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of Labuan, and Mr Palgrave, the Consul General for Siam, will proceed uext month to their respective destinations.

It is proposed to have frequent meetings of the members of the Nipon Institute, and ladies and gentlemen interested in pane e art, Ilterature, da. The Royal Asiatic. S. ciety and the Society of Arts have kindly granted the use of their rooms. Meotings are being arranged In other localities also.

The prospectus of a tout round the world in 600 days, in the course of which numerous planos of interest are to be visited, has been issued by Mr G. 8. Dad- man, of Liverpool. The route goes to the east and west coasts of North and South America, then to some of the groups of the Pacific, and to Now Zealand and ustralia. After that they will visit Japau, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Saigon, the Straits Settlemente, India, Egypt, Constantinople, and different places to the Mediterranean. Mr Dedman has also published a volume entitled A Fayage Round the World, giving An account of the principal parts to be visited, with a brief description of the scenery, and acomparted by Ilustrations, maps, and a chart of the proposed route.

▲ correspondent writes :-An assistant paymaster who was lately appointed to a ship fitting out for the Chius atation, but who has since been superseded, is about to be tried by court-martial on charges framed by the Admiralty, arising out of circum

THE CHINA MAIL.

Your, So...

UPSET.

LIMA UPON THE CONDITION OF

The Athenaum Lisbon Correspondent writes:-The International Literary Con. THE UNITED STATES MINISTER IN atheist is excluded because he does not gress has already officially intimated to the Portuguese. Government that the proli- minaries are arranged for drawing up the programme of the subjects to be discussed

THE CHINESE IN PERU. The following is an 'extract of a Despatch from the C. S. Minister to the Secretary

Mr. Walnewright I withdraw the re- mark.

Mr. Henderson-I said nothing of the kind,

Mr. Wainwright--You spoke of squeez ing, which is a name for something like robbery.

Mr. Benderson-I must dofend myself for 1 did not call people thieves and

hore and I insist - "The Court-Mr_Wainewright bas with drawn the remark. friend's speech was taken up with attacks Mr Wainewright said all his learned on Chinese witnoases, and he felt hound to

ASHQGİRTEN

HEPWORTH DIXON,

Russia," à volt.; meantime, however, had appeared the first volume of "Her Majestys Tower," which has already passed through seven editions. The work has since beog completed in 4 volumes. His next work,

ruent in favour of opening the Tower of London to the public-a movement to which Mr Disraeli at once assented. Mr Dixon bas taken a leading part in establlab- ing Shaftesbury Park and other centres of improved dwellings for the labouring class08, His latest works are "Diana,

OHINESE EVIDENCE. General Grant's grand tour round the chair coolies in Queen's Road evidently de world. The festivities will continue for not know which side to keep; and that it

In the U. S. Court for the Consular eight days, beginning on the 16th inst would be a charitable act to print a few district of Shangbai-on the 16th instant, A telegram from Faris announces that Mr John Hollingshead, the Manager of hundred notices and distribute them among before D. H. Bailey, Esq., Consul General, Admiral Duburquois, commanding the the sloty Theatre, has accepted the like the coolies telling them to keep to the sitting as Judge; and Mr Clark Blethen French Squadron in the Uhins seas, has post at the Olympic, where an original loft. But," said my friend, what is the aud Mr T. Basset, As ociates, in the case

The Switzers," appeared in 1879, and been ordered to take possession of Tng comedy in three acte, entitled Suh a Good rule"? "Of course," I replied, "the rule of Fan Chong, v. C. A. Smith, Mir Waino

was followed by the History of Two king. The statement must be taken cam Man, written by Mears. Walter flerant on every carriage-road in to keep to the wright for the plaintiff, Mr Henderson for

Queens, Catharine of Aragon and Anne and James Rice, authore of The Maxks ny left." So it is in-England; but here it is the defondant, a discussion aroke as to the grand salis.

Boleyn," 4 vols., 1878-4. Mr Dixon was A French man of war on the way to India Thelema, and Ready Money Murtiboy, is to different." Upon saying which, my friend value of Chinese evidence which is worth

appointed magistrate for Middlesex in and China has received orders to stop at be brought out The comedy le incidentally turned to an Ordinance of the Colony, ap reproducing. Mir Henderson's address is

1869. Politics and public life bave divided Massawab, and to stay there should events a satire upon sparious philanthropy, but it pareatly of recent dete, in which it was thus reported by the Mercury:

his attention with history and travel. He in Abyssinia render its presence necessary presents a pathetic story connected with printed"Sedan chairs shall keep to the

Ho said-Section 4086 of the Revised

public questions. He is a strong Liberal, is constantly addressing meetings on for the protection of French citizens. the struggles of an inventor whe is defraud-right side of the road." After this I made

a point of looking once more at the single Statutus of the United States provides

but with Conservative views on religion A new Extra-European Code Vocabulary, ed of the fruits of his ingenuity. One containing 25,000 picked words, selected by scene bears au obvious resemblance to the lantern which professes to give any light on that the jurisdiction of the United States refer to it in passing. He did not, how. and Church England. At the general an official of one of the landing telegraph leading incident in the drama of Arkwright's this subject, and behold, it said to the Courts in China shall bo exercised accord

left," both in English and Chinese! Which ing to the laws of the United States, so far, propose to instruct the Court and election of 1868 a high class committee companies, will shortly be published by Wife.

in their relative duties sad brought him forward for Marylebone, but Merers Steaker Bros. and Co.".

The death ia announced from Paris of is correct, the ordinance or the lantern ? It as they are suitable, and where deficient or functions; and he apprehended that it was ho declined the candidature for reasons is a well-known fact that in Chinese streets not adapted, the common law shall ha spot his duty to inatruot the officials of the which he stated at the time. In 1870 be Mr John Campbell Mac enzin, attached to the staff of Walignani's Messenger since the "rule is always to the right." The pliod. Section 858 enacts that no witness

Court as to the manner of cautioning a was elected to the London School Board, 1848, and for many years its principal opposite rule is confusing to them; and I shall be excluded from testifying in the

witness or administering an oath, and v │of which he has been an active membor, reature to suggest that one solitary notice U. S. Courts on account of Colour or was, not his province to tell the official having identified his name with the now editor.

The Lords of the Admiralty have called on a glass lanters, which is contradicted by interest, but in all other respects the laws Interpreter what words he was to use; and systors of training and drill, and carried a a printed ordinance, is utterly insuficient. of the State in which the Court is held he took it that the Court would always se resolution establishing drill in all rate pald for a return of the whole of the officers the various dockyards who have stained Might not the rule of the road be printed shall regulate the competency of witnesses. that the witnesses were properly sworn fr schools. In 18-2 the Emperor of Germany sixty years of a.s, or who are approaching along with the number on every chair, in The laws of the United States being thus cautioned.

bey all knew that it was created Mr Dizon a Knight of the Order of sixty, with the view of placing them on the Chinese and English, for the sake of safety deficient in rules for regulating the com

ifficult to get a hinese witness to under- petency of witnesses in Courts in China,

tho Royal Crown. He spent the summer retired list. It ban long bean a matter of to human life ?

the common law must govern. By the

tand a question, or to give a prope months of 1873 in Spain, and in Sept., complaint that officers have boon allowed

answer, but as to the witnesses in this cas Common Law, "al persons insensible to the

1874, started for a long journey in the to remain until they chose to retire, thus

obligation of an oath" are incompetent to regard to untruthfulness ware aalled for; end of March, 1875

he did not see that he strong remarks in { Great Wost, from which he returned at tho stopping promotion.

Before setting out testify. (Greenleaf, sec 868, 871). The it seemed to him that the Chinese won this journey, ho commenced a more- esses had given their evidence in a believe in the existence of a God, and it is

Barmable and straightforward way no far therefore useless to administer an oath to

they could do it He then proc-ode him calling on God to witness what bo Lo deal with the case. says. Lunatics and Infants are excluded and understanding to tell the truth. In bocause they bave not sufficient memory famous pe sons are excluded because they

The Indian telograms toll us of the death are so regardless of the difference between truth and falsehood, and insensible to the of Hepworth Dixon. We take the follow restraining force of an oath, sa to render it o tremely improbable that they wing notice of his life and works from speak the truth at all. (1 Greenleaf, sec. 372.) The two latter causes operate to rouders Chiasmau both incredible and Temple, historian and traveller, descended Dixon, William Hepworth, of the Inner incompetent an witness in a Christian from an old Puritan family, is the son of in Chinese Courts for eliciting truth, is not Burton, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Court, where torture, the principle reliance Abner Dizon, of Holmfirth and Kirk used, and where the action of an oath is and was born at Manchester, June 30, 1821. the parity and truth of oral evidence, and act tragedy, which was privately printed mising appearance, arrived from Chang- the chief provision of the law for secaring Mr Dixon's first literary effort was a five-

(Herald, Jau, 14) A tiger cub (quite a baby tiger) of pro- without which it is thought the purposes The early volumes of the Illuminated chow a few days ago, and has since been of justice are not accomplished. Whatever

Magazine, edited by Douglas Jerrold, hawked round the Forrige Settlement. may be the cause of the general untruth. fulness which characterises the Chinese, its initials. At that time he was acting as

contain several poems with his name or This interesting little stranger may be existence is a matter of common notoriety; literary editor of a paper at Cheltenham, whether it be the ignorance of the Divine which place he quitted for London in 1846, declaration that all liars shall have their and entered as a student at the Inner part in that lake which barns with fire and Temple. He wrote a series of papers in Chinese government system which makes Lower Orders," which were precursors of in various ways; prinolpally policy on hits officers depsud on squeezing and extor part of their employers, and partly becausstion for their compensation, thus creating tion of the London poor.

Henry Mayhew's inquiries into the condi- the sune the Chinore who have been here such the very necessity for prevarication and

paper appeared another series of articles, themselves and their property; certaiu il entitled "London Prisone." In 1849 he is that no dependence can be placed on a eigners are concerned; indeed, it is thought in one year. The special object of this Chinaman's word in matters where for published John Howard, a Memoira hook which passed through three edition s clover and praiseworthy to lie for the work was to place the labours of Howard purpose of getting the better of a foreigner. in their proper relation to the literature his feeling souna to vervude the entire and history of the period. The volume to the lowest coolio. Call John Chinaman and New York. In 1850 Mr Dixou wAB Chinesa race, from the highest mandarin

has often boen reprinted both in Loudon a liar and prove him one, and be only appointed a Deputy Commissioner to the bland;" the habit with him is so fixed Great Exhibition of 1851, and was suc- smiles with a smile that is child like sud Royal Commission for carrying out the that it may be said to be instinctive, and cessful in organizing one hundred coni

alaucos which occurred while be was serving in a coast-guard ship.

at the meeting to be held in Lisbon next spring. According to rumour it appeste all that appertains to trane ations will be of Stato (Mr Gibbs to Mr Fish), published largely studied and debated, and that an the Diplomatic Correspondence of the basis will be fixed for the ratification of U. S. for 1877. The letter is dated Lega literary convention among the countries tion of the United States, Lima, Peru, interested in the matter."

November 13, 1876, (and is marked as having been received Dec. 14) ;---

Mr hdward Jenkins, M.P., following the example of Dickens, purposes, it is said, appearing on the platform as a reader of his own works, and will shortly afford the public the opportunity of bearing his

interpretation of "Ginz's Baby."

THEATRE.

Last night Mr George Norville's Com. pany gave "Our Boys" at the Garrison Thontro to a large audience. The Com pany shows most effectively low little it has lost in the secession of Mr John Jack

the Butterman was excellent; the part was eren better done than by the gentleman who filled the role when the Company was here

SIE,-

devoted some attention to the status of the Since the receipt of your despatch I have Chinese in this country, having previously noticed the manner in which they were visited some of the large sugar estates ad treated, and also have gathered information from trustworthy persons who testified to Republic their treatment at various places in the

•

I think there has been a great change for the better latterly, as I seldom now see articles in the papers of their revolting against the overseers of the plantations, parts of the country. I account for tl

Men of the Time:

Lady Lyle," a novel, 3 vols, 1877, and "Ruby Grey," a novel, 3 vols., 1873. Ha is the President of the Touis Sol Fa Teachers Association, a member of the Council of the Olympian Association, and a fellow of many learned societies, both home and foreign.

China.

FOOCHOW,

The Comus, 14, screw corvette, 2383OUR BOYS" AT THE GARRISON tone, 2,300-bores power, Capt. J. W. East, which has been on a preliminary cruise pre paratory to her departure for the China station, bas arrived in Sheerness harbour In order to have some important alterations mads in bor interior fittings.

The Tyne, troopabip, Commander Stokes, having embarked at Woolwich Captain Alexander, R E., Capt. Spens and Lieut. Jariott, 3rd Font, Surgeon Blenuerlasaett aud Miss Annie Firman. Mr. Brookes na and believe they are treated better in all brimstone," or whether it be due to the the Daily News on the "Literature of the Jih-chaug popularly known as Tin: Fu Cai, (late Sinclair), of the Army Medical Depart ment, and a number of men, four women, and four children, for kina and the Straits Settlements, proceeded to Portsmouth to embark twenty-one men Royal Artillery, for last; and Miss Emily Blain, who took the length of time bave acquired a knowledge lying by the people in order to protect afterwards revised and enlarged in a work high office in Foochow will be promoted to Qaylon; twelve men Royal Artillery, fur Sluxapore; seventeen men Royal Artillery, and ninety-three men 27th Foot, for Hong- kong; and the following officers-Major Phillpotta, Royal Artillery; Major Hais, Captain Godbold, and Leuts. Mayne and Murray, 27th Foot; and Surgeon-Major Jessop, Army Molical Department, Liouts. Barclay and Davidson, 27th Foot; Capt. Ternan, 3rd Foot; Lieut. Parkinson 102ad Fopt; Assist. Commissary-General O'Connor, and various details will join the Tyne at Queenstown on the 11th iust.

part of Mary Melrose, the poor cousin, was a great and welcome improvement on the somewhat vulgar interpretation of Miss Firman. Misa Blain is artistic, dignified and natural in all her efforts. Mien Minnis Nordt ns Violet Melrose plessed us very madh. She bad more to do than in the part in which she appeared on her firet performance bero; and the character she

of their rights and damand them.

Here in Lima, nt Callso, and other ports them who have served the time of controt on the coast, there are great numbers of or have in some cases purchased it, and they enjoy all the rights due to any citize resident of the Republic, and, as far as tented. à great many of them are occupled I can see or judge, are happy and con. as house-servants, principally as cooks- bouses or cook-shops kept by Chinese, and in all parts of the city are small eating they are well patronized by the poor people,

Among the officers who had received the had to fill suited her very well. The where they get more and better food for so powerful that it is next to impossible mittecs out of the three hundred that were

distinction of O.B. for their services in Zululand are two who have served in Ubia. Colonel Richard Harricon, C. B., Royal Engineers, bet ved during the China war of 1860, and was present at the affairs of Sinho and Tangko, and slego and capture He was attached to the of the Taku Foria. quartermaster-general's staff during the advance on and surrender of Peking, and present at the affairs of Sinho and luan- Phoquentioned in despatches, modul with

Boys' and the other parts were filled by the Ladies and gentlemen who took them on the two occasions when it was produced bere a short time ago, and to write of them would only be to repeat the high praise we then gave them. The "Pink Dominoes," which has caused such a sensation at the Criterion, is to be iren at the City Hall to-morrow two ciaspa, and bravet of major). Lieut.- | night, when we hope to see a full house, Colonel Francia T.. Advane Law, 0.8., Royal Artillery, served with the expedition to China in 1860, and was present at the actions near Tangchow, and aurtender of Peking (modal with clasp).

Admiral Sir William King Hall was pre- sent at the opening of the drinking fountain erected in memory of the late Mrs Smitbies at Wood Green, and in the course of a speech on temperance and religions matters he said :-I may say that alter over fifty years' service in Her Majesty's Navy, and during that time having been in many foreign lands, as I stand on this stone, and in God's sight, I believe the greatness, liberty, and happiness of this country is granted to us beca-se the Sabbath days are hallowed, and our Bible. free and open to all. It is a day of rest and my friends working men especially-at your faces like a flint against any attempt to deprive you of its rest and sacredness, I will tell you a little story which made a lasting impression on me, showing the blessing which we enjoy in that rest, and brought to my notios by Chinese pilot--a moat intellectual man. Twenty-two years ago commanded the Calcutta at Hongkong. Divine service had been performed, and the crew, several hundred, were of course undisturbed on the Sabbath day. On shore, close to us, were houses being built; Baw- yers and masons, and others, in quarries hard at work; when, tuching me. be said very seriously, Your Joss is better and kinder than our Joss, for he gives you holiday and rest one day in soven, and we've one day in all the year, on New Year's Day." Their word "Joss" means God. And this is the case. Just picture working hard from morning till night for 364 days, and one day of rest! and then prise the Babbath.

The P. & Company's steamer Indes, which sailed from Southampton on the 2nd inst, as an extra steamer for Australis, arrived at Malta on the 10th inst. She experienced a terrific hurricane in the Bay of Biscay and lost four boats, which were replaced at Malta, and the steamer pro- seded on her voyage. The passengers and crew were all well.

By a vote of 524 against 3 the Chamber of Deputies has granted to the Government 5,000,000 francs (£200,000) for the relief of the distress at present existing in France, In moving for this grant M. Lepore, the Minister of the Interior, announced that If thin sum should prove in uficient the Government would not beaitate to mako further demand on the Chamber.

SUPREME COURT"

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. (Before the Full Court.)

SANDS U. FORDES,

lu this case Mr T. C. Hayllar, instructed by Mesa e Brereton and Wotton on bebait of Mr W. H. Forbes, the sole acting executor of the estate of the late G. D. Sands, moved the Court to be allowed a commission for managing the estate.

In the course of the hearing it was men tioned by Mr Hayllar that the out-turn of the estate would be about $220,000 to $230,001.

porchav-l, we ûnderats.d, för the small old ike to have a nice duck" of -mum of $100 :—8), if any of our fair readers drawing-room pot, now is their opportunity. It is rumour d in native circles that Ting (Governor Tin:) bat now bearing the rank f Che-t ai (overnor-General) is likely to obtal the viceroyalty of this province sad that the present incumbent of that

the more important viceroyalty of the Limog

ing Jih chang is a high favorite in this Liag, reudered vacant by the recent decease of Shen ao chan. His Excellency ovises amongst all classes except the official,-by whom he is feared as a sa- pucted former. Ting's appointment to foreigners for whom he has invariably ́oochow would not be unos ptable to

"rofessed a high regard ; but in the opinion of many be somewhat tarnished his raputa- ion for straight-desling by his recent conduct of the Wu-shih-shan inquiry, and his failure to punish the rowdy literates

rasful anti-foreign fem ustration. who wore directly implicated in that dis

less money than with the natives.

for him to leave it off, even where he established. In 1851 appeared the Life Streets fronting on the large markets and honestly tries to be truthful. An eminent of William Penn" in which Macnulay's those leading to tem are so much filled Christian missionary, who has spent nearly charges against the founder of Pennsylvania by Chinese grocers, tailors, shoemakers, thirty years in China, uot long ugo said to bakers, butchers and other tradesmen that, me, in speaking on this subject, that he poured

were first met and refated. In 1862 mp walking around se-ing th people, their did not know a native Christian in all his General at Sea," a volume in the composi-puing by the captain and officers of that

"Robert Blake, Admiral and shops and sizes, you could easily imagine acquaintance who was free from the habit,tion of which Mr Dixon bad the advantage

and it was a frequent occurrence for them of help from Lord Dundonald. that you were in a Chinese town.

As the Chinuman is labori us and industo express the greatest sorrow and con-

Both trious, being satisfied with em gains and trition at their atto inability to avoid it; several editions in England and in the Pon" and " Blake" have gone through having a luxurious vices or habits, ha mila Lauch was the stringshunt the habit withecofted States. à enarged edition of |cheaper and gives a tester article for less governments of Christendom bave united in money than shopkeepers of other nationall-declaring that Chinese Courts are unworthy of their confidence in treaties which are

ties.

I suppose that these shops which were originally started with the idea of catchlug the trade their fellow-countrymen as they came to the market have gradually attracted the natives, who find it to their benslit to supply their wants from the Chinese. I have noticed during the short time I have been here, about sixteen months, that their shops are fuar asing fast, and also many handsome stores in the principal streets. They intermarry with the lower class of white, mestizas, and cholas, and by theas are looked upon a quite a catch, for they make good husbands, industrious, domostio, and fond of their children.

I often meet children Mr Justice Francis said he had gone in the streets whose almond-shaped eyes pretty carefully into the case, and be show their Chinese origin. Great numbers thought the highest possible out-turn was have become converts to Catholicism, and $150,000 to $175,000. A mortgage of they are apparently very fervent in their $46,000 had to be paid ff, and although it devotions and attentive to the ceremonies was M. Sands' own mortgage, the payment of the harcb. In the cemetery I have of it decreased the outturn of the estate toticed several niches, in the costly part by that amount,

of the ground, with Chinese fascitions Mr Ng Choy, who appeared for Mrs They have bired the second theatre of the Sands, and moved for an adjournment, had City, or leased it, for four years, and bis motion acce ei to. The motion was believe it is filled nightly. In all, they based on the consideration that he had not seem to assimilate themselves to the habits had time to go thoroughly into the ao and customs of the country. counts.

I have gathered the following statistics from trustworthy sources, which show the number of Chinese landed in Paru, in 14 years, as coolis laborers, under the old system, now stopped:~~

180.... 1861.

Mr Justice Francis painted out that be bad had all the ace mats for months save those including the winding up of the estate since April. Were there any questions arising on them, it must cf necessity be the

merest matter of detail. He also reminded

Mr Ng Choy that he had the permiss ou of the Court to employ an accountant,

The Chief Justice remarked on the fact that delay was now being araved for by the very lady who, as bad beeu beard, not only in this Court, but all throu hout the Colo ny, complaining bitterly of the delay in this case.

His Lordship also remarked on the fault that in the cost of winding up the estate the allowance debited to te estate and to be paid to the Executer for one spar's work was larger than the salary of any officer of the Government here save only the Go

vernor.

the further hearing of the motion was adjourned till Wednesday next.

CORRESPONDENCE.

RIGHT OR LEFT?

1862, 1863.

1864.. 1885.. 1866. 1867.

,

1,446 845

1.46:1

3,774

6 633

8 068

6,20

5,216

1848.

3,078 1809....

4.885 1870....... Children...... 4......11 483 187....

.14......10,184 · 1872......

......73......18,445 18:3.......

...74...... 7,116 1874....

............ 2 20

216 86,478 ChildreД.......... 216

Total......86,692

John Bright. During the invasion panic Penn" appeared in 1872, inscribed to

the very foundation of the existence of the pamphlet, called the French in England," in 1852 Mr Dixon wrote an anonymous courts, chiefly because of the aureliability arging that if the first Napoleon could not of their meaus and instruments of evidence, succeed in carrying out his intention, the and it is to be hoped they will adhere to third Napoleon would not. In that year their objections so long as the necessity he made a tour of Europe, visiting Italy for them exists, notwithstanding the in clination which is being manifested by many and Hungary as far as Belgrade. and Spain, and travelling through Ger some governments and officers to acknow ledge the equality of native courts by

On his return he became chief editor of the handing over to them the jurisdiction in written on historical subjects for several ›thenæum (1858), in which journal he had suits between Chinese and foreigners where years, and has necessarily taken part in the former are defendants. By section most of the literary and scientific con. 4117 of the Revised Statutes it is provided troversies of the period. He resigned the that the Minister at Peking shall provide editorial chair in 1869. An article from forms of oaths to be administered to his pen on the "Shakespeare Folio Cor. witnesses not Christians; and in pare 25 rector," has been reprinted in a pamphlet and 70 of the Regulations for Consular by a Boston adairer. In 1858 Mr Dixon Courts it is provided that oaths shall be obtained free access for historical students administered to witnessce not Christian to the stato Papors of the country, which according to their religious belief. But up to that date had been guarded with the Chinese witnesses in this case have extreme jealousy by the various Secretaries not been sworn at ali,only told by the of State. In 186 he first drew publia Interpreter, who is not authorized to attention to Lord Campbell's statement of administer an oath, "When you are asked the cuso against Lord Bacon, a subject a question you most speak the truth and nothing but the truth."

which he had studied for many years. His papers were enlarged, and have been the case, which are out of a contract for In France and Germany the book has been Next day after dealing with the facts of published in London, Boston, and Leipsic building a lorcha, Mr Henderson again re equally popular. Mr Dixon was left Lady ferred to the char ater of the testimosy Morgan's literary executor, and in covjuus- the Chinese witnesses, their.eueration with Miss Jewsbury has published her inedibility and utter disregard for truth memoirs. A Morning at Eden Lodge" or falsehood. When a question was put to a paper in which Mr Dixon indicated the

■ Cuiness witnesa, he said, you had to wait | great wealth and curiosity of the Eden about five minutes, during which the family papers-induced Lord Auckland to interpreter and witoos were talking to publish his father's Journal; and a similar each other, before you got an answer, paper on the "Treasures of Kimboltes" and you could never get a ireot answer esused the preparation of the Duke of

It le not often that we bare to chronlele more perfect success than the ball given at evening on board Her Majesty's ship our vessel. The good old craft was com. plat-ly transformed for the occasion, the more strict y by several awnings,-a perfect ck being closed in by a thick awning, or forest flags overlapping the whole. At nest of wering plants and shrubs was the gangway a must artistically arranged

and Ohines lanterns swung in graceful noticeable, while festoons of banian, flowers, lines. Trophies of highly burnished arms everywhere met the eye, and a chandelier

the framework of which consisted entirely of cutlasses and bayonets-was the admired comfort for the inner man,the gallant of all admirers. Nor was there any lack of oats fairly killing their guests with the Neptune's generous sous, profuse hospitality no characteristic of

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to any questio, The Chinese lan. Manchester's Court and Society," to guage had been wall called the Тап which Mr Dixon contributed the "Memoir gunga of diplomṣoy, and it “worked in of Queen Catharino." In 1804 Mr Dixon barmony with the peculiar characteristics made a long journey through Turkey in of the hinese, fo: toy o uid use any word, Europe, Asia Minor. Palestino, and Egypt, and then turu round and say, is meant the literary result of which was the pub- something different from what it was unlication in the following year, of "The derstood to be; they could give thres o Holy Land," in two volumes. Oo hia four meanings to anything they said; aud return from Syria he assisted in founding it certainly was the best.anguage for any the Palestine Exploration Fund, and in one who wanted to say anything and then conjunction with Dean Stanley and others, torn round and say he didn't mean that. conducted those excavations in Jerusalem e held tuat all the Chinese evidenies, as and elsewhere, which have given so many it had been hard, was illegal in a flourt of results to Biblical literature. From the the United States. la couoluding his first he has been a member of the Executive argument he cont-nded that the defendant Committee. Mr Dixon spent the summer Some of these have left, gone up and downtiff for the damage he had suffered through the United States, including a visit to Salt was entitled to judgment against the plain and antama of 1866 in travelling through the coast, to Chili, Ecuador, and Colombia; some to 'alifornia. The Minister of For the negligence and omissions of the p siutiff Lake City, the literary result of which was To the Editor of the " CHINA MAIL,”

sign Affairs thinks there are now in failing too untrues the vessel according given in the two following years in the (Taken at Meurs Bulsoner & Ood's Premises, 23rd January. 00000 in Peru. This is his idea from to contract.

form of New America" and "Spiritual Congress will adjura for the Obristmas Srx,-Passing along Queen's Road to-day the partly-completed census about to be for the plaintiff, said at the causes that be rapidly passed through eight editions in Mr Wainwright, in summing up the osse Wives." The former of these two works rooms from Dec. 19 to Jan. 6. No im in a hired chair, on the right side of the published. portant business has yet been transacted, road, my coolies suddenly stopped, the rear

would not attempt to vie with his learned this country, three-in Americs, and several A line of steamers for immigrants direct friend in denunciation and abuse of the in France, Russia, Holland, Italy, and and none is expected prior to the holidays. one going to the left and the front one going Washington advices indioste the present to the right; and then the whole oontera from China would make a great improve people among whom they lived, and he Germany, While in America, Mr Dizon temper of Congress to be to make no change coolies, chair, and self-rolled over on one ment in the Chinese status here, as by the would not even attempt to abuse the de had the rare good fortune to discover and TELMOKETEE-

tendent. in the laws regulating currency or in the mids, blooking up the way. The hinder treaty he would come freely as an immi-

Abuse was a mark of weakness recover the long lost Iriab State Papers, a

Do. Do. import duties. A quorum of Congrem will coolie had his forehead out by the fall and grant, and not ander the former odions and not of strength of one's case. It was service of great importance to the public, probably be absent from Washingtou after was bleeding profusely. The only apparent system of a colonist slave, which no doubt all very well to denounce the Chinese as the story of which was told in a remarkable lettor of Lord Rowilly, published in the this week, many members visiting Phila cause of this was the sound of a trap" admitted great abuses at both ends in thieves and robbers.

Mr Henderson-I did not say "thievos Times. Mr Dixon next directed his China, by man-stealing, kidnapping, and delphia to participate in General Grant's coming up behind. reception. Preparations on a grand scale

the emptying of the jaila, and here in brutal and robbers, and I insist on that remark footsteps towards the frosen north, and in are making for this reception, which closes

treatment by the contractor of coulle labor, being withdrawn,

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