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No. 5145 JANUARY 5, 1880.]

were supplied by Messrs. Falponer and Co. and bear the following inscrption Colliosas-St. Andrew's day, 1879.”

and describes the difficulties

a

and the desolation caused by the long con-

THE CHINA MAIL.

in the Gaceta.

Manila

A new daily evening paper called the Diario de Filipinas will come out on the 1st January 1880.

The Japan Mail sent a reporter tojihe

lows:-

Any one acquainted with the geography of Tokio can realize the amount of destruc tion from the statement that the whole district bounded by Kiobashi and Nihon- bashi on the left and the sea on the right utterly destroyed; while at this moment the flames are carrying on their terrible

is

ProrEsson Max Muller, in an article on plauded. Nevertheless we think that the they are intended to apply to the Chinese

thousand people rendered homeless. The "Freedom," in the new Contemporary Re- article fa marked by great caudour, and, as a whole, or as a majority. Nay, we view, strikes out a quaint iden." Referring with perhaps the exception of one or two question whether ore reading man la

(Translated from our Exchanges.)

whole of the buildings on the island of Ishikawa, at the month of the Samida to John Stuart Mill, he says:If there is paragraphs which deal with the productions hundred pauses as he goes along to admire the The steamer Diamants, which arrived river, including the dockyard and pei e among the leaders of thought in Eng-of the lady members of the Conference, beauty of the character, and thereby atimu hero on the 26th December, from Bong-com, wire burnt. It is known that On Friday evening lost a collision occurred land, who, by the elevation of his character with kindliness of spirit. With reference tato his imagination. The writer might kong, brought $190,000 in silver.

thirty people parished in the fi-m and the calm composure of his mind, to the eassy on "Confuslaniam in its Re-truthfully have said the ideographio ele Although we in Mauilasupposed that the and doubtless time will revent that between the stean-planace of the Fictor deserved the so-often-misplaced title of lation to Christianity," which, was "ox- ment is a powerful stimulant to the imagi- direct mail sorvies between Spain and the many more met with the same terrible Emancial and one of the steam launches, Serene Highness, it was, I think, John sladed from the records of the Conference," nation of the foreign sindent, for he neods Philippines had not been adjudicated, fate. Three bridges, two poitoe stations, Stuart Mill." There is a beautiful fitnees in we can soarosly tell whether the welter has something to asalet him in the study of the because no private telegram was received Shinto temples, many godowne, and a Sing Lee's, plying between Hongkong and the expression; but to work practically fon perused it or not, but should presume that language; but a Chinaman locks on his, to the effect, the result of the adjudication number of jusks anchored in the Sumida You-mah-tl. The Victor Emanuel's pin- the system, country would have to fall had he done so he would not have needed books just as we do on ours, not as picture which has taken place at Madrid convinces river, were also burnt. The following is a mace had undergone the periodical inspec. back on the Chinese plan of annobling only to appeal to his own "personal knowledge books to amuse little children, but as some. na that we were in the wrong. The follow-list of the streets over which the fire awept, sacestora. Yun never know, the prudent of the character of Dr. Logge's pulpit thing to be studied and perused Independ- ing wo find in a periodical published at and will give a faint idea of the extent of tion of her engine and boilers, and on that celestials argue, whether a living man will teaching and an intimiste acquaintance ently of the etymology of each word. It is Madrid resolved yesterday (25th),"At the calamity which has befallen Tokio :-- afternoon, after a few trifling repairs had continue to deserve a title of honour.- with not a for converts he has trained," tovory helpful to a student of a foreign tongue the auction held on Monday last, at the Shimomati-cho, Idzumi-cho, Uhnokogirl- load him to conclude that the eassy would to compare the words with which he meets, Ministerio de Ultramar, for the adjudloa cho, Mimi Saya-cho, Suzuki-oho, Inaba-obo, been effected, went for a trial trip. Mr Pioneer.

ast put "Confucianism upon the same with others in his own er another language, tion of the mall steam service between the Tokiwa-cho. Hon Zaimeku-obo (up to third Carrow, first lieutenant, Dr Brown and the Armeeting of the Geographical Society level with Judalem as an equally direct and and so get out the shades of meaning whlah Peninsula and the Philippine Islands, the ward), Yoshihiro-cho, Matsuya-cho (ap to Rev. Hr Clarke,. Naval Chaplatu, alb-of the of Berlin Dr Nachtigal, President, com

inspired preparation for Christianity." oxist; but the ordinary reader of our Eng. most advantageous proponition was the of third ward), Takahiro-cho, Hon Hatcho

*Confucianiam, soutlayer the writer, was | lish books never stops to think of the beau- Sr. Marques de Campo, who bound himself | bori (up to fifth ward)," Motoshima-che, Victor Emanuel, were on board. On entor-menced the proceedings by reading an ing the harbour it was proposed to pay a extract from report sent by the Hun- the rod zag of the Conference, and was no tiful thought bid under the word man, viz., to do it for the sum of 50,000 pesstas for Okazaki cho (up to regond word), Nan

garian Consul at Shanghai. The journey of sooner waved in the air than somebody that he ie the thinking animal. He reads & rouud voyage. The other proposition sawa-cho Satwal-cho, Nakajima cho, Hi- visit to the Tchang lying alongside the exploration, in which this traveller is (generally an American) answered to the of devil, but it does not occur to him that was made by Sr. Anglada for the sums of blya-oho, Nake-cho, Midzaya cho, Kame- whart opposite the P. & D. Company's engaged, had been so far successful. Ongu." The two or three pages which fol- the word may come from the same root as 50,000 pesetas; and the other two made jima-cho (up to second ward), Kawaguchi- the 29th January he was at Bi-Ngan-fu, the low this somewhat harsh statement are deity comes from, and so few Chinese to by Sra. Ulano, Larrinaga & Co. (the pre-cho, Higashi Minato-cho (up to second office. With this object the pinnace steered ospital of Shen-, and on the 23rd February well worthy of a very careful study, shew stop to think that is fromandant contractors of the service), and by Sr. ward) Yechizen-burl (up to seeind ward), for the wharf, and after passing the bows at Lan-cha-farm town in Kanu. In his the relationship which now axials and or that is composed of and, their not being made in the form published kawa-jima, Minami Hatcho-bort (up to

ing as they do most fairly, in our opinion,

J. Gurri, could not be entertained owing to Hon Minato-cho, the dockyard on Ishi of a steather, met the Ning Hai Econg report he gives a narratiti of the pages, which will eventually exist between the not to mention examples much less obvious Olano y Larrinaga was for 93,000 pesetas, che (up to fourth ward), Irifuni-cho (up to The proposition of Sen. third ward), Shin Minami-cho, Shintomb- leaving for Yow-Mah-il. Some little con 9000 feet high, which were ascended at Chinese system of education (as Con- than these.

There is one more observation of the and for 87,600 that of Sr. Garri, If the fourth ward), Nagashima-obo, Nagasaki- fusion appears to have arisen in steering temperature of 13 degrees below zero (Fahr.), fucian) and the Christian,

We must pass over several pages of inter-reviewer's we feel hound to dissent from, figures, which we take from Et Popular, are cho Dori (up to fourth ward through the the launch, the result being that she ran tinued famine in the provinces of Shen-si, eating matter to allow ourselves time to and in so doing we oppose ourselves to the correct, this service is done at a fabulously eastern lane), Nakabashi Hirokoji (through Into the Fistor Emangel's pinnsee, about Shan-si, and Honan, In Kansu the traces education and literature. And here we "The essayist (au ject, the Native Panto- $90,000 for a rouud voyage. It is believed the Ichome (mastorn lane), Talabast

touch on one or two points relating to essayist under review as well.

We read cheap rate, as in our opinion it is worth the eastern lane), Mataukawa-cho, Teoma three fost abaft the beam, cutting her down of the Aftoen years' Mahomedan rebellion shall probably not be able to agree with all rate) wisely prefers adult converts to rahool here that the servies being adjndicated to Koianbashal. The fire was got under at nearly to the keel. The engine room are still visible, and it is carvel In the remarks of the reviewer, for it seems to convorts for preachers." We should be Sr. Marques de Campo, will be carried on about ton p.m...

repressed. The traveller was about starting artificer and Chinese stoker jumped over for Buchau, twont-five days' march distant peuple may have a claim to be heard from this preference-consists.

un that on these particular subjects other very glad to know wherein the wisdom of in the steamers of the P. & 0, 0, or in It seems to asthoss of the Manfield line; in either case board, being afraid of an explosion in the arrived there, he would decide as to the their point of view. For the sake of those that both the essayist sud the reviewer are they will be under the Spanish flag, as pro scene of the fire on the intelligendo reach-

farther course of the Expedition. bollera. The pinnace pushed on to the

who will not be able to peruse the article mixing up conversion with education. Ifided in the conditions of the adjudication.ing Yokohama that a great conflagration, itself we must be permitted to quote rather it be said, some of our school converts have

With regard to the foregoing, tole- Naval Yard at full speed, and just arrived there in time to prevent sinking. Much ACORDING to the Cabul correspondent of a freely the author's own words. He says, had an education which unfits them for the gram was resolved at Cadiz, from Madrid, was raging, and at 9 p.m. he wrote as fol-

The aim of the paper on Vernacular work of the pastorate, we readily admit it; on the 6th November last, saying: "Campo credit is due to the one man, the coxswain, contemporary "the evidence le dally acorístian Literature is to establish some but in the blame wot rather to be laid at obtained the Philippine mail. who stuck to her and brought her in to the cumulating which wraps the ex-Amit sort of parallel between classical Chinese the door of the trainer than of the trained, Yakub Khan and his ministers in the die and the Latin of the middle age, and to And to say that men converted at thirty, Naval Yard ally, by which time the water

row that the position of the men who are whether ignorant or learned, are to be pre graceful mantle of treachery and deceit, trying to give versions of the scriptures in ferred to meu converted at thirteen and pro-

Some uneasiness were felt at Albay with had risen to within a low inches of the which will prove, one may hope, thele colloquial of the Chinese, is identical with perly trained for their work, till they teach regard to the non-admittants of the Spanish furnace. An enquiry into the circum-shroud: Treacherous, deceitful, bigoted, that of the first translators of the Bible the age when the others were converted, in fiver coins chopped in China by some of stances connected with the collision will proud, and debased beyond all other Esatera into the common tongue of the people." the most absurd idea we have yet seen. the Government departments there, work on the east side of the river, as well no doubt take place, and it is believed that people, the Afghans begin to feel that the We bad often been struck by the apposite. One of two ways wore opon to the relowag North) dated the 20th Dec, says,-Un covered by the fire is far larger than in the

A correspondent from Bacarra (Ilocos | as in the island at the month

The area band of Providence will reach them for news of the comparison, and used it our either (1) to betala from such wasping legal proceedings will be taken against the their many crimes. A got they are lad selves in our simplicity on several ocessions. statements, with which the whole review Sunday last, between 9 and 10 o'clock in great fire of 1876 Then the fimes travell- owner of the launch. The plansee is so gently, but should they continue in their But now we are told that "The ambitious abouads, or (2) to explain his views and the morning, we felt a very strong shooked in the same direction, but not so far.

cause, the grip will tighten. The abomina neas of the parallel is ahead of its accuracy, put himself beyond misconception.

The of earthquake, but neither the Church nor In Tsukiji, the church, as well as several much damaged as to be considered scares ilons, encounters, and bestialities of the Had the power of reading Latin, in the subjecta trested of in the Records are such the houses have sustained any great damage houses and schools, are burat down. people of Cabul, of which I possess the days of the Tudors, been a common the that it is impossible to make staiments by it. Had the phonomenon occurred Messrs. Houso, Bögel; and some of the written proofs, are something too awful to power of reading English_now, had respecting them which apply to the whole shortly before that time, some accidente missionary sociatios are among the chief mention. The mind abrinks from that shopkeepers such a mastery of Latin as to Empire, and human nature which is capable of such have written all their business letters in the inserted here and there to state that this is in the church would have endeavoured to

Having clause should be must have taken place, because the people foreign sufferers.

In the presence of a great calamity of crimes. Not in the worst days of Sodom aguage of the schools; and had the the writer's experience; but one man's come out in a mass at once, as they gene- this nature, organised abarity naturally and Gomorrah could the crimes of the peasants, who could not even read, been experience in Ohina is no rule for another's rally do on such occasions. Several other cannot be applied at once to alleviate the Cabulls have been exceeded. Cuman im- in the habit of flinging off Latin quotations ar experience teaches us that there are shocks were sles fest afterwards, but of less misery of the sufferers. Thousands- D. News over the initials of J. J. Wagination and perverted human passions as freely as Baron Brad wardine in Waverly certain Churches which employ both kinds intensity. In this province the buildings may bay with truth, tens of thousands-of describes himself as "master of a steamer could sink to no lower depth. Are these, the first translators of the scriptures intu of converts specified above, and the school that suffered moat are the royal house and people of both suxes, and of all ages, are

indeed, a portion of the chosen" Are the tongue of the people might not have converts are worth double what the adult the church of Batag.

homeless to-night. They are encamped in trading to Shanghal," says of them :-

all the terrors with which they have been felt the same crying need for their work converts are. We only give our experience,

all the open paces in the neighbourhood of lately visited so many calls to them 7 Never they did." As we read, we rub our eyes bat we should like to know why we should

the fire with their household gods around again can we permit the government of and ask whether we are reading correctly, be charged with folly for employing the

them, a few mate orested to keep off the people to those who are capable of such or, if there is no fault in our reading, best men,

wind, and it is very bitter to-night,—a crimen."

whether our logic is not at fault. The idea

Some able remarks follow on the employ. the writer would seem to convey is that ment of native assistants, and further on met the other evening in the Club, to would be impossible to convey by words hibachi perhaps a few futon, a chest of The members of the Debating Society drawers, a cat, and possibly also a dog. 1 M. Louis BAZANGZON, Spoolai Envoy from the power of reading Chiness now is as the essay on "Ancestral Worship" is celebrate their year's existence, and never stone, to anyone who has not seen them,

Chinese of language and a power of generalisation in favour of a semaphore, which can be to the Court of Sism, has passed through among English people; that

Buccessfully, On the whole the after-suddenly cast adrift in midwinter without in favour of a most any number of Singapore on his way to Saigon. The shopkeepers posse36 such a mastery of that place it in many respects at the head dinner speeches on the occasion were ex-

Some cellent. Both the Legislative Council and of them are chi dren of tender age; many the shelter of a roof-tree. A large number combinations, and also at a long distance object of M. Louis Bartageon's mission is Chinese as to be able to write all their of the whole ollection. off one could easily see which way the to establish friendly relations between business letters in the language of the exception is taken to the author's treat the Civil Service found representatives to schools; and that peasants are quits as

ment of his subject, however, and two or

are old and feeble: some, it seemed to mas, orate on the respective merits of the capable of fl-aging off (whatever that may three pages are devoted to a careful, inter arm or arms pointed, whether up or down, Venezuela and Siam,

were too feebie to carry their blankets to and without having to distinguish whether

Tax Orient Line Stesin Navigation Commcan) Chinese quotations, as Baron some sting review of the same. In speaking of distinguished institutions to which they an open space, and were forced to sit down ball, triangle, diamond, It was a square bar hotated ps and ther dany's new steamer Urient, 6,400 tons, vody in Waverly was of flinglog of Latin the casays on "Questionable Practices in opinions are divided were not lost sa con

belong, and some local matters on which

on the roadside, in the violent biting wind, and clouds of dust, to hearen only knows emphatically Connection with Marciage and Funeral sideration nor absent to disonseion, of perhaps to die. The local authorities ease their arrived in Plymouth Sound on the 6th quotations. Vessels so as to avoid turning round and ult., from London, the run from Gravesend deny. Surely the lines have fallen to the Ceremonies," the writer makes the following course in an incidental way. It is a happy are doing all they can at a pinch by giving being accomphahed in twenty-three hours, writer of the review in pleasant places, if interesting remark, **An enlightened omea that a laudable degree of indepon having to anchor outside the Red Buoy an average speed of 144 knots being obtain anything like the above is true in its The only suggestion I would make that the fomsphore should be of auficiented, although the tide was against the vessel These for eighteen hour. Seventeen knots was height to be soon over the trees. maphores are used on the River Hoogly (to at one time attained. The Orient has in Calcutta), where the dangers of navigation her cosi bunkers 2,750 tons of beat Welsh are much more than trading to Shanghai, cala; but this enormous amount is not believed to be sufficient for the voyage, and can be seen a good distance off.

and the will therefore take in a further supply at Caps Town, where she goes direct The general features of a fire which took from Plymouth, in this way differing from place at Shanghal the other day (the 29th the other steamers of the Orient line, which call at St. Vincent. After embarking at ult.) are worth quoting here at the present Plymouth sixty-five first and second and time, when the air as charged with sufitty-five third-class passengers, and twenty spiolons and ramours of fire-raising. The account is from the N. C. D. Nesortz

ly worth repairing

do

THE new signals at the Woosung Bar not seem to give much satisfaction. A correspondent, who, writing to the N.

C.

I think they are little if any better than the old ones. You certainly cannot read them until you are pretty close to the Red Booy, and even then you require a power- ful telescope. I think when the change was about to be effected, if a few of the abfp-masters trading to the Port had been

Singapore. (Times.)

consulted, they would nearly all have been the President of the republio of Venezuela common as the power of reading English spoken of as "characterised by a piquancy did a social event in Singapore pass off so the torrible position of these poor creatures,

captains would hurry on,

or

this wo

But we are

33

Police Intelligence. (Before 0. V. Creagh, Esq) Monday, Jan. 5.

DRUNK AND INCAPABLE,

Hermine, not having quite completed the

STEALING IRON.

food to all comers; missionaries also, to

dence is shown in the public discussion of their hon sur be it spoken, are, to the important questions here, and the Debating extent of the power, giving shofter i bud, city has contributed in no small degree in a few cases, private individuals have 30% to effect this end.

to work to assist the homeless creatures. Business fortunately is briek, and as to this congestion I o nuot refrain from freights have advanced considerably it mentioning the case of one gentleman who, would be advisable for shippers not to neglect the fact. The vesselen port are happily situated, as their agents are maa- ters of the situation for the nonce, but anon we shall, probably, have an influx from Home and other ports.

Christian conscience will condemn the we live even in a literary of tome of ou, practices that are absolutely evil in their who live a literary neighbourhood, tendency, and social usages that may have is that the Chinese taken as a whole are originated in superstition will lose all their most lamentably ignorant of anything ap vitality as Christianity exhausts old ideas It is not of their force, just as living things die proaching a classical education. tras of the Chinese (it may be true of a fow when placed under a receiver from which towna or districts) that they can read the air has been withdrawn." the Chinese language as we can read English. It le not true that abopzeepers (except in the more literary places) can write all their business letters in the auguage of the saleols. Of the peasants in the greater part of China it would bə eight sacks of mails the Orient was des quite true to Bay-they don't know a

GREAT FIRE AT TOLIO. patched at 2.30 P.M., with 116 first, 138 great A from a bull's foot" second, and 875 third-class passangere, &ed on **Not only does_the_production Joseph- Anderson, 40, of the Prince Private advices state that one of the most total of 624 for Adelaide, Melbourne, and of colloquial versions involve a waste of Frederick and John Henrickson, 25, of the fearfully destructive fires which, has ever Shortly after 12 o'clock on the 29th, a

strength, but in some cases it is a positive fire broke out among some small Chinese dolor is the number of detriment to the work," (The itaics are celebration of the New Year, admitted taken place in Tokic, the City of Fire, took honse immediately adjoining the Parsee persons on board is 776.

ours). When we speak of a "waste of being in the ab ve mentioned condition, in place on the 26th ult. At the date of the Cemetery. The "Deluge" and the Tor rent" took up their places by the Hupeb A REUTER's telegram, dated the Hague results are not proportionate with the ex- one dollar, in default two days' imprison was impossible to estimate the number of strength" we generally understand that the the public streets yesterday, and were foed latter we quote from, 27th December, it Road Bridge over the Tang-king-pang 26th Nor., states, we read in the Straits pense. But surely our writer has never ment. Creek, while the Victoria" pumped water from the pond by the Polytechnic. The Times translations from the Sumatra Cou-triot of China, or he would not speak thus. learned the colloquial language of any dis-

houses burnt, but as the fire extended over fire was got well under control soon after rant of the 29th uit., that the Firstf he is only learned in the language of

a mile in one direction, and perhaps nearly one o'clock although the labors of the fire-Chamber of the States General has passed the schools" we forgive him this, but we with entering the premises of the Honga mile in the opposite direction, there must

Man Akwai, 82, a coolie, was charged men were not then concluded. number of houses destroyed was about a bill to grant a subsidy of 40,000 guilders ment, that in some cases it (ie. the pro- patent slip, West Point, and ateaing a hurricane was blowing at the time, so that must challenge himi to prove the last state kong and Whampoa Dook Co., at Sands's be some thousands of houses. A perfect twenty. It is reported that a child three for mail service between Java and China duotion of colloquial versions) is a positiva years of age lost fts life.-Referring to this Hire Mr. Minok Informs us, through Mr At present the N. 1. 8. N. Company, under heard it remarked by Bible women and ant deliberately wall into the premises nothing could arrest it. As the Japanese

detriment to the work, We have often pics of iron.

Jangur Khaz, a watchman, saw defend. the fire leapt the canals and stresta; Charrier, that he was passing the locality a contract concluded in 1877, is running a at the time the fire broke out, and im-steam line between Batavia and Australia visitors that when they begin to read the and pick up a plecs of iron and put it celebrate the New Year according to the mediately rashed into the premises and five times a year for a subsidy of 100,0.0 colloquial version of the scriptures to the under his jacket. On being arrested he did all in his power to stop the spread of guilders, but meets with much difficulties common people, at once they say Why denied the theft although he had the iron English style and make it a rule to buy the famas. He was met by some ten or in carrying on this servics that it will have we can understand that, you read just an

la his possession.

about Christmas time all manner of good twalvs Chinese, who handled him very to throw up the contract muless it be modi.we spoak; we have never listened to any

Sentence, twenty-one days' imprison-show-chow" and clothes, the loss to the roughly in his endeavours to put it out, fied. The Company has, however, declared thing so intelligible before." The writer

ment with hard labor, and forced him from the building. After its readiness to run a line between Soura continues, "In districts where the standard of education is uniformly low (and these in getting clear of the Chinamen, Mr Miock baya and Australia four times a year, and

SNATCHING EARRINGE. again entered the barning house and also to maintain steam communication four our experience are very numerous], they

Chan Akwat, 22, a hawker, appeared endeavoured to stop the destruction of times a year between Bourabaya, Macassar, will be comparatively harmles. (1). In dis before the Magistrate charged with one of the privations attendant on their want of the premises, but was again prevented by Mantis, and Obina, should the subuïdy for triots, again, where the standard of educa-those impudent robberies from the person food and shelter on a soverely cold and the Chiness, and was actually forced into the Australian line con inue to be 100,000tion is high, and a colloquial siterature of which have been very frequent of late. the flames by them In large numbers, guilders, and 40,000 guilders be allowed in and only succeeded in getting away after addition for the China Has. The Govern- having his eye-browa, whiskers, hair, ment has accepted this proposal. and face burnt to a considerable extent. Immediately afterwarde Mr Charrier and his brigade, with their usual promptitude, being the first on the spot gave, Mr. Minck

• every assistance. It seems as if the Chinese wished the fire to spread.

respectable order existe, colloquial versions

LARGENY OF CLOTHING.

poor people is something heart-rending, and those who suffered had to bear besides

albeit not given to the melting mood, vrde ed rics to be oəkəd, rough shelter to suffarers to be invited to partake of both; be set, and as many as possible of the

and sil this on the ruins of his own house. The case is oue within my own observation, and it caused me to think of human nature when I saw a man, for- getting his own mi fortune, give his time, money, Bud possibly also he health, to language and anothe race, and doing all mitigate the distress of people of another this so anos entaoously that I doubt if ang one, except those rel eved, and even not all of those, will ever know who their bene factor was.

i have heard as yet of no loss of life, nor am i la a position to make even an pproximate estimate of the number of houses burat.

Shipping Intelligence. The following is corrected from the latest ndon and Colonial Papers, dro :---

VESSELS TO ARRIVE.

31, Newcastle,

Jutha

27, Pym,

July.

19, Comus,

24, Primrose, Aug,

9, Eliz. Rickmers, 16, Minnie Carrill, 17, Coldstream, 18, Glandinorwig, 18. Валоа, Sept.

13, Heola,

5

AT HONGKONG. Left. Name. May.

5, Alexander,

From

Penarth

Antwerp

Antwerp

Glasgow

Penarth

Penarth Cardi#

Antworp

Antwerp

Hamburg

Penarth

Cuxhaven

London Cuxhaven

Cardiff

Liverpool

Flushing

Flashing

Antwerp

London

New York

Penarth

Antwerp

London

Hamburg Penarth

13, Carmelita & Ida,

20, Lucia, 28, Livingstone, Och.

3, Parnas,

9, Ganymede (s.) 16, Peru,

miserably dirty night. A few foreigners | will be comparatively harmless. (That tay

Un Aching, the complainant, was walk- we presume, as compared with the nativo ing along Hollywood Road on Saturday also were burnt out and a small portion colloquial literature. We fail to see any evening, when she felt some one snatch of the foreign settlement was destroyed. compariso]. But in districts, again, where the ring from her card. Prisoner was the Further intelligence places the number of THE SHANGHAI MISSIONARY the standard of education is high, and only one near her at the time, and was

houses destroyed at no less than 6231, and CONFERENCE,

where no colloquial literature exists higher arrested while trying to make his esospa. in character than the literature of the Defendant was only released from gaol the sad extent of the destruction and (Communicated.)

London maurie halls, the dissemination of on the 1st November last ou completion of suffering is rendered more painful by the Through the courtesy of a kind friend the colloquial versions must prove sa in-for belog in unlawful possession of additional statement that between twenty

term of three months' imprisonment we have had the pleasure of reading a very siculable mischief (1)" Such affirmations Tan Late Viceroy was considered by some able article on the above subject in the mist views of the kind of reception which

and thirty lives were lost during the fire. athene should be backed up, not by pessi-a pair of silver estrings,

Soutance, six months' imprisonment

The following notes of the fire are from Chinese a cruel ruler. A Chinese Viceroy London Quarterly Review for April, 1879. the literats will give to these colloquial

with hard labor. has the power of life and death in his govern- The article is in fact a review of the Re books, but by facts which prove that mis

the Japan Gazette of the 27th :- ment and Shen-pao-ching exercised this power

It is with great regret we have to chroni-17, Chill, with unusual rigour. It is said that no less cords of the General Conference of the Pro. chief has already followed their publica- tion. Next follows a most unguarded state-

cleanother of those disastrous conflsgrations 24, West Glen, than 4000 persons were decapitated during festant Afissionaries of China, held at

26, Palestine, his term of office. Justice was not tempered Shanghai, May 10-24, 1877, and is written, ment with respect to Romanised versions,

with which the city of Tokio is annually visited. It broke out at 12 o'clock yester-25, James 8. Stone,. with mercy in his mind; at the same time, with the field of Chinese Mission work, Amoy friends for consideration and refuta

which is in the central part of the sity, close we should think, by one who is familiar which we would heartily commend to our

day in an eating house in Bakuya-oho, we must remark, this is a means of govern-

26, Bernhard Carl, (for ment that meets with the approval of the and more particularly, if we may judge on A Romanised version is, after all,

to Nihon-bashi. It was blowing a gale et

Sratow) conservative Chinese; to be a terror to evil-From the congluding remarks, with the he adds, an inset and inanimate thing to

30, Marie Luise, - the time and within thirty minutes of the Nov. doers is held to mark & Viceroy as a good Canton District. It gives first a brief sum the Chinese rolad, and is a more than quas

outbreak the city was on fire in zeven governor. In fast, the Chinese of the old mary of the subjects brought before the tonable investment of labour and money (11).

5, Escambia (5) different places; burning shingles were way of thinking, who view the gradual Conference, then proceeds to take up the

11, Nautilos, Let the good people of Foochow mark Wong Aaing, 17, a hawker, appeared, fiying about as thick as hail, and were introduction of modern progress into China says in order and deal with them one this well, are they carry out their soheme charged with stealing a hat from Tam Akit, carried long distances by the wind settling

18, Ellida, with disapprobation, who would desire the by one, **Most of the essayiste (says the for wanting the Society's money.] Words cook,

on other houses and natting fire to them, LOADING present stage of her civilisation crystallized, writer) seem impatient of the texts to are robbed of all their pictorial suggestive- Defendant had been twice previoualy The scene is said to have been terrible.. who oppose the irresistible tendency of the which they have been picketed by the com- ness to the Chinese ege by being represented convicted in 1878 for gambling and lar- Strong men were running about in a state

At London world to advance, who would preserve China mittes of arrangements; and the lack of through the Roman character. The ideo deny.

of bewilderment with old men, old women Koumure Castle. from contact with the spirit of the age, will agreement between the papers and their graphic element in a Ühinese character is b

He denied the charge and said that ano-and children on their backs; mothers Flintshire. probably regard the memory of the late titles, suggests the idea of a general stam powerful stimolant to the imagination, and her man stole the hat and threw it near dragging along their little ouse, boat only Killarney. Viceroy with hallowed feelings of regret, pede. With such a remark at the outset, keeps reading from becoming lasden and defendant. and honour the destroyer of the Woosung we shall not wonder if we do not find the insipid.

on saving their lives. All day the fire We must say we serious y que#- He was sentenced to six months' impri- raged with the utmost furg. Teu thousand Crossfield. Bailroad as a Patriot Slatesman. Mereurs efforts of the Espiste very loudly ap❘tion every word in these last statements, if sonment with hard labor,

| kousen are said ta haze been burnt and fifty | William Bitson.

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Chan Alai, 30, a coolie,, leaded guilty to the theft of a jacket from a stall in Queen's Road West on the 3rd instant. vlotion in February last, was now sentenced Prisoner, who admitted a previous con- to six months hard labor, and to be ex- posed in the stocks for six hours.

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