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SCOTCHMEN AND BURNS.

No. 7828-JANUARY 26, 1888,]

sentence of the Supreme Court to five! yoars' imprisonment with hard Intion and A propos of Burns and Barns calabra to be privatuly whippel. On the Slab Do camber 1887 at 7.30 am, I left them in tious it may not be out of place to give a charge of a chingang semisting of 92 Chi. shortexinuet from the recent work. - Friend. resuandong Fair pean, trok them to MacDonald, of the dever, if numewhat The Cattle Markot at Kennedy Town, where. they were to be employed filling in aswani superficial writor, Max O'Roll, with the Thoy matched two deep down to the placar that, had the writer visited Hong- Waolt complo was chained

together n the

kong and not Elisburgh on the 25th aukts a chuin.

The

di- Chupany was vidud tuto sic

an fleur in January, his impressions Abont Scotchmen Kango with charge of each. There were 16 men in each and thisir verente for Burna would be

with

THE CHINA MAIL.

, or is firmly convinced that he is, with hard labour in each case, all the pris under the soren of the Bylam Kongest, onere orcapt the first to ho whipped ones and it is hopeless for any misster to per- with twenty-five strokes of the ratten with- mundo any of his servants to register them in the East six months of theis imprisons, nelven, & course which is optional to servatamant by the Ordinance, while in his present um pleyinent. Every man declines sturdily, saying that he will bo waylaid and have his hond broken. Possibly be may not be

will explicit, but in that case he any lis To fuses to register until all the other boys sexistor likewise. Matters are thus brought ta privet deadlock, and what promises to Lembat

forged and borrowed trading estes so prevalent among now entirely anilified

by a

to the

THE UBOWN PRINCE

Hamburg

with the exception of No. in which been somewhat différent from the he read olunblo check on the personation Triad Society, and belonging him plot to asasinate the Cear has been dia mauger Holdera, tous, 920': horse the bertin" are the

there were only 12. The Buropean -Tot in ne of the gangs, but went down cords in the following pasangch :-- singly in change of acaparato offieist. The

WH

which

merite

of the mensura.

It is more far to be

Bettled

to show

of

were a fine of $600 or imprisonment with or

froid

Singapore, Hongkong, &c.) Frisia, for same routes tinere, & Blephan for Yokehasis and Biogo, via Biiddlesbro Sachsen, sa (Sub Line), for her unitat route: Else, a... Jabson, for Vlidiwostoos

ation; the furmer via Muutevideo. The

year is estimated at 4 per cent.

dla, for the P and O. Company's service on the river has been satfifactory during Sun Hemo, 7th January The Crown She is sister ship to the Ocean, recently the week, the wanson being taken into tone Prince, when thanking the Municipality of launched by the sand am The dimensideration. Our communication with the Potsdam for their New Year's good wishes, sions of the Arcadia are ---Length, 499ft. Far East has included the androl of the

and he hoped us pay a visit to Fotsdam breadth of beam, 62ft, and depth of hold,

Eastbourne, 6.87

from East India some time in the cammes. For all cool and will have Lloyd's highest authe: tinter; and Tobique, Davie, from

37ft. The russel is balle of Siemens-Mat and Olina Blestra, ... Madsen, front the TRIAD BOCIETY CASE,

ENGLISH CATHOLICS AND THE POPE. Inu. Akwok was convicted of buing a The Dake of Norolk's second visit to class. She will be fitted with triplu-expan Hongkong. The only coparture has been member of the Triad Society.

Rotho is anotheial. He gous merely as sion ongines of 6,000 indicated horse power, the Polyhymnia, K., Schaalar, for her against the prisoner, said that the Catholic Union to the Fope on his Jubilee. Wolff, and will be fitted up wit

Dir Justice Leach, in passing sentence the banter of congratulations from the also donstructed by Messrs. Harland and asual route. The Cassandra, a

with all the

to Singapore, Hongkong, Sa ind evidency against him was that he was

FLOTTO ASSASSINATE THE CZAR

lern appliance most fundern

arrived at aden with crank shaft possession of

St. Petersburg, 10th Saudary A Nihilist The Daring om ste sloop,

Jord

broken, and must repair. The vessels an bardon was

was on

Hesperia, B., Electra, he was not in possession of covered here and a great many arrests have power, arrived at Spithead on the ss., and Olympia s.., all three for their boys is such insignia. Ho bid produced no

no boon

sada. Saveral military officere nte 17th inst. from the China Station, and sube usual route: Glamorganshire, Plent com evidence to the contrary, and the jury came iniplicated in the conspiracy. In conso- Scotland postcases 'n' national literaturetion on the part of the servants. The in the conclusion that he was push abandonad protected visit to our commissione abroad.ar has had Yokohama Drepuale, a,, for Penang,

uss-sequently proceeded to Sheerness to pay | brokeshire, a.a., And rener belonged to No. 1 gang of of which the greatest nations might just question aʊe ceases to be no es to the in euaterly and in our tral of these articles race of tbis design upón his life, the Czar off. The During hoisted the pennant nt for Penang, Singapore, Hongkong, and

Monmouthshire Sheomess

omness in 1883. Tho Turnley Griffithe way in charge bo proud. On arrival at the Cattle market theo take only the great names, it may mer

The prisoner himself stated at the

Petersburg where La propceed making four

and as her arma tracy aud in this Court gag were tall off by man diferent safely be said that more orions than that. What has to

for rond- sublim potty that the teching and now-ant the lots of oven a day is promises in which thene were found the sorte y and will remain at Gatchina ment and her speed below the average desired in modern making near the Rope Works in company ¦ nover written, that Walter Scott was the nggad and sanctioned, shall be without hard labour, or beth a fino and ira- has been granted at commission in the 60th intention of the Admiralty to replace ships and Doris; 9.a, Raben, for the entae destin

matter-is whether a

a law of this Colony, punishments imposed by the Urdienneo to no D'OPAMANA COMACTANTO

COMMISSIONED IN INDIA. war vessels, it is not expected that she will Bombay, Jan. 11-The Duc d'Orleans be restted for further service, it being the into waste-paper

or by

She very cluan wanise at

malpractices it was framed to check. There risement; and the sentence of the Court Riffer with which he will is abundance of evidence. Every boy is was that the prisoner he fined $100 or three time at:

do duty for

with the nt Chakrata, afterwards he will Sir Frederick

Roberts staff. He is ex- witness to the pressure of the new bogus hard bour

Gree Baid,

upon the best.

pected to arrive in Bombay on the 7th Feb neck, have just concluded a contract to

REMOVAL OF THEERAW TO SATARA

and ongite a large steel steamer of of the head men of the Hyla Kong..

Choi Sz Tai atl Ng Afuk were convioled Bombay, Jun. The Bombay Gazetts 2,500 tons not register for the Ocean Stein-

AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY is announced hears that Theobaw will leave

BRVO Ratnagherry body. The road-making consisted

མནྟུན་པ

ex intend to arite an es107,

precate any improper influence being made

Mr Justice Leach anid

Liverpool. Her engines will be triplu ox for Devana dobility, physical exhaustion, cavating and illing in, and

premature decay. The discovery was But how can one speak of Seo land with of to hindur the working of the clear case of audacious, robbery, in broad is, the hill ist of Satan, where the last pansion, and the stem is to be fitted with and p rued with pikes: some ware arced-

anil sue without dayoting a few words to Robert Borda

'Ordinance." declare that the fat daylight and on a public road. The value desceffant of die geost

They

resist of the jadestone bangle stolen was not great, Thon the climate of Rutancherry is said third contract which Mossra Scott and Cosaved him froy in Old Mexico; it.

at Sivajee once dwelt. All the latest improvements. This is the made by s shovels,

with

be to that the Ordinance is and others ergibars sond

a miserable existence and In their worship of their cent people,ad and all with bankota. Nothing happened uptil characteristic of the Scotch people,

registration rofused oma- certainly, only about five dollars, but

initlusential laure of Afternoon. about three o'nluck in

Fuates from. ist Lito

has become somewhat impaired We auderstand that Messrs Card and in Blouinsbury Squaro, London, WC will Co. Joseph Folies, Bloomsbury Mansions, 2 clique Scotland is above all things full of ex No. 2 just visited and had nearly got back to the main bod practical common sense, but it is steeped to yian Kervants employed for the was no doubt that the prisoners work to reimble that of. Burah, Theobowave booked within the punt three weeke early grave. We learn that the Rev.

gangs No. 1 and

his residenco there, doubtless bo- have also secured an important steamship pret in Tanglio. That may be so, and prisoner appeared to have used the most cauf. The steadily refuses to take outdoor tract in addition to the two P. and 0. eund the prescription, free of chargo, on cure of overpantry: Thers is poetry ut the

AS DI overy Scot. Vait the castle of the indeed we believe that they have told the intence, as to sized the man by the throat | exɖ: Las ur oven to drive out Satara being steamers which they coutrusted for ten days receipt of a self addrested stamped enve-

It is for thum to exerciso and I RAW two pri rieb, or the cattage of the pot, or step into their wat Davis. At the same time

truth, in this. Butit

ercise and pushed him down on the groand, and on hill, he will probably overcome his ago. Within the past ten days over 20.000 opo auners rouning away

authority on the side of the law, and the hill year hotel I

d also a Westerly direction. The road making portrait of th, and you will go the trust that tho Protector of Chinese will with a to that he had been armod refctance to garut, for he will not thon tons have been booked in: Greenock and

will with a revolver. Both were acting in cou be liable to come under the observation Port Glasgow wow going on at a place about 20

20 feet

to be in Edinburgh on the bo properly supported in whatever actioneert, however, and

so bath must take 12 Le Southeru division, recently paid panies Sir Nowell Salmon to China as I

the of trangers. Mr Propert, Onmmissioner Captain Willam Henry May, who accom f nut the son level. The other pangs were 25th of working about five feet above the level

One thing is clear from a consideration of found that they Every- theatres were empty.

greatest novelist of the century, that Thomas Carlylo lina nuves ben sarpissed is a historian and essayist, and that Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations can be con sidered as the basis of modern political

with No. 2 gang of which Tumkey Davis was in charge. We arrived at the pla 816 m., and the different gangs sot to work forthwith. Gangs No. 1 and No. 2 were 150 to 200 yards away from the other gangs, which were together and were en-conomy ployed in filing in the swamp. I was in

Bad No. L

wors in sight of

I pass over the Humes, Smelletts, and

daly

twen

198E

ganga other illustrious representatives of Scotch worthy, that this illegal action is pot the

BORBENT WISH VIOLENCE.

in this

typu

I of the Buzz erd in composite slog vidend of the Kingsin Line for the current

Mesara Scott and Oo, shipbuilders, Gree

general charge of thu' whole main literature, on whom I certainly do not sea, but that on the other band they do. of robbery with violonce this was very to take up his abode in a more healthy place Company, managed by Alfred Holt, of in the Paris Figaro," of a valuable rainedy

and No 2 vers in

ist ex purpose

I

had

the

whan

I heard an alarm given by "urnkey

graceful, bard,

wd

aust have taken all they could got

belit t

were

healt

}

The first duri

ne Ling

luutations

HONGKONG, Jastary 20

Old

Can the

anniversary of Burea's thinke necessary to produce this result.cursequences of their crime. His Eerdel Yogbaw a visit Preparations are in prosesptain, passed asya the Broad. Araw QEIDM-Now Po the two man lose bohind thront, "I made | nera, meetings, lectures were consocrated to primary mistako lay in not making regis.inBioted on them in the Police Phraents in Satar for the suitable reception of from Eastman's for a naval cadotaip,

of the ecs. I saw Turnkey Grifiths pursuing one

both old offenders and the whole business, and that is, that the had not taken warning from the pu dolebrating the anniversary. Din.

Court before. servante after | His Lordship had taken into

into consideration this fact that the complainant was not

I

are! birth.

18 FAS

the two companies fall in and counted them.

No. 1

I gang was short two men and No. 2

Burca; and that which was passing in Edinburgh was also

Fillage. Scotch

all tho compulsory on

the

time, Bay

ng four men, I then marchal than back sendo, in every little passing, on a anjalihe ist of January, allowing a reason theininred by the violence ofered to him, but has been conforced to six weeks' imptison-

at aree to the main 5 dies. I allowed the i squatted where they were Kanga to rozazi

It was a national com en union, Burne wrote in Soutelt, and in celebrat-

registration

de ox-King his hosesbold.

CORRCINO IRELAND. London, 8th JoTimothy Harrington or three weeks, ei the whole mass of domestic those cages must be punished severaly, maut, but was released on bail ponding the survante employed within the are affected The

men be sent to prison for three years, with such wholesale intimidation could not have hard labour, and that such ractive two have anticipated a general reluctance on rattan within the first six months of his been foreseen sithongh it was natural to whippings of twenty-five strokes with the

the part of the burrants to register.

imprisonment.

The Court then rese,

June 9, 1833, and came out of the Briton- nia in September, 1864, with a first-class cortificate, the rating of midshipman, and the prize for

or conduct. As a mildy he was in the Fictoria for three years dur- ing her commission in the Mediterranean Clarouco Fagot. He then served in the Liffey, went with her to the West Indies, was promuted in her. And as

and sent for policë asistative, and as wooning the aniversary of his births tlier celeby the Ordinance. We quite admit that science of the Court wis that both result of an A tiny Mr W. J. Lane, as flagship to Sig Robert Smart and Lord!

I had th in all together I went off four of bented a national file. His poetry reminds the turnkeys in pursuit and ale ure of the them that they belong to a nation perfectly Sikh guards. There were four Sikh guards distinct from England, a nation having a at the grounds. These guards are placed literature of her own. This is why his at the four ecenors of the ground and their memory is revered by high and low alike. du ios are to keep watch, to eco that bene The Setch could na more part with their After waiting for an hour Berns than England with Shakespeare, or goes by them The police eume and I then marched Italy with Durito. The Caclie tongue is all ther prisoners back

to the Gaol,ERTY

$

1

The assistant helps

eme in

to any one gang. The Sikh guards are armed with files, which are kept landed from the time they leave the Cant to the time they return. They are cach supplied

TAT

Scotch customs become

SUPREME COURT.

IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Justice.)

Thursday, January-26.

HONGKONG, CANTON AND MAGAD STEAM- BOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. Amets. 1857, Dec. 81, Velve of 5 Stearners and žile

Tahts of Wharvek, ........

Do. of Chigon bousin...

De of Iron Liglated Sun Zeynic

To. of Coal and Starç

Io. of Machinery

Do,

furniture............

The hates in Public Corepanies.........

Fixed Deposits with Hoogkung rod Shang- Ini Banking Corporation............. Swairy Deltors,

Premium un Marino Policies agexpired..... Interest accrued to disk Dece

8:37000,00 20,000.00

(7,000.00

780.00

London, 9th Member for East Cork, has been arrested timidate law-abiding people. at Oork for inciting the malcontonta to in-

WEDOR OF A CỊAN LINER.

Inteligenco habuer recuired that the lan Ogilvie, which left Bombay on 18th Doomber for Marseille, has been wrecked in the Straits of Bonifacio. The passen gern and crew have loco saved,

RETURN OF LORD RANDOLPH CHURONILL

oub took first-class certificatos in and

guinery and 'second' in He was then appointed to the Royal yacht, and after Few

months was promoted out of her, in September, 1871, to his lieutenancy.

of

Hin next service was in the arcutes with the present Admiral Lord Bandolph harehill returns from St Dowell, in the Channel Squadron He 2,000.00 Petersburg on Tusaday.

then studied at the Royal Naval College 5,744,2 DISANTROUS OVELONE ON THE BOMBAY COAST. and had every relinquished from zoal obtaining a 6/116.18 Bombay,

Jil: January, The Cyclons laas followship, which he 239 week has been disastrous to merous for Aretic service, obtaining an appoint- 85,000.00 country craft; the atoane Acconde which | mont under Sir George Naves, and serving arrived last night picked up eleven natives with tho Alert in the oxpedition of 1876 800.44 miles from

Bumbay; their craft

(medal). Un hie return he qualified for 1572.48 foundered, five of the era gain down with torpedo duties, had curmand of the tender 4011. her and the survivors tied themselves to to the Vernon, and in August, 1880, went 54,174.81 floating wreckage and drifted avons for to sea again as first lieutenant of the shree days. A Muscat vessel has rescued Inconstant, carrying the flag of Lord Clan- $1,000,06.00

seven out of a crew of eleven near Basein. willism in the Detached Squadron He was pad charge of the Folyphemus, out of her to commandor, Govornament has since

43.000.00

dying rapidly They all remained perfectly quiet in the more and moro English every day, but each (Before the Hon. Hassell, Acting Chief of Paishan, con interval before the police came, and I had year.o

af Robert Barns year only adulto the glory. no trouble with them. The

turnkeys were Dis still pursuing the men when I left and they poema hays run rapidly through many editions--they have reached more than a returned at farant times after I got back hundred up to now-the l BEUTY O

of bis Nout of this onearied prisonera were re-life is retold every year, and his portrait is The remaining case in the calendar of the scued. The tarahoya wore raad with still in great domai The popularity monthly Oriminal Sessions was tried to-day: shur words, I and my assistant bed ench Earns still enjoys in Scotland may be It was that of Fung Akwai, who was charged.

revolver. karping general control and is not attached from the fact that in ene single with enticing ang Li Afnk out of the Colony

thu for the purpos Edinburgh there are twenty

of emigration on 20th Dec. and portaaits of the poet sold annually. last, Prisoner, who was defended by MrCash on Current Aunt with the Hung

Whilst the English law the house which Edward Robinson, ins ructed b

dby

kong and Bhanghai Banking Corporation, Mr Deunys, Carlyle inhabited for so many years at pleaded not guilty, and the hllowing gentle Clula to go to ruine, the Scotch tato a on wore sworn as a jury ↑ J. 37. do Ro- pride in showing the stranger the little clay zatio, J. A. dos Remedia. A. M. P. dous Cottage where Barns first saw the light on

Remedios, J. W. Croker, W. C. Murray, B. Witte nad C. A. Herbst. the 25th January, 1750.

Hon. E i It is with real-regret that I turn from conducted the present. The Amount at Credit of Equelantion of Divi the subject of the

was to the effect that the prisoner, ave a boarding-hunase keeper, had induced the his life and his worAyrshire. Ploughman,

Few posts have united..

she has, delicate pathos and comic complainane to go on board a ressol that force, paro rêverie and the sense of the was about in leave the Colony, by get-

a box belonging grotesqne. But after all, I should but dating him to carry a what has been dono qver and over again by poraon who was going with the vessel, and

in numerous biographers, tho chief of that the complainant was detained on 15t, Dec. 31. To Amount paid for Extraaniny - "perty whom aro Carlyle, Chambers, and Professor board until the vessel was under weigh Shairp

He jumped everboard and was picked up by a sampan.

with 10 rounds of ammunition.

ho caso wis reinanded till to-metrow at 10 o'clock.

now

CORRESPONDENCE. SMALL-POX.

· AB

Longfellow has said that what Jasmin, the author of the The Wind Giri of Castel¦ Cuillé, was to the south of France, Burns was to the gunth of Scotland: the represen- tative of the heart of the people.

To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL.*

January 25. --With a view of preventing the spread of the loathsome scourge which is upon us, I would ask whether measures have been taken to thoroughly disinfeel the houses, clothes, goals and chattels of the person's attacked, what su porvision is exercised over the use of chaire and ricinhas by infected patients,-whether how-to-head visitation is made in the frightfully overcrowded native town for the dotection and isulation of email-pos cases, I cannot be think that had energetis means been taken to cope with the disensy at its first jubet,

the suffering and huch of

As we intimated the other day, the Goy morttitty would have bear prevented." The disease was apparently imperied by landing ernment of the Straits Settlements is now patiuata i fested with it from shiptranrd endearouting to enforce the provisions of

this was & moet many weeks wisjustifiable

ar Ordinance for the registration of domes Sach

persona should have beox introduced into a tie servants similar to the one which, a now City so notoriously overcrowded and in-

a dead letter here, and which it is pro- na Vickria. It appears to me that Bitary as the nutantin regulations if they suction posed to abrilish: The Ordinens, which such a conrae-require amendment, and I came into fores on the 1st January, mat hope the leeson we have

ton, ecoina bo

Dever

go.

BOYCOTTING AN ORDINANCE IN SINGAPORE.

be taken to heart. Oh been taught will į with stubborn opposition on the part of thje j

mat,

beca

Tiabilition.

amount of Capital; 40,000 shares of san but at frestit of Depreciation and In-

fully and

500,000,00

den Feud. Bundy Creditus..

€0,000,00

Amount at credit of Trofé nad Loss Aus

to A

Pret and Lora Azconat.

Dr.

Mr Robinson, in addressing the jury, said the complainant was asked to go on board the vessel for a lawful purpose, and from curiosity or some uther cause had delayed in teasing the versel, the result being that sho was under weigh before he was aware of the fact. There was evidence what ever to show that he was being taken. away out of the Colony, and in point of fact he was not outside the waters of the Oolony when he jumped overboard.

The fury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was dia charged.

SENTENCING OF PRISONERY. (Before Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief Justice, and Mr Justice Leachy, Acting. Paisne Judge.)

HRACY CASES.

poirs to Steamers ;--

CONSPICUOUS LIBERALITY. Bombay, 8th

8th January-A resolution records n

Now Berea, chah, 485

cach

Old

Now 3law, chub,.. 510 allowance, Old Malwa,

Nome 550/60

Allavarice. Trale ...None to 16: Persian, Oily, cash-000/640 Allowance,faels... None Persian, Paper tio) 640/660 Allowancu, Frels... None to 16

Exchange.

HONGKONG, January 26

On London-

Back, Wire,

On demani,

30 days' sight,

months sight,

8/1

ary, 4 moithai s

Ou Paris

On demand, ..

9.92

Credits, 4 months' sight,

4:01

On New York

On demand,...

Credits, 60 days might,

On Bombay

Wire,

Qu

On Calcit Wire,

100.000.00 of liberality or a conspicuous instance ram, from November, 1881, to May, 1881

Sir Dinshaw and was then re-appointed to the Royal Potit, who has offered Marechjee

to convey yacht--his last service. He put in three 200.00 [D

with her, was advanced to be present Government his property, the Elphin- mnk in May, 1887, Clepenit May is son of Hydraul & Pro

Preas in exchange for Elphin-nk it en,060.36

stone Arts College

lege buildings and adjoining the late J. W. Seaburne May, Esq., und he will $1,000,040.50

then

1 convey tu Glovóru- | married in 1878 the younger land, which he

daughter of ment for purposes of the Victoria Jubileo W. J.

d. Marrow, Esq, of Princess Park, Technical Institute: The value of the pro

the pro Liverpool. is estimated

President Carnot received, on the 19th BAXOMETER three Inks of rapecs. Government

Dew accept the offer with gratifica inst,, the Chinese Minister to France, tion Sir

Low Sir Dinshaw has alas offered a sim his Excellency,

Shui-fun view of the commercial and political of Rs. 1,20,000 towards the foundation oË In

lying-in-hospital in Bonbase

sportance now being assumed by Thibet, the Royal Geographical Society has deter

Kiszych...........$ 1,607.06 Hono Ase Cloud

2,063.40

B1.76

Kantianga

89,20

Faldiak,

9.57

64.72

$20,499

2,750,00

To Whurres

Fece,

To Directs and auditors" To Balance to be appropriated, viz, Dividend a 7 per seat, on,

$900,000,000

$58,000,00 The carried to Depreca

tion and Insuranone Fund, 10,000.00 Banco to be varied to

new Account

3,030.50

€9,90.50

$92,010.18

1887, June 84, By Amount brought, forward,

from last account,. By Not Earnings of Burners, By Interest an Investments, .

$ 0,001.08 81,380.07 *0,667,81

$92,348.46

Depreciation of Lasurenço Fund

1x, Dec. 31, To Ralance,

Dr.

Lau Âu, Man U Kan and Yau Afuk, sko were convicted on a charge of piracy, were Amount at Crodit.. first placed in the dook.

bare

in a very light and airy Chinese; and we gouy the latest advices regarded in a way, judging from what occurred last eum that a lugne of boys has succeeded in

and we may be thankful that we preventing all the Chinese servanta from escaped a vistation from it

The duties of Health Ofices are of the anat responsible gistering. Unless therefore the Singa. kind, and I think his judgment sheld bopera Government can break up this league, fortified by wrong regulations as to dealing their law will becows inoperativa. Mean piracy. with infections diseases on shipboard. Too

مو جانی

By Amount brought forward from Prot and Loss_afe for ball-punt, ending 50th Juno, 1897,

Fyzcalzation Dizident Mond

much should not be left to the judgment while residents are complaining leadly they commilky enough proved hints, Dec. 31, To Balance, ··

RAILWAY BETENSION TO KANDAHAR D The Bombay enquiries past few days, mainly in regard

which have been mado during the of that core of which have hitbart

Gazette declares that the mined to publish a work on the geography ntry, based on the revent travels

to the sup-

of

nativo

ਹਰ

of the Indian Servey

confidential oficial docu-

ply of railway stores, confirm the impression some of the that despite the context statements which boon tre tod have been made

the contrary, the Sindments. The compilation and editing of the Pishin Railway will be carried to Kandahar work will be placed in the hands of at no distant date.”

RAILWAY SCANDAL.

Madras, Jan. 8.-An outrage was com mitted on a lady passonger on the Railway

specialist, who will be e paid by the Society and the book or pamphlet will be published

as one of its miscellanecos papers.

HE

Hung Buan the

in the Mudras Presidency: an Ohristmas Minister at Berlie 18th FORE and uron

Ere.

THE S. 8. ALMORA ASHORE. The British India eteanor Almora from London tan ashore car the Nyman. Flat, within & quarter of a mile from where the company's as. Mahratta and Areat were $100,000.00 feat some time back. The dimora is not in langer. She is being lights, od..

-$190,000,00

$130,000.00

A STEAMER STRANDED.

be

new Chinese paid his first official visit to the Emperor on handing his credentials to his Majesty expressed on behalf of

of the Chinese Emperor. and his mother beat wishes

their

for the speedy recovery of the Crown Prince. The Minister win nocompunted by his suite, and was driven in State carriages to the Imperial palace,

by order of the Emperor. furnished The letter off the Chinese Emperor was

irst

Suez, January 10,The steamer in read by the Minister himself in the Chinese 20,000 caster, outwa d-bound froin Liverpool to language, and afterwards by an interprster $100,000.00 Bombay, has gone ashoro on the Stabaly | 10.

in French. The **** | Feet and is reported as leaking badly.

..$10,000.00

$40,000,00

Commarter-in-Chiet

reply of the German Em-

its French, his satisfaction

petor wishes

About the

Prince's health

thThe life of my with

son fa la God's had the Crown

On demand,

On Shangha

On demand,

30 days' nig

Gold Lost, 100 Sovereigns.

32.80

30.247

Temperature

(Taken at Messrs Falconer & t'a kremiter, Queen's Road,

9

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30.29

Do

1. Pa

Da

4 P.M

30.18 30.18

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* Do. Vo. Do. Do

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METEOROLOGICAL, REGISTER.

274

Barometer

Habidity

P.M. TO-DAY.

Temperature

37.10

61

718

Direction of Wind KAS

Force

Weather

Hongkong Observatory, Jan. 25, 1998.

CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER

JANUARY 25, 47.3.

Toko 30,04

Torigierature,

Humidity.

Wind.

Weather,

The Acting Chief Justice said there could be no do bt that the prisonera com charged, and they also committed a secund mitted the få ney with which they wate

1. wag dearly

(From L& Bapred, Dec. 20.)* second Gae, although

Vico-Admiral Sir Nowell Inn, K.CÈN and discretion of a single individual whon about their serrauts leaving thein, and

that charge was not gone. into, within a

accompanied by hie Stoffll leave Box was recently built for the Government by Nagasaki..

The new torpedo cruiser l'orpoise, which 'nstock. 30.42 a grave a resalt is at stake.Yours,

fow days

after the first ono. They had Euola inconveniene is experienced. The the iepudence, too, to come into the 1857 June 30, By Amount at Credit, 300.00 land on the 18th proxime for fongkong, to

Messts J. and G. Thompson, of Glasgow, Shanghai 30.48 37 91 ARGUS.

watere of the colony the crews of

with

Take up the duties of (Thure can be no question that the psi- following extracts from the Singapore Free the pirated juuks battened down in

has been solvoted for service on Amuy and which has on the China Station,

China tion of Health Officer is a very responsible Press will give some idea of the position of

The Hug of Vice-Adiniral Nowell the kina Station, in the place of the Wasp, Hongkung 30.09 63 72 He has to safeguard the port, while matters -

the Fold

their yousel.

Salmon, K.C.B., the new Comander-in and will Be the first of hur

is one of the pair vossele of the Archer type, Haiphong, 30.08 64 81 st 4 Chief for

class to the

bedes-Bolinao... 20.94 81 China Station, wne boiled and

NW 20 patched on

e designs of Sir Nathaniel JANUARY 20AY 10 SM- West India Dock.os. the 17th inst.

Oficial notification is

el director of naval con- Barnsby, the is given of the struction, and his Paymaster Reginaik B. Rig She is

is a larger

កែវ៣.

he is also expected to do so with sa little

of both

*

From the Jotters, which continue to be

C430 in

hits Lordship in tended to

a punishment that The beature.

prisonera w re Fr penal servitude for life j

ibut

obstraction to trade as is consistent with sant to 18 on the subject of the intraduc such safeguards to health. Mistakes may

Frode and Loss a/s far hilf-year ending 20th June, 1697.

| 3,4 0, X

F. Haynos,

•Acting Rescalony We hive compared the, obave Statement with the of giving them a long sentence of im- oches, and Securities of the Company, and

early the wine to be correct.

A. U'D GOURDIS,. JAMES . COX, Hongkong, 4th January, 1958

have been vinde; but it must be borte inition of the Domestic Servants' Ordinance, atement, which would be merely making i

mind that

-pur is an anoual visitor to the Coast of China generally. In Canton coming into operation of

it has become sufficiently patent that the

has been for three decaties. We do

do not

that

meneure is

compara

think that the Sanitary Staff of the Colony to attempt the engagement of new servants/ment, but in addition to that he would take segnal to the present occasion: a house since the first of January. From the tergadegutof the

and a

nor the

means

to be looked upon with diatastage of the o

Auditore.

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MATL

30.19 04

hauled down board: f.MS. Ient, of stool reign service. She was built Manila... 29.01) 841-81 RNB 21 c 10,63

uta-

2 of 1,03 AVPostuck. 30.35 14 90:

are engin

knots:

her at e

la arned

[4]:00 [0.04:

pointnisad

more powerful Tolio 30,2 bye, us secretary to Vice Admiral Sir Noshiban the Wasp in overy rispeet Her ki. 30.58 well Salmon.

V.D K.C.B

the date

andra Shanghai. 10.33) 37 100 of arrival of Sr. Noweli Salmon on

Amoy 30, 19 6870 ENT 3 b China Station.

th

Kongkong 30.27 59 73 R The subvention by the Metropolitan Go-4-inch a breech-loading miss our of Haiphong. 30.19 61 34 mus

uf Francs to the Budget of Indo- which arueried un sponson portfo vornment of

tro and Bufinno, 30.03 77EN China is to be twenty millions of francs for aft and tendships, the whole bay

Manila 30.02 80.28 w amount for this year, the result having been mounted with eight moti 1838. This is ten millions less than he mounted on Vandings. She brought about by naerica of

of measures affect and

quick-firing guns, and five tubes

of the revetiuo.

The barometer has risen and gradients for N.E. winds are steep. The temperature is rather low, the humidity high, and cloudy

W. DoBzOK, flovernment Afrotomer Bonkers Observótory, January 20.

it is said to be more severs this year than it being attended with exceedingly serious thom a burden on the Colony, his Lordship

intended to inconventsuces to those employers of Chinese tively short

to sentence them to the short period of the Colour domestic servante, whe bave lind occasion

of seven years' i

s' imprison

visitation,

of the powers conferred on the to-hones

à close supervision of chairs and rickslins, would be too much of the Ordinance it is certain that neither Cour recently by ordering them to he for the existing staff. There, we think, the the Attorney-General who drew the Bill of their imprisonment, receiving each time

twice whipped wibin the first six

months

The P. & O. steamer Bengal arrived last Governizent ought to

to have adopted energe

members of the Legislative Council | 25

25 strokes of the ratten It Was anfortou- the measures. Anything, however, which who discused its clauses in the Committesats that the law trade thean uses be dealt night with the English nail of 23rd Das

of a

had any conception that the Ordinance was to be attacked by an ille. with here, making an additional burden on We take the following telegrams from curing coruonies, and by an increased estimate charging Whitehead torpedoes. The total weather provaise 2 d

Ordisure, ha might Something have been done as ta gal combination on the part of the Chinese Ciro rates, instead of providing for the exchanges; →

There is as tars, whose methods in this cese are precies. authorities to be dealt with. However, the offenders buitg landed aver to their own

is now considerable activity in cost of the pesael has been about £97,000,

| She is fitted

with he obtaining greater and more efficient

electrio BOASTFUL SPEECH BY FACE FERDINAND. Portmoon Dockyard; t

1; the Imperisuss, twin- hospi and attendance. Try parallel to that which at prezentare hd prisoners had been tried here, and they ceising his officers at the New Year, take the pince of the fudacions, 28 Bagship tal accommodation

London, Jan. 17.-Prince Ferdinand, re-screw cruiser, is being brought forward to

lighted throughous

The the National League in Ireland, must be punished.

ting feet will ba lowed

Chinese coasting Atkinson bus had 200 much

ich work a

owed by aibility thrown upon him and the medical in its interference with the ordinary conra

1

pressed a wish that events may shortly force on the Chin Station. It is expected she ented by a new Germs, steamer, which stuff and requirements have to hear the of law in that portion of the United Leung Afat and savanthers were con- would then see that her Prince v prepar- March, However, the Porpoise, twin-scrow Hanburg, on account of on old China tra, and hundredths. PROGRA

Bulgaria to defend her rights, and she will not be ready for commission until was built by Measta. Blohm and Fees, at strain, instead strait ead of additional arrangements - Ordi

enta dom. It is now over a fortnight since bring trade to meet any emergency that Ordinancs begun to operate. To be put voted of making piratic attack on the ed to die for her,PEAN SIZCATION cruiser, for the

Bane station, will be ready der Herr M. Jebeen, of Apenondo. may arise. It is believed by many that in forcs, we had abnost સોd but that Kum

juale the 8th December

new steamer, which i PEAN

alkut the same time.

The trini trip on fishing the drains would have effected fast the very point we complain of Nei last, and stealing the

6 cargo,

con ship, famed the Fahrenheit. A Festh, Jan. 5. —AL Tisza, speaking here Judgment has been

hy Pre 1,200

the zome good,

in the absence of rain batir is the Ordinance put into force nor, ac The Acting Chief Justice and there could against this suggestion the authorities turn for as we can see, is there the provision of he na maquer of doubt that all the pri- given him hopes of a peaceful issue to the arising out to cousin testame relative of the owner, nad will make her 5. Forsy 7, WIND, recording to Beaufort to-day, and his recent visit to Vienna had sidout of the Admiralty Deurt in the notion instant, gave splendid results. The Else gidity of Air Faturated with mainure being

will be commanded by Captain Jebsen, a dost car. Perhaps this theory that the any mohicory srpen were engaged in the sacre piratical threatening aspent of affairs in Europe.

whatever for the applicati

Sawyer and the steam- drains have any connection with small-pox of th

of the penalties

expedition.

It seemed en extraordinary

ATONG OF PEADE 28

er Palinip BP.

The arguments in the case ward passage is South American porta Seale wards the end of last

at week, Kirty servantchad thing that the youngest of the eight who St. Petersburg, 7th:

Russian Guardsmen sidont, i in

formed in 1860 at F

and conson.

we feel eare that the scarcity of water and regi

Sing

THE

¿

American

can:

•Tha

1. BABOMEZES, rodnced to 35 degrees Fahren. half, and to the level of the sea in lus es, tentha

The 2. TeuresAToRD, in the study in degranný

19th

3. HUMIDITY, is percentage af saturatiet, ile

4. DIRECTION OF Wine, te two potulen

steamship company sched clonde, a drizzling, rein, tog, ploty

may be sneered at by all concerned. Buttered. But who were these 7 Thirty- was put down as being twenty years of age, series of time. JamaryThe first occupied three days in hearing The Pre-charter by the Hamborg South Ameri- 6 BrazA OF WELTHEN, b bac xky den are clements is ware Malays (eyces, kebun, &c.) aud and who judoing fix this appearance was have been already dismissed to their honics. firing Judulent, held that the pang Flensburg, several of A hai, & lightnine, o "vercast, caring shower, Pontedly stated, we are now in the way of one the servant of the Assistant Pru-youngest band. He was clearly the van weka before the usual date the ground that the great light at the hose steamers are employed ise y sinally, rela; s mnow, a thunder, ↑ Vistbäily,"

the abiadunce of Swar-hilth in the presont, epidemic, as they were in four were Chinuas, of whom two were probably not muca innre, acted as the This is s that of the fover. Indeed, as we have re-orvants of the Protector of Chinese, and laud

Wouder

uf the

ཐ།

DE WILFRED BLUNT'S SENIENCE.

the

getting puidusios; and the wonder is that tector, that is the official chart and it he had adhered to it he might mo ting of the English Home Role Union Patty uilcer wis book, passage to China in to 20, so that the shareholders lost £60 GE-] the authorities to make all reasonable pracole Chine render, as the star the jury to believe that he had at Woodford in October last, has been con days before she started on her ill-fated soy: Four years did

of the Ordinance.

This

leaves the

prisoner

told

cervant registered up to the

the have

got

alf the

and bald good

11. Baix, în luchan, fentie and hund cdale,

SUN AND TIDE TABLE FOR HONGKONG.

(From The Hongkong Almanzels) JANUART

was solely t Sauer

tu blame,

chiefy

quasting Lind: vader the Mania of yese 1 was burping so dimly as to be almost fetia Ausator, Septima, Decima, Prator, man of the 1 t. and be seemed to

to London, Bth UNTENANC

The sentshes of invisible. January with the be

We the

· most activa and energetic. The two months' imprisonment passed on If we geved at Sheernors from reduced the value of its shares from £150. Denieros, Tritos, Tatarios and Pemptos, las wu have not begun with them earler. working of

A letter inst an ingenious story at

at the Wilfred Blant, for being present at the a Bust being the dis it may be as well for

Wasp, left her a

and

Singapore a few the paid up capital. The cotapany in for- parations for the next outbreak, if they time ulinded to in accordance with the banna captured by the pirates and kept fired an appeal, sud he was our toyed to age to Hongkong, states that the Fap was dividends, but anfurtun ly neglected to are too late for the present one. Nearly terms a

of the Ordinance and there is strong against bis

The subsequent will, but

ent-Galway yesterday. On arrival there was a good sea-vessel in every reapret, and such form reservo funda Now the stommers of was strongly urged the presumption that his registration was either of three weeks

contractoted all since

statements ho had found to be s

bas large crowd assembled at the testimony from a man who sailed the company are old-fashioned, and meat adoption of

dast the porginal direction of the master,

made. There was.one were made, o prazums, gestions wer

the nation

favor.

Day of Morn ur, however, to

Lordship conduct took place, The police were at the

the minds of some pe Sanitary Board or the Medical De, y

and it was that obliged to charge the crowd and several people to her value as correspundits

deorward, Math JE MET H. MA Department

particular wasks before that. But somehow the

instance,

This intimidation is when tea consideration, and

Junks ad persons received injuries. was made on the the people to thugs are natduce the euggestions over intorious and is ever. Tiniversal. It

te being driven down below

NEW K. 2. Me get farther thin anggestions. There intist uut my applied in hura who

Ee exhorted the others i actually violently

to wudera.

Londo

6th Jangury Lo something in the routine work of ad seeking fur employment but to thoso why tion On this scecent his Lordship spand Moan, why eat as asses ativo Richard He was on the bridge lash dar and night

work in presont the whipping which was gring Winchester 1850-85, has been agaio

B without way immediate on of asking order to be indicted on the other que elected by injury of solusi pais performance of the real work demanded for a change of masters, Every buy-sentence was fiva years unprisonment®

of vestia, measury. Similar fadure pl the timidation in that had clean which hing in atation and a considerable amount of riotous | most atat rest fears which have stiach inothem require new engines, so that their

an emergency-lo CM].

ora

topp

the Hylam com

are

WINCHESTER?

Mr A Tottenham deseared,

qualities

alcation £list- Adamsan was one of the best and most care- fal affeory?

it was possible to serve under.

a voyage from England to Singapore.

There

dire wo heat, Ingombed in the sun Wolf Bellas, a steamier nacted the drez,

BON.

Sela

0,16

6:43

3.43

6.36

0.42

8.30 7.37 914 820041

5.45

29 0.48 93641

The import of Russian petrolen into Germany from Ialtic porta fa rapidly me

Russian, Rapatha import company bas reading. Already at Stetxin Gerinari sud established cetublishing at a large sapotha gurd in the 30 10.20 357 8.41 0 tended by the said company. The trade Mogu--Full Moon “92, da, för, morning-

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