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the staff of the Army Pay Department, once acted as superintendent of Victoria Gaol during the absence of the late Mr. M, S. TONNOCHY. Captain DiExpsTex is no doubt an officer and a gentleman, thoroughly acquainted with every branch of the duties to which his life has been devoted; but what knowledge can an army paymaster and honorary captain have of the technical working of the somewhat cumbrous ma- chine-known as the Hongkong Police Force? What can he know of the special duties essential for such an important position? Where has he acquired that thorough intimacy with Chinese criminal wise and maintain his self-respect-andA LONDON paper says that nobody except an life, and the jumbled up ordinances we shall then have the comfort of knowing intimate friend knows where Mr. Paraeil lives in of the Colony which have hitherto been that the most important department in the London. When he takes a cab from the House possible for an army officer without any control of a novice, who owes his appoint- previous experience of police duties, to ment, not to any special merits of his own assume the supreme command and solebut-onurely to the favor of the Governor. control of our large police department, a very great deal, of unnecessary fuss has been made in the past as to the-valso of the services of Captain Drive, and his pre- decessors-and-assistants-And-if-the- dutiesofcaptain superintendent can be effi- ciently performed by a gentleman who has had no experience, which we do not for one moment believe, why is it necessary to go outside the officers of the Colonial Govern-
DEMPSTER is without foundation. We should be sorry to see Sir GEORGE Bowen commence his governorship, with such ad gross blunder. In all likelihood the public would protest, and although we should be reluctant to inaugurate an opposition against His Excellency, in a flagrant case of this kind no other honest alternative would be left us. It is, however, satis factory-to-know-that-Mr-Hossrooz holds is stated that Dr. Profcit, the Queen's Com- in his own hands the key to the situation, missioner at Balmoral, has been appointed excedrunkenness.
ator for the late Mr. John Brown. The estate- If Captain DEMPSTER succeeds Captain is expected to value more than 20,000l. "John DEANE, Mr. HoBSFOOL will undoubtedly at
must have found his peculiar post à rather lu once resign-he could hardly do other-crative one.
AN Irishman once received a doctor's bill. He At the annual meeting of the Salvation army in looked it carefully over, and said he had no ob London, General Booth stated that the army had jections to pay for the medicines, but the visits now 491,corps with an income derived from them of £131,000. The rental of barracks entailed he would return. This was not in Hongkong.
had property of its own now worth £150,000 ACCORDING to latest statistics-the population of an expenditure of £11,000 a year, and the army upon which there was a debt of £54,000 the world is estimated to be about 1,400,000,000, divided as follows: Asia; 798,200,000}- Europe, 306,000,000; Africa, 201,300,000; America,About £10,000 was contributed during the day. Among those who took part in the meeting was $8,500,000; Australia, 3,400,000.
a Yorkshire woman eighty-four years old, who said she had been in prison 280 times for
FOURTEEN "fan-tanners" were up' before Me. Wodehouse this morning on a charge of pratic gambling in No. 13, West Street. The evidence was not quite conclusive enough to satisfy
benefit of the doubt and discharged them. Worship so he gave the "yat-fan "* genti fan
ANTONY," said Cleopatra, "I attended Mrs Pharo's Kettle Drun this afternoon; now how do you suppose they started the wheel of con
gested Antony, as he placed his feet on the Versation there":"Some, fellow spoke sug-
mantel-piece. Kwite Korreck,” sighed „Cleo--
patra.
A LONDON clergyman is said to have told his congregation that there was still many a one who, while engaged in singing apparently with all his heart the lines— *--
WATER S regarded as a sine quâ non ? If It is local government service is under the sole of Commons he invariably drives to Charing the same lane. He went to see Mr. Taqi topocket scraping the edge of a three-penny piece
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TELEGRAMS,
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AFFAIRS IN MADAGASCAR. The French will not advance upon the capital but will wait at Tamatave for the submission of the Hovas.
Bishop Colenso,
OBITUARY.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Cross, and on leaving the conveyance walks to- ward the Strand. Mr. O'Kelly shares with Mr. Parnell the secret of his abode:
THERE is nothing like commercial enterprise. A company has been formed in Vienna to un- dertakethe general business of washing windows It is likewise prepared to execute orders for the scrubbing of house fronts and vestibules and the cleaning of mirrors and showcases, and doubtless for all kindred operations. "A FRIEND of mine,aid-Lord-Erskine,suf fered from. wakefulness, and various methods were tried to send him to sleep, but in vain. At last his physicians resorted to an expedient which succeeded perfectly. They dressed him in a watchman's coat, put a lantern into bis
Tsor AsHoo, described as a hawker, was brought before Mr. Wodehouse this morning on a charge of assaulting a constable last Thursday. Tam king Tang P. C. No. 140, stated that on _the_sist_instant_at about 8 pm,, he went to
Warn the whole pealin of mature_mëria, t ..That were sin offering far 200 small, his house in Tung Tap Lane, when his sister complained about the defendant," who lives in
was diligently engaged with one band in his tell that party to refrain from abusing his sister in the future. Mr. Tsol was not to be admonished to make sure it was not a four penny piece. with impunity and gave the policeman a dig in THE famous Lord Chesterfield had a relation, a the left optic, which produced a bluish black Mr. Stanhope, who was exceedingly proud of tint on that delicate member............ The defend- his pedigree, which he pretended to imce to a ant stated that the constable's sister owed most ridiculous antiquity. Lord Chesterfield him money for congee be suppiled to her was one day walking through an obscure street and would not pay up. He had some "words: in London, when he saw a miserable 'daub of with her over the matter, and the con- Adam and Eve in Paradise He purchased the plainant caute and knocked him down and painting and haying witten on the top of it struggle ensued during which the peace preserver burt his eye on a piece of wood. The constable, was in plain clothes when he called. His Wor- ship fined the fighting hawker in the sum of one dollar, which the valiant one anted up like hero and left the court with a benevolent smile on his
dressed to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraphquately_fill_this_office_and_such_ap OUIDA says, "The faith of men can live only by hand, placed him in a sentry box, and he was expressive " phiz."
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parently is the idea, as the duties of a the purity of women," paymaster in the army can have nothing
whom kings have most to fear
asleep in ten minutes."-
are cetimated as follows: The Duc d'Aumale, in common with the direction of an intricHE whose sympathy goes lowest is the man from THE values of the chief art collections of Paris $15,000,000; theBaron de Rothschild,$10,000,000; ate police system there can surely be
$2,000,000, including thirty pictures by Meis Grown should be put aside for a gentle man, who has not the slightest interest THE London Standard claims an average circul- sionier; M. Defoer-Bey and the Court de Gref fuble, each $600,000; Madame Cosain, $1,000,000; in the welfare of the Colony!ation of 192,000 copies per day.
and-M-Edouard Andre-and-William Stewart, $400,000 each.
no just reason why the civil servants of the GERMANY boasts of no fewer than 950 postesses Sir Richard Wallace, $8,000,000'; M. Secretan, an accountant in the Li Yuen shop, No. 441 thrice blessed Colony. Of course we called Mr.
and authoresses on the roll of fame.
Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele graph will always be open for the fair discussion by correspondents ofsil questions affecting public interests, it must be distinctly understood that the Editor does not in any way hold himself res: DANIEL O'CONNELL once said that nothing ponsible for opinions thus expressed.
is politically right which is morally wrong If it is true that Captain DEANE is going Advertisers are requested to forward all notices-home-on-leave, and that Captain DESTIX than THREE O'CLOCK so as not to retard the has been appointed chief of the police, a early publication of the paper,.
**Job " has been perpetrated which is not | only grossly wrong in principle but is also huge political blunder, and for which there can be no possible justification.
intended for insertion in that day's issue not later
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The Hongkong Telegraph|
-HONGKONO,"SATURDAY, JUNE-137·1853-
H.M:S. Espoir, Commander E. H. Gamble, left Amoy for Foochow on the 18th instant:————— BISMARCK has tabooed the Vienna Allgemeine Zeitung for two years, ordered its special-wire to Berlin to be cut, and even prohibited its going via Germany to Denmark.
*ruthian;
Play hoarts if you would win frändship;
Flay diamonds if you would win a woman,
Adam de Stanhope, of Eden, and Eve his wife, he sent it to his relation has a valuable old family portrait of his remote ancestors. Sose few weeks ago, and while the "gent" in question was revelling in his infamy, in our midst we gave publicity in the interests of the public. generally to the fact that a plous fraud named Edward Russell Daunt was in this colony, and
took the Sacrament at the Cathedral - whilej prevent his wlly, ways and godly manners-(he with the hope that our timely warning would
here) from: imposing on, the residents of this Edward Russell Daunt by his proper name, and were quite prepared to stand the racket of that foolish law which practically says that "the greater the truth, the greater the libel. We are Perfectly well aware that the police department had a warrant for the arrest of the white, cho kered anivelling saint who was living here on his plunder, which warrant was taken firmly in hand only when it was known that Me. Daunt hed departed by the steam-skly Euxine. We promised at the time to let the wronged ones know that their gay deceiver was on the way back, having found this place too warm for him, and we are glad to know that our timely warning has not been in vain. On the arrival of the Euxins in Sydney on May 11th, Mr. Edward Russell Daunt was promptly collared- and marched off to "durance file" instead of being able to slither on to Melbourne as he mitted for trial on a charge of fraud, being fondly expected. Mr. Daunt has been com
moment he is saying payers for the Hongkong
TSANG ACHING; a coolie,, was charged before
conjunction with two-other-men-who are not Mr. Wodehouse this morning with stealing, in
custody, an umbrella valued at $2. Chu Asing Jervois Street, stated that yesterday at noon the defendant with two pals" came to the establishment to buy some shoes. Just as he turned his back-on-the-trio-in-order-to-get- the shoes, the defendant helped himself to a A wire has just petitioned the Leyden Court umbrella which was-on-the-counter, and then for divorce on the ground that her husband is a took to his heels. He gave chase and succeeded. "Nihilist." The only facts before the authori-in running Tsang to earth, but the cunning on dies are that the man has been for years en had handed the gingham to one of the "pals," gaged in smashing domestle furniture and de-and he has not been able to recover it Yü Ayu stroying domestic peace, and they are now called P.C. No. 336, gave evidence to seeing Mr. Chu Sosir one who has evidently lost at cards, says upon to decide whether the case is one of war running after and catching the defendant. The against society or only one of conjugal scrim- defendant said that when he went to the shop to Flay chaba If you would deal with a ru
buy a pair of shoes the two men spoken of were mage and Leyden family jare.
already there. He does not knowthem. When the THACKERAY was not a humorist in the sense that shoe vendor was handing hith the pedal encase Dickens was, nor a wit in the sense that Jerroldments the two strangers bolted away with the was, but he now and then sat a good thing in umbrella. Mr. Tsang admitted previous convice quier way, He was pestered on one occasion, dons when he perceived the form of Mr. Euseblo while in America, by a young gentleman of an da Rocha walk into the court with the "Hotel inquiring tum of mind as to what was thought of Recorder" in his hand, and was accordingly sent this person and that person in England Min-for-a-six months spell of hard labor allowed out on heavy ball, and doubless at thi Thackeray," he asked, “what do they think of Tupper?" "They don't think of Tupper," was the reply. uncompromising type; and the author of that customed to pride himself upon being descended from aristocratic anresters, and, in fact, claims In our evening contemporary's issue of Last nigh: Georges Hugo, who, as captain of the guard of to be the lineal representative of a certain we notice that some very interesting particular the Duke of Lorraine, was ennobled in 1535. are given in regard to the International Fisheries Exhibition lately held in London. But strangely Unfortunately for the poet's vanity, however, M. enough no mention is made of any exhibits from Bire, a well-known French writer of biography, has recently taken the trouble to look up a Mr. Murray Bain (who is now in England) of number of old records; and, in a volume Fried Fish Wrappers, for the manufacture of which he devotes to the matter, he establishes which Mr. Bain has an expensive and admirably beyond a doubt not only that Victor Hugo conducted establishment in Hongkong. This is
is not related, to the hero of the sixteenth a singular omission.
century, but also that his family origin is
THE person who writes Notes from the Metro-ph, which was mainly the means of his
deal of jobbery rampant in connection M. GARCIA, in his new book, the "Actor's Art," with the police department for some says that the celebrated French actress, Madame considerable time past. It is no secret that Dejatet, who played the part of young lovers at an attempt was lately made to place as the age of seventy, used to get rid of her numerous Mr. C. V. CREAGH's successor in the de-wrinkles by means of elastic wigs, which kept
the skin tightly drawn from the forehead. puty-superintendent-ship, a-junior clerk in one of the government departments, who. WE would remind our readers that Signor Chia “A vew days ago an announcement ap knew absolutely nothing of police duties, ipi's Royal Italian Circus will give the opening peared in one of our contemporaries to the This quiet little "job"for it was nothing performance of the present season at Bowding
ton, East Point, this evening, commencing at effect that Mr. W. M. DEANZ, captain su- else was frustrated by the Earl of DB9 o'clock. A most attractive programme har VICTOR HUGO, though a Republican of the most faced perverter of truth, as well as an ignorant being collared. A few more successes like this perintendent of police, had arranged to go Secretary of State for the Colonies, who been stranged, and as the weather has every home on leave, and that Captain Deurster pointed out, that Mr. GEORGE HORSPOOL, appearance of remaining favorable, the audience very democratic book "Les Misérables, is ac. Journalistic garbage we extract the following pai trump and set of wings" which are being had been appointed as his locum tenens, chief inspector, had been able to satisfac within the mammoth pavilions should be num Believing this report to be merely one of torily perform on several occasions the bered by thousands. the numberless canards constantly circulat duties both of chief and deputy superin. ing throughout the Colony, we did not tendent, and therefore had deserved so consider it worth while to allude to well of the Government that he did not
it in any way. However, although we are still inclined to think that there can only be at most a vestige of truth in our contemporary's statement, the mat ter has been so generally discussed and is apparently regarded in well Informed cir- cles as a settled thing, that the time has arrived when our duty to the public renders. It imperative that the subject
should be no longer ignored."
It is seldom that our opinions on the af fairs of this Colony, or in fact on any sub.
sible for.. "Banian writes in this morning's paper as follows:-
***The appointment, of Captain Dempster to the Superinten
the jallaat gentleman has all the qualities to quit him for the †Superintendency of the Pelics, but when I call to mind that
specift department, has served many yours, and on for different
that the appointment of the present incumbeni dizinetly,
ar
polis" for our evening contemporary, is a bare"?
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brass
and ugrammatical twaddler. From a ses of and we shall feel any entitled to the sage: The sudden death of Prince Batthyany, pecially prepared for us in the mansions above. which took place in the luncheon room within JOHN DANIELS, of Scotland; and Walter Warrel, half an hour of the time fixed for the big race, of England, seamen on board the American ship cast a gloom over the Meeting. Although well Belle of Oregon, faced the beak" tils morning stricken in years, baving completed his eightieth on a charge of being stragglers from their ship birthday, there was apparently lots of life in the yesterday. Henry George Baker, PC. No. 20, on our race courses, but his day was come, and I received, he arrested the pair yesterday, at fine old sportsman, so long a well-known figure stated that, in accordance with instructions he he fell, stricken suddenly by the hand of death, p.m. a deserters from their ship. A reward to rise no more." It so happens that Prince of Bas piece was offered by the U.S. Consul for Batthyany's death did not take place in the their apprehension. After arresting the run luncheon room, but, vide Bill's Life, whilst aways he went on board to notify the captain of on his way from the private stand to lunch. the arrest, and also that his presence would be "In going to the luncheon room the Prince necesary at the Police Court this morning. The was seized with a fit, which must have been Captain, however, did not appear, He had instantaneously fatal, as he fell to the bottom seen the mate who said he was not aware that of a small-flight of steps and was picked up life the men would go back to the ship again, as when ess. Noriait true that "there was apparently fots they were shipped they would not work. Ha life in the fine old sportsman Prince Barthy said be ordered the pair out of the vessel as be
he had
juld suit
So they were provided with drinks #ilisabled **Them from "algning Pathe man"gned for (ban Four days that, the yesto put to sea, the mana
think it would be advisable to place an inexperienced outsider over this deserving officer's head. Unless Lord DERBY 'has changed his views on the subject, we are inclined to think that the appointment of Captain Dempster may meet with considerable opposition in Downing Street, and it shall hot be our fault A CORRESPONDENT writes from Chefoo:-On very humble. Victor's father was Joseph if his lordship is not placed in possession of the morning of the 11th inst. H.M.S. Audacious Leopold Sigisbert Hugo, who died a lieutenant- full particulars of the business, as well as arrived here, anchoring very much-nearer the general in the French army in 1828; and his the opinions of the Hongkong public.
shore than the Iron Duke did last time grandfather was Joseph Hugo, an honest master she was north. The flag-ship was followed Joiner, who, after having married two wives, went Chief Inspector Hortrool has been some shonly afterward by the Vigilant which I hear over to the majority towards the end of the last of Ject of whatever description, coincide with [ twenty years.in the Hongkong police, in stopped behind'at Shanghai for the malls. In Century. Joseph's father, Jean Philippe, was any had been breaking up for some time before had to do all the work for them. The mate thare of the enterprising individuals who which his term of service has been one the afternoon the Pegasus and Albatross were merely a husbandman, and the son of a husband his sudden death. It was this Nestor of the Turf further added that if they ever returned to periodically contribute to the columns of long continued success. It has been said sighted in the offing under full sail, and a man; and, so far as can be discovered, the poet's that the Chinä Mat? described, when the tele- Boston in the same ship, "God pity them." the Daily Press under, the noms de plume that the talent of success Is nothing more capital race, for the anchorage 'resulted in immediate progenitor was the first of his race gram arrived announcing his death, as an attache The pairit appears had shipped as able seamen," but as they were not able to do anything the "Bantan." But on this particular question than doing what you can do well, and favor of the Pegasus, which was splendidly to make any noise in the world. As for the of the Austro-Hungarian Embassy in London.
captain had disrated time to boy's wiges. The we are conscientiously able to thoroughly doing well whatever you do without a handled, by nearly half a mile. The Cleopatra other Hugos, the descendants of the redoubtable endorse every word the "tripartite al thought of fame, Mr. Horsroot may not arrived in the evening, but after communica. Georges, a minor branch of them still survives, An American paper gives the following per first defendant said that they were shipped in ting with the Admiral proceeded out to sea, and, having no sympathy with Republicanism, portrait of Mark Twain Mark Twain, the re Sydocy on the 8th of April by a man named liance" have rendered themselves respon have spent years at Eton or Harrow, nor again, owing it has been said to stearing of the documents with which he disposes of lineal descendant of the celebrated Twain who them said then that they wanted to ship as cook has, apparently, supplied M. Biré with many nowned archeologist, poet, and astronomer, is a Pheney who kept a restaurant there. Both of graduated at Oxford or Cambridge; but instead of relying on her canvas.--I-hear it is perfectly well known, and has been that the Linnet and Daring from Shangba blue blood.-Apropos of Victor Hugo, we Rock, April 1,1718, on'a remarkably cold morn-something better for them which Victor Hugo's claim to the possession of were made one Beth. He was born on Plymouth and steward, but the man told dency of the Police seems to me to smack of a job, low that frequently acknowledged, that he per- and the Curacna from Yokohama command of a regiment, the governmen of the Gaol,, or tha formed the duties of captain superinten- also excepted here before the end of learn that Mdme. Drouket, pace an accom-ing, and the administratris of the camphor and Mr. Cler Laspector Hinpoel came from lower to join the dent of the Hongkong Police on several the month, and that the vessels-comprising plished actress, and for many years the honor red flannel department afterwards stated that he seen. At the early age of 7, Mark for so he was the great Repiblican, has died at his house at to the conclusion (in which the majority of my readers will concursurpassed in the history of the colony, and post in sail drill and target practice. It is be pay. The deceased lady was on the stage, eruelly christened was already; addicted tagettills in advance of their wares, besides da
contacted during the absence of, Capt. Dasne, 1 am for occasions in a manner that has never been the Cruising Squadron will be exercised off the ary bousekeeper and inseparable friend of was the most remarkable baby that she had ever- articler uponas able and exemplary Pollen officer., F; la seg only a slight. to the entire satisfaction of Governor Hax-lieved that the squadron will leave here on July
beauty, grace, and ladylike.refinement of diction spring clothes-plu, artistically applied that on the former ocessiont when Hir. Horiprol acted for Captain NRSSY, and the community at large. If 1st for a cruise in the Gulf of Fechili, visiting from which she retired early, remarkable for her science, and his discovery, one Deise received, not out of compensation (Captain Captain DKANE leaves the Colony, there is aku (Peiho Forts) Ningbae, the Great Wall, and and deportment. Her enunciation was to the tihustion of a cat, would create in that
last exquisite. Her-tact enabled her to fill a animal a desire for vigorous forel tion what excum can be made for not nominating him now the vacant office,, and that man is Chief THERE has been of late, says the Overland Mall, difficult position with dignity. Every member of used by the aborigines of Canned thens, but to the nearked in high places & know af Inspector HossPOOL. Fortunately for good deal of unpleasant feeling and some re- the Hugo family treated her, with a deference chusetts. When he was to, Ma crimination on the subject of the Sues Canal which appeared spontaneous and a tribute to her lege. He entered the front door We will go a flute farther than the himself and the best interests of Hong Just now matters are not looking better, and amiability. Slace Mdme. Hugo's death the did tor's favourite cat, and graduated the gentleman (or coterie of gentlemen) who kong, Mr. HoxarooL is quite independent smiling peace has not yet again become a popular the honours of the poet's dinner-table and salon. Ingover the fence. He then started for penned the above paragraph, in our of the Colonial Government-and-bealdes bstraction. M. de Lesseps, it appears, is Her hair was white-as-snow. There was Milwaukee, and other remote regions of the earth, animadversions on what does not merely has too high a regard for his own re- quite willing to undertake the construction of a nothing stagey in her manner. With intimate and began those remarkable series of truthful "smack of a job, but is one of the most putation to allow himself to be made second canai; shareholders intend, it is said, to friends her conversation was anecdotic. The anecdotes for which he is so justly famed. As an "scandalous and bare-faced pieces of dis the puppet of any piece of political propose the achievement on their own account malady which carried Mame, Drouhet off archeologist, however, he has won most renown squad himsel She suffered fearfully and his collection of Pompeiian, Sanscrit, Egyp leave the shipl gusting jobbery ever associated with the chicanery. It must be apparent to all at their next general meeting, on June 4 next; was. internal cancer. government of any British Colony-always thinking men that the temporary appoint and though, if the proposal takes effect, some through the winter and spring, but had the for- tlas, and early Greek jokes, now in possession of the day hora providing that the report of Captain ment of Captain DaxPSTER to the superin- of the objections against the company's mond titude to make the aged poet fancy that she was Osgood & Co., of Boston, a comildered the most aid he had DEMESTER'S appointment to temporarily tendent-ship of police would practically poly of the lithmus will be removed, it only troubled with a slight gastric affection. He complete in the world Some envida enities nothing was succeed Mr.. W. M. DEANE in command of mean, that Mr. HoxSPOOL would do theit is by no means certain that all will end was not aware that she was in any danger until have claimed that most of these were pain
happly. The new canal, which will cost quite recently. M. Bastien Lepage was expected carved by Mark himself, and the Hongkong Police is not an idle rumour, work and the gallant Captain draw the 125,000,000 fr., would take ships from the Med to finish a portrait of her. She got up, dressed, posed of heterogeneous and Who Is Captain Dzиest? We have salary. We venture to say that, unless teranean to the Red Sea, while the old one and went into Victor Hugo's study to await the there seems to be no reasona Carefully, searched the Colonial Office list, the position is a mere sham and totally un-monopolises the traffic between the Red Sea and painter. When she heard his footsteps on the are all genuine antiquities. without finding a trace of this gentleman's necessary for the proper management of the Mediterranean. But such an arrangement stairs, she exclaimed, "It's too much to endure; Twain is a remarkably well-y record of services. On turning up the police aftairs, it would take Cipt. Discreter would not do away with the offence of exclusive can bear it no longer," and fainted. Mdme, a short, florid, and very Army List we find the name of T. C.
French control. What is desired is a purely. Drouhet was also the post's secretary. She copied oessantly, and is a rapid and DEMPSTER, hor, Capt. and paymaster in
English Canal, the commercial and political ad every work he has written within the last forty His essay on "Draw-F vantages of walch are perfectly obvious. A years with her own hand, so that the original The Gloucestershire Regiment "the old
second French Canal would only augment should not run the risk of being lost at the Slashers, and an idea strikes us that Under all circumstances it is to be hoped French inftience in Egypt, and that in the pre printer. It is anid that she kept during that this Captain Dilipatan, who la actually on I that the rumoured appointment of Captain i sest state of affairs is not desir
period a diary written in a Boswelllan style,
of partiality, and at the same timaspera an unwarrantable' alighi
but a qual hardship........ Wân can dispute: the fact when i mention
* Dease, being, on full, parh, wherats, now that "the Captala
Buparklendent goes home on half-pay another la found to only one man capable of efficiently filling.
reap the benefit F. If Mr. Horspool” war fi to act, with no re-
that an advantage will seats from the mealog appointment?. This
for the present will leave this case to be digostal"
or any other inexperienced outsider at least twelve-months to be of the least practical use to the department.
Port Arthur.
is considered to be an economy, while his poem Bowed Dawn by Wel place as one of the most
tes, that act kigod honeste » When they were out at sea they
found they were shipped as ibla aciment the con
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paris, but
him to settle
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when all were speki? and obt
was necessary ?:thát should be procu willing to do:
vages. He and “ing house on theittown.
monsters wanted; a, varaptee cording to his recoming the
period of one indi had expired kinds herbad dTEA
-vidence was taken and the case till Tuesday next the 16th
ipper and mate belog
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being