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William 111, has been a good. King, liberal, constitutional, favorable to progress, thrifty of the finances of his subjects. ` Hë abandoned to the State Half his civil list thus reducing it from 1,300,000 florins to 650,000 florins. On the other hand, taking advantage of an article of the Dutch Constitution of 1848, which says. "Le roi regle sa malson comme bon lui semble" (the King manages his household as he pleases), Williams I lived in a manner which will give him a place in the amorous history of this century between Victor Emanuel of Italy and Charles XV. of Sweden. He has been a great lover. fils whole life is summed up in one word- women. For good or for evil he has always been under their influence. Born in 1817 he was Wurtemberg, who was a year his junior. The married in 1839 to the Princess Sophia of history of that union is known to all. The Princess is not beautiful, but very cultivated and intelligent, wished to make The Hague centre of intellectual influence : she adored · literature and politics. The Prince of
musical women, paid more attention to his own pleasures than to the European concert, and hated heartily the embarrassments of court cliquelte. For ten years the two lived under a regime dictated by their incompatibility of humor, till in 1849 the Princess Sophia became Queen of the Low countries, and the discord between her and husband divided the court into two openly declared parties, that of the King and that of the Queen. Having become a widower in 1877, the King sobered down a little. The crown of Holland being threatened with extinction through Houseless gatisme of the Prince of Orange known in Paris rapid circles as "Citron "—and through the rickety state of the King's own son by Queen Sophia, Prince William, he married in 1879 the Princess Emma of Waldeck Fyrmont, becoming the father of the little Princess Henrietta, the present heiress to the throne.
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was the most generous of protectors, but the most tiresome and unendurable of lovers. He used to make all the actresses whom he protected read aloud to him, so as to enjoy their good elocution. The story runs that one day, when he exacted this favor from Mlle. Abingdon of the Varieties, whose intelligence, was less considerable than her beauty, she replied: "Sire, I will call my mother. She can read much better than I can."
William II, was probably not of this opinion, for Mile. Abingdon did not remain long in favor. Mme. Musard, on the other hand, continued to be protected for some years after the 'war of 1970-71, and then, finding that her fortune was sufficiently colossal, she emancipated herself, and began to realize her dream of living quietly with her husband, whom she loved exclusively, In spite of appearances to the contrary; surroun- losing sight of him except when business called ding him with all kinds of attentions; never her elsewhere. After her husband she loved her diamonds. When I die," she used to say: "I want to have all my diamonds laid out on the bed," Still in the prime of mature beauty, was smitten with blindness at thirty-seves, and died raving raad in Dr. Blan.
che's private asylum.
Her successor in the favor of Willam 111. was Mite. Emilie Ambre, a French woman, who has had all sorts of adventures. She was born in Africa, passed, her childhood in the desert, was
smitten at an early age with a craze for the stage, wandered over Europe and America as an artist, was for a time a star at the Italian opera in Patis Count, made a mess of her marriage, returned to in the old Sale Ventadour, married a real the provincial stage, and finally wrote the novel, "La Diva." in which the Prince of Wales, James Gordon Bennett and Christine Nilsson Giger, without being very ferociously maltreated. Emilie Ambre, who settled in Holland, made the old King spend such a pile of money that his cascadense from their territory. She was the sovereign's last caprice before he married the Princess Emma and became thoroughly respect- able and venerable. As for Emilie Ambre, she is living obscurely in the provinces and not troubled with a superfluity of wealth.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
THE agents (Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co.) inform us that the Shire" Line steamship Denbighshire lolt. Singapore yesterday for this port.
A MISSOURI editor excuses the absence of editorial matter in a recent issue of his paper by announcing that "the editor is now lying in bed, with one foot in the grave,"
that a violent thunderstorm accompanied by OUR Macan correspondent writes us this morning torrential rain burst over the Holy City at 'am. to-day and showed no signs of abatement by 7 a.m.
men committed matrimony. Of the brides one SOME Queensland Chinese statistics:-15 China- was a Queenslander, one a Victorian, two were Scotch lassies, three were Bridgels and eight were Englishwomen.
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We are requested to state that in consequence of the interruption in connection with the Tram- way there will be only one Peak delivery daily, Letters and parcels may be posted in the General Post Office up to 12 o'clock,
SURGEONS are said to be using an instrument called the graphophone to register the charac- teristics of a cough. The patient to-day coughs cough in comparison with it, to let the doctor into the machine, and ten days hence may see if his cough has changed.
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CHOLERA may be said to be rapidly extinguish- ing itself in Manila on the 25th inst. the number of deaths registered barely amounted to holl a deren.
OUR morning contemporary's Macao, corres pondent is evidently under the 'impression that a faithful chronicle of the informal dancing parties and other so-called amusements that take place in that dead-and-alive city is all the news that readers care to know. A few days. ago he gave us a very verdant account of the
house.. To what purpose all this detailed infor Concert held at the Union Club; to-day he has a rechauffe of the Ball at Mr. Senna Fernandes' mation of family gatherings in the Holy City Is there nothing fresh from Chin-San to amuse the public with? Have the salt fish mongers, or the fresh fruit importers, or the priests, and· nuns of Macao all gone on furlough?
KHARTOUM, says the N. Y. Sun, still figures in newspaper dispatches, though there really is no Khartoum, at the present day. The town was
practically wiped out of existence in the days of horror following Gordon's death. The forts are ↑ still maintained, but the rest of the town was razed to the ground and the material used in the most important buildings was taken across the river to build a big mausoleum and mosque over across the river from Khartoum, is now the seat the remains of the Inte Mahdi. Omdurman
of the Mahdist power, and when we read that Khartoum is alarmed over White Pasha rumori, state. it simply means that Omdurman is in a panicky By destroying Khartoum the Mahdi
Prophet outside its walls. meant to show the Soudan what would become of any other wicked city which, accepting an infidel's aid attempted to keep the host of the
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place some sixty miles away-for Hongkong, with a quantity of sugar-seventy or eighty piculs. Two nights after, when near Tai Sung Ho, some thirty miles off, four "snake-boats ANTHER bit of "English as she is spoke" crowded with pirates attacked them, first throw. This is on the sign-board of a Chinese cigar- ing stinkpots on board and then firing at the merchant's shop in Bonham Strand West crew as they ran out of theifling hold "Co-cace, dealer in all kinds of cigars, made One of the crew was severely burnt by the con trade-Mark was prized by the King of Spain, great blisters, and the captain and another man with a superior good, and the leaves of this tents of one of the stinkpots, being covered with which cannot be forget by others."
were shot, but not fatally. They all jumped overboard, but the pirates hauled them in. which they put the sugar ant everything else on, again, and fastened them down in the hold, after
prisoned men managed to break out attera while, and were picked up outside the Harbour yester day by the steamer Triumph. On arrival here the man who was burnt and one of those who were shot were removed to the Hospital.
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It would be interesting to know, the gross loss the Colony has sustained by today's storm. The first part of it was comparatively unimportant-it started at about 2 aim, and con- tinued till noon, being accompanied by thunder from daylight. Up to that time it was a steady, ' heavy, driving downpour, washing every incline, covering every level with debri and sand, streaking the hills with, minin- ture waterfalls, and effectually stopping all puiduor traffic. For an hour or two it was even worse, as the storm was accompanied by a high gusty wind. About seven o'clock the Harbour Praya wall, smashing a few junks and boats, was quite stormy, the sea breaking over the
and causing the host of sampáns to seek shelter in the beads of the wall. There were neatly fifty steamers and sailing ships in the Harbour, apart from the men-of-war and the junks, and on none was any work done for many an hour; everything was at a standstill, the flooded streets coolics-nothing but sheets of rain. Towards deserted, except for solitary ricksba and chair
eleven o'clock Queen's Road became impassable; no-one could walkover to the Clubor the Barracks, the huge drains became surcharged, and every small fane to the Praya was transformed into a channel washed by rushing yellow water. The Harbour itself was almost full of fresh water, "charged with an immense amount of mud, and when visible looked as though it were the Nile of the flood. After a while the thunder ceased, the wind changed to a calm, and the clouds rose, but about three the clouds fell again, the. darkness increased, and the rain' again set in steadily. The rainfall between 7 a.m. and 120 an. was 5.1 inches, and between 10:20 a.m, and 11.20 a.m. 6.4 inches, or 11.6 inches la all -over two inches an hour! Then news of
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The amorous history of William 111 includes the kames of scores. of celebrated actresses and singers, but his mast sensational liaison was that with the notorious Mmc. Elisa' Musard, wife of the bandmaster who created on the site of the present Jardin de Paris, the Concerts Musards.so famous during the second empire. The simple story of this liaison, of which all the actors have now disappeared, is not wanting in piquancy. Alfred Musard was the son of an orchestra leader who had his days of glory after 1830. Very elegant in his person, well educated, an excellent father, Alfred Musard led a gay life at Paris until he had spent all papa's economies, and then set sail for the United States, where he organized very successful concerts, and made the conquest of the fascinating person who be came legally Mme. Musard after his return to France. The couple were remarked in artistic society, the busband for his elegance and the wife for her wonderful beauty. But at that Worth or fabulous diamonds; she was generally dressed in modest black silk, and made no show of wealth. Her husband is we have said, had founded the concerts, in the Champs Elysées which bore his name he composed much valse music; he had great success both as an artist and an impresario.
time Mme. Musard did not wear dresses by
Suddenly Allred Musard abandoned his con- ductor's balon, ceased to compose and was seen
driving about Paris in a pony chaise. At the same time the papers, announced that the sympathetic couple bad inherited a considerable fortune from an American relative, but as neither monsieur por mad me had taken the precaution of wearing mourning, the gossips suspected something, and tongues began to wag.
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In the Bois the luxurious equipages of Mme Musard caused all to turn their heads. At the opera the diamonds of Mme. Musard and her sumptuous toilets were the centre upon which Latters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The Editor and all eyes were fixed. The luxury of the couple
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England in Africa,, We have always admired the, facility with which the Far East fresh-water Lusitanians, who almost without exception derive their means of livelihood from British trade and industry,
A. A DA SILVA, one of the Wyndham Street house for keeping a ferocious dog. The com- plainant said that one day she was going to the defendant's house when some Portuguese curen clapped their hands, and the dog flew nut and bit little girl who was with her on the heel. The case was remanded.
A GREAT deal of sickening contribution of the coming election of a Deputy to represent the Holy City at the Lisbon Cortes is indulged in by the Macao rags, to the undivided satisfaction of the urchins and dolce far niente majority who infest that city. What benent will accrue from so much nonsensical twaddle we cannot say although we are sure both the gentleman who would feel ashamed to be elected by the votes actually represents the circle and his competitor
of such uncompromising cannille.
AN expert, whose name, according to the St Louis Republic, is known around the globe, pens the following criticism upon the current educational system of the country: "It lacks truth and, nature. We are students of words. We are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, our legs, our eyes or our armas, We do not know an edible root in the woods; cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of the day by the sun. We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog, of a snake, of a spider.. The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The eld English rule war, all summer in the field
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like so many faithless curs, bite, instead of licking, the hand that feeds them. Still this is the invariable way they behave themselves whenever they can express their feelings in the columns of a newspaper. It is easy to understand. that the Macao press, which is generally presided over by a few nondescript Portuguese func- tionaries who view everything British hand foreign with jaundiced eyes, should "LULU." he queried facetiously of his affianced on Sunday evening, as he turned the light down now and then entertain bitter feelings; to a mere shadow of its former self, why am political and national against their I like a newspaper "I don't know" hazarded superiors in the science of colonisa-Lula, hesitatingly, "unless it's because you try and all winter in the study. And it seems as to make so many poor jakea" "That's not it," | if a man should learn to plant, to fish, or to tion and the arts of progress. But he answered with a tinge I coldness, "Why,bunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all that a purely Macaocse organ, such as the then?" "Because I am just going to press "events, and not be painful to his friends and Progress, owned and edited by individuals And everything being revised and made up, fellow men. The lessons of science should be the forms were lacked, and the first impression experimental also. The sight of a planet through who but for the appointments they hold was registered from Lalu's left eye about sou-by- telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; in the English counting-houses, or the sou-cast, one point above nose.
the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of nitrous facilities offered by British civilisation in
oxide, the fring of an artificial volcano, are Shanghai, would probably be shouldering
better than volumes of chemistry, a musket at the princely remuneration of seven dollars a month in the hungry army of Macao, should take to reviling England and the English, is a monstrosity that deserves not merely the scalpel of critic, but wholesale amputation. The following choice paragraph in the article alluded to in the Progresso will be ample proof of our assertion. Our contemporary says: "Portugal is very small; all know it, and Portugal is not ignorant of the fact; but in greatness of soul, it is on a par with the greatest nations of the world. in order to avoid being annihilated by an unfaithful friend, Portugal will at least know how to get itself lost--which it does not yet require to do-to lose its own colonies, but in favour of another Great Power that should give Great Britain the
Mozambique, Lorenzo Marques, the best
JOHN FARLY, seaman, unemployed, was doubt less very disorderly in the Sailors' Home the night before last, but that was no reason why he should be treated in the inhuman way he was o'clock, along with a lot of Chinese, and was yesterday. He was put in the dock at nine
kept there three hours! During that time necessited his lying in a prostrate position he was suffering from acuto dianhoca, which in the deck, and twice he had to be allowed to leave. Yet for three hours Mr. Wodehouse went the man if he was sick. He was fined $7 for on trying trivial Chinese cases, simply asking his offence, as he probably deserved, but the imposition of the fine at nine o'clock would Parlathanences more welcome to poor
being discharged at noon.
eleven o'clock the great drain which runs down Peel Street, under the Praya, and receives the Goods of two large gathering sewers, became
throwing the great blocks of stone a sido as though they were straws, just as it did in the storm last year. In Pedder Street, between the
Clock Tower and the Post Office, the water heaved up the roadway for many yards, the huge the roadway, drain showing like a swift brook, and fi›eding
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The Tramway received ons of the most severe" tests of its stability conceivable, and, as far as was humanly possible, fully justified the claims of itu constructors asta its security. About a quarter to twelve the cars at each end were chipty and stationary, when suddenly, without any signat being given, the lower car began to run swiftly up the slight incline, and at the same time the car at the top began to move downwards. The breaks connected with each were "on," and the latter car, which was the paly one in danger, only moved a few feet, though the other one was drawn about sixty yards. An investigation was at once made, and it was" soon found that an immense mass of earth-thousands of tons—”
had slipped down the bill-side about a bundred yards higher than the points where the cars cross
just where the up-car turns in the direction of the engine-house-and, pressing the cable out, had caused the cars at each end to move. The immense weight had broken the cable and carried away about a hundred yards of the line, WITH reference to the physical effects of alcohol, rails and all-a disaster which it will take at Dr. W. S. Searle, in the North American Review for April, saysBut if the physical results of for the efficiency of the breaks that they
least a month to repair. It says a great deal · alcohol are varied, much more diverse are its man. Indeed, they are as multiform as man the tremendously sudden jerk they had to with- effects upon the 'mental and moral nature of operated so quickly and efficiently, considering himself. One general classification only is stand. possible.
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Each successive
At the Peak, near Mr. Hughes' house, eight men were killed by the lightning about soon. They were lying in a matshed-four in the top- entered the roof, penetrated the floor, and killed room and the other four below, and the lightning every one of them without leaving the least external mark!
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Certain individuals affected by stimulante. the small minority) are always pleasurably. dose arouses in them increased exhilaration, and when intoxication supervenes, their sensations are delightful. Their every sense is exalted they fancy themselves, endued with every gift with all power and possession. As is often THE phrase "too thin" is generally regarded as brillians intellect, and of the most charming remarked, these are generally men of the most an instance of American slang.and is supposed toral qualities. Once led captive by alcohol, danger of destruction. The tunnel which carries away the overflow became choked with find its proper place only in works devoted to
these unfortunates seldom have sufficient power" that now important branch of philology. In support of this theory one occasionally acc
of will to refrain from renewed indulgence. unable to get through, is washing round the trees and general debris, and the water, being No moral considerations avail to restrain ends of the large wall, denuding the earth-banks newspaper stories obviously manufactured for expression; and it has even been called in the For such men total abstinence is the only itself, in which case the damage may be the purpose of explaining the origin of this, them, and, with few exceptions, they yield there, and threatening to carry away the wall wholly, finally, and fatally, to the temper. English press "a notable Americanism." The refuge. Upon the large majority of
At the large building next to the Hong- having been used by Lord Chancellor Eldon in an opinion delivered in the case of Peacock although at first exhilarated, repeated indul was hurt. The scaffolding fell against the tion, are clearly and essentially · different j
a verandah tumbled down, but no ono.
duration, may be determined without previous in short, bodily and mental symptoms which are Wyndham Street, had to be blocked at mid-day. "partnership, without any proviilón" ar to (is,
sion, anesthesia, vertigo, nausea, and vomiting a time. Glenealy Road, at the top of Lower notice." The eminent jurist decided that the excessively disagreeable. Of this class very.. lew question was one for the Court and jury to act become drunkards, and thole are men to whom on account of the heaving up of the whole mad, uron, summing up his opinion in these words: anesthesia becomes desirable as a temporary
way, caused by the immense volume of water "I cannot agree that reasonable notice is a
in the newer that ultimately wrecked: Pedder Herein lies the sole explanation of the fact that landslip; wh is reasonable notice." Here the expression was habitual drinkers remains so small. many cases juries and courts do determine what the proportion of drunkards to moderate and applied in what we term its slang sense.
estimated by thousands of dollars.
by the same and address of the writers, not necessarily for {lopment seemed to suggest the work of a fairy's lesson It seems so much to require. truth is it has a most reputable English paternity, men the effects of alcohol, takes to intoxica: Long and Shanghai: Bank, on the Prays,
publication ; but as evidence of good faith.
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was overwhelming, and its instantaneous deve
ward. This improvised fortune, was the work of the King of Holland.
an Italian composer of ballets, William III. amused pass into hands that would make the
Brought into relations with Mme. Musard by ports of the African continent, would thus Peacock. The paint under discussion was whether gence brings drowalness, dullness of apprehentelegraph wires and stopped communication for himself by imitating Louis XIV. and Louis XV United Kingdong repent of the ungrateful and treating the beautiful American as a Mon
espan or a Du Barry. But the circumstances ness It has shown us. Macao and Timor of his august caprice were so surrounded with would be in identical' circumstances." mystery that nobody could venture beyond bypotheses and conjectures,
We have lately remarked in these subject too thin for a jury to act upon; as in refuge from bodily pain, or mental distress. Street. Besides these there are a great many
columns that the influx of the Portuguese population into this colony was assuming
In reality the liaison was managed as follows At certain dates the favorite was conducted to the frontier of Holland by her legitimate lord and master, Alfred Musard. At The Hague she such proportions that laws would have was met by a confidential chambermaid, who at no very far distant date to be passed tork her in a postchaise to a shooting box buried deep in the woods. There she remained shut restricting the increasing tide of immigra up two or three days, never longer, with the tion. And judging by the language which more than middle-aged gentleman, who called the Portuguese immigrants into Shanghai her ma fille," and who never let her go Away except loaded with presents of all kinds, are making use of against those who find elegraph including invariably a Dutch canary in a cage. them in house and home, we think the At the frontier. Alfred Musard met his wife, British Municipality of the Model Settle- The canary war 'dropped," but the other presents, stowed away in the traveling bags ment might do worse than put some limit were carefully brought to Paris. And what a to the inroads of a race who are neither store this bag contained Valuable pictures, ilk sto.kings, diamonds, pearls, and yards of useful nor ornamental. silk, velvet, cloth, shawls, old china, silverware the mixed contents of a peddler's pack. From time to time Mme. Musard used to distribute lengths of cloth and silk to the women whom she hired to come to her dinners, and, among others, to the Countess Dash, who had her
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1889.
For months past the name of the King of the Netherlands has been prominently before the world owing to what was considered a fatal illness, and telegraphic reports have on several occasions reached
us stating that the final disappearance | hour of celebrity as a novelist before the war
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, May 21st. The announcement of the abandonment of the from the great game of life of the last for 24 hours now and then, and in the summer he brought on for second reading on the 20th June. William III. used also to come to Paris incognito Sugar Convention Bill is premature. It will be mighty race of the Princes of Orange could spent a fortnight with his favorite in Switzerland. In the House of Lords, the Earl of Meath's not be long delayed. Recently, however, in his novel, "L'Affaire Clemenceau, Alex, bill for admiting Women to the County Councils King WILLIAM has made such astonishing young sculptor, deceived by Iza, goes to Rome
Dumas refers to the former incident. Pierre, the has been rejected, progress towards ultimate recovery as to try to forget her. A friend writes to him: “The have resumed the duties of government, and King is so smitten with her that all of a sudden he abandons his kingdom to come to Paris such a consummation is much to be desired, Incognito. He passes there a day or a night as serious, political complications may according to the hour at which he arrives, and thep goes back to reign. ⠀ Or else it is she who thereby be avoided. A recent letter from disppears for 48 hours without anybody know the Paris correspondent of the New Yorking where she has gone. The King, it appear
May 27th
The proposed visit of the King of Italy and Emperor of Germany to Strasburg has caused Intense excitement and bittertem in Paris, the visit has therefore been abandoned and the King of Italy has started home incognito avoiding Strasburg",
treasure.
THE SURVEY OF THE CHINA COAST.
These calamities were far exceeded in number by smaller ones, such as those of damaged stock, &c, through defective roofs. Speaking of this. reminds us that we were greatly struck, when viewing the effects of the storm, by the disgrace- ful state of the spouting in every street in the colony. It was enough to warrant the discharge of every responsible man in the Public Works The following letter was forwarded to us for Department. Everywhere the water was failing publication:-
as through a shower bath from the comices of the bouses-European or Chinese if there were spouts they were defective and useless, but generally there were none, and the whole foots paths were be-sprayed.
THE VICTORIA RECREATION.
CLUB.
SAYS New York Trush:-Our modern million aires, rich though they may seem to us, are paupers when compared in wealth to the Mid- ases of old. Neither Jay Gould, Vanderbilt, the Duke of Westminster, Astor, Rhinelander, nor Rothschild, owns a tithe of the vast boards possessed by the ancients, the misuse of which provoked the downfall of the Roman State.
Hydrographic Department, Caligula a sum of money in hard cash equiva Tiberius, the second Emperor of Rome, left to
Admiralty, S.W
18th April, 1889.... lent to $138,115,000, which, if history is to be
SIR-I have been informed by Commander believed, the latter gentleman spent in one year w. U. Moore, R.N., late of H.M.S. Rambler, of royal and unbounded spree. Cæsar began that the Chamber of Commerce of Hongkong life owing $10,000,000, and before he ended has most generously provided a sum of money It had got through $735,000,000 of public to be devoted to rewards for fishermen who may
Not, the greatest of our Boodlers ever even dreamed of such omalverous embezzle give information leading to the discovery and
Croesus had a nice little nest.egg, marking of the Cherts of unknown rocks. The annual general meeting of the members $10,000,000, beside real estate and slaves Permit me as the head of the hydrographic scr of the V. R. C. was held in the Gymnasim last beyond counting. Esopus is reported to have vice of the Admiralty, to tender my warm appre expended $40,000 in a single dish, of which ciation of this efficient aid to the work in watch evening, and there was a good attendance. Mr. Olympus were probably component ingredients, regret that circumstances should, for the present, The Chairman proposed that the reports of phoenix eggs and canned ambrosia direct from the surveying ships are employed. I much I. F. Holliday occapled the chair. Caligula paid $400,000 for one supper, beating prevent any use being made of it, but I am in the various sub-committees, together with the the Nitrate King by long odds for a distance. hopes that before long another vessel will be statement of accounts, be taken an read, and Heliogabalus gobbled up $100,000 at one available to proceed with the survey of the intri- || invited questions on them. None being asked, debanch and Lucullus never spent less than that cate" const of China, along which so many he moved their adoption, which, seconded by sam on a meal. Where those rioters stowed valuable British ships pass,
Mr. Braidwood, was agreed to away their victuris is open to theory. -- I have
I am, Sir, scen sea-sick people feed themselves, then the fishes, and then themselves again, and I fancy these gourriends toust have acted on the same principle, or on that of Jack, the Glant.Killer, who tied a leather sack under his doublet as sort of secondary stomach."
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Your obedient servant,
W.J.WILARTON,
** Hydrographer. The Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, Hong
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The Chairman mentioned that a letter had been received from the authorities of St. Joseph's College asking permission to send a number of scholars seventeen, or eighteen-down to the -Bath-house on two mornings In each week, ata convenient hour. He said that the Committee had preferred to leave the matter to be
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