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No. 4577-MARCH 5, 1878.]

A Gallipoli despatch says: Panio pra- valls here, in consequence of a report that the Russians are between Unuu Doprian and Keshan, ten hours' march from benos, Orders have been received from Stamboul to resist any advance. Troops are exphot- od from Smyrna and the Dardanelles.

Police Intelligence. (Before James Russell, Esq.)- March 5, 1978.

DISORDERLY.

Thomas King, an engineer unemployed, was charged with wilfully breaking a jade stone bangle at Yowmahtee whilst under the influence of liquor, He was ordered to pay $8.70, the value of the bangle, or to Gaol for seven days, and to be farther imprisoned for 21 days for the assault,

LARCENY.

GAMBLING.

LARGENY,

Chan Apul, a hawker, was sent to 2 months hard labour for stealing a jacket and a pair of trousers.

BAGE TROUBLES.

Mr John Juster, and Mr John Haraby, of Queen's Road Central, were summoned at the instance of one Francis Rangol, shopkeeper residing at No. 2 Graham Street, for assaulting him. It appears that the trouble had arisen out of a dispute about a sweepstake. The evidence, however, was so very conflicting that Mr Russell dismissed the case, and told Mr Juster there was nothing against him.

Chine.

SILANGHAI.

(News.)

A meeting of shareholders in the Shang hai and Hongkow Wharf Company was held yesterday (Feb. 28th). The report and ac- soante show a net profit of Tia. 27,967.4 dividend paid last July, at the rate of 4 per cent, absorbed Tla, 8,600; and it was decided to declare a further dividend of per cent., which will absorb Tls. 12,000. Tis. 5,000 are written off to deprociation, and Tis. 657 carried forward to new account

Messrs. Bell, Sutherland, Westall and McLeod, together with the senior repre- sentative of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company, were re-elected Directors.

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A NEW ITALIAN IRON CLAD.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

Miscellaneous.

Quotations.

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Do. of 1877, £103

it is stated, very strongly in favour of

Tan Chinese Ambassador in London in Ohinese Imperial Loan, £104.10 preserving the Woosung Hallway, and has

Temperature. himself from his Government, if they will Taken at Mars Falconer & Co.'s Promterr only consont not to remove it. even gone so far as to offer to purchase it

Queen's Road.)

A MASSACHUSETTS paper eays that on a gravestone at South Sea-brook in that she dead-are she gone is 1 left here all State in the following inscription:"Bo alone-yes, I is, cruel fate, how unkind to take she and leave I behind."

Suleiman Paska has with him at Drama 108 | educated fleas! Well, he is the originator of outside the Counall of Ministers and the curtains between the two rooms were drawn fully. I have no doubt that the fair writer bad debts. A. Chinaman' cannot like an battalions and 116 gans. *****n gras this mosquito band. He found, after a trenchant articles of rival newspapers, hava aalde, and disclosed the master of the house quite believed what she was saying that Englishman, go through some whitewash- time, that his fleas began to fall in drawing had the air of boyish escapaden. Now, and one of his two daughters standing in the Queen was frightened out of Berkshire Ing process, and, having paid his creditors not their coach, but the public so he however, politles are, beginning to be taken a brilliant glit one on each side of the by a big bird, and perhaps, when Ber one penny in the pound, emerge a free and set his braid to work to find some new up again in earnest. The des pers, though obelisk. One host then gave us a burlesque Majesty's Life comes to be written, this respected man. He must pay what he sensation. His thoughts naturally fell on sweet, is felt to be no longer in looo. The harangue on Egyptian obelisks and the story, and a host of othere quite as owes, or be for ever dishonoured. It may mosquitoes, and he started at first to train time for exclusive dedication to Christmas mysterious language of hieroglyphlos. The ridiculous, may find their way into it. It salt bianchester commission agents to en them as he had before trained fleas. Ho festivity and pantomimes and children's monument which we were then beholding is quite true, however, that a large eagle deavour to shoot the Chinese, by means of found them much more intelligent than he parties is passing away, and people are contained divers of the treasures of Egypt, was lately seen for several days together in secret commissions and adulterated goods, had expected, and the time was not far off taking seriously again to serious things bat so cunningly concealed by the magicians the neighbourhood of Windsor-that such and then to complain of the Chinese chest- for exhibiting them when a new idea struck Yesterday a quite extraordinary ferment of that land, and protected by so potent a thing was not remembered by the oldest ing them. This is all gooienos; the cheat him. Bolug continually with the little was occasioned by the publication of Lords apoll, that only those could reach the fuhabitant of those parts and that Prince ing is entirely on our side. If a Mandarin creatures be grow so accustomed to them Carnarvon's speech of the previous day to treasures who were able to solve the secret Christian and others did fire at the eagle were established in the Mansion House, and their sing-sing, that he got to know the Cape Colony deputation. In what of the hieroglyphics." His daughter than without success. But it is also true that and were to apply a bamboo to the soles of ope from another by the tone of its direction public expectation previously ran adroitly opened, one after another, several the same engle was subsequently caught in a few of our respectod financiers once a slag-sing, and the idea that struck him may be judged from the fact that his declar of the flaps in different parts of the front was, could not this difference in tone be ation of the utter unlikelihood of war with the Needle opposite to us, but closed them with the loss of ono of its fuet. In any we might attain to the standard of Chimere a trap, from which It only extricated itself week, it is possible that, after a few years, utilized in some way. The idea, as is the Russia excited as profound a sensation as if immediately, just giving un glimpses of the esso, therefore, the Queen may come back commercial morality. As it is, we fall far Way with ideas in some men's brains, grow he had declared a declaration of war Immia-peizes withic. It was then aunounced that again with an easy mind; for if the eagle short of it." ["Words, words, Horails !?? and grow till it resulted in the making and ent. It is collision between fact and anti-we were to go. in, three at a time, the be the emblem of Russia, the loss of Its-ED. O. M patenting of the mosquito baud.

elpation that gives the shook of surprise; and smallest first, and try our skill at the claw can scarcely be considered an auspi before I tell you its glorious effect.

Let me describe the nature of this band the surprise at Lord Carnarvon's balmy and bieroglyphics. Some of these bloroglyphics alous omen for the Ozar consists of twenty square wooden boxes, But even that was nothing to the sensation no cupboards to which they were "the opon gorning the Queen, possessing, I have ne benign utterances was great and general.were dummies-that is to say, there were There is another story being told con- about six inches square each way. The produced this morning by a wonderful scasme"--and it was very funny and ples-doubt, just about the same authenticity. tops of these boxes can be opened or abut leading artiole in the Daily Telegraph I saut to watch the excited impatience of the According to this legend, Her Majesty by drawing them back as may be wanted. don't think I ever remember such a com- little trots who happened to be working was deploring to Lord Beaconsfield the Li Akai, a coolfe, was sent to 14 days' Attached and at right angles to the top of motion raised by an isolated newspaper away at the wrong birds or beasts on the divergences of opinion in the Cabinet on

each box is a fine but very powerful sound utterance. People for the moment room to obelisk. hard labour for stealing vegetables.

ing-board. Inside each box is a complete be unable to talk of anything else. I am shriek of joy that he, or she, had found his, him the possibility of Ending it successors As soon as a child denoted by a the Eastern Question, and discussing with Hning wire of close network which can be sure a dozen men already have asked me or her, way to a prize, the happy discoverer for any Ministers who might secede. In quickly rotated. In each box is placed a "what I think of it." Well, what I think was marched out through another door the course of the conversation, Lord Bea- Wong Apo, a shop coolis, was fined $2 mosquito, each mosquito's sing-sing being of it is this--that, though great effects have back into the large drawing-room, where cousheld le supposed to have put a high

of for street gambling.

different tone, so that the twenty often been caused by a single word, no such the exhibition of the apoll of course stim value on Lord Carnarvon's co-operation. mosquitoes in the twenty boxes make a vehement excitement has ever before been lated the anticipation of the children, still On this the Queen exclaimed, rather im- diatonicsuccession of twenty tones. D-produced by a blank, a dash (-). It is waiting their turn, almost to frenzy. Al- patiently Oh, yes, my Lord Carnarvon found some difficulty, at first, in getting a striking case of the eo magis quod non, together this Cleopatra's Needle was a brila painstaking man; but you know he's masquitoes for the extreme upper and lower No eloquence could have equalled the im- llant success, far more than any Christ only Lord Salisbury's calley dog. The notes; but by some means or other which pressiveness of the Telegraph's reticence. I is known only to himself be modifies the am forced to quote the whole passage from place, the amusement is spread over a longer absurd; but still the people about the mas Tree I have ever seen. In the first atory of course as a whole is perfectly normal slug-sing by artificial menus. The the Daily Telegraph in order to explain time, and then it has in it more of the Court undoubtedly have some anecdote in band is played thus-The wire networks this. Mr Edwin Arnold is writing about lottery element which chlidren love so which Lord Carnarvon is called "Lord of all the boxes are set in motion, so that Lord Carnarvon's curious speech of Wed- dearly. each mosquito must, willy-nilly, keep in nesday, and says: Here is a Ocionial frequent adoption is of course its much people have got an inkling of the matter. The impediment in the way of its Salisbury's colley dog." A number of constant motion, and so give forth & con- Beoretary, having no connection depart greater expense. I don't think the cost of but no two people quite agree on the atant sing-sing. A note is sounded by the mentally with foreign polition, who, receiv obelisk and contents together can have been rights of it. But who knows the rights of top of the box being withdrawn, when the ing notice that a deputation of hide and much less than a hundred pounds. Three what, in these days?. Bore la a story con- sound, impinging on the sound-ingboard, is wool merchants, anxious about Cetawayo, children of Lord Carnarvon's were at this cerning you in India, which 1 call from thence instantly sent back to the audience la coming to obat about Natal, replies with party-two girls of about twelve and ton yesterday's Journal des Débats, which will greatly increased in volume. By these unfalling lucidity to that part of their respectively, and a little boy--with the give you some surprising information re means enabled to play a great business, and then, with calm forgetfulness lady who, sines Lady Carnarvon's death, garding yourselves - variety of airs.

of the weightier tople of the afternoon" has had charge of them. The little boy, "On oroit savoir aussi qu'une armés de But the most remarkable thing of all is (the Cabinet Council which was to meet) about seven or eight, is, I believe, Lord 60,000 à 80,000 homme est en vote d'or the internal softness, purity, and tenderness proceeds to gossip upon continental Carnarvon's eldest son. of the musto rendered. Its effect is lades affairs, over which he is much too intel- rather delicate, much more so than his sisters, re transportée en Europe au printemps He seemed to meganization dans les Indes, de manière à oribably pleasant and fairy-like, thrilling ligent not to have been meditating. but be enjoyed himself frantically over prochain. through the brain, and lending a godlike Why should a conscientious Minister be Cleopatra's Needle: I make no apology for commandés par des officiers Anglais," In Il s'agirait de Mahometans intoxication. In proof of this, I may tell too particular? The reproof of the erring talking so much about children and children's any case an English array arriving in

that the crush to hear la so great, and Minister" (scilicet, Lord Osuarvon)" ou amusements. This is their season those who have once heard are so anxious the present occasion has been more gentle, oppression they exercise, in the matter of arrive a month or two too late. That ter- The Turkey au printemps prochain is likely to to come again, that for the frat week only In the natural course of events he repaired Christmas and New Year's card alone, heavy rible General Gourko is almost as dangerous 500 people entered-150 is the largest last night to Osborne, and with the solemnity upon adults. Woe to you, if you forgot the to England as her own fools and traitors, number that can hear at one time the inseparable from the occasion, he tendered exact Christian name of a single child in a Russia is straining every nerve to profit by This, however, D has now stopped, for ed so algnificant) **, same individuals coming in again and again." (it is this "" which is consider: family (say) of seven, and misdirect a single the interval our scoundrels are securing he has made a rule that no one shall come loyalties which so well become him at the in a separate cover. I see that you are off; and by that time where many nor all the graceful envelope for of course each card must be her. The 17th January is still a fortnight in twice till the whole town has been. dinner-table of Her Majesty. There are five hundred thousand in Queen, being wise, considerate, dignified, oard epidemio, for one of the very prettiest

And the affected even in India with the Christmas. Gourke bef⠀ habitants, so it will be some time before we and imperial as ever, would not, we bro who have one heard it get another chance, sure, forget how excellent a colonial admin from India, Here it is an absolute in

cards I have seen came to me last Monday fatrator he is, or how alight a hint, of the sanity. In some families they are received kind which brought Lord Aberdeen to his literally by the hundred. Nor is even this senses, would amply suffice for this much so wonderful as that they should be distri. The new armour-plated vessel, Italia, understood, rightly or wrongly, as stating among their customers only, but spread more patriotic offender." Now this isbated gratis by tradesmen, not in gratitude TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES.

now being constructed at Castellammare, will (Mitchell's Maritime Register)

as a fact that Lord Carnarvon, after his about broadcast among the public at larga be the largest of all war ships hitherto Cape deputation language, thought it facum as advertisements. I enclose you one as a built. Her dimensions are length, 120 bent on him to "tender his resignation to sampla. It is not ugly, is it? Well, this At a recent meeting of the Tynemouth mètree; width, 22m. ; height, lam. draught Her Majesty, which the Queen, though was simply dropped into the letter box at Town Council, attention was directed to a of water, 859; displacement when loaded, intimating her regret at his language, did my brother-in-law's house and I have every subject of the utmost consequence to all 18,000 tons; weight of the hull alone, 5,000 not think it necessary to accept. It may concerned in the trade with foreign coun

tona, She will have a dumble bottom and of course be all a mystification on the part the neighbourhood was favoured in the tries, namely, the mistakes which it is water-tight compartments, and in the centre of the Telegraph (which does sometimes same way. Now, considering that "P, L reason to believe that every letter-box in

alleged are occasionally made in the trans- mission of telegraphic messages to distant will also be furnished with two screws have been (which has alac, and more often, which is advertised on the back of the card, and their defect of vision is attributed to will be an oval turret for the guns. She deal in such things), or the Telegraph may Kingsbury's South Kensington Bazaar," Ports. The subject came formally before mètres in diameter, driven by two indepen- been known) mystified fleelf; but I incline is fully half a mile from my brother-in-law's their obstinate use of the old-fashioned THE Germans are a shortsighted race, the Town Council on the report of its dent engines with six cylinders; there will to accept the interpretation which people house, it follows that Mr Kingsbury's Gothic character. Apart from vested In- Trade and Commerce Committee, and be 20 Bollers, capable of giving 18,000 in general have pat upon the Telegraph's advertisement, if it extended no further tereste, typefoundry questions, and such which report contained a recommendation horas-power, and producing a speed of 16 strange article, as more or less authentic, than this house as its extreme polat, in-like, one can conceive no earthly reason for to memorialise the Portal Telegraph au- knots. The Minister of Mariae has said This opinion is strengthened by the per- volved the distribution of some thousands their retaining those hideous characters- thorities. The memorialists speak appar. that he intends giving the Italia guns plexity into which the appearance of the of these cards, and consequently the ex-which sorely try the eyesight of us English ently of facts within their knowledge, and larger than the 100-ton guns, and to cover Telegraph's editorial has thrown the Tele penditure of a good lump of money. The at all events. It is quits had opeugh to the Mayor of Tynemouth detailed his her with plates more than 55otm. in graph's great rival in the London Press. A topic of Christmas cards leads the mind have the verb which is to make sense of personal experience of telegraphic blunders, thickness. The entire cost will be 20 which might have bean-perhaps have million franos.

man came to me only half-an-hour ago naturally to compassion for the London half a dozen clausos, when you have got to and said "I have just seen of the postmen; and London postmen take care It, postponed to the end of the twelfth line been-attended. by very serious conse-

Times, They are furious there at having not to let you forget the matter of or so; why you should have the additional quences. For example, a message relating fo a timber cargo from "Sunds wall," in

been excluded from all inkling of the scens Christmas-boxes; and at Osborne. And to this moment they subjects-the labours of postmen and their enveloy in the song, a mystery. But the on both these torture of the Gothic type in, like the penny Sweden, was telegraphed "off Sunderland ;"

don't know whether to deny the Telegraph's Christmas gratuities-I am enabled to give German cursive handwriting is worse than another message, being a reply to an offer of freight from Bomber of Rs. 2,000, was

At a banquet given by the Corporation fast, or only to explain away its inference." some authentic information from the their print. There is one thing wor of Brighton, General Grant spoke of the Of course it is in any case the inference circumstance that my sister's maid haa a Sanscrit, or perhaps Tamil; but we will not telegraphed, "Take Rs. 1,600;" and

English Reserve Forcos. Ho said which is the important part of the matter. brother who is a letter carrier in the S. W. decide. third massage, relating to a cargo on hoard They are what the English speaking If Lord Carnarvon tendered his resignation, postal district. This man is one of four on the sender's vessel at the same Port, and people are to rely on in the future, and if the Queen, while walying its accep. his particular beat. He says he walks more Messrs Markwald & Co. have just received which was of special importance inasmuch belong to that class myself. I believo tance, nevertheless gently hinted a rebuke, than 20 miles, and is on his feet 8 hours from Berlin one of these marvellous little When left. Name, sa there was a dispute respecting it, the that wherever there is a great war between it may mean that Her Majesty intimated every day except Sunday. For this be instrumente and it has been adjusted in such worda "Detain the Charter" were made to read in the telegram "Retail the Charter." will be these forces in which they will have patriotic polloy than Lord Carnarvon's "If it were not for Christmas-boxes, 1 that communisations can be readily and in-12, Chandos,

one great civilized nation and another it her preference for a more resolute and receives 14 shillings a week! As he says:

a manner around their house and grounds We give the statement of these errors as to place their confidence. It was made at a meeting of the Town speaking people do keep up the public signify that she disapproved of a single dera a letter-cartier's small pay, one is in- It attracted considerable notics yesterday 18, Henry Lippett,

We English language admitted; or it may simply could not get on apon this." "When one consi- telligibly conveyed from one person to another. June Council of Tynemouth, and by & Shipowner schools in order to maintain and advance member of her Cabinet indulging in inclined to think the present fashion of send- and the gentlemen who came to see and hear considerably interested in the foreign trade the general intelligence of our country, dependent expressions of opinton osleulated iùg out Christmas cards by the score, or the the performance went away impressed with of the Tyne. It was suggested that these and in time they fit our people for Volan to compromise and embarreas the action of hundred, a cruel ans on the postmen; but its value and importance. The length of the and similar mistakes occur at the London teer service and for higher training. Yon the Ministry as a whole. Lord Carnarvon's this is not how they look upon it. They wire is about five hundred feet; but with Aug

2, Northampton, end, and aro due to the incompetence of will always find men among them who are consent to retain office would of goarts hear do pot the clerks who are employed on the work.

with the number of cards this simple apparatus there would be no 14, Regüla, there seems to be no doubt, such blunders do and I had occasion to build a bridge 2000 a promise not to be so lasubordinate; in argue that the liberality of the public in from one end of Bangkok to the other, 23, Victoria (.),

my experience. I went out as a Valu fear, Cases, In the one care it would be merely an unit-quite the contrary! for they sounds of the human voice in any language 3, Andress, acone, it is the bounden daty of Postal fast long across a very rapid stream, and the other, to be more patriotis for the the matter of the Christmas-boxes la go- Siam Advertiser. Telegraph authorities to ascertain the cause I found that the Volunteers were aspable future, and to apply the remedy. When the Post of doing the work. It was during the

verned, much less by a recollection of the office was authorised by Parliament to as Vicksburg campaign, and the success of my Year's Eve, I saw a very pretty and novel few days in the delivery of Christmas and dog at Taupe, and also a young pig, and 25, Benedicta,

At a party which I attended on Now utility of postmen throughout the year truth of the following story:-There is a 10, Oscar,

A NEW ZEALAND paper vouches for the 2, Anna Bertha, sume the management of the telegraphlo scheme was due to that. I always find version of the Christmas Tree. The "true,"

than by compassion for the overwork of a system, it was, of course, in the belief that this among Volunteers, but never among indeed, was no further a tree than that it New Year cards. According to their ox- these two afford a curione example of animal 30, Lodore, the work of transmitting mesanges would be Reguiars. We don't find that intelligendo was made of wood. more efficiently, as well as more economical in the rank and file of the Regulars. They nothing else than a very clever model of sarda, no Christmas-box; while they seldors each other. These two animals live at the

In short, it was perience it is too often i Do Christmas gaoity and confidence in the bona fides of Nov. ly, performed than it had been when in the can do manual labour, bat among the Oleopatra's Needle, about sight feet high, apply in vain for a present at a house where native pa on the opposite side of Tapuae- 2 Cadix (.), bands of public companies. The blanders Volunteers you find that you hayo me of a brownish-red colour, covered with they have spread good humour by the de- harurn, and the dog discovered some happy sited by the Mayor of Tynemouth at the chanics and men at every profession and carved hier glyphics. These hieroglyphics, livery of a goodly batch of cards. As to hunting grounds on the other side, and in- recent meeting of the Town Council could not have originated with the sender; but capacity, so that with them I built 2000 however, were good deal more than the importance to the letter carriers of this formed the pig. The pig, being only two

feet of bridge where there was great depth ornaments. there are, no doubt, oases, in which failures of water and great swiftness of stream, and handles by which to open some forty or fact that the postman I have mentioned not swim across the river, which at that spot They were, so to say, the annual donation, you may indge from the months old, informed the dog that he could may be traced to illegible writing in the that, too, with very little delay. That le Gits little oupboards in the body be told his sister that he and his three mates debouches from the lake, but that in time Dec in attributing the blame to the inefficiency most active part, and the ablest part." original message. If that body is correct where the Volunteers come in and play the Noodle. The doors, or flaps of these cup to about six shillings a week esob, addi-danine friend. The dog settled the difficulty. had divided £72-16 between them-equal he hoped to share the adventures of his

1, Glengaber, of the clerks in the London offices, there

boards swung from blages above, so that by tional, for the whole year!

2y Othe will be little or no dificulty in abating the

pressing your finger against the projecting

He went into the river, standing up to his Dovana, evil. The class of persons engaged in the

edge of a hieroglyphic, and pulling slightly

asok in the water, and crouched down 1 the18, Sir Harry Parkos, London I have not quite done with Christmas pig got on his back clasping his neck with 19, Sedan, transmission and transcribing of telegraphic

upwards and outwards, the fap opened, cards yet, although their connection with the fore legs. The dog then swam Gorous, 10, Forward, messages should be distinguished for intell!!.

revealing a pigeon-hole containing some what I am going to relate is not very thus carrying his shum over. Regularly 28, J. R. Worcester, gance and accuracy. The services of such

treasure or other. The lower ones; that is intimate. A lady, Hving at Wingfield, bo every morning the two would in this way 25, G. B. S3 persons can be obtained, and if it is a

to say those within the ranch of the shorter tween Ascot and Windsor, writing a few go across and forage around Tapuseharura, Jan. question simply of remuneration, the public

people, such as little dolls, picture books, and enclosing a card with the good wishes was ready to go home before the pig he 11, Elizabeth Childs, Sunderland children, contained gifts adapted to little days ago to a friend of mine in London, returning to the pa at night, and if the deg will certainly not object to an increased morning, the metropolis seemed to be play bon-bon boxes, toys of various kinds, paint of the season, contintied as follows Do would wait till his friend came down to be 11, Prinz Friedrich Carl (e.), London expenditure if it is necessary for the ing at politics as it might at forfeits. On botes, and so forth. A little higher up the you know the true reason why the Queen ferried over. The truth of this story is 12, Sarah Nicholson, N'castle (...) effectual improvement of the telegraphic Saturday Lord Campbell and Stratheden monument the cupboards when opened hat after all gone to Osborne ?" (You vouched for by several who have watched 12, Hylton Castle, system.

bada Turkish gathering in Trafalgar Square, dlasiosed knick-knacks and presents for know the bad announced her intention of the movements of the pair for some weeks 17, Glamis Castle (s), London of perhaps 5,000 people, in great part somewhat older children - work-boxen, passing this Christmas at Windsor.) "Well,

Glasgow roughs and lofterers. This demonstration writing desks, handsome bibles and prayer. It was nothing but a little bit of superstition st

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Shipping Intelligence.

London and Colonial Papers ¦—

The following is corrected from the latest

VESSELS TO ARRIVE AT HONGKONG.

May

July

As to this we can offer no opinion; but if, ag / aqual to any occasion. In the course of a very different significance in the two they have to distribute diminished by difficulty in communicating by the andible Sept.

LONDON GOSSIP, (Pioneer.)

LONDON, 4th January, 1878,

Christmas imbecility. Bitherto, until this London is just beginning to shake off its

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A MOSQUITO BAND. The following astrack is from the Harvard would have fallen fat if a pro-Russian mob, books, sliver brooches and photograph on her part. The fact is, that a huge eagle Truth has the following about the Chi- Quarterly Magasine, a most serious paper,kewise consisting chiefly of roughs and medallions, and toys of a more complex had been hovering over this neighbour. nese loan:-"When this loan was issued, edited and issued, if our memory serves us idlers, with a contingent of masons on strike, description, Including one working model bood, especially about the cattle, for some the other day, I advised investment in it, Sept. correctly, by the students and professors of had not crowded into the Square at the of a locomotive," which must have cost a daya, a thing that has not been known whilst most newspapers feered at the vary, Carl Wilhelm Harvard College, who could not of course me time. This redeemed the affair from lot of money. Elighest of all, to be reached about here, they say, for a dentury More idea. The applications were considerably Oct. be suspected of admitting into the columns dulness, for there was a cheerful Christmas only by those who would stretch up some over the great bird was seen several times more than double the amount of the loan. of their journal anything approaching a fight Some days later, Mr Merriman, who six feet or so, the pigeon-holes, fewer in to alight on the top of the keep, and the Why it should have been assumed that Jest

Mosquito Band-But the girangoss the Empire, contened, an anti-Turkish glove boxes with, half-dozen of kid gloves took it into her lata lety about. Rubin she was incurring, of that she had no right 6, Catharina,

in dertainly one of the silliest personages in number, had still more costly contents Queen, in the present anxiety Russia, China would not pay a small debt which t thing going on now is the mosquito band. nestlag, which was attended by some sixty Inside, silver necklaces or bracelets, beauti omen. Frinos Christian and a number of to borrow what she could easily repay, was It was a long time before any one could be other most respectable blockheads.

Tefal fans, a tortoise-sbell musical box, keepers fired at the eagle repeatedly, but in ladeed stranges The Chinese have many got to bellste in it, in spite of huge posters speeches delivered and letters read on that little clock which goes equally well whether vain for the creature always came back at vices, and sooo few virtutes. Autongat the Glenfials. in its praise on every blank space. The occasion were most genial and seasonable If stands on its head or ita heels, and other night to settle on the highest point of the latter, prominently figures the payment of Oxfordshire. whole thing reads like a gigantio host and in their puerility For presumption and things whish I can't remember. Children Castle, At last Her Majesty would stand it all debts incurred. It may, perhape, sur yet, in fact when seen. It is simple in the ignorance of geography, history, and ele and all, I think there were about six and no longer, and off she went to Usborne prias some persons to learn that inese extrotne. Now that disbelief is nversome, mentary politics, they were just such as twenty of us. crowds go every day, and even 150 esa might have proceeded from the more pro-gether in the large drawing room, while lady's words verbatim, for the letter was English commercial morality Chinese

We were imprisoned alto Now I don't pretend that these are the commercial morality is a far superior to Par Ardua. listen to it at the same time, at the and is the one way prostory school the Needle and is contents were being not given to me to copy, but I am sure I soufal morality is below it. English mags Aurrera (1.)

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