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JOHN BULL AND HIS 18LAND.

XXIX.

For Sale.

SELLING OFF CHEAP GOODS.

Now scels are being founded every day. Lot an obscard minister discover a new interpretation of nome passage of Boly Scripture, ho will soon attract a congrega Undersigned boing about to retire from Business, they are now Selling tinn, make an appeal to the pockets of lis off the whole of their Stock of EUROPEAN adharouts an appeal always responded to, GOODS, sues o Goto and SILVER JEWEL and then build his little conventiele. One LEE, SILK HANDE ERORIEFS, CENTON GAUZE, often receives a circular couched in such CRAPE BRawin, Lacquered and Iyon terms na theae: Sir-For some time past WARES, FAss, Quin Wanes, co., &c., 0., the want of a now chapol has boon felt in at greatly Reduced Prices; and they solicit a visit from the Members of the Foreign the reighbourhood. The Reverend Mr.

Commanity.

is ready to undertake the duties of pastor as soon as the necessary funds for building hita a chapel have boon subscribed. Fitat a little edifice in wood is erected, then the collections avall; and zine 10- places wood, and, provided the zeal of tho congregation does not cool down, you soon see a fine stone church aries on the spot.

London will soou possess a Theistic alurch, founded by a gentleman who, for S-fone-or-five years past, has been using overy God argament in his power to prave that the Father alone should be worshipped. Funds arrive but slowly, and the gentleman in question foris indignant. Theism,' he Bay has any believers; thun why they to frankly avow their, bolief, and cine to me? It appears he has only collected £6,400, and does not consider it enough for a building that would be worthy of the sect he is calloil to edify

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Thoré is also being prepared, at the pre- seat time, a church of the Holy Apostles, whore grand spectacular, performances will be given by the aid of an orchestra, pro- fessional singera, ote. The altar is to be Barrounded by giganti statues representing the apostles. At the back, in the midst of sombre inessive rocks, will shino forth a buzione crucifix. The services will be sung by 200 choristers, accompanied upon stringed instaments, the har especially. The interior will be illaminated by moane of an immense silvor gilf crass, at the ex- iremities of which will be electric lamps It promises to be a grand affair, as you set. The organiser of theea fores, the impresario, Is a nice young priest of the Anglican Charch, whose good locks obtain for him the admiration of the fairer half of dis par Jehioners.

Of all the religions enumerated in the and preceding chapter, the Roman Catholic

*No Apostolic is the least popalar Popery is still the cry of the English peo

WO SHING & Co.,

·76, Queen's Ital Contral.

1471 Hongkong, September 1, 1894

FOR SALE.

ULES

& Co.'s

MUMM OHAMPAGNE,

$20 per Cass of 1 doz. Quarts.... Pinta........ $1

" 2.1 Dubon Fires & de Gornon & Co.'s

BORDEAUX CLARETS AND

WHITE WINES,

Baxter's Chiebrated Barley Brev*

WHISKY,-73 per Case of 1 doz. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, July 18, 1884.

PUBLICATIONS as J. DYER BALL.

To Let.

TO LET, FURNISHED.

THE CHINA MAIL.

TO LET, FURNISHED, No. 10, Sex-

MOUR TERRACE.

Apply to

OPG

-----MANAGER, -

China Mail OrrIVE, Hongkong, April 15, 1894

ODOWN-S-TO. LE T. PRAYA EAST AND WANGHAI ROAD. For Particulars, apply to

SIEMBSEN & Co. Hongkong, April 26, 1883.

THE

TO LET.

767

HE PREMISES in MANY HOUSE, Queen's Road, now recupled by the NOVELTY STOR'

Apply to

HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, July 14, 1884.

TO LET

1165

THE PREMISES now occupied by us, 1187. 11, QUZEN'S LOAD CENTE AL

For farther Particulars apply to Messrs. RUSSELL & Co.

GEO. H. STEVENS & Co.

220 Hongkong, August 1, 1883.

TO LET.

62 ANTONESE MADE EASY" A

Bouk of SIP SENTENCES in the CASTONISE COLLOQUIAL with Free and Literal Translations; and Directions for Rendering English Grammatical Forms into Chinese and vice versPrice, $. TaterTO. 25, PHAYA CENTRAL

NO. 35, PANAS SEAMOUR TERRACE. leaved Coples, $2.50.

"Wa most cordially recommend it." China Reviero. "Will be found to supply & want long folt by students of Cantonese." Mr. BALL's Notes on Daily Press. Classitions and Grammar will be found very valuable."-China Mail..

"EASY SENTENCES IN THE HAKKA DIALECT A VOCABULARY.".. Price, $1.

Press.

FOR

.

*

The Sentences given appear to be well "Contains a ple. The Qukers, the Jumpure, the arranged."--China Muil. Salvationists, the Rantors, none of these wide range of subjects" Chinese Recorder, Barm them; but a black, shaven priest de. An extensive Vocabulary."Daily calls up momories of the state and Bloody Mary. A scalded child droads the fire say the English. The hatred of papery is Thus, pushed to the verge of absurdity. for instance, Good Friday is considere, especially by Dissenters, as a day of public! rojoleing, a kiud of Bank Holiday; the- great thing in to do the very opposite of that which is done in Rome. This is the day on which Jesus died : lot us spend it is 'This is retirement, we say in France.

the day on which Christ saved us:Act us rejoice, ray the English. In spite of this, inost English people still abstain from eat- ing meat on Good Friday.

To see Protestantism in all its axisterity, you must go to Scotland: there Calvinism in all its severity is practiced. You see, in Scotland, trifling is not countenanced; no- thing is done by halves; o levity or frivolity is tolerated. I bucura Scotch Pros byterian minister who teaches the Lord's

in hand prayor to his children cano hoaitation or mistako is punished by a good eut across the back of the small supplicant. In the eyes of these gloomy Chiitione, gaiety is to be regarded with suspicion; a Jake is a sin; for is it not an act of frivoli- by and must not every idle word be given. account of one day The Scotch are a virtuous people; a puple in earnest, if

ever there was one.

SALE at Messrs. KELLY & WALSH'S, W. BREWER's, and LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.'s, Hongkong; and at Messrs. THÜBNER & Co.'s, London.

143 Hongkong, January 23, 1884.

"

NOW ON SALE CHINESE DICTIONARY

IN THE

CANTONESE DIALECT,

NY

Ds. E. J. BITEL Скок Остато, гг. 1018.

HONGKONG, 1877-1883.

A-K Part I. Part II. K-M, Part III M-T. Part IV. T-Y, ....

in

$2.50 $2.50 13.00 ...$3.00

No. 4 Oun BAILEY Stroot. No. 3 PEDDER'S HILL.

Apply to

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. Hongkong, September 2, 1884: 1476

LET With Possession from 1st HOUSE AN UPPER MOSQUE TERRACE

Apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co Hougkong, September 3, 1884.

1462

TO LET.

REENMOUNT, BONHAM ROAD; from

the 1st of September, 1884. Apply to

GILMAN & Co. ཏྭཱ་ Hongkong, July 21, 1864.

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100

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INJORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER OF His Majesty King George The First,

A Roduction of ton per cent, will be allowed to purchasers of Tyn or more copies.

This Standard Work on sho Chinose Lan-first guage, constructed on the basis of Karghi's Imperial Dictionary, contains all Chinese characters in practical use, and while alpha- The Mormon Church, so flourishing in betically arranged according to the sounds America, admits Polygamy and The wracy of the oldest dialect of China, the Ca Not on tout with the wives he has had in this tonesc, it gives also the Mandarin pronui- world, the Mormon can also aspire to contract eintion of all characters vaplained in the arriage in the next. Indeed, it is a prae-book, so that its usefulness is by no means tice of the Mornan Church to recompense confined to the Cantonese Dialect, but the work is a practically, cumplate Thesaurus of a exemplary le marrying the defunct to some great departed acul in the shade of the whole Written Language of China, an- the Elect. In 1870, a friend twin paid cient and modern, as need all over the a visit-tu Salt Lake City, and was intro- Empire, whilst its introductory chapters duced to a Russian princess, at present there the purposes of a philological guide wife of a Mormon bishop. The following are a few of the impressiors which the lady communicated to my friend. My Isband been dead twelve years; li was very good to ins, but, in spite of that, I have no respect for his memory, because bo did not treat his other wives with the tamo kindness and affection that he showerl for me and, according to religion, & man should not show a preference for one of his wives, As to our second husband, W ah! sir, what a man what a sinį! do not mourn for him, we envy his lot; he sojourns in the realms of the blest; and, Inst year, air, wa married him, in our church, to the Maid of Orleans."

our

first

The Quakers aro so named, because of the contortions, which the first followers of

the sect gloried in making, while thes

to the student.

A Supplement, arranged for boing bound and used by itself, and containing a List of the Radicals, an Index, and a List of Surnames, will be published and sold separately.

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. Hongkong, January 15, 1885.

FOR SALE.

101

DISTANCE. ¡OURSE, AVERAGE SPEED TABLES,

AND

FROM

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INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, &c, WITH

worshipped, with the idea of trembling be: VARIOUS OTHER TABLES AND NOTES,

fora their Maker. The Quakere never

nool except to the Supreme Being They:

lift their hats to nobody, address every

W. A. GULLAND,

one as thee and thes, refuse to take oath, To be obtained at the

because,

and will not servo in the army, b according to their belief, war is sinful They have no sacraments. This sect, also called the Society of Friends, recognises no consecration; any member may speak i thelt mectings. Complete silenos is ob served, until one of thess row convulsion- taires, moved by the Holy Spirit, begins

founded in

to pray and genticulate This sect was a Loucestershire shoe- 1050, by &

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WILLIAM DOLAN, SAIL-MAKER & SHIP-CHANDLER,

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1. The Union Jack will be hoisted at the paper of some length entitled The Em peror Cheng, founder of the Chinese Km Mast Head when any vesel is bang

insizpalied, pire," which will to read with genuine interest by students of Chinese history, A few short notices of New Books and number of Notes and Queries, one of which On Chinese Oaths in Western Borneo and-Java

ava" might appropriately have been placed under a separate heading, complete ber. Daily Pres. Trainers Oriental Record contains the following notice of the Chera Reviews 5. When a Steamers or the sake of a The present publication, judging by the Steamer, in nighted, the Company Barring number now before us, is intended to the Yard And, and Distance of at the occupy a position, se regards China and the Mast Head, will be hoisted. If, when the neighbouring countries, sotto what similar vessel is made out, she is not a Mail Siam- to that which has been filled in Tulis by the or, the Vmeal a Distinguishing Flag will be Calcully Revera as grant degree of at substituted for the Compas igual, and it tention that has been bestowed of late years will be kept dying until the hip ushers. Hongkong, May 1, 1882.

upon the investigation of Chinese liberature, The Distanos Signal will be kept un fifteen antiquities, and social devoloparents, to say minutes after the Steamer is made bus.

0. If the Steamer, ja a regulare-Mail DVERTISER wishes SITUATION to nothing af linguistic studies, has led to the ENGLAND. Wages no object. Apply by ation, rendering some sach chantal of pub the Rnglish, French, or American Ensign, licity sa is now provided extremely desir with the Distance aff at that time, will be Mrs. SWEET,

Able; and contributions of much interest shown at the Mast Head The Compass may fairly be locked or from the member Signal and Symbol will be listed down. *Rocklands, Robinson Rond,

of the foreign consular nervios; the Orisse The Bait and Bosign will be kept up until 1400 Hongkong, August 21, 1882

Customs corps, and the mismoory body, the tessel anches The Distance Signsk smong whom a high degree of Chinese will be kept Uying for half-an-hour, and scholarship is saiduously cultivated changed at each mocessing half hour to show and who are severally represented in the first the Distance off at those three. When the namber of the Review by papers highly vessel is between Cress Talend wad the creditable to their respective author North Point of Hongkong the Distages Some translations from Chinese novels and Signal will be healed down. If the plays are marked by both accuracy and fresh Steamer is not in the Harbour when it is nesa of style; and an account of the career of too dark to distinguish tags, a red light w the Chinese peat statesman of the eleventh be exhibited us a Fest Yard Army fit a centery, 8n1ung g'u, by Mr. E. C. Bowen, green light at the East Yard Arm until she

historically valuable, but in an ATCSOPS

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OAKUM, LIFE BUOYS, CORK JACKETS, &c., Scot, &c.

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.maker named Gorgo Fos. Mr. John | COMPARATIVE CHINESE FAMILY LAWS ¦ AGENTS for the above Company are should be sent to the Company's Offices Ep to SAN FRANCISCO or any Port of secimulation of important stores of inforn, Steamer & Gun will be fired, and a Ball over

the

BY E, H. PARĶER.

Can be obtained from Katty & WALT at Shanghai and Hongkong, at LANE, CRAWFORD & Co., Hongkong, and at the China Mail Office,

Bright, the great English teanu, is a Quaker this explains hie leaving the Ministry of Mr. C'adstone, in 1882, when the latter decided on reading Egypt.

The American Shaker are now nearest approach to the original Quakers Their religiona service is conducted on this THE REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF wise-The men and women gauge them. LOGAN AT CANTON that appeared in selves in Unes, facing one another and the China Mail has been printed PAM- then clap their hands, jump, and shout, PHLET FORM, and is now on Salo, --- until they fall to the ground, exhausted and breathless. If a new act, worshipping God by walking on thoir haada, were form cd to torrow, it would surpris nobody very much. There is nothing to hinder It,

Price, 30 Conta.

Hongkong, October 3, 1889.

WASHING BOOKS,

(In English and Chinese.) VIYASHERMAN'S BOOKS, for the use V of Ladies and Gentlemen, can now

had at this Office.-Price, $1 each

given a church, chapel, or meeting- house, there is no form of worship, however senseless, that may not freely be indulged in, unhindered by law. In this church-be going country, it does not matter what yaar roligious belief is, provided you go to home place of worshi

Ona Main Office,

KOWLOON TERRY.

The launch Morning Star will run as follows during the Summer Months

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THE Undersigned, AGERTs of the above Company, are authorized to "Insure. against FIRE at Current Bates.

GILMAN & Ca Hongkong, January 1, 1882.

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AGENT for THE IMPERIAL GOV- VERNMENT DOCK AND PATENT BLIP, at Nagasaki, and are prepared to supply Tenders for the DOCKING, OTMANING, PAINTING, &c. of VESSELS, The ERGINE WCBXH in connection with the Dockyard are under the direction of experienced Es. OKEB and possess all the necessary appli-

to display your now dresses; in fact, you 9.030. 12:30 PM 1:00 PM. ances for REPAIRS to SHIPS and MACHINERY.

all go to church, because you know you are nowhere, if you don't go to church."

It is but right that in this- volume, treating of the topics of the day, I should reserve a special chapter to the Salvationists, the heroes of the moment.

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199, NASBAU STREET, NEW YORK; in authorized to resetre Subscriptions, Advertisements, &o, for the China Mall, Overland China Mull, and China Revieve,

For further information as to Freight or Passage, apply to tho. Agency of the Company No. 601, Queen's Road Central.

F. E. FOSTER,

Agent. Hongkong, September 2, 1881

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tinguished by its literary grace. Beside 7 Biver Stourners will

autices

of new books relating to China and The approach af other Steamers from Micro the East, which will be useful feature of of Canton will be made known by showing

the Benete, il carried out with punctuality the National, or House Flag and Symbol and detail, we are plad to notice that at Yard Arm

Noton and Queries are destined to

& If a Fing showing that an Officer of find a place in its pages also. It is to be bigh rank is on board an incoming vessel, a hoped that this prouing for contributions similar Fing will be shown above the Bals on Chinese subjects may evoke a similar of the Flag alous will be, boisled stable degree of literary meal to that which was Mast Beach diapkiyed during the Heme of its predo susace in the field, and that the Chinese may routre tap anpport hocay to neues Įta continuaver,^

NOW READY. THE COMMERCIAL LAY AFFECT TING CHINESE WITH podia ser

ARCO PARINKBAHIY: BheriRATION AND BANKRUPTCY LAWB II Honotong.”

9. The approach of Men of War and Bail in Vessels will be notifen by their proper Symbols and National Colours, or House Flags, at the Quarter of the land, or at the Yard Arms

Note The Thatanoss of vessels wil be estimated from the Peak, and will be unde Unicans of the Numerals which are attache ed to the letters in the table of Fig

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Copies may be had at the China Mall Printed and published by Gao, MURRAY

Ofico, and a Mosam, ZAJS, CRAWFORD, & 194500,-Frice, 75 genta.

Bars, at the China Mail Office, No/2 Wyndham Street, Hangkung.