1866-04-19 — Page 1

APRIL 12, 1866

THE

ORNETS

P. & 0.8"N, Steam Co

, Bon Bons aud Ca

J. Marques

Callao Early

Jardine, Matherpa & Co

Jardipe, Mattoon & Co

Augustine Heard sud Ca

P. Framjee Cama and Co- Captain LewUS

Jardine, Matheson à Co

David Sassoon, Sang & Co

Jardine, Matheson & Co (Dons and Co

O GREAT BRITAIN.

BİARCH, 1866,

SHANGHAE.

elhuish,

Tea lbs. Silk ble,

998,800

687,600

·846,800.

(from H.kow), a48,900

1,128,300

864,600

South, (do.), 1,089,900

297

95,400 1,181,400- .999,000

28

1,134,800

20.

ficholson,

>

746,500

from Hankow), 612,400

er,.

78,5

1,095,000 -

605,900

,868,500

. 1,018,800 ---872,300

(from Hankow) 678,500.

do.. .932,100

260,500

.987,500

- 819,500

CHINA

VOL. XXII. No. 1105.

OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified that, until further orders, the Beening Mail, China Mail and Overland Chino Mail will be the official mediums of all Notifications proceeding from Her Britannic Majesty's Consulate at Canton.

British Consulate,

-Canton, April 18,–1866)

D. B. ROBERTSON, Consul.

Shipping Intelligence.

ARRIVALS.

FLAS &

Date

J

Vaserb, A

Toa CAPTAIN

FROM

Daraz- TUZDA

CARGO

CONFIGNHES on Anursi

Apr Ekong.

Animoes

13 Undine

I FromTh

18 Dumbarton

731,390

Om Hankew),

818,500

an, (do.),

550,000

ER,

835,300 99,übtu

(lost Oct. 1)

272

13 Japan

14,130,300 .1.007,100

171

14 Patriot

627,700 773,600 16

((from H`kow), 1,031,400

astle, (f. Hkow) BGH,200

299,400

. 1.344,200

+ Ocean

908,400

575,100

rom Kicking), 449,200

FR.

oison

l..

2.

13 Suwonuda

14 Garland

14 Exontan. 14 Alert

ugene Adele

15 Burlington

15 Rou

15 Josenhina

16 Chase

16 Euterprise

if Githaume

16 ad. de Mackan

17harlotte

8p.str. 430 Yuescos [15, war.! 486 (Pitwau

B. str. 751 Temin

8. str. 981 show

am.#ki 1802 Jayne

13. str. 249 Chatileld um sh 550 Nobst are.bg 288 Stegman |B, DE 300 Mado

8. ar. 18.3 Abbot

Fr.sh. 653. Jerout

B. bk. 455 Hydes

6. str. 765 Morrison

Sp.bg. 177 Ruclier

atanila Apr. 8Mails Fahchan, &d Apr 10treneral Fabchua,se. Apr. 10|Sundries ' Shaughne apr. General Shapghao Apr. 10 General

Funcha japr. Nil Hamburg Bangkok

Nov. 104eneral Feb. 12 Rigs Mar. 30

Saigon Yokohama Mar, 29 General Sydney ¡Singapore

Feb. 18 Coals Mar, 13 Rice

Newahwang Apr Peas, Mfantia

B. bk. 284 Aamilton dual

▾

si. bk. 40 nmfleet Hangkok

Belby 204 Daterson Bassien

Fr.bk 25, Devaurex Suol

¡S, DE¦ 4:8 Whitton Kangoon

jis. sb. 782 ¡Paige

Mar. 27 Rice April 0

Mar. 17/Rice Feb. 241 Japř.101

Feb. 28

10 Volunteer

17

883,400

76

16 plent

Saigon

JApr. 3

922,600

17 Ann Holzberg

|B. bk, 741 Melinire

Rangocą

Feb. 18

.1,279,800

Mar.

Mar

Mar. 27 General ¡Apr. 14 Rice

1,058,200

€0,800 .944,400

959,500

176

17 Rebert Lowe

18 Minerva

16 Rudolf

18 Johanne

Fr. b 362 Vincendera Singapore Pr.g. 206 Nebultz Bangkok

B. str. 1497 Frost -Singapore

Sp. bk 263 (Disz

Sual

Bre. er 210 jelriche Bangkok - Me. Iti

Du hg 225 Chri-tiansen Newchwang Apr. 8Bears

B. tk 306 James) Вогнео

tab. 20General

fubcbau, &c.japr. 18General Punchow,&c. Apr. 15 Sundrica

ER,

38 Cerar

bec,

345,500

18 Pee-loong

13. str. 268 Teppin

aya00,

408,400

la Azof

B. str. 800 Baker

irse,

1,186,500

B. bk. 624 Ballard

.1,486,200

Fr. Br. 146 Laarde

Bangkok Mar. Rice saigon Mar. 30 Sydney Feb: Coals.

63

schia,

pherd,

.1,165,000 429,9000 .1243,700

895,100

· 861,60

------

40,756,800

1,467

19 Rangoon Jy Niethen

Joa. Amedee 1 Bray

B. scr. (25 Modulloch Bombay, &c. Mar. 30; Mails

No. 183 Hanseu

Spanish Consul D. Lapraik

¡P. and v. 3. N. Co

G.. Livingston and Co

aug. Heard and Co Douglas Lapralk Wm. Passau and Co W. Partau and Co A. Scott and Co fohn ard and Co Aug. Hourd & Co Chinese

J., Matheson aḥd Co Chinese

Birley and Co Siessen and On 6., Hubenr and Co. win, Pusiau and Ce R. S. Walker and Co G., Livingston and Cu Order

Siemesen and Co J. Berd and Co |Ordine

Reynolds and Co Schellhaes and Co

Schelthast and Co Sherraid and Co Douglas Lapralk P. and U. 8. N., Co ¡P. and Q. 5. N.. Co Russell' and Ce Order

A. Heard and Co

PASSENGERS.Per Axinuni, Mr. Noetzfi-Per Dumbarton, Messrs Hudson, Linton, and 41 sccant loss,Per Sutoonuda, Capt. and Mrs Johnston. Mr. and Mrs Hammond, and child, Mesars Bruneau, Hamden, Archer, Coolidge, Dryer and Grinker. Per Garland, Miss Rading-Per Eugene adi, Mr and Mrs Hawkins, and Mr Turner. Per Enterprise, Mr Lambert-Per Robert Lowe, M Theis and Junes-Per Feelong, Captains. Sullivan and Wins-Per Rangoon, for Hongkong, Admiral Kern Captain Cressmen, Mrssitoper, Mr and Mrs Hawke, Mr and Mrs Locock, and 3 children. Me and Mrs Davur, Messrs A. Lay, S. Ho Hood, T, Wesley, A. Chart, J. M Vickers. G. E. Preston Wild, Carricate, Lanham, J. L, de Silva, N. P. Malerfereza, P. Curands, F. C. Soortee. For Shanghae. Me and Mra Golding, Mr and Mrs Mar ahal, Mears C. L. Bryaul, C. Overbeck, Milis, Elias, R. Barkill —Per Asaf, Messre Pundle, Webber, and 50 Chinese.

JAPAN.

DEPARTURES.

317,100

Crown,

900,000

Daty Vessa, ROM

Kra

Tons

· CAPTAIN

DESTINATION

CARLO

am,

198,800

.KR.

ley,

312,500

Apr

H.kong.

891800

TOTAL

1,812,200

Tealbe. Silk bla

66, in 85 vessels, 110,067,100 59,841 65, in 168 vessels, 113,833,300 86,813

Crease,

·8,816,200 сгезле,

14 janken Fleece

14 Don Ricardo

oncordia.

14 JERA

1 Nicoline

14 Adelheid

14 Prince Kung

15 Bebar

15 (atbea

15 Dioscuren

15 Georg

17 Joshus Batee

17 Ide

17. Paul Riquet

17 Formosa

17 Undine

18 Suwonada

18 Clan Alpine

JB Lightning.

18 6. and Agner

19 Maria Luisa

19 Amur

19 Ino

19 Dwina

B. sh. 855 Simpson

B. bk. 209 Jaffrey

Po. by 226 Grill® Sp. bg 405 Octana re: bk 266 Ahmarn Pr bk 234 Ehlers.

B. str. 135 Brown

B. str 1240 Blake

mbki 125 Gerritz m.bk 313 Wagner are.er. 118 schier oh

11. 8. otter

Da.bk 140 cunhart

Pr. b. 180 Geneviete

|8, str. 850 onlin

B. str. 386 Pittas

་

Newchwang Sandrick Sual (sual

Manila

Swatow Tientsin

Amoy

Rombay, &c fails Changhae. Sundries

Saigon

Tientsin Methauras Tientsin Saigon

Buat Coast

Swatow, &c.

|A. etr.]1802 Jayne Shanghae

B. etr, 999 Huichiusou.apore, &c.

str 316 Rodger Sapore, &c.

Du.hk 459 Ordeman Batavia

p.bk: 861 Andolargs Manila

mbk 360 Bendizen Saigon

Bubk 222 Baunaw Saigon

Bu,bx 257 Ritters Nagasaki

=>

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DESPATCHED BY

4. Kennedy and Co Douglas Lapraik Sieussen and Co Byrus and Ca

Kursell and Co Niemeden and Co Adam Scott and Co ft. Aad O. 3, N

Borneo Company Sieusen and to. Sabelines and Co Parker and co. Oxford and Co

Gosman and Co

£, and Đổ N. Có

Douglas Lapraik

Augustine Heard and Co

Jar., Matheson and Co

J., Livingston and Co

Kabimanu and Co.

Reynolds aud Co

13

"

D. Lapraik

Siomsaete and Ca

B.. Habenor and Co

PASSENGERS.-Per Belur, for Southampton--Major Edwards, Me and Mrs Robinson, Mr and Mrs Tyers, Mr and Mre Pedder, Miss Browne, Measca Barratte, Boxer, McGregor, Spain, Brown, T. Pitcher and Marton. For Marseille Mr and Mrs Alexander, Measts R. B. Part, Talor, G.. H. Pearce, Richards, Hudson and Miller. For Suez-Mesara Henderson, R. Moller, E. Hubner, Gribbla, aud G. Riepper. For Bombay Mesara Sapoorjee, J. M. Magis, and R. 3. Mogra, For Singapore. Major Cesta, and Dr da Lavora.

THE CHINA MAIL.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 19: APEIL, 1966.

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phía

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MARRIAGES.

ECHOES OF THE WEEK.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 19TH APRIL, 1866.

As regards local news, the principal topic of discussion in the Legislative Council, ad- pears to be "ways and means," and the "last straw" which is to break the camel's back, according to our contempo, rary, is Military Contribution," which seeins as great a bighear here, as "Irish members are in the House of Commons at homa. On comparing notes, it really appears that although, to follow out comparisons, Mr GLADSTONE can afford to chuckle over his estimated three nül

attributed to the very efficient aid which the military received from their naval con- freres; for the navy as represented here, fur- nished some capital actors for the occasion, andthe Princess Royal having a good "team" of "roofers;" the female parts were really vory well taken. It is very gratifying to see such cordiality between the two branches of the service, as was displayed on this oc- casion.

The warm weather after dodging us for a long time, we have at last very unwilling

MAIL.

Congress in America, under Sweeney, has agreed to a plan for the invasion of Canada, The American government is prepared to prevent any illegal movement offensive to England..

SOUTH AMERICA, The Spanish commodore on the Pacific coast proposed an armistice, but the Chilian Government refused the conditions.

An indecisive battle has been fought between Brazil and Paraguay, both armies sustaining heavy losses.

Or the various routes which travellers to

and from China, follow there are but two

PRICE, $15 PER ANNUM.

people of Great Britain, as well as her Co- lonies and possessions. Within the last fifty years the number of emigrants who have

left the shores of Great Britain for other lands, bas amounted to over five and a half millions of persons. From these figures it might be thought by some that the popula tion of the British Empire had diminished in consequence, but such is not the case, al- though the loss by emigration has exocoded an average of ono half per cent per annum of the total population. A large proportion of

the United States of Northern America and

lions of surplus, we are obliged to ponder j ly caught apparently for a permanency which are in common use viz: that usual. these five and a half millions have reached over the heavy deficit which appears on we have however managed to tide over the the balance sheet of the Colonial Trea apring months, with a season of very gely and now-a-days incorrectly termed the the remainder have gone to Canada, Aus- Overland Route", and the long journey by tralia, New Zealand and other colonies or sury Things have been going on al-nial and temperate weather, and it is to together wrong; incidental revenue has ap- bo hoped the augury may prove favour land via Peking, Siberia and St. Pótora- parently been calculated as persent, and able as regards the summer now almost burgh. A third route which during the possessions of the British Crown. The la- summer months is quite as practicable and pours of British emigrants in the several the proceeds of government land sales upon ha!

far more agreeable to those who dislike countries of their adoption have resultad which have borstofore formed the priv- cipal revenue, now that nearly all the LATEST NEWS FROM HOME pending nineteen days in the Mongoliat in the erection and consolidation of Go- vernment institutions in imitation of these at home, while a large and flourishing trade productive of inmenso mutual advantagə as sprung up between Great Britain

grown lands are sold, can no longer keep "the mill agoing," and this being a free port and principally only a depot inrigonds of

(Per mail steiner Rangona) ARRIVED NOON 19TH APKiz 1866.

The latest News from Europe is not of any

desert or who from constitutional or other causes find a long sea passage to bo an ex treme discomfort, is open to the public; but though it was described in one of our first

all kinds, the elasticity of the Customs re- very great interest, The Chief Parlimen class periodicals some months ago very few and her several colonies. Great Britain

venue at home, ban find no parallel hore,tary intelligence is that the reform hill was either now or in any future years.

seem to have availed themselves of the ad- by long experience now knows that every

to be mazed by the Chancellor of the Ex-vantages it presents: This is no doubtswigrant who leaves her shores, is instru-

munication between Shanghas and the month of the Amoor is very uncertain; for it is to the route via Nicolaifak and fr kutsk that we invite the attention of our

readors.

source, hearing, as

it

progresses, happiness and worldly prosperity to the industrious man, as well as adding further power and importance to the British Empire.

We hope graat things for the mint, when chequer on the 13th March,--that the segreatly owing to the fact that steam commental in the development of a new com-

cond reading was fixed for the 30th April and that the Ministry intend to stand or fall by the result. Lords Grosvenor and Stanley were to move and second the amend ment to throw out the bill. Karl Russell does not resign as reported and the Jamaica bill has passed the commons.

in full working order; and the success of the undertaking, in a commercial point of view will we believe he soon apparent This may stop the gap and make the colony solvent again; in the mean time economy and retrenchment is absolutely necessary, and some steps should be taken to send a petition to the Secretary of State for the Colonies endorsed by the whole colony, pro- testing against the lovying of the obnoxious contribution to the army estimates; at any rate until the mint begins to "make (money" in two senses of the word. This petition should be laid before the House of Commons, and the "seuse of the House" being taken on the subject, common sense must win the day and demonstrate the injustice and oppression attached to this compulsory payment of £20,000 per

annum.

The Prince Albert, the steamer which was seized some short time ago, by a Chin- ese citatomos cruiser, as being in a non-trenty port, has been adjudged confiscated by a mixed Court at Court at Canton composed of H. B. M. Consul and some officials of the Chinese and foreign Customs. Although a hard case for Mr Quok Acbeong the owner of the vessel, there can be no com- plaint made of the fairness of the decision as regards the unbiassed views of the mom- bors of the Court. The decision come to in this case will probably lead to some steps being takon towards moving for the opening of the port of King-chow, which by the treaty of Tientsin is one of the ports whick

Fenianism is still being put down by the strong arin of the law; several arrests are reported.

The advantages and blessings of emigra- tion have tended also to alleviate the condi Supposing that the houseward bound tra- veller has reached Shanghai and is fortution of the poor remaining in the mother nate enough to meet a steamer bound for country. Its great and undoubted bonefits Nicolaifsk & short rin of from 5 to 7 days when properly carried out have rendered will see him safely landed at the latter port. it expedient to place it under official regu- ̧ Steamers run constantly from this place to fations in all countries where from internal within four days ride of Irkutsk, occupying 25 days on the passage. There is a cona Fair Dhollera 174, market dull and inderable difference between being at sea and animate, and rates in favor of bovers; 7 gliding along this smooth surface of an in-

Shirtings Money

The following are the latest Comercial Telegrams

LONDON, March 20th--The Specie ship ped by the Southampton steamer to-day is as follows for Madras £6,351.

168

marketidepressed in omsequence

uses it has become frequent or necessary. China, is without question in a position at the present time to spare from her enor mous and ever increasing population a large number of ablebodied labourera. It also

«; No 40 Mule Twist 2/3. land river, and few would be found to object of the possibility of a war between Austria to so convenient and comfortable a mode of happens that there are in various parts of. aud Prussia. Console 867 Bank dis travelling as the latter generally proves to the globe on about the same parallel of lati- count 7 per cent. Money in great domand,be. There is, so far as we can learn, no tnde as Southern China, countries possess- but supply limited.

37.

bales.

LONDON, March 21stAt the bidding great difficulty in obtaining transport over-ing soils of a wonderfully productive nature, for Council drafts ou India the minimum land from the point where navigation censos and climates possessing many advantages. rates have been fixed at 11/1 on Calcutta to Irkutak, Having reached this point 29 To enumerato those countries it is only and Madras, at 2/3 on Bojebay; Calcutta offers will receive 11 per cent and Bombay days by post will carry the traveller to necessary to refer to the fruitful estates Nijni Novgorod whore the railway com- and plantations in Ceylon, Mauritius, LONDON, March 28 -- Stock 120.000 mences, and a very few days more will see Cuba and other West India Islands,

At Manchester little doing Cloth

British Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Bueno Ayres, and Yaru halfpenny down, Copper has him safely housed at his destination. fallen £5 per ton.

On the road from Irkutsk to Nijai Nor Chili, Java, Borneo and the Sandwich Is- gorod the first hall will be found to be lands. In all these naturally productive very agreeable travelling. In Western and extentive tracts of country the Chinese Siberia the roads are somewhat swampy labourer. is preferred, and we account for this thering the summer months and the travelpreferened by the known fact of the Chingga ler's progress will necessarily be slower, being more willing, laborious, patient, ex- No actual discomfort need however be pert aid clean labourers than any others feared as the Russiau posting arrangements which have yet been tried.

To those unacquainted with the man- are by no means bad. For those who can command oficial aid, the advantages of ner in which engaged or Bonded. 600-

LONDON March 24th-Bank discount, cent, Demand for money, quiet Bar. per Silver 5/1 per ounce.

LONDON, 29 March Cotton Touch de- pressed; large arrivals from America stock nearly 800,000 bales.

the reply of Mr Seward to M. Dron de

the Chinese Government are bound to oponnesed evacuation of that country by the to the ordinary traveller, but a gentleman for some of the above named countries, it

heretoforo the trading of foreign vessels at- the small ports on the west Coast has been tacitly allowed by the Chinese authorities, and this seizure of the Prince Albert though undoubtedly a legal as well as very knowing and profitable act seems to be somewhat "smart" on their part.

FRANCE, The Memorial Diplomatique' asserts that

despatch of the 9th January has Lhuys's been received, and that the former nuder takes that the United States will remain

towards Mexico in view of theis route are of course much greater than lies have hitherto isit the shores of China French troops.

from whom we have received some inform-might perhaps appear an easy matter to Franco, Russia, and Austria have agreed upon a conference in referation to the Prin- ation on the subject has assured us that all transport some few hundred thousand Chi- cipalitics. The differences between Austria persons are likely to meet with civility and and Prussia are widening: The Austria attention.

commander in Holstein has sanctiqued the

AUSTRIA,

Austrian troops are to be sept into Me ice when the French troops are with drawo, “.

nese labourers with their families to their destination every year. We ourselves be- convocation of the Committee on the The route we have thus hastily sketched lieve that the matter is one capable of easy Budget, and declared for the Constitution possesses however an interest of quite amo arrangement, provided the good faith of.. of 1804.

ther kind and one which will at once com- those engaged to carry out the scheme can mend it to the mercantile community be depended upon. This however unfor The Hungarian Diet has agreed to com- of Chios. The Telegraph from St. Petunately is not always the case. nussion for arranging affairs between Austersburg will, in about 3 or 4 months time, tria and Hungary,

Under the system of Bonded or Engaged be completed to Nicolais a distance of emigration which it is well known is pursued some 50 miles of telegraphic wire being the by certain agents in China, the engagement only link now wanting to place the capitals of the labourer is sold to a planter for a cor- of western Europe in connexion with taiu sum of money. In all cases this the extreme confines of Eastern Asia. By amount is so large that enormous sums this route, when completed, Shanghai will have been made by many fearly all of be placed within 9 or 10 days of London those ougaged in the trade. These onor intelligence: a facility which will without mous and disproportionate profits have doubt he availed of on the completion of caused many greedy and unscrupulous men, A large meeting was held at Cologne to the telegraphic line.

whose passion for gaiu originally gave rise receive the deputies who had returned No part of China is at present within to the evil of kidnapping, to resort to Chi- from Berlin. Several speeches were de-

ITALY.

The Italian are proposing to pay off their national debt by public subscription,

At the approaching Conference on the affairs of the Principalities, Italy will sub-

uit a plan for the settlement of Venetia.

PRUSSIA.

SPAIN.

The clan Piratical seem to have again commissioned their feet, for we sea by an account in the Porvenis Fillipino, that a schooner has been attacked; further par- ticulars are given in our other columns: The British barque Casur, which arrived yesterday was also attacked by piratical Neans from the North-Telegrams cia Kaljunks, off the Asses Ears, but as she offered gan and Kiachta-Newchwang-Foo- a vigorous resistance, and made pretty good show and the tea clippers-Colonial fi practice with ber six-pounders the junks, nances-Confiscation of the PRINCE which had run alongside, thought that if ALBERT Piracy again--- Amateur they fought and ras away, they would live In the Second Presbyterian Church, Galesburg, IN- por's on the 1st of February, 1856, by Rev. Geo. Duifield,

theatricale -The Weather,

to fight another day, so made tracks " Jr., Busisted by Rev. Wa. & Curtiss, D., President of Knox Ballege, Ber. Jurers DoorszE, of the Ebina Mis THERE has been nothing of importance accordingly. No casualties among the crew, tion of the American Board, to Miss LoTR Jonson, of lately from the North, with the exception have as yet been reported. We understand Galesburg, Moners. bruary, 1886, Jhis, P. Ray, of Hongkongs to Verone of a report that a scheme of telegraphic that His Excellency the Governor is collectivored condemnatory of the Government. less than 19 days of England as to telegra ua for the purpose of procuring the no-

Joseph J. second daughter of Wm. R. Dickerson, of Philadel communication with Europe via the Rusing statistics of all cases of piracy which

BIRTHS.

sian settlements is on foot; a Chinaman has have taken place in the vicinity of Hong- At Hongkong. on the 17th instant, the Wife ofJ. W. contracted with an European agent-Mrkong, and of all, such cases brought be At Hongkong, on the 17th April, the Wife of S. W. Grant, for the conveyance of telegrams before the Criminal Courts of the Colony, tween Tientsin and Kalgan, and from the This has apparently boon done with latter place, it is proposed to establish a view of justifying himself with the Home system of couriers to Kiachta. The contract Government, for any strong measures. time for the dispatch of telegrams between which he may propose and authorize for the Tientsin and Kalgau is fortyeight hours, a suppression of this scourge of the China penalty boing imposed in each case of delay. seas which is a crying reproach to civiliza- From the number of vessels reported in tion and English laws, from the apparent in THE ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR for the harbor of Newchwang, a brisk trade capability of the latter to punishing wrong Price, $1.

seems to be anticipated, after the ice bound and violence. winter mouths of inaction at that port. Another subscription amateur perform

The tea season at Foochow is about to ance took place on Tuesday evening at the commence; the Robert Lowe has arrived Garrison Theatre; the two pieces perform.

not propose. to enter into the immediate from Singapore, and the Fiery Cross is ed were put on the stage and acted in a

cause of these disasters, though they must hourly expected from Rangoon en route for manner decidedly beyond the average of Bancroft on foreign governments, The EMIGRATION has for many years been held undoubtedly arise in part from the present Fooshow and the Taitsing, Ariel, Far East Amateur performances, and of the previously, and Sir Frederick Bruce has rinsed to to be one of the most important questions faulty system of engagement. Our object Austrian ambassador has protested official- representations this season. This is to be meet Mr Bancroft at dinner. The Fenian effecting the prosperity and happiness of the is rather to enquire whether a plan could

Tokazy, of a Daughter.

BAKER, of a Soil

+

DEATHS.

On the 26th March, as board the P. & G. N. Co

Simia, of brachttis, Infant van of R. P. HawHe, of H.M. Naval Yard; Hongkong, aged 7 months and 28 days

FOR SALE

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"China Mail" Office. Hongkong, February 26, 1866.

FOR SALE

DIRECTORY For

TECHNA DIRAd by Messra

SHORTRADE & Co.,

Price, bound

Unbound lu Paper cover Hongkong, March 23 1866.

1866

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$2,

and other tea clippers are on the berth.

phie intelligence, or rather was not, until cessary number of the coolies. We hear of General Prim and all the other officers the completion of Mr GRANT'S Courier cruelties being practised by some, until concerned in the late Robellion have been scheme via Kiachta, of the successful work the asserted iniquities of the whole condemnued to bo shot. Madrid is still in ing of which we have not yet heard. Even systom, call loudly on the representatives a state of siege.

should Mr GRANT's efforts be successful of all foreign governments to suppress the HOLSTEIN.

the telegraph by the route we are noticing trade at once, until some plan can be in- A declaration has been signed by 40 will prove a formidable competitor to the augurated which shall be approved by them members of the privileged orders of Holz- tein insisting on the right of self-govern- Peking and Kiachta line, while supposing and carried out under their authority. ment, in opposition to a recent petition the time of transmission by either route to The new regulations fail utterly as signed by only

bios,

he equal, the advantages of the Niculaifak have before pointed out in affording proper" AMERICA.

line in the superior safety afforded by protection to the labourer; and we have The President of the United States has telegrams being confided to the hands of before us the warning conveyed by the vetoed the Freednieu's Bureau Bill, and the act has been approved by the Senate members of civilized nations only, will go mutinies and murders committed on board and the bulk of the people. He has also far to engage public opinion in its favour the various vessels whose reports have delivered a speech expressing determina Spade prevents our now dwelling more at lately appeared in our columna. We do tion to pursue his reconstruction policy. length on this interesing subject.

Washington has The diplomatic circle at expressed much offence at a speech by Mr

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