Page
1840 MAY 1, 1889.
garding the adhesion of England ey toward China inaugurated n last summer as a concession to liplomacy, I consider the
Over
fur affact, offered by the Govern he United States, us a virtual ent of the Bussian guida allian the negotiation of the Treat neutral Powers 7 at Tan ication of the wise foresight t preference tes common under ith England and France in pre- Divina.
I deprecated the making Peking nstantinople; but it has become
it there is another "Sick man nd the obligation rests on his upport him. If he is not a Turk sn aubjects, he is a Tortar, pjecte
dat assert or believe that residents in China are di a ed to British policy opt here, cially or officially has suy een afforded that the good
ing which is so desirable has
upted. On the contrary, the illy feelings have alt tule ested and reciprocated, But present policy of the British free fa at this moment diame osed to the common sense of
British herte declared policy of the ism to the
t of the United
China so
Staten been
of the
opinions of
htful Americans of position ton resident in the Far East, ural sore feeling and jealousy elieve that they endorse the res of our policy and would coald, throw obstacles in our how do the responsible répre- gentlemen selected to occupy envoy from China manifest to cement an Anglo-Ameri as regards the policy to be Vards China 1 Did the speech Ir Burlingame at San Fran- ich British policy is alluded violence and blood, and blok. dily endorsed by Amerigan eshadow such a union 1. Does Treaty Addendum," in which s care was taken to provide danger of British pressure
f the United States, and the
ed to China, prove that the ith us now? Do the recent terchanged at St. Petersburg American squadron and cers, when the "unification sts of their two countries" ted on; shew that the quasi-
ance has been thrown over? not. We bring no general of underband dealing as against the United States. mment has a right to diplo seas fit. But we are very sympathies of America at more with Russia than with in as regarda matters in a do not pretend to explain Half a dozen excellent be pitched upon, such horn sympathy, the Alabama solidation of the Dominion; al jealousy, etc, etc. We our belief in the fact that, the present feelings of the ex (1) the interests of Ame British subjects are not cou he same; that (2) the policy American ropresentatives is obstrmation to British ipfht- that (3) Russian good-will is. ously cultivated as it possibly heck upon threatening ad- England or France. Russia power whose increasing influ- ve no possible uneasiness to interests in China, and her being assiduously cultivated ent American going so far as the States and Russia were ers of the world; that their re mutual and that united
withstand every other
e but not very diplomatic
residents in China will considerable service to their terests by impressing upon ment the fact that cordial with our representatives most, profitable as well as ita course of action. We do y this a land-mouthed ap co-operative" policy, contre- rivate interviews with the horities by an ever-repeated that America is their better
uch as she comes with the
when Great Britain comes. ayonet, but a real truthful which is the same in secub. criew with the prime minis
other representatives smile approbation upon such ments. If our correspondent
d America intends to act in
our mutual interests will be
I not, we can stand albije as
herto done. But we aserty.
er of hearsay, but of know
the United States Represen
not hitherto so acted. If rown inaugurates a better
I deserve not merely well of cousins, but of the powerful presents, yet destined to be loser contact with China.
he territorial appetite le only satisfied or in other words nted Dean's) nother Count Stroganoff
sot gotten prog-sandai
the quotation in our arte-of
page 5th 1st polama; and
read "heedful" Instead of
No 1840-MAY 1. 1869.].
on the
XO-DAY'S POLICE,
the Banch.
Mr May A little man named Cannard, where head scarcely reached the top of the dock rail
with having been drnak. The
phoir-doolia
favont
of
THE CHINA MAIL.
trodnded for the purpose
the
MISCELLANEOUS.
meeting the ex-tigating the Lekin aystem as locally conduct Sometimes they regard bath to thee an agreeable tour, or lived for sny
as was the case
and
's head for hesitating to
The
inba
AN American Justice, better versed in
sorbing concern: Giang-an and Che-kiangelutely necessary to place in charge of assistance, theless varianteo are leak Perform the duties of your affice jointly and
for instance, although freed from the pre- sure of the Taiping rebellion, were not, on
ic
the Prussiaz Consulate here, with that of was charge who brought the little fellow he revenue accruing from land and; ment
without foreiswho are onse declared that the one real guarurep/ httle gentleman, who had possibly
China, because if the Confederation Defendant was ordered to pay forty cents appears to be there and province,titating per se tha Peking Governufent we should bear enough, and to spare, offriend remarked, My fine friend, how
to ment
in
¡ nor is
Cau
cause it is i plodge, acted on for thirty-eight years, be
inconvenient to go to highly
war,
whe reckons confidently, under thoas cause we are afraid of France. Any one
circumstances, ou the Lumility or the understand them, and it is towards those circumstances that we drift.
SEME changes have recently taken place The latter kept in on the Honam Island permits, which wholesale traders were com- to intervene successfully in provincial tion, but which he would never have taken in the Foreign Consulates in China aside, Cynthia more in the middle passage, polled to take out, thus constituting thom- details of management. China is a despo had he but understood the latent feeling of record of which may interest our readers. thereby rather losing wind, Secret finally selves ya hang or licensed dealers, the Mr Tettonborn, late Consul General at Meanwhile the other races were going on with some regard to the total of their varied there or less alike, rather than
won about 5 p.m.
tis tempered-not by epigrams but-by Great Britain. It is by no means impossi
LOST.-A boy on board an Amariçki annual payment for which was assessed distance: an aggregation of colonies, go ble that our present mood of atter indifferoamer recently got up quite a panic among Shangliai, has been recalled; and Mr In the first boat-race-distance from Fei- commerical transactions. The enormous homogeneous stato. There is just enough once more into an error which he has comson can que homing before the pas Anneke, late Chancellor of N. G. Consus loong round Customs House chop Spy and amount of fraud on the one band, and control over provincial governments la demitted several t
ance to Continental events may lead him
the passengers. Be bolted suddenly into late General at Bucharest, has been hao-Captain Godall won. In the race oppression on the other, to which this system prive them (even if inclined that way) of the Mexican Expedition, in the Polish exclaiming, "We are lost, lost!"" nominated Consul of the North German for foreign boats pulled by Chinese, Russell speedily gave rise, sventually led to its be the initiative in reforme, and too little to affair, and twice or thrice in the American Yes, lost!" said the fad, astonished at the songers had fairly rubbed their eyes open, the
•Confederation at Shanghai He arrived Cu.'a boat isd considerably but was ing, for the most part, abandoned, in impose a check of any value on in daily nion" of a class with real popular feeling lost, because the captain's on the top of the screamed out the whole of the passengera
Lost
in the last French mail and proceded eventually beaten by that of Deacon
ruinous war,alle
the mistake of confusing the $ regular collection of immediately to take up the duties of his o. A race over the same ground took all merchandize paering along the principal sinking deeper. The subdivision of the No mistake could be so disastroud, and if
of duty
corruption into which the Empire
opi- alarm he
he had created. I know. we are post. Since the departure of Mr Heins afforded by a canos race won by an officer of the official necessities were pressing) at centres is favourable, in so far as we can ble, we are precipitating a war
place for "slipper boats," and much fun was highways of commerct, and even (where qucation, however, inte so many provincial there is Pon (uf Mesars Biemsson & Co. at Shang the Chento. A duck boat race was even more various points in less frequotited arteries perceive, te a searching inquiry, with rent resolution never to engage in it. Of presses of Fashion, coming out of an at-
any reality it this Belgian squab looking to see
house, fand
mau's 3p.on the mast, by an appa-
here we are." hai) to Europe, balf a year ago, the amusing. At 3 p.m. an excellent tiffin was of travel. These Custom Houses, or, to foreign assistance, into the extent and in course, if the resolution is real, we are act
THE Duchess of Gordon, one of the Era- Hanseatic Consulate has been given over served up, to which nearly every house had speak more acurately, wax-tax Stations, cidence of the internal merchandize taxes ing sensibly, though very selfially; but we Bambly, said to Dundas, Mr. Pitt's well- to the Prussians. The hitherto existing contributed. The entire affair seems to wore established under Imperal sanction, respecting which we now complain. Prussian Vice-Consulate at Shanghai, of have given great pleasure,
conveyed through the Board of Revenue, commision constituted in each of the ma-
A distrust that assumption, Nobody ever used to speak in public, will you call my knowu colleague "Mr. Duudas, you are which Mr Probst, has been the Vice Bertha and China are here, but have no entire Empire bevaras intersected with government and of the Treaty representa is given, for nobody till then our compel is confined to the prosdut moment. A man
Our Correspondent adde-The steamers in ond
in one province attor
can tell what the British another, until the ritime
people will think Consul, will, on the establishment of the cargo. The Portuguese gun-boat Camoens such barriers and although nominally ju- tives respectively, for the purpose of inves them to understand the question at atake. is the happier for life from having made
provinces, by nominees of the Fekin about a challenge to battle till the challenge.
servant
No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, NAG Consulate there, be dissolved. At arrived on the 28th. It seems that Canton, Baron Carlowitz has been nomi- Whampoa, will be the station of one or two penditure of the particular provines in reporting on the annual revenus ub
will not nated as Consul of the North German Chinese gun-boats; the Feitoing was ata which each war-tax board was constituted, tained, the number of stations established, affair of the Charles et George and
fight even then, once Confederation, but the Consulate has not tioned there for some time sud the i.it sood became evident. that so valuable an and the method of collection employed, annexation of
the length of time with pleasant people, or yet been establislied, owing to the tem- tions are necessary for Whampion, after ad with, even in provincos where the army of a regular muschinery, and eventually, no fight. In this case, were we Manchoatar law than goepel, not long since married a
tsing went down yesterday. Such precau- adjunt to the revenue could not be d
would pave the way toward the institution will take a Minister sometimes y cant pleasure.Sydney Smith -
enjoyed any considemble interval dispens porary absence of that gentleman who is at present at Peking, but will return last attack on the house of Dr Shiftoo. f expenditure was no longer the solo and ab- doubt, to the control of the inpost by men, wo should distrust the gain tople in this way: "Hold up your right very soon. Mr Eimbeke, partner of
as it has been found more they look into the Belgian lain to hands. You golemnly swear that you will Messrs Carlowitz & Co in this Colony,
employes, such
to disregard Fill like has been nominated na Consul of the N
this account, enabled to revert to their nor such action as this, it is needless to say, and explicit,
Maritime Customs administration. on the
No it The words of the German Confederation, and we hear that
mal state of dependence, in financial mat could be carried out by the Chinese
and biad as not to Kurope,
severally, according to your best skill and ters,
govern but to
to Belgium,
and have been so intergent, 80 help you God, Fee, ono The in-preted for thirty-eight years by statesman the Hanseatic towns, now managed by to the Station said he was under liquor." ance, and the surplus of the le in revenue tant" officials in each provinces were crying f for assist terests of the countless Messca Pustan & Co., will be handed It was evident that the liquer had got over would be absorbed by drafts for ausiliary allowed to fasten ou the tax stations as a England had ever given wes given on her full, he sat in the tsp of another passenger. Autoxo the passengers in a stage coach expac of all parties, oven by Lord
Stanley, who over to the gentleman in question. The him thoroughly enough, for defendant him supplies to the treasuries (647) of Shan convenient means of finding then in em- half of Belgium. We say nothing of the White on the way, something was said seen fire summers. The coach being quite Coralates at Hongkong and Canton will sulf said he was "dreviful" He had no tang and Kansub, depleted by their own ployment and funds, are strong enough to danger in which our own interests might about pickpockete, and soon the convsisa- receive a salaried Chancellier, this is
except five cents, and he had to be respective insurrection. This sysem of re-deter the most vigorets Governer from ins be placed by such an extension of French ting beanie general on that some improvement in German Policy in on board & steamer leaving to-morrow, mittaupes between
really efficient measure territory,
for did the contingency occur gentleman who was then holding our young subject. The circumstance that has of reformis avaids the large (1) expenses of creating to the colie, and half-a-dullar to Govern given rise to the curious misaonception fre- likely to feel any spontaneous desire of that very doubtful point, but confine salaried Consuls, it at least sends salaried Chinuman was charged with the uny Chancelliers, who have studied in an awful possession of a couple of heavy ironipon Chinese finance, in the form pressure in the first place, and foreign Belgium, if she implores our assistance, we
quently to be noted in remarks by foreign coming, even remotely, in pollision with this elves to the one argument which will come easily I could pick your pocket!""No,
class of functionaries. Nothing but home to the popular wind. In deserting ing out for you all the time."
you couldn't," replied he,
I've been look versities. Why does it not send but awning stanchions, evidently belonging
fan accusation against the Contral Govern student intérpreters some ahip. He was seen stepping out with robbing the provinces of their assistance subsequent the Chidess stall be breaking a clear and recognized Lord, Erskine was in the height of his re COUNSELLOR Lamb, an old man when revenue."? A change has taken place also in the the stanchions, and when the constable other, is constantly repeated, ond is, pro- and foreign trade the intense service of The charge, in one form ar an Government in a position to render itself observed him, the prisoner got into a
putation, was of a timid and nervous dis- Spanish Consulates the Spanish Consul trat, and then throwing away big in bably, believed 1 as accounting for the regulating its inland taxation; and unless or, as it will be more popularly put, ba with a spongy to that effect; and on one
incum finncial difficulties which are known to
position,
usually prefacing his pleadings General at Macao, Don T d'Aguilar, las brunes took to a swart run. The custs prevail on all sides; yet its absurdity is difficulty has been achieved, at Peking, than
to Erskine, he happened to remark that bo a more satisfactory solution of the pending
occasion,
opposition in some case returned homo lest mail. In his place in the shape of an explanation of the portion of the actual facts, if the possibility as yat made known, even by rumNT, 3 retired from the Consular service and bte, however, caught him, and tlia defence, demonstrable after a very slight investiga-be found that the sulmeme we have patience of the British people does not growing more and more timid
session of this
felt himself tlis bars
s of iro The line
izon, was characteris-be once assured of a
fa government which suggested would result in ultimate gain' to as Hongkong, has been transferred, to the same almost in every individual in-quez, or a beak of England, there will be for whom the inland revenue is at present of defence in those cases is possesses neither a Chancellor of the exche all parties, save the rapacious underlings Macao, where he is the Acting Conani stance; and it is therefore becoming some room suppose that its system of receipts an inexhaustible mine of wealth. General In Don Ortuo's place Dou what stals and Collarte, the Isto Spaniali: Vice Consul at Mr. May questioned the prisonier very cle- other wild than othevally, and this is
Bench) trabaparent and disbursements may be conducted Canton, is appointed; and his place is verly, and a dodging little piece of equirely the state of the case with the govern taken by Don F. Esperanza, late Vice-cation was the result, Prisoner said that moment of China The writers who accuse Consul at Macao...
he was carrying the bars for another man; Peking of robbing the
(London and China Herald) he could not say who that span was, or giving nothing for return
provinces and
Thore is a little cloud in the European
Hongkong is a sunull colony, but in those can scarcely sky just now, as yet no bigger than a man's days of progress and retrenchment it afforda where he was, because he ran away; neither believe that the Chinese Government pos- hand, but none the less deserving observa peculiar illustration of the ad evila could he say the place to which he intend-esses any ocals neaus of coining sycee clon. Our statesmen are all living in a our present eclauial ayetem, and of the give ed to carry the stanchions, de the fugitive out of the mud and let stalks that surort of served that it
reault from the want of very easy to tell a false feasible it
naval expenses, reducing regiate notary surveillance. is dificult
always to
parlia to understand in
recently published, ho says, with regard food, but it was evident that defendant what manner the central governinsut should storining churches, Jeleasing: Fenians, s if war could never break out again, and all
From the date of the cession of the island the combinations of words, "
Continental, dann, I that air of credibility absolutely necessary income The fact is, that the revenue
to the year 1855, the colony, being un to success.
ile would convict him of system of China differs from our own in that que in more than half inclined to the economists of those days, considering mental quireney was counterfeited to such
planes us into a tremendous conflict, and to
donually to Parliament for a grant in aid during the Rovalution of 1776,
with American bistory will know that It is whispered that important disclosures unlawful possession and fine him in the the important particular of
sum of 401, in default to be imprisoned vincial and not Imperial-each Province We do not pretend to the smallest the local expenditure of the colony took that it became fecessary for the
being pro it
the Canti- are likely to be made soon concerning the relations between France and Belgium, wo at some of the Holworthy murder case, the Police having left the dock, expressing his surprise at organisation; collecting and spending ite can hardly explain satisfactorily the when the estimates were submitted to Par-which was genuine. To this end, they
of private information the made of being about to make some progres the gom of "az ahap skilling." in the right direction, viz., obtaining direct Uhinese who resisted an Indian con the impone cording to its own budget; strengtia of our own apprehension upon the fiament, and thus, supervision being exer Fvidence. This dence which pain Deape himself hitted stable in arresting him for having no pasa, retained at Peking. The Board of Rereano impression that danger, surtoua danger, is this system-com 1846 to 1850 and such counterfeit notes had the word supreme control and audit being alone subject, but still we cannot overcome in cised, strict economy had to be observed. required that it should all be brought to and in doing so broke off th
off the sword-hayo-authorizes the
tent years of the colony common treasury. Here the sporious various importe (which, in
from the were distinguished gathering there. sad we trust that at last spinsthing definite net from the constable's belt, was brought fact, are established, as well as the actual
genuine notes All this would has been made sil the more lamentable by aid of which he endeavoured to get out of regulations), without seeking to adddle ons of the Emperor's most powerful sup
be done in this terrible business, which up sharply fon a string of fabelioods by the expenditure, by minute and longstanding did not matter so much, were inclusive--the average expenditure daman abbreviation of the Latin word
not a war party in France, headed by
exactly 42,800 per
per annum Since the damnatus, condomued-stamped upon their been thrown on its own re face. colony has tardiness
scrape. The bold
prisoner predu with the details of collection. From the
When the very small value of the tod a "solled dole" of the Celestial sort surplus left available in each Province, Mahal Niel, Minister at War, sonra, the expenditure has gradually genti to prove everything but. Mr May was after defraying the cost of its civil and who has perfected the Army organization; creased, until the estimates for the current worthle Continental notes, and the utter
worthlessness and and were not the situation of France in year exceed a million of dollars, or £208,500 considered, it will be ensy to assign a sourc of those marked dam, is compelled to inform the prisoner that bis railitary administration, or such Prisoner was ordered to pay $4, the prico of the lost aword-bayount.
Five certain sum, amounting in
exceptional.
amounted who under Parliamentary su Powers
in 1881 the aggregate.
tervision. to no apre that about six millions Tieks, pendence and neutrality of the Belgian
teed by formal treaty the
the perpetual inde
Leat our readers should he led away bysation remitted to Fuking annually for the ex- penditure of the Court and the garrison, and in 1888 Holland sceeded to the certain explanations" which may be ad- Where, however, from unforeseen causos, reement. Of these, France appears now varies by parties implicated, and which the revenue of any one province falls
to assert that Belgium in prohi are not only ex parte, but have their con- she needful amount, auxiliary
Blow biting?!
railway fnaiona, in protestine called for from other provincial
suries; a spicions to France but friendly to Prussia, governors. lekin.revenne
well as numholy, the great transit dous imbroglio, present with that scuruing from the Martin violating that moral as as material H. E the Governor and Lady MacDonnell, is one which may be discussed ad infinitum, time witten, be principal cut waris pendence. So is boning, 38
Customs, the contributor.
aeutrality which is her condition of inde was not so well attended as on either of the it would almost seems, without bringing us
as the Pays, for instance, is su
sa fond of two previous entertainments given by Mrsmiy nearer to a satisfactory settlement, to no mere provincial squeeze,
impused work of And Mra Case
of a balwark The evening was,
reconcillation, in fact, of the conflicting at levied irrespectivaly of control from w however,
France therefors feels the artistes would even seem to depend the
herself, absolved from the That the administration is carrupt beyond all
guarantee, and more upon their own excellency than on Chinese go turgantile body.
upon
precisely Have stready
Don Thomue Ortuno, the hitherto Consul
LOUÁL
+3
recise-
might
ENGLAND AND BELGIUM
*
Car (Spectator, March 18.):
THE NECESSITY OF "PARLIAMENT ARY SUPERVISION.
a
A.S
the relentless barrialer, "every one knows grow older. No wonder," replied the older the lamb grows the more sheepish he becomes.
A CONTINENTAL "Dar"A corespon dent in Atlanta, Gs., offers the following plausible explanation of this term. Ha Bays: I do not alarm to be versed in alang phrases but I must confess that my
know of ledge
them is sufficient to explain the
of this which Mr Richard Grant White admite
no account. In his article entitled
origin of au
au expression of nature, of
can
ba
THE article on abbreviated writing, which] not mention the fact.My May ob- round: the capital; bat unless this were downradigical dream of pesce, cutting waste and extravagancs which are, aure Words that are not Worda," which was
appears in our sixth page, may be interest-
did
"Not
worth am at a
at a loss to
to
system may be easily learnt, and It will be not at all able to perpetrate them with apply provincial treasuries with their the while it is in the power of one man to pay its own expenses, applied a source; ats." Those who are thes
ing to some of our local readers. The found extremely neeful in
in many respects
This is we presuney the evi
at in the Supreme Court anmo days ago;
HAY
the tard
efors
of justice.
the
сп
under
the last
★3-
sa ex ent
the
Me May this morning, in which two story did not hang toguther at all well of as the government proteases there-ard to the guaranteeing Powers so very nearly five times the sum to which they to this phrase. The addition of the latter
A RIDNAPPINO case was brought forward children would seem to have been stolen and carried to the mainland The peau liarity of the case was that the parents of the children puraned the kidnappers forty or fifty miles inland, when their energy was rewarded by the recovery of their little ones. The case was remanded, na evidence, having been taken.
TRANSIT DUES. The question which appears to underlie at least one-half of our gravert diealties in China-the despair of diplomatite, and
to
Pay
191,
funds are.
guaran
n to the abbreviation requires no expla
A LEGAL MACHINE!--Abe having heard it stated by a lecturer that "man is merely a machine," remarked, “! I
"A
Opps and Ends" at the Lusitano Theatre the standing puzzle of public and to those funds the le treasuries; peers, and in supporange hostil verse, we will give the average expenditureKLES AND PRESERVES - We're in a
last night, though under the patronage of
It
Bh
none the lesa enjoyable, and the success of interests of the Chinese official system, and, unquestionably, its stay, inte att ut
of
com-
ja said another.
is a susing machine ppose au al- of the colony under each of its four last
now," said a man in a crowd,
"Heaven During Sir George Bonham's term
preserve us mourned an old lady.: the annual average was £35,600 THE Violet grows low, and cover itself During Sir John Bowring's term.. 58,600 with its own leaves; and yet of all flowers During Sir Bercules Robinson's yiekis the most delicious and fragrant smell.
..... 141,668 Such is humility. During dir Richard MacDonnell's
term.......
.....174,650
government is opposed to the parison; the government and the trader who is to uphold i Prussia? That is The supervision of Parliament was exer-
foreign comatorce con birdly be sufaring equally under the embezzlemente rol with Prussia for an adequate
the war party desire, a quareisid, be it observed, during the whole of enough set the superior qualities of both asserted, though they do take a strange officials and clerks in charge of stations are Rhine. nssia? Napoleon experts how of Sir John Bowring's
His Excellency. We have"
Baid
and mimic
mode of encouraging it. The prosperous an
with
80
with pass in
the exsotions of which the potty French provinces of Belgium
of
il
stake,
the
and
extr
else."
if
י
"HAVE' I not offered you every advan
ther
How do you like me now?" asked a belle
her spouse, as she sailed into the room.
THE more vigorous and elevated a man is, the bigher fonderness he is capable of, as on high trees the fruit rounds itself into Bilder and sweeter form than on low ones. the Sir George Bonton's term, and daring part
A PRINTER Observing two bailiffs purn- the performers, in their joint entertain made
ing an
an ingenious but distressed author, ments, and repetition is unnecessary. There nual returns of revento from their maritime guilty. It is aportant to note that every act with Prussia, and has made all his instructive to review the respective careers
With these gores before us, it is most remarked that it was a new edition of were-ous or two new chamoters introduced Customs, are recognited as an indispeni tax station established, derives its authority efforts at new combitiations contingent on of these governors. Sir G. Bonham sign
Pursuit of
of Literature, unbound eat hot last night, however, which only confirmed
able and unfalling source of supply, and for levying the impoat, direct from Peking, that expectation. Austria It is difficult
pressed, the great fange of power of minicry pos- the vast field for employment afforded to and that the Central Government is in a to believe that the defeated Saxon who now expenditure was upon to Parliamentary a second f. We pity a persons with bat ons phy carried out instructions, and as his ALL should marry. Every I should have soused by Mrs Case. Amelia Tremlett (with redundant population, by the demands of position, therefore, to prescribe, if it her nerves, her dog and her game leg), and European trade, is all known to be viewed chocses, uniform eystoit and a recognized governs Austris would lose stich a chance of criticism, we need not enlarge on his eye. He can see but half the things going Jeremiah Brush (the fussy, voluble, and with satisfaction and relief, by even the tariff,
paying off old scores, and re-establishing Career Sir John Bowring's economy más the position of the Hapsburgs in Germany caused by his desire to devote the whole Pheeky" shaver) who, sang We're all most bigoted adversaries of cordial relations
on la the world,
Is this should meet the eyes of John "were new abades of life. The witli ile barbarians" thanselves. The there are two other departments of the the same resignation sa a aquite gives up designiet of making a sea wall in the face his fist and shaking it as bo spoke, bo will
In addition to the foregoing, however, a position they have given up with much surplus revenue to the vast work which bu
Logg said an enraged man, doubling up juggling part of the programme, though qution that the vexations and frequently inland refrenno wachinery, which equally his position in the county. Holland of the town, to be called after himself, find something to his disadvantage. Please us so much sathe mucarinoua imposta, vaguely known as transit come under the head of "transit dues," clever enough and amusing besi
besitles,
Holland is ut strong enough, and if The idea being rejected, he left a full trea portions; and we cannot help saying that the increase of
are devised for the purpose of the first is the system of internal Onatom
Is that alock right over there?" asked were, it is
is by no means clear that foreign
the other day. "Right over are glad to see it shortened into the Aud, exports, may therefore be entirely of which are the to called, the best knowu Holland is friendly to Belgiunt, or that only for his locissor. Sir H. Robinson's visitor
gaid the boy. Fih-sin kwan at Haugehow she would declius a share of the
porformances
ncas bafis descripti n. there," nie
tain't nowwhere lesat possible space. Mira Case was slightly scouted. But in order to form an idea and the
are characterised by the most the Angling Her Bing offered to sell Luxemburg. They are husky towards the close; and no wonder.hich these taxes are actually levied, it taken as types of the whole, and the ing influence of their narrow terri the city side of the harbour, we and bimby offering him a cheque on the Rubicon
to the probable intent with regard
both of which may be and her peuple feel severely the cramper trabling the gaol accommodation ng-house, le made an enemy of Cæsar CASSEUR was a teller in the Roman clear- y incompetency and inexpertence, Her next performance will be under the patrounge of the military and naval off becomes accessary to ascertain whist in organization of which is tolerably well tory, with its heavy taxation. ore on Thursday ne
meant, in 1 by ther
turn under which explained in the Blue book of 1858, known reinnius Englaud, and it is to the position other side. After stoam between Chins torios? wished to cross.
There building & convict establishment on the Bank, which the author of the Common- they are popularly kuow. .The ignorance as Lord Elgin's." These Custom houses of Eugland that we wish to call attention, and California had rendered it impossible We learn from Canton that on the 28th that prevails in general on this subject is levy a moderate tax, regulated by tariffs of. If she is firm in her alliance with Belgium, for the dolar, ever again to attain a large tage-?" said a doting father to his son, Ol instant, soins Aquatic Sports enlivened the so great, that very few, if any, of the au-long standing, which constitutes the only all is safe, for it la scarcely conceivable that premium in Hongkong, Sir Hercules estabes," replied the youth; " but I could unt Captou Regatta Club, but were hot the lesserision, who have expatiated eloquently through the interior, and are similar in sighted, would engage in a combat dialed a fint. He reorganized a police, think of taking any advantage of my is. community. They were got up by the show of the various usemorials po treaty real transit duty " merchandise passing Napoleon, cautious he is, if not far-
enough on the hardships attending the levy every repcot to the Custora beuses estab-trace with Germany aut England un- the catablishment of the Supreme Court at and forgut to engage officers. When, by been misde Mr Hobertson, H.B.M. Con- of socesful that bat little preparation at these duties, would be able, probably, flished at the various ports of entry on the bined. The odds would be
too was decreased one half, Bir Hercules with a sweeping train of muslin tollowing avi, waa
Messrs: Gifford, Moul, to give much accurate information as to the coast. What is less generally known, how chances of a general combination of
Shanghai, the business of the Hongkong Nawum; Captain Edwarda (of the Chanti roal character, evan, of the imposts they ever, is that as a rals, the Prefect of each against hins 130 numerous, din
others, forming the Committee, with donounos. Impressed with this conviction, Fu city maintains a Custom house of his truth, too big for a man not utterly despe- alipata rover Court in bengkong, Mr Lind as soietary. The Zeiloong came
ame and with the belief that even the most re own, where a duty on merchandize im rate to
reader Terlaps the If, therefore, the Emperor result. Sir Hercules left the treasury trour Whampoa with Mr. Vice Consul condite measures of Uhinese stat ceraft ported for local conau mption is levied under of the French is moving by this direction,
prepared for and Mrs Hance, and other guests expressly cannot be wholly impervious to deter the name of lo te shy, constituting aamusement which we do not protend to
bankrupt. to be present. The time advertised for the mined inquiry, we have given a little study species of octroi tax. These duties are, or affiro, but which many sircumstare a empty, instead of retranching, determined Sir R. MacDonnell, infling the treasty start was 10. But this, by the force to the subject, in the hope of contributing should be levied according to tariff; but conspire to make possible, it must to torino the revenus to keep pace with the of circumstances, became 12 noon; the somewhat toward the eloidation of this the prefectural custom boasus are, in fact, because he has reason to believe, or thinks extravagance which had previously exister sive a reward of five culiars to bring him Feiloong, which was anchored between the important point.
for the most part, farmed out to contractors, he has reason to believe, that Great Cent and 4nlan, having some mandárius, in the first place, it is necessary to ob- who bind themselvas to supply the fixed would not comply with a Belgian demand and he killed the goose which laid the goideus to me. He was a she goat " in addition to the European guests, on serve that several entirely distinct branches amount di sungal revenue, which, accord for aid, that the whole work would be i
Love, the toothache, a cough, and tight e. He has succeeded in utterly ruining left. board
of revenue are included, by foreigners
nearst, sailing race for which 9 under the single term transit, dues or the inscribed, Chinese system, is immutably to North Germany and the Continental the boleny, by taxing trade and by licens boots are things which casuot long by kept
plus a
a handsome bonus to the Fowers. He either deems Eugland fudif
be asked how this affects our cole-
Brooks asys the reason he does not get Prefect himself, recouping their outlay by ferent, or considers that our policy for the nisl a zape stretched from the desiguation of "squeres." The impost to Chelo to the Feilong. They had to go which this comprehensive terms is most positiu are so well able to employ. We directly menaced or attacked.
colony was thrown on its own rescuros, to contato the consequouces. twise round Macau Fort, about being fesquently applied, is the celebrated Le-kin have thun for the collection of revenue
Is this our policy, or not If it is not, smallest power even over their municipal Not to wash it at all. Oui.
tlie residents were not invested with the dirty linen at home Conventual ides. --- CONVENTIONAL IDEA-To wash your stationed below it flying
blue flag with words being
her War tax, (the literal signification
from merchandire in the interior of China, then we are acting here it is. It is a repe in the Secretary of te. Nepotism u of, was a shoemaker, who always shut his of the C. R. U on it, as the turning point.
Handredth i
very foolishly in suffer. -money," or she firstly, the extraordinary (but, now doub ing Mesars Coare, Lind's Maskes led at the tenth of a lithe), which was instituted in less, perioanetit) lekin, or war tithe sa tition of the old blander with respect to
affairs. The whole patronage was vested Napoleon to believe i start but
was overhauled at the entrance the early days of the rebellion, about 1860, condly, the long-established inland pustom the Car Nicholas. We then talked peace Downing-strest way repounded to by sp of the passage by the sauce gentlemen's as a means of replenishing the already houses proper) and
sole, spectata (ynthia; for some time the xhamsted Provincial treasuries. The files tiers in push echirdly, the local bar- so loudly, that he at last believed the reso teri and goes falai, from Hong eyes and whistled when he ran his awl inter
ses nothing, some of the of this tax, when first promulgated, was authority for laying a tax on
which have no hartghtiest nation in Europe would return on Parifament langed in its sleure
Secretary of State wae misled by his od two marble busts, one of Pompey, and At Pompeii there have just been discover. round the fort. About 2 pm the Cynthia of all imposts in the nature of a stamp suggests itself is how to impose an on till retreat had become impossible either
how to fight, and under that belief pressed could not be beard: got back from her first torn, the Secret a tax-siz the collection of a sum, large in efficient check on the administration of for him or for us. Trusting in English
execution, and have been placed in the mile behind. Cynthia lost much time in the aggregate by means of infinitesimal levies | thoac multifarious departments },
*[Nonsense the trade is not taxed, but it is National Museum. going round for her next turk, and Secret on the operations of trade. In its earlier cannot be
It indifference, the Emperor of the French perfectly true that the expenses of government Pegan to overhaul her, going about easily phases, the Laskin was raised by means of government alone is altogether unable be impossible to recede without humilia reason. Ed, G, M.]
doubted that the central might easily take steps front which it would are increased without any apparent justifiable
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A COLONIAL farmer, who lost a sheep, að shepe all over with one leg was black and vertised this:"Lost or atrade from me s bad a black head. All parsons shall re-
entered the starting point being more popular, though; soarosly legitimate various methods which Chinese in such tiare is fixed,-to abstalu from war unless the on Is affects it in this way. When married is that his house is not large enough
Tax most tender-hearted man eter heard
Fashts taking over two hours in getting identical with that which forms the basis simply fu transit. The problems if thanks for blows, that we had forgotten; nomineej and the people, having to voice, the ather of Brutus. They are both of fine
that now
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