care in expenditure, and by co-operation. The fall in price is shown by the following figures giving the price per pound of indian tea laid down in the London market, and including the costs of sale-1878, s. d: 1882, 1.; 1884, id 1886, gid, per pound; when sold the profits in the sause years were, 1878. 41d.; 1887, 5td.; 1884, 8.; 1886, zid. These naturally are the wholesale prices, and Dr. White of the Indian Medical Service, commenting on them before the Society of Arts in London, said that they showed why China was going down in the contest with India. The former, working on a system centuries old and on an exhausted soil, is not able to reduce the cost of production materially, and meets the new state of affairs by supplying a lower quality, so that it is now completely dis credited, while India meets the reduced price by reduced cost of production. Indian tea of every grade fetches more in the London market than Chinese ten; the lowest priced Indian tea is more than the lowest priced Chinese, and the finest ludian ten feiches ad, per pound more than the finest Chinese tea. In fact Indian teas are constantly used to mix with Chinese tea, in arder to give the latter body," and were it not for this mixing considerable quantities of Chinese teas now coming on the market would be quite unsaleable.
Into the subjects of the various qualities of Indian teas, or the reasons why they are not yet so common on the Continent of Europe as in Great Britain, it is unnecessary to follow Herr Ecistemantel. Enough has been said to show the conditions of the great tea question, which is having such influence on the trade of China, and which appears destined to exercise a still greater, and we might say destructive, influence in the near future.Japan Mail.
LÖRD BRASSEY ON SUBSIDIZED VESSELS.
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vehemently wrathful when less superstitious mortals refuse to join them in their idolatrous worship,
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tay he the lefere ce which members of the Northern bat are in the Habit of paying to the amenities of lile. Amither, possibly, is the con. siction that a lawyer is responsible at law for an buse of language. If the Maryland rule should come to be generally accepted, and Northern" lawyers should give the sein to their tongue, the result would be obvious. When a man is a thief it does not aggravate him to be called a thief, bat when he is not, and he knows that he is not, la call him so is apt to ruffle the repose of his temper and to lead to events which are not
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POPULAR SCIENCE,
MANY INTERESTING FACTS IN FEW WORDS. Xylonite, the new material, makes perfect artificial noses.
It is said that Paris green will destroy the
that infest rose bushes
Steel, when hardened, dec cases in specific gravity, contracts in length and increases in diameter,
What may be of great value in ship-building and watch-making is the discovery that steel mixed with 24 per cent. of manganese becomes non-magnetic.
A St. Louis doctor says that cocaine not only destroys the will power, but will make a villain out of the honestest man in the world.
Science says that the water of a river one mile wide, thowing on the meridian, will be 12 inches higher on the west bank than on the castern bank.
:
fa metalurgical operations the use of natural as insures a saving of 67 to 75 per cent in the Cost of fuel, and there is an increase of product anywhere from to to so per cent.
A writer in the St. Louis, Globe thinks the time is coming when the walls, ceiling and floors of our dwellings will be formid of malleable geys, and perfect chanliness will be possible,
French engineer host recently invented an improved key,, which simplifies and renders losing the tuning of stringed instruments. The violoncellists of the Grand Opera at Paris have had them adapted to their instruments:
There are two distinct bares upon which, veneration of the monarch may reasonably rest. and similarly two grounds upon which criticism of royalty may be constitutionally and lawfully expressed. Only when, the subject is favourable to the continuance of the monarch as an Estate of the Realm and also able sincerely to applaud the personal qualities of the existing occupant of the highest position in the State, can he be reasonably loyal: if either of these conditions fail,to be encouraged. it is treason to the State or else to the morn code to assume a reverence which reason repudi- ates. Dissent expressed in the method which the law permits is in such case the only honest and consistent alternative. There's pomore disloyalty In objecting to Royalty as the first Estate of the- Realm, than in urging the abolition of the House of Lords, which constitutes the second Estate A Republican Englishman could use his voice and vote for the abolition of the Monarch and heredi-wouas fary peers without being in any way disloyal to the constitution of his country. The essence of the British Constitution is its representation of the will of the people; if the popular will lawfully expressed declared for a Republic, that form of Government would then be necessarily adopted. The Constitution is not the State; it is merely the machinery by which the State acts True loyalty regards the welfare of the community; Toryism strives only to uphold the existing form of Govern- ment, and deigns not to enquire whether the action of each of its parts conduces to the general good. The consistent Tory, the Loyalist "of the Herbert W. Hamilton class, does not trouble himself to learn whether the engine of State is capable of improvement; he seeks not to know whether its action is beneficial; he only knows that it is there, and that it has certain parts, and | while he hasa voice left him, he will howl at ihose. who examine its workmanship and criticise the quality of the work-it tums qui. Whatever is, is right." So says the Tory, "the machine may ***Lond; Brassey, from his palatial mansion at inse the gold of prosperity it was erected to save: Normanhurst, is working earnestly to bring the the quicksilver of labour may sicken with the ewners and managers of all the great steamers sulphur of the hereditary system; the amalgam of the United Kingdom inte cordial co-operation
we take up may be worth less, as you arer, than with the Admiralty lords, with a view to accept the mercury bestowed upon the plates-all these ing their stipulations for subsidised, armed things may be so, but you must not say they are.
Some "Europgan towns forbid the occupation cruisers in the event of war. Lord Brasscy nas
of newly built houses until four months after Dar ancestors constructed the machine in their conceived a bright idea, but not an entirely new
ompletion, as there are nearly five thousand,¦ the same thought must have occurred age of ignorance, and it is therefore sacred to us." to hundreds of naval men who have brains to being assured of the usefulness of the system of
Reasonable loyalty to the monarch, besides is of water used in the marlar and building
nigo coo bricks, which should first day out. think out schemes of national importance, but
A physician of Philadephia analyzed a black who lack the opportunities pass ssed by this monarchy, must, as we have said, be satisfied
from headache, and found it contained three has succeeded in winning his way to a social beings The laws written and unwritten, which and political position second only to that of every sovereign swears to observe, demands of one of the lead stl. From this case Betconsfield in the nost aristocratic and exclu. certain acts and forbearances as the conditions he concludes that many headaches are often due
patiesalson, prin of the lead in the hat-band. sive of all countries. Writing about the big stea- upon which Royal authority is exerci-ed. One
It has ke i tond, by extensive observations, 16 Paris andAlunich, that the years in which there cers which carry British mails and passengers Statute, for instance provides that the king or over every 'sea Brassey says:-"No ship should queen must profess the Protestant faith; if, there has been a large quantity of water present ip'the | be allowed to receive a subsidy, which has and a fore, the Queen should become a professing Ro- less speed than 18 knots an hour on the mea-manist, the contract of Royalty would be broken, and have invairably been the healthiest, while Those in which there has been a smaller quæntay sured mile. We are giving the and O. and the people might rightfully declare, throngh Company £265,000 a year for ten years, and their representatives, their unwillingness to permit accepting from it a speed but of 123 knots the further exercise of an authority that had ceased an hour, while the French and the German to be lawful, And all subjects have a right to bosts are doing not less than 14. A further pay. know whether this condition is kept. So with all the other conditions., The contract with the ment of £85,000 is being made to the P. and O. Australian fleet by Victoria, without any stipula Sovereign is bilateral, and each of the individual tions being made with reference to the employ.units of the people may form his opinion as to ment of the majority of the fleet of the Company incident to regal power are discharged. The certain virtues ant vices has been mooted by a for State purposes. The Royal Mail" receives a subsidy of £90,000 a year for the conveyance of the mails from Southampton to the West Indies, and should certainly be required to provide vessels adopted for the service of the State, when making its next contract with the Govern ment. As an example of a lost opportunity I may refer to the recent launch of the P. and O. steamer Victoria. The extreme speed of this magnificent ship, which has been built to bridge the ocean between the mother country and Australia, falls much below the standard that ought to be insisted on. She is 465 feet in length, which is somewhat short in these days for a ship of her fine class. With a view to her service as an auxiliary to the national fleet, her engines together with those of all the "Jubilee" ships; should have been more powerful. If the Posi office and the Admiralty had worked together in this important matter, the speed of those four steamers of the P. and O. Company might have been easily brought up to 18 knots an hour without mach additional expense to the State, It should always be insisted that the vessels to be thus employed should be capable of taking service as fast cruisers to protect the thousands of much slower cargo steamers, which, without such protection, could not continue on the sea in a war against France. I know.that there are difficulties that in 1886 th: Cunard Company paid no dividend, that the great Intan Line collapsed, and the Peninsular and Oriental only yielded five per cent to its shareholders."
To-day's Advertisements.
THEATRE
THE
ROYAL
CITY HALL, HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9TH, 1888,
HE AMERICAN MUSICAL COMEDY
AND OPERA COMPANY.
Directors
Mr. PEMBERTON W. WILLARD.
JOHN F. SHERIDAN. "Will appear as above in SYDNEY GRUNDY'S GREAT LONDON FARCICAL COMEDY,
*THE ARABIAN NIGHTS."
·CAST OF CHARACTERS..
Anhur Hummingtop...Mr. P. W. Willann. Ralph Ormerod (his
friend)..........ons ↑ Joshua Gillibrand (his
H
Brother in-law) ***** 15 Dobson (his Servant)... Mrs: Hummingtop (his
Wife)........
CHARLES FISHER.
JOHN F. SHERIDAN. A. SUTCH.
Miss FLO MORRISON.
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Mrs. Gillibrand (his
Mother-in-Law) ................ EVA LEAMINGTON. Daisy Maitland (his
Nicee) Barbara (his Servant).... Rosa Colombier........
VE A PATEY. NELLIE ARLINE. G. WHITE FORD,
7, 1888.
Enti-nations.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPO4 DKK COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
“HE RUINARY HALF-YEARLY MEET- TINGNAREHOLDERS will be bet
in the nices of the Company No. 14, Pray: Central, on MONDAY, the 27th" instant, a' AP.3, for the purpose of receiving the Repot of the Directors, and a Statement of Account: to 30th June, 1884, 1
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 13th to 27th August both days inclusive.
By Order of th♬ Boård of Diretors,
D. GILLIES,
. Secretary.
itongkrog, 1st August, 1958.
HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SİJAREHOLDERS.
760
THE DIVIDEND at the Rate of 7 per cent per share, declared at the Ordinary Half-yeaily Meeting of Shareholders held This Day, will be payable at the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION on and after SATURDAY, the 4th instant,
Shareholders are requested to apply at the Office of the Company for Warraníts.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
AT, ARNOLD,
Secretary,
Hongkong 3rd Augusi, .288.
1765
SCENE-APARTMENT IN »UMMINGTOP'S | ITONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
HOUSE.
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The Comedy will be preceded at 9 Sharp by a CONCERT. Conductor.........Mr. J. A. RongiISOS. Prices $3, $z, and $1. Plan at Messrs. Kelly & Walsa's, 1.n. All communications to, PAMBERTON W WILLARD, Hongkong Hotel.
Hongkong. 6th Au ust 18
1771 COLLEGE OF MEDICINE FOR CHINESE, ESIDENTS in the Colony would materially
CORPORATION.
hereby given that
the
NORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEET IMG of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporat tion will be held at the Crry HALL, Hongkong, SATURDAY, the Twenty-fifth day of Angust. at Twriye O'CLOCK NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a statem pt of Accounts to 30th June, 18 8.
By Order of the Court of. Discetois,
T. JACKSON,
Chart Manager.
.
Hongkowe, 27th July, 188$
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"HERE is no feature of our civilised life that
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Agcats, Hongkong. Hongkong, 29th June, 1888.
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STRAITS INSURANCE COMPANY. LIMITED.
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HEAD OFFRE SINGAPORE..
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latest member of the British aristocracy, who with the conduct of the sovereign for the time Japanned hat-band worn by a patient sulfTIDER the Senate of the College by forward HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI, BANKING: Paid Up Capital
Lord Brassey has been sneered at in this colony, hut why? He is, after the great states- men who carve out empires and who rule the world, one of the few able and highly intelligent members of the House of Peers who can bring sound and practicable common sense to bear on the most complex subjects. He is the author of six or seven standard works of literature, the founder of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, a construcler of railways, an effective public. speaker who can always command an intelligent audience, an Oxford collegian who has won honours in the study of law and history, a sailor who has circumnavigated the earth, an expert artillerist, if not a soldier, and lastly, a man who in better able to express an opinion on the present subject than possibly any individual in the United Kingdom.,
THE HALO OF ROYALTY.
note thus -
Sir,-Assuming that you really elleve in the truth of the inuing remarks you make abṣui the Queen, and about ber predecessors and relatives, you might have the decency to suppress
the completeness with which the obligations. people in former periods of English history have. decided that the King had ceased to merit their support. Charles I. and Jaines 11. bath lost the Crown because they repudiated the oblign- of power when he was found to be a trifle madder tions it involved, and George 111: was deprived than most of the Guelphs. So now Victoria holds her sceptre only by support of the nation; her tenure is durante placitomas long as the people who entrusted her with power shall be satisfied with the manner of its exercise. We freely admit that Victoria her family yet appointed to the throne, and has, is certainly the least objectionable specimen of
to the State than any of her predecessors. This we think, wronght a less amount of direct injury is faint praise, and we do not hesitate to accord it yet, while admitting so much, we do not abate one iota of our claim to enquire as to her conduct, and that of other royal personages, and to publishi any information concerning her actions which we may deem it necessary and beneficial far subjects to know.
Arguments such as the foregoing may be un interesting as a twice-told tale to the more thoughtful Australians, but they, if we may judge from the hysterical, royalty-fawning tone of the Sydney daily papers, form only a very small minority of our population. To the large majority, depths of vice befitting a Little Bourke street Chinaman would be transformed into mountain peaks of virtue; lust, sufficient to brand a Mormon elder with ineffable disgrace, would appear as gentle courtesy; and stupidity unheard of outside a lunatic asylum, be reckoned
marvellous wisdom if touched with the hal lowing influences of royalty.-Sydney Bulletin.
THE LICENSE OF THE BAR.
have invanably been the healthiest.
A novelty at fairs is the stereoscopic incubatOF that by the aid of the electric light reveals the
wonders of artificiat incubation. The gradual formation of the chicken and dick can be seen plainly in the shell during the entire period of "Incubation, this being two minutes in length.
A very curious geographical distribution of Scientist, Intemperance is mostly found above latitude 48, amatory aberrations south of the forty-fifth, financial extravagance in large seaports, industrial thrift in pastoral highland regions.
to the ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (1)-GLASS JARS (for Museum purposes).
CORPORATION.
Reserve Fund
$3,000,000
600,0:0 $5,000
THE above Company is accepting MARINE. RISKS to at parts, of the World at CURRENT RATES.
(2) ILLUSTRATED PAPERS and looks for the NOTICE is betele given that the REGIS. TH
Student's Reading Room and Library.
O" SHARES of the Corporation Address:-JAMES CANTLIE, will losed from the inth (SATURDAY), 4 Hon. Sec, to the College.the 25th day of August next, bath days inclusive, "during which period no transfer of Shares can be ..1773
registered.
"By Order of the Count of Directors.
T. JACKSON,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 27th July, 1888.
*THE CHINA SUGAR, REFINING COMPANY,- LIMITED.
Hongkong, 7th August, 1888.
THE EASTERN EXTEN-
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OPENHAGEN.
HONGKONG STATION.
OF
SHANGHAL-NAGASAKI cables are
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..$2,000,000 *400,000
STRAITS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. Subscribed Capital............................ Paid Up Capital .....
Company is prepared to Issue 1742TFOLICIES against FIRE on Foreign and Native Houses, Godowns and their contents, at CURRENT RATES.
:
Binterrupted. Messages for JAPAN can be accordance with the provising of No. 121 of Companies participate in the Banus whether
forwarded as under-
VIA DJOULFA $4.10 per word.
LONDON
******** 4.30 COREA ......S
1.86 WALTER JUDD,
Manager in China.
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- Hongkong, zth August, - 888.
ST. JOHN
LOD
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the production of hydrogen by means of passing A company, organized several year ago for superheated steam over red-hot iron, discovered that in the process the surface of the iron is affected in such a way as to successfully resist rusting Experimenting farther, they claim to have lofind a method for protecting iron and steel from atmospheric and chemical corrosion.
A gentleman who has made a study of the eye says, for the benefit of the people who have to earn a livelihood with the pen: "Never write | on white paper if you can get yellow paper. AA named Lodge will be held in FREEMASONS sheet or card of the same shade placed on the wall over the desk will assist in giving the eye rest, and thus will facilitate the work." He has made this suggestion to many, and in each case. has received the thanks of those who have been benefited by it. It.is simple and doesn't require any philosophy to prove it.
fils announced from Paris that an astronomical catalogue, resulting from the re-observation of the 48,000 stars in Lalandes'" Histoire Celeste," is almost completed. This work was begun in 1855, but Innguished up to ten years ago, since which time it has been actively 'pushed. It is also announced that twelve observatories, includ- ing Paris, will be ready next year to take the part assigned to them constructing a photo- French observatory will also assist as soon as graphic map of the stellar heavens. The other funds are provided, and the completion of the work is assured in three or four years.
According to the British Medical Journal, Pye Smith read a paper recently before the
Shefield Medico-Chirurgical Society, in which
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SHIP COMPANY.
NOTICE.
"ONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship |
** GAELICA of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees
Bills of Lading for Countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from along. side.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel
and expense.
the Articles of Association, the General Agents have this day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND of 6 per cent, for the half-year ending 30th June, 1888, on the paid up Capital of the Company.
Dividend Warrants payable at the HONGKONG AND SHANCHAL BANKING CORPORATION will be issued to Shareholders on the Register on the 24th instant.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company"
All Contributors of Business in the above Two
Shareholders or not.
•
JOHN ANDREW, Agent, Office, 24, Queen's Road, Opposite Hongkong Hotel [740
Hongkong, 17th July, 1888.
will be CLOSED from the 10th to the 24th THE
instant, both days inclusive.
'JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents. Hongkong, 4th August, 1888.
IMPAIRED VISION,
LAWRENCE & MAYO'S PERFECT PEBBLER,
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HE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED.
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED.........$1,000,000.
The above Company is prepared to accept MARINE RISKS at CURRENT RATES on GOODS, &c. Policies granted to all Parts of the world payable at any of its Agencies.
WOO LIN YUEN, Secretary.
HEAD OFFICE,
"No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST; Hongkong, rit February, 1882.
A GENERAL NOTICE.
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THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, (LIMITED.)
Are clear, cool, preserving to the Sight.
[R. LAWRENCE is now in Hongkong and
may be consulted at the HONGKONG | CAPITAL HOTEL Room No. 20) dally from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M (CONSULTATION FREE).
SPECTACLES P. BLINDNESS... The symptoms indicating failure or irregulari ties of sight are frequently too long disregarded and either from ignorance or feeling of diffidence. the aid demanded by nature is withheld until serious mischief has been caused to the sight,
in blindness.
TAELS: 600,000, EQUAL TO RESERVE FUND
$833,333-35 $240,000.00,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
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will be landed and stared at Consignees' risk. The following patients out of many hundreds MARINE RISKS on GOODS, &t, taken
THE Steamship,
have sent unsolicited acknowledgments of the benefit they have derived from the use of our [Pebble Spectacles i—
CHAS. D. HARMAN,
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UNION LINE. »
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM LONDON, AND SINGAPORE,
DORSET," Captain Daniel, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading to the Undersigned for countersignature and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from along- side.
Cargo Impeding the discharge of the Steamer Godowns at Consignees' risk and expense and no Fire Insurance will be effected.expon presented to the Undersigned on or before the All Claims against the Steamer, must be 14th instant, or they will not be recognised.
RUSSELL & Co. Agents,
anything of the kind, which is so discreditable, as loyal people de lawyer may defame a party against whom he is anginal, but no one has ever provided a bridge. will be at once landed and stored at Kowloon
д
Dr. H. D. Burrell, surgeon of the City and Carney Hospitals, at Boston, has lately made several successful experiments in restoring lost noses. It has long been possible to substitute a pretty, life-like looking structure for the Dr. Burrell has obviated thi dificulty by taking a piece of bone from a live animal. This opera- tion was recently performed on a woman at the Carney Hospital. A young chicken was killed, and a piece of bone of the proper shape taken from the breast. Then the flesh of the old nose was properly stretched over the bone and secured by ligatures. Tampons of cotton were put in to give the nostrils the proper shape. The new bone became properly unit,d with its attachment, the wound healed, and the operation, thus far, is a perfect success. The patient has now a fine Roman sose, and the only scar is à nearly im- percetib'e line at one side of the newly made
he said that manufactured from the wool A peculiar decision, the San Francisco Call garments to those made from cotton or other vege- of animals were greatly to be preferred for points out, in a slender case has just been
table libre, being much superior as regards con- tendered by the Maryland Court of Appeals. Aduction of heat, absorption of moisture, porosity, lawyer in summing up a case grossly defamed weight, cleanliness, natural coloring, inflam one of the parties to whom he was opposed; in mability, strength, softness, flexibiltiy, elasticity a word, as the reporter says, blackguarded him as
and durability." Their roughness of surface was a foul-mouthed pettifogger sometimes will when advantageous, except in the rare cases in which he thinks that he is protected by his profesional
even the finest varieties caused unbearable privilege. The party assailed sued the lawyer for slander. A demurrer was filed stating that irritation of the skin. Special strese was laid on the slanderous words were uttered by counsel in
the value of socks with a separate compartment for each tpe as a. preventive of corns and the discharge of his duty to his client and were
deformity of the tees. therefore privileged. The point was brought "Herbert W. Hamliton" writes us an indignant before the Court of Appeals and that tribunal has just decided that the defamation having been uttered by defendant in his capacity as counsel an point relevant to the issue, an action for slander will not lia." In other words, a not like to read such things you often priat
This is an excellent sample of a class of retained, without regard to the truth of his letters which wo constantly receive from assertions, so long as he does not travel out of wrathful correspondents. Protests of this order the case, and the party defamed has no remedy. are based upon the assumption that loyalty to No one should be suffered to utter false and a temporal ruler is more "to be esteemed defamatory words concerning another, without than adherence to the cardinal virtues. If we incurring the responsibility prescribed by law. are not to voice disparaging truths concerning It makes no difference that the slanderer is á a arvereign, the evident inference is that the lawyer and that the slander is uttered in court. sove.gign is more to be regarded than national Every citiren is entitled to the protection expediency, or even truth itself. This estimate of the law in court as elsewhere, and of monarchy is consistent with the old dogma against lawyers as against other people. Of which asserted the sovereign to be the direct course, a lawyer is not only free, he is bound by representative of the Delty, appointed by Heaven his professional duty to calf men and things by to rule over men, and inspired with Divine their right names in addressing the jury or the guidance in all things, whether of State or private Court. If he is satisfied on reasonable grounds Concern. The theory itself has long site gane that the party on the other side is trying to fob down before the forces of enlightenment, but the his client he is justified in calling him a thief in influence of the buried dogma is still plainly the plainest words he can use. Whether the perceptible. Driven from the heads of men, li facts justify the use of such language he must lingers in their hearts, and promotes a species decide for himself on his own responsibility, of idolatrous worship-reasonable enough when But it is clear that he should not call a man a the medieval doctrine of divine, right was thief where the evidence in the case raises no upheld, but utterly without justification in the presumption of his distinnesty, and if he does he face of the abandonment of that dogma. Methods should be punished for it like any other citizen. of thought, however erroneous they may be, In the Southern States, where members ofthe not reversed by mere proof of their incomeciness; bar indulge more license of the tongue than the habits Induced by the operation of the old is usual in other ports of the country, a lawyer creed are continued, although the creed itself be knows the risks he max when he abuses an discarded as false and vialous-As the reformed individual in bis addreas to the jury. In the opium-eater craves for his drug long after his North they are not in the hi bit of shooting reason has convinced him that he must not members of the bar except on rare occa touch it, so Herbert W. Hamilton and others of sions. There was a lawyer shot, the other his stamp try to discover a divine hala round" "day in Chicago for language used in a the royal head, long after they have learnt to divorce case, but the practice cannot be said ncknowledge that it is not there, and grow to be popular. One reason for the difference
organ.
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UNION LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, FROM HAMBURG, ANTWERP, PENANG, AND SINGAPORE. Steamship
Electric welding has now been put on a com- mercial use comparty far been formed THE SMANNERING," mainly by Boston capitalists with a capital Captain Ford, having arrived from the above stock of half a million, which will turn out weld- Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested ing machines. The machines will be sold, but to send in their Bills of Lading to the Under- the company has a royalty on every weld made signed for countersignature, and to take imme by their machines. To make this practical a dinte delivery of their Goods from alongside.
The Steamer is berthed at KOWLOON meter is set upon them all. This meter. has upon it three dials resembling those and Cargo Impeding her discharge will on a gas meter. By its peculiar construction be at once landed and stored at Consignees it is claimed that it will not register unless a risk and expense and no Fire Insurance will be perfect weld is made. The new company is effected. backed by considerable capital, by which it in enabled to buy up all the experimental electrical welding methods in the country. These machines will weld anything in the shape of metal. They do riot require that both metals shall be of the same material, as iron has been welded to brass in the experiments tried. The machines as they ard pow built will weld an iron cable or a watch spring with equal facility,
The Earl & Countess Lindsay, Queen's Gate, London, S.W.
Lady Kembail, 79 Queen's Gate, London, S.W. Lady Emily Digby, Coventry, England.
S, R.. Groom, Esq., F.R.G.S., Barrister at Law, Singapore.
The Hon, E. E.. Isermonger, Col. Treasurer, Singapore.
world.
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'HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 9, PRAYA WEST,
Hongkong, 17th December, 1885. [Byy
For Sale
FOR SALE.
Singapore.
R. Huddle; Esq., Deputy Master Attendant, ONE GRAND UP RIGHT PLANO, almost
Dr. Richard Bowman, L.R.C.P., Singapore. J. R. Allan, Esq, Singapore. Surgeon General W. Colis, M.D., India. Major General Sir M. Biddulph, C.B., India. Surgeon General A. E. Dals, M.D., India. Major General Murray, C.B., India. Brigade Surgeon J. A. Scout, M.D., India, &c.
new, and in good condition.
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A. B., c/o Hongkong Telegraph Office. Hongkong, 30th July, 1888.
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Glage Protectors are strongly recommended '
by the leading Ophthalmic Surgeon.
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$7.25 per Case of 4 Dozen Quarts."
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SAMOPHTHALMIC. OPTICIANS (Opticians to the Principal Ophthalmic Sur geous in England and India,}-*", OFFICES-OLD BOND STREET, London.
34 HARE STREET, Calcutta. 22 RAMPART Row, Bombay," Hongkong, zaib July, 1888.
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Optional Cargo will be forwarded on to THE Copy down at Kowloon or West Company is prepared to Tranship Cargo Shanghai unless notice to the contrary be given point from Seaner in the harbour, and to before Noow, TO-DAY, the 3rd install
all claims against the Steamer must be prebring Cargo across from Kowloon to any place sented to the Undersigned on or before the 13th on the Praya at the usual rates, instant or they will not be recognisediakan
By Order, and RUSSELL
ISAAC HUGHES, &Co.,
Secretary, Hongkong, 3rd August, 1889,
Hongkong, 20th April, 1888,
Mai Agents,
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