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1898JULY 8, 1869,

No. 6, Vol. 3,

ES & QUERIES

ON

INA AND JAPAN,

(For June, 1869)

S ROW READY,

AIL" OFFICE,

ong, July 2, 1869,

NG of every description exe

1 at the" China Mail" Ofoe racy, neatness, punctuality, sonable charges, hy ***** ÖHARLES A. SAINT*** CORRESPONDENTS LE we are open to all who wish to ublie on legitimate grounds, but old ourselves responsible for the ur correspondent ententions addressed to this paper. companied by the name of the ecessarily for publication, but as of good faith

CHINA MAIL.

3, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1869.

USSIA IN ASTA.700

ur Northern contemporaries te to have been much exer- subject of possible Russian apon China, and a fresh fillip ven to prophete of future evil but not not always correct, rded by Mr Cunninghain to States Consul General at In alluding to the Progres Russia in Central Asia, be trouble and expense incur dovernment in annexing the Bokhara, with the ease and ith which it might yet fur Pite sway into Chinese tervi

do not by any means share Trap, as he states in the otion of this Empire, they and occupied with forte, years, the great tract of

Sig

batween the Amoor and

frontier, without any advant

egion itself to attract thed,

ntly only for the object of arer to China proper" They valuable port upon the coast,

ys Mr Knight, they could

ithout the costly annexation

a territory." We hardly see

this reasoning They might have obtained & port with ag the intervening territory tcase the port would have useless, and the very ease in which Mr Knight sets forth on for their aggression is a ason why if it could be bad ing the territory, should be must be recollected that the was made not by the aid of army but by a simple stroke Chinese Government during 1860. With Great Britain knocking at the gates of Chinese were but ill-prepared slightest opposition to dieta. a powerful neighbour who d the power and night have will, to materially barrase her. y ease with which the cession

ed is to us one of the strong. why Russian aggression in er may be considered as:

Let us examine the geo- the country in support of It will be noticed that in territory, as now laid ends to the borders of the

Desert which forms a natu between Chibli and Heh gor Tsitsihar. Far away to 1, to the very borders of the ches a vast tract which though nated a desert is but little bet d by nomadic tribes, ever shift- less, it produces a precarious reby they support their herds, sparsely populuted portion re the Chinese Government way which is souredly nomi ught but the enterprise of Hization can ever hope to turn ass-grown waste into a fruit- What mineral treasures can only be quessed at, but ten times as great neither China possess the means or on to develop them. It was derations which led to the given by the Peking Govera e alteration of the Russian nef her power over a hundred and more miles in ring her northern provinces an nominal how could she serve it over tribes better beyond the tract in ques same reasons which told with tell equally with the Rus further attenipts at annexe natural barrier we have uld be useless to her and we authority for stating that ay be her ultimate desires, of Manchuria proper is not

theory in connection with

of Kusaian aggression has

ward in a recent number of

lly Remeid. It pats Russ

her in the consideration of

Manchuria and Russia in

oks forward to the somewhat when the Californians shall

No. 1298. July 8, 1869.]

be compelled to emigrate, and when the purchase of Alaska shall be followed by the cession, voluntary or enforced, of the whole of North Eastern Asia. The Californians, socording to the writer (we quote the Friend of India's pyxis of hit statements) are likely to cross over into Asiatic Russia and settle there, torming the Amorr valley and the fertile wastes of Manchuria into a new Far West

The colonising power of the Buss is no

THE CHINA MAIL.

SUPREME COURT.

ORIMINAL SESSIONS. (Before the Hon. Judge Swain.)

reported that after being washed on shore they saw several dead bodies of Europeaus and nativee floating about and thrown op on the beach, and that amongst the Euro poans were two female corpses. These most probably were the bodies of the pas according to adjournment, when the follow- The June Sessions were continued to-day singers of the Chedaba, as two ladies were, ing Jurors were called More Minto, we believe, amongst her passengers. No Hodges, Terry, Maclean, De Jesus, Dal hope (saya the Friend of iwlia) is now en-meida and Gutslow. Mr Whyte prosecuted. tertained of the safety of this unfortunate The Moulmein has gone out to vessel

arch the sea board of the Sunderband for traces of the vessel or crew.

The Burmah Alexandra without success,

* ATTEMPT TO MURDER:

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE PORTUGUESE POPULATION, To the Editor of the "Cutwa Man": guese has published the Statistics com- SIR,- your correspondent." A Fortu- piled by Father Domingos, as being the number of Portuguese resident in this Colony, 1 forward you translation of a letter received from the Revi gentleman which speaks for itself,

In my

above the nos level, and will be visible in filthy gaolas, or to the precincts of celestial clear weather about 17 nautical miles, at St Gilesen. It is one thing to tolerate lowing 15 feet for the height of the ohbar-gambling under auch circumstances and ver's eye, and at lesser distances socording another to legalise it openly, to the state of the atmosphere.

gild and

ture of timber, and will be 118 feet in done.

decorate it, to derude it of its repulsive- The tower is to be an open-framed strueneas the Hongkong authorities have height from the ground to the top of the lantern

2-Lighthouse on Cape Campbell, Cook * Strait. ****

thing to that of the Western Men and conste have already been scoured by the overboard into the water at or near Yau: I stated ons letter of the let instant. The gun will be erected on a knol ation. Our contemporary had better study

it is not difficult to predict how the conflict will end. The Californian op

Russian. It will be many years before Rustis hee speedy and cheap commoni

at the

We speak from actual knowledge of the subject, from personal observation, from indeniable dats, from undoubted facts, Ahiek, of having pushed an old Chinaman The charge against the Obinaman named

from deep conviction after mature deliber the number of male individuals to

extreme of the high land our materiale--they are patent and notori ma-t, and then taken possesion of the old be 235 as foraning the Portuguese comma of Cape Campbell, on the South side of the ons. man's boat, was disposed of. The same nity, and said, I did so on the authority of Eastern entrance to Cook Strait, evidence of the old man, his the Magis published in

his son, Jeremiah "Morris's Directory" of the current year,

The tracy was gone over again.

reliable, who is to blame? It appeara, however, that this number is not

tice are admitted to be, by himself, Father Domingos, imperfect as his Statis

portunity is, bendes, for greater than the ON the 12th June arrived at Batavia the Foley (P. C)-as that grew rity is natur office, and if such autho intight will show all round where not

French steam frigate Le Qpeland, Captain Caillet, which was sent by Admiral Ohiei,

cation with the Amoor. Her most bond Governor of French Cochio China, to co and his Lordship, concurring in the verdict, much at variance with that given by once a minilta."

and

din

The Jury returned a verdict of guilty

penal servitude. The Chief Justice compli gave the prisoner a sentence of five year mented P. O, Foley on the fact of his bay. done his duty wall.

REGINA». BOUZA

The Chief Justice delivered his addition

to the previous judgment in the Queen Souza; but nothing of great importance was comprehended in the decision, beyond the fact that bis Lordship decided that there was still no precedent touching the case. The Judge merely confirmed his previous decision, remarking that an application for leave to appeal had been made

The Sessions were then adjourned

ful plan of colonising there is to send for the help afforded the French-marine in vey to the N. L'authorities grateful thanks emigrant ships from St. Petersburg by the affair of the Tamaris, already fully the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Hora, noticed in our paper. Captain fallet, to this arriving at Nicolaieff after a voyage of end, was admitted to a private sul six months or more. San Francisco, on with the Governor-General, on the 13th inst.

By last advices from Padang the Tamaria the contrary, is almost at hand-little was almost ready for sailing and was only more than a three weeks voyage being the actual interval, which will crating the arrival of some more sailers, tainly be diminished with the growth of the China trade. This is all very well, but the writer appears to forget that telegraphic communica tion between St. Petersburgh and the Arcoor is now an accomplished fact. Nor can we share the Friend of India's idea that "looking to our own relations with Bussla in Asia, it is rather a fortunate thing for us to have the prospect of a conflict of interests in North-Eastern Anis between our and a power with which we may ossily be united in the closest political alliance se we are already united by the kinship of race and the strongest commercial interesta" This is no doubt a very pleasant prospect to look forward to, but it is somewhat too remote to improve our -present position. And we may fairly add the prospect is an chimerical as it is remote, dede Wet LVB.

provisions from Batavia, in order to put to ses. From the investigations made at, Podang by the Chancellor of the French Consulate, appears that Captain Raunis, off Sibogna, and in the face of the smoke of the Borneo which was in chase of her, bad been thrown overboard, after having been, knocked on the head no doubt, and thus been murdered in a shocking manner com- mon among Chinese coolies-nost probe bly by the instrumentality of a Chinaman amongst those on board, and at 11 am, pamed.

during their outrages. It has nous cooliol, who had headed the mati been discovered, that this monster, after

We have to acknowledge (somewhat late In the day, however) the receipt of the Shsughai Almanack for 1860, com plled by Mr Terrant, a well known resident in China. Its preface contains

Dertain

the departure of the urow, bad ait down, or atabout twenty of his countryasen and companions, and hed thrown their bodies overboard, just as the Captain's was after wards served by the wretches-trails Times.

Court Paper for Friddy, 9th July, 1860,

IN THE SUPREME COURT

Rė Seasuro, a Bankrupt.-Last exam nation.dependent!

If "A Portuguess" wishes the public to believe him, let him stick to facta, instead of distorting them as he habitually does,

Ova parpose.

to serve

Lis

am, 5,

ONE WHO IS NOT UNDER AGE

mingos' letter addressed to A. G. Romano, (Translation of the Rev, Father Do- Esg, and dated 7th July, 1860.1

CANADA..

by the land, and is to be a revolving white light of the second order dioptric, attaining its greatest brilliance

(Saturday Beri, May 15.) The Dominion anthorities are beginning to feal the stimulus and the responsibilities The light will be elevated about 155 feet of national existence. clear weather about 19 nautical miles, al triumphing over douestio opposition and After some not above the sea level, and will be visible i insignificant difficulties, they are rapidly lowing 16 feet for the height of the obserseeing their boundaries enlarge and their For's ore, and at lesser distances according power consolidate; and at the same time to

turn of timber, and will be about 78 feet in

state of the stainsphere. The tower is to be an open-framed struc- their position, and meeting the insolence of

they are

are growing sensible to the dignity of

American ambition in a tone of calm but height from the ground to the top of the resolute rebuke. lantern,

the

Bay.

to

of the Dominiou two serions obstacles to At the commencement of the second year.

remained to be surmounted. The Hudson's the complete establishment of the Union

pansion to the West, while the animosity Bay

atill Согораву survived

limit ex- of Nova Scotia, and the reluctance of New foundland to make common cause

with the other provinces, threatened to narrow and

Lighthouse on Nugget Point, Molyneux of this date. I have seen with great surprise welldefined knoll, about 249 feet high, at

I have the honor to reply to your favour

The light house is to be greeted on the statistics published in the China Ma ton of extreulty of Nugget, Poink the last evening. I did not intend it should be southern limit of Molyneux Bay (in 46 27 published for various reasons, one and the South latitude, and 169 51 East longitude, and incorrect, not having yet bad time to be light show to sasward over an impair the authority of the Dominion over greater of which is that it is incomplete a measured on the Admiralty chart). och it, and nothing was farther from my roof a 225, and will be a Fixed white the small but important demand over thought than to give permission for its light of the first under dioptric publication; it was an abuse in making

The light will be elevated about 252 feet months have entirely dissipated these bound it on the Atlantic coast. A few use of my name on the publication of a above the sea level, and will be visible infrmidable clouds. After years of clever SUMMARY JURISDICTION COURT, document solely intended for private infor-clear weather about 23. nautical miles, al-negotiation the Fur-trading Company bas

nation

lowing 15 feet for the height of the ob accepted reasonablo terme for the cession When I stated the number of Portugueserver's eyes, and at lesser distances accord- of its vast though questionable rights, and male individuals to be 627, it included ing to the state of the atmosphere. 21 years of age and upward, atcoating to to suit the background. It will be 31 feet adults as well as children, the former, from

tower will be of atone, and painted 308 (amongst whom a great number of in height from the ground to the top of natives of Manils who are married to Malantornya ia b cao women, have inadvertently oropt in Temporary Light at Manukan Heads. from the hurried manner the said Statistics 4 smell fifth order apparatus has been were arrived at, hence the imperfection of on one of the breasons on the South Heater ordered from England, and will be erected the work) and the latter below, that age, Manukau Harbour, on its arrival amounting to 319.

1 repeat, the statistics are far from being complete and correct as a work of this sort ought to be

glam, de P. DOMINGUS DAVANZO

The

the

to make over ita buge domains to the Do- for a moderate subsidy, supplemented by some prospective advantages, has consented ninion Coverament

ia

Before Heu, J. PAUKCEFOTE July 8, 1869 plaintifs business by slander. Mr Hayllar, Wing-ked v. Ayun, $500, for damage to instracted by Mir Sharp appeared for the CAPTAIN CUBITT, and

plaintif, and Mr Pollard, a. a, instructed by od part of the crow of Me Franois, was for the defendant, the British ship Alfred Storer bound from This was an examination de beris case, of Shields to Singapore with coals, arrived the Captain and Chiệt Engineer of the str. there on the afternoon of June 27th in the Niger, The Motion Sa one, the parties in Aunt Lizzie, Captain Proctor, and reported which are the "rival compradores" who the total loss of his vessel on a reef to the before appeared at the Magistracy in a case west of Princes Island, Sunda Straits. The of assault, and arose out of the keen com- Vessel left Shields on the 4th March, and petition existing and being carried on in after a favorable voyage resobed Sunda the trade of ship's compradore. The plaint Straits on the 14th instant, and experiene was as follows $500, damages, for that ed light and variable winds. that the mese Calendar and the tides upon the thick raiu from the westwand struck the falsely sud maliciously slander the said July lostint and on other occasions, China Coast, together with some other ship and drove her on the reef where she plaintiff to his business of a coal morchaut information exclusively interesting to immediately filled. The first boat launch- and ship compradore, and more particularly the half-year ending 30th April 1869. The the night, nor is it meant to encourage induce the Imperial Parlin wont ford to Shanghai residents The Diary, which ed was the gig, which swamped and was accused, the said plaintiff of supplying to is printed to contain barometrical and lost; the next was the life-boat with the the St. S. Niger a very inferior coal, and of thermometrical observations, winds, etc., the ses was so high that slie was immediate be supplied and for which the said plaintiff

Carpenter and Boatswain on board; but a much lower price than that contracted is not particularly original in form, but ly driven away to leaward; and nothing received payment. will, we dare say, be found of use to more was seen of her it being pitch dark to the fogat of the plaint, fagmuols as

Mr Pollard took a pre

praliminary objection those of metereological tutor

and thick rain The piece was t over with great difficulty, and the Captain the plaintif was bound to state the exact the Bengal Photographic Society for with the remaining crew got into her; it words of the alleged alander; and also that per annung, The Report moreover Rottnest Island, as reported in June 1864 offerts of a year or two of agitation taught

is now found, however, that the Chief there was a contradiction in torna in the contains two fagts which should be equally by the cotainntider of

some interesting remarks upon the thi day At about midnight a heavy squall with ofendant did, on the 24 and Srd days

We have also received the Journal of

March 1869. It contains the regulations under which the annual photographic exhibition is to be held in December next. We shall take an early oppor- tunity of drawing attention to these in the hope that our local photographers will endeavour to have China and Hong kong suitably represented..

LOCAL

with

the

got sa

to

for slandering the

Ple

QUAL IN INDIA.

•

We have before us the Report of the Directors of the Bengal Coal Company for result of the half-year's workings should be most satisfactory to the shareholders, show- 18, is it does, an increase both in the

Pued the Directors recommend a dividend raising and sales of coal, and a profit of Rs. 1,76,693, out of which after transferring the sum of Rs. 20,000 to the Wear and Fear

On the But the prospects of the Union have improved with suspected rapidity. backed, according to the most trustworthy By. A large majority its Legislature, secounts, by a still more decided majority The light will be a fixed white light of her desire to be admitted as a member of the country, Newfoundland has deglared moderate power, though from the great the Confederation. The change in the feel elevation of the land. (about 500 feet) iting of Nova Scotia is even more striking. may be seen, in sery exceptionally clear The exertions of one of the ablest of mo states of the atmosphere, at a distance of deri demagogues induced the people of

thirty nautical miles. nearly

intendent in any way to crciturage vessels to

This light is only meant to benefit vessels handed action of their representatives, and this sturdy little colony to resent the high- customed to trade on the coast; it is not to return a Parliament unanimous in de attempt to enter Manuky Harbour dringending a repeal of the Act of Unicu. Mr. strangers to approach the port.

Associates

to repeal an act which, after it had once been pass it was impossible for England to

him to foreres, this result from the first; towards the other estanies which were par with without the grosseat breach of faith ties to it. The sagacity of the leader of the movement was

sufficient to enable probably

:

IMPORTANT. TO MARINERS.

existence of a sunken danger about 52 miles PERTH, WEST AUSTRALIA, 27th April, 1869. In order to remove all doabt as to the:

Howe and his

of Rs. 70 per share, or at the rate of 14 per true West by South from the west end of but, whether he did so or not, the fruitless

binate near

the value of

at

the

is-

Burveyor General.

unly

to be

made of their influence with the Nova

practical

પકલ

that

much

be had added

centage

plied for Probate of the will to be grate the names of the missing men quite en said that he could not see Danoodah fold; have shown that that of the EXPEDIENCY FERSUS MORALITY. he healed

has

on and three of the crew were missing, plaint, the first half stating that the com- interesting to the shareholders and the and then called Beaver Reef," it is but whether they had been washed from plaint was for damage the deck, or had gons with the Carpenter plaintiff, and the second half allegtug atie Damoodah and the Hooghly has been Mr Laing, commanding the schooner Gift, Setians and their power of annoyance to

chooner and others that tan general public. The canal intended to join by notified that the said reet is reported by." and Beatswain in the life boat is not known, slander on the chattel: He would it being utterly impossible to distinguish justification; but in the one portion of the sanctioned by the Government. This work, to have been seen by him on the 15th in the Confederacy was to secure more fa anything on deck. Every search was made plaint, the slander on the chattel, a special on the property of the Company, and ter position above indicated very nearly the conceded to Nova Scotia iu

which will commenedú Koghonath Chuck,

vourable financial conditions than had been for the missing man; but without avail, case had to be met.

It was o

s necessary that le and the pinnace had reluctantly to shove should have the exact words before he could will afford a safe and constant means of mile in a North and Sonth direction, and nion Ministers determined to meet the re- the original Muggran, on the Hooghly,

bargain. With The reaf appeared to extend about half a

the Domi judgment off about daybreak of the 15th, when the know what the plaintiff meant, io go upon, transport in Heu of the dangerous and pre-soundings were had in 15 to 18 fathoms taut Repealore ball way, and terms were ship bogati to

De on board Captain Cubitt and what case the defendant had to meet.

carious route by the got safely His Honor remarked that all that was

Damoodab, pinuare on board the dung Liane and were brought necessary in this Court was to state at ninterisily lessen the cost of coal in Calou water s quarter of a mile from its south arranged which enabled Mr. Hors to boast In the Supreme Court to day, In the estate by her to Singapore, having experienced of action, sud bring forward évidence to tap Also equally important in the fact that

a very appreciable për- J. S. ROE, Commander B.N.,

to the revenues of the Province. of Douglas Lapraik, deceased, Mr H. C. great kindness from her Coniniander and support that cause of action. That was the Peninsular and Oriental Company on

experimente instituted by the

the Directors of

It is, fortunately, not necessary to Caldwell, Proctor for the Executors, ap-

pathize with Mr Home before

10 sym congratulat- ATr is feared must be lost are:-Samuel

the different coals of the

108 Canada on the close of conflict which Sanktoria scam possesses so high a stea

•London and China Herald, May 13.)

by the hand which

CODE menced it. of sea-going steamers. In fact, the report the gambling faria which exists in that as Prince Edward Island. The 100,000 in- Nor need we much condole power as to render it available for the use March last is an article on the subject of recalcitrance of the tiny little colony known In the Hongkong Daily Dress of the 20th with the Canadians the still continued says, a mixture of half Bankteria and half clony, to the disgrace of British institu habitants of this secluded spot are, it seems, West Hartley coal gave a higher result then tions and to the detriment of local interests. bent upon keeping aloof from their brethren ly to diminish the heaviest item of expendite on connences by heartily con- on the continent, and negutiating separate West Hartley alone. This

This ought material-

demning the vics du mora! and may ultimately be expected to inake the following untenable pretexts

uuder That the Colonial Minister should quietly some difference in their farea for passengers.

put his veto upon this presumptuous at- However lamentable, therefore, the tempt was a matter of course, and though The nisunds of cost, and delivered 26,17,989 fast, may be, it would appear that there are the islanders will never be compelled to

Company, we observe, raised 84,18,256 maunds during the half year-Englishman, simply impossible to suppress the vice by many years bare passed they will have in- June 14.

strong grounds for concluding that it is join the Union, it is probable that before dirreet meste The only way in

which it

-creased by about 2 per sent. the population done away with is by oral force of the Dominion of Canada. Nothing will and so long as over the whole empire Obins remain to carry the United Territory across gambling-houses exist, it is Utopian to the continent except the adhesion of Co- by the peculiarly unfavourable conditions be given before the communications by expect that they can be suppressed, under lumbia. It is not material that this should

to Mr Robert Ellin Baker, the Executor in Forrester, Chief officer, Wm. Dobson, that more advantage could be derived from Hongkong. The applications was granted, Carpenter. with power to the other Ezeoutors to come Janies MeQuin, Wm. Murphy, Charles: In the Supreme Court, the most minute Arman Olson, Boatswain, this Court than from any other Cours. in and apply for the like Probate. The Lawson, A. B'a. Ibid

particularity was forcibly demanded, and property in Hongkong was sworn to under

the least variance was fatal. The words $350,0), and the Stamp duty on the Pro-

ought to be fully set forth; that he said s bate will amount to $700.

and so that was all he wanted. This was brought into this Court.

At the resting of the Hongkong Associa- tion this afternoon, the scope and objets of the association were fixed for discussion at a meeting to be held within a month, pending which time the Committee and Barotary will by request remain in offies, A résolution to protest against the policy of the British Government in China: was negatived, as being beyond the scope and objets of the Society We shall give a full report to-morrow.

Class-The serious rise in the cost of the Arst case of slander which had beenture of our steam navigationescencludes by justifying its lede, and treaties of commerce with the United States.

Tax following paragraph from an Indian paper will be of interest to Missionaries in living in the Presidency ortion is affecting all the Missionary Societies. A Missionary cannot live in Calcutta, in the most seat oned way, under £400 a year if he'l as to pay house rent. On this being reported at the last annual meeting of the Baptist Missionary Society, Dr Landels, we

a thousand a year froin & fashionable Lon

His Honor replied that this was a very important case as to the practice, to be to lowed; but there would be no hardship in now ligaring the evidence of the captain and

engineer, resorving the considerations of tlio hearing. He would consider in how far points raised by Mr Pollard on the day of

don congregation, denounced the extrava- the particulars of a case should be stated in gance of Indian Missionaries, and thought the plaint. but it was for the Court to see they should not be allowed to marry: Dr that there was a proper cause of action. Duff has set himself, with an energy and Hi

can

be

as the best has been here for eloquance which seem to increase with his in Honor also said that he would look me from the Senior Naval Offloor at Shang which exist for so dog in Hongkong way of the Red River Settlement aball have

OPPRESSIVE the last few days, it has been much worse In India, we are informed. A private letter, rocolved from Calcutis last night contains a statement to the effect that deaths in the railway trains are so frequent that coffins are kept at the stations for the reception of bodies. In Caloutts horses bare died in the streets from sun stroke,

the question of juried letion.

NOTICE TO MARINERS. The following information, received hai is published for general information. years, to raise £50,000 in Scotland to build

Thomas Longh, master of the steamer manses for all the Free Kirk agents in Niger, was then called. He stated that be

OLIVER J. JONES, Commodore, India, and he has already raised 20,000, had been supplier with fifty tons of coal by chiefly is Glasgow, The Free Kirk con- the plaintiff on the 2d, and on the 3d he

Hongkong, 8th July, 1809. gregation in Calontta have recently pur was called upon by defendant, who told him

Zebra at Shanghai, chased and improved a manse for their that he had been supplied by plaintiff with

2nd Frely, 1869. popular minister, the Rev. J. D. Don, at a Formosa coal and not English coal Show-

SIR,Mr Shorsmith, master of the Brit cost of Rs. 38,000. Dr Landels had bet ing some lumps, the defendant said that he ish barque Maggie Leslie, who arrived here tor try

of a a Missionary's life in would give witness $500 if he failed to find on the 27th attimo from Falmouth, reporta the following story of a "contempt Calenta; Bombay or Madras, ou 2400, a Formoen oval raised with the coal supplies. having passed is Sheat in lak. 21.13 N. and year. He would be unable to house is impression was that defendant meant loug, 115.48 E. (South endy extending in

luot

that the coal supplied was Formosa. the shape of a orescent to the Northward uot get into collision. It is nar-one elsewhere under £180 a year, he must

Mr Follard objected to impressions being about two or three miles in length.

Impressions

I have the honor to le, Sir, your most in the Supreme

he, his wife and family, can live luxuri were never allowed in cases of slander, be obedient servant, Court at Madras when's

on Sir Robert Strange cusly on the balance, and save for the cause the loast, variance between the words

(Signed) H. A. TROLLOPE, n?

aid and those proved was fatal to of alokness the Governor of Madras to infos and separation

to appear in

claim for damages from slander. jestion

Offener Court to give evidence in a particular suit. From late Bombay papers, we learn that noted.

Commodore Oliver J. Jones, Senior The Governor-doglining to take notice of Messrs G. F. Kellner & Co. of Allihabad; Witness continued. He did i not under Officer H. M. ships and vessels, Hong

and

how to apoak pidgin English, but he kong,

case maunot be said to have a local interest, it will at least show how Crown fonction

Aries

тву

Come

near the place of bis work, he

rated by B Goryent of the Madras keep a conveyance at £50 m, and then given in a edo of siander.

229me sa having

We Chief Justice A summons was issued

aby

it

into a bems to resolve it, became decently practicable; bat it is plain

The matter,

of evils. It is s a great enough that Columbia (in spite of some up eril that gambling, even under supervision, position from American immigrants) will should exist. It is repugnant to English on be clamouring for absorption into the feelings that it should

be licensed: But it Dominion. is a gravor e

cevit that it should exist without With its home prospects thus encourag- supervision or restraint; and it is subversive iug, and with a highly satisfactory financial of all government and order that the police positions, it is natural that the Ottawa force should be corrupted, and the anthoLegislature should feel called upon to se rities degraded in the cyoa of the people.

suns a tone towards its arrogant neighbours We confidently submit that no tione mass could have this or the consciens betting its increase of power, and in personally witnessed the efforts made by cortance, and this feeling of nascent dignity the polios to suppress gambling before it could not have been more appropriately expressed than in the recent speech of Mr was logalised Commander and Sinior been in the Bombay or Madrassy Provinces and the States. The babit of stables, vere Indians All the police cot- Galt on the relations between the British

who had

force, and truculent newspaper writers in New York wers sotually engaged without officers, and Washington, sometimes to threaten Being placed under the loose fish who com Canada with conquest and at others to whe posed the European branch of the long edle her into annexation, qulminated in the son force, the entire body naturally absurd and insting proposition of Mr. Again-the ordinance Chandler, that England should be asked

became kitutar as á law to suppress to cede her American territory in satisfac.

which was

the sumtions, the imperiolis Judge osten have scoured the contract for supplying the well enough what was meant, and the tatiously remarked in open Court Who graud dinner to be given to H. R. H. the words Formose coal were used. The effect of is the Governor of Madras, but the paid Duke of Edinburgh at the forthcome the words was that Wingkes had suppu NEW LIGHT-HOUSES IN COURER OF EBEOMON gambling was so ill adapted to the purposetion of the huge ball which Mr Sumner bas

servant of a body of merchants whereas I durbar at Agra The dinner la to cost the

am the representative, of the King," and

Ba, 60,000 and the plate to be served is to be of pure silver.

to

forthwith ordered the myrisidons of justice bring the Governor. before him. The Guverner, on hearing this, ordered his

I found trespassing on Government gar-

with Formoss coal instead of what was ordered,

and he would give me $500 if there were no Formosa coal mixed with it" There was a difference of $6 per ton be tween the two kinds, so that it affected bis (witness) character, defendant having gons

MR Fish, the American Secretary of hody guard on duty to ent dowd any batstato, has reported to Congress that the

the pay abstract of and property destroyed by rebel vessels is offered to bet $500 on the point, but r

NOTICE TO MARINERS,

ON THE COASTS OF NEW ZEALAND,

that it became

an encouragement to the made out for Alhama damages. It was illioit practice of the evil, and although the time that Canada should give her answer magistrates brought its defects under the to the threats and invitations which were local authorities lims and again, still no su freely addressed to her, and Mr Galt, make a raid on gamblers, so many legal the tates and her loyalty to Cireat Britain. tempt was made to amend it. In the his manly declaration of the resolution of next place when the police arranged to Canada to maintain her independence of

dan grounds, and further ordered the Subtotal value of all claime preferred for ships to the Borneo Ch and said so. Defendant preliminary description of them is published quibbles stood fix the way, and the tovarn- and in his firm but temperate demand for Treasurer not to his at once stayed all 19,000,000 dols;4 or £2,600,000. The dia to sign an agreement on even bettor general information moro exact and

the Chief Justice, ** proceedings."

Marine Department, Wellington, 2nd April, 1869.

of erection in New Zealand, the following Several new lighthonisas being in course

bama destroyed 70 vessels, the Florida 86, In cross-examination, witness said that the works are more advanced.

dotailed descriptions will be published when men doled out the captors' share of this reparation for Fenian outrages, has express spoil in such a penurious manner that the ed the unanimous sentiment of his country, the Shenandoah 36, and the Georgia 9. the defendant did not say

about) The London Military correspondent of the Even those charges, it alust be remembered "all" the coals or of "sume" of the coals ready for exhibition asrly in 1870.

constables felt indignant at being treated Whether General Grant's Government will Hyything

It is anticipated that the lights will be so scuzyily by the authorities, suul easily be disposed to concede as much to the Pioneer remarks Col. Gawler's death are many of themulaims," that is, owners He simply said that the witness had got

JAMES M BALTOVE.`· fell a prep to the gamblers, who

treated

legitimate claims of Canada as we have done will deprive the military papers of a cot estimates, not at all likely to be lus than Formosa oval from Wing Ke: Keeling

Colonial Marine Engineer, them so very differently Braides the in the ciguate case of the Alabama is of respondent who was as ready in his old age the truth. One would like to see the uns voel was the name first given, but after-

local Government encouraged and employed secondary importance. The 1-Lightbouw on Farewell Spity Cook certain functionaries who were proved

real for a fair light in print as In his youth to derwriters' certificates of insurance. This wards it was called Formosa. On a survey

#tgnific- Strait

to ance of Mr Galt's speech, and take share in general action (he saw not a very formidable bill, vertainly not held on the coal, an opinion had been given

of its sordia! one about which it is possible to go to war that the coal was good English and Welsh fomediata vicinity of Bush End, on or a letae European, had little diffiralty, allegiance of the North American colonists,

be addicted to much worse crimes than reception, is to be found in the Fight)

with the brave 62nd

The lighthouse is to be erected in the gambling, so that a poor Indian constable, videos which it affords of the unshaken Jonclusive THE claim of a New England meu to be (Cardiff) coal No NEWS respecting the safety of the B. I, the champion" sufferer by accidents in The Chief Enginest proved the order Farewall Spit, at the Western entrance to through the force of example, in reconciling which had been doubted by many in Eng & N. Co. a steamer Chiduba, had reached disputed. Putnam, Ohio, puts forward and receipt of the coal in question, and Cook Strait

himself to the reception of a tribe ler shut land, though only by those who were least Calcutta up to the date of the Cici Alpine's man who las broken both collar bopes, his admitted that he was not in a position.The light is intended to show all round, ting his eyes, whilst some of those above acquainted with colonial festins departure. A telegram, dated Chittagong, jaw bona, both artis, four she feeling (as defandant showed him the lumps of and in to a Revolving White Light, of the bind kept their t i June, stated that no news of the Che and two on the other, and one leg he has coal on board) to distinguish between For Aecond order dioptric, attaining its greatest derator optics open for baser connai dube had reached that port.

The B, I. S. also had both aukles dislocated, and has mosa and English coal; but that he now brilliance once a minute a

Lastly, gambling-houses may exist all Co.'s stanmer doumen put into Chit lost his sight, all by accidents, and know the difference. He then said that the Over the Spit end it is intended to make

over the Empire of China, and the Man oval shown was like a piece of dirty English the light show red instead of white as else durine may be unable or unwilling, or both, taging through stress of weather, with still able to be about." fore-yard broken. During her stay at that ↑ WHAT weapon does a young lady resem, coal,

where, in order to caution mariners of their port, the brew of a country brig which had ble hose acquaintaboss pass without notic The case was fixed for hearing on Thurs approach to that danger. pech wrecked on the cost had arrived, and ing ber -A cut-an

day next, at ten o'clops,

The light will be elevated about 120 fest

i

WANTED, a strong adhesive plaater, to make busi-bodies stick to their own basi nees

to suppress them. But even so, they cast A CURIOSITY.A governess, advertising all the obloquy possible on the vice, by for a situation, says "she is a perfect mis confining the dens to the purlieus of their tress of her own tongue