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A. S. WATSON & CO.
FAMILY
DISPENSING
AND CHEMISTS,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,
the wharf itself. With the aid of kerosene and other inflammable materials the structure, was soon in a blaze, and eventually was burned to the water's edge. A rush was then made for the Steamboat Company's .wharf, and a cry was raised to fire the Custom House. The Custom officials closed the doors and windows of their WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, establishment, the crowd jeering all the while and assuring them that they would burn down the place by and bys. The attempt on the Steamboat Company's wharf not proving suc cessful, the cry was suddenly raised to burn down the foreigners houses on the Shamien,
DRUGGISTS' SUNDRYMEN,
PERFUMERS, IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS
or
MANILA CIGARS, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
AND
MANUFACTURERS
AERATED
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
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posite the Custom House. The wharf used by the Hankow is completely demolished, and as we passed, the street from thence to the Custom House, was densely packed by thousands of Chinese. Opposite Shamien the two British gun- | boats Swift and Espoir, and some half dozen of the Viceroy's gun vessels are anchored, and the whole of the concession is encircled by the tents of the Viceroy's braves who, in their gaudy uniforms, are folling about all over the place.
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Canton, Wednesday night.
I have been through the whole of the Shamien, carefully inspected, the demolished properties,
1883.
and such muskets, ye gods! A number of them Iris said that the Kersaint will proceed to Saigon, IT is estimated that the work people of Paris are simply armed with three pronged forks, | from Tonquin, to receive certain stores, etc, and have increased 80 per cent within ten years." weapons that would only excite laughter amongst from thence she will proceed to the Straits of foreign troops. However, their presence is a Bunda to aid the other vessels of war now thereived off the Bluff at Cheloo on the even-1
THE_German_men-of-war, Wolf, Leipzig, and guarantee of safety, and they must in justice be in their surveys of the place.
ing of the 4th instant credited with having stopped, the riot. Al- THE United States Covette Juniata left Singa-Ws are informed by THE agents, Messrs. Adam though only a few prisoners are in custody pore on the afternoon of the and instant, for the at present, a number of the ringlearters will Straits of Sunda, under orders from the American son, Bell & Co. that the steamer Cardigan- doubtless be captured, and decapitation whole- Admiral. The United States Consul at Singa hire, from London, left. Singapore for this port sale will be the order of the day. I had pore, Major A. G. Studer, paid the vessel ́an
yesterday... almost forgotten to say that the Europeans official visit and received a salute of 7 guns upon organised patrol parties on Tuesday night after leaving the ship. most of the residents had again taken up their unnecessary. So long as the gunboats are here there is no danger, and I should think that henceforward a British man-of-war will always be stationed at Canton.
H.M.S. Kestrel left Shangliai for Chefco on the
aftepioon of the 6th instant, and the Foxhowed
and the excited rabble immediately rushed heard the different versions of the riot from many abode on the Shamien. This step was entirely / IT is announced that several Italian war vessel./ anived at the former from the latter port on the
toward the foreign concession. Meeting no op
various standpoints, and formed my own conclu- position worthy of the name, the mob quickly. sions of the entire business. There is little to forced the bridge and shawly after 8 o'clock were add tothe substantially accurate account furnished in full possession of the upper end of Shamien me by Captain Goggin and his officers, briefly It is stated that several kerosene stores were detailed above, Practically speaking the half of WATER S. loated on the way from the wharf to the bridge; the Shamien, stretching from the house adjoin but at all events a number of the rioters had ing the 'British Consulate to the bridge across kerosene, gunpowder with fuses attached, and the Canal, is in ruins. The rioters certainly did. other combustibles to aid them in their designs. their work effectually, the bare walls alone The foreign community were taken by surprise standing in most cases, whilst in others the entire some were out walking, some in their baths, and structures are level with the ground. I could not all without effective arms, so that practically the help feeling vicious on surveying the blackened Shamien was defenceless. The Europeans ruins of the pretty little Concordia Theatre, a feci- on hearing how matters, were, seem at fisting that was somewhat intensified after I had got to have been slightly demoralised. A bold
half suffocated in exploring all that remains of THE CANTON DISPENSARY, CANTON first have checked the rioters before the "Terlatter building is also most complete, although front shown by a score of men might at Mr. Raven's new ice factory. The ruin of this
THE SHANGHAI PHARMACY, 24, NANKIN ROAD, SHANGHAI,
BOTICA
INGLESA,
14. ESCOLTA, MANILA.
THE DISPENSARY, FOOCHOW
BIRTH.
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On the 30th August, at the British Residency, Taiping, Perak, the wife of C. V. CREACH, Esq., Assistant Resident, of a son.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THursday, SepteMBER 13, 1883,
THE RIOTS AT CANTON,
[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, 12th September, 1883. After an anything but agreeable trip, lasting about 26 hours, in the King-chow we safely reached our destination at noon to-day. A brief account of the voyage may not be without in terest. We left the Steamboat Company's wharf
minus" was reached; but that bold front was not shown until it was too late. The safety of the women and children appears to have been the first object thought of, and no time was lost in conveying them on board the steamship Vingo where they were hospitably received by Captain Cass, who got up steam and made every pre paration for any emergency. During this time the work of destruction had been rapidly pro gressing; the "Terminus" (Messrs. Thomas, Rowe and Smith's junior mess) Mr. Saunder's bungalow and the one adjoining occupied by Mr. de Brito, the residences of Dr. Wales and the
Rev. Mr. Grundy, Messrs. Pustan & Co.'s and Messrs. Reed & Co.'s premises, the new lec House,
the Concordia Club and Theatre, Mra. Lamont's
bungalow, the Shamien police station, and the houses of Messrs. Holwill and Rocha were burned to the ground, or totally demolished almost without opposition. In addition to these Mr. Gunther's residence was looted,, as were also the houses. of Mr: Lepissier, and the Lon-
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the machinery does not appear to have sus- tained any damage, even the guage glass remaining uninjured. The police station and the houses adjoining are now mass of charred bricks and stones. Outside Mr. Hol- will's residence I picked up # had evidently belonged to that gentleman's choice collection; it was the_figure_of_an__ animal bearing some resemblance to the sa-
curio that
TELEGRAM S:
LONDON, September 11th. THE FRENCH PRESS ON CHINA'S
POSITION IN ANNAM. The Republique Francais has published an aicle demanding a French protectornic over the whole of Annam, conceding to China only an honorary suzerainty. The article opposes the neutral zone. -
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A NEW FRENCH MINISTER APPOINTED
TO PEKING.
M. Paternoter has been appointed, French Minister to Fekin.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
have arrived the coast of Morocco, and will stay there until the demand of the Italian Coy ernment for the dismissal of the Governors of Rabat and Benihassen, who are accused of fomenting ill-feeling between Italy and Morocco, has been complied with..
ALLI SVED, an Arabian fireman, remanded from the 7th instant, on a charge of, wounding and cutting an unemployed fellow tradesman and countryman, and also with attempting to stab P. C. 65 when being quested, again faced his Worship this morning and was shelved for the space of half a year, hard labor being thrown in to keep him from getting wearied.
same date.
WE are informed by the Canton-Hongkong Wa- Hop Telegraph Company that correspondence by wire with Canton will be stopped for a few days in consequence of the damage done to their station at Kow-Wa' by the recent typhoon.
We note that the China Merchants Co.'s steamer Hacting went into the Tungkadoo Dock at Shanghai on the 8th inst. The Hacting will be lengthened in addition to receiving new boilers. It is estimated that the execution of the altera- tions and repairs contemplated will occupy about nine months.
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How FAT, Hu Shin, and Chau Yan, remanded THE new, French, Minister of Marine, is Vice- | from the 16 ultimo on a charge of having ad- Admiral Peyron, Maritime Prefect of Toulon and ministered a drug to" Mr. Li Kum Fung on the head of the Naval Staff under two former Minis-way up from Singapore while on board, the ters. Bol in 1823, he entered the service in steamer Ancona, and robbing him of the sum 1839 passed through the various grades with of $102,, again made their appearance before credit, and took part in the wars against Russia, Mr. Wodehouse this morning. The first named Austria, China, Annam, and Mexico. It was an prisoner was sent for a six months' spell of hard exploit in Annam in 1861 which earned him a labor and the others were discharged...
M. CHARLES BRUN, the French Minister of been a staunch Republican.
Marine, is announced to have tendered his re-
known for some time, that M. B.un desired to retire, and it is said that the tritation felt at the rejection by the Chamber of his Convention with the Eastern Extension Telegraph.Company for lying a cable between Cochin China and
will be despatched to the Sunda Straits on behalf We hear it stated that the German gunboat Captaincy. He has since the fall of the Empire wa read'in home papers that the Crown Prince
of the German Government"
cred Benares bull, which, although slightly We are glad to hear that Capt Gelston, pay-signation on account of ill health. It has been damaged, I would have kept had it not been master "The Buffs," has been promoted to the for-my-scruples about "looting. Although Mr.--rank of Major in the same.Regiment, Holwill's house is completely gutted, the flower Tre steiners Names and Benarly entered the pots are still in the front of the verandahs, and Kowloon and Aberdeen Docks respectively to- lady oggi ste window curtains are uninday. The Hungarian left the Kowloon Dock
jured.
It is generally believed here that the affair was Premeditated, and I have heard it stated that Dr. Von Mollendorff is in possession reliable evidence to that effect. With this point I'may deal at another time. There can be little doubt that if
to say.
this afternoon.
We are informed that the French man-of-war Villars leaves for Shanghai to-morrow, to take up the station vacated by the departure of the Kersaint from that poit.
and Summary jurisdiction Courts, of a civil na ture has been posted up in the lower corridor of the Coust. It is of great use, and we hope the practice will be continued. WE hear that it is the intention of Sir Thomas
Francis Wade, K. C. B., late H. B. M's, minis ter to China, to retire altogether from official life. Sir Thomas, it is said, is at present engaged in writing an auto-biographical history of his experiences during his long official career in Cathay,
No ACHUN, a house coole, made his appearance before Mr. Wodehouse this morning on a charge of stealing a gold watch and chain, valued at 40, the property of Lieutenant A. M. Gage of the "Euffa," the defendant's employer. The case was remanded till Wednesday next, the 19th instant.
INSTRUCTIONS have been telegraphed out by the Admiralty to despatch a British man-of-war.im- mediately to Sunda Straits, to reader any assist. ance that may be required by the Dutch au- thorities, and to assist any vessels in distress, as also to ascertain, as far as possible, the nature i, upon her return to Singapore from a cruise in the Straits of Malacca, was despatched for
that service.
Tong-King has strengthened bis deteniitution It is rumoured that during the recess other and more important Cabinet changes will be made LEONG AKUM was yesterday afternoon observed by Detective Butlin doing a promenade in Queen's -Road Central with a bulky bundle under his
Old Buff numbered $16, made its appearance. Leong stated that a coolie had given him the garment but was unable to point out the party. The case was remanded fill the 15th to enable Butlin to produce the owner of the coat, Mr. Leong in the meanwhile taking up his quarters in the "abode of bliss."
WE read that's great demonstration was lately made in Trafalgar-square in support of Mr. Bradlaugh, and to protest against his continued exclusion from Parliament. The Rev. S..Head- lam presided, and Mr. Bradlaugh was the chief speaker. A resolution was passed declaring that the House of Commons had been guilty of a gross abuse of power, for which there was no remedy but resistance, and calling on the country to in- resolution should be forwarded to the Queen, sist on a dissolution. It was also agreed that this
the Prime Minister, and the Speaker. THE Berlin correspondent of The Time says Those who wish to watch the fluctuations of the quarrel between France and Chins would do well to fix their attention not on Paris or Peking but on the Romeranean sesport of Stettin, for
here hangs the barometer.which indicates to the
German-built Chinese corvette
his alver wedding Har received from the Em perprof Ching the Order of the Double Dragor, the insigale having been brought to the metro- polis by the military attack of the Chinese Legation, Colonel Tang Thi Tong, who lately returned frour China, where he spent several months. It is said that the compliment has no political significance wit
Frederick William of Prussia on the occasion of
IT is stated by the Acting French Consul at celler to the Consulate General at Shanghai, Singapore, that M-Villerol, Assistant Chai- has been appointed Chanceller of the French Consulate at Singapore, and will act sa Consul on his arrival at that post till the return of M-
Shanghai and will probably reach his nest part in the course of a month, ACCORDING 19 the latest official return the fol lowing is the proposion of English, Scottish; and": Irish soldiers in the British Army-Cavalry- English, 7,668; Irish, 1,024, Scotch, 686. Royal ArtilleryEnglish, 11,5651 Irish, 2,373; Scotch, 966. Royal Engineers-English, 2,6335 Irish, 373; Scotch, 248. Infantry English, 34,8241 Irish, 11,970; Scotch, 4,550 Foot Guards English, 4,260; Irish, 355; Bootch, 828. House- hold Cavalry-English, grt; Irish go; Scotch, 198
SHANGHAI
In consequence of the heavy rains that have lafely fallen at Peking, grafo is dear; the Ein-
peror is anxious for the poor, and therefore a De cree has been issued ordering that congee be dia- ibuted to the poor as charity for two months after it
Telegraphic Communication between Chining floods. Messages for Tientsin and Taku cannot and Chinking Poo interupted on account of be accepted Lines to Chinktang and Ningpo are in working order
Sheng Hang Suen, the director general of the announced for day the 8th that, by press, phat Telegraphic communication with Tientsin and Taku has been restored.
atmosphere in the French and Chinese caple tals. This political weather-glass is the Yuen last or two
•Pen has
Mr. Chên. Fa-ban, the late Chinese Consul been getting up and blowing off its steam, Firit General in San Francisco, who has lately been of all it was taken round to Kiel and then steered appointed Superintendent of Trade, to Kores, back to Stettin. Then the German Governmentiqver here by the Pawiak from Tientsin on the consented to its being worked out to China by à afternoon of the 8th fast - He will proceed to crew from the Imperial navy; intended to relieve Roses with sis-translator, Mr. Chen Fa-cho, the force on the Eastern station; but Prince Bis next month mark took alarm at the growing complication Degree of the 24th day of the 7th moon. As between France and China; be wan detér. Lui Un-pod has memorialised that some of the mixed that Germany, like England, chould Manchu wonten open oplum shops and gam- and the rangement was prudently can shops and houses kept by females in Shangha not be dragged into an Alabama difficulty, bling houses in Poking, and that there are silah
celled. All the stores of the Ting Yuen were then sold off, and we were informed that the
Soochow and Hangehow, and has requested that they should receive punishment --Let the Board
at 10.45 3.m."the sea gradually increasing in don Mission, and an attempt was being made the Europeans had been armed (it is very singuWe are pleased to note that a list describing the arm. Butlin was curious, and made the Celestial Theodore Meyer from Europe, or the air strength and rain falling heavily. An unusually to loot and demolish Messrs: Russell & Co.'s lar that there were scarcely any arms in the cou programme of the week's work in the Supreme undo his "swag" when the coat of a "Grand of a new Consul. M. Villeroy is at present in large number of Entopean passengers werd on establishment-when-the-rabble-received-e-final cession) when the riot first broke out and had board, including four special corresponders, check. A number of soldiers had arrived on shown a bold front at the gate, the affair would also one of two local celebrities who, with warlike the scene shortly after the riot commenced, but have been quelled almost at the commencement ardour, were-anxious-to-participate-in-anything--they-were-driven away by the mob-and-it-is-Still it was perhaps, under all circumstances, that might be going on in the City of Rams. alleged that several of them fraternised with the the better plan to follow the advice of the Consula and get everybody on board ship, The passenger accommodation on the Hongkong rioters. A few Germans, notwithstanding the re- built Kiung-chow is exceedingly limited, so comfusal of the Consul to undertake the responsibility leaving the Viceroy to make arrangements to fort was out of the question, but as we expected of their actions, had armed themselves with rifles protect, foreign property. The presence of a to make the passage in ten or eleven hours very and for a time held the mob in check and actually British or other foreign gunboat would have scant attention was paid to prospective personal compelled them to retreat to the bridge, but of rendered the attempt of the mob quite abortive, discomfort. We could not then foresee the treat course they could not offer any lengthened resist and it is much to be regretted that the naval au- that was in store for us; however, by the time ance to the overpowering numbers of the Chinese, thorities have disregarded the warnings so often we had got well clear of the wharf a strong gale although a number of the latter were shot down. given them in the Telegraph. The absence of of wind was blowing, which gradually increased Urgent demands had been made for assistance naval protection has led to immense destruction into a hurricane. For a couple of hours to the Viceroy, but it was not until about two of property and to deplorable loss of life. From the little craft struggled desperately to make o'clock in the afternoon-long after the Consuls ten to fifteen Chinese were killed-several bodies the "throat-gates" at the Capsingmoon, but had hauled down their flags-that the troops made were still lying unburied this afternoon and one German gentleman was wounded in four places by -it seemed a hopeless case, and Captain. Gog--their appearance, and then the riot was at an gin and, his chief officer, a weather-beaten end. The mob fled in all directions, and their lead pellets fired from some old blunderbuss. For veteran, at last held a brief consultationescape would seem to have been facilitated tunately the wounds are not of a serious character, as to what was the best course to pursue. I by the soldiers, as only some half dozen were
most of the pellets having been safely extracted. overheard a part of the conversation, and gathered captured and they fell into the hands of the Great indignation is expressed about the tar- thit had been unanimously decided that as it foreigners. Early in the day it was thought that diness of the Viceroy in sending the troops, and was hardly worth while to risk the ship and an attempt would be made to burn the Eritish I understand that a very strong protest, signed perhaps the lives of all-on-board-by-vainly Consulate and obtain possession of Logan, who by all the Consuls excepting Mr Seymour, the siruggling against the elements, we should run was confined there pending his trial for shooting is rumoured that His Excellency refused to allow of the changes in the channel, H.M.S Cham- breadth of a hair. the state of the political Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration,"
U.S., Consul, was forwarded to him to-day. It _for shelter.inside_Stondcutters... [sland.Shortly--several-Chinese-fwo-or-three-weeks-ngo, so–Dr.
before 1 o'clock we were safely riding at anchor Hance thought it advisable to have his prisoner telegrams to be sent to Hongkong; but whether about a couple of hundred yards off the island; conveyed on board the Ningio. Immediately this be true or otherwise I am not in a position the Powan, which had left for Çanton at 6 am the Viceroy's troops were in possession the and had also been compelled to return, lay be- British Consul despatched "the" Klung.chow to
A great "stare" was got up by the report THE French Ingate Tourville, 5.340 tons dis tween us and the Chinese mainland, and the Hongkong with a request to Commodore Cuming that the. Viceroy had given orders not to permit placement, 6,000 horse power, and commanded White Cloud, which we had left at the wharf to send up gunboats without delay for the protes any foreign men-of-war to pass the Bogue Forts by Captain Boec, arrived here last evening from shortly afterwards came over and took up a berth tion of British subjects. After anchoring during As this was equivalent to a defiance to the foreign Toulon to join the French fleet in China under a few hundred yards to the westward.
the worst of the blow on Tuesday morning, the powers, the Chinese rabble who are strongly Admiral Meyer. The Tourville is an un- As we were now in comparative comfort, the King-chowicached Hongkong before six o'clock, anti-foreign were jubilant, whilst even foreigners armoured frigate carrying an armament of a vessel behaving very well indeed in a nasty sea, and Captain Goggin immediately interviewed began to feel uneasy, even although the Shamlen heavy Breech-loading guns, of which 14 are of I thought it as well to obtain all the particulars the Commodore on board the Victor Emmanuel Swift quickly dispelled this delusion, and pre- is a very fast boat and will be used on the coast was held by the troops. The appearance of the '51 and 7 of 91 inch bore. The Tourville available concéming the riots in Canton, as At 8 o'clock the Swift and Espoir, the only vented the possibility of any recurrence of thewhere despatch is necessary. owing to my having to leaveat almost a moment's available craft in the harbour, were steaming at notice I was not well posted up in the details, full speed towards Cantou.
rlating, The Swift had a terrible Job from Lin- The statements made to me by Captain Goggin This short narrative from onlookers, of nearly tin to the Bogue, fighting against a tremendous and the officers ofthe King-chow were substanti-all that took place, gives a very clear notion of sea and a strong wind blowing directly against ally as follows: On Monday morning some the whole affair, and gave me a very strong desira her. The sea brake continuously over her, where between 5 and 6 am. a Chinese runner to be on the scene of action without loss of and the Chinese pilot was anxious to stop several times. However, Lieut. Tisdall was from one of the boarding houses wanted to get time. About three o'clock in the afternoon determined to get ahead and the great power 1. expected down at Canton shortly. The class of curiosity in the movements of the Everlasting wind were the caus on board the Hankew, which was as usual the gale moderated slightly, so our gallant and fine sea-going qualities of the Swot torpedo will be that of the style dormant," and lying alongside "the wharf. As it is the skipper determined to make another attempt rule not to admit Chinese on board until to get inside the Capsingmoon.
not the "percussion" pattern, and can only be served him in good stead. At 4 p.m. Whampoa was reached, and after a delay of fired from the shore by means of an electric after 6, the Portuguese watchman refused to
hard struggle as the sea was very heavy, between two and three hours waiting for the current conveyed to the missile itself through allow the Chinaman to pass, and, it is said, but at last we got inside; however, we were just side, she arrived, at the Shamien about a cable connecting it with the shore. that in trying to forcibly eject him, he pushed his as badly off in the river as we had been in the o'clock, The Espoir wan compelled to seek A Rumox, which we give for what it is worth, antagonist, over the side of the vessel into barbour, Between Lintin and the Bogue the shelter and only arrived about noon to-day. is current amongst the Chinese, to the elect that
It is also stated that the Chins river was simply forpassable for a vessel like the man missed his footing and accidentally fell Kinng chow, so there was nothing for it but to during the afternoon, and I met lots of her officers settle the Loochon and Corean questions to The French gunboat Lufis made her appearance. China has made ovcitures to Japan offering to into the river, however, be that as it may, it anchor again and to exercise our patience as is certain that the unfortunate man fell into the best we could. Captain Goggin was ubiquitous and men on shore during my travels.
Japan's satisfaction and in accordance with her river by auno means or other, and was drowned in providing for the comfort of his passengers,
The Consuls all acted most creditably through wishes, provided that Japan will enter into an His body was quickly picked up, and put on even throwing open his own cabin for our se-
out the emergency. Dr. Hance, after conveying alliance, offensive and defensive against France board the Hanket. The report soon spread commodation, and he was ably seconded in his his wife and family 'on board the Ningo, re should the situation anent the Tonquin im- amongst the Chinese in the neighbourhood that hospitable efforts by his chief officer (with turned to the British Consulate and would not broglio require it. It is believed that Japan has a foreigner had murdered a Chinaman and a whose name I am not acquainted) and Mr. T. leave until he hauled down hie dag, a taken, the matter into consideration and will, crowd assembled at the wharf. The ma- Clark, chief engineer. Shortly after dinner the though the mob were howling around the through the medium of her newly appointed gistrate of the district when informed of red lights of a steamer were seen approaching place for hours. One very laugh ahls Minister to Chida, who has not as yet arrived the circumstances went on board the steamer from the direction of Hongkong, and although we incident came under my observation. Captain at his post, give an answer to the latter pow and wished to have the watchman handed could not obtain a glimpse of the vessel we sure Case of the Ningbo, having only a limited supply very shortly 17 VA BOJON over into his custody, but as this was remited that it was the French gunboat. Latin, a of arms on board, sent a request to the British THE French corvette Kersaint, left this morning, fused he disappeared from the scene altogether. surmise which proved correct. The barometer Consul for the loan of some tiles to aim is ostensibly for a cruise; but, in reality, for Touquin, to Stettin' went his Excellent, The crowd soon began to assume gigantic pro gradually fell until 1.15 am, this morning when crew and the foreigners on board in the event o
tof so we are informed. The Kerssind carries with ned by a miscellaneous crew, hurled
in a few days the Everlasting portions, and to display rowdy proclivities. A we again got under weigh, the sea by this time an emergency arising Dr. Hance promptly her despatches for Admiral Courbet and M. up from the streets and quays of shower of stones, brickbats and other missiles having gone down, although a nasty, drimling responded by forwarding eleven old fashioned Harmand, frum- Monsieur, Tricou, the French hundred repeating riften, we were told were on were simed at the Hankow and this was the rain still fell, making an outside berb anything muzzle-loading Enfields with a desertment of Minister, anent the Tanqula matter. We underbird, the necessary salt pork and the latter actual commencement of the riot." Captain but comfortable. We sighted the Zutik, lying Snider ammunition.
AMA MASTOW stand that the result of M. Tricou's negotiations kraut had all been stored, and a day, was fixed for the departure"***" of the Ting Yuan, which Ogston, seeing that matters were assuming a at anchor on the opposite side of the river, shortly
I hear that Mr. Seymour, the U.S. Consul, with China has been far from satisfactory, and it was to call at Plymouth for coals, wher dangerous aspect, hauled away from the wharf, after starting, and just before reaching Whampan, has drawn out an estimate of the damage done, is rumored that, the Chinese Goverment have in came another in telegram from - Peking of Com and after a while dropped down over Honam where we heard that the Swift had passed the which he places at two hundred thousand dollars, telegraphed to the Marquis Tseng, to ask the directing it again to blow of its steam and pay "splt." Meanwhile the rioters, of whom about preceding evening at 4 o'clock, the Kingping The other Consuls estimate it at from one millilen French Government to recall M. Tricou and sends crew presumably until M. Tricou show
self more amiable to Chinese arguments, a dozen only took an active part in the work of bound for Macao and the Hankow en route to to fifteen hundred thousand. Although the city is some one else in his stead. From a few particu- meanwhile, perhaps, the 27kg Ywroll continue appointment to b destruction, had taken entire possession of the Hongkong passed us. The appearance of still greatly excited, there are no feard of any fur | lare gleaned from various sources, we hear that its turret practice. That the Ting. Yum hab wharf, and after burning the wooden house, the latter vessel was taken to indicate ther disturbances. The troops on the Shamien the French Minister has solicited his nation's this particular time been directed to remain. which was used as a sort of store for ropes, &c., that the troubles in Canton, bad ail passed, naimbering about 1,5co under command of a naval authorities to make a naval demonstration Stettin is reading that here last porche
telegram from Hongkong
is and a small steam launch, the property of A few minutes before поод we were colonel, can hardly be called soldiers; they are in Shanghal with a view towards having a salu-little prospect of a peaceful issue to the negotia Captala Ogston, proceeded to the demolition of threading our way up to the buoy, directly op- what Lord Wolseley would termmenwith muskets ||tary moral effect upon the Chinese mind. tions between France and China, Vida 100m
the water.
It was
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Ware credibly informed that torpedoes are to be placed in the Canton river by the Chinese ovemment, after the manner oftheconst defences from the Torpede College at Tientsin and are
announcement was intended for the especial proceeding down the five at Home. The torpedoes have been ordered
a
vessel would certainly not leave its moorings of Punithineni consult, what punishment should France and China had, vanished. Perhaps this The American
okiang while until every vestige of misunderstanding between be given to thems
la low of the tug. benefit of the French tourists" who were sup. | Fokelin, this afternoon (September 6th), came în posed to have gone to Stettin with a holiday collision with the Police hulk stròme tide and j
The old Baltic, the Ting Yun was not idle or un ribs rather roughly.
tried her old Frace. But though thus shut up within the bulk received a good she
leje damage, demonstrative, of Its formidable powers. Fum of so serious natti ished with a scratch crew from the German of the Police
enjoying navy, and having on board the Chinese Minister to an afternoon naps Germany, with a select and critical company of visition run tors, it was towed out to the roads of Swingmunds
to show what it could do in the way of salts of the experiment; how firing
Your readers may remember the results
to rails and ropes, while the monster cannon were visitors stuffed their cars with cotton and clung being fired; how one man was knocked down by the shock; how glass was smashed Hoil furniture shattered and rails wrenched out how the com bunkers emptied them diver lice day.
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