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No. 6404-FEBRUARY 21 1881.]

Tar-Crescent City Courier announces that the Chuco cures of opium dens has reached thất city, and issues the following warning

to the young man who frequent them

young

Eliot was a rauboned, quiet person. “

Enact the el

cistikës that form the major portion of the history of humanity. Where in the whole range of philosophic fctional uriting la to be found de What Cleorge Dudevant and Dumas fils have done for France and that is to transform vice the asigel of darknes into the angel

of

We have been credibly informed, and could give the names if we so desired, of quito a number of young men in this place between the age of 16 and 21 who are in the

George Eliot has done for habit of visiting the China homses and England" (A., to say, the writer Madame moking opium nutil they are almost blind Amantine Lucile Aurore Dudevani, whose drunk from its effect. It seems almost

maiden

mamo was Dupin and whose incredible that we have young men in this assumed name was George Sand, (to call community who will degrade themselves by

by her George Dudevant would be a resorting to this lowest of vices, but it is absurd as to call the author of Adam Beds novertheless true, but we hope they may George Evane or George Cross) together see the error of their waya and abandon the with Dumas fils is equally meritorious with

Eliot

ot; but we are immediately ture and through it French Society by the splendid villainy of her works; the other has by means of &c., and taught the men and women of England that virtue and right- doing are after all the ornamente and glory of fe

THE CHINA MAIL.

in the witness' opinion, from concussion of the spinal cord, which might have been pro- duced by a fall. From the appearance of the various organs deceased appeared to have been a man of temperate babite; there was but a very slight mell of alcohol in the stomach, and witness had no rossons to believe that the deceased was

intoxicated when he met with his death.

John Harper, Acting Sergeant, 64, left the deceased at 1.15 on Saturday night as Central Station after having been in his company all day, the deceased having been on love for the day. Witness and he had two glasses of beer each in the chatoun, but descased did not appear to be the worse for liquor when witness left him. Witness wns an intimate friend of the deceased's; he had known him for over three years, and had

wra stationed at You-ma-ti.

practice before their names are made public GeoThe one has polluted French litora always considered him a steady man Ho

and before the authorities take the maitor in hand, which they certainly will do it it is not stopped. Now, this is no affair which personally concerns ta, but we feel it our duty to give friendly warning to the young men, to let them know that their acte are known and to get them if possible to reform from this terrible habit...

Noroje Horansjee gave evidence to the offect that he was a servant employed in Paracu Hong in Gage Street. At about 9:45 that night witness we use, then he noticed Street, going to his house,

Mr Kerfoous stable. (yellow, black stripes and enp), g. s. p. Fifteca, 19hds. Oin. 16at. 12lbs. ; d. a p. Bohemian, 13hda, On 10st. 12lbsgp. Wild Glen, Lahds. Jin, 11st. 11b.; d. c. p. Wild Eddy 13hus. Gin, 10st, 1.21bs.3gp Wild Tace, 19hde. Din 10st. 12lbs. g. o. p. Wit Rake, 13hd. lin. 11st. 1lb.

e. p.

LARCENY."

ALLEGED LARCENY...

that

hand, and express our regret that the book European rendera any enzoeption different Wong Alum, 27, coolie, was convicted referred to, though, brought out with the from that of God, the true God How could of stealing a felt cap, value 05 cents, from statement of so admirable a principle, of raissionaries in China, if they are willing to Ohnng Achat, a coolie, on the 20th instant, avoidance of all colouring, ie, novertheless, translate Shang-ti by Bupromu Ruler, osa- Complainant was in front of the Fo Lok of a distinctly partian character, inasmuch tinue to represent Ulm as a false God, or, at Theatre, at about 8 o'clock in the preuing, as by its interpretation of "Shang-ti" it is all events, ne not quite true? :: Aưa there existence when the defendant seized the cap from his the exponent of the view of a very small soy who still believe in the actual head, and upon being caught by complain-number even of those who prefer to use of false gods, er of Mr Mount's stable (yellow, black cup), chant gave the cap to another man, who ran

of guda not quite true P Shang-ti' to make known the true God to Do they believe that Bel, or Jupiter: or Redstart, 13hds. lin., 11st. 11b. away with it. He was sentenced to three the Chinese for of those who nee the term, Varuan, or Shang-ti were so many individual months' imprisonment with hard labour. very few agree with Dr Legge in the opinion boings existing by the side of Schovah ? Shang-ti of the Chiness classics fa They were, if you like false, er, at least, the same as Jehovah' of the Christian imporfect names of God, but never the Scripturen. It is on this account that we names of false or imperfect gods, venture to address you. Were you less en-I have tried to show in all my writings lightened and liberal that you are, we might on language, mythology, and religion, and conclude by asking you to pardon us for ad-more especially in my Hibbert lectura On dressing you; but we do not do so, so we are, the origin and growth of religion, as last assured

that

your fearless and uncom-rated by the religions of India, how we promising love of truth will induce you to ought to road in the manifold names of the huil with satisfaction any suggestion which Deity preserved to us in the axelent blue cap), th. c. p. Noland, 13hds. Lin., (Before the How. Ng Choy, Acting Police may remove from a volume with your name languages of the world, the gradlia) growth on the title-pago the faintest trace of one of human thought and human language in sideness. We have the honour to be, Sir, their endeavour to find better and better your faithful and obedient servants, names for what after all admits of no use. "Thes. M'Clatchie, M.A., Canon of long- tell them that their word Shang-ti cant be If we are no hard on the Chluese, and Aong and Shangbai, 1844; Matthew

Sir Rick's stablo (light-blue and rose), g. o. p Strathaird, 13hds, 3in., 10st. 9lbs; g. c. p. Strathavon, 13hds. Oin., 10at. 121b.g.op Strathpeffer 19hds. Oin., 10st. 12lbs. g. e p. Straling, 13hds. lin., 11st, 11b; c. p. Strathon, 12hds. 3in., 30st. lbs; g. o. p. Strathfree, 13hlin,, 11st. Mr Andrew's stable (blue and white stripes), g. o. p. Vagabond, 18hds, lin., 11st. 11b, Mr Kahn's stable (blue and white hoops,

1lb.

flat: 11.

Mr James's stable (green and gold), ch. e. p. Mr Hockey's stable (black, and yellow),

Darkie, 13hde. 2in. 11st. 4.

g. c. p. Omega, 13hds. 2in., 11at. 41ba Mr Octavio's stable (blue, pink sash and cap), spd. a p. Spot White, 12hda, 3in, 10st. 9lbs,

Wong Achat, 27, seaman unemployed, was remanded till the 28th instant, on a charge of starling a quantity of clothing, value 85, the property of a widow named Wong Afui, on the 19th instant, at Yow mah-ti

Magistrate).

LARCENY.

Fu Achung, 23, coolio, was remanded till to-morrow, on a charge of stooling three fuckels, worth: about 82, the property of Yeung Aahing, a married womann, in whose house the defendant had boon taking a meal

the clothing.

TEE attempts made to naturalize the per. to a degree that no other woman's, with the assisted by another Constable put Mr Heinrich's stable (rod and white hoops, just previous to tho discovery of the loss of!

́ ́A ́ few days ago W. Bugbee, the keeper of the city scales, exhibited a sample of the beautiful fruit at his place of business. Mr Bugboy has in his garden, in the north- eastern part of the city, oloven thrifty young trees, only one of which has borne fruit. It is known as the Mino variety. He has two other variaties, all said to be notable

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

and

black cap); g. c. p. Prosit, 13hds. 1in, 11st, 4lba

Mr Ashley's stablo (dark-blue, yellow sleeves

and cap), ch. o. p. Squander, 19hds. lin..- 11st. fb.

ECHOES FROM THE STRATTS.

VEGETARIANISM,

(From a Correspondant.)

PENANO, Jan. 26.

Manila.

(Translated from our Manila Exchanges. ) A telegram was received from Madrid an nouncing the dissolution of the old Ministry under the presidentship of Señor Castillo, owing to the non-acceptance by the King of their declarations-contained in the pro-

Li Yates, D.D., 1817 Edward. C. used as the name of the true God, because it Which F. Gough, M.A., 1850 A. P. Hap-art-chorus fit the per, D.D., 1844, P. Nelson, D.D., they point to such versos 1861; J. B. Burden, Bishop of

as Luko xv. Testament as

21, I have sinued

Lard, M.A. DD.. 847: Frederick a used synonyhat Eliall we then say when

Vio

N&w

foria, Hongkong 1868; John L. against heaven, and in thy alight, nid ses 1. F. Crawford, Bo wore worthy to be called thy SOAP And D.D., 1864; E

if we are offended by every anthropomorphia Sam Schereschoweky (s-Christian races, how is it that we can hear sionary Bishop of the American so well with the language of the Old Teeta- Episcopal Church, Shanghai), 1850sht, in reading of the Lurd, God walking Elliot H. Thompson, 1869 Charles

Batotier,

in the garden in the cool of the day?" D.D Denn

Nevlus, D.D.,dget, D.D., 1854; xpression in the sacred writings of non-

28134; Wm. J. Boous,

M.A., 1868; Hunter Corbett, M.AG 1661 Chas. R. Milts, M.A., 1867 John Wherry, M.A., 1864 James 1867; L. D. Chapin, 1863; Stanley, 1962; J. A. Leyenberger, 1886; Itenry V. Noyes, 1805.

THE ANTI-CHINESE RIOT IN COLORADO.

York Herald writes Consul Bes has re- The Denver correspondent of the New

Baten, Visitants

If you have no objection to a little haramble of the decron of authorisation for the loss "gup" and gossip, here is something economical measures announced in the speech from the Throne; and a new Minis- of Senior Sagusta.

Bravo macte virtute [

the leg of a man outside the door of No. 12 6. Her mental powers were perfected Graham Street, and spoke to an Indian Constable who was close by about it, and of Madame de Steel, had who assi

the exception perhaps siminon of Japan in the State of California attained to. In fact their [.e., Madame de

deceased into chair, took him appear to have been very successful. About Stael and George Eliot] natures were twins;

the Police Station. When in

in the chair [but] no two people were ever formed for deceased appeared to be insensible and wit- two years since, a number of trees were

each other as Miss Evaris and Lewes ness thought he was drunk. When first forwarded to Stockton, and met with ready The paragraphs we have quoted are what seen the body of deceased was lying on the sale among the fruit growers of that locality.kuuble scamble stuff" But such is life! house was inhabited

Harry Hotapm (and not Falstaff) called stairs with one leg outside the door. The 1 by Chinese the lower The result of the experiment is thus told by

floor was used as a coolie

coolic house

ouse and the the Stockton Independent-

uppor stories were occupied by families.

Mit Singh, P. C. 504, was the constable. whose attention was drawn by the list wit ness to body of deceased when lying at the The twelfth ofdinary meeting of share bottom of the stairs. He stated that he holders in the above company was hold at thought that decessed was drunk, go got the assistance of another constable, and put him the company's office, this afternoon, for the into a chair and took him to the Station. purpose of receiving a statement of ac-Deceased when first seon was

Chan Akum, cook at No. 12 Graham Stecet, stated that when in the cookhouse, at about 9.30 last night he heard the sound of a fall on the staircase, of it and did not go out to see what it was, The neighbouring house was a licensed my correspondents, says it is peculiarly brothel, and sometimes a drunken mandapted to fruit and farinacea abounding try to go upstairs at house No. 12 by countries like China and the Straits. He fruit-abounding country, nothing should in- duce me to eat the flesh of suimals short of absoluta necessity. You could live on your milky fruits and vegetables over there war the utmost ease and comfort. Your dorian' is a host in itself" He then goes.

o give thirtoon reasons why we all follows

Bin Japan for their great excellenco. Mr counts, and the report of the Directors for and was bleeding from was insensible which may amuse your readers even fit try has been formed nuder the leadership I

Bugbee a little tree, the fruit of which he the year ending 31st December, 1280. exhibita with commendablo pride, is no

There were present the Hon. P. Ryrie thinker than a mas

a man's thumb, yet the tiny plant has matured twenty persimmons of (Chairman), and Messrs H. Hoppius, E. de large size, sixtoon of which are still on the

C. Forbes, Coxon, Dalrymple, Wicking, G. branches

es. The fruit is about the

dimen- sions

of a medium-sized orange, at first of Sharp, Edmund Sharp, A. MacConachie, a bright yellow color, saniowhat between Danby, Georg, Newton, Vancter, E. Dea- that of the orange and the flower of the eschacholtzing but has faded to the color of con, Polishwalla, Ozorio, etc.

a frost-bitten tomate. In shape it is slight.The Chairman having read the notice ly oblong, rounded apex, flesh soft, melting, and of a fine ferox.

convening the meeting,

The Chairman said: Gentlemen,--La rising to propose the adoption of the report and the passing of the accounts by this meeting I have very little to add to what propose to read the report as you have all you will find in the report, itself.

had it in your hands for some time: I' propose to take it as read on this occasion. The

the nose.

as the two houses were alike.

take, ast

does nothing else.

I have never paid much attention to the subject of vegetarianism for the simple

reason that I do not believe in it. One of

of the steamer Cebu we being proceeded The operations with a view to the floating with with activity. The vessel was righted little. Two powerful pumps--one worked by on working without intermission.

steam, and the other by twenty men, The divers were also trying to atop the leakings, but it is not certain when the ves situation.

Baltiemer-I have taken some time bu

settle-

A word who is mistress of a brothel on says Wero I in Penang or any other sel will be able to get out from her present which you comp Shih-king to 0,000. It is believed that when all the

the opposite side of Graham Street also heard a noise of some one falling and looked out into the street, but se all at the time seemed quiet, she took no further notice of the noise.

The Jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased met with his death by a fall, to alow,

to

-

Donger for the purpose of making an inves tigation into the recent anti-Chinese riot at- To Professor Max Müller, M.A.”

that place, and it is to be presumed will Boon luvve his report in readiness for submis Professor Max Muller has returned the sion to the Chinese official representatives following answer:

at Washington, when steps will be taken omsider what answer I should return to the munt of the claims made out. He collected

to procuro from our Government letter which you addressed to mo as editor during a brief stay in Denver 121 daims, of the Sacred Books of the East' and in amounting to 843,000, and since his that, in the trauslation departure the Chinese have filed eighty of the Shu-king and

| claims, augmenting the total losa additional Two nat of cargo from the steamer Cebu, wore killed have basu rendered by God. You call my claims for losses are presented the aggregate

natives, engaged in the discharging Legg, the names Ti and

and Shong-ti by foul air by bably rotten, saturated with water. They carried on for 300 years, and is still kept up some fifty or sixty Chinamen yet to be heard ir generated by some tobacco, pro- attention the controversy which has been will not be less than $100,000, as there are were made acquainted beforehand with the to the present day among the missionari., from. The Celestials speak of recovering Among down to that partienlar part in Chinn, as to what is the nearest equiva their losses with great conddencs. Hoing Peril of of the vessel, but they persisted in going heat to be found in the Chinese language for the claims filed are many inade by Ameri-

prematura expressing God

God. You

You remind me that Ti Cans, who eitler löst clothing in the reid on. 1. Vegetarians are comparatively free ties have put a stop to all further operations xity, and have been accented among Protest.

Owing to this accident

adjacent pro

In one perty injured by the rioters from disease, and they have never boon

on board, both to the halving of the cargo aut tatsionaries by one party only, and

นะ known to have cholera eitur hero (in and the hull. The work being susponded, remark that, even those who in rendering: thirty-six miner claims in his own claim for

laundryman and your instance a Chinese

embodies England) or in America.

2. Spartans, in their period of conquest, before. The owners have, up to the time

the vessel lies in still worse condition than the Scriptores into Chiness are willing, in lost linen. The plains range in unout

the absence of a better name, to accept Ti ce from $8 to $3,000. The Chinamen were vegetarians. On becoming flesh-eaters of the death of the two men, apared nothing Shang-ti for God, would shrink from tran

repre dent that in the they

declined.

they lost $30,000 aggregate Most of the great philosophers have to salve the cargo or the vessel, but have slating these terms by God when they occur in money, but put in but very for claims

now placed the whole affair in the hands of in the writings of Confucius. As Professor for losses of household goods. The

gronter Plutarch, Diogenes, Zeno, Chrysostom, stops for their own interests.

his làng stay in China, has part of the money was silver coin. Some Seneca, Porphyry, Wesley, Frankiu, John Howard, Shelley, Wordsworth, J. Pitman.

4. Vegetarians

ara sironger, more hardy,

on

to

thoir

I don't but how it occurred there was no evidence ought to be Vegetarians. They read as down where they niet with the authori-i and Shung-ti wero rejected by Papal nintho the Chinese Laundries or had a

report I think you will consider na fairly satisfactory The office makes steady progress in its yearly accumulations of premium and it has been fairly fortunate

oscaping losses. You will perceive that

,

Hongkong Races, 1881.

The following is the list of events for. to-morrow, the first day of the Races -

TUESDAY, Feb. 22.

3.

death

the directors propose a dividend of 86. per the retin of the treaty after ita rotification share be paid for that portion of 1870 1,-THR WONG-WEI-CHONG STAXES, for been regolariana: eg. Plato, Pythagoras, the underwriters, who will take the best Legge, dun most atrenuous defenders of gold dust had also heen stored away by the

Chiza, Manila and Japan Ponies. Weight for inches, Entrance $5, with $75 added. Half-a-mile..

2,-THE ASHLEY CUP, value $150,-pre- scated by F. D. Sassoon, Esq.,-for

ana, Manila and Japan Ponies. En-estar

tranco $5. Weight for inches. One ..mile.

of greater endurance than fesh PROTEST OF CHINESE BISHOPS AND have taken advantage the translation of | while Your Bang lost $1.050 i dah of all

B. Vegetarian diet gives more beautiful Irish women appearance to man's face.

H. E. A. Soris da Mota, Contre Amiral Envoye Exordinary of H. S. M. the Exu peror of Brazil, arrived by the City of Fe king at San Francisco, on December 27th A San Francisco contemporary says -

He has just concluded a treaty of amity, commerce and emigration with the Emperor of China, and is now on his way back to Brazil, via Now York. His colleaguo, Senor Collaco, remains at Peking to await by the Emperor of Brasil. In an interview think the position of the funds of the with a Chronicle reporter the Minister society sanctions this dividend, and I ṣin- spoke in high terms of the torse, diplomatic cerely hope that in

shall in years to come we and polite style in which he had been beuret

be prepared to

a botter dividons than pay a treated by Li Hung Chang, The Brazilian this. (Hear, hear). The year

r1880 10, B3 treaty provides for a system of voluntary you will observe, a satisfactory one, inas- emigration, and the Minister thought that much as there is an increase of premium. at no distant date steamers would leave Our interest is not so great unfortunately China for the Kio and Behin with Chinese an in 1879. I say unfortunately, but you

living mainly on potatoes, are an instance. to work on the various plantations. The must remember that we added a consider other clauses of the treaty are similar to ble sum to that fund in 1879 from the sale

5. The trade of a butcher is repulsive and demoralising. those concluded with other nations.

of Chinese bonds. You will see that there

7. His anatomical structure shows that is at the present moment a fair sum in

vegetables man is by nature adapted to live on fruit, to the interest account on thám during. Chinese bonds, but turthing has been added

farinaceu and 8. Flesh- the past year.

h-eating in unly vegetable-sating second-hand, They have been put down at cost and the bulk of at par.

thero As you are all aware have

baen

several big fires since the commencement of the your, both here and in Singapore; in Japan especially...

Sp far as Japan is concerned we have escaped quite free; but in Singapore we have guter- ed a loss of $14,000, and in this Colony & loss of $5,500. These will have to be taken off the working account of 1880, watch. sands up to the 31st December. I proposa that the report and the accounts as printed he passed by this meeting.

The following passage as to Chinatown, San Francisco, is from the final report of the Grand Jury submitted to Dept. II of the Buperior Court, Judgo Freelon presiding, Des. 28

of

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Mr Georg seconded the motion, which was passed unanimously,

At one of our last sessions, when our term of service was nearly ended, our at tention was officially directed to an article in one of our daily papers, describing some the mnderground filth and diresse of Chinatown. Some of the localities so vivid ly described by the journalist were visited by members of the Grand Jury, and after making allowance for the desire of a writer for tho

press to be sensational, we are obliged to admit that the description of some of these subterranean holes was in its principal features based upon facts. Filth, Equalor and stench indescribable prevailed, afid the atmosphere is laden with the fumas of ophum and a reeking exhalation of

of these

Mr Dalrymple proposed and Mr Newton wretched beings, a hundred of

seconded the re-election of the retiring whom are Director sexistimos crowded into a s

Hon. P. Ryrie, and Mr H. space which, un- der the cubic-air ordinance, ought to be

Carried. Opium dens

by ten at mcat.

Mr Hoppius proposed and Mr Barry Wicking seconded the confirmation of the election of Mr H. de C. Forbes, and Mr Darby as Directors.--Carried.

Mr Forbes proposed and Mr Ozorio ng

occupies hells and houses of prostitution of conded the re-appointment of Mr J. 0.86 the lowest and vilest sort abound upon and Mr J. H. Cox as Auditors.-Carrie every side,

the Asistio

The Chairman intimated that the warrants for the two dividends would he inued to morrow, and would be payable from that

exclusively from Victims by no means sistio zaco, and all this in the very beater of San Francisco with ite

commerce and boasted tima. civilis not find a lawful way

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to oblige these people to live decently, or

On the motion of Mr Coxon a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the Chairman, ee to remove to the outskirts of the city, the Directors and the Secretary of the Com

pany,

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where their dens of vice would be less a This closed the proceedings. cessible to the youth of our own race! Of course we do not claim that statements contain

the people of this

this

thing

that these

that is new to

and State, but we once again bring the facts to the attention

greater

FATAL ACCIDENT.

An accident resulting in a midden end of the public, because we believe that the violent death occurred last night at about oftener the matter is agitated the the probability that some one will suggest half-past nine o'clock at a house in Graham Awful strike at the evil witho

ful remedy which shall succes

successfully Street. William Dornan, Police Constable, oposing to do without anything worthy of a fair-minded, civi No. 26, war the victim of this melancholy is occurrence : no one actually witnqued the

THE LITERARY LIGHT OF THE

NORTH

Acting Bergeant Harper, at the Central ation. Deceased must have left the

3,--THE HONGKONG DERBY,--Sweepstakes

of $30 each, half forfeit if declared on or before day of closing Entries, with ----$100 added for 1st Pony, and $50 for 2nd. For all China Ponies and fide Griffins at date of Entry (Saturday, 29th January, 18SE, First Pony, 70 por tunt; Sucund, 20, per cent Third, 10 per cent. Weight 10st. 10lbs. One-inile-and-a-half. 4-THE GARRISON CUr, value $

f

0. Vegetarian diet is more economical. 10. So much of the meat eaten is diseased, --pre-tuberculous and cancerous.

7-THE CANTON CUP, value $150,-for China, Manila and Japan Ponies that have never won a Race previous to thia Miceting. Weight for faches. Winners at this Meeting, 7lbe extra. Entrance $5. One mile.

So much for vegetarianism. The reason

been one of the

the name Shang-ti ne the best rendering of Orientals in their boxes and drawers, which God in Chinese, you complain that he should of course, disappeared. Ye Kwah Wah

of his position, as one represents that he lost $1,159 în

gold, MISSIONARIES AGAINST THE of wy fallow-workers TRANSLATION OF "THE SACRED the Sacred Books of the East,' and have kinda. A great amount of cinnamon was BOOKS OF THE EAST."

translated Shang-ti, whenever it occurs in destroyed, at

which

the claimants

complain The Bishop of Vistoria has sent the fol- the Shu-king and Shih-king, by Dod, ex-bitterly, as they used this article in the lowing letter, signed by more than twenty pressing, at the same time, his sonviction manufacture of a tea, which, they claim, hns of the Protestant missionaries in China, to that the Ti and Shang-li of the Chinese no rival in enabling them to withstand Professor Max Müller, as editor of The Classies is God, our God, the true God, the American climate. Yong Duck, lost You also blame me, as editor of the Sacred seventeen pounds of cindsmon, which he Sacred Books of the Bust"

Books of Shanghai, June 26, 1880.

of the East, for not having held with pots in at 3508, $1,000 worth of spir Sir, We, the undersigned missionaries a steady hand the balance between the |

was destroyed, which loss is distributed. labouring among the Chinese, have had two parties in a diligit and store oped that alig at the deal to the drunken brought under our notice the volume on the tention, particularly as I had promised that claim that the greater part of this Chinese religion which forms one of the these translations, offered to the public un-stolen by Americans who had been habitués series you are editing under the general title der the of the University of Oxford, of their dens in the past, and who have

shoutd

and read- of The Saored Books of the East. We

oplote, trustworthy,

be a

nices the

Was

fully agree with your prefatory statement, į ablo; and you call on me to repair the insince the raid started a number goods,

given under No. 5 will attract the attention of your fair ronders, who, I trust, like Agrippa of old, will be almost persuaded

nese to becomet Christians, I hope they are that already- but vegetarians;

OBSERVER.

long

as to who or what is meant

by

Allow me to state,-called

Commercial

February 10th. Though small concession has been made in the enhanced tekin duty, the market

-For activity during the closing fortnight. --- New Pains the rate has, consequently, declined but that for New Benares has beari lese so, by shipments to the Coast ports. A good portion of the stock of Old Patna has been marked off by weight, giving about 8000 per chest. For New the rate

of $820 stands at the wide range

to 86271 for ordinary chesta, according to the buyer's fancy to them; and New Bazares is quoted at 8640 to $642) with

with higher price for m

for high touch drag.

sented by Officers of the Garrison,

11, Vegetarian diet is › must favourable to for China, Manila and Japan Ponies. the development of intellectual faculties.

"jomts in Denver with the stolen Weight for inches. Winner of the

12. Vegetarianism is a complete antidote that rouels of the value and utility of the justice whelt has been done to those wie One of the Chinese opium dealera Lays his Ashley Ylba artra.

Cup

Entrance to gout

and some forms of rheumatism. series must depend on the absence of any differ from Dr Legge in his views on the loss at the door of

a policeman whom he $10. Second Pony to receive half of Even Abernethy, a flesh-eater, was com

colour horrowed from theary or prejudice, tras meaning of the words Ti and Shang-ti. employed to watch his shop

when he the Entrance

in the

to your

taken to jail,NA A Sweepstakes 6,--THE VALLEY BAK, furlong, compelled to acknowledge the truth of this and we therefore deplore the fact that

alladed to there has beau, ter, so far as the important volume of Su each, wit

on his own person, with $100 added,för Sub-

concerned, I had, nearly 30 13. Ver

Vegetarianisma practically discourages as we conceive, a forgetfulness of the prine tha Boription Griffins only.

We down at the outset. refer to Weight for war, slavery, cruelly, and inhumanity in the laid in which throughout this book has 1852), expressed my aanviction that it would

years ago

Ledinburgh Review, October, inches. Three-quarters-of-a-mile,

the meaning 6,--THE Foconow alue $200, very alapo or form.

been attached to the term 'Blung-ti, sobe impossible to find in Chinese a more ade- QUE, Value presented by the Foochow Community,

you can be no stranger to the isot that that point, therefore, 1

ently found in the

classics. Chinese

quate rendering of God the hardly claim for Bengal Opium has continued devoid of

kang-ti Un for China, Mantin and Japan Ponies. Weight for inches. Faitranc 5.

controversy

existed among Chi- now

now to be an impartial judgo, Second Pony to receive $50. Two

scholars De

"But this, as you yourselves admit, is not indige.

the term or title Shang-ti. Some hold really the question which concerns the tran- that it designates the God of the Christian alatur or the editor of the Bacred Books of - Scriptures, while others feel themselves ut- the East. The question on which, with the terly unable to

to accept it in any such suse, asistates of my learned friend, Dr.-Legge, Whatever may be the rights of this question, I was vailed upon to form an opinion wher the controversy in a great fast, and ought examining his translation of the Shu-king not to be ignored. It arose, as is well and Shih-king, forming the third volume known,

ny series, was whether Tid Shang-ti, among the early Roman Catholie missionaries in China, and a like contention when they vocur in Chinese, should be rea- exisla

at the present day among the different dered in English by Gud. Oc this point, I Protestant missionaries. It cannot be said

; is by no means nasy to give

The receipts for the month, so far, stand. readily admit, there has been any lack of subolarship a decisive saswer. In fact, i can well unas last noted, at 4,159 chests, against: 4121 in the discussion of this queation. Both derstand why many missionaries in China chests for the corresponding period last year. views have been well represented from time

Li of the Confuciane with the God they been taken by the local consumers, against ment will save us from giving it over and charge of unlawfully absenting himself time, first among Bay Catholic, mul have hesitated to identify tho Bhang. During the interval, some 700 chests have from his duties since the 26th January last. sionaries, and latterly among Protestant to preuch, and all I cuti de is to try to ex 1,400 cheats at the corresponding poried bat Evidunce was given by 3dr W. N. Bain, missionaries, by men whose Chinese as well plain to you why, in spite of all objections, year. This, with the exportations leaves the

I myself agree with De general scholarship is undoubted. We as gen

Legge, In accepting available supply computed at 2,400 chesta, Manager of the Hongkong Ice Company, to need but mention the names of the early Chang-li, when it ours in the ancient against that of 1,850 chesta last year. the affect that defendant had boon in his

of which kind the prosent stock comprises 800 chaste, with 75 chests Old Patrin.

Shipping Intelligence,

The following list shows, for all the pur- pus of the meeting, the owners, the ponies, the weights and the colours. The production of it here at the present mo

over again in the course of the races

Captain Jack's stable (pink and white hoops),

c. p. Cruiser, 13hds. 2in; 11st. 4lbs.

blk.

the

Police Intelligence. (Before the Hom. M. S. Tonunchy, Acting Police Magistrate). Monday, February 21

ABSENTING HIMSELF FROM · DUTY, Lan Asan, 23, fireman, appeared on a

and had been receiving increased wages

that

VIEWS

to

Pro-

Of

The following la corrected from the latest

11st. 1lb. g. G. P. Du hds. lin. employ on the 25th January, complaining should be distinguished name of the late Universe. But does it follow, therefore, London and Colonial Papers, &c.:

Church, the

on board the S. 8. Malacca and had been been, not translated, as it Poler or entirely free from phu

Suprame

are

VESSELS TO ARRIVE. AY HONGKONG, Name

5,

Vale of Doon, Wylo,

··From

Antiserp

London

Antwerp Hamburg

Hamberg

Mr F. 8. Gordon's stable (primrose, skyeniploy for more than five years. He first Jesuit missionaries, Mattes Ricci on one side

ed for the true God, blue steves and cap), 4. p. Dauntless, came as a common coole, but had been and Longobardi on the other, and the Scriptures of the Chinese, as a name intвud-this last quanlity 550 chests wore Benares,

There are, perhaps, pusenges in the sa- 13hds. 2in., 11st. lbs. spd. c. p. In trained up to act as engine driver by witness testant missionuries, Dr Medhurst, Dr Legge,

Dr Edkins, and Dr Chulmers on one side, ored texts of the Chiness in which Shang-ti facendolin, 13hds. lin., 11st. 11b. during that time. The defendant left his Williams on the other. To the last three Jugital funguage, language, le pulse of the

and Bishop -Boone, Dr Bridgman, and Dr is spoken of in what we should call mytho 115, a p Lord of

though

of the Greek inapplicable to the Supresse of nd on the same day was 13hda. Oin., of feeling sick, and on 10st. 12lbs. ch. p., Bobbie Burna, 13hds seen by winess driving about the Colony in lised and law-abiding community. Tt is

that the Chiness, when they formed the proper to add that we are of the opinion accident, but it appears that the deserved

Oin. 10st. 12lbs; br. c. p. Tam O'Shanter, a rickshaw, When spoken to by witness Archimandrite Palladins, as well known as

of the most profound Chiness sakolare. name of Shang-ti, did not mean the true. that the offers detailed by Chief Crowley

12hda. Jin, 10st. Jibs.; . . y. Feather with regard to his sunduct the defondant Consigaring, then, that the question has God, or that the best among their had never was on leave yesterday, and that he was

Jeck, 13hda, Oin,, 10st. 12lbs.

said that he wished to leave his employ, to shack as much as possible gambling and last seen, alive, by any of his acquaintances Mr. other crises in the Chinese quarters are at about a quarter past 9 o'clock in the

Annealey's stable (blue, white belt, blue but was told by withiess that he could not been agitated among all classes of Christian had any idea of the true Got? You know Left, ca), g-c. p. Fuck, 12hts 2in. 10st. 6lbs. do so at umos, without notice, and that if he missionaries for nearly three hundred years, far better than I do that there must be in June. accomplishing as much as can be reasonably evening, when he was left by friend, Mr Neptune's stable Imagents and black left his work just now, he would be sent to our complaint is, that in a book containing wis prayers and creeds of all religions expected of them.

translation of the Chinese classies intended compromise between the language of cap), gap. Water Baby, 13hds. Lin, the Police Station. Witness, had not so for English readers, and, brought out with wise and the foolist, the old and

and the young 11at. b.

him since until last Saturday, when the

and that the

the suored

not Lizzie Bell, Station very shortly afterwards and sons Mr Granimont's stable (cherry and black, right been, even of those of and Christian, musica to have gone thence down Graham Street, black cap), ch. c. p. Detonator, 13hds.

by such a phra rhezo

helpless. pustis Oct. from eblid-like, he was

at about was found, at

lin,, Ilst. llb.; br. c. p. Fuse, ifhda. Sin, one trip in her, a quarter to

Emperor, or aler (or Emperor) cul, and what are velled mythological ex- 10, Hermann, ten lying down insensible at the foot of

1Cat. lbs. the

Tho defendant stated that the foreman on high; or transferred, as has been done, pressiona

There is, perhaps, nu better 15,

house, which, it appears is inhabited by

by Chi

11. No one in the house had seen the by serving up hot dishes (paragraphs) of se

deceased fall, but he had evidently

attempt Mr Ho drowned dogs and dead men to our need to

the stairs of the house, prob

it for another, and fallen rous patrons, or grind them to sleep with ably m some favourite tune, we never venture to back down the steep stairs with which thos houses are provided, and in the fall received lift our diminished heade to the great lite injuries which at

at once

proved fatal, br rary stars of the ago, even with a foolish causing concussion of the spinal cord. De face of pedas, much less attempt what is passed was a native of Ireland, 26 years of alled a ribam of their work. Of course, age, and had been in the Follos foros in The sparybody who has learnt the English has for rather more than three years, The funeral took place this afternoon

friends and mom enjoyed most of the works of George attended by deceased's friend and largely Phot, and naturally have formed our own bers of the force, the cartage being of them. But we think we should also joined by a number of comrades *think twice before we paraded even in belonging to the Naval Yard Police

Names of a newspaper scoh opinions An inquam on the body of the shore Was

on

As a correspondent in our morning on staircases of No. 12, in that street, No Hercules,

dc. p. Merry Andrew, Whas in, Bat the complainant that he was going away with the term "Ti,' in either of which casos few relivions in which that name has not). W. Marr

temporary says, wo who sat our pennies

siphabet tu à deriain extent, we have read at about 430

He was sentenced to be imprisoned for one no fault could have been found, but inter- beeb month with hard Inbour.

NUISANCES.

Ir Henry's stabic (mauve, straw sleeves and cap), g. p. Cumahate, 13hds. lin., 11st. lib. g. p. Grim Death, 13hds. 11st. lib.; gap. Hocus Pocus, lin

Chang Akwan, contractor, of No. 1, 13hda. On 10st. 12lba; g. 9, p. Foil Battery Road, was fined $10 for causing Genius, 13hde. Oin., 10st. 19lbs. ;. g. c. Faux abatruction in Po Yan Strest, by satting For Luck 13hda. lin. List. lib.

WO

while in Ohio of it almost avert must taka mt

B, Corea,

15, Willie Reed,

freation 19 Christine,

in order to render that applicable to preted as the God of revelation--the view name as yet, which the eminent translator, De

it implies in ordia-

19, Stor of China, strenuously advocated

aary usage. Our own word God was bor missionary. That is, be mats forth his own

on rowed by our ancestore from heat! private view by substituting God for ples, and the sames for God used by the

20, Westerguard, Shang-ly wherever it occurs in the vingaine, Romania uations come from deas,

Bazekrit Dea dern,

which dega is a niere detivation of dit, 2, Tharese, wo draied by Mr Mat Dawson's stable: (black, soarlet out and leaving a number of stones upon a whereas this interpretation of the terma

FADDERA

a thoroughly quali- the sky. And,

3 Laurens, alooves and cap) ap. Mocking Bird,

to form a judgment on the site Shang-li By

by God, what are we to do?

8 Laura 19hda lin., 11st. lb.

30, Urano (6.)

Mr Proeve's stable (rose), g. 5. p. The Ficar,

Lands in.; 10st. 6lbs. Mr E. Pra's stable (blue, white sanh and cap), ch. c. Driving Cloud, 49hds. Liu,

11st. lib. Mr Gratton's stabie (hlue, black cap), br. e. p,

Roey Morn, 13hds, Ain., 11st, abs,

there.

LARCENY,

we are hot to tran

fied as ration of his reasons You would not say that the Chies

В

this in

the

fur

alone

London

Penarth

Carbin

London

Antwerp

London

- Qardiff

Hamburg

Dober

Hamburg

Antwerp

Trieste

Jan.

1

Ludy A. Nickels,

Penarth

3 Fleurs Castle (.)

4 Benledi (6)

Lendon London

Penarth

LOANING, FOR CHINA AND JAPAN PORTS,

0, Hookhurst,

GET FUCK POragraphs as the following taken held st the Government Civil- Hospital at Mr Paul's stable (straw; white cap), b. s. PMr Linstead, and was sentenced to be influence from England and other oantries, all readers unaoguainted with Chi-Canton.

Yum Axin, coolie, for depositing rubbish subjes in the public streets, was fined go, in for this view in the addition to the preface of all nations on eartle, hud nover any word default to be imprisoned for cas month made in the present

at all,

you yourselves say that with herd labour.

bis interpretation or plums does not make for God at c

kay the less they decided the sky, and low would people B kericul

in regti

laid | deify the sky or anything else without pos- prinsiple sessing an idea and a word for celty P down in your preface.

not merely a literary E

**You suggest either the name Shang-ti Mak Akwok, 80, coolie, was convicted of

Moreover, stealing two water buckets, the moperty of read or will read the book exercise a alto Baler If the arst expedient had been

11 10 3 mielecary question. Muoy who

haro should have been left untranslated, or that it should have been rendered by Bu pretre Financier, 18hds. Din., 10st. 12lbs; d. e p.. Tajmahal, 18hcs. Lin., 1st. 1b; w.c. p.prisoned for two months with hard labour.

adopted, A directly or indirectly, on Christian missions Brave Chiel, 13hds. Om., 10st, Lalba,

in China, and it is exceedingly important nes would have taken Shang-ti for a proper Gleneagles, DEFICIENT WEIGHTS wp Fly Catcher, 12hds. 3in., 10st. 9lbs;

that their minds should be kept free from name, such as Jupiter while Dr Leggy, b. t. p. Gold Bar, 13hda,

Uith

10ut. 12lbe, Pan Hok Tin, sandal wood dealer, 178, prejudios on one side or the other, seeing whose Chinese solarship you do not call in M. I. Stone.

That is neve Praya West, was summoned by the Ex- they have no means of examining or deter. question, states that "never became with aminor of Weights and Measures, for being mizing upon the question for themselves the people a proper name like the Zeus of Ch p. Blue Light, 12hds. Sin., 10st. 3lbs. in possession of a falas balance, which with a book is Dr. Legge's is to them, so the Greek reti be rendered H. H. McGilvery

(Preface, p. xxv.) If, on Major Bagstock's stable (pink, black cap), showed a detener of three per cent long as

as the controversy is undecided, simply

from an article in the Bhanghai Couriec on 4.30 pita. this afternoon (21st), before G.

George Eliot

TIME ASTE = Mehieved such

ning the greatest Finn of a powerful actor in convey

Among Iturary women of England

legsong that

da

3. Northgate, Esq, and a Jury consisting of Mears W, A. F. Behmide, H. Garrels evidence was adduced when the following Dr Marques, Assistant Buperintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, stated that the body of deceased was brought to Band inbes thoroughly the literary world." the Hospital about 10.30, last night, lotta Brantâ had carried the when life was extinct. Witness examined has, kaperassalien à bas, none have the body this morning. The spinal cord

140 Ariomshment of somety when was concussed; the organs generally ware in a healthy state, and death had manod.

At London-Steamers via Suez Canal

Ballerophon Galley of Lorne

Baiting Vessels.

Laurel,

c.p. Sevois Berm, 13hiba. fin., 11st. 11b,

p. Tramp, 13his. lin., 1st. lib.;

g. o. p. Wild Ecko, 13hds. in., 19st. 12lbstgainst the buyer of the goods weighed by misleading. We respectfully urge that, in by Eupreme Ruler, as was done by Mid- Ajax (s)

p. Wid Boer, 13hda, 2in., 11st 4lbs, Defendant was fined twenty-five dollare,

64.p. Wad Idyl 13hde lin, 11st. llb and the scale ordered to be destroyed editing if the balapon between the tivo hurst, or by le Seigneur and to Surerain Joe Raners.

Zig, 19hda, lim, 11st. 1b misty of the fine to go to the informer.

parties in s-üülsult and still open conten. Mike, na was done by. Quubil, would these

I tion should have been held with a steady expressions have gruked in the minds of Gentirain,

Diomed ()

AL. Stallkzocht

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