zurpleal pur mes ajining the consulting room, where they are attended to as their cases may demand, "Such på fests as have need of and are suitable for, horrl at treatment,-it may be one or two, it my he half a dozen en any partie cular day, are passed directly to the wards, in the Alica Memorial Hospital or the Netheriola Hospital, as may be desizable.
VACCINATION. Vaccination is conducted in the Alice Memo- lal Hospital on the afternoons of Mondays and Thursdays by the houra surgeon, who is regis‹ tered as a public vaccinator, assisted by the students. The number of vaccinations performed during 1893 has been 279. -
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Great fimprovements were made here lastation and rendezvous for her troops, in order to year by the China Merchants' Company: ten long wharves and filty odd pontoons were bulls, and now at high tide our children can with safely jump from them Into the beautiful thick mud that a fir-seeing Providence has so | bauulitully bestowed upon us. Your Car De spondent has man--very many, children and fully appreciates the blessings that in disguised to the wharves, the mud-and the children,
It may rain to-morrow; Ifso, your correspond. ent will let you know, and if it snows be'll coma personally.
Your correspondent does not like Swatów now. The rum is nearly finished. In Hongkong that soul-inspiring beverage flows in a never-ending stream. Your
well-being of suffering humanity. In the matter of leprosy alone a boon might thus be conferted housands of Chiucic by virtue of the di covery of some cure ft that fil disease, to say nothing of the discovery of new and improved cures for many of the i'is to which flesh is heir. | It is well known that Chinese déctors at limes effect wonderful cures by the use of purely native medicines and that some Chinese physicians hold valuable prescriptions which are banded down from generation to generation sa helilḥoms, which it would be little short of criminal to part with under any cl cumstances, bat were Chiness dectors of the better clsuses encouraged by high Chinese officials to contribute towards our present stock of medical knowledge and take "honours" at an institution divided, as most colleges are nowadays, loto two sections
[Should the forecoing emelle not prove -one for the study and perfeciton of Oriental efficacious, the liquor-laden epistle from "Our medical science and the other for the improve. Swain correspondent" in last night's China THE PATIENT DEPARTMENT..
ment of Western medical science-Important || Maïl is strongly recommended. Ed.] Admission to the wards is usually through the results might be obtained redounding to the
credit of the organlane and our-paliant consu't'ng room, and, to such cases as the consultant for the day has judged nordfol, alleviation of the sufferings of humanity In A CHINESE VIEW OF THE TRANS- is immediate, without payment or promise of general. What Pasteur, Koch and others have money, ard without the lefluence or Interven-done in the West, la the matice of research tion of patronage. Need of In-treatment is the sole criterion
To cases of accident, to cases of acute disease requiring urgent and immediate treatment, and to patients bearing nates of Introduction from subscribers to the
DENTAL SURGERY.
Dr. Noble attends at the Alice Memorial Hospital on the afternoons of Thursdays at 5 30 for the treatment of dental cases, the number of which In 1893 bas keen 363.
fat.ds (for whose
convenience admission cards may be had on application st Hospitals), the doors of both bospitals are open at all hours of the day and night. No charge la made for medicines, clothing during residence, bedding, attendance, &c, and only ■ very small proportion of the patients are able to pay for their fand, since our work is chiefly among the very poot.
The work done may be thus tabulated,
In-patients rem:ining in hospital
AM H. M.H.
on January 1st, 1957 In-patients a/mlitted to hospital
during the year 1897.......................546 Total number treated as in
patients an
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and experiment in the special lies mapped out for themselves in the wide field of medical science, might be eclipsed in the Orient were this scheme, which I bavetaus briefly outlined,'carried out on lines commensurate with the important results sought to be obtained.
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be pr pared for any aggressive movement on the part of Rusis. The latter being panla baulked dared not expose her intentions. Waen quiet was" ngala restored England returned Port Hamilton to ita proper owner, Corea; but made a treaty with Ching that the island shad never in the future be ceded to any other foralga Power. Thus, by a mutual under tinding between China and Great Bristo, Cores was saved from a Rutan manter. Russia, aware of this and con clous of her own Juferiority to England lo ships of war and Ironclads. without con ing the aislstance of China, did not dare' to show her fangs: Her ambidon has been bed and an approach by sea to Cores or to the sea through that peninsula blocked by the
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Countries. Russli has therefore slace turned her sole attention towards holding a dominant polion over China, and Hästs's belog the most convenient spit of access, the oyes of Russia are belog now stea fastly fixed on that point for the ultimate accomplishment of her | desig¤s. But, as heady stated, the country | between European Rossla and Eastern Siberla is, for the most part, necessai y one vast expaus of barren waste, thereby making the transport The following article from a recent issue of the of a large army and its accompanying impedi- Shinpao may, says the N. C. Daily News, be menta and supplies a matter of superhuman of interest as it is a faithful exposition of the difficulty betweenthetwo points; benca "Russia," views of the more liberal and enlightened to quite again, "bas bren lately making amongst the Chinese officials and upper classes extraordinary exertion towards surmounting
They it. She fars not the distance, is not chary of I may add that I have ad freased you on this on Russian designs in Eastern Asia. the
regard with some apprehension the future rela- expense, and regardless at the number of years subject with considerable diffidence, and am actuated only by the desire to see this question tions of China with Russia, should the narrow that may be required for the completion of her thrashed out by those who, like many medical minded and ignorant Princes and Ministers at railway, ie's forth on her task with an iron deter men who have devoted a good deal of time to the seat of government still persist in affecting to mination. With the will and the enthusiasm which the study of leprosy, influenza, opthalmiz, etc., despise the power of Russia in particular and make light of dificantes, it naturally follow etc., are better able to appreciate the important Europe in general, and continue to conduct that Russiz must succeed in her undertaking. themselves in that supine and apathetic manner "There is nothing difficult of accomplishment Issues involved than Is
which has made them a bye-word among their under the sun, it only rests with the man Intelligent fellow countrymen. We have, observes possessed of a will." This proverb may there our Shangbal contemporary, neither given a
fore be pertinently applied to Russia and har literal nor a loose translation; suffice to say, Trans-Sibe in Railway. that in some cases we have been compelled to amplify the text slightly, in order to bring out the true gist of the author's meaning, owing to bis terseness and taking things for granted, or as already known to the average literatus. It will be seen that the wii'er has highly eulogiaed | is a waste, and but sparsely inbablied, one would Russian perseverance, even more than, perhaps, It does not require much wisdom or even foresight to det et that Rusais, having been failed in her ambitieus designs in Europe, has naturally turned her attention Asla-wards, with the same object in view-aggrandisement." And the reason that she has not thus far openly unmasked herself lies in the fact that she is bardly yet prepared for such a strp. This, in all likelihood, is owing to the dissimilarity of the natural features cribe two continents. Here, in our portion of the ginte, we might aver, it is not the navy alone that is all-important; but Indeed the army is just as much so, nay it is even a sine gud non for the success of Russian undertakings, For this, however, the must have we ought not to be prepared for any contingency? A MEETING will be held in the GYMNA-
Yours truly,
CHESNEY DUNCAN. Hongkong, 16th January, 1894.
SONGS OF A SURGEON.
"IN THE TEST TUBE."
He may think it very funny,
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Of rse there were ;- Becharged cured..... .386
72
He may think it very quaint,
Discharged relieved 98
B
Discharged on other grounds 46
P
Died in hospitai
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In-patients remaining in hospital
ca January 1st, 1894.................
OPERATIONS:
18
43
And decide that he is really very spry-b
Furthermore, it has been advanced that "e completion of the Siberian railway will be a great boon to commerce." When we stop to GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. consider, however, that a vast portion of the country between European Russia and Siberia
TOTICE is hereby given that the Queen's naturally assume that there cannot possibly, Naval Vard and Arsenil Street, will be CLOSED along this route, as compared with other more each day during the time set apart for blasting, favoured ones
It might therela e be partiaently.-12.00 10 12.30 P.M., and 4.30 to 4 45 P.M.
He may lead a life which nobody would look for he intended to do. The sticle is as follows: under the circumstances, be much commerce from TO-MORROW and until further notice
from a saios,
93 Bat, it shows up-in the test tube, by and bye
He may trifle with the tropics
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193 operations under the Influence of an athic have ten performed in the two beni als derfor 1893, with results as onder :—
Cured Improved
... 30 Net improved.............gunan.........mom 2
Died
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193
In the above figures no account la takes of the dental operations, nor of a very large num- br of minor em gical opérations,
TUČ PROPOSED "SAMARITAN" SOCIETY. Mrs. Sevens is still moving in the direction of the formation of a Samaritan Seclety Ir connection with the two Hospitals. Its objects those of the Benevolent wil to similee Society, already doing such excellent work in the Colony, but its sphere of operation will be en inly disire, since it is to render help to patients of the Hospitals, who are alniost exclusively Chinese, and who are by Rute 2 of the Benevolent Society cut eff from participation in the be efits of that rrganization, In concluding this my last annual report of the work of which I have had the superintendence during the past five years, I wish to acknowledga most gratefully the substantial ald accorded to to it by Il sections of the Press in the Colony the unstinted financial support that has been
And may flirt with polar snows, He may deem bis constitusion not awry, He may keep case of whisky, and have lots
of little "Koes," Bat he finds it near his liver, by and byc i He may laugh at puny weaklings who have
Very Darrow chests,
tlon rests
And whom indigestion keeps away from ple" But he finds out all about it when his faforma
·On a spasm at his “midriff,” by and bye! He may brag about "heredity," and talk a lot
of rot
Of his forefathers,"who'd never, never, die ; But he tells a different story when he finds that
on the spot.
A parson comes in handy, by and bye! He may talk of his capacity, and "how we used
to drink!! And that going slow is really all my eye, Bat de alters his opinion and another way may
think, When it loaches up his kidneys, by and bye! He may beast of byegone glorien, and of
Bac banalin song,
dry :
When It's tried with Nitric Acid, by and bye.
sion won't be long...
NARRABEEN.
forthcoming during a term of years of such Very("Narrabeen" ought to know. Ed. Hongkong
serious monetary depression; the onfalling kirdness and courtesy I have experienced at the hands of those who have been my co-workers and the pati ot labour betowed on the work by those who have had the care, or have #silsted In the collection, of the funde, of whom with the treasurer and auditor I would specially tender my thanks to the Hon. J. H. Stewart-Lockbart, Mr. Wel Yuk, Mr. Ho Tung, and Mr. Tacang St Kai.
The sime consideration and assistance that have been printed me so unreservedly, I most respectfully bespeak for my succestor, Dr. Burton, under whose care I trust the combined Institutions may in the future go ga to a still
wider usefulness.
JOHN C. THOMSON,
H.A., MD.
CORRESPONDENCE,
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(A CONSIGNMENT OF "NOTES" FROM THI "SNAIL'S" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
Christmas Day was celebrated here from the 23rd of December to the 16th inst. (both days inclusive) and, as might be expected, osteberezes has appeared in epidemic form. The symptoms ard the worst known to sclerce; the soakes having seven yellow heads cash and double
rallways to bring on her troops to carry their supplies, and to connect her communications with Europe, for without them she can do nothing. Hence Russia, alive to the supreme importance of this branch of the service, has been paying special attention to railways, grad urlly speading her ramifications Asti-wards territories, la throughout her Western such a
manner that, figur tively speaking, with the dawn of each day new develop meals continuously display themselves to the view. Yesterday we published a paragraph from foreign sources to the effect that Russia was making extraordinary exertions in boflding ber Trans-Siberian railway which was to connect St. Petersburg with Vladivostock, on the Chinese
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asked, what are the advantages, from a com merciai psint of view, that Russia might reason- ably expect by being so energetic in trying to complete this line of railway? After turning over the question in our minds pro and con, we can find no reasonable answer to It com- mercially speaking; hence, we cannot but feel compelled to uraw conclusions from this unusual energy of Russia, which must be unfavourable to China. On the other hand, granted that we have not penetrated the true designs of Russia, does it also follow then that
Again, what sort of prepiration has our govein- ment made after all?
daring the construction of the NEW DRAIN. AGE WORKS in this Road.
By Command,
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Offer,
Hongkong, 18th January, 1894.
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.
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SIUM on FRIDAY, the 25th instant, at 5.30
P., for the purpose of reconsidering the present Rules relating to Ballot and submitting, by Way of Special Resolutions; certain New Rules relating to entry by Bellot.
E. D. SANDERS, Hongkong, 18th January. 894
The answerls given in a few words. An extra dozen or so of disciplined battalions and a few thousand stand of rifles with an extra battery or two of field gans ! A lot of gasconade has been recently uttered, informing the Throne that "extra contributions to the military exchequer of the North-east provinces have been arranged sufficient for the defence of the country; but, what, comparing the preparations of Russia with our own puny efforis, we would like to know, will VICTORIA be the good of all this? What substantial ádvantages can be expected from them in the case of troops as much cut off from succour and the world as the hermit to the mountains? The
Hon. Secretary,
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BAN HOP, by bis Attorney, KAW HONG TAKE. LAM SIN SANG. Hongkong, 18th January, 1894,
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And of "heavy wets "where no brave soul went frontier, distance of 5,600 miles; that there was only remedy lies in the laying of's through line every probability of her completing the line in from our base of supplies to the fortified city of But helt whisper different stories and conver-seven years' time; that it would be, when Bats'da, lo order that when the time comes, completed, the longest line in the world; and troops may be transported by our railways to that, finally, by its completion it would be the frontiers for their protection against the great boon to commerce in general, Granting enemy. But whenever the subject of such ibis (from a superficial point of view) to be the a railway is broached there is always a case, we, on cur part, must not forget that demar, asking where the funds are to come THE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY, Rosila's gain in the future necessarily becomes, from for such * great underiaking, ard
! LIMITED. under the circumstances, proporilónally also complaining at the difficulty that will be
NOTICE. China's peill, And shall those who have the experienced under the clicumstances. Thought- Interests of the Empire at heart look on with fal men thas find their hands tièd, and despair apathy and under-esiimate the vital Importance of their ability to accomplish unaided an unders of this step? Shall our Ministers be allowed king of soch vital importance to the country,
HOLDERS In the above Company held willingly to permit themselves to be, as it were, | Others, agalo, offer the following ridiculous
upon the 2nd Floor of the Chul Hing Lan upon whipped by those who shall have first possessed | excuse in words like these: "Granted the the 4th July, 1893, has now been admitted to
have been irregularly convened and the resolu themselves of the instrument? Whatever may importance of such a railway, for the purpose of have bitberto been surmised with regard to rapid communication and the drafting of troopstions passed thereat have been admited to have been invalid and not binding on the Company, Russla, we want no greater proof, at the present and suppiles to the points of danger; but sup- day, of ambiilous de igns in Eastern Asla than posing, for the sake of argument, that by some and whereas upon the Payment of the Plaintiffs' the paragraph'referred to above, Russia toeches inadvertence, we happen to allow the enemy to costs, Salt No. 40 of 1893 has been withdrawn. that number of tails, while the eyes are China at Hüntrün, (oppaille Vindivostock) c pure this sallway, would this not give the of a deadly green. The Hospital is cram which becomes a door for her entrance into this enemy an easier access loto China? Would not med to its utmost limits of Accommoda- Empire; if the former were to build a railway this be merely building a railway for our enemies' tion. The supply of straight-jackets having from St. Petersburg right down to Hant'alli,bencf:? It is therefore far better to have no sun short, oyster shells are now being used and then farewell to any future peaceful days on railways than to have them with such a con- are found to answer admirably. By a special China's frontiers! And yet the Ministers at the tingency in view. We can only laugh at dispensation of Providence your corespondentest of power seem to think that there is nothing the foolishness of such a reply. The an- has been saved ; his disease only developing to to fearst the hands of Russia | Take an clents had a saying that "wherever I can the extent of the well-known dan coloured Instance: Some time ago, the writer of this. hapo, it is just as easy for my enemy to get there MEDICAL SCIENCE IN THE FAR EAST. double-breasted spider with kaleidoscopic legs. pening to meet a certain high official while pass also." By this is meant that there is no advant
Drastic measures were resorted to to time-a ing through Shanghai, began a confidential com age in running away and avoiding an enemy, A PROPOSED MEDICAL INSTITUTE FOR CHINA 1beral supply of kerosene internally, Ice exter-versation on the international policy of our
but that it would be better to use our best ener. TO THE KOTOR OF THE "Hongkong TelsoraFR," nally, proving efficacious. Your correspondent country, and amongst others, bisled that C. Ina" gles in resisting him. If, therefore, the fear that SIR That valuable scientific Information can is a bard' man—very. The missionariès have had a good deal to fear from the aggressions of The enemy might capture cur rallways has pre- be gathered in the vast Empire of China was suffered greatly, many of the cases in that div!-Ross What, then, was this person's reply i long ago predicted by an able writer in The sion of the community having already proved | "Ob," said he confidently, here is really Lancel who insisted that Far Catbay "affords a | fatal ; and more are to die. Your correspondent nothing to fear from Russia, you know. The vast held of medico-historical research." At that is safe—He's been converted and now 'takes it route between European Russia to China con- time the willer based bis arguments upon the straight."– Grave fears were manifested that thesists, for the most part, of barren and waste masy interesting and ins'ructive sticles that disease would spread beyond the latis of the country, which would become a great obstacle appear from time to time is the "Medical" port, consequently your conespondent ordered for the forwarding of supplies to an invading series of annuals published at Shanghai under the two junks that were lying in the barbour to army, capable of making an impression on such the direction of Sir Robert Hart, Inspector | be burnt at their respective anchorages. This' | a country as ours. So long as no fallways ard General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime was done eventually, but only after the crews | bu'l, she could never think of making an the enemy! Following the argument of car Castams Service, and reports issued from time had been cut down. Your correspondent was invasion. Should Russia desire to build a rali- to time by medical missionaries resident in the looking on from afar; ha is, indeed, a great map. way like this, think of the immense distance to Empire but it le probable that he little anticipated The weather of late has been hazy and to-day | be surmounted. How much casier it is to such an astounding and prompt fulßiment of bis a terrific thunderstorm passed over our stricken talk than to act | Moreover, when I left Russle prophery as was furuished by a sagacions community. Hallstones twice the size of Eitel's | for home, I heard nothing in that country Moravian medical missionary named Meber, head fell in thousands, and the streets were about such a railway. All this talk amongst whose station is at Leb, in the region beyond our quickly strewn with dead and dying. Your the untatilated is only so much idle rumour, Cashmere frontier-the bill country between correspondent only just escaped by taking you may dep:ad upon it. Now what has Chinese Leb and Yarkhand. The treasures shelter (and a double-barralled "Dawson)" in | become of this official whose apathy has just trove la question was received by M. Mebat the Kinlat Hotel. Your special is a wise man. been noted? He has since gone to that bourn from an A'ghan coadjutor, and consists of a series A Chinese war-jook was reported to be near-from whence there is no return,” while the rail. | of manuscripts dating from the seventh century, Ing Double Island last week, but as our liquor ( way he pretended to scoff at bas now become
Every branch of JAPANESE ART INDUS-Applention. A. D., and dealing with medicine and its was running short she was signalled to stand off. tangible fact. From St. Petersburg to the not, on the other hand, be also able to do ibe | TRY! This is one of the FINEST COLLEC traditionally allied asbjects of astronomy and Your correspondent did this alones at least, with Chinese frontier town of Hüzün is a distance same with an enemy's line? It is supremelyTIONS that has been offered to the public for whichcraft. The documents were handed by a ❘ the ald of a blue-light and a pair of A'igreed un. of 5,600 miles. It is true that it will take seven ridicolous to argue that it is impossible for os. Mr. Webster to Dr. Hecrala of the Bengal mentionables (“show” ends upwards). They years to complete such a lengthy railway, and to capture an enemy's raliway, while we must Descriptive Catalogues will be offered previous Aslatic society, whose well-knownskill in Oriental | had once been worn by a missionary: The idea that an immense sum of money will have to be i always be prepared to allow our enemies to take to the Sale, and the Articles will be on view pa'migraphy at once recognised their lenor, as was an immense success ; the junk went about expanded before it can ultimately be of any use away our lines from us. It la indged our duty to-morrow (Friday), the sgth instant, up to 6 P.M. Also the material on which they were written. Immediately and made right ent to sex again, to Russia; but notwithstanding there obstacles, to consider that ! where we can go, there also TERMS OF SALE :-As customary. This latter is identical with the paper still ured Your corespondent is a man of great resource we may test maured that Russle intends to do can our enemy do likewise," but to confess that
GEO. P. LAMMERT, by the Himalayan tribes, belog composed of the and takes much credit to himself for carrying out i, and will accomplish her object. An analysis we can do nothing while the enemy is supposed
Aucileneer. Time vegetable fibres, and not of the birch bark | the rust so well. His ration of rum has been of the various aims of Russia, Great Britain, 10 be able to do everything, is nothing more of Hongkong, 18th January, 1894. employed for the wiillugs brought to England | doubled in consequence,
France and the United States as regards China | less than shameful cowardice, Let us zow by Captain Bowen. De Hoernie ascribes tha Things were looking up before this lamentable shows different results. The last named three conclude this article by asking those lu power, good preservation of the manuscripts, first to the epidemic struck us : no less thanjtwo steamers countries for instance aim only at expansion of Which is preferable; are wo to allow a possible Aryness of the surrounding air, and next to their bound for Bangkok salled away in a week and trade; their deske is to take money from us, enemy to have the means of coming to us, having been "sized" with white arsenic. He an for Hongkong i why a big-a very big, pecuniary gain is their ambition and not gain while we wilfully deprive ourselves of the samé gives a translation of one of the spells for induc simpan was being balls to trade with that port
In slices of territory. On the other hand, advantages 7 fdg fever, presumably as a punishment or in Things were indeed looking up for Hongkong. Russla at first desired to take possession. revenge-aspeli eminently characteristle of its | Christmas has a lot to answer for. Your corres of Turkey, to order to have an outlet for her CHILDREN starving to death on account of their Chique origio, and interesting not only to the pondent (being = Christian) does not bear ships from the Black Sea for the purpose of inability to digest food will find a most marvel- medical historien, but also to the student of sulmosity-but Christmas is beyond a joke. contesting for the supremacy of Europe, Tolour food and remedy in Scott's Emulsion of popolar superstitions.
Your very own has now to use a shoe-born to get this, however, the other countles of Europe Pure Cod Liver Oil wlis Hypophosphites. Vary Now, what I consider specially worthy of note | his hat on.
decidedly objected. They ananimously opposed palatable and easily digested. Read the follow- In this connection is the undothed fact that Chinese New Year has been celebrated with Russia and sympathi ed with the Turks, which lag testimonial: Eave prescribed scott's were there a well-organie d medical and scientiflo- great rejoicióge (four-special-wan in the thick, resulted in the former belag folled in her | Emulalon! to casos of children suffering from Insillution to Chics, specially designed for the of 'em) and never before hat be bad such a good ambiti'n on that continent. This, for many wasting and mal-uutrition, and can report mart prosecurion of scientific reseatches and con- time of it, thanks to the fact that most of years, has been a sore point with Rogala, and favourably of fis good effect; it has been in each, taining a museum in charge of a thoroughly the liquos-lappers were hora de combat. The ia tu ning her eyes to Asia, she tried not so caretaken most readily W. PERKINS, M.R.C.S, competent coriter, assisted by experts and | zamiku was the choicest and the sing-song girls very long ago to crquette with Coren. Great | Medical Superintendent, Butleigh Hospini. Any ✨ specialists, a vast amount of valuable information, Abem (--finer than your correspondent had Britain, nevartheless, suspecting her secret Chemist can supply £2,--A. §. Watson & Co. Worthy the teadlidons of this great and ancient ever seen before, and he has been around a lot, designs, at once forestalled the Muscovite by (Limited), agents in Hongkong, and China, ** ampire, could be obtained and be applied to the ↑ Ela la a plane mann,
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last apologists, then it were far better that we possens no sent at nil; it, were better, to avoid capture and subsequent use by the enemy, therefore that we neither buy nor make our arme and ammul ion, our machine and big guns. Thus, we shall be free from anxiety on their score, at any sate !~Alaz ! what more mediocre, more contemptuous line of seasoning can there possibly be in this world than the above? Supposing an enemy to be able to capture one of our rallway lines, does not the argument cut the p'her way also ? And might we
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