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Auetions.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

BE SOLD by PUBLIO -AUC-

THION, shortly, on a day to be

hereafter named, unless previously dis.. posed of by private contract,—

Notices to Consignees.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

ONSIGNEES of the following Cargo requested to soad in their Bille of Lading to the Undersigned for counter signature, and take immediate delivery. This Cargo has been landed and stored at their risk and expense.

No Fire Insuranço has been effected,

• Ex Yangise. AME (in diamond) } Nos.16/17, Or., 2cases TJ..

J– Flannol, from L/don.- Ex Anadyr.

THE HONGKONG DISTILLERY, Situate at East Point, Hongkong, now in Complete Working Order, and Cap able of Distilling upwards of 2,000 Gallons daily." The Property is of a most valuable nature, comprising THREE PIECES OF GROUND close to the water, viz,Inland Lots Nos. 749, 781 and 782, with the Substantially Built DWELLING HOUSE and BUSINESS PRE- Mr Charles Bonnet, 1 case Shirts, &c., MISES, erected specially for the

from Marso Res. purpose only a few years since, together with the B & MACHINERT, ENGINES, STILLS, VATU," Brock, and Trade Furniture and Frr-. TINGS.

For further Particulars, apply to

Megara SHARP, TOLLER, and JOHNSON,

Solicitors, Supreme Court House,

Hongkong.

Hongkong, March 5, 1879.

C

(in diamond) Urder, 150 bales Cob

ton, from Madras

G. De CHAMPEAUX, Agent.

Hongkong, July 30, 1879.

To-day's Advertisements."

FOR NEW YORK,

The Steamship

"EGRAN," Captain STEWART, will be de. spatched for the above Port HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COM- TO-MORROW, the 12th Inst., at.4 p.m.

Intimations.

PANY, LIMITED.

ADJUSTMENT OF BONUS FOR THE YEAR 1878, AND THE FIRST 6 MONTHS or 1879,

CHAREHOLDERS in the above' Com--

SH

PANY are requested to Furnish the Undersigned with a List of their CONTRI- BUTIONS for the YEAR ending December 31st 1878, and for the SIX MONTHS from Jann- ary lat to June 30th 1879; in Order that the DISTRIBUTION of the Portion of PRO- FITS Reserved for CONTRIBUTORS may be arranged. Returns not rendered prior to October 31st next, will be adjust- ed by the Company and no Claims or Alterations will be anbaequently admitted.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

General Managers,

Hongkang, July 24, 1879,

For Freight, apply to

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. longkong, August 11, 1879. au12

THE CHINA MAIL.

Paymaster B J. Lloyd Evans, R.N., Mr. | Jas, Campbell, R.N., Mre Phillips and child, and Mr H. G. James; from Bombay, Mr B. F. Tolates. From Shanghai: for Southampton, Mr and Mrs Pugh, 4 children and 2 native servants; and Mr G. Phillips; for Brindisi, Mr W. Paterson; for Galls, Singapore, Rev. Mr Pearson; for South- Mr Jai. Smith.From Yokohama: for.

Messrs El. Thompson and Dawson, Mr and Mrs Simpkins.

a

SHIPPING REPORTS.

The Stamens barque Advance reports: Strong S. W. winde with heavy sea and squally, with heavy showers of rain.

The British ateamer Albay reports:- Tameal to Amoy experienced moderate S. W. winda and son. In Amoy: .I.M.R.C. Ling Fêng. In Swatow: S. S. Tientsin, Crusader, and B LM.R.C. Fei-hoo. 8. S. Louglas. Darisbrooke, and etochwang left on night of 9th Aug. On night of 9th saw | two steamers bound North.

The British steamer gean reports: Strong monsoon from Japan to Amoy, theuce to port fine weather."

CARGOES.

Per S. S. Kaisari Hind, for London,

MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. Shipping. Noon English Mail leave for Porta

of Call and Europe.

Goods por

Peiho undelivered after Noon, subject to rent and landing charges

[No. 6021-August 11, 1879.

Wolfe of some of the Tao Shan Kwan pro- | reason his valuable document did not reach per y; and that such trouble was the cause us on Saturday; and our Sunday rest Wolfe himself in his evidence said, "therefore calm and untroubled. Our of the agreement of August 1867. Indeed, think the deed of 1867, arose out of my morning contemporary (who took no notice. trouble with the priest," Wolfe's evidonos

in that respect confirmed what had been of the petitioner's narrow escape with life previously stated in his evidence by Loo on Friday) thus gives Mr B's protest King Fah, one of the plaintiffs, who said against the record of that interesting local that when it was found that there had been some strange or peculiar dealings event which was pu`lished in the Mail:- Garies, the Directors thought that they would petition to bis Worship --

between the Taonist priest and the mission- Mr T. I. Bowler presented the following

4 p.m. Egean leaves for New York.

Auction. Noon.-General Weekly Sale by Mr R. Lammert, at his Sales Rooms. 3 p.m.-Sale of Household Furniture,

at Mr H. G. James' residence, No. 11, Queen's Road.

618 8.0.

Meeting.

&o,

16 PETITION.

themselves make a new agreement of rent with the misionaries." The same witness, Loo King Fah," said that one of the docu-Your Worship I wish respectfully to ments from which the agreement of August, sall your attention to the method of report, 1867, was drawn, was the agreement of ing pursued by the China Mail newspaper. 1860, and that the directors of the temple I understand that reports are made up by this journal from official minutes of pro- ceedings as taken down by the Court. Unfortunately, however, the Editor of the journal in question, evidently a person without one single generous impulse, twista and distorts these facts by additions spe plied from his own imagination and when there additions are false, as in the particular

9 p.m.-Meeting of St. John Lodge, No. who themselves framed the draft of the agreement of August, 1967, struck out the words "at the option of the leasees," which were in the airdiment of 1850

Nothing more need be added to this, HONGKONG DISPENSARY, beyond the repetition of a regret that

Established A.D. 1841,

Christian men could have so bungled

THE

香港大藥房

A. S. WATSON & Co.,

13,997 half chests, 18,476 boxes, 146 chests, FAMILY & DISPENSING CHEMISTS, afraid, must be carried to its succesful

WHOLEKALE AND RETAIL Daudarata,

IMPORTERS

and 959 pkgs Tea, 1,111 balos Silke, 338 casas Silk Piece Goods, 25 bales Punjum Silk, 147 bales Waste Silk, 20 cases Pongees, and 360 pkge. Sundries. For Continent. 416 bales ilk, 80 bales Waste Silk, 856 balea Cocoons, 80 bales Punjam Silk, 2 DRUGGISTS' SUNdries, Nursey Requi

canes Silk Piece Goods, and 50 pkga. Sun- dries. For New York, 26 balen Silk,

Per British barque Channel Queen, sailed. 2nd August, 1879-For Channel, f.o., 2.000 boxes Cassia, 539 bales Waste Silk, 412 rolle Matting, 150 balea Canes, and FOR SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW. | 2,066 boxes Chinaware and Sundries.

The Steamship

"NAMOA,"

Capt. WESTORY, will bồ de- spatched for the above Ports

on FRIDAY, the 15th Inst., at 10 am.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

- DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co. Hongkong, August 11, 1879,

FIRST

~OPERATIO-CONCERT

GIVEN BY...

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Oc31 MADAME A. HIRLEMANN,

HONGKONG, CANTON, AND MAÇÃO.

STEAMBOAT COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE DIVIDEND at the Rale of 3%

Tor $2.25 FZE SHARE, declared at

the Ordinary Half Yearly MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS hold YESTERDAY, Will be payable at the Hoogkong and Shanghai Bank on and after TOMORROW (THURS- DAY) the 31st Instant.

SHAREHOLDERS are requested to apply at the OFFICE of the Company for Warrants. By Order of the Board of Directors,

P. A. DA COSTA, Secretary,

Bongkong, July 50, 1879.

PRIMA DONNA,

and

MAËSTRO HIRLEMANN, PIANISTE COMPOSITEUR.

WEDNES D ́A Y, 13th AUGUST, 1879, AT THE

THEATRE ROYAL,

CITY HALL.

Under the platinguished

Patronage

HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR GENERAL DONOVAN, Commanding the

TROOPS IN OUINA AND JAPAN,

Pit.......

PRICES OF ADMISSION:

HONGKONG WHARF & GODOWNS. Stalls or Drea. Circle........Two DOLLARS.

...........ONE DOLLAR.

Tickets to be had and Seats secured at Messrs LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.'s. Hongkong, August 11, 1879.

GOODS RECEIVED on STOR-CLASS

Moderate Rates, in FIRST-CLASS GODOWNS, under European aupervision; and VESSELS Discharged alongside the Wharf, on favorable. Terms, with quick despatch. Also entire GoDowns to be let.

MEYER & Co.

Hongkong, August 1, 1879.

Not Responsible for Debts.

sel

Jeither the Captain, the Agents, nor N

Owners will be Responsible for any Debt contracted by the Officers or Creio of the following Vessels, during their stay in Hongkong Harbour :—-.

BRETHOVEN, German barque, Captain R. Haja-Melchers & Co.

AGNES MUIR, British ship, Capt. James Lowe-Meyer & Co.

HAZEL HOLME, British-barque, Capt. J Wm. Millioan.-Adamson, Bell & Co.

Notices to Vonsignees

FROM LONDON AND SINGAPORE.

THE S. 8. Viceroy having arrived from the above Ports, Consigneos of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods- with the exception of Opium-are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Undersigned, whence and/or from the Wharves or Boats delivery may be obtained.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before Two o'clock To-DAY.

Cargo remaining undelivered after the 15th Instant will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be counteraigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hongkong, August 8, 1879.

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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES · MARITIMES,

8. 8. PEI-HO.

NOTICE.

JONEIGNEES of Cargo por 8. 6..

Fange, from London, in connec tion with the above Steamer, are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and stored at their risk at the Com. panya Dodowns, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded on, unless intimation is received from the Con- afgnees, before TOMORROW, the 6th Inst., at Noon, requesting it to be landed here.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.

Goods remaining unclaimed after TUES. PAY, the 12th Instant, at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.

No Fire Insurance has been affected,

G. ne CHAMPEAUX, Agent. Hongkong, August 6, 1879.

SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS.

AD14

Aug. 9, Advance, Siamese barque, 396, Ed. G. Spencer, Bangkok July 28, Rice.

CHINESE

Aug 10 Tai Lee, German barque, 256, Stehr, Whampoa Aug. 9, General.-MEYER & Co.

Aug 10, Albay, British steamer, 866, F. Ashton, Tamsai Aug. 5, Amoy 7, and Swatow 9, General.DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.

Aug. 10, Churrace, Spanish steamer, 397, R. Abaroa, Manila Aug. 7, Gonoral. REMEDIOS & Co.

Aug 11,Adelaide Norris, American- barque, 719, Woodward, Nagasaki July 10, CoalADAMION, BELL & Co.

Aug. 11, Egean, British steamer, 843 C. E. Stewart, Biogo Aug. 2, and Amoy 9, General.-HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.

DEPARTURES.

Aug. 10, Fuyew, for Canton.

10, An-lan, Chl. gunboat, for Canton. 10, Cheang Hock Kian, for Swatow,

10, Conquest, for Hoihow.

10, Glengyle, for London, &c.

10, Cassandra, for. Saigon,

10, Hailoong, for Amoy, a

11, Paralos, for Amboins,

11, Benledi, for Sydney.

11, Cathay, for Shanghal.

11, Sunda, for Singapore and Bombay. 11, Pariz, for Sual

11 Etrangtung, for Swatow.

11, Zamboanga, for Manila.

11, Ficeroy, for Shaughal.

CLEARED. Beethoven, for Chefoo. Courier, for Whampoa

PASSENGERS, ARRIVED.

Per Albay, from Amoy, &c., 77 Chinese. Per Churruca, from Manila, 1 European, and 2 Chines9.

Per Egeant, from Hlogo and Amoy, 20 Chinele.

DEFARTED,

Per Benledi, for Sydney, Mr and Mrs Jensen and child.

Per Kwangtung, for Foochow, Mr Lamache.

Per Viceroy, for Shanghai, Sir Arthur Stepney.

Per Cheang Hock Kian, for Swatow and Amoy, 35 Chinese,

Fer Conquest, for Hoihow, 55 Chinese. For Zamboanga, for Manila, 3 Chinese, TO DEFLET.

Per Kaisari Hind, from Hongkong: for Southampton, Deputy Inspector General 8. 8. D. Wells, Mrs and Miss Wells, Mirs su12 Mertens, Lieut, J. W. McFarlane, B.N.,

POST OFFICE NOTICES. MAILS will close:- For MANILA.-

Per Salvadora, at noon To-morrow, the 12th inst., Instead of as previously notified.

For AMOY, TAIWAN, AND TAMSUI,— Per Albay, at 11.30 a, m,, on Wednesday,

the 13th inat,

For STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, AND

CALCUTTA..

Per Moray and Arratoon Apear, at 2.30

p.m., on Wednesday, the 13th inst. For SWATOW, AMOY, & FOOCHOW,— Per Namoa, at 9.30 a.m., on Friday, the

15th inst.

OF

SITES, TOILET REQUISITES, ENGLISH, --

AMERICAN, AND FRENCH PATENT MEDIOINES -MANUFACTURERS

OF

Sode Water, Lemonade, Tonle Water, Gingerade, Potass Water, Sarsaparilla Water, and other Aerated Waters.

The Manufactory is under direct and continuous European Supervision. Hongkong, June 1, 1876.

€ The puòlisation of this issus commended at B.05 p.m.

THE CHINA MAIL.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1879.

THE Rev. Robert W. Stewart, Secretary of the Church Missionary Society at Foochow (in the absence of Rev. J. R. Per Olympia, at 11.30 a.m., on Friday, Wolfe), has written a letter to the North

For SAIGON. --

the 15th inst.

MAILS BY THE BRITISH PACKET.

The British Contract Packer Kaisar-i-Hind will be despatched on TUESDAY, the 12th August, with Malls to and through the United Kingdom and Europe via Brindisi or Southampton; to the Straits Settlements, Batavia, Burmah, Ceylon, India, Aden, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar. N.B.-This Packet carries no mails for the Australian Colonies, E. or 8. Africa, nor for Mauritius,

in their business relations with the case of which I now complain, I submit people whose conciliation was certainly that a grave injustion is done, and I now worth an effort, and then thank God for therefore pray that access to these official

that accommodation being specially provid something which has never happened minutes referred to be in futurs denied to The evangelization of China, we are

a person who has shown himself unable to make a reasonable use of them. I submit issue by different means and men of a ed by seats set apart in the court for re different stamp to thess.

porters, should the China Mail newspaper desire to report any particular osse a re- porter may be sent to the court as is, I believe, the regular and usual course na pursued by other journals, "roo

▾

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The next AMERICAN MAIL- will be das here to- morrow or next day, by the O. &0. S. B. Co.'s steamer België,

His Worship told Mr Bowler he could not consider him (the Magistrate) In any way responsible for what appeared in the papere.

THERE will be a parade and Inspection of We hold that a healthy, hearty laugh in the Volunteer and Government Fire as generous a moral stimulus as any in Brigades at the Central Fire Brigade which mortal man may indulge; and the Station to-morrow afternoon at five o'clock. I unsuccessful petitioner may therefore con

gratulate himself that by so much has he THE P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer City of improved the moral tone of our compost- Tukio was towed round to her moorings tion. from Aberdeen Dock, this morning.

The 8. 8. Arration Apcar came across from the Cosmopolitan Docks yesterday morning.

MEMBERS of the Hongkong Humane Society are requested to asemble at Head Quarters, Duddell Street, on Wednesday night, the 18th instant, at a quarter to nine o'clock, for practice on Murray Wharf, and for life-saving practies. Regulation Shirt and Helmets must be worn, New members are

China Daily News on the Woo-sbih-shan trial. As this is the only sign which has been made by the members of the requested to wear their belts. Church Mission since the decision of Judge French was given, excepting of Tus Band of the 27th Inniskillings, ander course the notice of appeal, it is only the direction of Herr Werner, will perform right that it should be made public. We in the Public Gardena to-morrow evening: therefore publish the letter elsewhere. between five and seven o'clock, the follow- It will be seen that the writer takes ex- ception to the statement of our Northerning programme:- contemporary that the missionaries "were Overture to............. William Tell,..... Rosini. entirely averse to entering into friendly Selection Valse....

Pomone,..... Waldteufel. negotiations with the Chinese, previous Polka,.

Fra Diavolo,.. .Auber. to the late trial, and accepting a reason-Selection,.. able compromise." Mr Stewart assorta Valse,... that this is not so; that they strove for nearly six months to come to terms, and

Oun Overland edition (18 pp) for to-mor row's English mall contains -—-

Editorial Artioles,The Shipping of Hongkong for 1878, Alleged Improper Case, Ought the Japanese Yen to be Ac Share Speculations, The Wu-Shih-Shan cepted? The Imperial Succession in China, In a Code Sense" British and American Imports, What "Tiffin?" Public Gamb ling, Current Topica

General Articles,-Ubiasse Notes, The Late Colonial Chaplain, The Funeral Pro- The Toleration Clanses in the Trastien, ccasion of Mr Kwok Acheong's Mother, Cruel Fate of Yakoob Beg's Family, The. Wa-Shih-Shan Case The Japanese Yen sa Yokohama, Supreme Court, Marine Court, a Hongkong Current Coin, Great Fire at

Meetings, Correspondence, The Harbour Canton, The Tea Trade, Latest Retter's Master's Report for 1878, The Tornado at Telegrams, Miscellaneous, Police Intelli- gence, Typhoon on the Coast, The Currency Qusation, Commercial Summary, Manila, Sooloo, Sinxapore, Siam, Shipping Reports, Shipping Intelligence,

· · · ·¿Kutchko,... . ..Stasney. Oroton Diamonds,....Aubor. Tus Salvadora had the fill-inck to run down

Olivia, .Marriott. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

a Chinens junk on her last trip from Maui. la. There seems to be quite an epidemio of these accidents at present, on every side

of us. We have recorded some half dozen within the last week or 0. The case

MAILS BY THE UNITED STATES PACKET, The United States Mail Packet City of

Takio, will be despatched on MUN-gave way inch by inch, until, at the We are sorry to have to record another DAY, the 18th Instant, with Mails one vital question--the alleged wrongful

death amongst the 27th Inniskillings,- for Japan, San Francisco, the United means employed to obtain the title to States, Canada, Honolulu, Peru, &o. the land on which the Mission premises Private Joseph Mack, of "B" Company, which will be closed as follows

were built they were compelled to disa native of the parish of Rathmines, Dublin, against the Bearty for sinking a junk 2,16 P.M. Registry cosasa.

tinctly refuse all compromise. The pro- who has seen some seventeen years' service.river has been amicably settled out of near the middle ground in the Kwangpoo 2,30 r.. Post-Office closes, but Letters sent Secretary of the Society at Foochow He went into Hospital on Thursday Court, the steamer agreeing to pay some- (except for Non-Union Countiles) may becomes somewhat melodramatic over last, sufering from fever, and died thing like Tla. 3,500. In connection with be posted on board the Packet with this matter, and asks, "Would any Late Fee of 18 cents extra Postage Englishman, be he the friend or foe of yesterday about one o'clock. Deceased which arrived at Shanghai the other day, the same subject we read that the Ningpo, until the time of departure.

Christian Missions, have so advised us? was buried this afternoon. The funeral from thle port, reports that she was com Correspondence for Non-Union West Indies I do not believe it-it were better to left the Hospital about half-past five polled to cross the Woosung Bar with the

(except the

Babamas and Hayti) die like men than play the traitor thus; o'clock; a firing party of twelve were of junks being anchored in the obannel. Bar marks open, on account of a large fleet Munte Video, Paraguay, and Uruguay better to be turned out into the streets formed up and presented arms as the The Ningpo, the News reminds us, has also

cannot be sent by this route. Hongkong, August 4, 1879.

MAILS BY THE FESTUA PACKET.-

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without a roof over our heads than yield

suffered for a collision with a junk, which

was cue of a flest of half-a-dozen alleged to

up the honour of the cause entrusted to coffin containing the body was brought out our keeping and dearer to us than our and put into the hearse. The firing party be anchored across the fairway at Hall-way lives." The writer winds up by congra- with arms reversed fed the cortege, followed Point, and the complaint she now maken The French Contrast Packat Anadyr, will tulating himself that it has keen proved by the Band of the Regiment; next came of the authorities. A review of Chinese is certainly entitled to the consideration to the satisfaction of Chief Justice French the hearse which was followed by nearly gunboats outside Wocsung a day or two that the missionaries had done nothing four hundred men. On the way to the ce-ago is hardly to be held as an excise wrong and he thanks God-that-their-

be despatched on TUESDAY, the 19th lustant, with Mails to and through the United Kingdom and -Europe, via Napter; to Saigon, Straita" Settlemente, Batavia, Burmah, Ceylon, Pondicherry, Madras, Calcutta, Bom bay, Aden, Suez, and Alexandría. The usual hours will be observed in closing

the Mails, de.

HOURS OF CLOSING

THE CONTRACT MAILS.

The following hours ans observed in cloring Malls, Ee, by both the British and

French Contract Packets -

Day before departure,--

P.M-Money Order Office oloss; Post Office closes excopt the Niort Box, which remains open all night,

Day of departure,-

71.M.-Post Office openz

10 A.M.-Registry of Letters ccases. Posting of all printed matter and patterns casses,

11 A. M.Mails closed, except for Late

Lettern.

11,10 A.-Loiters may be posted with

Lato Fee of 18 cents until 11.30 AM. Then the Post Office CLOSES

entirely, 11.40A.M.-Late Letters may be posted on board the packet with Late Fea of 18 cents until time of departure.

General Memoranda, WEDNESDAY, August 18 :--

Noon. Albay leaves for Amey, &c. 3 p.m.-Moray and Arratoon Apcarlosvo.

for Singapore, &c.

FRIDAY, August 15 :--

p.m.-Operatic Concert at the City Hall.

10a.m.--Namoa leaves for Coast Porta. Goods per Viceroy undelivered after this

date subject to rent. SATURDAY, August 16:--

3 p.m.-Meeting of Shareholders of the "Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor- poration at the City Hall.

MONDAY, August 18

own good name and the honour of themetery the Band played the regimental cause they represent has been vindicated dead march and the dead march in Saul. before the world by the decision of the Father Vigano conducted the funeral ser Supreme Court of China.

vice. Deceased was over thirty-four years This sort of language will doubtless of age and was much respected. Bound well at meetings in England where the feelings are prepared before-

hand to receive nothing but good reports By the mail steamer to-morrow the Deputy

| for junks-anchoring at the Bar--to-the-

inconvenience of the mercantile marine;

and that they do so in ignoranos of the danger they incur, after the experience of imagination to believe. Furthermore, it the last few years, requires a stretch of the

was reasonable to think that the decision in the Peking collision case, which must also be fresh in the minds of our ronders, would prevent junkmen choosing the of the toilers in the mission field. It Inspector General, Royal Naval Hospital, neighbourhood of the Ear for an anchorage, is, however, inexpressibly sad that the Dr. S. S. D. Wells, proceeds to Europe in stringent regulations from the authorities while it was hoped that it would also result real facts which have appeared in the His name will be associated with the most that any vessel anchoring in the fairway at evidence at the trial, as well as the sonsible series of suggestions made here in any point of the river did so at its own wording of the judgment in the case, do

connection with the subject of contagious

peril, not justify either the tono or the phraseology adopted by Mr Stewart. We diseases, on which a Government Commis- In the Osaks epidemic there were, betwesz had written strongly enough against sion recently sat. For the prominent part the 4th and 16th May, 1623 deaths. This the Chinese, regarding this unfortunate he took and the great trouble he must have makes the total deaths since 22nd May, business, before the trial took place; but been at in connection with that inquiry he, 4,543 out of 6.013 attacked, or 77 per the worst feature in the whole affair now of course, received no thanks, the views bis 4th July, 672

cent There were nader treatment on the A tolovram to the is-and experienced missionaries have long experience and intimate knowledge of Japan Mail states that the new cases not failed to point it out and lament over the subject enabled him to give not being on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd July, wore it--that, on their present showing, the so- called heathen plaintiffs come out of in consonance with the crude ideas and sa and 49; and also that the cholern respectively 45, 4 and 30'; the deaths 37, the trial with more credit than thoss sentimental notions of "those in authority was declining. The number of cholera gentlemen whose professions are so high under the Queen and over us." A public appearance of the diasase up to the 22nd cases throughout the country from the first above those of their benighted opponents and professional duty promptly and perfect July, way 28,382, of whom 16.199 have died, It will therefore be well if Mr Stewart

or at the rate of 57.12 per cent,

and his friends use this high-toned lany performed often has to be, like Virtue, guage but sparingly, until they can show its own reward.--Mr G.. Phillips, H. M. a different side to the story. Such words Consul at Klukiang, goes home also by this will fall upon very unreceptive ears in opportunity; his place will be filled by this part of the world, where the evid Mr B. O. G. Scotty first Assistant at the ence of Messrs Wolfe and Stewart has Legation at Peking.-Mr H, G. James, been carefully perused. As for Judge

of Messrs Geo. B. Stevens & Co, is also Canton, may be cashiered with a view to French he says:-

A MEMORIAL is published in a recent num vernor-General of the Two hinang, request. ber of the Fcking Gazette, trom the Go- ing that a retired Secretary of a Board who has organised a society and opened gambling establishment in the city of

About three or four months after the a passenger to-morrow by the Kaiser-I being placed on bis trial and subjected to failure of that negotiation, Wolfe entered Hind. He goes home for a holiday, after the most rigorous examination. into another negotiation with the same a residence of seventeen years in the priest for the absolute purchase for 1,500 dollars of the property then in his occupa- Colony; and he carries many good wishes 1850 and 1855, and ia the verbal agreement tion and comprised in the agreements of with him.

to which the missionary George Smith was THE Mrs Giacometti Prodgers" of Hong.

a party; and for all which premises he paid

an aggregate annual rent of $182. But kong public life has again pressed himself

Gleniyan is now loading here, being ad- FREIGHT DOWA at Shanghai:The 8.8.

vertised to leave on the 10 h Au ust où Foochow and Amoy, and she will be fol« lowed by the 8.8. Harter (due to morrow), 8.3. Glass Castle is taking in pats of her via Amoy, about the 15th August. The

this negotiation likewise failed. There was forward in the Police Court records. Not cargo in Japan and will complete ber -no doubt, upon the evidence, that the

loading here and at Amoy, getting away

priest at the Tao Shan Kran had got into foontent with the frequency of his appear about the end of next month. The rate 8pm.American Mall leaves for Yoko-trouble with the authorities of the Temple ances as plaintif or defendant, he has of 60m, per 40 cubic feet in being saked for

hams and San Francisco,

through his negotiations, for the sale to assumed the role of petitioner, For some all these vessels,