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LOCAL AND GENERAL,
WA read that the famous Palais Royal, Paris, will shortly be converted into a winter garden. A MEETING of the Stewards of the Masonic Ball will be held in the City Hall at half past five this afternoon, to make the final arrangements for re. ception of guests, &c. A full attendance is de- sirable. ́ ́
that the great Canard Company is going to sub-
TRAINING NOTES.
The race course was thrown open this morn
YOUNG royalties appear to have a pleasant time of it. We read that, the lately-born infante of cries in a cradle shaped like a conch shell, and ing, and being in excellent condition, was exten Spain, Mary Theresa Ysabel, sleeps, wakes and.
lined with the palest of pink satin. Her tiny form sively used for galloping. In fact, with the excep is covered with point d'Alencon lace, specially tion of White Knight and one or two members of made from a pattern designed by the Queen of the "screwed-up" division which were.com. Spain's mother, in which the arms of Spain and finedtotrotting on the training track, the whole of Ausirta are gracefully blended. She has a the prominent ponies were galloped over various couvrefied and tiny pillow, on both of which the distances. Nothing very extraordinary in the Kilics of the house of Bourbon and the Y of her shape of fast times was reconted, the best per
party of twelve men were under the sur It was stated in the course of the pro- veillance of an assistant turnkey, while ceedings that certain charges would here- four Sikhs, armed with loaded rifles, per- after be brought against Mr. FITZGERALD, formed the duties of Guards. The convicts who Is Indeed now upon his trial, and it is are to be employed nine hours a day, in- therefore proper to speak of his part in the cluding marching out and in." Will this incriminated transactions with reserve. further degradation of a Colony that has He was himself warned, when called to lately been dragged recklessly through give evidence, that he need not answer the mud to suit the purposes of a nest of what appeared to him compromising ques- | unscrupulous political schemers be per- tions, and we have no intention of assum- CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS mitted to take place without a vigorous ing, in anything that we may say, either As a significant sign of the times it may be noted pretty name, Ysabel, are laced and Interlaced The other new royal baby, the young hereditary protest on the part of an outraged commun-his guilt or his innocence. Captain MAX stitute coffee for grog on its Atlantic steamers. Prince of Sweden, has a much less delicate cradle, hy? Probably the best plan will be to WELL-HERON, to do him justice, was quite In a very short time but few of the old customs as becomes a hardy young Norseman. It is wait until the arrival of Sir George Bowen, prepared to take the law into his own of sea-faring life wiil have any existance except shaped like a swan, the wings coming up, if Our new Governor's past carcer is a suffi- hands. The first offence Imputed to himing as a tradition, amongst old salts.
wished, and sheltering the little prince, and is cient guarantee that the petty, trickeries was that he had not made proper inquiry A PUNGENT correspondent of the Ventura Free well supplied with down-stuffed accessories. and shallow devices which have so strongly into grave and manifest irregularities in Press says: "The Grand Jury system is a failure. characterised our local government since the ship's accounts which were brought The thing of mixing one lawyer with eighteen In London, recently, a jury was trying a case in Mr. MARSH assumed the reins of power, prominently to his, notice. Of this the or more laymen and calling themselves a Count which the question involved was whether certain will have no place in the policy of an ex-Court convicted him, and convicted him on is about as sensible as trying to drive an elephant Mouton Rothschild and Chateau Lafitte-both of 1875—as supplied to the defendant, were equal perienced and liberal minded statesman. | the clearest possible evidence. But Cap and a thoroughbred horse in double harness."
to theso same wines bottled at their respective We shall certainly consider it our duty tain MAXWELL-HERON was by no means Tr has been gravely decided by an American chateaux, and it occured to the Judge, after to let Governor Bowes know that the satisfied with mere abstinence from in tribunal that a Chinese wet nurse is a laborer, hearing a great deal of "expert" evidence, that degrading custom of employing felons on vestigation. He took the strongest practical and does not belong to the professional or mera far more direct and satisfactory way of com- the public works of this colony outside the measure. THOMAS HADDEN, ship's cor- cantile class. Therefore, a wet nurse cannoting to a decision" would be for the Jury to taste prison walls is a disgraceful innovation poral, came before him with a complaint come enter the United States under the Inunigra the wines. The jury were naturally of the same which is most offensive to the great It seemed to HADDEN'S ingenuous mind tion Act. The law, even in the go-ahead republic, opinion, and straightway retired, that sainpics of the wines, lettered A, B, C and D, might be set majority of the community both foreign that some designing persons, of whom he, is a wonderful science.
rightly or wrongly, suspected Mr. Fizz
before them. After an interval, the duration of GERALD to be one, were violating the
which is not stated, they returned into court and Queen's Regulations and defrauding the
found for the defendant. Ten of them had con. public purse by secret appropriation of
sidered; the chateau-bottled Mouton superior to what belonged to the Admiralty. So he
that supplied, while two expressed no opinion. As to the Lafitte there was more division of reported his misgivings to the Commander,
opinion-six were for the one sample, four for who at first expressed gratitude to him for
the ether and two again expressed no opinion. his zeal. But in a day or two HADDEN WAS
It does not appear whether these two gentlemen were teetotalers and had not tasted the wine, or
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Some years ago this plan of employing prison labour outside the gaol was in force, and its abolition gaveuniversal satisfaction, 13 In England criminals are employed in various descriptions of manual labour, but not outside the walls of the convict estab. lishments. Where labor is scarce and
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The members of "the old, old faith" both in ancient and modern times have been renowned for their enterprise. Of late years Roman Catholicism has made giant strides in England, and as an outcome of this the erection of a new million and a half of dollars, will commence in the course of a few weeks. WUN ACHOI, a hawker, charged before Captain
Roman Catholic Cathedral, which is to cost a'
formances that came under my observation be ing Sunlight's six furlongs in, 1 min. 37 seconds, and Bandsman's and First Flight's mile in 2.161.
Shamrock was the first pony on the course, this good looking brown going a mile in his well known resolute siyle. The new Derby candidate Cobnut, ridden by Mr. Hut- chings, went a mile very steadily and in good form, finishing like a thorough race pony. This pony is certainly not to be despised for the Derby and other griffin races. Driving Cloud, galloped considerably over two miles, his old opponent Pizzicato, and the griffin Ghillie Callum following close in his wake throughout the last mile, eventually being allowed to pass the pulling chesnut at the entrance to the straight. Lord of the Isles went three quarters of a mile rather gingerly fashion, his stable companion Dauntless covering a mile at about half speed, Mr. Paul's white griffin Sunshine, with Mr. Nickels in the saddle, cantered steadily seven furlongs-time 2.16. Wild Fang was sent along. at a good pace, but not in his best form...
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ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., be ad- expensive, as is the case at home, politica! ['surprised to find himself arrested, and, Thomsett this morning with having house whether, like wise men, they had drunk it and grand form, "showing a great contrast to that
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being taken before Captain MAXWELL-breaking implements in his possession, informed that the employment of convicts at stone HERON, was reproached for bringing rail- | His Worship that the dangerous weapons breaking, road-making and repairing, ing and slanderous accusations, and order- belonged to another man. As the other &c., &c., is requisite as a matter of ex-ed to be disrated, or degraded from his man" did not show up to claim his property and pediency, and in order to make all prisoners rank as ship's corporal. It must be ad-support the statement of Achoi, Captain Thomsett
said nothing.
by their own work defray the cost of their "board and ludging." Butthese arguments Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele- do not apply to Hongkong. Coolie labor graph will always be open for the fair discussion here is both cheap and plentiful, whilst the by correspondents of all questions affecting public interests, it must be distinctly understood that cost of a prisoner's "chow-chow" amounts the Editor does not in any way hold himself resto a few cents per diem. The employ ponsible for opinions thus expressed.
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ment of convicts on public works in our roads and throughfares cannot be justified on economical grounds, as there is in this Colony no necessity for a miserly economy: The Hongkong Government is rolling in wealth; it is so rich in fact that it has de- Arrangements have been made to publish cide to spend over a million dollars in The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 4 P.M. Subcarrying out a gigantic water scheme for scribers in the central districts who do not receive which there exists not the slightest seces. their copies before FIVE O'CLOCK will oblige bysity. On what grounds then has Mr.
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MARSH reversed the policy of his predeces- sors and superiors? We think we may be able to satisfactorily answer that query at no distant date.
mitted that in all the circumstances this was a remarkably courageous proceeding on the part of the gallant commander. It did not, however, meet with the success it perhaps deserved, although it was followed in due course by the presentation of a false report to the Duke of EDINBURGH, who, as Superintendent of Naval Reserves, had made inquiry into the defalcations which HADDEN claimed to have discovered, Among other suspicious circumstances it was alleged, and the court-martial has found it to have been proved, that Mr. FITZGERALD was selling public stores in Aberdeen, though what became of the proceeds has not yet been shown,
Captain MAXWELL-HERON was not con- tent with merely appropriating to his own use that which belonged to the public. He went so far as to have his own residence coated with Government paint, and his own greenhouse repaired with Government wood. Nor did he stop there, for the paint was laid on and the wood was set up by seamen in her Majesty's service, whose time belonged to the country, and whose labour was remunerated by the tax-payer. Nor again were the coals burned in the Commander's house his own. He received from the Admiralty an allowance for fuel,
imposed a fine of $10 with the option of a month. The hawker retired to the "Retreat.” LEUNG ACHUN, 55 years of age and described as a shopman, appeared before "his washup" this morning on a charge of being drunk and in- capable. We so rarely have to chronicle a "drunk and incapable" Chinaman, that we give this case to show that even the ring-tailed-rooster, tough of ripe years, is not altogether proof against the temptations of "fire water." The venerable looking Celestial admitted the charge and was let off on parting with one "Mexican." LEONG ACHOI, who follows the romantic occu- pation of "coolie" faced Captain Thomsett this morning on a charge of "annexing" a jacket Leung under rather peculiar circumstances. Achun, the complainant in the case, said he was in the lockup last night for being drunk, and on waking up this morning found himself minus his jacket which was worth a dollar. He was wearing the jacket when he lay down to sleep. The defendant merely informed Captain Thom- set that he felt cold during the night, and took the complainant's jacket to keep his body warm, For thus endeavouring to nourish his frame with another man's property, Achei was sent to three months' hard labor.
Mr. Henry's racing-like Derby "crack " Pel- ham was steered by Mr. Reynell in a healthy. exercise gallop, getting over the ground like a racer. Hickory (late: Salmanassar) covered the niile, Wild Harry" up, in 229, the quarters. being 37, 76 and 1,551,·· Hellos galloped in
sprightly racehorse The Dromedary as the two came down the straight together, Chatterbox was sent a mile and covered the distance in a shade over 2.20, the subscription griffu Faugh-a-ballagh hunting him home the last furlong, Blunder Blas galloped about a mile and a half, appearing to have had quite enough when his experienced, pilot shook him up a bit at the finish
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lot, galloped about a mile in capital form. I had Sunrise, a very promising griffin in Mr. Paul's
almost omitted to chronicle that the 3.18 "crack,
steady Hornpipe, was ridden by Mr. Nickels in a s gallop shortly, after daylight, this, Derby, favorite
YESTERDAY, says the Daily Telegraph of December 22nd, the Clyde Court-martial It has been truly said that he who will not concluded its labours, and Captain Max look before him will have to look behind WELL-HERON, having been convicted of him with regrut. Wo venture to predict most of the charges brought against him, that the latest political move of His Excel was formally dismissed from the Quiz's lency the Administrator will, in time to come, service. The sentence certainly does not bring him nothing but vain regrets. Mr. err on the side of severity, for rarely have Massu, we would fain believe-although more disgraceful accusations been sub- the current rumour of the Colony is disstantiated against an officer and a gentle tinctly to the contrary-has been actuated man. Considering that courts-martial are of the ship's stores. For some reas watching the case on behalf of Dr. Fisher. The of a man staggered into the office of a weekly To cover a mile on a heavy course carrying.
frequently in the habit of sending common sailors into penal servitude, it is plain that Sir.WILLIAN DOWELL and his colleagues
THE enquiry into the circumstances of the death of Captain Lee was resumed at the Magistracy at 10 o'clock this morning before Mr. Wodehouse the Coroner. Messrs. W. L. Scott, William Schimidt and A. Carvatho formed the jury. Mr. J. but he nevertheless supplied himself out. Francis, and M Stephens were again present son which was not quite satisfactorily evidence of Dr. Fisher was taken, but, as we are established, but which it is to be feared unable to give it in full in cur to-day's issue, we merely mention that an adjournment was made would not very well bear further inquiry, at 12.30, the Coroner and jury visiting the Yang
occupied in the saloon by the three bottles which have so frequently been spoken of during the course of the enquiry. The Court reassembled at half past two and was sitting when our reporter
going grandly, Little Warlock was sent a mile and a quarter at a nice pace-time 3.05. Gang Forward was not seen to advantage in a six furlongsi
pin, cutting it as usual at the finish. Montezuma was greatly admired as he swept along, with his - trainer, in the sadd like a piece of machinery, overweight and cantering with the following cord-351,70 45), 2,20—is no mean: perforn Ance Second jolingalloped six furlongs „ting
SAYS the Chicago Tribune-The entire story of the difficulty which has arisen since Mrs. Langtry and Mrs. Labouchere came to this country has not been told. It is rumored that when Mrs. Languy left London, Sir George Chetwynd excited the indignation of his recent bride by declaring his intention to follow the Lily to America; that it was in consequence of
An interesting:"pow" took place between the letters written to American friends by the rath young Baronet's wife that Mrs. Langtry and subscription griffins Silverstreak (Major Hamil- Mrs. Labouchere were not received into society ton) Buggins (Mr. Sampson) and Satanella upon their arrival in New York; that after she (Achee), over seven furlongs, the last named, came to New York Mrs. Langtry received ass-with much the worst of the weights, winning clev- duous attentions from a number of New York erly, after a rattling set to from the half distance, gentlemen, among them being Frederick Geb- by aneck from Buggins, the spotted one being very hardt, who was presented to her by Oscar Wilde; close up-time 2.134. Castigator and Rufus went. that Mr. Gebhardt lavished upon Mrs. Langtry the mile course together. The first quarter was valuable presents, his bill at Tiffany's amounting very slow; but ascending the hill the grey was sent to nearly $17,000; that Mrs. Labouchere's wrath along, and quickly having the currish chesnut in was roused when Mrs. Langtry consented to sup difficulties won hands down-time for last three at the Brunswick with Mr. Gebhardt alone after quarters 1.45, Bothwell galloped a mile at an easy the play, where the walters put upon them the pace, Snail showing him the way round until indignity of refusing to serve their supper alone within a few stildes of the chair. Esperance, led, in a private room; that Mr. Gebhardt, in some Triumph a good exercise gallop for a mille, the way, had, heard of Sir George Chetwynd's pro- dark grey griffin going in taking style. The last posed plan of visiting America, and one day at six furlongs occupied 1.49. the Union Club in New York wrote a telegram Sir George not to come over, and stating certain to Mrs. Langtry in Bostan, urging her to cable further intentions of his; and that it was in con sequence of all these occurrences, in addition to those referred to by Mrs. Labouchere, that the separation between the two ladies took place,
THE Detroit Free Press tells the following pathetic story of a wasted life and a "turned rule: Less than three months age the wreck paper in Eastern Michigan and asked for manney to buy whiskey, Strangely enough, the publisher was an old schoolmate. They were apprentices in the same town; they worked side by side as
together at a steady pace, both these ponies, go it is exceedingly difficult to realise the not a pleasant one for those who are con- the Clyde, to pay forty shillings a ton for
thrift the other had a good heart, and an opening in better form than usual nature of such expected benefits, or to cerned in the honour of the British navy, firewood, though the market price of that
hand. Twenty years made the one rich and fathoin the reasons which could have justi. but it has its quaint and curious side. It commodity in Aberdeen was at the time
influential the other a drunkard who slept in fied His Excellency in Inaugurating a line is painful to reflect that the commander of five-and-twenty shillings. But it is his
the gutter as often as in a bed. The one had made use of what God had given him, but the of policy which had already been tried and one of her Majesty's ships has been pur-conduct in respect of the ship's carpet let.
other bad deliberately made himself a wreck found wanting in Hongkong-a barbarous suing for months together a course of petty which really suggests doubts of Captain IT is seldom that the patrons of a restaurant get The meeting called up a host of recollections, practice long since abolished in civilised pilfering, but it is impossible, not to be MAXWELL-HERON'S complete responsibility the chance to testify in Court to the inferiority communities, and universally condemned amused by some of the shifts to which this for his acts. It was reported to the Ad- of the viands set before them, and perhaps there and the contrast between their situations was so by the loud voice of public opinion.. eccentric functionary was reduced. The miralty that this carpet had been tightly is only one case on record where they so ap- great that the old drunkard was sobered as he It is a generally recognised truism that only doubt which is likely to occur to rolled up in order that it might the more peared at the summons of the propricior and for realized it. He was offered work, but he had be a person in a station of great power must any impartial reader of the evidence is easily be taken ashore, that it had fallen bis benefit: Precisely that has just happened come too broken. The stick and the rule were no necessarily incur enmity and opposition, so whether Captain MAXWELL HERON is per- overboard and had immediately sunk, of M. Marquerie's restaurant contained among shume for the first time in months. When money by
in a Paris court. On August 9th the bill of fare longer for him. He was offered a temporary home, but he looked at his rags and felt his His Excellency will scarcely be surprised fectly sane. Of his gullt there can, we and that it was not thought worth while other items perdrix aux choux." An Inspec. was handed him he waved it back and said : "11 at, and was doubtless prepared for adverse fear, be no question whatever. The to employ a diver for the purpose of bring-tor of police happened to see the menu, and in shall not want it. I ask, in the name of olden criticism on this outrage against enlight Court has acquitted him on two counts, and ing it up again. The whole of this story conséquence M. Marquerie was prosecuted for ened civilisation. We feel perfectly cer- has found that another is only partially was a complete fiction, the carpet being in a breach of the game laws, the close senson for days, as a fellow-craftsman, one little favor, It shall be granted" When you know that I am tain that Mr. MAXSH would never of his made out. But enough unfortunately re- one of the ship's cabins the whole time. partridges not being over on August 9th. He dead then turn a rule for me, and give me own accord have returned to this degrading mains to prove that the prisoner war Two boats also, which the Commander explained that the partridges were not this gle ling. The promise was made, and the old custom of employing the criminals of the grossly dishonest, and that the Admiralty declared to have been broken up, were on Years birds, but had been preserved in, tins wreck fisted out again on the curent of time, from the last season, and at the trial several borne here and there, and feeling that death Was Colony in our public streets, of parading would have been justly credited with the board and intact until inquiry was ordered habitues of the restaurant swore that the per-to be the end. Yesterday's copy of the weekly wratched men before the public gaze like most culpable negligence if the discovery to be made, when they were really destroyed dix aux choux was execmble and did not resem reached the Free Press with a proof that the So many chained animals. Can any rea of his doilequencies had been any longer with all convenient spead. So, again, ble that excellent dish in the remotest degree. editor had fulfiled his promise. He had turned sonable justification be shown for such a postponed. It may indeed be questioned sofa and easy chair, which were described. But the Judge Interpreted the statute strictly rule for the poor wreck, and had giv scandalous insult to the community? Are whether Captain MAXWELL-HERON's mis to the Admiralty as having been converted and fined monsieur 50 francs, there any public interests to be served by conduct ought not to have been disclosed Into firewood, were actually repaired in We team that the steamship Bivouac which the employment of these 94 prisoners from before. He resorted to the most impudent Aberdeen and applied to Captain MAXWELL amived in barbour, this moming from Bangkok, Victoria, Gaol on the New Hospital and means of shielding himself against publi- ¦ Haron's private use. But perhaps the had on the passage a very narrow escape from other works? What advantages will ac | city. But these were rather audacious most grotesque piece of evidence given at sharing the same fate that befell the Carisbrooke crue to the Colony as a set-off to this miser than subtle, and, would at all events not the court-martial was THOMAS HADDEN's on Saturday last. It appears that at about one able spectactle of 94 wretched criminals have excused superior authority from con- story about the tickets which he could not o'clock on Thursday afternoon the 25th instant, loaded with chains, and guarded by armed tinuing to remain in ignorance of what was sell. These tickets were for public dances when the steamer was off Cape St. James, the Sikhs, which is to be daily thrust before going on. The charges against Captain which the Commander gave on board his cook went to the port coal bunker for n supply of our gaze? On whose recommendation MAXWELL-HERON wore fourteen in number, ship, and for admission to which the public fuel for the galley, and on lifting off the lid of the bunker found that a fire was raging amongst the has this retrograde step been taken? Can but they were all substantially of the same was charged sixpence a head. They were coals. An alarm was immediately given, and rumour be true that His Excellency the kind. The gist of them was that he had sold by the men, and sailors who could not prompt steps were at once taken, to grapple with Administrator is a mere puppet in the been cheating the Government by appro-dispose of them were subject, as HADDEN the danger. The donkey engine was quickly hands of Mr. J. M. PRICE
printing to his own use articles entrusted said, to a certain amount of pressure. got in order and the hore laid on. After playing Shortly after seven o'clock yesterday to his charge as commanding officer of the Being rather injudiciously pressed in cross on the burning mass for about half an hour, it
was considered safe to go down into the bunken Hongkong, morning 94 long sentence prisoners were guardship Clyde, and by intercepting examination to explain what he meant, marched out of gaol, and set to work money which it was his duty to pay over HappEx replied that the pressure in his case and the firemen were employed in shifting the instant, and on the earthworks in connection with the to the account of the Crown,
consisted In his being made to hand on Cl A Half past two the fire was reached,
and the
culty was quic construction of the new Hospital. To The Clyde, of which Captain MAXWELL- the wet dock (without his boots. Counsel quote from the China MailThe en- HERON was in command, was stationed at of course urged that the tire party was under the charge of a head Aberdeen, and the second officer in the intended to restore what he had taken. turnkey, assisted by a turnkey, and each ship was Mr. Maurice Fitzgeralu, gunner, But this is a common ples after detectiony.
in his recent course of action, in crowding our streets with convicts, by an honest and conscientious belief that the measure is one calculated to benefit the community. Truly have leaned to mercy's side. The case is he ordered Mr. KEOGH, the paymaster of is to inspect the cabin and to note the positions finished compositors. One had sobriety and 39:1;11 and 1:44 Icubus and Rialto galloped
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The OS. S. Co pore on the morning of the oth be expected here on or about the Shire Liso steamer London, left Singapore on the goth instant, and may be expe about the 5th proximo.
The steamuhip Meath (Mesin veas & Co.'s line) left Sydney for the fath instant, and may be here on or about the ch mahip Han
sin
Robble Burna; Darnley, Strathisla and Scottish Chief powed" six furlongs, the last named cripple rolling home half a length in front of the old war-horse, with Darnley very bad third and the chestnut, who broke down, beaten off. The times were Tallyman were sent steadily
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