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Aldermen and Common Councillors at the tions,

A

THE CHINA MAIL.

Anrely made out of the rely 200 one of these (fur oaths are not even bind-.

much bigher an opinion of one's kind, and nasty on the throne, It might be worth virtue; belonging to a race which has ever of that manly dependence of character while for a Parliamentary candidate to lay which has forsaken a bloated and effemi-in a stock of such relics, say all the royal shown itself nationally untrustworthy in nate aristrogacy to take up its rezidence in old clothes, for electioneering purposes. If its intercourse, with Europeans; possess the bosoms of the sons of the soil. The the working classes are by and by to haveing ideas respecting human life which re- holy enthusiasm for royalty which made these sanctified relics will be of price move one of the most efficient checks ou

in half the boroug Guildhall Bull carry off the combs and hairless value to any deserving candidate. It crime which our own code of belief in- brushes that had touched princely trends is would he

he bribery, perhaps, but would be bribery alroost on constitutional poses; oruel in disposition to a scarcely not confined to their exalted onder

ious reverence for royal relics evidently principles, for it would be promoting loyal credible extent, and moreover, in the case. extends through all classes, from the aty to the Crown. The worst of it is tha gust alderman all the way right down, or there could be no authentic mark for anch of Hongkong natives, sprung from a class right

up,

to the faithful artisan.

reluts. The holy things would be counter- working-classes are not, it is cloar, surfeited. To all appearance old clothes are so low, that the very Chinese themselves terrible levelling republicans as their ma only old clothes. What rash man will regard them as the officuurings of a coun- ligners have been all this time so vehe- take upon himself to distinguish between

declaring. Those tobacco stappers the boots of a prince a mently

and the boots of plain try remarkably rich in all that is vile and tell a different fate. The bits of cunse- falk? Who can persuade the doubting mind corrupt, we cannot see why the word of crated timber will be fondly cherished day that my tobacco-stopper was

the lives of their present ing their children's children to endless

ble drawback. But we should inter from * genera- tions, as the most precious of their heir- the proceedings at Milwall that we are on lacos. We wonder, by the way, whether the eve of a return to the idons of old time, the holy tobacco-stoppers will be found to when the demon of criticism had not in- possess any of that emcy which used to truded its vile hoof. A man who can va- bo attributed in the ages of faith to couse- lue a bit of wood becuase the Prince has crated relics? Before the blight of rationabad is feet on it will most likely not he lism had over the hitman mind in 500 particular about the every y dep

of its activity, we know fact.

The comfort of

the article that

would gladly

aud In a

plank?

clear.

fiying Jib-boom in, a spare anchor should be ready for letting go, and the hawse kept

Hulks and receiving. Ships may lie on the 3. Vessels discharging or taking in cargo,

South shore.

4. The Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's Hulk. Fort William may remain where she in-the Mail Steamers anchoring near her but not to the Southward.

Note. The Masters of Ships taking ad- vantage of articles 3 and 4 and those along aide wharves and jetties are to understand that they do so at their own risk.

H. G THOMBETT, Harbour Master, de.

No. 11-May 31, 1866,

like effect way be produced on the more telegraphic station at Shangbae or în ita ignorant or excitable elements we have to vicinity we shall wait ad infinitum. The

outy

RAZORS,,

(From the Spectator, April 14.)

deal with in the mother country and the United States. The generation brought at the footstool of O'Connell muat duided is at all events worth disenssion before wo hear the last of the ardent dupes who support, or of the ardent patriots who scriptions on

to be supported, by voluntary aub

on the

understanding that what- ever atmosphere they may

be living

in is to be kept fall of the soap-bubbles of an of History to write upon razora, real razors, It is, we suppose, rather below the dignity impossible nationality.

More troublesome sharp things of fat steel, with which people than dangerous, they task our patience who aspire to smooth chinis daily, quer ple more then they challenge mur antagonism, their beards and exasperate their tempers, and our wisest plan, perhaps, is to imitate It was a great writer, however, who id tlie Government of the United States, in that he questioned whether the habit of looking on with an enchi placidity as pos- sible, and in contenting ourselves with abaving in: ole sex we fear he said the necessity of shaving, but then he lived exhausting the material of annoyance in before the beard movenient was not a fair it to be alicited. Beyond the schemes of in the other. Each is in some degree the the same proportion as we may be allowing

compensation for the pains of child-bearing borne an ill proportion to their success, and women bear their children and go to work beyond the enthusiasm of some two or three the next day without any perceptible ill thousand poor but earnest patriots, there i is really nothing in all these movements but

sad handed down to their charkedly sceptical age this is a horri- ing ou is conscience) should be accepted the Police, Lighting and Water Rates for a few concealed persons whose ambition has result of civilization, for while savage

the

that idence of the

shut

as of equal value with the assertion of an educated and respectable European. Our magistrates doubtless act in, strict accord- auce with the provisions of the law which they administer, but the Chinese Laugh at that law. The ingrained belief of centu

sandrasa and herich to the victim of sero-his eyes, that the illustrated papers will experience of a code which apparently von- touch of the Sovereign restored muat be so hugeable doubts. It is cries cannot be dissipated by a few years

to

fla Scoffers boast that we are no longer

ager be hoped suck fools as to credit these reasonable present us with a sketch, in their best man absurdities Let them go, not to the ner, of the encouraging and animati acerc mouths of babes and sucklings, bat down of the chopped plank, so very characteris to the ingenuous These simplerinded souls at least lave es- country. caped tho, noxious spirit of the are ashamed of holding to

firms all that they have been taught. The lower class Chinese on this island fully be

ruitor crimes are thus light from a fear of

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. The time appointed for the payment of the present Quarter expires on the 21st instant, after which date the List of De- faulters will be transmitted to the Court of Summary Jurisdiction for recovery of the arrears of Bates according to Law.

FRED. FORTH. Colonial Treasurer.

Trasury, Hongkong, Victoria, May, 17th, 1868.

hollow and meaningless demonstrations ou the part of the people, audi stupendous lying ant fabrications on the part of the leaders. The soldiers are all meù in buckram the

that

themselves from shaving altogether, or consequences, savage men either exempt

frequent recurrence than the daily operation adopt ans more summary and of less. with steel. One race uses fire, another

nicestone, another time, and a fourth the hard inner cuticle of the oyster-shell, a device which seems ingeniously adapted to

quantity of suffering,

privateers are so nay phantom ships; and as for the dollars the true test of the solidity of the

of the fabrib—the chances are that

& amount of we should he found guilty of credulity cubine the largest

greatest

The believing that a hundredth part of the civilized

lized world, however, and semi- money for which they are claiming to be civilized, so far as it shaves, which is indebted was evor received

1 by the

them. The

the Musulman world alone real sanctity to the beard, bes the razor, and it RY

it is worth the while

d

na slapwrights of Milwail. tic of the superior enlightenment of our lieve that the trifling penalties inflicted for the. Fenian, movement in the development most swindling of the schemes brought three-fourths of those who will read these

the They

old no- tion that certain divinity Lath hedge a

king. The mere

mere plauk that princely feet

have trod becomes nos as

as other planks. 1 it impossible that Lite

(From the "Brening, Mail")

THE FENIAN MOVEMENT. (From the Morning Herald, April 4.) We are hardly disposed to be angry with

project has becu as much moonshine as the which America has been giving it. We are

are disposed to look upon it as the later the necessity of securing the daily loaf, the lines

by our own needy promoters, ain buyond ounsequences on the part of the Chinese of the Transatlantic jokes which have beenly hope the leaders have connected with shape and make of an instrument so inces Government did we rule in a more arti so long the wonder of the wits of Europe; the affair is, that some singular conjuncture santly in-se.

grow pleasant as meerscha though, that most men have practically made up their you to the best of his ability. The secon element to act as a condiment for tuom. months ag

create:

of

&

to consider what really is the hest

༣.9.༦

to take the most of it, as another of

Upon that point we have a Is Tas question of rights" as pussossed by

trary manner. The result is; firstly, that the barnless contributions which the States of circumstances may

little information to give them which seems eate a popular

I which is derived It may impart to the ranks,ade from Asiatics constantly in contact with, but in Chinamau will push one aside in the street Something of i

to the gaiety of nations. ness, atid giving them a nation of tapes too us Shag tobacco

have been extraibly solitics, corresponding immensity of sucess.

is consider cover the immensity of their frands with as obviously sound, and

from an The liente flavour of the inest Havana? a subservient position to, Europeans of will refuse to move out of the way when el au integral part of the delicate

himself, razer maker," one Ben- American May not the rough " outty" which touches a high order of civilization is one on which | requested, and will unblushingly cheat which would probably have palled on the expectation was never a reasonable one; styles say by a cutler, or, as he proy

Kingsbury

of Bond Street. In an and: amber to

popular taste were there no sensational and has now failed in America as it failed

verbose art The lips It is just

slightly pompous in Ireland, and all that pro- ut very sensible painphlet, he gives the the royal boot-sule may have interrupted minde, but which they dislike to discuss. dry results are that the confidence en-

but the Fenian business must be admitted bably remains for us in the future is to. the flow of the royal viitus.

And this

this sug-

wrinkle which we should h to be the ne pins ultra of the quality. It is chronicle how the astuteness which was so lay barbers at least one very valuable hint, d have thought gests

that, if the

the plank which the Prince According to the idene entertained by gendered by the fact that insolence on the clevereat hocus-pocus which the fertile long used to raise the imposture is it a outler's interest to keep very s

strictly to nÄ only stood upon for a few minutes is of Anglo Saxon blood-ideas which his part is met only by a small fine, while hit on. It means quite as little as the other sequences of their failure.

of democratic spuntators has yet invention

to protect its authors from the con himself. Of course his advice of no use cious, a pair of the boots in which he

to professionals, even if they would take it

hd take it. fur hours at a time, and which come still in the abstract are noble and elevated the slightest correction administered by great popular organisations with which they

They learn to know it good razor by practice. more nearly in contact with the princely one human being is as good as another be the European is punished by the infliction sion during the last twenty years, but it is

have been aupplying us

us in such rapid suc

suces-

they are masters of the

mystical, to person, would be of

of perfectly inestimable

most men unattainable, art called "strop- value down at Milwall. The human ima- fore the law. We make it our boast that of a very much larger penalty, lead to mur larger and more imposing than most of

ping. they can make up for any gisation atterly gives way when we try to we have not one law for the riot and anders, highway robberies and piracies being und we may infer, therefore, that less is THE uumerous blumlers committed by the It is not given to lay shavers to make those

them. There is more sail, a great deal,

temporary defect by skill in manipulation. measure the worth of one of His Royal other for the poor; that the tinge of his Highuss's cigar-ends. In fact there is an end to the number of things which might complestion docs not affect a suitor's right openly committed in our very unidst. It igeant and less left for performatice. It is employés on the Indo-European telegra long sweeping strokes, any more than do

is the old story over again of the strong-caragua and Bungary over again, but phio line are fast losing it the confidence of be graciously distributed among

faith the

Genearl Walker or Governor Kos-

ever we

we met acquire ineffable, and as Way

should

hould not any plank which can to have caught the Prince's eye

ful.,

be

stands

to justice, and that no one individual of the human species has a shadow of right

with

(From the "Evening Mail.")

and

trained oarsm

for did any layman

that

Were spiritual, mystery, the art of

that

as

of giving

be proy chopped up and divided anoug the eager claimants for the blessed bits to compel another individual to labour, for understand it, and we avow our opinion old wholesale Irish of the But a short time ago the Commercial Bank the fast five edge to the weapon by a stroke The elevation of character which would | him against bis own will and pleasure or that one of the most effectual steps to-itli which Daniel O'Connell so loland, served a notice in one of the papers receiv.atever they call them, can ever hope to

do anything (except comply with the

statates of the land), which he may find

amus-

pr two on the pala. Besides, the barbers have an advantage none of their subjects, or patients, or chents, or constituents, or

and the weak anequally yoked. The Bath to limit the delusion within reasonable commercial firms in both India and China. Pit A-iatic cannot comprehend leniency as we

it the halo ofa poetic bounds or throw over responsibility. It is

B bad narrowly escaped incarring heavy pecani- version in America of the gigantic delusions ary damage from this cause, and we ob- ensue from the assiduous culturo of this relic-loving temper scarcely needs to be

wards the suppression of outrage would boet and impoverished the people in pointed out.

A too, serious-minded Liberal must, we

genins of the fear, suffer.unutterable things as he learns

abroad more than the in- message despatclied from Bombay reached they were required like the natives of lu- usual, reprocess as if it were, and, us what the papers may call "this new proof far the analogy of nature justifies us in this dia to shew respect to Europeans. We do dustry and enterprise which were ex-England just one day after the letters of of the ouder devotion of the people of a belief. uf an iversal equality as regardв not advocate inhumanity or injustice, but tion at home. It may be doubted if ever which it was the necessary precursor about the operation worm knowing, "and"

visible in the original ceptionally

fabrics gland to the royal be their Ruler youth who will one day hit these sanctified tobacco-stoppers will be as the golden calf was to Moses, and as graven images and painted windows were to the Paritan.

distasteful, It might be well to see how to let the natives fully understand that! It is not new, but it is as full of the peculated the mail before last, that a telegraphic barbers is waste of time, but to the outside.

Cirimly he will reflect on the lack of it ty and self-respect implied in this avility for little chips whose

hose only distinction is

mere alderman

that

Prince's boot may possibly have touched them. That a should poutet

蔬 hairbrash

or

mankind. As however any analogy ba- tween the auimal and human world is in most cases persistently denied by

the worshippers of abstract principles

we do say rule an Asiatic race on prin- ciples which it understands?" when fear evaporatea, insolence and license immedia-

in-tely become visible, and we do not hesitate

applicable to existing facts, we will confine ourselves to the condition of

the great agitator sould have invented like To residents in India this state of affairs is machinery with equal ingenuity, or used it with more dexterity and energy, Consider very naturally such as to call for strong ing tlie temporament of the Irish people it

rival. They cannot shave by the aid of a leverage on their own noses. Teaching world, the wretched majority who have neither

time, nor patience, nor nerve to be artistically shaven, there is one little secret that is this. The only test for a razor is a microscope. As a rule, ahouat all English rusors are intended to be good, the cheap sinberthur of an Irish nation in the outrement has already been drawn to the con- was a masterpiece of cunning to set up the remonstrance, and the attention of Govern-specimens as well as the dear and indeed the cheap specimens are good just as often as the dear. The present writer was fool

uf having great Republic, and invest it with dition into which the line has fallen. For enough once, which pronder to ascribe the past lawlessness of Hong-the attributes of an actually existing governmerchants in China however another route kong to the principle of "equality" which

bear than be is now, to give a guinea for That more co

could the most duped,

a pair of razors

declared next day the most suspicious of frisk

anker in England,posed to be by the best dollar than the

his belief that they would not eat butter. spectacle of old Ireland hy his sul-albeit, soon as it gets into thorough working order That was an injustifiable exaggeration, for the wrong side side

of a call with a state, there will be a chance of receiving tele- property managed they would, have cut it i

his congress, and president, all ready at

they were very bad, many degrees bad, with state bonds and a treasury, an grams in a safficimitly short space of time worse than the worst of the shilling and he army and a privateer navy, all propared for to justify the public in relying on the con- two-shilling razors to which in forug everybody to recognise her as

confined himself. The ton thereafter

THARODY is olearly by Mr Kingsbury, belligeront natimu! It was a stroke of ductors of the line to supply au acknow explained very

rather more clearly Pething more or less oractly gelis never reached by any of the phases ledged necessity of the times.

than he or intended. A razor is the repeal agitation went through, and was the ke likely in the world to fervour and fury of Irish patriotisun which so many disappointments had quoted and were supposed to

used to have extinguished for ever. The pro- But that done, all was done

a square of mankind as they bave existed from the has only too auccessfully been instilled draw out his last balfot, aak te ja auw opon and it is to be hoped that as

soap, on similar grounds, is not wonderiol.

But that sons of toil, with hard hands and harder heads, should condescend to sugh childishness tills their worshippera with des

pai tu

know that

the

After all, we

we don't infatuated worship of princes is much less creditable than the infatuated,

worship of In either case a sort of re- verence for au order, irrespective of the

artisans.

earliest date until now.

Going back to the earliest periods of authentic history we learn that the Is- raelites had amongst themi niembers of alien tribes who were regarded us ipferiors ( in the rights of nationality. We are not

into the bosums of the copper skinned coolies of the island.

(From the Evening Mail."). Acopy of the Treaty of Commerco with

appeared in Saturday's Government Ga- zette.

At present the shortest space of time in

worth of the individual members who hap-speaking of slaves hut of those admitted in Austria and the following Notifications hit those of sentiments of a generous which under the most favourable circum- which does not cut--nothing ents—but sawa

the

Buler of all. In the New Testamontwe

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION

meder-in Chief, is pleased to the re-

"lis

may

pen to represent it. Just as the working-

than a saw, with very minute and thin twell, man at Milwall prizes a

hip because a chip ause it bas to the tribes of a people under the special been somewhere in the neighbourhood of

off the hair of the beard. If those teeth royal 1 feet, there are people who prize protection of the Almighty and governed

stances we can look to receive telegraphie sro straight, continuous, and evon, the any sort of sent mental nonsense which by laws received direct from the great

messages by Grant's line may be stated at razor is a good one; and

and if not, not; and have been utrereal

by a man who is

His Excellency Sir Richard Graves fessional aspect of the business was satisfied about 25 days distributed as follows. When you buy to criticize at

there

is bo

Be ther

possible test for razom. weekly and wears a fustian facket.

one at any price over a That the Prince of Wales is only an En- find similar allusions to persons labouring MacDonnell, C.B., Governor and Com-without any active reference to the sitima From Hongkong to Shanghae 5 days; shilling it is

that price You Sovereign states. glish gentleman never strikes the votary of under certain disabilities, and even St, sigustion of their Commissions in the Hong-nu of paverigua atat la querat always Shanghase to Taku 4 days; Tak to Pe-stronk assaily and you fuel the wa

along its edge through and elsewhere, is only a man of stronger Pal does not hesitate to proclaim himong Volunteer Corps, from the 31st instant, that the campaign is over when the parking day; Peking to Kintsha 10 days; teeth are as even as those of a saw. Tunt

by the following officers, viz.:

are at an end. It is part of the Ratcha to England 5 days; Total 25 nine times out of

of tem

be a good razor, Captain and Acting Commendant H.

while oue

or broken teeth never with uneven or Cohen.

y chance be good. Kly

The

edge of keen instrument, consists of a

other very a razor, a pen-knife, and every ot!! Lieutenant T. G. Linstead,

of a great number is in itself gont,

to

Who

ever strikes the

a

is

Captain and Adjutant II. J. H. Tripp.

2d Lieutenant F. I. Haland. Under the circumstances His Excellency

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elange of leash sunteanualship to exhaust itself in the discussions it necessitatéa. There is never anything worthy tigting war tic cabies, why should not an attempt be

worth tighting about days. In this age however f Atlan can by the moment it i 1.0 that forms so beautiful au element in the made to connect Shanghae with Hongkong. perches would be the must wisplaced thing The sundings shes an average of 24 fa-

in

ไม่

absorbing સાર exclusive in theirs.

to:

prejudices, larder and less mellow judg-self a Roman citizen and thus assert ment, ધાણે cruder opinions than have been so happy to have more time right to exemption from corporal punish- for educating themselves, never fanatics

who seem

seem to think that all the vir- tent to which others under the same rule tue and integrity and intelligence of the bal no claim. We thus find one of tho

of winute points, commonly called teeth, Country tothbay tres du be found at their very beste liest à postles of Christianity--so er- also plased to order the disbandunent of

which, if the instances of low tall & her The truth is that artisans, like their roneously supposed at the present day to the Corps from the above date.

great order neighbours, have their worknesses. andinenicatea perfect judicial equility,count notice of t

His Excellency however cannot allow this

and closeness, and constitute by their un- be foresee that the len lers 50 fathoms beyond that island to Shang- broken regularity its excessive keenness. perstition about royalty.

It does not lo

to go forth to the Public without as hurl so

so much the Officers and Members of that of Canada that the thing itself was a suring t

sheer

beard, the skin or anything else, not an the light of pure reason, or to pare one sen

have given so much time to its impossibility,

There

was the question likely to materially interfere with the much by the direct application of timents down to the narrow dimensions of urged that he only complied with the ens- formation, and strict

logic.

What justification can be of-

efficient, that "His Excellency route to Ireland. There was, secoudly the

along it t; tom of the day; but it is at least curious thoroughly appreciates the zeal and patriotio consideration whether a shorter line unght tion that Shanghae is unt part of the Bri- fine teeth of which it consist pass in quick because, by this operation, the fered to the philosopher by the who attaches unsured value to tho ad- thatane who so energetically bore witness to spirit by which they were animated. Be not be found by the way of Columbia and tigh dominions and that the Chinese au- succession, in the same direction, and over tographs of Mr Tennyson? We are not at the truth of the faith he had adopted under special obligations to those gentlemen doubt, too, whether the Canadiana would thorities would steadfastly opposo any will be convinced of this if they will make

further considers that the Community is Va

Vancouver's Island. Thoro was some

the same part of the substance. My readers all sure that half the young ladies in E.- gland would not, so very proud to possess abould havo omitted to notice a principle and to all who in a similar ununer expend leave them alone; and even if Canada proceeding so likely to interfere with their the following experiment on their glove or one of Mr Tennyson's old quill stumps.

their tinus, exertions so obtrusively put forth by home-bred in cantially Public.

and money for objects offered them free quarters, there was the

their hand, as they like best. Let them Yet them is a great truth of noble senti-

question whether the treasury, cleared of popular superstitions, would be instantly bold the razor either perpendiculatly or His Excellency ment or new idea contained in the poet's

greatly regrets that any its merely circumstances should have brought to all theory values, would pay for advanced in opposition to what might be obliquely, and press on it with some cit Dame, nor does his soup of quill affect the

pecessary to them possessor or the beholder to edification and

Passing from the early tines and turn close exertions so laudable, but in justice over the froutiers. Bad Canada been offered termed so chimerical & scheme. The lat- siderable force in a direct line from right to a better life. Bits most people are a very ing to Earopean history, we find in all to bis. Community he must express his on St. Patrick's day to Messrs Sweeney and ter might be met however by carrying the fear the chop will have no great reason to much like one another, especially countries and daring all ages the sanie Volunteer movement would be found to with a ten thousand pound note inside end of the cable on board a hulk securely.wards them, or

in

this Athenian's rations, ia thoms water as far as Formosa, and about through its whole extent with: ong them 18 & pluusupul kindly nancing the idea that some were better Corps the disbandrient of the Volunteer It was dwa talk over about the invasion hae witli no deep gallies or coral edves The edge of such an instrument acts on the to hold all our conduct too closely up to than others" before the law. It may ba Corps, who who at one period had ren- whether it really was or was not the nearest safety of the cable. Of course the objec- forca as by by OTAWA, OVEN

yonug

Lady

anel a

a distinction as

Christians of these Inltor daye..

nesses certain privileges over plain Mr

dered it a

carry

No. 11

ifteen year ago, breadth the ghont Of course tedge they can be s English

they

eto be h

who

use the

Wo razors

and the tr model

which fastened the ferred by his who a spring, it is

and the Bu but the mageider n about steel and w so many words. I they will not saw mare goi

thansa jagg through

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pect.

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the expertice of

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the stop to operation in.

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particnl is an i ed to la razors

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(have)

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out him it. If and mat it st

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tumptat, pra our pauleteer,

ing

•or huteur.-

the

trife to fleep. needful irm of that Predence great de uiore-

will evangke,

burn, ter to

ont, whether th

ciple or T

be cut acea o

safely, ay mor over the Strand it, but

a

are

described and a decent

unt firm

nearly pleasu infinite wiser

Me Bagsbur

and slicly co best 30 for sh using the m may pin cas stated that er peans

can was'o ald vor

hot the best so. oil, quietre f which

chaples

the acea the

of au

left, and

so are

belief that the spirit which originated the O'Mahoney as the price of treasury chest.

consequences. But left then move

it

its

any real

have pitied these gentlemen

smallest degree, in

it ft from that direction, let them draw ladies, that even

or push it from them, in the the possessor of a a puit's quill would count idea of disabilities on the part of some exist fresher and stronger than before, if helped by a few spiked guns and rusty moored in the river while the dangers to

in the gentlest man

lest manner, and and for something. And artisaus at Milwall,

à urgent necessity were to arise muskets, we suspect the reasons would have we suspect, are in the same way so very

wildly section or sections of the community, at for defending, by force of arms, the riglita preponderated which would have bidden which it would be exposed from ships an- it will stantly make an incision. When they have made this experiment have they will much alike, that the bare fact of owing one this very moment a peer of the realm pas of the Crown, or maintaining the supremacy them

decline the conquest We should choring in the river might be greatly less be convinced of the truth of chips consecrated by the recent royal

of the Law in this Colouly.

The Hongkong Volunteers would doubt- visit will give suate of them an acceptable John Smith which most decidedly render the less in such emergency come to the front their while to set their army in motion and reign vessels would be warned of their little force, are necessary There is of ture of circumstances men if any conneened by a line of booys by which all fo- asserted, namely, that in the operation of

worth

shaving, very little weight, and even very heir male it. again more numerous and efficient than

forced them to leave the domain of talk for proximity to the cable. In a river of course always a possibility that the rur that of

The

which was organisation

b may made of steel so over action. By Comniand,

good against all the world while there was which the bottom is composed of such soft

it is brittle, of so nothing to

to do must be bold to have done materials it would soon sink sufficiently soft, but as a rule its work on the celebrated day when it was

pre eminent. It is not anuch, certainly; hat theu as moralists urge, life is made up latter by no means the equal of the former uf tria. A pass

for relic-hunting is probably La esplained in the main by in certain processes of law. Now it is the geneal desire to be able to say some very posible that the plebeion is by no thing about yourself and your property. Conversali, s

rute, is so slack that it means so far removed in all that constitu useful co

to have it in one's power to tes a claim to rights" from the peor, as a say that in this chair Gray wrote the Elegy, or out of that inkpot the Proverbial Phil half naked Chinese coolie is from Mr

is

spy flawed. S

to

per is a

must tobacco-stripers, we can see at one

ever,

W. MERCER, Colonial Secretary. - Colonial Secretary Office,

Hongkong, 22nd May, 1866,

to transport thirty thousand Irishmen across deep in the mud to be safe from all but the frontier, and did not. A mere ginger very determined efforts to foal it. beer business, it exploded on the first noto-

rious failure, and we have nothing now

In the present state of Shangbae and

•that

ader-teneret that

that it is

they

thonges, do

quality of steel.

аго теароп- necessary to and that

cannot and do not s

Harduess is essential, but sible for this, and it remember

est softens very So a sort of toue attaches Smith, and this brings us to the point;

HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, but the less to keep up whatever excitement Hongkong the former almost rivalling Cal consequently the trick of steeping razors in anan who cal my.

of nitou- "This tobacco-stap- Why should the coolis be Mr Smith's VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 10th May, 1866. may remain to amnes the clase a chip off a plank off a platform on

Notice to Consignees, Masters and Others Irishmen who will be victims against all cutta and the latter of daily increasing in hot water makes them much less effective than they were at first. Weight is of no which the Prince of Wales once stand." equal in all respects judicially, when Mr. in charge of Merchant Vessels. difficulties. Luckily these are not, perhaps, portance as a centre of trade, such a propo-importance, except to the caprice of the Considering the cominon

Place

character of S. does not himself enjoy that equality in ships with the following exceptions shall be

1. On or before the 1st June proximo all the majorit Montreal and Toronto on St.sition can scarcely be termed absurd. That heat, because very

The demonstrations i of the

buyer. The lightest are

now the are usually dear razors how this would give a sort of fillip to the his own country?

moved over to the North side of the Har Patrick's day may be taken as proof that physical obstacles may interfere to pro

light,

select and more care will be used in sele conversat on, and indeed how it would give

bour mooring them properly with 45 fa- the collapse of the bubble at New York was

matter of no moment whatever. Neither would ally and intellectually the equal of the Ea-an E. N. E. and W. S. W. direction from

of the razor blades -tenths of unanimous au expression of Irish feeling ble but, as far as we can judge at present is shape. Nine-ten entirely prevent hire from over

could have been elicited by nothing less

Tuede tur

le in England are now of the same form countenance to revolutionary projects. We ropean, there are still many reasons for each other.

2. The Southern line of this anchorage is than a thorough disgust at the failure of there are none which equal those already this life, of steal thickening towards can fancy that the more he thought about refusing him that legal equality which his the North Extremity of Hongkong but in every one of the promises and expectations successfully overcome by Europeau enter the back, and broader at point than shoulder things, with this chip in his fingers, the

-but they are hot better and not wors nære gennine a Tory would he become, and nirers would claim for bio. Brought with the South Extremity of the Kowloong which had been held out by the patriotlo prisc. If we wait till the Chinese give than the blade of even thickness set in a

Peninsula bearing E. by S.; the Top Gal movement in the States. the more ferveut his reverence for the dy up in a school which ignores truth as a lant Mast and yards are to be on deck and It is scarcely permitted us to hope that a ne permission or invite as to constructa thick back which came into favour about

a bent to the possessor'a own mind. Tas

mere ownership of such ding any

Assuring that the Chinsman was soci-thoms on each chain," the anchors lying in already producing its effoot in Canada. So Yent the scheme being carried out is possi.g the blades, but the weight in itself i

15 A

substites for ever me with Snap, b comsition

his pastellet a which it is -reasons Me, ba- to the use great, red! imaging the wisdor and do, if y

razora out.

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The Pastice Gladstie's rei tion ofthe G United States been

erally

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