THE LIGHTS' AND PASS DIFFICULTY.
THE GOVÈKYOR'S DICISION, The following despatches, which speak for themselves and will doubtless be read with considerable Interest by the Chloess, have been forwarded to us for publiczifon :---
I have carefully considered the Petition 'presented by you, which the Registrar General hau sahmitted to me. In view of the advice given by that officer and by other leading European aldents, I have, out of consideration for the comfort and convenience of the orderly Chloese community, lisael the following Instructions to the Chpisla.Saperintendent of Police:-
“Colonial Secretary's Office)"
Hongkong, 6th January 1596. SIR,—I have the honour, by direction of the Governor, to inform you that while his Excellency is of oplofon that the Night Pass Ordinance and the regulation as to carrying lights should remain as at present, so that the Government, may at all times have a weapon at hand in the event of riots or serious disturbances of any klad, be considers that in ordinary times the law should not be generally enforced except in the CAIO of persons whose movements the Police
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1896.
THE NAVY LEAGUE
"WHAT WE ASK OF YOU" is the name si a Dent little volume received from the Navy
League, which is apparently deleg good work in drawing attention to the condillen of the British Navy The general aims of this useful Institution, as announced some time ago, are :— (a) To spiesd Information, showing the vital Importance to the Bitish Empire of the Naval supremacy upon which depend its trade, empi and national existence.
(b) To call attention to the enormous damsada which war would make upon the Navy, and to the fac› that the Navy is not at present ready to meet them,
ment.
(6) To call attention from time to time to such measures as may be requisite to secura "adequats preparation for the maritime --defence of ike-Empire,——— (d) To nige these matters on pobile men and,
in particular, noon candidates for Pailla One has only to take a cursory glance over there "alms" to be convinced that the League, if properly supported, and is alms conscientiously carried out, can only to of inestimable value to the Empire. In this publication there are some of the utterances of prominent Brlilsh statesmen on the present poslilon we hold In the naval world, and ose and all appear to be unanimous in declaring that the
both in point of ships and men. From the pamphlet, which is full of interesting matter, we inke the following article on
have reason to suspect and in the case of persons British Navy is much below its proper strength
who are abroad after midnight.
I have, NC,
(Sg.) J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary, Hon. Comm. Hasil g, R.N...
Acting Captalo
Superlotendent of Police.
AMOP RACES.
Stewards : —T. M. Boyd, Esq.; R. H. Bruce, Esq.; F. Cais, Esq; Dr. McDougall; W. S. Or, Esq; Aug. Plebl, Eng and H. P. White, Esq. "
Secretary-E. Thomas, Esq.
FIRST DAY, MONDAY, 6TH JANUARY, 1896. CONSULAR CUP. (presented); for all China ponies: weights as per scale; entrance 5. Seven furlongs.
Major Thomas' d. Morison, trst slb........... I Mr. Esher's e. Kindır, rost gib........................................... ↑ Mr. Boyd's ch. Danmore, List Illamaiore 3. Mr. Mannual e. Magit, 10at salb Mr. Boyd'sg Dundalk, frst alb Mr. Boyd's b. Congo, 11st 1lb
Mr. Dryanday's R. flard Times, x 11⁄2t alb Mr. Drvardust'a ā. Shiney Villlam, zrel 4lb General Top'lgin's g. Mercury, 1112 415 General Te pligin's 2. Shoofy, 11st rib Mr. Tom Green's g. Bluejickel, rast gib Mr. Frank Bercy's ch. Red Knight, rostralb
Time, ymln. 521 SHEC
THE MEANING OF DEFEAT.
"Keep the command of the sea as you value national life. With it you can do everything. Without It you will be speedily blotted out of the list of nations,”--ĀDMIRAL COLOMB In a day when Englishmen are realizing the value of ses power, we yet bear from time to time from the mouths of ignorant orators the old and discredited falsehood, that the working man has no interest la main'alaing a fleet. In spite of Cobden's words-himself of the school of peace-the artisan or the labonrer is told that he loses nothing if his country is ralped-ibat the suffering, will fall not upon him, but apos the bourgects and the upper class. He is informed that bis 'money is being wasted, and that we have already a more than sufficient fleet. Yet in the past we have had one terrible instance, in the giest cotton. famine, which may well show at the misery that would be caused to the worklog man by the interruption of our trade. In the light of this lastance we will raise the curtain of the fature, and see what is the import of defeat to the labouring classes.
“THE OPENING OF BUNAN.
POWERS TO COMBICE FOR THE OPENING
OF ́A ̈TREATY PJAT IN BUWANT
~By a ̈Hunanz36. )
The writer ventures to suggest to the Ministers of the various Treaty Powers the diablity of opening a part fr later national commerce in the province of Hunan, a favourable place for which to Ylostfes, dependency of the district of Slangylo in the said province.
The reason why the people of Honan ære adverse to the project of international Intercourse within the boundaries of their native province lies in the fact that no one has taken the step to explain to the former the advantages accruing
town. They will do thele utmost to assist the people who have been the cause of providing them with work and prosperity,
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE,
[Saturday, 4th January, 1896.]
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS.
No. 1 of 1896-Contains the despatch of the British Minister in Japan notlfiring that medical Inspection of ships arriving from infected ports has ceased in Japan.
the falure and insist upon the maintenance of
Yannon and Kucichon on the west, Kuang- whereas mill-owners in Japan can now procure our ses power, war will never come, or if it does
tung und Kuungsi on the south, and on the raw cottos from China by paying to the latter a come will best: like the sex muon the rocks.
The two following papers, which have been
north is Tangtieg lake. It may be regarded astoint tiz of 4 per cent. ad valorem, they will zwch so we may have to suffer, but we shall suffw with the certainty that we shall bad sent to us by a valund porrespondent at Hankowe of the keys of Hannu. Although its water fied themselves obliged to pay an import of 20
communicailon le not very deep, silil it is free | go par cest, on the same cotton If thày establish from sandbanki and shouls and could exally be | mills in Chios to spin it. Of course the ques- down to porterly the greatness which we our explain themselves, says the N. C. Daily News selves inberlied. Every sex will be traversed of the 31st ultimo. They show that there is a
vastly improved. It is just the place for a porttion may be included in the negotiations now by our ships; every land will, bè rectusible to ro-forelgo party even in Honan, and they give of call for steamers, and contains decidedly mare taking place between Earl Lland Baron Hayashi, aur aurales. Our Navy will blockade our foen advice as to the opening of the province which
advantages than Changsha for such a purpose. But Is there any reasonable expectation of that ? In thele ports; par frontiers will be the hostile
-The writer would therefore suggest that | We should think not, in view of the excoed. Coasts; our trade will cont nue. We shall have is the more valuable because it is very practi-th the various Ministers of the Foreign Treaty Ingly unsatisfactory recognition accorded to ilme to bel›g nar endurance and our immense Mr. Cules, the British Consul at Hankow, is Power approach the Trangli Yaméinn the Japan'a commopolitan liberality in framing the engineering resources into play. We shall | facildar the presentation to the proper place of object and recommend the sild Yamé i to: Shimonoseki Treaty. It was certainly against conquer our opponents' colonies; we shall draw Me, Yi Wel's petition, subjolnes, for the opening memorialise the Throne for the opening of the Interests of her own manufacturers that tighter the tier which bind a lo sur kladred
Yingtion as tresty po.: in Hunan. As a of Human to foreign intercourse:-
she should have stipulated for the privilege. overton; we shall gradually form a great amny,
protilon, at the commeṇerment, which will be able to drive home the blows that
AN APPEAL TO THE MINISTERS OF THE FORTION Invidious assaults of mobi krom, onto the of carrying on ladustrial enterprises in Chics, and. It would be still more opposed to their our fou! hav - struck;-- We shall sweep the
wrlier suggests the appointment of a resp malble Interests that she should extend her altruism hostile fitg from the sea, and make all the waters
natire of Yiogtlen, to whom shall be deputed to the supply of raw material for tho _our_domislqu.—_From_the_first haur-of-war-we-
the_wer to make arrangements with the enterprises: Japanese capitalists ought to- shall be cheered by a succession of victories;
notables and gentry of the town for the organis- | investigate this point before they sink large the splift and determination of the people will
allon of a sufficient body of the young men of enms of money in Shanghal mills. Otherwi rleo day by day, and they will msks little of theis
the place, as a mills regiment, whose doty they may find themselves relnously handicapped losses. Our ports will be secure and the Channel
shall is for the special protection of foreignent when they come to purchase cotton for their safe for navigation. Invasion will be utterly
agalast hostile countrymen. The next step work.-Fapin Mail. Impossible, for we shall control the sea. Our
would be to employ only natives of the town for RAGfactores will still flourlah; food will be
the construction of the port so as to make it plentiful; the working-man it he suffers at all
accessible for steamers. Plenty of employment will suffer but slighly. And the close of the war
being thus given to the people of Yingtien and will see us with unimpaired power and resources,
foreigners and the opening of a treaty port will vicinity, it stands to reason that the advent of with an empire which has immensely increased. Fresh marke's will have bran opened to va”
bo most popular amongst the inhabitants of the throughout the world, and our rice wil have ensured its predominance for another century,
Not will our naval strength be any obstacle to peace. We are not aggressive, but only anxious to defend ourselves. Capiało Mahan England strong at sea. Admiral Ammen, in bas said that the surest pledge pí porce is an words which will not be forgotten on this side of the Atlantic, has told his countrymen that it is well that the decisive predominance on the waters should belong to their kith and ken. Opinions To stronger than armies, and thoughts such as there will not be without effect la drawing us nesrazio that imper!st republic which is destined to role America. Yet to secure our own safety our fleet is even now inadequate. There are fortunately sure signs that Englishmen are To awaking to its transcendent importance. other States fleets are as it were an amusement! to as a navy and not only that, but a supreme DAVY-la a necessity. Our fleet is absolutely stronger than it ever has been siree the great wat But we cannot look merely at our own numbers; we must cosider also the strength of the fleets we shall have to aspose, and the datles which one fleet will have to perform. From ibly point of view we nes silil patofully weak. We cannot blockade the French feet alone, much less the combined squadrons' of We are not therefore sure France and Russia. of the mastery of the sea. In the great days of old we were able not only to "contain" our adversaries' abips by squidrons numerically larger, but we were also able to place a con. siderable reserve in the Downs and to detach vessels to cover our exposed ports If we are to be sure of victory, such strength is ar neces- sary to-day as ever it was,
For the moment
therefrom. Hence we find that one and a!! declare that harm will befali Hunen if such ad event were to be permitted in that province. Another reason for this sort of objtractiveness In the people of China is because the dividing officials is too rictly defined, whereby the line between the common people and the former have no means of making known their amongst the two great classes which constitute needs to the latter and facitating concerted action the Chinese nation; and Hasan is no exception to the rule.
to
Sung-tao, returned from Great Britain (after a When the late Governor of Kuangtung, Kus
tem as Chinese Minister) to bis native province of Hunan, one of his first projects (for its regeneration wi
to bring about the opening of the place. International commerce; but he was prevented from doing so by the strong opposition and libellous denunciations of his fellow officials. The writer was a constant inmate of his Excellency's house- hold, having been tatar for many years to his Excelency's sons. From his long intercourse with his Excellency the writer was enabled to form his ideas of the advantage of interns- after years, whenever the writer happened to tional commerce and ameniiles. And so, in
frequently seized the opportunity of explaining return to his own native town of Yingtlen, he to his fellow townsmen the essays on the advantages, etc., of International intercourse and commerce for China which had been written | by the late Governor, so that the people of Vingtien and vicinity have all, more tz loss, A knowledge of what foreign Intercourse means, and that an interchange of trade with country without causing any harm to it. This has been further accentuated by the bring about a practical, demonstration, to which eagerness recently of the people of Ying-iten to end they have urged and empowered the petition to the officials and mske known to the world their desire to make their town a treaty port,
In April 1891, therefore, the writer went to Wachang and repeatedly pailtioned H.E. Chang Chih-tung, Viceroy of ska Hukuang provinces, on the "subject, but 19. faz: bas received no rescript, favourable or otherwise, to his pelfilons. At the present moment the desire and anxiety of the propia of Vingtien to make their town tresty port of call for steamers may be likened to the desire and apalety of the people of a drought-carsed, land for a Unfortunately, however, petlilening the local officials on such a subject has been just so much labour lost.
cent, and a0 per cent, and 3rd to per 'ecat) south. We are cut off from the world, and can perhaps our numbers seem extisfactory, but how foreign nations brings a lot of good to the".
TRIAL STAKES, of gin each with $100 added
a farced entry for Amoy subscription griffins of this season; árit pony to receive 70 per
weights as per scale. Three quarters of a mile. Mr. Dryasduste sk. Field Marshal, rest 4lb... I Mr. Cavendish'i br. Mossylace, 10st 12lb.............. 2 Mr. Twoman's br. Cruiser, 115! 4|Ban Mr. Waffles E. Chatterbox, 17st zlb
Mr. Pug's g. Cheet Up, rost 12lb
Mr. Gowland's er. Dixie, rost talb
3
M. Twoman's sp. Ranger, foit falb Mr. McWillow's g. Scrambler, rost 12lb
Time, rain, 379005. RACING STAKE, of $10 each with $150 added.j first piny to reedre 70 per cent., 2nd 20 per cent, and 3rd 10 per cent.; for all Chlos ponies; fins at date of entry allowed ; lbs. ;
One mile and a half. weights as per scale.
Mr. Twoman's b. Aristocrat, 178t lb.
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It is the close, let us suppose, of our second month of war. The fleet has bees neglected, and has been overwhelmed, because unteady and unprepared. We have been beaten Iwice at sex, and our enemies have established no accidental superiority, but a permanent and overwhelming one. The telegraph cables are severed, one and all; these islands are in darkness, under a heavy clead of woe. Invasion Is in the air; our armies aro musterlog la the. only fitfully perceive what is happening. Our finers have been captured or sunk on the high vers; our ocena tramps are in the enemies' handas Beliish trade is dead, killed by the wholesale ravages of the hostile croisers. Our poris art Insmited or held up to ransom; when reaches us from India, it is to the effect that the enemy is before our troops, bative Insurrection behind. Malta has fallen, and our outlying positions are passing from our hands. Food is contraband and may not be imported Amid the jeers of Europe the nation of shop- keepers "le writhing in its death arony.
COMMERCIAL COLLAPSE,
дета
much bas to be done? We must have more men; we must-have a trained reserve; we must re-arm our old tros-clads equipped with obsolete gust; we must sea that in the Mediterrancar we have a force that is able to face its opponents Instead of fleelog before them ; we must look to. it that our fleet is ready to put to sea as soon ME or before its enemies and above all, we must be able from the first to protect our commerce.
The voters of England must decide between these two alternatives. The working-man has to choose whether be will have Ughter taxation for the moment; starvation (and, irretrievable
Mr. Diyaidost's g. Cobweb, 11st 1lb.............. ♫ / Pents in Jadle have been lost; trade no longer and negligence of the past. It is not enough refreshing rainfall
Mr. Boyd's to. Dundon, 111.11b............. 3
Mr. Themaal g. Otter, fast 1,4ib
Mr. Boyd's w. Danhoyne, tox, 1316*
Me, Bruce's g. Lunns, rost zaly
Mr. Dryasdust'a g. Argan, tost zalb General Topligin's g. Merenry, stat 4lb General Toptigin's g. Sh-ofl', rist rib Mr. Esher's g. Kilroy, rost solb Mr. Frank Percy's ch. Rød Kulght, rost zalb Major Thomas' d. Morrison, 11st tib
* 5lbs. Allowance deducted.
Time, 3miga, 26 2/sses.
And what of the internal, of the social position? Consols have fallen to near 30; our vast favest exists, and every industry but shipbuilding paralya:d. The woollen müils of Yorkshire are running no longer; the cotton mills of Lanca shire are silentj wages are falling fast, as they fell in our last great war, and concurrently the price of every kind of provision is rising. "The railways bare no traffic to carry, for nothing is being produced, and they are dis- mlosing their employees. Backs and companies are falling dally. The restricted income of the wealthy is restricting in its torn the profits of the shopkeeper and the wagen of the working-mas.
The East End of London is clamouring for bread and peace at any price. The working men of the north are starving, as the starved in NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL the cotton famine of 1865. Then it was only the supply of cotton which was cut off : food The Occidental and Oriental Co.'s steamship could at least be freely imported, To-morrow, Goalle, Capt. W. Pearne, from San Francisco, if we are beaten at ses, we shall have neither via Yokohama and Nagasaki, with the American-aw materials nor food, and our sufferings will be multiplied fity-fold. Our dockyards private malls up to 10th December, arrived in the harbour and public-if indeed they have been spared by yesterday evening. We are indebted to our Ban the hostlle fleets-will, It is true, be fall of ships. Francisca exchanges for the subjoined fateresting The Ministry will have endeavoured to calm telegrams:-
public alarm and to allay the want of lood by labular statements proving that we shall have 300 new ships in two years' tima. And we shall be crushed in a fortnight! The ships ballding will go to swell our enemies' total, All our enormous resources, all our great wealth, will be greless, if we have not that s'aylog power, which is needial to carry us safely through the first six months of war.
ROME, December 7th, Cardinal Ignacio Perisco, prefect of the Con gregation of Indulgences and Sacred Reller, is dead. He was born in Italy in 1833, and was created a cardinal in 1893.
LONDON, December 7th.
The carloss statement has been made here that the Japanese Government,' har ordered 18,000 cheap watches from firms in Sæltsærfand with the intention of presenting them instead of medals to the soldiers who were engaged in the
war against China.
NEW YORK, December 7th. The Sun's London correspondent cables as follows:-The slow development of the Turkish celsis is enabling farsighted Englishmen to give more attention to the situation in the Far East which it is beginning to be recognized is fraught with greater dangers to British interests than the most significant Constantinople difficulties. The words yet spoken on this subject are contained do an important speech on Wednesday by Lord. Roberts, who is not only one of England's highest
authorities, but is a man who possesses an intimate knowledge of the whole question, of the Indian empire and its relations „with the China and Japan irade, His most pregnant sentence was) " England latends la maintain her commercial supremacy in the East' she must be prepared for events even more startling and nexpected that theis, which have occurred in
the past twelve manibe"
But so terrible are the sufferings of the masten, so fierce and imperions the cries for peace, that we subtale to B Ignominious treaty.
Plas d'Angleterre "" shows us how it will run. Ar lele
7: The British fleet to be surrendered to the victors
and labour will have to flee with it.
rain for the future. For years we may neglect our fleet, but to the end we shall pay the price even as Chica bas now done for the remisses that our navy should be strong, it must be master of the sea. No middle course is safe for us. "National wealth and resource will have amloimam infigence upon fatare oswal, wars; preparation which is deferred till war is imminent will result in certain defeat" But if remember ing the lessons of the past, and looking forward to the fature, we demand of our representatives: of whatever party they may be, that they exert themselves to give as a strong and ready Day we shall gain peace and prosperity, and when the straggle comes, if come it does, we shall raise our country to yet greater heights. A weak navy and famine, a supreme fleet, and food without stint-between these the choice Hes. The working man is to-day the arbiter; let him not ba blind to his country's cause or his own interests. If we are defeated he will suffer bitterly; if we are victo fans he will gain by the opening of new markets. He should not be slow, then, to vote for an all-powerful fleet- above all, when he remembers that to prepare for war is to avoid it,
H. W. WILBON,
THE "ISIS"-"W. E. MACY"
COLLISION.
KOBE, December zin. A Naval Court of Inquiry was held in B.M. Court at Yokohama on Friday morning into the circumstances attending a collision between the British steamer Tits and the American skip William H. Macy, in Uraga Channel, on the morning of the 15th of October last, the Court being composed of John Carey Hall, Frident, and
H.B.M. Consol and Assistant Judge, Captain Thome Leigh,
Master of the steamer Fopan, Captain Richard Morgan, Master of the Biesmer Port Adelaide, Naval Assessors, and Arthur Hyde Lay. Esq, of H.B.M. Consular Service, Clerk of the Court. Captain Walker, Robert Clelland, bis clef 'officer, and others on board the Iris at the time of the collision gara evidence, and the Court returned the following finding on Saturday —
the wilter draw up a paper addressed to Sir - On the 15th of the last moon (tat November) Robert Hart, begging the latter to appport and recommend him and his friends as the proper reaple to be charged with the duty of opening Yingtlen to foreign commerce. The paper in question was sent påå Tientsin by the Seach'ang Postal Agency on the above date. The purpose of the writer now in addressing this appeal to the various Balalaters of the Foreign Treaty good work, bring about the consummation of Power is to request their co-operation In this the wishes of the people of Yingten, Hunan and finally to urge upos Sir Robert Hart, on behalf of the writer and his friends, the importance of speedy action in the matter.
YT WEL
an officer decorated with the Plain Blue Feather, 5th brevet bulton, and unattached expectant Assistant Magistrate of the ret class.
THE BEST WAY TO ACCOMPLISH THX OPENING OF HUNAN TO PORTION INTERCOURSE.
· {By a Hunanssa.) The writer begs to be permitted to present to your Excellency certain suggestions"as to the best methods for the opening of the province of Hesab to foreign intercourss, and the necessity and importance of doing so frst by international commerce and, dually, by means of missionary chapels.
YI WEI, an officer decorated with the Plala Biga Feather, 5th brevet button, and unattached expectant Asılılant Magitirate of the rat CAIS.
COTTON MILLS IN CHINA.
cotton.
N° 2-Gīves notice that Rales for the first quarter are payable before 6th Instant.
No. 3-Gives notice that re-entry has been made by the Crown of Kowloon Inland lots Nos. 633 and 634.
No. 4-Contains the minutes of a meeting of the Sanitary Board held on the 19th December. No. 5-Contains particulars of Crown Lands to be sold by Public Auction on the noth
No. 6-Contains a return of the average amount of Back Notes in circulation during the month of December.
LEGAL INFORMATION. Inre Russell Stoker, deceased. All claims to be sent in and payments dus made to the executor, Mr. A. P. Stokes, before 31st January.
Application has been made by Yang Se! Yau to register certale match-box labels as Trade
Marics.
The Gassifs also contains the usual list of unclaimed telegrams lying to the Telegraph Co.'s offices; the Post Office list of Bosteraziante correspondence, and list of letters, etc, for merchant vessala.
The Japancas appear to be resolved to open cotton mill in Shanghal Presumably they have considered the financial aspects of the enterprise with all care, but it surprises us to observe that neither in their prospectus nor fla the published projects of foreign companies Grganised for a similar purpose, does any
caring raw statement
appear as to the method of pro- Yet that is the one vital question. Were it not for the apparent economy to be effected by obtaining Chinese colton in loco, there would be no special induce mest to devote large sums of money to the establishment of aplaning factories in Shanghai. The mills in Japan already find themselves nearly able to offer their products in the Chinese markets at rates that would compete successfully
of the import duty on raw cotton, would probably with Bombay yams. Slight assistance from the Government, such, for example, as the abolition turn the scale in favour of the Japanese mant- facture, and as such a concession is tolerably. certain to be made very sorn, there must be some independent consideration militating lo favour of opening mills in China. The considera- tion assigned is that an ample supply of raw cotton can be obtained at the doors of the mills. Can It? Here it is, precisely, that we discover a difically not publicly, noticed by any of the projectors of factories. Under existing treaties and conventions, Chinese products, sent from the interior to a treaty port for the purpose of being THE P. M. S. S. Ca's steamer China, with exported, have to pay two taxes: first, the malls, etc, left San Francisco for this port, vis transport tax called
liki recondly, the Yakobama and Nagasaki, on the 3111 alto, export daty. In former times the fis used to be a very heavy impost, and the
that constituted serious obstacle
to
the development of trade was frequently com plained of. By the Cheloo Convention of 1976, however, it was agreed that, in the case of goods bond de Intended for shipment to a foreign country, all charges hitherto payable on such goods as route from the place of production to the place of shipment should be commated for a single payment amounting to one half of the export duty. The article embodying this arrange
mant runs as follows:-
Native produce carried from an inland centre to a port of shipment, and intended for shipment to a fonda port, may be, by treaty, certified by the Bellaḥ subject interested, and crempied, by payment of the half duty, from any charges demanded upon it en route. It produce be at the property of British subject, or is being carried to a port not for exportation, It is not entitled to the moamption that would be senapd it by the exhibition of a tranzit duty corald gate, It might fairly ba contended that, under this article, cotton from the interior of Chias to Shanghai to be there manufactured into yarn, can claim exemption from all charges in route In consideration of the commated payment of half the export duly, provided always that the yarn is bond Ads intended for export. But if the yain be not intended for, export) 15, оп the contrary, It be intended for sale in China, 24 all vern manufactured at the projected milia mangt be, what payments will be levied on it before It reaches the place of manufacture? Evidently then fall within the
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS. MAILS DUE: Indian (Arratson, Apear) to-morrow, French (Caledonian) 8th Inst. Tacoma (Tacoma) 9ta last. Australian (Tafyuan) 12th fast. English, 14th inst. German (Karliguña) 16th inst. American (City of Peking) t6th lost, American (China) ayth fast
THE O. & O. S. S. Co.'s chartered steamer on December 6th for San Francisco, vis Amoy, Afridi, with mails, etc., which lat Hongkong Nagasaki, Kobe, Inland Sex and Yokohama, arrived at her destination on the 4th inst
WE are informed by the Agent of the Messageries Maritimer Co. that the steamer Caldendes, with the next French mall, left Saigon for this part at 4 pm, yesterday.
THE Imperial German Mall steamer Karlsruske, carrying the German malle with dates from Berlin of the 16th ulto., left Colombo yesterday for this port, and may be expected here on of about Thursday, the 16th lost.
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THE China Navigation Co's steamer Talywam, from Australia, left Fort Darwis for this port an the and inst., and may be expected here on of about the 12th fast.
SHIPPING RETURNS. From 6pm. Saturday to & pins today,. ingraban..........steamer, from Salgan.
ARRIVALS.
Changchew 'ca Sack105265348030 Singan of ordinary Chloete produce passing from one
Canton place within the empire to another, in search of
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Singapore. Shanghai.
Chinklang,
Manila,
Canton,
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Ang Hi
"Bilgon..
Swstow. "Amay, etc.
Haiphong.
America,
• Selgos. "Majl "Gerontola. Nagasaki,
★ market, and will be liable to be taxed at every
ery Chlyson.. Bain, uition en route. We cannot say with | Amigo: in...............
Holstein.... precision what such taxes would aggregate. Op Wingkong the West River there are said to be about 100 Thai Ušim stations lo a distance of 90 miles, and a recent traveller in Klangel found 5 within Hanoi.. reach of 70 miles on a small stream. A rough idea of what ithin means may, however, be Swat uitmates gathered from conventional stipulation Rodero already concluded though not yet la force Kongatf
that produce which, having been carried to a ·Hohenzollern+av+svenn". 1-in opening Hazan to foreign Intercourse port of shipment for the purpose of export, has Colombo barque ». Portland. care should be taken from the outset of to do consequently been exempted from ar faland
Aggregating 24,813 ans register. so by first establishing missionary chapels, etc.
DEPARTURES. charge other than the commuted tax of one half The reason for this is because the libellous
City of Rio...steamer, for America. of the export duty, may be relieved from the
Phra Nang......... placards of Chou Thbichan (HAT, ment of a further tax of five times the commuted
necessity of export and be sold locally on DAY; Triumph............... Tyne-as-Steal Chou,the nom de plume of lain. In other words, supposing that an article the notorious Chon Han) have been disseminated | intended for shipment abroad be liable to and posted throughout the whole province, export duty amounting to 5 percent, ad valorem, and they have raised the fire of prejudice then its total liability in respect of export amongst the people to such a pitch that the and he would be 7 per cent; whereas, latter will not tolerate for a single, momeni it be not shipped abroad but offered for sale at the sight of a missionary chapel planted in the part of shipment or elsewhere within China, their hist. Hence the right way of proceeding It must pay an impost of 173 per cent, Observe In the matter should be first to establish how this applies to the case of raw cotton. 11 pays at present a specific export duty represents
Canton about 3 per cent ad valorem. Hence, It ing
1. That the aniling ship's light was not seen treaty port of call for steamers and interna. by thoro on board the fzfs till within two minutes | tional trade. Then when foreigners shall have before its collisico.
congregated to this treaty port in large numbers,
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The Isis, and that the failure to observe the sail by means of this trade, the people round about. But if paying a total import of 41 per cent, | Nagato Maru.........
Ing ship's light was not due to any neglect of default on the part of the steamer.
thote on board the Infs, the two ships were 3-That when light was first by aiready in a position which rendered a collision of some sort losvitable, so far an depended on the movements of the steamer alone
4-That the action of the master in putting the steamar's helm hard sport and going full speed ahead was right and proper under the
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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS,
and only certain number of ships to be maintained, Articles: Dover and the Isla el Wight lo be surrendered. Article 3: An Indemnity of 360 millions to be paid. Article 41 Cape Colony, New Zealand and all the CrowD colonies to be ceded. We have sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind. And now wil.our trade revive? Will the working man's wagte come back to him? Other nations here obtained our commerce our flag has vanished from the sem, and the example of the United States shows that it is very easy to lose carrying trade, and almost impossible to regain !!. Even now our manufacturers can hardly face foreign com- petition, how will it be when they are saddled With the anormona icases of an unsuccessful
è if, instead of being carried to Japan or some War? Others, too, have coal and iron; others,
will be made to acknowledge and believe in the other foreign country, it he intended for mane enterprising Capital will have fed
advantages of foreign intercourse. Then should facture into yarn at a Shanghai mill, and then for Gras grown attests, related mile bankrupt
chapels to exhor (10 people to good deeds, be the time for the establishment of
sale in the markets of Chlos, obviously the Chi nese Authorities may require it to pay an inland Irene si.................................. in Kewicon Dock: social revelation-these will be some of
when there will be little doubt but that large tax of 103 per cent, at least. That, the results of defeat. The markets which
"Indeed, Is numbers of the people could easily be converted, have obtained with so much pains will be
favourable statement of the case. The fact is Zoro VERNISTER s--in selecting a treaty port in Husan it that such colton, mot being certifiable by ila Chowyou..............................** gracted from us and closed to us. Indii will
would be highly. Inadvisable to make the farsign purchaser-supposi z it to have boan have passed from our hands for evaza Noble
provincial capital such post, owing to its purchased by foreigner at the place of pro- Selkirk and artisan, shopkeeper and merchant, all will
Reating population, the very large number of duction would be liable to be fazed at every News Re suffer miške. Of the £66,000,000 which the |-clerumstances, and was the only course open to ‡ the unemployed, and the rowdies and the loafers · Kainations it reached the mill It would probably | Reina Cristina mun
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route for Shanghai, and. passed who congregate there, at the bid and call of, by the present condistons under which the English') workman, and a tenth directie from the prößte | shread, resulted in materially diminishing the, distarhanright person Anxious to create a have been mulcted to the lune of 20 or 30 per Brigit¶¶¶¶
5-That the said action, in porttag and going every interested personnel to choose Chang. cent. Possibly there may be an idea that accapy Tadla. The question as to the proper of the shopkeeper. Yet the catastrophe was Taxce of the collision.
tresty port would bring much barm and Chinese Government will maka an
A notification has been issued by the Governo means for securing the Integrity of India is not merely local what will be the ruin when every 6.That under the special circumstances of de no good. The plan would be to select a spot favour of raw cotton; that, having granted of Toklo requesting any one who possesses
** exception in merely a miliary question, but equally urgent industry in the land has to suddenly cease lis Immediate danger, when the sailing ship's light of strategie importance accessible for steam-permission for factories so be established at the information regarding the missing steamrály from a political point of view. He would, there production? It may be said that as France was fest sighted, it was impossible for the ers su le piace to inaugurate the opening of open ports it will extend its complaisance to. Bennington to send it at once to the Tokie City fore, not further enlarge on the matter. The recovered from the terrible year
so also may moral to be drawn was that if England hoped to we. But France rather resembled a body whore sailing ship.
master of the ɗafs to krep out of the way of the || Harsh. || From this so a starting point, and a | tha: raw material required for manufacture, Officer: 52 hold her own as one of the great powers and extremities had been croelly mangled, while
gradual advance interiorwards, the lasrening of Such a' hope up cars to us quite chimerical That after the collision all proper efforts the whole province, will be easily and speedily invariably adopted by the Chinese Authostiles. Consul Kobe, by the master of the stammer It is entirely opposed to the practice A charge was recently preferred beforeH.B.M.1⁄2 reisio her foreign possovelona the must, 2011 with us the vital urtezion will have been severed. what it might, be mistress of the seas, and alor have wethe rich soll which our neighbours by and assist the sailing ship plan besider having a sufficiency of warships and a full power. If we fall, we fall for overį aspiriiiuse The Court therefore finds that no blame of Shangyin, id distnat from the provincial complement of axilare to man them, she must people in a ruined, and spiritless state will be attaches to the master, officers or crew of the capital, Changsha, about 300 # (daty two miles.) haven well organlied, well equipped, well trained | ait that our enamlow will lauwez?*
Ists for the collision, or the circumstances The abcreased town, which is 63 miles from army ready to be transposted wherever tha
» THE ALTERNATIVE.
attendant thereon, The expenses of the Chappula: the; mspital of Hunan, le: the most presence of British soldiers is required.
inquiry, £13 on od, are hersby fanctioned to be suitable for fatalgoj trade. - Yiugilen in on iks (To bi continuedy.
paid by the pariet hetele."-Ghrunteide inigawky roamarorg, with the provisose of
Lord Roberts then proceeded to give definite ness to his remarks by intimating in plado language that the British-Indian possessions LED distinctly threatened. He argued that the policy of keeplex ourselves to ourselves and die. regarding every/blog that takes Axyond the lesatiar
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the north-west cotton famine is estimated to have čest be, of India la no longer applicable to one-half was taken from the wages of the
And the other alternative. If we are strong, | it'we are "Courageous, Hi-wa, look forward
him.
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were made of the part of the sťanming to standplish990, of Yingtien, In the furfedleston 1 They take no thought whatever to foster traduses) Riversdale against the Chief Engineer, third
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trade la foreign hands above all—but regard it soginder and donkeyman of falonlessly sinsling simply, as a means of procuring revenue. We remoring Bod pounds of old brass from the Marsover, the Chinese themselves are energing: ship, The Chief Englaser said the bents was. in the cotton spinaleg builders, and there will sold for the ship's soodust, and this was conne saturally be a disposition to discriminate against boucted by the contractor, who bought the WNIE, the foreigner, (19 mestá de vy) threesoCO, IDAE
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