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ens to induce us bull-like to d regardless of danger, and as- guments of our ingenions friend. ately (for him) happens how. our issue of the 23d ultino rth views which (though less arded, bear a remarkable rosem- 1ose expressed by himself. We the paragraphs we refer to as thatour contemporary baseither our remarks on what he terms -editable business," or has very asked a question to find an an. Lieb, required only a reference to

the Evening Mail.

a strict law the Prince Albert to the penalty which has thus ced, there are no grounds for But strong hopes were enter the tacit permission which ves.. parently enjoyed to make their at various points along the , so long as uo trade was car- ould have bad some weight in the very heavy punishment with

e indiscretion of the owner or

the vessel has been visited.

*

*

ugh the wording of the Treaty

th respect to porte not open to

hibits vessels from resorting thi- hus renders it a punishable of

e found thereit under any cir

s short of the most absolute state

. It is nevertheless obvious tention of those who framed the question as simply to prohibi eneral, but smuggling more espe aeli localitica."

o assertion is made of there hav any smuggling attempted on the

master of Prince Albert; his o was being in an unlawful po the China coast with his vessel, -ugh be most undoubtedly render-

f amenable to all penalties made ded for infringement of Treaty -es seem hard that au act similar which have so long been commit- punity, as to lead to the belief objection thereto existed in the the Chinese, abould be visited so

fact that the Chinese themselves long permitted irregularities of

is in itself some slight justifica! fendere, while it reflects extreme on the want of vigilance display ne provincial Government. Our ill naturally ask. How coul

expected with their wretched doanything of the sort? to which in an Irish manner by asking stions in return.

If the Chinugo their own rights and will not, not to be cenzured for their ne duty? If they cannot, why keep -reched fares of treating China ba endent nation? **** Neglect rt of the Authorities has led to on the part of offenders, whose are thus the results of official nb-

To most

Il now quote from the remarks of nuous contemporary. they would seem a plagiarism

own, with a somewhat more tar- le of expression.

seems that when seized, she (the Albert) was not engaged on any cxpedition whatever. She had artered by a Chinese merchant to

the West Coast and tow a dis nk to Whampos. She had been. out for the vessel, had not been find her, and bad put into the bay with the view of obtaining formation concerning the where- f the vessel which required her.

regard him as guilty of a breach

y obligations in sending his vesseld

an errand as this, when for years

le coast has been abandoned by noso authorities, and trade with it me a common, and all but recpg- actice, is cruelly unjustifiable."

as been said that the confiscation justified by the letter of the treaty, n this may be doubted, while it is yopposed to the spirit of the clause hich it has been made. This clauso 7th of the Treaty of Tientsin, which

-

sb merchant vessels are not entitled

t to other than the ports of trade

1 open by this treaty. They are wfully to enter other ports in Chi- o carry on clandestine trade along st thereof Any vessel violating vision, aball with her cargo be sub- confiscation by the Chinese Govern-

quoting this clause we have brought the strongest argament which can

red against our own view of the though the clause might justify fiscation of the Prince Albert ifabe En engaged in any iniquitous pro- supplying arms to the rebels or it leaves wavy loopholes through The Consul might have escape if any good feeling towards the Bri- seef in this quarrel. The Prince was not trading at all and this have made to exempt her from the

on of the treaty. སྐས ་ ་ ན

at reference to cargo' which is to fiscated together with the vessel that only vessels enrrying cargo the thoughts of the ministers by the treaty was drawn up."

think that the above extracts will ently shew what amount of differ Exists in the opinion of the whole qion entertained by our contempo

nd ourselves. But we consider that

mer has not acted in a candid spirit

No. 1108 MAY 10, 1866.].

in thus implying that we defended on any, other than technical grounds, the confisca ton. Ja our previous article we express. our conviction that Mr Robertson's conduct had been guided by. honorable, even if in the opinion of ourselves and others, mistaken motives, and that state ment we now reiterate. He acted up to the letter of the treaty, atid in so doingper- formed his official duty. We expressed no opinion implying that a remonstrance on his part as uncalled for.,

į

mint is not likely have his bands empty for some little time.

From the bullion room Captain Kinder led his visitors to the smelting room, where in some dozen furnaces each at an intense heat, but zo ingeniously built that the temperature was anything but as warm as might have been expected, silver shoes of eycee were being melted. From this they proceeded to the rolling room where the large and unsightly masses of silver are reduced by being passed through three

THE CHINA MAIL.

and we are furthermore authorized to pu- I believe I am justified in saying that in the event of the Reform Bill being rejected or blish the following statement of the arseriously modified by the loss, Earl Rus- rangements which have been made to se-sell will dissolve Parliament, and quasi-Li- beral members who have opposed his Mi- care immediate assistance in case of an nistry will find how far they have mistaken open zitack being made on the building. the feeling of the country where they stand

face face with their constituencies. The following signals have been arriged enclose an article of tlie authorship of in case of an attack being made on the which your elder readers will have no Mint.

doubt on Chinese Pirates, from the Pull Mall Gazette.

The Gunboat at the Mint to show a blue light and fire a rocket on any attempt being to be

by H.M.S. Princess Charleste repeated made or alare given of an attack, this signal which will fire a gun towards the shore; ced in front of McGregor's the sentry placed in aların, when a

Off

Barrack, would et animediate?

of 2 Oth

A. W

passage-boats, let those speak who have indulged in such pleasures.

to tell

which Chinese vessels piratical and

RALDH

75

very

Tho

which ought to be steadily kept in vies, and which, if carried out, would All this seems nearly as absurd in an ago to suppress piracy in Chines waters. of reason as that Buuble should be found first of these is to allow no Chinese vessels flourishing in Lambeth and the Strand, to enter the harbour of Hongkong, or at but it in to easy matter to eradicate the least to communicate with the shore, unive

the rites at the last port they

have a clearance from the native left. This evil. The innumerable islands, outlets, inlets, intricate passages, shoals, and

it difBoult harbours, make it

to got at the pirates; even when they are known to be such, and it still more difficult

vessels are which are not in the in the

state of aquatic society. Every

junk and trading passage boat carries anou, gingalls, and stink-pots for its own defence; and few of however respectable and however devoted to legitimate commerce, but are willing to relieve the montony of life, the demunition grind" of which Mr Mautalii by doing a little pilong

or pirate business, when ever a safe

Occurs. Nay, it not unfrequently happens that the junk which attempts to commit the piracy, if detected in the act or getting the worst of of

pirate and the

natural the the hitherto honest tquence is, that China;:

the hit

concludes he may as well become a pirate also, and reap some of the advantages as well as the dis-

of that reputation. The runster catinet bo dealt with by a few matter cap and down the coast. gunboats running up

But we have yet a little more to say on gowerful machines, into ribbons of the 2nd 53 N. C. O. and men (uriously always read to his crew, upon Sundays, the

the remark made by the Daily Press that

necessary thickness for panching there-

ultimately form dollars.

It

eers

was indux

that the Chinese were acting in good faith in seizing the vessel." It is always un- this room that the accident occurred a fortunate when a writer states an opinion short time since, which threatened to so- respecting any subject of this nature, while tiously cripple the mechanical powers of ignorant of the true facts of the case, which the establishment; a large cast iron cog We must presume the author of the article wheel some nine feet in diameter having fractured at its periphery into three pieces question to have been. Is be aware what instructions were given to the com- Fortunately no one was hurt on this oc-

43

Sc

assistance arrived, and it is to be presumed bas rather on

this fine

example, of it, accuses its aniversary of being the and fountain of piracy an the South of

meanwhile,

So ostensive an influence will natar- ally be hereafter exerted by Hongkong over the money market of the East, that

proces

from

favour

Koon

Tum

forts of the Chinese to catcli fagruwi de- defects of detail, which if not amended have well been devised whereby to intro- aristocracy, according to Mr Maurice,, nas, Chinese Dich his countrymen are licto? Was he also intormed that the may someday result in serious accident to duce through a natural channel a more sional relationships between its daughters distinguished

ressel in question having got wind of the kind intentions of the Chinese "absqua- tulated," as our American friends say, in good time, and that “the sportsman who thought to bag a pigeon returned with a crow-viz, the unlucky Frines Albert, ich was found within a few miles of

ed.

stink-pots.

very destructive.

He almost never

eggs.

out

only prevented by the accidental cironma- first place clearly to separate the regular

the sput where the richer and more know-he fracture of a single cog may not only ing prize should have been but was not ? lumage the machine most seriously, but value. The success or non-success of the But in the absence of subjects of general landed seized him, he being the first man

Under such circumstances it is difficult to ntain the charge of bad faith brought

against the Chinese.

also endanger human life, and we cannot see what reason there is for neglecting to adopt the hard wood cogs in use for the multiplying gear of screw stencnera, as for rolling presses regularity of action is not of such supreme importance as for other machines, Secondly some means ought

:

LONDON, 26th March, 1966,

To those who are at all behind the po- litical scenes in England at present the

the foreign community in China is engaged

getting rid of piracy.

such as ол

dating

on

Put

when

his tail, rope's-endent him, and then pitchol for all the pirates of the coast, and when pira

has

MOT

nenge trade in the China sen marked on.

over.

NOTES ON JAPAN

1.

Now that Japau may be considered to he fairly open to foreign intercourse' and,-

increased desire to visit a country so re- with greater facility of communication, an cently most a terra incognito to Europeans las

chist arise, a few remarks, on

found the at the objects of i interest, &c., to be

the

was done when the colony was first formed; but it being believed that the mandarins refused to give clearances for Hongkong in fer to hamper, its trade, the port was thrown entirely open. The consequence is that at this moment Chui Apak may come into the harbour of Victoris red-handed, CHINESE PIRATES.

with his decks cumbered with heavy guns (Pall Mall Gazette, March 18.):

and his hold filled with spoil that he has There was a celebrated buccaneer of the

pirated not twenty miles off; he may go on Gulf so exceedingly moral a man that he

shore, dispose of his goods, purchase am- munition, lay in provisions, and wake sail warned

on a new piratical cruise, without there possible and proceed at once to and the first thing he did on taking a vessel

being any one to say to him, unless he "it is impossible to suppose for a moment from the round silver counters which for the duty, would turn a morning service of the Church of England; Just the Mi

stailar party would

also get if there were any women on board, to

meets some of his victims on Queen's Road, Who art thou Whence comest thou immediately walk the plank, under arms and follow, froin Fletcher's Bar- racks. The Guard stationed within the leat he or any of his ship's company might

and whither goest thou? Of course it Mint would no doubt repel all attack until fall into sin. The. of Chinese waters

follows that Hongkong is the very centre

upon joss-sticks, and burns

and it is probable that thereason why also that the Police would not be idle He waves

ces of red

paper to propitiate the

the pirates are not more troublesome to our spirits of the ocean and the hurricane.

commerce is that they have sense enough matters so far as to provoke not to carry There are inscriptions upon his junk inic

their

of the nost in which being drivon ative of his admiration for univer to void

they are now permitted to their

lay volence and of his determination

golden the abysmal nosan of vice.

On the main-

The second point of importance is to ਜਾਤ

of action against the mander of the Pootung on leaving Con-casion, but while, admitting and cordially the position of the Colony must be cou- most recolection) anno duques, (me a tere have heard of a lieutenant commanding come to some seruugoment which will allowe

Goddess of the

pirates and not waste the notion of provin of heaven suites like the sea, and on dedicated to Dues be know that she left to cap-aduiting the beautiful machinery fitted siderably improved vis-a-vis the announcing that the coming upon a few junke lying off a temple of a general cystein

cannon and cial authorities and gunboat lieutenants. ture if possible another vessel which it for the purposes of the establishment, wependencies of all nations in this part of the rodder another exclaims, "O Tai Shan Grace, and as they were firing of her This could best be carried out by the 'Im-

letting off fire-crackers in honour As the British Then he is a family ma

festival, he inquired of his servant the perial Maritime Cus

Customs Service, which was well known had long eluded the ef may be permitted to point out one or two the world. Moreover no better scheme could Great Mountain, be propitious to us."

character of the vessela. Thus appealed to high character, who have large funds at conducted by Europeans and Americans of despite its French mistresses and the ocea the

with that fine sensa of sly humour by

their command, and who could easily, orie princess been prosorved as

gravely replied,Oh! I would think, with a few steamers, in con- the employés if not in a total and length extensive use of coin in place of bullion and

ou which the nection with her Majesty's naval forces on with royal

to the sanctity of family life in the tinkes he belong pilong, so has the Chinese pirate been pre-liet West, 80

lieutenant prepared to open fire, and was

the one

aud, and with the local authorities ened stoppage of the coining machi- throughout the Empire of China. When it with

on the other, so direct operations as in the nery, Tu the first place duplicates of all is once found that foreigners are so unwill-served in the East. His wife and children

other,

A pirate once gave us piratical craft frout more honest trading parts of the machinery are urgently wanting to accept the latter, that the new coins are often on board with him, and his grand stance of his having a batter instructed

an excellent breakfast of rice and fish, in junks, and then to shut up these latter so. The enormous cogwheels used to possess advantages for purposes of trade this, if necessary, will lend a haud in passenger on board.

circunstances alarmingly suggestive of an-that they might be unscrupulously hunted other kind of retaliation, for his story was as he possibly can, with a decent regard to

down and destroyed. To this end

a little transmit motive power to the heavy rul- superior to those offered by Sycce or the settles ships, and takes away as little life ling machines are all cast with iron cags; Spanish and other dollars the Chinese will his own interests. Though uninteresting that, when an honest man, some pirates, diplomatic pressure might be advantageous- the Foreign by by a gunboat, having taken to the ly brought to bear at I pursued by hills near his house, the English sailors who Ministers; but it is evident we cannot

when such pressure with any one le permitted readily learn to accept them at their just be ia inild; though not harmless, yet not

our own colony of Hongkong is mint cannot be a doubtful question; either political interest, and stimulated by the they met, carried him on board, where no

resent capture of several European vessels, one could understand his language, cut off to be a safe rendezvous and place of supply it will be a total success or a total failure.

insoriously discussing the host means of

him into the St A

ator which he took to evilcies are constantly committed within its We hope and predict the former.

The evil is not worne

very limited waters despite the large naval Thus it is that the very means we courses. than it has been two or

force stationed there. three times

to put down Chinese piracy are. within the last ten years, but as commerce sometimes fruitful causes of it. The 1927- As to the question a speciously put,

increases piracy becomes more and more of darius also foster almost as much as they Why cannot the Pootury, this gallant

an anachronism, and at all times we are suppress it. They certainly report them- en rover, make a raid amongst the junks

bound to give all possible protection to selves as very active against saa robbers;" na hrver ruand the entrances to the

Reforma Bill is a subject of engrossing in- those whose perilous employments contribut, in the Pekin Gutto, the Emperor's

buto directly to the prosperity of the coun- vermilion to be adopted for stopping the engine interest, and it is already commencing to

than once re excite attention and agitation over the

"statements of less time than it now takes; at present whole country. It was inevitable that with

try. Our immense Ly-ce-moon, and the Lema Channel? an

is carried on ander special natural risks, innumerable pirates attacked and easy answer is at hand. Becnuse she is

the only means of checking the revolution the advent of Earl Russell and Mr Glad-

ourrents, which drift ships which are stories colourtal and glosses, all Her prede

stove to the leadership the Liberal

of the

party -not sufficiently well-armed"

of the immense and massive flywheel is to

shoals like the Prats, and Each mandarin has only authority within net; he does not there would come a

terrible typhoons, which sink even the best his own district of come a great charge in the at-

province cessor the Camfa has three times been

reverse the steam; but any one acquainteditnds of the Government in regard to home

one appointed steamers; so it seems particular care much about what happens

elsewhere, the and, in point of fact, the worse his neigh-treaty borts may not be inopportune, and put to dight by heavily arited pirates, and

next August, and the Festiny could no more fight a junk with locomotive machinery is aware how politics. The premier will be 72 years old hard that it should also lose through

is used to be said that heetence of a class of plunderers which bouring brother mandarin gets on, the more we therefore propose in a series of articles was ten years old when he was born, but elkewhere, except in a few Malayan creeks, is he himself exalted. The consequence is giving for practical. hints about the sub- interest- mounting twelve 32 pounders than the junk long a time it takes to overcome the mo-

his mental facultios are as vigorous as ever, has been entirely swept off the globe. From that if he cannot easily put down the fest, which may prove useful and his natural strength does not seem ainted,

to those who contemplate visiting "the" official returns we find that the British pirates within his own domain, he coming to could engage a corvette of the Sylla's size gentan of a heavy moving mass travel.

trate with Chinn in the year 1854 amounted mands thent, or

prevails

upon them, by any

Tycoon. And ampire of the

though may almost be

be deemed

nerous in may and metal. Moreover our contemporary'sing at a speed of something like 60 miles though lie speaks in a slow and not very trade

or, if we Gladstone cal remark on the effects of the study of an hour, Breaks might easily be applied audible way in the House of Lords. Siri to, the vuaine of taels 100,785,771, o, we sort of means, to go away into another place, it

-be no longer called a rising are fit to vote for members of Parliament, anil so, like some parliamentary orators in these days of innumerable books and pan- te about thirty-three millions and a half the bygone times of Palmerston, they pulets on all new or strange countries, it. young man of 5, for his marvellons powers as an orator and a statesman are storling. This was exclusive of that portion

flourish by unking themselves a nuisance. may be as well to give a general brief go how in their prime; and despite the prog-

of it which goes to the colony of Her

of Hongkong, It may be thought that where pirates neral Skitch which may lead to a better uostications of his failure in that capacity, fri which, being a free port, there are no abound British vessels ought to take marans understanding as to the character of the despite

pite the grudging admissions of his sucreturns, and we may be sure that during to defend themselves, but it is convenient people the difficulties of travel in some

on the coast of China to employ a certain cases, and the he has continued to lead the House of last year it has not diminished. Of course,

of the governing opposition cess,

craft, such as achooners, Commons with remarkable skill and self anly a small portion of this trade is exposed

suali

freedom of communi- class to the perfect de is exposed number of to the risk of piracy; fast

cuppers with

and silk-brigs, and light barques, which could not cation we hop on to see. control. You will see a good deal in the pipers about the malcontent Liberals in

The ebief islands forining the Japanese pearing steamers are not

bything

be conveniently and so as to offer any. the sea-robbers of China; but when

combat to a huge junk with

group are four in amber, viz: Yesso, Ni- the House the Cave of Adulipus men,

and steamers come to grief on

when glippers

ar at least a dozen large guns, or to the swarm phou, Kuisui, and Vikok, but there are of held office under Lord Palmerston but rock, piratical such as the Lowes and Horsmans who once

wlien becalmed.

while Sagha- sea, wa Even the largest the coast line and inland rich prey or to charge takes which they made. There is also a esorbitant suns for carrying the crew and

lien, now held by the Russians at one time be supposed that every merchant vessel formed part of this Eastern empire. The over, some of the recent piracies have been leaving Liverpool for Shanghae is to have a most fertile and densely populated of these makontents, some of whom, such as Earl Granville and the Duke of Argyle are still so bold, and have displayed so much kuw battery of Armstrong guns on board. When are Kuisin Yikak and the southern part Gambars of the Governinart while others ledge on the part of the pirates as to where the north-east monsoon sets. in, the China of Nishon, but as far as we can learn sea is covered with craft of all) both the northern part of the latter together Earl Geozvernor, are not It is no secret

ecret sonable alarmn in the minds of the foreign. that these and other noblemen, the mal-community generally.

Captain Jones to

to tell, as all the junks are. able for the fertility which so characte- Si- The cause of this objectionable state of hevily armel, whether he is in the vicinity rises the other portions of the group. atents in the House of

does not at all lie wholly in the of Chui Apoo the trader, or Chui Apak the tuated between the thirtieth and fortieth pa-

Chineso

rallels of North latitude the climate is of pirates do not live to o fight, calls of

but is

is far proclivities as the coast of southern China, is

never attack except coarse a varied one, is deeply indented

equable ented but fight to live, so t like by innumerable. bays, gulfs, and inlets, and when almost certain of success. If Captain and healthy than the corresponding por

On the coast of the be Chui Apoo, then Joues must stand his tinent, and in the hilly well wooded nature attempted province of

number the islands not by to

sheer of 20

off and the wind geographers

falls, then

then the tion of the healthiness which has rendered Ministry, and

to hundreds, but by thousands, and the whole first intimation he gets of the character of Japan the sanitarium of the far East. Rivers though in that they have waited for theas tu

as to develop a

stink-pots. there are anall streams in several parts, of grape or a shower a sparse, hardy population by Niversary, as they drift together is a properly speaking they have none, rated by the Community took place thisness will soon be obliterated by the equ

partly fishing, and partly In these circunstances the wisest course for but none appear to be pavigable to any

On land bio nsually

is to offer no resistance and great extent, and indeed, the large propor morning. The Hougkong mint was for tinual process of shroffing. The milling tick, and had it not been brought forward seafaring in the larger sense.

pirates then the not bringing forward of it would they are so warlike, and so little under allow the

to come on board,

OF which tion

mountainous country in comparison bcen

with the plaing

precludes they do with yells, perhapa shooting or

the possibility of BULTO mally opened for the public service by His also is anything but good; it can be easi-

their pretext.

his assault, in

control of the mandarins, that the advenering one or two of the crew, and then much interior water communication. This Mr Botarous traveller enti scarcely go a day's Excellency the Governor; though the de- ly counterfeited by the simple mechanism was very still more 30, and the notice

on a clay fight even doing notice in this

part, this year of

beyond rumuaging about for money, eirability of avoiding the great disturb of a file, and an ordinary amount of inge-f which Earl Grosveruor has given Turney and at sea thoing no further mis bief before they de: evil is however, less felt in Japan than it

valuables of was very cunningly calculated to prevent have been famed, from almost the co-opin, and other easily handled

does not seem to be any In the recent the progress of the Bill. Mr Gladstone's moncement of European intercourse with Arming a

it was somewhat China, for

for their predatory habits. Among security against attack. speech on introducing

themselves this alan system affords a certain Saw the pirates carried away with the two

•piracy

of the barque Bentinck in the China below his usual mark for so great an 03- casion. from whence it was inferred that it protection, though it is sometimes a cause was not the Bill he would have wished to of quarrel, but strange, vessels have always 9-pounder guns, two 2-pounders, six mus bring forward, and that, he been considered a lawful prope su formid-round of saialt arins ammuition, and forty the whole of the group is

At various kets with bayonets, a number of pistols, 250 hal little heart in the mattor.

periods their fleets have become the others, Ministers rose to

abli us to endanger the Imperial Govern- round of grape for the big guns, all intended defend the measure. The conservatives ment, aud in 1573 they managed to destroy for the vessels defence ! It has been sug- naturally resolved to oppose it at every distant Manila despite the power of the gested in China that merchant vessels stage.

Even papers

that had a cortalu Spaniards. Some of them, indeed, have should be armed with hand-grenades, or

rison to the position of patriotic chic re chiefs, as, character for liberality, such as the Times,

emll sheil after the Orsini pattern, and chara

there seems some wisdom in t

in this ; bus the Morning Post and the Economist at- for instance Ching Ching Kung, better "merce is so far advanced among the practical tics of the country we must tacked the Bill, witile the Pall Mall Ga-

famous son, Chiog sette and other pa boads very gravely

without committing known as Kozinga, who for long checked

Celestials the pirates, with the advance of the Mantchu Tartars, and,

which, after all, nance to foreign intercourse the past Formosa.

098. In 1810 the pirates of this coast though more destructive, would not be policy of Japai has caused. As is well intendent of the Mint then proceeded to which the silver to be tested is dissolved being specially interested in the matter;

seing how things were going, indepen- became so formidable as

as almost to

disabling a crew known some three hundred years ago, a in temporarily sher the Governor and party the details of in nitric acid and precipitated by a solo-dent Libers, members seeking for an op- constitute a rebellion, and several ships of than ars their own stink-pols.

footing of the most satisfactory and appa- easier defested

piracy the various processes by which the white tion of cominen salt in water, the turbidity portunity to distinguish themselves, as Mr the East India Company

Lasting charactor was obtained by metal received in the shape of ingots, used

Chinese of Consular-brains is unfortunato which would effect the desired object. With this alight degression we return to in this instance, Her Majesty's Consul at Canton laying no élaim to the acquire-His Excellency's visit. ments of a sinalogue..

In conclusion we would add that our own remarks have certainly not tended to advise a truckling policy to Chinese of ficials. We nevertheless hold that so long

Sir

After leaving the rolling room Ricbard and Lady Macdonnell proceeded to the, stamping room where the round dumps of silver receive the obverse and reverse impression which creates them into

as a treaty agreement remains in force it dollars. A dump having been handed to were compelled to leave on account of mis- to button junks swarm round, either of smaller boats which might pull round course innumerable smaller ones dotting

should be held to at disadvantage to our selves, but we have also constantly urged that many of these agreements suited to nations of somewhat equal position and ci vilization, are quite inadmissible between à superior and inferior rare. Meantime we demand fair play from those who while endorsing our views, imply that they and not we, were the first to uphold them.

on such rich

still more forniidable party of aristocratic passengers to some port of safety. Morps are liable to be taken, and it is not to

Lady MeDonnell she placed it in one of the stamping machines and the FIRST LEGAL DOLLAR was coined in Hongkong.

The dies cannot be considered Master- such as the Marquis of Lansdowne and and how to strike, as to create not unrease and foreign; and it 15 min far with a portion of Yesso is not remark-

pieces of the die sinkers art. In beauty of appearance the New Hongkong dollar is considerably inferior to the florin or

clique

of newspaper writers,

and a

matters

ou the Times, regarder as weakness of the Chinese Government. The pirate

even the old half crown. It is thought Ministry with its reform pro perfect impressions after being a short wire-pulling and the settlement of

affairs not in the face of the cour

could to prevent the

however that the dies will give more very abomination of desolation. Theycal stud led round by innumerable islands, Jonge fires into the junk and it turas oat to tions of the coast line of the adjacent con- time in use, and that such will be the the salon and the closet try but in great and amung along the nativo trial; but if he does not induce Chia Apak of the country may be sought an explana

all they

push Earl

Ax event, the importance of which to tho case is much, to be hoped. The present of the pranville into the premiership. character of this mountainous coast is such Colony of Elengkong can scarcely be over-stamp being shallow and deficient in shaped Reform Bill as a ground for at partly

ance to work which would have necessati. nuity which Chinese smashers have most Jy ensued, had the general public been ad- decidedly proved that they possess, mexi- mitted rendered it advisable that His Ex- can dollars being most successfully imi- cellency' visit should be rather of a priv-tated. Possibly however these defects in the new coins may be owing to a slight ate than a public nature.

want of adjustment in the machines-an error which practice alone can correct.

Before leaving the building His Excel- lency and the party visited the assay room, which is by no means the least interesting and Lieut. Stewart arrived at the mint portion of the building; two modes of

By the courtesy of Sir R. Maconnell we are in a position to describe the semi- oficial ceremony of ushering into light the first legal Hongkong dollar.. His Ex- selloney and Lady McDonnell, Mr Mercer

bert Lowe was

of

themselves shook their

Mr Horsinan

one

of

or

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bie

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that the

German houses in

would be in most countries from the deeply

lented nature of the coast giving name rous good harbours, and the situation of the inland ses lying between Niphon and the Lo Southeruislands, which throws open the trade to such an extent that

probably no portion of the country is more than fifty miles from art Mountains, chiefly (as

of volca-. pis evidently nicformation), extinctoractive volcanoes, aro numerous, and serve as the safety valves to the hidden fires, which oven now shake the empire and render earthquakes, more ur loss violent, of daily occurrence.

In taking into consideration the poli

take into with the all of consideration the position, the country

conr

about 1 alar. Captain Kinder the Super-assay are in use. The French mode, in it. The country gave no signal offering the Dutch, captured the island of hold of these aina,, would also get has held, and the consequent repug

up dollars, sud, in one case at least a service

over

azin

were

more useful in

in China cans, and had even ordinary diplo

or clearness of the liquid remaining being

Kinglake, Sir William Hitt au- Mr Law- taken by their heavily armed juuks. Since must be put down say that pinoy in China

it.

an evidence of the presence of alloy

of plate, became fashioned into that es yat rare and coveted article a Hongkong

dollar.

rance Oliphant gave notice of motions si- that period they have never risen into great The truth is the expense of doing so macy been used, we have no reason to doubt high milar to that of Harl Grosvernor. In fact power, but they have never been quiet, and would be so very great as to raise the but that Japan would have taken the opposition against the Reform Bill records of every year have told of the question whether it might not be just as place in the Eastern world, instead of being

and ex-taking of foreign vessels.

Even within wall to let it stand, only keeping it within as it has been a country whose only aim has press itself so freely without

of be called the any interrup

- what

limits. Bears is a wood are been to consolidate its own resources within the was allowed to organise itself so far

astonishing how many European

119911 ion that superficial observers began to

the bears in a Fraser River forest, move advanced nations of the West. But

Age

stoam, it but

when it comes to sup- itself and refuse all intercourse with They were first of all taken to the bulsame as those adopted at the London mini. any it was all up either with the 19ty vessels of all sizes have. By sending their the business does not pay, even though when the First Tycoon. Tacko Yama, whe

lion room where apoplectic jute bags were

passanger

them

but with anfimo discovered the bogaty and

or the absolute purity of the metal treated; the other method being by melting in a small furance; the subsequent steps, being the

beau

seized by ur the Bill and began to play their oards and at least plundered, Too much praise cannot be accorded to accordingly, consequently there was a good associates on board in disguise, they bave they may occasionally disturb white man. though originally a man of humble birth

deal of unpleasant surprise in certain quar even taken, and in other instances Have

If our gunboats are to be effectively embad by his snconies in war, and his take,

steamers. where, on moving the adjournment of attempted to pital in layers each filled with a certain the general arrangentents of the mint or

ters

they must do ability won for himself a position almost of ploved in destroying vessels they so not by the sense of amount of the old and ill nsed Spanish the intelligence of those to whom its the House for the Eastor Holidays Mr running between Hongkong and Macao, a

Gladstone declared that the Government con distance of only about forty miles, with cient means of

menacing tone of the Europeans currency. In pigeon holes made to re-arrangements and working are instrusted.

Early Grosvenor's mot

at either end. Within,

4 Royal Commission towards himself and his people, he with an a ought to destro mount to a proposal of waat, of confidence couple of ntiles of, the limits, of the decided that Ma. unscrupulous haud determined on ridding colve them, were large and heavy ingots, Great care seems to have been taken to some of pure metal and some of melted render it as seenre from robbery as it can be and would press the second reading with of Hongkong itself, and beneath the noses show Wong was a leader of pirates, and yet his country of what he deemed injurious to

out consider other

unfortunate English briga

from whence came the information on which adherents rose, and with merciless severity nets. Of late scarcely a up Mexican or Spanish dollars. The in a colony owning rascals of so ingenious connected with the representation of the of light pisatud about frigates, they have for long Ma-show Wong was the chief source her welfare. And so at a given signal his

Mr Gladstone, moreover, spoke and schooners. country.

has our

our gunboats were directed against supposed only admirable as the act of a patriot, who total value of bullion and dollars received a turn of mind as the Chinese. In addition in a tone of confidence, and of disregard, if one iu without recording some instance of pirates: If the gunboats acted on infor. looked on his county's weal as of wiore im

mation supplied by the maudarins, of portance than ought else, massacred the for recoining up to the present date to a regular guard of European troops quar- not contempt, for his opponents which has a foreign vessel being taken by these scout course the latter would expect to have the Christiane at Sunabara and Nagasaki, and

coast from Hongkong. amounts to $2,000,000 (Two million of tered is the building a gunboat has been already been justified by the waking up of ges on its way up

the reform associations and of the country As to yachting out of sight of that happy prisoners handed over to them for trial. shut the country up, leaving a small por. tera arrangements, however, tion of ground at the latter place in the dollars) so the energetic master of the moored off the side fronting the harbour, in general to give him their hearty support. island, or enjoying the Inxuries of Chinese There are

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