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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
tended to be a journalist, and his aċquain- tance with Southern China solely consists of the journey related in his readable book “Across Chrysê!"---and is, moreover, of a FAMILY AND DISPENSING most superficial character. His experi- ences in India and Burmah were those of a
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M. FERRY ON THE TONQUIN QUESTION.
in the French frambst of Deputles M. Ferry- stated that the Government had no intention to
not declare war. As soon as Sontay and Bas ninh were captured, nobody would be able to ex- pel the French from Tonquin.
WE understand that the work of negotiating the small Chinese government loan referred to in these columns, a short time ago, has been placed in the hands of the Hongkong and
Two young Paisley ladies were standing by the
they didn't know how to cross. They appealed to a boy who was coming along the road for help, whereupon, the Advocate reports, he pointed behind them with a startled air and yelled "anakes!" The young ladies crossed the ditch at a single bound.
Shanghai Banking Corporation.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS,mining engineer in the service of the Indian declare war against China and that China would side of a wide ditch in Bruce township, which special licence to M. Jacques Damala, a young see them, and was asked for his opinion.
DRUGGISTS' SUNDRYMEN,
PERFUMERS,
IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS,
OF
MANILA CIGARS, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
AND.
Government, and not as a journalist.
Having taken a considerable amount of interest in Burmah, the Shan States, and the southern portion of the Chinese Empire, and further having read up and carefully studied the results of FRANCIS Garnier's and. Duruis's explorations on the Red River, besides being a man of energy and sound common sense, Mr. COL- QUHOUN WAS, no doubt,, eminently qua- AERATED WATERS.lified in many respects to represent the leading English journal in Tonquin, although he brought no previous jour- nalistic experience to the task, and had no special knowledge of military tactics like
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THE French gunboat Lufin left for Canton this morning,
H.M.S. Audacious, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Willes, left Yokohama for Kobe on the 24th ulto,
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THE Russian men-of-war Duke of Edinburgh and Stabiloff left Yokohama on the 24th ulto. Their destination is not stated.
THE O. and O. Co.'s steamer Coptic, with the
SAYS the Japan Daily Mail of the 20th ulto.: The Chitose Mars, which left here yesterday for Hakodate, came into collision with a native junk near Kanan Saki, which was sunk in about three minutes. It has not transpired whether any lives were lost or not, but the Chitose sus tained so much. damage to her stem through the contact that she had to return to Yokohama to effect the necessary repairs,
THE Yokohama defamation of character case, in which a young lady named Ruth Farnsworth claimed $10,000 damages from Messrs. C. and
jury after deliberating for three hours and a half "being unable to agree on any one of the five By kind permission of Colonci Parnell and the points put to them for decision. The Judge, Officers of the Buffs, the Band of the Regiment.Mr. N. J Hannen, seeing there was no possi- will perform on the Cricket Ground from 4 p.m. bility of their agreeing, had no alternative but to
discharge them. to-morrow, Saturday,
2, 1883.
Wars a man is put out of office and wants to THE steamer Stentor arrived at Amby from this. be let down cary, his subordinates give him a port on the morning of the 3oth ulto, and after $7 gold-headed cane, to receive which costs him landing mails and
passengers proceeded on to Shanghai. 837 for wine-New Orleans Picayune. WHEN Mus: Bernhardt hurried over to England | WHEN.some.celebrated paintings of Adam and one fine morning last year, and was married by Eve were on exhibition, Mr.M'Nab was taken to
actor in the troupe with whom she was engaged, think no great things of the painter," said the there were not a few of her admirers who mur- great gardener. "Why, man, only think of Eve's mured the old proverb, "Marry in haste and re- tempting Adam wit a pippin of a variety that pent at leisure. The leisure has arrived even wasua known until about twenty years ago.” sooner than is usual, news having come from An unemployed cook named Chow Akeung, hall- Paris that a separation between the ill-assorted Ing from the City of Rams, was charged on re- pair has been "amicably arranged."
mand before Captain Thomsett at the Police THEnewly published "Autobiography of Thurlow Court this morning with stealing $60, the pre- Weed" the distinguished New York journalist, perty of a widow named Foo Ahong, & boat- who was in England, at the time of the Mason woman. It appears the widow had the money in and Slidell affair, asserts that when the draught a box in the stern of her bost, where she observed the cook and her daughter "site of the despatch demanding their surrender was read by Lord Palmerston to the Queen, and the ting, they being lovers. After they left, she consequences of a refusal explained, her Majesty found to her dismay that her box had been was startled and distressed at the idea of war broken open, and the money, extracted, no with America. Taking the despatch to the she went to hunt the pair up She met Prince Consort, who, then in his last Bilness, was the cook in Scott Lane on Tuesday morning sitting in his apartment, the Queen asked him and taxed him with the robbery, but he denied to read it, saying that she thought the language it However, she gave the culinary adept in andspiritharsh and peremptory. The Prince, con- charge, and on being searched at the station, a $25. curring in this opinion, subjected the despatch to note and four silver dollars were found upon him, erasures and interlineations, in which amended portion of the stolen money. Seeing the cas form it was returned to the Fremier. In re strong againt him, the defendant admitted that lating this incident to Sir Henry Holland, the the girl, his sweetheart, gave him the money, Queen added, "That was the last time the Prince but that he did not know where she was now. used his pen." Mr. Weed also states that on no Captain Thomsett, however, who is impervious fewer than three occasions, during the first year apparently to considerations into which love. the Rebellion, the Queen contributed essentially matters enter, consigned Chow Akeung to three jesty discountenanced suggestions from the during which period the cook will be separated
from the dear object of his affections. French Government which meant war.
THE SHANGHAI PHARMACY, Mr. CAMERON, Or Colonel GILDER of the
New York Herald-or even Mr. QUINTON next American mail, left Yokohama this morn-F. E. White, has terminated unsatisfactorily, the of the China Mail who, we understand,. fa|ing at daylight, and is expected here on the 8th or was a distinguished member of a cer- inst. tain "crack" volunteer corps. We have read with interest the lengthy article sent by Mr. COLQUHOUN to the Times from Hongkong on August 30th, and we gladly bear testimony to the patient research, keen powers of observation, and practical foresight displayed in almost every line of this most carefully compiled report. It 2500 doin. cach." This is a very broad calcula. Parkes, opening negotiations for the rendition of to the preservation of peace. On two her Ma-months' hard labor in Hayward's Repository,
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How profoundly still and beautiful is the night she whispered, leaning her finely-veined temple against his coat-collar and fixing her dreamy eyes on the far-off Pleiades. "How soothing!" "Yes," he replied, toying with the golden aureola of her hair; "and what a night to shoot cats!"
WE learn that Senhor da Rosa, Governor of Macao, has received a despatch from Sir Harry Dlaz, the man accused of causing the death of a Chinaman' on board the steamer Hankow at
Canton, to the British Government. No infor- mation has reached us as to Governor Rosa's probable course of action, but doubtless the matter will be referred for the consideration of the Portuguese Goverment at Lisbon.
of
It is a curious' fact that great orators acidom fail to be nervous with apprehension when about last years, trembled when he entered the pulpit. to make an important speech. Luther, to his The same is true of Robert Hall. Mr. Gough FROM the report of the steamship Canton, which confesses that he is always in a tremor in com arrived from Saigon this morning, it would aping before an audience. Many of the leaders pear that the weather to the southward has been of the House of Commons have given similar experienced a typhoon on the way down to in advance when he was about to make one very boisterous for some time past. The Canton testimony, Canning said he could always tell Saigon when, as the report states, the ship lay of his best speeches by a chill, running through him, caused by a fear of fallure, Lord perfectly helpless in the trough of the sea the voyage up she again encountered typhoon Derby, the father of the present Earl, when weather, but, so far as we can learn, came
On
A CHINAMAN named Pun Aying, described as of no occupation, was fined two hundred dollars or Wodehouse for keeping an agency for the sale six months”; imprisonment this morning by Mr. of Tre fa lottery tickets at ga Queen's Road West, and failing to come up to time with the Mexicans, went to gaol with a very mournful expression of countenance. He admitted the charge, but very small scale. This, however, failed to move pleaded that his establishment was conducted on
his Worship's commiseration, magistrates being proverbially hard-hearted when administering justice on the bench. There is no doubt, how-
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A STORY is told in the life of John Hill Burton of a Scotch judge who on pronouncing sentence on an assassin who had stabbed a soldier, did le in this way"You did not only maliciously, wickedly, and feloniously stab or cut his person Advertisers are requested to forward all noticesingly inaccurate, and in others his state. thereby depriving him of life, but did also sever❘ through it without loss of life- or dámage to pro- speakers in Parliament. He was known as the to put down this particular form of gambling, intended for insertion in that day's issue not later-ments-and-premises have only shadowy the band of his military breeches, which are Herperty. than THREE O'CLOCK, so as not to retard the Foundations. However, Mr. CözqUROPA'S carly publication of the paper.
report taken in its entirety is a most valu. able one, and on another occasion we shall deal practically, analytically, and at length with its most salient features.
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1883.
-Majesty's
We are pleased to learn that Mr. Taro Ando, the genial and popular Japanese Consular re- presentative at this port, has been appointed to an important position in the Foreign Office at Tokio. Mr. Taro Ando has minde many friends during his stay in Hongkong, who will join With us in congratulating him on his well-merited promotion. Mr. Matchida will succeed ir. Ando as Japanese consul here.
After having gone round it about seven times, the hopelessness of his situation flashes upon him with vividness, and he sinks down upon the pavement outside, with a despairing shrick, "The scoundrels, they've shut me in here!"
And now a few words about Mr. CAKE2- ox's supposed ignorance of Eastern affairs, to which the China Mail so triumphantly alludes in venting its petty spite on the absent journalist. It will, no doubt, surprise our well informed (1) evening~ contem-A DINER-OUT, who has had more than his share porary to learn that nearly the whole of of the wine, is carefully feeling his way home at night, when he unfortunately stumbles against Mr. CAMERON'S Journalistic experiences the circular railing which surrounds a statue. were obtained in the East, on a leading THE special paragraphist of our evening paper in Bombay-the Gazette, if we mis- contemporary evidently believes that take not-where he served in an-editorial ignorance is the mother of devotion; at all capacity for years. His work as special events, he tries hard to act up to that correspondent for the London Standard in strange truism_Last_night this special Egypt and Madagascar gained for the THE Japan-Mail-says-that- according-to-the paragraphist-the hand is uncommonly energetic young Gael-for Mr. CAxxxON Oficial Gazette, when the Kworio Mars was like that of the talented youth whose in- is a true-born Highlander-a name wrecked at Kamodano-mura, Kishu, she had 57 "ventive genius made GRIBACK famous and position second only amongst daring bags of mail matter on board, including the amuses himself by writing a lot of twad-war correspondents to Archibald FoRES foreign mail from Tokio and Yokohama to Kobe, dling rubbish, which is apparently specially and MACGAHAM. And Mr. CAMERON'S Ton- Nagasaki, and Shimonoseki. The whole of the Intended as
a disparagement of Mr. quin correspondence will greatly add to bags were lost with the ship, but two days after capacity of special correspondent to that well known journal. It seems a great pity that the China Mail mirror of chival rous journalism ¿ld not make his attack on Mr. CAMEROx whilst that redoubtable "war special" was in our midst; but no doubt it was considered safer policy to wait until the stalwart Scotchman had
Province.
Number of Famílias,
Number of
a young man was one of the most impressive ever, that stem repressive measures are neuded "Prince Rupert of debate,” and seemed so self-which prevails to an enormous extent in the -THE following are the new census return of the possessed as to be incapable of embarrassment. Colony, and indulgence in which is not by any "But he said, "When-l-am-going to speak my means confined to the native community. Its Kingdom of Korea:-
throat and lips are as dry as those of a man who votaries are to be found among several other Sales and Females, is going to be hanged." Tiemey, whom Lord nationalities, and in fact it is quite the rage among Sou.................. 59.565 150,137 152,502 Macaulay calls one of the most fluent debaters certain classes of the community. That it can Kyäng-kwi-do... 203,090 469,927
434,472 Chhung chhung-do 323,514 629,988 649,252 ever known, said he never rose in Parliament be effectually grappled with by the Police, sup Chol-la-do 360,981 799,973 796,941 without feeling his knees knock together. It is ported as we know it is, we very much doubt. Kyong-sang-do... 457,430 953,486 1,037.783 one of the compensations of nature, that the It would be just as easy to suppress the Manila 539,791 467,601 nervous temperament which occasions the trem lottery. Here and there the police may pounce Hwang hal-do..... 228,359 Phyong-an-do... 317.577 779,553 659,782 Ham-gyöng-do.... 318,815 $63.493
bling is also one of the causes of oratorical upon an agency, but as one la suppressed two of $32,236 Kang-won-do...... 159,281
three others spring up. The game furnishes 378,662
307,781 success. 66,824 67,954
occupation to a large number of native brokers, Cheju (Quelpaert) 1,887
THE London Standard, states that Mr. H. C. who manage to make a good thing out of it... Total 2,355,499-5,322,6335,196,304 Lindfield, the inventor of a flying machine, con- ducted an experiment with his invention the
SHANGHAI AUTUMN MEETING, FROM an advertisement in another column, it other day between Colmbrook-and-West-Dray- will be seen that the Loftus Troupe will not be ton. The apparatus, which is described as a
1883. down here from Japan, until about the 20th of steam sailing machine, is constructed of light the month. So well have these high class wood, and is shaped like the frame of a four- artistes been received in Japan that they have wheel carriage, with two large wheels in front been induced to prolong their stay there. Mr. and two small ones behind. Motive power is Bartley O'Brien, the agent of the Loftus Troupe, to be obtamed by steam, which will work a who arrived by the French mail steamer nine-bladed screw, and the inventor's idea is to Menzatch from Yokohama to-day, informs us propel the machine by steam on land until it
DAY, THURSDAY, 1ST NOVEMBER that the season of the troupe will open here attains a speed of thirty or thirty-five miles, shortly after their arrival, when they will appear velocity which he calculates will be sufficient. The MALDO PLATE, value Tis, 100; for China in Gilbert and Sullivan's popular and celebrated to lift the machine into the air, when it will Fonies; weight for inches as per scale; en- be navigated by means of the sails with which it is fitted. From the result of his expert (Mr. Hutchings) 'Mr. Arthur'a gik Cheapside, test, talboomer comic opera "The Pirates of Perizance,”
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THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY, 1st, 2nd and 3rd November." Stewards. M. Ringer, Esq.; W. Paterson, Esq.; A McLeod, Esq.; St. Michaelsen, Esq.; A. Myburgh, Esq.; W. Howie, Esq.; and F.-D. Hitch, Esq.
PIRETT
(By Telegram.)
trance, Tis. 5. Half-a-Mile.
CAMERON, of the London Standard, in his his reputation as a skille.1, fearless and wards 18 bags were recovered, and subae- SIR WALTER MEDHURST, who has been-actingiment he is confident that it is possible to fly in The CarretON STAKES, a Sweepstakes of Tis."
shaken the dust of Hongkong from his
feet.
enterprising journalist. He was the only newspaper representative In the country present at the sorties from Namdink, and he was not only first in the field at Hanoi, but was claver enough to get twelve hours ahead of all his rivals with his telegraphic despatches announcing the French repulse. Mr. CAMERON braved the discomforts of life
more bags
quently, through strenuous efforts, were fished up. There are only bags now missing, but the correspondence in these reco- vered is so damaged that addresses in many in- stances are almost illegible.
THE Harbour Master courteously forwarded us the following telegram, received late last night
North,
MANILA, 1st November.
MANILA, 228 November.
as immigration agent for the British North Borneo Company in this colony, since the agency was first established, leaves for Sandakan and Kudat by the steamship Thales to-morrow afternoon, on his way to England. Sir Walter, whose Chinese reminiscences extend so far back as 1839, has made himself immensely popular with all classes in Hongkong, and his final departure from the country where the best years of a long and useful life, have been spent in the public service will be generally regretted. We heartily with Sir Walter bon voyage, and many years of health and enjoyment at home.
A DIFFERENT version has reached us of the cele
brated interview between Li-Hung Chang and Governor Bowen to that published by authority
the air at the height of a mile. By the permals--
to each, with Tis. '150 added; for China Ponies; weight for inches as per scale; second pony to save his stake, ¿One Mile.
sion of the Great Westem Railway Company, the experiment was made on the newly finished portion of the railway to Staines, between Colm Mr. Bill's gręAllegro, 1st. 1lb...(Mr. Brandt) ;r® brook and West Drayton, and the inventor was The MAIDEN STAKES, value, Tis 250 second entrance; for China Ponies, that have never accompanied by Mr. Trevithick, the Locomotive pony Tha. so last pony to pay third pony's Superintendent of the company at Paddington.run at any Meeting; weight for inches as per scale; entrance, Tise 10. Three Quarters of a The machine was placed on a truck and con. nected with an engine, from whence the steam was derived, and the gearing was manipulated. Mr. Godolphin's gr. Nectar, sest olb from another truck. The operator succeeded in getting the machine lifted from the truck into the air, and expressed himself fully satisfied with the result of the trial.
RICHARD A. PRocroa, in an Interesting article In the columns of our evening contemporary. It on "poker" in Longman's Maganini, says :—Or said that Li-Hung Chang listened with true the four best classes of hands, there are the compliments, and when our worthy. Governor offth sequenom there may be Chiara imperturbability to Sir George's fulsome following number, had exhausted his literary knowledge in finding
*** (18 kuunda seguimausmina
** gommen Aushes detienence If dustson sequenceBundleen
***palni
Tomi sumber of possible hands
Mile.
HE Mr. Dunman) s The CLUB CUP, value, Tia 150,"added to a Sweepstakes of Tia 5 each; for China Ponies weight for inches as per scale. Two Miles. Mr. Paul's b Shamrock, ost-12
* (Mr. Nickels) t The Jockey Cup, value, Tis. 100; for China Fosies that have never won a Race; to be ridden by Jockeys who have never had an inning amount before the Meeting weight,
I entrance, Tis 3: Ons Mile,
Mr. Pallet's gi La Rose, 11st, olb.........................
** The PAGODA CUPÍ Value, Tik içờ; second pony, Thy 30s for China Ponies, being bond fida Griffins at date of entry; weight for inches as
per scales entrance, Tim. 5. One Mile and a Hall
Mr. Goet's ske, Herschel, 10st, taib,jasnen
parallel in history to equal the greatness of the all powerful Chinese Viceroy of Chih-li, His Excellency, without moving a muscle of his face, gravely requested his guests to fill their glasses and drink to the health of the distin- ·- which was the astute Viceroy's not altogether Inappropriate pronunciation of Sir Geo, Bowen's very proper order. It is fitting, for instance, dor Chins Ponies; weight for name. It is unnecessary to add that the toast that as there are only forty possible Bush "age was received with acclaination and properly sequence bands, out of a total sumber of 2,593,960
ponded to by the notables present.
It will be seen that those who devised the free Dr. Bidwell)
Another typhoot is raging S. E. 1 S. of Mani- in Tonquin for many weeks; he went over a To-morrow morning early something of le the country to every available spot where will be felt here (Manila) with wind from the East. The vortex is passing South, but it is In quite a friendly sort of way, we would hostilities were likely to occur; he journeyed rather dinant Direction appears to be from agala remind our..evening contemporary some 60 miles out to Halong Bay in a S.E. to W.N.W." that a little knowledge is a dangerous steam launch, and bearded Admiral CouEarly this morning the following additional thing. The self-constituted critic always DET on board the French flagship for a information was received by wire :- looks supremely ridiculous when, by sheer passage to enable him to witness the
The Typhoon announced yesterday dispersed ignorance, he lays himselfopen to adverse threatened bombardment of Hug, which, criticism on the very subject he pretends greatly to his disgust, was peremptorily before reaching Manila, and part of it took to know so much about. In disparaging refused; and he accompanied Colonel direction West, through 12 and 13 Latitude Mr. CAMERON, this particular critic says; BADING and his Annamese against the REPORT of the steamer Breconshire from Lon- "Mr. Colquhoun possessed the great ad-so-called insurgents, in that famous march don and Bingapore:Left the faster port at 88.1. vantage over Mr. Cazzon of having a under a heavy fire through the paddy. on the 24th time Nothing of note occurred thorough knowledge of the East, gained fields outside Namdinh, which onded so until the joth, when the weather set in bad by experience in Southern China, Burmah disastrously for the badly armed Tona.m., wind N.N.W. strong. The electric and India. In the latest Timer received quinese. Mr. COLQUHOUN, on the other pearance of the clouds" and a falling barometer guished Governor of Hongkong, Sir Jaw Bone miles for poker play, set the different hands in The RACING STAKES, a Sweepataices of syle: YO there appears a marvellously good de hand, stayed a few days in Haiphong; he prognosticated an approaching typhoon. Gaffs scription of Tonquin, Its resources and then in company with Mr. CAMERON and were sent down, extra sea gaskets passed, and prospects, from his pen It occupies Colonel GILDER, paid a flying visit to all made anug: 13 o'clock noon, wind increasing about six columns, and constituted the Hanoi, where he stayed for a few days rapidly. By 4 o'clock it was blowing a heavy gale, the wind in the meantime backing
hands, while there are 6a)"four" hands, the remarkable message he despatched and returned direct to Hongkong,.-
to the N.W. with torrents of rain, Barometer
flush sequences should come first, and so with per cable from Colombo." Not to put
30-15 falling; 6 pm, wind still increasing, and
the rest. It is noteworthy, however, that when too fine a point on it, the foregoing
barometer falling rapidly. 7.30 p.m. barometer
sequences were not counted, as was the rule in extract is simply ignorant trash. The
stood at 19.75, oscillating fully half a tenth by
former times, there was one hand absolutely taste displayed in drawing an invidious
the atmospheric pressure. The wind reached forbidden to open a parasol after passing the unique and unconquerable. The holder of four and altogether unnecessary comparison
its climax at about this time, blowing a perfect first palace gate, and then one must cross an aces then wagered on a certainty, for no one -hurricana An-hour-later-the-wind-dropped-a-enormous-courtyard bare-beaded, without any else could hold that hand. At present between the respective correspondents
little and backed round to the S.E, when itagain, shade except a litle fan. One must also either of the Times and Standard is, to say the
of the ace, king, queen, knave, ten flush may least, questionable, and what is far worse,
palace building, or else do so with the body bent (though it is of course exceedingly unlikely) be the writer does not hesitate to ignore well the only alms we have in view in making would be from S.E. to N.W., the vortex parsing almost at right angles. Finally, when you come met by the holder of the same cards, dual, known facts, and play with the truth to the above explanation are to prevent our directly over our position, ato miles south to the side door, by which alone it is lawful to another suit. Or when we remember that establish his contention. Everybody ac- readers from being misled by the China of Hongkong. Subsequently until ourar enter, you must leave your aboes at the bottom whist it has happened that the deal divided the quainted with current literature knows fat's unjust and unfounded aspersions on rival, it continued to blow a moderate of the stairs and walk for several hundred yards four suits simong the four players, to exch that Mr. Colquнoun's knowledge of the Mr. CAMERON's professional character, and gale from N.E,, with a very high sca. The over the scorching planks until you reach the complete sult, we see that four players
barometer began to rise rapidly after midnight throne hall, where you must aquar, taking care might each receive a flush sequence beaded byt of the 30th, but the clouds were still preserving to hide your feet as much as possible, until the the ace. Thus the und of sequences hat saved their wild unsettled appearance. The seas dur. King delgos to issue from his private apartments. poker players from the possible risk of having ing the storm were making a clean breach over When he does come, he speaks from behind a either to stand out or wager on a certain the entire ship, and washing everything moveable screen, and a confidential attendant repeats his last would be very painful to the feelings of
| august words.
professional mimbler,
In the face of these few plain truths, we leavetho public,should they consider it desir able, to decide for themselves, whether our evening contemporary was justified in ex- tolling. Mr. Colouroux to the disparage. ment of Mr.CAMERON, in the manner indulged
THE honor of an audience with the King of Burmah involves some inconveniences. In spite of the frightful sun of that country, it is strictly
in last night. As these two gentlemen are after a brief Interval, blew with terrific force avoid passing before the central gates of the
on equally friendly terms with ourselves, from that quarter. The path of the storm
East "gained by experience in Southern to thoroughly expose the spiteful ignorance China, Burmah and India" is not that of the person who has displayed so unne- knowledge likely to be of much practical cessarily and so unjustifiably such a con- use, to the war correspondent of a London temptible disregard of journalistic et- daily paper, Mr. Colquhoun never pre- quetle..
Away.
no absolutely sure winning hand. The
,at poke
per scale Griffine at date of sentry allowe #ylbs: iOne Mile and a Quarter, 4 siajul Mr. Pungus ge Prejudice, TIL
adherent (Mr. Pond) * The HACK STAKES, Value, Tis. 100) for China Ponies (without the restriction to height specie fied in By-Law No. 11) not otherwise entered at this Meeting, and that have never won a Race; weghe, Frost. 12lb; entrance, Tis. 5. Once Raund Mr. Cabell's dan Dunkeld, 10st. 12lb........................
SECOND DAY-ER 2ND NOVEMBER. The Nokti
100) for China panies, weight for inches, as per scale ; winner. of the Maloo, Plate, talbs, exira; entrance,
Dandolo............
The SHANGHAI ST. LEDER, SW They each, with Tis. 100 added
5 per centy second pony to'
15 per centy third party to receive to per for China ponies that have heyer, been rac previous to the rate anuary Tost. 7ibs winners of one
TWO KOTKIHUTa races, folba extra: and Thyes Ozarters. Fore