white colored,
himself. "actors" like the notorious BANDMANN intelligent looking cat, with sundry black and
grey patches on its phiz and body.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE American barque 5. D. Carleton will dockmuan, were charged before Captain Thomsett this at Sam-shui-po to-day. "SPORTING GOSSIP" by "An Old Sportsman" will appear on Monday.. AN Emergency Lodge of Victoria, No. 1026, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Monday evening, the 20th inst, at 9 o'clock precisely
CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not necessarily endorse the optalons expressat by. Correspondents in thila columpa,)
nn-
THE GREAT COMET OF 1882. To Tim KDITOR or the *IföNGKUNG TELEGRAPAS,* S18,-Some friends have asked me to state publicly-for the sake of those who are alarmed by certain vapourings of Mr. Piazzi Smyth--my- WAR correspondents, observes the Honie News,ters, that no danger to the globe we live on needs belief, already expressed privately in many quar- lead exciting and adventurous lives. They can be apprehended from the probable destruction, never be certain of a peaceful half-hour at home, before the end of this century, of the Great Comet and when one campaign is ended may at any mo which is being watched with so much intere ment expect to be dispatched to share the trials in all parts of the world. of another. Nor is it only that they are continu-
To every one who has questioned me on thissub- ally on the move. While actually at their work ject I have replied, and I now willingly repeat, that, they must be prepared to face danger, endure in my opinion, the only immediate result to be A SWEDISH, a French, and two German seamen, hardships and exposure. More than all, they ticipated from sech an event is a disturbance of the nanted respectively George Nelson, Andrew must, if they would give loyal service to the sun's economy sufficient to give rise to some of Dickinson, Williant Sinceler and Mark White-journals they represent, be men of iron constitu- those mighty but perfectly harmless pulsa. tion, with boundless energy and power of endur
tions of the earth's magnetic force, throbbing afforded by one of the meat distinguished oftheir called "magnetic storms, and their usual ac ance. A new proof of their value has just been simultaneously all over the globe, which are number. Mr. Cameron, who has long been on sents in India and the Transvaal, is now in Egypt, suffer direct harm from such phenomena, though, the staff of the Standard, which paper he repre- magnetic earth-currents. No human being can companiments of autoral displays and electro-
adding fresh laurels to his reputation. His re- if the solar agitation were severe and pro- port of the fight at Kassassin on the 28th was one tracted; as it probably would be, we might of the finest things he has done, and rivaling the count on experiencing some of those not exploits of such men as McGahan and Forbes. very serious effects upon the earth's meteoro With the skillful prescience which is not logical conditions to which I drew attention the least of the gifts of a true correspondent, last year in my project for the local Ob he had attached himself to the cavalry briservatory. Telegraphic operators, magnetic gade under Drury Lowe. It had already observers, and a few watchers of the sun and sky · so near the next advanced post that it was cer-knowledge, at the moment, of this needlessly been actively engaged at Mahsamich, and was are the only persons at all likely to have any tain to come in for any fighting in progress dreaded extinction of our splendid visitor. I Cameron was not disappointed. He found him learn from our Superintendents of Telegrapha self on the spot to accompany the cavalry through that for many weeks past they have, been at in all their movements on that arduous day, and tervals greatly embarrassed by carth-currents of rode with them in their flank march which so unusual intensity and persistency. Since yes- completely decided the fight. Having witnessed terday morning these have been especially severe, and many work on account the charge of the Household cavalry and its suc- of them. We hear also of recent brilliant sunt cessful results, he knew that the worst was over, displays in Great Britain and other places. "Ail and that it was now his business to get the good of these, I take it, have proceeded in the first place news home. He had been in the saddle the from solar disturbances caused by the comet's whole of a trying tropical day, it was now night, lion passage, and latterly from the destruction of struggle through the sun's envelope at its perile- and twenty-four miles of trackless desert inter-clouds of attendant meteorites, following near posed between him and Ismailia, the point from and far in the comet's wake, but unable, for lack which he could best telegraph to England. No of the necessary momentum,, to achieve their thing daunted by these tremendous difficulties, gulfed in his mass. The phenomena thus ex close circuit of the sun, and therefore becoming en he set forth to ride back to the canal alone. The perienced, doubtless not here only but in long journey must have sorely tried his strength; parts of the world, are in fact types and forc all nevertheless, at the end of it he penned one of runners of those which will pretty certainly take the most masterly and graphic despatches ever place when the comet itself becomes finally im produced by a war correspondent.
morning with assaulting a money changer yes- senday. The defendants, it appears, on being asked by the money changer to pay for cigars and knocked him down. A fellow professional, they took from his stall, laid hold of, punched, who runs an Exchange close by, upon coming to the rescue had a molar knocked out of his jaw by Sinceler. A Sikh policeman, aided by twa Eu- we would 'specially direct attention to the ex-ropean constables, took the defendants to the cellent letter of Licut-Col H. Spencer Palmer,
Station. The amateur dentist was fined $5 or R.E., on the famous Comet of 1882, which ap-3 days. The fines were paid.
14 days' hard labour, and the others $1 each or pears in our correspondence column. THE cricket match Ireland v. The World was commenced shortly after 11 o'clock this morning, and had not terminated when we went to press. A full account will appear in our next issue. An inquest has been ordered by the Coroner for sfonday afternoon, on the body of a Chinaman who died this morning in the Civil Hospital. The deceased, it appears, while being pursued by an Indian constable for gambling at Shek- teng-sui, on the 16th instant, fell down an em- bankment and fractured his thigh, dying this morning in the Civil Hospital from the effects of the injuries received by the fall.
Whils! the cums of the Hongkong Tele-This is Basas philosophy. It ap.THE master of the Yun Chun Li junk was sen- graph will always be open for the air discussion
by correspondents of all questions affecting public interests, it must be distinctly understood that the Editor does not in any way hold himself res ponsible for opinions thus expressed.
· TO ADVERTISERS,
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Arrangements have been made to publish The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 4 PM Sub- scribers in the central districts who do not receive their copies before FIVE O'CLOCK will oblige by at once communicating with the Manager,
at the performance last night, that it is a most
unusual thing for onlookers to make remarks on the shots while a match is being played. Two very glaring breaches of the above rule were quite tainly ought to have known better. prominent, the offenders being persons who cer-
public performance at the Hongkong Hotel last PROFESSOR Rudolphie gave his third and final
evening before a large audience. There was unfortunately some trouble at the commencement of the entertainment, for which Mr. Rudolphe was in no way to blame, the row being caused by sense of the Hotel officials, who would appear to have been under the influence of liquor, a state of affairs much to be deplored. The performance commenced with the wonderful fancy shots of which we wrote two days ago, the scientific dis- play being well received and much applauded. After the interval the Professor was faced by a well-known amateur in a game of 500 up, the local player being in receipt of 300 points pears that BANDMANN is in the habit of tenced to 14 days' hard labor this morning by start. After some excellent play by both com- picking up young women of clocution. Captain Thomsett for furnishing untuc parti-petitors, the Professor proved victorious by culars concerning his junk to Inspector Mackie, only 4 points, although he doubtless could ary parts and putting them through a
at Shau-ki-wan yesterday. Defendant, upon ap- have won by a bit more had he been fairly course of training which bears some ana-plying at the Station for an anchorage pass, re-stretched. We understand that Mr. Rudolphe Advertisers are requested to forward alt notices logy to the old system of horse-breaking presented he had only one musket on board, but will give three private exhibitions, previous intended for insertion in that day's issue not later before Rarey came on the scene and de- upon searching the junk, the Inspector found three to his departure from the colony, at the Lusitano, than THREE O'CLOCK so as not to retard themonstrated how much could be done by swords, a dagger, and a pistol in addition to the Hongkong, and Germania Clubs, respectively. early publication of the paper.
kindness. In England he had been fined musket. Heaven only knows to what nefarious We might mention, for the benefit of those present for a committing an assault on an actress, purpose these deadly weapons were intended to But foul language appears to be HERR be put. Chinese boatmen are always ready to BANDMANN's forte, and he seems to have an
take a hand at pirating when a favorable op ample vocabulary at command. This is.
portunity offers. what he has to say in his own defence. "I might have used the word 'damin,' and I might also have said For God's sake, or for Heaven's sake. In Germany, where I was born and educated, it is not thought so terrible a thing to use the name of God in that way as it is in England." HERR BANDMANN's nature breaks through in this admission, and he stands condemned out of his own mouth. The ladies whom he had been treating with coarse brutality have not German names, and we presume are not Germans, and while his swearing and filthy language might (according to the BANDMANN theory) have been per- missible in his native country, when used to English women it was admittedly a "terrible thing!" Miss Beaudet, it is true, said Heau BANDMANN was "a severe mas- ter, but a just one." This indy, however, ad-ments is that sooner or later the light of truth mitted a small infraction of the proprieties is let in on them, Sec. We think, and the public when he once said to Miss MILFORD "damn ments of Governor Hennessy, which relate to will think with us, that, presuming these state- it, can't you speak up?" The gross BAND public affairs well known to everybody, to be MANN no doubt would think this exceedingly false, it would indeed be a remarkable thing mild, if not absolutely condescending, but she light of truth were not let in on them sooner
The Youghong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1882.
As we anticipated would be the case, the verdict in the cue le BANDMANN P
FRASER-SMITH has been strongly cont- mented on by the leading journals' in nearly all parts of the world. By almost every mail we receive newspapers, not only from England, but from various parts of the United States of America, India, the Australian colonies, and in fact everywhere throughout the civilised globe where the character and reputation of the notorious BANDANN is well known. With singular unanimity the expressions of opinion from all these differently constituted represen- tatives of the press, combine in mercilessly condemning the ridiculous verdict of the Hongkong jury, and the still more ridicu-
LAST night's China Mail says:-" The audacity of Sir John Pope Hennessy in making statements is fairly well known to most of those who have and to many others who never saw him in the had anything to do with that talented gentleman, flash. Whatever suits Sir John on any subject is adopted with a glorious serenity and an utter in. difference as to the truth or untruth of what he is quoting, and is put forward in 'so specious a fashion, that those who know no better are only too frequently imposed upon. But the remark-
rant rubbish as this for our evening contemporary
if
mersed in the sun.
So many "ifs" necessarily enter into any dis
tersely and clearly on the subject. If-which cussion of the vexed question of comets, and specially of this comet, that it is difficult to write g
Newcomb has denied the comet of 1843 suffered Mr. Proctor thinks not improbable, but Professor
comet of 1880 was retarded in like manner; and appreciable retardation by its passage through the sun's corona; if which nobody knows--the if-which is not yet proved the comets of 1843, 1880 and the present season (or the first two, or the last two, or the first and last) be identical, we
in the sun. It needs very little knowledge of the clearly have a case of a comet which must be gradually absorbed by and suffer final extinction celestial motions to recognise that such is neces sarily the ultimate fate of a body whose velocity identical with either of the other two, there is has been retarded in the manner referred to,
Even supposing the present comet to be not every reason to believe that its career must before miles be correct, or anywhere near the urush long come to an end. For, Mr. Chandler's calculation of a perihelion distance of only 400,000 sensible retardation must have taken place, owing to the resistance of the solar envelope.
TARDY reparation, says the Daily Telegraph, mortally wronged German woman, whose name has at length been made to the memory of a
contumely in the place of her birth for more than has been unjustly held up to public scom and
two centuries and a half. In the year, 1617 the city of Tangermuende was destroyed by fire, and two years later several persons were tried, con- follows on the 6th ulto.The London corre incendiarism, alleged to have caused the calamity THE Paris correspondent of the Standard wires demned, and executed at Brandenburg for acts of spondent of the Temps states that the leading in question. Amongst those who suffered was idea of her Majesty's Government as to the fin- Grete (Margaret) Minden, the daughter of a Tan- Control and increase the powers of the Joint Ad-chained to a tall post in the market place. The ancial reorganisation of Egypt is to suppress the germuende patrician.
She was stripped and ministration of the public debt. The République five fingers of her right hand were torn off with Française has another angry article about Egypt, red-hot pincers. able thing about all these statements is that but the subject is really growing wearisome. All deeply scared with glowing irons. Finally, she Her aims and breasts were sooner or later the light of truth is let in on then the writing in the world will not alter facis. The
was burnt to death slowly. From first to last by some one who knows, and the bubble bursts Journal indulges in such phrases as this, "As her martyrdom lasted nearly an hour. Ever soon as an attempt is made to lay a destructive since that time a so-called "Conflagration Ser- and vanishes," is the man who writes such ar-
Hot, in any case, the very circumstance of hand either on the Control or on one of the Con- a blatant fool, or merely a grossly ignorant ventions we have subscribed we shall know what teenth Sunday after Trinity in the principal Tan- cach successive return. The occasional emer
mon." has been preached on each successive four-
close contact with the sun which thus obstrucia a comet's progress also wastes its substance at nonentity? He says that Sir John Pope Hen-hittion in lit, and linaid her proer germuende Church. This discourse describes gence of a comet after its perihelion pastage, nessy is in the habit of making in public a lot of ential position in Egypt, and has done so deli- Grete Minderi as an abominable monster, the re-apparently, brighter, bigger and more statements which are untrue; and then remarkaberately. She now stands on the same footing as fuse of mankind, who burned down her native than during its approach, is no proof of that the remarkable thing about all these state any otherContinental nation-prima inter pares, town to revenge herself upon the municipality intensity
any increase in its mass, but only of the if that be any comfort to the République, but for, as she believed, withholding her paternal in- disintegration and diminution of substance are of the solar action. In reality, nothing more and that is a fact which no heritance. It was a story by the eminent novelist necessary consequences of its intrusion into République be prepared to tell us that France, figured as a heroine, that suggested an investiga from afar, but in the act of attempting yet another amount of leading articles can alter, unless the Theodore Fentane, in which Grete Minden last comes--not by a rush straight at the sun such awful company. Hence, when the end at.
who declined to fire a shot to help England to tion of the documentary evidence connected with circuit nearer than ever to the sun's centre-t put down Arabi, is prepared to fight England to her case to Ludolf Parisius, a member of the doomed comet is but a wreck of its original self. restore what the Joint Control. If the Ad Reichstag, and this gentleman found out that the Along with lose of mass it has lost also most of it lous sentence of the Hongkong judge. The what shall we think of Desdemona's gentle or later. Our evening contemporary forget if that be not its meaning, the iteration of these the victim of a judicial murder. He lost no time over its exact' nature may be, can produce no views of a well-known London daily to censure? To say "damn it" to a lady about there being a happy medium in everything, half comminatory utterances is hardly dignified in communicating his discovery to the Tanger
publique means that it should say to plainly, unfortunate woman had most undoubtedly been power for cyll, and the final catastrophe, what
serious very
I results. the effect that a jury who could find a on the stage, we hope is not one of the and in trying to blacken and villly Governor verdict against any newspaper for libell- stock "asides" which are left to be ima. Hennessy at all costs, invariably permits petty.So far as I am able to judge, the French public, muende authorities, and on Sunday, the 10th Sep. also of far better fudges than myself. That bald Such at least is my opinion-on-this somewhat abstruse question. It seems to: bo the opinion Ing such a man as the notorious BANDHANN, gined by the audience. We wonder if spite to degenerate into malicious falsehood, with though they would have been very glad if our tember, when the clergyman on duty ascended astronomical prophet Professor Lewis Boss-who must have been living in the world with there are many BANDMANNS on the stage, making itself a laughing stock.
the inevitable result of disgusting the public, and forces had sustained a check or suffered a defeat his pulpit to preach the two hundred and sixty- believes that this comet is identical with those of their eyes and ears shut during the past or is the type only to be found in Germany
in Egypt, care very little about Egypt per se fourth "Conflagration Sermon," he prefaced his 1843 and 1880, having in that case completed its fifteen years, has been re-echoed in slightly where swearing is represented to be one WEARIED beyond endurance by the tediouaness
but, with the exception of the République, I find discourse by announcing to the congregation that third close brush against the sun, and that it will no organ of public opinion arguing that the sole recent inquiry into the origin of the great Tan further wasting, perhaps some years later-can- be destroyed suddenly, perhaps next year without different language by the press in all parts of the grates of the drawing-room and of of a long-winded pleader, a Kentuckian Judge result of our expedition should be to replace mat-germuende Fire had completely exonerated Grete-not have much apprehension of disastrous conse where the account of the trial has travelled. the green-room? How does HERE BAND- put himself out of his misery and his tormentorters in the srius quo ante Arabi, Of course, all this is eminently satisfactory MANN translate "damn" in German, and out of countenance by suddenly exclaiming:-" If
Minden from any complicity with the authors of quences to this earth when he admits that the
event may take Lake to as, as evidencing that the cause we ad- what is the particular Idiom he employs the court is right, and she thinks she air, why Ar the further hearing this morning of the case after the lise she had been lying on a bed of "fortunate enough some of these days, after
in a hope that wo vocated, the absurd libellaws notwithstand when he adorns his mother tongue? It then you are wrong, and she knows you in. Shut in which the Chinese servant of Quartermaster sickness many miles from Tangermuende. Sub-watching the comet on one of its sunward Ing, was in the main a just one. As the oml- appears also that ill-treatment" has Dowling, who, after serving as fireman and on suspicion of breaking open a desk and steal-tenced, tortured, and done to death with the ute
up!" Almost as rude in speech was Judge Sergeant Inkpen, Royal Engineers, is charged sequently she had been wrongfully accused, sen. Journeys, to watch in vain for its reappearance. "nent tragedian has taken the trouble, and spread among the company, for one of police-officer, became by election one of the Ma- ing therefrom property of the value of $65 on the most barbarity, an absolutely innocent woman.
Again, Mr. Proctor, in a discussion a few months actually gone to the expense of advertising | the witnesses said he had heard Miss Mvi-gistrates of the Empire City. What are you 17th Inst., from that non-commissioned officer's
sgo of this very question, was equally as suring on the subject of your safety As in Australian and other papers a garbled voan complain of ill-treatment" from reading from, sir?" asked he of a counsel. "From quarters at Spring Gardens, Mr. Wodehouse,
suming for the moment the comets of 1941 precis of the trial-which, however, has two of the members. This is not surpris. the statute of 1876, your Honour," was the reply. after hearing the evidence of Mrs. and Quarter
and 1880 to be identical, and to have suffered retardation on both ocea
Occasions at the perih
perihelion: only led to these journals taking up the ing under the prevailing influence of the "Well," said Dowling, "you needn't read any matter Sergeant Inkpen, further remanded the
passago, he adopted Mr. Martha's prediction of s cudgels in defence of press privileges, and "severe but just master;" the company are good enough law for anybody!" This wor- of finding two sureties in $50 each. Nothing has more; I'm judge in this court, and my statutes case for a week, prisoner going to gaol in default
forthcoming seventeen-year period as being possi to a thorough expose of the true character cannot be considered a very happy family. shipful gentleman plumed himself upon deciding. been discovered so far to actually connect the pri-
1926 or 1935, it would be finally absorbed by the bly near the truth, thence arguing that the comet's 1904, 1908, and so on until, by about the year successive returns might be expected about 1897, of the boastful tragedian we feel justified BANDMANN may teach the histrionic art to in publishing from time to time, as our space his pupils if they can stand his Bavarian precedent to the contrary notwithstanding, they merely one of suspicion, but certainly strong THE AMERICAN MAI!..
"according to the equities of the case," law and soner with the theft, the case against him being will permit, the independent published manners; at the same time he scanda went for nothing with him. They did not go for suspicion, as Quartermaster Sergeant Inkpen's opinions of the best known of our contem-lises the profession. Were his standard much more with the westem administrator of dog, which was in the room when the robbery was poraries on what appears likely to prove of decency to prevail, the stage would the law, Judge Alec Smith. A divorce case being committed, is said by its owners to be an excellent one of the most sensational libel cases of soon lose all, its attractions to young called on, he, addressing the plaintiffs repre-watch-dog, very fierce, and would have been cer- modern times. By and bye, if time will actors and actresses, of cultivated minds, sentative, said: "I don't think people ought to tain to have taken notice of a stranger. Mrs, permit, we shall collect all these opinions, and, by a natural consequence, to a large be compelled to live together when they don't Inkpen stated this morning that whoever com reprint thens in pamphlet form, and send section of the theatre-going public. HER Want to do so. I will decree a divorce in this mitted the robbery must have been in the room them, broadcast to the world. Mr. DANIEL BANDHANN'S Conduct in Wanganui was at declared to be no longer man and wife. Pre- taken to the verandah and broken open, the chest
· case;" and the parties concerned were thereupon a considerable time, as besides the desk being EDWARD BANDMANN is a most persistent least open to some criticism for its gross- sently the defendant's lawyer appeared, and was of drawers in which her husband was in the habit seeker after cheap advertisements; we ness on one or two occasions, and we do not a little surprised to find all was settled, that of keeping the money of the Royal Engineer shall give him enough publicity during the not view the evidence given in his favor at the Judge had decided without hearing one side, non-commissioned officers' mess, was found to next six months to last him for the course Hongkong as possessing the slightest much less both. He protested against such over have been ransacked and all the papers in It of his professional existence.
weight. There cannot be much doubt that hasty proceedings, and appealed to the court to turned over. The dog was discovered next morn he is a person of so gross a mind-as-not redress the wrong it had committed. The court ing to have received two slight stabs in the even to be affected by the lessons he is con- not being inclined to own itself in fault, he was throat. There are some points in the prisoner's tinually repeating from the great drauma-informed it was too late to raise objections; the favor, Mrer Inkpen having admitted frat he could ist. The verdict of a jury or the sentence to argue the case “right bad," the court would she was very ill, and at times almost insensible, c.published at 6d; may be had gratis from any decree had been pronounced; but if he wanted have taken the keys frequently, especially when of a judge in Hongkong goes for nothing. marry the parties again, and let him have a and have robbed her, as he knew some time ago Both are generally corrupt, generally the crack for it
At present we do not intend making any further comment on the results of a trial which is still a sore subject with us Ina day or two we shall have much satis faction in laying before the Hongkong public the Bill of Costs of the case, and
there was nioney kept in the dAPARTA
that catastrophe, For many days before and and calmly Pace without our know bo
MAILS EXPECTED.
THE FRENCH, MAIL.
French mail, left Singapore on the 11th instant, The M. M. steamer Yangise, with the next and is due here on or about the 18th..
The P. M. steamer City of Peking, with the next. American mail, left. Yokohama on Mon- day, the 13th instant, at daylight, and may be expected here on or about Sunday, the 19th.
HONINGSDHAMERS EXPECTED.
sun. He drew attention to the fact that, if the comet of 1880 were really the same as the comet of 1843, it showed very evident signs of having suffered grievously at its former perihelion. passage; and went on to remark, Nothing walch comet in particular, tuggests the slightest danger Is known about comets in general, or about this to the solar system, though everything suggests that the comet's career as an Independent, body will before very long come to an end. If the comet ever was a dangerous one. It is not so now. If it really has been effectively checked in its career, it la cvklent that such in- Singapore on the 11th instant, and may be ex and therefore the final chroes of the comet need The D. DR. steamer Feronia is to leave terruption can take place without harming us,
pected to arrive here on or about the 18th. It is true that the comet, If it be indeed the same
not trouble us in the least squadha The E. & A. S; S. Co.'s steamer Tannadice one, has returned much sooner than astronomers on or about the oth left Sydney on the 4th instant, and is due here expected. But I do not see that this appreciably affects the question of our safety, or that it needs Because even the most timid person among us to
Handther bleep.one whit less soundly, food
Lammy Sir
tours ober
THAMES-STREET INDUSTRIES by Percy Russell. This lastrated Pamphlet on Perfumery, Chemist or dealer in perfumery in the Word or Jon GoSHELL & Co. London (ADY
Hongkong, 18th
Licut Col
!