1877-06-23 — Page 5

No 4361.-JUNE 23, 1877.]

Police Intelligence. (Before James Rusrell, Esq.) June 23, 1877.

MENDICANCY.

Chun Asang, a coolic, was arrested by He usual fortnightly Entertainment will order of Mr MaoEnen for begging in the The defendant, however, turned street ie given at the Temperance Hall on Mou-out to be no beggar, but was engaged in lay evening next, commencing at past 8; picking up old papers in the street. Dis admission being free as hitherto, The pro- charged gramme is as follows:-

1-Piano Solo, Overture, "Il Turco in

Italla. "

* Song.

3-Song, "Come to the Window, Nellle." 4-Violin Bolo, "The Carnival of Venice." 5-Beding 6-Song, Be kind to Mother when I'm

Bono,"

7-Reading, "How he pitied the poor

blind,"

8-Piano Solo.

9-Song, "My old Kentucky home." 10--Reading, 11--Hornpipo. 12-Song, "The Stage-struck Hero,"

ASSAULT.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Knowing, however, that things that one le not accustomed to are apt to cause sus pision to spring into existence, the Taotai now issues this proclamation, with the contents of which he expsote the entire military and civilian population under his charge to make themselves acquainted. Be it now known to you that the scheme for the formation of telegraphs between the north and south of Formosa has already received the Imperial ganction; that it James Moquigan, Private, No. 583, of to be entirely in the hands of the local H. M. 28th Regiment, was charged by Chinese officials; that it will not have the Lam Ahip, a money-changer at Queen's alightest prejudicial effect on the people, Road Central. The defendant went to buy but will rather bring advantage to them; some tobacco at the money changer's, and and that such persons as, not caring for the the quarrel arose from a dispute as to pay security of the telegraphs, will wantonly ment. The complainant claimed that the obstruct them, or will secretly steal the defendant had not paid enough, while the materials, will assuredly, when discovered, defendant aorted that he had paid too be at boas arrested and punished. Not the much. The one complained that the sol- slightest forbearance will be extended to dier struck him with a stick which out his them. Give heed herato! Very import head, and the other urged that the money.ant! A special proclamation !

23rd May, 1877. changer struck him first with an abacus. The defendant was fined $2. Lieutenant Buckle attended to give the defendant a good charseter

AN INCONVENIENT DISPUTE. Yuen Aking, a nook, was charged by Mr

$31 already for the month.

When he came

He

FROM SWATOW TO CANTON. (Continued.)

a

Descending the pass on the other side we found ourselves for some miles moving in valley of paddy fields and mud cottages alongside a tributary of the river for which

We had seen these

two inches too low; and this following on

In the event of a Russian blockade of Port

3rd.We now found ourselves much more the Dues as heretofore at their own arbitrary THE Hmane Society turned out for rocket / to be killed. Therefore, saith Yow Shan, able to interruption; and, although courierty of Buckinghamshire. That establishment practiqthis evening at five o'clock. They though his body grows in an extraordinary stations have been established along the was pulled by the singular name of the Five comfortable that we had hitherto heen. The estimato. Another matter upon which the manner, his head remains as it was-the roads, the transmission of new continues Alls, which was most obligingly explained bost did not rook about, and we were able Maritime world feels that it has not been took a position on the plece of open unfortunate dog having absorbed all the nevertheless to lack the quality of rapidity. to to by a hit-tipsy reveller at the bar who to spread ourselves out. Our captain, too, fairly dealt with is the non-restitution by groundbeyond the Pier and endeavoured element of growth from that quartor. Having had the honour to learn that sandfold the he was a native of the place. "You was an exceedingly pleasant old fellow, and the company of the excess Dues levied bo- It may be remembered that one of the to me a connection with a sobooner. His feet and hands are enormous, while his ton has been given by the Throne to a 500 caid he, "the king governs all, the we should have been tempted to call him an tween the 1st July, 1872, and the 28th

arms, though unusually long, are by no proposal by Governor Ting for the forma soldier fights for all, the parsof prays for honest-looking man but for the caustis April, 1874.

Bret questions taken into consideration by "Honesty is another name for imbecility." The fat rocket fell wide of the mark, means strong in proportion. However much tion of telegraphe iu Foriosa, the entire all, the doctor heals us all, and the lawyer saying that

Lao shih shih wu yung piel ming the commission was the legality or other- A wise of the method of charging upon, the few of the giant's autobiography may be admit-subeme of which is to be curled into effect cheats us all. And so they calls this house but be second went within a

ted as true, Yow Shan certainly presents by the Chinese authorities themselves alone the Five Alls, and I should be much pleased,

gress tonnage, and that the commission feet & ber bowsprit. After consultation the appearance of a giant in whom there is (and even the mechanics to be employed Six, to join my friend Bill here in drinking and each is truly the case in China. It w decided to put the line on board much room for improvement; and if, as is are to be Chinese subjects) the Tastal has your very good health." No bread, no smart, elever servant invariably makes a and through the manoeuvres, but it was probable, he succeed in growing himself into despatched officers to survey a route be cheese, no boer, satisfied the craving stomach good thing out of the master he serves so composed partly of eminent jurists) unani- amatured and perfect colossus, he will between the Prefectural City and Takow, at this Half-way House, separated by ten-well. The open-faced, simple-minded boy mously decided that it was neither legal nor the found that the hauling line was much one of the most remarkable physical develop between which will be the first line. This thousand miles of sea and sky from that; who blushingly limits his commission to five warranted by the company'a concession. too hort and so that even if the connection ments of the age. That a reasonable amount will be continued to other places, and see neither found we here any uproarions Bac or at most ten per cent, anu never ba brokon This view was aubsequently distinctly er- of pains are being taken to attain this end tions will be put up in the future as chanalian to amuse us with his dranken wit. of handing round spinach with oyster patties pressed by the preacat Secretary of Foreign From a legal hacbeen made in the regular manner they is apparent from the fact that, sickly as he required. As intelligence of importance The coolies settled themselves down to their and calling his mistress "Sir. We must Affairs. Yet in spite of this the company. cord not have proceeded further with the is at present, he daily consumes a bucketfal will be transmittable in a few seconds, and rice and fat pork and sweet potatoes, most take the long with the short-I chang puhas steadily refused to repay the amounts dri." It is as well those defects are dis of rice which would tax the digestive powers as mercantile men who may wish to com- of them finishing up with a whiff of the tuan, some prefer the one typo, some the thus improperly extorted."

mualeste news will also be able to send invigorating opiam-pipe. We walked on other. But we are fast gliding past Lung point of view their liability cannot be open to of several ordinary men.

mehages along the wire from such places akoad, vainly hoping to escape the little ohou without paying proper attention to its doubt. These sums, it should be remarked, covred before the apparatus is really

and at such times as they may please, both crowd and take a quiet lunch in peace, pagodas and a particularly quiet and peace- were all paid under protest, and the reason reaired for use; at the same tima we think

officials and people will, it is presumed, be But the people would not hear of it; they ful-looking temple on the river bank. The why no steps have been taken to enforce the benefited,

determined to interview us, and closely fol- scenery is pretty, though not equal to what claims is attributable less to any misgiving tht the members would do well to try a

lowed at our heels. Finally we scrambled we have seen already. The river widens. es to their validity than to the want of a shrtor range, as we may suppose that

up a steep piece of rook, and there, partly Every now and then we stick on a mud- complete tribunal in which to enforce them.. vssels requiring their help will most

hidden by a large tree and partly by our bank and wish it would deepen. But the This difficulty, however, no longer exists, Ikely be aground.

own umbrella, we managed to bolt three current is in our favour; we have no longer sinoa the establishment of the new Interna hard-boiled eggs, a piece of seed-cake, and to nontest every foot of the way, and it is tional Tribunals, which, however incapable half a tumbler of sherry. On we went pleasant to be quit of the shrieks of strug- of dealing with matters relating to the tioned jurisdiction over the Caual Company. again, up hill and down dale, but always gling bontmen. So we give up the day to Government, are daily exercising unques 4th-Which reminds us that a Chinaman There is, I am informed, an association of along an excellent road which left nothing to the uninterrupted luxury of-thought. desire. Houses became more numerous and of more extensive proportions. They were placed in the same position as ourselves Shipowners formed for the purpose of trying all built in fhe form of a square with a small would infallibly have spent his leisure hours a representative case, which will settle the courtyard in the middle, but not a single win in eleep, in spite of the Confucian fulmen question once for all; and it only requiros Should one case be decided against dow or opening of any kind in the outer walls against persons who eo indulge during the the support of a sufficient number of the except one entrance protected always by a day-time."Rotten wood," said the master, parties interested to bring about a successful most substantial looking door. This told its cannot be garved "Hiiu mu puh k'o tiao result. ewn tale; and in the plan of theso detached yek-when his attention was called to a the company, and it is hard to see how and often solitary homesteads we read many sleeper who should have been employing it can be otherwise, the amounts to be a melancholy tale of sacked houses, murdered himself more profitably in some other way. refunded will be such as to seriously families, and scattered household gods. It is marvellous how Chinamen esem to have affect the financial position of the com- Another strange phenomenon here presented acquired a power of sleep. Not only oan pasy, at all events, for a time. In oonai- itself for solution-a suddenly and largely they go straight through the night with dering the position of M. de Lesseps under- increased percentage of beggars. Ever on gongs and firo-crackers clanging and bang- taking from a monetary point of view, the the watch to discover the real standard of ing all round them; but at any given obligation imposed on the company by material prosperity now enjoyed by the moment in the day they have only to shut Colonel Stoke's convention to spend a million people of China, we had kept a careful their eyes and they are sound asleep within of franes a year for improvements must not account of the beggars seen with our own two minutes. We do not remember ever to be lost sight of. The most important of the eyes between Swatow and the furthest point have seon a Chinaman occupied in solid additional works, viz., the enlargement of we had reached by water, namely Chien-chi, thought. If not reading, writing, walking, the Harbour of Port Said, is, I believe, in including our visit to the city of Kia-ying eating, smoking, or chopping wood, he is immediate contemplation, and the occupants GIANTS IN THESE DAYS,

Chou. So far the number had amounted to quite sure to be enjoying a comfortable nap, of the land to be dredged away received Many of our readers both here and at home may remember the great giant Chang, who, Win. Keller, an employs at the East Point

only five. The people of Kia-ying Chou Honce, perhaps, the stately utterance of notices to quit on the 31st of March last, and its vicinity appeared indeed to be Confucius that "Learning without thought With reference to the other works, viz., the having descended upon us from the North- Distillery, under the following er

miserably poor; but, poverty and starvation is labour loat-Heio erh puh se iseh wung revetting the banks with stone, the enlarge. oes. The complainant stated that yester

we were steering our course. In some places are not synonyms, and what we saw of the warning his countrymen that they must ment of the sidings, &o., upon the promise ern Provinces of China, proceeded to make a

day at 3 o'clock the defendant came to him the bed of the stream was very wide, though city supplied us only with a single example not only continue to acquire knowledge but of which the prolongation of the surtax was tour of the world, exhibiting here his gigan- and said he wanted money for ** chow." tie baik and 12-foot bedstead-ero he moved The complainant told him that he had no rocent drought had reduced the actual flow of the "rice-seeker" (Cao-fan-tech). It was digest and arrange the Knowledge they have agreed to-it is to be hoped that a proper time, but that he was to get chow and that of water to its narrowest limits. However after passing the temple of Han Wen-kung, already acquired. But we owe, and here supervision will be exercised in the interests the prospects of the Canal generally, it fa onwards to the glories of the Egyptian Hall. he would pay him to-day. A friend of at one point in the valley we had to cross a situated, by the way, exactly on the bound-offer, to our readers a very ample apology of the Shipowners, out of whose pockets the impossible to speak otherwise than favour- It is just possible that giants-like many Mir Helier's tiffned with him, and they long wooden bridge, without railing like the ary line between the districts of Chang-16 for presuming to quote from the profane expenses are to be defrayed. Considering ably. The receipts in February were 9,162,000, or half a million more than other monstrosities may be indigenous to together paid $42 for everything connected generality of Chinese bridges, and in de and, Lung-ah'uen, that we were startled pages of this benighted old pagan.e

We at first thought of dismounting from the panorama of destitution. We anlonlated this part of the world, notwithstanding that with" chow." He had paid the defendant middle about fifty feet from the ground, from a dream of full stomachs by an endless 1-Shanghai Courier.

THE SUEZ CANAL..

during the corresponding period of last ALEXANDEIA, April 30.

year; and there is but little doubt that the the average height of the Celestiala is con-homme last night at 6.80, he saw the knives hair and finding our own way across, but that in the last twelve miles of our journey esah) in width, and did not seem at all and yet throughout the eleven or twelve

As already announced by telegraph, the new fresh water canal uniting Caire with siderably under that of most foreign ross, and forks but no dinner, and the boy told the bridge was six planks (about a foot we met ons beggar to every hundred yards, him that the cook had gone away. formidable at the shore end. Neither should miles of road which led from Ching-chi to The legends, folk-lore and fiction of China went to the kitchen and found everything we, more or less accustomed by this time to the temple we had not seen a solitary one; long promised modification of the Suez Canal Ismailia will bring a considerable amount of would certainly favour this theory, revelling was cleaned away. The morning the com- dizzy heights, have experienced any dis- It was still a problem to as when the chair. Dues has at last become a reality, and since additional traffic from the interior. At the surtax of only 231 in lieu of well as the financial aspect of the Canal as they do in representations of overgrown plainant went to No. 1 Station and made a comfort even at the highest elevation, had coolies put on a sudden sport, hurried the 15th inst., vessels pay, in addition to pressat moment, however, the political

report. He had no dinner last night, and not a string of coolies carrying large mat through the busy town of Lac-lung, and the 10% o tom, figures of men, who, on the ground of sheer no breakfast this morning. The pots and packages calmly started to meet us from the put us on board a large passenger-boat the 3f a ton formerly, exacted. There is promises to become a matter of considerable strength and enormous size, work their own pane in the kitchen belonged to the mother end when we were about one-third which was there awaiting our arrival. The little or no doubt that, had the tariff rested importance, and it may not unlikely give sweet will upon all around them. In actual plaivant,

The defendant said he agreed with the of the way across,

roduction ought strictly speaking to have life also we ever and anon find the raw ma- compradors to supply the how for $42 wretches on the opposite side and had given st thing we did was to core into violent on, the basis fixed by the International rise to some interesting questions of Interi

our chair had passed the bridge before the fatiguing land journey just accomplished, been made some time since, when the traflio terials for practically illustrating what these and had received $31 on account. On the them orodit for sense enough to wait until collision with the roof which was just about Commission at Constantinople in 1874, this national an

22nd he told the compradors that he had no money to "bay chow," and was told coming on themselves. Not a bit of it reduced us to a state of limpness that could first reached the prescribed limit of 2,100,000 plonsantries of the Titans might have been. The

never mind the show." Remanded till Chinaman-like they accepted the risk, only be removed by a well-star tous. As, however, this arrangement was real giant of these days, however, in some-

towards us as if it was the merest trifle The next thing we did was to gaze reproach- Colonel Stokes, it is too late to insist upon its strict falfilment; and Shipowners must in the world. And it might have been to fully at the beam which had scattered our what disappointing. He is a quiet, matter the 25th, personal bail being accepted in leaving the issue te fate; and stepped lightly Exchaw's is the best--glass of soda-water, modified by the convention entered into by of-fact, unimpassioned, and almost common-

them, sure-footed mountaineers, and pede- few remaining ideas, when lol we beheld accept with cheerfulness the small instalment strians to boot. But to us, whose youth thereon a soroll of red paper bearing the of justice now meted cut to them. looking overgrown man. He does not carry

knew no steeper or more dangerous climb usual words of weloome: a spear like a weaver's beam, nor does he

11 p.m. 22nd June, 18 7.

than the kerb-stones of Holborn Hill, and Referring to note of last evening, atmos suspended as we were between the shoulders perform any of these wonderful feats of strength which shook the earth, while they pherical indications are not reassuring; but of two fallible men fifty feet above the dry relieved the oppressed and floored the op-auggest, rather, precautionary vigilance in gravelly bed of a river with nothing but Infinite, which scant allowance we were now pressor, as of old. The romance is all observing changes during the immediate six narrow planks between us and the to reduce by just one half-to ue, indeed, shaken out of the subject by the business fatare or until the S. W. monsoon recura.

Further particulars of the calamity at the prospect was anything but reassuring, notice of "Admission Fifty cents."

At such junetures we always fancy that the This being so, it may interest our readers Leen Chow are transpiring here; including senses of seeing and hearing-especially the to record the advent of another Chinese the drowning of a military Mandarin from latter are very much intensified. The eye Goliath, by name Yow Shan, who is now this district, and confirmation of the almost seems to take in the minutest details, and the ear to note every rustle that stirs the air. holding his Court in the largest Hotel here: incredible rise of the water of the river at This may or may not be sheer imagination; at any rate the coalies approached nearer and Yow Shan, by his own account, is twenty-the narrow gorge in the hills as 31 feet.

A Missionary Gentleman and Lady, just carer in their dread march until we were temporarily relieved by seeing them put two years of age, a native of Kwangsi, comes of a well-to-do family, and is the large returned from a professional tour in the down their packages on the bridge, as we owner of a small farm. His ancestors have districts S. W. of this City, report the thought at the moment, to allow us to pass longed view of the outlandish creature in for several generatione lived in Kwangsi, but submergence of much of that portion of the them more easily, but really to get a pro- the family was originally founded in a vil-country, and their consequent inability to the chair. Our chair-bearers went on with lage called Loong Shan, in the Shantak gain access to some towns, whose gates out relaxing their pace. We grazed by the

first three or four packages, having about district of the Kwangtung Province. To were kept closed to exclude both floods of an inch to the good, the eyes of every this village the great young man returned and robbery: they, however, found the gaping coolle fixed upon us in a strong idio- last year, and he is now on a visit to some respectable classes of the people, generally, tio stare, when we saw about two yards

ahead a package which the careless owner how we excommunicated him internally friends in Hongkong. The story which the well affected.

had put down cornerwise, and against which is raising it more and more. The laudator The saving to the Peninsular and Oriental giant relates by way of explanation or apo.

Swatow.

our then accurate sense of sight told us temporis acti, otherwise known as the cele-Steam Navigation Company, alone which CAMPHOR, .. logy for his extraordinary size partakes

20th June, 1877. we must inevitably bump. We were not brated character in Gil Blas who insisted pays 160,0007 in Canal Dues annually, will | QUICKSILVER ... somewhat of the miraonious-is, in fact, Charters Fffected.-Germsa barque Tek, tongue-tied: we could have spoken when we that the peaches of his youth were finer than not be less than 6,000 or 7,000 a-year, and SALTPETRE,

first noticed it, but the recollection flashed those of his old age, is positively the rule in the Messageries, Austrian Lloyd, and other slightly "fchy" in a metaphorically as 8,000 plouls, to Tientsin, Newchwang and

back, 62 cents per picul, 821sy days; Germen across us that the bearers were Hakkas and Chine instead of being as he now is with us great Companies will, of course, benefit in well as literal sense.

6 months' aightj ....... He was not,

barque Condor, 8.600 piculs, if Chefoo to would not understand a word. To speak a rare and almost extinct species. With us proportion. Whether the general public Bank, on demand, ... be asserts, anusually big when a child; Swatow, 24 cents per pical, if Newchwang might flurry them, and would certainly no one is fool enough to wish that he had will get any advantage in the way of a while his parents and the other members of to Swatow, 28 cents per picul, 18 Isy days. flurry us; so we decided to go on, lived in the days of King Alfred or under reduction of fares and freights has yet Arrivals.-June 14, Yesso from Hong- revolving even in the short space of two the rule of Good Queen Bess. If he regrets to be seen, but, however fais may be, it is the Shan family are merely mortals of the song, Douglas from Coast Ports; 16, Condor yards the best method of escape, how to at all his existence in the whirl and rush of satisfactory to sentemplate the diminished Documentary, 6months' sight .. 4/1 most ordinary proportions. Up to the time from Ohefoe, Fel Hoo (1.1.0.M.S.) from throw ourselves over the side of the chair as the nineteenth century, it is because he rates payable in future to the gigantic Bombay, demand Rupesa,.. 289 when Yow attained his seventeenth or eigh-Hongkong, Sea Gull from wreck of Japan the chair itself was going over the side of looks ahead one or two hundred years even monopoly which, while it has facilitated the Calcutta

18, Chefco from Shanghai; 18, Lalu from the bridge, what to clutch at, and similar to a further development of the resources of Commerce of the world, has at the same Shanghal, demand, toenth year, he was a lad in no way re-Chefoo; 19, 86s, Gall from Ses, Fröhlich desperate particulars. Meanwhile, our time man and a final settlement of several un time pressed with much severity upon the markable for size or height; but here the from Kelung, Mary Blair from Nowchwang was at hand. The chair, as we had fore decided, though hardly doubtful, questions Shipping Interest. The soreness with which Bas Elver, 17, dwts, B., fich-story comes in. One day he went to 20, Ling Feng (H.I.U.M.8.) from Hongkong, een, struck-to our ears, crashed like of the day. All this time the evening has the subject is regarded by Shipowners arises Mexicans,...

Namoa froni Coast Forts, and Esperance thunder against the corner of the misplaced been ebbing fast away. We have given up not so much from a consciousness that they Gold Leat,

package. The chair shivered from one end all chance of leaving till the morning, and have been overcharged, as from the high- English Sovereigns, wash in the stream, and caught a fish that from Chefoo.

Departures.-June 14, Hornet (B.M.S) to the other, and the opolies were stopped devote ourselves to settling down. The boat handed manner in which they have in all Australian Sovereigns, ... was soaleloss, and on eating the same, he

for Amoy, Hermine for Chefoo, Douglas short, for the package was heavy and did is so large that it carries ns, servants and all questions been dealt with by the company. Discount, became violently ill and remained so for two months. When he recovered he found that he for Hongkong; 15, Yesto for Coast Ports, not yield an inch. We experienced a violent A partition in the middle leaves ample space It must be borne in mind that the alteration had made a pretty fair start in growth-was, Howeang for Shanghal 16, Norns for rash of blood to the head, over which we at our end for a sitting room and bed-room in the tarif was not the only question that like Mrs Arris, almost swelling wisibly" Hongkong; 18, Fei Hoo (OMB) for had little or no control, probably because with an imaginary Hine of demarcation was touched upon by the Commission, which

and he has made such progress ever since Amoy, Swatow for Shanghai; 19, Bes Gull the issue was so absolutely in the bands of between. Beyund these, and fenced off by also expressly provided for the mode in China Traders Ins. Co., $2,600 that he now stands & feet 3 inches in height for Hon 20, Chefco for Shanghai, and others. However, the coolies steadied them a sliding door, is the family aratory with a which the tonnage was to be ascertained and Chinese Insurance Co., $240

calves without any apparent effort; the fiend small altar in it on which already smoke setablished by a document known as the Yangtare Iss, Association, Tla, 710 He said he grew at the rate of about three Names for Hongkong Steamer: Sas Gull. Those carelessness had caused us so many various offerings of pork and vegetables by Board of Trade certificate, and which was to H, Fire Ins. Co., $570 or four inches a year, and the growth was observed to be invariably most speedy im- Sailing: Alice Mary Mary Blair, Lulu, teconds of unutterable discomfort straighten the dim light of three tiny red candles, à be. conclusive upon the point. The con- Ohina Fire Ins. Co., $150

taneously with a common and well-known the Ottoman Governinent; but, nevertheless, K. 0. M. 8.-bost co., 6.7 % dia. mediately after an attack of illness. The Frohlich, Condor, Tekli, Princess Seraphy, ed his package to a line with the others, and horrid thought. arises within us simul clusions of the Commission were adopted by H.E.W, Dook Co., 22% dis

we crossed the bridge in safety. "growing boy," indeed, is still growing, and Esperance Men-of-war: 6.1.0.1.8.

As a relief to the above scene we forth Chinese proverb. We plan a sacrilege of although the Orders of vessels using the Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tu, 29 and no one can say where or when he may stop; Chento, Ling Feng, and H.8. Nama.

with met two men sarrying a pig in a bam- the deepest dye, and the proverb guides us Canal went to the trouble and expense of Hongkong Gas Co., $75 since last year he has added two inches to

boo cage shaped like a sausage. The pig's to our prey. We want a bath-room and providing themselves with this certificate, Hongkong Mosel Co., 482) his stature; and as he is not at present in a

four legs hung down through the large that scored chamber, scene of so many heart the company persisted in re-measuring Ohinese Importai Lean, £108 very good state of health, it may be pre-

We learn that a proplamation of which meshes of the cage, and the expression on falt invocations and vows of incense for the each vessel, and in levying the Duss in Dumed that the growing energy is in full play, As compared with Chang, who was fully the following is a translation has been ex-Its face was ludicrous in the extreme. This nostrils of the spirit, seems to be marked by accordance with the results of such re-

We it say that

"Money can move the gods," developed and in the prime of life, Yow Shan is thin and unsymmetrical, though he tensively circulated in the neighbourhood the Kuang-tang provinseng pet do desilay for our own. The Chinese themselves measurement. This grievance has been Taken at Masers Feleonor & Ce."1 Frømker,

Chiến làng chúng sin may yet develop into a finely-rounded and of Takow and in South Formosa gent and that the practice will some day become general in the empire; for it is infinitely well-proportioned Titan. He is much longer rally: in the legs than Chang, but he is compare tively weak in the upper part of the body and is not by any means strong in the chest. His head is not much, if any, larger than the usual size, and this he attributes to a very peculiar incident in the fish-story above alluded to. Having thrown away the head of the fish, it was picked up and eates by's dog. The poor dog's held st once be páme so enormonily large that the day had

$10.

Canton.

Vessela in Harbour,

Formosa

Tai t'ou keen-hai.

Said being established, as is quite within see what remedy beyond that of diplomatio the bounds of possibility, it is dificult to

The Canal is necessarily a portion of tho territory of the Ottoman Empire, and, as remonstrance the other Powers would have.

notwithstanding its having been declared a such, liable to be seized by an enemy, It may not be inopportune to remark that neutral passage by the Act of Concession. this is the third time that the Dues have There is, indeed, no probability of any been changed since the opening of the Canai. hostile Power Eeing so suicidal as to inter- Joy when you raise your head, Originally fixed, and for upwards of two fere with the working of the Canal, except ours formed an excellent commentary upon (tonnenu de capacité), the tariff gave a certain though the Dues to be levied might, perhaps, and the bump we had to show on the top of years levied, at the rate of 10f the nott ton for strategic purposes of a temporary nature the text. Apropos of the relative height of amount of satisfaction, and vessels were not only he fixed, but appropriated by the Chinese and Europeans, & Chinaman in-built and contracts entered into, on the under-party for the time being in possession. It formed us only the other day that his own standing that this was to be the charge for is nevertheless difficult to believe that people were once tall and muscular, but that the future. When, therefore, M. de Lesseps England, with her command of the sese, they had sadly deteriorated in the last few suddenly raised the impost 30 per cent. by either can or will allow the Canal, in which The giants-in-those-days substituting gross for nett tonnage, the Mex- she is now so large a proprietor, to be hundred years. theory is of course common to China with cantile world naturally rose in arms and pro- seriously interfered with: Standard Coma- the rest of the world; unfortunately they tested against what seemed very like a breach spondent. have no skeletons or armour or gauntlets of of faith, The result was the appointment of the heroes of old to shew them how utterly the International Commission, at whose re- unfounded that theory is, for though Chiness commendation, notwithstanding the per civilisation may have remained stationary sistent opposition of the autocratie president for many centuries we cannot believe it has of the company, a return was made to the ever lost a position once occupied. The nett tonnage as the basis of taxation. This, ing the wounds of to-day by a reference to sign to the company to levy a temporary Chinese themselves are never tired of salv- nevertheless, was accompanied by a permis- their glorious Past. We laugh in our sleeve surtax, which, so long as it lasted, gave M. whenever we see them laying on thick de Lesseps in effect nearly all that he asked layers of the unction flattering to their souls. for, and upon this footing the matter has The present reduction of 500, though We believe that at the brightest epochs of until the last two weeks remained. Chinese history the standard of moral purity, intellectual culture, and physical comfort, small in itself amounts, it is scarcely was never higher than it is at this moment, necessary to point out, in the case of large and that every day which dawns upon China Shipowners, to a very considerable sum.

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the subject of repeated remonstrance, and the delay and annoyance thereby co casioned nitimately led to the matter being more humans than the northern system of and we determined at once to put the prace brought before the House of Commons & few PROCLAMATION 37 THE TAGIAI OF FORECSA ring the wretched animal's four feet to tical value of this saying to what we ima days ago The declaration of the Under

WITH EXFERENÇE 7 THE INTRODUC-gether and carrying it on a pole with its gined would be a crucial text, Need we Becretary for Foreign Affairs then made, THERMOMETER-9 A.M.... TIGN OF TELEGRAPAS INTO THE l bnak downwards. Shortly after this we relate the issue of our scheme? Need we that the practies would ta future be dis

reached the Half-way House, where the inform the reader that with the aid of the continued, however, has not been borne out! chair-coolies are in the habit of taking their shining, ringing, life inspiring Mexican by the facts, for up to the present moment midday meal. It reminded us of another doller, the gods were moved; and that there, the Canal Company has continued to dis- Halfway House where we had once refresh in the very Presence-chamber of the Empress regard, the certificates carried by steamar | and the Kessegeries Companies, and shergen ed ourselves with bread and cheese and mild of the Bay, were our barbarian ablutions belonging both to the Peninsular and Oriental Als while passing through the beautiful comme | performed)

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