E
Hence the fire that
"off
the dollars."
THE CHINA MAIL.
[No. 1109-May 17, 1866,
some investigation being made into this constructed with tolerably easy gradients, ty has been actually retrograding. It is subject is sufficiently obvious, but the qua- residents will be induced to purchase nearly impossible to overrate the deleteri ifications necessary for conducting such land for building purposes at Deep Water ous effect which the emanations which ex- an enquiry in a thoroughly satisfactory and Surprise Bays, which would re- bale from the filth and impurities in the manner, could hardly be expected from
chiq places through which communicationfathoms at the entrance to three off the vented their departure; the blame of has been carried on. 11. has witnessed the native city. Between our anchorage and arrival of the high-sturne i galleons of Por- Pappenborg are five batteries on various this rests with the home authorities who are tugal and Spain bringing with them the points mounting in all about seventy gaus, precise in their instructions to "save Jesuits wine finally cause the seclusion of uri at the head of the Harbour is another money"--Not "save life," "save credit" the country; it has witnessed the friendly momating eight guns. and unrestricted, intercourse rluiliu once
could be brough on any particular point or save needless suffering" but "save
imburse government for the cost of the road. Chinese portion of the town, have upon oristed between the great nations of the would be fierce enough while it lasted, but
The person responsible for those whose province is more peculiarly This may be set down as decidedly the health of residents in the eastern half West, and the government of Japan; it pro- us the Japanese batteries are simply guns bably witnessed the departure of the princesmo arced without any protection to the gun-such orders outdoes the down-caster who the diseases to which mankind are liable doubtful, for though there is a very good of the city. What is it that makes us who went to Eampe to say obeisauce to ners there would be but little nifficulty in when informed his mother was dead ex-under certain given conditions of tempera-road, to Pokfoolum, and plenty of avail- languid and feverish when we get up in Pope Gregory XUTI, and we know that even moit cases in driving them from their posi while these same men were at the Vatican tion. At the inner end of the harbour on claimed "Jerusalem-I'd rather have lost ture, mode of life, cc. We are well aware able building ground, there is no very the morning more especially when there the Imperial despot Tyan Sana fearing for a small comparatively level situation is the dollar," for in actual fact, the dollars are that the scientific attainments of one great competition for lots in that part has been no wind in the night? It isn't
of temporal power, wie
was con- dative city extepting well round the top of
suff of the island, although it is a healthy so much malaria from the soil, bot seating the neighbourhout of Nagasaki into the litule bay at the base of a lofty hill. preferred to the lives of British soldiers.nt least of three gentlemen Ars
The fact is that the difi- the wafting of the miasma from Tai a scene of Chrisdan Matyrdom. And why And next to it further seaward is situated The attempts to effect an economical ciently high to render any remarks situation.
a merciless hand he had with
he bad crushed the the sinal Bund and houses of the European Christian religion lust gaming groundinte
Immediately in front of the arrangement for the transport of the re- he may offer on such a subject of con calty lies in the distance from the town, pingshac scunt and pollution. On the residents. king tom, ho, after the expulsion of the for native city is the celebrated island of Desgiments benco, &o, have resulted in the siderable value, but with so extensive and we are afraid that it is one which will other baad we know the invigorating ef Liguore, gave to the Dutch only the sight of aims, & low fun shape I piees of ground po Far East and White Anter being charter a field of enquiry as that before the com- always exist, for it is hardly to be fect of an easterly wind, which is trading with Japan. It is said that when the teeted by a sua and having a row Intperial edict was passed forbidding any but Dat looking houses facing the sea, beltined for a sum of £27,000 one-half of mission it is quite possible that they may supposed that people will live an hour's more especially to be attributed to natives of the country to remain un
(which is****
is a single street separating the busi-
Moreover, its not having to pass over Western nese bral, he was used what the shape of ness-houses from the places of residence in which is chargeable to the colony. It is decline to enter into the merits of the travel from their offices.
with all our vaunted British laws we have Victoria. We believe that the Governor thegod to be given to the merchants one. Opposite the settlement and on the now reported that small pox has broken chemico-geolological problem which now should be, and confcaptiously
r is the that it should factory of Acunark where the Japanese em
might be as secure in every respect as thorough regeneration of the St Giles of ibraltar, even ordinarily safe as regards Hongkong, and although some rested in- When people are terests" may be disturbed, and people may life and property.
and bands of ruffians can land every morn-have a pecuniary stake in the wretched
make their head quarters in the mat sheds of razed to the ground, the law need not be ing from the Canton Steam boat, and tumble down tenements, which ought to be
covering the bills above the town, it is stretched to meet the difficulty, for there almost premature to talk of country resi- are or ought to be laws regulating the deuces on the south side of the Island.
building, and drainage of all houses in the Colony, and we have heard it hinted that there is such anofficial as an "Inspector of Buildings, "A position which as the caso stands at present must surely be one of
his fan, he intimated bis will sing ont left or Northern side of the Harbour lệ | out on board, the former vessel, and that awaits solntion at the hands of the scienti failed to snake this little island, which is devoting his serious attention to thi
and
be built in that form. Al so on an sertifi- ; yboy Europene repairs for theirstea delayed. Had but commun, sense besu
her departure may thus bo indefinitely fic, residents of Hongkong.
Vague statements have been made by displayed in deciding upon the destination the press both in China and Euglord as to
where they us, the necessary
sextlo- Evet, and close to it is the Russian meter quacession, but as yet they seem to are unde, but little use of it, sure as a
Se vesaule wat
chants who had the permission to loanitarium for the sick lauded from their of the regiment when their reuto val bo- the unhealthiness of a sail of which the knacked down in Caine Road in daylight, sume forward to protest whom few dream
(15
of war.
bars
has been taken respecting the Hongkong garrison, without feeling indignant at the blunders of those who have shewn thour selves eo culpably indifferent to the lives of our men. That Caionel Nerth's motion will result in a reprimand to some depart
deeply in-
chief constituent is disintegrated granite,
proof of the theory. That sickness has but no reasons have been advanced in
extensively prevailed in the neighbour hood of all sites in and about Hongkong where the earth has been newly disturbed a is patent fact; but, beyond stating the e- sult, no one bas as yet apparently made any progress in determining the canges which
(From the "Evening Mail.") ›
cid island comected with the shore by bridge and watched by an insolent gnard, who prevented all communication with the neighbourhood except in rare instances and at exorbitant
au
the few mer- expense,
On either side almost from came necessary they would in all probabi- lived a life the monotory of which was the water's edge the hills rise iu steep slopes which then represented the expert trade of nad riure forming picturesque little vulleys impossible to consider the action which broken when once a yaux the two ships covered with luxuriant vog-iation and herety have long ago left Hongkong. It is Japan sailed into the bay of Nagasaki. which winding inland givs one peeps of the that the
Pree
possesses interest from its never ending ranges of hill and valley, association with the Past policy
of the Ty and harbours of this most charming place, coon even more than from its other atte while fur in the distance at the extreure head tions of scenery and cliante, and indeed it of the harbour rises the Comptes Hili, and may be looked on as the only city in Japan on the left of the hill behind the town a whose history is in any way linked with shallow river meanders through a rich fer- that of the Western civilizations. One grant le plou bounded by a picturesque ratige advantage possessed by it is its accessibi of low hills.
The area of the Harbour which is iument is possible, but that any individuals lead to. so alarming an increase of mortali Is the Government Gazette of Saturday the siuedures of the local government. lity, and to visitors from China whose stay may be short, this alone would be a
Face amply a large narrow inlet recommendation. To tact situated as it is diepted with smil bays in a range of low will undergo the slightest personal incon-ty. By some it is beld that by the expo- appears the report of a sanitary commis- so near the foreign sertlements in the North hills is about 1.33quare miles; its cirenafer-venience for (to speak mildly) errors of sure of a fresh surface to atmophoric in- sion which has reported on the causes it is with its mild cliure, and lovely once is about 87 miles so some estimato neighbourhood destine i to be at once the be formed from this bow winding the shores judgement so serious that they become fluence a noxious gas or malaria is gene of the sickness which prevailed among the rated, which when diffused through the air. Chinese prisoners in the Gaul last summer watering place, and sanitation of the East, of this land locked harbour.are. The whole crimes, is the height of improbability. and already
y the number of visitors are sen neighbourhood of Nagasaki extramely
The good name of the military officials predisposes residents to diseases of a febrile and in the parts of the town occupied sibly increasing every year, Steamers and billy, two chains of undulating hills extend- sailing vessels are constantly running being down on either side of the bay whence at Hongkong is so much involved in this type; while others again deny the exist solely by the lowest order of Chinese. In tween Shanghae and Nagasaki, and one numerous, spurs branch off in every direc chartered by the mercantile community for tim forming a complicated series of small question, that it is to be hoped that thoyance of any pernicions element in the soil this report strong emphasis is laid on the
valleys richly fertile and well cultivated. The lugest of these is at the north vau of will afford the fullest aid in its investiga itself and refer the evil effects consequent necessity of thoroughly reforming the the harbour and forms a fat allavial plain tion Flying rumours are abroad that in on a disturbance of the soil to the simple whole Chinese portion of the city, both as rarely more than a mile o mule and half
fact that a greater egross is thereby afford-regards drains, roads and buildings. The the parliamentary correspondence already in with extending far back through a se
ed to deadly malaris, which is constantly evidence of the Inspector of Nuisances, ries of narrower gorges to the bay of main published several despatches having a High peaks are numerous but few however most important bearing on the circum- being evolved from the surface of all soil and the report itself goes to prove that dave been accurately measured. one or two cases, only forty eight hours.
The high- Occasionally vesuels arrive direct from eat however are the Copiera hill, about 6
the purpose takes the part of a
sufling
and arrives porud cally with the European news. The fare by stencier is about $50, and by
vessel rather loss, while the tion of transit by the foginer rarely exceeds thres this, and by the latter, bas
obviously be uncertain, though
in
sIt
grass
may
Siura
a
RUSSIAN POLICY IN EASTERN ASIA,
(Pall Mall Gazette.)
In the last number of the Revue des Deus
pro gress of our relations with those countries.
who
3
stances connected with the mortality in the in countries and islands exiating under the large area of ground in the Western part of General Mourarieffent; to
und Kowloon,
similar diseases.
a
the
appear-
yup and clear away the mists raindropping through here and there. The of expenditore, with respect to the troops are under the impression that if the first leading over the lower tank in Taiping- England and France have expended &)
every
slopes
modern bookmakers, and since
years
solne tiew
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Mondes there is an article containing some very curious and important disclosures fo
The policy of Russia in China and garding Japan, which ought to be carefully studied by those who take an interest in the There has been, a great deal of apeculation in Paris hs to the authorship of this article, in the cue wishes to be anonymous, is which, as is usually the case when a
a writer signed by M. V. de Mars, the Secrétaire de la Redaction.
It is variously attributed to
believed to be now in
ive in dis- Hongkong and the South, and others are miles worth of the turn and the Un- 11th Regiment are missing. Whether same geographical conditions as longkong the town is covered with squalid building genes with the Russian
being to ly ariving from brand for Yo- quis's peak" about 4 miles to the end of fully suppressed or not is as yet uns j
grace kohama,
and matsheds, where scores of filthy wret- Prince Joinville known as the there is us regular packet com- but
it overlooking the beautiful bay of
anonymous Whichever may be the true solution of ches are crowded together under the same ant munication as yet between the places, the barra.
author of some remarkable articles on naval P0. steamer running dir, etfrom Shah gatheres beyond a general summary, as atb honest at first sight.
Of the geological formation but litte can certain, but the mattere looks anything me to Yokohams. Let us start from the
the question, the practical value of an eu-roof, pigs, goats, and fowls holding sumators in the Revue; and to the inspire- Foreign Office, What
artiole, first named place by one of thelan a steamers in no place are there any cuttings or qur The latest moveon the board" namely quiry into the causes which produce anch preme sway over the reeking alleys and ever may be the source of the
information it contains has all the and set not for Japan. And after leaving dea where research might be made below. the turbid pea-soup coloured waters of the the surface. It somewhat resembles apps the sending of a detachment of the Ceylon lamentable results must be of exceeding passages, the drainage consisting of the ance of being authentic, and throws quite a Zang-taza hounded by its low marshy lock-reatly that part of China in the same lali Rides to garrison the Colony, is perfectly interest in every point of view; not only gutters which the liquid filth forms for it- new light on much that has been hitherto ilg banks, we get fairly out to sea, and tude consisting of a
a series of chains of hills having by the end of t
of the second day got over
of in accordance with the whole of the miser- would it be valuable to the Colonists of self, in finding its way down the hill. very imperfectly understood of the recent over of the earlier geological formation, doubt-
history European enterprise in the far East any tonpuray discomfort which those who less throwi up through some great volcanic able tactics displayed by the War Office. Hongkong, but to residents in all parts of This is no overdrawn pieturo, for to gain
It is beyond question, explain it how we trust themselves in ships woust expect to agency, harren or covered wish scienty her-
may, that the European Power which has meet with, we will assume ourselves ginss bags for a third the distance from the top The great, point which has been striven the world who are liable to the scourge of full appreciation of the scene depicted, it in hand to be just sighting the islands of ant
of and with granite, slate, and in
For our own part we is simply necessary to walk along the road the greatest influence in China and Japan Bome at, has too evidently been the saving
Cases
at this moment is Russia, although oth the Eastern empire. And as the suni gets
are simply rich alluvial plaids form- the horizon we hourly get a clearer view, fell of the debris from the hills and the de- stationed here. The miserable failure named theory be currect, some means shan taking the turning known as Tauk greater amount of blood and treasure to
maintain their prestigo in these.
countries and at list find ourselves steaming over a cayed vegetable mutter from the luxuriat which has been the result of the "peany might be discovered whereby the evolution Lane, and a few steps will lead to the than their northern rival. deep blue sen with right in front of us, and vegetation. Mr Fortune says is the is inclining a little on either side, an irregular land of Kinsiu, in the south and also in wise and pound foolish" policy pursued, of Chlorine or other disinfectant agent loatheome and fever haunted spot, past which Russia set to work to obtain this mountainous country, namerous islan-Is covered with Insuriantally barren with rocks of clav slate and deed not be touched upou, the remem- might be produce, so as to deutralize the which flows a zig zag stream of hideous and tially described in the article above referred
whose billa and Sikok the upper sides of the hill are gene- vegetation, and clear bright atmosphere grate protrusing. On the corner sides of Brance of the thinning ranks of last summer malignant exhalations naturally given putrid black mud, running down the hill, to, furdishes a startling and most histruc tive lesson for our diplomatists of this making even the extrumo di appen the hills and in the valleys whore entivation being too saddening, were there not some forth by the disturbed earth.
Cortain some of the crazy wooden shedsactually over-West. Admiral Patatine was, it appears, distinct, pronting a great a contrasse the is carried on the soil consists of play and who to be convinced of error, just have substances might be strewed over the soil hanging this Lethean stream. There is the moneer caployed by
hack
the Govern- place we have left behind us as can wall be and mixed with alluvial master. Ou conceived. Hills
Petersburg to prepare the way s rising range on range, with sauth side of Nipon Mr Alcock informs us glimpses of charming valey
er fint guilt of 38 bright with the hills are formed of sandstone and sang things brought home to their pockets not in the axine manner as a field is dressed not the slightest pretence of any drainage, for the fulfilment of its designs. In 1854
green; gentle grassy
and the valleys and plains seem little else."their heads or hearts; and these we would with lime or astes. The expense of such and garbage and filth of every descrip-shortly after the beginning of the Crimean dotter wid meat bookhg boues at The geology of Japan is hence eren now to
war, he appeared with a Russian squa The expenditure a procedure would be amply repaid by tion are invariably thrown anywhere and off the coast of Japan, with the object of malo less accluded bays each
and cat great extent a matter of conjecture attempt to convince. village
lage irregularly lining the until the couuiry is fively open to extend which will be involved in the maintenance with its
a treaty of friendship Japanese, skere, and
I wall its waters dotted with the ed escarch this interesting volcanic group of the Ceylon Rifles, when quartered here, cured. Two methods are open to attain the people in Hongkong do not actually him from the other vessels of bis fleet, and trim funking white sailgit fishing boats, lienist remain an ouexplored and new field. on every side, the varied PRIVIOBIO A country full of such strange scenes and will exceed to such a degree the cost of this very desirable end. The cheapest know that such places exist. Those he was obliged to land at Simode, where,
was detained for some time by the impos- seems doustauschung and acting bits of whose mauvers
uvers and custom
customs Bo little of t nfscenery 1 oue's gaze och apparently more trustworthy character was known 20 yes an Indian Regiment that the whole and perhaps most satisfactory plan would who have residences in the Caine and sibility of returning to Russin, in conse lovely than the last. But we are now head ago is sure to be a popular subject with of the Indis allowances which the War be to offer a large reward to whoever Robinson roads, perhaps congratulate quence of the rigorous blockade maintained the Allies. He contrived, however,. ing faldly towards the harbour, and so
should discover the means of obviating themselves in having secured the heal- domply does it extend to the land and to 558 a number of books and patent all Office stoppel, would not cover the excess.
pamphlets all
his stuff and Accompanied by his well do the verdant bills hide it that until valuable, because all enthudying
purpose - It appears that among the detachment the present results of building operations; thicst part of the town for the sites to turn his forced banishment to good we are close at hand it is difficult to
crew of 400 men be encamped in the vicinity dis- idea
or some strange fact the exclusive ordered bere there are 130 married sol- while a second course is open in the way of their villas and bungalows, but are tinguish the exact
of Simoda, and used every means which his These two race entrance,
and given a more to be ace, hare large islands on
description of the people thandiers, each of whom is entitled to a sepa of appointing a scientific commission of every now and thou surprised at insidious natural talent for diplomacy and a careful Kageno se autol by so narrow and wind- the older and more brightly coloured pic-rate room and cooking place; these can practical Geologists and Chemists to en- little attacks of fever ce, which they can-study of the quaracter of the Japanese could ing a boat chaunel
suggest to impress them with a sense of the asures of Kompfer and Thunburg. to appear
not account for, but which can fairly be greatness of Russia and the necessity of That
row of small sheds resembling most com
most compendious and as far as we have only be procured here at a cost equivalent quire into and report upon the subject. at this distance a
ance a series of tents is a battery gone the most generally exhaustive book is
It is to be hoped that the Colonial laid to the charge of the peatiferous atmos-cultivatingleralliance. Soon a notion spread
was tlie dominant moveable white that of Sir Rutherford 3 lcock, since follow to a rental of $1.80 per day which for the
Gaveniment will at once take some mes-phore from Taipingshan and Western Vic in Europe, that England was in houses, so to speak, to protect then from ed by others by Fortune and the Bishop of 150, will come to 0324 a day $20,160 per the rain; leaving them on our right we pass Victoria which may be looked on as good quarter or over $80,000 per annum,-
sures for dealing with the question. Its toria generally, which more especially the French was the nephew of a man who nificant island, and that the Emperor of the Northern end of Kageno, and open the modern authorities on the subject. narrow entrance to the Harbour of Naga-
ngain, these troops will have to be housed importance is such that a universal feeling when there is no wind, or when the wind had been donquered by the Czar and con-
of satisfaction would be felt on hearing is from the northward causes the whole of fined in distant saki. Stewaring slowly in we leave on our
tant island by his orders, in stone or brick buildings, whereas a left the islanils of Kamino Suria and Siro
thus Having the pestilential vapours to set up the hill. mission; Admiral Putiatine returned to
successfully performed his St. Buria, the latter a
a very small me connected
Indian Regiment could be housed in mat that the matter was under consideration. broad stoue causeway with the former, by a
soon after sout shoda, as other lo tan Regiments are
We hear a great deal about the mias Petersburg, whence he
China on another mission, of far greater und the whole forming a simple Barbette PERHAPS no better instance has of late quartered. We need not pursue the subject
ma from the soil exhalations from importance than the first. During his Battery mounting twenty-eight guns. All
of other absence Rassia had quietly seized the whole to two my betou o ang Pide one been afforded of "how not to do it" than further for the facts are so glaring that
of the territory constituting the basin of or even of larger it difficult to ascertain from so distant ar the result of. War office and Horse guards they need little comment; there is how accounts is interesting himself among abstruse probleme requiring solution the Lawer 4moor, under the
pretext of inspection.
your right on Kagen is ingenuity us respects the unfortunate thever one other point, which is, that pre- other important matters connected with with respect to the geology of the provisioning her ficet, which was blockaded
by the Allies at the mouth of that battery mounting sixteen is on Regiment. Had certain officials been mising that the authorities have a sort of the public works in the Colony, more par- island; but would it not be better to begin Two deputations were sent by the Chinese river. steep ridge, which bas been levelled off into a series of four platforms to hold the peremptorily instructed to do their best faint idea of reducing mortality as much ticularly with the construction of new roads nearer home, and attempt the analyzation of Government to protest against this aggres
KIDB, and
war seemed to be imminent. lofty top crested with fine trees through
But now right before us, its for the destruction of a certain number of as possible, (which is a very charitable both East and West of Victoria. A par- the malaria arising from decaying veget- Russia, however, did not want war, al- which the white sheds covering nine guns their fellow creatures in such a way that sopposition,) it may be interesting to know tial survey has we hear been made from able and animal matter, and the evils though she prepared herself for it by forming
are seen partly hidden in the brush- a precipitous cliff going
un legal offence could be imputed to them, that the average mortality of the detach the bead of the Wong-nei-chong valley in which arise from bad drainage, or rather a strong fleet for the defence of her new soon presented d and with shear down to the watere oilge nearest us they could hardly have acted with more ment of the Ceylon Rifles stationed here southerly direction, with a view of test no drainage at all? It appears that peo- itself for attaining her
In 1857, England, France, and
the United lies tire motel Island of Pappenborg, success than those at home, who have had shine. 12 years ago, exceeded that of the ing the practicability of forming a road tople are too hard upon the Inspector of
States determined to take active measures Deep Wator bay on the S.W. side of the Nuisances; for if his evidence in reliable, against China in order to protect their com Island. The result has not transpired, which there is no reason to doubt, the fino direct interest in the matter, she offered and although Russia pretended to have but we believe that the road can be cou- thy wretches, who populate the Alsatia of to join in the demonstration which those Powers were about to make, and sent Admiral afructed without any very great engineer- Hongkong, are so louiently dealt with at Fatiatine to Fekin for that purpost. After (From the "Evening Mail"). ing obstacles having to be overcome, at a the Police Court, when brought up by the some negotiation the Allies declared war, AMONGST the questions which might oc gradient of one foot in twenty; this for Laspector, that the sanitary state of the and pupied Tien-tsin; but Putietine, who had a wish to act a hostile part towards is deep water tolerably close to it, so kaving venue. So the brilliant idea suggested cupy the attention of the commission ap- any long distance would be too heavy a houses and lanes, is worse than it was some China, pretended to be much provoked at the the it on pur left, we cutting up the harbour itself of sending the 11th to India and the pointed in the middle of last month to drag for carriages, though for saddle horses time ago. This very cheering after the rose non-arrival of his fleet, and continued
mut This be negotiations on his own account. passing numberless pretty little bays until we see the town and settlement on our right 9th to Japan for though the 9th replaced enquire into the Sanitary state of the Co-it is not by any means severe. The great colored roport which appears yearly in the contrived to do with the assistance of the and drop anchor among the shipping and the 20th at cost price, the 11th being lony, there is one which despite its import- question to solve is of course that of ex Gazette, and which continually asserts monks belonging to the Russian religious mission at Pekin, who had long been accuS before going on shore let us look argent, and see the situation of the place. Nag- decimated by disease would be a cheap ance, the gontlemen composing the Compense, for there is nothing in the shape of the improved and improving sanitary con- tomed to unite diplomatic functions saki Harbour is situated in the bay of that regiment for India; besides a great many mission may hardly deeni to full fairly a hill or eliff which cannot be removed by dition of the Island; we through all the He managed matters de succes+ those belonging more properly to their name, which extends between Capes Noma- saki and Oho Saki which are fitcon miles more would probably die off immediately within the scope of their labours. We extensive blusting, such as the entire re- official windings and doublings of "re- fully that, when he followed the Allies to. apart. Its uate means long cape" and after landing. Here however, by some allude to the malarious influence supposed moval of the Shakspeare cliff, near Dover ports" "committees" and "commissions" at the war, he was the first to sign a treaty Tien-tsin without having taken any part in it extends in a North Easterly direction for
SCASO made its ap- to be exerted on the health of residents some years ago by one gigantic blast, the last "catch our hare," as Mrs Glass says, with the Chinese Government, and was two miles where a small, shallow river runs mistake, common
accepted as a mediator between it and the into it, but its width is very variable being from mile to two iniles, and the depth Dearance and they were ordered to the by the act of disturbing the soil of Long- | eliff being some 600 feet in height. It is and find that nearly one half of the tow, Allies, the Chinese being auch impressed water shoals gradually from about sixteen Cape. Oficial delay has however pre kong and Kowloon. The necessity of hoped that if a convenient road can be instead of advancing in the scale of salubri with the moderation of the Czar's Govern
one.
var right are Koyaki ad depend and i
RS
almost
the guns b. ing covered by
ordnance.
but it
Barely a mile in circumference the conical
(To be continuated, })
фи
(From the “Eveniny Mail.”)
be
hill, the most picturesque object in the view the direction of military affairs in this 9th Regiment here last summer.
before us was the none of the Christian Mar
tyrdoms, and off that thousands of men. part of China.
women and children wore driven. at the
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