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DRUNK AND INCAPABLE. John Thompson, alias James. McIntyre, an engineer, unemployed, was again charged with being drunk and incapable and refus. ing to pay chair-bire on the 1st instant

Defendant admitted the charge. Bined $5, and ordered to pay 20 cents chair-hire; in default 14 days' imprisonment.

Defendant went to prison, but was releas. ed daring the course of the day on paying the fine. This is the third time he has been before the Court in a week for similar

offences.

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IN DABRAOKS FOR AN UNLAWFUL PURPOSE. Sergeant Groves, 27th Regt., charged Sam Afuk, alias Wong Ayau, 22, a car. penter, with being in the East Block, mar- rled quartera, for an unlawful purpose, on the 1st instant.

The Sergeant found a gate leading to the married quarters open, with the bolt removed. On examining the premises he met the prisoner, who was quite wat sa If he had been in the nullah. He was at once arrested, but nothing was found on

bim.

On the completion of the Sergeant's ovidence, defendant said he wanted a cup

of tea

The Magistrate remarked the prisoner appeared to be out of his mind, and re.

THE CHINA MAIL.

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CELEBRITIES AT HOME. £18 £19-10 MR WILLLAM SPOTTISWOODE IN GROSVENOR

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Oriental Bank Chartered Bank Chartered Mercantile Bank... $20 £35 Hongkong & Shanghai Bank RUSSIAN POLICY AND RUSSIAN ACTIONs,

St. Petersburg, 14th Sept, The Golas recommends that Russia should recognise the British conquest of Cabul and Candahar, conditional upon the annexation of Herat by Persis, and the annexation by Rusela of eufficient territory on the Caspian, to ensure a basis for action in the direction of Merv.

may take such concurrence as aufficient orld. ence that the delay asked for is reasonable. In this case and in that of Klær and Wahes the joint and several liabilities constitute liabilities to the extent of $200,000 and upwards to an unknown extent. I expect that there will not be one por cont zealised. The two bankrupta Kiser and Wahee have, I believe, got their discharges, and now by the terms of the deed itself William MacGregor Smith will get his discharge as a matter of course. All the consequences are due to the inertness or design of the creditors, and the bankruptcy laws of Horgkong are blam ed. Bad enough they are; I fear they are

A survey for a Railway between Cara as bad as the Bankruptcy Laws of England. They are in themselves no worse here than in tagal, Tashkend and Samarkand has been England, but practically they are worse bere finished.

An examination has also been made of because greditors and practitioners here con- sur, unwittingly it may be, in thoir efforts a route for a railway from Samarkand to to render the Bankruptcy Laws in Hong-Termer on the Amu Daria. kong inoperative. Ishall make an order to the following effect-Upon hearing Mr Brereton on behalf of W. McG. Smith and himself and other creditors of W. McGregor Smith in explanation of the reason for the present motion and the affidavit of Mathias D'Azevedo and the declaration of Chas Atsan, by which it appears that all creditors of the said Smith for 850 and upward with. in the Colony have been served with full notice that this application would be made

THE DEMAND UPON THE AMEER,

London, 16th September.

The Times announces that the Ameer will be called upon to co-operate with the British advance, and to recognise the justice and expediency of the measures to be taken for the punishment of the outrage.

Referring to the prohibition of correspon-

Daily News Bay!:-

TLACE.

manded the onze for a week to enable the for extending the power to register the deed |ents to accompany the army, the India The Astronomer Royal, at one of the penetrated to Persia, in the course of an Colonial Surgeon to report whether he was really Insane or not,

ASSAULT ON A CHAIR-COOLIB. ·

THE owners of the steamer Great Eastern% have, it is stated, at last dotermined to adopt a suggestion that has been frequently made, and are about to convert the great ship into a meat-carrying trader between London and Texas. The requisite altera- biens, which include new boilers, will involve an expenditure of about £100,000; but as the vcasol can carry 2,000 head of cattle, ar 36,000 sheep, the speculation should prove remunerative.

Quotations.

melancholy monsters of steel, copper, and gold coins which the Government tried to glass, the reserve battalion of an assiduous put in oirculation have simply flawed baok student and luminous demonstrator of to the capital. It is ust a matter of in- physics. Below the boudoir, deflected difference or caprice-as Mr Giffen proves in from its original purpose, is the laboratory an excellent paper on bimetalliam in the *Only Professors Cayley and Sylvestor, proper, in which the owner pursues his current number of the Fortnightly Review say certain irreverent savants, can under-investigations into the phenomena of elec-what metal is to bo adopted by a country, stand Mr Spottiswoode, and Mr Spottis-tricity, eptios, and acoustics, aided by the nor can the resolution of its Government woode is the only living Englishman. who

two or three-horse power, heated by gas. it objects. National predilection plays a can understand Professors Sylvester and power supplied by a little steam engine of force upon a people a currency to which There are even acoptics who This laboratory is not unfrequently visited prominent part even with currency. Nature Cayley," doubt whether Mr Spottiswoode quite by illustrious guests. During the present will have her way; and if Germany become comprebonds Professor Sylvester, who la year Mr Spottiswende has exhibited his ex mainly a silver- instead of a gold-asing said to indulge the occasional whim of perimonts in the polarisation of Fight and country, the only effect that seems likely writing a book entirely for himself, on the the latest development of the microphons is to create a greater demand for the less principle recommended by Lord Rescons to the Prince and Princess of Wales and precious metal, and counteract the deprecia- told. It fell out one day at the Royal the Crown Princess of Prussia, who, like tion which has been the souroc of serious Society that a paper by Mr Spottiswoode her sister the Marchioness of Lorne, takes embarrassment to more than one country. came forward for reading and discussion, a keen interest in all pertaining to science Mr Spottiswoode's latest in- and was, according to custom, banded to and art, one of the secretaries-the Lucaslan vestigations have been directed towards Professor, as it happened to read to the the elucidation of the reasons which de Society. Mr Stoken took the paper, as a termine the curious stratification visiblo in sly twinkle illumined the eyes of his brother a glass tube, in which a small quantity of secretary, Professor Huxley, and was begin- Auy gas has been allowed to remain, when ning to read, when the nature of the a current of electricity is passed through it. document in his hand dawned upon him. The effect of the experiment is strangely astily interrupting himself he assured his beautiful, the thinly-spread gas breaking learned audience that the paper before up into a ribbed formation, the bend of the him was utterly unfit to be read aloud,' strato depending upon the direction of the and then proceeded, amid shouts of hilarity, electrical current. to explain the reason why it was unfit for A keen student at home, Mr Spottiswoode

A REPORT has born published from the publication in that particular manner. is also a travelled philosopher.

He has Mils'er of Public Works to the President of the French R public on the subject of a of assignment for one calendar month,

meetings of the British Association, adopt expedition which elicitent from au enthusi. proped railway from Algeria to Soudan.. This Court doth order the period for

In another column will be found a message ed a more elegant method of poking fun at astic sportsman. an Taquiry as to the pros-The sould be 1 250 miles in length, registering the said deed, to be extended

The Minister suggors that a commission for one calendar month from the said 28th from the Pross Commissioner, giving detailed the present President of the Royal Society. pests of the gross in that country, and day of September, 1879. It appears to this reasons why civilian correspondents cannot Mr Spottiswoode, with characteristic mo- started the primeval pheasant on the slopes should bep oluted to exalue the subject, N. Shain, 24, a private in H.M.'s 27th Court that the course which the creditora be allowed to accompany the army. We deaty, refrained from roading at longth one of snowy Caucasus, Gifted like his father, and draw up reports by which a core usion Regiment, was charged with assaulting one have adopted precludes all due investigation cannot do better, perhaps than reproduce of his elaborate papers in the Mathematical whose portrait by Phillips hangs in his might be formed upon the practicab.lity of mere dining room, with a tall figure and tough the outerprise. The President of the Re Chu Anhau, a shair-coolle, on the 30th ult. Into the affairs of the Oriental Sugar Rehere come remarks on this very subject, Section, contoniing himself with a

abstract, made as short and as generally thers and inews as well as a vigorous public hai complied with this sugestioa. Defendant sald he did not remember any finery Co., in which the sald W. McGregor penned by the Bombay Gazette:

"If the prohibition were withdrawn to intelligible as the abstruse natue of the brain, Mr Spottiswoode has, like most of thing about it as he was drunk.

Smith was a partner and in which Kiar Complainant deposed that about 10 p.m. and Wabes both bankrupts were also part-morrow, not half-a-dozen special correspon-subject allowed. Sir George Airy, deter his kinsmen the Longmans, always led an But little given to Leld-sports, on the date in question be, with his partners, Insolvent estates of which the indebted dents altogether would avail themselves of mined to bave his joke, turned the very active life. ner, was carrying his chair in Queen's Road ness is said to amount to $200,000 and the privilege; so that the reasons which mercy of the eminent mathematician into he was, during his University career, an Kast when he met defendant, who seized upward; nevertheless this Court declines the Government has advanced in fustification of food for fan; and, in thanking him in the outbusiastic boating-man, and rowed it the hold of the chair, and tore the oil cloth, responsibility of forcing the creditors to a the course it has takon, are seen to be name of the section for his paper, pointedly University boat when Oxford beat Cam

course which can be usefully pursued only said in Bombay that affairs are in such a for what he had imparted, but for what he water, that is in 1844, the year after the frivolous to the last degree. Already it is observed that he not only merited thanks bridge and the Leauder on the London Defendant then knocked complainant down and kicked him on the hand and immodi. on their willing concurrence.

mess in the Kurrum Valley that Govern- had withheld. There exist persons who memorable raas at Hendley, wou by Oxford ately ran off towards Victoria Barracks.

ment is afraid to allow the truth to come think that the fun of the Astronomer with seven cars, while Shadwell was the His partner procured a constable and ob tained defendant's name at the Barracks. NEWS BY THE INDIAN MAIL.out.' And so it will be to the end. The Royal was unconscious; but those who oracle of the Isis.. Fond of work, it has army will lose far more by the absence of know that, on one occasion, he not only seemed well to him to undertake a yearly Information was laid at No. 2 Station.

independent chroniclers than it will gain wrote a comio song about the late Mr series of lectures on physics to the people The chair was broken to pieces and was

from one-sided and unreliable accounts of Babbage, but procured its insertion in the in his employ, with whom he is, despite quite uselows, with the exception of the

its performances. We trust that Lord Atheneum, wil hardly be of their opinion. his anti-union principles, deservedly po- poles.

No greater blunder could be made than pular.. His friends at Sevenoaks and in Lytton will see his way to re-considering his decision upon this point. The Anglo-to imagine the atesessor of Sir Joseph London mourn sometimes over the time he Indian Press owes him. much. He has Hooker in the presidential chair of the devotes to work, and insist that he gives to helped very considerably to improve its Royal Society as a scientific recluse, buried science what was meant for them. Thers position, as well as to free the Indian Go-in his calculations and the remote solitude is, however, one little coterie which he Forumont from the stigma of catering for of an anchotite's cell. On the contrary, he rarely deserte, even for electricity and optics. favourable public criticism by employing is a man of business and a man of the This is the X Club, which holds its meetings specially favoured journals. It is not too world, who cultivates science as be patro at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-atrest, late to amend the mistake that has been aises art, for his amusement only. The near the Royal Institution. Only ine Simla, 16th September, 7h. 59m, There seems to be considerable mis- committed, a mistake that is certain to be Comédie Frargise, during its past season persona belong to this select society, com apprehension of the reasons for which the made much of by the opposition in England." in London, had no more regular visiter; pared with which Our Club and the Royal It is something new to find any ladian and Mr Spottiswoode is very proud of the Society Clab are large and popular institu Government have prohibited non-combat- ant Press Correspondents from accompany-paper bold enough to assert of Lord Lytton's title of Queen's Priuter' appended to his tions. The members are Sir Joseph Hoo- conduct towards the Indian Press, he came of the booke of Balliol, for which ker, Sir John Lubbock, Mr Herbert Ing the fores advancing on Oabul.

has helped very considerably to improve its College he happened to win a fair amount Spencer, Professors Tyndall, Frankland, date in question. On examination it was

position as well as to free the Indian Go- of mathematical kudes in his undergraduate tiuxley, Fusk, and Hurst, and Mr William vernment from the stigma of catering for days. It may be casually mentioned that Spottiswoode. The summons to the orgiea found to be rotten and very old and ap. posred not to have been used for a long

favourable public criticism by employing since then he has been President of the of this sublime society is in itself a curiosity, timo. The shafts were uninjured. A new

specially favored journals." Why, even British Association, and now fills the highest and object of fear and aversion to the chair without shafts would cost $2.70.-

of transport, or any of the necessaries of our contemporary, the Englishman, in this scientific position attainable in this country, vulgar, displaying merely the letter X Defendant stated he knew nothing life; and everything must be provided by very Cabul business, has had to complain besides being a Corresponding Member of linked to the date of meeting by the signa The of equality, thus: 'X-9,' ́On a few rare about it."

the Government. The difficulties of moy-of the way in which special information was the French Academy of Sciences,

occasions the wives of the festive X's are Defendant was fined $1 for being dranking and maintaining the troops are very given to the Pioner, and deliberately kept office of Queen's Printer is not quite so and ordered to pay $4 compensation to great, and every non-combatant accom- back for two days from other journals on purely hereditary as those of Grand permitted to join in their revels, and the complainant; in default of payment four-panying the force is a distinct cause of this side of India. But there may be Falconer, of Marshal of Englaud, or of card is then marked, X+YY8-9 Pro- teen days' imprisonment with hard labor. weakness not only because everything must reasons for our Bombay friend's lack of that queer partnership known as the Great fessor Buxley and Mr Spottiswoode are Chamberlain, all of which date from ante said to be the life and soul of these hilarious Fine and compensation palā,

be provided for them by Government, but discernment.

spelling times; but it is in the third geno-meetings, the only member who approaches because arrangements must also constantly

ration, and prized accordingly by the Spot them in vivacity being Mr Horbort Spencor, bo made for their personal safety, in a country where the life of no European will

tiswoodes, whose name, albeit lengthened-World, be for a moment safe, if he leaves the pro toction of the troops.

Inspector Rivers in charge of the Wan chal Station, deposed that complainant when he came to the Station was bleeding from a slight wound on the heed. It did not appear to have been done by a kick, He seemed weak and appeared to have lost a good deal of blood.

P. C. 657, Hassam Bux, stated that at the Canton Bazaar be found the defendant being carried by some other soldiers. He was drunk and making a great noise. He also saw, complainant bloeding from the head.

Defondant produced the chair, and de- clared it to be the one he carried on the

STEALING FROM THE DISPENSARY,

Chan Aokun 30, and Pak Asuí 28, coolias, were charged with stealing two bottles of scent, valued $8, from the Hongkong Die- pensary at 10 a.m., this day.

Mr James Jones, assistant in the Dispen sary, deposed to seeing defendant near a glass case by the door. Second defendant was going out of the shop with something in his hand. First defendant was closing the door of the case. The two bottles of scant were found upon them, and are valued at $8. About three months ago a man was arrested on a similar charge, but be hanged himself in his cell before he could be tried.

Sentenced to one month's imprisonment, with hard labor, each.

SUPREME COURT. IN BANKRUPTOY.

(Before His Lordship the Chief Justice, Sir John Emuls.) Thursday, October 2.

TELEGRAMS.

The following telegrams, which we cut from the Indian Daily News, to hand by the Arratoon Apcar (Capt. Mastavish), are fuller than those which we have already published :---

(From the Press Commissioner.)

WAR CORRESPONDENTS,

The measure is purely a temporary one, rendered necessary by the very exceptional circumstances of the ease.

It is impossible for private individuals to precare for themselves, either the means

FURTHER NEWS.

Simla, 15th September, 14h. 35m. Nawab Sir Gholam Hussain Khan has arrived at Ali KheyL

The Bombay Government will furnish the transport and supply for the Candabar

force entirely.

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6, Alexander, 11, Southern Cross, 31, Newcastle, June,

THE PERAK CAMPAIGN. The Naxal and Military Gouette :-The following military officers among others, The Government will be anxious to re- are entitled to the North-West Frontier move these restrictions as soon as possible; Madal, with a Special Clasp for Perak,of numerous learned bodies, has thus a very but the public interesis, and regard for the viz:-Lient. Gen. the Hoa. Sir Francis large business to attend to, and is en-

Prince Bismarck is not afraid to change personal safety of the correspondents them-Colborne, K.C.B.; Major Gen. John Ross, thesiastic on the subject of the traditions selves, make them at the present time C.B.; Cols. E. B. Clay and Rowley Hill, clustored round the old house with the gilt his mind. The experiment of a gold standard absolutely necessary.

Bengal; Liont. Cols. Francis Morley, 1st railings in East Harding-street. Venera for Germany having proved a costly failure, Battalion Baffs; R. W. Davies and Owen tion for the genius loci, however, bas hardly the great. Chancellor is preparing to retrace Strong, late 1st Battalion 10th Foot; M. proved strong enough to disturb his clear his steps. Rumour, as usual, is many-THBAROMETER-9 A... H. Heathcots, Bengal Staff Corps; Majora mathematical perosption of the fitness of tongued; but there is little doubt that J. T. Twigge, Charles Crawford, and Capt. things; and when his reign come, he lost negotiations have been entered into with William North, Royal Engineers; Major no time in presenting the Reynolds' por- the United States aiming at a return to George Young, Capts. G. N. Channer, V.C., trait of Johnson, which had hang in the the use of silver as international currency. and G. F. Churchill, lat Goorkhas; Capts. Queen's Printer's office ever since it was Whether or not the Germans are converts Kerr, Graham, Reeves, Kelly, Lealie, paisted, to Fembroke College, Oxford, to bimetallism, we cannot tell. The rapidity Howarth, and Ommanney; Liouts. Fer-where it is, of course, in its right place (From our own Correspondent)

gusson, Hind, Ozzard, Holme, Chippindall, It has already been pointed out that this from Free-trade to Protection was consum- Bombay, 15th September, 9hs, 40ma.

Kokewich, and Quartermaster Colley, 1st gift of a fins picture was in no measure mated shows that, once he is convinced the A special to the Times of India from Ali Battalion Buffs; Brevet Major Whitla; due to indifference to art, Mr and Mrs good of the Fatherland requires an altered Khey reports that an eye-witness states Captain Huntley, Booth, Elliott, and Spottiswoode having in fact that sound policy, he is prompt to adopt it. If, then, the attack on the Residency lasted from Warton; Lients. Paton, Meyrick, Lowth, appreciation of art-work of all kinds which recent experience has satisfied him that a eight to one. Sir Louis Cavagnari ex and Quartermaster Clay, 1st Battalion 10th loads to the encouragement of contem- monometallic gold currency is not suited for pected something before the outbreak.

Foot; Capt. Hinxman, 57th Foot; Major porary skill rather than to wholesale deal- Germany, we may be sure there will be countries will have little cause to criticise. In the matter of a Deed of Assignment and Artillery was used. Sir Louis Cavagnarl Capts. Howard, Swinburne, Prior, and Morrison, they have discovered one of

The attacking force comprised 4.000 men. Tyler, Brevet Majora Creagh and Bradshaw, ing in ancient bric-a-brac. Like Mr Alfredo needless delay in discarding it. Other In currency, as in economical matters, Trust, pursuant to Section 162 of the was knifed, and the others were shot fight Cole; Lients. Cameron and Hast, and thego wonderful workers in metals, who Germany mist do what seems best for her Bankruptcy Ordinance 1864, dated the ing. The enemy lost 300 men.

Quartermaster Pandery, 80th Foot; Staff after the manner of 30th August 1879, made between WIL

The Ameor had other troops in hand, Paymaster (Major) Bailey, 4th Battalion with indomitable resolution until they own interests, and of these she ought to LIAM MCGREGOR SMITH, therein called but it is said he made no attempt to help. Rifle Brigade; Capt. Peyton, 108th Foot; complete endaring monuments of their be herself the best judge. The divine

It is also stated he was reproached by a Major Huskisson, half-pay, 80th Foot; and genius. The trouvaille, unearthed during a right of consumers to buy in the cheapest pr

market, irrespective of national considera- moolah, who, begged him to save the am-Surgeon Major William Collis. Several trip to Italy, is no other than Ant mio Cur- tions, has never been admitted as the Alpha

assador, but he did nothing. The bodies naval officers are also entitled to the medal. tollazzo of Vicenza, whose chef-d'œuvre

and Omega of German commercial polioy; were horribly mutilated and dishonoured. The recipients will include Capts. Alex. stauds on the mantelpiece in Gr.svODOT-

and as her statesmen have consulted the ander Ballor, C.B.; Fraucis Stirling, and place--a clock in a case of chased and da experience and necessities of the Fatherland Edmund Garforth, who all three served mascened steel, representing the portico of with the Naval Brigade on shore against a cathedral adorned with columns and the Malays. Capt. Bullar was at the time figures of steel and silver, altogether a mar- in command of the Modeste, Capt. Stirling, vellous work, which required five years to who was with the Thistle at Singapore when complete. On either side of this superb the war broke out, commanded the third clock stand candelabra in damascend steel division of the Naval Brigade on shore, and and rock-crystal, derigned and executed by was promoted for his servicon at the attack T. Barkentin, a Swedish artist in metal. and capture of Fassir Sala and Sungai These elaborate works are illustrative-one

as gold is standard in England (the great 'Jong. Captain Garforth was in com. of Literature and Music, the other of the standard for other countries; for so long mand of the Filomel, and had charge of Selence and Art--and are marvellously monetary ventre), even in Germany values

the opposite end of the room the Naval Brigade attached to General execated..

will be determined by reference to it, and Ross's field force. He was especially is a cabinet by Crace, a beautiful piece of thanked for gallant conduct in rescuing the carving in black walnut. On a pedestal is not to silver. We may look on with som Peshawar, Sept. 14. -

general and his staff when surrounded by a bust in marble of the host, by Woolner, posure, therefore, at the experiment. There the circumstances; and that is, that what- It is rumoured here that the 92nd High-the enemy at Kotalama, 4th Jan., 1876, and perh-ps over-Socratic and asssive, but still only one thing we are entitled to ask in

received the thanks of the Lords of the grand rendering of the original, whose Landers have been defeated with Iosa..

It may be that this is only the bazaar Admiralty. Commander John Bruce, late butt-for the Royal Society has been or Germany resolves upon doing she will 29, John Nicholson,

of the Fly, will also receive the medal with confided to Mr. Belt, the young pupil of do quickly, and make known her intention at once. The policy of mystery and surprise rumour, but the story circulates freely.

Very great difficulty is experienced in Perak clasp, to place beside his Baltic, Foley who succeeded in the competition for she has illustrated in her efforts after a gold

and among other recipients of the honour early Italian school adorn the hinder part Khyber force.

Cholera has broken out among the 1st will be Ldents. the Hon. Edward Needham, of the drawing-room; and in consonance good to herself. Had German statesmen 35th British Infantry and the Artillery W. F. Bayly, W. O..C. Forsyth, J. P. with prevailing taste a piece of faded been frank in disclosing the amount of silver bere, and two cases proved fatal yesterday. Pipon, R. I. Wood, T. F. Abbot, R. Poors, tapestry, representing an Italian villa and which they had to dispose of, there would Simla, Sopt, 13. W. T. Warren, J. P. Montgomery, M. 8. garden, looks down on the handsomely never have been the scare in the silver market which produced so much consternation More troops have been ordered to join Beatty; Sub Lisuts. M. G. Smith, T. P. carved sideboard, which is the prominent some little time since: Should Germany Walker, and W. O. Story: Navigating feature of the dining-room, and glows with determine to return to the use of silver, it the Khyber Brigadas,

more try to mystify other countries. The Perhaps the brightest and sunniest room Chief Inspector of Machinery W. Bremner: Mareeque crockery.

fact that she has herself been the chief H. B. Collins; Paymastera "E. N. Firth and T. F. Harrison; Assistant Paymaster Abraham Turner and W. C. Gillies.

the Debtor, of the first part, WILLIAM HENDY BREBETON, & Trustee for the purposes therein mentioned of the second part, and all the several persons Companies, Corporations and Copart- nerships or Firms who were at the date thereof respectively Creditors of the Debtor who would be entitled to prove under an adjudication of Bankruptoy against the Debtor of the third part The motion in the above matter was made by Mr Brereton on the 26th day of September 1879 for an order' extending the time for registering this deed of Assign ment for one calendar month from that

day. The application was made by Mr Brereton "as Solicitor in the matter of the said Deed." I do not understand the precise meaning of this expression, and if the Court has not authority of its own motion to extend the time, it does not appear to me that the Court is properly set in motion by a gentleman merely because Le prepared the Dead and not professing to represent any party to the Deed. I am of opinion that the Court can act on its own motion and

THE NEW LINE TO DADUL.

Simia, 15th September, 8h. The despatch to Sukkur of large quan- titles of railway materials by the East

been countermanded. Indian Railway for the Government has

MOVEMENTS OF SCINDIA. Allahabad, 15th September, 9h 14m. Mabarajah Seladia of Gwalior arrived here from Jubbalpore by special train this morning.

RUMOURS AND CHANGES,

in economical matters, they will do the same in regard to currency. If the issue should be the substitution of silver for gold as the

a bimetallic experiment in conjunction standard of value, or an attempt to concert with America, the effects will probably be beneficial to the rest of the world. either case silver is not likely to become

In

Mr. Brereton having amended bia notice the matter of procuring transport for the Crimean, Turkish, and China war medals. the Byron Memorial. A few pictures of the standard has done harm to others and no

by describing himselt as Solicitor for the Debtor and for himselt, I can hear bla motion. There is no sufficient reason given why the Deed was not registered before Mir Emith left the Colony or why his departure from the Colony might not have been de- *layed till after the registration of the Deed.

There may be satisfactory explanations. on these pointe, but this motion has been

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6, Harrington, 12, Belle of Oregon, 12, Pampero,

23, Josobim Christine, 27, Pym, Fely.

3, Undine, 8, Gleuross, 16, Aurorita, 19, Coinus, 23, Belted Will,

Liverpool

Penarth

New York

Antwerp

Flashing

Cardiff

Antwerp

Cardiff

Antwerp

Cardif

Autwerp

Hamburg

Glasgow

Lendon

Penarth

Penarth

Penarth

Cardiff

Aug

4, Hakon Adelstein (s)

Hamborg

9, Eliz. Rickmers,

Penarth

Hamburg

Cardiff

Cuxhaven

Cardiff

Antwerp

Antwerp

Hamburg Liverpool

24, Primrose, 24, Primus, 25, York Town,

12, Paps, 14, Hesperus, 14, Gleneagles, 16, Minnie Carvill, 17, Coldstream, 18, Glandiaorwig, 18, Bangau, 18, Orestes (+)

Among others two Companies of Sappers. Lient. Pownal Aplin," and C. E. Drake the massive red of Rhodian and Hispano may be hoped then that she will not any 20, Lord of the Isles, (s)- Londen made in a sort of free and easy reliance Lancers; 1-8th British Infantry; and the Fleet Surgeon R, S., Siccams and Surge in Grosvenor-place is Mr Spottiswoode sufferer from the adoption of such a course

1-8th battery of Artillery; the 10th Bengal 24th and 27th Native Infantry.

preliminarios especially in an unopposed Guneral Home, of the Peshawar Brigade,

force,

Allabahad, Sept. 16. Maharajah Solndish arrived here this morning from his journey in the Madras Presidency.

that the Conzt vill sesume all necessary motion. Mr Brereton states that Mears and General Doran, of the Khyber Brigade. Birley & Co, are creditors to a large amount have been ordered to join General Bright's sad he has undertaken that they are con

eating parties to this application. Upon every snob application it is the daty of the Cours to cobader the question whether the delay asked for is reasonable, and its answer mnat be in the affirmative to enable it to make the order naked (2 Griff and. Hol. Bankruptcy, p. 1080) whers there are partien opposing the extension of time, but when the principal parties actively concur and no sque oppoms, it seems to me that the Court

REUTIE'S.

London, 13th September. Consols, for account Rentes 6% (1878)

Bar Sliver

13

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and lined with a select detachment of books

LOADING POL RINA AND JAPAN PORES.

at London.-étanm-r. viä Sues Qának, Braemar Castle. Fiznes Castles Radnorshire,

library, sacred to eci-ntifu and other work, is, perhaps, the best guarantee against a culled from the grat ollection at Combe repetition of the policy of reserve and Bank. This is the oil, looking out on one silence. For the rest, it--as seems vertzin of the m at fashionable thoroughfares in the German people prefer silver to gold, "Tms, dear children, is the shoe of a London, in which sublime mathematical only good is likely to follow from the change, Chinese lady; see how little it is; what a papers are written, and the evolution part from such incidental, and contingent narrow sole it has " Pil bet it isn't as mysterious curves and numbers diligently results as we have alluded to, and which A gold narrow as Deacons. Father says his watched and recorded. A beautifully in can be easily guarded against. soul will fall through sorsok in the floor aid pianoforte-hardly au aid to reflecurrency is the Inxury of a wealthy people, some day and get lost," was the shrill com tlon-stands at the right hand of the which cannot be forced upon a poor country, ment of a hoy given to sharp listening. The writing-table, but its presence is explained recent experience of Germany has given Carmelits & Ida

even though it have a gold standard, The Livingstone. Superintendent put the Chinese shoe in his by that of the hostess, who has her own practical proof of this for the people have pocket, and requested the school to sing desk in the same apartment for the room lung to the demonetised metal, and the Romulus

Fall for the Shore,"

constructed for a boudoir is given up to

Langland. Lucia

Sotah Foo

At Livery of Agamemnon (8.) kg)

At Hamburg,

O. Broughton

#4 Glasgow.