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STEAM FOR

Post-Office Notifications Letters fuumciently stamped or unistamped addressed to places to which they-can- not be forwarded unpaid, will be open red and returned to the writerka edely as possible, but no guarantee can be given that such Lotters, if posted after Bingapore, Penang, Foint de foldurdun aster the wall is closed,

SP.. the 13th December will be re hand, mo colage Mepps should be placed; on the prepper right hand corner of the corres potence, except in cases where they may be used in payment of Late Fees, when the Stamp or Stamps represent

Aden, Suez, Malta, Marseilles, and Southampton,

ALNO,

no

Bombay, Madras, Jalcutta, King George's Sound, Melbourne and Sydney.

of

THE CHINA MAIL.

Post-Office Kotikeations.

bo loose ur attached; as also rollers in the case of prints, markers (whether of paper |--

Intimations.

or otherwise,) in the case of Books and in Published westly. Subscription (Exuln transmission of literary or artistic matter or in advance. short whatever is necessary for the safe sive of postage) Tis. 12 per andum; payable

aually appertains thorete.

Every Book packat must be either with out a cover, or in a cover open at the ende

or sides.

9.-Should the Payee of a Money Order which the Order was issued, as some other aesire to receive payment in the Country in undo than that in which the Order was ori ginally drawn, the transter will be granted, provided the Urder bo inclosed to the drain. I such case & now Order will be sealed, nor any sealed enclosure whatever; Postmaster of the Office in which it was

It must not contain any letter, opon or issued, the Commission chargeable por the name and address of the sender is how- which will be deducted from the amount of aver not only permitted but recommended, the new Order.

l-in the event of a Money Order that if the logver come off, or for any miscarrying or being lost, a duplicate will other reason the packet cannot be forward be granted on a written application fromed, it may be returned.

No parket must exceed two feet in length, Fees should be placed on the lower left- hand corner,gional Comission) to the Ufles where the sions it cannot be forwarded through the

particulars, and scompanied by an addi- LET, with der Majesty's Burs, Fassengers, All transitions in fractional parts of a Dol- Original Urter was payable.

Post. duce, and cargo, will leave this for their will be cond

will be conducted in the Cous pre- *the Proclamation of the 22nd January, 1864, id no other Coitin, but those therein specified will eiter be received or given in change as fractional parts Ora Dollar.

NAVIAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NA ingsLate Fees or Registration the rayee, (containing the necessary breadth or depth; exceeding these dimen-Queries on Legal points; Reports of Public

COMPANY's Steam-ship

TRAVANCORE," Captain C. H; EAST-

1.- the receipt of a similar applica

or places, TUESDAY, the 14th suribed by Ordinance 1, of 1804, and, ten, orers will be given to stoped his rule dudes all articles of a saleable | sta per 30 lines, fur each subsequent inset-.

-December, at 9AM

PARCELS and CARGO will be received ou board until Noon, and SPECIE until 4.. on the 18th December

For particulars regarding Freight and

SUPREME COURT AND CONSULAR GAZETTE, AND LAW REPORTER FOR THE SUPREME AND PROVINCIAL COURTS OF CHINA AND JAPAN. per containing Officially Revised Reports HE Gazette is a General Weakly Newspa of Cases heard at the Supreme and Consular Courts, Police Casas, and Proceedings in Bankruptcy Original Artioles, Notes and Meetings; News of the Week, Commercial Summary, de, de, REGARDA FAMERAÅto's Advertisements will be charged Tls. I of a Money Ordes, or to renew

They not be of intrinsic value per 10 lines, for the first insertion, and 64 Urder. The additional Commission Uf the nature, and indeed whatever may have tiori. last case will be deducted from the amount a value of its own, apart from its mere use of the new Order. Lapsed Orders must be pattern; and the quantity of any presented with the application for a new material aut vateralbly as a pattern must

not be so great that it can fairly be con in the current Dollars of the Colony or 12-But when it is desired that any sidered as having on this ground an intriu-** Bank Notes..

error in the name of the Remitter or Payee sio value.

There must be no writing or marks other Money, Order should be repaid to the Ufices in the United Kingdom will his Remitter, or that a Lapsed Order should whom the packet is intended and that of granted until 5 PM on the 13th Dabe renewed for payment in the Country in prices of the articles; otherwise the Packet the sender, a trade mark and numbers and F W. MITCHELL, which the Order was originally drawn

Postmaster General.

application must be made to the Chief will be detained or forwarded charged as Money Under Uffiop of such Country: This an unpaid letter. application must be accompanied by an

The Patterns must be ent invers additional Commission, pnless it have re-open at the ends, so as to be

eRey of exami Lurence to a Lapsed Order, in which case the nation. Santples, however, of seede, drugs, Domision will be deducted from the and se forth, which cannot be sent in open amount of the New Order

Covers, may be enclosed in bage of linen or

l'assage, apply at the P&O. S. N. Coayment for Postage Stamps must be made Urder.

ulica, Hongkong, int

CUSTENTE-AND VALUE OF PACKAGES

ARE REQUIRED,

A written declaration of the Contents and Money Orders on any of the Money Order/aliould be corrected or that the amount of than the address ofthe person for

Fulys of the l'ackages for the Overland Hote required by the Egyptian Uovernment, and must be delivered by the Shippers to the Con

pany's Agents with the bills of Lading, or il Parcels, and the Company, do not hold themasises responsible for uny delention on prejudice which may happen from incorrect-

on such declaration

Suppers ore partacularly requested to note § à terms and conditions of the Company' pack Bills of Lading

WMAUAULAY, Superintendent. 1.&O. B. N. 6o. ''Ulice,

Hongkong, Ded, 6; 1869,

PACIFIC MAIL STHAM-SHIP JUMPANY

de14

ZAZOUGH V. 8. MAIL LINK TO NEW YORK, Via Panama or Overland Ronite, PEAMERS of this kind will be despatak-

America

Dec,

18

1870,

Japán,

Jan,

Chinch

Feb

12

America,

March

12

Japan'

· April

Chind

May

∙12, 12,

America,

Joue 11

July 12.

China,

August 12,

America,

Sept. 12.

Japan, China, Amerion,

Nov. 12.

Outober 12.4

Deo. 12,

A Steamer will leave Shanghai on or about seine dates, colinecting at Yokohama with above-named steamers,

General Post Office, Hongkong, 07 December 6, 1860. duis

Shanghai, January, 1867.

NEW BOOK,

HE Speculations of

The Old Philosopher'

LAU-TSZE." Translated from the Chinos

JOHN CHALMERS, A. M. Price $1.50. ALBO

author Price $1.

"The Origin of the Chinese" by the same

or The London Mission Roufq.

Apply at Mesars LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. Hongkong, October 17, 1868.

19. Repayment whether of an original, other material, tied at the neck; bags so or renewed, or a duplicate. Order, will not oksed that they cannot readily be opened, be made to the remitter until it has been even although they be transparant must AT THE surtained that the advice has been out-pliance with this rate will also subject the Lot be nod for this purpose. Non-com- celled at the Office on which the Order wasracket to be detained or forwarded as sz originally drawn,

unpaid letter.

MAILS BE UNITED STAUS MAIL PAG-

EET AMERICA*** For YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED KINGDOM

AA Per the United States Mail Packet AMERICA," on SATURDAY, the 18th Instant, at 2 P.M The Katus of Postaga on Correspondence14 Fayment of an Order must be forwarded by this opportunity, which mustained before the end of the Sixth Calendar in each case be paid in adrante, areiar ful- Month after that in which it was drawn lows, vis0 2 Amel, Da

for instance, if drawu în January, payment To Yokohama, San Francisco and the must be obtained before the end of July otherwise the Order will broome lapsed, and a new Order (for which a second Con For each Newspaper not excooding 4 to be deducted from the amount cancer, 2 bonita ng of the Order, will be charged) will become

cents per cy

15.-If an Order be not paid before the end of the Twelfth Calendar Mouth after that in which it was drawn,--for instance, if drawn in January and not paid before the end of the following January-all claim to the Money will be forfeited, unless, under peculiar oircumstances, the Post.

sonited States,

For Letters, 8 cents per lialf-outice.

For a Facket of Books,

Founded, a szerv

Book Packets must not exceed two feet in length or one foot in width or

depth.

To the United Kingdom, For Letters, 24 cents per half-ounce,

The Fackets or the contents thereof must not contain any inclosure, sealed or other wise closed against inspection.

FOR SALE. CHINA MAIL" OFFICE.

HE following SETS of the "CHINA PUNOH" can be obtained, stitched

in paper wrappers, at the rate of 25 cents For Copy viz

No. Price.

!

$8.50 $2.50

$2:25:

In all other respects the general regula

11 sets complete front 11, S ticas of the Book Fust between Hongkong 4

16. and the United Kingdon will apply to the

1916. Pattern Post. Under these regulations, in 9, 7, 11, 12, 13, 10, 17, and from 19 to 24.

Also a few separate cupien of Nos. order to prevent any interruption to the 3,711, regular transmission of letters, a Packet of fu

CA. SAINT- back for the fullow ng Mail by which, in Pattarus may, when it is necessary, be kept the ordinary course, it would be forwarded. The decision of the Postmaster Gonieral

SAILORS' HOME, WEST POINT,

DAN 4 Trustees. ****

as to the eligibility of any Packet, pattern Hon. W. KESWICE, FORBES REQ

warded under these or sample contained, therein, to be for.

93

JOEN DENT H. G. TRONBEIT,

Esq., N

For each Newspaper not exceeding 4 Office of the Country in which the Order final and conclusivation, will be how wet

by

he ice, the Postmaster

Directors

D. SABOON, Esq. W. MACAULAY, Esq. Rev. W. R. BEACH,

Committee of Management.

Hon W. KESWICK, Chairmax.

ounces, 4 cents wi

was drawu think proper to allow it.

The rule which forbids the transmission For a Packet of Books or Patterns, 8

through

the Post of any article likely to Hon, H. P. GIBH, 16-After once paying a Money Order injure the contents of the Mail Bags or G. J. HELLAND, Esq. cents per 4 ounces.

whomsoever presented, the paying Office Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the HEARD, ER, Correspondence addressed to Tokolisma, will not be liable to any further claim. If San Francisco and

Post Ofice is, of course, applicable to the W. LEMANN, Esq. J. MURRAY, MD, the United States, ainst be superscribed per "Averica" to not, however, be made owing Pattern Post; and a

to negligence on the part of any Officer of thing of the kind will be stepped, and not

a packet containing any and that addressed to the United Kingdom the Post

General of must be superecribed vid San Francisco.

or Colony in which the egliseut to its destinationArticles such as Correspondeuse addressed to the United gence oueurs will, if he see it require the as Patterns, and have been detained an W. MACAUTAT, Beg. B. G. THOMSETT

Following the.

have been occasionally posted Kingdom not fully propaid will be sent via Oficer in fault to make good the loes. Buez.

17.-No Money Order wi be paid unless unfit for the Post, viz: Metal boxes, porce G. J. HELLAND, Esq. Eng., .. the advice lias been previously received,

lain and China, fruit, vegetables, bunches, 18.-Additional Rules for greater noch rity agaarist fraud, and for the ·work. de18 ing of

of the system generally will be nude soconalon inay require.

19.Should it appear that Money Orders hereby notified for general informs are used by mercantile men, or ethers, and The Compagnie Générale Transatlantion that sider the Frozutions if a Treeither in the United Kingdom or at Hong-inds.

Shanghai or Yokobaui, for the

Passengers ticketed through to California, Mexico, Central and South America, and by Ureriand Ronte to principa points in the United States and Canadas, and von Leeting with the various Stean lines for New York, to Liverpool, Santhampton, 1 Bremen Brest, and, Hay

Through Tickets issued 480

Now

York and hurone villaindia Route and

to Europe per steamers of the Royal Mail

to

Bteam Packet Company, the West India

and Pacific Steamship Company, Limited,

F. WAMITCHELL, Postmaster General.

Gomural, Poit Olles, V Hongkong, December 9, 1869. and dold dad & AM

It in

liqua from Aspinwall direct. Connections aury Warrint, which will come into operansmission of large sums of money, the

made at Panama, with Steam lines upon the tion on the 1st October next, correspon West Coast of Central and South Autories, dence addressed to: Constantinople will be which pages are ticketed through forwarded at the following reduced Rates Bils of Lading given tur Freight of Postage, which must be paid in advance,

viz,

DT LETTERS:

vie Leute i Pasitic Railroad and its con- nections to the principal points in the United States and Canadis and for Freight Uverland for England and the Continent.

90 cents each half-un-ounce weight.

AND BOOKS:

British or Colonial Post Office as the case crossing the Comituission, and will exercise may be, will consider the propriety of in- the power of wholly cusponding for a time the issue of Money Orders. Command,

E. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

Through Bills of Ladir given also for NEWSPAPER PACKBES OF PATTERNS, was

New York and Kurope via Fanama route, zad to Europe via Aspinwall Lates to ports of Merico and ports on the West Coast of Central America, and South Autories to far as Valparaiso,

have been mado Favorable arrangements For through passengers and freight to Am

wadrom Calausta, Penang and Singapore, and frum Nwatow, amoy and Foocho

All Freight payable in adance in Mexi- ivan Dollars, or un delivery I American 8 per cent adfitional, at old Coin with 8

Jamirn

2 cents each two ounces up to half-pound, and 8 cents for every additional hali-pouut.

W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General. General Post Office,... Hongkong, 29rd September, 1860.

By

General Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868,

REGISTRATION OF LETTERS AND ROOK PACKEY

» SYSTEMS EXTENDED TO THE OGARI PUNTS"

AND JAPAN.

It is hereby notified for general infurma tion by order of His Excellency Sir Richard Gravis MacDonnell that, the system of registration has beep, from this date, extended to letters and other descrip tions of correspondenco transmitted by the

by Private butwe Packeta

of

scissors, needles, pins, places of of flowers, outtings of plants, spars, knives,

sharp poiuted instruinents, B metals, samples of ore, samples in glass kinds, curry combs, copper and steel en- bottles, pieces of glass, acids of various graving plates, and confectionery of all

FW. MITCHELL, Postmaster General! General Post Office, Hongkong, October 15, 1809.

:

CHAIR AND BOAT HIRE, The following Regulations for Street Chairs and Chair-Coolics, are published for general information.

No-Street-Chairs may ply for hire after midnight they may; however, carry their fares as long as required.

Each Chair is secured for a sum of $50 Should articles of a higher value than this be lost in any Chair, there will be very little Lope of their recovery through the Security.

When loss of

property in any Chair is suspected, lumbery Street forwarded to the Registrar General at once without any loss of time.

When ground of Complaint arises against Ships, grieved either hand the offender over

may

DON

ONATIONS of Books, Periodicals, News- papers, Clothes, do, will be most hankfully received."

A. OVERBURY,

Superintendent

Hongkong, October 29, 1868,

HOLLOWAYS PILLS & OINTMENT. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.

AIS Medicine is universally admitted Dnes most efficicions, remedy known to the world. No preparation is s suitable to the climates of India and Ching s fine and invigorating mediņivo., li Fehicularly, adapted to the constitutio of European ladies, un it is never failing in ita effects in all diseasca peculiar to females, while those who are attenuated by she de- bilitating effects of the above climates will find in this wonderful remedy & kind of ta list whereby they may insure' a restora tick to robust health.

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT, The science of Medicine has never before

produced any remedy that can be comparec to this wonderful Ointment, as it cures after all other means have failed, all wounds, apres, ulcers, and also the mosi

re- Great Britain and Ireland, for amounts act Post, in the Mails by both the British by Street Clair-Cooke the person Bg-veterate skin diseases peculiar to the ali

Frahippor'a optianga Tokete frsued at (@ductions of 159, upon the whole amount

for the Round Vyage

$

For further information as to Passage And Freight apply to the Agency of the Company, Praya Went.

TA. HARRIS,

Agent.

Hongkong, Outuber 7, 1869,

1.—Qu the 1st October next, and thence forward Money Orders will be issued at this Ufice and at the Agencies thereof at Shanghai and Yokohati on all the loney Order Ollices in the United Kingdom of exceeding £10, at the rate of Exchange Current for Each Mail, and charged with the following Commission according

Centr Scale, vis.

For autos not exceeding £2.12 Above £2 and not exceeding £5,....24

"

£5

11

£7.

27.....42. $10,48 2-No Money. Order to include a frac tional part of a Penny.

3--Orders drawn in the United King dom upon Hongkong, Shanghai, ani Yoke- hains, will be paid at the rate of Exchange at which Money Orders are being issued at the time of their presentation.

Posi-Odce Notifications. MAILS BY THE TRAVANCORE. Tue Contract: Packet TRAVANCORE" will be dispatched with the usual Mails for Europe, do, on TUESDAY, the 14th December, at 9 A. M., and tlie Port 4.-Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700 Olve will be open for the reception of Money Order Offices in the United King Ordinary Lotters, Lutters for Registradom, showing the Countles in which they tion, Nowa 18th December Letters, ence at this Office, and also at ang

Newspapers, Books, &c., until s

are situated, afc hung up for public refer- the night box and Yokohanus, a, may be posted in from 8PM, on the 13th December until 6-Applicants for Money Orders must 7.4.M. on the following morning. farnish, in full, the surasine, sad, at least,

A Letters posted between 7 and 8 AM,

and

this Office and each Agency there to the Police, or send, a memorandum of mates of India and China. It is the trur

of in China and Jagan, viz.: Canton, Swatow Amoy, Fooghow, Ningpo, Shang hoi, Nagasaki,

Hiogo, and Yokobama, and between any two of these Agencies. The fee for registration is 8 cents each lotter, &strati

No

Letter,

the complaint and the Chair's Number to friend of the Soldier and Civilian, an cer the Registrar General It must however tain old sores can be removed by it that be remembered, that the Registrar General cannot be conquered by any other treat. can indiot only a reprimand, but neither mout fine nor imprisonment, without the testimony longkong, February 1, 1867.

uf of an eye-witness on oath. This however Book, or Packet of Patterns may be supplied by any Chinese who wit can be registered unless the full postago nessed the Offence, if accredited by a con- upon 1, as well as the registration fee, befirmatory note from his

Feniployer. paid in advance in postage Stamps..

Persons who are inexmvenienced by the notify the Registrar General, who received up to half an hour before the tipesungregating of Chairs near their premises will, if practicable, establish & Chair fixed for closing the Mails.

Stand" in the nearest convenient place, andab far as possible enforce the Ordinance in regard to it.

Lettera, e, for registration will be

F. W. Micart Postmaster General, General Post Office, Hongkong, 18th October, 1869.

made

An attempt will be made to enforce the ordinary Rule of the Road," along tibu, by order of His Excellency Sir Richard ing. It is requested that all Persone riding It is hereby notified for general informa- Queen's Road, more especially in the even Graves MacDonnell, that henceforward in Clairs or driving Vehicles will co-ope Book Packets, and. Packets of Patterns or rate with the Police by observing the Rule Samples of Merchandize, may be trans- of keeping the left side. the initial of one Uhristian name, both omitted through the Post by the Mails

Each Street-Chair carries on the back of the Remitter and the Payes; if the Remit tor or Fayés be a Puor or a Bishop, bis or to be forwarded both by the British its Number Board Tariff of Faros com

Packets and by Private Ships, densed from the following! dinary title will be

if a firm, sufficient, if the between this Office and each Agency thereof anal designation of such firm us in China and Japan vir:c.Canton Swalow, LBOALISED TARIFF OF FARER FOR CHATRA,

CHAIR BEAREES, AND BOATS, Buring Brothers" will suffice; but the mere term Mesars, sach us Mears. Ri. Anticy, Foveliuw, Ningpo, Shatigbai, Nag aski, Biogo, and Yokohama, and also vington, or, the name of a Company red between any two of these Agencies, at the dressed to the United Kingdom viae raames of the persons composing it, apchat in

erance, Vik. — 114 17246 Museles or to Singapore, may Barron Do," is inadmissible.

on the 14th December will be charge able; in waldition to the usual postage, with a Late Fee of 18 cents:

Le latest time for posting Letters st. this Oce is 8 AM and for Newspapers Books, or Patterns 7 A.X. on the Lich

Deurber

NOW READY.

(AT THE CHINA MAIL" OFFICE.) PRICE $1.00.

THE

ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR

MANUAL

period from 1860 to 1809; with comparative Amination of Chinese Dates, during the Handbook of reference for the deter-

Tables of Annual and anistial Designations, do, &e Compiled by WILLIAM FREDE

OK MAYEES, H.M. . §.

Author's Preface.

Intimations.

THE

CHINESE COMMERCIAL

GUIDE.

Br S, WELLS WILLIAMS, 1.1.

-

Published at the "CHINA MAIL" Office, Hongkong

698 FF. DEMY 8vo. WITH APPENDIX.

FIFTH EDITION, 1869. Price, $5. Original Publishing Price, Ten Dollars,

The following is an Abstract of the Cen tenta of this Book:-

OLAF —SEC, 1 to 4 Four Treaties with China, 1.Treaty with Great Britain,

Chinese Text of the same. 2.Treaty with the United States 3-Treaty with France. 4.-Treaty with Russia

Supplementary Treaty with Russo.

CHAP. II-SEO, 1 To 6, Articles of Trade with China. 1.-Tariff on Articles of Import

Tariff on Articles of Export 8.Rules respecting Trade and Dues Chineze Text of the same.nlar 4.Description of Articles of Import Description of Articles of Export

CHAP. I. REV. 1 TO 14.

Foreign Commerce with China.

1. Purt of Canton,

3-Port of Chauchau or Swatów,"

3.-Purt of Kiungchau in Hainan,

4. Port of Amoy,

5.-Port of Fovelow.

6. Porte of Tamshui and Taiwan in For

· mosa,

7.-I'ort of Niigpo.

8-Port of Shanghai,

",

9.Ports on the Yangtsz' and Trade in

the. Interior. 10.-Port of Tangahau or Chefuo, 11.--Port of Tientsin,

12-Port of Newchwang or Yangtaz',

18. Colony of Hongkong. 14.-Colony of Macao,

CHAP, IV-BEC. 10.

Foreign Commerce with Japan. 1.-Intercourse with Japan,

2--Treaty between Great Britain and

Japau.

3-Perta open to Foreign Commerce.

Nagasaki.

Kanagawa and Hakodadi.

4.--Japanese Coins, Weights and Mea

Buros.:

5.-American Compact with Lowchewg.

? ÓÍLAP, Y.—SEO, 1 TO 7

Monege, Weights, &c., in China.:

1.-Chinese Currencyjulgado di f 2-Chinese Numerals,

24

3.-Chinese Commercial Weight;

4.-Measures of Capacity,

5--Moares of Length,

6.-Chingo Land Measures. 7.-Chinese Division of Times.

Western Moneys, Weights, #... (Anuamase Moneys, 2-Port of Saigon, 3.Treaty with Siam, Tariff, &c, Siamese Moneys, Weights, &c. 4-Netherlands India,

oe

Islands.

Directions for Panay L

States Singapore, &c,

7-Burmese Moneys, Weights, to. 8.Indian Presidencies-Bengal, Ma

draa Lombay. 9-Ceylon

10.-English and French Weights, &e 13.-United States of America.

QUAT, FIL-SEO. 1 ro Tables on Prices, Exchanges, de 1.-Comparison of Prices, 2.-Relating to Exchanges. 9.-Relating to Time. 4Comparison of Weights, 5.-Mosaurement of Carge. 6.-Bullion Operations,

APPENDIL Containing Sailing Direc tions for the Cost of China, and for the Japan Islands; also giving the meanings of Ubiness Words occurring in Charts and Sailing Directions; and also a Table of Fe sitions of place on the Chinese and Japa. were Coasta,

The author in bis Preface says:-"The tables in Chap. VII., for estimating, prices, measurement of goods, exchanges, do bave been selected from those constantly in use among the foreign merchants in China. Those for calculating the prices of ten in sion of the author, P. more extended tables, by the kind dollars or pence have been copied from the

permis last section of the same chapter out Move- Loureiro, Esq The ments in Bullion," has been

prepared

and furnished for the Guide by Patrick R, Нагрег, of the Commercial Bank of

Egy Indin at Hongkong, who has had much ex Most persons whose 'avocations or studies of

perience in the exchanges and

movements f the precious metals in Eastern Asia. are coupeated even remotely with Chinese

The Appendix of Sailing Direction ha subjects are wont to confess the need of a been reprinted from the China Pilot convenient manual of reference for the pur- With short interruptions, the costs from pose of determining, dates, according to Singapore to Hakodadi are all described in of computation; and a system of compari-tious have been improved by the insertion son for the names attributed to years; of the Chinese characters for the names of months, and other perinds is also frequent all places that could be ascertained." ly a desideratum with translators Beyond Victoria and back, 50 ots, per men, piler of the follow meir publication in China Mail Agents, or direct to

readers of Chinese The com- To Stanley and backy

has thought, Orders may be sent through any of the sacordingly Victoria lies below the level of Robinson convenient form may prove useful, although Road, and includes all the town between much yet remains to be done for the alebo-

CHARLES A. SAINT, the Mint and the Western Slaughter House, ration of comparative calendars, eto, that with the Race-course

(Late A Shortreds & Co.) should leave nothing to be desired. With

China Mall Oleo, Jan. 6, 1868. the exception of the Cyclical Table of Years, and the Table of Belar Terms, both of which were originally compiled by Dr. Morrison, and afterwards republiebed with improvementa in Williams Commercial

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021 and not execding

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Any 2 Order will be crossed in the same way that Above 1 lb, and not exceeding received.

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