15. JUNE 28, 1866.
ald
there..
payment. A delay was cau ng the amount owing to Agra Bank to accept the notes agkong and Shanghae Bank, val the mail arrived bringing Le suspension of the Commer
Whensuch information reached on's ears he called at the Bank into the Comprador's room was hat part payment was being Hongkong and Shanghae Bank came to the office counter sing the clerk said that such not be taken and at ent the comprador was in- stop all payments. Mr An- being informed of this by the Bank's comprador asked, one atents if such information was ou being referred to
the Ma- t into his room, and afterwards through the office into the sroom and seized & quantity ying on the Counter, beside ercial Bank's comprador, that before refused by him, aud with them.
manager being informed of such gs on the part of Mr Anderson vas made and Mr Anderson was the act of entering the Club and to give up the notes, he lad possessed himself of. Mr Au- tuinly resisted and a little force but when he agreed to hand money to the Police.no further. was used. Mr Anderson was pelled to give up by force what ken by force."
་
Meeting of the Depositors and
editors of the Commercial Bank on of India and the East, held ac Eo advertisement, at the Office of oration at noon this day the fol- esolations were adopted.
of resolutions passed at Meeting of of the Commercial Bank Cor-
at Hongkong 23rd June 1866.
in view of the satisfactory local- t which has now been laid before ing it is for the interest of both mercial Bank Corporation and its that no action be taken by in Creditors until the receipt of nveying information of the course ad on in London, and that in the
e such funds as may be in the Ånds be placed on deposit with gkong and Shanghae Banking 7. Proposed by G. Sharp, Esq., by J. Mencke, Esq., carried by with only 2 dissentients."
in the event of any Creditor =gal proceedings against the Bank, priority of payment, the Agent 1 adviser of the Bank be requested such steps as may be necessary erving the assets of the Bank for ral body of Creditors. Proposed Booth, Esq., seconded by D. - Esq. Carried unanimously."
From the "Evening Mail.")
not the subject one of such impor- o the mercantile community we ardly expect to be pardoned for loding to the question of Sir Roth- cock's decision respecting inland on by aual steamers, The views
y the Daily Prest are, however, letely at variance with our ow ecision as to the actual position by the British Minister must re- he one or the other being held to dedly in the wrong; and to de- te the renaons which have led us opinion we have expressed, we will ethem in a style less calculated b the digestion of our contemporary "appalling combination" of let which he complained in our last
contemporary commits an error of stating that we did not defeud lomatic agent." In a previous aph he says.
anybody thinks that the British er has acted rightly in devoting to refute the arguments of the ae Chamber of Commerce, without any effort to procure the couceision ras asked for from the Chinese GOF- t, it must be possible to point out sons which lead him to that conclu-
reasons were embodied in the fol- paragraph which the writer of the Prese article most admit he bas oked in his remarks.
e, nevertheless, deprecate any act Bavours of breaking a solemn engage ntered into with them so long as that ment remains it force. The objeo- o many of the Treaty rules are ob and admitted; but if we find thera ly oppressive to our own interests
No. 1115.—JUNĖ 28, 1866 ]
Straits; it is of such small extent, that after we had found it, we had some difficulty in picking it up again.
they should in the first place be discussed Found a coral patch of 6 feet near the post- with fairness and impartially and be abro-tion of "Hippogriffe" (in 3° 33′ 35* S. 106" gated by mutual consent,"
54′ 30′′ E.) steep to on all sides, moat dan- We have all along advocated the ad-gerous for vessels running through Gaspar risability of the Foreign Minister in- sisting on a revision of various por tions of the Treaty, but the question at issue depends rather upon what cons- titute the actual functions of a Minister in China. That he is something more than the exponent of British Interests to the Chinese Government is evident from the fact of his possessing judicial powers oror his countrymen, the exterritoriality clause giving him a totally different position to that occupied by similar officers in
European or American States. To say that acting up to the letter of the treaty is one particular instauco is to manifest a general spirit of opposition to British in-
Did not succeed in finding either the "Sharpshooter"
or "Mary Goddard" Rocks. Neither could we find the Clifton Shoal, (North of Brothers), but picked up * patch of 22 fest S. 16" W., 12.5 miles of them,
THE RECENT PIRACY ON THE
"CÆSAR”
It is gratifying to know that there is a the pirates who were concerned in the probability of justice overtaking some of
attack on the Cesar. On Tuesday evening in consequence of information received, a detachment of police was sent to East
buildings in the oocupation of Chinese. The detachment was accompanied by Capt. Schuck, master of the Cæsar. Admission was obtained to the rooms in the buildings, but not without the exercise of force; the
THE CHINA MAL.
on the Old Sight-house near the Flag Staff, at an elevation of 90 feet above the sea.
JAMES DONNAN,
Master Attendant.
Master Attendant's Office,
Colombo, 8th May, 1868.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The portion of Robinson Road between the Glenenly Bridge and West Boundary of I. Lot 645 will be closed to the Publie till further Notice.
W. WILSON, Surveyor General. Surveyor General's Office,
Victoria, 23rd June, 1866.
Foucart; and his equerer, M. Bachoa, has some difficulty in rentraining his ardour for equitation; His highness cakes bis lessons at the Alma stables, where his hareas are kept. But he prefers above everything military panegyres and the management of arms, so that his greatest happiness is when, once a week, a sergeant of the 1st Regiment of Grenadiers of the Guard, in which, all the world knows, he himself is corporal, conducts into the reserved garden of the Tuileries à company of children of that corps for drill. The princs places bipeelf at the right of the Erst rank, the effective of the troop being often augmented by the presence in the ranks of some young friends of his highness, among whom may be mentioned the son of Dr Conneau, the Duke de Perigos, Generale Fleury and Espinasse, and of M. de Bourgoing, the Emperor's equerry. For several years the prince- bas bean present, by the Emperor's side, at the principal military reviews. During the feces of the past winter his highness appeared savezni timas for a few hours in the saloons, when his grace and perfect ones were much remarked. Wa may add that since the return of the court from their Majesties. His religious instruction is confided | Compiègns, in December last, the prince dinos with
is soon to prepare him for his first communion." to the Abhe Deguerry, cure of the Madeleine, who
(From the North-China Daily News.) The recent unfortunate loss of the West- among ship-owners, are dabarred from the ervelt suggests enquiry why pilots, alone privilege of insuring their vessels, and comHampshire paper. pelled to prosecute their hazardous calling at the risk of property as well as life. Few men are e exposed to more constant hardship BO valuable services to the very
Insurance which deny them an advantage afforded to
terests is obviously absurd. The British point, for the purpose of searching certain and danger and none ronder Companies Hotels. These places of residence, where you
Minister's position is that of one whose duty it is to see "fair play" on both sides and this from motives besides the higher one
the owner of
every interest of these companies to. To the uninstructed it would seem the. encourage the efforts of men by whom many a ship is rescued from imminent danger, and who may, by one act of salvage, savo &
8 sum
the little estervelt. If this prohibitive rule were confined to Shanghae, where at many anomalies exist, it might be less surprising ; but at prevand the best solution where experience for
it
in Eugland alsó,
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of raoral duty. If we went to adopt the inhabitants underwent close inspection, (Daily Press) theory ef simple coercion and Capt Schuck clearly identified two of without any regard for deliberate engage them as having been actively employed in a to ten or twouty times the value of You have no trouble in engaging servants, in drilling EORD'S MAGNESIA is indispensable, and when colour, ás., and 10%. 6d. per packet; and the Gutts
the piratical attack on his vessel. He also found upon them some of the property that was taken from his ship by the pirates. He further identified them as having given him a ring and a barometer, which are now known to have been the property of the murdered master of the Car? upon which piracy was committed shortly before the attack on the Cesar. The evidence of Capt. Schuck was taken yesterday before the police magistrate; the further bearing of the case is remanded until to-morrow,
ments we should find the keynote thus struck echoing with somewhat inconvenient con- sequences. We advocate what the Exeter Hail party would call "coercion " it is true, but it differs from the action udvo, cated by the Daily Press in the same way as the "coercion" exercised by a wise parent over his child, a promise.made to whom is never broken, differs from that of the thoughtless unthinking man whose will
Yu want a basin of
alone, irrespective of promises and inflam. when evidence completely corroborative of almost every one ale enjoys, of insuring ready in the half. You have a telegram to send off;" |
In
CHEMISTS,LONUON, And sold by Druggists and Storekeepers through qut the World.
CAUTION Ask for DINNRSORD'S MAGNEULL, and see that DINNEFORD & Co. is on every Hottle and Label.
Lars AT Hous V. Lars in Hors-Ainong the novelties which have grown up of late yeara and grown up very tall, tore the Great
are undertaken, if the phrase may be allowed, on such a large scale, where overything is done for you, and all troable taken of your hande, barely ought to meet the requirements of a great Bomber peract. The advantages of the Byata sign no leases or agremence, you have mobing to de seem at fire aight enormous. You pay as vent, you with tazes, no servants' wages, no butchers' bits.nutes and fur the sickness of fregnancy, DINNE servant, in getting rid of streauts. If the pipes he taken with the Acidulated Lemon Syrup forms frozen in the course of a hand winter, or if they
ADELIGHTFUL EFFANYESLING SALINE happen to burnt when the suid winter breaks up, pot call to speak to you about the new kitchen range.
AND APERIENT. they are no business of yours. The young man does
Prepared by nor does the gates wil to see rett in the hall most questions of a similar nature.
relative to the state of the meter." Then, what
DINNEFORD & Co., The danger ran by pilot boats is of
of course you want is always to be had. You want a bottle very great, but the degree of risk is a mere
of sods-water the last thing at night; you are not matter calculation which any actuary told that there happens to be none in the house. could determine; and pilots, appreciating You want a sandwich in the middle of the day, ho the dangerous nature of their occupation, uncompromising servant imforins you that "there is would be ready to
ha coldment in the hous" ready to pay a much higher rats. But for some reason or other, an adverse broth, and you are not obliged to wait till the maxs determination has been come to, and pilots day for it. You want to know where comubady alone are forbidden the privilege which lives, there is the last Past Office Diret- tury to refer to You want a messenger; he is their property We bengland, however, while refuser.
rty against loss or Insurance Companies
the risk,ere is a form, and in another moment it is despatch- bill. When qu think of the number of bill to be to pilots, by considered once a week by any ordinary housekeeper, the file of little red books ce tie gone through by annas Supposing the theory of simple might un-soner will appear before the Supreme Court subscribing liberally towards replacing s
next month, on the charge of piracy, cou. | bos which has been recked; and we trustworthy person or others seems something trammelled by treaty sugagements and pled perhaps with that of murder-Daily would gladly see a similar course adopted more than a smail advantage. A cheque is drawu
at Shanghae We fear however that i
t in the case of the Westervelt, a fatal obstacle will be
alleged in the fact that her owners do not work under the Board of Management of the Shanghae Pilot Company
That they are hard working and reliable men admitted; but the various. Insurance Offices lave determined not to recognise any pilots
SHIPPING REPORTS. who elect to work independently, and the owners of the Westervalt come under the Tar British ship Golden Fleece reports hav- ban. Why this exclusive system should be ing bad moderate weather till the 20th in- adopted, we are at a loss to discover. It is stant, then strong gales from the South- imp
June part beat the pilotage of the port ward and fastward veering to y. w.
be confined
as much as possible to 26th, experienced a heavy gale from tho. qualified and reliable men; but this end and . with heavy on from all directiune
be as effectually
attained if the In- which caused the ship to labour Fery unch Burance Companies witheld their counte-kept the ship have to for 2 days. Shipped pance only from wen who have not proved a heavy sea which carried away the greatest their qualification before an examining part of the Rails and Bulworks, from board. The motive of the additional
winds thence moderate stipura-
variable with squalls tion that they shall belong to a a certain
and rain till the arrival, Company, does not readily appear. It is
ed by the passion of the moment is the
Capt. Sebuck's, will be given. lieve it is certain that a case for committal
only law which the child is taught to obey, will be clearly made out, and that the pri- principle of their indebtedness admit the ed. For all these advantages you pay one weekly
FROM THE HONGKONG GOVERN-
oblivious of all truth and honor were to be Press. the guiding motive of Sir Rutherford's ac- tion, what language would probably be Adopted by the Representatives of Foreign puivers whose desire for territorial aggran- disemeat, ruinous to British trading inter- eats as it would be were it carried into effect, is now only held in check by the moderation of the predominant interest that of great Britain.! How would our marchants like, for instance, to witness the anexation of various parts of the voust by the French against which at this mo
- wont we are the sole bulwark? Let any. mau refer to their journals, their books of travel, to auy work on China published within the last few years and then say if he can that a lurking desire for annexation does not exist on their part. Let him converse with their intelligent officers and fail to see that the, idea of ultimately founding a Pondichery in China is in full possession of their minds. If maiuforce is to be the raison d'être of II. M's Minister at Peking how long would it be before Russia, followed suit and even possibly through one of her generals, bowed our own minister out of the capital itself?
We would beg our readers to draw a distinction between the coercion advocated by the Daily Press and that advocated hy ourselves.
We say, make the Chinese
keep their word scrupulously-(which they do not do at present). Do not give was in the slightest respect to their professed to. ability to carry out their engagements. Impose on them if you like arrangements tending to material civilization. Mako
the freedom of missionary labour & reality
MENT GAZETTE.”
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency Sir Richard Graves Mac- Dounell, K.C.B., Governor and Comman derin-Chiel, has recognized, provisionally, since 20th April last, M Emile Coste, Consul for France at Tiansin, as in charge ing the absence of M. Du Cheine.
By Order,
of the French Consulate at Hongkong, dur-
W. H. BENNIE, Acting Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong 18th June, 1866.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Lave
once a week, and all is over. Rent, taxes, wages. housekeeping, are disposed of in five minutes. If the cheque in question do sometimes strike ona na rather large, it but fair to consider how very much
represents-Dickens's All the Four Itound,
•
J
N
Tas Hamburg barq. Adyar Ross which in the highest degree necessary that a har
4. left Tientsin on the 2nd June, reports hay should be raised against the exercise of the profession persons not properly qualified; ings experienced variable winds and wea- but it matters little afterwards whether ther till the 26th instant, when it became Whereas it appears probable,that some those persons belong to one or other Uag-Calm, a beavy swell rising from the North- person or persona did wilfully set fire to souse Buildings known as the "Yes-on"
pany, or whether they chose to ply severally ward; next day experienced a heavy gale Hong in No. 3 Queen's Road and institute any kind of chock which stusli be 29 45, with expectations of a typhoon ; kept aud independently. The difficulty is to from a.E to E., the Barometer indicated Bonham Strand, on the morning of Sunday affectual in preventing the employment of the ship have to for 30 hours, from thence last, the 17th Instant:
augualified men It is hereby notified that a Reward of
It is not competent to moderate with strong y. a. winds and rain. body of foreiguers to say that no one till the arrival. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS shall pilot vessels on the Wangpoo whom will be given to any Person-the actual indirect influence of the Insurance Com-Chin on the 30th May, reports having bad
not
and therefore the THE Prussian brig Carolina leaving Chin approved; Perpetrators of the crime excepted-who, within One Month from this date, shall give to the decision of a board of examiners. If aqualls and incessant min at times, which is at present necessary to give affect variable weather and winds, with severe egies such information as chain of urte or mure they simply declined responsibility in the caused or to make a long passage not having prehension and conviction of one or more
case of
vessel not carrying a any
a licensed the winds steady 12 hours the whole pas of the guilty parties.
pilot, unlicensed
men would soon find their sage to Hongkong, calling unprofitable but when they on British ship Queen of India reports further and euact that they will
only be responsible for the acts of pilots belonging having had very severe weather with va- to a certain company, they are likely to riable winds. Squalls and rain till the defeat their own object, Members of the arrival.
itself will
hardly
By Order,
W. H. RENNIE, Acting Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 20th June 1866.
HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICES FROM THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. [No. 2.]
CHINA AND JAPAN STATION. RALEIGH ROCK AND RECRUIT ISLAND.
and not a few lines of badly worded print. Bearings are Magnatic. Variatión 140 W.
But with all this keep your word. The
in 1866.
Island is situated in lat. 25° 351- No.,
Board of Manageile l'ilet Company Taz British Barque Melrose reports having
deny that the comprises several good men, and these men will prove that they make more money than mentbers of the Company from which they have seceded. In repudiating their acts then, the Insurance Companies deprive themselves of the services of reliable men without apparently,
corresponding advan-
experienced a typhoon on the 22nd instant off the East side of Formosa, since then dirty squally weather.
7
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*
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All Goods Warranted, Eleven Prize Medals bare been awarded these goods GEORGE P. DODGE.
SOLE CONTRACTOR TO H. M, ADMIRALTY, BERMONDSEY RUBBER WORK
and 79, Upper Themes Street, London, Hauses of some importance wanted to accept con- signments.
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Pronounced by Connoisseurs, to be the only good- Sauce and applicable to every variety of Dish.
Extract of a Letter from a Medical gentleman at Madras to his brother at Worcester, May, 1851.
"Tell Usa and PERRING that their Sauce is highly esteemed in India, and is, in my opinion, the most palatable as well as the must wholesome Sauce that is made."
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& SON" name,
SF. have discovered that veral of the For
SPURIOUS IMITATIONS, the labels closely resembling those of the genuine Sauce, and in one or more instances the name of L. and. P. Forged.
L. and P. will proceed against any one who may manufactura or vend such imitations, and have instructed their correspondents in the various parts: of the world, to advise them of any infringement o their rights.
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A.
genuine, anless they hear on the Boing. ELL VOOD PICKLES, SAUCES, JAMS, &c.,
shipped.
** Orders through Mercantile Houses carefully.
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"China Mail" Office.
May 11, 1866.
A few months ago a writer in the China Mail commenced the publication of a series of Notes for Touriga in the North of Ching, and thase have now of the writer, Mr N, B. Deanys. He is well qualin- been published in a condensed form with the namo fied for the work he has undertaken, and his opi-
ons as to the best modes of travelling no well as his casual retuarks upon men and manners in the noith, are worthy of attention. Starting from Tku
Tax British barque deapulce, reports having left Liverpool Feb. 27th had fresh N.W. gales in the Channel, and in moderate If
N.E. trades, passed the line, March 19th in a man who has once passed the board lose their confidence, the latter should long 25 w., had frash S. E. tratos, passed withdraw his certificate and thus have a Meridian of Cape April 22d iu lat. 8. suflicient guarantee that no sensible captain had fine weather to Anjer which she passed will
June 14th, in coming op China Sea bad Teploy him.
tem of pilotage in the Yang-tze Weather and fresh S.S. winds. and Wangpoo is,
poo is, however, on an unsatia- British barque Asphodel Murch 6th Daily Press says, do this and moro, whe
To those navigating between Forinosa and the Luchu Islands, the following in factory footing, and it would be well that off Madeira, from London, bound to flobart the tourist is conducted to Tientsin, first by river ther it is in violation of your word or not. formaation will be of importance. Rooruiting aid of the Chinese, should be no got to unily from a outro zu da yo on bin ish big and then by road, the conveniences and drawbacks
long
improve it. They, with the assent of for-
Rosario: out, lat.
20 daya
of each of transit heing fully set forth.” A We say keep baths parties strictly up to 1240 35 40 3. 50 miles form Tiansu. Iteign authorities, cal exercise the right long. 26 w. April 15tu French bargue description of Tientsin follows, and assuming that
which the latter do not possess, their engagements—if they are found in- is the same reported by Captain Lyall of
of forbidding
Cosmopolite steering S. W. in lat. 30 s., long he desires to pass on to Paking direct, he is acquaint- jurious to our interests get them abrogated the Recrsit, by Captain Crudace of the King unlicensed pilots to ply on their rivers; 12. Juni 13th Bitisli ship Smmer Cluded with all the requisite preliminary arrangements. trom Sheila to Shanghae, in Shada Straits. We can discover no omission in the list given, all Lear
and by Mr Solivet, B.N., Master of and from among masters of coasting vessel
the precautions necessary to secure comfort en rante Ít 270
qualified pilota, an excellent feet in
and at the various jus being very minutely set beight,, nearly
forth. From stage to stage of the journey, the brai fine weather, down channel light .E. trades, crossed the line on the 27th March, eller will and that his author has preceded him, had moderate s.& trades, pussel meridian and that the discomforts from which he suffers bare been suffered before by one at least who bas set him: of the Cape, on the 20th April, in lat. 40s R.
self to devise means whereby they may be overcome in crossing the Indian Ocean had light Wa commend to those interested in topographical winds and fine weather, passed Anjer on the researches the description given of Peking, while 13th June, in coming up the China Sea had those whose ideas regarding the history of Peking light s.. winds and fine weather, with and the many vicissitudes through which it his par- strong Easterly current, spoke the Ham-sed since its first establishment are misty and cop burg schooner Chuson in lat. 14 ., loug. fused, will do well to rah over the condensed account
order."
is
the
MISCELLANEOUS.
The native community of Bombay have convened meeting for the purpose of sending an address to Lard Halifax, timuking hinu for the kind and liberal manner in which he had studied their interest during the time he held the high and important post of Secretary of State for India. Not alone in Bombay are these addresses being prepared, but likewins íz other parts of India. Prana Observer.
112.
by the means commonly recognized amongst H. M. S. Con topped, with very proci board of examiners could always be formed Tax British ship Eagle reports having had Dutione. The Daily Press says, keep the tous sides, and may be seen :8 miles from under the presidency of the Harbour Mas- Chinese up to their engagements, but break ours if convenient. It is obviously sad Wost and is two cables long and a half a cable broad, having low rocks about its the duty and policy of the British minister base, the reef projecting from its West point two cables and marked under extending to act strictly up to the letter of the treaty water by an overfall or a break. On East Revise it if it can be accomplished, but and West bearings it makes as a aquaro let all things be done decently and in mans of rock with a detached pinnacle on its North side. Raleigh Rock was sought for on all the known positions and in the space comprehened between 250 50 and 200 10 N. lat, and 1330 40 and 124° 50' E. long, hat nothing was seen of it. It was described by Sir Edward Belcher of H.M.S.. Samarang, who landed on it in 1845, as a rock 90 feet high, and 60 feet in diameter, and could not therefore, if ox- isting in the position assigned, have escaped detection. Raleigh Rock is placed in post tions varying from . by N. to E.S. 20 By Command of Vice Admiral Geo. St.
HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE. DANGEROUS ROCK AT ENTRANCE OF GASTAR STRAITS.
To the Editor of the CHINA MAIL.”
HONGKONG, 28th June, 1866,
Se--The following extract of a private
or
30 miles from Tiana.
letter from an Officer of H. M. Surveying Vincent King, C. B., Naval Commander-in. English finently, having learnt it when suli yoang
Yeaael Steallow at Batavia, containing an Chief, account of the discovery of a very dangerou rock at the Southern entrance of Gaspar Strait,-is of so much importance especially at this season when so many homeward bound vessels, are leaving
in anticipa
ward it to you for publicat, that I for
tion of the urdinary official account.
JOHN W. REED,
Master R.N. Commanding H. M.S. “ Rifleman,” in
charge of China Sea Survey.
(Sigued) C. J. Bullock, Commander of H.M.S. "Serpent."
NOTICE
Is hereby given, that on and after the 1st of September nest, during the erection of Second Order Dioptric Light on the Clock Tower, a temporary Light will be exhilated
THE British ship Kwang Foong Captain HEAD, which left Chefoo on the 12th June, reports had variable weather and winds the 2 Brat ¡days after leaving port, then got till the 20th instant, when strong. 8. experienced a heavy gale from . to N. W.; continued till the 26th instant, then got the wind from the Northward and East- with incessant rain till the arrival.
MISCELLANEOUS.
giren at page 25. We cannot pass in review each chapter of Mr Dannys' valuable little work." It is iven something more. than a bare itinerary of the route from Peking the great wall and thence to Kaigon. The road is worthy of more attention, and the placas of interest within reach upon both sides would well repay a thors digresstour from the immediate object of the work. As, however, the preface states that the au- thai's original intention has not been carried out în its entirety, we shall probably find a second series published 37 soon as the pressure of other engage ments leaves the author at leisure to pursue his de sign.
a pity that the author has not
"Meanwhile, those who intend to travel in the Chi- li province during the approaching autumn mouths, canos do better than accept those. Notes as their guide,N. C. Daily News, May 28, 1866,
TAX FOTURE NAPOLEON-A writer in the Patris gives the subjoined particulars relative to the educa tion of hie imperial highness The Loure of the prines are fully recupied, and his studios well co- bined it a hygienie point of view with exercises of the body. Under direction of M. Monnier, his totor, the young prince shows great aptitude for classical studies, history, and geography. He speaks
from an Fglish attendant who has always been with him. Although at present his bighness has as
BENZINE COLLAS. commenced the regular study of drawing and music, THIS Preparation is of the greatest use in dissoly he shows decided taste för both. The prinos ing out all Greasy Steins from Silke, locha, having received a few indications from M. Capenuz, and Wearing Apparel of every description, as also the sculptor, amuses himself with modelling dimplefony Furnitare, Carpets, &c. However delicate tho of China, has recently been published by Mr N. B subjects which show considerable taste. Amongst Fabric, this Liquid will not damage it; and being Dennys and we are glad to be able to express them are shree especially which have surprised those perfectly neutral, it may be used for removing Grassos favorable opinion upon its serviceableness. The who have seen them; the first is a statuette of Stains from Valuable Papers and Drawings For book, though it only pretends to be a guide to travel lancer on horseback, and the other two busts of the cleaning Gloves it stands ourivalled. Price is. 6d. lers, contains much useful and intetereating infor- Emperor and of M. Mounier. The young prince has Wholesale Agent J. Sauger and Son; 150: Oxford mation; and may be looked upon in the light of the rapinly unde homself familiar with all kinds of St, London, and all Chemists and Druggists, Observatury far tourists in Northern Provinces of gymnastic exercises under the instruction of M the name, CoLLas, All others are counterfeits. the Celestial Empire-Shanghai Recorder.
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