200
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THE CHINA MAIL,
leave the fiall neither particularly sunak | classes. It wants the regularity and the further and we reach the celebrated Exeun. with its beauty nor withits interest, ali onder and ovanliness of the suburbs, and-ation Ground. think that we must have seen something to buy parts it is hut a uglected waste, On this spot that dreadful man Commis like it somewhere befor
Not far from this spot used to be the celebrated cat and dog street. 1 recollect myself visiting this place when it must have been in its zeml I can aver that at that time I saw dogs roasted whole like sucking pigs, cats like bares and, which upset all my calculations, rate. were besides cats and dogs conåned in cages and being fattened ready for killing: Now there is nothing of the kind, but there are a few savoury stara composed of dogs and you
tre
11B
סינטייר
abunting in filth and in unpleasant
odones.
No. 1139.---Ocrönen 11, 1866}
I must conclude this sketch of my visit, the to City of Rama" by assuring my friends that wherever they go in the neigh bourhood of Canton, they may consider will
do have lost one within the last three fries in this lately, but they find the ground covered with clotted themselves perfectly safe, and that they
you see.
2
square will
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the
kabinet.
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one of the itust
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26 37
or any per-
It is
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24th-Schooner Amby Truder Atrivel from Formon, and Mr. M Phail, hearing of a for cign vessel being lost on the Pescadores, had chartered the schooner to proceed to our as sistance. Hearing that we were not board of a junk in the same harbour, he came on and offered to take us in the schooner to Hongkong the Captain of the junk of our isha to
He paid $105 we then went on board the Amoy Trader. 7--Ainived in Longkong harbour 11 and
October 4-Sailer from Making;
would be obvious that this arrangement
The ducks are then forwarded to farms is had no juuk, but would send the Captain would enable the deviation of the compass
the neighbourhood where they may also be and crew to a place where he could get to be daily teated.
seen, and large quantities are scut up the one, Evening Mail, Oct.
siouer Yeh put to death some 200,000 hu- country in duck boats" of which mu
September 11, Tuesday, a 31.1
1.--Cama tu man brings in the short space of one year. bers are anchored about. Ducks are on- TRE expenditure on the telegraph in the
an agreement with the Mandarin to for. We now descent from the wall, and con Uu this spot to this day executious are of sidered a great relish by the Chinese, and ward then to Making and from there to Australian colonies is as follows-Victor
tinue our route along the main sormet in constant occurrence, twenty human brings they are usually prepared by being tattoned Amoy 1011., packed up the remaining riau lines and stations, £4.99 s lid
which we were previously. Bearing to the at a time, and horrible tortures are perpe-out and dried. On the Batce side, there clothes; natires again plundered using New South Wales (lines only) to the end
left and taring down few bye atrests we are fences of all this.. It is a narrow dirty ob- down the river may be seen a Tea planta bont to Makung, but was not allowed to
trated. Yet where the traces and evi- are some very pretty walks and further sent by Mandarin
alo
board of a оп of 1864, £122,025 18. 3d. South Austra
son set down at the Temple of the five
falting Han lines and buildings, £99,179 198. d
Genti or Rama, from which Cunton derives sure yard, apparently devoted to the
tion,
take our boats. Landed at Mekung, where The figures for Queensland are not a available,
1 name. It appears that the Five Gemi, pottery business. There is nothing what-
we were more hospitably received than at: the cost will be about fót per mile, or ju
for reasons which do not appear, turneliver to show ite éharacter. It may
wal
Sand Island. Mandarin charged a $20 round numbers about £50,000, exclusive
themselves into
that we find a into rams and subsequently herds stored
piteber
boy full yo of human
for conveyance and provisions from Sand of etations. The arst line in Victoria was
leads stowed away in one of the into stones, and they are preserved in
Island to Corners
Makung opened in 1854 there are now work if workin
The building wer that colony 2,517 miles
September 12th, Wednesday Wore Along which there
perhaps it is indeed dear Pino was
which they have not taken the trouble destroyed were sent last rear 210,777 private,
erent bull.
meet with nothing but civility on an handed over to the Maung Mandarin. With rever
1927 1ઇ
I cats the
which i grea!
ha the ust pre- to wash away, and lying
about
may be the sicles. suges, value £34,770, and 68.946 on gablic are plenty of them to be seen dried snitchjects in Canton and coupon victim has been strangled or tortured, and they must not resent it, but pass on without Captain of a junk to take us. to Amoy, ine
Should
Trave fason at ay September 13, Thursday-Found an in- wooden cross on which some wretched
time to suppose that rudeness is intended terpreter and made an agreement with service, value £11,210
The year's profit, flatteus out at the prosent day in marly seen foutai
fold the wall. stili hangs suspendest in after paying expenses, was £9.457.
The every poulterer's establishment you pass.
lite tower.
It noticing it. I would caution then to drop $200 It was sad of this hell, thats which has been left about the van that domineering bullying demeanour which.! darin charged $10, which exhausted the Adelaide Express, from which we gather
We are now carried under an open gate, long as in
interpreter $10, Makung Man- gas in Lang there pe bars would ever way indod so wirpen that we witness the above particulars, states that the Ra
why intu
with a formibia befit Canton; sheld during the fom- konceling down in a row and their heads Chinese, at any rate for the time being. 4th to 24th On board the junk, which re and it is a curious fact that horrible sight of some twenty or thirty men Europeans think it necessary to assume with Captain's money. Then wont on both the goon and Singapore section of the line to archway before us. There are four huge! it was Australia is to be laid immediately, that a figuree unter this, as in the case
in the evening. flying off like so many poppies one after Those who get into difficulties have usually lize
is being constructed by the Dutch Gor-Temple at Honam, and the God of real The Nangloy Court House and Prison another the executioner passes along themselves alone to thank for it.
mained still in Makung, the Captain refus ernment through Sumatra, with a view to is not only placarded with petitions, but are close at hand and are the next objects the row. Thin
his may happen and
very often connect Singapore and Batavia, and that
ing to go to sea on, account of the bad the whole
of interrat. place is crowded with wretched
A huge dragon is painted upon does happen to visitors, but upon the pre-
weather. the question of connecting the eastern per luuling outcasts covered with diseases, who the waif opposite, the asual cable of a of Java with Timer is also under the cun- lie out so reany hours each day to earn Civil Mandarinate, and a somewhat appro-and there is
sent oomsion all is peace and tranquillity THE USANCE OF BILLS. Rideration of the Netherlands Government.
Try Friend of India, Sept. 13, contains his favor This is
19 the great Temple priate ono I fear. All these are links in the electric chain that of Longevity, the largest in auton
In all other respects it inballowed ng whaterer to show the
vel nature of the
the spot.
bave Tuis ditfelt for a
for a stranger to distinguish be heard of pigs having been drives in after the subjoined remarks in reference to the will soon, we hope, unite Hongkong to the other colonies in the East and South.
appointments it is simply a teen the residence of a Mandaria, a Court an execution to lick up the blood of the aunounced change in the usauce of Bills, CenteᎸᏗ .
of that of Honam, but not or so
of Justine, a Temple of
wretched victims.
us it will be felt by the Eastern, trade:- of a is just the sort of Evening Mail, Oct 10,
large a
a suade..
The only new marked feature other public building.
The ship or
which would take place in China. occurrence, are all
The question of a four or six months 08- a Noah, whom
alike in architecture and in their We recollest visiting an execution ground ance of bills seems to have been too hastily is a
general features. Many years ago when upon one occasion, when the executioner decided by the Exchange Banks in Loudon Canton was in our hands I went over the stood gloating over the butchery he was If the rule limiting the usance to four Na prison with friend and a more about to perpetrate, and jemingly drew his months applied only to the horrible sight it is impossible to sunctive. fingers along the blade of his sword, while overlatul it would be unestepicurable. But growing trade i
The prisoners looked like wibi men.
Their
inted to the wretched miscreants he he pointed
the simplest calmulation, will show that six--Mercurg was about to slaughter. hews and their faces uuahaven, some of
months is just sufficient to cover the time them for many years, their bodies uncover-
We are now not far from the river's side which elapses between the pulling of goods ed except by a small rag about their loius, and we make for the nearest landing place, on board in one port and their final arrival latisone from disease, vernia and dirt, take boat and return homewards. On our their destination in the warehouses. Cer- and squalid from starvation and These Fish have very singular tails, sup Their hair grew up stid and bristi gleet, way we pass the celebratod "Fiower bouls"tainly, even if no allowance he made for relaxed by the Governors of the Bank of
from or floating places of entertainment. These accidents, posed to bugs Flower boats are complete houses in their
Naval dormant for ao many centuries.
Architecture, bas tbus lain manes, and many of them had still the way, and are more particularly used for putrifying remains of unwashed and unevening orgies, singing girls and suppers. Fituesto we have been merely travelling cared for wounds, which had been inflicted To a stranger, they are one of the most itself.
We 277 the suburbs. now start for the city upon them by the cruellest tortures. They striking sights of Cauton. The boata are On our way we request qur quiles were all in chains and there was not one gaily illuminatbout 8 P., till midnight. The musical entertain- them whose countenance did not ment amongst nut every object of interest we may top are introduced to Tea bousca, ¡ betoken that death itself would be a
ralist Lilled with
thirsty Chinese, the from such
misery.
There is an objection The singing girls are many of them very
Tup with a somewhat nois. H majority of the place itself; and now to Europeans intruding to those
pice looking, end are doubtless |
prized .sanctified in nooks at every open spaed and corner antifright to interfere with Chinese Justice ments or their virme. They are
It is omsidered that we stalls are erected ..
comestibles of volunt which
demerits the most dainty description are exposed for at its de
anithat
are best shut out from painted and got up and they are amon Little cups of soup or savoury cakes, ur observation. salv.
the street opposite the patied in their vocal operations by music In very like Brown Windsor," seem much Yamnare numbers of unman beings chained of a primitive al monotonous character in favor. The streets themselves are like a huge stones, which they drag about after The entertainers amuse themselves by parrow alleys varying from four to six feet them, but have otherwise their liberty. It luuging about, drinking tea and sawshoo,
u wilth and seldom moro
curious sight and one which I do out Boking tobacco or opium and a little hung out with painiet sign boards, the recollect to have seen elscalier. There is occasional chat with the fair venalists, who Dames of the various spa and have a very sort of deu "shelter and rest.
a little
in which these assuune a certain amount of coyness for the postty appearance to a slanger. The shops being
together for
occasion, but are sadly wanting in that are all open, having more the appearance
Mahometan Mosque, the
old general refinement, which is the greatest minaret of which is one of the most pro- charm and grace of their sex.
You
Canton, is
Ir appears that there is no truth in the statement of some of the London news pers that the savages of New Caledonia kil- led, cooked, and eat the crew of a boat the Fulton, French iron atrainer and that, they in retaliation, burned down several cottages. Letters to the 6th of June have arrived in France from those islands, and they make no mention of any such event which was said to have occurred prior to that date.
Evening Mai, Oct. 10,
THE Administration of Lighthouses in France announces that towers have been constructed on the reefs in the vicinity of the Ile de Noirmontier. They are about 14 feet above high water, and are painted in different colours.
Evening Mail, Oct
VISITTU CANTON.
October, 1865.
CHAP. II.
A STROLL ABORT THE SUB BA
10,
A practice prevails in Canton of taking breakfast at noon. This custer was the ginally introduced by Lord Elgin at Shang bae, and here in Canton-ir is in full force For
visitor it is decidedly Luconcedent, as he loses half the day he is auxions to de rate to sigut seeing. As a could get away we took chairs" and started on our tour
B1
ball in the of old age, or Longevity, Old age is almost worshipped by the Chinese, and the Ez it is, mething truly beautiful. An aged Chinese himself is however any thing but beatiful.
He always conveys to me the idea of
hoary old miscreant. leaving this Templo, enter a doorway on your right, and
and you
will find a garden in which are preserved-innumerable Gold Fish,
10
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which
of a bazur than a street, and the fare is so crowded that itis alunost
When
i
i
are is
herd
ported off toget along. The wealthy are inent objects as
the
others
houses.
15 10-
"f
siruated in the neighborhood, but there nothing particularly about it,
is
some fifteen hundred further of the!
In the dis
ment laste
Diese mura
for their beauty than for their a high-
and found a
CHAP. IV.
at
gents, five months short The only result of the new rula, in the case of Cape ships, is likely to be the crippling of trade. There is another view of the question which confines this conclusion.
All authorities hav agreed that the mone
Very
Was
Crisis.
count
LATE TELEGRAMS FROM LONDON.
The
e following are the latest Telegrams to band via Calcutta, by the B. 1. S.-N. Co.'s steamer dsiz.
EXPORT BUSINESS WITH THE EAST. Now that the price of money has been
instead of a 10 per cent., it may be useful to juice into the manner in which financial arrangements in connection with
pur
feeling of in-
that
by
+
letter of
Vagabondage and dissase, and a slipot for the Chinese the mania for gaming the ing Govenor General of the Two Proviticas DS gruterque cedar troca we reached them reported that negotiations between Italy ultimate payment for the yarn." Now, befonging to one of the bouses which studs stic
sticks, and a would-be purcha the gambling and hure also resides the English Crust and
Instead those who are, parishing of disease or star stipulated sum for a chance in situated ther extremity of the city is dariu, and one of fly man, a big an- Liverpool and Manchesterton markets honourable, and not characterised wasio we are soon in the bug and rmole of the Wheels of Fortune" at watering terraces of Heights," euvared all over with they arent all times open to Europeans, The Englaud returns for the week ending to day
ware
get the Worst of it.
the
the
ness.
It is
by more
the speale funds, to come from Madres shal, when received, be applied to ta
thus far, there is no reasonable ground for exception. The dealings of Manchester sad London in this matter are fair and
than usual trading risk. It is only wh Lovies, 13th September. The Bank of the capitalist appears that a new show the following result as compared with tion.
danger is imported into: the transac- The capitalist refises to ad- previous account:Increase in reserve of vance for a period exceeding six months. notes £548,000 durcase in bullion avid tirus necessitates the exporting
1,000; decrease in bills disented
firms to obtain the requisite funds by means of a bill
three months. nataring earlier than they can
possibly have the re- uittance from India to meet it. This
Cotton Markets
elorient
LONDON, 14th Septemon, Total sales dit instrument is therefore, & most p
During his absence his son, are Riiotic dirty eer's shops are the most unscuous ab native mandarins the remembrance and the terraces, be the most pleasing and orig. 503,000; week's imports of Surata 70,000;
lad,
bas
panorama
From the
Markets quiet.
INDIA.
26
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East Indian export trade have been and are still earried on. An investigation at crisis which has hardly yet passed away
iscloses that the serious monetary ant of credit and not of capi-difficulties that canbarass many of the due to
∙10 & want tal. It was a bankers not a morebants finns engaged in this business when the
From Overland and Gurney's dis- rate is suddenly raised, and a house to the
Bank the Agra
the commercial coa- security prevails i wuse of the failures consisted of
stod of banking and tran- munity, are in a eing houses. Rarely did the merchant.pro-to
pro-to the fiction Try great mensure due of the financial ious nature of per succumb, and still more rarely from any undertakings entered into by
by thein cause outside the bad management of the
acordance with the system now adopted banks. If this is the case the hapke do by exporting house and by capita
We will illustrate what we mean wrong to punish the merchants, and the lists. wrong will re-act on their owu business, En (and our attention has been turned to the general injury of trade and publis
this pros-
subject letter perity. In the face of the fine magia beruse the Time) by following the couples or in united opinion of the mercantile comuni ordinary operation. Let us suppose ties of India if the Frchange Binks adhere to 100 bales of yarn are about to be sent their new aud, as we believe, hastily formed London firs to Madras, The first sip rule in the case of goods sent otherwise thum take is to order the yarn from a respect overland to or from Tudin, the rule will not
able Manchester buying house, and e continue in force six months.
specifieit Crossing the bridge by who, stepping
fed quantity is duly bought and shi
"The next stop," ped.
says the writer f rates the settlement of Shameen from all along at a quick pace, clear the way by
the letter to which we have
iz 10 we passed the Custom exclarations and shouts.
alluded, things Chinese
shouts. The pavement is
PUNTINQUA'S AND THE FA-TER GARDENS,
arrange that Manchester shall be paid Houss, and were soon upon that wretched
"distance composed of
of rough
granite slabs, very loose Prophet. Some und
in the
without London really parting with coin scene of desolation, the site of the
sa filthy gutterne direction is the old Pagoda also pro- Foreign Factorios, burnt down and destroy-
and irregular and beneath is
There is no doubt that for a long pull of
until Marras has sold the yarn and remit Ihminently asociated with the destinies of three quarters of an hour on the water the of recuptació every abomination.
ted the proceeds, This realisation cannot ed in 1857. There they are, untouched and some of the bye streets are nasty dirty littis Canton now fast falling into decay and evening would have been the most agreeable Atlantic Cable successfully laid. Prussian unheeded, nothing but the foundations and Loves devoted to opium smoking, and The greatest age I have heard assigned to they should be seen while the son is upon mittee regarding the treasury notes Bill, Manchester and London, with
LONDON, 10th September. Last year's be relied on under nine months from date and in leaning in a most threatening manner.
er. time, but to view gardous to advantage Chamber of Deputies at Saturday's Co-
of the shi's sailing. The payment thin floors remaining to shew their whereabouts.
gambling
las to
be ranged upon the joint credit of Although the focality is a most desirabla thing whatever attractive about these den... it is two thousand four hundred year 1-day soon after breakfast for Puntin, ne miopted an aineniment to reduce proposed guarantee from the latter to the fornier that
buti attempt
them. We therefore started the following one, no apt has been made by the Chi-
I do not think reverse but they quite the
yare 201
interesting;
is Any thing nese to build upon it, but the put remains to strangers as being the haunts of the tire pressing an antud de tastar Gardens, and after a long pull up the river
issue to thirty million florins. Demobili desolation and waste, the resort of greatest vices peculiar to the people. With extrusive Yaman and ardens tf the Tastar aud through
Army conincneed. It is a very pretty creek bordered sation of Prussian dr is some
General or Commander-in-Chief, now Alth of every description. The only object thing extraordinary. Every vendor in
and Austria progress slowly. Reportedl number of Mandarin gala boats which strikes the visitor is an old treasury public streets carries with hit the
that King of Saxony intends to abdicate. had preceded us. These gardens are the pri Me Brooke Robertson, C.B.
Man- Fifty-eight thousand aliens disbanded intect amidst
vate property of a all the ruins, and has been, bargaining
ning for the article he wants, genetance at the further
the Salt Commissioners of converted into a sort of dead house for rally
picturesque group of hills the Empire. By the courtesy of Puntingna d dall. the great lottery of sweetmeats. It reminds vel કરો the vation to creep into and die. 'Crossing this
which the great Coin- do not fail to avail themselves of his polite places at home, where you may be sure you his capture and that of the city, and which garde
Taissioner Yoh was building at the time of
a peculiar feature in a Chinese of active life and taking the first street to alway Terent scene is the Pawnbro- came in most opportunely for barracks foramen
that such thing as 'flower berla are a are our left, ATB shortly down at the
All the plants are in pots, and establishment of Poling, dealer in Chinaker's shop we have just visited. At the
our troops,
There are still some
there are after all Peking is no Enemy aqnitng-42ed brok; of the establishment is a large square f
officers and wanty
speaking mney stationed
shrnus, dwarfed £74,000. At Liverpool hd Manchester but few flowers, A venues little man with large spectacles of brick tower, with the smallest possible ustensity and actually instructing Chinese d
of the most grotesque
arkets prices held firmly. Chineas dicaensious. He wares au purely holes for light and ventilation. In height i
traops in
in European drill, but no doubt also r
artificial rockeries, alco, lakes about in the
Insurrection modern, good, and reable in prica. towers above all the houses and
PAR
with the intention of keeping before
in Candia, spreading. adorable Lotus, picturesque bridges and
nicious fiction. of the Weali bales 606,000; week's sales of
When it is drawn by takes charge:
the most prominent features. of the
establishment and
Inside of Cantón.
i effect of
total inports of week Manchester on, London at, say per of our late occupation. Close
Smuts 40,000; The whole bas * peculiar way of
with pecially asking ects in the
ars sine oight stories siers, in which all at hand upon the wall is situated a large nat effect, quite dissipating the idea of a
money too little for things. This is a fact rars the pawned articles are tied up in undies square duarit home, similar to those erect garden, and leaving ns ns it were in a dream.
Tutal stock 624, (in), total stuck ut Stents undertake to do that, which neither of indeed in Chini, and well worthy of note, with a rooden label attached to, each, ali ed over ends of the gates callest the Fire Situated upon the borders of the lake are 340,000.; total pork it Aubrication expitalist on his side pretends is believe at them contemplate while the especially to those wou are about to investigd with the atmost regularity and Searled Pagoda" from its being live stories numerous summer houses
which at night From here we pass on to the establishment
gat
that the bill will be paid at the end of order poi shelves throughout the building high.
are gaily Massive trane nus view of tummit of this building my flavinated and in one of these of Usbing, whose show is decidedly very su The whole is
times' the specified six months. In confined by a
Pantinua and his friends were at the mo
good perior to Polings, but the article not one door, which defies all appliances of i oblined on a clear day, and it
fon and of the city and suburbs of Cas sarcoiding country is 1 ho
the bill matures, is renewed for three months, Finding of Jervis Comt Martial on first mont feasting.
ting. They are furnished in the eta better and at least one third dearer in! and edition says that many of
repays
most expensive mauner with black wood"
ood and second charges not guilty, on other three and the borrowed money is at last paid price
congratulate Used upon tower way
on the foc have huge stones upon the top of the god for the trouble of its scent. The City or couny furniture surmounted by marble guilty. Sentence dismissal from service
with the remittance from the East. But it tuna he must he
and often does so happen,
that. he anting and
way happen, Terraces tops.
with recommendation to mercy, which com- continue all round the be intrndors. Occasional pou all would walls stretchin their irregulat rden in every direction and the walle mander-in-Chief declines attending to. Sen- paying Poking another visit upon our re
pas barber's course have much
money market undergoes one of its peri- agigan- turn. We How sanntar down Curio Street
tic serpent and 2017 witness the operation of of the great wall of China., which used to i mnd other writers in a most elaborata mans, and visit the ship of Pe-Chan, reputed the shaping and earpicking, all of
For him, of tot cures are covered with quotations frow Confucius fence confirmed. Revised finding cu first oilical perturbations, and that the rate of
interest
rises in consequence. heat Closant
at hand we visit oli Yeeshing, a is included in the fee. Conjurors who ara
Under such ris
such circuinstances, the bill astonish us so much in our yontlul days per
i with in one part is a oll Polite
very picturesque We now start for the king Wang 3low" island with je pagoda upon it reached by The ones clever at their tricks, but not over delicate,
great trouble renewed, the capitalist afect ing the while much uneasiness about his and stalls with huge spectacled profes-always crowded, wid not with the roost gumes houses and alcoves. In another in their subjects are constantly not with or People's Temple" a place which is beautiful terraes of rockery abounding in
money, and ending by exacting 10 por cont:,. into our chairs and off to the Temple of the sinus letter writers and fortune tellers, agreeable companions. As we enter the situated the great theatre, an ostravagantly We have been furnished, through the kind
As we draw near to the Temple we aud- and the superstition of the lower orders. has more the saved edifice, the place got up building capable of accommodating ness of Captain Young, with the following timised are in a position to honour the ori
standing proof of the want of education coursgards of
Hosts an infinite number of guests and with abstract of of the log of the 7. Boyd, ginal hill with funds independent of the re We pass through the gateway beneath the of idlers lounge about, stalls are erected on sleeping apartments and opian saloons which vessel was wrecked on Tortoise Rest, and motley throng gathered under a sort wall of what is tormed the "New
mittance for the goods actually exported, overhead, and
aloud the advantages of their wares.
they are placed at the mercy of the capital Aaro remarkable and Close little glass
model of a steam-ship to
ist, especially at a season such
such as we have of carved Sgures, fine
when even the suspicions hannete, taken us to Jade street, a never ending si Jetter writing are going on, i found upon the stage are worth observing
just experienced, lanterns and what not. The whole soms thoroughine in which nearly every
barbr
September 9, Sunday, P.M., commenced are publicly plying their vocation.
The seats of strangely shaped stones which
mention of their names would in all pro to form a sort of faucy fair and thers is is devoted to the sale of the dearly loved in the Temple an old woman may be seen are to be seen placed upon tripods all round perienced strong braczes; a strict look-out
with light winds and cloudy weather, ex- bability entail ruin and bankruptcy. Ulti- music, dismal and
and mournful in its tomos, Jade of the Chinese, to articles of with lighted joss-sticks or pastilles falling the gardens are a peculiarity of the Chinese attended to.
willimagine, the capital- 10 P.M; wind and weatherly, however, we w suing from & restival at one side.
vertu cen
generally, and also to the well known down before one of the huge wooden
and which is scattered moderated, altered the course.
ist gets his money at the end of nine months tu a religious
the
There are plenty of them at it in different throughout the lake when in full blocus is midnight, light winds with hazy weather. (ransacti "Feast of am of Kingfisher's feathers, which are
(he did not expect chamely
it before), and the Lanterns," which appears to
to be going the
In time
building Others are taking
4. light winda with dark cloudy weat satisfactory cone very striking. 4 Peking mule cart which 4
brought to a more or less South West we reach the
conclusion. gate of the city, an
But is it right that repeatedly afterwards, and it continues to enormous pile surmounted by a slowy look-priest is giving them little bits of paper with is said to be the so called "box" in which tried to stay the ship, she would not come
this pernicionssystem should be perpetuated? which
a number of the the good wouls upon them, they air Ward, the American Minister, was carri round, she fell off on to the Tortoise Beef
and ed stationed in the
to the capital, but in all probability (Pescadores). 4:40 AM, clewed up the ing the opinion of the correspondent of our All round the courtyard are 16.
that the important item of into religion it is difficult to say. We do house below, and they lounge about to all alle. the Buddhist Hell," or the punish-
guard- tised.
Hle chambers containing groups of figures made
export business to ludia should be so cou- not trouble ourselves much about the Tem intents and purposes like ordinary Chinese
"milar journey. His travels well and found 4 feet in the hold:. At day character, for to the full extent of the bmd an anchor to heave the vessel off, sonuled ducted as to give it a legitimate. eredit ple but dismounting from our chairs imme-coolies, with nothing whatever to distin-nents of the wicked after death. Some of appliance for a lengthened journey up the break, saw about 30 boats leave the shore fide credit so employed would be diminished
gondola
may also be seen, fitted with every diately make for the rear of the Luilding guish them except a surt of
thes are of the most horrible and revolting country, emblazonment where is situated the fall of the Five Hun On their bincses when iu fall costume. We desorption, and are but too faithful represen
and come to the vessel; about 300 natives the dangers, auxieties, and uncertainties to dred Gods, or as we will rather call them at the wall by a flight of steps and tatious of the dreadful tortures perpetrated visit Howqua's garden, which was the great take possession of everything moveable when the Bank rate is raised to 10 per From here we cross the river to Fatee and boarded and commenced immediately to which that trade is, among others, exposed Worthies.
Tobiam an indistinct view of the general by Chinese Justice upon the living
resort of foreigners before Puntinqua's was objects which meet our view, features of the city, of which more anon.
sounded the
pumps The Examination Hall, where the public accessible. It is only a repetition of what
again and found 5 feet cent."-Oriental Circular. after the two bideous figures at the doorway
water. At 10 A coraputitive examinations for the civil ser- we have already seen on a smaller and striking very heavily, a large piece of her 1, stern port started, ship. vice take place once in every three years, is
nore neglected scale.
danskeel The nursery gardens
coming up. At 11.30 à M., ship big- situated close nudier the wall in the South are well worthy a visit, and the dwarfed ed, natives becoming more enger for plun-
of went bruer tecity. It
with wire framework into all sorts of grotesque clothes the sailors could comes of little
ttle cellars about four
his nautical in- instant We have to chronicle this week too are looked upon as the greatest source
literary are very amusing. At most of these gar struments, ,clothes," &o. At 12,30 A. M., The walls of Chu-candidates, and which exist to the
one of the most disgraceful Chinese riots number deus of happiness
We pass along rows of the ton City are seven miles round, but enclose of over eight thousand.
number of clay figures are sold, and found the ship sinking very fast, fost all that has ever occurred in Penang. On hideous creatuten which surround thischam
space which, while it contains most of the wall at this point we pass tending the those representing Europeans are some hopes of saving lier, the Captain and crew
the Prefecture!
Tuesday afternoon about 2 o'clock, and Many of
of them bear unmistakeable great public buildings and institutions, College, a showy building on our
What
eccentric on our right,
had the -boats laying on oars, the natives just as the Europe mail was signalled as foreign extraction and Marco Polo numbers but a very small proportion of the and on our left outside the old city walls is hatching establishment, where myriads of
Not far from here is the celebrated duck took entire charge of the vessel. signs of
entering the harbour, a sharp fire of mas himself is pointed out amongst thein. A population. This latter is set down at one situated the Emperor's Temple, where that ducks are a annually artificially brought tain ordered the hoata to pull towards the
September 10, Monday, M.- The Cap ketry was commenced from a house on the end of the apartment we come upon a million and a half, an estimate which I dignitary in annually publicly worshipped for the idea has been propagated that land on Sand Island, as soon as they landed wards Unjong Passier, upon a house oppo
the left baud side of Beach street
going to- zanerable figure of the Emperor Kinloung think is by no means overdrawn, when we by the Viceroy and all the high officials of the eggs are batched by their own natural before whom the everbating Josa sticks consider the vast area which is overal by the Province at midnight of the new year.
the natives surrounded them and
and phun-
which was s returned
from warmth without any stimulating agent but burn. The Emperor is the principal objel the city and suburim, and the close packing In the Courtyard of the Temple some sol- such is
derad "them
sita, of most
most what they had saved rest Shot followed shot and for about of all their worship: he's the greatest God of the houses and the people,
wreck, The
altogether the
The
from the
the Mandarin
balf ordered the diers are practising archery,
an hour a regular
fusillado place. With customary City the Clues have hom this is the image of itself 13 t better in most plers than a Chinese politeness they allow us to try our in which they are laid out, are heated by village, and accommodated them in a joss
fact is that for several days the chambers,
s, shipwrecked to
50 to
the othe
otherside of the Happily, as far as we can learn, results the greatest Ennagy that aver ruled over | hump of a tins It forms the rai-legten of nil i find at it, and when we break two of their furnaces and having been ouce started, by
were not attended with any loss of life, China and winsly enough of the one who the offend the sold by, but it is arrows, one after the other, they beg that being kept in large numbers in baskets in
house for two days. The Caplain toll the though sixteen persons were more or less was mozi farunrable.to foregister.
wounded. We read by the wealthy and the trading, we will not think anything of it.
Mandarin by sign, that he wished to go to
The cause of this disturbance, A little a combined atmosphere they gradually hatch. Amay; in reply the Mandarin said that be we have been informed, arose through some
to with silks, Cranes
and other goods for ouraslection. Now again
Hundred Gods.
denly find ourselves in the midst of a gay
over
of read with
It is
to throw
W
Sliem
well
*appearance of
the appearance of a fair.
and second charges same as original, Press,
LOSS OF THE 7. E. BOYD.
and the entire Incality a sort of anburb of the old one, on" every side and auxions vendors are shouting op stairs. In this the casement cupboarda Pescadores, on the morning of the 10th andeliers, groups within a separate wall. Our guides the gambling, fortune telling and profes-galls and an old and the curious armas, gin- ultimo, and afterwards tooted by the n-
the
เป
be
the
or even more, for the extended accomoda
tion.
is
the twis frus who are thus vie
pounds, as we come across the same thingy pretty but somewhat flimsy. * their ebance at the fortune sticks and the may be seen at the entrance to the garden, her. 4.30 A., saw broken water ahead, think not, anti will conclude by iterat
in
places. It is got up by subscription, but Braves or what there is about it that can be wormed There is also a
a party
be held for a considerable time in different Hing Clanese Soldiers are stationed pay their fee and go away quite happy de Pantiuqua's own carriage in which he has sails and put the long boat out to run out
The
se
the
Arst
fat men with lots of little chius
creaping about them, who are supp
to be
be symbolical of everything that is gou !
and happy. Rotundity in China is sy
CHAP II.
EXTO THE CITY.
All Chinos Cities of any aportance as
of fabulous dimensions
2
We
contemporary, th
หน้า
CHINESE RIOT AT PENANG.
rather serious The following news of
i
area of ground winches & trees and small creepers trained rownd a der; manied the boats and took the few outbreak among the Chinese at Penang, that a fat man must be wealthy. Children | everybody knows are surrounded with walls which are the studios assigned to quare shapes with plaster faces, hands and feet, Duthie (passenger) lost all apt in contained it the Pennny Guzitie of the 15th
nonymous with beauty, and it is proverbial
ber.
feet
not
case..
it with inte-
took
A
No. 20 đế
quarrel. between the Sengh Yeow, respecti ing nets off Telob B the wrong we neither what we principally ha actual fact that much a nese Kongsis took plac ded with the free use day and looting of Bev na Bazaar, which wer reason to believe, per- understand that the the day the riot took head one of the So-
of,
spot,
was not such as the
bence the disturbar instantly on the Blan with his usual ur with the Magistrate, these occasions, no soo thesch of the nol the approach of rioters than they bega they were well postal of the polics), still sharp fire in the course til they found the par when tlicy almost ins peared; not however sons being arrested the lock quarters peace
was restored concerned. The head Society, Kho-Tian-Te used, we unders vours to restore peace. that the Executive is,
sent state of the law u deal with the Chinese recurring riots. The- ago, and have conti day
THE REBELLION
The subjoined is t from Mandalay aneut per Burmah, from th
We have to tende lab Esmail, for the received the evening Thayetmyo
"Letter from Mial:
to take duties; as be under Atween Woch Salin. Yaynansykia tain Reilly and Eng her and gone to Mand are trying to catch the princes. The Magwa escaped and couge all are well at
Our contemporary most intelligible and There can telegram.
don
at Mandal
in a few days more t
will be caught and to the laws, both of God come into British ter chance of
W escape. them aa
murderers, justice, Political res in honor always
Iways to
pro ment has never yet around murderers.
under surveillance by request is made for It is earnestly hopes Burmalı may
171
upper
pose of y
wit
mese Government e Treaty relations wit Indeed, that
as Resident, with a pe establishment, to who- meht the Court
of bound to give heed i to the administration especially in all subje their relatious and ar reigu status and Gover
MILITARY OÙ- FRANE
Tuz following is a Frankfort, describing tion by the Prussin made by the events o not easily be faced f Frankfort people. I
gone through der foot and placed de of brute force seerus The little sympathy, il for Prussia las ceas
ዩ።
hatred taking its place she has to thank hara-
Jas
as been one of erylus to last. The Pr
without the slightest ciaration of war prece had not been mobiliza treated as enemies wh determined resistance
doug our South Geru suffer for thom as endurance.
It is difficult to reco finement, education
the Prussians pretend in the conduct of the tered on our best iam and riding horses hav from
113 Tot for
purp they mockingly said, forters might learn on. An aged lady,
lady, M officers and 25 men pl conduct of the former
proper in the highest
at dinner the butle against certain remark bis mistress. Suotic-
from the table ed up Lands on him, when t alarmed by the noise, and ordered the serva she would serve the di you believe it, not one her to desist
Another day H. H. have 200 men quarter beautiful new house of cause flowers had bee
window upon the Aust
few
ing
a
days
previou
to know his sympathie
than Prussian. He pr succeeded in getting th
100 men in the Longe another hundred for f told that in his th
CASO ressived
from
high quE The first week of th of constant excitement. some fresh proclamati demands. To ask 2 perfectly infamous what a state of mindi and
tradespeople. Af
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of this demand every or and for three days ou scarcely to be recognize The threat of pillag town is now disavow journals, as a report panie it caused among ficient guarantee for i thoughts, of course,
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