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CORRESPONDENCE
Wo wish it to be distinctly understood
for the opinions expressed by our våtbur wandering correspondent.]
DEAL EDITOR,--.
Ten liues I will write To throw on the comet ideas most bright.
I rose from my bed, bolurs the daylight,
sight Of comet so bright, of cost so strange,
So light its long tail, so long its grost rango. "The comet has come;" I waked the whole
Jonse To gaze at the skies, from-slumber to foux. I learned t'other day, so queer it did see- He went, like a sna, to bed at the stroke Of ten on the clock; but then he awoke So early from sleep, c'en fore the bright
day.
Had waked from ita doze; in bed he'd out
stay. Now what does he can by all these quer
tricks? For eunites Tknow, aro really nice" bricks." There's sons in their nucleus, for that is
their brain:
THE CHINA MAIL.
felt for the Stuarts, any be nearly extinct Hongkong Rates of Postage but there is a personal loyalty to Victoria, based not only on her inherited rights, but still tatre on deliberate approval of her per-
ench leoturum
the
nation
(Revised December 1st, 1880.)
aul, Mr Martin Dolnnen, soliciting his good learning and teaching, the English and sty's equally well-known distaste for Mr whole be paid at Book Rate. Prices Cur-
I could not
Jaya
better that
any
other
favour
koka
thu
conte
is
Local Parcel Por
Chins
Malacca
No. 5606JULY 2, 1881.
PATTERNS.-me difficulty is experienced in obtaining a general understanding a what is a Pattern. It isa bond fide ple of goods which the sender has for male or of goods which he wishes to order. It
are, and must have no intrinsic value.
POST OFFICE NOTICE Unclaimed Correspondence,
July 1, 1881
Leto. Tap:
1
1
1
They don't, be a meteor, burst in ery who have died. well as to the particnlar ite also informed say that the Chinese are forouriten excited envy and jealousy are 4 iba. Patterns for anch offices are limited the system of Registration will secure the Braganda, A, A. 1
rain.
They seent to our sight indeed very hay:
But then we qu't may, indeed, they are
lazy
My pinion is this, I'll give it you free, The comet is off, on a literary spree.
He's r ranged the wide sky; he's ranged the
broad sen,
Of azurely ne-a schslar he'll be; For now is a chance he's got ta AB onwa ho's whirled, ambitiously hurled. He wont to Australia; ho stayed but a Too young was the nation; the place wasn't
trice,
nico.
He'd heard of the Fongs; he'd give them
a look!
took.
He came ordiongkong, he's quite with us
He conies every night; he's pleased with
the site aniles with a smile, so pleasant and light,
He
for the
there.
You
It is necessary that the following rules be strictly observed.
1. No Lettor or Packet, whether to be America, Mexico, Balvador, Brazil era, Chili, Venesuela, he Argentine registered or unregistered, can be receive. tepublic, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guianas for Postage if it contains gold or silver money, tonduras, Bermuda, Labuan, with all jewels, precious articles, or anything that, Janish, French, Netherlands, Portuguese as a gcostal rule, is liable to Customa and Spanish Colonies.
Countries or in the Union,The chief uiries not in the Union are the Aus-
Portage to Union Countries. General Rates, by any route you
meneut. It is now pasosed ti proczej termination, so all the early part of the know asistance during his life: tralasian Group, and S. Africa.
For here he has soon the Chinese and John | order.
Bull
10 cents par uz.
8 cents each.
duties.
2. The Regulation prohibits be sending of Patterns of dutiable articles, unless the quantity sent be so small as to make the ample of no value.
3. The limits of weight allowed are a followa
Maithows, M,
Lets. Fap.
1 McFarlane, D. 1
Mollamy, J. Michell, Major)
General
2 Michell Major- General
Moller Aleiser 3. Mears
Moore Rev. W. B, 1 Mowe, Jas Muller, Exil O'D}on, Miss O'Keefe, Capt. O'Sullivan, f. M. L Okesun, G. 1
cardMonning, Mias 1
Parkinson, Dr. Pascal, André.
1
1 bk.Potetra Jose
Burrows, Robi
1 pr. Chambers, A. J. Cheong Hong 1. Chip Huck Hin 1 Chooy Chee Chieang 2 Christy, W. H. 1 Clausen, Th. Cohen, S..
Antonin Pereira Jose
Cactanaa Phillips, Mr Playfair, Ir. M, Heed, J. W.
regd.
1 regd.
1
Robertwn, M. H, 1
Robertson, RM. 2
1 ragil.
1.
?
Kel Monar,
1
1 Hodgers, Arthur
Roh, S. Rustmen
1
1
Schambach, Jules i card
I
Felby, J. W.
1 pr.
I
Baits, Christ.
2 bk.
2
Seymour & Co. 1
Shaik Camros
I rogd.
Silva, Maria à. I
Siqueira, Joko M. A
pr.Sloutter, J.
+
Connor, Foster 1 Cormack, Jolan Corstort, John Cruz, Joana Ania. 1 Danse wville, C. H. 1 Dare, Mr Dias, Maria Davies, Capt. Drew, William Dudfield, Capt. I Danean, R. B. 1 1 Ellegaard, MI. E. 1. (Customs) 1 I Farrah, Thos. 19 Smith, Macadam 1 4 bk. Ffonlkes, Wm. 1 Flaming, Ed.
Ward R. A. Frater, A.
Smith, Mrs Geo, I Spafford, T.
1
Stewart, AG. J. 2. Stretten, R. &
1
JAPANESE EDUCATION. WILL ADAMS, THE PIONEER
R Small Parcels may be sent by Post between any of the lost con The St. James's Ouzette inverts the fol ENGLISHMAN IN JAPAN.
or dapangas well as to Maso, Fak Some correspondence is published at lowing I am indebted (writes or respondent) "to one of the German pro
In the following Statements and Tables hoi, Singapore, Penang, and that we do net lold noisolves i'esporssibio | Yokohama concerning the destruction fessors at the University at Yoddo for the sonal character and conduct as a constila- is and of which the strength some time ago hy well-known persons, of following particulars: The Japanese Gotional sovereign, which pervades all classes in Kates are given in centa, aud are, for They must not exceed the following dimento consist of the smallest possible quantity
nor weigh more than 5lbs. The Postage L'atteras, per two ounces." the ton of the English pilot Will Adams,vernment, tinding it, too costly to send hardly guessed it; becauso, not being chalotters, pier half ounce, for Books and | sions, 2 feet long, I foot broad, 1 foot dear compatible with shewing what the good
Newspapers over four ounces in weight is 20 cents per lb., which includes Reglatra. large number of students to Europe, and kudwg to the Japanone as Anjin tsuks that those gent did not do well without lenged, it has not been called upon to show itself its own shapo and in any but a
double, treble, &c., as the tion except to Japan, to which country are charged as situato in an villago of Hemmi, district of native atpervision, resolved to start a ruftected form. Now, I venture to think case may be, but such papers or packets or parcels are forwarded at Book Raton, Regis
university of their own, with Euglia, uneo
that a good deal even of Lord Deaconsfield's papers may be sent at Book Rale. Two try being optional. The parcels may be To neo, with my eyes, the wondrous nowiura, near Yokohama, and a present prouch, and German professors, so popularity (for it is cloar he icas popular)! Newspapers must not be folded together as wholly closed if they bear this special rted endursensout, PAROKL, CONTAINING NO LET poual for its restoration and protection.. ing in
be, nor abs anything whatever be inserted his own language.
Printed TER, but any cel may he oposed by As many as 75 British-subjects resident in so many languages wore confusing, or who was due to the degree in which he was
direoion of the Postmaster General. Mailer wey, however, be enalased, it the of the Queen. In the same way Her Macept bond side Supplements.
2 The fellowing anot be transmitted: Yokohama, addressed H.M.'s Acting Con-ther, the Germans proved more solid in known to possess the regard and confidence
at may be paiu either as Newspapers +4 French mastors were presently discarded;
Parcels insuficiently packed or protected, Aking, Johan ot, weigha with
or liable to be prushed (sa bandboxes, Aitkinson, David 1
Allen dena lu- services in receiving from the Japanese and now all the professors at the Yeddo Gladstone, whether incurred by unbecoming
Commercial Papere signity such papers.) (9)ass, Liquids, xplosive substa ces
, N. M University are Germans. The oxamina- arrogance on his part or
though Written by Hand, do not bear fetches, Indigo Dyestuffe, Ice, Meat, The coret, indeed, with reason did brunt authorities a promise that a notice would batins ara more severe-than even-in Ger, hundreds of thousands of people as a serious
Anderson, Jas. The stafit deduction from his forco.
charseter of nu actual or puisomal corro Fish, Game, Fruit, Vegetablen, or whatever Among, Willam 1 exposed, were the tomb restored, warning all funny, but nevertheless many of the censure on the Liberal leader, and is a cons
Anderson, Thos.), This feeling evinced throughout the counpondence, such as invoices, deeds, copies dangerous to the Mails, or likely to be
usic. &c. The charge on them in the me me offensive or injurionu.in transit.
Engincor wingdors from the wilful disturbance or talents obtained university honoura desecration of the memorial stones; and majority of the students go into the medical try with regard to, Lord Beaconsfield has so
Barnard, B. M. 2. Profession, which
that could have as for books, but, whatever the weight o far exceeded anything
8. Parcels will as a general rule be for that sneh the reacties in Japan. The pay of the professors is very anticipated by his friends and political packet coutaining ang partially written should he opted as to the authorities
one has to jook gboat for followers, that one In their mummorial the herst. The travelling expenses to
paper, it will not be charged less than 5 warded by Private Ship, not by Contract Bar Kaya Fred. 1 Mail Jacket. The Post Ufice reserves the Bengkard, By, 1 Bezanson, John 1 and back are allowed each has explanation; and as partial explanation,
Bidwell, G. 1 night seein fit. signatories leur testimony to the general house and garden and about £1,200 per
The render of any Registered Article right of electing the opportunity for tiana-
and of mission, Those
delaying delivery in mas
Blomgren, A fact that there is invariably, respect and
on paying an extra fee of cents.
Bower, Chineno | honour shown by the Japanere people in annuau, and he is permitted to get what he think enough weight has not bear given to rende districts to the graves of strangers by private lectures or private practice the influence of reflected whan may accompany it with a Raum Receipt the unmber of parcule is such as to retarci
for the Minister whom she pre
The limit of weight for Books and Com-other correspondence. No responsibility Booth, Mes not help remarking how marvel who love the Queen muust have a degree of
Stare thed in places far removed from
Jously pushing the German Chancellor is.
areeminently trusted; for the days when Kings' mercial Papers to Foreigu Post Offices is is accepted with regard to any parcel, but settlements, as
Elec fact that the villagers of Haaoni hayo
starting a German university at Peking, long last in England. The circumstances the memory of Ada and that a greatest respect
Jimensions: 8 inches by 4 inches by 2 bability of loss.
The public are cautioned nor to con- and that i rest, as the requisitions and friend of his had already been which permitted the formation of a third to 8 ounces, and must not exceed these Bendera against sug but a very remote pro- Buni, Revd.
found these facilities with a Parzel Post to do, the destruction of his tomb. There is fored £2,000 a year to ga
N. L. meana No Registration, he contined, the Japanese and the parliamentary party, like that known in chos
In the evolu
Kurope, o., which does not exist. reason to believe that the wilful dange are visid of English or French George the Third's time as "The King's
can hardly recur. friends,"
Countries of the Postal Union. complained of the visiting Yokoaks influence, and they know they have notition which our constitution is developing it ten, or other strangers
to fear from Germany-an explanation or
The Union may be taken to comprise Conduct which would hy affectually re
urope, mest foreign possessions in Asis, strained by an official notification such as which does all honour to my Teutonis is the Minister who throws his shield over frind, and which Englishmen would do the Sovereign, rather than the reverse. Nevertheless, where hoth Sovereign and the Governor of Kanagawa within wirosą
Minister are separately popular, their con-pai, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauritius, all cord Jurisdiction the place of Adams' burial lies well to ponter."
homensely strengthens oach, and the might be asked by thy Commucil to isme.
obligation (so to say) is mutual. Lord My Dolinen secordingly intersted himself
ENGLAND AND KEACONSFIELD Beaconsfield may have, and no doubt did, consulted and safe-guarded the Queen's feet in the mutter, untultalised from Mr Nor Yasushi, profact of Kanagawa, curlessly
(Lashes corirapandrat of " Pluskët.”)
in a hundred matters, and with the most de last week was filled-and occupied with tact and delicacy: but the strength woled promise that the law will be enir recal
gainst future ignotant
cant ottenglers who may,
either, was notinsignificant free were wantonnes, destroy any sucl: Lost Beaconsfield's illness and its fatal he in turn derived from Her Majesty's
witich
link the forthwith with the restoration of the mo- werk was riven to the indulgence of regret even as manent, to prepare an inscription to be for his loss, and to manifestations of honour
world by
may, I surprise upon his death, placed it, and to make a rangements for his memory. Historians will horoafter and the explosion of grief, for the whole to be permanently kept in record. flutt avver stare the death of Nelson think, bo trasoff to the fact that the regrets
has the decease of a private:
subject
et affected was
Conservative (for that was to
d patriotic the English nation with such a poignant was not chaise loyal and t
be expected),
word And hero aguifi the.
patriotio feeling of bereavement. I heard this ob servation made the day before yesterday by gives on other clue to the problem, or rather We have received from a shipping frun in greatest of our living English chemists adds another strand to the thread of which
though to politician in a why
the cine consists. One great cause of the
felt entreverence for the Queen is generalpendence within the Postal Union. I ventured conviction of her Sydney an extract from a letter forwarded morty sense, is a most interested student by Messrs Gibb, Livingston, and Co. of and critic of political events. cent large influx of Chinone into New South member the death of Nelson, surely," and Consort, when she was suspected of being Wales. It will be seen feet this stract he replied (also laughing) No; thank to German. It is only of late years, and Centrine these points he wondrously at the New South Wales Government heaves, not quite so far back as that
Theodoro Martin's work, that the world has strong But then there's a lot he kuwa uaught have been a communication with the Dov fancy I am taking my impression of the especially since the publication of Sir ernment of Hongkong upon the subject, sensation prone throughout the country come to understand how proudly and sensi- "Now thero And this he will learn with heart that is that the latter has been making aby that event chiefly from Southey's fa- tively English the Queen is
searching inquiry as to the cars of such an nous Life of Nelson. Nevertheless there are thousands, perhaps millions, of people And down he will come, and take three nice unusual exodus of Chinese from. Hongkong, I suppose, he no reasonable doubt that in England who are far more English and after Chinese parts: We understand the motion orakel by Nelson's death was national than either loyalist, Liberal, or
I when gaid
Conservative. They would prefer a Crom- of information as to the result
which I do woll they leath of
fcitizenship of it a beast, to the most legiti of Wallington in 1852,
tooks & Patt rað, e by the next woll
futtoral WEB one of You see if he don't; for learning's his hiquiry' male at Hangkong, but the what I did, I was really thinking, of
expect receive despatches by
renumber. His
mate Sovereign or accomplished Minister,
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and incoming steamer. Meantime, it will be the most stately pageants over witnessed in under whom, nevertheless, Great Britain od degradation. Unless the Queen suffered
iji, via Torres trails, Letters, 10; Buedistaly the loss was discovered, the satisfactory to the public to learn that the London Indent, who ought England
cistration, 13 Newspapers, 2: Ranks and envelope being invariably forwarded with turn kingly Government intend to introduce, in the ap- to have mourned and honoured if not the had herself been intensely British and
de- session of Parliament, a bill to Great Dake. And yet, unless I
give myself, the death of Lord Batriotic, her sympathy would have done terms, 2: Fia Gulle, Lit ra 26; Re such application unless it also is lost. Lord Beaconsfield more harm than good jarwion, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books then what he'll do will be dread with the subject of Chinese
r'atterns, 2. izumigration.
The extract from the letter,consfield is felt even here acutely, more aa with this great and worthiest section of the
ོན།་ which was ditol Hongkong, 29th April, (or to say) a selfial loss, personal miafor
Natal, the apo St. Helena, sud Asco 1885, and cante by the Hania Castle, is as tune, than was the death of the Duke of Community. But as it was, the two cur
Wellington
The truth is, the nation had rents, of loyalty and patriotism, blended followings
stream of homage to the departed states-10; Newspapers, 2, Books and Patterns, 5. instant we lud no anticipation whatever of He had raidered all his services to the man, which seems to carry almost the
When writing you por bearer on 22nd no more to expect from the Great Duke. and flowed together in that strong falli, ia Aden, Letters, 26; Registration,
• A email extra charge is made on delivery. + There is Registration to British W. India any trouble arising in the case of this country. He was mots, and ripe for totality of the nation with it.
Lalards, 10 conta. had death; and the only sentiments demanded steamer, and it was not till after-
Registration via San Francisco, 10 cents. closed our letter that we received a can-by the casin wore profound retrospective
Caunot be sent via San Francisco, munication from the enignition officer, in nonr for his stainless.character, an un- formedtg us that the Governor of this coloray stinted avowal of obligation for his sorvious; auxious to make a statement to the bench
the
of before the witnesses against him were
LOCAL POSTAGE. had received a telegram from your Govern- and an anxiety to
inquiring under what auspices so funeral pop upon his obsequics. The examined; but as this was out of all rule he was refused At the close of the trial he Chinese have lately left for Australia account would then be, as it were, cleared;
was tok? he could now state what he wanted. The worl used, auspices, is so vague that and the surviving result would be a feeling of duties fittingly sulisfaction, as we could only give our general ideas on the of And stars, I lod thought, on someone goet, alleret from the best, mitive discharged on all sides. But comfort docs easily in the case of Lord Ben But then it had thought so long, and did sources: but his Excellency the Governorul come so
has taken the opportunity of making the consfield. The public never would take ost searching inquiries on the whole que reasonable account of his great age. It tion, and has prevented us dispatching this would not regard his career as ended.
The following is corrected from the latest steamer at the date originally intended, looked to hint as at least an alternative The inquiry thus instituted Las led to
resource against nation peril; and death nothing, fo far as we are censernet, beyond has left the pain of a wreat unfulfilled. The London and Colonial Papers, &c. a most unnecessary and vexations delay of country movirus him so bitterly dead be- The regret is for days."
him alive, course it needed him aliv not so pure and musclfish as if it were based solely upon respect and gratitude, but it is Left. more keen." Thus was the drift, and in Dec.
the
3, Laurens, eminent part the lungangs, of
Jan. The Russian anthorities are going to
Professor, and I think there is considerable
17, Creswell. make a strenuoua effort this year to establish truth in his general position that the ex- the islands which they uation of the altogether unexpected and settluments in annexed a few years ago from the Japanese surprising manifestation of feeling through- I knew what they meant :--" No need fora During the course of the casting amer out Great Britain at Lord Beaconsfield's
And now he will stay-His interest cenă! He'll stay a long time, and study the facts; For money he's got, the knowledge he
locks
A
Tis said that he longs for the Central
School.
Centrifugal force, he's neto its rule;
strength, he's studied it long;
So now
about;
stout
stools,
CHINESE IMMIGRATION. (Sydney Morning Herald, Juno 4.3'
the
is the
|Hongkong, which has reference to the re- to say laughingly :-"Bit von earinot re-time, especially ch.triotism. There was a
・that
the life of the Prince.
10 cents.
2 cents each...
·2 cents per 3 +
Post Cards,
Cegistration, Vw papers,
ks, Patterns and į Comm. Pupora, There is no obarge on redirected oorre
Postage to Mn-Union Countries. lawaiian Kingdom
L1:05,
toistration, ежирарета.
10
λone. 2*
ka&attorus, 5*
West Indies (Non Union)t, Bolivia festa kica, matemala, New Granada, Vicaragua, Panama, Paraguay T Loiters,
And sit in the hall, and mind all the at the Government of New South Wales veviously unexampled. No of the wool who made his country feared, and Registration,
rulca.
CFZZO.
Ah, the for he'll set the school in a blaze
Much learning may
uad: fully sal
And
I'm sure I am right--you see if I'm not- Unless all his friends atir about, and he's
caught; Or cut his supplies, and then he is stopped, And all his bright achomus are suddenly
lopped. I watched; and I saw the stars in a state Your interest now I'm afraid will abate But stay, for a moment, while I will tell Treknow well
You how the bright stare his projects
•
shote just na bright as ever they could;
And then a bright star--it looked very
רררר
rude-
stood:
brood
On troubles that came to mankind,
-blind,
When coneta are out improving their
mind-
It winked at me bright, the bright little
star,
As much as to any Ah! well you may And well you may stir, and well have a
stato,
caro: No knowing what he'll do: no knowing
what he'll dare."
The planeta they smiled :—" You'vo got a
queer cove.
stove."
And now I have run beyond my tan And now I must stop, with all of my sign I hope that a wiser man than I an Will stop this prodigioualy rascally lamb And then I will feel my work not in vain. I sign myself now--
A COMATOSE MAN, Hongkong, July 2nd, 1881.
SHOULD THE OPIUM TRADE BE
PUT A STOP TO
Mr Pense says "You" because-
have
ment,
resources of
many
THE COLONISATION OF SAGHALIEN.
At this same dinner party a lady said,
A PRISONER at a certain court was very
This was His guileless and candid answer: 0, there's no use of me saying anything there's been enough of lies told here this morning already.'
دیا
Shipping Intelligence.
VESSELS TO ARRIVE,
3, India, 8. Hermes, 11. Elwell, 11, Abbie Carver, 11, Star of China, 15, Denbighshire, 17, Neachus,
13 المياة )
AT HONGKONG, Namu..
From.
Hatulnurg
Liverpool
Feb.
the feeling that the country cannot
Murch.
31, Huguenot,
Molusine, Freeman, 15, Lavincible, 21, Astoria,
Cardiff
Cardiff Liverpool L'pool v. Cardiff
Cardift
London
Cardiff
Cardif
New York
Falmouth Cardif Cardiff
24, Daniel Barnes, 26, Laurel,
Cardiff
Gravesend
30, India,
Cardiff
30, Flora,
Hamburg
30, Kajsow,
London
1,
1, John
Lucile,
Ć. Munro,
Liverpool London
1, Elmstone,
London
1, Clare,
London
past
2, Ainbassador, 4, 'Don Quixote,
Chuli, Danici Barnes, 9, Paul Jones, 19. Landseer, 13, Figaro, 17, North American, 18, Raven,
Nautilus, 15, Now Burs, 22, 26, Lucile
London
Cardif
Cardiff
Newport
Bristol Cuxhaven Cardiff Cardiff
29, John R. Worcester
29, G. F. Muntz
Cardiff Cardiff
May,
5,
Prudencia,
Hope, 10, Figaro,
Cuxhaven
10,
10,
Figaro
11, Helen Marion,
Cardiff
v. C'diff Lpool v. Udit
London Cardiff Cardiff Cuxhaven Cardiff LOADING JOB OFISA AND JAPAN PORTS
New York Cardiff Hamburg
Fame 4,000 convicts will be despatched this death lines;ther from Odessa, and dis
colonies dispersed
aparo hin about the island. These olenies are being organised in a most careful manner, remind-
nation will exhibit the same deep re- ing one of the solicitude displayed by rather naively "I shall be curious to see Robinson Crusoe it choosing proper settlers
at Mr. Gladstone's death? I shonid
And then everybody for the ever-memombie island he reigned fedly think so over insulitade so long. Thus, in the langlied; when she added: "You are laugh steamer Nijai Norgered, which is now on ing at me for so calmly asuming that when its way to the Pacific with Eve hundred John Gilpin next rides to Edmonston I souls on board, there are among the pri- be there to see-that I am certain to survive soners forty carpenters, ten shoemakers, Mr. Gladstone." We ameured her that it sixteen tailors, ten stove settura, four was not this which amused us, but the w smiths, two painters, and a number of other conscious manner in which she had revealed 1. It is machristian wil imoral to craftsmen, elected with care front the that her own sorrow at the demise of Mr. To rwhelming make money out of the mond and physical leading convict establishments in the em- Gladstone would not be
I should April. the most part they are made up this she answired simply "W pire. For The of the Chinese.
tax on beer and spirits is restrio of thieves and muricrors, with a sprinkling he tive of their use. so far as it goes; the of the vagabond eleinont; exile to Siberia sorry, I suppose he is a great man
te. And I tank this lady also expressed production and use of opinis we directly being a Russian remedy for persistent
to the two encourage for the mike of the tax.
great rivals, the dead and the pri. Norgored at Saghalion the five hundred 3-The Chinese Government is sinusulygrancy. On the arrival of the Nini very fairly the relative feelings with regard living, of that great central mass of the desirous to stop the sale of opinm, which souers will build a regular village for thera public which is not irrevocably eurolled it canot do so long as we compel them to selves at Karsakoff Post, and afterwards under either bunnor. admifit to their ports.
betake themselves permanently to agricul. Yet there has been une occasion withid 4th-As matter of policy it is unwise tural pursuits and unining. It is hoped by living memory when the tokens of public to foster source of revenue which is the Russian Government that as so as monruing weru even more general in Eng precarions, anday fail at any moment. Saghalien is dotted with settlements a large and than they have been during the We shall never to go war again to force development will take place of the mineral week. This ocasion was December 1861,
riches of the island, and that the colony When the Prince Consuit Mr Onslow and Lord Hartington say will gradually become a adeoud Java or ever, was hot a private person; and, had he Ceylon. Associated as this scheme is with been much less respected personally, his 1-A tax upon opium for the Chinese is plans for developing Russia's political power position would neverthelese have ensured
of no more immoral than a tax on boer and in the Pacific, it morits the attention" fthe superficial.universality lugulaious mani-
in England.
public. By the discovery of vast beds of jcstatione. The machinery of the State Church would still have bech set in action and in some cases probably Vladivostock, Saghalien as lost its original
in the land, and the decorum of beneficial. Besides, though we compel the raison d'etre as the coaling slabit of the by authority in every parish or religious Chinese Government to admit the opium, Pacific Fleet, but the fact that, in spite of socie would have carried the observance.
Bociety the supercession of its ruines, the Russian of court mourning" good way down we do not compel the people to use it.
.China to take our opium.
"No," because---
of the
-smoking in moderation is not coal in the immediate neighbourhood of
trade.
to create an enormous contraband The Goremment of India could not be carried on if we were to throw away the six or seven inilíons derived from opinna
Vanity Fair.
district
瞅
Gustav Oscar,
New York Cardif
Liverpool Penarth
9. The Chinese Government knows Government perstate in colonising and do- into the middle classes. As a matter of perfectly well that it not stop the use of veloping the island is not without signifi-fact, Prince Albert, though seriously re-
11, Belle Morse, spected, was never popular in England 11, opium, and that to prohibit its importation cance. The Globe.
14, Metspedia (s) His character would The.
even to the day of his death.
16, is better appreciated now. Had the nation
17, Merionethshire (a.) CLOSK WRITING.-A German having known then as much as it does now of his written on a postal card an incredible true loyalty, and wise services to the 10, Brutus (s).
23, Holon Marion, number of words, (25,000, we believe) in a country of his adoption, the sorrow, which style of stumography used in Germany, the was in chief part assumed in sympathy with author of the system set up the claim that his royal widow, would have been spon At London--Steamers via Sues Cenal.
Bothwell Castle. A Scord magistrate, who is by profes- it was superior to any other in use. The taneously yielded to his own deserts.
It is quite possible for a visitor from Glanroy.
Salling Vessels. sion a pawnbroker, experiences rather awk claim was disputed by the disciples of Pit- ward things now sad then. In Leith the man in England, and a prize was offered for abroad to be unaware of the immenes
Pit-affection
founded on profound approval, other day an old woman came into the the largest number of words written in
Great Britain bear for the
of the police-court, and asked
style on an English post card, the which the people of pocupent bench if he would sign this bit affidavit writing to be legible to the naked eye. The their Queen. Even we, her subjects, may. Aria (8.) (she having leat a pawn-ticket). The bailie card of the winner, Mr G. H. Davidson, is often forget it for years together, until some Laertes ()
wit-said to have contained 32,883 words inclu- catastrophe, actual or menaced the death Cedis (a) reddened, and told her to go and gased for ding the whole of Goldsmith's "She Stoops eldest son suddenly stirs the whole nation: Stonewall Jackson.
of her consort or the grave illness of her old woman was nonplussed The
ered, and to Conquer," an Essay on John Morley, and a moment, but she soon go bailes he half of Holcroft's "Rosd to Rain. Ye will to a perfect passion of sympathy. I am far Lazio C. Trop parkily said, You might sign it, bailip;
wants it oot for the fast-day.
a
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waistcoat, you!
Tou ken The implied acquaint we of the magistrate with you waistcoat too much for the gravity of the court, and the laughter became loud and long,
Sumatra.
At Liverpool.
Deucalion (a) Reina Mercedes
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Leon XIII (x.)..
Helicon
At Glasgow
At Hamburg.
Cassandra (B) Esmeralda
be understood that probably not one of all from ignoring the great and deplorable these words was written, that is, had all its growth of democracy in England. There Carnarvonshire () -- sounds expressed or even indicated. Such may be rough times coming, but they will shorthand hinta at words, but does not hardly come in the life of the Queen. The Electra (5.)
superstitions loyalty, such as the Cavaliers | homix,
write them.
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often spent more in Postage than would
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bave paid the freight, by stemor. No Made out on a printed form which is supplied refund can be made or such parls of the
value of Stampe obliterated before the ↑ A dollar rete for drawing on the United King
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