No. 8981.-NOVEMBER, 7, 1891.] .........
MESSES Siomsten & Co, inform us that the D.D.R. steamor Iphigenia leit Singapore for this port yesterday at 4 p.m., and may be szposted here on or about the 13th it
The damage done to the Lightning is on the starboard side, so that she could not have struck Green Island. It is now slated that she struck a pincada rock in the middle of Sulphur Channel a rather start- ling statement
THE Iste arrival of the French mail steamarlari to dua loa breakdown which she had at Port Said, where she was dotained for three days.
SURGEON-MAJOR TE Barrer, of Hong. ong, next week complete twonly years' servida, and will accordingly becomo anti- fled to promotion to the rank of Surgeon Lieut. Calonel
Tan Oventer is to sail from Portsmouth on Nov. 10 for Gibraltar. She will then take the lat Shropshire Light Infantry (53rd) from Egypt to Hongkong, returning with the 1st Argyll and Sutherland Bighlanders (1st) from Hongkong to England.
The Batavis Nieuwsblad says that quinine
has been pot to a new uas y antidote
FRAGRANT WATERS' MORMER' That the rumour about the reduction in the zent for the Opium Monopoly raust bo woll founded, although the eum may not be correct.
That the amount mentioned by your morn- ing contemporary is manifestly erroneous, because $4,000 por mouth would make a reduction of cinly 848,000 in the year, while the Estimates show a falling-off of $90,000 for 1891.
That Mr Whitehead will doubtiens clicit the real facts. at the next Council meet- ing, as I so he has put a question on the subject.
That Mr Whitehead is stil harping on
quarantine-and ko is right so for-sud he throws the Hygienic and Demogra
and phic Congress at the Government; then pauses for a reply.
That no one can accuse the authorities hore
quarantine (without a more effective chook upon native craft, thorough quarantine is impossible,)-it would be
observation is fusiater upon when occasion justifica it.
THE CHINA MAIL.
That, over and above the convónience to Peakites, this now highway will farnish 4 fine cool walk for town residents, being as it is at at oloration of a thousand feet, and it will also attract trafic to the deserving Tramway Company; while it will make possicle a splendid walk round the Peak to Magazine Gap and Wanchai That the old houses which now and again tumble down about the ears of their oc- cupants, and usually result in the death or injury of one or more of the dwellers, should suggest a failer isspection than that which now existe, That the bad werkraanship of twenty years standing cannot possibly be saddled upon present members of the Government, or their staff; but very old buildings should be very sharply lo ked after, if much can- be accomplished.
That the sitizens of the United States live
ever in the fall glare of publicity.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
Today, Saturday, 7th inst., 9 membora took part in the Spoon and Cup ebuteat, but one retired. The ahosting was but medium. Mr Robertson won the 200 yds. Spoon. Col. Sergt. Boyd the 600 yds, and Me Watson the 000 yts, and Mr Bard for the first time) the Cup hindly presquted by Mr Sassoon.
200 500 GOO q4Y yda, yda yds,
28. 30-84 27
29-81 24-81 31-80
Mr Ford... Cul. Segt. Mack......25 Mr Robation ......30 Mr Watson............20 Co. Segt. Bord.....27 Inapr. Mann M. Robinson Mr McClean ...........27
08-58
27
-29
L 20
23-79
.30
26 10 77 29
21-76
That the latest fad of the American press CHINESE POPULAR NOVELS. letter arrives, demanding his assistance, rice.
is to publish how prominent members of the cornmunity spend their Sundays. That auch impertinent rcoords may serve as warnings, but they are hardly instrac- tive, and are of mighty little interest
curse.
conducted on
of
RUSSIA AND THE KHAWATES.
In view of this, is it not possible to End | Amsterdam. NE IN BUSUIA
TRE
anewera.
COAST.
against the opium babit. It is reported That Mr Whitehead still keeps his finger That the postponement of the Coolio in his princely days, le ba of Shap Si atup are executed. The pour student is ber of their family to be taken to the from Zanzibar show that the shipping trade
that natives given to apium and wishing
to leave it off need only use quinine water, and that this romedy takes good' affect on them.
Ma George Munro, late manager. of the Oriental Bank at Madras, has been ap pointed Landon manager of the National Bank of China (Limited), 58, Old Broad- street. Mr C. J. Galloway, of the New Oriental Bank Corporation, has also joined tho National Bank of China, and will proceed to Hongkong for service in China.
EEN on a sporting expedition substantial choons are frequently provided by genial Date, With the very best motives of spitality doubtloss, but it is a display of istaken generosity on such occasion. What is wanted is something light, yet of a sustaining and stimulating character-not a heavy meal which to one more fur cleop than sution Sportsmen should always be Company's provided with the Liebig Extract of Beef. Its purity is guaranteed. while it is mort easily propared. Avoid the many imitations sold (some are little batter thau mero davouring), and obtain the Company's brand, which has been proved to contain nothing but pure extract of beet-Sporting Life.
BURNING or a P. & G. SIRAMAR.-The steamer Rome, belonging to the F. & 0. Company, lia for some time past been in the hands of Messrs Caird & Co., Greenock, for the purpose of being fengthened about 30 feet by the addition of a new bow, This work was mucoastully accomplished last week, and the remal was towed to the tidal basin, outside the James Watt Dok, la reveive her internal fittings. The work- men left off on Sept. 26 as the usual hour, and a watchmau remained in charge. Shortly after three c'clock next morning an alarm of are was raized. Or the arrival of the Brigade it was found that Hames were desaing from the main and naisen hatches of the vessel and were rising to a great height. It was at once seen that the fire bad got a horough hold of the after-part of the Fasel, but, as nocees to the interior was impossible, owing to the fames aud amoke, the origin or extent of the firo could not be ascertained. The fremen. therefore, exerted, themselves to prevent the extension of the fire; but six or NOVAD
elapsed before they could be said to have effected even this object. The stato rooms on the 'tween decks could not be saved, and were totally destroyed. Little difficulty was experienced in saving the dock fittings,
but below the work of destruction
had to bo aliowad to take its course. In addition to the fittings of the revsel, the icol-cheau of the men working upon her ware in many CAFER destroyed. Later in- formation says that, in addition to the injuries already mentioned, the hall on the port side is damaged, several plates being bulged out with the heat. The damage is estimated at from £20,000 to £35,000. Six Sundred men have been thrown out of em- ployment by the catastrophe.-0. Mail,
Pekin, October 19th,-Information bas Of he goes, notwithstanding, and the Em-dically et the tombs and ancestral temples,
Chinese frontier official peror barrianies the house, prepares stones and in prostrations before the memorial reached here that and stinkpots, and gete everything ready tablets preserved in the household sheine. of Central Asin mot a Russion forca des..
The pawnbroker, in There are also one or two superstition cending the Ali plateau hear Murghabl to ginad a siege. the meantime, hay raised both civil and outgrowths, such as a belief in the influence He protested on behalf of his government "Solated with a living and in the luck which flows from The Russians navertheless continued their military authorities, and appears with an of the departed ones over the fortunes of Against their entry into Chinese territory. say hofere the honse.
As to the inner sentiment itself, it hoe part tion of the Great Patair.
to Alichur and the remainder stones and stinkpots, the pawnbroker sng the salection of a fortenste burial-place. advance, and afterward divided thair forco, gests the employment of canoon, but the worthy magistrata will not risk the taking many influences for good. It has kept in the
EXPERIMENT IN THE GERMAN ARMY: of innocent lives, and so everything is alive the faith in a future life. It is one of
Berlin, Oct. 16th-The Government hi arranged for a prolonged siego and a story the most powerful deterrents from un-
Whilet all this is going on, worthy conduct. It is the spring of the decided to try the experiment of enlisting ing out. Lik wei arrives at Feking, and delivers best ambitions. Archdeacon Moals says mon for two years service in three
These rites have exercised a very bone-
reginteati. the letter as directed: so much fues is
tended made, at he soon percuives who his supficial effect on China. They have
St. Peterburg, October 18th. The posed relativo actually is; indeed the largely to consolidate and perpetuate the Governor of Peking salates him as Field-nation. They have kept up, in a very journal Svet urges the Rassian Guvern Marshal, and informe him that that is his mar ed manner, the morality of the people, went to annex the Khanates adjacent to rank according to the Emperor's letter, and keep it up still; so thut socially and the province of Forghana.
THE TUESIAN 10AN. The pawnbroker's ralative at Peking hear morally Clues presents a very different
The issue of the Russian ban was a of all this just when the pawnbroker's aspect from all other non-Christian count-
and failure in Copenhagen, London, and, foreseeing trouble, commits suicide. Lik wei returns first, and is at once meda i semne common ground for this powerful
St. Petersburg, October 17.-It is esti THE SEARCH FOR LI KWEL* prisoner until the troops shall arrive, and noble sentiment and the precepts of The first characters introduced in this The troops ebordly do so attire, but turn Christianity? There can hardly be two mated by the Gavernment that operards of Thore is in these practices of the eightoon millions sterling will be required story are a peor youth, of dutiful and atuous to be the wrong sort altogether for the
pawnbroker's interest. A general clearing Chinese almost nothing which does not to cope with the distress arising through with carrying out what is called strict That the mosquito revels in the prolonged 'dious temperament in a town about 25 the atmosphere now takes placo. The find a modified counterpart in our owe famine. The whole of the new can will
autower which his for rather her) victime English miles from Faking, and a rich
MEISMIC DISTURBANCE ON THE ITALIAN pawnbroker of Manchu origio, who relied: Jawabroker is drawn and quartered on Christian system. The tablets kept in the be devoted to this purposes
trate are seaterced to death, but re- the renewal of offerings at the tombs,-we
Rome, October 18. shock of arth- That the abuormal stato of the weather may apon the infance of some relativo ai Court the spot, all local oficials ba: the magis house, the visits to the family cemetery. uccount for the ill succes of the Bong to browbeat and bully his neighbours, priezed at she instation of Li-krai and ban- need not look far to find that we maintain kung oarsmen at Kobe. more correct to say that a period of That we all regret thoir il luck, but the This was towards the end of the reiga otished to Tartary instead, minus their equivalent customs. To interiers with a quake was felt to-day in the island of Pab-
the poood Mancha Emperor, Kang-hi ; |
buttous,
The servant who pawned the family burial place is sacrilege in Europe.tellaria, and a volcano has emerged in the battle is not always to the strong, and and the next scene introduces us to the tim-cost is rande a Colouel. The pawnshop is Memorial Day in America placen Bower son ofcss to the island and is now ejecting doubtlere our champions were upset by peros Yuug-cheng, his son; His Majesty pinandered and Tie. 00,000, 000 worth of offerings on soldiers' graves as in the Mid-stones and rubbish to a great height.
THE PROCESS OF TRADE ÄT ZANZIBAR, the anusual experience of earthquakes, is relating to a confidential auntch how, Property, all which is confsented by the die Kingdum. How many Englishmen
London, October 18,--Consular, reports Emperor. All the inmates of the pawp-to-day would permit the corges of a men army against the rebel Li-k'wei of
How many Christians of that port has doubled in the last six and how he had burnt the stronghold and sent for, and pats in a good word for the dissecting com?
but nearly captured the arch brigand,
hud magistrate.
The Emperor sels him to would have the courage to say that they do months.
NE BALFOUR APPOINTED FIRST LOBD OF not believe that the departed our ore been in the end himself nearly taken pri- fetch his mother, who cumce riding in tine
THE TREASUHT, soner, were it not that a legal military style io a palanquin The inukespur watching our doings from another sphers?
London, October 14th-Air Balfour, the graduate had come to his rescue. The bears the news, pasks up his portable pro-Prostratier, before the tablets, as has been Emperor feels uneasy at the thought that perty, bols incontinently, and is never remarked, is nothing significant in a coun- new leader of the House of Commons, has. Likwai may still be contemplating a heard of again. The puer student's de- where children are required to kasel ales been appointed first Lord of the hallion, and sende the conoceutial bounch ceased father is ennobled, and he himself before their living parents. What is per- Treasury.
hapa a mission of sepionage. The eunuch regrade a provincial Quecrur. Bis mother
really inconsistent with Obristianity turns to Paking with the news that Li made a lady of the first rauk. Likwei is the goomancy and the invocation of the kwei, who caeus to have tesa a gcneront-
London, Optober 19th- despatch re is made a Dake his wite princess, his departed's help. But these, Dr Martin de minded sort of Robin Hood.-bad turned
fresh crisis has arisen in the Argentine over a new leaf, and retired to a village ons guardians of the heir apparent, and diaree, 3r expresouces, not of the essence coived to-day from Buenos Ayrea states that
daughter 2 princess of the hood, of the system, and can be pruned off. The near Peking, (close to the town where the second rank. The peor student is ordered simplest ideas of science would dispel the Republic. General Mitre, to whom the wicked pawnbroker lived). The Emperor, to marry for that vory night, and then one, and the suber is surely a harmless be people looked to regenerate the country, it seems, was very fond of sallying ont in becomes the Emperor's co-il-law by atop of which helpless busanity may be left thea withdrawn his candidature for the Fre
resigned dirers disguises, and he stepped away on
tion. The Emperor gives him Tis. 200.000 cherish till it finds more light. Archdea-aidency, and several uzinistere have his awift stallion one day to the abure-
what as a wedding present, and the Governor of cca Monte's opinion is to the same effec. office. An outbreak is feared, to cope with in order to mentioned town,
Feking adds a modest The. 2,000 of his Why, he asks, be intolerant to those which broops are being held in readiness.. It would scow that a few weeks ago the news he could pick up. Haring retreshed. n.
EKRIOUS YLOUDS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND The Empress is sent for, and a court elements in ancestral worship which are
WIECKS ON THE COAST. underground work of the Raub wire was himself with three large bowls of rice are held in Li kwai's house. The Emperor not accessarily idolatrous or superstitious
London, Cotobar 20th.-Renewed galer within au ace of destruction. And probably common eating house, he discovered that
goes back in triumph to Peking, having At its peril indeed will the Church condone the mining levels might have been all debe had forgotten has purac, and offered in achieved all this within the space of two ne aither idolatry or superstition 1 But at its accompanied by heavy rainstorms have pre troyed by weight of water but for the very leave his thumb ring as sucurity.
three days. (Needless to say the marriage peril
our oze the last few days, and several wrecky attend- strenuous and capable efforts of Mr Bibby sud bis Australiets staff. The trouble was
each child develops extraordinary qualities infallible guide! Doen not the expression od by loss of life have occurred on the south Li-x wel has & Ancestral Worship projudge the whole coast of England. Thousands of acres in and attains high rank). peculiar. The rock at Raub contains sul
Ibuas reverenca, dues oren the Midlands and Somerant are flooded and phur, and by oxposure the sulphur had
Peking he presented to him, and the question
necesarily
divino a large number of cattle have been drowned besa oxydised and had oaked; and when
war her'e landed estato is handed over prostration, imply a great rain storm soaked the ground. the water filtered in streams into the mine,
the pour student, who, after three years worship and adoration? Is there no sie in South Wales.
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS IN ZANZIBAR that water became a solution of sulphur
study and experince at the Board,media by which, steering between idolatry and reverence, we may provide a Christian
Zanzibar, October 20th-isneral Ma that affected the pumps. In three hours
off to his governorship. [Note-The sacry of A Chiness Haroun site which shall retain the good and purge thewa has been appointed the Sultan's it had eaten through a new two-inch stool
a Rasch du Vol. XV. of the Chang out the evil of this system? Such a way Premier. The Sultan's Frity Purse has a few hours auro the brasses rod;
Review, is evidently taken from the there certainly must us, if Christianity it been fixed at three lakhs, the remainder of jo going and
to accomplish in China what in itself, as the revenue being applied to the main fact the pumps "in the greatest danger.
same source as the above.] Had
system of conduct, it is fitted
tonando of the police, harbour, and publis were they stopped, it is beloved that under the
worka. All expenditura must receive the auction of the Sultan, and of Mr Ports!, water-pressure the sides of the levels would
the British Consul-General. have been crushed in, and months of work Furtunately would have been undhon,
upen the work point of car so-called quarantine regulations; observation must be carried on while the passengers and ship's company are kept on board the infected venael.
That oar quarantine policy is a curious mixture of the ancient and modern methode.
That we seem to know that ancient que
rartine regulations are useless, but the disasse is permitted to have its fing on the infooted ship, while a certain amount of delay and detention to the Tassel is insisted upon.
TEE Sydney Marl writes:- New South Wales bad to undergo a devastating drought and a disastrous strike, and now it is in some danger of a monetary panic. The frouble began with a so-called building society, which seems to have been a de lusion and a snare, and which, by the tamptation of High interest, beguiled trasting depositore. The exposure created. a care amongst depositors in similar ic- stitutions, who, anable to discriminato, be- goa to think that all land companies annet be on a similar footing. When depositará run for their money, land companies have nothing to do but to fall back upon their banks or to raise money on the mortgage. of real estate. But lenders ate chary of making considerable advances, if the market is throatened with forced sales, and the bank, which have made, large advances to the Government and have not yet been recouped, looked coldly on the troubles of institutions, which are rival borrowers, and sometimes oven little rival banks. The unreadiness to help went too far, and bona-fide companies, well managed and their
money.
pectedly solvent, were obliged to close tier doors for want of a little ready This, of course,
rae, aggravated the pante, and the hanks began to see that they must not
are a few building societies which adhere
for improvements, and those societies have
atriatly to the principle of lending money
little to fear, from a rush, because they raise their funds mostly from their own members. But the proût of buying
land
And subdividing it has been too tempting
to be furgone," and most of our building scieties have becoms and companies, nd in order to carry on here taken
That supposing a fresh case were to break out on board a detained vessel, any every three days, for two or three weeks, would the Medical Authorities continue to keep pansengore and ship's company on board, and remove only the sick to the Aggera That this seems to me to be the weak point
in
the present arrangements. That the Opium Problem, as I have said before, is not so easy to solve as the Hon. T. Whitehead seems to think. That no one ever claims any grand moral jualification for taking the gin-palaces which rain the lives of many residenta in var cities at Home; anti wo in Hung kong, like the rulers of ludis, cannot quete morality in favour of the reguin
tion of opiono sales.
That for the present at least-until the Opium Problem solves itself by lapse of time we shall probably have to let thies give place to expediones. That moet people will be inchued in think Mr Whitehead got out of his depth, be yond the region of practical policies, when fro bocame eloquent up the evile wrought by monopolies in England, and of out-smoking in Chive. That Exeter Hull wili appropriate half of M: Whitehead's argument, and calmly ignore the other: there is no sentiment in a bonded warehouse system.
That even the House of Commons would cot face the dilemma presented by the withdrawal from the Opium trade in India; and in Chias, where people will have the drug, who is huld enough to advrcatu return to the smuggling and buccaneering days of the old opium
schonners?
Lodging-Bousu Regulations koks rather like a victory for the coolia; but the idea of legislation in any form not covering squeeze is far and away beyond the ordinary coolie's grasp ¦. and the Government may possibly act wisely by dolaying. That your bits of information last night are astray as regards rainfall in Aden. because in March 1877 suflicient rain fall to drench parzeugera aitring under double awnings on board the M. M. steamer Sindh That in the same connection, bow docs the Lancel arrive at the fact of baldness prevailing among the Chinesa?
BROWNIE.
were
RAUB.
the Anstralian miners bad enough resvucce to replace the steel piston by wood; to replace the brassos in the same way: end, in a word, to keep the pumps going by makeebifte. But it was a narrow thing and the results show pretty clearly the dif- ference between experienced and inoxpe rienced mining. The water has gone, and the work at Haub goes on; but if Raub had boon managed after the style of the Goldfields of Sinm' there would have been reference to England, and a long and Gustly holiday-Straits Times.
CRICKET.
on a
The
his
ANOTHER CRISIS. IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
covetous landled, however, wanted him of the young pair is a prolike onu, and thus gaits will the Church close a door voiled in many parts of Great Britain during
tura.
The
to
ANCESTOR REVERENCE AND CHI
which is not fust abat by the Bible,
achieve.
We have adverted to the situation in China because we think that it has a lot for unit Japan. The situation here is similar in form, if not in content. It nead not be assorted that a
it ancestor reverence is to
POLACY
..
K. K. C. SOYAL ENGINEERS AND ROYAL mother grows anxious, learns from the auit; but this is acceptance of Chribers as well as others are unable to give policy, and declared that his return to
ARTILLERY.
That to minimise the outrageous irre- gularities of the Opium Farmer's excise men, and to ace justice done thees ure plain daties of Government. That the boiling and proparing of the drag ja not a Government duty; it was not a
This match was played to-day, when the success wither, and would look like an eficial running of a colossal gin-patser Club had a very easy victory. Lawson had monopoly. That I was glad to see the Governor postice of the military wickets for trans in poned the meating of Conneal set down the first innings, and Ellis took seven for
for last Wednesday: were there loss of 15 in the second. Details: the defiant attiteds among the officale, the wheels would move along much more smoothly than they do.
That I have frequently rowonekod that a Military Governor is not altogether soit- able to the wants of this Gib, of the East' in time of prace.
That while giving General Digby Barker every credit for dignity, act, and dis- crimination, in holding the reins so far, yet there is a general feeling of satisfac tion that a well-tried sivil Governor is at Jaat on his way to Hongkongr That our Army of Acting Ocala' will be Done the worse of an old hand to steer the ship.
That Mr Fleming will receive a cordial
welcome, and is very much needed. That I hear the design of the War Office
on the land of the Colony are something prodigious, although in all comedieuce the military have already enough and to spare at their disposal.
That the welfare of the Colony seema
Reking
again to have fallen between two stools, the Admiralty and the War Offico. That a piper was eeep and beard per ambulating the streats the other day 'blowin* up wi muckle birr the 'Cock o' the North; and
upon
the cause I was fold a wire had bean received annonacing the appointment of Major- General Gordon as the Captain Superin. tendent of Police, and the Aleandmen In the force were vejoicing over the naws. That the Gaol Soperistendency is being
wall filled by the present officer, and the powers that be might do worse thau make him permanent Canler.
That the Police and the Gaol might well go
together under a capable man.
That the stench from the present Market
R. E. AND KA.
Lt. Young, RK, b Lawson... Cup du Bouky, R.A. b LowRON. Q.M. 8. Jeftin, E.K., mot ut
I. Ruylo, A. Taverner, b Lowson ... Corp. Haut, H., Walons Taverser. Major Bennet, R.E, I LOWBUD......
Lt. Vinholen, R.A, Lawson...... Curl. Hailton, RE, Lowson Lloyd, R.E., b Lawen Canner Parry, B.E., Eames 1 Lowen Graner París, A., Low
Katrus..........
Total
HONGKONG C. C.
N
A.. Campbell, e kaliton. b Jefkins...
E. G. Ellis, u Jeffkins, h Buyle....
H. Eurnos, a iluglu, à Railton ...................
H. MAD. Williams, Doyle.
J. A. Lowon, Panuitt, b Jeffkinn
GB. Cason, du Bouley. b Bryle.
Maitland, st Yours. Jukins
G. E. Tuver.cr, o Nicholson, hinukus.
H. Fike Boyle........
C. Wulice, unl vat...
Totul.........
R. E. AND R. A Bad Teringa
Lieut. Young, K.B., Lowson, b Ellis.... Cant du Buniny, R. Latos b El.... Q.M. B. Jefkins, a Lawson, Ellia Leat. Boyle, B.A., Kamer 1 MEN....
gut Nicholson, A. b Bläs.. Carp. Hon. R.E, BU.... Cpl. Knatt, R.A., Elis.
Lien lagd. & E., pat out. Gunner Panaitt, R.A., b Lowon
Conacr Perry, Raid at but Major Dennet. B.E.
Ex
Total
FOOTBALL.
9lar EEGT.
Alt
boy :be
regarded
and it is one of the last to be left behind by Japanese converts. But how unwise to
ME CHAMBERLAIN ATTACKS & BLADSTONE'S make its abandonment a necessary con-
London, October 22nd.-Mr Chamber dition of Christian membership, a condi
ion which oa one thinks of stipulating for lain, speaking at Sunderland yesterday ID Western Bocities, where church-mem- evening, violently attacked Mr Gladstone's bors as up a fear of Friday's ill-omens or the mis-power would replunge Ireland into a state of fortunea of salt-spilling. Take, again, thokuuroly, be disastrous to the Foreign reverance voluntarily offered and ufficially policy of Great Britain, and probably required for His Majesty the Emperor. Is alienate the Triple Alliance, it wise to insist on the strict interpretation
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BURLIN STOCK......
EXCHANGE CONVICTED OF FRAUD. which sees blasphemy in making obotsane before the portrait or sign-manual
London, Oct, 22nd.-Mr Dubedat, Chair: man of the Dublin Stock Exchange, has; the Son of Heave of the signal of sometimes be enforced without judgment; been convicted of the charge of defraud. but thers le fo doubt that it is supporteding his clients and has been sentenced to by popular opinion, and that it is founded eight years' penal servitude.
to leave his cunt, a demand which so en raged the Emperor that he engaged in stand-up fylt with the local knight of the apig Tho por student happened in be passing, and this discounted innkeeper asked him to step inside and arrango mnt- The youth 200 mothad down the monarch a ruffled feathers, sed gained his goes favour by paying the bill for him, hi- self accepting the
ring as security. Emperor was so pleased with the youth's behaviour that he went to visit his old mother, and, being distressed at the
The sight of their poverty, sent the youth to pann
NESE MISSIONS. his belt buckle for T. 5. intending to relieve their distress and to redeem the
The Emperor The portion of Arohdeacon Mauie's re- hackie in a day or two.
THE FRENOK GOVERNMENT AND PILGRIMAGES TO HOME, www indignant to find, on the boy's return, cent rulous. New China and Old, which be the crux of Christian missions in Japan.
Paris, October 21st.-The Goveromfat for Tk. 60 and sucuns to have drawn the particular atten- But there are certainly obstacles that call that he had
pawned
for circumspect action and earnest delibers have decided to prosecuts the Archbishop peckered the extra Ts. 45. The boy pro- tion of reviewers is bis treatment of so-
tion. Take as the first example that coats of Dix for disputing the ministerial circular that the Emperor at Inat bolieved hina, and China. This is a subject which, with all to mind, the belief in the fox-power for issued last month forbidding the prolates tested his innocence au carnestly, however, called Ancestor Worship, a practised in
There is perhaps no of France from acco:panying pilgrimages seat him lack to demand explanations its interest to sociologists and auth-good and for evi. freca the pawnbroker. The pawnbroker ropologists, is also of muss practical com notion more persistent and more cummou, to Rome unless sanctioned by Goram-
by meat. was in the bit of obtaining valebie pro sequenos in its boaring on the sucosa of perty in perpetoily by tricks of this wort, musionary enterprise. It is perhaps at and, relying upon his court influence, often writion atout, but it seems to be the sent the lad in to the district magistrato steadiest and most obnoxious obstacle to for punishment as a rogue and a brawlur. missionary work. That such should be the The magistrate happens to bo na hoogst case iosolves that nesuraption that the man, and simply looks the student up on popular Chinese attitude on the subject is til ongciry can be made, Meanwhile the the asistent with the
of the by some neighbour what has happened, and begs the leading Christian workers in China, and it an upon question, Emperor to author. At the same time may now be
best mea's There are thus iwa psiate involved: 1. Is she can atford daily into the prison. the Chinesa santment so deeply rooted as After doing the best he can for the mother, to be a practically ingradicable and over- the Emperor asks for La Kwei, and is presen: obstacle i 2. Is ordinary Christian
Taking
his pleasure at ity irreconcilable with this sentiment ?
On the first point, there is plenty of a tavern. Thither the Emperor his bia,
Archdeacon Mould himself and there lo fads the ex-brigand. He testimony. represents hisself to be a distant family says:-
When the Christian convert refuses to connection, and is invited to Li Kwik
the e ex-rebel's join in the worship of the dead, that which house. At first indignaaz at patr sising aire, he soon becomes propos may be called the great r-bgious instinct of essed in his favour, and finds that be the Chinese soul is wounded and scando atilien his illgotten wealth to perform lised. It seems to the non-Christian as suis of charity in the neighbourhood. I unreanable and as immoral as it would be course of foreign religions propagandism course of nu interview that he considers. K'wei treats him very handsomely, places for children to refuse to join the rest
The only escape from the promises of Grast Britain to evacuate a bevy of handmaids at his disposal, and family circle in honouring and reverencing the dilemmas which must result will lie Egypt an binding. France, he sait, has no sauds him comfortably to bed. The next and loving their paraate. The uncompro in realizing that Christianity must be intention of supplanting England in Egypt,
dogma that suces
ancestral worship is day Li Kwei sends him a murit of clothea, and wholly idols reus ja the Historically Christianity is nothing if not this, the French Government, is willing to adapted to the character of the people. and, if England requires guarantees of and the Emperor, anxious to reward the sursants, studs his own sable coat to the great bar to the conversion of many in the national. Whenever it has been successful consider the question. pawnshop for loss of Tla. 500 At first literary class to Christianity.
it has modified itself to suit the
Regine OF In Dr Martin's The Chinese, the inn the country, not voluntarily, but of necer- the demand, but the proprietor, recognising damental nature of this sentiment is made sity. Russia, Italy, and England are to- the value of the hations, and knowing Livery clear. Ho sare: The doctrine of day kuswu as Christian Dountries, but the K'wei's antecedents, lends the money at sal ploty, carried to the point of religious typo in sach is a different one, following
aurities of the race.
The lesso the peca'i puce, feeling sure that the coat must have devotion, extends a goldes thread through
a ospice, been taken from some royal
"Lities and social order. To honour ancestors national charactor predisposes to a certain of religion and therefore of Chris- Kwei learns from his servants how generous is religion, to neglect then the highest in- air relative has been, but wanders how he picty. The sentiment which produces the tianity. It is
17 impossible to fores a Western got the money: bearing that he pawued his so-called ancestral worship is called by hit type in its integrity upon the Japanese central division, and as it were, the anting. This people must say for them- awn coat to got it he at once sends Tls, 500 to rudeer it withal, and presents it very heart of the religion of China;an selves what they will have. They must gracefully to the owner. The Emperor is all proveding and potent cult which moults
cannot hinder them from discarding doet. Furious to find that false buttons have been the social and spiritual life of every indivi-chan the congenial elements, and we substituted at the pawn shop for the original deal in the Empire. It is mid to exact s rimes or preserving social and mental traits jewels. The servant who pawned and re, religions and moral influence beyond any according to their national instincts.
Some will think, no doubt, that this im- doomed the cost is sent back to demand other system of doctrines hitherto known the buttons, and has an alteration with to the Chinese Empire. In respect to moral plies the disagreeable conclusion that Obris- the pawnbroker, who openly admits he attice it would appear to bo only sound is truth is not absolute truth, but, in rela
But must we came to Japan to theft, bat, under threats of denunciation to that of faith in the prezence of an all-tiva only.
Its influence is hourly tearn this? What of the secres of sects to
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Li K'wei are more furious than ever when tmself sa living and asting in the sight of it not clearly brought home to us that not the sarraul re-appears with a bleeding nose, his ancestors. He refors his conduct to all so-called esentiale can be essential, and This mantel was played at the Race and they hasten off full of fight, to the their supposed judgment, and the fort of that either one form of religion alone must Course yesterday afternoon and resulted pawnshop The Emperor arrivaz Best, and his dying hour in largely determined by the be right or that all are pagly right? We in a victory for F. Co. The kick off was employs a few minutes in smashing every-view be takes of the kind of welcome be is prefer to believe the latter; and, if this be On Faria- allow the thing to go too far. There Sheds does not leason in the dry weather. as usual late, with the result that the match thing breakable in the place, including the likely to receive when he acets the shades of no, the time has come for realizing that That the outlot of the drain near Ship wasfinished in darkness. For thefirsttwenty heads of all the clerks. The pawnbroker his ferofathers. That this seatimeatie gene. Japan must add itself to the list of history's
Street has become very offensive lately atmiontas Club fairly held ther oppo- comes out, and, finding that he has only rally proof against eradication geoma le to low tide, and mare the effect of a walk to neots and had if anything slightly theỷ của mun to deal with, calls in his sasistants certain. The 3-0, Daùy Neva sitributes fexamples, and ranet be allowed to make its | On Berli
own expression of the truths of religion as the Eastward.
better of very fast game. Just before and succeede iu binding the Emperor pite this cause the fact that the bumber of it sea them. What phases will ecrumond That if the Estimates provide for the sum half time the Co, scored three goula in rapid sauer. Just then, however, Li K'woi ar converts is comparatively smail, in view of themselves it is of entree impossible to say. you mention ($2,400) for chaplain's work succession. The first of these was a pal river with his misions, and glaughtera 27 the time, money, and labour spent in What will be discarded, or modified in the for the Gaol, Hospitals, Cemetery, and pable one of offside, but owing to an unfor; persons out of a household of 40, The China. If ancestor reverence (for wo do way of doctrine, ceremonial, organization, so forth, it will rest with the unofficial tunate misunderstanding between the Cm-pabroker effects his escape, and the Emnet bellera in calling it worship") were and conduct, esot now be predicted. members of Council to see that this pires and Referee the Club's claim of off-peror and LA Kwei return to the latter's properly treated and assimilated, that Japan Acil smount is equitably divided amongst side was disallowed.
hours. LA K voi nes packs up his jewels journal believes that there would be a those who perform those duties.
This naturally somewhat disheartened and makes preparation for flight. The Em thousand converts for every one puw meds.
before ateted two more asks
peror
he is so eager to fy. on Dr. Martin's testimony is even more amNEWS BY THE FRENCH MAIL. That many, taxpayers object to all such the Club, and
votes, and it better to leave such goals were scored by the Co,
Which Li Kwai coufestes his former crimes, phatic Millions of Chinese, he amarts, on duties to be porforged voluntarily by
the brink of a Christian profession have Ou skanging ends the Club suffered and points out that his life is not worth an clergymen interested; but if a voto from want of condition, and though for five hour's purchase. But surely, says the Im been held boks because the renunciation is set aside for the purpose, it would be minutes or so the play was very fast the peror, you are not going to fly and leave of ancestor reverencs as required of them, Bir W. L. Jackson, Secretary to the Trea. nothing ghost of a scandal to hand it Co. would not be denied and placed thres your wives and children belinder Had the polios of the Jesuita,' of tolerat-sury, will take Me Balfour's place as Chief
more goals to their credit, one very lucky tuinly, Baye T, you are my brother sad ing the traditional rites, boon followed, Secretary in Ireland, That the time has gone by when it can be shat striking the cross bar of the Olob Goa! can never be replaced, whereas wives and the adherents of the Church of Rome
The Latin Monstary Convention will be said with truth that the Tocumbent of ports and just going through instead of re- children can be got and mada respectively might have been spared a century of per reared till the end of December 1608.
at any St. John's Episcopal Church represents bounding into play.
time. This noble condust za im aecution, and it is probable that the religion the commosity and this vote for
The following represented the Club: presses the Euperor that he baitily writes of India might have been supplanted by elerical werk must cow be divided up Goal, L. H. Sandilands; full back, A. Manchu letter to the Governor of Peking that of Europe; for nothing has ever arou amongst those who perform the duties re- Sharp, WH Wallace; back, H. W. ordering him to kerry the spot with wad such active opposition to Christianity
Do. Slade, E. Ezekiel F. Maitland; forwards, troups. He sends L Kwei off with the as the discovery that it atanda in irreconci. wastede of the branches of public worked, Young, 1. 3. Afarshall, J. Wilkie, letter, talling him that all will come right lable sutagonam to the worship of antes
London, October 18-The Times, discuss-THENONATE-k which are really popular in Hongkong is
A. R. Cooper. Armstrong, A.
if he rides straight in, beats a vettain dram tore.
This second question, whether ancestor iug the Pamir question, ascribes the road-cutting and it is satisfactory to On Monday best there will be an inter- and loudly calls for the opening of the can-
esting game between the Hongkong Oricket tral gates, a saicts of nine guns, and the reverence is in fact reconcilable with the nativity of the Russians to the ambitious Club and the Fintball Club. The Hon. imaodiate preparation of an incense tabla. essentials of Obristian belief and conduct, schemes of the Goremor of Turkestan, Becretary has requested us to stats that he Li Kwei dresses himself up in his best, ru seems to have received an equally clear rather than to the Government at St. ing only $7000 in to be cat between the will be glad to hear from any members of marking to his relation that stok hopetrs to unvor. According to De Martin, the Petersburg; and advises that Hosain Magazine Gap and the Tramway (Plant the Olub who wish to play the Association alottar za thots mysteriously blated et sould outward observaness flowing from it con- should be urged to observe the Beri-Rad
tion Road
geme and have not been asked to do so. only refer to the Emperor's own mandate sist chiefly in placing there offeringa pezio Qxus contention,
money on deposit and sometimes at call. All this goes smoothly enough inquiet times, but when depositors get frightened their claims cannot be mddenly met. A the disclosures a far have gone to show that must of our societies are on a sound footing, though several of them have lead advance of requiremento bougal and are holding it as Lead stock till they can effect a sale. But though this effects. the profits of the abareholders, the land good gue, and boly coeds time for
it to get cured favourably. Some of the mocistion have had too small a capital com
pared with their borrowings, and have the finotile of their shareholders to strictly limited, there being amount to call up in can of liquidation. It is doubtful, too, 1 is wing for building sooletins to whether carry on the bums of a bank, because the contingensies of banking require at times kezdy fupply of ready money, or liquid assets that can be easily sunod into
over to the wrong man.
ferred to.
og so much of this claes of improvement provided for in next year's Estimated.
That a now road long talked of and cost.
London, Oct. 16th.--It is expected that
THE LATIN UNION,
THE FAMOUS QUESTION.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 16th.--A. Samarcand paper reports that the population of the Pamirs are asking for the Russing an- naration of their issritory, (D)
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