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In London that Garibaldians schemed forthe downfall of the Pope. In London Carlists conspired against Spain, and associations were formed to supply men and money to the Southern Confederacy, Greek, Polish and Hungarian refugees have each in their turn exercised the right to make it a basis of operations against the country which had caused their exile, without being scrupulous respecting the means employed. Being convenient to France, it has been more used by Frenchmen than by the sefugees of any other nationality. There royalists laid their plans to assassinate the First
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polled to take the government of Egypt, | ADvices received at Washington state that Or all the inuch-narried men ever heard of. leaving the Khediva but a nominal and Chili makes a claim for 20,000,000 dellars as Omeru, the late King of Bida, bears away the titular sovereign, just ps, having ob. damages against Colombia for allowing armis palm. His rule extended over a large district of tained a footing in India, we have been far Peru during the recent war. The belief is in number. Dawning civilisation, however, made
and military stores to pass across the Isthmus “Afric's burning sands," and his wives were you - forced to assume the government of that Chill intends to demand the cession of him so proper that he only acknowledged the that vast country, with its teeming popula Colombian territory to satisfy the claim, design-ownership of 100 of the fair enslavers; but the tion. There is no doubt that the Canal, ing to take a strip reaching across the Isthmus eldest son of his seventy-seven sons and daughters which Baron de Lesseps was the moving This matter is therefore brought to the atten- walks unblushingly in the old paths, and con- spirit in constructing, has tended to bring tion of the United States Gavrenment for diplo- fesses to being the lawful husband of 400 ladies. about this great change. The present matic action. Khedive, whose Instincts seem to have correctly taught him that, happen what might, it was best for him to be leal to England, will doubtless be permitted to
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better result, we may venture to hope, than The Nihilists have issued their manifes there has been to many in which he has toes from London, and from that, potot been engaged, or suffered himself to be Prince KRAPOTKIN, who is accused of head-dragged into. He is a man of peace, ATKINSON'S, HENDRIE'S, AND LUBIN'S ing the Lyons anarchists, directs the move. doubtless, but when he is in power war, ments of his followers. The assassin who | somewhere or another, is almost certain to attempted to wreck the Czar's train at follow. Moscow'disappeared in London and has never since been definitely located. The English have always borne mildly the aspersions cast on them for harboring polit- Ical murderers. After the Oxsını affair some efforts were made to arrest his ac- complices, but in the attempt to pass a law 13 punishing those who used England as a place of conspiracy against friendly Powers Lord PALMERSTON was defeated and com-
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AN extraordinary death is reported from British Guiana. An inexperienced traveller having, as is the custom in tropical countrics, taken a draught from the stem of one of the water-hold- ing plants which grow in the forests, afterwards drank a "nip" of rum." Shortly afterwards he died in great agony, and a post-mortem examin- ation showed that his internal organs were liter ally sealed up with india-rubber. He had drunk which coagulates and hardens in alcohol; and the sap of the Afimusops balata, the juice of
the rim had its usual effect in the man's stomach, with necessarily fatal results,
THE Havas Agency states that a Cabinet Coun cil held in Paris on Nov. 28 considered the ways and means of insuring to France the benefit of the explorations made by ML de Brazza and of the treaty, concluded by him. It was decided that an expedition devoid of any military char acter should be sent, under M. de Braska's leader The French Press is resolute to maintain the ship, to make a thorough survey of the country, French political position in Egypt.
LONDON, January 15th.
· FRANCE, AND EGYPT.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE Messageries Maritimes steamer, Amazon, with the next outward French mail, left Saigon yesterday, at 3 p.m., for Hongkong.
from a scientific and commercial standpoint. The Government will appoint a commercial agent there. Admiral Jauregulberry was de- puted to frame a vote of credit for this purpose The same day the Municipal Council of Paris presented a medal of honour to M. de Bratza In receiving the medal he said he would strive to promote the interest of freedom by destroying
THEIR Lordships, Chief Justice Sir George Phil- lippo and Justice Snowden, met in the Supreme Court, at 4 o'clock this afternoon, to deliver Judgement in re the application of Mr. Francis, on behalf of Dr. Fisher, for permission to cross examine the witnesses in the Coroner's Court of enquiry respecting the death of Captain Lee, which is now in abeyance pending the decision of the Supreme Court After argument, their
delivered on Monday at 3 o'clock. Lordships gave notice that judgment would be
THE Pall Mall Gazette says "So heavy have been the marine Insurance losses from which Lloyd's' have suffered, that we hear that as much as £750,000 has lately been paid away by the underwriters there. Quite a number of them have withdrawn from the business altogether, some perforce because their means were at an end, others because they saw no hope of doing a more profitable business in the future, and pre ferred to keep what was left of their fortunes. The competition of the outside marine insura companies is blamed for this state of things They have knocked mtes down, it is said, till It no longer pays to take risks. Judging by the ac counts of many of these marine companies, there must be a great deal of truth in that view, and if matters are so bad with the underwriters of
marine business done there altogether, what can
by their recklessness have brought matters to such a pass?"
The various Governments and Municipal Cor- porations have been applied to for information, and all Public Bodies and Companies, Dankers, Merchants, Consuls, and Professional and other Residents, will supply the necessary matter to ensure correctness, upon forms sent for that pur-writers, not necessarily for publication; but as effort to have foreign conspirators punished fold of one going to a post office addressed toto contest Manchester at the next election, said An Ingenious adaptation of the electric-aignalling pose. The Naval and Military portion will be
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for plotting in England had no bitterer opponent than Mr. GLADSTONE, who has had the matter brought vividly home to him since his search for the Dublin mur- derers in other countries. The question of surrendering political refugees is a delicate one, but since the Internationale has established relations with all the branches of socialism in Europe and made assassination "one of its chief means of operation, a mutual arrangement of the
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My son, town, South Australia." This was a puzzle for the postmaster, who, of course, did not know whom to give it to, till a shearer called one day, and asked if there was a letter for him from his mother. HISTORY, it is said, repeats itself so do. stories. "Pshaw " exclaims some learned man, as he sees in the morning paper a fresh ancedete, "I read that fifty years ago, and it was then ancient" Perhaps he did, and yet the anecdote may be true as told, thought not singular. The critic should remember the rule, as true of men as of
cumstances always produce the same effects."'.. THE adjourned Coroner's enquiry into the cir- cumstances attendant on the death of the late Captain Edward Lee, of the steamship Pangtse, was resumed. get this afternoon at 2.30. His Worship briefly stated that he had "feceived no instructions from the Supreme Court
Arrangements have been made to publish The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 4 P.M. Sub-Great Powers for the extradition of polit-mechanics, that like causes under similar cir- scribers in the central districts who do not receive their copies before FIVE O'CLOCK will eblige by ical murderers is becoming necessary,
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[63 have, observes the Sydney Telegraph, been entirely non-plussed at the turn which affairs in Egypt have taken. At this time.
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last year the British Government had no of the land of the Pharachs than they had
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deputation which waited on him to invite him LORD. Randolph Churchill, in replying to a
that if an immediate election took place the Con- servative party might find Itself in a position of great power; but this would not be due to the Opposition in the present Parliament. He saw no good object in concealing his opinion that the constitutional function of an Opposition was to during the three sessions of this Parliament that opposc and not support a Government; but duty had either been systematically neglected or defectively carried out. More than once since the present Government came into office legit mate opportunities had arisen for conflicts which Ministry or in great damage thereto, but these ought to have resulted in the overthrow of the
opportunities had been allowed to pass by. His lordship, while highly appreciating the invitation, said he was unable at present to give a definite answer.
ASEEDY LOCKING fellow dropped into the editor's open and failing to be row a half-dollar, he begged to narrate his ex-
perience :-"I used to be an officer of State, 1
did. I was sheriff, and member of the Legisla judge, and a candidate time and again, and had ture, and constable, and clerk of the courts, and a high_old_frolic, I did." "I don't believe it," said the city editor.
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systein has, says an American exchange, been effected in connection with a lamp, which is made to give notice of either a burglarious entrance into or a fire upon premises where it is employed. The apparatus consists of a small battery with wires lending to attachments on doors and windows,
which may be placed either inside or outside the and other wires communicating with the lamp, premises as preferred. Upen a door or window being moved, after the apparatus has been act for the night and the lamp lighted, a red glass disc is released by the aid of a small electro-
danger signal is thus given, the light having magnet placed within the lamp, and a red or
previously been white. For fire purposes special thermometer is used, and when the raised température causes the mercury to rise, metallice
contact is made, and the lamp at once shows the
danger signal. Placed outside houses ar publie buildings this lamp would afford a sure index to the police as to the safety or otherwise of the
interior of the premises
home contemporary, that all civilised Powers IT is becoming Increasingly clear, remarks a will have to place severe and all but prohibitory
the
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relating to the application made by Mr. Francis, Mr. Stephens the application was still and he would ask for a further, adjournment. pending; they were waiting for the decision of deposing the Tycoon of Japan, or bidd-After a short discussion between His Worship Ing the Brother of the Sun and Moon in and Mr. Stephens, Mr. Hugh McCallum, the Tur, responsibility of harboring the politi- China to come down from his exalted posi-Government analyist, was put into the witness Because I have a letter here which says you dynamite, which is beginning to be used not restrictions upon the manufacture, and sale of |cal conspirators and assassins, who alinter-tion, and make way for an English Gov-box, duly sworn and had the three bottles which
nre a thief and a flar, and a scoundrel and a only by the political assassin but by the more vals terrify sovereigns and startle the world, ernor-General of the Celestial Empire. have so frequently been mentioned in the case which will deal with almost every branch of Isdivided, according to a San Francisco con. The only statesman of modern times who banded to him with instructions that he should defaulter and a plotter, and a low-down brawler, the explosion in the gaming-house at Monte villain, and a traducer and a perjurer, and a vulgar robber. There seems Httle doubt that temporary, between England and Switzer correctly foresaw the way towards which analyze the same. The enquiry was then ad and a lover of all that is vile and wicked and Carlo was the work of a gang of unscrupulous land, Both are countries in which the subject events would inevitably tend was the CZAR journed till Tuesday next, the 16th, at 2 o'clock. dishonest and abhorrent to decent people, and players, who had been losing heavily, and who enjoys the greatest amount of liberty, yet NICHOLAS, who advised the English Am-WE observe that the latest records of the London Ahal stranger, go on and read that all hoped that in the confusion they might be able The WINNERS of all'IMPORTANT RACES | both are now and then means to the ac-bassador to take Egypt. We do not sup- police again show numbers to have been "lost over again, and read it loud. It sounds like old to make e compensatory, haul. Sensational at HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, FOOCHOW, complishment of the most atrocious crimes. posethat Mr. GLADSTONE turned his attention in London without the slightest trace." During times. It brings back the days when I ran for scenes at Monaco are by no means uncommon, and AMOY, with times, and other interesting The schools in Zurich frequented by to Egyptian affairs with one ambitious idea the past year 31,835 children under 10 years of office. It reads like an editorial in the opposis and the trick of suddenly turning off the gas particulars, carefully compiled from the most Russian youth were among the earliest In his head, Events have simply run away. Of these 7533 children, and 720 aduits were found blessed period when I felt like I was somebody sorted to more than once
age, also 3416 adults, were reported as missing. tion paper, and brings again to my memory that with the view to seizing the bank, ha been re reliable sources will make "THE HONGKONG places where nihilism showed itself, Eng-from his control. His idea was a Khedive, by the police; to adults and one child committed and life was worth living: Oh, glorious hours of d'industrie who infest the place. The use of DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR land has always prided herself on afford who should keep out of mischief as the Lord suicide, and 6770 returned home, or were found my past, will ye ever come back to me? and dynamite for the furthering of thele nefarious EAST," a vade miccum for all classes of ing the right of asylum to the fugitive slaves LIEUTENANT of a country might do, be loyal by their friends ; 25 children and 154 adults are the tears rolled down his cheeks as the editor plans is a new and serious departure,
of other nations as well as to their political to his suzerain the Sultan, and recognise thas left wholly unaccounted for. More mei pronounced again the magic words, and then finately they were disappoi exiles. They touch English soll and their Engilsh and Franch Influence and counsel, ancholy still is the fact that of 54 bodies found gave him a quarter.dollar to sober up on, me fortunately, no live were lost; THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND
shackles fall" was the old formula by But how stands the caro at the presented. These are strange facts, but in the case of REVIEWING a book entitled "The Fan-kwao at weapon from getting
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tions which wou HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" for 1883. will be Printed on a superior quality of Paper which the English Liberals expressed' time?- »An-English army hai conquered the missing persons there appears but little Canton before Treaty Days; 1825-1844 the Sulous persons could poss with a NEW FOUNT of TYPE, specially ordered the sacredness of freedom as exempli. Egypt, and the Home Government was put anxiety, and the police organisation is no perfect Pall Mall Gasetis says An Old Resident," for the work, from THE PATENT TYPE fied by the national domain. Greek, in the position of being able to do exactly in its search that those of whom no trace can be who appears to be a Mr. W. CHunter, has FOUNDING COMPANY, Red Lion Square, Polish and Hungarian rofugees were as it might think best for Egypt and the found are usually set down as runaways. Holborn; Landori, and will be bound in a fashion alike safe under the British flag. The world generally. An English General of TELEGRAPHING from Rome, on Nov. 28, fifty years ago. Those were the days when Cat fallibley
thrown together, in this small volume some An American do rather Interesting notes of life in China forty and lated, arriv unsurpassed by any work of the kind ever Siberian exile who reached London could rote, Sir EVELYN WOOD, will command the correspondent says: Notwithstanding a quasi ton was the only settlement open to "The For serpent, never be reclaimed by the Russian Go Egyptian army. A noted Englishman, denial couched in squivocal terms by a Staign Devils (such is the meaning of Fan-terrors vernment. Not only were those who fled BAKZE PASHA, will rule over the Soudan, Petersburg journal, 1 am enabled to say that the Kwae 1, and when John Chinaman and the Engs from the punishment of unsuccessful revo- An English Controller-General of Finance visit here of M. de Giers is official. Though he lish merchants trusted one another so completely lution safe, but the cause of freedom was will be the Khedive's Chanceller of the may not be charged with a specific circumscribed that bargains were made by mere entry of mums sympathleed with by people of all classes Exchequer, Practically the country, al. pourpader, yet I have the highest authority omada in books, without signed contracts, penal and often given material aid, regardless of though it may pay an annual tribute to the assuring me that he will in his numerous inter clauses, and what not. They were the days the Interests of nations with whom England Sultan of Turkey, will be just as much views, not only openly with Signor Depretis, but large fortunes, but also of occasional was closely allled. The Greeks, when in English as any native State in India, The private with King Humbert, present a broad trophes and dangers, such as the comin rebellion against Turkoy, were sheltered Khedive will be the nominal ruler only position of Russia and Italy in the concert of opium trade. For the most part the
and elastic programme relating to the future the Imperial Commissioner and assisted in many ways. KossUTH was just as the Rajahs and Maharajahs of Europe with regard to Egypt. I am enabled to mera record of a merchants life. received with open arms by all classes of India are in their native kingdoms. add that this programme does not contemplate as its value. Here, however, English society, against the protest of The Canal, we may rest assured, will unfriendly relations towards England. My infor Austria, while every rebellion against never again pass away from English mant says it points to the clearly defined work Russian rule has had the moral support of Jurisdiction and rule. It is too value of England for all Europe in Egypt M. de Giers the entire nation...
able, as the highway to India and Australia, will receive much distinguished social and diplo Though Switzerland is a meeting-place ever to be again allowed to come within matic attention during his sojourn here. of the conspirators of all nations, it has the scope and Intention of such a native SAYS the Sydney Telegraph -A remarkable never been such a favorite haunt as Lon. leader as Arabi Bey. In the view of this "Illustration of the causes which led to the sinking don, and it is a shrewd suggestion of the great and certainly, Impending change, it of the Austral was afforded a few days since by tile republic that it would prefer England is only natural to ask what the Powers of ons of the divers worlding at the vessel. These should set the example of refusing asylum Europe are likely to think, to say, and
men, as our readers are probably aware, carry to such doubtful guests, which she herself do? We have seen what the Russian boots for the purpose of keeping them down. In somethinglike a 'hundred-weight of lead on their would then not object to follow. She policy is let it alone, France has gra- the case under notice the boots of the diver stuck knows very well that London is the head dually been washing her hands of every in the mud, and defied his most vigorous efforts and will inform, quarters of the Internationalists, who are scrap of Egyptian business. Germany to pull them out. Not relishing the situation, lowered trying to reduce. France to a state of and Austria have no interest in the busi, the man seized his knife, cut the bootlaces, and
a sovereign is marked for ness, save the protection of the money of
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helmet being the man was propo ed, it is from London forms of Egyptian securities. These Get-
the surf The plot to murder man bankers would be only too glad to SON was formed there, and see British intuence paramo Egypti the Italy has no concern in the matte And. deed were made in Birmingham. It was so it would seem, England will be com
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