14-
JUNE 21, 1866.
tain mysterious standard of miliar to us here in Shanghae, represented by the paper cur -banks, or the exclusive, but compradors, pleasa ore of a
11
rne cause of the luxuriousness Shanghae, is to be referred to nce that the ex
expences of bonss- he large hongs is defrayed by he same cause, we regret to
ated to
to a very great degree by
juuior inesses. An often too allowance is made to a number previously unaccustomed to and for whom the impulse to génerosity has
irresistible
nakes little difference to them i as to the cost, if the book de- dollars increase to his mouthly itler and boys insist on an ad- wages, or if the coolies follow
s not matter much in similar
iciously devised: squeeze is
th
r account every month; nor
's visits to
to the
of
usucation
store-room, or
beer and wine leater, Under a system such not surprising that a junior of Ts 100 per month with altes,
has in more than one by
and
its forunate recipients or the purpose. But the evil by any means united in its
to
of the
sought
in
to reform
suffer in degree and the ouly
ns is to be deavor on the part of the va
commnuity to : house-keeping. There is po- ason why such a state of mat exist According to every political economy, all the ne- hits and the cost of skilled Ja- be cheaper now than in the of European occupation. Yet Sperience during that period. ngs have much more than
rice. The injury this extra-
B.L
inflicts on the professionl
e offcial, where all the expetices dinc
income, is most serious. Si
influence felt, by, merchants of
3
limited means entering on fact, the effect of this
The cost
falso
y is severely felt by all classes munity.
cost of rent and our large
y alone well as to a sum
Tuis, amennt
+ The
t arost profitably invested
to time, and if accumulated. umoint to a handsome
of this profuse
effect
ce trade geil to
tune. expendi
The merchant feels
I to enter into operations on of retur, not on the certain ulation. Legitimate business tends towards speculation. se spoils the market to the
bly tends
o possesses large capital, and Ford to wait, as bis expenses, are, to not form so claimant a his resources. In the
the good old
na trade, when business was
in the bauds of a few wealthy
u Sapreme Courts had po vo
n profits were sure, and com-
minium, this Inxurious
i do, and was perhaps justi
that it could
nly on the ground that i
but that there were few or no
for the employment of Tel-
estricted a social circle, except
e to ve derived from the
e table. These
plea-
ve been gradually days,
passing away..
e assimilating the conditions of
e to that of other places. The
er, the harvest is larger, the
abourers in this social vineyard
d vastly, and it becomes us to
ecent expe-
as too
e our style of living to this
of mattera.
too plainly as but ewn, that the expenacs of con- inesa have been disproportion- and that the circumstances of a ncreasing class of the general and that the scale of household should be lowered from the Tel it
it has gradually enluminated thoughtless extravagance
en-
y many uninterrupted years of but which the altered circum the times no longer justify.
om the Poona Observer.)
of the late Sir Jausetjee Jejec- has been written: it was writ
who should bave considered the ho task he had to perform be- artook in great an undertaking, life
fe of so great a inan should bo
to posterity all will
I agree,
ld have been far better bad the
ho took up the arduous task
her, have left it to some one etent than himself to
perform.
beurt
ue his best no one will deny bability is, that his whole
task he had to perform; the
the life of recording
k of
-a
trenaendong
fa mar
reputation,
immense fortme he acquired;
མ་
his princely acts of leuero- ood effects of which will be felt This Parsee gentleman doubt sooner have remained in
than have had his name and and trumpeted about the world,
ot for one ronment believe that ence proceeded from anything ate goodness of his Own
wn heart: can conceive the very great
te must have endured when ins ore dogged and addresses for- bim from the various portious:
munity in
in India. ere enumerate some of the ma- charity performed by Sir Jam-, bhoy; which acts in themselves, to all men that all classes, communities, alike came under Hia purse strings were not one particular, direction, but out with an unsparing haud to most required his aid and assist matter whether they were
opposed to his doctrines, they
the
of his bounty. récipients of
Die
fa-
dom happens when men become
ely rich, and so successful in speculations that they have any
OW
ht than that of ailding to their millionaires are there Blany Continental cities of Europe, sing almost unbounded wealth Per give away alms to the poor," afficted. No, their ideas are too ssed in obtaining more wealth,
to their rich store, to think of nd miseries of their less fortu aren. One gentleman however,
aa by births, has lately given a ficent sum of money for the be-
e poor of the City of London,
ious other endowments. In fact
--
No. 1114-JUNE 21, 1866.]
so great has been his charity, that he has received an autograpli letter from Her Ma- jesty, thanking hiin in the most graceful anter for his kindness and benevolence to the poor of the Metropolis.
n
to
it is
throne.
11:11 uf of
THE CHINA MAIL.
teen destroyed in lives appear to have been het. This is the Arcond conflagration at Dhollera within a short time, the first loving netrved the yard of a Caton Press where in costumed everything in it to Live value of a lack of tupr
.
in his hand and oribred we to come down and John" acknowledged the other reply it was possible to If found him exceedindy like his pantograph; and
fervour.
jured his foot. went down the fore batch. 7 of my crew
He could not get aloft, so which a Chinaman has proved so lucky a The arguments adduced by Sir R. Alcock remained with him and about 11 were aloit
suitor against Her Britannio Majesty, and to justify his refusal to comply with the with me.
no doubt the Plaintiff is very much impres desires of the Chamber and the owners of The Chinese fired several times sed with a feeling of admiration for the the small steuners, whose property is after
getting
on board They then ran integrity of British law. Two or three years virtually confiscated by the sudden with- Sir Jamsetjee Jejeeblay, by his acts of sacked the cabins, taking all the clothes ago a successful Chinaman, who had become drawal of the long accorded tacit permission munificence excited the admiration of all charts and instruments. They then saw tolerably proficient in the England, when his
extraordinary liberality that soute of us wero aloft. I called to was elected meraber of the Mument
blanguage, to navigate the inland waters, have been The following on the cape of the Fentan was made known; and as an acknowledge them that I wanted to see the head
Council stigmatized as
las unpractical and unwarantable S phens is from the Sunday Güzelle (London) (—-1 ment of his great benevolence, he was
of the small Boroughs in New South by contemporary. We cannot see whatsappuse it would hardly amuse you to learn my Baronet by an order from dife trade the junk. One man stepped out with a rifle
the Minister
mize details of Mr. Stephens-that in an interview When
in a speach brimful of constitutional could give, without deck. I refused and he fired at, but did
Within the last three months power to insist upon a reading of the Treaty after me. Theirs who came I kicked down. Sonel Wales Legislature, from the com- Text can be forced to bear. After some time he went down and I fol. munity generally, as well as from Chiuess, however to notice the reference to ordinary Wo regret wed. When I got down the master of praying for the repeal of the absurd capita house boats, which shows an inclination to the Junk struck me on the arm with the tion tax of £10 per head huposed on China strain the latter of the Treaty to the utmost
1. back of a swort. He asked me for the
ontering opin which was on board. I told them the petitions will, in all probability, be as its spirit.
that colony. The prayer of against the foreigner without reference to there was none. It was then called out that a steamer was coming. The master of colonist parliament.
sented to during the next session of the the junk remained with 25 of his men on
In Victoria the tax was abolished several years ago. Through board of
my vessel. The rest of his men out the Australian colonics the status of the went to the junk and she cast off.
was Chinaman is improving. Occasional in kept at the wheel and cuted my men down. stances of their brutal treatment are heard of my wife. rentained alot with one man, y
law has been exerted so ofter and thie. crew were put below the fore hatch and a so powerfully in their behalf as to render cable put on the top of it. I was locked vory improbable a repetition of the outrages up in a cabin and the steward was sent to the wheel. Two men were then sent Australian colonies generally.
which formerly brought disgrace upon the up for my wife and after a while hearing ber scream out, I go through the cabin window and went after her and brought her down. The junk was then about a mile to windward of t This was about 7 o'clock..
that it has fallou i ufying strike attivo Bieu were then sent petitions have been presented to the New which neither the Engisi vor the Chinese
a man like the late Parsee Baronet
of money, largo suma
auch good hands; and where it is not likely to he locked up in coffers, but liberally dispensed anongs hose who must require it. The beritally constructed Bund in Poous owen its existence to the liberality of the late Baronet, and was constructed at a very
cost
The good this Bund has done, Bonvy the inimbitants of Poona and its environs can testify.
This however is only one of the rauy very noble nets be lins performed, for his first great act
munificence which equis ed for his a world wide fame, was the re lease of Civil Debtors at a cost of three thousand rupees.
of
assist
uf
men
1
AN OLD SCANDAL IN A NEW LIGHT,
that he has a rearless, determined air about lin travels, with all the copies of the laro ktoented “Fish People" bound in green inorness, and printed on gold edged paper, and thus for intelf he only co- tributed twa leaders, in which dowers are substituted for facts. I was not indiscreet enough to ask him to tell me such and he was far from being som
nicative. He did, however, venture to express great faith in the success of the present movement, Under the 27th article of the Treaty of and smiled at the efforts of the Irish liorerumear to 1853 a further revision of tariff and of the optre ban. The night after the reward was offer, d Commercial articles of the Treaty is stipulattor his apprehension, he saw fifty men, ang one of ed for after a
lapse of tou
Three weeks agn and who might have betinged him. years, and no doubt the strictest adherence to the present he had driven twenty seven miles in the country of Treaty, and readiness to meet at once all Dublin, seated with it emiple of other gentlenen in complaints of infraction brought by the he had found Richarond prison soil-organised that an outside car he had never assumed ny disguise; Chinese, might enable our representatives at
hey wondered, that any one had poentet 10, that time to obtain many concessions and
remain in it, and the police so efficient that he de- facilities for trade, whilst a different course servei no credit for hiding thein. found a strong of conduct would have tended to indrice
lesite on the part of Mr. Stephens, that the Fonian the Chinese Government to endeavour to Bahuchould suppose him invested with a curtail to the atmost those priveleges w
which
pernainal powers; and prihips he was practising we at present eujoy, at least nominally. We this art when be related such des as, that no two cannot Matter
ourselves
however, that the bigwigs could talk about him in the Castle, but their conversation was immediately reported ; and otiter lysterious, selfdenying policy, hitherto
stories of the watchfulness of his secret poise. A6 so pleasant à solution. pursued, will have so
must admit, however,
far as I can see, the Fepian chiels assambled here that, whilst so
have no seuled idea of the form of government which great care is taken to adopt the Chinese
is to replace that of Her Majesty. They coming to the French that they hire but the liberty of mest? view of the subject, and to put down all encroachment on the part of foreigners, we
ing, nor the liberty of the press; and yet, as I should like, for a change, to see at least an
remarked to them, one of their most violent pam equal desire manifested to protect those thiess, printed for foreign consumption, is published rights granted to foreigners by the Treaty, in Dublin, here the publisher's name, and is signed and which in so many cases have becoine a by avene Ts ĐỂ CHIẾC ĐỆM Justiết Dịch quốc dead letter.Hankow Times.
Stephens without hoping that, once in Amerim, he would ive up his present intention returning to Irelanu."--Poona Cherve
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There is one great act of benevolence which we cannot possibly pass over in si- Iches, and that is the building of the Civil Hospital in Bombay. This by far surpas ses the many acts of charity performed by is intended to help that gentleman as al assist those who cannot by any possi-My wife and myself were looked up in tus
Son mention has been made in the Court of billy
help and
themselves; and ni- cabin and three men placed in and of inst the Attorney-General I
Peale open one or two recenpocresions at the ease bly and well
does it
its merciful The junk then came back to the s perform
and mission; for the numbers that it has given made fast.
They calle
froth be called my crew up
not be generally known that, although the cure his argas relief to, and the many dangerous and dil- low
low and wade them put my guns into her, as vet asses a very impo tant stape, it inval Livus points of historied interest; and when it stall ficult cases that have been performed with- they then began taking out the cargo which have cone fully befor the court it will, we have no in its walls; must indeed be gratifying to consisted of rice. I did not know the time, dela, attract a large share of public attention. The the sons of the noble founder, who must but think that about midnight they left the enit is undertaken by mother and her son, who, naturally took upon this work and revers ship, cutting all the ropes before going. It thrugh they are now living in comparative leurity, the memory of their father who was the was too dark to see which way she stood. aspire to the high bonour of being recognised as sole promotes of such good deals.
steward
told me that he had heard them members of the Royal Family. In endeavouring to Both the present Barouot and his bresay they were going to Cauton. Four of accomplish their end it will be necessary for then to thers fellow in the footsteps of their father, then site very fair English and one spake
Inquire somewhat closely into the private history of
YANGTZE NAVIGATION. and are to this day distinguished by Their Malay The
told me King George 111, and many caries incidents must nots of clarity. It is but a short time ago
of necessity be brought out by the evidence and that should not would
To the Editor of the North-China Daily News. documents exhibited in reference to this part of the that the Hon'ble Rustunjee Jumisetics Ju
kille. He left
Amoy on board,
oard, case; for Mrs Hyves, the petitioner, asserts that she dwa lately to two very serious occur- DEAR SIR-Our attention has been jeebhoy, revived when on a visit to Con + and gave back the date's
B24RRMt.
has descended from the issue of a private marriage gold medal and various other articles of vaited for a barometer as I wished to know contested by the fourth brother of tieurge 111, wh of the Guinevere, the other the stranding of rences on the river Yangtze; one the wreck Jus; as prescuts from the King of Portugal when a typbocor was conting, he gave inn was known as Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of in acknowledgement of the many acts of one but it had belonged to another ship: Cumberland. The indy to whom the Prince was
the Highfiger, besides other secidents of philantropy
he had extended towards Goa I pointed this out to him but he sail said to have been married was Oliva Wilmot, the minor importance in themselves, but all of and its inhabitants-
this is the third one 1 have taken daughter of Dr James Wilmot, rector of Barton-on- which should be a
a warning to insurance Neither did the Barozet, a few instances today, the others were a schoonec anit a the Heath, in Warwickshire. His wife, the mother offices and others as to how they where cloudy.overcast weather, Bar. 29.75; took in. Madras to his brailer at Worcester, May, 1851
Recaps of whose life we are now recording, hear of bargus. Two of the men had rings on of this Olivé Wimot, was a Polish princess. risks проп vessels towed on a river any pholaophus
But whether this marriage can be proved at nol, seleme being started their tagers, I asked for one, supposing it is quite certain that it was acknowledged at the running. With these reasons, I beg to Qualls and rain trin Eastwd with a van esteemed in India, and is in my opinion, the most
such a tremendous current is continually without imquately giving it his utmost to have been my wife's, he gave me one time, for the gossips of the peried seem to live mide subunit to your readers an opinion I have assistance BIR support.
not my wife's, it is marked M. L. 1865. The barometer is made by J. P. Moller,
formed, suggesting an
an improvement in tow 118 Minories. London. The
rowlocks. my boats and took the oars a pirates stove The following day I saw a brig to wind- (From the North-China Daily Neiss.)
ravel
a sup to leoward and hoisted a Before the next issue of the North Ching signal. The Eterest British ship, came near Daily News is published, the editori ma-
and assisted me. De lent me a mate, and nagement will have been change at this I made the best of my way back to Houg-mitted in the face of the acknowledgmoist of the issue the ship does not then have to swing to the
who has guided the course of this Sornal for the last three years, will baví Kong. I anchored outside Green Jal
and
I e-
sit
bil farewell for a time to Shanghai. L-is morning at 10 and came in a buat
When I anchored a Junk passed near, the. der similar circumstances the valedictory crew of which my men and myself; recog
enipts to editors are often mere
nised.
addresses of
praise for their exertions,
to set forth the difficulties they have
fur the
it one of their stock sulgrets, and the daughter born
vessels
In
very
of the marriage was also publicly recognised. It in the first place, a ship should be towed wind and asa increasing; wind coming in
seems, however, that in the course af time the prince got into a repe with Mrs Horton, a sister to the Colonel Lottell who was afterwarde potrned meng ber of Parliament by court influence in place of Demagogue Wilkes." The prince eventually married Mrs Barton, and. the bigamy was com
dowu
stern
SHIPPING REPORTS. THE British steamer Dumbarton reports and proceeded with light airs, and calmis that she left Fulchan où the 12th instant,
until off Ossai Islanda at 6 PM. wher steering a s.w. course she found the weather was getting bad with a falling barometer; at 10 P.M. blowing a gale from E.N.E. with
all sail. Midnight: Bar. 29 heavy. wild appeara qul aft. Jane 13th, 1 A. M.
in the
the weather, furled the awnings fore down this river.
eased the engines
Barometer falling fast foremost alongside of the heavy gusts from Eastward to E... with steamer, with at least & Bower Anchors, heavy rain- A. Bar. 29.40, blowing (with suficient гарде) ready to let go. If harder from 6.1
6.B. with rain and.
beary sea, it bennes necessary to let go the anchors, Daylight wore ship to N. a., englues going quite slow. 5.30 A.M. Bar. 20. 18, wind stream, neither does she surge as under the from 8.8.8. ios, coming in heavy gusts with The histories referring to the period show that the plan. Many a ship will surge some bun- very heavy rain could see no distance fran
of fathoms before bringing them Klug nut this time would not receive his brother selves up immediately, and has extra na-covaling in heavy pyramids threatening every ship-Sea rising in frightful manver ut court, and it is sonjectured, with some show of aistance of course by the steamer backing minute to swam the ship which still con
although she had on board about 200 as luggage. Had one of liese at you will observe that only one Captain board thers is little debts fallon on
it would and Filot are concerned instead of two caused the loss of many lives if not, of the the vessels being both starred by the ship and all board GA.M. Baroneter abeer's rudder being fast ainiclabips. ~ slightly on the rise. At 7 noticed a slight Your's truly,
improvement in the
weather but the sea E. J. DES LANDES..
running very heavy still; at 6 ax. Bar,
, ་་ Shanghae, 15th June, 1556.
29.37 wind stil
still coining in
in very severe gusts from 3.8. w. with rain at noon, weather still improving and wind moderating, Bar. 29.51 wind a.w; set the engines going at
at half and steered to the s.w: Sea still speed and running very heavy, passed a great number
of the former mariage, it became necessary that something should be done to hush up the scandal. old
LEA AND PERRINS1 WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.
Pronounced by Camoisseurs to be the only good" Sauce and applicable to every variety of Dish..
Exumet of a Letter from a Medical gentleman at
Tells and Pass that their nace is highly
palstable as well is the most wholesome Sauce that is made,"
CAUTION.
LEA AND PERRİNS - Beg to cantion the Public against spurious imitation of their celebrated
WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.
& P. have discovered that several of the For
eign Markets have been supplied with SPURIOUS TATTAToss, the labels closely resembling those of the genuine Sure, and in one or mora
renson, text the prohibition arose out of the disagree herself astern and easing her to her anchors. tinued to behave admitablyth all their instauces the name of and P. forged.
society, and equally loth to be denied the cart,
ment between them consequent upon this bigas marriage. The Prince, accordingly, unwilling pr experienced in catering fur public re THE Danish schooner Cart which loft unable to deny himself the pleasure of Mrs Hartma quirements. But in fors, although Hongkong June 13th, bound to Amor River
at the last three years, ofte tive glance
neglected his first wife. who afterwards died in the work which has fallen upon us has often with a general cargo, and a Crew of 9 tuen been arduous and the result incominen-all told, reports: June 15th, at 1 r.st. Sig-Frac He also consented to a proposal that bis Dal Island borox. w., dist. about 20 miles daughter should be brought up in ignorance of her. mate with the exertion necessary to pof the Land, a. Ubincse junk was seen to parentage mutil the scandal had died a natural death,
it we
we are fain to dwell rather upou the ready assistance which all were glad to leeward, about 6 miles dist. at 2 P.M. the certain distinguished personages had died tro. When this had been settled to the satisfaction of all junk
true, had
tho
duce
tlie
offer, and the indulgence which overlooked blank chied the schooner and firing concerned, save those who, if the story
Captain gave orders inns been most grievousie wronged, the marriage eshot, trilling errors of detail in view of the isly to brace the yards square; as the junk Pijace with Mra Horton was allowed to pass withou
all of intention for which
nesty credit. The press in Shanghai can
the schicper she hore
119
approached pet,***
ly stink pot un
next a
Jay claim to the rank of a leader of nublich killed the Captain on i
opinion.
39
The circle of readers is so limit
part
crew offered no
the
shot was fired, on the
spot
liqve over
interference, and it is this Mrs Horton who has continued to be acknowledged as the enly and chilän. less wife of Prince Frederick, Duke of Cumberland. It is easily conceived that an arrangement etch us that which, it is said, was come to between the Prince and the King was not concluded, withaot kone writing, and it is asserted that several docu- ments were signed touching the legitimacy of the
no resistance, and possesses so unch mora intelligence thc Captain was then loy run aloft, a class than does any other community The pirates called the crew down, with great of the cute size in Europe or Ame savageness bidding them to make haste. When that a journalist is exposal to severer ari-
were orilored to go. any other theism in Shanghai shau in any
the crew obeyed, they when they hal 1 Gaughter of the Princes and his wife, née Olive down the fore hatch way, of the world. Where his sympathies are
so done, the hatches were puton and batcessed Wilmot. These documents, it is further asserted, invariably enlisted upon one side or an-
were witnessed by more than one Minister of State down with large spike nails. A dog offered: other, and where personal feeling is carin to enter in souc shape into the discussion of every question, the task of a newspaper at him and he was severely wounded all request. They were attineately committed to de
y serious disinteles, over,
After 40 minutes had elapsed the crew which were
confined below, heuring no noise on deck, tried to open their y
but in vain; after a hard trial they,
many
conductor ined to steur visar of t
If we have
ani if without
yanworthy co
am confident that if the above suggestions are carried out, fewer accidents will occur,
TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
VIA GALLE CALCUTTA, 24th April, 1868.
To the Chairinan
PRE on
have
of fishing junks riding to their unts with apparently anaucher down also; 6 r., wind and sea going down “
on full-speed fast, and steer
steered towards Hongkong. Throughout the whole typhoon the stca- behaved in a first rate manner having lost nothing but a for
Chamber of Commerce, Shanghae, - DEAR SIR,Some daliculty appearing to exist relative to the transmission of. Tela, graphic messages from Galle by the Indo- European line to Europe, I should feeler obliged by your
of Shanghae that no messages can be received at Galle for trans- mission without prepayment.
but a few of the temporary
to bite the pirates, when knives were hur of the period, and carefully preserved at the King's mercantile community known to the deck bonses usually provided for the use of
to the prejulíeus of any one para dar to get out when they
SHIT NO
on deck, only the dog was ly ng
the i severely they saw batches
that opety,
of the cargo part had been taken away, the cabin turned side down and the Captain's clothes, and every valuable thing taken away.
tion, we have represented and *પ bening to the opinious of all, we look ask wb pleasure on the redy acknowledgment
bleeding a to provide which rewardle, our endeavours
for the public, and
on the pabulum
vall ble assistance that we received. even from those whose views we opposed. Accepting the position of an exponent rather than a the issue of each leader of public opinion,
So iter into personal tally slicer brot be mubor od friends,
brought the w.
often recognised many of whom no doubt.
in the editorial columns the fruit of private discussions in which
we have conditot- this journal is, to the writer personal full of pleur recollections, and laying down the editorial pet, in bids a«jeu to the public from which le bas experienced so auch kindness, and would bespeak for his successors the same assistance and con- sideration that lie has enjoyed,
The perma during white had taken
PIRATICAL ATT CK ON THE "CLESAR."
The British barque Cesur reports that ou
1
ter. We loaded the guns, going about 2
The chief mate ordered the crew to brace the yards round and steered as course towards Hongkong; at 4th P. M. the Junk bore N. E. Díat about 16 miles from the schooner."
The vessel arrive at Hongkong at 11.45 this forenoon.
ere of certain eminent person, upon whom a svięmn obligation of secrecy was laid until the happening of certain events, which have long since occurred. The names of all these persons will we have no doubt, be made know in the course of the proceedings before Sr... Wilde.
The case has already been before the public, not only in courts of justice, butt-also in Parijàment and by petition to te royal family. The first petition the crowns was aude in 1819, and the last in 1858. In 1861 Mrs Ryyes, then 64 years of age, gibtained a decree against the Attorney General, establishing the marriage of her father to the lady to whom we have already referred as the daughter of the duke's first marriage, und the chief object of the present perition fa, as we have already sted, to Publish Mrs Ryves's descent through this lady fem Prince Henry Frederick, Duk of Cumberland, with the ultimate object of providing her son's title to the hamur and dignity of the dukedom of Cinn- berland, Cumberland,
The case was intenduced to the notice of Partia mont by Sir Gerard Noet nearly half a century ago. Te moved for a select committee to inquire into the truth of statements made in her, petition, which he had presented three months before. It seerns he was very tam st in her cause, thoroughly believed in the genuineness of her case, and persisted in amounging that he had it in command from this uyal personage to do so and a for royal per sungs he would contine to believe her antil she was proved and declared to ba au hnpastor by select committee of the House of Commons. The petition of that day seemed to aire not only at the declaration of Mrs Ryves's legitimney and royal descent, but also to the acquisition of a grant from the civil list. sir Gerard Noel declared that he had
her own right to the title of Princers of
At the Harbour masters office there is a species of a boarding pike which was left on board the schooner by the pirate
The dhist mate said that the day when they left Hougkong 4 Junks left at the same time and that he is almost suro one of theth commited the piracy:
THE CHINAMAN IN AUSTRALIA
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committee of a new
(From the Shanghai Recorder.) Our Oslestial friends appear to be making Thursday the 14th instant, left here at their way among the "barbarians of
South. In a Belbourne paper it is stated Anchored off 4.M. with cargo of Rien Eners Pay at night. A junk which fert that two, described as "Lowe Kong Me..g.
always believed that every member of the royed Esq. Mereliant and Louis family was upon the civil list, but here was a mom- Hongkong at about same time kept near us
Melbourne, We had 2 all. n
guns on board, a 6 Ab Mony, Esq., night.
her of the royal family quite unprovided for.” and a 4 pounder. We fired thum
are on the provisi Bank of Austi
The present petitions was filed in the Court of i were bring in the o ating. Bank, the
Divoces, under the Legitimacy Declaration Art, in 1a: 34. M. of the lath instant, the Mr. Kong Meng is fast becoming a man of August lust, and the ease has been set down for
then in
in sight. nk s
hearing by a special jury but a series of delays s not long since that his portrait s we udared mark. It is
have caused it as be put off for another three months. o served what we supposed and a short sketch of his Australian career Manny Braun syr weather quar- | appeared in one of the Melbourne paper, a
An application for an adjournment was made on to be the same
2 distinction red upon him by reason Tuesday, the 27th of February, by Mr Rourke on
conferred
behalf of the Attorney-General, and opposed by: Dr He married Malty rew got up small of his numerous charities
J. W. Smith and Mir D. M. Thomas on the part of amas 10 muskets, and 6 words. I called respectable young woman from Ireland, and
the petitioner. The Attorney-General desired delay is said to be in all respects a good colon's
because he had just come into possession of a nume verdict got a
ber of documente which could not be arranged in the
cine for the trial. These papers, the petliner against Her Majesty for, we
her or her mother to the Sovereign, in company! with petitione concerning the claims we have referred do. A sigulitant obervation was made by Sir Jị P. Wilde when he granted the application for postpone ment. He remarked that it was an important case important public case, and all information
The should be produced in court, and, when tied it
should be tried once for all.
knots
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hour.
nist.
the meat and askui if they would Another Chinamian recently halie for asserts, are simply copies of certificates fornithed by
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2
compensation
2. It does not seen that any inconve nieuce need be felt is complying with this Re
As must Firms employing the Indo- European Line have correspondents at Galle, it will be
very simple procedure assage to the ad-
for them on sondig hic oficer for trans-
dress of thie mission, to include in the same cover an order to their Ageut to pay its cost what- ever it may be, on presentation of a Bill! duly receipted by the responsible officer of this departinent.Yours drolj
(8d.). J. G. GLYN, Major B.B., Director General of Telegraphs in India.
MISCELLANEOUS.
It is proposed to construct a way under the Thames between Deptford and the Isla of Dogs, to consist of two iron tubes of 17 feet diameter,, with a roadway of 14 feet and pathways of 8 feet 6 inches un eich. A bill to this "offoel is now before Parliament,
side.
Tr's death is announced of Sir Joseph Abraham Douglas, R. N. at the age of sixty-nine. The deceased served for inany years with distinction in the navy. He received bis knighthood in 1841, for having when captain of the ship Cambridge, armad his vessel at Singapore, and proceeded to the assistance of the British in Hongkong Bay.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT. Westinoreland paper reports singular though shocking accident which has occurred at Clupta North to a boy named Augustus Loonud, aged fourteen. A beli hangar bad boced' a hole through the post of the gardan door in order to insert the bell-wire, when the boy, who was within the garden unobserved by the workman, supposing he had tnishe applied his left eye to the hole. The auger was again introduced, and the instrument entered the boy's eye, perforating the brain and causing death on the following day.
passengera. The Dumbarton arrived at 2 A.M. this morning and proceeded for Can- tonat 6 A.M., as flis Excellency, the Viceroy has suffered so much during the typhoon that he is unable to pay or receive visita and is therefore anxious to arrive at his distination as soon as he possibly can.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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Three itineraries to gatos of the Great Wall. WITH
"China Mail" Office. May 11, 1866.
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A few months ago a writer in the China Mila't commened the pub loation of a series of Notes fr Tourists in the North of China, and these have now bren published in a condensed form with the name of the writer, Mr. B. Dennys. He is well quali fed for the work he lins undertaken, and bis opi- ona na to the best modes of travelling as well as his casual remarks upon men and minners in the notth, are worthy of attention. Starting from I ku
the tourist is conducted to Tientsin, first by river and then by road, the conveniences and drawbacks of each mode of transit being fully set forth. A description of Tientsia follows, and assuming that, he desires to pass on to Peking direct, he is acquaint ed with all the requisite preliminary arrangements, We can discover no omission in the list given, all. the precautions necessary to secure comfort en route and at the various ins being very minutely set farth. From stage by stage of the journey, the tra veller will find that his author has preceded him, and that tlie discomforts from which he suffers buvo bean suffered before by one at least who has set him- self to devies means whereby they may be overcome We commend to those interested in topographical researchos the description given of Peking, while those whose ideas regarding the history of Peking The fallowing is from the Haskerd of . ay 3rd. :
and the many vicissitudes through which it has ps We yesterday received a strange tilustration of sod since its first establishment are misly and eat the way in which cotton is packed. Quite recently
ressel laden with cotton met with an accident in given at page 25. We canuct pass in review ch the river, and had
put book. On going into dock, she, of course, discharged some of her cargo and chapter of Mr Dennys' valuable little work. It is a pity that the author has not given something more strange to relate, it was for id that the sesde in some than a bara itinerary of the route from Peking to a flourishing crop of seedlings. The hates presented a singular spectacle, covered as they were with quite
forest of incipient cotton plants.
fused, will do well to run over the condensad account
aid yes. I served out the arma maimed the gana. A about 5.00 PM 1 Went
of Tle 2,000, being mile rn to dimur, the junk about one of The kerap
who was in charge on dock services rendered by him in the discovery of vall out that the junk was hoisting a opium smuggling at the port of Melbourne. Acket wat stiukpots." I on dee and He was an interpretar in one of the Ve Juide a man carrots
a man carry my wife iuto fore-top and torian gold fields; and une day in the course remain with her. The jnn: caure down ou of courersation with a brother official he
BADY BROS. !
the shots going through apponed to state his knowlerige that soug
Ont. We striking any one.
fred ging with guns
1. we fired moans of false marks on packages. This had stall arms. At first I saw only a few mon to his being placed in disguise in the Castour vadlock, abg had two heavy guns. Bleher. The smugglers were ignorant of his orate right along side and threw stink pots presence, and were caught flagranti dalie's ali us ani at the same time about 40 He had been promised a reward, but me t va gine on the junk's hatchway and ing with a good deal of discreditable sur led on board the Cear
ing on
the part of the Government. Is red with ass, dress, lances and right his action, and won it. He s burts. As it was useless resisting any after left the colony, being afraid, it was praying for a removal of the restrictions longer Toneredity on torun up to the foresaid, that his countrymen would treat him
and as she had ng was being extensively carried on by hearing upon it that could reasonably be obtained of the hales had germinated, and had prodaeed quite the great wall and thence to Kalgon. The road is
were
THE British Minister at Peking has lately addregsed to Min. 4. Consul al shaughoe despatch replying to the communication of the Chamber of Commerce at that port,
have been imposed upon the employ
top and went myself. Previous to this, in as a traitor and punish him. This is the ment of email steamers in the inner watere firing the 6 pounder gun, my mate had in only instance on record, we imagine, in of the Shanghas district,
The late destructive Are at Dhollers, is thun describ”
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