NOVEMBER 18, 1860.
INDER DESPATCH. tow, Amoy and Foochow.-Per Saturday, the 20th instant, at
kok.--Per Albert Victor, un San 20th Instant,
CARGOES.
Canton Customs Daily Returns.) of Imports and Exports passed aton Custom House, by the t, during the week ended 14th
from Hongkong
28
and 5073 pisula Afum. Betelnuts.
Kages Cardamom.
Chall
Coke,
es Cotton TXTRAL idies Coston Thread..estMot
Catch,
kages Cuttle Fish, F
Black and Red Dates,
kets Salted and Dried Fish,
Flour. How
a Felta.
kages Fruits
ALLAGARDA
es Window GlassKA AN kages Glassware,
tias.
kagus Glue.
Buffaloe Biden que
Dried Flowers
11
Logs of Wood.
Kager Old Copper,
kages Vollow Metal Sheathing,
Lead
Le Quicksilver,
es Tin, Platen gerank calle
adles and 2174 pisces Iron Roda
Bara, Hoops and Sheets.
kages Ironware.qud mobyek
uls Mangrove Bark
kages Medicine,
and 6414 picule Pesse,
kets Persimmons.
ok Pepper.
inker
kages Previsions (salted)
sa Quartz,
al Rattans
Rica
kager
Samshoo
se Sandalwood
and 1002 picels Sapanwood.
kages Bea Blubber
cee Sea Shellere
dura
kages Bes' Weed! Jum 4 wit
es Block Fish,
kages Tobacco.
Vermicelli
ces Wood-ware.
ages Sundries that of to Hongkong kun
kages and 600 pieces Bamboo
vare.
Lages
Brass
kages Cassia Trign
Prepared Chalk
kages Charcoal,
Kages China-ware,
bos Earthenware,
dles Firewood:
kages Flour."
kages Fruits,
ces Furniture.
20
Garlie.
keta
Ginger,
kages Gunny baga. ardigo,
kages and 178 pieces Iron
JOA
es Licheka
idles Marble Slabs.
Matting.
idles Mats. kages Medicine,
kages saltod Oliver. kager
Paper.
Pickles
sea and 50 bundles Planki.
and 25 baskets Preserves,
28 and 208 jara Bamshoo...:/
Sugar.
266 boxes and 100.pkga, Tex.
Tea Stalk.
kages
Tobacco. Vinegar
sages Vegetables.
kages Wine Sediment.
es and 87 packages Woodware,
Starch.
Silk Piece Goods
Boy
Cotton Umbrellas
Kittysols,
dges Red and White Lead
deu Bores. Cakes.
Fire
Grmokers, Poin
ages Bundrier
TATIONS.
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18 a 231
10 a 22
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No. 2012 NOVEMBER 18, 1869.]
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Our columns are open to all who wish to address the public on legitimate grounds, but do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our correspondents, te
THE CHINA MAIL.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOV. 18, 1869.
STUDY OF THE CHINESE LAN-
GUAGE,
THE CHINA MAIL.
by a
ON
did
MR. BURLINGAME'S OREDENTIALS,
In virtue of the Commission we have
ons family) Therefore, having friendly aa- and as we regard all nations as equal (lit roverently received by the will of Heaven,
tions in remembrance and being desirous relations of pease with them, We have made of cultivating the closest and most lasting
of ability and wisdom, in whom from his (late U. S. Minister at our Capital) a man special selection of one' Anson Burlingame
intimate acquaintance with the disposition and aireumstances of the two Countries, we bave every confidence as the exponent of our ideas.
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two officers of the 2nd grade, Chih-kang and Moreover, we have also commissioned Sung-chia-ku to accompany Mr Burlingame
Eugland.
to
amity.
three ministers, and (believe them) oor- genos, honesty and good character of these We have confidence in the fidelity, dili.
tainly capable of adjusting astisfactorily the business committed to them. served credence should be given to them, Hence, we earnestly desire that unre-
permanently established, and both nations that thereby our relations of amity may be enjoy mutual passe (good will), result which we are certain will be most grati fying,
of Ting Jin-chang on internal corruption. tion for the executant on the latter instru: posite side of the street, he saw skittles be- What he would find in the text of these ment, as was also the case in the duet from ing played and drinks being handed about celebrated documents is something quite Noi Figure for piano and violin. To from the bar at 11.20 and 11.40. A second
(N. CD. Neira.) alien to the ordinary clear style. The the amatours who supported the second policeman corroborated the statement so ing Chinese copy of Mr. Barlingame's We have at length ancceeded in obtain wording to be encountered here is a portion of the entertainment the bust thanks far that skittles were being playing at credentials, which we have every reason to All communications addressed to this paper language of metaphor and quotation, mention the gentleman upon whom devoir- nor heard any drunken disturbiauca De with three independent translations by of their hearers are due, nor can we omit to 11.30, but said he saw no drink supplied, believe anthentic; and subjoin it together mest he accompanied by the name of the proverbs drawn from Confucius and ed most of the performances on the piano, fendant tsid, in reply, that he was only a litle gentlemen to whom it has been shown. We mer, trot necessarily for publication, but as illustrations, sought, at random intervals Altogether the concert was followed by that no drink was afterwards supplied, and append the official translation (A) which we a guarantee of good faith.
in a history of twenty centuries' dura and will we
late in finishing half a ame of skittles, but also, for the sake of ready comparison, be soon tion-technical phrases referring to ob- similar
performance,
no disturbance was occasioned. He would printed in the Daily News of the 8th Octo scure official practice and covert insinue ONE of the most intolerable results of the cautioned the defendant, saying that he
not do
again, however. Me Russell bar. tions conveyed as much in the form of a system of road-making and treat-patching not wish to punish him, as that might character as in its apparent meaning. at present in favor by those at the head of damage his reputation, and prevent him lutse (Her) Majesty (the Queen) of Eur
(A)- His Majesty the Emperor of China ex-- We feel convinced that an interpreter of affairs is the vexatious amount of dust now from getting a renewal of his license. This land.) In virtue of the commission we the lowest possible class, devoid of scho suffocating every street passenger and per- time he was dischargon. larly ambition and content to scrape meating every corner af the businees pre- Mr J. B. Holland, scenic artist, figured and as China and foreign nations are mer- have with reverence received from Heaven, through" bis dutica with the least possi-mises all over the Colony. In Queen's on the roll as defendant in two summons bers of one family, we are cordially desir iy is not often that we find ourselves ble exertion, would be led by experience Road Central this state of misery has been cases--one of assault, and sapélier of hay-ons of placing on a frm and lasting basis cers to be our ministers in this important compelled to dissent from the opinions of to confess the fallacy of the views pro-intensified by the demolition of a tonementing, ed abusive language. In one, in the relations of friendship and good under-matter, is a proof of our sincere desirs for The special selection by us of these offi eur contemporary at Shanghai, the Su pounded by our contemporary, and to would seem to have been the chief material shop) was
construction of which lime dust which Tam Acheong (master of Cheung Fat standing now existing between us and the mutual preme Court and Consular Unwette, which acknowledge how much more is required sed. It is of course useless to propose the ed, and informed that her sharp appear nations at amity with China.
particularly, well-informed on most by even a mere tmnslator than the abi- use of water on the roads, as that propoal. ter bad boen settled out of Court. There for that object, we have specially selected the Bench that the mat- And as a proof of our genuine deaire subjects relating to Chins; but an article lity to render an ordinary despatch from tion has been by the authorities regarded were alleged broken pieces of glass and a an officer of worth, talents, and wisdom, in a recent number of that journal on the Chinese into English.
apparently as a great joke they forgetting torn jacket in this business, as well as Anson Burlingame, late minister at our gmount of Chinese which an official i So much as regards the mere mecha that dry as summer dast" is a saying "assault and battery.in the ascond case capital for the United States of Americs, terpreter should be required to master nical view of the subject. In so far as totally reversible in this part of the world, J. A. Peroits, soda water manufacturer, who is thoroughly conversant with Chinese appears to us so sophistical in its arga- the higher duties of a functionary winter months. But this is only a common ing taugutage was alleged to have heen transacting all business in which the two as the dust clouds visit us chiefly in the boing complainant), abusive and insult and foreign relations and in whom, in ments, as well as so unjust to the Chinese belonging to the class referred to are growl, and will most likely be classified as used calculated to provoke a breach of the Empires of China and (England) have a language itself, that we cannot refrain concerned, our contemporary's argument such by the authorities interested. We, public pesce; bit as there was no appear notamon interest, we have full confidence from dating our objections against it appears to us still more vibra In the however, have The article to, which we refer admits that pcculiar relations which subsist and are forward. We entirely fail to see why, ifW.. Milley, of the Rinaldo (servant), was our ideas.
second objection to put ance, the case was dismissed.
as our Representative and the exponent of "a certain amount of Chinese is neces likely long to continue in vigour be they should employ their Gaol-gangs to stable (378) while in a drunken and violent the Gorprnment fail to lay the dust convicted of having asanlted a Sikli con- sary for some people, and would between China and the European powers, raise such a dust under cover of confer state, during which endling" process it valuable to every foreign resident in an official interpreter has cuties to perring a service upon the householders appears that the oorstable's new coat was Chine. Upon this we have often insisted form which are far more important than in the vicinity of the Clock Tower. This tore in thres placss. The Sikh gave it Uficial interpreters must needs be able those of translation alone. He is in forencon one of the most idiotie represen- his deliberate opinion that, had it not been to read despatches and all compositions many cassa a negotiator under difficult tations as made by a gang of convicts, for the opportune assistance of about a framed in the ordinary clear style adopted and unprecedented circumstances; he under the vigorous supervision of a colored hundred Chuese, he would have been mur for the transection of public business. has often to fight the battle of civilization guardian when under the influence of half. dered outright. Milley was ordered to pay But when this necessary facility is against brutality and corruption; heartzen hard brooms cloud after oleud of fine of 86, or go to prison for seven days, acquired, we believe that every day may be the herald of peace and war, and dry dat was raised, with positively no other of the Bre to go to the Sikh for damage davoted to exploring native literature is has before now been placed sa adini Leaves from the neighboring trees. As this
purpose than that of collecting a few fallen suffered in alothes and person. a day lost." The sweeping assertion put nistrator over alien multitudes. That a cannot be regarded in the light of a practical forward in his concluding words above man whose duties comprise possibilities joke, we would suggest that the incident are justified by the writer on the grounds of such a kind should sook to familiarize thould not be allowed to be repacted, of the intrinsic worthlessness of all Chi- himself with the habits, history, and We hear that H. M. S. Cormorant has been nése Eterature; but without entering traditions, the nodes of thought and despatched to Saghalien on the erraud of upon a discussion of this subject, upon mainsprings of belief which actuate the watching the movements of Russian forces which, however, much might be said, we strange people with whom he forms an will confine ourselves to remarking that advanced point of international contact, the entire question is in foot (although appears to us a paramount obligation; doubtless unconsciously) begged in the and even though the study necessary to
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STUDY OF THE CHINESE
LANGUAGEEIGN
as
THE HUMBUGS OF HISTORY, "Don't talk to me about your historical
and Bun Chia-ku, high officers with the We have also commissioned Chih Kang houry all fling on grad, to facta, aid a paradox-loving friend of ours accompany. Mr. Burlingame to England, the other day, "I've seen so many so-call- where Me Burlingame with she two so 6p ed accepted facts upeet, that I really intend pointed, will act as our High Minister Ex- traordinary and Plenipotentiary.
some fine morning to commence a big book We have full confidence in the
on my own account, under the title of loyalty,
zeal, and discretion of the maid three Mibe Humbugs of History The idea was sisters, and are assured they will discharge not perhaps altogether a bad one, although, satisfactorily the duties entrusted to them, perhaps, a man would have to obtain the and we earnestly request that the fullest length of years of Methuselah, and to lay credence and trust may be accorded to in stock as much "midnight oil for the them, that thereby our relations of friend consumption of his lamp as did that famou ship may be made permanent, and that of whom it is recorded, somewhere or other,
Hebrew commentator, both nations may enjoy the blessings
Rabbl Channsniah,
certain will be deeply gratifying. peace and tranquility, a result which we are that, before he contracted to write a com mentary on Ezekiel, be bargained for a As one gets older, one gets sally dis- supply of no less than 300 tons of oil, while
should be.
engaged on his
pious task!
of
of the 6th year of Our Reign, Tung Ubi, Dated this the 6th day of the 12th moon We December 31st 1887-)
Translated by
bas
128.
long and how far a foreigner may pursue It is a reasonable subject of enquiry how his investigation of Chinese literature wilb- and seriously and postal permanently in that quarter. It is to be hoped that shattering his intellectual powers. this vessel will not, like the Rattler, be bave heard of men whose close application
ohacted. The
old "expended" in the performance of a virto philosophical studies and purzulta
pet beliefs of boyhood (sd.) J. Mol. BROWN,
fade out with our dying enthusiasm, the. proviso with which the sentence in ques-effect this end were beyond all question term "aurveying vessol" to have two afectionis, but the chasing of shadows and Translation spproved, (d.) S. WELLS WIL- ty becomes a enokee-dote of most of
tually useless mission, which caused the helped to bring about distressing mental
First Secretary of Chinese Mission.ore we read, and all that we know is nothing can be known" with much certaine tion begins. The measure of an inter- as wearisome and unprofitable as its Need we say, that she goes on her cruise either in the physical or the mental world, Chargé d'Affaires ud Interim Did not the American, Mr.Emerson, only meanings in the minds of home readers, the gathering up of adds and ends are not, preter's command over the Chinese acouser states it to be, this might afford unaccompanied by a consort, bearing the really considered on to the line. Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs. (Sd.) pride several pega by gravely showing
(Sd.) RCBREY HABE, Inspector General of a few years ago, take down our national Language is, therefore, the subject at fair ground for sympathy with those who flag of any other treaty power 1-Japan tions. Yet in a devotion to Chiness litew. A. P. MARTIN, Professor of Hermeneu-how our patron saint, "St. George for fsatie; and we can in no wise agree with are condemned to pursue it, but cannot Herald, Nov. 6,
rature we find an operation precisely var contemporary that an official trans fairly be alleged as an excuse for shirk- lator would be justibed in deeming his ing the duty,
than a low impostor, originally hail- nothing better duties accomplished when he should find fuertes ska
tract for
supplying the army of his time and country with bad bacon; got rich by
LOCAL
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on
the most
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TO-
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a process of
at the
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with
former turned religious adventurer, and bribed his way to the Bishoprio of Alex-
andria; and at last, after being imprisoned for his crimes, was dragged out of jail and lynched by a mob, iu A. D. 381! After this he became in dus tima s saint, and so undeservedly famous just as
another waythanks, Mr Emerson, for
your very
#refreshing candor-Amerigo Vespucci, "the
國合家:
昇辦眞:
definite ides. It must be in this: tion is true that no one ungifted in any that Thomas Taylor Meadowlasser 十享能 igination can hope to become a good translator... A
A certain sicunt of Chinese every foreign resident in China.
pickle stealer at Seville, whose highest naval mak was boatswain's mate in au expedition that
never sailed, managed to
* X * T X Columbus, and to baptize plant
is necessary for some people, and would be ARITZE
before the act and Upon this we have often insisted, "Official
the dulness
its proper place in the advertisement that was inseparable from the state of patches and all
VII Rocc-4.50 .. The International tisl isolation into which the inundation Fotsoared Race between the English and plunged the several foreign residents. While of course makes the Canoe Race No. 8 in- Scottish Crows. Distance, one mile." This the water was sweeping away ont-houses, stead of T and alters the time to 5 ..
not in our school days hugged t
with his own dishonest fame."
the
earth
Have we
to our little
Julia notion that Brutus stabber
Cesar purely for patriotism's sacred
sake? And now we must be told, forsooth
and alas, too convincingly, by heavy
big
期安敦君 German historical 4 ) wigs that, it
being
the custom in old Rome for
the
bles
no-
geals to the collection and selection of gaudytics and Translates in the Imperial Foreign Merrie England,
College beno- A CHEs correspondent writes that Sir rubbish, but attended by mention U Ħ Ang from Cicilia, who got a lucrative co- R. Aloook had been to Dhefou, and left for mons Buch suit of en
be expected to himself aulo to translate a despatch in As considerable interest is felt on the opening of Wu-hu on the Yangtze of Wan that one faculty of the mind is constantly Shanghal after a short stay. We hear the profound. One reason for this in doubtless
an inordinate reference to port clearances or petty part of many readers as to the actual chow, and of coal mines in two districts are larceny. Still less can it be admitted force of the characters used in the cre among the agreements in the new treaty kept on the stretch, while the others that all compositions adopted for the dentials handed to Mr Burlinguine, we Also that the payment of 21 per cent extra in early if not altogether inactive. The transaction of public business are framed republish in this evening's issue the Chiou imports is to be compulsory, the Chinese gisation finds ig room for sotion, unless
Inesery
is violently strained while the ima in a clear style. The writer who has ness text of the original as given by the Government undertaking to abolish the indeed, we raise to the rank of made this assertion appears to have over North China Daily News Pressure on
Lekin tax and all transit duce of
foreign looked the fact that something more our space forbids our satering at length goods, in provinces where there are treaty imagination the necessary guessing at beside everyday communications from into the subject this evening, but we from the nearest foreign customs station.
ports; any illegal levies to bo recovered likelihood the author himself attached nu
of words or meaning
phrases which in pan 年 睦臣, the Taotais and Governors comes under shall state our opinions as to the validity The settlement at Hankow has again taken the notice of an official translator., Peli of the objections raised to certain por- the appearance of dry land; and traps, tions (or plaints) with a style peculiarly tions in to-morrow's issue.
ponies and pedestrians now toign where their own proclamations and publie
boats of all sizes, shapes and description so uoties, filled with pedantic axious anil
long held usurped overige ranks obscure allusions; questions involving a
will take many months to reference to enactments couched in legal
of ruin
that the flood has left a phitaseology, and, finally, Imperial Decrens
many weeks TE or Memorials, which on any subject of
5 framed in the 六深務之 compositions importance employ a language very for
ordinary clear style adopted for the trans- from being either "ordinary” or clear,"
action of public business. But when this continually demand bis serious attention,
and filling the lower floor of hongs, tempo-literature is a day lost. The charm of Chi
castry facility is acquired we believe every day devoted to exploring native Taking the lowest and most mechanical
rary make-shifts of various kinds were rou unty, it is at least incumbent upon THE Criminal Sessions for November were dered necessary, and even the Church itself en 20 y rhen put in a foreign dress
was forthet
e time made a refuge for some of the generally due to the translatore. We say him to have the power of rendering opened this morning and formally adjourn native servantsconnected with it. The marks generally," for our sequaintance with the faithfully, rapidly, and without the assisted until Monday, 2nd instant, at ten of this heathen occupation still retasin, for
terature of the empiro not extensive
The Great Emperor of China salutes the ance of a native teacher at his elbow any am. There are five cuses on the calendar, the intelligent care-taker, amongst various agh to justify a more sweeping assertion, Great Ruler of Great Britain, and wishes
All Akenside's fine poosry about Bratus one of which is an indictinent, for the eccentri
though we believe we might safely say [her]: peace.
"rising refulgeat from the stroke," and so to above into an English equivalents
Ourself, adaptation, by the prevailing spirit of Chinaman who was committed many made a colorle Until this power be acquired, a transla mouths since for the above crime.
the font, and en-
Logge's Classics are most
Et tu Brute and that Brutus merely Heaven [to regard all within and fucius and Mencius than Shakspeare's Asing [all] frisadly states [in order] to endu discounter-is too much for one's feelings, the enormity was discovered. As I am not
it is a reproduction of Lodge's An- ringly strongthen amicable relations (with even in this unromantic age. Again, bow of the church trustees, I cannot tell you like it is a one plete efficiency in lib, profession, The ML. J. M. ARMSTion to thy knocked sary to exufcise or reconsecrato this article evidence of scientific constraction, the light Poking as Minister for the United States, sad stared at me in stone in ne font volte,
you, whether it will be considered neces
Us | all,
nd, if we pass from section to sautiou, them], have [hereby specially selected much have we not bonored the name of Mr. we find in turn the drama dostitute of any Anson Burlingame, formerly residing at Thos. Guy, who founded "Guy's stipulation that we and down II. M. gunboats were and are of led to its proper sari-literaturo del uit by obecny, priore and be admitted as a reasonable one; and for the sume of 85,150 and $5,200 reaper applied to its proper uses. The most seri-
oficer
of integrity, ability and how is it to be complied with 3. Obviously tively; Chinese being the purchases os and lasting effect of the flood will be angle principality nie to
in Yot
of that is not this and other already ex miser also,
thar nations, to manage all affairs Thomas Guy? A clever slock-jobber, a involving the acquisition of notnewhat $12,700 (bond jis bid); but as a determi- third crop has been utterly do the based on l-observed and al-digested facta, whatever is straight or croaked.
pirosio, as foresly to send as partising to our two kingdoms, one who flos irapital looting in the deftly, with his word than the more smattering which nation became apparent to run it higher, ; interruptíoti of communication with mathematics contemptible when not directers brovcted to the second raak, Chi- merly our sailors were paid in unconvertible distances man who fattened on the wrongs of enables a novice to spell out the general and all explanation as to upset price was interior by means of the canals will, toge-
the poor, And there have been also appointed two cheated English seamen of his day. For mestling of a Chinese document, without refused by the official interested, the aforether with the prevailing poverty, render farther west. Throughout the whole range Great Britain, who have both been spe- were often obliged to part with these tickets. being competent to appreciate whatever left us withdrawn, and the vessel was the winter a dull time for merchants to which our researches and those of ourally designated as high ministers with at any wretched discount they could get. kang and Sun-kia-kuh, to accompany him paper, not gold. The reckless Jacks ashore
view possible of an official translator's
that
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ia say
Dr.
推朕英代
悅誠知國
也相此俱
to lend the plebeian money at terri- bly asutious rates of interest, Cæsar passed an aot forbidding this, and was at a suspi- ionsly short time thereafter butchered by the "7 Brutus and his brother son- spirators.
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document of the kind. we have referred murder of the late. Mr Holworthy, againstcentricities of a like kind, and prompted: always." So with the tersang and decree raving reverently received the on, is knocked on-the head for over now. lor cannot be held to have attained the Jury were not detained more than five series of sacrilegious repaals baforemost readable, but they are no more Con. without as one family, and kindly consider murderous, because a disappointed, bill
grade of proficiency in Chinese and comminuted this morning.
gave
by means of continued study and prac HM, 8. surveysloop Rifleman was also put the ruin it has brought on the peasantry Angle principal of jurisprudence Present a and wall soquainted with the room, at what mager of man really was this
said bid was
hidden sense its words may cover or *****
Ly stolen from the Araba
or other nationa
on
it
one moment
Already there are many signs And symp
friends have extended there is nothing ave toms of a falling foreign population. to gather the drift of its manifold allu- REFERRING to the maze of gambling noted Indeed there can restcely be a doubt that, obscurity to give even ti
even the appearance of important functions, in order [further] 0 sions and metaphors, Practice, which in our Police columns, we would observe if the owners of res property
The "wise and good" Thomas Guy traffick Элега
depth. Turgid phraseology clotties the Supreme Court Gazette condemns (so that, if the Polics would only keep their were content to abandon their stately conceptions, and for a time hides their feeling] avere intentions and amicable ed in them, and
a millionaire. I became, for those day eysi about them, innumerable instances of
weakness and fumaturity. A profuse and
the prison hongs
and extensive
four-fifths compounds, far us Chinese is concerned) as not only a similar nature, would become apparent, of this existing agencice" would speadily pompous verbiage involves the expression and diligent, sincere and sedulous, and are yet driving his poor son mad by his ill- phil. We know these three ministers to be loyal anthropist," loving: all the world, and unnecessary but also hurtful, is usually even in Wellington Street itself. It is only become things of the past. We have done which when arrived at is seldom worth the affairs so as to be mutually beneficial, and said-weeping over a dead donkey and of the most insignificant idena kornel sure that they will properly maunge fall judged harshness; Sterne-as Byron held to be indispensable to perfection in worthy of remark, however, in so far as the our part at Hankow in futroducing foreign cracking. We defy the most ardent admit [therefore] hope that entire confidence may yet letting a living mother starve; Byron anything; and few will deny that if the groups of gamblers hinted at become ob- trade, and creating wants that can be super of Chinese literature to addues any sin be reposed in what they say, in order that sending a copy of his famous "Fare thee Chinese language is worth knowing at structive Duances to passers-by, all fend this is admitted on all bands) it REGARDING the new Chancel for the Eng the conduct of the trade out of the hand dosen European languages: Yet this worth which [We] think will be a cause of deepest meat as this; please to see to it ; the
phed only in foreign markets; and the Ohi nese are now both willing and able to take le example of a thought exprossed which thus the highest friendly socord may per- wall" verses to Lady Byron with a butcher's take has not been better expressed in half a potually sasure to us both a perfect peace, I don't think we could have had so mnah is worth while to know it well. That lab Cathedral-the first stone of which was We want new openings, where doubtless we
bill enclosed therein with a slip like this: the bulk of its literature should be laid by H. R. H. Prince Alfred the other should in like manier be eventually sup- some, and a goal towards which others are
less acquirement is an object of envy to joy. enormous and its general characteristics day-it may not be generally known that planted. For this reason now purts, even for and those of European city of the Principal features of that adlile we swore Juvely to get them, which we are disintipola termine the When we recolect the
great Duke of Marlborough now acting striving.
The Huangt of China to the Rufer of hands by peculation in army clothing con- history in minutes, and now dirtying his tend to make the duties of an official memorial window to be erected as a me- advantage; The experience at Hankow on the memory, the close application Hec Divine Commission; foreigners and Chi-bribes from France; all these people, we languages is one of the conditions which tion to St. John's will be in the form of a not, woald be of merely temporary defective help that 1 available, the strain England, greeting. translator laborious; but this in no wise mento, of is late resident of this Colony, especially, and at all the ports to a lessary in order to make any progress, we do
We with reverence avail ourselves of the mouthing patriotis, and another accepting
tracts; Algernon Sydriey sffords a reason for shirking the tasks whose memory, though, little in seed of extent, plainly shows that, for any great not wonder that Ohluete scholars are said nese are one family, and we are affention say, lamped together here at random,
such a memorial by those who knew him, and permanent benefit to foreign dealers in that are incidental to the position. The will pass down as that of one who did as foreign goods, the whole country must be went on for their irritability and other way friendly of the perpetuation of peace without reference to chronological order, fact is that instead of the ordinary pub much for, and was as much esteemed in, thrown oped. Failing this, a return to the metal peculiarities, which it may be eafer he will explanations, in the belief that are, to our mind at least, just ad helusiness of the Chinese being con- Hongkong as any foreigner who over land-five ports would be a blessing to theas
not to mention now that se many lay claim selected the former Minister of the U. Sworthy to sit cheak by jowl
he will explain our vises, we have specially many humiliating humbug of bistory, ducted in an invariably clear and simple ed on this island. We understand that the foraigners who would then retsin to seek
to an acquaintance with Chinese loro. of America, Anson Burlingame, a man of phraseology, the reverse of this statement memorial will be a
link with the past.
possibly DURING a recent examination on Natural versant with the relations between foreign Guy giving back to the nation, in the way private spite siter all, and a Mr Thos official style for matters of anall import-ERE PELLICO'S Concert at the City Hall
History in a school, the master asked an Irish scholar, "Why does a cat, while eating the interests of the two countries.
ers and Chinese, to manage matters affect of a noble hospital, with one hand, what he reading this may be acquired without have been anticipated, not merely from his having been found gambling at the corner the other "For the reason," replied rank, Chih-kang and Sun-chis-ku, to ac- Week
An unemployed cook was convicted of ing, turn her bead first one way and then We also depute brevet officers of the 2nd of her poor seamen with the other Gace a bad, in great part, ruthlessly squeezed out great effort; but no sooner does a subject own reputation as a singer, but from the of Wellington Street, at noon yesterday, he Pat, that she cannot turn it both ways at company him to England, to in concert emerge from the commonest routine of efficient help which he received from the having gathered a large crowd about him. business than It is enveloped in a phrase Gerast Amateurs. It opened with a As the defendant was recognised as a fellow
onos,
An anecdote is told of Frederick the thus giving proof of our sincere desire for head. A golden wedding-Marrying for with him, act as Ministers Extraordinary, WOODES WEDDING-Marrying a blocke who had been
previously
Grest, that just before the battle of Rose amity, Fallico Berr executante, avery day despatch and gathering its formed by the
We have full confidence in the virtues,glass eye." A tin wedding-Marrying a following with a romance from I due as purchasing oranges (in a zitting posture) did was on very intimate tornia with him, I ability and discretion of the three minit milkmaid.
money. A crystal wedding Marrying vehicles of expression far and wide from car which was loudly applauded. The hot go down with the Magistrate and it I lose the battle. I shall retire to Venice, ters, and are sesid that they will per- blacksmith. A plain wedding-- Marrying a An iron wedding-Marrying a every corner of the literary canon, dust fremi Stradulla by two Antateurs was fined $ with the option of going to Examples would be out of place here, was perhaps the finest and most inspiriting hard labor for three weeke
and there practise physic" Ah," reform their duties satisfactorily; and, we carpenter. but they might be easily adduced, and selection of the evening, the sitgets: pow-P. C. 93 (Tonkin) brought a coupisine plied the general, always a murderer, earnestly hope that, without hesitation, full
voices and execution which would
faith may be placed in
SANTIMENT AND FAT.-It is said that against Andrew Albert, in that his had un translator of the pattern prescribed by "Heiderit brought forth an encore, as did house after the hour of 11 o'clock in the his arm, and describitig the ardour of his sult that we think, with certainty,
An accepted attilor one day walking with cable relations may
permanent all our contemporary would be utterly at Herr Pellico's Arts from the Nachtlayer in night, and to commit disorders therein, in affections, said, "How transported I am to
advantages of tranquility,
known touching lines lose if called upon for instance to give Granada, to which he responded with the breach of the terms of the recognisance have you hanging on my arm!" "Upon
"Fare thee well i And if for ever,
SHII for over, hes the wall " a translation (with or without the help fively Vina l'Italia.
cense holder of the Lord Nelson Tavern. ont a very respectable couple, when one is
Tung chib 6th year 12 moon, 6th day. entered into by it as proprietor and li- my word," said the lady, "yon make us
His Majesty the Emperor of China The policeman swore that, from the op bansported and the other hanging!" H. M. the Queen of England preeting.
Comes nearer to the actual truth. An i wel ge a fine hiperior work of art, as their fortares in China.
TO-DAY'S POLICE.
auce does certainly exist, and facility in last evening was a decided atrocess, as might Mr Russell on the Bench
convicted of
ology differing entirely from that of the march â á males, which was tastefully permilar offence, the story that he was simply bach he said to one of his generals, whe
worth, capacity, and intelligence, and con- fring Brutus, a "patris & bil.
there can be no question that at official discredit to professionals The Aria lawfully perjuitted persons to remain it is the object of his affections hanging upon thus reaping the bo50, so that amr when Lord Byron saut to his wife the well
Rossing
do no
of a teacher) of such a memorial as that The Romance from Il Sogne for piano pl Tsang Kwo-fan on foreign policy, brand violoncello called forth much admire.
must be deeply gratifying.
be analised in the same envelope a butcher's over this; I don't think we had so much bill, with the pencil ratpark, "Please look meat.
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