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ISRAFILI

Bortfolio.

ISRAFIL. I.

Stay thy sickle on vale and hill.

Come from the woods whose gorgeons leaves Pale and wither beneath thy tread.

Come from binding among thy sheareS

Dearer blossoms of beauty dead, of grandeur and of worth

Frested

to and from carib.

Bend thy sorrowful eyes on me,

Angel of death and while nature breathes One hour from thy sad dominion frea, Tell

Ims the mystery of thy wos,

The legend I only have heard in dreams.

Over my heart shali flow

In faller measures the solemn strain,

Up from depths of tears and pain

Rising to patience-rising again

To a pœan of triumph.

Hugh! be still!

Whence this odor of amaranth wreathe! Whence these faint and star-like bears Shed from test which make no sound? A touch of fire

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Ie on my lyre,

ita

She sleupe-ske trouma;

For now a smile hovers with tender graco About her lips. The beauty of her face

A breathing wonder to the angel seams, Her dark eyelashes reat..

Motionless on the warm flush of

her cheek; Her lips part softly, as if she would speak, But bad in -land lost the word she fain

would seek.

One hand is lightly clasped about a rose Which fully opon

blows,

Too blest to share its sister flowers' ropose; And, veiling her white breast,

Falls wave on Wave of lustrous golden hair. Like one enchanted, in the moonlight glow The angel Ungere still, and marmure low, "Daughter of earth-bow fair !"

*Israfil! Ismi!**

The

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cry rings through the startled night; The angels spood in sudden fright Toward the unprotected gato.

On wings of fear fies Israfil-

Airs

she dies too late.

His brother angols, flashing by.

Already with pure sense perceive

An evil lurking nigh,

change comes o'er the moon-lit sky;

And strings, with a saddon, rapturons bound, The wind begins to sigh and grieve;

Thrill beneath the angel fingers.

Thou art come Thou art gone!

Yet in all my being lingers

A breath celestial, a voiceless tone.

I shall not alter my song alous,

Israfl

On

Paradise

II,

A softer hue of glory lies,

The bush of evening, for the night

Comes alowly o'er * Young Eden's skies, Reluctant to convoal from sight

One Nossom's radiant dyos.

A thousand birds amid the shado

ITOLO

To side and lowers that can not fade their shining plamage fold; A thousand Perfomo afresh their leaves of goid. Far off, The singlers ilame

gentle yet half fearful

Igloom

Which folds in dooper shade you myrtle bower. There, lost in slambers pure and deep,

Wrapt ip the stillness of the boar,

Unconscious yet of tempter's power,

The first-born, guiltless mortals sleep.

Lol down the airy waste

Four shining angela haste.

Their eager wings make music as they come. Flashing

BIORE

the night,

All redolent of light,

As if the splendors of their apper home, Reflected still, illumed their earthward fight. Oo, swiftly on, past star by star, Leaving a path of glory far.

Behind their luminans wings, at last

The monsuralean expanse is past, And at their feet in beauty lies The new-made carthly Paradise.

As when from envions shadow breaks

Sweet Hesperas and walks the sielos

Of heaven's blus temple, nature smiles And

added i grace and beauty takes, So Eden, conscious in ite dreams Of a diviner atmosphere, Breathes richer fragrance far and near, And in the angelic presence beams,

A moment stay their steps, to view

Charms to angel vision new: Roses burdened with the dew By the tender night distilled;

Birds whose last good-night is trilled, Sleeping on the tremulous bough; Foutams white in woon-lit glow- But a moment; for the

night Deepens, and without the gate Evil spirits hide and wait,

Each bright engel asks his post, Armed, and mightier than a host

Of the envious, gailefal bant

That in outer darabees stand, Northward, southward, westward go, Qua by one, the Clothed about whenly guard,

garments white

That diffase a silvery glow, Bearing each a sword of light With celestial jewels starred.

Last, with lingering steps that seem

Loath to seek his nightly stand

On the utmost eastern hill,

Youngest of the angel band,

Lovelier than a pool's dream, Comes the angel Israfil !.

Not

quicker is his noiseless tread,

His silvery wings expanding spread, Half Boats he in the air with deep delight, As scenes of new enchantment meet his sight. His eyes of liquid asure, touched with fire, More beautiful than can be sung or told,

'neath the aureole of his looks of gold, voit restlessness, a fond deaire, Adoring beauty with a love

Shine, With

Too passionate for one of angel birth,

Even at this hour ho panta to rove

Amid the grean bowers of the fragrant eartlı,

To hear once more the nightingale's refrain,

To touch the humid, sleeping rose again;

But most of all to see

The latest miracle of

Deity,

The revelation, unto angels xew,

Of loveliness they scarcely yet conceive

As real, substantial, true :)

The first of human womanhood,

The broathing form, the spirit pure and good,

The garden'a royal flower, the new-created Eve.

Israfil!

VI

Bid thy impulsive soul bo still;

Until the morning wait.

Leave not the haunted gate,

Where even now, by evil sense aware

thy nutrien

The

and hasty mood, serpent king with envious hate Whispers, to tempt thy angelhood, Of her, the wonderfully fair,

Whom but to look upon would be

A rapture and an ecstacy.

O karafil!

Keep thou thy watch upon the star-lit hill;

Until the morning wait.

Then, when the sammons from on bigh

Recalls thy comrades to the sky.

The garden feels a sudden chill, The breath of coming fate.

Where hast thou strayed, O Israfil? The serpent's taiat is on the air; The son of darkness, crce as fair And frail as thon, is come!" He hides his face in his despair, And stands before them dumb.

XI,

All night the angels to and fro Seek for the messenger of woe. He, subtle, silent, fill elades

Their search. In densest solitudes. Evados the lustro that is shod From their celestial tread.

At morn, recalled, they seek the skies. But Israil, with drooping

wings. No longer heavenward can arise,

To carta unwilling clings,

Through all

agh all that fateful day, hour after hour, With doopast sorrow thrilled,

He stands invisible, apart

Bees evil warring with the hamad heart, And Edon's doom fullled,

XII,

When in the evening cool the Lord appears, Sees the forbidden tree with broken Bloom, The garden desolate and lost in gloom, The mortals hiding from His soarching gaze, Terafl,

speechless, hears

Their fate pronounced, sess their repentant tears, And death's dread shadow hanging o'er their

days.

And now on ba the rays

Of the Etemal Vision fall; the word

Of his own doom is heard:

"Since death by thee is come unto the earth, Be thou ita messanger. Thy name shall be A terror unto all of human birth; The shadow of the grave forever follow thea!"

XIII.

In Eden it was early dawn-

THE CHINA MAIL.

TURKISH WAR EBEPARATIONS,

| have imagined. I was on board Hor Britannie the police as surely as do suicides from the A letter from A Retired English Staff Majesty's ship Pallas. But this was a Turkish bridges of the Thames. A modern walking- war vessel, as we now found when a bigle match attended by doctors, priests, ladies, Officer at Constantinople says that the sounded, and 200 men came springing into and the representatives of English pluck, is Porte has decided, in the event of war being the battery. Yet here again, was food for about the most sinkening spectacle that could destared, to remain on the, defensive in Bul- garia, and to limit ita offensive operations, astonishment. Their naked feet made the well be devised by a nation indignant at only noise we heard not a word was spoken, cook-fighting, and virtuously outraged at In the first instance, to the Turkish feet, The ship was preparing for notion belts vivisection. Words could not well describe which would blockade all the Russian bar- hours on the Black Sea, Turkey has at her were being buckled on, the magazine opened, the painful sight of American athletes half disposal for this purpose at least sixteen the guns loosed, the men were at quarters, dalirious from want of sleep, half hysterical and yet not a sound save the word of com- with tortured nerves, loflopping along a large ironclads, armed with 110 heavy guns mand. Then came the ardor for "in- track with their tongues out, to the brutal of the most recopt, system of construction dependent firing at a supposed enemy applause of the British people. Ears would and completely manned with well-trained

fortunately for our ears no powder being be shocked to hear the pitiful pleading of sailars, besides a number of light screw used and instantly the huge guns were the pedestrians wakened from their rest steamers, which carry about 600 smaller trained and run out fired," loaded, brought less sleep, and compelled to rush out, half guns. The chief engineers in the feet are to bear in this direction and that, till we slobbering up their food as they pursue their nearly all Englishmen, and about twenty retired officers of the English nary are also were, to all appearances, in the midst of a merciless and quite unnecessary course; and expected shortly to enter the Turkish service general notion. It was then that I received for what? Sportsmen tell us, for the sake in case of a war with Russia. It is doubtful coular demonstration that these stories of of showing nature racked to its highest tea- whether any attethpt will be made to effect a the Turkish fleet which Pars had told me sion, and of proving the sublime endurance Common sense tells us, for the landing in the Crimes, but there are several were but silly inventions. No crew in the of man. places in the Caudaeus to which Turkish world could have surpassed these men of the aske of earning a few hundred pounds in the troops could be conveyed by the fleet to assist Fetch Bolend. I have seen many a European most cruel fashion. It is all over now. The in an insurrection of the Makommedan in man-of-war in which the men were not half men have done walling, and they have not habitants, who are said to be very hostile smart. When presently we learned; as died; and that is all that can be said. The to the Russian rule, and it is therefore arowe eat in the captain's superb cabin, that Catholic youth of London are to give a feast

every

man in the ship was a Mahomedan to. O'Leary, who fusted throughout Lent, posed to organize a selected force of about Tank; that, so far from being undermanned, and won a wonderful wager, making himself 3,000 Circassians for this purpose. If war the vessel had twenty or thirty persons above the while into a miserable spectacle. But breaks out," observes the correspondent,

its complement; and that the stores were all's well that ends well. Let us have no complete and the arew enthusiastic, I felt more of these walking-matches, lest, en- that the Fetch Bolend had, indeed, been conraged by the mercenary applause, the how is hent too far and the thin string of life is cracked. The doctors, the priests, and the noble sportsmen would not care to see O'Leary drop down dead on the trank, or to see Weston walking over the brink of his grave and into it. Society would not hold those spectators guiltless if the next walking-match ended in a ghastly tragedy

It is surely time for some enterprising publisher to produce an American dictionary:

Fadly libelled.

[No. 4343.- JUNE 2, 1877.

Glory onuff for one da," attendir a nigger kamp meeting.

He who skorns to be intlooensed at tall by fashon is a wize fool.

I am propaired to say tu sovla ov the. rich men out ov evry ten, make the most ov yure money for it makes the most ov yu

If i had a boy who didn't lie well enuff tu sato me, i wud set him tu tendin a retale.

dri good store.

Man was kroated a little lower than the

angells and has bin gittin a little lower øver since it

The moste oncasy kreatur i ever perused, was a bob tale ball, in fli time, t

When a feller gits a going down hil, it dua seem as that evry thing had been greased for the okashun.

I have known folks whose callibre was very small, but whose bore was big.

The meanest man i ever nu was the one who stole a suggar whissel from a nigger" baby tn sweeten a kup ov rye koffee with

Pluk is a nise kompound ov pride, vanites and vartus.

Robbers are like rane, the fall on tha- fast and the unjust,

We hate those who will not take our advise, and despise them who do.

Matches me he made in hevin, but tha ar

ginerally sold down here.

I consatt there is this difference betweon bashfullness, and modesta, the one soon wares oph, the other never das.

Miscellaneous.

FOODS AND DRINES.-A lecture was deli

the Porte will use every possible menus of injuring its enemy of that you may be enre. Great efforts will be made to stir up an insurrection in Poland, and many appli

But our inspection was not to and here. cations have already been received from The Mosondish lay not for off, and towards Polish emigrants who desire once more to take up arms for the liberation of their that bagnificent specimen of naval archi-

THE weight of feminino attire in our days country. Several retired Hungarian and tecture we now made our way. As we neared German officers have also offered their ser-her ironclad sides, protected as they were

is attracting the criticisms of inferior vices to the Porte & Polish and a Hun with plates twelve and ten inches in

observers, who declare that the strongest garian legion will probably be formed thickness, and saw the muzzles of her huge

market-porters would break down under the weight of a fashionable toilet, with all directly after the commencement of hostili gune as they peared from the porte, we felt ties, and the retired English, officers who certain that, should the discipline bo as good

ta et ceteras, to say nothing of its immense have volunteered for the Turkish service on board of her as on the Fetch Bolond, she for word-coinage is progressing so rapidly inconvenience. What women endure for most of whom have served a long time in must be one of the most powerful vessels in the United States that without a vocabulary fashion" is certainly wonderful, and goes India and are well aóquainted with Eastera afloat. A band was playing a Turkish the newspapers of that country are well-far to justify the declaration of many customs and languages, will be appointed to polks, else all was still as we entered the nigh unintelligible. Uisterated is the husbands and brothers, to wit, that "the commands in the newly-formed cavalry and ship. They had not expected us, and thins, latest addition to the language. It sounds weaker sex," so called, is very much infantry corps. Of German officers of rank if any disorder had existed, it must have formidable, but only signifies that any one stronger than the weak areatures who there are already five or six in the Turkish been palpable now. Yet here, as in the so dabbed is in the habit of attiring himself pretend to be the strongest. It is certain smaller vessel, not the most critical eye in one of thous coats which take their name that the leading capillary artists were army. They are nearly all rebred Prussian could discover a fault. With a cabin and from the northern province of Ireland, obliged to begin their work, for the great officers of artillery and engineers, The troops in Bulgaria, proceed the correspon-ward room 16ft. high, with splendid baths Pigeon English is a naught compared to Parisian ball, at 9 in the morning so that dent, consist of 185,000 regulars and about and every other apparatus for comfort, all the language of Transatlantic editors. many of their patients had to "hold their? Good news for the builders The polka heads" with cara for fourteen hours on the scrupulously clean and perfectly ventilated, 20,000 irregulars under the command of the this huge ironclad presented more the spis, I hear, to be in vogue this season, and stretch, with all the weight of flowers, able and energetic Eyoub Pasha; they are completely equipped for war, and are ready pearance of a floating palace than an engine naturally when all the couples engaged in jewels, and hairpins, without being able to

?rest their necks" (or backs) for a single. to march at a day's notipe. During the last of things was found. Every man in his dance so trying to the floors. At Ledy moment; and it is naked by wondering of war. Wherever we went the same state it give & stamp simultaneously there is no two months the weather has made the roads almost impassable, and a Turkish offler of plage, the utmost order and quiet, all ready Catherine Weyland's and at Lady Leslie's members of the sex that wears short hal artillory who had conveyed some heavy guns for an action, if need be, at any moment,

what mean could have come out fresh and to Bustchuk amred the correspondent that the gune in excellent condition, the crew

bright, ready to danes and to promenade twenty oxen had to be attached to each gun, above its complement and perfect in dis-

in the heat and excitement of the ballroom for another four or five hours, after going and that even then they proceeded only at ipline. At every step we took the he was the rate of about an English mile an hour, given to the stories which we had so ofton

through such an ordeal ? As to the consequences of the impending heard. Had the Mesondie been commanded war, the correspondent thinks that it by an English captain and manned by au will lead to the complete devastation of English grew, it could scarcely have been European Turkey as the Turks are ani- better kept it certainly could not have been mated with shob a fanatical spirit that in a more serviceable condition, even under the

strictest martinet. I believe in my country they would rather barn Adrianople, Sea, men as the grandest sailors the world has and, above all, Constantinople to the ground than see the Russians enter those ever seen; their marine instincts are as towns as conquerors. In Bulgaria people wonderful as their strength, of purpose is are already dying by hundreds of famino great. But in the Turks they have worthy and typhus, and the causes of disease will rivals and close imitatore, who will run be multiplied tenfold if the country is used them a hard race some day, should fortune be a battle field in a war which may last for favour them. All this I thought as we left years, Religious fanaticism, combined with the ship to the strains of "Rule Britannia," the savage spirit of revolution and the greed played as a compliment to our nationality, of adventurers, will be only too likely to and perhaps as a little defiance to the produce scenes of horror resembling those Russians; and as I looked at the sister-ship which took place in the ware of the Middle of these eplendid vessels we had visited, and Ages. And this state of things, even if no remembered that Turkey, possesses between other Powers took part in the war, would twenty and thirty magnifieant ironclad probably continue for some time, as the vessels of war all equally ready for service, difficulties in the way of Russia are such as well manned, disciplined, and commanded, to render a short campaign very improbable. felt that another reason might be adduced why Russie should not recklessly and Owing to the naval superiority of Turkey ou the Black Sea and the Danube, the fortresses heedlessly go to war. of Varna, Silistria, Rustáhnk, Widdin, and Schoumla are in direct communication with Constantinople, whence they can easily pro- onre troops and supplies of all kinds. These fortresses are sufficiently provided to with- stand a siege of four or five months; and if the Turkish iron-clad gunboats on the Danube should succeed in destroying the Russian pontoon-bridges on that river, and thereby out off the Russian army in Bulgaria from its supports in Roumania and Bessarabia, that army, surrounded by anemies, and unable to procure food in a country where Whose dazzling height roveals the Father's the people are already dying of hunger, might be placed in de desperate a position as that of the French at Bedan,

She shall come forth, and with sweet converse

greet.

The parting and the coting angel host.

impetuous

One moment now abeanted from thy post,

And all is lost.

How changed since in the even-time

The angel asw it in its prime!

The erring mortals now were gone.

He stood within their omply lower alone. Above his head

A little bird was warbling cheerily

The music mocked and pained his misery. Ho mined ble hand, unconscious of his power,

nest,

And grasped the bough which held the dainty And the branch shriveled in his hand; with

breast

Panting in audden pain, the bird fell dend.

he seized & flower-

Agbasty

The rose which Eve's fair band at night had

passed.

Feneath his touch it withered; bad and leat Dropped dry and scentless. In a hitter grief Ite murmured, This is death!

And this henceforth shall be my destiny: To slay, but not to do

To

bilgut all

all things of mortal broath; earthly loveliness to sear;

All that you beings hold most dear Must perish when uy ateps draw near. Nor can I shen my fearful power, Or spare from them one dreaded hour. Onward I go through all the years, Unheeding human prayers and tears. Let mortals seek through toil and ferre Some transient gleams of love and joy- I follow after to, destroy,"

"Israil!"

XIV.

The angel looked, and bowed his face Before a brow whose ewest, majestic grace Had shove upon him oft in happier morn From the eternal hill

throne.

Immanust, the First-Born,

Stood sitting on him in the early dawn.

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Invafil, bahola "

The Son takes in His hand the withered rose :

Its petals seem liko magie to unfold

A newy celestial bloom;

A heavenly perfumo

Through

the awakened blossom breathes and glows.

The Saviour, smiling, lays it on His breast, He takes the dead bird from its broken nest;

datters, plumes its wings, The ran

rapiarously singe,

And soars away toward the beaming heaven. Then

spake He: "Isroil, The Father to the Son a boon hath givan. Ga forth,

-but I am with thee. Do His will Who laid this doom upon thee, and be still.

but thus can Thou dost destroy

I restore. Angel of death, aries, and hope once more! From Abel's blood spilt on a the altar stone, To Calvary's cross which must bear alone, Thou shalt be torrible to human kind, And hope but dimly light the troubled mind; But from that grase which yields to me ite portal,

Faith shall come forth, the Comforter immortal, And thon, new crowned, shalt be

Me."

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Thus spake Immanuel, and, ascending, passed Again unto Hie Father's house, to keep Unbroken watch, while Time and Borrow last, Of His beloved, who in death ehali sleep. And Israfil arose serene and calin,

TURKISH IRONCLADE.

lately, the guests were in abject terror of being hurled into the supper-room below while the polka was being danced; and there are many houses in London less substantially built than those presided over by these fair hostesses.

Where do our servants spend their Sun-vared before the Society of Arts, London, on days is a question of on amall importance the 10th March, on Foods and Drinks," by during the present epidemic, Going to Dr. Corfield, Professor of Hygiene in Univer church too often means visiting alok friends, sity College. After explaining the reasons and bringing the germs of disease into why beef is more nutritious, though some- the attics of fashionable mansions towards what less digestible, than mutton, the dis midnight, when the master and mistress are advantages attending the use of pork from its sleeping the sleep of the vaccinated below. aloseness of fibre and superabundance of fat About three weeks ago a Kensingtonian and the comparatively low value of the flesh kitchen-maid suffering from smallpox was of young animals, the lecturer observed, quietly brought down from her high estate, Good meat should neither be too pale, indi and conveyed in a suitable carriage to eative of disease; nor too dark, anggesting the Smallpox Hospital. A week later she that the animal has not been killed. It should succumbed to the disease, and was finally be elastic to the touch, have a rumbled removed to the lowliest chamber she is likely appearance, and not become moist if kept. to occupy until earth has resolved her into Balmon was pronounced to be as nutritious some fairer form (according to Seymour as beef ar mutten. Eels, mackerel, and Haden she may yet come up as a flower) herrings were lese easily digested than most About the same time a footman in Berkeley other fish, because of the fat contained in square was also stricken with smallpox bat their muscles. Dr Corfield quoted Dr Parke's without waiting to be removed in a suitable opinion that spirits do not sustain the body carriage he walked out of the house, within regiating extremes of heat or cold, that a view to bettering himself in a hospital they induce liver disease and decrease the of his own choosing. Not having coulded power of working, that strong wines and his intentions even to the lady's-maid, beers were liable to cause gout, and that there was general consternation at his dis- even light wines and beers should be used, appearance. After a good deal of trouble if at all, in moderation, and only at meal he was traced to the Middlesex, and thence times. The lecturer referred to the nerve- to the Smallpox Hospital at Highgate, stimulating and non-intoxicating qualities where he was found to be lying in imminent of tea, coffee, and cooos, and the dangers of danger of his life. This Hittle incident hap-indigestion resulting from their abuse, espe pening on the eve of a marriage in the Who is to conduct the foreign policy of family, a printed document explaining the cially in drinking them too hot. Dr Car- Inhabitants of some parts of Scotland lived England, her Majesty's Government or the fants was circulated among the bidden penter, who occupied the chair, said that the member for Greenwich? I ask this because guests, which had the effect of reducing the almost entirely on oatmeal and butter-milk, I hear, on excellent authority, that in an numbers to some two hundred, with a defec- and few people were capable of more aus- interview with General Ignatieff Mr Glad-tion on the part of one bridesmaid, who tained labour than these. As to stimulants, stone urged upon him that Russia should not looked on naofficially from afar. Who can he had tried total abstinence for twelve years, say that the defecting bridesmaul had not and, although it could be practised in health, demobilise her armies. Is this patriotism?

I see Schouraloff paid the Prince of Wales rabbed shoulders with the infecting footman he had found it desirable to take a little light the compliment of attending at the Charing in the mazes of the scaffolding at the Gros-wine or beer to aid digestion when suffering Cross Station to see him off to the Continent, venor Gallery the very morning of his small-from mental over-work. If my memory serves me right, in the prize- pox-laden progress towards a haven of rest? ring also they always shake hands before fighting,

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WHAT THE WORLD SAYS. Princess Mary of Hanover, after taking eight months to make up her mind, has finally refused the band of her cousin H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught.

If Sir H. Elliot intends, as I am informed, to write an account of recent Clouds in the East, he will probably have some rather

The Faris physicians, who make a steady

No doubt many persons did. What became war on the "low bodies" which send so

of them ?

A correspondent writes:

The Court newsman thus describes the head-drows of a lady who was presented on

In an interesting article, dated Pera,

many women to a promature grave, have April 10, the correspondent of the Daily

now declared war on the high heels that Telegraph gives the following account of his

have been so generally adopted of late-years visit to some of the Turkish war vessels:-~~

It was with no small amount of satisfac-startling disclosures to make on the sending her marriage to the Queen at the last by the superior sex. They say that these tion that I availed myself of an invitation of the British fleet to Besika Bay. A story Drawing-room: The front hair was curled heels are not only very injurious to the feet, last Friday to accompany Hobart Pasha current in military eireles is, that General à la neige (like now). At the top an but cause serious injury to the rest of the and a small company of friends on an Ignatieff obtained so grout a hold over the ornament in diamonds like a peacoak's tail economy by throwing the body forward, so anoffcial and unexpected visit to the ships. wretched mind of Abdul Assiz that he at The back hair raised from the roots, ac that all the organs are gradually thrown out The day was splendidly fine, when to the last persuaded him to let him garrison Con-companied on each side by curled marteaux of their true and natural hang, as every displacement of the organs, however slight number of nearly a score we embarked on stantinople with Russian soldiers. Where- (hammers)."

A recent book of travels gives the follow. leads necessarily to disease, both special and The medical body declares board a steamboat flying the Admiral's flag, upon Sir H. Elliot sent for the British and proceeded up the Bosphorus. I need isonalads, who received orders to blow out of ing account of the negresses in the interior general not stay to speak of the affective batteries the water any Russian who attempted to of Africa: The women are satisfied with ananimously that the use of these heels by we passed, as our course was directed towards land at Constantinople. If so, what fanatic little olothing, but they bestow much care the women, combined with the use of tobacco the mouth of the Black Sea Our object Liberals called an idle Beaconsfield demon on the decoration of their heads. Their by the men, must inevitably exercise a most was the floet, which, lying off Buyukdéré, stration' may have been a downright stra-woolly looks are saturated with oil, often of disastrous sction on the health of the next just in front of the Russian Bummer Embassy, tegio necessity,

the most unsavoury description. In front generation. A century ago, when this was drawn up in two grand lines. As we Everything apportaining to Russia is they are arranged in masses of frizzy curls, absurd and mischievous fashion was in went by, and received a salute from the interesting at the present moment. I have and the hair behind is drawn tightly to the favour, the same evil results were declared Seen by believing eyes linked hand in hand with various vessels, Toonld but notice that their therefore no hesitation in clipping the top of the head and twisted fato a knot, into to be inseparable from its adoption; the external appearance was equal to that of following advertisement from a Russian which is stuck a bunch of peacock, ostrich, waming of today is but the echo of the English ships, while in many respects oupe newspaper, and I trust the information it or other feathers. If time sud hair permit, warning sounded in the past; but, though rior to that of both French and German contains may have a certain moral effect there are other knots at the side of the that warning succeeded in overthrowing the head, to which more feathers and beads are insensate custom, it is doubtful whether the men-of-war that I had chanced at various upon the Eastern Question: times to see. At last we ran alongside the Land-holder 28 year, to have thirty attached. Buet or shall is then blown note of alarm now being sounded will be Fetch Bolond, and were soon on board. thousand ruble Circumstances, immobility, through a reed over head and face, and the equally successful. At all events, these Here we had a versel which forms one of the to wish Foenter spiritual marriage, land-cheeks are plentifully bedanbed with red who consent to return to a more wholesoms style of foot-gear can only do so gradually, alass of sloops designed especially for the holder miss, orthodox confession, of faith to paint." Turkish Government. She was not very

as the muscles that have been elongated, largo, Har crew; all told, would ordinarily

as well as those that have been shortened, be-if in the English service-160 men

by the unnatural elevation of the heel and The Japanese are launching Ironclade

depression of the toes, can only be brought Let thy sickle return to the harvest that gleams But her peculiar power consisted in the facts. White and wan on valley and hill,

first of all, that to an enemy's battery the The Foo-so was put into the Thames at

back to their normal atate by degrees. It is recommended to diminish the height of the would present but a very small target; Poplar last Saturday A second Sighting

boot-heels gradually, those of each new patr secondly, that that target was very heavily ship was to go into the water at Hull this

being a little lower than the last. In this armoured thirdly, that from her central morning; a third is on the stocks. With

way the muscles of the foot and leg may be battery of four seyen-inch gums she could some surprise I see that the Chinese Minister

reduced to their normal state without much obtain a nearly all-round fire; and, fourthly, approves all this, and that he made a speech

suffering, and the organs now thrown out of that for a fight at sen she was as bandy & at the luncheon on Saturday which showed

their proper positions will have a change of bost as was ever launched. Remember that either that language was given us to congeal our vielt was tuexpected, and that it was our thoughts, or that the Celestials can well

righting themselves. the Mahomedan Bunday, when the men had afford to give a lesson in diplomate courtesy cessed from work. Descending between to Western nations

When an unfortunate wretch, weary of decks without a moment's delay we were at ence in the central battery. Not a sound life and maddened by despair, stands on the tras to be heard. So far from this evidence parapet.of Waterloo Bridge, prepared to and of defective discipline being forthcoming the his or her troubles in the heart of the slily might have been whblly deserted, so Thames, a hurdane poliosman seizes him qulet, was the pace. Not a rope was cut of or her, transfers the would-be suicide, to place. You might have eaten your lunch the police cells, and the kindly magistrate from the decker The guns were asleen as Indanes repentance by teams of solitary though English sailors had spent their lives confinement and the ministrations, of – a on their preservation. The armourers' store prison ebaplain. But the illogical law of Winchester rifles, the cutlasses, the belts, permits thousands of people to assemble, and the pikes were all stacked and plated as end thousands of shillings to be paid, at

serpent watches well: thou shalt return too And, with one last look upon Edan's hewar,

The

late.

An hour is pact.

VII.

All Eden sleeps in motionless repose.

Around, above, he casts his restless eyes,

And sighs to think how long the night will last. The moon rides slowly, slowly, down the skies. Surely far off have vanished. Eden's fose;

No evil spirit can be lurking near.

No sound, no breath, meets his attentive car So long the night, so deep the alience grows, May he not wander at his wayward will, If not too distant from the sentinel bill? - Only a few light steps will bring him near The bower of which the angels oft have talá.

There in the moonlight clear

A moment tarrying, he may behold,

And seeing may bellove

That only he has learned how beautiful is Eve.

As now with willial steps he seeks

The bower where she is slumbering, The dow brushed by be rapid wing

From hanging boughs falls on his cheeks. Els feat are trampling in their haste The straying rose, a wildwood vine Whose flowers the mossy

Ke starts when in the pathway grated.

moonshine

A bird, awakened, trills a mole,

Then eps, the song still rippling from his throat.

I sleeps,

But soon he

he trembles, listens, doubts no more.

AB else forgotten, he is bending o'er

The violet bed, and whose bless perfume

Earth's fairest being sleepy, unconscious of heg

Went forth into the morning's fragrant balm To wield for evermore his-melancholy power.

Itrafil!

For my lyre is stili.

The song that I heard in the land of dreams Is sung, end its magic shall haunt me ze mora, Ever yet to the unseen shore

...

Bear earth's harvest the loved and lost, Often thy shadow my door has croused; I have seen thy ky fingers laid

On lips that I loved, and was not afraid." owing close on thy chill and gloom,

up from the darkened tomb,

Was the vary odor of heavenly bloomi Shed from His garments who followed theo, And took my idols to keep for me. Jeral

Come again at the Master's will.

At thy cross end pang my flesh way shrink, But thy bitter cup I will daze to drink, And follow thee down to the river's brink. Through the breathless tide

I will cling to the hand of the Crucified;

- And when I gwaka on the further shore,

I shall see thee ne more

Sad and shrouded in garments dim,

But the angel of pende and brother of ftim

have circumstances immobility, although a I ask, sir, where is the difference? Which half designation. To address Adding pro- is the more barbarous assert also the tographis card: Orel posto-rettant M.S most preposterously absurd-the head-dress of the Mof or that of the poor savage-I am, sir, your obedient servant

Who owned that and blessed dies as Calvary's on a British mansofware Had it not been the agricultural Hall, hirien for the for which a motionless marine who madman, under the pretense of sporty Okerton, guarded the captais's cabin wera I might | the lives allotted to them in the presenc

bill,

Zure

í

AN OLD MAN.'

PROVERBS OF THE BILLINGS-

FAMILYANA Hamit natur is the same all over the world, dept in Nu England, and thar Its

BERLELEY, Sept. 1869.-Gentlemen, I akordin ta sarcumstances.

A kodish aristokras deus puts me in feel it a duty owe to you to express my mind ov a drunken man a trying to walk a gratitude for the great benefit I have de-

derived by taking Norton's Camomile Piùs. krack.

Ram is good in its plase, and hel is the I applied to your agent Mr Bell, Berkeley plase for if

for the above-named Pills; for wind to the Akordin tu skripter that will be just stomach, from which I suffered excrucia boat as many Kammills in heavin as richting pain for a length of time, having tried

by watered nearly every remedy prescribed, but with When yu korte a widder, u want fu da ont deriving any beneft at all. After with spurs on

taking two bottles of your valtiable pills, I Laring at yure own story, while yu are was quite restored so my usual state of tellin on 16, is a good dele like Arings gan health Please give this publicity for the bereft of those who may thus be aflisted, ops thru the tuch holst

să sm, die, yours truly, HaxBY ALLPASS,

MILA PILLS."=a5/13

it

Alive barte sumtimes cits intus ded hody, so dos paria git into Jeres clame.

A pet lam alwis makes a kross ram.

were the Proprietor of NOSTON'S CAMO

No. 4943-JUNE 2, 1877.]

NOTICE.

THE CHINESE MAIL.

TIROM and after the Chinese New Year's FROM

day (February 17, 1874) the Chinese Mail will be issued DAILY instead of rar- WEEKLY as heretofore, No change, how- ever, will be made in the price of subaarip tion, which will remain at $4 per annum.

The charges for advertisements are now asimilated to those of the China Mail.

The unusual success which has attended the Chincie Mail makes it an admirable medium for advertisers. **

a

The Conductors guarantee an eventu drealation of one thousand coples, It already the most influential native journal published, and enjoys considerable prestige at the Ports of China and Japan, and at Singapore, Penang, Calcutta, San Francis oo and Australia.

For terms, &c., addrem

Mз CHUN AYIN,

Manager.

China Mail Office,

17th February, 1874.

POSTAL RATES.

Any publication fulfilling the conditions hereafter named can pass as a newspaper.

The conditions are as follows

let. The publication must conalat wholly or in great part of political or other news, or of articles relating thereto, or to other current toples, with or without advertise monts,

2nd. It must bo published in numbers at intervals of not more than 31 days, and must be printed on a sheet or sheets un stitched.

3rd. The full title and date of publication must be printed at the top of the first page, and the whole or part of the title and the date of publication at the top of every subsequent page; and this regulation applies to Tables of Contents and Indices,

4th. A supplement must consist wholly or in great part of matter like that of a newspaper, or of advertisements, printed on a sheet or sheets, or a piece or pieces of paper, unstitched; or whelly or in part of engravings, prints, or lithographs illustra tive of articles in the newspaper. The supplément must in every case be published with the newspaper, and must have the title and date of publication of the newspaper printed at the top of every page; or, if it consists of engravings, prints, or lithographs, at the top of every shest or side.

A packet containing two or more new papers is not obargeablo with a higher rate of postage than would be chargeable on a book packet of the same weight.

A newspaper posted unpaid, or a packet of newspapers posted either unpaid or Insufficiently paid, is treated as an unpaid insufficiently paid book packet of the same weight

[Subjoined we give the postal rates now in force for transmission of corre spondence to all parts of the world, -Detailed rules affecting the transmisor aion of packets, parcels, &c., will be found annexed, together with a number of miscellaneous and useful notices]

Hongkong Rates of Postage,

(Revised April 1st, 1877.) In the following Statements and Tables the Rates are given in cents, and are, for Letters, per half ounce, for Books and

Fatterns, per two ounces,

Newspapers over four ounces in weight are charged as double, treble, &o., as the case may be, but such papers or packets of

The postage must be prepaid either by an

adhesive stamp, or by the use of a stamped

wrapper.

No newspaper can now be sent through the post a second time for the original postego. For each transmission a fresh postage is required.

Every newspaper must be posted either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened, whether by means of gum, wafer, sealing was, postage stamp, or otherwise) or in a cover entirely open at both ends, so as to admit of easy removal for examination. If this rule be infringed the newspaper is treated at a letter.

Every newspaper must be so folded, as

-THE CHINA MAIL.

Goods sent for sale, or in areontion of an order (however small the quantity may be), or any articles sent by one private indivi- dual to another, which are not actual patterns or samples, are not admissißle.

Patterns or samples, when practicable, must be sent in covers open at the enda, and in such a manner as to be easy of examination. But samples of seeds, drugs, and such like articles, which cannot be sent in covers of this kind, but such artioles only,may be posted enclosed in boxes, or baga of linen, of other material, fastened in such a manner that they may be readily opened; or, in the case of seeds, &c., for the United States of America, Holland, and its possessions, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Portugal and its possessions, and Switzerland, ia bags entirely closed, pro- vided such closed bags are transparent, so to enable the Officers of the Post Office readily to satisfy themselves as to the nature of the contents,

..

There must be no writing or printing upon or in any packet except the address of the person for whom It is intended, the address of the sender, a trade mark or number, and the price of the articles.

Samples of intrinsic value must not be sent to any foreign country except United States; and in the case of France samples of eider down, raw or thread silk, woollen or goats bair thread, vanilla, saffron, carmine, or leinglass, are considered to fall under this rule if they weigh more than three ounces; and up to this weight raw and spun silk, as well as coloured and twisted silk, may be sent to Germany,

The rule which forbids the transmission tarough the Post of any article likely to Injure the contents of the Mail Bags or Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the Post Office is, of course, applicable to the Pattern Post; and a packet containing any

convenience of those who may wish to post of intrinsic value, it should, if it be very by the Pacific Route to Canada, the West important, be registered. Indies, and other places named below.

For the present no large quantities of theus Stamps can be supplied, nor is it undertaken that every denomination can be kept in hand

Miscellaneous Notices, Indian Correspondence.. Unpaid Letters are not received for the Indian Mail Packets,

The Pre-payment of correspondence for the Straits, India, Ceylon, and Aden is com- pulsory by whatever opportunity it is

forwarded

Registration to Bangkok, Ber Britannis Majesty's Consul General for Siam has been good enough to make arrangements by means of which correspon dence can be Registered to Bangkok, at the usual charge of 8 conts.

Most countries to which Hongkong for wards Correspondence having joined the General Postal Union or being probably about to do so, it is necessary that the following rules be strictly observed.

1. No. Letter or Packet, whether to be registered or unregistered, can be received jewels, precious artioles, or anything that, for Postage if it contains gold or silver money,

duties. as a general rule, is liable to Customs

2. This Regulation prohibits the sending of Patterns of dutlable articles, unless the quantity sent be so small as to make the sample of no value.

3. The limits of weight allowed are as follows:

Books and Papers to British Ottices, 6 lbs; to the Continent, &c., 2 lbs. Patterns to British Oilices, 6 lbs. If with out intrinsic value; to the Continent, &o., 8 oz.

Soldiers and Sailors Letters.

4. The following articles cannot be sent Frivates in H. M. Army or Navy, Non- commissioned Cfficers, Army SchoolmasMatches, Candles, Soap, Indigo, Dye-stoffe, by Post at all: Glass, Liquids, Gunpowder, tera (not superintending or First Clase) or Schoolraintresses may send half-ounce letters

or whatever is dangerous to the Mails, or to the United Kingdom vià Marsalles by

offensive or injurious to persons dealing with them. French Packet, or via Southampton by British Packet, for one penny; or via Brindisi by British Packet for three-pence. Hongkong stamps will prepay this class of correspondence exactly the me as Imperial Stampa

Soldiers' and Sailors' letters are, however," charged as ordinary letters if they do not conform to the following regulations

1. Not to exceed half an ounce. No

double letters are allowed.

2. It from a Soldier or Sailor, his clam or description must be stated in full on the letter, and the commanding Officer must sign his name with name of Rogi. ment, or Ship, do, in full,

8. If to a Soldier or Bailor, his class or description must be stated in full, with

thing of the kind will be stopped, and not Articles such as sent to its destination, the following have been occasionally posted as Patterns, and have been detained as unfit for the Post, vis: Metal boxes, porce-name of Regiment, or Ship, do, in full, lain and China, fruit, vegetables, bunches of flowers, cuttings of plants, spurs, knives, scissors, needles, pine, pieces of machinery, sharp pointed instruments, samples of metals, samples of ere, samples in glass bottles, pieces of glass, acide of various kinds, curry combs, copper and steel en graving plates, and confectionery of all

kinds.

But not Warrant Officers, viz., Assistant Engineer, Gunner, Boatswain, or Carpenter.

Communication with Batavia, The Netherlands India Packets leave Singapore fortnightly, and are fitted to the arrival of the outward P. & O. Mail from Europe

The French Packte for Batavia wait at

run fortnightly.

papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two to admit of the title being readily in forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watoh macht. Singapore for the Packet from China and

Newspapera must not be folded together as one, nor must anything whatever be inserted except bona fide Supplements. Printed matter may, however, be enclosed, if the whole be paid at Book Hate. Prices Cur. sent may be paid either an Newspapers or

Books,

..

N.R. means No Registration.

LOCAL AND TOWN POSTAGE,

Within any Town or Sottle- ment, or between Hongkong, Canton, and Macao, in either direction,....

Between any other two of the following places (throngh a Britian Office) viz-Hong. kong, Macao, Forts of China and Japan, Bangkok, Saigon, and the Philippines, by Private Ship,

Botween the above by Con- tract Mail,.................................

Letters.

Registration.

Newspapers.

Bks, & Petus.

Per 2 03.

282 2

4822

882 4

Countries of the Postal Union.

The Union roay be taken to comprise Europe, the United States, ludia (including Ceylon, the Straits, and Aden), Egypt, Labuan, Mauritius, Seychelles, Jamaica, Trinidad, British úniana, and Bermuda, With all French and Spanish Colonisa,

Countries NOT in the Union,The chief countries not, in the Union are: the Au- tralasian Group, British North America, Africa (except French and Spanish Colonies), South and Central America, and the West Indies (except Jamaica, Trinidad, and British Guiana).

Postage to Union Countries. United Kingdom and Union Countries served through London :~~~.

Fia Brindisi,

By any other

12

rcuit,

Letters,

16

Registration,

B

Newspapers,

4

Books and Patterns, 6

Other Union Countries -

Letters,

12

12

Registration,

8

Newspapers,

Books and Patterns, 4

...

୨୭୯୩୩

Postage to Non-Union Countries.

W, Africa, Falkland Islands, Lagos, Gold Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Cape Verd Islands -

Letters,

Registration,

20

22

17

12

6

.

Newspapers, Books and Patterns, 10

Canada, Vancouver's Island, Prince Edward's Island, New Brunswick, New- foundland, Nova Scotia, Honolulu (N.B.), and Hawaii (N.E};- Letters, Registration,

Nowopspere

20

16

12

12

0

Books and Pattern, B

4946

spected.

A newspaper or packet of newspapers which contains any enolosure except aup plements is charged as a letter, unless the enclosure be such an might be sent at the book rate of postage, and the entire paoket be sufficiently prepaid an a book packet, in which case it is allowed to pass,

A newspaper which has any letter, or any communication of the mature of a letter, written in it or upon its cover, is charged as an unpaid or insufficiently paid letter.

No packet of newspapers may be above 6 lbs. in weight, nor above two feet in length, one foot in width; nor one in depth.

Such articles as scissors, knives, razora, nery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore, provided that they be packed and guarded in so accure a manner as to afford complete protection to the contents of the mail bags and to the Officers of the Post Office, while at the same time they may be easily examined, may be sont as samples to the following countries, but to these alone; viz., the Azoros, Belgium, Cape de Verd Islands, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Hol- land. Madeira, Moldavia, Norway, Portu- States, Wallachia, and the British Colonies. gal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United indigo cannot be sent to any place abroad,

A packet of patterns or samples sent to the Azores, Cape de Verd Islands, France, Madeira, Portugal, or by French packet, to Turkey, Syria, or Egypt, mast not exceed 18 inches in length, width, or depth; a packet to any other place abroad must not exceed 24 inches in length or 12 Inches in width or depth...

To provide the greatest possible facilities for posting Correspondence for Europe, &c., up to the latest moment before the departure of the French Packets, arrango- ments have been made for receiving at the Post Office Inte letters-except those to and through Australia-from 11.10 AM. to 11.30 A.M. Each letter must bear a late fee of 18 cents extra postage.........

A book-packet may contain any number of separate books or other publications (including printed or lithographed letters), photographs (when not on glass or in cases containing glass or any like substance), drawings, prints, or maps, and any quantity of paper, or any other substance in ordinary use for writing or printing upon; and the books or other publications, prints, maps, &c., may be either printed, written, en- graved, lithographed, or plain, or any mixture of these. Further, all legitimate binding, mounting, or covering of a book, de, or of a portion thereof, is allowed, whether such binding, &e. Bo loose or The above arrangement is intended to attached; as also rollers in the case of meet occasional emergencies, and not for prints or maps, markers (whether of paper the regular posting of extensive correspon- or otherwise) in the case of books, pena or dence. Should it be found, therefore, that pencils in the case of pocket-books, &c., large and unmanageable numbers of letters and, in short, whatever is necessary for the are habitually thrown upon the Department safe transmission of such articles, or usually at the last moment, a heavier late fee will appertains thereto; but the binding, rollers, be imposed,

A similar supplementary Mail will be &c. must not be sent as a separate packet.

Circulars,-ie., lotters which are intend-made up for Shanghal by the English and ed for transmission in identical terms to French Contract Steamers, the late lettera several persons, and the whole or the being received from 10 minutes after, op. to half an hour after the time of closing. greater part of which is printed, engraved, or lithographed,may also be sent by The late fee will also be 18 cents. book post.

But a book-packet may not contain any letter, or communication of the nature of a letter (whether separate or otherwise), unless it be a circular-letter or be wholly printed; nor any enclosure sealed or in any way olosed against inspection; nor any other enclosure not allowed by Rule 3. If this rule be infringed, the entire packet is obarged as a letter.

A book-packet may be posted either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened, whether by means of gum, wafer, sealing wax, postage stamp, or otherwise), or in a cover entirely open at both ends, so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination; otherwise it is treated as a letter. For the

may be tied at the ends with string greater security of the contents, however, Postmasters being authorised to cut the string in such cases, although it they do so they must again tie up the packet.

No book-packet may be above 6 lbs in weight, nor above 24 inches in length, 12 inches in width, or 12 inches in depth, unless it be sent to or from one of the Government offices.

When, owing to a great and unusual influx of letters, books, do, the transmiss sion or delivery of the letters would be delayed if the whole mail were dealt with without distinction, book packets may be kept back till the next despatch or delivery,

W. Indies, Buenos Aries, Costa Rica, The limit of ise for a back-packet Colombia (U.S.), Guatemala, Grey Town, addressed to any place abroad is 24 Inches Hayti, La Huayra, Mexico, Monte Vi in length and 12 inches in width or depth. deo, New Granada, Panama Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela -

84

Letters,

38

Newspapers,

0

Books and Patterer, 10

A

Registration

to Honduras, & Bri- Į

12

19.

tish West Indies

Bolivia, Chili, Estador, and Peru |--

Azores, Dape de Verd felands, France, Exceptions. No packet for Algeris, Madeira, or Portugal or for Egypt, Syria ot Turkey, when sent by French Packet, tonst be above 18 inches in length, width, or depth.

REVISED TARIFF OF CHARGES ON COR-

RESPONDENCE FORWARDED DY THE ABOVE PACKET TO CANADA, THE WEST INDIES, BOUTH AMERICA, ŽO. Letters, &c., can be posted for Canada, the West Indies, and other places named below, if sufficient American Stamps are added to prepay them from San Francisco to destination. American Stamps are sold at this Office.

The charge for Registry is 8 conts in Hongkong Stamps, and 10 cents in U. §. Stamps to those places only the names of which are printed in Italfos. To all the other places named correspondence cannot be Registered through, but only to San

Francisco (8 cents.)

It follows, that, to forward Correspon- dence to Batavia with the least delay, the following are the best opportunities:

In the S. W. Monsoon.

The English Mail,

The French Mall,

PARCELS. The public is reminded that, in China and Japan, there is no such thing as Parcel Post. Much trouble and disap. pointment is caused by persistent attempts to send small valuable trifles through the Post. Fana, Curios, Articles of Dress, Fancy Work, and similar presents are con- tinually being refused, the senders having often spent more in Postage than would have paid the freight by steamer, No refund can be made on such parcels of the value of Stamps obliterated before the mature of the contente was discovered.

PATTERNS.-Some difficulty inexperienced in obtaining

general understanding of what is a Pattern. It is a bond fide sample of goods which the sender has for sale, or of goods which he wishes to order. It is to consist of the smallest possible quantity compatible with shewing what the goods are, and must have no intrinsic value.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

Unclaimed Oorrespondence, June 1, 1877.

Lots. Fape.

Achun Armand Single. |

ton & Co.

Asnis, Eduardo del.

}

Baptista, Joan

Antonio Bennett, Mr Bosing, Mr.S.E. I Bisset, Chas, H. &

Late. Para McDonald, Jas, Į

engineer1

Mokay, G. S. 1 Middleton, J. T. 1 Monkman, J. W. 1 Marrison & Co.1

Bícasra

Nelson, Goo.Kerri Notying, A.

Chhuffor, Singh 'I'ragd.Olga, Miss; 1 Chun Tak, 0.

Oxley, H, 1 Cockburn, Col. Davidson, Gerald 1 Dayur Feston-

jee Framjee J Dawson, F. Dias, Ignacio Delgado, Thomas 1

Palmer, J. A. 1 Forks, Mrs

I

1

Edwards, James 1

Arthur J. Pollard, Afr

1

Pozet, Dr Bonito 1

Ray, Mra F.

Redmond, D. 8. 1 Richards, Wm. H.1

Robertson, Jolm

Ruchwald, Leo-1

polá Sonwoning

1

1

1

1

Farquharson,

Thos. Fletcher, Angus 1 regd. Forrest, Thomas 1 Fyfo, J. B. Gallary, R. J. Gardner, C. F. 1 Gilling, Mme.

Horning Gordon, G. Graham, Capt.

G. F. Graham, Mrs

C. H,' Green, W.

Hutchinson, F.0.1 Jackson, R.

Shaik Boo

1

Shaik Hajec f 1 regd. Siran, Monar, Smith, Dr. F. 0. Snowdeal,

Wm. H. Spiteri, Joseph 1 Stevenson, A. 1 St. John, Miss B

Taylor, R.

8

2

1.

Teong Chle & Co.1

1

Versy, Miss

2

Hitchcock, F. A. 4.

M.E, A.

Walker, E., Wedderburn Sir David

嘍

Wilkinson, W.

1 regd.

Welman, T. H. 1

1

1

Wilson, Wm.

Wingfield, H.

Winne, Mr

1

Wolkelds, W.

Wolton, Joseph

Xavier, Ismail V.1.

Young, Mrs A. 1

Komeley, Thos. 1. Khilury, M. To provide means of remitting small Koulez, Paul sums of money to or from this Colony and between the Ports of Okina and Japan, the Law, Thos. Postmasters and Agents of this Office will | Lawrence, L. in future be allowed (but not required) to purchase Hongkong Postage Stamps from Mecandrew, J. F. 1 1 Mackey, J. foreign residents.

Marks, Mrs Alex. 2 Between Hongkong and Shanghai, or Hongkong and Yokohama, however, in either direction, Money-Orders must be used.

The Stamps tendered for sale must not exceed $25 in value, must be perfectly clean, in good condition, and in strips of at least two as no separate Stamps will be A Privato Steamer a few days before the purchased. They must be presented per

English Mail

In the N.E. Monsoon.

The French Mail.

1

for any loss or inconvenience which may

The Post Office is not, by law, responsible

arise from the non-delivery, mis-sending, or mia-delivery of any letter, book, or other Postal packet (even if the packet be re- for any injury which a packet may sustain gistered); nor is the Post Office responsible during its transmission,

To guard against such injury all postal packets which are likely to suffer from atamping or from great pressure should be placed in strong covers; and even with this precaution no fragile article should be sont through the Post. It should be remembered that every packet has to be handled several times; that it is exposed to considerable pressure and friction in the mall bag; and that, whenever the bag has in the course of its transmission to be transferred by means of the railway apparatas, the risk of injury |

is much increased,

No information can be given respecting lettera which pass through à Post Office except to the persons to whom they are addressed; and in no other way is official information of a private character allowed to be made public. A Postmaster may, however, give an address if he has no reason to believe that the person whose address it is would disapprove of his doing so.

Postmasters are not allowed to return any letter or other packet to the writer or sender, or to any one else, or to delay forwarding it to its destination according to the address, even though a request to such effect be written thereon.

Postmasters are not bound to give change, nor are they authorized to demand change; and when money is paid at a Post Office, whether as change or otherwise, no question as to its right amount, goodness, or weight can be entertained after it has been removed from the counter.

Postmasters are not bound to weigh any letters or other packets for the public, but they may do so if their duty be not thereby impeded.

The practice of sealing letters passing to and from the East and West Indies, and other countries with hot alituates, with war (except such as is specially prepared), is

attended with much inconvenience, and

respondence thus sent

The following are the charges on Cor-frequently with serious injury, not only to

Letters, per half ounce.

Etagkong U. 8.

Sept Stamps cents. cents.

8

12

5

13

8

10

Canada, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, Van couter's Island, Bahamas, Nassau, New Providence,.... 12.. Aspinwall, Bermuda, Cuba, Fiji, Greenland, Jamaica, Panama, Hawail, Newfoundland, Guatemala, Marquesas Jo,

Mexico, Salvador, Tahiti,... 12 Belize, Bogota, Carthagena, Costa Rica, Curaços, Grey. toton, Guiana, Bondurus, Martinique, New Granada, Nicaragua, Santa Martha, Turk's Idland, Venesuela, Bolivia, Chili, Ecuador, Peru, 12 West Indiessein. 12.

Brak.......

12

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Lettera,

50

Newspapers,

Books and Pattomax, - 12.

10

None,

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28

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Brazil

Latters,

Registration,

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Pattern and Sample Post to dolonies and foreign countries in restricted to bond fide trade patterns or samples of merchandise

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www.

Arrangements have been made to sell American Stamps at this Office, for the

Eonally or accompanied by a note,

Lata. Papu.

For Merchant Ships.

John Midleton John Milton

Kenid

Abbey Cowper 1

Adda

Alden Besse Anglo Saxon Angostura East Boysenaar Antioch Antwerp ArabellaTM

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Correspondence for New Zealand may be forwarded via Torres Straits when specially directed for that route, otherwise it will be sent by way of Galle.

Catherstone

Charles Morean

Leading Wind Letty Grales

Loiterer

Lets. Fape. 1-regd.

16

&

1 2

1

1

1

1 Lord Macaulay 5

Louise

Madanzar, 8.8. Maggie Douglas 1 Maid Morgan Maipi

Mary Whitridge

Matago

MoNear

10

8

Nautilus

Neuerel Baptain 1

2

Charlie Palmer 1 Charlotte An-

Orange Grove

1

Palestine

Panola

1

1.

Paraguay, 8.8. Peeress Penrith

8

14

+3

Peroludo

drewe Christian

McAnsland City of Berlin Connaught

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2 —Small sums may be remitted between the other Ports by means of Postage Denbighshire Stamps.

2 Pilgrim

Folynesia

1

4 1 Pride of the Waer 2

1 Prince of Wales 1

Dale, 8.5. Daphne Davena

6

* Redive

3(1rg.)Rhoda

1

1

E. P. Bouveric. 4 Edward Albroth Edward May 1 Elizabeth Dougall Elizabeth `-

Nicholson

Elliotts

Felicetas Fhil

Florence Fortitudo

1

Robert Hendersoni Rohtan

Rotterdam

Roving Sailor

......

1 Saint Joseph

2 Sapphire

Sarah Nicholson 1

1

Scawfell

1

Signal

1 Soeka

3.-Many Money Orders are supplied to residents at the smaller Ports in this way, An application for an order is filled up, and le enclosed with a stamped, directed, and unsealed envelope to the Postmaster at the nearest inning office. The application must be accompanied with the full amount (including commission) In cheque, postage stamps, or other equivalent of cash, and a little margin should be left for variations of exchange.The Postmaster issues the order, ends it on in the envelope, and returna the change, if any, by first oppor-Gretennio tunity, with a receipt for the latter, if it George Croshaw I were to be registered, as it always should Gimana 1 be. Cars should be taken to send those Goe Crow Shan 1 applications in time, as the Money Order Offices close some hours before the depar- Harbinger tures of the malls,

Hibernia, B.B. 4. No order must exceed £10, or in. Hopa clude any fraction of a penny. Orders will be drawn at the current rate of the day+ Ida F. Taylor 1 and paid at the rate of the day when the J. D. Feters advice arrived.

-.

The commission is as follows :-

Orders on the United Kingdom, Tp to £2... 18 cents.

1

Sir Robert Parkes I

1

Spirit of the Age 2

Siar of China

Star of Jamaica 19

Sunbeara

Syrings

Unanima

Veradis Ville de Lille

Wm. Phillips

Yorkshire

1 William Fruing · 1

For H. M. Ships.

#1

Lets, Pap.

$10...... 72.

27

Obery baie Juno Magpie Modeste

Bylvia

Tamar

Local Money Orders. Up to $2515 cents. 60............80

5.--Lists of Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom may be consulted at Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yokohama.

6.Names must be given in full (expect when there is more than one Christian name) but the name of the Payee need not be given if the order be crossed (as cheques are crossed). It can then be paid only through a Bank, and may afterwards be specially crossed to any Bank.

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8f the order be not presented within six months an additional commission will be charged; If not within twelve months, the money will be forfeited. When the order is onda paid no further claim can be entertained."

-No order ban be paid until the advice relative to it has been received.

Made out on a printed form which is supplied

gratis.

Orders on Shanghal are drawn at 3 per cent,

premium in all cauer,

2

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Lots, Pays.

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Books, ete, without Gavers.

Bain Brothers & Co., p... Cassell's Magazine. Der Freischütz.

Dia Gartelando. Echo da Periment. Engineer, The Field, 81st March.

Figaro,

Gaceta de Medrid,

Graphic, 14th April.

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Voczuge PreiscouIRUŽ,

Newchwang

Manila

8 cmith

Honolulu London

Hannah Law

Helena

3c3now

Amer. bye.

Melbourne & Sydney

Hieronymus

4k Biehl

Ger. bge.

Highlander

5 b Hutchinson

Amer. b.

1862 May 13 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co.

New York

Destination,

Vessel's Name,

THE CHINA MAIL.

Merchant Vessels in Hongkong Harbour.

Exclusive of late Arrivals and Departures reported to-day,

To facilitate finding the position of any vessel in the Harbour, the Anchorage is divided into eight Seations, commencing at Green Island. Veutels near the Hongkong shore are marked ., near the Kowloong shore ky and those in the body of the Shipping or midway between each shore are marked c., in conjunction with the figuras denoting the neations, Section?

1. From Green Island to the Gas Work

2. From Gas Works to the Novelty Iron Worko,

3. From Novelty Iron Works to the Barbour Master's Office.

4. From Harbour Master's to the P. and O. Co.'s Office.

| Section

5. From P. and O. Co.'s Office to Peddar's Whart. 6. From Peddar's Wharf to the Naval Yard.

7. From Naval Yard to the Pier.

8. From Plar to East Point,

Captain.

Flag and Rig.

Tons.

Date of Arrival.

Consignees or Agents:

HONGKONG MARKET PRICES. Corrected to Saturday, June 2, 1877, At 1110 Cash per Dallas Méxican,

Butcher Mest. Bacon, English,. Ib.

PRIOR Highvel, Lotaśki, Omah. USIN

No. 4343.-Just 2, 1877.

Carrots, Fresh, English cathy

Celery, Ohluese,

Celery, English, Cucumbers,

Chillen, Dried,

截

cafty

Beef, sirloin and prime cut, cy, 160 150 Egg Plant, Van Beef Corned,

160 140 Garlis, (bulb) dried,

osity

40

80

40

Mixed,

Ame, Sugar oured Foochow,

#

450 400 300 260 Indian Corn,

"

13

Rod,

ench

12

160 140 Curry Stuff,- English,

catty

-30

40

Roast

150, 140 Ginger,

80

Soup,

100 90

33

Greens, White

10

Steak,

160-180

13

Remarks,

19

雎

Winter courte

20

Bullocks Brains,

·

por sot

60. 50

"

Tongue, fresh, each

...276. 250

corned..

Steamers

[J

21

Bowen

...Miller

Brit,

Btr.

Oyphrones

4 h Wood

Brit.

sty

Danube

Olanchy

Brit,

str

661 May 21 Yuen Fat Hong

Diomed

5 c Fackson

Brit,

str.

844 May 29 Gibb, Livingston & Co.

1279 May 24 Gibb, Livingston & Co.

1241 June 1 Butterfield & Swire

Foochow

Salgon

Ab'deen Dock {To-morrow

Head,

31

Bangkok

Sands' Slip

Heart,

**

Amoy & Shanghai

at daylight

"

Hump, Salt

820 300

"Horse Radish," S'hal,

Lettuce, Chinens

600 500 Mint,

150 140 Mushroom, dried,

110 100 Onions, Bembay

500 250

·80 20

|8 | | 118 118885128&

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English,

head

10

banch

16 10

·

catty

750 680

60 50

IT

Douglas

Dunar Feronia

5 bị Pitraan

Brit,

atr.

861 June

1Douglas Lapraik & Co.

Coast Porte

&h Steele

Brit,

str.

852 May

23 Gilman & Co.

""

Feet,

50 40

Green

30 20

$1

12

4 c3chultz

Ger,

str. 1086 Mag

29 Wm. Paatan & Co.

Swatow

4th Inst.

Galley of Lorne

4 b MacDonald

¡Brit

str. 1989 May

Gordon Castle

5 h Jones

Brit

str. 1312 June

Mecca

8 b Johanon

Brit.

atr.

687 June

Niogpo

5 са

Norna

Walker

Brit,

Ocean

...Jaques

Brit.

Brit., str. str. atc.

761 June

2 Siemen & Co.

606 May 27 Kwok Acheong

Jardine, Matheson & Co.

1Adamson, Bell & Co.

1 Hop Kee & Co.

Swatow

**

Kidneys, Tail,

60

•

100

13

50 Parsley, Chinese, English,

80

60

bunch 10

5

··Liver,..

catty

08

60 Potatoes, Msono,

catty

30

Bunda

5 Reeves

Brit.

971 May 19 Jardine, Matheson & Co. str. 1019 May 29 P. & O. 8. N. Co.

Straite Settlements

Yokohama

Thales

Coles

¡Brit.

str,

Yottung

2 b Hawkins

Brit

str.

820 May 29 Douglas Lapraik & Co. $24 June 9 Kwok Acheong

PLDÜMBLUE24246) ·

Cos'tan Dook Kloong Dook Malla Kloong Dook |Repairing

"

Trips (undressed), catty 50×40

Calves' Head and Feet, set

500 400

Hams, American,

•

Ib.

Ühinese,.

1

#2

English.

Mutton Chop,

Halling Vessela

A. E. Vidal

18 Schreiker

Ger.

bqe.

Adela

4 Beattie

Brit. bqe.

420 May 29 Wialer & Co. 354 May

8:Eduard Schellbass & Co.

Anguste

4k Thomson

Brit. 3m.80.

210 May 17 Meyer & Co.

Ber:ha

4 c Ringe

Ger. bqe.

442 May 31 Wieler & Co.

Causan

8 Manson

¡Brit. sb.

840 May 21 Order

Capells

...Andersson

Swed, bqe.

307 May 25 Order

1180

800 280 Pumpkins,

170 Radishes, 860 340 Scallions, 190 180 Shalota,

190 180 Sasamm,

140 130 Spinach,

180 120

50 Squash, bottle

Californian, Sweet,

"

11

1

.20

Common

Carrloke

18 Carr

Brit, bqe.

916 May 10 Russell & Co.

Caurs

4 kTblemen

Ger. bge.

Chamrou Kamrys

2 b Möller

Siam, bqe.

Cheng Soon

2 b Cheng Bang

Siam. Boh.

Fifeshtre

Chinaman

Dauphine

Fleetwing

7 b McKenzie

Brit. bqe.

8 Lelionnais

2 & Ness

Fch. Brit

bg.

sh.

3 Guest

Formosa

8 Hyland

Brit, bqe.

Formosa

3 Schweer

Ger, bqe.

Gaston Auger

7 c Gaillard

Foh. bge

Glamin

Gryfe

Barriet N. Carlton

Hannah & Mary

Key

18 cRoberts

...Harknes

...Greig

Amer. sh.

689 May 21 Wm. Pustan & Co.

430 May 25 Kin-tye-loong

200 April 80 Chinese

690 May 21 Douglas Lapralk & Co.

760 May 24 Order

829 May 7 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co.

916 May 20 Arnhold, Karberg & Co.

282 May 20 Melchers & Co.

301 May 22 Adamson, Bell & Co.

Brit. bqe. 1150 May 21 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co. Brit.

sh. 1068 May 24 Douglas Lapralk & Co. Amer, bqo. 872 May 29 Russell & Co.

306 May 8 Arnhold, Karberg & Co. Brit, bqa Brit, sh. 1200 April 28 P. & 0. 6. N. 06.

603 May 4 Arnhold, Karberg & Co. 425 May 24 Wieler & Co,

New York

Foochow Yokohama

* Fry,.

110 100 | Tomatoes,

827 May 28 Order

* Heart,

Kidneys,

Newchwang

82 88 - 588 * * * 5 * * 8 SES

25

80

120 100

25 20

20

80 50

20 16

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#

#

Log, Shoulder,

A

12

Liver,

都

Ab'dean Dook Piga' Chltlings, Wanchal Pier

catty

60

"

Fort,

..

100.90 | Faro (V. Tan) |

U

"

Hood,

90

ench

60

50

Bu Turnips, Salt,

Chinese

catty

+

18

80 70 Vegetable Marrow,

» Idver, Pork, Chop,

ib.

100

83 Water Elly Roots,

• Catty

160 140 Water Orena,

bunch

· Corned,

180 120 Yama

Batty

#

Leg,

150 140

#

Fraits,

Cos'tan Dook

K'loong Dock

??

Fat or Lard, Sheeps' Head, and Fest, set

·

"K

110 100 Aleurites,

catty

80

340 820 Apples, Rose,

170

33

19

Hearty

. Dinh

50 40

Californian,

250

JJ

Kidneys,

80

Bucking Pigs,

"

70 Bananas, fragrant Pantly, 1750 100 Chestnuts, old,

30

120

"1

HougYong

8k Oom

Ger. 8m. 10.

Hope

7 b1Boulton

Brit, bqe.

404 May 25 Douglas Lapraik & Co.

208 May 20 Arnhold, Kazberg & Co.

Focɑhow

Hydra

Iraru

Brit. bge. 827 May

Iris

Japan

8 kWalter

Idvingstone

Loiterar

3 Masek Bb

Lydia

Madora

sh.

Brit. bqe.

970 May 11 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co. 447 May 24 Order

Brit

sh,

Novelty

0

Presto

Rhoda

Ger. Brit.

Obristian

Vistory

Stehr Whiting

Ger. 3m, so. Brit. bg.

.282 May

255 June

8 Eduard Sohellbase & Co. - 2 Chinese

Tientsin Tientsin

DANTOR

Bombay

Smith

Brit.

otr. 749 May

9 P. & O. 8. N. Co...

Jacatra

Leicester

Michelle Selobati

New Era

Ross Bottcher

Rosins

Rotterdam San Lorenzo Straeturo Thomas Lord Tulloobgorum Vesta Western Chief

WHAMPOA

4 c Dest

4

Pearce

4dRuler

8 Dirksen

8 Laddy

... Toungeon

8 'Stanton

4 Gerstenberg

Sawyer

4. d Colliver

4 o Laidman

4kVincent

S kiiobulize

181 Hansen

8 Dik

id o Mudareaga 8 Millar 3 c Hall

Mason s.1 Dirks.......

18 1. Hower

Ger. bge, 785 Mar, 27 Siemaren & Captain 25 Douglas Laprak & Co.

Ger, bra. 506 May

Dut.

bg. 837 May

Ger.3m.no.

Brit.

18 Arnhold, Karborg & Co. 25 Russell & Co.

270 May 26 siemssen & Co.

sh. 1809 May 24 Order

29 Siemssen & Co.

Ger, bqe. 630 May

Amer, sch.

45 Aug 13 Insurance Con

Brit, bqe. 370 May 19 Urder Brit.

1060 April 26 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co. Bat. bge. 375 May 17 Rozario & Co.

Brit. bye, 384 May 17 Master

Bdt, bqe. 252 May 24 Ohineso

Ger, boa. 898 May 21 Wm, Pustau & Co.

406 Feb. 28 Arnhold, Karborg & Co. A. 8m. no. Dat bqe. 760 May 251elobers & Co. Span. bg. 230 May 23 Remedios & Co. Brit. sh. 1109 May 18 Russell & Co. Amor. sh. 1316 Apel 12 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co. Brit.3m.so. 175 April 20 Wieler & Co.

bqa. 302 June 1 Melchers & Co. sh. 750 May 26 Meyer & Co.

San Francisco New York Haiphong Tlantain

Jardine's Slip

Fish, Wanchai Pier Bombay Ducks, new per hundred 350 800

Callao

Toal,

Свропи,

Ducks,

140 '120] Coconut

Foultry.

Opranta,

eatly

250 250

Egge, Han

cafty

dos. -100

120 110 Dates,

each botile Ib. .bottle

60

400 850

200:160

500 400

| Figs, Dziad,

500

Dack

100

Balt

120

>

-Ground Nuta,

Lemons,

eatty

159

McD.'s Silp

Foris,

catty

180 160

25

Green,

100 90

"

San Francisco

Geese,

Touron

120 110 Lshoes, Dried,

200 180

New York

Partridges,

Back

350 800

Green,..

50 40

Melbourne & Sydney

Pheasants, Canton,

pair

$1.80 Loong Ngan, Dzied,

50% 400

Pigeons, i

esch

150 140 Mangoes,

ΤΟ each

Rajang (Borneo)

Quail,

-130

Anamo,

80

Rabbits,

8o0 500

37

Canton, green, catty

70

Teal,

11

400 960 Mangosteen,

each

20

#1

Turkeys, Cook, Hon,

osity

"

800 705 Musk Melons, -500 450 Olves, green, Panti, catty

·40

1#

Oranges, (Coolle) Chang

120 110

#

" (Mand.) coolie

200

Bream, Carp,

Codfish, Salt,

Crabs,

*

catty 70

60 Papaw,

150 130

881818888888888 119 12

80

60

140

50

25

80

17

70 | Peaches, Sweet,

100

80

1b.

160 150 Pears, Nanking,

140 120

*

catty

250. 140

Punti,

60

40

"

Dace,

Cattle Fish,

Eels, Congor

100

80 Pineapples, Punti

each

60

50

90

70 Plantains, cominon

catty

30.20

70

60

fragrant

40 80

Yellow

120

Pluma, Dark-red,

50

♫

File Fish,

60 50

Yellow,

Fresh Fish, Large

180 120

13

Greon,

40

80

Men-of-war in Hongkong Harbour,

Small

"

Frogt,

Garoupa,

80 70 Prunes, Dried,

200 160 Pameloes or Shaddock, Canton, ea. 100

180 160 Raisins, Muscatel, bottle 750 600

bottle 800 250

80

Date of

Vestels Name.

Anchor

age.

Flag.

Olass.

Tons.

Guns.

EL. P.

Commander.

Herrings,

33

100

80

E

lb.

200 180

·

Arrival

smoked

box.

13.

$2.00

Ashuelot

◊

American

corvette

1037

k

700

May 16

Gao. H. Perkins

Labrua,

calty

120

Salisbury Seeds, Pak-kwo, catty Sugar Cane,

70

50

į stick

60

80

Obarybdis

20 British

corvette

1506

17

400

April 5

T. E. Smith

Live Fish,

140 120 Tamarinda,

"J

catty

60

Curlew

Hart

6 b British gun vessel

6 h British guu vessel

774

3

180 May

4

E. J. Church

Lobster,

130 120 Walnuts,

110 100

465

4

120 May 6

H. N. Hood

Juno

7 h. British

corvette

1462

#

400 May 15

A. H Boldero

Ling Fing

Magpie

Мерадее Modesto

6 h Chinese

gunboat

354

2

09

June 1

7 h British

gun vessel

774

B

160 May 28

J. Farrow

Charles Vernon Anson

Mackerel, Mango Flah,

120

100

Water Chesnuts, Canton „,

Miscellaneous.

60 50

Mallet,

90

70 Allspice, Chinese.

bottle

200

8. k

British

military hospital

2691

6 A

British

oorvette

1405

14

Moorhen

6 h

British

gunboat

420

Patino

K.D. Spanish

transport

1200

350 April 18 60 May 28 Feb. 23

Alex. Buller, C.B, John Hope Rapallo

Oysters,

140. 180

12

English.

750 500

11

Victor Emanuel

6 0

British

Commodore's flag-ship! 3097

Commodore Watson

Parrot Fish, Feroh, Pomfret,

180 103 Barley,

⚫ ploul

1600 1800

80

"

70 Bran,

ploni

1500 1600

190 140 Butter,

Tb.

000 500

25

Black

100

15

HONGKONG, MACAO AND CANTON RIVER

CHINESE GUN-VESSELS IN CANTON

Prawns,

90 | Candied Orange Posl, . bottle 200 160

750 700

13

Lamon

.760 700

#

STEAMERS.

WATERS, &c.

Name.

Tons.

Captain.

Owners.

Name.

Tons. Guns.

E. P.

Commander.

Ray, Book Fish, Salmon, Canton,

70 Capers,

25

90

80 Charcoal,

260 220 pical 1080 (2000)

100

Fatte Fai Watt Tchang

Kin Shau

117 Stopani

700 467 Cary

E. & W'pon Dock Co.

Capt. Sands

Martin

Butterfield and Swire

An-lan Chen-jui Ühing-po

431 7

J. Godell

28

1

E. F. Collins

Salt Fiah,. Shark, young

Shrimps

20 Chisesa, American,

120 100 Clauamun,

. 15.

400 360

catty

200 250

70.00 Citros,

100 180

#

100

90 Clove

2

#

700 800

160

Wan Lum Wan

-H., C. & M. S.-boat Co. || Ching-alog

E. Choy

Skate, Enapper,

250 200 Cosannut Oil,

. bottle

180 150

Kini Kiang

617 Benning, T. H., O. & M. 8.-boat Co. Chun-hal

290

6

Lintfa

69

Kwok Acheong

Peng-chou-bai

600.

A. Fry

Foran

1890 Lefevre

H., C. & M. S.-boat Co. Quong.on

180

Bada

37

P.&O. 8. N. Co.

Shen-chi

160

Sir J. Josjoobhoy

101

Kwok Acheong

But-telug

Spark

140 Hoyland

White Cloud

280 Benning, A.

180 Browns

·H,, C. & M. Š..boat Co. | Tebing-tsing H., C. & M. 8.-boat Co. Tien-po Kwok Ashtong

180

180

LA Ping Tye

H. Wade

Stewart

Bezsard

O. De Longueville

Snipe Fish, Soles, Fresh Tench, Turtles, Small, White Balty

11

100

100

100 80 Flouty-

120 110 Coffee,

Curry Powden Firewood,

. lb.

280 200

bottle

500 250

pical

400 880

850 300 Gram

⚫ pleul 8000 2750

BO

50 Isinglan

pkgo

700

Wing po

800

W SHIPPING IN PORT

May 18, 1877.

Fleurs Castle Glenea£t Lady Bowen, *Namos

SERURANT STRASIEËS:

MERŐHANİ ŞİKAŽKÉS

Fully and

Chines

Glaucus

British

*Olympia

Wm. Manson

for London for London for Shanghai for Hongkong for Hongkong Britten barque

Ta-you-fung Ting Ting

Lam Man Wo

Vegetables.

Asparagus, Bamboo Shoots,

Tim

catty

190 100 Maco,

Beans, sprout,

Amerant Chinese

Broad,

*Gtralios

British

H. C. Orated

Danish

Has-big

Chioske

B. Ayar

Haining

Bath

Hopefill

Flonas

Obinete

Klang ab

Chillesb

SHIPPING IN SHANGHAI HARBOUR. Faukong

May 26, 1877.

Nanking

Atheritan

British

Ping.

Bush

Scindia

-British

MERUKANT STEAMERS.

Shanchal

British

AVA

Obip.s4 Traneots /

French

Tabyer

Chines

Chinese

Hiengh

Bizues left port, or arziyad at Henghorn,

Kestrel

Robel

MURUHANİ SAILING VERSULA.

Join Nicholson Kenia Bank Potilne Utilos Windhover,

Atherisan barque British Bhoonet Befklah ship British alip British schooner British barque British ship HEN-OF-WAR.

H. M. günbest

Realen gunboat

Best Hont, Bitter Shanth, Brazalem,

Dabange, Common,

Hongkong,, each.

Turnip, Bohl each

redfor pikkiing »

Long.

esth

French from Mamo „y”.

450 | 200| Macaroni,

2014 Mango Chutasy,

Mustard,

40 Nutmeg,

80 Olives,

Paddy

Lamp Oll,

catty

80

80

box catly

1035 1000

750

bortia

"

sash

catty

鶼

(ground)

bottle .pleni

1600 1600

Pearl Batley, 15 ►

eatty

270220

bottle

250 200

600 BOD

180 160 108

250 200-

bottle 280 180

80 40

Pepper (whole)

W. QUICKT, Acting Inspector of Markets,

Printed and published by Gao, MURRAT

at the China Mall Olles, No.

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