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TARUH 9, 1869,

nothing in the mean- en) do not give, in the satisfaction which their

I referred, last year, this, to the state of days of the Corinthian the reference now to look at it. If further d, it is to be found in

au Catholic Church in

ick to the priesthood, ted solely from those een Catholics for some est assured that the birnction given in the Bither bastily adopted parsued and it will way/till good gapso contrary. Were the the sons of Christian e ground for objecting struction; but taking may well be asked a rament loss an oppor stul knowledge by en- ruction, to which the sent so repugnant? It dd tho Bibild when the duty to read it; not, as every feeling is oppos may be within the pro but certainly not con an ever come of asing er to tamper with a

n-is on its trial. - Lef

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is not yet the time ent. Whed schools ead and religious in better result in the done in the past, ob- bation will receive a then they can acarce vernment of this secular education a pite the situation in ad tries to make the ange of circuntalariééd hango of policy: but, istian institution, in teen years, the "pre and the resulta, view, give little ah ment need not be to the experiment.

er education must for

as two distinct fields

ong, and it la incum-

a the care of schools

two is tho. mora de they have in view. make his choice, the dth; ift is permitted onionsly for the sama. e object is none the one aims at it by di

dirégi fidans.

bent remarks made toria, Mr Stewart rtion of his report We copy his remarks

ad they require no

other details given

ement which is of The maximum- at- nment schools dur- The total number of in Hongkong is Mr Stewart day, as nd again, there i but compntisory ate nestly recommand on of the Gover

notice much more e can only conclude ling the perusal of n its entirety to the

Bummary Juristfo nded to-day, with- é inconvenience of little consideration, ratively small fry that tribunal are have saved them nd easily avoidable

g been known that oing home by the porning, and if WIL nor was not quite Judge Ball's suc- hich ought, to be of indeed an adver- Quastle, or an offi papers, stating the the Court, would inconvenience to dIt would not 3, and (with pro- said) it ought to despotic form of ed nioré tolerable which, if not of of importance to themselves valu ubordinate official

is to be Judge

st now a topic of

red, that an un en for CrowD roper amalgamate ntemplation, and

had been lodged. stands adjourned which time the earn more about

harked to us that

rovements fairly

of the Surveyor

ccur to the active

blic officer or

zaselves to hig not meet with the public might people say that veyor does not ghways with that ble with perfect

has been dope in last few months on's duties micht ntage at present, ny season, which

pate will be a are other minor varied ramifica neral's functions

„No 1795 ––MARCH 9, 1869.]

they are to be named the Hindusfence and China, and that the former vessel may be expected in our waters, by the early part of May next.Englishman, Feb 18

THAT ANOTHER fatal bast accident, has to be re- ported, and it is with regret, that the loss of the lives of two Europeans has to be antoituded. It appears that Mr. William

THE CHINA MAIL.

tions which have been taken, and which have now to be considered.

or of meeting assertion: by counts asser 34-Instead of replying to them serigting,

be done, the purpose in view may bu heat tion, which in the present use might easily accomplabra by giving a short account of my own personal connexion with the schools, This method will answer all necessary pur-

which call for remark. The numerous hulle wood-yards so conveniently placed on tops of Chinese buildings must, we fort to left to be dealt with by the Insu- de Companies they (the amber clasters) have been referred to until hope deferred has sickened the heart of the pablia. The drains are stale enough, But mention of one thing in the way of safeguard to the public may not be out of place. It is often matter of surprise to many that the numerous seamen who get drack "nights do not oftener Come to grievous bodily harm while they gaily go marching home. In the focality most frequented by them the und her game to 343n the 20th March 1862, the Den West end, to wit exists probably one lams ran alongside, & Pitet junk to get a I found myself on that day among drowd When soong the Islanda putaide, Wiltrál School was opened for the first time of the most dangerous parts of the town, man to take him into Macao. While along of darty, cites hundred boys who could in the shape, of the Cough Street Stops, side this junk, it is stated that Williams' not speak English to the and to whoth Not a single piece of railing is fixed by companione advised him to anchor, as it could not speak Chinese Two Chinese the side of this fight, and it is not oxag was getting very thick and the wind was assistant mamers were presenty but they gerating matters to say that there blowing in strong gusts. The unfortuna de batat tifost forgotten any English they over mpls hope by the side of that

and the subject is altogether too "gamey." Wilms, Herding housekeeper, acara posge, and remors Tho appearance of anta Russian ship Marice. Mr. Petzold, the gun which I should like, if possible, to

a Petzold, and levojdienu, bagay. six or seven Chinainth, let here on Friday last for Map, in at opeu dont belonging 1962. During the two previous years the 36.I arrived in the Colony early in to Williams. The weather, it may schools had been under no regal super remembered, very rough here both on vision. Only occasional visits were paid Friday and Saturday, and the boat in to them by members of the Board of Edu- which the adventurers were, must have ducation

is

DAMIAR DE

denta Kight or you feet HERBA Matao that evening, but half an hour after intelligible to them), 7316. J

for any number of serious or intal

et clear, and an ugly gooky bottom are the qualiations of the place; and a few dollars would be Bificient to guard against the danger. Bridges. Street is another of those locali- ties which, the eagle eye of the SG Hus escaped. It would not only bo 92 improvement, but it is a necessity, that imguarded plexipices should not exist by the side of city thoroughfares. Yet this is the real state of things in the road refurred to; and the fact that the Forty

I

vernment money, and was reduced from the first to the second grade of masters, by his pupione good conduct, and the hot with the loss of hall his salary. It was ou

which saved him from dismissal. paratively effective discipline of his school,

is

PRINTING IN CHINA..

MR COOPER AT CALOUTTA.

the Chairman said

not be willing or able to recommiss officially the projected work of Mr Cooper, but I pathy of his countrymen in Calcutta, as cau assure him he has the heartiest sym- woll as that of our other fellow-citizens Americans, Germans, Greeks, Armenians

Our Government, for many reasons, may

gete who inhabit that heighborhood Macso, while their alvors claim $900 per ter of the school was altered." Only those WRITTEN FOR THE SCOTTISH TITOGRAPH nowers of printing newspapers beyond the. Thibet. It was more than a year since

are so sober and quist íí possibly the explanation of the absence of castal only ties The footpath over the large reser voir on Bonham Road is likewise à man-? tip likely to be of considerable use to

foundation, however, for the story, I need houdend falvage. As there may be some only he mentioned to be inquired into and at once righted.]

ID DAY'S PULICE,

Mr May on the Bench,

dd

those wearied of life. In fact, railings Imagector Daly, charged six boatmen with esine more manageable way it be interest in the country which is said to newspapers, there is no political life; there on the Bhramapootra as the furthest

public they might have been inesified under one heading ; as chu case now stands, however, they must be unged under two hotel w protly well knowo, it

viz. nalive and foreign printing in!

gether, possessed of a thore peculiar history, empire ever grew and outlined to hold to than did or does that of the kingdom of the or a more inexplicable interual sostomy,

Tfollowing re-teentrics and startAve-Mr May fined each $5, in default four of June of the same year to attendance ay be noted in passing, thay probably no through the Tau-u, falls in the Yangtze trade likely to arise from communication

is

It was by the Zyyu and Bathang route that

tuarket for Assam

printing differs from European essentially, and the praise of roudering the art truly who first introduced moveable types. Al- for the purpose of bearing his views on the valuable to the human race belongs to him selved Mr 2. T. Cooper on February 17th, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce re-

though Mannder is correct in thus moting subject of a trade route between Indis and out special praise to Schoeffer, Faust's China Mr Cooper was introduced by the the schools three only remain. A few have introduce moveable type in Europe,

48.Of the eighteen master than in partner; the man who is said to have first president, and was very warmly welcomed. died but most have been dismissed and not lio appears to hayo. entirely overlook

In the course of his introductory remarks, without the gravest reason. The remaining ed the fact, that moveable type, made of three, were long a source of great frohle, buthe day had been in existences in Chiu and were frequently on the eve of dismissal. about two centuries (previous to that time to insist on their paying attention to their show to more dearly the capacity which Latterly, when they found a determination is consideration, however, only serves to duties, they have begun to exert themselves, the Chinese, ass people, possess, for tread and their schools are now comparatively ing upon the same ground, and retaining speaking, lu a fair condition,

the same ideas, without even a notion of and others I see around me and all that state of the Government Schools in 1962, contury. But we cannot ourselves even be extend to him, will, I am sure, accompany 49-Such then to a short account of the change or of progress, for century upon oral support which we collectively can and a lienrd of Education to superintend back wanteds, for it was more than a centu who go forth in this disinterested manner, with the Bible read in every one of them said to wash our hands eutirely of this him during his travela. Gentlemon, those them.

y' after William Caxton set up his press at as I may say, with their lives in their bands, schools are bad, and no feasible suggestion paper al piiblished in England; and fur-lands, lauds of grust political and mercan 66.Many thinga connected with the Westminster, pre the first authorised news to open out to our knowledge unknown for their improvement will be disregarded, ther, it was more than thres hundred years tile value, have always carried with them bib limited demur to calling the whold age after Carton's Advent ere any graud stop the sympathy of the civilised world. et immorako far is this from being the was taken, towards the present development the junk was left, the boat capsized, and 37 The original intentia of the Bdard what it may, is the result of a determina olence in both the countries uniter notice, could not conceive on what grounds the case that the present state of things, be it of the printing art. The key to this balt of the Englishman gives an abstract. He Mr Cooper read a memorandum, of which all hands, were thrown into the water. was to make the Ceatral School & kind of tion to put down immorality in auch of its and of the facts that it afterwards took idea had gained & footing that the opening Williams, and Peterson of the Alarla, were mudel Chinese Chiuase dabaol, din con- aspruts as neglect of duty, hypocrisy, false-stitch Britain but yet stands in China in of communication between Burmah and drowned, together with the pilot and four dogion with which classes composed of the houd, and dedert. Because the education its old place is to be found in the relative Yunau would beneft that part of India. Chiness of the boat's new, while Petzold moro intelligent of the boys were to be taught secular, it is not, therefore, immoral. progress of the pople and the popular pow British kurmah would greatly benefit by sind two Chinese, after remaining in the English, fortnight experience proved Because in the Village Schools it is Coner in the ene with the comparative infert the transit of an extensive trade along its Waton for some hours were picked up by a the impracticability of the schein, under fucianism, pure and simple, neither is it ness and national helplessness of the other great water highways, but it seemed utterly Patzold new lies in hospital. Williams hib matters than stood, JJ Macker butits whole tendinoy, is for good. As far apon the movements of the Spanish Arina- compete or take part with Burmah in the native boat, and carried into Macao, where le very disadvantageous often matances in immoral Confucianiam may be defective. It was in the popular agitation consequens impossible that India should be able to had been a boarding-house master sometime e Esquire, of the firm of Messrs Dent or as this life is concerned, it is equal tono da that, in 1683, the first newspaper was trade between that country' and Chins, in this colony, and leaves a wife and child. Co., who was a member of the Board, and system of morality, ancient or modern.

Pres

published by authority, in order that cor- It was not therefore by the Bhanmo route always took great, interest in its prosesit [Some absurd Futuror is going the roundings, proposed the scene which is at pre-

erman Mile!

rect statements might allay the anxieties that India could advantageously compani that the three survivors are detained in salt being carried out. The mized chara

caused by idle rumours. Again, ju Jaunate with China. For conturis past China der's own words, the demand for prompt had had close political and commercial Chinese, not Chinise mily, were to be boys who were to be taught English and

circulation of political intelligence required intercourse with Lase, the capital of CAL VIEDULE," Bd. MURELY BAIN. admitted and, to secure competenci, the to the empire whiots owns the great lindrical machine; that demand continued, diffidence in advocating the politics! impor reach of the most expeditions of Hand-press that he started to reach Sudaya in Assam As general attention begins to be attract work, and this necessity produced the oy vid Bathang and Zygu, and he felt little Proliminary Examination in Chinese was fibuituted. This radical change in the cou- Confucius, people, topographically inclined and the Times newspaper in 1814, was tenes of communicating with Chins and stitution of the school reduced the rumbat least, need not begrudge their share of printed by steam. In Chine there are no Central Asia by this route. Taking Sudeya by early one-half, and in this and safeguards, of all kinds would seem having had their boats at the Wharf with

have given birth to printing. Had the folie therefore ne pressing recessity for ad- navigable point on that river and crossing to be ruled out of the S, Gs prout any numbers attached. The Inspector also, to all the Village School was there aga harmless paradox, by the way, as dinou little better than it was when first the northern borders of Assam, it openca's 39Not only to the Central School but lowing observations been made fifty years vancement, and the art remains in a con- over to Zyyu, the first Thibetan station of gramme. We wonder whether said that he had great trouble with regard rush of Suboidrs at the adininelosthent. A neither this magazine nor the parents of the Governor will "rale thoni in" again, to this regulation, and he had warned no viene idea, bad spierently got into the Wie prosent writer had tlion appeared mugb

discovered.

door directly into Central Asia from India, less Elias 140-boats during the last week. mints that a royal road to learning would

(To be continued.)

and it was this important consideration LOCAL Suresi

The boatmen kept their numbers in the be-discovered on,

which influenced him in advocating the stival of the new bost, and made all sorts of excuses as to foreign, toaches this expectation soon paint, westing, off, boards getting broken, ceased to be entertained, and by the month

Wuku, on a river which, after flowing believed that in the minds of many, the

LUOHOWFU..

opening of the Zyyu and Bathang route, THE NOVEL HANDIOAK JAKUP

Soms hundred miles to the north west of With respect to the importance of the routs. in à coumeroial point of view, Mr Cooper teen days inprisonmumt. allowed-C A. Sim, no distance allowed;

had fallen off very considerably. The num- Wagner, Jr., had a start of 20 yarkle; coolie will having left his employ without year, when actual attendance was only 299,

of Luchowful, probably the most important Assam, was over-estimated. Szchuan was Mr Pollard, QC, sharged his horse-bers kept on diminishingtill the end of the

opposita Point Morton, is sizuated the city with Olins, either by way of Burmal or EW, Stevolts had 35 H. Foar had 52; leave. The learned Q.0 (who sat on the as compared with 821 in April, the first

itself may be said to be within the valley dude would nover be brought to the west town in centrul Anhwei. The Taau-lin the richest province in China, but 168, pro- R. D. Starkey and W. H. Dalineita had bench stated that the prisoner entered his month in which. Visited the schools. Mings China is probably the most polos of the Yugiszo, but at a little distance from for a market. Thibet, however, took from oh 35 yards A. L. Turner had 37 service only three weeks 40, and that yes from, 299, we subtract 198, which was tho Granger, B. Alford, C. D. Weeks and B. terday afternoon be asked leave to go attendance at the Central School for the national nichement ever raised to the its northern extremity the raised table land China 4 or 6 million pounds of brick te AG Kotwal, such 65 yards. Meyere, of the very short time he had been employ- an average of only twelve to each of the brilliant instance, in a political, national, or low alluvial grounds we now arrive at a Buriree, Jench. 20 yards i ft. Walis aud and worship graves." In consideration month of December of that yuhr, we lave potustion and offrets of conser yatan or of Apot commences. We have at once annually, and this opened a prospect for

; C. D. Bottomley, Gu; A. M'Lood, Wed, he (the complainant) refused to give Village Schools. There is not, therefore,

ideas; and presents possibly His most passed into a new country; instead of Assam which was not to be lightly estimated. 8. Foster and A. Ni-Blaketan, each 70 permission; but notwithstanding this, the much to be said on the attendance in 1862, even human point of view, of the principle rolling plain with rapid and shallow water the Assam tea must and its way into Central yards W. Legge, 75; D. Ruttuajes and prisoner tuck French leave taking himself

Wallace, exol 60 and G F Young, off to al pasinge-boat-Mr. P.'s head-boy curred during the year was the trial of the other arte and scivuous (if such they may be In fact, the general aspect of the country market for Asam, would make tnog sla 39.The first striking incident that on offend wont. To its printing and gourses Boxing in. well marked valleys. Asia. This route, besides opening a la 100 yards (a ninth part of the course).

All started-except Ruttunjee and Waled that prisoner was induced to return Tat can ful for highway robbery. This purport may be the more clearly appre-save that not a tree is to be seen, and trade in piece goods, which the people of

corroborated the refusal of leave, and atat-school master, and three of the villagers, of called) this remark' fully applies; and its not unlike the central countries of Eugland Jace and a fair start was effected shortly from the passage-boat-Prisoner pleaded did not tend in those early days to make hauled, if it be remembered that China's instead of the land being tichly outtivated Central Asia would gradually seek in the photra the line of transit for an enormous after 5. Sim kept behind for the first half of that, as his mother departed this life last my monthly visits to the schools at all ples sought to inbus her sons with his reveren nothing save a few half cultivated fields, the race, and then began to pass the atrag year, duty and ancestral worship siled sant excursions I was prepared to meet tfal and eighbourly rationaliera, while yet yielding wretched crops of rics or wheat, Bathang route wern, first, the political impor

groat teacher, Confucins, or Kong-fu-taxe, and supporting a prosperous population, Assam market, Flers, hoing third or four on passing the him to her grave on the 8th instant. He ordinary highway robbers, who were then winning post the second time. A fine race only intended to go for a day or two and by no menus uncommon on the Stanley and Pythagoras discourses to, and Selon legis and interspersed with mud hats of n raost tance of communicating with Central asia His reasons for preferring the Zyyn and then ensued, when the three or four then return.-Prisoner was, however, Shau ki-wan roata, but arcely so to conielated fur, the polished and enlightened meagre description, enlivens the dreary dirtotly from our own possessions, and se lenders put on the spurt, which was kept mulcted to the extant of $20, iu default one into collision with a Government school teniaus, 560 years before the Ohristian lainas Coarse grasses, used by the condly, its importance as giving as contid up all round the third fine. Wallis and mouth's imprisonment. Alford raced almost together from the final

monter and his allies at some convenient. They have.zinge added little or

to their stock of information, natives in the absence of botter fuel, cover nication with the grand trade route of Cen- turn, Wallis a triffe xhead while Sim was other day in possession of a plant of sanroport as follows to the Board of Education,

A hawker at Yow-ma-tee was caught the túrn of the road.

and their t

giortion of the soil, which intral Asia, an opening gaining every step, a little in rear of buth shoo with which he was trading extensively

40.--On the sebool at Sai-wan, I had to creed is no wider now than it was then.

Winter, withering to the roots, add a dreary toa erid Manchester goods. Mr. Cooper king, however, had been too long in short with the men of the Athi Native Infantry after my first visit. The next school, mixed up is reputed history with that which a conspicuous object, but far as the ore cau authorities would never admit us into the

Chiuse history, in any of its branches, is hun onlour to the nonotony of the scene. ening the original distance between him- stationed at Kowloot, Ari attempt was made thio Sai-von Hakka school, is certainly in a in other countries is called traditiou, or reach north, east, or west no other rising country until an English Minister resided a subject vory unsatisfactory to handle. So One hill some five miles from the city forms stated that one of the dificulties in the way solf and his antagonists; and though he by this same hawker to upset the doskih-moat primitive condition. To pronounce it a

of the proposed route was that the Thibetan gained wonderfully and would have most trade into the harbor, on the way in the wretched place is to give but a very imperfect on mythology, that it is still a very piou ground broaks the lerizon. probably overtaken the first two had had Station in the Police bout,; Thit this attempt laes of its character. The root is a litty boint auront liess silotugues at what

Whatever may be the origin of the Chito bear on them. The Lama Government at Lassa, and British influence was brought e-filtle farther to go, he was too late bly partially succeeded. Prisoner was vel; the master is impassivo and unintelli perind nythology cids and bond file histo-mese race there is little doubt that they are in Lassa had issued orders that no Thibetan Wallis carne in first-time, 2 m. 184 sec brought up on remand to-day, and tired gent, the boys are, with the or two excepty baglue De Logge, the translator and indebted for their agriculture to a southern was to purchase désun tea, and the pasts and Alford only half a second behind. $30, in default three months hard labunions, dirty, and idle, there being in the is probably more learned in the history and ende four to cultivate their favourite cereal, The Chinese, fearing the loss of their tea Sim was third and Wagner and Stevens he was imprisoned, as the line was not schoolmore materials for play than for work literature of China, this day foreignor, who rise, in situations and climates eminently trade with Central Acta, secretly backed up comitentator of the Chinese Classics-who source. Thu persistency with which they all-round Assam: were carefully guarded. Jame in together, Nearly all the others forthcoming

Тоув stopped short-some during the second

of several kinds, a number of young over lived, and who possessed certainly a suited to its profitable growth, and thus the Lamas in their prohibition. The Pekin Aubar Mahorned, the boarding-house puppies, and some live high in bottles of round, and others during the third. Foss keeper in whose bonse the great haul of water, seemed to receive more attention and eater knowledge in that department than aqually persistent objection taken to the Government, in order to preserve their dropped out of the race at the third round, gaublers was taken on Sunday by the Da impark greater delight t

than the wisdom of any man living has fixed the date when uso of wholesome animal food seems to be trade, subsidised the five Clint Lams Mo- Although he was leading and he sud pity, Superintendent, was brought up, the sages of Chinn,"

reliable history in Chins is presumed to aufficient proof of this, Nowliers in China, nasterica of Thibet. Although he (Mr. Coop Legge had a fine little leg-to-lag race charged with keeping a public

41.-About the month of November, it Confucius was born. On this view, it may inhabitants and the staple crops so utterly know too much of the difquities to be aur have commenced, at abunt the time when proba ly, are the modes of living of the ery advocated the opening of this route, bu vious to that event. Young was the oase. The bold Aebar was found

for the first round or more; and hep CJ

Jewallal Sing under a bed in Stanley was frequently in the fabit of shuti scem presumptuous even to attempt to suited to the circumstances of the soil mounted to indulge in the hops that it could

by was discovered that the school-master of founded in tsiting on somewhero about a huge little way from the botte ting up the school and going away, some must, in a measure, speak only approxi plains, rolling in gentle undulations and brought to bear upou the Lassa authorities. sketch the history of printing but as we and climate as in drthern Anwei. The he opened for trade without pressure being eighth or ninth

in which the gamblers were found.-Acbar times, for ten days at alline,his school As will be seen above, the winner (Wal endeavoured to make the best of a bad job roll all the while showing a very full atten mately, and gather those approximations forming shallow valleys well watered by Mfr. Cooper, in concluding the reading of lis) was allowed 55 yards' start of Him and got up a story to the effect that he was dance. One day he was caught flagrante from sources open to many better able to ruuning streams, are eminently suited for his memorandumi, advocated the propriety white Alford bad only 40 yards.

out attending to the property of an old man delicts. I had evidently not been expected blind leading the blind ik materially les crops, cotton, and the usual European grain After some.conversation, the following Some littlo, disputes strose, as anal, anent who died lately at Wanchi. The charge that day, and the school was shut p. sebed. The art of printsiya

judge, the danger attendant upon the the habitation of a pastoral people; green of sending an envoy to Lata pr foullog; but in consideration of the large had been brought against him by the po- Several boys who wanted to get in had been Du Halde, the Jeanit, has existed in Chins soil of the slopes, which here, torzacou ating, in offering its thanks to Mr Cooper for number who ran and the small space in Homan because he was not allowed to told to be off. After some difficulty, and from time immemorial; but, liko every great cost and irrigated by the manual la the paper which he has just read, pledges accofllug to arops, would grow admirably in the light restution was carried: "That this Mout which to pase each other, the Toul claimed gamble. Many policemen had been pre uo little confusion on the part of the master thing else, excepting the ever-flowing at cimb of persents suck to the lowest degree itself to co-operate with him most cordially by Alford (who came in second, and was so vented from gambling in the same way as Rinner) was disallowed.

who had thus unceremoniously been roused, that they were constables. Mir May, how noon, I got admittance, and fouad zineteen tomary for very many centuries. Although such inferior quality as to be actually un undertake, 4., from India to China, the complainant had been, on the ground from a sound aicep at-11 o'clook in the fure of gasing generations, it has remained sta of penury, yield a scanty harvest of rios of in the further travels which be propria y ever, flued Aobar in the sum of $200, in marked as the attendance for the day,

to the great emperor Hirangti given asleable in more favoured localities. The committee of the Chamber was appointed default six months' hard labor;

in addition

the credit of baving invented letters, about inhabitants have made the fatal mistake of 42.--Although the people had been per the time when Noah was born (say 3000 depending on a single precatious erup, and tion his proposed scheme, to which alternative sentence of one featly silent before, yet, Ching-like, they ), and a reputation for eradition and have suffered antally and bodily, aml have

to confer with Mr Cooper officially in rela- month's hard labor was imposed. Informa bad many faults to find with the master tidh was also forwarded to the Harbor Mas after he had this out detected in one. The authorship is onimed for a prime minister, earned in consequence amongst the other or, in order that the position of Aebar a Board of Education accordingly depitted about 1200 n.c, the art of book-printing was caroles. Exporting nothing, and deponding, keeper of a seanien's boarding house might its chairman The Bishop, and two other not introduced until about 950 years after no the contrary, on other localities for their the Presidential election for General Grant

Wen Waug (the king of letters) Chinese the namo of being thriftless and THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. members to go to Stanley, along with my the Christian era. This may be partially ex-supplies of everything but what is necessary and Air Seymour have been published, and The official returns of the popular vote for self, and hold an investigation. Without plaittel by the sovere check given to liters for bars sustenance, it need suureely be rather surprise us by the smallness of the investigation, it will be sullicient to ti, about 250 8.0, hy which the despotie slight demand. Here, indeed, were no bar we mean to the whole vote. The total total majority for the former, in proportion arrived. They were these ---

the teacher's accusations, made in his self, aud obliterate the history of his aunued, possibly on account of the settlement vote was 2,705,628, showing a majority of endeavoured at one blow to elevate him- taxed, but latterly this has been disconti gave 3,008,501; while the total Seymour petition, are false.

2 He left his duties without leave.cestors, by patting to death great numbers of the Wolkwan affair, or possibly because only 292,883, or not six per cent of the of the literati, and burning all the sathe dues were not worth the collection. A whole voto given. Evan Mr Dudley Bax- 3 The accusations unde against his axeered and classical books thea in ex few grey and white shirtings and tea clothe ter's figures (and he is a conservative wit general and unvarying

4 The teacher must be changed..

istquce; and this explanatioli baconies were ordinarily met with in the market;ness) give Mr Gladstone a majority of more the more probable when we find that, un sometimes a few pieces of camlets or course than ton per cent ou the whole rote given All this, be it remembered, with the Bible der the Emperor Was Ti (about the begin sergea Grey shirtings sold at thren Spanish at the contested elections of Great Britain He had been extinguished by one or two

dally read in the shoot, Anil Christian ning of the lifth century AD.), learning is dollars the piece; tea cloths at Spanish $2.70. and Ireland. Yet General Grant carried 26 nergetic policemen and it seemed a very Ir will be remembered by those who

aater to teach it. The Bible was in all the schools, but we find that blook printing has not been got rid of without affecting the market, but states out of the 34 which voted, and will

said to have again revived. At all events Perhaps a thousand taols worth might be markable circumstance that the shop, in have read the charge lately delivered by under what circumstances? Ou entering a practised longer thou about 90 years, more than that wont certainly cause a de- which there are bad-traces for three or four, the Bishop of this Diogo, that it con rebool, which I had to do very much after and that printing in any other form cliue in prices. As in the old days Spanish then Mr Gladstone's), and a full two thirds have in the new House of Representatives plantinely deserted. It is said that the tains some remarks that appear to be the manner of a detective, I found all the fras not thought of for a long time dollars were still the currency of the couu-majority, we believe in the Senate. It is a majority of nearly two-thirds (much larger was broken into from behind, and one man was arrested on suspicion; but at the disparaging to the government: schools sight, and the Bible taken up, the mat. the carliest ideas of waking moveable type how divorane. Optum sold at 13 per 18 evident that the American parties are more

books being hurriedly put out of subsequent to that period. One of try, Mexicans could only be got rid of a Magistraty this morning lio was discharged, and reflect consequently on the Inapearth as it appeared equally likely that he was Mr E. Stowert. It is but fair to that's intention being that I abould carry which occurred to the Chilube was to tacle weight; sugar at $10 per pioul de uniformly distributed in America than in endeavouring to put out the Gre. One thing gentleman that his reply to the Bishop must prominent place in the teaching of the of certain characters required; which plau, eastward and westward only land carriage Parliamentary majority of about sixteen away the impression that it occupied the up a wonden block beating the impression Lüchow-fu navigation ceased; northward, popular majority, Mr Gladstone obtains s England. With more than a ten-per-cent. certain that, whether the work of att in should be read by a wider circle then the school. Even when in complete ignorance as might be expected, did not succeed. In was available; the roads, it is needloset per cent., (or one-sixth). With only a bare ceudiary or not, any fire obtaining hold upon the locality in which this cigar-depotudents of the Gaste, and therefore we of the language; I was not to be deceived the thirteenth century, the Chinese invent add, are of the worst description; the coo-six per cent. popular majority, General Issinated, would simply have given us an give as much of it as we can find on the other books, the Bible was upsciled, front burnt olay, and this simple sohieve This is not a flattering description of the Representatives of about thirty per cent

by this display; for, in comparison with other repetition of the great fires which for, preserving the most important para add evidently only used when the schools, ment appears to have satisfied them until interior of one of the best provinces in Chirather less than one-third,

ed moveable type, which was manufactured lies and beasts of burden ill fed and weakly. Graut obtains a majority in the House of have already devastated that locality.

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happened to be visited. Afterwards when the beginning of the eighteenth century, no, yet its truth can be vouched for. Com We have heard that our line of Chitia

I was able to examine more minutely into at which time it is said that the Emperor pared with that portion of Anuwes lying teners is shortly to te strengthened by was read in all schools, but that the read work was done, I found that two or three, but whether they were cast or cit is not Bouthern Aawei, intersected by parren 1 That, previously to 1862, the Bible the way in which this part of the subool Kang-hi made moveable type of copper, south of the Yaugtaze the contrast is stratigo the addition of two very powerful vonseling of it has since been abolished, or in equres of construction in the Clyde, That the blocks were then, but after ted to memory without being studerstood with the appellation of ingregated pearls, by foreigners; the northern part of the

chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel, comtait stated, These again, although honoured mountains, produces tes eagerly bought ap Wags gentle France gives up Algists, An account of the enterprising firm of wards: case to be, ander the care of the was all the progress that had been inde or were shortly afterwards melted down and province forming a fertile plain, has lothing Apsar & Co. of Calcutta. The new bouts, Board of Mucation. **** We understand, are being built on the

attoripted. rew principle, but with all the latest im then it is now but agai

3 That the attendance was greater then 47.At that time nearly all the masters great conruity of this circulating medium one is righ domparatively, the other poor in transformed into culega tuney, because of to offer at present to the foreign market provements, and will be fitted to carry &

were professing Christians, and yet this which existed in the empire at the time; the lust degree; with ons we can drive a large number of first-class passengers Vo

That their moral tone was thon good. was the state of things. Ouly one of thea, and the same monarch, then replaced the considerable trade, a thousand taels worth is no doubt they will prove i yery value plain English; immorat, all owing to the red to take any pains to teach the Bible letters or characters Maunder'a Soien Who but a Chinese statesman could fail to ads addition to our present fleet, and that

That it is now nut moral, that is, in the school-master at Talig-lung-chat, seem upper fouts, by outting 250,000 wonder of our goods affects the market in the other. they will car for their owners a handsome Bading of the Bible having been "abolish properly, and during his life-time he never tile and Literary Treasury' says, that see what causes have been in operation to ovaded this part of his work. But even he printing is understood to have been prac produce so muked a difference?-- Recorder This seems a fair summary of the objedi was detected in the misappropriation of Gotised very anciently in China, but Chineas. Feb. 20.

A large number of ladies and gentlemen sembled or the Cricket Ground am the City Hall verandah, to witness the novel

As alarm of fire was given about 10.30 last night, when Captain Deane, My Creagh (assistant fira superintendent) and a party

a

of polio at once turned out. The alaran way be changed for the public goodThe Sikh found to have arisen, with some good constable was rewarded in $0. grounds, in a Chinese tobacco store on a

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Janding of Ladder Street Steps, just behind been Obigeso charged with having detailing all that came out in the course of ture by the fanions decreo of Chi Hwang wondered at that foreign gooils were in ve of Ladder Spreck Steps, just, blind been concerned a nip in Peyo West of sive at whitch tire committee, squenzes; formerly formigu grode were

in large robbery of discovered the place was filled with smoke the 3d February last, were brought up on arising from what appeared, to bo a species romaud to-day when the case was disposed of bou-fire of straw and cigars. The occu of. The prisoners were committed for

pants of the shop had disappeared, and the trial at the next Criminal Sessions of the two harps of straw apparently set fire on Supreme Court,undr parpoos were thus, left to have their own effect upon the sleeping benches standing round. A most miscellaneous collection of the leaf was presented by the store after the

return for their capital. We understand

THE BISHOP AND THE IN.

SPECTOR OF SCHOOLS.

38.It is assumed in the Charge

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"GIB.".

Prussit the kingdoms lately gripped,

Of from Circassia Russia sheers,

· And Sax's Red Indians prowl unwhipped: When Italy surrenders Naples,

Spair's fangs on Cuba's neck unlock,

We'll think about Gibraltar's ape hille,

And then wall--keep the grand Old Rock, -Punch