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ollees to Consignées.

"ALBANT" FROM GLASGOW, \ONSIGNEES are requested to send

their Bills of Lading for countersig Daturs and take quick delivery of their

1Consignees of 1500 kegs Gunpowder marked Melfort and shipped by Mesze Blackauas Low & Co. will please send their Bills of Lading at once and take im mediate delivery of their Goods.

15 ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,

Hodgents of the Albany."

21 1869 Hongkong, January. 21, 1 1869.

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"BHAKSPERE? TROM LONDON, 1ONSIGNEES of Congo by the above

Notices of Firms.

NOTICE..

MR. D. OCLARK retires from our Firm, and Mr J. MURRAY FORTES. and Mr E. D. BARBOUR are adinitted Farmers from this date.

RUSSELL & Co. Obine, January 1, 1809,

july2

WR

NOTICE.

117E have this day established ourselves

at this l'ort as MERCHANTS AND | COMMISSION AGENTS under the frm óf KRUMMANACHER & C

J. KRUMMENACHER. R. RADECKER. *

Hongkong, January 1 1869,

Chahed vrysol are requested to send in Office No. 18, Stanley Stret

their Bills of Lading to the undersigned for countersignature and to take inmañiate de- livery of their Goods Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed and stored at Consignteys'- riak aud exponde by

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Hongkong January 19, 1868,

"SEB HENRY HAVELOCK," FROM

LONDON ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above

natned Vessel are requested to send in thkir Bills of Lading to the Undersigned for counteoignature, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods

Cargo impeding the discharge of the ves sel will be landed and stored at Consigneas risk and expense,

HAY & Do

ful

Hongkong, January 18, 1869,

HE following cases have been landed and red at the risk and expense of the Consignges who are requested to take immediate delivery, and

Ex "Hoogly 31st October, 1868. V0 8278

1 Gang Aring,

Biz "Tigre," 6th January, 1609.

361/70, 10 cases Opiumi,

C. BERTRAND, Principal Agent

Hongkong, January 16, 1869.

Notices of Firms ·

of

BE interest and responsibility of LA GEORG WILHELM SCHWEMANN and Mr RUDOLPH BEINses in our firm ceased and 31st Dec

un the 31st December ember 1868 respectively.

WE

THE CHINA MAIL.

New Adveritsements

STEAM TO

SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW: THE P. & U. Co. 65. S...

will

FORMOSA,"

il leave for the shove places, at 6 A.M.) on Tuesday, the 28th Inst., instead of the time previously notitied.

W. MACAULAY, Superintendent, Hongkong, January 23, 1858.

WELSH COALS.

New Advertisements.

SAILORS' HOME, WEST POINT.

Trustees.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATIONS.

1. It is hereby notified for general in formation that, the Contract between the

No: 1758 JANUARY 23. 1869..

RELIGIOUS SERVICES ON SUNDAYS IN HONGKONG ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL-Morning, 11 -Lord Bishop.

Government of Mauritius and the Union o'clock-Lord Bishop. Afternoon 4 o'clock Steam-ship Company, for the Conveyance of Mails enca. a Month between Ceylon and

Hon. W. KESWICK, FORBES, Esq.

JOHN DENT, HG THOMSETT, Mauritius, and between Mauritius and

Esq., B.K.

Natal, having terminated, the correspon dence for Mauritius will he forwarded from

Directors

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Hon. E. B. CIBE, G. J. HELLAND, Esq. G. HEARD, Esq.

W. LEMANN, Lag,

W. MACAULAY, Esq. D. SABSOON, Esq. Rev. W. R. BEAOR.. J. J. MUERAT, M.D. Comunities of aquagement. Hon. W KESWICK, Chairman,

ing, 6.30 P.BL

UNION CAUROK.-Minister, Rev. D. B Morris, Morning Service, 1 A.M.; Even ST. STEPHEN'S VISION CHAPEL(Sar this Office in the Mail for Aden, from vice in Chinese.) Morning 10 o'clock

Rav. Lo Sam. Yuen Afternoon 8 o'clock, whence it will be sent to its destination by the French Mail Packets lowving Aden for-The BATIO

ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.-Wolling. Reunion and Mauritius on the 23rd of each

ton Street. Very Rev. T. Raimondi, P. P Month.

No alteration hag-buen made in the Ap. In the morning, at 6, 1st Maaa

2nd Mass; 8 High Mass with Sermon in Portuguese; 9.30, Last Mass with Sur

OR SALE Best Welsh COALS, from w. MADAULAY, Esq. H. G. TROMSETT, rates of Postage on correspondence ad- 12:

alongside of a, Vessel now in Harbour.

apply to

ROB: S. WALKER & Co. 2fe Hongkong, January 23, 1869.

NOTICE have authorized Mr CLADS BUDDE to aigu our Firm from this date.

DREYER & Co.: Hongkong, January 1, 1868.

THE

Insurances. HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, EVE

CAPITAL 2,000,000 Dortars,

in 2,000 Shares of 1,000 Dollars cal.

Consulting Commities:

GEORGE F. HEARD, ESQ. WM. KAYE, ESQ. R-ROWETT, Esq.

S. D. SASSOON, Esq.

F. BUXEY, EXQ,

General. Marayers-Mers JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.

Head Office, No. 89, Queen's Road.

HE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COM- THE

FANY, which expirea by effluxion of time in a few months, having proved a ghly successful undertaking, it has bean determined by a large number of its share- holders to form a permanent Company, under the same management and with increased Capital..

1807

It is proposed to register the Company Mr FERDINAND NISSEN, and Mr HEIN- under the Limited Liability. Ordinance, MICH ROPFIUS have this day been admitted and the amount of the Capital having been

Two Millions of Dollars, it is con partners in our firm at Hongkong and in fixed China, which now consists of Mr GRONG Bidered that Insurers will be amply scoured THEODOR SIZMSSEN, ME, WOLDEMAR N-thereby, while at the same time each share- MEN, Mr ADOLPH JOOST, ME FERDINÁND Holder will know the extent of his individual N16625 and Mr HEINRICH HOPPICS,

SIRMSSEN& Co Rongkong, Junuary 1; 1860 2up

NOTICE.

R WILLIAM JUDSON BLYDENBURGH,

lability. The capital proposed to be called ap amounts to a large suma, and provision will be made for the creation of an ample Reserve Fund, which will, it is expected, in a very short time accumulate to an amount practically to give is fullest been- rity both to Insurers and Insured, irrespec-

MAYAKO KOE HUL BRUT are admit Live of the unfant Capital,

tud partners in our Firm.

It is intouded to anticipate the termina- tion of the Gild Company, by dissolving it from aud after the 1st December next, and mad essures are being taken for that purpose.

SOMESHANEY CUTLER Low will sign our

Firm per procuration.

SMITH ARCHER & Co. Hongkong, January 1, 1869.

1 "

Hf interest and responsibility of Mr ABRAHAM DAVID EZEKIEL, in our

Firm in Obing, cessed on the 31st Decem- Pub, And Mir Charles ERAS SASSOON

has been admitted, a partner theram from

ED. SASSOON &

1869 Pa

Hongkong, Jauiary

feb

HAVD this day authorised Mr C

LawendyDavis to sign my name par procuration to all orders for goods supplied | to the Hongkong Hotel, and I alone any table tolpay tur guide supplied upon sach

orders

have further authorised Mr Davies to collect all debts due to me on Hotel ac count, for which his receipt will be a suli- cient discharge. . . .

LEE AFOONG. Hongkong, December 1, 1868.

#

NOTICE. RC. J. H. SCHRODER, is authorised to Mixa our Firms, per procuration, from

date.t

SCHWNBECK & THIEL

tf... Saigon, November 14, 1868,

T NOTICE. HD Interest and Responsibility of Mr WILLIAM NEILSON in our Firm ceased on the 30th June last.

Mr TOMAS PAM, MY WILLIAM NISKET Oryerep, and Mr H. SEYMOUR GEADY Are thorized to sign our Firm in Hongkong and Chink from this date.

OLYPHANT & Co. Hongkong, October 6, 1868.

NOTICE.

I HAVE this day established myself as a

PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, AVERAGE. AD- JUSTER and GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT.

LANGDON DAVIES,

Hongkong July 1, 1868.

NOTICE.

ROM and after thie date Mr GEORGE F.

BOWMAN will hot an AGENT of the

Port

Pacifio Mill Steam-ship Company at this

8. PHELPS,

Agent, Hongkong, August 16, 1867.

NOTICE

In anticipating a anxessful career for tho New Company, it is only necessary to pre- sent to the poblie the results of the Uld

PUBLIC AUCTION. GENERAL WEEKLY SALE,

LA

AMMERT, ATKINSON & Co. will

Ball by Public Auction, on

⠀⠀ TUESDAY,

the 26th inat, at Noon, at their Sales Rooms, Queen's Road,--

An assorted Invoice of English Sta tionery, consisting of cream and blue- laid note, foolacap, letter and overland Paper, commercial and official Envelopes of assorted sizos, Blotting-paper, writing, copying and red Ink, etc., etc..

13 doz. superior made white Shirts,

linen fronte, M

12 piocos scarlet Flannels, 20 pieces all wool fancy Flannels. 10 pieces Scotch Tweeds.

8 doz. Lanbg'-wool Drawer's and

Undershirts,

5 pieces red and green Damask. 10 pairs 91b. scarlet Blankets... 60 pairs 1016.

50 pairs 1015. green

50 doz. Towels..

22

10 doz silk Umbrellas, assorted

colors.

จ

200 dez. Glaes-plates.

150 doz glass-stoppered Bottles. 100 doz. Powder-flasks, 8 ounces. 150 gross Bryant & May's Matches.

7 cases French Preserves. 10 cases Sardines.

20 cwt, assorted Paints.

30 drume Hubbuck's Paint Oil. 30 bolts Canvas, assorted numbers, 20 pisces Busting, assorted colors. 30 vasks Bass Ale, in quarts. 20 cases fine pale Cognac Brandy. 40 cases Schiedam Gin, Jurge bot

tles.

30 cases English Old Tom. 120 doz. assorted Scouts and Hair-

oil,

And a variety of other Goods.

in Mexican Dollars weighed at 7.1.7.

TERMS OF SALE Cush before delivery Hongkong, January 23, 1869.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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Company, since its establishment in MayMERT, ATKINSON & Co. have received instructions to sell 1800, bibited by the following figures: by Fublic Auction, un

The total premiuina collected

from the 11th May 1806 to

the present time, a period

of only two years and live mentus, amenat to.. The losses which have been paul within the same period have amounted to

and include the large sum of $85,270 lost by the Fire at Hongkong in Nov. 1867.

The amount now at the Credit

4304,727.72

$130,081.22

WEDNESDAY,

the 27th January, at Noon, at Messes | DEMSKY & Co.'s Premises, Praya, No. 37, The remainder of their STOCK IN TRADE, Store-fixtures, Office Furniture, eto,, etc,

Also,

Two Boats and Davits, etc., etc. TEENS OF SALE.--Cash on delivery in Mexican Dollars weighed at 7.1.7.-

Hongkong, January 23, 1869,

NOTICE

J. HELLAND, Esq. Eng., B.N.

Do

ORATIONS of Books, Periodicals, News- papers, Clothes, o, will be most hankfully received.

A. OVERBURY,

Superintendent.

Hongkong, Uctober 29, 1868.

MORRIS'S DIRECTORY

for

CHINA, JAPAN and

THE PHILIPPINES, &c., 1869.

THE above. Work is

now PUB- LISHED and READY FOR CIR- SULATION.

Apply to

JOHN B. MORRIS.. Mesere Bowra & Co., Queen's Road.

Hongkong, January 13, 1880.

RINTING of every description exe

with accuracy, neatness, punctuality, and at reasonable charges, by

A

CHARLES A. SAINT.

PRICE 50 CENTS. TABLE showing the Froposed More. ments of the Mail Steara Paokets of the P. & O. Company for the Year 1860, as approved by Her Majesty's Postmaster General....

Wyndham Street,

To ba had at the China Mail Office,

Hongkong, December 26, 1888.

LATEST SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS.

Jan. 28, Ganges, British steamer, 1,200, 763 packages Tea, and $763,881-P. & Cates, Shanghai, Jan. 20, 1,279 bales Silk, 0. Co.

Jau, 23, Dioscuren, N. G. barque, 845, Wagner, Tamsuy, Jan. 20, Camphor, 2000 piouls-Wa. Puerat & Co.

Jan. 25, Nile, Brit. barque, 296, Deana, Borneo, 18th Dec, General.-T. Howard.

CLEARED. Johannu, for Tientsin.

American, for Singapore.

PASSENGERS,

ARKIVED. Per Ganges, Messry H. P.

Anstin, A. Cock, B. H. Hardreaves, and Col. Smith, and 31 Chicase.

The following Enropean passengers left. this for Canton on the 22nd: Mr and Mrs M' lelland,

The following European passengers arri- ved here from Canton on the 23rd:--

Major Crossman, RE,

SHIPPING REPORTS. The British steamer Gunges, from Shang hai, reports had light N., monsoon all the passage to Hongkong.

dreased to Mauritius.

diction.

3. As the communication with Natal and mon in English, by the Rev. T. Borglignell the Cape of Good Hope is thus cut off, then the afternoon, at 4 Sermon in Chinese; correspondence for those Colonies, unless at 430, Sermon in Porttiguese; b, Some marked to be forwarded by Private Ship, will, in future, be sent in the Mails for London at the following rates of Fustage, which must be paid in advance, víz:-- Upon Letters sont by way

of Southampton,..... 46 cents each When cont by way

Marseilles,

of

Newspaper via Southani

pton,...

4

Nawapapara via Marseil

ភ្នំ

}}

oz.

under 4

Book Packets via South-

ampton,.....

10. 20 cents, ahova 4 oz." "and not-ex- everting 802; and 20 cents for every additional 8 oz.

Book Packets vik Marseilles, 14 cente nzider 4 oz. 28 cents above for and not exceeding 8 oz.; and 28 cents for every additional 8 ounces.

F. W. MITCHELL Postmaster General, General Post Office, Hongkong, 8th September, 1808.-

T

is hereby notified that, under the pro- visions of a Treasury Warrant dated the 7th May, the Postage on a Letter not exceeting half-an-ounce in weight posted in Hongkong or at any of the Ports in China and Japan addressed to Egypt, or posted in Egypt addressed to Hongkong or Any of the Ports in China and Japan, and conveyed in the Mails by British Packet, is reduced from Twenty-four Cents to Twelve Cants.

For Lotters exceeding half-an-ounce in weight a further rate of Twelve Cents for each half ounce is chargeable,

Prepayment of the Postage is compulsory,

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General,

General Post Office, Hongkong, July 15, 1888,

TT

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S CHAPEL--Spring Gardens. In the morning, at 7, Mass with Sermon in Chinese, by the Rev, F: Yaw.

At the Kewan Catholic Reformatory, West Point, Rev. B. Vigano. Servics at 7.30 A.M.

BERLIN FOUNDLING House.-Service the German Janguage, by Pastor E. Klitzke, on every Sunday, at half past ten A. M., in the Chapel of the Berlin Foundling House, West Point.

SAILOR'S HOME-Evening Service, at 6 r.. Rev. Canon Beach.

CHRISTADELPHIAX SYNAGOGUE-Queen's

Road (East). Servies at 4 P.M. «very Sunday..

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Our columns are open to all who wish to address the public on legitimate grounds, but we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our correspondena.

All communications addressed to this paper must be accompanied by the name of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as

quarunter of good faith.

Nuries. It is particularly requested that All communications relating to the general business of this paper be addressed to the Proprietor and in no case to individuala by.. aane. Mach delay and inconvenience in the transaction of business will thereby be avoided.

THE CHINA MAIL.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JAN. 23, 1869.

THE HOME PRESS ON THE YANGCHOW AFFAIR.

is hereby notified for general informa. Ir has seldom been our ill-fortune to tion tast henceforward the Postage addressed to the United States of America statements and absurdities as is presented obargeable on Book and Packots of Patterns peruse so hopeless a collection of mis- transmitted via the United Kingdom will by the recent articles upon the Yang be as follows, viz

Via SOUTHAMPTON.

chow affair in the Times and Standard. Under 4 ounce,

12 cents. Above 4 ounce and not ex-

The Daily Telegraph, usually the least celing 8 omice,

** 24

reliable authority on Chinese muttere, Above 3 ounce and not ex-

ceeding 12 ounce,

lias on this occasion distinguished itself '-36 Above 12 ounce and not ex-

by avoiding some of the most glaring coeding 16 ounces,"

49

errors into which its contemporaries have For every additional 4 oz., 19

Vie MARSEILLES.

falien; but even its article is but the too Under 4 ounce,

16 centa.

uvident production of a writer labouring under a great misconception of existing facts. As the unsparing opponents of "humbug" whenever it has presented it self, even under missionary guise, we may claim a hearing when we designate in the language we have used the attempt made to cast upon the missionary body in China an adiun so unmerited as that set forth by the articles in question. Wo differ often from missionary views, think that some amongst the body

ceeding 3 ounce,

Above 4 punca, and not ex

3.

-32

Above 8 ounce and not ex-

oeeding 12 ounce,

-48

Above 18 ounce and not ex-

-ceeding 16 ounce, -

64

For every additional 4 oz., 18 Prepayment of the Postage is compulsory h each case,

F. W. MITOBELL, Postmaster General.

General Post Office, Hongkong, Juno 18 1608,

It is hereby notified that, under the au-

The British barque Nite, from Borneo, reports the first part of passage fuo wea.thority of a Treasury Warrant dated the ist j27ther, the latter part had strong gales from May last, Superintending, or First-Class

N.E. and heavy erose e.

Schoolmasters in the Army will, in future, be entitled to the samo privileges in regard

WHAMPOA SHIPPING.

of the Working Account,. after paying all Expenses and Re-insurances to date, excoeds....... ........................$160,000,00 These gures fully warrant the moat

YY sanguine expectations of Buccuss; and it is at this Port as Merchants and Com Jan. 22, Omba, London, Teas, &c. but reasonable to expect that, strengthened mission Agents in connection with Mesars with larger Capital, se present undertaking D: B. MEHTA & Co. of Calcutta,

Gertrude, Hongkong, Ballast.

cannot fail to plove at least na successful as the former one. The Old Company, when it entered the held, had to create a business for itsolf, but the New one, in taking over the outstanding risks and cons Hestions of the Old Company, will at once roueive a very large amount of premium, and enter on a profitable and organised business. Moreover, there is no doubt. that the risk of Fire in Bougkong has been greatly diminished by the Building Regula tions now in force, and by the establishment of a Fire Brigade.

The following are the main features of

the New Company;---

A first Call of $100, to be paid upon

E have this day established ourselves,

Mr RuroмJE SONAR WOONWALLA is authorized to sign our Firm in Hong- kong.

RUSTOMJEE DAUNJEEBHOY & Co.

Office No. 7, Hollywood Road. Hongkong, January 12, 1869.

1bfe

SAYLE & Co., VICTORIA EXCHANGE,

QUEEN'S ROAD,

ESPECTFULLY solicit insper-

Rtion of their New GOODS, in

each share on allotment, and a further the following Departments.

Call of $100 to be paid in Six Months;

all further Calls to be determined upon

at General Meetings of the shareholders.

SILKS.

4. Interest at 19 per cent per annum Bevning Dresses - Velvets.

to be

in the first instance allowed on the paid i up Capitel, such Interest to be payableLace half-yearly, on 30th Juna, and 30th De- cember. The profits after dednoting the Gloves said Interest to be applied thus-20 per cent, pro rata, aionget such of the shave- holders as shall have contributed or in- fluenced business to the Company, and the remainder in forming a Reserve Fund Shawls of $250,000.

RIBBONS.

Fancy Dresses, HOSIERY,

Trimmings. HABERDASHERY.

Prints. MANTLES.

- Jackets. BONNETS.

Manchester

MR. HENRY LISTON DAL Ym per been accumulated, the payment of Lu. Millinery

is authorised to sign Firm procuration, at Fouchow from this date.

BIRLEY & Co. Hongkong, June 3, 1868.

NOMOE.

* HAVE established myself at this port an General Commission Merchant, under ke Styliid Firm of GIFFORD F. PARKER

Co,

GIFFORD FORBES PARKER, Saigon, December 20, 1887,

NOTICE.

In-

terest to cense, and the profits to be ap

plled thus:-20 per cent to be distributed

Clotha

Ladies Outfits

BABY LINEN..

HOSIERY.

Tweeds, Tailoring in all its Branches.

s already mentioned amongst the share-Gentlemen's Flats Gloves. holders who shall have contributed busi- boss to the Company; 30 per cent, to tlie augmentation of the Reserve Fund until it shall reach $1,000,000, at wilrich figure it is to be permanently maintained and the remaining 50 per cent, to be distrl buted by way of dividend amongst the shareholders generally.

4. No shareholder to hold more than 260.

shares....

THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. The Company to be managed by General

FREDERIOR PEPPER in our Firm

Managers, with the assistance of a Con- sulting Committee. am26 The Funds of the Company to be demos

11. D. BROWN & Co.

this date.

December 31, 1868.)

Amos, December

#R. FRANCIS CHONLEY is a Partner in

M

our Firm, which From this date will

ited in Panke or in Goverursant. Sæcurf-

ties approved of by the Committen

PERFUMERY, &e.

Household Linens Blankets.

CARPETS

FURNISHING DRAPERY, Ete, Etc.

P.S. The Dress-makitig, Milliner

The Bleed of Association may be inspected and Tailoring are under the Supery

be conducted under the Name of BROWN at the fee of the General Managere, er at intendence of experienced West End

& Co.

TEKTAH. D. BROWN & Co.;

Amoy, January 1, 1860, „j

Solicitor of the Company

the Office of Mr HENRY CALDWELL, the

hands.

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Hongkong, December 10, 1808. ja25 Hongkong, November 12, 1868,

DEPARTURES

CARGOES.

(From the Canton Customs Daily Returnz.) Per Suwonada, cleared for Coast Ports--

70 packages Rattans,

80 cases Silk Ribbons and P. Goods, 36 packages Yollow and White Lead, 54 packages Sundries.

Imported per the same from Shanghai-

125 packages Nankeen

06 bales Tobacco.

6274 piculs Wheat.

G1 packages Sundries,

Per Candace, cleared for Tientsin.

330 bags Betelnat

301 packages Pais.

250 packages Yellow and White Lead.

1388 baga Sugar.

200 cases Sugar Candy.

720 cases Tobacco,

156 packages Sundries.

Per Omba, cleared for London-

2125 chests Congna Tea.

9 bozos.

do.

613 boxes Scented Orange Pekoe Tea

4885 boxes Somited Onper Tea

1840 boxes Young Hyson Tea.

175 bales Silk Refuse,

50 cases Chinaware.

50 casks Soy.

1078 packages Merchandise (re-export.)

are more zealous than well-educated

to Lettors sent by or addressed to them on or gifted with common sense, and en- their own private affairs as are at present

enjoyed by Commissioned Officers in the tirely oppose the teaching which finds Army; and all Army Schoolnistresses will no good in the moral maxims of a be entitled (as Army Schoolmasters of all

but the First-Class now are) to the same nation the most ancient in exist privileges, in regard to their Letters, are ence. But, on the other hand, we mu Private Soldiers. enjoyed by non-commissioned Officers and

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General," General Post Office, Hongkong, July 31, 1868.

UNDER DESPATCH, For Singapore aud: Bombay-Per sten mer American, on Monday, the 25th inst.,

at 2 F.21.

For Swatow, Amoy and Fooshow.-Per Formon, on Tuesday, the 26th instant, at

BA.M.

QUOTATIONS.

HONGKONG, 23 January, 1889, OPTUM.-Patna, New,... 16433 Benares, Now, Melwa,... COTTON. CALCUTTA,

BOMBAY,

SHANGRAB,

665.& 670 -16 a 10

17 a 214 19 20

4/5 4/5 4/0 a 45

not pass without youment the deliberate insult cast upon the missionaries in China generally by writers whose posi. tion in connection with leading journals at home has unfortunately gifted their ignorance with the power of doing wide spread mischief.

evidently had a vast influence upon the The advent of Mr Burlingame has London papers. His mission was con- demned at first; but this, it was before long found out, was by no means the way to keep up public interest. Opposi tion persisted in would have shelved a diplomatic rare-show, and few would care to read more in antagonism to a scheme already condemned. Happily the Yang-chow affair afforded a splendid opportunity of re-introducing the subject of the mission in a more favourable way, the only necessity being that the mis aionaries should be unspaiingly found fault with. Public sympathy in China, it was well known, was not very active on their side, and the throwing of a little more

Shanghae, 3 days' afght, Bank, The 74mud than necessary would not much

Exchange.

Bank, 6 months' sight, Credits, G

33 packages Sundries.

Ou Calcutta, 3 days' sight, Rs. 22

Per Magust; loading for New York-

33

Bombay, 3 duya' sight, Rs. 222

20 cases Cassia Buds.

2)

876 packages Fire Crackers.

Bar Silver, 17 dwts. B.,

SYCOD,

Mexicans,

Gold Leaf,

Gold Bar, 98 touch,

English Sovereign,

Australian Sovereigns, Discount,

1050 boxes Preserves.

4296 rolls Matting.

214 cases Straw Hats,

270 cases Silk.

Per Carolins, loading for New York.

2000 packages Cassia.

250 packages Fire Crackers,

24 cases Rbubarb.

25 packages Sundries.

Imported per Gertrude, from Shanghai,

6130 ploule. Wheat.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATIONS,

MAILS WILL CLOSE:→→

For SINGAPORE & BOMBAY

Por Str. "AMERICAN, on Monday,

the 25th instant, at 1 P.M.:

For

SWATOW AMOY & FOOCHOW.--

Per "FORMOSA," on Tuesday, the 26th instant, at 54. ., instead of at the time previously notifed,

9 nominal

64 uT

matter if the bitherto coldly-received embassy could be aided thereby. Her Majesty's reception of Mr Burlingame ... 23.10 a 23.80 and the native associates the represen 22 80 a 23.10 tatives of "no end" of invitations to plant

....per cent

4,60

4.03

9 a 10

New, 28 p. c. p.

30 p. dis.

H. & W. Duck, Old, & p. o dis. H. & S. Bank Shares, old,

Do,

do. New, Uniou Dotki..

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the thining oross in every lowly valley, as demonstrated at Yang-chow and For mos-shewed clearly enough the direc tion in which the diplomatic cat was about to jump. Why not go with the official stream and turn their back upon the past Hence the articles in question, Let us first of all see what amount of intimate knowledge of the Empire is dis- played in these artioles. For it is safe to assume that, as the statements made sgres mois or less with fact, so will the opinious expressed be wore or less va luable. The Standard gives us a good deal of information to begin with. The 80.144 Chinese complain, it says, that we in our 20.04 narratives of travel and in our journali

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apply the word

If trymen, are liars, as t cles and works have never go barbarians. E they complain larger falsehoo may complain But the compl

of the United of even len

360,000,000 defferent thin continues

7 We find so the purposes of in certain respe amarvellous a translate into th <international 'Psalm of Lifo We should this ficulty, if this knowledge of

Dr Martin, a sinologue, havi Mr Wade the having as little with the projec its execution, s the help of thos be conceived, equally great at Some time mu we know what is neutrality of th integrity of the what we will wo off the Yellow R our countrymen civil service, whi dreds.

Shade of Ma deed should p We cannot get River.

It is impossil

at length, as we minutes the u will permit. Standard's opi She is no longe rity isolated years. Her b riors; they are her seas are u fortress; they canvass; her

steam up them forbid our pro full scope, excel populations" that every sing is either absolu great mass of ti over; her bord barriers they

bave been pro rivers with thre

foreign trade.

them freely." onr propagandi Chinese priests cated and vicio auch by the p propagandiom

as at no single received witho sent. So much Standard's kno The Times is in its statement which missional carried on in C more important and wild in its expulsion of the an argument lightfully obliv tical and not cause which led

of course the

the fate of theit

the new religi

dence of attach

Times also liker Murphy, the r guard at home false than to re aionaries in Chi ture. There are

as we suspect t fessions, but th

working men w and preaching and though not giving provocat abusing" Chi home seem to the character o

which provials Chinese have stand the word. for their Lo far enough to the

fractory in not

dressed to them

raged" by an against the pur of the empire.

greatest stumb

success is the which the Chi religion to be unobjectionable

The general which have ap

is much to be

much urged a

as a matter of i

alightest excus the Chinese to party.

But

few men, won to the interest party, the fri mission and th

shining erosses the hills of U countrymen w Times and Tel be taken to re large number o

ers, what mar entirely misu Target