GREAT FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE
IN MANILA.
$2,000,000 DAMA QZÉ,
The British steamship Vikrong, Capt. Gale- worthy, which arrived here from Marily this morning, reports that she left Manila on the 18th Instant, Had strong monsoon and high sea On Sunday the 13th, there was a big fire in Manila 40 houses were here: One best being estimated at $2,000,000. On the 5th instant there was an earthquake at Manila, which did 'conside æble damage, being the worst experienced since 18%.
NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN.
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The C. N. Co's steamer Trias, Capt.. W. N. Allion," arrived in harbour from Sydney and Australian ports on Saturday evening inst. For the subjoined telegrams we are indebted to our Sydney exchanges :—
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1892.
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had been removed, the object evidently being to wreck the train and bring about the death of the avert a catastrophe.
̈proved at £1,250,000, including property to the president. The disc.very was made in time to themselves into the human race to find an outlet, with that of Pi Kan, had one more aperture of them du the spring engagements will be is
The personalty of the late Mr Henry James Tollemache, M.P. for Eddisbury, has been value of 500,oco in New Zealand. By the will the majority of the property ta bequeathed to the widow.
The official, report regarding the Influers ep demic shows that there is a marked decrease in the number of c. ads occurring to the United Kingdom.
Later.
Several of the firms interested in the coal trade bave not taken back their union hands since the termination of the strike. A section. of the men refuse to return to work unless the untens compel Mesus. F. B. Cameron and Core urge the sale of eucalyptus extract has in
It is stated that since the outbreak of the to discharge the non-anionists taken on to fill creased by od per cent. The chemists sell the the places of the stalkers.
preparation in an adulterated form.
Mount Vesuvius is again in a state of active eruption.
MELBOURNE, February 18th. The police made a raid on a Chinese gambling des in Melbourne on Saturday night and aricated ab sat 20 Europeans,
LATER
Two thousand of the coal-porters in the East End have refused to return to work. They urge the whole of the men to again go out on strike to enforce their demands. At meeting of the London Trades Council held to-day n ̈metloui was agreed to ordering a boycott of Messrs. F. B. Cameron and Cocoal. The action will have the effect of blocking the Midland and Northern railways,
BRISBANE, February 13th,
. Sir Samuel Griffith issued a manifesto to the people of Queensland on Friday evening on the black labour question. He reviewed the ques- LONDON, February 13th,
tion at great length, and stated that he had come to the conclusion that the only form of An inventor named Shaw, of Coventry, has labar under present circumstances for the culture loveated a flying machine of enormous. dimen of cane is Polynesian labor, and thinks that sions. The pinions are 24ft. 6in: wide, and rooft.Polynesian Immigration should be resumed for
a period of ten (10) years. The negotiations" which were proceeding between the Italian and Swiss Governments for the establishment of a reciprocal tariff have been broken off, and the general tariff will be applied
long.
in each case.
Lieutenant Milner, of the Scots Guards, bas been apprinted to the staff of Lord Kiatore, Governor of South Australia,
Bismarck.
The Kirg of Saxony, the King of Wurtemburg, and many princes have made donations towards the find for the erection of a monument to Prince
PERTH, Febmary 14th. An extraordinarily rich find of gold is reported la Western Australia.
LONDON February 14th. The Government of Gierce is increasing the faxation to save the country from bankruptcy.
14
John Sullivan denies that he has, bren
Mitchell.
Lightfoot and Herbert Hyman,aged 25 and 32 On Sunday morning two men named T. C.
years respectively, went for a row on the river in a canvas cangce The rance collapsed, and both being unable to swim, were drowneți.
A project has been laid before the Colonial Governments for an independent cable service, starting from Gladstone, proceeding thence by way of New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, and. Hon- lulu, either to San Francisco or Canada. The scheme is partially supported by the English, French, and German Governments, and the Premier of New South Wales will give his support.
LONDON, February(16th.
The Victorian Government, with a view to relieving the labor market, have decided upon constructing two or more lees of railway.
Mr. Shields has succeeded in relorming the
Victorian Ministry with, himself as Premier and Colonial Treasurer,
By an explosion in the Lairalvingee flux quarries near Broken Hill, yesterday five men
into
There la vreat activity among the local trisopa. and daily drill la maintained. Preparations are belog made for the inspection which is to take place this year. The Viceroy will begin his tour of the province during the third moon.
has been circulated among the foreign residents A petition concerning the Hanan publications of the elty and signed by all.-N. C. Dally
News.
may at length exbaust themselves. Hence it is in the water. Her gait resembled a frafi willow, have only been driven into mountain retreats, that these spirits have also forcibly to diffuse gitated by the wind. Her heart, compared as the cops say it is impossible to dispersa the severe winter weather, What so that they may then completely disperse, with fetelligence; while her allment exceeded (in the result of the result that men and women are suddenly intensity) by three degrees the allment of Hal yet to be seen. imbued by these p'tits and spring. At best, (these human beings) cannot be gene
Txa. Into existence.
The following is the closing scene of Rook - rated into philanthropists or perfect men; at
The surname of this Hsino Hung had, in feet, wore, they cannot also embody extreme perver been originally Lin, while her infant name bad sity or extreme wickedness. Yet placed among been Hang Yu; but as the word Yu Improperly refinement, perception and subtlety will be above, she was, in due course, simply called Hsino one million belogy, the spirit of intelligence, corresponded with the names of Pan-vil and "Tai.
these one mition beings; while, on the other
Hong. She was indeed an hereditary servant of band, the perverse, depraved and inbuman the mansion; and her father bad laiterly taken 'embodiment will likewise be below the million over the charge of all matters connected with of men. Born la a noble and wealthy family, the farms and farmhouses in every locality. these men will be a salacious, lustful lot; bern This Hungy came, at the age of sixteen, of literary, virtuous or poor parentage, they will the mansion, to enter into service, and was turn out relised scholars or men of mark; though attached to, the Hung Yuan, where in point of they may by some accident be born in a desti- fact she found both a quiet and pleasant home; tuse and poverty-stricken home, they cannot
and when contrary to all expectation, the young pursery, in fact, ever sink se low as to become rurners or mentals, or contentedly brook to be of the common herd or to be driven and curbed. like a horse in harness. They will become, for a certainty, either actors of note or courtesans of notoriety; as tastanced in former years by Hall the two families of Wang and Hsieh, Fe Hu- Hai-fung, hil mag-chlag, Luf chinuing showing herself off. But artiched to Pad-yl's
ou, Chen Hou-chu, Tang Min-huang, Sung self to a
and Chin Shao-ya, and exemplified now-a-daya personal service were a lot of servants, all of Pa-hu Chu Chih-shan, whom were gilb and specious, so bow could
ladies as well as Pac-yu were subsequently permitted to move their quarters into the Garden of Broad Vistas, it so happened that this place was, moreover, fixed upon by Pao-yu. This Halo Hung was, it is true, a girl without any experience, but as she could, to a certain degree, boast of a
nad as, in her own, heart, fostered the idea of exalting her
with a view to
preity
were terribly injared, one of whom died shortly Yu, Tao Chien, Yuan Chi Chi Kang, Liu Linge recklanderd, aba was over ready to
afterwards.
Brunswick last night, the speches delivered A monster open air meeting was held at being directly socialistic and republican.
BRISBANE, February 18th.
Charters Towers, cascits that she has been A single womar, samed Alle. Melkmaid, at
drugged, and kept a prisoner in the Chinese quarters for the last eight months,
SYDNEY, February 18th, in Sydney charged with obtaining by fraud twe Herbert Salway, a solicitor, has been arrested thousand five hundred pounds from the English, Scottish, and Australian Chatiered Birk
Shih
Mei | thrust herself-la Pan-yü's
by Ni Yün-line, Haang Pang-cho, she ever find an opportunity of thrusting herself
and alın. by Li
Ching Isin-me, Cha Wen-chun; and the women Hung Fu Hsieh Tao, Ch Ying, Chao Yin, and others; all of whom were and are of the same
stamp, though pliced in different scenes of action,"
forward ? Bat contrary to her anticipatlons,, there' turned up eventually, on this day, some faint glimmer of hope, but as she again camo in for a spell of spiteful abuse from Cà lu Won and her companion, her expectations were soon con- "From what you say," observed Tau-hsing, siderably frustrated, and she was just plunged in success makes (a man) a duke or a marquisa melancholy mond, when suddenly she beard sup-Quite so; that's just my idea 1" repiled Yo-Yun, which unconsciously so affected her heart
fuin, a thief !"
the old nurse begin the conversation about Chi
that she hastily returned, quite disconsolate, into her room, and lay herself down on her bed, giving herself quietly to reflection. But while he was racking and torturing ber brain and at
persons was held in Melbourne last night in
A meeting at suited by about eight hundred port of the one-nian-one-yote principle.
.
LONDON, February 18th! Sir William Vernon Harcourt, M.P, speaking at Waitechapel last night, said that the different sections of the Irish party and the Liberals in the House of Commons were practically unanimous In regarding M A. J. Balloor's Trish Local Government Bill as a sham. Mr. A. J. Balfour, ap-asserted that the demands of the Irish party were speaking at the Constitutional Club Inst night, dangerous and impossible. He did not believe any actual existence. that Mr. Gladstone's Home Role scheme had
At a very largely attended meeting of depost tors in the Queensland Deposit Bank yesterday, the directors proposals were unanimously adopted and a committee of inspection was appointed. MELBOURNE, February 15th. matched to meet Peter Maher, the Irish chanowa Hall last night to protest against the
A crowded meeting was held in the Melbourne plan, in New Orleans in August. The Olympic Clubs in New Orleans reluses to give a purse for pointment of Mr. Munro as Agent-General. a fight between Jim Corbett and Charlle bis wife at Bendigo last night by smashing her A campester named Henry Andrewe murdered la the appeal case Pacific, Mall Steamship, skull with an arc, Co. v. C. J. Roberts, inte Pormester-General of New South Wales, as nominal defendant for the Government, the Pilvy Council has confirmed the decision of the New South Wales Full Court, awarding costs to the respondent.
The Chiefs of French monetary institutions are parl-ying with the Russian Gov:rnment with the object of advancing the mone required for the completion of the Siberian railway.
A despatch from New York states that the Commitee of Ways and Means in the United States House of Representatives is in favor of the free importation of wool Into America.
At a meeting of the, directors of the Nord Deutscher Lloyd's Steamship Co. a motion was carted expressing condolence with the family of the late Herr Lobmann, president of the board, who died rec-sily at Bremen.
Captain Hany Campbell Chads, of the Stadshire Regiment, has accepted the position of adjutant to the Queensland volunteers,
February 15th.
The report of the revolution in Brasil bus been
offically denied.
An outbreak of typhun has occurred amongst German and Russian immigrants arriving in the United Sates, and vessels upon arrival are piserd in quarantine, The number of persane at present 17 quarantine is 1,300
An exaordinary scene, was witnessed at the Cathedral in Berlin yeste day. The Emperor William attended the Cathedral, and while the service was proceeding a lunatic in the con-
French authority in the province of Tunt, in A despatch from Tangier reports that the south-east Morocco, is being extended. The officers are asserting their control, and have taken possession of several caravans.
The reciprocal trade conference between Mr. James G. Blaine, the United States Secretary or State, and members of the Canadian Ministry has been concluded. It is understand that the conference terminated amicably, and that a pro- posal for the establishment of trade reciprocity will be submitted to each country.
The German Education Act continues to meet with a great deal of opposition in certain quarter. The professors throughout the Empire oppose the bill on the ground that if pasted it will have the effect of certailing the State control of the schoolsa, e
The merchants of Moscow are making.ar. rangements for the construction of a railway from Simercand to Khoward.
ferry, County Down, Ireland. Some people who A colons discovery has been made at Porta- wera digying a grave discovered treasure buried there to the amount of 10,000 gold pieces.
The leaders of the coal porters on strike in London have issued a manifesto in which they urge the men to resume work, as those of them who object to do so are few in number,
It is currently reported that Signer Crispi fatends to resign the leadership of the Opposition in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
:
That to
HUNG LOU MENG.
OR
ts'un.
A little farther on occurs a pitage which if dressed in Western instead of Eastern style. would exactly fit many cases with which all must be familiar
A moment when she was at a loss what decision "Last year, when at Chin Ling." Yests'un to grasp, her car unexpectedly caught, emanating continued with a smile, "some one rec mmended from qutside the window, a faint voice may
myself the state of things, Who would ever heard these words, she walked out with hurried mansion; and when I moved ints it I saw for kerchief in here!" and as soon as Haiso Hung me as resident tutor to the school in the Chen sit Hung, I've picked up your pocket hand-
think that that household was grand and tax-step and found that it was no one else than Chin tious to such a degree! But they are an afluent Yün in person; and Halae Hung unwillingly family, and witbal full of propriety, so that felt her powdered face suffused with bioshes:' "Where did you pick it up, Mr. Secundus ?" she asked.
"Come over," this Yin smiled, ? and 171 tell you" And as bentered these words, he came up and drew her id him; but Halo Hung twisted herself round and ran away ;'but was however tripped over by the step of the dear.
Now, reader, do you want to know the seque!? If so the next chapter will explain.
END OF BOOK I.
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school like this was of course not one easy to obtain. The papll, however, was, it is true, a young tyre, but far more troublesome to teach than candidate for the examination of graduate of the second degree. Were I to enter into deltils, you would indeed have a laugh. I of two girls in my studies to enable me to read. most seeds," he explained, 'hare the company at all, and to keep likewise my brain clear. Otherwise, if left to myself, my head gets all in a muddle. Time af er time, he further expounded to his young attendants, how extremely bannur- able and extremely pure were the two, words representing woman, that they are more valuable and precious than the auspicious animal, the felteltour bled, rare flowers and uncommon The Osaka Asahi Shimbun thus describes
on any account herdlessly utter them, you set plants. You may not (he was wont to say), visit paid to the savages of Formosa by el foul mouths and filthy tongues these two
Mr. Uyeno Senichi, secretary of the Japanese Censulate at Foochow -Mr. Uyeno, having words are of the utmost import! Whenever you landed at Dafkwa-kwas, sent a letter to the have occasion to allude to them, you must, before
Chief, in which he said: "I, a subject of the you can do so with impunity, take pure water Western Island Empire, having admired your THE and arented tea and rinse your mouths. In the powerful and fearless spirit, have come to present bave your teeth extracted, and your eyes gouged events of any slip of the tongue, I shall at once myself before you. I humbly ask you to out. His obstinacy and waywardness are, in
me to meet you by the river side, where we may sit on the soft sands close by the pellucid every respect, out of the commen. Atter he was allowed to leave school, and to return home, he think we shall both derive pleasure. became, at the sight of the young Indies, so trace the event." The Chief favoured the iden, I water. If we cult meet and conure, from table, gentle, sharp, and polite, transformed, In and appointed the following day as the time, reas, hot of them. And though, for this the place to be as suggested by Mt. Upend
father has punished on more than one occasion, by giving him a sound had net desiderated the presence of the The visitor, possibly from a feeling of modesty, thrashing, such as brought him to the of death, he cannot however change. Wherever Chieftainess, but her august hestand brought he was belag beaten, and could no more endure person we do not doubt that
Aundred
in promiscuous loed shouts, "Girisi giral The possession that may have characterlied his received this crowd with the same easy self- young ladies, who heard him from the inner appearance on the platform at the Imperial chambers, subsequently made fun of him. University to receive his diplonia. The Chic Why, ther said, when you are being thrashed, and amin palo, your only thought is to bawl we are told, saluted the stranger by
the Chief's breast with that potentate's hands į paiting young ladies to go and intercede for you? How Japanese fashion and offered
gitis Is it perchance that you expect us fr. Uyeno made his salutations in the is that you have no sense of shame? To their The barbarian ruler had thoughtfully ordered taunts he gave most plausible explanation, lunch basket to be packed this was Once, he replied, when in the agony of pain, brought forward by a beathen mental, and I pave vent to shouting "girls," in the hope, per opened, and the representative of the Wester chance, I did not then know, of its being able to Irland Empire was invited to join the filustraus alleviate the soreness. After I had, with this considerably better; and now that I have obtained this see et spell, I have recourse, at once, when I am in the height of anguish, to cheats of "gile," one shout after another. Now what do you say to this? Isn't this absaid,
A number of shipowners in the North of gration cried out The millennium bas come 1 England are engaged in a movement for the A panic ensued, owing to the fear that the purpose of getting Great Britain to construct story of a young m›, Pao-yu, who early in life the paio, he was wont to promptly broak forth persons. We do not doubt that Mr. Uyeno
a canal parallel with the Suez Canal,
demonstration was made by anarchists.
The proposal to amalgamate the control of the lending American railways has led to a won derful activity in railway shares, and enormeus sales have taken place. A New York shares to the nomiubt value of £50 opca bave been 30!! for £4,000,000.
At a meeting of the shareholders of the Londen and Austr lesian Debenture Corporation, Limited, held to-day, Sir James Fergusson, the chairman of directors, stated that the operations of the company had been adversely affected by the crisis which bad occurred in financial circles in the colonies. The directors, however, announced that the corporation had resumed its old prosperity. A dividend at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum was carried,,
cut
THE, DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER..
We are indebted to Mr. H. Bencraft Joly, H. M. rice consul at Macao, for a translation of the Chinese novel "Hung Lou Meng," which is one of the greatest works in Chinese classical fiction. I novels as in plays, the Chinese "run to paddlg abnormali», introducing an amount of both uninteresting trivialities and philosophical prosings which would merly wreck any such work if written simply for the amusement of Westera races, In addition to this, all who know anything of the Chinese language know that classical works are all written in a high-flown die a *s unlike the ordinary speech of the people as Chaucer's is unlike modern English, KD,
difficult work any linguist could undertake whole Chinese el passable English
novel is probably the mest Mr. Joly is to be higtly complimented on his success, for besides accomplishing
ing his task most c e editably, as a task, he has furel-hed us with a really interesting book affording such an insight into the every day life of the tle known Mongolian as is not to be had in any other way, Even the most indifferent could not fa ito become engrossed in the study of Chinese character and ideas as depicted in this charming manner by Ms. Jaly; besides which, the novel is not without interest as a novel. The plot is simple: it is the has a dream which affects the whole course of ble future history. The by-play is good, and a number of short stories--always with cut-and- dried morals are introduced after the fashion of de Arabian nights Below are a few extracts which we take the liberty of reproducing, *1 showing (f extracts can so show) the character of the book. Only the first volume is issued as yet, and we shall look eagerly for the next, as the story is left in an interesting stage :-
Tzu-hsing upon perceiving the weighty import of what he propounded Please explain." be To which Y-ta'un responded: beings created by the operation of heaven and earth, if we exclude, those who are gifted with extreme benevolence and extreme viciousness, the rest, for the most part, present no riking An official report to the German Government diversity. If they be extremely benevolent, they, confirms the assertion that the climate of Kaiserfall is, at the time of their birth, with an era ofeh ?" Wilhelm's Land, New Guinea, is unfit for propitious fortune; while those extremely vicious Europeans, and the proposed colonisation of correspond at the time of their existence, with the place by Europeans has therefore been an era of calamity. When those who coexist officials in Kaiser Wilhelm's Land are all dying is in order; when those who coexist with unpin off from fever and other diseases.
pillous fortune come into life, the world is in It is reported that the Russian Government danger. Yao, Shan, Yu, Cheng Tang, Wen a harassing the Poles throughout the Empire. Wang, Wa Wang, Chen Kung, Chao Kung, The German agents, it
Cheng Tra, Chu Tsu and Chang Tzu were Whereas Ch'i Yu, Kung Kung, Chleb Wang, ordained to see light in an auspicious era, Chou Wang, Shih Huang, Wasg Mang. Tak Tras, Wen Wen, An Hu-than, Chin Kuel and others were one and all destined to come into the world during a calamitous age. Those endowed with extreme benevolence set the world in order; those possessed of extreme mollcleus His face was like the full moon at mid-antum; zess turn the world into disorder. Purity, intele his complexion, like morning flowers in springs ligence, spirituality and subtlety constitute the the hair along his temples, as if chiselled with a vital spirit of right which pervades heaven and knife; his eyebrows, as if pencilled with inks his earth, and the persons gifted with benevolence nose like a suspended gall-bladder (a well-cut are its patural fruit. Malignity and perversity and shapely nose); his eyes like vemal waves constitute the spirit of evil, which permcsics his angry look even resembled smile's his heaven and earth, and malicious persons are affected by its influence. The days of perpetualance, even whes stein, was fall of sentiment. happiness and eminent good fortune, and the era
Some of the verses are very creditably rendered;-
The London coal porters, who refused to
argument),"
few presents.
The sailors of the United States war-ship | return to work`on the ground that some of the asked hamily. "the drift (of your the human purpare, given one cry, I really felt the pain couple in their repast. Several cups of wine
firms had employed non-union men, we yielding and returning to work The Morning Past asserts that the fatrike has had the effect of fojuring the union, and that many members, are seceding from the ranks of untonfam.
O
It is reported that the Victorian associated banks, which took £1,000,000 worth of the Victorian Government's Treasury blils at 41 percent, interest at par, are placing the bills on
market the London
Baltimore who were injured in the Valparelse street tiot have made a claim for compensation against the Chilian Government. The total amount of the several claims is £200,000.
An extensive porcelain factory, at Sévres, town in France, noted for its manufacture of chinaware, ha
has been destroyed by fire. The German Government has decided to discontinue the operations for the expulsion of Jetulle from the country,
A report to hard states that the natives in | abandoned. It is also reported that the German with propitinus fortune come into life, the wearing on his head, to hold his hair togeiber, i
the Soudan and in Abyssible are engaged in La tribal wars.
The foot and mouth disease which was recently discovered amongst a consignment of Imported cattle is spreading in Engisnd.
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were diunk during and after the meal, I! does | Captain Davies, will be despatched for the above not appear that the local press were bidden to Port, on WEDNESDAY, the 23rd instan), at Mr. Uyeng himself took notes on the occasion the ceremony i to we may probably saxoms that Noon. and we must state in pure justice
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1341 He was, in fact, a young man of tender years, explorers Mr. Uyeno is not merely truthful; be THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING
gema. Parallel with his eyebrows was attached bitterly. They were pigtailed "fellows; they cap of gold of purplish tinge, inlaid with precious of the audience the Chief reviled the Chinese basiso magnanimous. During the remainder
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TO LET. ing two dragons suntching a pearl. He wore an exceedingly impolite; therefore he had upt heatOS, 9, 13, & 1 KNUTSFORD TEX. a circlet, embroidered with gold, and reprecent were far less refined than his own people, and archery-sleeved deep red jacket, with hundreds tated to turn them away when they came into shades, interspersed with flowers; and war clusters of designs, to which was ailached long the Japanese explorer had to catch a train, or girded with a sark of variegated' altik, with professed. quite an aitachment, and pressed him THE HONKONENCE CO INVESTMENT
| warmly to spand one night at the But toets; a kind of sash worn in the palace, Over peradventure he was unused to the ways of all, he had a slate-blue fringed coat of Japanese palacur at any rate he excused himself and brocaded satin, with eight bunches of flowers to withdrew. We shall be glad to hear of Mr. relief and wore a pair of light blue satin white Uyano again.
oled, half-dress cout-shoes.
A trial of the Sinu-Edixon new torpedo was a rising amongst the pled, are fomenting Confucius, Menclus, Tung Hu, Han Hsin, Chea of batterflies worked in gold of two different his tamitories. For Mr. Uyeno, however, he
made to lay in the presence of experts. The trials were satisfactory, and the invention has proved a complete success.
The trial of Senhor Carvagns, recently Finance Minister of Portugal, who was charged with anisappropriation in connection with the secret advance of Government money to the extent of £500,000 10 saliway company, has concluded, The evidence tendered showed that Senbor Carvagna had no felonious intention, and he was, therefore, discharged,
Dr. William Junker, the African traveller and maturalist, who, in 1887, gave Mr. H. M. Stanley Information regarding the whereshouts of Emin Pasha, is deat
The workmen of New York baye commenced an agitation to protest against the execution of
the anarchists in Spain found guilty in connection
Poles. expressed their dissatisfaction at the manner in pressed their ties Holactof Caracas are which the contractors for reportteg the debates of the Chamber are carrying out their work.
A despatch from St. Petersbug states that 400 anarchists at Cracow and 200 at Warsaw have been banished Sibdila.
Mr. C. Stuart-Wortley, the Conservative M.P. for Sheffield, is dead..
February 17th. The shipowners on the Clyde have decided to establish a syndicate to carry out matual Insurance of vessels. This course has been deemed expedient owing to the exorbitant charges made by Lloyds,
The threatened lock-out of engineers at the 2006 £100 on Chinese 'arriving in the of the subtle spirit expunds far and wide, and A dunce! to read essays so folk to be f
A connection with the reported harsh treat ment of Poles by the Russian and German Governments a despatch to band states that as of perfect peace and tranquillity, which now pre-To gloom and passion prone, without a rhyme, with the recent riots and outrages in Keres. immense amount of excitement has been caused vail, are the offspring of the pure, Intelligent, Inge and medlike was be many a thing...
The colliery proprietors in Durham have given throughout Peland by the circulation of a pam divine and subtle spirit which ascends above, to the miners a fortnight's notice of their intention phlet, in which the Government as a landlord is the very Emperor, and below reaches the rustic His culer self, forsooth, fine may have been, to reduce their wages,
condemned.
and uncultured classes. Every one is without Bul one wild, howling waste his mind within: It is
reported that the Canadian bill imposing exception under its influence. The superfialty Addled his bralo, that nothing he could sen workshops on the Tyne and. Wear Rivers hue
poli-tax taken place, and 16,000 men have been thrown Domision will be vetoed,
finding nowhere to belike itself-to, becomes, in Ferrera in bearing, In temper wayward i out of employment.
An official return just published shows that due course, transformed into dew, or gentle For human censure he had no regard. A number of British emigrants who went to the drink bill of the United Kingdom last year breeze; and, by a process of diffusion, it perrades When rich, wealth to enjoy he knew not how; Brazil have returned to England on account of mounted to 141,350,000, or an average of £3 the whole word,
When poor, to poretty be could not bow, i the unsettled state of the Republic. They are 15s. per head of the population Lasble to obtain employment, and are entering
The spirit of malignity and perversity, unable Alail what atter waste of lustrous grace | A corner in Russian rye is being formed in to expand under the brilliant sky and tracemat
To s
state, to family what a disgrace lagja bí the workhouses in large sambers. ***
The Freeman's Journal and the National commence in Apill. The price of yel Grid when of a succes the wind agitates it or ii Ye lads, pampered with sumptuous fare and dress.
Berlin, and its operations, it is expected, willing sun, eventually coagulates, pervades and Of Be'er-do-walls below be was the prime,
stops up the deep gutters and extensive caverna;
Undilal like, kim none up to this time... Prizt, wo newspapers published la Dublin, are many bas in consequence advanced rapidly. about to form a coalition. The National Press The strike of miners at Bilbao, in Spain, the be impelled by the clouds, and any slight dispo- Beware! In this youth's footsteps do not press
conflicts sition, on its part, supervenes to set itself in Here is some more description well worthy
in the new organ of the M'Carthy section of the
* Irish
party Colonel Olcott, president of the Theosophical Society, has been compelled to resign the position on account of continued Ill-berith,
even the minutest fraction does uncapectedly find an outlet, and happens to come across any spirit of perception and subtlety which may be at the time passing by, the split of right does sot yield to the spirit of eyil, and the spirit of evil in again envious of the spiritol night, so that the two do not harmonize just like wind, water, thunder and lightning, which, when they meet
smoke, bore a certain not very pronounced frown. Her two arched eyebrows, thick as clustered log wrinkle. She had a pair of cyswhich possessed a cheerful, and yet one would say,
ad expression, overfimming with sentiment. Her face showed the palats of sorrow stamped on her two dimpled chocks. She was beauillatg but her whole frame was the prey, of a bereditary
scene of recent serious sound, has ter motion, or to break is bounds, and co file as the Flowery Land Hold between the strikers and the military, minated, and the mes bays returned to work.
A famine is imminent in East Prussia owing to the fallure of the crops. A despatch from Servia reports that a Berlla It is reported that serious famiae is being pressman has been expolled Irons Belgrade for experienced in Montenegro, owing to the telegraphing for publication statements which of crops.
ad the effect of
of depressing Servian securities darpated from Santiago reports that a deter The death is announced of Mr. Fred. Alarmined attempt in the life of President Montt, of Hankey, the Conservative M. for the Cherisey the Republic of Chili, has been discoved. The Division of Burray, in bis 60th year. My president was travelling by train, and it was Hankey was a victim to an attack of falimentare) jeand that the rails of the line, bear Valparaise,
NANKING.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Nothinsel bi fisicumen, which have taken
10th March, 1892. been elicited from the several place since the opening of the scals, except that It has been ascertained that he was in Shanghai at the time of the Mason episode. It is sa‹d that he is very reluctant to speak of his object ageing to Shanghal at that time, but when preated affirms that be was there to purchase presents for the son of Liu Mlug-ch'uso, whe obtained his second degree at last year's examination. The
present purpose seems to be
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to keep him in durance until the real Li Hung is ST. JOHN discovered. Much regret is expressed that Chang Chiltong at Wu-chang should have so sum- marlly decapitated the men whom he had in custody, It is thought that they could have disclosed the leader, if they had been tortured,
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There seems to be little doubt that the that it is still as powerful as ever,..A recent Kolae Hyu
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Wang King-lang, who confessed that there were capture was that of a Chekiang man named in the society two leaders called Chang Tajn and Li Shanyah, Tase of course may be only fictious names but they may also be the same of man of lessence.
Your report that the troubles in the north have not been suppressed and that the memorials
in the bowels of the earth, must necessarily, as disease. The tests in her eyes glistened like in the Peking Gowoffs were fictitious is confirmed
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they are loth to dissolve and are likewise anabla small specka, v Har balmy breath was so genties by recent letters received by Chicers in this City Brethren are cordially invited to yield, clash and explode to the end that they 3 She was no demure as a lovely, Bowar relocwid - from friends in the Impastal troops. The zeboss
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