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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1883.
lowing almost unique death announcement "In childbed of her thirtieth child, the wife of Joseph Sims at the Bell Inn, Cambridge, county Gloucester.""
A RECENT writer, remarking that some plants indicate the possession of a knowledge analogous proofs that if, during a severe drought, a basin to the human understanding, states among other of water is placed at night two feet from a strong squash-vine, in the morning the vine will be found bathing in the basin.
protect the vessel against the effect of and the head of a ship. The frets the deckare in the form of anwhil are covered with iron plates of fin inches, behind which is a strong brach wood." The extremities of the de ka clad. Each tunet is armed wais guns, of 30 centimètres in diameter under steel cupolas, and protected from the batbe; at the stern and at the prov two... are to be placed of 15 centimètres in diameter, firing of mitrailleuse and musketry. Lastly, the corvette possesses a spur and two torpedo-boats, made of galvanised steel. The propeller consists of two engines, with three cylinders each, of 300-horse power, giving a speed of 14's knots.
It Mr. Buloir has not written a lot of | KWOK AKAM, an unemployed scaman, made his A LONDON magazine for 1794 contains the fol-inlo soo water-tight compartments twaddle about China which nobody would publish" we acknowledge our error and offer to make ample amends by giving the truth a widespread publicity. We are sincerely sorry we cannot take back our criticism on "Notes on Mauritius, South Africa and Australia." We characterised these contributions as "childish stuff," and so they are, and wild horses could not drag from us any other expression of opinion. Nor is it possible for us to honestly say that Mr. BULGIN'S "A Chinese Funeral in Hongkong" is a model of literary art, or that Chamber's Journal is in the front rank of London periodicals. It is our humour to say that the China Mail is an excellent paper-as a wrapper for fried fish; and we have no apology to tender for advising its present Editor to stick to the scissors and paste brush, as we honestly believe that he shines with much greater reful
THINKING to stock his depleted larder, an editor advertised Poultry taken in exchange for ad- vertising." The villainous compositor, seeing his opportunity to put up a long-standing grudge act it up, "Poetry taken, &c.," and since that time the office boy has been clearing fire shillings
a day from the waste paper man,
NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.
The P. and O. Co.1⁄4 steamer Verona, Captain Atkinson, with the English mails of the 4th ulto, arrived in harbour last evening. The subjoined items of general news are taken from the London and China Express of May 4th :-
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The Chinese Mission to Europe for educating number of Chinese youths, under Monsieur P. Giquel, has not had any addition, made to it re- cently. There are now eight students in England and France.
that Sir Harry Parkes, G.C.M.G. K.C.B., now We hear that, it is now definitely arranged H.B.M.'s Minister to Japan, will be appointed Minister in Feking, in succession to Sir Thomas Wade, K.C.B.
CHILEAN EXPLORATIONS.
show what journalistic or literary claims this gentleman possessed to entitle him
salaam before Wodehouse this morning charged to speak of any one of his colleagues
with the larceny of three pieces of iron, valued as being mean and cowardly and in the
at 40 cents, the property of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, at Yau-ma-th. The habit of making vituperative and senseless
defendant admitted the charge and gracefully remarks concerning persons who do not
retired for a fourteen days' spell of hard labor. act exactly in accordance with their wishes, It was a case of the self constituted critic
popular opinion that few births take place in A SCIENTIFIC journal corrects the erroneous being himself subjected to the lash of cri-
Paris. The week ending January 4th the births ticism. The statements we made about
exceeded the deaths by fifty-six, whereas in New Mr. BuLOIN were, we had every reason to
York the number of deaths generally exceeds believe, substantially true; the views we
the biths. The number of legitimate births expressed as to his literary and journalistic
exceeded the legitimate in the proportion of 85 abilities-which, it may be added, were
of the former to 303 of the latter. In Heidel elicited solely by his own indiscreet refer-
berg, the average number of illegitimate births ences to amateur journalists-although
is about one-third of the whole number of births.
The Chileans have at present several thou- sand men advancing from different directions in probably indefensible in point of taste,
ACCORDING to the Paris correspondent of the
to the Araucanian territory. Up to now they were our candid opinions, based on the
Times, M. Bourée defends his draft treaty with
have met with light opposition, although past events had led the Government to anticipate gentleman's published works, fairly and
China, and describes it as simply establishing a
that stubborn opposition would be encountered. impartially made. The offence against
neutral zone between China and Tong King. In
Among a number of letters from correspondents good taste is our own affair; and
return for this concession China, which objects
accompanying the different expeditions is one we are prepared to defend our right
descriptive of the newly-discovered site of the to having a frontier touching on any European possession, would have recognised the French
city of Villarica, a populous and opulent city, to honestly comment upon any literary
protectorate over Tong King, and the refractory
which, after a siege of two years and cleven. or astistic production, exposing its gence in that branch of the busi-tribes inhabiting this zone would have been left
1692. The writer states that he has walked months, f fell into the hands of the Araucanians in errors and absurdities, and holding up theness than when he wields that weapon undisturbed by both Powers. The Committee
among the ruins, now thickdy studded with well- author'to ridicule if we consider it necessary, which, according to Lord LYTTON,. in the has invited M. Challen:él-Lacour and M. Brun
grown oaks, and among them has traced streets which were fully one mile in length, and which had in a court of justice, whenever an attempt is hands of men truly great is mightier than to confer with it on these representations.
been divided into blocks of too yards square, as THE CANTON DISPENSARY, CANTON. made to fetter the liberties of a free press the sword. In conclusion we unreservedly SAM AFUK, a coolie, was brought before Mr.
was customary in most of the cities founded It may be that Juvisit's well known take back our extremely vulgar reference Wodehouse this morning on a charge of stealing
the Spaniards. The city had been surrounded expression plus aloes quam mellis habet can be to Mr. BULGIN as "a shallow-pated puppy.", two pieces of silk clothing valued at $5 yester
by a wall, which is yet in a fair state of preserva tion from three to six feet from the ground, a more justly applied to us than to any other Nothing could have been in worse taste day. Defendant admitted the charge and stated
sufficient distance in former days against any that he came here to look for his son. He had
ordinary Indian attack. Tiles were found which public journal in the Far East; but it by and we can only admit that we were un-
have hardened to the consistency of stone, and no means follows that, because in public thinkingly led into using a very silly no money and laid his hands on the clothing to
The tour of the Japanese Naval Commission which are in better condition than when they criticism we deal freely in sarcasm and epithet, for which we feel heartily ashamed.mise the price of a meal. As this was the
in the North of England has not as yet, we un- were the mute witnesses of the destruction of invective, we are less amenable, to reason
Having thus made the amende honorable, prisoner's first offence, his Worship took into derstand, resulted in any definite arrangement this inland city so many years ago. In the consideration the fact of his being an old man for the purchase or building of vessels. Glasgow, vicinity there in a very extensive lake, in which than our neighbours, or less stanch advo- so far as lies in our power, for whatever and also that the property had been recovered Liverpool, Sunderland, and Dundee were visited an island is tiluated which is reported to be cates of justice and fair play. No matter injustice our paragraph may be supposed and granted him a pardon under the provisions Kashgar have been telegraphed. The Governor animals belonging to the Spaniards who were Some particulars of Mr. Dalgleish's journey to swarming with the descendants of the domestic how careful the conductor of a newspaper to have done Mr. Buzain, we shall have of Ordinance No. 7, of 1865.
of Yarkand has despatched a small force to bere sacrificed by the victorious Araucan- may be, he cannot possibly avoid mistakes nothing further to say on the subject until SAYS the Shinghai Courier of the 2nd inst. :-
Sirikul to hoist the Chinese flag there, thus refianshe description given is brief in the ex and errors of judgment, which frequently Mr. Justice RUSSELL takes the matter in we are glad to hear that His Excellency Listricting the operations of the Russian Scientific treme, but will soon be supplemented by fuller
Expedition about to explore the Pamir.
and yet more interesting reports of this and other press rather unfairly on individuals. This hand. Then we shall be glad to extend Hung-chang received the Chairman of the The rules obtained against the
The Times and the Observer Publishers of cities which were destroyed at the same time. is a double danger in the Far East where our practical ́experience of an English Municipal Council this moming, and showed the
All the districts now
being in connection
explored-and not- the staff of a journal is necessarily limited court of justice and the law of libel,
with the comments published in the case of ably that surrounding Villarica abound in mines, greatest courtesy at the interview. The Viceroy
Chamberlain v. Boyd came before Mr. Justice which returned large suma during the Spanish -especially when that journal pretends to
commented on the excellent administration of Field and Mr. Justice Hawkins. The Court of occupancy. These mines will again be worked In alluding in our issue of the 5th inst. to be in any way independent or a reflex of
the Settlement, which he thought reflected great Appeal had held that the statements complained under different auspices, and will lend their as credit on the trouble taken by the Council, and of by Mesars. Chamberlain au slanderous were development of Araucania, so long occupied by sistance la promoting the rapki settlement and certain rumours current in the colony to public opinion. As we therefore had not the the offect that a series of interesting libel least intention or desire to unfairly assail
mentioned the great changes he noticed since not actionable, and the litigation being really at
an end, the rules were allowed to drop without the scattered bands claiming dominion over it, be was here as Futai twenty years ago. Con- actions, in which several of the members the professional reputation of Mr. BULGIN,
but which now promises to become one of the costs. sidering that the late British Minister was too
richest provinces of Chile-Panama Star and of our local medical profession were con- or to leave an erroneous impression on the cerned, might shortly figure in the Supreme mind of the public in regard to his journal-
Herald..
Court, we took the opportunity of congrat-istic career, we at once on receiving an ulating ourselves that we were out of intimation that we had been guilty of pub- the hurly-burly" for once. It seems that lishing what was asserted to be a libel, our self congratulations were somewhat expressed our readiness to make all the premature; we had commenced halooing atonement in our power by correcting in before we were out of the wood. In that our first issue our mis-statements and same issue appeared a paragraph criticis errors, and in fact, simply offered, as ing some comments made by our contem- the gentleman evidently considered he poraries the Nagasaki Express and the China had been injured, to make the amende Mail. From our local evening contempor- honourable. The intimation we received, ary we quoted the following sentence:~-
"It is a incan and cowardly proceeding, of which amateur journalists are frequently guilty,
MARRIAGE. On the 25th April, at the Parish Church, Snaith, by the Rev. G. E. Storrs, Vicar, JOHN MACGREGOR, of Shanghai, to EDITI ANNIE ELIZABETH GORDON, only daughter of John Hudson Farrar, of Snaith, Yorkshire.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, Thursday, June 7, 1883.
TIBEL.
it may be stater, was in the form of a legal document in which Victoria, by the grace
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Friday, 8th June. ORDER OF THE DAY.
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the 31st ultimo,
To pass the Finance Committee's Votes of much in the habit of underrating the value and probable permanence of our local goverment, it 2-Second reading of the Order and Cleanliis refreshing to find one of the highest officials ness Amendment Bill.
in China recognising it cordially as H. E. Li 3-Consideration in Committee of the Medical | Hung-chang did this morning. Registration Bill.
THE. Indian telegrama brought on by the mail steamer Verona have already "appeared in our columns.
UNDRELLAS are made in France to the aggregate yearly value of $5,000,000. Turkey is her best foreign customer. The "unspeakable one" to a bad payer, however,
A REGULAR Lodge of United Service, No, 134,
The Admiralty have decided that in future, in accordance with the representations made by Captain Lord Charles Beresford, no nion-of-war shall proceed to sea unless her armament in cludes at least one Nordenfelt machine-gun. By this means the small craft cruising on the China coast or in African waters will prove much more formidable to pirates and slaves, especially if the small-bore Nordenfelt, Aring, rifle ammuni- tion, is used.
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THE OPIUM TRADE,
The seventh annual meeting of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade was held on May and in Exeter Hall, Sir Joseph Pease, M.P. in the chair. He was supported by, amongst others, the Biekop of Liverpool, Canon Wilber. force, Mr. S. Smith, M.P. Mr. S. Morley, MP, the Rev. J. Hudson Taylor, &c.
The Times Bays—A telegram from Peking states that on the application of his vassal, the King of
The steamer After, of which much has been Annam, the Emperor of China has consented to
written and said in the United States, and which the opening of the. Songkoi, or Red River, to was built to demonstrate the feasibility of cross.. The report stated that the work of the Society foreign trade. It may be hoped that this con- ing the Atlantic in six days, is virtually acknow had been steadily prosecuted during th cession will enable the French Government to ledged by those who subscribed the funds to be twelve months. It referred to the see its way to the abandonment of an expedition a failure as regards rate of speed. It is said that considerable reduction in the means of
her engines are to be taken out and replaced by ing Opium, had been effected. which must be productive of many evil conse-othert similar there of the Alaiks, but, even inportation into Burmah was totally quences, and promises no commensuraiva, it is not expected that she will prove a very and it was hoped that legislation againatol tages. The Chinese are by no means contempli formidable rival to the latter vessel,
placing it under the same, ban, wetki sou The actions brought by Mr. Hind ngainst Sir be agreed upon, The committee could fin
suc
to make vituperative and senseless remarks con of God, of the United Kingdom of Great will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, ble foes, and however certain the French may be Baliol Brett and others, Judges of the Superior repart any decided progress in their
cordance with their wishes."
of the Faith, commanded us to attend
"our Supreme Court of Hongkong on Friday next the fifteenth day of June
instant at
ten o'clock in the forenoon being the day and time appointed for the hearing of a suit instituted against you by JAXES BULGIN of Hongkong, Editor of the China Mail newspaper." We learned on opening this partentous looking missive that "the plaintiff claims $1000 for libel." However, our offer to the legal representa-
In dealing with what we had very good grounds for believing was an impertinent. allusion aimed offensively at ourselves, and which, under any circumstances, was the reverse of creditable to respectable journalism, we took upon ourselves, in- discreetly no doubt, to say:—
This is excruciatingly funny. The idea of the China Mail knight of the scissors and paste pot styling the Editor of the Rising Sun an amateur journalist is either the most ignorant or most impudent piece of tomfoolery we have ever seen even in the organ of missionaries." The Rising Sun and Nagasaki Express has been in existence for years under the present management; it is only a small sheet, but so far as literary meril is concerned it can certain- ly claim to take a far higher place than the China Stall
If conducting a public newspaper for years does not constitute a mana publicly withdraw and apologise for any professional journalist wo should
really injustice we had been led into. This offer like to lenow what is the test of pro:
was refused, for reasons which it would fessionalism, Who, it may be asked, in the Afail! We answer-a person named Bulgin we have no alternative but to lug out our mighty professional authority of the China be indiscreet to deal with here, and therefore whose journalistic
prior to China were confined to police court TC- for a low class, paper called the
i.
on Friday evening next, the 8th instant, at 7.30 victory, the contest, carried on at a for 8 p.m. precisely.
great distance from their base of opérations, may Bench Division. The plaintiff claimed 6o,co well prove of such a nature that victory will be as damages, on the ground that the judges had practical defeat. A struggle of that kind cannot acted sitra vires in refusing to hear him eape cially in proceedings he had instituted against proceed without very serious inconvenience and the Speaker of the House of Commons for allow loss to all having business in Chinese waters.ing a libel upon the plaintiff to appear in the In addition to the dislocation of all commercial votes of the House of Commons. The statement relations while it lasts, it cannot but tend per of claim was held to be frivolous and vexatious, manently to obstruct Westera intercourse with but it was not without difficulty that Mr. Hind
was induced to leave the Court.
THE following tea steamers were at Hankow on the 31st ultinto:-Glenfruin, Gaelic, Albany; Hesperia, Triumph, Baikal, Catherina I, Cairnsmuir, and Petersburgh.. By the use of an independent cut-off valve on engines; a well-known American scientist asserts
that the speed of an engine can be increased to
seventy or eighty miles an hour.
IN Lyons, the cold bath method of treating typhoid fever has been adopted, with marked
success. In the civil hospitals the death ráté
to 1 or 2 per cent.
China and to embitter relations always cultivated with difficulty. "
UNTIL the reign of the Empress Josephine a handkerchief was thought in France so shocking an object that a lady would never dare to use it
avoided in refined conversation. An actor who
Her Majesty's Government, however, declining to adopt Sir Joseph Pease's seelution, expressly abstained from meeting it with direct negative. The total income of the society during 1882, including a balance of /608 38. Bd. from the previous year, and a donation of £350 for a special purpose, amounted to £3,712 12s. itd., expenditure to £2,498 r. gd, leaving a balance on December 31st, 1882; of 118 111. 6d. The Rev. J. Hudson Taylor, of the China Inland The Gazette contains a notification of a new Mission, moved That this meeting deeply decoration, to be called the "Royal Red Cross
that Her Majesty's Government, by to be given in recognition of services rendered moving the previous question on April 3rd Jasly. in nursing the sick and wounded of the army declined to accept the principle of Sir Joseph and navy. The decoration is to consist of a Prase's resolution, which asserted the fight cross, enamelled crimson, edged with gold, of China to the entire control of the Opium having on the arms thereof the words Faith, Trade in her own territory." He said that from
tive-of the Editor of the China Mail to make wis reduced from 26 to 9 per cent, and in practice before anyone. The word was even carefully Hope, Charity, with the date of the institution close observation for many years in China he
ample amends for any errors or injustice
influenced by our legal responsibilities; as
a matter of right wo merely wished to
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in sport, that a public meeting will be held in the Hongkong Club this aftemoon at 6.30 to dis- held in the Autumn. cuss the "Sky" Race Meeting proposed to be
we had been guilty of, was not in any way we would retnied our readers who are interested | would have used a handkerchief on the stage, even oyaleffigy. On the reverse side the Royal and the Opium Question had an adequate idea of of the decoration, the centre having thereon the was satisfied that very few of those interested in
in the most tearful moments of the play, would relief on the centre. The cross is to be attached than that of African slavery, or than the curse of
Imperial
cipher and crown is to be shown in the magnitude of the evil. "It was a worse evil have been unmercifully hissed; and it was only to a dark-blue riband edged red, of one inch in drink in this country Canon Wilberforce in in the beginning of the present century that a cele-width, tied in a bow and worn on the left shoulder, reconding the resolution said if it was wrong to brated actress, Mdile. Duchesnois, dared to ap. Nursing sisters, whether subjects or foreign per smoke a certain number of grains of Oplum must
The Paris Soft discusses the contingency of pear with a handkerchief in her hand, Having to sons, will be eligible for the decoration, it not be something savouring of a deadly, na
peak of the handkerchief in the course of the piece, she could not summon courage to call it by
experiences to coming law books and prepare for the fray. The
porting News. This genius after proving
A REGULAR Lodge of St. John, No. 618, SC
at
will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, 3 for 8.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are on. Wednesday evening next, the 13th inst., cordially invited to attend.
of
a war between France and China, which, it says,
it
may be expected that the Tong King Expect
tional sin to pour thousands of chests of poison
the mother nation which was powerless to resist
influx of that terrible evil? (Cheers.) It
tion will sooner or later bring about China, it was dark history, that of England's dealings.
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A few years later, a translation of one of Shake-finhabitan its true name, but referred to it as a light tissue. result of the coming struggle gives us no
a country of four hundred millions with China-one which was calculated to bring of inhabitants, possessing an army of five hun the blush of shame to the face of every an utter uneasiness; we only regret that the law
speare's plays having been acted, the word hand-dred thousand men, armed with Winchester Englishmen who loved his country. England tried Yokohama and Shanghai with equally permits business men to be harassed and A LIBEL suit is described by an American con- kerchief was used for the first time on the stage, rifler. Estimating that one European soldier in wag materially injured by the traffic, for indifferent results. He was then, credited with valuable time lost on such paltry pretences, pays a lawyer $10,0-3 in order to get $1,000 out was the wife of Napoleon I. who gave the signalspect for France to find herself engaged in a war of the revente at present derived from Opluma temporary as a legal proceeding, where a man amid cries of indignation from the audience. It equal to ten Chinese soldiers, the Solell urges the national conscience could not be clean. The writing a lot of twaddle about Chins, which no-
that it would, nevertheless, be no agreeable pro-reply of the Indian Council that "the total loss body would publish; afterwards contributed a Although threatened legal proceedings of another man, who thought the first man was in France for adopting them. The Empress necessitating the despatch of an army of fifty in Bengal would render the Government of India parcel of childish stuff to the local evening print and the anomalies of the Libel Act a fool and is now sure of it. under the heading "Notes on Mauritius, South
Josephine, although really lovely, had ugly teeth, thousand men to the Far East. The National Insolvent, wap he dared to say,” downright" Africa and Australia," and finally distinguished possess no terrors for us in this We are informed by the Agent of the P. M.S. S. To conceal them, she was in the habit of carry says the French expedition has produced such atheistical, and absolutely unworthy of a Christian himself by getting
excitement in China that the French Govern a rubbishy description of "A case, equally as a matter of principle Co., that the Company's steamship City of Rio small handkerchiefs, adorned with costly lacement have deemed It prudent to keep several Liverpool, add be revende derived in India Chinese Funeral in Hongkong" published in a and. duty to ourselves, the pubile and de Faire, with the San Francisco mail of the which she mised gracefully to her lips. Of course Ironclads within reach of Shanghai and Hong from this trafic he thought doimed the clear third rate London magazine. Mr. Bulgin is at
light of the English conscience to the infory cent wielding the scissors and
Brush for the gentleman we are said to have injured 17th ultimo, has. arrived at Yokohama and will the ladies of the Court followed her example, and long. Consequently only a portion of the pasto
Heidid not, however, think it would be well to the Fil
Bain, and he
he would be wise to
a costly part of the feminine toilet.
It is expected that M. Jumeau confiae himself as much as possible to the use of publicly make all the amends possible to
the French Envoy to the Court of Huey will be lous, but no beleved other fources of revenue
overnor of Tong King would arise. However, they only asked at after establishment of
of
instant.
Government. Mr., Samuel, Smith, M.P. for
dona
Mr. Murray curing the temporary absence to the extent of B1000, we feel. bound to sail for this port to-morrow, Friday, the 8th handkerchiefs sapidly became an important and ron In Chinese waters will proceed to deprive India at one stroke of six or seven, mill- there necessary adjuncts to journalistic success. Mr. BULGIN's professional reputation, Weir stated that Lord Dufferin has been authorised EDUCATION at the Cape, according to a con-appointed Lieutenant-Gove Trench protector sent that Chins might be left free, for they had
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We consider that our Nagasaki centem
contemporary's
are sorry we should have made such a to offer the Sultan's Government military assist-temporary, evidently requires touching up a remarks on Admiral Willes are ill advised, unfair, and couched in
but that impartial spirit serious mistake, as to Mr. BULGIN's home ance in the event of any attack being made on little. Mr. Donald Ross has just issued his anything of independence which is expected at all times to experiences. Our authority for the police contingent on the Parse forthwith introducing the result of his examination of elementary Armenia by Russia--the support to be, however, official report on educaties in Cape Colony, and characterise press criticisms. But, however re prehensible the conduct of the Editor of the court reporting on the Clerkenwell News into Arimenta certain necessary reforms to be teachers forms some really entertaining mading Rising Sun may be, there certainly cannot be was a good one--no less a personage carried out with the assistance of British officials. The answers given by those who have to teach the least justification for the ancering imper- than Mr. BULGIN himself-but, we un- tinence of a shallow pated puppy whose "cheek” is his strongest point."
hesitatingly withdraw the allegation if It is officially announced that his Royal High the young idea how to shoot certainly show that in many instances it is merely a case of the blind questioned. Now, we do not for one moment pre-Is
ness Prince George of Wales has been appointed leading the blind. What kind of instruction, for It is not libel- tend to deny that this criticism of the jour-lous, and moreover it is quite true, to Captain Durrant who has been appointed to others who described London, as a place having midshipman in Her Majesty's ship Canada. instance, could a man be expected to impart to, nalistle experience of the gentleman who say that the Clerkenwell News is "a low command the Canada, served from August, 1877, had the exquisite taste to write of one con class paper," so we can't withdraw that. to September, 1878, as flag captain in the population of over one hundred millions, and temporary that he had committed a mean Our authority for the remark that Mr. dacious, Vice Admiral Charles Hillyar, on the Manchester as a town of two hundred millions of inhabitants? One teacher, when asked to name. and cowardly proceeding," and to imply
China Station, and commanded the Chopatra the harbour of South Africa, replied that Africa that others were frequently guilty of such
from August, 1880, to May, 1882, in the Detached is not in want of harbour. Of the many curis disgraceful conduct, was not complimen-
Squadron in China.
ous answer quoted we like best that of the tary. It was never intended to be, nor
DYNAMITE is about to be thrown into the shade. genius who wrote, Corporal punishment is to could it have been so without being grossly
An ingenious citizen of Paris, the appropriate forgive him three or four times when he does untrue. Mr. BULGIN sebhimself up as an
home of such discoveries, has produced a new wrong when he does not leave off to expelled authority on Journalistic etiquette, and
compound which he calls panclastite. Pan- him," Oh, that corporal punishment had been took upon himself to lecture in language
castite consists of hypoastic acid, which is one anything like this in our younger days. Then of the numerous compounds of oxygen and azote, it was “whack- him, once and cane him three or nitrogen, mixed either, with essence of petro- times. Then let him have it on the bands. If this leum or sulphuret of carbons. The degree of agrees with him give his task of six thousand explosive force is said to depend upon which lines, then thrash him on the back and expel of the last-named ingredients is used bitvy him.*** But the good old days have fled for ever."
BuLou proved an utter failure on the China Mail is also a good one-Mr. GEORGE MURRAY BAIN-but as that gentleman may possibly have been mistaken we also apol- ogise for what after all is a mere expres- sion of opinion. IfMr.BULGIN says hewasa great journalistic success in Yokohama and Shanghai we are bound to belleve him,
as unparliamentary as it was ill advised even although our information does not not one man only but a very large section coincide with such a claim and we beg of the educated classes who write forio express our sincere regret that we the press. We considered it our duty to should have been so cutrageously misled.
was
That
Government of China'. Thought then the Engilsh nderstand
ate there. Pogoda naples (dentified English civilisation in China with great A 20 miles swimming race for 100 between moral arrange the reaction, as teen carried in the large Lambeth Bath in the Westminster the Indian Government ought not to encourage Captain Webb, the Channel hero, and W. Beckwith cheers with, the champion swimmer, has been decided Mr Sanftel Morley, MP. then moved, bridge-road, Throughout the day; Beckwith the Opfum made for the sake of revenue, and gradually drew away from Webb. After com morally bound to repress both the production the drug". He put against the Home Government the dee pleting to miles Beckwith retired for a rest, and consumption lasting 18min. 23sed. Webb was thien: 161 lips the Stateme up a little. When the latter returned to the behind, and during Beckwith's absence picked claration of (b Malagary Envoy within the last reply to a deputation, which waited seemed far from well Webb swim on until he water he looked fresh and well while Webb
Conterning the drink trails in
"deficient revenue than a was one of the greatest had completed xt miles 16 laps. Before he had finished another lay, however, he was compelled
odern times that we should dare from sudden illness to leave the water after having been immersed in a Fahrenheit for ph gmin: Losec Beckwith con a temperature of adeg tinued in the water until he had finished ramien 5 laps when he was allowed to retire, an easy victor, having been in the bath sh, 14min. zovec. Webb was very exhausted after his retirement, which was necessitated by boemenliage from the lungs. There can be no doubt that his re peated feats of endurance have fora lime affected his extraordinary.constitution.
The new Chinese coi vette Tang Yan, recently, built at Stettin, is of the same type is the first, built in 1881, in 91 metres in breadth, and
are deep. Completely rimed he will have draught) of 6 meires with a displacement of 2,500 ton The hull is entirely of postines", double bottom; divided by p
would not submit to it for un had been growing becatise
people Mr. Davk
seconded