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WE learn that the applications for shares in the proposed Peak Residences, Limited, have faller far short of what was anticipated, and that, in consequence, the Directors have decided to abandon the project. Money is a very scare commodity in the colony just at present.
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TELEGRAMS.
THE Chilians have evidently discovered the secret of longevity. From a recent return it appears that nearly 500 persons out of a total of 2.500.000 are upwards of a hundred years old. One man puts his age down at 130, making himself the oldest man in the world.". After him comes a woman aged 138; two women and one man report themselves as 135 133, 130, and 127 each have a representative, while there are seven 125 year old, eight rao, twenty seven 115 and no less than ninety-one aged 110. But they are mostly coloured persons. The whites in Chili are cut down like flowers at the early age of go or so.
A PARISIAN dress-maker has hit upon. a. new way of being revenged for old debts. Meeting one of her customers (of course in the now antorings Rue du Caire at the Fxhibition) the accused her of having robbed her, and the lady was given into custody. At the station the dress-maker complacently explained that she had not been robbed at all, and that this was only her pleasant little way of getting even with her customer who owed along bill, apon account of which nothing had been paid for a considerable time. But French law does not look benevolently
upan practical jokes, and the dress-maker is to be prosecuted.
THAT highly-interesting old woman's friend the Messenger, in its number for August, gives come interesting details. Three Indy missionaries have added to their families, and therefore to the family income; two or three more have found affinities, and are now carrying on "the good work" in couples, and the worthy old party who way to Pekin to tell the uther missionaries all tried to convert Li Hung-chang has gone all the about the Franco-German war, with little anecdotes abont Waterlos. It must have been a "refreshing" time. Several of the doctrine disseminators are in Shanesi, destroying idols and distributing Prayer-books to a hungry race that can't read.
Queen Victoria is heralded abroad for the benefit ANOTHER instance of the boundless liberality of
NOTES from CHINESE PAPERS.In the case of women, this is easy, for each of
The Hongkong as sun given to-day two notices of reward offered by the Prefect of Shao Ching. The first one is for the capture of three men who murdered their uncle and cousin, the one meeting his death through Run wound and the other through a blow from a club. It seemed that the victims, having lost a cow, on following its tracks found traces of it in the barn of the murderers. A dispute arising, the two men were murdered in coll blood, and although a crowd of villages attempted! sight of a couple of guns presented at them by to help them they were kept from doing so by the the murderers.
of fifteen man who, masked and disguised, enteres The other reward is for the capture of a band the house of a village aristocrat and marched off with nearly a thousand dollars worth of spoils.
of Canton collecting subscriptions for the purpose Two banzes who have been going the round: of making a grand display of "Josses" in the temple of Kwan Yin (Hearer of Prayers), mnd: away with the whole amount of contributions. dollars. to the tune of something like three hundred When the day came, for obvious reasons there was no sign of the expected display. The infuriated subscribers then came in a body and "interviewed" the Abbot of the Monastery. expulsion of the two defaulting bansas, whe Peace was, however, eventually restored by the
for the space of twelve months and, if possible were also condemned to beg from house to host to obtain enough funds for a display this time next year. The prevailing opinion amongst the mass, however, is that the Abbot was also "in
made scapegoats of
them attends with one or more small children, which, as in other parts of the world, are the terror and the despair of the hosts. The kitchen is at some distance from the hall in which the feast is served, and on these occasions, it is well under stood, that what any one can succeed in carrying aff for himself, is in a manner lawful plunder. We are assured on the best authority, that in the case ofrich families, it is often the case, that there is no much stolen as there is eaten, the very dishes themselves often disappearing in the confusion, But why, asks the innocent foreigner, does not the master of the house surround himself with his own people, so that he can be sure of fair treatment? The answer la, that this is exactly the root of the trouble. No family is so rich as not to have a cloud of 'poor relatives, and these occasions are the ones in, which these.
clothed in the "garb of the flesh." Sunset is shades shall be opened, clashing with the noisy the time when the ponderour gates of the City of clang of brizen bolts and iron bars whose echoes are said to reach down to the eighteenth storey of Infernus, giving notice to those unfortunates in the lowest depths that now is the time for them 10, stretch their limbs and brea be once more the fresh air of the upper regions. The tradi-
(3) Attention has lately, in consequence tion will not be complete if "an entertainment of the experience gained during the hostili be net forthcoming at the expense of the gods" ties with France the last year when rice was for to find a way into an Oriental's heart obtains treated as contraband of war, been directed the same as that into an Occidental's, namely," anew to the Grand Canal, as a channel of Prayers, is credited with laying out at each anaithan the comparatively inexpensive sen-route. more secure at all times versaty "refreshments regardless of expense" The difficulty, however, of staying the ever for the benefit of the famishing inhabitants of increasing silting which has been going on in the the lower regions. But the Hearer of Prayers, Grand Canal, and the constant danger from the beluga woman, is liable, when acting as ungovernable Yellow River which the Canal cuts hosters, to insulf, for the rowdy element is
across, may well make us look around for an- always strongest in a mob, be it a terrestrial or A spectral one, and so Jupiter allows the Hearer alternative we find in the railway. From Ching- other alternative for the sea route, and this of Prayers to cast forth her maiden form and in klang to Turig-chow the distance is 2,000 ; and lieu thereof to assume the terrific aspect of a if the funds cannot be raised all at once for a bushy-whiskered god with manifold colors on bis broad countenance. To obtain a picture of this
railway this whole distance, a short line might god, one can easily do by calling any fine and Tsi-ning Fu, to connect the South with the be built as a commencement between Teh-chow day at the theatres where the acting is of an North of the Grand Canal [to cross the Yellow acrobatic nature. Having assumed the form River]. The distance is only about four stations and lincaments of a ferocious looking god, and [.., about 400 ] armed with an octagonal shaped club, the bene-
(6) I reiterate that there is a determined oppo- volent hostess, the Hearer of Prayers, dispenses hospitality to millions, aye, and a hundre
sition to a railway being built in the densely billions of Kwai. These being awed into good make bold to aver that it will take a long time papulated Riverine and Maritime Districts; and behaviour by such their "chow" quietly, and then go about roaming trouble will be the result of a sudden attempt
"heart terrifier," finish.
to overcome this opposition, and that only over the vast regions of the empire of China, to force the people to see those prospective until the dawn of the succeeding day, when advantages which they cannot see now. Aurora in her fiery chariot will drive them back knocks down our houses," "It desecrates our to ther late quarters, to wait patiently for the gmves." "It will give foreigners all, the up- the swim," and that the two bonnes have been-does not do it for nothing. Much of the money
country profits as well as what they have got out of our hands already." Such are their cries, and such they will continue to be until they leam, by practical experience, what benefits will hsien of Pun-yu, Canton, has made a new His worship Yang, District magistrate or Che be brought to their own homes by a railway departure, contrary to all precedent since the whose beneficent results ther have calmly founding of the world by Pwan Ku, the Chines its installation has offended no one's jealousy. nevertheless, the Editor of the Kwang Pao has watched in another part of the country, where Creator of our terrestrial globe, but over which, ut until they have so learned ita advantages gone into raptures. To facilitate the promp from observing its results among their neigh-appearance of the parties to a civil suit when. bours, 10 ount of preaching at them themselves will not scatter them as vagrant to the Yamen, for the accommodation of plentif will persuale them that its advent among wisdom of Solomon, he built a house adjacent ever the Magistrate was ready to deal out thr. beggars, like the scattering of the river boatmen and defendants. Perfect liberty is accorded the when sen navigation was commenced in the litigants to go about as they please, and the time of the Yuan Dynasty, or that of the dawk regulations posted at the door of the building bungalow men when the Minge altered the inform the posting system.
'guesis" that although they are allowed full liberty, they must still, en going out of the building, report themselves to the janitor and say at what time they are likely to return, The gates are to be opened at daylight and remain so until the first watch (fe, at dusk when the candles are lighted), when they are shut and na admittance given to any one. No brand is given to the ledgers of this queer institution, but a tangs of kitchens in the rear of the house, are placed at their disposal. The litigants are warned from making the house a place of dispute or a young men's debating society, for, as the magistrate adds in the notice, "I know what I am about and will dispense golden justice," Relatives are specially warned off the grounds.
coming of another anniversary. To assist the gracious Heater of Prayers in her dispensation of charity, all Chinese believers in Buddhism therefore enter into the spirit of the thing, and in addition to food, make paper sycees, clothes, and every necessary that a Celestial may require to take, back with him into his infernal abode. These are then burst, and the smoke arising therefrom is immediately seized by the awaiting ghosts, which in their hands is said to turn into the original form before fire has con- sumed them. Ghosts are not exempt in Chi nese folk-lore from the passions which were theirs when living, and so such indiscriminate giving away of the "good things of this world" naturally cause fights and battles, in which, as e weak have to succumb to the strong. usual, the w So although the Hearer of Prayers in her assumed form of a "heart-terrifier" presides over the picnic, like a veritable "schoolmarra " she cannot be everywhere at the same time, For instance, while looking benignly over i Dorcas society's distribution in Canton, she could hardly at the same time knocking away right and left with her baton in the midst of a mob-fight in Peking, arising from a gambling dispute amongst degenerate ghosts who had got a lot of money collected at the sacrificial ceremonies, of a rich mandarin: and, so police courts are organized in Hades the next day, and, if one is curious enough, by applying his ear to any fissure in the earth, he can easily hear the wailing and cries of ghostly delinquents suffering from a wholesale application of iron whips administered by the servants of Plato.
To our questions as to the reason why people here burn their offerings so many days before the actual time of the anni day being picked out of the almanac, families Versary, we received the answer that this was done for convenience sake. A propitious burn their offerings first for the benefit of the ghosts who are not related to them by ties of kindred, in order that they might be free to entertain their "blood relations who went before," on the right of the anniversary. By burning beforehand, however, the offerings are falls across them and by contact turns then not lost, but remain in mid-air until some ghost into clothes or money, or whatever they might have been originally.
(7) I come now to the Tientsin Railway. It already reaches 180 # from Tientsin to K'ai-ping, and if extended from Tientsin to Tungchow, an extension so furiously recommended and opposed, there would be only 200 li of line to construct. I submit that this aditional short
ment.
distance should be construered, as an experi- to the people's feelings by avoiding, wherever begible, encroachment no their fields, tydens or grave yard Where this is unavoidable, let overnment give compensation with no spring hand. Let the temper in which the building of this short trial line in a thickly populated district is met, be taken as an evidence of what we may expect under similar circumstances elsewhere; and let us guide our action accordingly.
Let every possible concession be made
we are willing to take odds against the two buildings being allowed to retain their present after Mr. Yang has been translated to another sphere.
poor relatives reap the only benefits which they derive from their kinship with those who are better off than themselves. If the
other way, but they would take care to do so in altogether, they would not only steal in some master of the house were to excludo them
such a manner, that he would be disgraced by the insufficiency of his provision, a disgrace than the loss of his goods. Well aware of this which, it need hardly be said, he dreads more even state of things, he considers it cheaper to let the pilferers have their way, which they always do, But this is by no means all. The gifts of each entry of them is made at the time, so that out guest are seat to a particular place, and an exact
ful writer of accounts in the village is asked to of pocket when the affair is over. The most skil master of the house may know how much he isout
superintend the registration of the gifts, which be is generally willing enough to do. But he
is sent in brass cash, and it is easy to make a mistake of a few hundred in the counting. and to transfer the balance to the leg of his trousers, where it will never be seen. Some of the money will be in cash notes, and if so the concealment of them is all the easier, and the accounts will
do not go to the host with matters of this sort, may be omitted altogether, for be so arranged to cover the deficit, or a name the guests If a guest is on good terms with the keeper of accounts, it is easy to make an entry ofa thousand
which means a guest gets credit for a handsome sent it, and then to 'cover it in with the real by cash, wbich has no corresponding funds torfepre
contribution which was never made. It is easy wholly prevented. If each guest, for example, to see how every one of these evils could ba
and then send the money with a similar card were to bring a card, which he left with the host,
to the accountant, the latter would have no opportunity to commit petty frauds, but in that case the guest would find the templation to write a fictitious amount too strong for him,
the keeper of accounts would then certainly be suspected. Besides, the master of the house will himself be the keeper of accounts for some one else at some other time, and he perhaps doubts whether it is altogether for his own highest interest to belge up the way too closely. In all departments of their life, family, politi- cal, and national, the Chinese act upon the assumption that too strong a pressure is, sure to result in an explosion. For this reason, every prudent Chinese is, by the proverbs of everyday life, as well as by his own Instincts, prevented from pressing things to extremities.
An interesting volume remains to be written by some one who has the requisite knowledge, on the theory and practice of Chinese squeezes, a practice which extends from the Emperor an his throne to the lowest beggar in the empire. With that practical sagacity for which they are so deservedly noted, the Chinese have reduced this business to a perfect system, which can no more be escaped, than one can escape the pres sure of the atmosphere. Vicious and demoralising as the system is, it is not easy to see how it can ba done away with, except by a complete reorganisa tion of the empire. The results of this state ofthings and of the characteristics of the Chinese which have led to this state of things, is that it is very difficult for a foreigner to have to do with the Chinese in a practical way, and on any extended scale, and yet contrive to preserve his reputation
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should he be so fortunate as to have one- as "Superior Man" It is a proverb constantly quoted, and self-verifying, that carters, bosimen, inn-k epers, coolies, and middlemen, irrespective of any specific offence, all deserve to be killed an, general principles. The relation of this class of persons and others like them to foreigners, is peculiar, for it is known that foreigners will consent to a great deal of imposition, rather than to have a social typhoon,' for which they gene- rally lack both the taste and the talent yet it is by the social typhoon; that in case of any supposed breach of Chuity on the porcar Chines toward Chinese, the social atmosphere is brought at last to a state of equilibrium. He must be a tare man who has no, blind side upon which those Chinese who choose to do so, cannot get Not to be too suspicious, and not to be too confiding, is a rare illustration of the golden mean. If one exhibits that just disapprobation
Judges of human nature, set it down to our dis toward insincerity and wrong-doing which it seems to demand, the Chinese, who are shrewd
credit, as a mark of 'temper, while if we main tain the placid demeanour of a Buddha absorbed In his Nirvana, a demeanour which is not easy once marked as fit subjects for further and fride for all temperaments at all times--we are at finite exactions. That was a typical Chloese, of foreigners, cleverly executed and in appro peddler on the street, vending little clay images Plate costume. Stopping for a moment to examine them, be said to the dealer in images, "Ah, you play with these toys; I play with the real things.
When we come to think that in China, be the (8) I am strongly of opinion that we should be defendants are invariably locked up, when once lawsuits civil or criminal, both plaintiffs and on our guard against advice, (often given with their cases are filed and heard in Court, and are interested motives), to hasten such an important kept shut up at the end of each hearing until the railways in Europe has been the very gradual in this matter, and especially the litigants who change as the building of railways in China will conclusion of the case, we shall be able to con inevitably bring about. The construction of
gratulate Mr. Yang on his liberal way of dealing and cautious work of over 60 years. America will then be free from the daily extortions of the was some years behind England in this work, Yamen underlings. When we say that litigants France was some years behind Russia. Russia are invariably shut up after the first hearing, we and France were both more than ten years of course are speaking on the text of Chinese law, behind England, England herself had the and not in any case where the police and julere before she set her hand to the work, and this dollar.
are amenable to the influence of the almighty matter maturely deliberated in her Parliament
of the admirers of our venerable but somewhat
To the west of the yames and inside immense country of ours, which prides herself the Magisterial Compound, the dedicator, chapel close-fisted potentate.
The royal lady was so
justly on the provident circumspection with of Lady Li, the patroness of Pun Yu. has been pleased with her recent visit to San Sebastian
which she moves, should be the last to act with
turned into a reception-room for female litigantson that she decided to bestow upon the city some
precipitation in so important a matter. Each
the same plan as that mentioned above. So long adequate mark of the great pleasure she had
of railway will cost us Tis. 10,000, and therefore as Mr. Yang remains the presiding RAILWAYS IN CHINA. derived from her sojourn. After due deliberation
if we built a railway to supersede or supple- good genius of the district of Pun Ye, so long a blug vase decorated with brilliant-hued flowers
ment the Grand Canal, it will stand us in Tis. will these two institutions flourish; but after his was selected and sent to the authorities of San
Another of the great satraps of China has sub 20000,000 for the whole z ooo / from south to departure to a higher post, will his successor Sebastian, with much pomp and ceremony, and mitted to the Emperor his views on railways.north; while from east to west,-nothing undergo and do likewise ? We fear not. At least by them accepted, with all due gratitude to the This is Huang Peng-nien, Acting Governor of 10,000, we must make up our minds to spend Tls. 100,000,000. China is now suffering from wealthy donor. Whether the gift cost the Kiangsa. He says:- Queen as much as the India shawls which she (1) China now finds herself in a different posi- successive natural calamities, floods, and is so lavish with is not stated.
tion - is the world from any which she has droughts, the people are hard pushed, and even in occupied during the last 4,000 years. Europe prosperous times, far different from these we live MORE "opinions of the Press" the Ropes and Asia are now united in a way that they have in, the Imperial Treasury has a limit. England's
A little girl aged six was picked up one mom "Corner case. The Chinese Times put it this never been before, and this union has been and Russia's railways have been all built by way"The share gambling seems to be largely effected by no audden exertion of force, but by a private capital of "Companies" (Kungras); and g, lying in a corner of one of the streets of carried on by clerks in mercantile houses, who natural and gradual development of events. To even poor France's railways have been mainly Canton, by a woman on her way into the country employ an army of brokers, organize ingenious return to her old isolation would be now a hope-built by private capital, assisted by government to collect her farm rents. It was found that the combinations, and carry on an immense specula. less task for China, and while preserving those subsidies, a system also followed by Germany With care and fresh air in the country the little poor child was very ill, suffering from small pex. tive business, sufficient, one would think, to occupy their whole time and engross their thoughts.
borrow from their own people for objects, great principles which have given her pre- and America, In some instances Governments foundling recovered and was then adopted by The salaries they receive must appear the merest
to herself, circumspectly and discriminatingly, and call the lean a "national debt" but the transpired, the Kwang Pao informs us, that the pittance in comparison with the vast amounts so much of the spirit of the age as will prevent only nations which have raised such a loan from for which they are constantly signing cheques, her from being outwitted and exploited by her foreigners are small states like Japan and Turkey. little girl had been the property of a notorions but small as the pay may be it is difficult to see astute Western competitors.
Such a measure is unworthy of the prestige of a
procuress who, as the Calacse Editor quaintly how they find time to earn it. Transactions at
remarks, "intended the child, a remarkably whose magnitude the uninitiated would stand spirit of the age, she has already equipped her-
(2) Of material results of this working of the great country' like China.
Then again, foreigners lend to each other at 3 produced showers of gold when shakch"-in pretty girl, to be in the futore the tree which aghast seem to be every day affairs in Hong self with four steamers, telegraphs, machinery,
percent,, but foreigners when they lend to Chinese other words a source of wealth to the woman. kong,"
and schools of technical education. According exact 8, to, or even
per cent The profits of The tree mentioned above is a legendary UNLESS rumour lics, a certain local solicitor to Western views, steamers, railways, and tele- middlemen or agents for these loans we have no
one in Chinese mythology, where a poor means of accurately ascertaining; but we may intends to favor us with a writ, in which we are
graphs form a trind, the omission of one member alleged to have been guilty of libel in our
of which goes far to nullify the advantages con-
assume, without much risk of error, that they youth is said to have fallen across the tree in much the same way as the man in our are large. Let us beware of such loans, and of editorial of the 7th inst., referring to the meet-
ferred by the other two. The three are insepara- hypothecating Customs Revenues to pay them, the goose that laid the golden egge. It appeared fables is said to have become the possessor of ing of the Hongkong. Canton and Macio
bly connected in the Western mind as the con- Steamboat Company. The gentleman takes to querors of time and space, the benefactors of himself our remark that the speech of one of the peoples, and carichers of States. To say that railways are built. I earnestly hope that the shareholders was "evidently concocted by some China should go without railways while England, proposals, and let us collect the necessary
poz, wastreated as best she could by the procure Imperial Government will discourage all such
but all of no avail, until at last, despairing of addle-headed solicitor who is not a lawyer." We France, and Russia have them, simply shows
saving the child, the heartless woman placed don't object; if the cap fits this legal luminary ignorance of what is going on in the world capital for railways as the C. M. S. N. Co. col-
her, apparently dying on a mat, and set her Kround he But he would not be the only addle-headed her grasp; France clutches Anaam; our other foreigners any concession In regards to the making news of the child's recovery and place of abode passing to the fact that the Chinese govemment;
one. England holds Burma in lected it for steamers.
out on the streets to die, where kind-hearted Mr. (9) I am still more opposed to granting to
Chang found her. However, after a time the solicitor in the colony by a very long way. hedges are broken down, and suspicious or working of railways for a term of years. Some
It is unnecessary to do more than to allude in And it may interest injured innocence to know characters are in our compound looking at not only advocate this step, but even urge that all came to the ears of the procuress, who immediately. that we wouldn't mind one or two extra libel
our doors and windows with measuring eye rails, oil, &c., should be purchased from abroad.
went to Mrs. Chang's house to claim the child, far as it is knowable, appears to be a gigantic actions just how it is very rarely we have time But the most immediate danger lies not south, nowadays to train for this business, but with one.
but north and cast. Although we are raising money should be spent as far as possible in her maintenance and cure. This was refused Instances are to be found in the entire history of I recommend, on the contrary, that China's offering at the same time the sum of $100, for example of the trait which we are discussing. SHARE business, for the time being, practically case on hand we might just as well have halia | only a telegraph in Kirin, while in the New China herself. By the system recommended by / and a forcible hint given to the procuress to “get almost say in all that is known of the relations
the New Dominion to a Province; we have still
foreign relations with China, and one might dozen. Now, who's next ?.
Dominion we have not even that Russia over.
those who advocate the employment of foreign out." She went.
of Chinese officials to the people. A single. Grants" reminds us that the Duke of St. Albans Mongolia, and Hel Lung Kiang, to the cast that should a war break out, our employés will THE recent discussion on the so-called "Royal laps us to the north round the New Domfalon, materials, China's money would be dispersed
but compendious, illustration is to be found abroad, and there is another disadvantage, viz.,
In those virtuous proclamations which ars draws £1000 a year from the British Treasury round Kirin, for 10,000. Her left eye look
Listed with such unfailing regularity, in ns Hereditary Grand Falconer. Charles II. went to visit his charming Nel! She crouches ready to spring on our, Central which we insport from abroad will be seized as "One day covetously at Corea, her right at Mongolia, leave us en masse, and the oil and steel rails
THE ABSENCE OF SINCERITY.
such superlative abundance, with such fell, city of diction, on all varieties of subjects, Gwynne and found her in a sour mood. Come Land, and the three Eastern Provinces (Fông- contraband of war.
and from all grades of officials. One thing only bither, you lifile bastard 1' she said to her son, rien, Kirin, Hei Luang Kiang), the nearest to hersary in this way-as professors and instructors evils which are so conspicuous in Chineis social mands are not intended to be enforced. This The help of foreigners will indeed be neces While it is undoubtedly true that many of the is lacking, namely reality, for these fine com her plainness of speech. But Nell knew what through to Patropau (†) which enables her to upon which the King remonstrated with her on extended claws. Her Siberian railways reaches in the arts of making engines, rails, &c., &c., life, are to be found alio in western lands, it is is quite understood by all concerned, and on she was about. I have no other name to call move tioops eastward in case of war, with a
from hom the bright, intelligent youths of of the utmost importance clearly to preceive the this point there are no illusions. The life and him by, said she, sorrowfully. The Merry rapidity which is a striking contrast to our own
China will rapidly acquire all they have to points of essential contrast One of these we state papers of a Chinese stateman, like the Monarch took the hint, and created the boy Earl slowness.
teach; we shail thus in a few years have a rall take to be that already mentioned, in that Confessions of Rousseau, abound in the finest He also made him Master of the Hawks, with therefore, should be one from Tientsin to Shan nations for any assistance whatever. of Burford, and afterwards Duke of St. Albans.
way staff complete, from the highest to the lowest inaincerity in China, while not always to be met sentiments, and the foulest deeds. He cu's off (3) The first railways that China should build, members, without the need of looking to foreign with, is always to be looked for. Instances ten thousand heads, and cites a passage from allowances for falconcis, pigeons, and other Hai Kuan, thence on to Hel Lung Klang, another
of this have been already cited in speaking of Mencius about the sanctity of buman life. He meats to feed the fowie with." Falconers, to Ninguta in Kirin, (Lat. 44° 35', Long, 129
(10) To conclude, I can appreciate the opposi- other topics, and others might be referred pockets the money given him to repair an the Dukes of St. Albans continue to receive their to ill in the north part of the New Dominion steamers, telegraphs, railways, as matters of very of notice, is the method in which ordinary cultivator of the soil He makes a treaty tion of officials of Peking to railways. When I to at almost any length, One of the most embankment, and thus inundates a province; hawks, and pigeons have long since gone, but 10'], a third north weat from Shensi and Kensu was an official of Peking, I considered machinery, characteristic, and for that reason most worthy and he deplores the land lost to the haven't got and which for all practical purposes Kashgar in the Nan-lu, We shall then be able Soochon, and became an eye-witness, close at each of these occasions involves the expenditure deception for the moment, and he declaims 1000 a year for looking after birds which they (Lat. 43° 46', Long 82 30], and a fourth to secondary importance. But since I came to wedddings and funerals are conducted. In Chins, which he secretly declares to be only a are as extinct as IBe moi.
to send troops, money, etc., anywhere in our hand, of the gigantic changes that are going on of a great deal of money and the consumption of against the crime of perjury. Doubtless there Empire within ten days, and besides that, we in the conditions of life, the conviction has been a great deal of food. In each case, the family may be pure-minded and upright officials in A GHOSTLY FESTIVAL. shall be able to found prosperous colonies, in forced upon me that the judicious introduction which has to provide for the feasts, is regarded China, but it is very hard to find them, and from these outlying regions, of people who la Chine of railways will be of benefit to China, and I by all persons concerned as a goose which the nature of their environment, they are utterly It may perhaps interest some of our readem proper are only a starving woletariate and a have felt it my duty to express myself thus is to be stripped of as much of its down as helpless to accomplish the good which they to know that to-day, being the 14th day of the source of trouble to the Government, but who, plainly on the subject. While some of my possible. All friends, of the family are may have at beart. When we compare the 7th moon, is the anniversary in which, Yen-Lo pace transplanted thither, will be able to find a remarks will be considered to be those of an supposed to send in their contributions in actual condition of those who have had the wang, the Chinese Pluto, orders the gates of fruitful field for their now unemployed labour, fanovator, I hold to the two good old conserva- the shape of money or food, add each one best opportunity to become acquainted with Hades to open, whereby the denizens of the and will turn the desert into a garden
tive principles economy, and regard for the who sends in either money or food, makes it his the Chinese classics, with the teachings of infernal shades may have an opportunity to │(a) at present it is indeed a desest, and people's feelings, which are so honoured by our business to see that what he takes out in eating these classics, we gain a vivid conception of visit the scenes of their former exploits when boliders of » fallway will find none of the oppost. I revered soveraign,
ls as much more than what he put in, as possible. I how practically inert they have been to brag
THE SENSATIONAL POISONING CASE.
LONDON, August 8th. Mrs. Elizabeth Maybrick, charged with the murder of her husband, has been convicted and
sentenced to death.
POLITICAL The situation in Crete has become serious, Greece is making naval preparations.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
defunct.
THE City of Rio de Janeiro, is underlined to call at Amoy. She will leave here on the 13th,
at noon, JAPAN has now 1,000 miles of railway complete and at work, and nearly the same length under construction. So far, every mile has proved prostable.
THE King of Macao's special levée to-morrow will be numerously attended. Quite a crowd of "the boys" went over this afternoon to have an carly interview with His Majesty,
We read that Prince Albert Victor, vulgarly known as "Collars and Cuffs," attired as an officer of the 10th Hussars, recently presented new colours to the Black Watch at Belfast. The universal feminine verdict was "He has stays
OR."
A GOOD-NATURED Chinaman who passed a chew of opium to a pal in the dock at the Police Court this morning found himself inside the sacred penclosure about a brace of shakes later, and in the end was fined $.He who giveth to the poor," &c.
TO-MORROW morning between 9 and 10.30 o'clock the steam-launch carrying the Bethel flag will call alongside any vessel hoisting code pennant C, to convey mon ashore to 11 am. service at 8t Peter's Seamen's Church, returning about rago.
can wear it
or we shall find ourselves insolvent before our that the poor girl, becoming afflicted with small who being in foreign employ saw one day a
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS,
IV.