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        "content_text": "93\n\n511\n\n27646\n\n92\n\nBRITISH POSITION\n\nof art, imitative in mechanics, (thus leading to the natural conclusion that they would be equally so in social and moral duties,) having an organized Government and well administered municipalities, devoid of the prejudices of caste or of idolatry, and thus to a certain degree prepared for the reception of the seeds of Christian truth; ever seeking to benefit their condition, by labour at home, or by emigrating to other countries; habituated to a maritime life; of considerable physical power; not deficient in courage, if properly disciplined; acute or subtle reasoners; preferring the material to the theoretical or ideal; not wanting in emulative enterprise, obedient to the commands of a justly ruling authority;\n\nNOTES ON THE FOREGOING STATISTICAL TABLE,\n\nThe above are the nominal sums for which the respective officers become responsible to their sovereign. But the estimate of last year has so immensely fallen short of the actual amount required, viz., of the arrears due since the war, there remained, in October 1844, 38,711,000 taels to be paid. The rice has, for the greater part, on account of the inundation, not been forwarded to the capital.\n\nThe sundries arise from the proceeds of pawnbrokers' shops, mercantile establishments, and various fees and duties. There are moreover innumerable local items not mentioned in the statistical returns, because the mandarins on the spot receive them, without sending any account; for this they have, however, to keep up a considerable establishment.\n\nThe colonial possessions, instead of yielding a revenue, absorb considerable sums. The subsidies paid to the Mongol chiefs, both in money as well as kind, are very large; the expenditure of the army in Turkestan, amounts to several millions annually; and to keep up the establishments in Mantchouria, the treasury is constantly drained. Tibet requires only about 200,000 taels annually. No returns of these liabilities are ever published.\n\nThree taels are £4. sterling; one shih 160 lbs.; one ring 100 mow; one mow 6000 square covids.\n\nIt ought always to be kept in mind that the sums specified are the net revenue, after the deduction of the expenditure of collection, so that in many instances the sums actually raised are five times more than what is put down here. In the estimate are not included the duties on the foreign trade, which are, at the lowest, about three million taels per annum. Besides the monopoly in ginseng, percentage from the numerous mines, profits from coinage, &c., &c., which at the most moderate calculation does not amount to less than five million taels per annum, and is directly paid to the Emperor.\n\nWe have neither enumerated about thirty-four million shih of grain, which, according to the regulations, is kept in deposit by Government, in order to provide against starvation. The people have some claim on this, and reap the profits arising from the sale. The quantity, moreover, fluctuates very much, and the latter amount is abstracted from a work published about twenty years ago.\n\nChina is not remarkable for longevity. An examination was made in 1827 by the Emperor Kang-he, to ascertain how many persons were above seventy years of age, that they might be exempted from the public service, and nourished by the state. Those of eighty, ninety, and a hundred, were successively honoured with higher rewards.\n\nIn nine provinces, containing 158,793,306 inhabitants, there were but 194,086 of seventy and upwards, which latter sum is 1/818 parts of the former.\n\nIn sixteen provinces, the number of people at eighty years of age was 168,830; at ninety years 9996; and at or about a hundred years of age, but 21. Not a two thousandth part of the whole empire reached the age of eighty years; not the thirty-six thousandth part ninety years; and only about one in seventeen million inhabitants reached the age of a century.\n\nOnly three provinces evince this longevity, viz., Shantung, 9; Honan 5; Hon-an, or Hon-Guang, 4; Keangnan 3; total 21.\n\nIn the Canton province, on a population of 19,147,030, but 9415 reached the age of eighty, and only 591 that of ninety years. None attained a century.\n\nAND PROSPECTS IN CHINA.\n\nand with strong domestic and social attachments, enabling them to combine for good or evil purposes: these and other considerations render China a field peculiarly adapted for the inculcation of the Christian civilization of England.\n\nWe have it in our power to till the field thus presented for our profitable labour. Science and skill of various kinds is now anxiously seeking employment at home; where could they be more usefully employed than in China?\n\n*The Jesuits received the greatest encouragement from the Emperor Canghi, or Kanghi, during his long reign. On 22nd March, 1672, his Majesty issued a celebrated edict in favour of Christianity; in which, conformable to the report of the board of rites, he ordered the temples dedicated to the \"Lord of Heaven\" throughout his dominions to be respected, and that no opposition be given to all who chose to enter those temples, offer incense, and perform acts of worship.\n\nThis edict was issued in consequence of a violent persecution commenced against the Christians in the province of Che-kiang, by the viceroy and inferior mandarins. In consequence of the petitions of the Jesuits of science at Pekin, the Emperor ordered the board of rites to inquire into the subject; and the board reported that \"they had seriously examined that which had reference to the Europeans who lived in China; and found that they merited attention and love for the signal services which they had rendered in civil and foreign wars, by their continued studies to produce useful and curious works, and by their just and sincere affection for the public good. Moreover, that the Europeans are very tranquil; that they do not excite troubles in the provinces; that they do not cause evil, or commit any bad action. Besides, their doctrine has nothing in common with the false and dangerous sects of the empire; and their maxims do not lead people to sedition.\" The report of the board of rites went on to state, that \"as the Government of China did not prevent the Lamas of Tartary, nor the Buddhists, to have their temples, and offer incense in their pagodas, how much less ought the Europeans be prevented to have their churches, and to preach publicly their religion, as they did nothing contrary to good laws.\"\n\nIt was in consequence of this excellent report that the persecution which had commenced in China against Christianity, was suppressed by the Emperor in 1692.\n\nShortly after, the Chinese physicians having failed to cure the Emperor Canghi of a fever, the sovereign placed himself under the care of the Jesuit physicians, Gerbillon and Bouvet, at Pekin, who cured him with quinine. In gratitude for his recovery, the Emperor assigned them splendid apartments in the first enclosure of the palace, and which had belonged to the governor of the heir apparent. Artisans were employed to fit the residence up in excellent style, and a mandarin to superintend the dwelling; and understanding that they wished to have a church attached to their house, the Emperor caused a very handsome church to be erected within the precincts of the palace, which required four years building, and was opened with great ceremony in 1702. The church was adorned by the Jesuit artists with great magnificence and taste.\n\nOn several occasions the learned Jesuits established at Pekin, were enabled to render signal services to the Tartar Government at Pekin.\n\nAbout the year 1688, the Russians had been advancing, by Siberia, through Tartary to the frontiers of the Chinese empire: Their route was along the rivers Irtis, Oby, Gennissee, Angara, via lake Baikal; thence to the Amour river, penetrating to Saghalion-Oula. The Russians destroyed the forts as they advanced, not without resistance, however, from the Tartars, who were subjects of the Chinese empire.\n\nWar between the Muscovites and Chinese seemed imminent; but through the diplomacy of the Jesuits Gerbillon and Bouvet, a peace was concluded at Nipchou, by ambassadors from both powers, by which the limits of Russia were defined, and the Chinese army returned to Pekin. Gerbillon and Bouvet were appointed secretaries to the Chinese embassy, but in reality, they managed the whole negotiations in a manner which gave great satisfaction.\n\nBut a more important service was rendered to the Tartar Government of",
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        "content_text": "207\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n14\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nmarried females reside here. In this respect there has been very little improvement during the last year.\n\nThe importation of sugar from Tae-ping and other places was, during last year, very considerable. The growers were able to sell it here cheaper, on account of not paying export duties, than it was procurable at Canton, and hence many sales. This branch of commerce will mainly depend upon the prices for which it can be brought to Hong Kong, and the amount it will fetch at home. Should the crops of this season be as abundant as last year there can be no doubt but the importation in 1849 will be larger. With a richer kind of cane, which is here very thin and juiceless, and good machinery, the Chinese might compete with slave sugar, for work is very cheap, and an acre planted with sugar-cane yields, even at reduced prices, more profit than a rice-field. There is, however, a great demand for this commodity in the northern provinces, so that the prices can never go below a certain level. The Government are rather opposed to the extension of the culture, lest paddy—the staff of life, and vegetables might be grown in smaller quantities. The foreign exportations constitute up to this time not one hundredth part of the home consumption, and have not yet materially affected the market.\n\nNeither camphor, rhubarb, nor teas have any more been brought by junks to this market; all those who speculated in these articles have lost, and this is the reason for their abstaining from any further attempts. It was owing to the small demand that the first could not find ready purchasers; the second offered for sale by the junks was of an inferior quality, and next to useless in the English market; the last shipped to Hong Kong was not selected according to the demand, and realized therefore next to nothing. Another difficulty was, that the men who made this trial had no capital, and could sell for ready-money only. If direct communications be established with Fuch-choo, and a judicious choice made of the teas most in demand, the junks no doubt might sell the black kinds to greater advantage here than any tea-man could do at Canton who has to transport his goods through a long and expensive inland passage.\n\nEfforts have been made to induce the Fokeen junks to bring coals from Ke-lung on the north-coast of Formosa. Some small investments have been brought here; not yet, however, to give rise to hopes that all our supplies would henceforth be imported from thence. The Chinese Government does not prevent the exportation; but the labour to bring them on board in the absence of all machinery, and even a common cart, is very great. Still it is very likely that the ingenious and plodding Chinese may get over these difficulties, and import them here during the north-east monsoon as ballast.\n\nAlum finds generally a ready sale at this port, because it can be obtained cheaper here than at Canton, where it has to pay an import and export duty. It is brought here in Fokëen Chaougan junks, which fetch it from an island on the coast of Keangsoo, where it is found in immense quantities; some comes likewise from Che-keang. The junks buy it on the spot at an average rate of half a dollar per picul; and if they can dispose of it here at one and a quarter dollar they make a fair profit; at one dollar it does only cover the freight and labour. Several cargoes have been imported and sold at remunerating prices.\n\nSalt has been imported in greater quantities than at any of the preceding years, the whole amounting, according to the returns of the salt-weigher, which are always less than the actual quantity, to 297,050 piculs in 524 junks. The largest quantity imported in a single month was 41,150 piculs, the smallest 13,000: the junks have varied from 31 to 52 per month. By far the most extensive importers are the Pwan-yu boats. The demand for this article is likely to increase, on account of the large fisheries in the neighbouring seas, which become every year more numerous, and the great difference between the prices here and in the interior. The Fokeen junks have already commenced to become the importers; and though they were in the first instance beaten out of the market by very low prices, they have again ventured to compete with the salt manufacturers in the neighbourhood.\n\nA greater number of marine junks visited this year the port than at any previous period. A few of them sold sundry articles imported from the north for Chinese consumption, whilst others bought opium and calicoes, the staple articles of exportation, with ready money. This trade has of late most materially increased; yet the transactions are secret, and to obtain the true returns is impossible. Few vessels, however, anchor here without buying something; and as there were about 80 junks on an average per month, the sum total of this money laid out cannot be inconsiderable.\n\nThe only produce of our island, granite slabs, freighted 777 large boats. Insignificant as this commodity may appear, it nevertheless gives employ to more than 1000 people, whose perseverance and hard labour are exemplary.\n\nThe fisheries have been extended, and it is much to be regretted that the particulars cannot be given, no account being kept. The owners of the smacks, on account of not being here exposed to the extortions of mandarins, prefer Stanley and Aberdeen to native harbours; and their agents, who supply them with rice and other necessaries, find it more advantageous to live under the British flag than take upon themselves the responsibility their own Government imposes upon them, and the consequent liability of paying heavy fines, if the fishing-craft they have secured commit outrages. The exportation of salt-fish to the interior from the above two places has been very large as it is an article of food of which the poorest partake, there is a constant demand.\n\nDuring this year not one single instance occurred, to my recollection, of the Chinese Government interfering with vessels that came to the port. Instead of insisting upon carrying into effect the Supplementary Treaty, in regard to the junks that come here, no notice whatsoever is taken of them.\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS,\n\n15\n\nWhile our hopes in regard to the future trade of native vessels at Hong Kong cannot be very sanguine, we need not despair, for there exists a progressive improvement; and could a stop be put to piracy, the junks would bring more valuable cargoes than they have hitherto ventured to do.\n\n(Signed) CHARLES GUTZLAFF, Chinese Secretary.\n\nVictoria, 27th February, 1849.\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nSIR,\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nEnclosure 5 in No.\n\nPolice Department, Victoria, March 7, 1849.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit through you, for the information of his Excellency the Governor, returns for the year 1848, showing the number of persons apprehended by police, the results before magistrate, and making a comparison with the years 1846-47; also a return of the crimes and offences coming to the knowledge of the police, in which no persons were apprehended. The result of the first is very favourable, as it exhibits a total decrease, as compared with the year 1847, of 396 persons, or more than 20 per cent. The last return exhibits an increase of undetected crime; but this arises from the Chinese inhabitants communicating their losses more readily than previous years. Most of the offences are of a trifling description, as regards the value of property stolen. It is likewise necessary to notice that property is very insecurely protected from depredation, owing to the bad fastenings to windows and doors, and the style of building.\n\nOne of the greatest difficulties the police have to encounter arises from the reluctance the Chinese exhibit to prosecute or assist in obtaining evidence, also in not appearing as witnesses after cases are committed for trial. This necessarily causes many cases to be acquitted, or the prosecution abandoned, and the prisoners return to their old haunts and habits.\n\nI beg to add that the present police force is, in my opinion, sufficient for, and adapted to, its general duties and objects; and that the state of crime, notwithstanding the difficulties to encounter, exhibits its efficiency.\n\nThe returns furnished by me do not correspond with a return from the chief magistrate, in consequence of the latter including all cases of summonses for assault, nuisances, &c., in which the parties were not in custody of police.\n\nThe Hon. Major Caine,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) C. MAY, Superintendent of Police.\n\nHONG KONG POLICE.\n\nCOMPARATIVE RETURN of the Total Number of PERSONS apprehended in the years 1846, 1847, 1848,\n\nResult before Magistrate.\n\n  \n    Year\n    Total Apprehended\n    Discharged\n    Summarily Convicted\n    Committed for Trial\n    Tried and Convicted\n    Tried and Acquitted\n    Result of Committals for Trial\n    Discharged by Proclamation, Charge being abandoned\n  \n  \n    1846\n    1,539\n    229\n    1,149\n    161\n    69\n    57\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1847\n    1,852\n    440\n    1,081\n    331\n    167\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1848\n    1,456\n    491\n    798\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n(Signed)\n\nCHARLES MAY,\n\nSuperintendent of Police.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nW. CAINE,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nEncl. 5 in No. :",
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        "content_text": "Age \n\nherself and infant daughter, were \n\ncalamity Entirely \n\ncut off. \n\nThat the said \"ticias smithers the month of January \n\nhundred and forty a proportion \n\nlowa \n\ndy creating \n\n\" \n\nby this \n\nfree \n\nof his to a \n\nprusion pond and the one mouth swore if such proportion been, paid fin cases. \n\nof his saing disabled (your) beheres that her late husband would have been entitled to a pension during \n\nthe remainder of his life. \n\n\"That it has \n\nbeen \n\na \n\npetitione. \n\nto your Majesty's governmento always willing to take into consideration \n\nand render assistance to the survivors of \n\npersons killed in their device and a lit Ke.. \n\nwill be found on reference to the Police. Reports that such was the case in to the said Thomas smithers \n\nYour Petitioner therefore humbly \n\nprays that she \n\nVOL. I. No. 9. \n\nChina \n\nOverland \n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 28 \n\nDiplomatic Department. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Ilis Excellency For Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendrut of Trade, de, &., is pleased to direct that the following Notification, issued by 1ler Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanglane, be published for the general information of British subjects in China, \n\nBy Order, \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON, \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 30th August, 1848. \n\nBRITISH CONSULATE ORPION, SHANGHAE, \n\n12th August, 1848. \n\nNOTIFICATION. \n\nA Boats \n\nBoots \n\nHis Excellency the Officiating Tapu-tai having communicated his intention of sending certain naval vessels, enumerated in the margin, to cruise about in the neighbourhood- hood of Gutzia Island in search of Pirates, and for the protection of the native shipping, it is hereby made known that the above specified fleet is duly commissioned by the Chinese Authorities for the service on which it is \n\n5 Sin all da. to. employed, and that each vessel carries a distinguishing Flag of White with \n\n4 Canton Lurokas. a Red border, and is provided with: a Written Authority of Commission. \n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, \n\nConsul. \n\nTo the British Subjects within the Consular Jurisdiction of Shaughae. \n\nbe allowed \n\nDiplomatic Department. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nmay some small pension \n\nhave some resistance rend to enable her to \n\nsupport \n\n4 \n\nherself and daughter a present left intirely unprovided for. \n\nAnd your petition to \n\nEver pray te. \n\nIn the accompanying paper will be found of the death of the late Thomas Smithers. \n\nlue steered for. \n\nfoot a low water.\" \n\nMail. \n\nSEPTEMBER, 1848. \n\n64 \n\nPRICE $4 PER ANNUM. \n\nand consult with \"turespon ordinary were givun to \n\nnow reaved in griply a petition, fwa Chu-kwa-yu sad the other Buty thongs, stating that they have maturely calmulated on the plan of raising a contibution; from Tire sawdx \n\njunk and me who hire \n\nKerred on the amounts to bu caminabeud with, of they prosout actalls, qui they rogues i orders tabagiven \n\ndhuli \n\n*ximating \n\nof Nether \n\nSix months ago (April 6) we noticed u enost ni reeing so many armed foreigners, \n\nsonrilat Dr Bettelheim, Hermiastonney, deserted their houses and made off towards subject, ad obedies or to our wounds we have had been murdered in Ben-choo in Sep- the hills, bus six or seven of theta were \n\nWe ther, considered overtaken and enrried to Nagpa, tomber proceding. the information as being too ragus to he Ita for tre Chinese authorities, who of mothers woning the freigla aipuris bott relied on; and are glad to learn that,course do not participate in the ignorance insight, from cutributions that they have ublicly after a voor's interval letters have been of the common people in confoundling all received from the reverend gentleman, foreigners together as fuglishren, to call for the contribution to air. Thi dated Napcking, Loo-choo, August 27, Père Danicourt to account for such tawar- \n\nen beide 0115 on \n\nkat the connu 1848. He says his puissionary Inbours antable proceelings, and to convince hier ersal re safe and stable is count; and the sail enchants, in Cam conling actively forward to make a are still regarded with jealousy'; but he that though the Edict of Toleration gives sacritice for the rafie gedara perked of meaty, an seems to be subjected to no pergcution.aim and others liberty to preach ad praeghy of conteonation and es.ec. Beside e cetition) w S this procla alase in the hurdlerances to his freedom of time their religion at any of the open puris, hagis e almu to the Futy Hings for their alar utation, giving dish or orders is the junk-and Jocomotion. His wife writes that the it lone not authorize them to make hostilemon. The 19th Any of the present tooth ed goromument has compelled the restoration invos, nor constitute them proctectors of as the dude fan which the cations for aid wid leg to be levied en exportacio of souther Goods of soms property which had been stolen natin converts in the interior, against the Let there be net die least opportun er trepediment from lain. \n\noperation of their own laws doctrine gre. A careat and special proclamacion. Obc which we have been not a little surprized to hear defended. \n\nWe are enabled to state the following ticulara respecting the affairs af D. Rustomjce & Co. of Cantou ;--- \n\npar. \n\nM. \n\nplying \n\nORY FA ANCIENS TO DX DOSYAM TED. \n\nCn Chinaen Cottons, plau, 234 dj vá, and \n\nYes Clock, \n\nOf Paro Danicourt himself we have not \n\nCourse Grace Modlig \n\nJis (Cafe Cotto \n\nForeign Lung Colon, \n\nRay Coto, uoleened, \n\ninfertor Fort, \n\n| before heart; but judging from the present Meerwanjee Jeejeebhoy, a partner in case, we infer that the appropriateness of the hons, hearing in Bombay at the failure the title he bears rests upon his being,— of Dadabhoy Rustomjee, hastily started !for China to investigate the affaire of the firm, and to protect the interests of the creditors. Upon his arrival he found \n\nOf that stabburn craw \n\nOf errail knights, whom all men grant \n\nTo be the tenc Cinch Milltant; Such as do build their faith upon \n\nThe July text of pike and gsi ; \n\nAnd pave their doctrine orthodox \n\nBy apestolic blows and knocka, \n\nWe also extract from the Friend of \n\nI \n\n13ch cleaned, \n\noh gluing Boston, \n\n10. \n\nElo \n\nWhite Lead, \n\nColuared Paper \n\nFlowed and Note Paper, \n\nStuchsen, de 1,5, &areen du. ), Tellur \n\nTay Sugar, Potidean, White so \n\n11. \n\nDi \n\nSugar Candy \n\nሱ \n\nKwangbang, dan, \n\nGreat Glager, \n\nTony Chry Sucks, \n\nCents. \n\n\"1\" \n\nPicen 2 \n\n· Dale \n\nWhico. \n\nPcular de \n\nFlowers and Flant Fellow (Sen bed) Tez, \n\nMetropolitan Gods. \n\nBlack Treppe \n\nBlack and Gruen, du.. \n\nBarn Wood, \n\nBesides to abors, there are other misellaneous zuids \n\nun them may be infeed from claccounts in the bay \n\n- \n\nTAIFOONG. \n\nGREAT PESTROMSON OF LIFE AND PROVERTY \n\nOx Thursday night, (21st August,) this part of the coast of China was visited by a storm, of which a contemporary says, \"though much low has vçe currell, it did not in strength amount to a bi- foong\" hat witch, from the disastrous accounts arriving from all quartere, appears to us to have been one of us! severity. \n\nThe following Extract of a letter from Mr Vice-Consul Robertson to Rutherford matters in such a state as to induce him! Alcock, Esquire, British Consul at Shanghae, reporting the restoration of Land-marks mediately to call a reeting of the crodi to the anchorage of Woesung, which had been swept away during the late Typhoon, ore, to whom he explained how he was eir- and furnishing Directions for the guidanes of Ship Masters entering the Wersungsted and proposal to place biz affas Mu Consul Alcocl: has issued the follow- in the hands of Trustees. To this theying Notification respecting the duties pay- River, is published for genarni Information— \n\nagreed, but afterwards, finding every thing able on Sagar api other Chinese produce on which these Poles are erected being about 16 feet aoove the level of the river: There is an old declined to net, and one of the creditors, and the open ports of China. \n\nTwo doen Poles, in buight fit feet, the baskets on then 30 feet from the ground the Battery in great confusion, the gentlemen named shipped in British vessels from Hongkong TYte bet Ecu (2, \n\nThrer Toles in triangle, at low water mark fifty feet in height; a board painted red with a Byramjee Couverjes Bbuhs, ontneed white hall in the centre, ist lost squere, being fixed thereon, at 51 feef from the ground. \n\nThe directions for guter he Wosung Reserate as follows:-In sighting flue Line of Battery Moorwananjeebecently received letters Shangae's Flamation regarding ship-sokware, Hib year, 711, th, 7th: stay. (th \n\nan action before the Supreme Court. Mr China a tunelution of the Toutes of which can be all noted bui the and Joss Poles et Pennsben, a white-washed mark in the wall with single Pole and small board from his friends in Bombay, Sondering him men by Chinese on British bottonis, August, 184) wül be seen. Keep Paoushan Pageda (a small contend-shaped roof of a Temple, very low, and but little seen above the trees) to the right of lege marks, until the Board on the iriangir just created relatanecan certain torus, which warranted wherein the right claimed by Sir John in a line with and between the two Jiss Poles, which it will be, bearing S. 70 W, when they may luna iu proposing a settlement with bis Davis is recognized, which had been pre- \n\nereditors, by which it was contemplated to viously resisted by the local unthorities. In the event of i working breeze, the Board in line with the Northernst Joss Pule will pay up the whole debt within three years, \n\nCorrespondence with Kering in China Hell No pear the N. W. end of the host on the East side, and the hourd in line with the Southern Jusu Pole will clear the Eastern edge of the beak on the Weat side, of the Chennai, giving 13 and 16 tiine being allowed him to communicate, Septenter, 1847 and Proclamation of Tu \n\nthe Marino Magtérate of amoy, No 01, April 1. farther with his father, who he thought \n\nNOTIFICATION. would assist him; and by whom securities By Order, \n\nBelfie C, 1848. In Bonsbay would be found for the All-i \n\nSTANCE, 15/A Seploraber, 3 ment of his agreement. To this they with F. E. the Tocutae respecting the Duties to H. M. Consul having been a correspondence al needed, scop pho Parsue above are on Suge des Chinees produes mentioned, who would listen to nothing brought into port by British Ships, the con lon Rifles, 077,—Total 1428: (fe0ficers but obtained a decree in his favour. On Celominee dat Sugar arriving from Amay or being 82 Native Officers 10; Non-coa-bia one of the other creditors Mirow Mrter of the onstar Pets, with Certificate of missioned Officers, Drummers, and Buglera Meerwanice into the Insolvent Debtor's Day prid, shall be exempt from furder payment Priann, when he petitioned the Judge, from Hongkong or any Foreign Part, or from \n\nof Baty of suel, produce, and that Sugar bianght 201.) \n\nby whom a special court was held on the way Consular Pert in Cina, wins Certificate ul 18th instant, when Meerwanjee waa al-Duty, shell in that case pay the Duty fixed in the tilt hall-past 2, when the hardcage was at its losed to like his petition, and afterwards Tariff, namely, a per sent ad velurem, as an height-e barneler being so los as £8.99. \n\nun+h/1;tte'li[ a tieje the Imports. released on the security of Mr Joseph Jar- \n\nFortunately the China houts for the alarm carly, Noties is hereby given, therefore, to consignees and made for the sheltered erucks on the Coulom dine and Mr Crawford Kerr. The aire \n\nside; but even there they seem to have suffered and others who may have given guarantees for the are Dow placed inthe hands of Mr Cey payment of Day on the Sugar recently brought | avverely, as a anumber of sell qud cargo boats were 04cial Administrator of Insolvent Estates. inte Port, that the said Duty of 6 per cent is pay-driven on shore, and many of their consiliorked. able through the New Custom-leuse, and it is A few large juuks and a loveli vemomed at anchor gested that the open accounts of the several off the Lower Bazaar, all of which were destroyer sips may be sivsed. \n\nduring the night. Of her which came ou share opposite Urcitar liblings about midnight, the extway with the exception of three un furry men, were lande:l in safty. \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 27th September. 1348. \n\nOverlang China Mail. \n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 9870 SEPTEN \n\nMIRTIE-A! Vistoria, Hongkong on the pich foste the wife of She Rev. Mr Jesrixe, of a Bon. \n\nBIRTH-AL West Point, Viotoria, on the 12th inst Mrs Ecart, of a Daughter, \n\nBIRTH-AC Yame, on the 31st uldme, the wife of D. J. MARCOWAN, H. D., of a Daughter \n\nMARRIAGE. On the 8th of June, at St Mary's, Bay- ensione atuare, London, by the Rev. J. I. Únores. Recto, Major Sampra Rarvogn, of the 31 ara Artery, to CA, third Daughter of Joseph Hee, Esq., X.P. \n\nHEATH-AWiraganatum, ou the 27th Jylg, Quarter Master Bergeat Tin Cankar, of the 26 Kogistens, KINK. \n\nPRATER-Drowned off the Typs near Macao, in fuc taitoony of the 1st utino, Mr J&S MACHTAGAY, Jate et Victoria; and Mr EDWARD 12s, formerly 1 mote of the Robroner Exload, Queens, \n\nDEATH-Drowned at the spa, near Macao, in the taimung of the 3:81 ultimo, Capron Pass of the Dti- \n\nBurp C DEATH-Drewood at Campstogusnor, in the taalborg of the 31s ulim, Captait, HATE and the Chief Sinto of the eiving Hip frabel linens, \n\nTEAT IM Browned, with his only fun, at Clean \n\nehow Bay, to the womward of langkong, 10 the tattoora of the 21st uitime, Mr Tumas Sms, Inspeter of The Hongkong Puiloc. \n\nLIK, lure of the P. & D. 8. N. Cu's Foestring Ship Fort BEATHA Sugaros, on the 34 lost, Cagl. Thas \n\nDEATH-AL Shangliae, on the til, fuslant. Mr i \n\nAt b \n\nt Daughter of the Way. Ur Legge. \n\non the 19th, inst, Ligatellani \n\nF. Beques, of H. M. Stramuralesa. \n\nArt:lery. \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON. \n\nPer \n\nVIDEO \n\nSepz.: Sept | Sent t \n\nPre \n\n& 10 8 \n\n40 \n\nX \n\nSappers and Minora. with erent...... \n\n13 110 170 112 100 27:36 81: 1.0 Ceylon Rides,..... 101 3083 20 00 70 551 \n\nH \n\n| 294 300 203 | 102: 180 181 \n\nI want, the late Dieutenant-Governor of 1.wangtung, has been saannaed to Court, ostensibly to receive office, but in reality. it is armise, to give his opinion of the Present state of foreign affaiss. The sub stance of the recent news from Entopo has been forwarded to the Emperer, and the \n\nevents are yo extraordinary, that even the \n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, \n\nL'onsul. \n\naddition to the instances formerly given of outrages committed by the crews of co- Yeys on the cost the following parti- culars lure reached ns:-- \n\nOn the afternoon of the 20th of Augustin, eling that Chinses bicely who ship \n\nan affray took plaen at Ningpo between some Purtagnese sailors and the Chinese, in which two of the latter were killed and \n\nAs all for \n\nothers severely wounded. \n\n(From the Friend of Chlua, September 10.) \n\nPara eodle chuti pus Patice weuring to the Course Fury for Foreign Nationa \n\nWoo, Offolatione Taoutro of Shanghan, ke.. ka, hereby issues İne commands, Ús tho 17th bustani, 1 received \n\nIn Bosnkosa, enely in the furencoon the fall in the aromate attractul atientin, and the Aa- sistant Harbourmaster went wound the shipping, warmed there of what might be expecte.l. \n\nBut little fate spents to have been entertained till the approach of uning, when the sign The Barometer indicates bad weathes\" was seen tying at the Ang-staff in wont at Yalder's bill. \n\nFronts Ge the wind gradually oversed, \n\nIn the morning the Colony exhibited a mest melaretely appearance. In the harbour several vessels disanostel, others on shore, and the whole beach strewed with the wrrels of t hänesu juoking in the hs of which dead bodies were occasi ally seen Boating; while on store, every house \n\ndespatch from the Provincial Govoruer un rich \n\npay Duties so the New Custom-house, and the Chinasa at the Kiang-hae (Out) Cust-19: grofere I now hotels as flows find that the foreign expred to the stin suffered more me less,tiles \n\nsive distinct and intelligible polers, and on the receipt \n\n\"Foreign in \n\ntorn from the roots walla ievelled verandaha blown to pieces--21:1 wherever a gazolen plot fer- \n\nas been reused to inquire farther into their by the inhabitats, the friends of the de- customary apathy of las Celestial Majesty igners are there looked upon as English nature, of which no Chinese is better in-cased crowded round the British Consulated this dismic jou wil bsan a Fencianuncios in le- merly existed, the pla da napi bults were either DEATH-A Viatorin, or the auth Inst., ASHE MURRAY formed than Hwang. It's ideas on the to end the Comente assistance in appre disa that hernatter whru either broken sort off, ur fave up by the rocks \n\nhanés import Suwar or other! resocha i R hanghao, auca vels aro \n\nThe smesed table, shewing the state of the subcut may not be very comprehensive bending the wurderers; but though this \n\nBarometer declagg a night, bes been in the catiulation of European politicians, request was backed by the authoritics, and always to be regarded as determining the butted to be \n\nby the mastors of other Lorebas (ton erecced to a New Clest in-hou \n\ndnud if goods are imported by a really lovelen furnished by the Harbour-mator -- but key are certain to be marked by \n\nBer. Tras. the New Tartif thever Chinese pod shou Pasaksuvas por ACHILLES, 1 ] tamerrow, the prudence and good senac, ou gready in twelve in emberi then in the river. Manchorage, sad my Ducs der specias partest \n\nSullivan very properly declined to intor dare to pycało, with the prospect of escaping the heavy, 29 Justanter Kentang Dapsain. Beste advance of other imperial councillors. \n\nand availing of the light Duty, then the gonds will be Iwan was Keving's most trusted na fere in the marier fartier tlun by advising! goufianater to Beverinent, aut fi re benefit of at Sept, \n\nthat the neensed should be handed over to | Lie Customos rechte, \n\nbe pus coring that in ball b viser, es on after he was deprived of office the District Magistrate, who, after exauti exnutter thesoby You will at the sate line whic 20 and the Imperial Commissioner neveration, might send them to Mateo for alt i lini Ceiling sinis, Frouded, Defiled gaged in foreign adThis withent comentting \n\nFor SMarsden, Han Alures. For vez. Mesurs 1 . 51005, and in Per Singapore, Mess C. Plac, 3acker trou, au Chinese, \n\nWe are luppy to be enabled to report a \n\nfalse rutes, ad that a punishment \n\ngreat improvement in the health of the him. The office is now entrusted to a main by their own authorities; and this advice insearing (1) the Engli \n\nof auch inferior qualifications, that Keying acted on \n\nprobly see the necessity of having wang's counsel and cooperation iu raio- once to opening the City of Canton April next. \n\nwith.\" On recript of the the \n\n1 Conanl to request his Doperation, now alno, na izolaca \n\nclosely and Intolligibly, addruseling this Proois- The other caso, in which Père F. X. Ta-ation to the Chinese ineteats and to the Duly fengy nicourt, the Apustulie Missionary of Ning-fer of it for a fer the due to simp \n\npondnet your royarske, \n\ne perangaurdă contevin vit, giving pe, figured us principal, took place on the cause of or youtuston; and should Chinese 13th of Auguet, chout forty miles from Eing the protune of the tuner and put intock \n\nMercitants in Foreign vesels to carry Rugated bae, the capital of Chusan. It appears Shangliae, ar shoud Chincs pensle import any sort of that some native Roman Catholic eonverts \n\ntroops during the present mouth. In Juue, le douths were 10. in July 37, in August 16, white in September they have fallen 14, the number of sick in Hospital being 57. Since August the whole of the \n\nRegiment has been quarter on Sou, the new Governor General, who baril ships in the harbour, with the bap-now holds the appointment for the who had an interest in one of the temples, \n\nnagement of Barbarian Affairs, lately ro- \n\nmile whatever in Fercigu val. In alch Duy will be levied according to the Fow Tarif. Tling whc. destinately digobay, will gave their goods gondsgated \n\nand \n\nseld for sig benent of the Craton TOWELS \n\nali ovoru:dy obcy this, Cherish a hopes of \n\nevash, and \n\nnd thereby involve yourselves hi a ligny vei \n\nTucukwany, 28th year, 7th mouth, 24tle dag, \n\nCarefrak ngainst Ptrates. Wow, Oficiating Tanning of Shongban, &o., &c., heto by kee a procianin \n\n1sthet romanda The \n\nChee-hich of this face having represented to in that \n\nidly \n\n31st Auz. 10 \n\n.. \n\n3. NE \n\nheavy pas \n\n11 \n\n90.24 N.IS. \n\nJ \n\n+3 \n\nugly weader \n\n1 \n\n1. 20 in M.K \n\nW****. \n\nA M $3.5M \n\nInscriure \n\n9. \n\n\" \n\nH. by X \n\n- \n\n2.45 \n\n2 \n\n$12 \n\n13 \n\n21 \n\n:: \n\n| \n\nн \n\n4 \n\n. \n\n29ki \n\nJE. \n\nJa \n\n5 \n\n11 \n\n59 15 \n\nBy Soperaterra's. \n\n5,3). 24.37 \n\n8 May \n\n20.45 \n\nور \n\nE by N. \n\nጉ \n\nF. Nahig, heavy p008 \n\nkarang graffiat Times wavy pu \n\nSWly der:n \n\nThe following is an enumeration of the disaster which bufet dis Shipping, so far no we have been able to asuintain themi \n\nThe Beberg dyrk. W shirat Cizruin Floodinga; halla since been got off well legtle damage, ex- cupt the lowa offre and gratuara \n\nTho American brig Charles ilirpants, 5, eamq'ato wreek at die Boa Bay! Sturent stuce andò iz pullar angʻim. \n\nThe Metal banque tingui Sarant, en cone sul Green Lane, Sligh: hopes tersall entertained of wring the samel. The British iron bangue Jean kan, anded foul of the Eliza Ferunt, and trus baiyaenoda real folosites. \n\nThe British skip Milan Mont. Load with Sugar Live Shanglore, word avente in the pst in sety; hd the Join Laiva sivil) at down upon her, and seller against the De Heranecone, by which śe was nu merupin injurce dead sile has had to alerte her entge \n\nMurchants Wand-ying-sking and others, in which they The Spanish his Do (ferencias, Ici uusin tujuan, how statest stywe care for more receivals, ad fee-copatust \n\nnedors \n\nof the junk Thatch ship Kin form, wrecked on que our end of \n\nthe expenses of car ride to assist le defraying \n\ntato Ave ser afsendt tuse, the date the istuin, elvas to the village et Makers, this trees of her \n\npectively by the tire mondi Pun, Lah, Sony, Hon, Taj, i grew seven- \n\nPat efforts. Great part of the convit \n\nents are now fit for duty. Of the 14 oled anal officer at 1leang-shan were desirous of turning it into a Catholic teks during the month two only have for promotion, but his request, en account Clupei, in opposition to the majority of \n\nalty Aurmont and special Protiaanation. whom it belengel. From cd within the last ten days. \n\nthe pervous to of informality, has been refused; a reelt The Ceylon Rides, upon whom the or- quite unexpected, and which has engaged which the converts had the worst, and \n\naged words the disputants come to blows, in August, 1946)° dary duties of the garrison have devotee, the attention of the Board of War. The \n\ntine in the enjoyment of comparative people under his jurisdiction paise him beaten, were handed over to the Mag- ¡ two of their number, after being severely Lealth, and at present there are fewer for at being greedy of money. Ile \n\nhospital thun at any former elf lind frequently expressed his total, tate of Tugine. As you us M. Tanie het received a petition from the junk owners and Jeriod, except for a short time last year. indifference rospecting the homeurs con- \n\ncourt received the news of their imprison A furtight ago, however, two deaths oe- \n\nferred upon bis, and be readiness en, he went to the Tautas at Ningpo: urs in one night, but bett: men were surrender rice ali, in order to tool to ad insisted on their Fouration, tral Uist \n\nopium &makers. \n\nretired an quiet life. His administration their presents should be apprehended and gene diet, eruits, dog, Froth.) each The Bid bazgau Sutopiru, diffte aut lieyond Siren kiloving \n\nTable shows he on- has hitherto been marked by great sev parished. His denundet being attend to combura arcarding to is classifeasam But Isnel totally dissisted: as aface bean towed sate tike pr parative sekuese since our last report city in the dispensation of justice, dea No. 21, and with about thinly valun- cine vercle, with the cost of yoviding their asian \n\nbar Us Chinos Ja sata. to, M. Danicourt hired Portuguese Lorinchetiver the mintributions are or whited to mount, it le proper to stare that as Daugh vouring to overwe evinloers by cniet toere bem the ether borclus in purt, meal. the expensou will be for Geneight, the Frimurtes only were formerly patience. include in the Present Force, or fe not seem to be on the decrease. \n\nNevertheless crio does \n\nsailed to Chusan. The natives, fight tratton. f ten safe and convenient mouthor junks are Akolected and delivered over for the use of the marine, make of curpurison the same plot 18 now \n\nThe intest way that of a perlipin, the expense of wages and provisons will not be seal, ber. The forces however are thus of the heavy rains in the north, continue to! \n\nwho arrived at Man the very day to \n\nof lates that claso delimate to chalibuting received unerated, their actual numbers, officera arrive. Several rivers are said to have He was long with a portion of crew, dlately \n\ndoinge sppeared, (China Mail, sgten.ber 7, No. 186) | will not be adequate to die expenditure. At the present \n\neisergency, we four thạt say 10ßently in supplying as kolen 150 eurṛrity : but from what we can learn, unless alance w! Ingade te pomelims for the sapirs of Kufen the ty \n\nby car auprovets, he may escape conv be plenter, and enfure we have deviscal and agrad to the sui hentay in gruring the cast how a stridatin she be sessed on to, Chizone much evidence as will easily & European Cart Catton Coll, and offer guns exported from. His perti \n\nJunio \n\nand we request that the Duty Hong, brorizma to winter \n\nAccounts of the disnetrons evasequences. \n\nsac, the 234 instant, Feing.---Ar- inmulated whele districts, and the nast tillery, 80: Sappers and Minere, 38; Gan! terrible mvague of the flag-lo are ap- Laucars, 89; 9th Regiacot, 361; Cey- prehended, if the mains continue. \n\nThus, illamgh many jaks large and shall have writed \n\nAll if we reckon up the hire of the Braves and of tho \n\nfound to be shormona; and acadh. net war fanks genpot de buikt all at once by gen- \n\nTie eeliezmer San P. Novhy, was totally disa \n\nmarted off by Wes Naval Smores \n\nThe British mohon er zekana Queen's thouula were cat “wazy to use her fin gudng on there \n\nThe Thite trz niel Watson, diffted to the momptly vid The Carposing panjati panduk, kad kasinoeste \n\nสปาไ \n\nThe 13 arque Coulatque gave bich, with, a oaider be pardon of wet cargo dannĝed: 2000 packages of Jes are to do anus by snelion \n\nThe Hemen Alvis: Julimar, ned back from see, having Insi \n\nrudder hats, sprang head of matman, and last for ada \n\nThe Spanish; brigantine Carmen abo pau kuch, in a leaky state, having lost a\n\n## Step 1\nThe task requires proofreading OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, transforming the text into standard Markdown, and correcting spelling errors, spacing issues, and other formatting problems while preserving the original word count and order.\n\n## Step 2\nThe given text appears to be a collection of historical records and news articles from the \"China Overland Mail\" dated September 28, 1848. The text includes various sections such as government notifications, news, births, marriages, deaths, and reports on typhoons and their aftermath.\n\n## Step 3\nTo begin proofreading, we need to correct obvious spelling errors, remove extra spaces, and fix hyphenation or line-break artifacts. For example, \"calancity\" should be \"calamity\", \"savo 'ticias\" should be \"said Ticias\", and \"prusion pond\" should be \"prisoner or provision pond\" but based on context, it seems \"prision\" is likely meant to be \"provision\".\n\n## Step 4\nRejoining broken sentences and restoring paragraph breaks where necessary is also crucial. For instance, sentences split across lines without logical reason should be merged.\n\n## Step 5\nThe text contains sections that need to be formatted into Markdown. Headers, sub-headers, bold types, and tables need to be formatted accordingly. For example, main titles should be preceded by \"#\", sections by \"##\", and bold text should be surrounded by \"**\".\n\n## Step 6\nFile references should not have any spacing inside parentheses, e.g., \"XCR (85)72\" should be \"XCR(85)72\". Page numbering lines, if detected, should be kept as they are, usually six lines in total, three at the page beginning and three at the end.\n\n## Step 7\nNewspaper texts might not make sense due to OCR errors in recognizing columns. Reorganizing them like a puzzle might be necessary to restore the original meaning.\n\n## Step 8\nData in tables should be properly organized to reconstruct the table format.\n\n## Step 9\nSome Chinese writing might start from right to left, and if such reversal is observed, the text should be reversed to meet modern reading habits.\n\n## Step 10\nThe output should be in HTML using  for paragraphs and \n only if absolutely necessary.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nAge\n\nherself and infant daughter, were\n\ncalamity Entirely\n\ncut off.\n\nThat the said \"Ticias smithers the month of January\n\nhundred and forty a proportion\n\nlowa\n\ndy creating\n\n\"\n\nby this\n\nfree\n\nof his to a\n\nprovision pond and the one mouth swore if such proportion been, paid fin cases.\n\nof his saying disabled (your) believes that her late husband would have been entitled to a pension during\n\nthe remainder of his life.\n\n\"That it has\n\nbeen\n\na\n\npetitione.\n\nto your Majesty's governmento always willing to take into consideration\n\nand render assistance to the survivors of\n\npersons killed in their device and a lit...\n\nwill be found on reference to the Police. Reports that such was the case in to the said Thomas smithers\n\nYour Petitioner therefore humbly\n\nprays that she\n\nVOL. I. No. 9.\n\nChina\n\nOverland\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 28\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellency For Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendrut of Trade, de, &., is pleased to direct that the following Notification, issued by 1ler Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanglane, be published for the general information of British subjects in China,\n\nBy Order,\n\nA. R. JOHNSTON,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 30th August, 1848.\n\nBRITISH CONSULATE ORPION, SHANGHAE,\n\n12th August, 1848.\n\nNOTIFICATION.\n\nA Boats\n\nBoots\n\nHis Excellency the Officiating Tapu-tai having communicated his intention of sending certain naval vessels, enumerated in the margin, to cruise about in the neighbourhood- hood of Gutzia Island in search of Pirates, and for the protection of the native shipping, it is hereby made known that the above specified fleet is duly commissioned by the Chinese Authorities for the service on which it is\n\n5 Sin all da. to. employed, and that each vessel carries a distinguishing Flag of White with\n\n4 Canton Lurokas. a Red border, and is provided with: a Written Authority of Commission.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,\n\nConsul.\n\nTo the British Subjects within the Consular Jurisdiction of Shaughae.\n\nbe allowed\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nmay some small pension\n\nhave some resistance rend to enable her to\n\nsupport\n\n4\n\nherself and daughter a present left intirely unprovided for.\n\nAnd your petition to\n\nEver pray te.\n\nIn the accompanying paper will be found of the death of the late Thomas Smithers.\n\nlue steered for.\n\nfoot a low water.\" \n\nMail.\n\nSEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\n64\n\nPRICE $4 PER ANNUM.\n\nand consult with \"turespon ordinary were givun to\n\nnow reaved in griply a petition, fwa Chu-kwa-yu sad the other Buty thongs, stating that they have maturely calmulated on the plan of raising a contibution; from Tire sawdx\n\njunk and me who hire\n\nKerred on the amounts to bu caminabeud with, of they prosout actalls, qui they rogues i orders tabagiven\n\ndhuli\n\n*ximating\n\nof Nether\n\nSix months ago (April 6) we noticed u enost ni reeing so many armed foreigners,\n\nsonrilat Dr Bettelheim, Hermiastonney, deserted their houses and made off towards subject, ad obedies or to our wounds we have had been murdered in Ben-choo in Sep- the hills, bus six or seven of theta were\n\nWe ther, considered overtaken and enrried to Nagpa, tomber proceding. the information as being too ragus to he Ita for tre Chinese authorities, who of mothers woning the freigla aipuris bott relied on; and are glad to learn that,course do not participate in the ignorance insight, from cutributions that they have ublicly after a voor's interval letters have been of the common people in confoundling all received from the reverend gentleman, foreigners together as fuglishren, to call for the contribution to air. Thi dated Napcking, Loo-choo, August 27, Père Danicourt to account for such tawar-\n\nen beide 0115 on\n\nkat the connu 1848. He says his puissionary Inbours antable proceelings, and to convince hier ersal re safe and stable is count; and the sail enchants, in Cam conling actively forward to make a are still regarded with jealousy'; but he that though the Edict of Toleration gives sacritice for the rafie gedara perked of meaty, an seems to be subjected to no pergcution.aim and others liberty to preach ad praeghy of conteonation and es.ec. Beside e cetition) w S this procla alase in the hurdlerances to his freedom of time their religion at any of the open puris, hagis e almu to the Futy Hings for their alar utation, giving dish or orders is the junk-and Jocomotion. His wife writes that the it lone not authorize them to make hostilemon. The 19th Any of the present tooth ed goromument has compelled the restoration invos, nor constitute them proctectors of as the dude fan which the cations for aid wid leg to be levied en exportacio of souther Goods of soms property which had been stolen natin converts in the interior, against the Let there be net die least opportun er trepediment from lain.\n\noperation of their own laws doctrine gre. A careat and special proclamacion. Obc which we have been not a little surprized to hear defended.\n\nWe are enabled to state the following ticulara respecting the affairs af D. Rustomjce & Co. of Cantou ;---\n\npar.\n\nM.\n\nplying\n\nORY FA ANCIENS TO DX DOSYAM TED.\n\nCn Chinaen Cottons, plau, 234 dj vá, and\n\nYes Clock,\n\nOf Paro Danicourt himself we have not\n\nCourse Grace Modlig\n\nJis (Cafe Cotto\n\nForeign Lung Colon,\n\nRay Coto, uoleened,\n\ninfertor Fort,\n\n| before heart; but judging from the present Meerwanjee Jeejeebhoy, a partner in case, we infer that the appropriateness of the hons, hearing in Bombay at the failure the title he bears rests upon his being,— of Dadabhoy Rustomjee, hastily started !for China to investigate the affaire of the firm, and to protect the interests of the creditors. Upon his arrival he found\n\nOf that stabburn craw\n\nOf errail knights, whom all men grant\n\nTo be the tenc Cinch Milltant; Such as do build their faith upon\n\nThe July text of pike and gsi ;\n\nAnd pave their doctrine orthodox\n\nBy apestolic blows and knocka,\n\nWe also extract from the Friend of\n\nI\n\n13ch cleaned,\n\noh gluing Boston,\n\n10.\n\nElo\n\nWhite Lead,\n\nColuared Paper\n\nFlowed and Note Paper,\n\nStuchsen, de 1,5, &areen du. ), Tellur\n\nTay Sugar, Potidean, White so\n\n11.\n\nDi\n\nSugar Candy\n\nሱ\n\nKwangbang, dan,\n\nGreat Glager,\n\nTony Chry Sucks,\n\nCents.\n\n\"1\"\n\nPicen 2\n\n· Dale\n\nWhico.\n\nPcular de\n\nFlowers and Flant Fellow (Sen bed) Tez,\n\nMetropolitan Gods.\n\nBlack Treppe\n\nBlack and Gruen, du..\n\nBarn Wood,\n\nBesides to abors, there are other misellaneous zuids\n\nun them may be infeed from claccounts in the bay\n\n-\n\nTAIFOONG.\n\nGREAT PESTROMSON OF LIFE AND PROVERTY\n\nOx Thursday night, (21st August,) this part of the coast of China was visited by a storm, of which a contemporary says, \"though much low has vçe currell, it did not in strength amount to a bi- foong\" hat witch, from the disastrous accounts arriving from all quartere, appears to us to have been one of us! severity.\n\nThe following Extract of a letter from Mr Vice-Consul Robertson to Rutherford matters in such a state as to induce him! Alcock, Esquire, British Consul at Shanghae, reporting the restoration of Land-marks mediately to call a reeting of the crodi to the anchorage of Woesung, which had been swept away during the late Typhoon, ore, to whom he explained how he was eir- and furnishing Directions for the guidanes of Ship Masters entering the Wersungsted and proposal to place biz affas Mu Consul Alcocl: has issued the follow- in the hands of Trustees. To this theying Notification respecting the duties pay- River, is published for genarni Information—\n\nagreed, but afterwards, finding every thing able on Sagar api other Chinese produce on which these Poles are erected being about 16 feet aoove the level of the river: There is an old declined to net, and one of the creditors, and the open ports of China.\n\nTwo doen Poles, in buight fit feet, the baskets on then 30 feet from the ground the Battery in great confusion, the gentlemen named shipped in British vessels from Hongkong TYte bet Ecu (2,\n\nThrer Toles in triangle, at low water mark fifty feet in height; a board painted red with a Byramjee Couverjes Bbuhs, ontneed white hall in the centre, ist lost squere, being fixed thereon, at 51 feef from the ground.\n\nThe directions for guter he Wosung Reserate as follows:-In sighting flue Line of Battery Moorwananjeebecently received letters Shangae's Flamation regarding ship-sokware, Hib year, 711, th, 7th: stay. (th\n\nan action before the Supreme Court. Mr China a tunelution of the Toutes of which can be all noted bui the and Joss Poles et Pennsben, a white-washed mark in the wall with single Pole and small board from his friends in Bombay, Sondering him men by Chinese on British bottonis, August, 184) wül be seen. Keep Paoushan Pageda (a small contend-shaped roof of a Temple, very low, and but little seen above the trees) to the right of lege marks, until the Board on the iriangir just created relatanecan certain torus, which warranted wherein the right claimed by Sir John in a line with and between the two Jiss Poles, which it will be, bearing S. 70 W, when they may luna iu proposing a settlement with bis Davis is recognized, which had been pre-\n\nereditors, by which it was contemplated to viously resisted by the local unthorities. In the event of i working breeze, the Board in line with the Northernst Joss Pule will pay up the whole debt within three years,\n\nCorrespondence with Kering in China Hell No pear the N. W. end of the host on the East side, and the hourd in line with the Southern Jusu Pole will clear the Eastern edge of the beak on the Weat side, of the Chennai, giving 13 and 16 tiine being allowed him to communicate, Septenter, 1847 and Proclamation of Tu\n\nthe Marino Magtérate of amoy, No 01, April 1. farther with his father, who he thought\n\nNOTIFICATION. would assist him; and by whom securities By Order,\n\nBelfie C, 1848. In Bonsbay would be found for the All-i\n\nSTANCE, 15/A Seploraber, 3 ment of his agreement. To this they with F. E. the Tocutae respecting the Duties to H. M. Consul having been a correspondence al needed, scop pho Parsue above are on Suge des Chinees produes mentioned, who would listen to nothing brought into port by British Ships, the con lon Rifles, 077,—Total 1428: (fe0ficers but obtained a decree in his favour. On Celominee dat Sugar arriving from Amay or being 82 Native Officers 10; Non-coa-bia one of the other creditors Mirow Mrter of the onstar Pets, with Certificate of missioned Officers, Drummers, and Buglera Meerwanice into the Insolvent Debtor's Day prid, shall be exempt from furder payment Priann, when he petitioned the Judge, from Hongkong or any Foreign Part, or from\n\nof Baty of suel, produce, and that Sugar bianght 201.) \n\nby whom a special court was held on the way Consular Pert in Cina, wins Certificate ul 18th instant, when Meerwanjee waa al-Duty, shell in that case pay the Duty fixed in the tilt hall-past 2, when the hardcage was at its losed to like his petition, and afterwards Tariff, namely, a per sent ad velurem, as an height-e barneler being so los as £8.99. \n\nun+h/1;tte'li[ a tieje the Imports. released on the security of Mr Joseph Jar-\n\nFortunately the China houts for the alarm carly, Noties is hereby given, therefore, to consignees and made for the sheltered erucks on the Coulom dine and Mr Crawford Kerr. The aire\n\nside; but even there they seem to have suffered and others who may have given guarantees for the are Dow placed inthe hands of Mr Cey payment of Day on the Sugar recently brought | avverely, as a anumber of sell qud cargo boats were 04cial Administrator of Insolvent Estates. inte Port, that the said Duty of 6 per cent is pay-driven on shore, and many of their consiliorked. able through the New Custom-leuse, and it is A few large juuks and a loveli vemomed at anchor gested that the open accounts of the several off the Lower Bazaar, all of which were destroyer sips may be sivsed.\n\nduring the night. Of her which came ou share opposite Urcitar liblings about midnight, the extway with the exception of three un furry men, were lande:l in safty.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 27th September. 1348.\n\nOverlang China Mail.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 9870 SEPTEN\n\nMIRTIE-A! Vistoria, Hongkong on the pich foste the wife of She Rev. Mr Jesrixe, of a Bon.\n\nBIRTH-AL West Point, Viotoria, on the 12th inst Mrs Ecart, of a Daughter,\n\nBIRTH-AC Yame, on the 31st uldme, the wife of D. J. MARCOWAN, H. D., of a Daughter\n\nMARRIAGE. On the 8th of June, at St Mary's, Bay- ensione atuare, London, by the Rev. J. I. Únores. Recto, Major Sampra Rarvogn, of the 31 ara Artery, to CA, third Daughter of Joseph Hee, Esq., X.P.\n\nHEATH-AWiraganatum, ou the 27th Jylg, Quarter Master Bergeat Tin Cankar, of the 26 Kogistens, KINK.\n\nPRATER-Drowned off the Typs near Macao, in fuc taitoony of the 1st utino, Mr J&S MACHTAGAY, Jate et Victoria; and Mr EDWARD 12s, formerly 1 mote of the Robroner Exload, Queens,\n\nDEATH-Drowned at the spa, near Macao, in the taimung of the 3:81 ultimo, Capron Pass of the Dti-\n\nBurp C DEATH-Drewood at Campstogusnor, in the taalborg of the 31s ulim, Captait, HATE and the Chief Sinto of the eiving Hip frabel linens,\n\nTEAT IM Browned, with his only fun, at Clean\n\nehow Bay, to the womward of langkong, 10 the tattoora of the 21st uitime, Mr Tumas Sms, Inspeter of The Hongkong Puiloc.\n\nLIK, lure of the P. & D. 8. N. Cu's Foestring Ship Fort BEATHA Sugaros, on the 34 lost, Cagl. Thas\n\nDEATH-AL Shangliae, on the til, fuslant. Mr i\n\nAt b\n\nt Daughter of the Way. Ur Legge.\n\non the 19th, inst, Ligatellani\n\nF. Beques, of H. M. Stramuralesa.\n\nArt:lery.\n\nA. R. JOHNSTON.\n\nPer\n\nVIDEO\n\nSepz.: Sept | Sent t\n\nPre\n\n& 10 8\n\n40\n\nX\n\nSappers and Minora. with erent......\n\n13 110 170 112 100 27:36 81: 1.0 Ceylon Rides,..... 101 3083 20 00 70 551\n\nH\n\n| 294 300 203 | 102: 180 181\n\nI want, the late Dieutenant-Governor of 1.wangtung, has been saannaed to Court, ostensibly to receive office, but in reality. it is armise, to give his opinion of the Present state of foreign affaiss. The sub stance of the recent news from Entopo has been forwarded to the Emperer, and the\n\nevents are yo extraordinary, that even the\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,\n\nL'onsul.\n\naddition to the instances formerly given of outrages committed by the crews of co- Yeys on the cost the following parti- culars lure reached ns:--\n\nOn the afternoon of the 20th of Augustin, eling that Chinses bicely who ship\n\nan affray took plaen at Ningpo between some Purtagnese sailors and the Chinese, in which two of the latter were killed and\n\nAs all for\n\nothers severely wounded.\n\n(From the Friend of Chlua, September 10.)\n\nPara eodle chuti pus Patice weuring to the Course Fury for Foreign Nationa\n\nWoo, Offolatione Taoutro of Shanghan, ke.. ka, hereby issues İne commands, Ús tho 17th bustani, 1 received\n\nIn Bosnkosa, enely in the furencoon the fall in the aromate attractul atientin, and the Aa- sistant Harbourmaster went wound the shipping, warmed there of what might be expecte.l.\n\nBut little fate spents to have been entertained till the approach of uning, when the sign The Barometer indicates bad weathes\" was seen tying at the Ang-staff in wont at Yalder's bill.\n\nFronts Ge the wind gradually oversed,\n\nIn the morning the Colony exhibited a mest melaretely appearance. In the harbour several vessels disanostel, others on shore, and the whole beach strewed with the wrrels of t hänesu juoking in the hs of which dead bodies were occasi ally seen Boating; while on store, every house\n\ndespatch from the Provincial Govoruer un rich\n\npay Duties so the New Custom-house, and the Chinasa at the Kiang-hae (Out) Cust-19: grofere I now hotels as flows find that the foreign expred to the stin suffered more me less,tiles\n\nsive distinct and intelligible polers, and on the receipt\n\n\"Foreign in\n\ntorn from the roots walla ievelled verandaha blown to pieces--21:1 wherever a gazolen plot fer-\n\nas been reused to inquire farther into their by the inhabitats, the friends of the de- customary apathy of las Celestial Majesty igners are there looked upon as English nature, of which no Chinese is better in-cased crowded round the British Consulated this dismic jou wil bsan a Fencianuncios in le- merly existed, the pla da napi bults were either DEATH-A Viatorin, or the auth Inst., ASHE MURRAY formed than Hwang. It's ideas on the to end the Comente assistance in appre disa that hernatter whru either broken sort off, ur fave up by the rocks\n\nhanés import Suwar or other! resocha i R hanghao, auca vels aro\n\nThe smesed table, shewing the state of the subcut may not be very comprehensive bending the wurderers; but though this\n\nBarometer declagg a night, bes been in the catiulation of European politicians, request was backed by the authoritics, and always to be regarded as determining the butted to be\n\nby the mastors of other Lorebas (ton erecced to a New Clest in-hou\n\ndnud if goods are imported by a really lovelen furnished by the Harbour-mator -- but key are certain to be marked by\n\nBer. Tras. the New Tartif thever Chinese pod shou Pasaksuvas por ACHILLES, 1 ] tamerrow, the prudence and good senac, ou gready in twelve in emberi then in the river. Manchorage, sad my Ducs der specias partest\n\nSullivan very properly declined to intor dare to pycało, with the prospect of escaping the heavy, 29 Justanter Kentang Dapsain. Beste advance of other imperial councillors.\n\nand availing of the light Duty, then the gonds will be Iwan was Keving's most trusted na fere in the marier fartier tlun by advising! goufianater to Beverinent, aut fi re benefit of at Sept,\n\nthat the neensed should be handed over to | Lie Customos rechte,\n\nbe pus coring that in ball b viser, es on after he was deprived of office the District Magistrate, who, after exauti exnutter thesoby You will at the sate line whic 20 and the Imperial Commissioner neveration, might send them to Mateo for alt i lini Ceiling sinis, Frouded, Defiled gaged in foreign adThis withent comentting\n\nFor SMarsden, Han Alures. For vez. Mesurs 1 . 51005, and in Per Singapore, Mess C. Plac, 3acker trou, au Chinese,\n\nWe are luppy to be enabled to report a\n\nfalse rutes, ad that a punishment\n\ngreat improvement in the health of the him. The office is now entrusted to a main by their own authorities; and this advice insearing (1) the Engli\n\nof auch inferior qualifications, that Keying acted on\n\nprobly see the necessity of having wang's counsel and cooperation iu raio- once to opening the City of Canton April next.\n\nwith.\" On recript of the the\n\n1 Conanl to request his Doperation, now alno, na izolaca\n\nclosely and Intolligibly, addruseling this Proois- The other caso, in which Père F. X. Ta-ation to the Chinese ineteats and to the Duly fengy nicourt, the Apustulie Missionary of Ning-fer of it for a fer the due to simp\n\npondnet your royarske,\n\ne perangaurdă contevin vit, giving pe, figured us principal, took place on the cause of or youtuston; and should Chinese 13th of Auguet, chout forty miles from Eing the protune of the tuner and put intock\n\nMercitants in Foreign vesels to carry Rugated bae, the capital of Chusan. It appears Shangliae, ar shoud Chincs pensle import any sort of that some native Roman Catholic eonverts\n\ntroops during the present mouth. In Juue, le douths were 10. in July 37, in August 16, white in September they have fallen 14, the number of sick in Hospital being 57. Since August the whole of the\n\nRegiment has been quarter on Sou, the new Governor General, who baril ships in the harbour, with the bap-now holds the appointment for the who had an interest in one of the temples,\n\nnagement of Barbarian Affairs, lately ro-\n\nmile whatever in Fercigu val. In alch Duy will be levied according to the Fow Tarif. Tling whc. destinately digobay, will gave their goods gondsgated\n\nand\n\nseld for sig benent of the Craton TOWELS\n\nali ovoru:dy obcy this, Cherish a hopes of\n\nevash, and\n\nnd thereby involve yourselves hi a ligny vei\n\nTucukwany, 28th year, 7th mouth, 24tle dag,\n\nCarefrak ngainst Ptrates. Wow, Oficiating Tanning of Shongban, &o., &c., heto by kee a procianin\n\n1sthet romanda The\n\nChee-hich of this face having represented to in that\n\nidly\n\n31st Auz. 10\n\n..\n\n3. NE\n\nheavy pas\n\n11\n\n90.24 N.IS.\n\nJ\n\n+3\n\nugly weader\n\n1\n\n1. 20 in M.K\n\nW****. \n\nA M $3.5M\n\nInscriure\n\n9.\n\n\"\n\nH. by X\n\n-\n\n2.45\n\n2\n\n$12\n\n13\n\n21\n\n::\n\n|\n\nн\n\n4\n\n. \n\n29ki\n\nJE.\n\nJa\n\n5\n\n11\n\n59 15\n\nBy Soperaterra's.\n\n5,3). 24.37\n\n8 May\n\n20.45\n\nور\n\nE by N.\n\nጉ\n\nF. Nahig, heavy p008\n\nkarang graffiat Times wavy pu\n\nSWly der:n\n\nThe following is an enumeration of the disaster which bufet dis Shipping, so far no we have been able to asuintain themi\n\nThe Beberg dyrk. W shirat Cizruin Floodinga; halla since been got off well legtle damage, ex- cupt the lowa offre and gratuara\n\nTho American brig Charles ilirpants, 5, eamq'ato wreek at die Boa Bay! Sturent stuce andò iz pullar angʻim.\n\nThe Metal banque tingui Sarant, en cone sul Green Lane, Sligh: hopes tersall entertained of wring the samel. The British iron bangue Jean kan, anded foul of the Eliza Ferunt, and trus baiyaenoda real folosites.\n\nThe British skip Milan Mont. Load with Sugar Live Shanglore, word avente in the pst in sety; hd the Join Laiva sivil) at down upon her, and seller against the De Heranecone, by which śe was nu merupin injurce dead sile has had to alerte her entge\n\nMurchants Wand-ying-sking and others, in which they The Spanish his Do (ferencias, Ici uusin tujuan, how statest stywe care for more receivals, ad fee-copatust\n\nnedors\n\nof the junk Thatch ship Kin form, wrecked on que our end of\n\nthe expenses of car ride to assist le defraying\n\ntato Ave ser afsendt tuse, the date the istuin, elvas to the village et Makers, this trees of her\n\npectively by the tire mondi Pun, Lah, Sony, Hon, Taj, i grew seven-\n\nPat efforts. Great part of the convit\n\nents are now fit for duty. Of the 14 oled anal officer at 1leang-shan were desirous of turning it into a Catholic teks during the month two only have for promotion, but his request, en account Clupei, in opposition to the majority of\n\nalty Aurmont and special Protiaanation. whom it belengel. From cd within the last ten days.\n\nthe pervous to of informality, has been refused; a reelt The Ceylon Rides, upon whom the or- quite unexpected, and which has engaged which the converts had the worst, and\n\naged words the disputants come to blows, in August, 1946)° dary duties of the garrison have devotee, the attention of the Board of War. The\n\ntine in the enjoyment of comparative people under his jurisdiction paise him beaten, were handed over to the Mag- ¡ two of their number, after being severely Lealth, and at present there are fewer for at being greedy of money. Ile\n\nhospital thun at any former elf lind frequently expressed his total, tate of Tugine. As you us M. Tanie het received a petition from the junk owners and Jeriod, except for a short time last year. indifference rospecting the homeurs con-\n\ncourt received the news of their imprison A furtight ago, however, two deaths oe-\n\nferred upon bis, and be readiness en, he went to the Tautas at Ningpo: urs in one night, but bett: men were surrender rice ali, in order to tool to ad insisted on their Fouration, tral Uist\n\nopium &makers.\n\nretired an quiet life. His administration their presents should be apprehended and gene diet, eruits, dog, Froth.) each The Bid bazgau Sutopiru, diffte aut lieyond Siren kiloving\n\nTable shows he on- has hitherto been marked by great sev parished. His denundet being attend to combura arcarding to is classifeasam But Isnel totally dissisted: as aface bean towed sate tike pr parative sekuese since our last report city in the dispensation of justice, dea No. 21, and with about thinly valun- cine vercle, with the cost of yoviding their asian\n\nbar Us Chinos Ja sata. to, M. Danicourt hired Portuguese Lorinchetiver the mintributions are or whited to mount, it le proper to stare that as Daugh vouring to overwe evinloers by cniet toere bem the ether borclus in purt, meal. the expensou will be for Geneight, the Frimurtes only were formerly patience. include in the Present Force, or fe not seem to be on the decrease.\n\nNevertheless crio does\n\nsailed to Chusan. The natives, fight tratton. f ten safe and convenient mouthor junks are Akolected and delivered over for the use of the marine, make of curpurison the same plot 18 now\n\nThe intest way that of a perlipin, the expense of wages and provisons will not be seal, ber. The forces however are thus of the heavy rains in the north, continue to!\n\nwho arrived at Man the very day to\n\nof lates that claso delimate to chalibuting received unerated, their actual numbers, officera arrive. Several rivers are said to have He was long with a portion of crew, dlately\n\ndoinge sppeared, (China Mail, sgten.ber 7, No. 186) | will not be adequate to die expenditure. At the present\n\neisergency, we four thạt say 10ßently in supplying as kolen 150 eurṛrity : but from what we can learn, unless alance w! Ingade te pomelims for the sapirs of Kufen the ty\n\nby car auprovets, he may escape conv be plenter, and enfure we have deviscal and agrad to the sui hentay in gruring the cast how a stridatin she be sessed on to, Chizone much evidence as will easily & European Cart Catton Coll, and offer guns exported from. His perti\n\nJunio\n\nand we request that the Duty Hong, brorizma to winter\n\nAccounts of the disnetrons evasequences.\n\nsac, the 234 instant, Feing.---Ar- inmulated whele districts, and the nast tillery, 80: Sappers and Minere, 38; Gan! terrible mvague of the flag-lo are ap- Laucars, 89; 9th Regiacot, 361; Cey- prehended, if the mains continue.\n\nThus, illamgh many jaks large and shall have writed\n\nAll if we reckon up the hire of the Braves and of tho\n\nfound to be shormona; and acadh. net war fanks genpot de buikt all at once by gen-\n\nTie eeliezmer San P. Novhy, was totally disa\n\nmarted off by Wes Naval Smores\n\nThe British mohon er zekana Queen's thouula were cat “wazy to use her fin gudng on there\n\nThe Thite trz niel Watson, diffted to the momptly vid The Carposing panjati panduk, kad kasinoeste\n\nสปาไ\n\nThe 13 arque Coulatque gave bich, with, a oaider be pardon of wet cargo dannĝed: 2000 packages of Jes are to do anus by snelion\n\nThe Hemen Alvis: Julimar, ned back from see, having Insi\n\nrudder hats, sprang head of matman, and last for ada\n\nThe Spanish; brigantine Carmen abo pau kuch, in a leaky state, having lost a",
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        "content_text": "restitution to this Council of the head and hand \n\nof the deceased Governor._ \n\nof \n\n13.- Despatch from this council designating the place \n\nFebruary \n\nwhere the delivery should take place .- 14- Despatch from the Viceroy requesting that a day should be appointed for the delivery of the remains- 15. Despatch from this Council \n\nreplying to the Despatches above mentioned from the Viceroy, and protesting against him for improper \n\nconveyed to - Anens. - \n\nthe \n\nmanner in which the remains were \n\nGod preserve Your Excellency - \n\nMarch 16th February, 1850- \n\n(Signed) G. G. Bonaventure, Bishop of Macao - \n\nJoaquim Antonio de Moraes Carneiro- \n\n# \n\n#1 \n\n# \n\nJono Tavares de Almeida- -Miquel Pereira Simoens – \n\nJozé Francisco d'Oliveira - Romao Jose de Freitas._ \n\nTrue Translation \n\n(Signed) Lil' Murada efectro- \n\n(Davo Copy) Mano Colonial Secretary. \n\nDespatch from Seu to the Council of Government of Macao. \n\nSeu, Governor General of Kwang-tung and Kwang-si, &c. In order to satisfy the question relative to the murder of Governor Amaral, I proceed to state as follows: Sen-chi-leong, the real assassin, having been first apprehended, he \n\nwas examined and executed. Afterwards his accomplices Ko Ahon and Li-Apau were detected, the latter of whom was killed when about to be seized, and Ko-Ahon also was captured, and made a confession, a copy of which was enclosed \n\nin a despatch to the Noble Council, as is on record. Inquiries were in the meantime going after two individuals, surnamed respectively Chou and Chan, who had escaped; and the mandarin of Kwang-chou has now reported to me that repeated and strict searches were made to discover the said criminals, but as it was thought probable that they might have taken refuge with the Pirates and joined them, a description of these men was ordered to be drawn up, in order that when the Pirates should be apprehended it might serve to identify them. The mandarin lately brought from Kwei shan-hien one Chang-Asin, alias Chou-Asin, who conjointly with Chou-Ayau and Chen-Afat had gone to join the Pirates. As there were reasons to suspect his complicity, he was repeatedly interrogated, and he deposed that he knew Chou-Ayau and Chen-Afat, who as well as himself had been workmen at Macao; that one Sen-chi-leong, known \n\nto him, having determined to assassinate Amaral, to revenge himself, had bribed Ko-shon and Li-Apau to assist him in his design, and had arranged with them, in concert with Chou-Ayau and Chen-Afat, that they should prevent persons from approaching. All agreed to go together. \n\nHearing the strict search that was making for them, they fled to Hiang-kang, a seaport, when they joined the Pirates. Having afterwards fallen in with the English, the said Chou-Ayau and Chen-A fat were killed in action, and \n\nhe the deponent was apprehended by the soldiers of the government (Chinese) and sent to Canton. \n\nThis deposition then, having been compared with those of Shen-chi-leong and Ko-Ahon, they were found to agree, and the two men who ran away are thus clearly identified as accomplices. \n\nWith regard to the said criminal, who confessed to having committed piracies, which is in itself a crime punishable capitally, as was an accomplice of the other delinquents \n\nin preventing people from approaching at the time of the murder, his guilt is still graver. Therefore, besides directions being given for the reiteration of the examinations, in order that his trial might take place, the deposition of the said criminal was transmitted for my information. \n\nFrom this it appears that the principal accomplices in the crime being six, of whom one was drowned, two were killed \n\nby the English soldiers, and the remaining three apprehended; all therefore are discovered. Chou-Asin has already been committed for trial, that he may afterwards be rigorously punished. \n\nAll this I make known to the Noble Council, sending at \n\nthe same time, a copy of the confession of Chou-Asin. \n\nTaukwang, 29th year, 11th moon, 6th day, (19th December, 1849, ) \n\nConfession of Chang-Asin, alias Chou-Asin, \n\nI lived at Macao jointly with Chou-Ayau and Chen-Afat, where we earned our livelihood by acting as workmen. An acquaintance of ours named Sen-chi-leong, on account of \n\nthe Portuguese Governor Amaral having made roads without the Campo gates, by which work the graves of his ancestors were destroyed, was so enraged thereat that he determined to murder Amaral, in order to satisfy his revenge. For the purpose of assisting him in his design, he bribed Ko-Ahon and Li-Apau, and charged me, together with Chou-Ayau and Chen-A fat, to act as guards on the occasion, so as to prevent people from approaching. All of us agreed to this, and on the 5th day of the 7th moon Sen-chi-leong having heard that Amaral would go out for recreation, he proceeded with us to waylay him. Towards evening, when it was twilight Sen-chi-leong seeing Amaral approach on horseback, went up to him under the pretence that he had a petition to hand him, and said that he had a complaint to prefer; and whilst Amaral was stretching out his hand to receive the paper, Sen-chi-leong drew a sharp knife he had concealed in the handle of his umbrella and commenced stabbing him \n\nin the arm and shoulder, until he fell from his horse, when he immediately cut off his head and hand, and we ran away, each his own way. Chou-Ayan, Chen-Afat, and myself, having afterwards heard that strict search was being made for us, we fled to Hiang-kang, a seaport, from whence we went over to the pirates, whilst with whom Chou-Ayan and Chen-Afat were killed in engagements we had with the English soldiers, and I was afterwards seized by the soldiers of Government and taken to Canton. I pray therefore for \n\nmercy, \n\n94",
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        "content_text": "62\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nCharitable laaits\n\n3.1.\n\nleads to the conclusiva that the expense\n\nIV—Provided always that all religious edifices, hospitals, jeme exempted from teries, and buildings strictly and exclusively appropriated tahari- of maintaining and extending it, if self- table purposes, and not being used as dwelling-houses, sall be imposed, would be less grudgingly paid, exempted from assessment under this Ordinance.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that the exclusive right of dealing in laun, Betel, and torment of col with the advice of the excentive Council, shall have powers apment. Betel Leaf, in the Colony of Hongkong, will be disposed of to the highest bidder at: Public Auction on the 20th day of June, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police.\n\n[1]\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\n16\n\nProvisions for the\n\nJoctors,\n\nCollectors to malo\n\npoint such officer or officers as may be deemed requisite for te col- lection of the Rate leviable under this Ordinence, allowing in or them as remuneration for this service such a per Centage at the Governor in Council shall seem fit.\n\npaper the Report of a Trial on Appeal\n\nWe have extracted from an Edinburgh before the Louse of Lords, the subject being one of great importance to alt British colonists. The statule establish- ing dutics on legacies equaily affects England and Scotland, and the present decision settles the law, that such duties are not payable on\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained, that as soon afer the casual reters and first day of January in each year as may be founul practicale, the pablish officer collecting the assesstrent under this Ordinance shall gepare a detailed statement exhibiting the sums collected during de pre- ceding year, and the said statement, duly attested by the said ficer, shall be inserted in some newspaper published within this Clony, officer for one month from and after the date of its publicatio\n\nby a person re\n\nVI—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that the saf rate such property being subject to the law of\n\nsiding in one of its possessions abroad- Quarterly in advance shall be payable quarterly in advance, unless otherwise prefribed the colony where the deceased\n\nand directed, as hereinberare mentioned, and that it shall be charged ciled. This judgment is not only impor was domi- and chargeable on the lands, dwelling-houses, and premises repect- ively assessed, at the time of such assessment.\n\nand shall also be open to general inspection at the office & such | England, if bequeathed invested in\n\nException as to\n\ncapted, or used\n\nFREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n憲。 告\n\nRate payalde\n\nT\n\n赴人在榔茲\n\n賣\n\n辦正等港\n\n此堂物等\n\n事衙於處\n\n者署五招\n\n特 THAA\n\n示 於投十包\n\n是如六質\n\n該要巡簍在\n\n署包理葉\n\n投\n\nB\n\n# B &\n\nexetorted.\n\nN\n\n一千八百四十五年五月 三 十\n\n日\n\n年四月\n\n二十六日\n\nFJ\n\ntant to British colunists, but may be\n\nΠΟΣ\n\nnot unwillingly substitute the following from a correspondent:-\n\nof benefit to England, by encouraging\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained that the omber of investments there. So important aid the property mat let, or any land, dwelling-house, or premises assessed, which may fot be\n\nlet to any tenant, shall be deered the occupier thereof. privided this question, that though neither he always, that if such owner can shew that the property las nt been the other low lords entertained any inhabited for a period of three months or upwards in any year, he doubt, it was submitted as an A. B ques- shall be entitled to a proportional abatement of assessment leted on the same for the said year.\n\ntion to the Judges, because, as the law\n\nAppeal against as\n\nwas to be stated definitively, for the\n\nVIII—Provided always, that if any person from whom payment British Islande, and for all its colonies, esten der pay- of the assessment leviable under this Ordinance may have been the Lords deemed it proper that the meo the\n\ndemanded, and who shall have already paid in the amount demanded decision should have all the weight of him, ohjects to the demand on any other ground than that of which the concurrent opinions of the valuation, it shall be competent to such person, after payment of Judges and of the Lords could give it.\" the amount demanded, to appeal against such demand to the Chief' Justice of the Supreme Court at such time and place as the said:\n\nWe had proposed to give a short critique\n\nChief Justice may be pleased to direct, or that if any person be dissa on the Concert of Thursday last, but tisfied, or objects to any valustion to be made under this Ordinance on the ground of over-valuation, he or they may, within the period of three calender months after such valuation, or when the said Chief: Justice may appoint or direct, appeal to him against such valuation, and that it shall be lawful for him, if he deem it advisable or neces- sary to have any three persons taken from the existing let of special jurors to assist him in ascertaining the question of value which may arise on\n\nDistricts may be\n\nIX—And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and n any such appeal. may be lawful for the said Governor, with the advice of the said Executive Council, to exempt such districts or portions of the said Island from the operation of this act, or from the payment of the said rates, as to him and them may seem advisable.\n\nX—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that un asessment made under the authority of the Ordinance shall be impeached or affected by reason of any mistake in the name of any person liable to assessment, or of any thing chargeable with assessment, provided the directions of this Ordinance be in substance and effect complied with.\n\nclause.\n\nTriplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade, &c. &c., is pleased to direct that the sunexed Circular to the address of Her Majesty's Consuls in China he published for general information.\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nCIRCULAR No.\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nI have to acquaint you, that I have received the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty, conveyed through the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, sanctioning and confirming Ordinance No. 6 of 1844, intituled, An Ordinance to authorize the execation of the Process of the Supreme Court of Hongkong in certain Parts within the Dominions of the Emperor of China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. F. DAVIS.\n\nTrue Copy:\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE,\n\nTo Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at\n\nTisle.\n\nPreamble.\n\nClovernor to p\n\nIsland.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nANNO OCTAVO, VICTORIE REGINE. No. 2 of 1845.\n\nBy His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquie, Go- vernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong jad its Dependencies, lur Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Sperin tendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the idvice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to raise an assessed Rate on Janda, houses, and premises, within the Colony of Hongkong, for the upholding of the requisite Police Force therein.\" WHEREAS it is deemed expedient and necessary that the Colony of Hongkong should defray the Expenses attendant on the upholding and maintaining the Police force thereof.\n\n--Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of point haters of the Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof that lands. house it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, with the mies within the advice of the Executive Council, from time to time to appoint two ar more persons for the purpose of estimating the annual vaide of the lands, houses, and premises within the said Island, or within any particular district thereof, which shall be in the tenure or occupation of any person or persons; and the said valuator or valuators shall, when thereunto required, make a retum in writing and on oath of such valuation to the said Governor and Coureff; and also at the time of having valued each property respectively, he proprietor thereal, a written Notification of their having made such or they shall leave or cause to be left with some inmate or the valuation, sod of the Amount thereof.\n\nIl—And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes of this Ordinance, the said Governor and Council may cause a new valuation to be made annually.\n\nILL--And\n\nValuation may be made anually.\n\nAssessment to he Trade on the d\n\nJyment, andromedy for nonpayment.\n\nbe\n\n|\n\nInterpretation\n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained, that this Ordinaner shall come into operation and take effect, from and after the first day of Julf next ensuing.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 93d day of May, 1845. ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,\n\nClerk of Councila.\n\nJ. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c., &c.\n\nour present rulers every thing will be done with the utmost economy: but that does not affect the principle, against which we conter.d.\n\nThe right of the mercantile commu- pity to a voice in the Legislative Council has frequently been urged, not, we think, with much force of reason; for until the revenue of the colony is sufficient to pay its expenses, we do not ace that the in- habitants can claim representation as a right, and upon any other grounds it\n\nMessrs Fiebig and lavac's Concert took place according to announcement on Thurs day evening last, and the attendance was in very respect calculated so answer the ex pectoris of the originators, who well de Berve encouragement for their attempt to the ennuyés of Victoria. afford an evening's rational entertainment to deservedly applauded for his brilliant ex\n\nM. Rarac was eeution of the very difficulty picces allotted to him, sad met with an unanimous encore in the Caroival of Venice.\" His notes are remarkably clear and expressive, and by a himself of a few mannerisms, he might with little attention to his style, in order to divest study become a first rote performer on this most difficult of instruments. M. Fiebig was not so felicitous; his well known skill and tirely unworthy of his efforts. The \"Bella\" execution, were expended on a theme on- he dimittel. le proved himself to possess\n\na correct judgment and highly cultivated\n\ntaste, by the simple yet appropriate manner in which he accompanied M. Ravac, instead of displaying in mastery over the instrument by profuse ornament, at the expense of the melody itself, a fault too common among musicisms. The programme was a striking example of the lied taste which is unfortu Dately I too prevalent in the days with thrown aside for the modern Italian school, regard to music. The great masters are new The Messiah must give place to the Stabal Mater, and Iton Giovanni to Don Pasquale. Verily, Rossint, Donizetti, Belliei, Pacini, Auber, &o, ae but peor substitutes for Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Fiebig and Barac should favour the inhabi tots of Victoria with another Concert, or Gluck, Cimarosa, or Parsiella. If Messrs\n\neven a series of Concerts, and we think they have ample encouragement for so doing, what\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 8TH JUNE, 1245. Is another part of to-day's paper will be found an important Ordinance by the Governor in Council for assessing the inhabitants with the expenses of the Police establishment. The advantages\n\nwhich the community derive from a well organized system of police are so self-evident, that a reason- able rate for its support is perhaps one of would be worse than useless. the few direct taxes that in civilized the case is different with municipal of his great countryman the composer of countries are submitted to without affairs. Here, it is proposed that the Fidelio, or M. Ravac delighting his auditors de tot anticipate whole charge of upholding the police or Vietti; and, if the prevailing taste is so that even those who, like ourselves, should be defrayed by the inhabitants, strongly expressed in favour of modera with the touching compositions of Corelli maiorain that it is a mistake\" policy who thereby, we conceive, establish a music, let us have it good at least, something to overburden the youthful energies of just claim to avail themselves of the con- by Spohr, Cherubini, Mendelssolu, er the colony with taxation, will find much stitutional right of British subjects to be Beyerbeer, for instance. to complain of in being called upon consulted both as to the levying and dis- to contribute their quota for uphollingposal of the fund. In London, though\n\nmormer; and WH\n\na treat it would be for a true lover of nute to hear M. Fisbig displaying his taste nad But exception on some of the majestic sinfonias\n\nPEKING GAZETTE.\n\nhridegroom was\n\nthat\n\nthe force requisite for the protection, nearly one-fourth of the expenses of the health, and comfort of the community. police establishment is paid out of the Con-rial Princess with one of the Mangal chieft THE COURT—The marriage of an Imps- amble of the Ordinance, we conocive to watch over the interests of the rate But though we thus concur in the pre-solidated Fund, there are commissioners has given rise to not a little trouble. The that its enacting clauses are objectionable peyers; and in Edinburgh and (ilasgow, riage celebrated without delay, and he mast defining the power and jurisdiction of the assessment on the inhabitants, they at- to the customary rule, directed that astronu- on two grounds, First, not clearly where the whole amount is raised by an\n\nan early day should be fixed for the core. police, a term of wide signification, and Dually elect representatives,\n\nmony. The Emperor, however, according which in the three United Kingdoms to the sale power of determining the per Board, to ascertain when the heavens would\n\nwho have made to include very different classes of centage, as well as its appropriation. be propitions for the celebration of the nup mical observations should be made by the functions. The Ordinance does not in- These Commissioners have, properly, tials. Unfortunately the members of the for us whether this preventive branch judicial functions; but except that the Board ware not mautious in reading the of justice is to be rendered so efficient in appointment of Superintendent is lodged agus of the stars, and after a great many Hongkong as to supersede the necessity in other hands, they are onnipotent calculations, drawing of horoscopes, and con- for the individual tax which the inhabi as regards the extent and remunera tants have hitherto been compelled totion of the force, as well as in all that persofthe day, they fixed on the 23d April at submit to in maintaining private watch relates to lighting, cleansing, removal\n\nthree o'clock in the morning as the most tion is the more pointedly directed by arrangements of the fire brigade. And at that hour. This is said to be the earliest men--a circumstance to which our atten- of nuisances and obstructions, and the able for that ceremony. The Royal pair joined in drinking from the nuptial cup the intimation from the Chief Magistrate we which appeared in the Cuts MALL only Geomy, these matters are nowhere the celestial empire,\n\nbelieve that in efficiency and hoar at which a marriage has taken place in better managed out of London, if indeed The King of Korea has again asked the the metropolis is an exception. tants who might consider them worth $10\n\nEmperor to sanction is marriage with one a-month. It seems necessary to under-there aced be no fear about the sua patent for that pa pose. The Emperor Were such a plan adopted in Hongkong, of the damsels of the Court, and to grant but stand whether we are to have a police ciency of the supplies, and we should look have hitherto been carried by a body of so generally effective as to supersede the confidently to a gradually improved sys Mandarins deputed by the Emperor for has acceded to his requeat. Such documents\n\na fortnight ago, tendering the services of\n\na night constahle to any of the inhabi-\n\nsultatious with the most celebrate! philosu-\n\nThis will add\n\nit further enacted and ordained, that for the purpose valiation and provi. of levying the said rate, a per Centage at such an amount in the sic:t for periods of hundred as muy annually be determined on by the Governor with the payment, notice of advice of the Executive Council, not exceeding such a sum as sball assessment, period of be equal to the expenses of the Palice establishment, shall be as- necessity for private watchmen, or if, betem from the suggestions of a body of that purpose, but on the present occasion a sessed and paid in respect of every such valuation by the occapier sides this heavy tax, we are to be called judicious and interested commissioners, single civilian only has been despatched or owner of cach parcel of ground, house, or building, within such upon to contribute to the support of a Protection of life and property, sanatory with it to the Prince. time and times as the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council, shall direct, or as is hereinafter provided. In the absence of auch direction and in default of the same being so paid, it shall be Jawful for any person or persons oppainted to collect the suid tax to apply to the Chief Magistrate of Police of the Island, who shall, on satisfactory proof of the same having been duly demanded and being due and\n\nJunsatisfied,\n\ngrant his Warrant to levy the same by distress of any goods on or in the lands, houses, or premises so rated; and that any such\n\nrate, while unpaid, shall be a lien on the property so assessed, or charged therewith, Provided always that when and so often as any assessment shall be made on any such valuation, the particulars and nature of such assessment shall be published in one or more public newspapers of the said Colony.\n\nforee, which, from the intimation alluded regulations, and whatever tends to the another Queen to the numerous Ilarem to, it may be inferred the authorities do comfort and convenience of the public, of bis Royal Highness. not consider to be entirely efficient. are matters of imperative necessity, Tau Lord Mayor of Puking reported, that The other objection we have to the acknowledged by every friend to public beavy showers of snow had fallen in the measure is that the inhabitants are not safety and good order; and the adminis-, during the beginning of March; and allowed a voice in fixing the rate, or tration of the law for securing these ends be looked for, he suggests that a day of public as a good wheat harvest might accordingly io determining the modo in which it is to be applied no other limit being pro- those of the community who are to enjoy Emperor has received his suggestion favour\n\ncan never be placed in better hands than thanksgiving should be appointed. The posed than what may seem to the Co-the benefits, and who are caliel upon to ally. vernor, with the advice of the Executive contribute the means of securing then, Council, sufficient for upholding or main- Without forgetting or under-vaining the taining any extent of force that may he salutary efforts of our rulers to provide an appointed. We have no doubt that with organized protective force, experience\n\nSome Mandarins, of high rank, arrived\n\nfrom Kwang-tung and Yan-an, whose baggage consisted of no less than one thou- ordinary quantity, they were interrogated sand packages. This being rather an\n\nBA-\n\nas to the contents, and the reply that they contained letters and despatelies for the tribunals, no being satisfactory, they were ordered to he opened and inspected. Ten were found to contain documents, but the contents of the remaining 990 have not been made public.\n\nP\n\nOn releasing the Petit Jary from their long and fatiguing labours the fan. Recorde complimented them on the zeal and jade ment which they had displayed, and his Honour stated, that he coincided in every verdict they had given.\n\nlfonso of Lorda, February 17. THOMSON LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nSITTING OF THE SCPI Colar, 2 June, 1945,\n\ndesired to name a son, he named 105 dollars,\n\n63\n\nA difter-\n\nstating the Admiral's desire to pay any c FOREIGN Goops with a Britist Chance- munendon for the services of the vossal\n\nT—During the past year numerous in- which Matheson might think G and stonees have occurred of goods buying bren (From the Hongkong Register] This was a writ of error against a judg\n\nA Special Jury was empanneled for thre meat of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland trial of an action raised as the instance of the manensient, but expressed his willingness to\n\nreason. Mr Matheann refused any ve brought to this country for home use or ex- The facts of the case are those John\n\nportation to foreign puits, with labek attach- Grant, a person born in Scotland, but who Crown against the Editor of the Friend of acccptacy couneration on the part of the ed, giving, or purporting to give thean, a had left that cuantry sad become domiciled: Ching, for the publication of the following\n\ncrew might think proper. When desired British character in a foreign market s in Demerara, died in that colony, in the\n\nto name a sum, be said, the Admiral may this, if allowed, would be highly detrimental Article in his 'isue of the 13th July last, Treasurer Tang-ting-ching, the late Gover-year 1887. He had acquired considerate, which was alleged to contain a libel against think very different from us and being to the British manufacturer, the goods have nor of Canton, and who will probably property while in Demerara, and had trans- Sir Thomas Cochrane:-\n\nin every instance been detained by the Reve- reesive the first van Governorship, osmitted saare portion of it to Scotland, at It will be in the all-rtion of many of our The letter M Me Matheson stated that the me officers, as being impuited contrary to recommended his inferiur officers, whe no- the time of his death, a banking house there Loaders, that Her Majesty's ship Wolf, got on a schooner had been detained 18 hours in conve the provisions of the act in that regard; the terially assisted bin in clearing large trace held property of his to the amount of\n\nbank somewhere below Woosneg, and has for the quence of the service rendered to the Wolf only relief given having been that the goods of land in Kan-sub, to the notite of govera- £18,000. Probate of his will was taken timely aid of the Schooner Fetes, Capt. Caer, sier Goddard in addressing the Jury for Mr have been allowed to be returned to the purt ment, as worthy of promotion.\n\nont in Scotland, by tho present appellant, as\n\nwould have been obliged to acrifice he cons and Carr, ill be felt eansiderable difficulty of shipment, the labels or other mode of in shot before she curld here'got n The Wolf took appearing before them in such circumstances.fringement having been firstromovel. These bis executor, and payment of the money due\n\nthe bank at high water, mud and not possibly have Mr Cur bad been accused of publishing a labels have usually contained the Royal arms having boea brained, in was transmitted to It is with touch regret we learn, from a\n\nbocu fiased again, without grandly reducing the dead hel, \"toulously, winkedly, and malicious of Enghel, will the name, in English, of Demerara. The law officers of the Crown weight on board. Then fast descried by the Fern, y\" Mr Carr, he believed, knew very little the importer in London, or other place in lang memorial of Lea, Governor-Genersi of\n\nclaimed from the executor the son of £1800 ahr, the Way had a sign.d of distress lying, ani Che-eang and Fo-keen, that the rise arup as legacy duty duo from him in respect of there can be no doubt that, hack it came in to be high and in these seas Sir Thomas, except on a person holding a the United Kingdom, ss the case may be, the in Pormasa hoe failed, also that the Granary the property of the testator existing in Scot- whilst she was lying in a mitical position, she\n\nname and description of the contents bring is now exhausted, and that the price of grain Lad. The case went before the Court of\n\nwand ham gore bo pres. The Pinot Pan niongailia, however, in this case did not act as a judge, also given in the English language, evidently is daily rising in Fo-keen. Leu has ardered Exchequer in Scotland, where Ford Gillies and took out all ver artament, 15 send 41,42 th. The ly Judge of Admiralty here is the intending to envey the impression in a extensive purchases to be made in Che-keang delivered a judgment declaring that the\n\nshot, and it was net wat relieved of this weight clut | Lord Chief Justice. Neither does he accuse foreign market that the goods were of British and other places, and wishes that the public legary duty as payable in the manner de ser altercaties fabu to the her guns overhard, either in his publie or his private character, time since of a parcel of esses containing se again loated; without this since she had no bin ofhay rbing eriminal, or of an offence mamifacture. An instance occurred a short granaries should be opened.\n\nmanded. The prosent writ of error was then brought. The ease bad been argued vage, and before any Adiralty socte sum\n\nor go to pisees on the ink. This is a clear case of which implied guilt. He never acted him paper for letter-writing being brought for of coruption. He only accuses him that he CANTON—Rumour states that the light two years ago, and now came on again for awarded the Foren for for aid would be siderable.\n\nexportation, etch sheet of paper having thos was not so bieral as he ought to be, A\n\nword Barle\" primed in the usual manner at ning struck the palace of Lieutenant-Gver. argument by one counsel on a side.\n\nAt the time the affair occurred, tar Admisal Sir Me Kelly, on the part of the appellant\n\ncriminal libel has been filed against Mr Carr, the left hand corner, and the packages them- nor [wang, and damaged, bis snutf-box. Themas Duebrang was at Chusni, when it arced. In consegnace of the way the accusation selves containing the paper the Brilish aras This, it is said, has made so strong an impres¦ (Mr Anderson was with him,) fosisted that between him are the Cipam of the Vares, that the has been brought, he was pot to great ex- einblazoned thereon. They were, of course, sion upon the grandee, that he has since been the legacy duty was not payable here. The question: of compensation atould be lett open ancil duty was demanded under 36 Geo. III, c. wrapt in deep thought and revery.\n\nSir 1 homas Cochrane avtored to this enlony. Altor penser, as the frown pays on costs; and if immediately detained, and application WAY he seeds, as I aux sure he will, he will made for permission to retard them to the 152, sec. 2, which enacted, that all legacies Thonan return, the cwners generaly waived\n\nabove the amount of £20, given by any will\n\nall claims fre salvage, marely requesting the Rear rill here to pay all his own expenses. Be port of shipment, but the intention in this (From the Singapore Free Press, 1st May.) or testamentary instrumcat, shoald pay le-\n\nAdmiral to remouense the Captain and eve for their sides the case has been deferred from time instance being so evident, the goods wer The Criminal Sessions were finished on gacy duty. Fe submitted that thang those elite similar te their own, Sir Thomas Cachane on long ago. Fir Thomas might have put ed, which was accordingly done,\n\ntrouble, never doubling then retunded by a spirit to time, whereas it might have been brought ordered to be seized and the parties prosecut Saturday Jast, the 28th ult. having lasted words were of the most extensive and gene rash hudumaly reward de vore of Fist himself into the witnesa box, and so might ence is made where the name and inscription four weeks, 18 persons were discharged on ral kind, the aut did not apply out of Great Majesty's slig. In doing thy they committed a Mr Waller, and thee we should have had an on the label is in the French or other foreign Saturday, no witnesses coming forward Britain. The aut could not extend even to\n\ncapital cere, to who justice and magnanimity opportunity of seeing what was right and language, although the British armus may be against them. No blame attaches to the our colonies, without some word expressly ey had entrusted the liquidatio of the cases what was wrong, or at least we should have Police in this instance, as the parties had including them, and there were no anche Captain and are of the Kareemid not fi\n\nengraved thereon, it being considered that words here. That being the case, the gene print much ganeanu facdage, and taking advantage\n\nhad an opportunity to cross-examine them, the act is not thereby infringed in const- been regularly bound over to appear nord\n\nquence. Timca. give evidence. In some cases there is leral rule of law applied that the personal pro- of the antideles is displast, he offered to award and of proving that Mr Matheson was not informed of the facts. Mr Bradshaw, the doubt that bribery has been resorted to inperty followed the fair of the domicile of its all $10, in the proportion of $4 for the quain\n\nfirst officer of the Fire, was on beard when I\n\nTHE HOPELESS SESSION. order to keep back evidenco. In van oase, a owner, and consequently as the domicile of $20 Ckiy Oficer; $16 Gunnar; $1 each for the Crew- charge of murder, the widow of the murder the testator here was Demerara, the low of take advantage of us Iter &iral's meannes, ant dewee was tatran in this court before a Com\n\nWe need actualy gette tha: Catón Carr would not the Wulf hoisted sigands of distress: his evi-\n\nWhat change has come over the public ed person, though she had appeared before that place unst govern the administration of\n\nwithin these few years Where be all the in is instance Her Majesty's ship has got off missioner. Mr Carr did not ferret out the the Grand Jury, was not to be found when his assets. Prubate but necessarily been fie fad the Fizen been the party cunt talon out in Scotland, because the Bankers\n\neager conjectures regarding the grent mea cireunastanees; \"hey were brought to him by the case came on for trial.\n\nwan in expardy unit the readers a Captain Carr, who complained of the waut Parliament aas supposed to lie pregnant? sares with which to coming session of who were the debtors had not honestly paid aquistanes, we would have had the matter certleil 1\n\nof liberality. F. M's Ships are generally People do not even take the treble to fore had been paid, but the claim here was what was due, and the probate duty there a very different mumer. Sie Thores mental op-\n\nvalued at £1000 per gan-the Wolf has 18 So which at times appear scleri -wor for legacy duty, which was clearly not pay\n\nguess what may be coming. Suficient for guns, nod may, therefore he vained at able As a very strong instance of the mis\n\nLeco fally opened to the importance of the service,\n\nThe day is the evil thereof. They will see and if such a question were left to his award, wo har 18,000, and for saving her 100 dollars are\n\nthe debates when they begin. Public emio- chief that would arise if the doctrine now\n\nIf Sir Thomas close to take ou nat the slightest doubt that the which awardedi. contended for by the Crowe could be sup\n\nsufficient for the 'em, would hure aweled bits himself the office of fixing the reward, be it is as languil is the opening of St A Chinese was executed on Monday week ported, it was only necessary to mention this\n\nchongauls for the War. We regret exeedingly to\n\nought to have exercised the strictest care to Stephen's as it has long been at the opening for murder. He taule a long speech when case, Suppose an Englishman resident They injure the dignity of the series not a litte: Carr, hearing that Sir Thomas was about to\n\nnatice such a crtions is the me now mantined. make himself acquainted with the facts. Mr of the patent theaires, No new pieces are the scaffold, protesting is innocence, abroad, or a foreigner traded with a person\n\nronounced as in preparation. Somo leading danouncing the witnesses against biu for in England, and at the death of the former a\n\nand alcough no thinking man would jrdys unferour-\n\nactors have cutired, and no onw ones ara commener an action against him, made every advertised. Nobody asks wht is to succeel perjury and threatening to beat them bill of exchange accnpted by the person io\n\nably of those whose merits Eater zee: so often tested, enquiry, in order that if he had done wrong. Lol Stanley in the Tybalt line, or Mr in conacquence of the lile minded actions of their afer his death. He acquitted the Judge this conmry was ranning, no parment of peat Chief, we are bound to acolodge, that to\n\nbe might rearess it by making an ample adstone in the heasy tragedy. There are and fury of all blame, as they had only acted that bill of exclange could be made without\n\napology but the more he did enqore, the to be rehearsals on Monday at Sir Robert the thoughtless and ipsmant, such tr.les uvey an according to the evidence, and be declared a deduction from the legacy duty. No one unfavourable, though file impression of the nasal stronger be found the facts. To costine Peri's (in full dress) and the Dake of Well- that in order to remove all cars from the cook pretend that a rale so mischievous to chare. Si Theme Cochrane, if we recoller Jibel it most the show that the party is Judge's mind, he, the prisoner, would bang commerce could exist, and the Hanse must, right, has been a candidate for parliamentary hưn charged with something that is criminal.ington's but the maies of the pinses in himself and he accordingly placed his head in therefore, act on the Authorities already des\n\npar: once, at least, he stood for a seaport, Mr Bradshaw's evidence is to this effect has invited his friends to be early in their\n\npreparation are not asked. the balter. He was very collected, and took cided, which had settled that the law of the\n\nthe pret buffetini inhalants of which are slip The Wolf was in great distress, firing gutus, attendances but the Opposition Fader a polite leave of those near him by bowing place where the testator died nust goverato distinguish himself in the nature of his country dwares; should the gallant Adunai ever again sek\n\nand baving her ensign with the Uniou down, ems to dust whether it is worth the to them, and at last, shaking hands with the the adutinistration of his personal property.\n\nThe Fire stood in and sent her boat to the while of his friends to we trust the affair we matrate will be prestained off to offer assistance. The Fixes had a 'Comeli whether it is worth tas while ot come, and Mr exceptioner, was launched off.\n\nThe Solicitor-General (with whom was bit the hastings, as we ate afrail would shin large pantity of specie on board. She re- bis to stay away. The Three Mays convinted of the rauder Me Crompton) did not deny the existence of in the eyes of any consergy intarestol in the\n\nThe tradesmen evince ceived 16 guns and 500 shut, and he consime animation in farbisting up the Houses, of Captain RBIsos of the Bluck twt, were some general rule as to the law of domicile, mesutile -hipping of Geet Britain.\" executed on Saturday last, and acknowledged but cuntended that it had nothing to do with\n\ndered the Voit would have been in extreme The following were the Jurymen on the\n\nand the grooms in exercising the cream- their guilt.\n\na case like the present. The principle of case,Thos. Jones, Esq., Duacan Flether, danger bl a gale come out. law that raust govern this case was, that Es, Angus Fletcher, Bay. F. T. Bush, Esq. aliona tendency to prevent others from giving pervade th actors and spectatus. Never coloured horses of the state-carriage; int TheJulge here asked, \"had not this public with these exceptions, apathy and langu where the property was balaistered the J. Leffler, Esq. and George Findlay, Esq. TRULY SEAMAN-LIKE CONDUCT. Captain legacy duty must be paid. If there had beeu The attorney-fineral in opening the case chassistance?—Mr Goddard said he thought before it the public appear to expect so Captain Caldwell, fate of the ship Durchester, of a specifs appropriation of the property in stated that this was an information on the ! \"xpressly the reverse, as it showedsuch per- little from a session will it be possible to Boston, tas pebliched the following amount: Sotland, this rule would not have applied, part of the Queen, to defend the character\n\nsous their age would be taken up by the press disappoint that little? Our faith in the Mr Bradshaw's videuce was then read. disappointing powers of Parliament is great. Captain Brition, of the Rochester, fell ja | but there was no appropriation The money of Sir Thomas Cochrane, who had awarded with the Dorchester at sea, a pertent Greek, recoveral there formed part of the general a sum of 100 dollars for services rendered and at great hazard rescued her officers, crew, assets, and was therefore liable to the lagney by the Fire to the off, as the fall salvage\n\nto an anchor near her. She had 144,000 severely trial-Sperlotur. and passengers from an untimely fate. duty. He contended that all the cases which claimed that Mr Car, well knowing the Caphan Caldwell says, \"The Rochester was bad been dated on this subject did not premises, took the occasion to vilify the stroring a course which would bare carried touch the subject of duncile, but related Commander-in-Chief as having acted aritra her about three miles north of us. The mo❘ wholly to that of the appropriation artit that when services were rendered to H. M. Barisfied with the award—He thinks the ons example of official economy. A crea-\n\nor non- rily, haughtily, and unjustly, and to state\n\nLouis Philippe's Ministers have get a tort- ment the wreck was seen, the course of the appropriation of the property, The Rochestor was altered for one directly for us. gentleman farther contended, that where a Ships, no adequate reward would be paid, remuneration illiberal, and injurious to other tion of Peers was intended, and the names of At that time,\" said Captain Britton to one party acted in the discharge of dutios of To this charge Mr Care at Girst pleaded vessels requiring assistance—Thorew help the Pencs were almost authoratively an afterwards, I had no idea that there could administration to a deceased person, the Not Guilty, but to-day he has added as a to take the guns, &c., on board—Witness nounced. Thone persons, of course, would be a living being on board of her; but I legacy daty is payable in respect of the money farther plea, that all he had stated was true, did so, and was powell in consequence—The be bound to Ministers for the coming session; have made it au invariable rate through life, he received and dealt with in that charseter, and published for the benefit of the pallie acevant in the Friend of China was not enig but what a waste of the coin of Court fa whenever I see a wreck, to get as near her The Lord Chancellor put the following Hy was aware that whenever there was angered The Fizen was detained 24 hours- vour! Ministers take second thought, and A. Matheson, Esq., being called as a vit postpone their creation until after the dis- as possible, and ascertain all I can about her, questions to the Judges:A B., a British Fattempt to check such objectionable publica- and make sure that there is nobody aliva on subject, born in England, resided in a Bri- tions, there was raised an outery that it was\n\nnews and sworn, deposed, that the Fizm be-\n\ncussion on their whole policy in the Cham- board before I leave her. We supposed, hetish colony, made his will, and died domiciled for the purpose of curbing the fibres and the chip of Jardine, Matheson, & .. hers. This is the true economy: every sup\n\nawarded nothing to the Crew continued, it was some timbership which there. At the time of his death debts were Press. The Government bero had no wish\n\nporner will wat himself down for a peerage, Secretary of Sir Thomas Cochrane called and each one prize will attract many gamblers had been drifting about here for months;awing to him in England; his executor in to do so.--an ollicer discharging the high and wished him to do so—the Viren bad for it. As if to show practically that the but resolving that I would adhere to my rule, England collected these debts, and out of duty of Admiral, and in this case acting as a I altered my course, although we all thought the money he collected paid legacies to cars\n\nJudge of the Admiralty, is complained of it useless at the time. Thus, by following tain legatees in England are such legacies a partial statement of the frots is brought the service rendered by hue was very made one sample Peer—M. Jaubert, an Op. this noble rule, Captain Britton was the able to the payment of the legacy daty? forward; for if the whole facts had been slight, and the crew were not employed at positionist. Spectator.\n\nAll—Captati Care was not satisfied with the mexas, in the hauds of God, of saving the He had fransed the question in this general stated. Sir Thomans Cochrane would have\n\nAdmiral's award, but did not ask witness's lives of 45 human beings, and in the circle of form, beranse the statute equally affected suffered no damage. A persoa in such vir-\n\nadvice as the course he ought to punue their friends and acquaintance, of making the England and Scotland,\n\ncumstances ought not to be so negligent as hearts of hundreds sing for joy. Captain The Judges requested short time to to pablish partial statements. The Admiral he is the assistance he gave was very im- portaut—Mr Waller did not make his state- Britton received me on board \"his ship with consider their answer. They retired for is charged with gross partiality and verup-\n\nment a upoo bis own knowledge, but na a welcome and a shake of the hand which this purpose, and at the end of about half an tion as a judge. You\" (the Jury) will not\n\nwhat he noderstood--Witness thinks that ac went to the heart, and spoke at once the sea- hour returned, when\n\nfail to perceive the motive on the face of the man and the gentleman. So long as memory Lord Chief Justice Tindal read their article.\n\ncording to Captain Carr's statement of the ser Will you ever believe chat Sir\n\nvices reutered, 100 Dollars was ootanfficient, retains her seat, I shall not forget his kind- answer, to the effect that, though the words Thomas was influenced by such motives, and ness. Taking me into his cabin, Consider,' of the statute could not apply everywhere, that this was published for the beaclit of the\n\nCross-examined by the Attorney-General said he, everything here at your service, the principle which ran through all the le public, and not to gratify some private feeling saw nothing on the part of Sir Thomas or Here are my clothes, use as many of them asided case was, that the domicile of the de- against him? It may produce the most\n\nMr Waller to lead him to believe they wished you need. And such was his treatment of ceased party gave the law which regulated prejudicial effoot for if this article is ciroz\n\nto retreat from their offer to give a proper us votil we arrived at New York, and then, the distribution of the personal property; lated among the mercantile wavy here, should remuneration. When asked to manie a sunt, witness said high Government officers were said he, Here is my purse at your service this ride was not affected by the situs of the another of Her Majesty's Ships got inte\n\nften stingy, and he believed Sir Thomas was for what moung you need? flow different personal property itself, or by the place tu similar circumstances, it would deter them the result, and how diferent must be the fee which the administrator received that pras from residering their services. I have au particular trouble. ings of Captain Britton from what they porty, and that, consequently, the law appli- thing to say against the serving rendered by\n\nThe Attorney-General said that Sie Thomas was of necessity discharging an office of high wonid have been, if he bad passed by and re-cable to this case was the law of the colony the Vire taking out guts, shat, &n. ported, Lat. 50 N., long. 20 W, saw a ship, where the deceased was domiciled at the This, I admit, it was a clear caso of salvage, Ministerial duty, se at that time there was no Totally dismasted, sea, making a complete time of his death, and was not the law of Sir Thomas bad to wish to deny this. Te Court of Admiralty here, breach over her: weather equally, and im England, consequently that the legacy daty said to his Secretary, Mr Waller, I know The Judge, in susuming up the case, said ing on night; could ascertain nothing further was not payable here.\n\nnothing of this case you will call on Methe bel was divided into two parts first a that the Lord had sent at thers to marry her, abour ber. Such are too often the reports, The Lord Chancellor expressed his fall Matheson and learn what be claims.\" Mrtement of facts, and secondly a commen! Betty, without much hesitation, replied,The but I hope we shall see no more of them. coneurrence with this opinion, and went Waller did call, and Mr Mathieson very tary on these facts. The first was passed Lord's will be done.\" Edinburgh Evening Courant.\n\ninto a very exact examination of the cases liberally refused to receive anything. Mr over. It was for the Jury to judge if there\n\nThe Premier\n\nThe Fixes was ordered by the Wolf to conte but on the present vesion they will be Tarls of silver on hoard. Thinks it was in\n\nsequence of the relief afforded by her that\n\nthe Wolf got off. Two vessels bave sincr bero wrecked there. The crew were all dis-\n\nHOW TO MAKE A PEERAGE GO VURTHEST,\n\nnot then returned to Hongkong Me Waller competition is open to all, Ministers have\n\nAN AMRICAN CONE AND 19 Swann, A Colonel of the Chised Sanes Army having rofused to obey the esmuunds of his superior cfficer, with sentenced by the courbeartial in↔ be deprised ní his sword for one month.\" On his weapon being demanded of her, he aroes, and in the mud gale and solema amer declared, that he didn't own one: that the sword be had been accustomed to wear Giln't being to him; but he had no dobi Mr Baker, the jeweller, f whow be hired it B waining days, would int it to the Court for the re quired mouth on the most reasonable terras 1\n\n'rovidence Guzeite\n\nFace ResigNA CON,-Deacon Mavis of Lyne Crevicu, Farge alludder and exemplary man, was exceedingly cocentre in some of his noticus. His courtship is in sus, was as follows:-aving The any pointed his horse, with only a nap-ssin fer a sad, be rede in front of the hause wherea Betty Lec lived, and, without dismounting, reguesial\n\nJetty to come to linn; on her eing, he told her\n\nyu this subject, which, he said, completely. Waller natted what compensation would be was a necessity first to publish these facts; AN EYE TO THE FUTURE—At a meeting, von justified the opinions of the learned Judges enough for the crew of the Vixen. Mr secondly was it necessary to publish this red by the friends of Clay, held in Woodstock, All sorts of people are plunging into the He begged to add, that the reasons why the Matheson said about 105 dollars, to which cotourstory. Had Mr Carr rested with a Vend, e ele oratore grew arazingly exontent, frightful whirlpool of railway speculation.Judges had been summoned to give the Mr Waller answered, say in round numbers statement of facts, it is probable you exchiring, ever heard of a woulan's warning Bankers and merchants, barristers and baber-House their resistance in this case was, tint 100 dollars. Mr Care puts an imaginary would not have been troubled with this paper sun after Jana K. Polk P\" and den pude a dashers, bankers' clerks and doctors of divi- as the law was to be stated definitively for case to injure Sir Thomas. Ho says, bail secution. Sir Thomas was not likely to have sig diffene pause, if inviting an awwer. nity, Members of Parliament and keepers of the British islands and for all our colonies, the Vixeu been the party that was in jeopac brought an autiou, and he was sure his friend did exclaims a fair decorat in the cred, win gambling-houses, old oren and young lads, the Lords had deemed it proper that the de dy,\" &. The last paragraph could only be the Attorney-General would not have taken hd boy married about six months proves, Bat married women who desire to have a good cision abould have all the weight which the pennet by some person who had a personal up such a case. But this was not the sting have en tha! intends to.\" speculation on their own account, and spin-concurrent opinions of the Judges and of spleen against the admiral. If any of you of the libel. It is for you to say whether Sir sters who think that an addition to their their Lordships could give it. He moved had been called on to act as arbiter, and ia: Thomas is charged with corruption, and if soị\n\nMas Lova, Harmony House, Concord, near fortune might give them an opportunity of that the judgment should be given for the consequence of your award had been accused it is a huel. To order that words may con- Kusing Pains,” is the adureas of a school stress in sharing it with another-all, all are rushing plaintiff in error.\n\nNew South Wales. of corruption, you would feel what damages stitute a libel, they must charge a man with on in the same course-dying after the wheel\n\nLord Brougham and Lord Campbell save ought to be given in the present case. The something criminal: but in writing whatever of fortune, which for the present is laden at rally expressed their concurrence with the affidavit of Me Walle, which will be read to, tends to bring a man into contempt is a libel. every spoke with the shares of some railway motion of the noble and leverned. Lord. you, states, that he wrote to Mr Malevon The Jury, after a short consultation, res company—Morning Post.\n\nby the direction of Sir Thomas, a letter torneil à verdict of not guilty.\"\n\nJudgment for the plaintiff is error.\n\nFon—Never tell a mun he's a frol. In the Grat place he won't believe you; in the next beŋl be sure i think you one jou buying 10,",
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        "content_text": "71\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPARTIES having their own ENGRAVED PLATE can have their Cards, &c., printed in the best style at the Office of\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nof the respective Papers, which will secure early insertion.\n\nEverything taken at Cowloon will be sent to the Government Office, if not claimed before 4 o'clock.\n\nyou will receive an official communication from me, the bending of which I should be glad to avoid, but before the Mail goes I must know whether the stolen articles listed were way whet\n\nYours truly,\n\n(Signed)\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Public Worship at the HONGKONG REGISTER UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are, on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M., and on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock. Hongkong, 28th April, 1857.\n\nTO LET by the month, & Three capacious Rooms, capable of accommodating ten gentlemen, with apartments for any number up to that amount.\n\nApply to\n\nBOWRA & Co.\n\nHongkong, 28 April 1857.\n\nTo the Editor at the \"Hongkong Register.\"\n\nHONGKONG, 27th April, 1857,\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Felaban on the 10th April, Mrs. J. CALOROSSET Sure, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Shangwe, on the 15th April, Mrs. H. KOONS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Macao, on the 9th April, Mrs. B. E. CARNEIRO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Trinity Church, Shangbae, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. John Halon, WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Esq. of Calcutta, to GUNA EMILY, third Daughter of George Hargreaves, Esq., Liverpool.\n\nOn board American Ship \"Celestial,\" in this harbour, on the 25th April, by the Rev. J. W. Johnson, John A. CREWS WALD, Esq. of Boston, to FRANCES ANNE, Daughter of Edwin Lemist, Esq., of Roxbury, Mass.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nDrowned, in March last, in the 37th year of his age, JOHN VAUGHAN, Esq., M.D., eldest son of the Revd Dr. Vaughan, of Regent's Park, London.\n\nAt Macao, on the 20th April, PATRICK STEWART, Esq., Acting British Consular Agent at that port.\n\nAt Hongkong, on Sunday, 26th April, of dysentery, THOMAS HOPE, eldest and sole surviving son of the Rev. M. C. C., Assistant Chaplain to the Forces. Aged 2 years.\n\nN., lat. 31.16 N., and long. 121.46 E.; on the 22nd, the British barque Whampoa, in lat. 28:21 N., and long. 122.1; on the 23rd, the British schooner Eamont, in lat. 25.24 N., and long. 119.56 E.; on the 24th, the British schooner Emily Elphinstone, in lat. 23.17 N., and long. 121.29 E. Passed the Lady Mary Wood, on the 22nd instant, to the Northward of Turnabout near the use of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nDEAR SIR—Having had occasion to be in Gough Street yesterday (Sunday) morning, I was surprised to see this usually quiet street a scene of bustle and activity, and thinking that I had seen it announced in the Colonial Gazette that no Government or Police work was allowed on the Sabbath, I merely wish to know: 1. If any new private instructions have been given to Contractors or others to set aside this Government order. 2. If not, it is a high disgrace that Government should allow its servants to employ labourers on public work on a \"day of rest.\"\n\nI merely state what I saw almost under the windows of our Lieutenant Governor's house and opposite the house of the Registrar General and the Collector of Police &c., several Chinese workmen were employed in repairing the road; lower down the street, near the house of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nVox Populi is not admissible on the ground, amongst others, that the writer falls into the errors which he condemns. In addition—the letter is anonymous.\n\nJ. BOWRING,\n\nTo the Honorable COLONEL DUNLOP,\n\nThe Colonel issues the following Memo., attaching to it the Governor's letter, which requires that all the stolen property be forthwith returned to the Government Office:\n\n[No. 17—APRIL 29, 1857.]\n\nMemo. The undersigned offers notice that parties who have any articles which were taken at Cowloon will immediately return them to this Office. Officers are requested to state their names, or that they have returned all to this Office.\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) JOHN KING, Captain,\n\nTown Major.\n\nTOWN MAJOR'S OFFICE, 25th April, 1857.\n\nThe officers naturally felt annoyed at having such accusations made against them, and their several replies are amusing enough. They run thus:\n\n1. \"Have nothing—I never took anything.\"\n\n2. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n3. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n4. \"Seen.\"\n\n5. \"Not a legal question—stole nothing.\"\n\n6. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n7. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n8. \"Stole nothing: the two hats Dr. Bridges said there was no bar in taking. I have already returned.\"\n\n9. \"I have stolen nothing.\"\n\n10. \"Has stolen nothing.\"\n\n11. \"I took nothing away from Cowloon.\"\n\n12. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\nThis was not all; one of them afterwards wrote a letter demanding an apology under the threat of \"court of inquiry.\" We have not this intermediate correspondence, but the fellow who signs himself \"X X X\" in the China Mail, has said, so it has come to pass, the Registration Ordinance is progressing, and we have an altered and amended—if not improved draft copy of the Ordinance in the last Government Gazette.\n\nThe Band of the 59th Regiment will be performing to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4½ p.m., the following pieces:—\n\nMarch—\"Souvenir des Alpes\"—Leitzer.\n\nPolka—\"Jalve.\"\n\nSelection 4—\"Quadrilles Mouton.\"\n\nWaltz—\"Auf dem Lufte, Gung'—Strauss.\n\nGallop—\"Corsa\"—Kulorer.\n\nWe beg to return our sincere thanks to His Excellency Sir John Bowring Knt. LL.D. &c. for so kindly furnishing us with the precis of the contents of the papers taken at the attack on Cowloon, &c.\n\nBetween that and \"stolen\" there is a mighty difference in the minds of some people. We will illustrate the difference by telling the following story:—A Leith wine merchant whose business had been declining, and upon whom a strong desire for military fame just at the same time fell, was glad to take service with Don Pedro when he contended with Miguell for the throne of Portugal.\n\nIt would have been for him had he in the course of his universal acquirements stumbled upon the precaution of the good Chamundas; or had looked nearer one at the protector-te of Olyfe the hammer, when the community was governed without Laws. Back leginnion, however, was not suited to the busy, meddling mind of Wilmi le Teary. On the contrary, he conceived that the true wisdom of legislation consisted in the multiplicity of laws. He accordingly had great punishments for great crimes, and little punishments for little offences. By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so hemmed by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered, that one now] could walk a large within the risk of having off a spring-gun or falling into a man-trap—\"Knicker\"-bocker's History of New York.\"\n\nTo the Editor of the \"China Mail.\"\n\nThe COVENT, 1st April, 1857.\n\nDEAR MR. F——\n\nMy wife (who can fight anticly for my peace of mind) derives her views of Hongkong politics from the Friend of China. Upon the ideas of the mild expositor of Sir John's responsibilities, she grafts a few of her own, and the following shortly shadows forth the result.\n\nWas Colony ever at such a pass\n\nWhat with poison, Sed riots, de dear that gas.\n\nA pretty large role of ill it will sum to\n\nThe taxes increasing, such a state the police in,\n\nAnd coolies refusing to carry our chairs;\n\nIf you'd know why this was, it is simply because\n\nThat horrid Sir John's authe Board of affairs!\n\nHe has truly thrown things in a terrible mix,\n\nAnd no wonder it is that with ge we are tow'ring;\n\nLa jury pays a,\" when the public\n\nWhy, who is the party to blame but Sir John?\n\nThe responsible man.—if your servants are capable,\n\nIf your carriage raptures, or child falls down stairs,\n\nFor sourbour, bad potatoes, or premature babi\n\nIs that dreadful old man at the head of affairs!\n\nJust look how he went and black-holed those poor bakers,\n\n(As it must be admitted they'd given you cause,)\n\nAl then four out Murrow & Co. to be breakers\n\nBy housing some coolies) of liberty's laws.\n\nFor struggling young orlenists ain't le a rush nares.*\n\nNor Christian nor Pagan is safe from his energet\n\nHet in happy to heap our dear chaplain's dham Gua\n\nThis cruel old man at the head of affairs!\n\nIf the ad come too late, or fire catches a chimney,\n\nIf our sleep is histure'd by a noisy cock,\n\nEve it a man-of-war strikes on a rock.\n\nf the sun is too hot, or the street lamps burn dim—nay,\n\nthe bugs at the school of St Andrew are lousy,\n\nOr the 59th Band plays unpopular airs;\n\nIf offcids are idle, or paracas are affils!\n\nIt's all the old as it the head\n\nBy his hobbies not only the clothes get se mangled,\n\n\"That buttons and darts take the wake of one's timiz,\n\nBut we're liable, too, in our beds t\n\nto be strangled,\n\nAnd he won't hang the man who emitted the crime.\n\nJould know how his sid yazilation\n\nIf he the load of ane's family rates,\n\nIncremes\n\nHe would practise (what I can't, fin enre) resignation,\n\nAnd put that dear end at the head of affairs.\n\n(Morita loquitur)\n\nAnd now. you've done, pray let me have a word to\n\n(That politics sextainly not a good hand)\n\nI would have you remember it's very absurd, to\n\nTalk about things that you don't understand.\n\nIf he'd three heads, His Cerberas, still be'd have reason\n\nTo say he's tough work to grizzle his air;\n\nAnd I really believe, in' you'll think it high tresom,\n\nWo might have a wote inan at the head of affairs.\n\n*Tron, WELDA.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 26 APRIL 1857.\n\nRooms, where such documents as the government desires to make known are supplied for the use of all the papers without respect to party or color. It would of course be expecting too much from a man who was only a radical member of parliament any such liberality—that style of individual does not act in such a way. All his liberality is expended in clap-trap, and when the time of action comes, he is found to be nothing but a windbag—As for the Mail we could expect no courtesy from it in such a case.\n\nThe Coromandel returned to harbour on the morning of the 26th, from the survey of the rock on which the unfortunate Raleigh struck. The survey was made by Captain Bates, who was accompanied by Mr. Williams, Master of the state that so well known Raleigh, and when then for him.\n\nAs we are a day behind the for, thanks to our kind friends, the above firm, we think it unnecessary to republish the documents, but we call attention to the reasonable inference drawn by the\n\nThere is one drop of comfort in this bucket of filth—the Ordinance never will be carried out, not even when the gloss of novelty is upon it. There is no staff of officials to carry it out.\n\nWe may therefore rest satisfied that the minds of the Chinese will not be undermined by this Ordinance, and the only bad effect of it will be to disgrace a British Statute book. Spies there are, and will be—like other vermin they are useful and can be dispensed with; but the more we can do without them the better, and we hope never to see the day when the inhabitants of a whole colony shall turn spies, and no one however respectable be safe.\n\nThe Sampson has had an engagement with pirates near Mi-chin bay, to the South of the entrance of the Straits of Hainan. The steamer had followed them up to this place which it appears they have made their rendezvous for some time past.\n\nThe result of a sharp and successful contest was the complete defeat of the Pirates who were compelled to retire, having about 200 killed, wounded, or prisoners, in the hands of the assailants. We have not heard of any serious casualties to any of the Sampson crew.\n\nXI. A Chinese Houses shall be divided into things or Káp of Ten Houses each, wherein every Occupier of a House shall answer to Her Majesty for the good conduct of the occupiers of the other nine; and Occupier of a House shall be Kápcheong or Thingman to be elected by common vote of the said Tithing or Kap to that office, subject to the approval of this Government, and he shall be the proper Representative of the said Tithing or Kap, and be distinguished by some Badge to be appointed by His Excellency, and he shall hold his said office during one year; and no other person shall assume the title or badge of Kápcheong of such Tithing or Káp.\n\nXIV. It shall be the duty of every Occupier of House to report to his Kápcheong without delay, to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, Suspicions of Crime, committed or to be committed, and respectively, for all the purposes of this Ordinance, to be aiding and assisting to the said Kápcheong in the execution of the same; and further, to do his utmost to prevent all crimes, felonies, and misdemeanours, and to apprehend all persons whom he shall find in the actual commission of the same.\n\nIV. It shall be the duty of the Kápcheong to communicate forthwith to the Registrar General all such reports as in Section Fourteen are mentioned, when the same are received by him; and likewise to report to him to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, or Suspicions of Crime, whether reported from the Kap or not; and in all other respects to discharge the duties and exercise the powers of a Constable of the Police Force of Hongkong, so as the same are altered by this Ordinance.\n\nThis is the spy system on which the Ordinance rests.\n\nWe give below part of a correspondence between Sir John Bowring and the officers who were employed on the descent lately made on Cowloon, powerful in her armament and crew as the Sampson is.\n\nGovernment Office, 25th April, 1857.\n\nMY DEAR COLONEL—I have been quite shocked to hear that, among other things, the official sent were eiti- Register\" or \"Register's Advertiser, please address to the \"Printer and Publisher\n\nWe further learn that the Chinese captured have been given up to the Mandarins at Amoy, and that the Portuguese taken are to be handed over to the Macao Authorities.\n\nThe expedition to Chek-chun was accompanied by Mr. Wan and acquainted with only one of the inculpating facts by surprise. A large number of \"braves\" were found concealed in the city, and a few house before the attack.\n\nThere is no evidence that poisoning as an art has been practiced in China, and we search her annals in vain for a case parallel to that of Hongkong.\n\nThe pith failed through the dilatoriness of the mandarins sent for distribution among a portion of the attacked force, & quantity of a perennial creeper found on the hills of the central provinces. Its botanical character, as well as its precise physiological action, we have yet to ascertain.\n\nIts active principle appears to be highly volatile, and great exactness is needed in preparing it. Several of Mr. Markwick's gold wristlets were found concealed in a two watchkeys, a ring, and a gold watch and chain had also been pawned to pay a gambling debt, but were not in league with the police.\n\nThe expedition to Cowloon was accompanied by Dr. Bridges, Mr. Caldwell being confined to his room with illness and though the inslemency of the weather prevented it from starting till day light, several hours after the time contemplated, the soldiers were within a hundred yards of the fort ere the Chinese thought of even closing the gates.\n\nThe doors were instantly scaled, the gates opened, and the fort taken possession of, without the longest violence being used towards the Chinese.\n\nIt is said that not far from every poison tree the antidotes were ordered from the Pacific to join Commandant was of course in a state of great alarm.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nShanglus, 23d March, 1857. (From North-China Herald, March 29.)\n\nNotice is hereby given, that in pursuance of arrangements made by the Chinese Authorities for the improvement of the navigation of the Yangtze Kiang, Eight patriotic Iron Nan Boyus have been moored between Chatela Island and Woosung. These have been laid down by M. GEORGE L. CAER, Master, N., in the following positions :-\n\nOn the South Sand, three painted Black, and numbered 3, 9, 5.\n\nOn the North Sand, three painted Red, and numbered 2, 1, 6.\n\nOn the North Spit, off the entrance of Woosung River, one painted Red, and numbered 9.\n\nThe bearings are all Magnetic.\n\nThe Light Ship is moored in 4½ fathoms, at low water, Spring Tides.\n\nThe Trevs upon Block House island bear from N. 15,0,0 West, distance 3 miles.\n\nGO. 1. CA, Master. BN,\n\nBy Order,\n\nH. M. S. Pique.\"\n\nSECRETARY,\n\nNINGPO.\n\nA ROCK NOT NOTED IN THE CHARTS.\n\nThe Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, right in the way of vessels going in to Ningpo from sea through the Fisherman's chain. She was 12 hours on the reef, and 3 feet under her stern at low water.\n\nThe bearings of a rock or reef on which the Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, are as follows:\n\nSkald Island, S. & B., distance 3 cables,\n\nSouth extreme of Chiu-san, E ½ S.\n\nLarge Volcano, S. W. westerly Extremes of Ruggeds, N. N. W. W.,\n\nand N. X. E.\n\n62",
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        "content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.\n\n### VICTORIA, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1857.\n\n**Chinese Calendar, Hà Moon, 5th Day: DIARY. MEMORANDA**\n\n| Day | Astronomical Data |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sunday,... | H❘ Sets 4. P.M. 5,37 634 |\n| Monday,... | 11.16! 1,01 |\n| Tuesday,... | 5.27 6.34 1: |\n| Wednesday,... | 1,564 632 2.5% 30$ |\n| Thursday,.. | 28 Ted |\n\n**VINE SERVICES SUNDAY**\n- St. John's Cathedral-6.45 and 11a, M. and Gr.\n- Union Chapel-63d 7? P. M.\n- Beamers Chapel--1 \n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY SHIPPING LIST\n\n### ARRIVALS AT HONGKONG\n\n- July 24, 11 M. Sir. Fury, Com. Leckie, from Canton\n- July 24, Fr. Gun-boat Drogenos, Co Berry, from Lantao.\n\n### DEPARTURES FROM HONGKONG\n\n- July 24, Nova, Porter, Shanghai.\n- July 24, Clipper (Hong). Marxen, East Coast\n- July 25, H. Mail, towed by the Coromandel for the river.\n\n### POSTAL OPPORTUNITIES.\n- For Macao: Monday, per Feina at Noon; Tuesday, per Willamette at Noon, and per Spark at Ten.\n- For Indian England: per Shanghai to-morrow at 8. Supplementary mail closes at 7.30.\n\nIn the Estate of HENRY DAVIS, of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchant, deceased,\nAre from ZIND SOZAMING and Natives \nA DREYER & Co. \nFreight and Back Vans, \nHongkong, 1st April, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n- CLARE CHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, and French PRESERVES.\n- VAUCHER FRERES. Hongkong, 6th April, 1857.\n\nFROM NEW YORK DIRECT Received per \"Iotspur,\" and for Sale by the undersigned,\n- 100 Boxes Family Soap,\n- 100 Boxes Scented Water Soap,\n- 50 Tins Corn Meal,\n- 50 Boxes Spero Candies,\n- Baker's Buns \n- 5 Cons Superior White Lead,\n- 20 Half barrels White Beans,\n- 20 do. Split Peas,\n- 50 do. Crushed Sugar,\n- 2600 lbs. Sill's Butter in 16 lbs. Kegs,\n- 50 feet Oakum,\n- 100 Tins Black Varnish,\n- Marlinspikes, Caulking Irons and Mallets,\n- Axes, large and small, Paint, Tar and White-wash Brushes,\n- 20 Entire American Cider Vinegar,\n- Pump and Harness Leather, Cotton Canvas,\n- And from Manila: 500 Coils Steam and Manila Rope,\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co \nHongkong, 1st July, 1857.\n\n## JUST RECEIVED\n- PATENT Water Cements,\n- Fresh Prunes in Gums, Fresh Raisins in and boxes.\n\nTUOS HUNT & Co. \nHongkong, 20th June, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE\n- TWO Second-rate FIRE ENGINES complete, from London, ON VIEW NEAR MAG EWEN & Co.'s \nHongkong, 15th July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE.\nAll Persons having Claims against, or being Indebted to, the late Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith \nHENRY RUTTER Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 17th March, 1857.\n\nIn the matter of the Estate of the late MR JAMES SMITH of the Firm of Smith & BLAW, of Victoria, deceased.\n\nNOTICE-All Persons having Claims on the said Estate are requested to forward particulars of the same to M. JAMES W. BRIMELOW, But all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to pay the respective amounts thereto to the said James W. Brimelow,\n\nD. LAPRAIK \nARD. S. DIXSON \nExecutors.\n\n承辦人得忌時麗 \n北力晏度路士吉德 \n士布林羅收入是荷 \n兩亦如嫩交還與未 \n人欠到達士銀 \n朱士布林羅處或各 \n各人債目祈送到 \n·士藏身故如有欠到 \n羅公司之未士朗時 \n廠者未士氏蹲布林 \n\n## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nQUOTATIONS. \nEXCHANGE AND BULLION. \nHongkong Bank Corporation on \nLondon, 4, 1, Truliai - Gold to Sycee, outis-Date Sycee, Nominal! Pres Laves 24 335.36 per Tael and at at 319 821 d. Canton...\n\nIt is now upwards of a month since we furnished the public with a report of the trial of Tan cute of Tarrant v. Ah Lum the poisoner. The Jury, a special one, awarded the Plaintiff $1,010, it will be remembered, subject to the Judge's decision on the low point raised by Defendant's Counsel; and our readers, no doubt, are desirous of knowing what has been the result of the matter, and how the disputed point has been arranged. But though, as we have remarked, it is upwards of a month since the trial was reported, from that day to the present we have not heard a word of the threatened kroviment;---so, as the time allowed for the mo time was for some time expired, the verdict of the Jury stands. So much for the verdict whether the award will be forthcoming, or whether we shall obtain even a refund of the costs out of pocket \"are problems the solution of which has yet to be told of \n\nThe Editor of the China Mail, in strictures exhibiting the most extraordinary feeling of sympathy for a suspicious character it has ever been our lot to read, has told the world that, owing to the unjust confinement to which Ah Lum has been subjected, being unable personally to look after his office--he, Ah Lum, is now declared to have become Bankrupt and will have to pass through the Insolvent Court\" and, adds the Editor with an evident hug of gratulation, there will possibly (the italics are ours) be some \"difficulty in recovering the amount of damages.\" Possibly there may--but, at all events, we are placed, by the verdict of one of the most respectable juries ever empanelled in this Colony, in a position to challenge the Insolvent's Balance sheet; and should it be, as we shall not be surprised to find, that Ah Lum's bankruptcy is due as much to his very proper stoppage at business here as to some astounding malversation in the shape of lawyer's fees, or payment of hireling scribes the facts will duly be made patent to the public, and, it will be hoped, produce a salutary effect that the Jury's award will not be altogether lost \n\nThe arrival of the mail prevented the intention of noticing in our last issue a very interesting letter in the Hongkong Register of Tuesday, signed a Catholic Missionary, and of which the intelligent Redacteur of that paper thus remarks.--- \n\nWe publish better from a Roman Catholic Missionary. in reply to some observations by a contemporary as to what ought to be the course of the French in China in his opinion. We don't of course agree with the remarks of our contemporary but we entirely agree with the letter which we publish. Neither the fact nor the spirit are in good taste, and an easy answer could be time to both were worth while which is not. \n\nWhether the letter in question is a reply to our observations--whether it is \"bad taste\" (as one reverend Father disclaims it)--or whether the subject is worth while to notice are all points on which we shall leave our readers to form their own opinions. Here is a translation of such parts of the letter necessary to an understanding of it, and appended is an extract from the speech of His Lordship the Bishop of Victoria, on the 5th of May last, the spirit of which, it rejoices us to find, is entirely in consonance with the honestionsa which May last, the spirit of which, it rejoices us to find, is not our contemporary does not think it worth while to notice. \n\nTranslation, \n\nReferring to the Anglo-French alliance on the China question--the author of the article accuses the French of a desire to impose their religion on Canton by means of bayonets, amusing it (religion) to serve their ambition.\"This alliance so surely desired by Great Britain rests, it is true, on different interests. Now, as well as in 1841, one noble neighbours are pressing the granting of their commerce. Now, as well as in 1841, France defends is the cause of humanity and \n\nas fafmontas nigha 50 - Fella 24 y. \n\nSHANGHA 15th July -On London 7, The-On Calcutta Theme dava sight Rs. per 1 Palnation, which is only possible on religious principles. de-Draft on Hongkong 29 porced sc. MANILA, 5th June - London, da iglu 4,3 -day sigur 4.9-On Hongkong and carest submit in this country to many obstacles--that Before 1841 the commerce of England had to premium golden Siang 50 pre eit pra \n\ndo-Spa isa and Mexican chopped dollars per \n\nOPIUM, \n\nRosatoma, 5th July, Palan 5520, New Para $590, New Bennes $575, Mal $515, \nMacao, 6th July New Itna $545. Old Patna $525, New Bars $575, \nGames-No Market. \n\nSHANGAR, 1 July--Malwa 400 Trots, New Patna, A Tacle \n\n### FREIGHTS AND TONNAGE.\n\n- CANTON-SHANGHAE, £3, the Tea, a £6.6 for Silk--To New York, 10 per ton of 40 cunt.\n- Also London, Sugar, £3,10, Hemp £4,10 To United States Arabia 23,,10 \n\n### HONGKONG-THE FIRE\n\nFour days after the Fireman's report of the conflagration on Wednesday last--it commenced a little before eight, in or outside the easternmost of Lane dare storici houses in a detached block between the Taipingshan Temple on Hollywood \n\nintroduction at some merchant like being altogether repelled by the Chinese authorities--the pino inspired by the English power has been, it is true, to cause of the war of 1841 The result of the treaty \n\ngive an entire sanction, at all events to make trade more free. is for the benefit of all nations, and to deliver trade from all obstacles, that England presses herself forward with such insisting force most noble is her project and ardently do we desire success to the undertaking, \n\nLong before 1841 your illustrious ancestors were halflence to the successor of Saint Peter--and Quitted to us in the same faith, and by a common wish with us they defended the Liberty of conscience of their brethren in the east against the ferocious despotism of musselmon persecutors, there were even then Catholics in China; and in alternate peace and persecution their numbers have successively multiplied. \n\nIn France profited by the fact of England's acting, though timidly, under similar circumstances \n\nEDWARD WEB has this day been admitted Partner in our Firm \nDENT, BEALE & Co. \nShanghai, 1st July, 1857.\n\nNo. 20 Rua Campo, Macao. \nSHAW'S HOTEL Board and Accommodation, Billiards. \nBy M Il saaw. \n\nThe lower part obtained was rendered inst by mason of the stone formations known as Bridges's folly. The lower part of the house loyally destroyed was a carpenter's shop, and it was from the large and valuable pute of China pine square in the yard adjoining the shop, that the flames were continued wall between nine and ten o'clock. How the fire originated, no one has yet discovered it is singular that it should have occurred within a few yards of the last fire, and in a carpenter's timber yard again. The value of the property destroyed will be about a thousand pounds sterling, and it is said an old man perished by suffocation in one of the \n\nFrom 1841 to the present time, imprisonment and torture have not ceased be the lot of Christians (in China) and area their blood has been spilt and it is for that blood France comes and demands reparation to prevent a repetition of past horrors, And the more extended freedom of conscience en-\n\nWe have heard doubts expressed of the truth of the story told of that gentleman's in miles. The tale, it is said, has never been properly authenticated. - F. C. \n\nThe writer of one of the letters to which we have referred says,--- \n\nand your gracious Queen and our beloved Emperor have thought to unite their endeavours in order to a \n\nI am told that the Chusan Mandarin which Sorira told greater chance of success to their (general) establishment a pier, has era on board his in in such loose con \n\nGarment figs (England, par U.M.O, epizm-France \n\nthe last faar mancha tha to snout naw 80 his font or legs\"--and he slit, antur at the 4:5, I saw the To impose cur religion, cramming). \n\nMantarım yestoniy, He says that Zaring los contoamgut religion by means of the bayonet is out of the or bord le ha 99 ext 20 men cited and focio question, and the honourable author of the article book about $7900 in Cash. Bu on occasion his fricade publ need not be alarmed. \n\nOn our side we Mal0 to have him released, bat Sostro took the money and \n\nLed.\" are far from being alarmed about the Missionaries \n\nof the religion founded by Fancy the eighth and In addition to their ambroglio with the Perin Elizabeth on the contrary, the zeal will exclleguese, the French have a sinal fate with tho ours. Perhaps, indeed, they will be the first ab noted Apak. appears, the nature of which har jects of our zeal perhaps they will become our over, we have yet to hear This is all the Herald brothers by the faith, as they are alresly by feel tel's of it: - ings of regard, respect, and charity.\" \n\nAt the 58th Anniversary Meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held in Exeter Hall on the Morning of Wednesday, the 5th of May 1857, the President, the Earl of Caichesser, in the Chair; the first Resolution having been moved by the Lord Bishop of London, and seconded by the Dean of Carlisle, the second Resolution was moved by the Lord Bishop of Victoria; and the Bishop spoke as follows- \n\n\"Now, My Lord, what is the reason that I have dwelt so much on these encouraging features of the \"Chesping ove ment? It is not, of course, that I wish the assembly to carry away with them the first notion that I look upon this body of men is, in any kind sense of the word, Christian. I know the vague screw, the wina jasjsącko, with which the term \"region\" Christianity\" apst be applied to see a system as I have been referring ( I have no confidence in the personal boaters eftlus rebellion; but I cannot help thinking that God, who in His providence has permitted a may want containing within it so many elements of exerbal truth, mus necs invenit to accomplish indinvely, by means of the The pin Rey lotion, so.he great and mercatene wis Sa China. Its act. \n\nA pak's finct of Wank roast hoals are lying off the sol zato, aqua the lacteria, blockade by 17. I. Corete La Ca pricieuse. They have taken several of their gate ashore, and threaten to take the city of Ningpo, and hadre French men of war attack them. 41 Montes, the Porteced Consul has demode) indemnity from the Chinese nothontie waved as the Intendat, Aigners, exco Portuganun, were 11-ing in parket \n\nThe Earl of Elgin and suite left this port in the Shannon on the 16th instant--the flarer Master reporting Calcutta as the vessel's destination. Quid meant General believes that the Shannon is gone to Peking, and gives as his reason for believing this, the fact of Mr Wade, Chinese Secretary Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, being ordered to be very diplomatic when embarking, and by no means to let it be known when he was bound to or when he would be back, Mr Wade is the gentleman sent by Sir John Bowring to Cochin-China in 1855 will be remembered, and who was left by the Raider without even a servant on the bank of the River below Hue, where he remained, recognized by the Cochin-Chinese government, until the Radler came back for him Should it really be that the Shannon has gone direct to the Pelbo, better selection for letter carrying in the Svenson's barge could not have been made, and we congratulate His Excellency the Ambassador on the possession of such an able instrument. Mr Wade's experience as a Chinese Custom house officer will not be lost in negotiations at the North. \n\nPROVINCIAL.\n\nThe great apesaluter Tuksen it is said is convonal in the Commissioner's enquiry.— Ibid. \n\n### PEKING.\n\nThe Peking Gazette have reached us up to June 15th, but contain nothing of special interest. The business of the Empire seems to go on as quietly and regularly as ever, but the state of the finances continues to be the absorbing topic at head quarters. Contributions are proposed on all hands, and in places where the accounts have been left in disorder by previous officials of 1855, a minute investigation is insisted on, and deficiencies are to be made up within a stated time. -- \n\nLord Canning has justified the belief which we have been induced to form of him. He lives in days which have more significance than years in the career of many of his predecessors and all his acts are momentous. Since he took the conduct of affairs into his own hands, criticism has been disarmed. All the resources of the country have been gathered up and made the most of, and every corner of the Empire within and without has been ransacked to furnish aid in India's great extremity. No means have been left untried to satisfy the hungry soldiery, and to keep the rebels without a shadow of \n\nThe 79 Native of hry presented an arze, praying that they might be permitted to march to the North West to shore in the lafore and Dulate the loyalty of the Europeans, and within a very few hours his Lordship made his appearance at Barrackpore harangued the troops drawn out to receive him, and did more good perhaps by the utterance of a few single phrases fresh from the heart, and clothed with the authority of his high station, than would have been expected from the reigation of a score of General Orders which but few read and lower still autoreland.. \n\nA Rent Fortune has kindly sent us a copy \nYau's organization of a squadron at Faishan, to of his new work' —Fortune's residence among the Chinese-inland, on the corest, and at sea, \n\nof the 18th instant\" We now learn that, under the being a narrative of scenes and giventures \n\nrenowned chief Le, the rebels gave battle to the \"during a third visit sa Cuius, from 1983 to \n\nImperialists under General Kwin nea: Sewking, * 1856--inclu hag wations of many untional and gained a complete victory--only three boats \n\nproductions and works of art, the callure of \n\nscoping to Canton to tell the result, of carrying Silk & with suggestions on the present \n\nLe's bravado challenge to Yah to come on again \n\n• war.” A book of 450 pages netava. —we have soon as it could get couly. Le's force is stid to not as yet had sufficient space time to give auber 100,000 fighting mon, and 1,000 war ves more than a cursory glance at its roulents; suf- seis, and His Excellency Le's bead quarters aro Betear, however, to enable us to ratify the trail-i now at the district city of Bet. The first class city \n\nof Secking is in very straitened eramstances. faless of the very able review of it in the Mone News at the 10di ult. To residents in Shanghae and Ningpo the work will be peculiarly and men, bae ked a hard batte with Imperialist necepeptable--most of the locities describd woops from Tw-chow, and having gained the vic being those which juries troat those places tory 11. E. e compelling the whole of the surround- are now been aing ordery occurrruos Eng cuantry people to sabm to his rule. Fearing and encompassing the use of car British alat men in colowing is an abstract of the country travelled for the provincial city itse, Yeh is calling in a the Tauschow men, and has stational a thousand of over by Mr Fortune during the perid of the \n\nthem in the South eastern suburbs. The lendore of story. \n\nthe Ninety six villages 150, base bed to send their Chapter I gives the voyage from Hongkong to Shanghae in the Steamer Ganges, -II, the quota of armed men--between two and three to Shanghae to Ningp by boat, and thence \n\nBanner-men, Manchus, and the Lieutenant Gover- to Yuhang on the eastern side of the Yang \n\nnor's guards, altogether about three thousand, ace woopad on the heights beyond the northern wolf. Kiang (the over skirting Ningpe) a distance \n\nThe Hak has of Ko ineng and Six other dis of Bome forty miles by boat and chair--back to Ningpo, and on to the old city ut Traken, tricts have united, and are burning and destroying abontwelve miles from Ningpo, on the branch wherever they go. Canton is the great point to escaps Lo, and there the poor starving wroches of the river conning to the northward. Horn-\n\nA Ningpo in his boat, in Casper VI. we \n\nThousands, wäinen and childen Temporary A letter in the Penang Gazette says - Almat Gad Mr Fortune at Teung, the celebrated \n\nrunt sheds have been erected for them at Chefing 1,000 to 1,500 Chicamen lure had their heads monastery ab at a dog in unites from the Yu. \n\non the south of the river, and them are daily take off by the Dynks who are in arms in all bang spoken of in Chauer Hero ur \n\ndalinge out of congee and rice, supplied by the directions. The Chinese had hald' possession of For was laid up with fever, and bad tɔ sự - aut \n\nauthorities, in gasathies just suficient to ward off the town for about two days, befare the mermer öü cure. to Chine-e medheal treatidens Dr \n\ndisentation. The City is divided into five grand Jantes Brooke arrived, and wern in the fires and Chapter Vils of a return to 8 g divisions, and those agin into sections, within about the town. The Bret shot from the wormerly which ehe bodied tour patrol night and day long 18 pounder cleared the fort, and in a short time. The fear of a rising within the walls to vary they were all swarning out of the town, the steam- great--each en draade his neighbour, ander at the time hard at work with gun such rifies, every ermutenanes is depressed. Few says which did considerable execution. Every day br the icporter can rentize their sad position with- loads of hatuls were arriving Sock, Drak \n\nout being in like predicament. On one hand they were flocking to in Qarsunds and eating the Chin \"feat the approach of the western barbarians name in all directions. They are all cleared not \"on the other the northern and western rebels and of the Sarawak territory, only 150 ne so en DỀ added to both is treachery at home\" Truly some 2,000 to 3,500 having recaped. All th \n\npursued this line of argueal; int I have dve up this foster because I view with considorable apprehension the fature corse of British and French diplomace, the Bast There are very resultar angers now environing the path \n\nnexion with Chan, In China, we who at a distanca e46- tarsly watched the progress of Live gerat European WAY İN which our counter bua been recently engagent, coad with a great degree of satisfaction of the Anglo-French allowe We porused with the keepest colorant the inteliigance luxught by mal anal of the rivalum nad lenda of a couturies being buries in the tombe of the heroes who fel at Alma and In- kermann; and I certainly would not now say one word in depreciation of the character of that able z in who sways the destinies and wichts the trapetisi sceptro of Prano. Baltas will any, test it in davio to my aan mini that the French have a large foot in the Bash; that thng baye no roumawiał interests to vota mer and fister in those masteroms, and that their time too often serval as a kind of rovarg s pred Musinnary phion over the broad waters of the Faci fic, iving en layout to at, at Tahiti, the dip.ad eba Kolla aastat ja redressing the inaainy grievances of the Jeans propagandists thoughout the west. And when I re- member that the Romish propagandi-ts in Chian have always viewed the Tae-ping Revolution via peraline slicka nad Me like-when i renninber that in the early stages af din renale lion linge native Reteruses, ju neging than iloitars, and not yet being skilled in tar den of making a disuneti n with- \n\n### FRENCH PORTUGUESE.\n\nThe Atten by the Portuguese orcha me at Nagpo monopoliza the boat traffic between that port and Shanghae, resulting in an armed collision with one Frenchoren, was told of in one of car numbers some two or three months ago, the 2qbble being referral to the high authorities of the respective nations at Macan. \n\nFrom the proceedings of the French War Ves- sele Marceau and La Capricesse since, it would now appear that the Governor of Marni hat nu thorized the seizure of certain vessels wherever found, and in porsaance of the resolve we ern freas the North-Chisa Herald of the 4th and ch instant that first the Schooner Aurora was taken, and then the Tarcbas 166 and 44. The Chinese portions of the crews of there vessels, with the usal humanity, were instantly handed over by the French to the tender arcles of the Sergh Menilarius,and were soon disposed of, of course. The Portuguese are still in eustody and will be brought to Mucas for trial in uil due time we suppose. \n\nby leters of a week's later date than the infantion reported in the Herald, we find that \n\non called Seiro, spoken of as a great deg peraio, gave himself up to the Freach on the 13th instant, and that thrun of his comrades, hid in the fee houses on the banks of the river, were also caught the sun day. Sonire it appears had been carrying 9 Mandarin about with hire that he had \n\n### Chapter XIII.\n- takes the reader from Tez-tsing to the village of Pururchse and on into the Quartz valley and Temple, 2000 teet alus tar level of the son, where, in the month of October, before the Hongkong summer is well over, the air is \"piercingly sild.\" The same chapior describes a boat voyage of some peril from Ning to Shanghae. \n\n### FOOCHOW.\n\nIt was rumored abroad somewhat extensively that he founded on the arrival of the Lieutenant Governor to Jeeva for the upper provinces, but Fes story had no foundation. The Goverant Gentral is now in his pe par place, and we hope that the may continue to fill and a loze it. \n\n### Friend of India Jane A \n\nit is vary sad. Oh, Sử Jaha Bowring--Sir Chinese women went over safe, about 200; and of all the bool they got in Sarawak, the pasere John Bowring--what an amount of misery ban tkou to answer for ' \n\nvery litla now,\" One of the rusas of trying to get quit of the Dyaks ws to throw money he g The The Chinese were macahing in body of about 2000, eluding 700 women and childies, and the Dyeks hovering stout them, nerasionally making a dash at a corner, det iching 40 a 50 from the main body, and whipping nineir heads with great seal. The Chinese have had t terte lesson En Satown. Their inawer of going ab eat it won to take held of a Chimwatan by his vel, nad whip off bis hand with great dexterity'; one blow suffired, I hardly expect the slaughter will scop here; the Dyaks, having their blood up and expecting the \n\nWe have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from this port dated 7h uirino, received per averiand courier. From it we learn that a man- darin of high rank has arrived there from Palting on his way to Canton where it is ranured he is to \n\nCe left the capital 2. be second in rank to Yeh. \n\nout a man is left.\"--Dady News, June; 10. \n\nQ \n\nor 3 months since, but had made a siren tous route in consequence of the troubled state of the country. Es proceeds in Arany on his way to the South. \n\nThe rebels have retired near to the borders of Chapter XIV. takes Me Fortune back to Tse-\n\nthe province. hey are reported to be quiet, attire to trave a deal of booty, parave them sill kee again, and narrates abe partientors of a jar. Suoma \n\nSmall supplies of Ton from distant dis ney from Ningpo to Sletoghar by the infultricts had arrived and to reso had gone up to par- \n\nThe Duren in Jaray —The nėščiai įvursal of te via Ya-yar, Noskalon, Tiyenin. chrce, but as the season i'r the first chep had pa99- \n\nthe Hague of the 5th casains a long tepat to ne aland that for the se oud was far advanced, few Kanpoo, Yedhow, Chapes and Ping-hoe. Shanghee in the Silk country, by Carim, \n\nChapter XVI. spus with journey for fine toux were expected and not a large younity of King Halland from Myer, Minister of Cole medium xds, the second crop being 1 sjured from is, and M. Gevers. Minister of Pareiga A Forte, zolucive to Japanese affairs, and his Majesty has Page, Nantsing and Houchowfoo. Lo Chup the fact of the first faves por having been gathered. ter XVIII, Mr (ortane runebes be greated From the ear districts ton hd cute in more free-approved of Annexed to the report are fee distance inland, viz the town of Marcoee,ly since the dispersion of the rebels. \n\nsome orty miles west fira Hoochosloo, and the same chapter gives his return to Shanghae, Chapter XXI contains the last of theur. neyings, was winding up business tour to Nings po, the valley of the Nine stones, and Tras Asing again--finally, a return to fonghong and voyage to Calcutio \n\nMexican dollars were a 10 per cent disconat There was nothin, doing la Opkom sture the tax of 20 per chest and brand-China Herald, July, 11. \n\nThe Cairngoras was to leave on the 4th instant,pa Rad to!load, concluded on the 30th of Jan \n\nary, 1896. Three articles, amongst other things, a futt ship, having 1,000 tons of new you on board. She would be the first away--two or thre, ather Slipmats that the Dutch shit be allowed to excreike their worship tronly, and that they shall no longer yeable ware wearly laden- \n\nRico centinued dear bat'the weather was favora- \nbe subjected to the impious cartas of trampling ble for crops. \n\nunder got the image of our Saviour on the croes, They aleo eunal that the Dutch shall be permitted to trade in the open ports, and to get to and parsip ee from Japanese traders. Also to take her wives and children to the wil perts The trucks funter. declare that the importation of foreign and the ex portation of Japanese money shall be allowed; that the Japanese government may levy madarité im. pon, Trungit, and export duties; and, betly, that The Dutch it Nangas ke any misintan free relations with foreigners, both on board veganf• and at Deco \n\nThe report adds, that the Japanese green en has declared asel\" resdy to raciale vrea tea with all foreign governments that may wish top them--Avid. \n\nSo innch for an answer 10 the question which will be added by Chua Residents of \"where dad Me Fortune go to when fast here ?\" In our j next paper we shal: furnish some illustrationsį of the notices\" mentioned on sho ate pagod \n\n(From our Overland Nlition of to day.) From the official announcement in our last that there would be no second Mail Seaner from China this month, Subscribers to tlus journal will not have expected their customary paper. Mr Wal ker the ... Co's. Superintendent, however, with a consideration for pulite interests deservist Gach commandation, promptly chartered the Grsi vanbie Steamer to bundthe Road jun away from the heaving down huik-which he has placa on the Shanghae ins; aking thence tho Shang Adi; mud that vasset, deep as she can swim with alk, now goes to Gaile with the muit. May cephyr smooth as be glossy cargo speed her way through tive most dangeroza period of the year in lue China Sea. We pray this under some nusideration for the interests of underwriters. \n\n## SHANGHAE\n\nAn Imperial Commnissioner named Warg, triv \nhers (Saanghae) on the 7th instans quite unex- pected by the dohorities. \n\nis said he has corng to examine into hn causes of the low state of the public trensary funds, and to tnvestigate certain disbursensule made en ac count of purchases of rice fur the govern went some moatas back, -ay well as to squeeze the marchana and the Toatai ton, to raise fimis to help the pa sing exigences of the looper al Government. We! hear 50,000 weis was demanded from each of tha \n\nmeharts doing the largest business, and that it will probably be compromised for The 5,000 \n\nIt is rumored that Ho Kweling, the fately ap pointed Govarour-general of the Two Keang, is the originator of the present enquiry, on proteaze of not being satisfied with the manner the prisent Intendant, B. E. Las, has been performing tha functions of his post. We have no doubt, Theres fore, that it wit be eney for the Emperial Commis elouer, if his instructions are to that eflist, to tay of sone hold weak poll in the multifarious trans risgrace. We should, however, regret much, sho actions of flis Excellency Lan to bring him into that be the result of the investigation, both for the \n\nThus the despatch of the last mail, military there appears reason für believing that balure we operations about Canton have bem and \n\nCatcmpt possesion of the walls, the rebels will \n\nhave concladed the business for 13. Our Prurin interests of foreign merchants end the Clainese. cial reporter's news it will be seen are alarming. i \n\nFu has been fourteen years a man-larin \n\n### THOUGHT.\n\nThere is a luxury in earnest thought The unthinkang kaka dream of floppy har Who, holding sweet cornuates will himseti, Roving the fèlie ofiscality, \n\nFees het sa labelincas, though ali stEYA, Ngreaves at etalless avai jinde of looke \n\nDoes has lotless med. The daisied eid, The garden of the wood, alike shall be Fer dina struly ; everything aro \n\nThe flower, the tree; the titing, the running brooks,— Aure to bin asterials for clight, AB curists a pure veliges to atm, \n\nYea, nevor fi ing pleasure. Grieť may ce Deal's cold echipe conceal his fail-erfed jar, Rickness may pale uus e vak, lone plach this pace, Be thought tall be fat luns on Ristie Tomas of earth's disygietrose a chara Te all the hatefulensing to sleep \n\nAnd lighten evʼn the heaviest (sail afilis. \n\nUpwards and Quinards. By & W. PARTRIDGE,",
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        "content_text": "## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE, \n\n**Mr. GEORGE STRACHAN, ARCHITECT and SURVEYOR,** \n\n地出屋式 \n\nGage Street, Victoria, 1st May, 1858. \n\n月戊問士治額如地士未十午便荡街請貴八年可即到燉三行結光\n\n**JUST LANDED AND FOR SALE.** \n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12 | Patent WATER CLOSETS |\n| - | Also, Patent Electro-Plated Nickel Silver FORKS, and SPOONS. |\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18-May 4, 1858)\n\ndon't hamper selves with many goods for we fear he wanting. A small county town acquitted by the committee appointed to investigate...\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18.-MAY 4, 1858)\n\nthey give is.\" Be prepared for an outbreak in the successful carrying out the scheme will seem to be on the point of being frustrated. Mr. Bott has been using thin verdict will be flat Mr. Butt Tips, in the of Sitara and Coora Ameer of Scinde, and a King of load contemporary was taken to task by one of large stockholders on Hon... and comfortably quartered, the present. Few people believe the rumors of home has its hospital and its charities of ever great conduct, and we hope Dr. Bridges will... with the privileges of the foe of us, were that if he were to do a Court of Appeal from Hwang's aerial cognizance. He is supposed to heart; each party vies with its neighbor to advance also be acquitted were a committee appointed to investigate his connection as standing...\n\nvery near, and it seems even against Chinese common sense, that a person specially deputed is an event of the greatest importance; there are fairs to raise the small fund required, in which every one, gentle and simple, for miles around are interested. Here, where many cur...\n\na few days, we are sorry to say there is not a hospital.\n\ncurrent for the Opium monopolist. There, unfortunately for Dr. Bridges, there is no committee appointed, and so the clamor goes on unrefuted and slander of this kind never dies. We fortunate...\n\nto settle the affairs of foreigners, the news of the fall of Canton being now by those who accredited him, should not on learning the absence of the plenipotentiaries at the math, which news of money for a good purpose could be raised immediately are not the guardians of Dr. Bridges's good name must have reached him from Shanghae-in such a case, he would stride into Canton in all pomp and openness who would feel the least interest in the subject black as his gown for anything we or the public may be, and as simple barrister his name may be, and say Here I am, ready to arrange matters, after he had paid his subscription. We trust...\n\nwhere are your plenipotentiaries? A diplomatic may not continue, but that some of our principle the British Government representing British catch like that would not be...\n\nmissed by a Chinese man will try and do something, by giving both justice to the Chinese, we could less to a more diplomatist. A ranguotic telegraph is being laid their time and money to help forward to perfection tender care of it. He stands in the position down from the Magazine Hill to the Allied Wharf, so good a work as the establishment of a general of Caser's wife, he should not only be-not guilty. If he should not even be suspected. We publish the following minutes of a meeting are happy to believe, but that he is suspected we that Dr. Bridges bite Mr. Butt is not guilty we held on Thursday 29th ultimo for the purpose of establishing a General Hospital.\" We are impressed on the Chinese mind, and we more urgent business. Having inspected the opium monopolist were invited to attend, but were prevented by understand openly stated by Chun-tai-kwong, the buildings which it is intended to appropriate to clever men, all powerful with the governor or the government; that he can take, unmake, or \"That Dr. Bridges is a very adapted for the purpose. Of the skill of the superintending Physicist, Dr. Kenny, we need not and propitiated. All this may be true. say nothing as it would be presumption in us no and the Acting Colonial Secretary may still be a medical men to comment on the abilities of worthy, honest, hard-working government servant, gentleman so well and known esteemed. If the establishment of a general civil hospital alluded to in a previous article does not come to pass, the press...\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1858.\n\nTHOS. HUNT & Co.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nRHOD...\n\nULES FOR STANSBURY'S MEASURING\n\nPRICE-25 Cents each, on Pasteboard,\n\nApply to\n\nMr. M. Hoza,\n\nat the \"Hongkong Register\" Office.\n\nthe late mailings out intelligence of the appointment of Dr. Harland as Colonial Surgeon, and as the salary is stated to be £800 per annum,\n\nwe for Dr. Harlan! will be prohibited from undertaking private practice. If we are right in this supposition the government have got a good man cheaply, and the community lost a very able professional attendant.\n\nThe duties of the office have latterly become very heavy, and are likely to become still more so, and it is much to be doubted that one person can discharge them satisfactorily, even devoting his whole time to the work. We learn further, the instructions have been sent out that a new civil hospital is to be built and that nothing more is to be done in the affair of the Bowring Praya.\n\nHongkong, 4th May, 1858.\n\nSTOLEN.\n\nGOLD LEVER WATCH, with enamelled dial,\n\nand GOLD CHAIN-Maker's Name, Bund and Laut, 41 Cornhill. Number of Watch. The Watch, with a lanyard and set of Studs were, at is supposed, attracted from the case between this and Canton about January. A handsome Reward will be paid for the recovery of the same.\n\nHongkong, 3d May, 1858.\n\nApply at this Office,\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 4TH MAY, 1858.\n\nParties sending Advertisements to the \"Hongkong Register\" or \"Register's Advertise,\" phrase address to the \"Printer and Publisher of the respective Papers, which will secure early attention to their Communications.\n\nsent Galertising has our best wishes:—Fr. Angelo Fr. Reina, and Fr. Long Mesore Kup Present—Revds. Fr. Jerome Mangier, Fr. MacMahon Block, Kenes, Hassoon, Isam. Werden, F. Sustaining...\n\nthat some means will be adopted for the purpose If a new civil hospital is to be erected we hope of incorporating the seamen's hospital with it. The resident surgeon of the seamen's hospital at the following showing the details of the loss that a barrister should get what he asks; he is The meeting was opened by the Revd. Fr. Jerome certainly cannot look upon it as an improper thing might become the resident surgeon of the civil hospital, and this would relieve the Colonial Surgeon from a heavy duty, while it enabled him to...\n\nGENTLEMEN—I am extremely happy to see you all at this meeting for discussing the expediency, and the means between the seller and buyer, the attorney and client. I am convinced that cure, ponder of the hospitals, or two private hospitals have been called upon to remark on this subject, the effect will be derived from the amalgamation of all the civil...\n\nview and to which, I am couleur you will general and client. The only ground on which we feel that owing to the departure of the medical bent, and plentifully alone, have actuated you in business may who opened them, but it was well known they wish I was able to express any gratitude in language equivalent to my sincere interest for this our of your kind coming this night my welcome guest and I sincerely it has on the Chinese. We pointed out the dianess which will not be un great, I hope, by the weight fl Colonial Secretary, and were we have the evil and civil hospitals. We fear the want of efficiency, to give a no harsher name, still continues. It is so did of your valuable advice and suggestions I should not call for any primary assistance...\n\nrealized. Dr. Bridges is in the Chinese eyes a man 41 years, Master of the receiving ship Mahamoudie and for many years in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nOne complaint is, and in the first place I beg leave to submit a few of my that when the monopolist engages his services as that the site is an unhealthy one that point own propositions to your consideration.\n\nF. DE SENSA Jr.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt Macao, on the 7th April, the Wife of Mr. Joaquin...\n\nAt Macau, on the 1st May, Mr. Isnacracto D. VIRKIRA KIBKRO.\n\nAt Victoria, Hongkong, on the 1st May, Mr. I. P. COLL...\n\nTO THE BRITISH COMMUNITY AT HONGKONG\n\nThe undersigned begs to inform the community that the Office of the British Consulate, this day has been transferred from WANPAO to HOKAN.\n\nCHAе. A. WINCHESTER, H.B.M.'s Acting Consul\n\nBritish Consulate for Canton,\n\nAnnexe of Houa, 29th April, 1858.\n\na ground floor in any situation is not well adapted for the purpose of a hospital--still less when high a land is...\n\nIt is intention to establish a General Hospital, in unsel that there is, there can be, no back-stairs of corruption to resort to how; perhaps he may expect this: Gardens and S. Francis Hospital and which show however, the monopolist finds himself compelled my father intention to have it well furnished with all it in surrounded by growing trees, and is alut in necessary materials for a proper Hospital, and to be on all sides by hills except where it faces the provided with experienced Doctors: will us in art, but is informed that...\n\ncounsel to attend for him before the Magistrate's harbor. Be this true or false, there is another change which is a tangible one, and the one on which we base our most complaints. The charge is. changed by a sufficient staff of Hospital servants to attend to the patients.\n\nThe gentlemen I intend to appoint are Dr. Vande... and Dr. Kenny the former Gentlemen lately arrived in this Colony, is a bachelor of questionable own count. creasing their diseases or acquiring new ones. fool the set of several languages which Mandarin Bridges; and with great dignity oỀ references oedh as to professional accomplishments, and enough to English people, but to the Chinese the All this is staple and straightforward We have personal experience of this being true at a fluently, and which will be exceedingly useful in least in our instance and a respectable merchant and ship owner made the same complaints to us sometime ago with a request that we would The latter Gentleman, whose abilities she too well three characters—first, as one of the law-makers, commission where he may meet with patients of all place great power is associated. chant and ship owner made the same complaints to Dolor expose it. Thinking it improbable that either known and ustalised, to any better certium, then, as one of the granters, and finally, as tue That is the so in the present case when we have one man in the trustees or the resident surgeon would sane- apply to them as the hurt and most effective...\n\nFellow of the naval College of Surgeons of England-41 tion such a thing we recommended the party to\" and is proposed to be consulting Doctor to the legal adviser and supporter of the monopolist in course to adopt to put a termination to a rival propositions, I think it well to apprise you of a few...\n\nhis monopoly we see however by report of a meeting held will fin exercises there without distinction of creed on view of their extent. te great sunl, certain- Mr. Isang Batt is, we understand, a very...\n\nA manual number of Inquests have been during the past few days held before the Coroner—one of them however of particular interest: A Chinese was killed by the falling in during the heavy rain of the 20 of an out-building in the course of erection on a Marine lot. 4 Swede was drowned in the harbor while bathing on Sunday the 25th alto. A man, discharged from...\n\nIt is evident that whether this proceeds from patients noting in a way so prejudicial to their carelessness or health, it should be stopped, whether...\n\nRunt of means to prevent the trustees of the seamen's hospital close to carry out or amalgamate it with the civil hospital.\n\nthe appropriate in relieving Papers, who will be received into the Hospital at once; and in the case of time to try point is, that he appears as the paid advocate, at truly desite will also be admitted. stion. In the Civil Hospital a Chinese died from he hoped a properly constructed hospital will be of the airs as the lipizi; to supply this defect, ara perhaps a little stronger in his case.\n\nThe list is no doubt their best course, for it is to that being missionary, I cannot by any means devote ages in the cause. This is the case as nearly as Lufe teal it incurent upon me to remark herehe the same time he holds the position of one of the effects of a gun shot wound received when escaperected on an eligible site in a central spot, of Grand Prus sery kindly tendered his duable aerof Coranous not doubting the honor of its ing from the Western Coal sheds, he having been which there are many that it will be well! vises and M. Braga, roster of the Medal members is yet so jealous of its privileges that it myself entirely the management and perintended. we can understand it of Dr. Bridges, if it be not there committing robbery. A verdier of wilful secured and watched, so that no such abuses can murder has been taught against some parties win!\n\nThe House made a particular attack on a conveying fel...\n\nHail,) deo will take an interest in it. to this market. Iu dar obituary there is the two hospitals would also enable the directors to means as way enable me to cry on these desigua...\n\nThe combination of the means of the to your very own hands to save and suggest such a imputation, and in this the curatituencies In couches, Gentlemen, I consign das proposals will not enfer a member to underlie the shade of...\n\nmamme of Cayman Cole of the Courser, lately wrecked on the Pratas.\n\nWe may have point out two of face—Ã mom- carry out one or two very necessary improvements. fortable set of sick rooms available for the young men of the colony, whether belonging to govern...\n\nwhich it has \n\nHuid Prẻ be the derrotary, \n\nTas news from Canton both public and private are of the most conflicting nature. One be treated for serious diseases with more care and attention than they can obtain in their wet houses set up at Fur Shan, and that it is assembling in the houses of their employers, where their press might be dangerous in cases of infectious another equally positive says No such a thing diseases to the atlier intrares-A portion of the near Fat Shan and The spital to be act mort for the treatment Foldiers place is perfectly quiet. There me the Sade Famous sad counter rumors on the subject of aner only of a temporary character. The fantalony he unlie? pan to atroci the patients.\n\nof the insane, whether the disease be permanent urine of laces of the amal strength (40,000 to 50,000). On this point we see mu besimation...\n\nthere are \n\n3. Kenny proposed Mr Grand the store, Hore we have the close corporation--the are at the details of the object for the formation of as to it or its members underlying grave charge. That a Committee be selected from this meeting to Legislative Council, showing to great impatience ment or the mercantile class, in which they might, that Mosses in Black, it is population. Eat beand this is a popular Reed. Macinon ha aproated a Comunitar, Pr...\n\nalz. Grand Pré proposed and it was unanimously carried that they are perhaps joined by the respectable almost probably they do not believe the large and fucome to be President and Fr. de la Croix added this Mition British and Foreign, and native above all, \n\nPison of the Hospit Mr. Gal P proposed, and it was carried that the Rev. Fr. Jerome, lesit e Founder new is a \n\nwas unanimously wine exactly to think, and as every thing un- secuted, that the Sisters of Charity in the the very worst.\n\nRev. Fr. McMahon proposed Mr. Grand Pré perhaps prepared to tanke up their and to think supposed to be worse than it really is, \n\nposition was also monin shy carried, \n\nW sak, in conclusion, er general readers Proposed by Fr. Jerome and Seeded by air. Sade peruse with care the accompanying article Privalaute or thanks he given to the Gentlemen from the Daily News on Mr. Butt's care. We nek win sa kindly accepted to set at.\n\nProposed by Mr. Kup and seled by Mfr. A. rent whether or not it would not more.\n\nvote is thanks be given to the Secretary its list it end save ten sold ar opes and fair market, dew, to his able conduet in the Ensin Sifeira, that are of tanks to given to Revd. the Gets of the case as to granting a mest udinis liberati in su recuti apcepting the ties id Secretary as to the withdrawal of the first groot, and difconsort with their honor, and open: c'eating, if all Proped by Mr. Block unt seeded by Mr. Issand oppressive monopoly un scaled tenders, when Nothing farther being left for discussion, thermitely as to the regranting it on the same ternis Esalse to theer on Thursday gezi, the 7th May, ka the...\n\nto the same pers, were mady known. And we \n\nin speaking confidently; there is no such army.\n\ns to need fustare polating cut.\n\nthe \n\nWe hear there is much acquisition in villages around, no doubt a great deal of big talk,\n\nalso be isolated buildings for a small pox There hospital and a lock hospital.\n\nIf in ndition a sanatoriure copii, na way long ago proposed in this paper, he erected on the top of Victa Penk, we might consider ourselves well way from Canton to Macau and Hongkong. As we predicted, the Cantooreze pre rising from their fortified to withstand any amount of tiny defent with mere insolence than ere; stones; discne. laze been thrown at offices and soldiers not to mener-getting-the heads of society are so e...\n\nWe fear, however, public spirit is lost an speak of the murderous assault on the policeman paged to making money as fast as they can that Stewart, and it is considered very unsafe to enter they may get back to their own country, that they the western part of the city. In the face of this have us time to care for the rany poor aferra the Europeans are living in Honais in the park nates tied to the island for a very long day, if not houses without even a corporal's guard to pro- for ever. sect them. Goods still go up, and although there is some nceusinese felt by the principal Chinese traders who have returned, yet the only advice...\n\n| \n\nto the meeting and Committee. \n\nThis \n\nhomes of Mr. Buck, to draw Rules and Regiations for the the Hospital.\n\nA. GRAND PRE\n\nNerred \n\nActing Colonist Secretary to give the public. which pays him, sogte expérnation of the very doubtiul position in which he at present stands :—— (beily Never.)\n\nsource of the success of such a scheint, would be. 1. for Youghal and W. T. Bridgee. Eaqrektious peaard by the Committee of the Charnam Mr. \n\nWe do not think outy, one great cases of leave Butt, Esq., Barrister and wanting, but something more than money is. C. L., Harrister and Member of the close car-r's me, it may be informed that the dir. mester has wanting-personal superintendence und an interes portion—the Legislative Council of flugkong, tren aited of the charge of breach of pra ilege, \n\nFrom: what has been allow vú to trucepire respecting the \n\nTo \n\nna weit is a portion of the Naval Brigade. The troops the officers of that regiment: -- \n\nwere left on board the transports Lancashire Witch und Tax Benged Hathara, of the 20th March, says with Mooresfort. at Whampoa and the French Contingent remained on board their own ships, except a ousall party in conjeful occupation \n\nreference to two aditional Native Regiments for th \n\nice in China- \n\nPoutres hundred sepoy belonging to the 65th and #2th Regiments N. 1. are now wigh at island, 30 they have not already arrived ut ur in the visity of Barrack port. As we all know they are destined for service in Cuma, provided they can be clarked on the rearts all which possage us ofen signed these, but not being ralunteers for the screire, they canne! in the whole e Looked upon as very willing soldiers vayer for forel ware,\" nnd we sind be able to state the exact numifer that my he proceeding to China, only on the authority \n\n3. the 181, (reclved a communication from Ule Bariul Bizin und Baron Gros, stating that the reply the Contaistioner had been received that is was most antislactory, and inviting the aavel and milhors and-chief to a saference board the Aulaccuse, to consider what further steps aliulit be taken, in consequence of Keb's determination to resist the very nurse decade of the two Governments, \n\n4. Tur conference was held un the 21st it, when it was determined that the pienipotentiaries should \n\nDe knocking at the dors tie Iluase of Coumene\n\nthese prvi of the \n\nthe inverse of Tabs, it would be overwhelmed with adelage India. basic enough co ungrosa tile whole the ovidence selitted to the committee crabile us, \n\ntime of tho bare. And the tuulia eniture, who A Morril, vus of the four Ameere of Upper Selnic, we setertido a boradigazy faith in the nipotence frihe med of turving acquired the interstance of the of Las in judicial proceedings would besiege these members with; dengnes by the presuction of a legal document. The pretura, which if u come the intimation of die James dim Government appelated a commision of the their argir, it would be perfectly air for them to lost heas 4 Prestige de large judicially. The secept. It was nice aged at a Nahub of Arcot bu Cammons in tris pay of an artisan cum te tor conclusion that the charge was eight members of the Host \n\nTim Court of Directors therungen proposed that 1 Sudan bill be any degree resembling that of Lourd Faimers blogne should be deprived of the laude which he held us, is allowed to be low every bilan in-and der the surged decourt. The Presideur of the Bont of their now is leglus--an every wealthy Balno will have attel, for the Cana being, was of opinion that this contence has paid ur uz merabers in the loss of \n\nto lenient, and at bis sggesden Ali Moore was de This is anger gainer which the people of Bogland rised of the ends thus fraudulently bined, and also of have to murd, now that it to props to vrat illa governs \n\nof the pilots reports from the Sashes. Meanwhile, dan letter to the Eugerial High Couimper, started his crban\" laude, beaving him in pranes munt of falla exclusively on the Minsters of the tr \n\nwe dure suy, preparations are being mude for the restoring his Excelteney that, in consequence of his mom.compliance with the debody submitted for fas on of all his remaining and very valuable eruditary! \n\nWe publish the following despatch from the ception of those men to be taken to fight the battles of \n\nconsideration, the lurther settlement of the question the Goverment in a country distant and different from To win a reversal of this judgment, the Amger Putna to \n\nbeen transferred to the anal and military suites, that where as hrave and faithful soldiers their services Sugated. We pas Uver the minor personages in the dis- Government Gazette of last Saturday from the \n\nof State for Foreign affairs, which we ece fur toere required at would be most valuable, that me should sly address better to his silency stating the above faci, and that it, at the end of a further uded the Coffeys, and the alle lady who travelled \n\ntern of forty-eight hours, the eny saguld be perefully from London to Paris, and from Paris to Vienna, for the \n\nquived preparations are compite, nid the sea sust atenie purpose of sizing the deposed prace by paying \n\ncoussy be subject to temporary dependion before surdered into our hands, life and property would be es with it. Gar Lusiness is with the servant of the \n\nthey are sent away. Whether they are all to vents respected; but that, if the teras were out roepted, the English public, the bon, member for Youghal. \n\ntheir rus ad munition or not, we are not aware; city would be attacked. \n\nAll our efforts to avert the evils of war from the hot after the last false alarm, we think it would be \n\nกษ \n\nterested nu eympathising agency by which he was - Secretat, s:t the attention of persons who have Some days may be expected to elapse before the re- \n\ncommend \n\nbeen married in Macau or who propose being married rkare:- \n\nNo. 20. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nAch is established by Mr. Burt's corn statements. Hiviers were engagal for the Amar acu after that raine's rival in England Mr. Brat sits that he could \n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages sofem nie heered the passagement of the application furtius in the der's beauf le staves that he al-nize an Chana, otherwise that ja acendance with nys urged upon the Amer, Aut his lends art advisers, the provisions of the Act 12 and 13 Victores, Cap the bringing of his ca bure Parliament, as the m0268, His Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, relies are to pure. Ha actually used for propers, like \n\nproductive of which he theme obviated to promote the L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief er's van. He coniterie the Pirator: the Superintendent of Frade in China &c., &c. has Kulit Company, and agon Mr. Turen faith, the Presisereived a Despatch front The Bight Hande bat the Bora of Control, la licit their nou wees on Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a Copy child of hie ciet. The result of these applicnída was a of which is hereby published for „euerai inforna- jetine on the Board of Directors in answer to the Amcera \n\nBy Order, \n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. Xo. 7 \n\n| \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chmese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Cidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\nBritish Naval Brigade on the right.\n\nCentre bridge, composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's provano instalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers.\n\nPreucia bridge on the inft\n\nColonel Holloway's brigade in reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery,\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain still to cancuston, and the mail leaving; I must therefore defer instheer det üle to the next rpportunity. † in line of contianova elutus of brigade audil further...\n\nI bwe, &c.\n\nC. T. VAN STinerszre, M jur General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now heng oerapied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of Stue for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n} \n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages...\n\nHis Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China &c., &c. has received a Despatch from The Right Honorable Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...\n\nBy Order,\n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. No. 7\n\n| \n| --- \n| --- \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chinese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Clidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\n| Unit | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| British Naval Brigade | Right |\n| Centre bridge | Composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's battalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers |\n| Preucia bridge | Left |\n| Colonel Holloway's brigade | Reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery |\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain...\n\nC. T. VAN STRAUBENZEE, Major General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now being occupied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of State for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n}",
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        "content_text": "21st July, 1845.\n\n納\n\n堅\n\n餉\n\n銀壹\n\nNap Caine (LITERALLY) Paid Caine Duty Money 堅 hiang Cain #j (LITERALLY) Caine Paid (him) Daly Mumy\n\n27th July, 1845.\n\n納 餉 銀五 壹百大元 五百元 201: Jul.1845. X500 餉 唠 啤 Caine Duty Rupees\n\n1st August, 1845.\n\n納 堅 餉 銀怕 Paid Caine Duty Money\n\n5th August, 1845.\n\n交 堅 餉 銀式 Keach Caine hiang (LITERALLY) Delivered Caine Duty money 元 百大元 200\n\n8th August. 18.15.\n\n納 堅 餉英銀 Paid Caine Duty English Money 百\n\n11th August, 1845.\n\n堅 餉 銀 Caine Dmy Joacy 壹百元 30 $ 190 117\n\nAmount paid within 22 days, $ 1.6L On the 1st of September following and at other dates, appear entries for sums of $ 100 and lesser amounts\n\nHad I when before addressing your Lordship been aware of the existence of such entries as the foregoing (the Books then being in the possession of the Editor of one of the local papers as stated in my letter to the Clerk of Councils of the 23d December last, per copy attached) I should earnestly have drawn your Lordship's attention to the nature of them, implying as they do that the monies extorted were not taken (as I had erroneously understood) under pretence of obtaining Major Caine's good will, but as legal duties, and thus either at the hands, simply of the Clerk who made the entries, of the owner of the books, or of the miscreant by whose peculations the entries occurred, was the Honourable the Colonial Secretary directly charged with malversation of office to a most serious extent, and in its nature highly disgraceful and injurious to the interests and reputation of Her Majesty's Service generally; and the payment of these monies having been admitted by every one employed about the Market at that time, in the different bearing which the case is thus made to assume, I respectfully submit my Lord, that the whole of my conduct with regard to this business has been highly proper, justifiable, and necessary, and in no way deserving of the hard treatment which I have received.\n\nW-Afoon and Chun-tae-sing were but poor men, and when undertaking to bring $ 7000 into the partnership stock, appear to have calculated upon raising the money among the friends of their respective families, and (apparently credible) assertions are made by some of these relatives, that after having advanced money and taken sub-shares in expectation of getting large returns, the heavy extortion to which they were told they would have to submit, induced them to sacrifice a portion of the monies so advanced and speedily withdraw altogether from the concern.\n\nThe heavy extortion of 1600 within the first month after the Market's establishment appears in fact to have completely paralyzed the efforts of the share holders, who being obliged to borrow money at exorbitant interest, instead of getting it through the co-operation of friends in taking sub-shares, consented (as is alleged by the Clerks of the Market) to break up this first partnership on receiving back the monies which they had actually advanced, and on being released from the liabilities which they had incurred in raising money on loan.\n\nThis partnership it is believed was broken up or set aside, principally at the instigation of the firm which had entered into a bond with the Government for Wei-Acqui's due performance of the covenants in his lease: The members of this firm :-Fong-Ache, alias Auai, Cheng-Cuucheng and another, borrowed in the Autumn of 1845 the sum of $2000 at the rate of 48 percent per annum, on mortgage of their leasehold property in the Colony; and this money it appears was applied to pay Wei-Aloom and Chun-tae-sing out of the Market; but as the deed of partnership was not cancelled, it is not clearly established that the partnership between them and Wei-acqui was ever altogether broken up: On the 20th Oct 1845 however, upwards of four months after the first partnership had been convened and carried on, a brief document was prepared and signed whereby (without reference to any previous or still existing partnership), Wei-Acqui, Lo-kegn-teen (Major Caine's Comprador) and the before-mentioned members of the firm who ...\n\nPENNTTO 0: S.",
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        "content_text": "# SPECIMENS OF MEDICINES, &c., \n## Continued. \n\n| No. | DESCRIPTION. | CHINESE NAME, PLACE OF PRODUCTION. | PRICE. | REMARKS, |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 25 | Medicine | Chen Ket 血杰 Kwantung | Taels 75.00 per picul | Dragon's blood-impure? Strengthening Medicine. |\n| 26 | Do. | Too Lee 鬼繇子 Hoopeh | 5.50 a 6.00 |  |\n| 27 | Dried Fruit | Chuck Hok 枳壳 Szechune | 3.50 4.00 | Same as No. 9, but larger. |\n| 28 | Medicine | Pa Yin 柏仁 Szechune | 7.50 | Pine seeds. |\n| 29 | Do. | Chee Sut 茨實 Hoonam | 6.00 a 6.50 | Water-lily seeds-Tonic. |\n| 30 | Do. | Chow Yoong 草葺 Kwantung | 14.00 | A resin, Used for Vertigo. |\n| 31 | Do. | Pak Chee 白止 Szechune | 9.50 |  |\n| 32 | Gall Nuts | Ou-bi-tsze Hoonam | 8.00 a 8.50 |  |\n| 33 | Peach Kernels | Tow Yin Szechune | 10.00 |  |\n| 34 | Dried Fruits |  |  |  |\n| 35 | Medicine | Chit Kiang 枳实 Hoopeh | 11.00 |  |\n| 36 | Part of Lotus Plant | Lin Tszu 蓮子 Shantung | 16.00 |  |\n| 37 | Dried Fruit | Chune Lin Tszu 川練子 Szechune | 2.00 |  |\n| 38 | Medicine | Chong Tut 蒼术 Hoopeh | 2.50 a 3.00 |  |\n| 39 | Do. | Chee Chow Pee 紫草皮 Qui Chow | 35.00 |  |\n| 40 | Do. | Loh Whui 蘆薈  | 11.00 | Catechu? Aloes? |\n| 41 | Do. | Chee Kow  | 42.00 | An inferior kind of Cardamomum? |\n| 42 | Do. | Yu Chow  | 16.00 | Pods of the Acacia-used for toothache. |\n| 43 | Do. | Yahn Chee 鴉胆子 Kwangtung | 4.50 | An Escharotic. |\n| 44 | Do. | 'Ngow Chee 川牛漆 Szechune | 19.00 | Strenthening Medicine. |\n| 45 | Do. | Moke-heong 木香 Kwantung | 23.00 | A root—a carminative. |\n| 46 | Harts horn? | Ling-yeang-hok Tartary | 39.00 a 40.00 | Goat's horn. |\n| 47 | Medicine | San Si 北防風 Szechune | 7.00 | Diaphoretic. |\n| 48 | Ginger | Kong Kitung 干羌 Szechune | 3.50 a 4.00 |  |\n| 49 | Rhubarb | Chune Wong 川黃 Szechune | 8.00 a 10.00 | Commonly called \"Horse Shoe Rhubarb\" largely exported to Japan. |\n| 50 | Dried Oranges (young) | Chung Pee 靑皮 Fokion | 15.00 | Astringent-not cutch? |\n| 51 | Cutch? | Gee Cha 佪茶 Kwantung | 7.00 a 7.50 |  |\n| 52 | Medicine | Qui Wong 雄黃 Hoonam | 3.00 | Cinnabar? Used for boils. |\n| 53 | Do. | Kum Gun-fa 金銀花 Hoopeh | 7.50 | Honeysuckle-cooling Medicine. Antidote for poisonous influences. For Coughs. |\n| 54 | Armadillo Scales | Kia Pin 山甲 Kwantung | 75.00 | Tonic. |\n| 55 | Pumelo Skin | T\" Hoang 橘紅 Kwantung | 8.00 a 9.00 |  |\n| 56 | Turtle Shell | Qui Pahn 龜板 Hoopeh | 18.50 |  |\n| 57 | Medicine | Kiang Wong 羗黃 Szechune | 3.00 a 4.00 | Turmeric. |\n| 58 | Medicine | Teen Hoong 附子 Szechune | Taels 16.00 per picul. | A kind of Taro ? Tonic. |\n| 59 | China Root | Chen Loong 朱答 Sim Kum | 5.00 | A kind of China Root-Diuretic. |\n| 60 | Medicine | Wong Toong 黃丹 Kwantung and Szechune | 11.00 | Vermillion. |\n| 61 | Pearl Shells | Sae Kuht Kwantung | 7.00 a 8.00 | Used in Ophthalmia. |\n| 62 | Cassia | Qui Chee 桂枝 Kwantung | 7.00 a 8.00 | Cassia Stalks. |\n| 63 | Medicine | Guet Siac 月石 Sim Si | 22.00 | Borax. |\n| 64 | Rhinoceros Horn | Si Kok 犀角 Kwantung | 58.00 |  |\n| 65 | Medicine | Puk-kee 北芪 Sim Si | 57.00 | Tonic Medicine. |\n| 66 | Do. | Moke Toong 木通 Sim Kum | 3.00 a 4.00 | Porous wood-a Diuretic. |\n| 67 | Do. | Tan Fan 胆礬 Sim Si | 86.00 | Sulphate of Iron, ? Chromate of Potash. |\n| 68 | Do. | Soo Chin  Hoonam | 3.00 | Chromate of Arsenie? |\n| 69 | Do. | Seac Wong 石黄 Qui Chow | 14.00 a 15.00 | White Lead-a cosmetic. |\n| 70 | Do. | Soey Fun  Kwantung and Szechune | 10.00 a 11.00 | Anti-aphrodisiac. |\n| 71 | Do. | Chee Men 枝母 Hopan | 5.00 a 6.50 | Stomachic. |\n| 72 | Do. | Keong Hoo  Hoopeh | 2.00 a 3.00 | Cooling Medicine. |\n| 73 | Do. | Yin Kow 香附 Hoopeh | 11.00 |  |\n| 74 | Do. | Sun Ee 秦艽 Sim Kum |  |  |\n| 75 | Ginger | Chune Kiang 川羌活 Szechune | 10.00 a 11.00 | ?A Diaphoretic. |\n| 76 | Dried Fruit | Palık Sum 北辛 Kwantung | 12.00 | Dried Olives--used as food, soaked. |\n| 77 | Medicine | Ming Tong  Cho Ko | 6.00 a 7.00 | Tulip tree flower. |\n| 78 | Do. | See Chow  Puc-mee-chee | 36.00 | Chinese Ginseng. |\n| 79 | Do. | Lea Tong  Tong-tai-hoi | 16.00 | For Vertigo. |\n| 80 | Do. | Pin Tow 扁荳 Hoopeh | 6.00 a 6.50 | Used in fever and ague. |\n| 81 | Do. | Ming Ting Mah 天蔴 Szechune | 30.00 |  |\n| 82 | Do. | Chune Tuen 川斷 Szechune | 8.00 | A Stomachic. |\n| 83 | Do. | Hong Kow  Szechune | 15.00 |  |\n| 84 | Do. | Loey Yuen  Kwantung | 18.00 | Diaphoretic. |\n| 85 | Do. | Siac Lin Chee  Szechune | 16.00 | A kind of Gall Nut. |\n| 86 | Do. | Yong Kow  Kwantung | 11.00 a 12.00 | Stone-lily. |\n| 87 | Do. | Lung Chee  Honan | 7.00 @ 8.00 | Foreign Cardamums. |\n| 88 | Do. | Choong-koong  Ningpo | 20.00 a 22.00 | Kind of Ginger? |\n| 89 | Do. | Loey Lin 良羌 Wun Nan | 170.00 | Sweet Almonds. |\n| 90 | Do. | Pac Hoong 南杏 Shantung | 20.00 a 21.00 | Coral-used for Ophthalmia. |\n| 91 | Do. | Hoey Seac 海石 Kwantung and Soochow | 15.00 | A Bean-do, Used for convulsions in children. |\n| 92 | Do. | Chune Yin 錢子 Kiang Si | 3.00 |  |",
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        "content_text": "# SPECIMENS OF MEDICINES, &c.,-Continued.\n\n| No. | DESCRIPTION. | CHINESE NAME. | PLACE OF PRODUCTION. | PRICE. | REMARKS. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 95 | Medicine | Hooke Fa 菊花 | Honan | 96 | Camomile. |\n| 96 | Do. | Hoey Mah |  | Taels 7.00 a 8.00 per picul |  |\n| 97 | Do. | Tu Foong |  |  |  |\n| 98 | Do. | Chune Poke 海馬 地楓 川樸 | Kwantung | 19.00 | The \"Sea-horse\"-Hippocamp. |\n|  |  |  | Kiangsi | 12.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Szechune | 56.00 |  |\n| 99 | Do. | Tai Chuck 牛七 | Ionan | 20.00 | Tonic. |\n| 100 | Do. | Pack Cheack 白芍 | Nan Whui | 25.00 | Tonic for the lower limbs. |\n| 101 | Do. |  |  | 27 |  |\n| 102 | Do. | Hoo Wing Lin 湖蓮 | Szechune | 44.00 |  |\n| 103 | Do. | Moke Pit |  |  |  |\n| 104 | Do. | Poon Lin Chuna Quut-pee 皮子 | Kwangtung | 11 | A nut. |\n|  |  |  | Szechune | 14.00 |  |\n| 105 | Do. | Chook Tow | Kwangtung | 5.00 a 5.50 |  |\n| 106 | Do. | Wong Liu | Hoonan | 5.00 |  |\n| 107 | Do. | Koo Chuck | Szechune | 15.00 |  |\n| 108 | Do. | Uck Chee | Kwangtung | 12.00 |  |\n| 109 | Do. | Pa Kut | Do. | 14.00 | Bitter Root-cooling. |\n| 110 | Do. | Ko Chee 柯子 | Do. | 7.00 a 8.00 | Orange Peel. |\n| 111 | Do. | Yoey Heong 乳香 | Do. | 13.00 | Frankincense. |\n| 112 | Do. | Ee Yin 意米 | Soo Chow | 6.00 | Kind of Dahlia root? |\n| 113 | Do. | Tung Lut 葶藶 | Hoopeh | 5.50 a 6.00 | Chinese Barley. |\n| 114 | Do. | Chut Chock 赤芍 | Sim Kum | 4.50 | Used in Asthma. |\n| 115 | Do. | Moong Fa 豪花 | Hoopeh | 26.60 | Dahlia root-Cooling. |\n| 116 | Do. | Chun Foey 青黛 | Fokien | 12.00 | Certain Flowers. |\n| 117 | Do. | Lee Yin 李仁 | Sim Si | 36.00 | Plum seeds-Food. |\n| 118 | Do. | Kung Chee | Hoopch | 4.60 | A small Berry-for head-ache. |\n| 119 | Do. | Hep Heong 藿香 | Kwangtung | 9.00 a 9.50 | Anti-emetic. |\n| 120 | Dried Fruit | Ou Moey 烏梅 | Honam | 3.50 | Dried Plums--Astringent. |\n| 121 | Medicine | Tong Qui 當歸 | Sim Si | 7.50 | Tonic. |\n| 122 | Do. | Chune Le | Szechune | 7.00 a 8.00 | A root-Diuretic. |\n| 123 | Safflower | Hoong Fa 紅花 | Sim Si | 18.00 | Tonic, |\n| 124 | Medicine | Chune Kong | Szechune | 15.00 | Tonic for upper parts of the body. |\n| 125 | Do. | Sin Mow | Kwangtung | 12.00 |  |\n| 126 | Rosin | Soong Heong 松香 |  |  | Yellow rosin-for plasters. |\n| 127 | Medicine | Ngow Chee 牛子 | Honam | 1.00 a 2.00 | Seeds of unbelliferous plant—used as smallpox ... |\n|  |  |  | Hoopeh | 3.00 a 3.50 |  |\n| 128 | Do. | Lin Chin 連喬 | Hoopel | Taels 3.30 a 5.00 a 5.50 | Certain husks cooling. |\n| 129 | Do. | Hoke Mow 腹皮 | Kwangtung | 4.00 per picul | Husks of Betel Nut—used in Colic. |\n| 130 | Do. | Pin Kow 邊蔻 |  | 100.00 | A Spice. |\n|  |  |  |  | 12.00 |  |\n| 131 | Do. | Pi Chow 排 | Lin Kin | 4.00 a 4.50 |  |\n| 132 | Do. | Tahn Sun | Do. | 13 |  |\n| 133 | Do. | Dan Shen 丹參 | Hoopeh | 2.00 a 3.00 | A root—Tonic. |\n| 134 | Do. | Chit Leang Pin 茶片 | Nan Whui | 13.00 |  |\n| 135 | Do. | Toong Fa 冬花 | Kum Sook | 9.00 a 10.00 | For sore throat. |\n| 136 | Do. | Wong Pa | Szechune | 3.00 a 4.00 |  |\n| 137 | Do. | Sin Toey 蟬退 | Hoopel | 14.00 | Cicada skins—febrifuge for children. |\n| 138 | Do. | Tow Loong | Shantung | 37 |  |\n| 139 | Do. | Toong Chow 通草 | Kiang Si | 12.00 | Pith of rice paper plant.—Diuretic. |\n| 140 | Do. | Goon Hoo 銀胡 | Sim Su | 15.00 | Febrifuge. |\n| 141 | Do. | Toong Choong 杜仲 | Sim Si | 42.00 | Elmbark? Aphrodisiac. |\n|  |  |  |  | 8.50 |  |\n| 142 | Do. | Tow Kum 豆根 | Kiangsi | 71 | Nux vomica? Poison. |\n| 143 | Do. | Ma Chune 馬前 | Kwangtung |  |  |\n| 144 | Do. | Hoong Hoo | Ionan | 18.00 | Diaphoretic. |\n| 145 | Do. | Yoke Kum 玉芩 |  | 7.00 a 8.00 | Roots—To cure affrights.—Sedative. |\n| 146 | Do. | Wi Yoke Chai Hu 柴胡 | Hoopeli | 11.00 | Tonic and stomachic for children. |\n| 147 | Do. | Chit Poey 折貝 |  | 7.00 a 8.00 |  |\n| 148 | Do. | Chit Koong |  | 5.00 a 6.00 | For boils. |\n|  |  | Hong Chee 楓子 | Kwangtung | 5.00 a 6.00 | For itch. |\n| *148 | Do. | Mi Sa 朱砂 | ? |  | Metallic ore &c. |\n| 149 | Grass Cloth | Ha Poo 夏布 | Kiangsi | $1.80 a 2.00 per piece of 25 yds. |  |\n| 150 | Yellow Raw Silk | Wong Si 黃絲 | Hoopch | 40.00 a 100.00 per picul. |  |\n| 151 | White do. | Pac See | Do. | 180.00 a 200.00 |  |\n| 152 | Cotton Yarn |  |  | Taels 23.00 |  |\n| 153 | White Vegetable Tallow | Min Sa | Do. |  |  |\n| 154 | Sugar Candy | Pic Yow 皮油 | Szechuno | 6.00 a 7.00 |  |\n|  |  | Pung Tow 永糖 |  | 9.00 a 9.50 |  |\n| 155 | Vermicelli | Tong Fun 湯粉 | Hoopeh | 5.00 a 6.00 |  |\n| 156 | Gypsum | Siac Ko 石羔 | Do. | Mace 3.00 a 4.50 |  |\n| 157 | Green Cake Tobacco | Choong Tu 青煙 | Kum Suk | 11.00 a 14.00 |  |\n| 158 | Tin | Tun Yiac 黙錫 | Qui Chow | 23.00 a 27.00 |  |\n| 159 | Yellow Metal | Wong Tong 黃銅 |  | 16.00 |  |\n| 160 | White Copper | Pae Lap 白銅 |  | 54.00 |  |\n| 161 | White Vegetable Wax | Puc Toong 白蠟 | Szechune | 33.00 a 40.00 |  |\n| 162 | Young Dried Bamboo | Choke Sun 笋 | Fokien | 10.00 a 10.50 | For food—A delicacy. |\n| 163 | Yellow Cake Tobacco | Wong Tu 黃水煙 | Kum Suk | 8.50 a 9.00 |  |",
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        "content_text": "# \n63 \n\n! \n\n3- \n\nsubditos gosarão igualmente, nos dominios das Altas Partes Contractantes da mais completa e decidida protecção para com as suas pessoas e propriedades.\n\n## ARTIGO II\n\nÉ inteiramente annullado e tido como nunca existente por este Tratado tudo o que até hoje, em qualquer lugar ou epocha, possa haver sido escripto, ou impresso, ou verbalmente convencionado com respeito ás relações entre Portugal e o Imperio da China e entre o Governo da cidade de Macau (antes na provincia de Cantão) e as Auctoridades chinezas:—visto que d'ora em diante servirá de unico regulamento válido para as mesmas relações o presente Tratado, concluido e assignado pelos Plenipotenciarios dos dois Estados, devidamente munidos das suas respectivas credenciaes.\n\n## ARTIGO III\n\nO Governador Geral de Macau, na sua qualidade de Plenipotenciario de Sua Magestade Fidelissima na China, poderá vir á Corte de Pekim todos os annos, quando importantes negocios lh'o exijam.\n\nSe no futuro o Governo de Sua Magestade o Imperador da China dér faculdade para residir permanentemente em Pekim ao Plenipotenciario de qualquer outra nação extrangeira alem das que já hoje ali teem Representantes, o Enviado de Sua Magestade Fidelissima poderá considerar essa permissão como sendo-lhe extensiva e aproveitar-se d'ella, se o julgar conveniente.\n\n## ARTIGO IV\n\nOs Agentes diplomaticos gosarão nos lugares das suas residencias de todos os privilegios e immunidades que lhes concede o direito das gentes: isto é, as suas pessoas, as suas familias, as suas cazas e as suas correspondencias serão inviolaveis.\n\n## ARTIGO V\n\nAs despezas das Missões diplomaticas de Portugal na China serão pagas pelo Governo Portuguez. Os Agentes diplomaticos que Sua Magestade o Imperador da China se dignar acreditar junto á Corte de Sua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal, serão recebidos com todas as honras e prerogativas de que gosarem todos os mais Agentes diplomaticos extrangeiros d'igual gerarchia, acreditados n'aquella Córte.\n\n## ARTIGO VI\n\nAs correspondencias officiaes, enviadas pelas Auctoridades Portuguezas ás Auctoridades Chinezas, serão escriptas em portuguez e acompanhadas da traducção chineza.\n\nDo mesmo modo será o presente Tratado escripto em portuguez e chineza depois de confrontado devidamente, e servirá de documento a cada Nação a versão escripta na sua propria lingua.\n\n## ARTIGO VII\n\nAs formulas das correspondencias officiaes entre as Auctoridades portuguezas e chinezas serão reguladas pelas gerarchias e posições respectivas, tendo por base a mais completa reciprocidade. Entre os altos funccionarios portuguezes e os altos funccionarios chinezes, na capital ou em qualquer outro lugar, estas correspondencias terão a forma de officio ou communicação: entre os funccionarios portuguezes subordinados e as primeiras Auctoridades de provincia usar-se-ha, para aquelles a forma de exposição (Chau-Hoei) e para estas a de declaração (Xen-Cheu); e os officiaes subordinados de ambas as nações deverão corresponder-se em termos de perfeita igualdade.\n\nOs negociantes, e geralmente todos os individuos não investidos de caracter official, seguirão para com as Auctoridades a formula de representação (Pin-Cheng). Quando qualquer subdito portuguez tiver de representar á Auctoridade chineza do districto, deverá primeiramente levar a sua representação ao Consul, que, não a achando inconveniente, a fará entregar, e no cazo contrario mandará escreve-l'a n'outros termos, ou recusará transmitti-l'a. Igualmente quando um subdito chinez haja de representar ao Consul de Portugal, só poderá faze-l'o por via da Auctoridade chineza, que procederá da mesma forma.\n\n## ARTIGO VIII\n\nEm todos os pórtos da China abertos ao commercio poderá Sua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal estabelecer Consules para tratarem dos negocios commerciaes e vigiarem pela observancia de todos os artigos d'este Tratado.\n\nOs Consules e as Auctoridades locaes deverão tratar-se reciprocamente com polidez e corresponder-se em termos de perfeita igualdade.\n\nOs Consules e Consules interinos terão honras de Tau-tai, e os Vice-Consules, Agentes Consulares e Interpretes traductores as de Perfeito. Os seus poderes serão iguaes aos das Auctoridades consulares das demais nações.\n\nEstes funccionarios deverão ser verdadeiros agentes do Governo portuguez, e não commerciantes. O Governo chinez nenhuma objecção fará porem a que Portugal, não julgando necessario enviar um verdadeiro Consul para qualquer dos pórtos, encarregue interinamente o seu Consulado n'esse porto a um Consul de outra nação.\n\n## ARTIGO IX\n\nSua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal e Sua Magestade o Imperador da China, desejando manifestar as suas amigaveis intenções reciprocas, concordam expressamente no seguinte:\n\nTodos os subditos dos dois Estados, em qualquer parte do territorio portuguez ou chinez, serão sempre tratados reciprocamente como amigos.\n\nSua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal ordenará ao Governador de Macau que preste a mais decidida coadjuvação a evitar tudo o que, n'aquelle ponto, se possa tornar prejudicial aos interesses do Imperio Chinez.\n\nSua Magestade o Imperador da China poderá nomear pois, se lhe convier, um agente para residir em Macau, e ali tratar dos negocios commerciaes e vigiar pela observancia dos regulamentos. Este agente porem, deverá ser Manchú ou China, e ter a graduação de quarta ou quinta ordem. Os seus poderes serão iguaes aos dos Consules de França, Inglaterra, America, ou d'outras nações, que residem em Macau e Hongkong e ali tratam dos seus negocios publicos, arvorando a bandeira nacional.\n\n## ARTIGO X\n\nÉ permittido a todos os subditos portuguezes e ás suas familias habitarem ou frequentarem os pórtos e cidades de Kuang-tchou (Cantão),--Chan-chou (Suatau), Amoy, Fu-chau-Ning-po,--Shang-hai, Chen-kiang, Kien-kiang, e Han-kau (no rio Yang-tsi)—Tăng chou, Tientsin, Neu-choang—Tan-shoei e Tai-van (na ilha Formosa),-e Kinng-chou (na ilha de Hai-nan), e ali commerciarem ou empregarem-se livremente. As suas embarcações poderão ir e vir sem embaraço, e as suas mercadorias importar-se ou exportar-se em qualquer tempo illimitadamente.\n\n## ARTIGO XI\n\nO Governo Chinez não obstará de forma alguma a que os subditos portuguezes empreguem os subditos chinezes em qualquer occupação que as leis permittam.\n\n## ARTIGO XII\n\nÉ permittido a todo o commerciante Portuguez, que no desembarque das suas mercadorias em algum dos pórtos abertos tiver satisfeito aos direitos que dever, e tambem a quaesquer outros subditos portuguezes, viajarem por todas as partes do interior da China, quer por conveniencia do seu commercio, quer por simples diversão, comtanto que andem munidos de passaportes, que serão dados pelos Consules e assignados pelas auctoridades locaes. O portador de um passaporte deverá apre...\n\n80",
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        "content_text": "# Treaty between Portugal and China\n\n## ARTICLE I\nThe subjects of His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and those of His Majesty the Emperor of China; whose respective subjects shall equally enjoy, in the dominions of the High Contracting Parties, the most complete and decided protection for their persons and property.\n\n## ARTICLE II\nAnd hereby are entirely annulled and held as non-existing by this Treaty everything that down to this day has been done, at whatever time or place, whether in writing, or printed, or verbally agreed,—with respect to the relations between Portugal and the Empire of China and between the Government of the City of Macao (formerly in the Province of Canton) and the Chinese Authorities:—In virtue whereof from now henceforth the present Treaty,—concluded and signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the two States, duly provided with their respective credentials, is to serve as the only valid Regulation of these relations.\n\n## ARTICLE III\nThe Governor General of Macao, in his capacity of Plenipotentiary of His Most Faithful Majesty in China, may visit the Court of Pekin every year should important affairs render it necessary.\n\nIf in the future the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of China shall allow the Plenipotentiary of any other Foreign Nation to reside permanently at Pekin, besides those who have already their Representatives there, the Envoy of His Most Faithful Majesty may consider such permission as extending to himself and avail of it should he deem convenient.\n\n## ARTICLE IV\nThe Diplomatic Agents shall enjoy at their residences all the privileges and immunities accorded by the Law of Nations: that is to say, that their persons, their families, their homes, and their correspondence shall be inviolate.\n\n## ARTICLE V\nThe expenses incurred by the diplomatic Missions of Portugal in China shall be borne by the Portuguese Government. The diplomatic Agents which His Majesty the Emperor of China may be pleased to appoint to the Court of His Majesty the King of Portugal will be received with all the honors and privileges enjoyed by the other foreign diplomatic Agents of equal rank accredited to the said Court.\n\n## ARTICLE VI\nThe official correspondence forwarded by the Portuguese Authorities to the Chinese Authorities shall be written in Portuguese accompanied by a translation in Chinese. In the same manner, the present Treaty is to be written in Portuguese and in Chinese—which after being duly compared will serve as a Document to guide each Nation as the written version of its respective language.\n\n## ARTICLE VII\nThe form of correspondence between the Portuguese and the Chinese Authorities will be regulated by their respective rank and position, based upon complete reciprocity. Between the high Functionaries of Portugal and China, at the Capital or elsewhere, such correspondence will take the form of Dispatch or Communication; between the subordinate Functionaries of Portugal and the first Authorities of the Province, the former shall make use of the form of exposition (`Chau-Hoei`), and the latter that of declaration (`Xen-Cheu`); and the subordinate officers of both nations shall correspond together in terms of perfect equality.\n\nMerchants, and generally all others who are not invested with an official character, will adopt, in addressing the Chinese Authorities, the form of representation or petition (`Pin-Chen`).\n\nWhenever any Portuguese subject shall have to petition the Chinese Authority of a district, he is to submit his statement beforehand to the Consul, who will cause the same to be forwarded should he see no impropriety in so doing, otherwise he will have it written out in other terms—or decline to forward it:—Likewise, when a Chinese subject shall have occasion to petition the Portuguese Consul, he will only be allowed to do so through the Chinese Authority, who shall proceed in the same manner.\n\n## ARTICLE VIII\nHis Majesty the King of Portugal may appoint Consuls at all the ports of China open to commerce, to look after commercial interests, and to watch the due observance of all the articles of this Treaty.\n\nThe Consul and the local Authorities will show to each other reciprocal civilities and correspond with each other in terms of perfect equality.\n\nThe Consuls and Acting Consuls will have the honor of `Tau-tai`, and Vice-Consuls, Consular Agents, and Interpreter translators, those of Prefect. Their powers shall be equal to those of the Consular Authorities of other nations.\n\nThese functionaries are to be true agents of the Portuguese Government and not merchants. The Chinese Government, however, will make no objection, in case the Portuguese Government should deem it unnecessary to appoint a full Consul to any of the ports, and choose to entrust a Consul of a foreign nation, for the time being, with the duties of a Portuguese Consul at that port.\n\n## ARTICLE IX\nHis Majesty the King of Portugal and His Majesty the Emperor of China desiring to manifest their reciprocal amicable intentions have agreed expressly upon the following:\n\nAll the subjects of both States shall always be treated, reciprocally, as friends in any part of the Portuguese or Chinese territories.\n\nHis Majesty the King of Portugal will enjoin upon the Governor of Macao to bestow his most determined cooperation to avoid everything which might, at that place, be prejudicial to the interests of the Chinese Empire.\n\nHis Majesty the Emperor of China may appoint, should he deem it convenient, an Agent to reside at Macao, there to treat of commercial affairs and watch the due observance of the regulations. This Agent, however, must either be a Manchú or a Chinese of the fourth or fifth rank. His powers are to be equal to those of the Consuls of France, England, America, or of those of other nations who reside at Macao and Hongkong, and there treat of their public affairs, showing their national flags.\n\n## ARTICLE X\nIt is permitted to all Portuguese subjects and their families to reside at or frequent the ports of Kuang-chou (Canton),—Chang-chou (Suatau),—Amoy,—Fu-chau—Ningpo, Shanghae, Chin-kiang, Kieu-kiang and Han-kau (on the Yang-tsi),—Tang chou, Tien-tsin—Neu-choang–Tam-shoei and Tai-van (on the Island of Formosa), and Kiung-chou (on the Island of Hainan), and there to carry on trade or otherwise employ themselves. Their boats may go and come without hinderance and their merchandize be imported or exported at all times.\n\n## ARTICLE XI\nThe Chinese Government will, in no manner whatever, object that Portuguese subjects should take Chinese subjects into their service and give them a lawful occupation.\n\n## ARTICLE XII\nAll Portuguese merchants importing goods into any of the open ports, having paid duties on them, and any other Portuguese subjects, are allowed to travel through all parts of the interior of China for commercial purposes or for convenience sake, provided they be furnished with passports which are to be granted by the Consuls and counter-signed by the local Authorities. The bearer of a passport...",
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        "content_text": "252\n\non business, and there saw How au leen in the thin Chong lao shop, a shop for the sale of all sorts of things from north and south, are situated in the Shanghwan. On enquiry he found that the shop belonged to How Yau lien.\n\nHis first idea was to get someone to petition specially for him, but fearing lest he should get information and escape with his booty, he thought it best to petition that an Officer might be sent with him to act as witness so that she could both point out the Pirate and have him captured, and also that H. M. Consul, and the Governor of Hongkong might be communicated with, that the man might be secretly arrested, and handed over to the Chinese Officers to be brought back to Canton for punishment, in order to put a stop to such malpractices.\n\nOn receipt of this petition the Acting Viceroy consulted the xxx Article which says that Chinese Criminals, if they take refuge in Hongkong shall upon due requisition by the Chinese Authorities be searched for and, on proof of their guilt, be delivered up. Now the pirate How au leen has taken refuge in Hongkong and therefore, according to Treaty, the Acting Viceroy has to inform W. M. Consul, and request him to prepare a Despatch to be handed to the officer Chen huongling, and to be taken by Chen hiang and Jam.",
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        "content_text": "600 \n\nNo pronounced decision has been made in this case, yet the Owner feels himself to have been placed in a position of great hardship by the action taken. \n\nSerd Rutherford Aleach asks whether some sympathy cannot be extended to him and measures of leniency adopted.\n\nIn this case, the Board have already in May last received a report from the Superintendent of Customs to the effect that the Consul and Commissioner of Customs have united with him in pronouncing the confiscation of the Vessel in question in accordance with the Treaty, a course entirely free from error. Ser R Heuch has stated in person that the owner has suffered great hardship and entreated active sympathy. The Board refers to the case of the British Steamer which, years ago, entered non-Treaty ports in Che Kiang and with respect to which extenuating circumstances existed. The Board decided in the first place upon confiscating the Vessel and thereafter upon permitting the Owner to buy her back at a reduced valuation, which they instructed the Imperial Commissioner for Trade at Shanghai to effect. If this case be taken as a precedent, sympathy may be extended in view of the circumstances alleged in extenuation without interfering with...",
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        "content_text": "## PIRACY. SPECIAL REPORT No. 21.\n\n129. 506. December 2, 1867.\n\nReceived at 5 o'clock on the 2nd day of December 1867.\n\nA junk was pirated near Bias Bay - also known as Hai Shan Kiang. The pirates took a quantity of clothing and $500.\n\nThe informant was released and told to obtain a ransom of $200 for the release of the junk. The pirates live at Cok Tsoy.\n\nFour men were identified and the informant can recognize them.\n\nThe informant was sent to Kowloon forthwith.\n\n(Signed) W. Dr. Deane, Acting Superintendent.\n\n### Details of the Junk\n\n| Category | Information |\n| --- | --- |\n| Name and Residence of Informer | Macao |\n| Name and Residence of Master | Mong Yeung, Tseung Cheung 光 (Yang Tseung Cheung) |\n| Name of Security and Residence | Jung Cha Meng Kwei |\n| Trades with | Fat Shop, Bonham Strand |\n| Name of Junk | \"Sak Nov\" |\n| From what Port | Chung Chow |\n| Bound to | Hong Kong |\n| Capacity | 800 piculs |\n| Cargo | Oranges |\n| Date of Attack | December 18, 1867 |\n| Place of Attack | Near Bias Bay |\n| Casualties | None |\n\n### Particulars\n\nAt 7 P.M. on the 18th, four fishing boats attacked the above junk and carried off property to the value of $500. The boats sailed towards Aberdeen and Stanley.\n\nPage 510\nPage 511",
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        "content_text": "(No. 7.)-CHINESE Produce Exported from Canton to Chinese Ports during the Year ended December 31, 1867.\n\nCANTON.\n\n  \n    Description of Goods\n    Classifier of Quantity\n    To Ningpo\n    To Shanghae\n    To Kiu-kiang\n    To Hankow\n    To Che-foo\n    Quantities\n    Value\n  \n  \n    Books\n    Piculs\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Brass buttons\n    \"\"\n    0\n    45\n    234\n    43\n    21,099\n    \n    Dollars. 9\n  \n  \n    Brass ware\n    \"\"\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Caps, silk\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    12\n    \n  \n  \n    Cinnamon\n    Piculs..\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cornelian ware\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fans, palm-leaf, trimmed\n    \"\"\n    20\n    7\n    \n    803\n    \n    \n    Dollars. 149\n  \n  \n    paper..\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Flowers, dried\n    \n 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        "content_text": "68\n\nICA\n\nCHINA.\n\nDescription of Goods.\n\nClassifier of Quantity.\n\n  \n    To Ningpo.\n    To Shanghae.\n    To Kiu-kiang.\n    To Hankow.\n    To Che-foo.\n  \n  \n    Quantities.\n  \n  \n    Piculs..\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Paper, 1st quality\n    \n    43\n    62\n    \n  \n  \n    Silk piece goods\n    \"\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \" ribbons and sashes\n    \n    3\n    24\n    0\n    78\n  \n  \n    tassels..\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Value.\n    Dollars.\n    1,090\n    2,268\n    \n  \n  \n    Quantities.\n    \n    546\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Value.\n    Dollars.\n    417\n    89\n    11,197\n    44\n  \n  \n    Quantities.\n    \n    96\n    31,472\n    163\n    98\n  \n  \n    Value.\n    Dollars.\n    114,786\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Quantities.\n    \n    0\n    14\n    3\n    \n  \n  \n    Value.\n    Dollars.\n    589\n    46\n    14,737\n    \n  \n  \n    Quantities.\n    \n    197\n    85\n    138,495\n    \n  \n  \n    Quantities.\n    \n    1,121\n    19\n    28,030\n    \n  \n  \n    Value.\n    Dollars.\n    200\n    98\n    140,686\n    \n  \n  \n    Quantities.\n    \n    142\n    44\n    99,708\n    \n  \n  \n    Quantities.\n    \n    90\n    60\n    63,420\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \"\"\n    0\n    09\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    floss, from other provinces\n    and cotton mixtures\n    \"\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sugar, brown\n    \n    58\n    90\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    candy\n    250\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    white\n    \"\"\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tobacco, prepared\n    \n    37\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wax, white..\n    \n    6,722\n    18\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wood ware..\n    \n    \"\"\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Miscellaneous\n    \n    52,432\n    3,077\n    31\n    55,391\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \"\"\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n    51\n    0\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    92\n    76\n    62\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    460\n    2,145\n    27,106\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    18,201\n    54\n    77,357\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    261\n    36\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    3,136\n    10,299\n    28\n    80,334\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    377\n    49\n    6,795\n    18\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    79\n    9,395\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    93\n    48\n    729\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    16\n    83\n    58,707\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    75\n    249,508\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    3,262\n    32\n    39,148\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    31,288\n    15\n    244,048\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    14\n    5\n    253\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    5,589\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    15\n    69\n    10,199\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    22\n    58\n    13,548\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    4\n    76\n    1,428\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    9,418\n    88\n    40,030\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    810\n    63\n    9,728\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1,356\n    41\n    10,580\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    190\n    77\n    3,434\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    220\n    97\n    6,187\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    55,532\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    0\n    58\n    16\n    105\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    181\n    49\n    5,082\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    43,402\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    31\n    89\n    393\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    34,376\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    352,387\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    776,723\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1,532\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    987,820\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    523,498",
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        "content_text": "# \n\ndiately secures. From a commercial code, derived from European systems of commercial law, to a civil and criminal code, such as has been long adopted in Turkey and this obtained, international Courts for mixed cases, there is but a short step. For its administration with fixed rules of procedure, such as are now in contemplation for Egypt by common consent, will follow in natural course, and prepare the way for either the modification or total abolition of extraterritorial rights in China, and the gradual assimilation of two races in their laws and administration. This will remove, at the same time, one of the greatest obstacles to improved relations with the Chinese Government, and more free access to the interior.\n\n## \n\n13. Coal-mines are to be opened at Kien-yung, in Che-kiang, Lo-ping, on the Poyang Lake, and Kelung, in Formosa, with an understanding that they shall be efficiently worked, with the aid of foreign skill and machinery.\n\n14. Two new ports are to be opened -- Wen-chow, in exchange for Kiung-chow, in Hainan, which has never been thought worth opening; and Wuhu, on the Yang-tsze, between Chin-kiang and Kiu-kiang.\n\nThe first is equivalent to subsidizing a line of steamers between Foo-chow and Shanghae, both of which places desire a rapid and regular communication. It will also afford a ready exit for a kind of tea that reaches Foo-chow only after a long, circuitous, and expensive route; and it is the port of a comparatively wealthy and populous district.\n\nThe latter port is more especially valuable in connection with the arrangements made for the collection of the transit dues at the port of entry, as it adds the Province of Anhui to the other eight maritime provinces, in which foreign textile fabrics are to pass free without any transit pass.\n\n15. The right of transhipment at Hong Kong for the Chinese ports, so much desired by the British and foreign merchants, has been conceded.\n\n16. A rule has been framed, by which vessels trading to Batavia, Bangkok, Singapore, Malacca, and Penang, will share the privilege of only paying tonnage dues once every four months, now limited to vessels going to Japan, the Amour, Hong Kong, Manilla, and Saigon.\n\n## 11 \n\n17. It is agreed that the Customs shall draw up rules fixing the touch of sycee to be received on the payment of duties, by the bank, at each port, and thus determine in some definite manner, in the absence of coinage, what relation local sycee bears to the Customs standard.\n\nThese are the chief concessions on the Chinese side; in return for which, additional rights and privileges beyond what has been secured by any antecedent Treaty, neither few nor unimportant, in my conception, it has been agreed that the following changes of Tariff, &c., shall take place:-\n\n1. An increased rate of duty on opium and silk. On the first an increase from 30 to 50 taels per 100 catties, equivalent to an increase of 24 per cent, ad valorem. On silk, raw and thrown, a duty of 20 taels per 100 catties; on yellow silk from Szechuen 10 taels; making an increase of a little over 1 per cent, on both kinds (say 14), both still being taxed somewhat under the general scale adopted on the signature of the Treaties, of 5 per cent. ad valorem.\n\nIn both articles, opium and silk, considering their high value, so small an increase of duty is unlikely to diminish, by a single ounce, or in any sensible degree, the profits of those who deal in them.\n\n2. Passports and transit papers are to be valid only for twelve months, and to be returned within thirteen. This merely gives authority for what has already been practised.\n\n3. The right is conceded to China of appointing Consuls in the British dominions.\n\n4. British merchant-vessels shall report to the Customs their port of destination, and shall hand in export manifests when about to clear. The Treaty had not provided for this; and there is no reason for refusing it, as it entails no sacrifice on the merchant.\n\nThe principal points of the Convention, to which will be annexed supplementary rules and Tariff, as affecting the articles named, either for reduction or increase, have now been passed in review. Considering how much has been conceded by the Chinese, and how few and unimportant the changes which they have insisted upon in return, either on grounds of reciprocity, or expediency, I think it is a subject for congratulation that they have been so moderate in their demands, and rested content with so much less than they are well known to desire.\n\nIt is very true, that the utmost to be obtained from their concessions falls very far short of the demands and wishes of the Memorialists. Steam navigation on the inland waters, railroads, and telegraphs, rights of domicile inland, and the working of mines by foreigners, have all been refused as impracticable or inexpedient at present; and Her Majesty's Government have concurred in this view, and withdrawn all demands for any one of them. At the same time, several of the concessions made, tend in this direction, and, if used judiciously, will certainly prepare the way, at no distant period, for farther progress. I think that it is from this point of view their value will be most fairly tested.\n\nOn the other side, if we bear in mind the undisguised desire of the high authorities and of the whole body of educated Chinese, including the literati and gentry as well as the officials of every grade throughout the provinces for the restriction of foreign intercourse to the sea-board, if not, indeed, to a single port, as of old, and the withdrawal of any privileges which would only have been extorted at the cannon's mouth, and by superior force, I think they deserve some credit for their moderation during the present negotiations. The Tsungli Yamên did not indeed disguise their dislike to all the phases of extraterritoriality, the domiciliation of missionaries in the interior, the importation of opium, and the appointment of merchant Consuls; yet they have not pressed demands on any of these points, or sought to make concessions a condition of revision.\n\nA right to appoint Consuls, which they may be very slow to exercise, and a trifling increase of duties on two articles that may yield them some additional Customs revenue, is about the sum of what they have rested content with. That these are neither unreasonable, nor in any sense inequitable, must, I think, be freely admitted; and I confess to a conviction that few European Governments would have contented themselves with so little in the revision of a Treaty containing much that was objectionable to them, more especially when expected to concede still more to the foreigner's advantage.\n\nI shall be glad if you and my other colleagues concur in this view, which, in any case, I felt it to be due to all parties to submit, frankly and freely, for your appreciation.\n\nAfter devoting the best part of two years to the discussion of the various questions at issue, and the endeavour, by friendly negotiations, to bring the Tsungli Yamên to see the expediency of changes favourable to the progress of trade and less restricted intercourse, I can only trust that, upon a review of the whole, the balance of advantages will appear to you, and to my other colleagues, such as to recommend the Convention for general acceptance.\n\nYou will, no doubt, hear from the Tsungli Yamên, and be invited to co-operate to that end, as soon as the instrument shall have been signed by the Prince of Kung and myself, it having been agreed that the High Contracting Parties shall mutually invite each of the Treaty Powers to promote, by their adhesion, its being speedily carried into execution.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\n(Signed) \n\n## Inclosure 3.\n\n**RUTHERFORD ALCOCK.**\n\nThe Tsungli Yamen to Sir R. Alcock.\n\nOctober 23, 1869.\n\nTHE Prince of Kung, Pao, President of the Board of Revenue; Tan, President of the Board of Punishment; Wên, President of the Board of Civil Office; Tung, President of the Board of Revenue; and Chung, President of the Colonial Office, make a communication.\n\nIt is distinctly stipulated in the XVIth Article that the ratification of Convention this day signed shall be exchanged in Peking.\n\nIt is also understood that effect shall not be given to the several Articles except with mutual consent, until a common understanding with the other Treaty Powers has been come to, that their respective subjects in becoming entitled to the rights and advantages therein conceded to British subjects, shall in like manner as these be bound by the conditions thereto attaching. And to promote this end, with the least possible delay, it has been agreed that each of the High Contracting Parties shall communicate the Convention to the other Powers, and invite their adhesion to its terms and conditions.\n\nPage 291 \nPage [70]",
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        "content_text": "537\n\nBlue Book, \"China No 5 (1871),\n\nthe Revision of the Treaty respecting\n\nof\n\nTien-Tsin.-\n\nExtract from\n\nSir R. Alcock's Memo to the Mixed Commission,\n\npage 212....\n\n\"The British Minister would\n\nalso be\n\nglad\n\nto know, before\n\ncommunicating\n\nwith Her Majesty's\n\nGovernment, whether the Chinese would\n\nconsent to the opening of Tai-chow in Cheh-\n\nKiang,\n\nChin-chew in Fukien, and Pet-Koi in Kwantung, as well as Wui-chow, retaining\n\nPage 570\n\nPage 571",
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        "content_text": "9\n\n230\n\n!\n\n8\n\nRiver, but called here the Ho-ti-kiang. Below Manghao, on the banks of the river, in Annamite territory, is situated the town of Laokay, two days' journey from the Tonquin capital, Hanoi. The Song Koi, or Red River, divides into various branches; the two southern ones meet above Hanoi. On one of them stands the town of Niuh-brinh; on the other, that of Nam-diuh and Hung-yen. These two branches communicate by canals, on one of which is situated the town of Fouli. Another branch of the Song Koi is the Thai-binh River, which passes by Hai-duong. Between it and the Hanoi branch of the Song Koi, or Red River, runs the Longchi Canal; and a third and very important branch to the north of the above named is the River Cam, which passes Haiphong; the mouth of the Cam is called the Cua Cam. The three northernmost mouths by which the Song Koi falls into the sea are called Dai, Lak, and Balat. The distance from the mouth of the river to Manghao in Yünnan is as follows:--\n\nFrom the mouth to Hanoi\nMiles\n110\n\nIlanoi to Soutay\n\"\n32\n\nSoutay to Annamite advanced posts\n\"\n87\n\nLackay to Manghao\n\"\n115\n\nAnnamite camp to Laokay\n\"\n70\n\nMiles from the sea to Manghao\n\n414\n\nIt is necessary to give this detail of the river communications through Tonquin in order that the position of affairs may be better understood.\n\nThe borders of Tonquin and Yunnan have for a long time been in a very disturbed state, being in possession of two clans or bands of Chinese distinguished as the Black and Yellow Flags. The men comprising them were originally under the Chief Tienti, the head of the Kwangei rebellion, and, having escaped into Tonquin, captured the town of Laokay, on the Red River; but the two Chiefs having quarrelled, they separated, and one portion took possession of Ko-yang, a tower lower down on the Red River, which places they still occupy, but are at war with each other, and each levies black mail upon all boats and goods passing into Yunnan, and thereby stopping the lucrative trade that had existed between Hanoi and that province.\n\nIn 1864 there resided at Hankow, in China, a M. Dupuis, who was engaged in the business of selling arms and ammunition to the Chinese then engaged in suppressing the Mahomedan rebellion in Yünnan. The distance, however, was long and the road difficult, and he was impressed with the idea that a shorter and better route could be found. He started for Yunnan, but the disturbed state of the country prevented him from following the course of the Song Koi, or Ho-ti-kiang, as it is there called, into Tonquin; but later on, in 1870-1871, he was more successful, and found the river was navigable from Manghao; and having ascertained that fact, he returned to Yunnan, and obtained large orders for arms and ammunition, which were to be brought viâ the Song Koi through Tonquin.\n\nIt was necessary, however, to obtain permission from the Annamite Government to cross Tonquin with these arms and ammunition, and Dupuis' Agent, M. Millot, explained his plans to Rear-Admiral Krantz, the Chef de Cabinet of the Navy Department, who obtained for him an audience from the Minister, Vice-Admiral Pothuon. Dupuis requested, as there was no regular communication with Annam, a passage to be given him in a gun-boat to Hué, to obtain this permission, and after some delay he received, under date the 9th April, 1872, a letter from the Directeur des Colonies, saying he had written to the Governor of French Cochin China to comply with his request if compatible with his duties, and MM. Dupuis and Millot having returned to Saigon, it was arranged that the despatch-boat \"Bourayne,\" Captain Lencz, should go to Tonquin to afford them protection. Two condemned British gun-boats---the \"Firm\" and the \"Cockchafer\"---had been purchased at Shanghae, and put under the French flags under the names the \"Hoong Kiang\" and the \"Lao Kay.\"\n\nMr. Dupuis left Hong Kong on the 26th of October, 1872, with the \"Hoong Kiang,\" towing a steam-launch, and the \"Lao Kay,\" towing a Chinese junk with coal and artillery. Including Messrs. Dupuis and Millot, the expedition numbered twenty-three Europeans and ninety-six Asiatics, Malays, Chinese, and Japanese.\n\nOn the 9th of November, they arrived at the Cua-cam River, in Tonquin, where the \"Bourayne\" was, but Captain Lenez had gone to Hanoi. Dupuis then went to the southernmost mouth of the Song Koi, but was recalled by a note from Captain Lenez, requesting him to return as soon as possible to be introduced to the Royal Commissioner Li, who had military command of the Provinces of Quang yen, Hai dzong, and Hung yen. On the 19th Li arrived, and the object of the expedition was explained, and the official Chinese documents were shown to him; but he said, though all was in order, he must refer to Hué for instructions. On the 4th of December no answer had been received from Hué, and Li hinted that none would be received for several months. Dupuis then decided not to wait any longer, and he wrote to Commissioner Li that, as the waters of the Cua-cam were very bad, he would go up the river.\n\nAfter several attempts to find a channel, the way to the Red River was discovered, which the expedition entered on the 18th of December, with a salute. Their proceedings were detailed to me by a very intelligent man called Captain George, a Greek by birth, who was with the expedition. The Annamites were greatly excited, and large bodies of troops were out. An attempt was made to erect a barrier across the canal, flanked by a fort, which opened fire upon the vessels; but that was soon silenced, and they arrived at Hanoi on the 22nd of December without further opposition. There the Mandarins promised to assist them up the river, but, in fact, prevented M. Dupuis hiring the boats he wanted; and on discovering this he determined to continue the journey, but was unable from want of water. Finally, he succeeded in hiring four boats, and on the 18th of January, 1873, he started with three of them, the steam-launch, and a Chinese interpreter, leaving the remainder of the expedition with M. Millot at Hanoi, and taking with him altogether twelve Europeans and twenty natives.\n\nOn the 1st of February, the expedition passed the last Annamite camp, reaching the head-quarters of the Yellow Flags on the 10th. Here he was entertained by their Chief Hoang Tsong-yu, and after leaving his territory he entered, on the 20th, that of another Chief, Lun vinh-pline, the Black Flags, who lives in the city of Lao Kay; and on the 25th he left this-the last town in Tonquin-and finally arrived at Manghao, in Yunnan, on the 4th of March, and leaving his material behind, he reached Yunnan-fu on the 10th. Here he found he had arrived too late with his arms, for the Mahommedan stronghold of Tali-fu had been surrendered to the Imperial troops on the 8th of January, and Ma, the Chinese Commander-in-chief, did not require them, and said, moreover, he had not the means of paying for them, but there was a quantity of tin from the mines which he might have, and which Dupuis accepted, but was able to remove but little of it for want of means of transport; and finding his expedition a commercial failure, he returned to Hanoi, which he reached on the 10th of April, and found the Annamites preparing to attack the Expedition, having closed two branches of the Song Koi and barricaded the river above Hanoi to prevent its escape. By mistake, however, the Longchi Channel, which begins a little above Hanoi, and runs into the Phai-binh River, was left open, and Dupuis, who had enlisted about 100 Chinese, was able to make good his retreat, though occasional skirmishes took place.\n\nThe Ministers of Tuduc, the King of Annam, seeing no means of getting rid of M. Dupuis, wrote to Admiral Dupré, who sent him, through the Annamite authorities, an order to leave Tonquin at once, saying that his presence in the country was a source of annoyance, and if the command was not obeyed, he (Admiral Dupré) would not consider himself responsible for the consequences. In reply, M. Dupuis stated that he had neither coal nor funds, and could not leave the country. M. Millot, however, arriving at Saigon on the 13th of July, with a relation of the Titu of Yunnan, and a Mandarin named Li (whom the Viceroy of Canton told me he would behead if he could get hold of him), called on the Admiral, and so represented the matter that he suggested a delay of three months, and assisted M. Millot in obtaining a loan from a bank under the guarantee of the Colonial Secretary. M. Millot then returned to Hong Kong and purchased a small steamer, and named her the \"Manghao,\" and a junk, which he called the \"Lao Kay,\" and sent them, with ten men from Hupih, to Tonquin.\n\nAfter the departure of M. Millot from Saigon, Tuduc, the King of Annam, sent two Envoys to Admiral Dupré (August, 1873) to tell him Dupuis refused to obey his order. To this the Admiral replied by telling them they ought to have expelled him themselves. They answered they were unable to do so, and requested the Admiral to send a man-of-war to Tonquin to assist them.\n\nThe action of Admiral Dupré in this matter was calculated to mislead both M. Dupuis and the Annamite Government. He certainly gave assistance to the former both by steamers and money, and at the request of the latter he recalled Dupuis from Tonquin, and when the Envoys sent by the King Tuduc requested the fulfilment of his order, he hesitated to enforce it; and it was this hesitation which brought about the complications that resulted in grave responsibilities to the French and loss of independence to the Annamites. I may here mention that, during the interval which\n\n[608]",
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        "content_text": "sources already in the passion of Malget. \n\nYun Lelf. will see that M. Depuis conclusion is that \n\nAnnam las \n\nbut \n\ngiven Kothring Signetine \n\na that practically \n\nis more closed. \n\nTham Li \n\nFrety, the Country \n\nThan Ever. \n\n(Sol) Lyon \n\nSAMEDI 2 DÉCEMBRE 1876. \n\nL'ÉCONOMISTE FRANÇAIS. \n\nrait de celte province, au milieu de populations non-set- lement inoffensives, mais sympathiques, et de fonctionnaires dont de nombreux cadeaux fai conciliaient la bonne grâce. Arrivé au Yan-Nan, il y recut le meilleur accueil des mandarins, auxquels il fit voir sans peine dans l'ouverture du fleuve Rouge on moyen de remédier à la mauvaise situation que la guerre civile, d'une part, le défaut de débouchés, de Fautre, avaient faito à leur province. Le Yun-Não est resté jusqu'ici un pays pauvre, I produit cependant assez de vivres pour la nourriture de ses habi- tants, et ses vallées sont très-fertiles; mais, pour les articles industriels, tels que les tissus et les vêtements, il dépend tout à fait des provinces voisines, car on n'y récolte, pour ainsi dire, ni coton ni soie, mais, en échange des marchan- dises qu'il demande, Je Yan-Nan peut offrir, indépendaument de ses thés de qualité supérieure, les riches produits de son sous-sol, For, l'argent, le fer, le cuivre, le plomb, l'étain, le zinc, le mercure, la houille. Toutes ces richesses demeurent par malheur à peu près inexploitées, faute de moyens d'écoulement, les transports par la Chine elle-même étant d'une grande difficulté et d'une lenteur extrême. Le fleuve du Tong-Kin une fois ouvert à une navigation libre et régul- lière, c'est par centaines de millions qu'il faudrait chiffrer la valeur des produits qui prendraient cette voie, pour pénétrer en Chine ou pour en descendre à la mer. \n\nLe moment paraissait d'ailleurs mal choisi pour une tentative de ce genre: la guerre civile était dans toute sa force, et on ne parlait de rien moins que d'abandonner la province aux musulmans. La commission du Mé-Kong y avait même couru un grand danger sans le savoir, celti d'être emprisonnée dans la ville d'Yun-Nän-Sèn, capitale da pasy, qu'elle venait à peine de quitter lorsque les insurgés l'investirent. M. Dupuis prit donc le parti de retourner à Han- Kéou et d'y attendre une heure plus propice, et pour la hater en tant qu'il dépendait de lui, il expédia aux troupes imperiales une grande quantité d'armes perfectionnées, parmi lesquelles des canons rayés de fabrique française, qu'accompagnaient des Européens chargés d'en enseigner lé maniement aux Chinois. Mais, en 1870, voyant que la guerre menaçait de s'éterniser, il n'y tint plus et gagna de nouveau le Yun-Nau par la voie du Yang Tse-Kiang, bien décidé cette fois à pousser à tout hasard jusqu'au fleuve Rouge. \n\nNotre compatriote y retrouva les autorités dans les mêmes bonnes dispositions où il les avait laissées: elles lui don- nèrent des lettres de recommandation pour divers chels qu'il devait rencontrer en chemin, et, se dirigeant au sud-ouest, il se mit en route. A Tong-keou, le maréchal Ma, qui assiégeait cette ville, lui donna une escorte de treute hommes commandée par un mandarin militaire, auquel il adjoignit un inandarin civil, Arrivée à Mout-Ze, cette escorte refusa de le suivre plus loin, mais les auto rités lui en fournirent une seconde et il s'avanca resold- ment vers la haute vallée du Song-Koi, malgré les bruits peu encourageants qui circulaient sur les tribus indépen- dantes de cette vallée. Mais, près de franchir les bautes crêtes qui l'en séparaient, il fut de nouveau délaissé par son escorte, pen désireuse de s'engager dans une région que les habitants des plateaux tiennent pour être très-insa- lubre, et ce ne fut pas sans beaucoup de dangers, de ta- tigues et de privations de toutes sortes que le couragenx voyageur atteignit le Hong-Kiang, ou fleuve Rouge, nom que la grande artère fluviale du Tong-Kin porte en Chine ou sur le territoire des tribos indépendantes, et qu'il doit à la couleur de ses eaux. Il le descendit jusqu'à Kouen-Ce, premier poste amamite, et comme on ne l'aurait pas laissé le franchir, il dat borner là son exploration. Aussi bien pouvait-il considérer son but principal comme atteint: il avait, en effet, acquis la certitude qu'à partir du point où il était arrivé, le fleuve ne présentait pas d'obstacles à la navigation jusqu'à la mer. La voie nouvelle présentait sur celle de Bhâm l'avantage de pouvoir être utilisée de suite sans aucuns travaux; elle répondait aux besoins commer- ciaux, non-seulement des provinces chinoises de Yun-Nan, de Sze-Tchuen, de Kouci-Tcheou, de Kouang-Si, mais -encore da Tibet, du Laos, du Tong-Kin, et ouvrait de belles perspectives au commerce du monde entier, mais surtout à celui de la France. \n\nDe retour au fun-Nâu, l'intrépide explorateur y reçut des mandarins le meilleur accueil, et tous lui manifestèrent un vif désir de voir le fleuve Rouge s'ouvrir au commerce de leur province. Le royaume d'Angam étant tributaire du Céleste-Empire, les Chinois avaient déjà le privilége de commercer avec le Tong-Kin, et il semblait aux autorités de Yun-Nâu qu'elles étaient d'autant plus fondées à réclamer la libre circulation sur le Song-Koi, que ce cours d'eau y a \n\nses sources et sa vallée supérieure. Elles donnèrent done à M. Dupuis des pouvoirs en règle qui lui permettaient d'organiser une expédition, et grâce auxquels il espérait ve- nie à bout de sa tâche sans trop de peine. Il fallait bien envisager cependant l'hypothèse où les Annamites lui re- fuseraient obstinément un libre passage et où il faudrait recourir à la force pour se le frayer. Mais cetto perspective laissait M. Dupuis sans grande inquietude. Les renseigne- ments qu'il avait recueillis durant ses excursions parmi les tribus sauvages du Tong-Kin nord occidental ne lui avaient pas communiqué une haute idée du courage des Annamites. Voyez, lui avait dit un des chefs montagnards, voyez mes » homines; ils n'ont que des lances, et cependant une > centaine d'eux font fuir un millier d'Annamites. Ils fuient » à toutes jambes et ce n'est qu'en embuscade qu'il offrent quelque résistance. » Ce dire avait bien paru à M. Da- puis quelque peu vantard; mais il avait eu depuis l'occa sion de le contrôler, et il en avait reconnu toute l'exacti- lude. \n\nAvant de se lancer dans son entreprise, il jugea opportun de se rendre en France, et c'est là que nous le retrouvons eu 1872. Il avoue sans détour que les personnes auxquelles il s'ouvrit de ses projets lui tinrent un langage tres-découra- geant. Elles lui dépeignaient avec force la mauvaise foi et la cruauté bien connues des mandarins annamites; elles lui représentaient le Tong-Kin en proie à la guerre civile, le pays très-montagneux, le fleuve très-encaissé et la facilité avec laquelle on pouvait en intercepter la navigation, ainsi que les Chinois l'avaient fait jadis pour le Pei-Ho; elles lui ontraient enfin son einbouchure occupée par des troupes de pirates, bien décidés à n'y laisser pénétrer personne. Le propre des convictions robustes est d'avoir réponse à tout, et aucune objection n'était capable de refroidir l'ar- deur de M. Dupuis, son enthousiasme même : « Voyez, » répliquait-il, ce que les Anglais savent faire dans des \n\n• circonstances moins favorables que les miennes; il fant » de la persévérance, un peu d'énergie, et c'est tout. Il était très-désireux néanmoins de se concilier l'appui, au moins moral, de son pays; et c'est à cette fin qu'il fit des dé- marchies près du ministère de la marine. L'accneil qu'il en reçut fat, il le reconnait, des plus bienveillants; mais on ne lui cacha point que, dans les circonstances actuelles, la France ne pouvait faire que des veux pour son succes. On ferait officicusement pour lui tout ce qu'on pourrait, mais sans s'engager. C'était à lui de se frayer un passage à sos risques et périls, et si un sort funeste devait mal- heureusement lui échoir, oa n'interviendrait pas pour venger sa mort ou celle de ses compagnons. \n\nLe 14 avril 1872, M. Dupuis quittait la France, ot, le 15 mai suivant, il prenait terre à Saigon, où le général d'Arbaud, gouverneur par intérim, le recut fort bien, et d'où il repartit bientôt pour se rendre à Shang-Hai et y procéder aux derniers préparatifs de son expédition. Revenu à Saigon, le 12 septembre, il y anodifia ses in- tentions premières qui avaient été d'abord de se faire con- duire à Hae, capitale de l'Annam, sous la protection du pavillon français, et il prit le parti de gagner directement avec ses gens, le goile du Tong-Kin. Il fut toutefois con- venu entre lui et le gouverneur qu'un vapeur francais croiserait, à tout événement, dans les parages de Hai-Phong, où l'expédition devait rallier. Elle se composait de deux canonnières à vapeur, d'une chaloupe à vapeur, d'une grande jonque, auxquelles un bateau à roues s'adjoignit plus tard, et que montaient 150 hommes, dont 25 Européens et le restant Malais, Chinois, Manillais. Pour l'équiper et pour Farmer, M. Dupuis avait dù engager toute sa fortune et faire, à part une certaine somme qui fut versée entre ses mains par les autorités de Yun-tan, Lous les premiers frais de l'entreprise. Mais une convention en règle lui as surait 10,000 piculs d'étain, calculés à forfait sur le picd de 100 francs chacun; il devait, en outre, vendre pour le compte des mandarins et à valoir sur ses propres dépenses, 12,000 autres piculs de cuivre; on lui promettait enfin une large part dans l'exploitation des mines; le tout, en somme, constituant des conditions tris-avantageuses, comme il en convient lui-même. \n\nLe 8 novembre 1872, l'expédition mouillait près de llaï- Phong, et y trouvait l'aviso le Bourayne, commandant Senez, que le général d'Arbaud, lidèle à sa promesse, avait dépêché Pour lui faciliter l'entrée du Song-Koi. Le delta de ce fleuve est uu immense dépôt d'alluvions formées par les détritus qu'il entraîne à l'époque de ses hautes eaux, et le littoral est si bas qu'il est très-difficile d'en reconnaître les bouches, outre que de nombreux hauts-fonds rendent cette opéra- tion périlleuse. M. 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        "content_text": "128\n\nL'ÉCONOMISTE FRANÇAIS.\n\ntrois lecteurs et deux autres maîtres; la rétribution du personnel administratif à 50,240 marks; les frais de matériel à 46,390 marks; la dotation des instituts, des cliniques et des séminaires à 240,810 marks; les prix annuels mis au concours à 3,300 marks. Sur les frais du personnel administratif, il y a: 3,000 marks, traitement du curateur; 3,600 marks suppléments au recteur et aux doyens des facultés; 100 marks au secrétaire de l'Université; 3,100 marks au questeur trésorier; 4,500 marks au secrétaire du curateur, contrôleur de la caisse; 2,100 marks au commis de la chancellerie et au commis de la caisse; 7,870 marks pour promotions au doctorat; 6,000 marks pour travaux extraordinaires, etc., etc.\n\nQuelques détails sur la dotation des instituts, des cliniques et des séminaires attachés aux diverses classes trouveront ici leur place et ne seront pas sans intérêt. On n'a pas consacré moins de 3,308,080 francs pour l'installation première de l'Université et de ses annexes, de 1872 à 1870. Cette année même, le budget d'Alsace-Lorraine leur accorde 240,810 marks pour dépenses ordinaires, et 21,930 marks pour dépenses extraordinaires: soit, ensemble, 262,740 m. ou 328,450 francs, contre 362,760 marks attribués en 1876 aux instituts et aux laboratoires de l'Université de Strasbourg. Il y a 668,870 marks inscrits au même titre sur le budget de la Prusse pour l'Université de Berlin; 306,746 m. pour l'Université de Konigsberg; 338,764 marks pour l'Université de Bonn. L'allocation annuelle ordinaire de l'Université de Strasbourg se répartit comme il suit dans l'ordre d'inscription au budget.\n\nSéminaire juridique, 1,200 m.; séminaire des sciences sociales, 1,200 m.; institut anatomique, 10,170 m.; institut de chimie physiologique, 7,400 m.; institut pharmacologique, 6,930 m.; institut physiologique, 8,000 m.; institut d'anatomie pathologique, 3,900 m.; clinique médicale et polyclinique, 18,810 m.; clinique chirurgicale, 10,380 m.; clinique d'accouchements, 49,830 m.; clinique des yeux, 5,170 m.; clinique des maladies syphilitiques et de la peau, 2,100 m.; clinique psychiatrique, 9,150 m.; séminaire mathématique, 1,500 m.; institut physique, 9,300 m.; institut chimique, 76,700 m.; institut zoologique, 3,700 m.; institut de minéralogie, 4,800 m.; institut de géologie et de paléontologie, 4,500 m.; institut de botanique, 11,150 m.; Institut pharmaceutique, 5,400 m.; institut petrographique, 600 m.; observatoire astronomique, 5,700 m.; séminaire philologique, 1,800 m.; séminaire d'histoire moderne, 900 m.; séminaire philosophique, 600 m.; institut d'archéologie artistique, 2,100 m.; institut pour la connaissance des antiquités grecques et romaines, 1,800 m.; institut pour l'épigraphie romaine après Jésus-Christ, 600 m.; séminaire de philologie allemande, 1,200 m.; séminaire des langues romanes et anglaises, 1,500 m.; pour l'étude des antiquités égyptiennes, 300 m.; cabinet de lecture académique, 3,900 m.; réunion musicale de l'Académie, 1,200 m.; école d'équitation, 1,500 m.; dépenses non prévues, 4,000 m.\n\nA elle seule, la bibliothèque de l'Université dispose encore, en dehors de ces sommes, d'un crédit ordinaire de 121,050 marks. Ces chiffres n'ont pas besoin d'autre commentaire. J'ajouterai seulement, en manière de comparaison, que, pour un crédit annuel de 328,450 francs, attribué aux laboratoires et aux collections de l'Université de Strasbourg, bibliothèque non comprise, le total des sommes portées au budget de 1871, en France, pour entretien et renouvellement des collections, établissement des laboratoires, frais de manipulations et de cours de toutes les Facultés des sciences, des Facultés de médecine et des Écoles supérieures du pays entier, ne dépasse pas 341,000 francs. Si, dans les principaux établissements du haut enseignement en France, les instruments de travail manquent ou sont beaucoup trop restreints, nous ne nous plaindrons pas de voir l'administration de l'Alsace-Lorraine faire plus largement les choses à Strasbourg. L'exemple donné sera bon à suivre, car, dans l'état actuel de la science, l'enseignement oral ne suffit plus. Sans peine de déchéance, l'enseignement doit s'appuyer sur l'expérimentation, sur les exercices pratiques du laboratoire, travail également indispensable pour les élèves et pour les maîtres, et sans lequel il n'y a point de progrès possible. Pour compléter les chiffres donnés ci-dessus, disons encore que, sur nombre de 677 étudiants immatriculés en 1870 à l'Université de Strasbourg, nous comptons seulement 106 Alsaciens-Lorrains pour l'étude de la théologie protestante, de la pharmacie et de la médecine. L'Université nouvelle a été fondée par décret impérial du 28 avril 1872, en remplacement de l'Académie établie en 1808, qui succéda elle-même, après la Révolution de 1789, à l'ancienne Université érigée par une ordonnance de l'empereur Maximilien Ier, en date du 1er juin 1566, à la demande du magistrat de Strasbourg.\n\nCHARLES GRAD.\n\nL'OUVERTURE DU TONG-KIN AU COMMERCE EUROPÉEN.\n\nL'EXPLORATION DU SONG-KOÏ.\n\nOn a raconté ici-même comment la deuxième expédition envoyée par les Anglais afin de reconnaître les jalons d'une route commerciale entre le Barma britannique et la Chine occidentale avait échoué d'une façon si tragique. On constatait en même temps que, la route par Bhamo écartée, au moins provisoirement et pour longtemps peut-être, et le grand fleuve de la Cochinchine française étant impraticable dans sa partie moyenne, la solution la plus naturelle du problème semblait être de recourir au Song-Koï, ou fleuve Rouge, grand cours d'eau qui se déverse, par un large delta, dans le golfe du Tong-Kin, et que notre intrépide compatriote, M. Jean Dupuis, négociant à Han-Kéou (Chine centrale), avait reconnu offrir, sur un parcours de 800 kilomètres, une communication non interrompue entre le littoral et le cours même de l'Yûn-Nân.\n\nLes faits qui se rattachent à la tentative de M. Dupuis sont peu ou point connus en Europe. L'opinion publique s'est un instant éveillée chez nous à la nouvelle inattendue qu'une poignée de Français, guidés par le lieutenant de vaisseau Francis Garnier, l'éminent explorateur du Mé-Kong, avait emporté d'assaut, le 20 novembre 1873, la citadelle de Ha-Noi, défendue par des milliers de soldats annamites; de même qu'elle devait s'émouvoir plus tard en apprenant que, à un mois à peine d'intervalle, le chef de cette expédition tombait, dans une sortie, sous les coups de bandits embusqués qui le perçaient de leurs lances et lui coupaient la tête. Puis le silence s'est fait de nouveau autour de ces événements, qui avaient le double tort de se passer si loin, et de tomber au milieu des plus vives préoccupations politiques. On n'en connaissait pas mieux la nature et les détails qu'on n'en appréciait la portée et les conséquences possibles. Éclaircir les uns et faire ressortir les autres, telle est la pensée des lignes qui vont suivre, et qui sont écrites sur les notes manuscrites que M. Dupuis a bien voulu nous remettre lui-même. L'explorateur du fleuve Rouge se trouve actuellement à Paris, et il y est venu dans l'espoir d'intéresser ses concitoyens au succès définitif d'une œuvre à laquelle, pour son propre compte, il a consacré toutes ses forces et sacrifié sa fortune.\n\nM. Dupuis arrivait au Céleste-Empire en 1868, et, dès l'année suivante, il quittait Shang-Haï en compagnie de M. Eugène Simon, aujourd'hui consul de France à Sydney, pour s'enfoncer dans l'intérieur du pays et remonter jusqu'au Thibet, s'il était possible. Mais l'état troublé du Sze-Tchuen, que désolait alors la guerre civile, les força de s'arrêter à Han-Kéou, où ils devançaient tous les autres Européens. En 1871, M. Dupuis eut quelques rapports avec la mission Morel et Blakiston, qui remontait alors le Yang-Tse-Kiang dans un but commercial, et ces rapports attirèrent son attention sur le fleuve Rouge, que, dès lors, il se promit d'explorer un jour ou l'autre. Il y avait évidemment de grandes difficultés dans une pareille tâche; mais M. Dupuis, qui avait déjà parcouru une grande partie de la Chine, qui en connaissait parfaitement la langue et s'était créé de grandes relations avec les mandarins, M. Dupuis espérait bien les vaincre. Dans ces conditions, il s'apprêtait, en 1872, à se mettre en route, lorsqu'il apprit qu'une commission française venait d'être formée afin de chercher, par la voie du Mé-Kong, cette route commerciale vers l'ouest de la Chine que lui-même entrevoyait dans le fleuve du Tong-Kin. Le Mé-Kong, débouchant dans une possession française, répondait mieux que toute autre voie aux besoins mêmes qui préoccupaient notre compatriote, et il jugea convenable d'attendre ce qui résulterait de son exploration. Mais lorsque, deux ans plus tard, il eut appris des membres mêmes de l'expédition que le Mé-Kong ne pouvait être utilisé au point de vue commercial, sa résolution fut prise et, au moment même où le major Sladen, remontant l'Irawaddy, allait à Momien, il prenait lui-même la route du Yun-Nan.\n\nMandarin à bouton rouge, grade qui correspond dans la hiérarchie chinoise à notre généralat de brigade, M. Dupuis put parcourir au grand jour toute la distance qui le séparait...\n\nPage 129\n\n(1) Voir, dans l'Économiste Français du 2 septembre 1876: les Routes commerciales entre l'Indo-Chine et la Chine, etc.\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\nNo. 15253\n\n(Subject.)\n\nRECEIVED\n\n28 DEC 1876\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n331\n\nFor Office Proceed of Suez relative to demand of the\n\nDate.\n\n1876\n\nDec 26\n\nLast previous Paper\n\n14706.\n\nBest\n\npirms.\n\nTelegram BGN - 27 Jan 187\n\nGW-2-2-\n\nHaßer\n\n158\n\n366\n\nE. S. Consel for surrender of extann\n\nFugitive Criminals\n\nC. concur in approval of V'suggest that the? be informed by telegraph of the redemption of effionlition arrangements with the & S. San\n\n99€\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nM. Kramiton\n\nLe 14706. Now pprove fumois parading. Joumors\n\nBut see\n\nresgutest\n\nad\n\nalegram to for. daging stendation will this U. Mater\n\nbeen resumed.\n\nTelegraph.\n\n((29.12.06\n\n& send copy to Govencon\"?\n\nJay that Love Duty has concured in\n\nM. 111/77\n\n2014. 4176-11 & 12 apterig.\n\nDrafttel almue",
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        "content_text": "Among the Agouti drums by them to supply services of 1st A. Handard pattern with the usual final amendments.\n\nThe Standard Pattern rifle has the Royal Crown with the Initials V.R. in monogram in the centre.\n\nBy special design that the cost was considerable if found purified a party hand painted Malay dalle the case.\n\nIn the service, I would not be liable to the general consensus who is norget Colony - Fany a sevenon who is admitted.\n\n& the Tamed aden kaing brat his mutton chep insignia he camp.\n\nRM29/12.\n\nPage 424\n\nDec.\n\nPage 434",
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        "content_text": "## 46 \n2. \n## 44 \n### Intimations. \n**THE CHINA VIEW.** \nChowder was claved tho putti! \n### Visitors' Column. \n**THE CHINA MAIL.** \n### Hongkong Rates of Postage. \n(via June 26, 1889) \nLal Parki Yest \n1. Small Parodia to seat by Port because any of the Fest Calle Chips We have instituted sa na experiment or Japan, as well 10 Mac VAITATS COLs, which we trust In the fallowing Statements and Tables boi, papi, Peus Ma widely-express gret at this dis will prove succesfe, and be found use the Ratas are given in sends, sal ww, for anal not excel the falieving doo \n\n1 wat rond 1 fotoop, izuno of Notes nervul. To it will be legsted fruta time Lettere, per half cher, for Book ads, & foot meg, nor web us than is plage is fumuaporation to tre such itsuse of information, fists, Pavere, por tres cuces. \n\nNewspapers o \na over four modes in weight wil be 20 cele per, which wel indude Bilar in objout and style, bob slightly tables and other intelligence is ec \n### Registration \nThe parcele s bully modified in wartado detail. \nsuured likely to prove vaatle to per charged as doubla, teable, ✯e, az i some taxing through the City, and cave map bo, but eveli papers or pacicate or ne say be rout at Book Rats. Two in euoneetion wiza we bave opered | Snappere arust not be folded together as Horn. AND BUSES, norunything whatever beismerted SELECT Damron, applicatos for enrolment sacept koná sice Epplements. \ner of this \n**THE CHINA REVIEW OF Roles and cries on the Far East, ia auded at fu tervals of two mumus, each numbar ou taining about 60 ev \net 60 nav pages, all cated with lible, photos, wonderia, be, bead the papare pubished demand, and the insulation justify, Jaiza Ditter. \nsuberitiva la vixed at $16.50 p \nd \nPrintad \nto which we are now ready to secure, der say, bowser, bo endload, if the wind be paid at Pack Kate. Price Cur rent may be paid either as Navapapam or List of Public Buildings. \npaid per san payable by on-residents Governant House, North of Public in Hinges, half-pearly in naprawne. \nThe patristica indledes papers riginal and selected inpun dia Arts and Seisces, Snogy, Folklore, Deugrupiy, History, Ilustre les Man Anu Cus- ton, Natural \nKeligion, do, C., \n### Gardens \nCits find. Library (8,000 volumes) and \nMuse-Free. \nPublic Gedens, a bontifully picturesque \nretreat and of great interest. \nBuake. \nComp by do not bear Pique annity, aos prone bough \nclosed it day bear this spook! accores. \n27, PADE, OTANING TO Luman, but \nany parzel was ered by danion of the Possier tiesā. \n2. The following went be mated Patcula insasiuni, packed as paciented, or liable to be \nGlass, Teguida, \nazglasite butee Matchca, Ladigo, u 10, Kent, \ndegrees to des Fish, Game, Fruit, Vestby to - Helyi bo \nthe up rectar of an actual or pramazal sorteo fire or injet i trans spousal, ach tha deeds, copied music, e. The obarge on Si \n### No. 5892,- (CTOBER 21, 1880. \n**Merchant Vessels in HongCong Harbour** \nExcburies of cats Arrivals and Departures reported lo-lay, \nTorillaz fading the position of 207 renal in the Harbour, the Anchorage is divided inte sigal Boetius, vammancing at (trend Indai. Vasole neuer the Hongkong shere are marked A, use the Kowing shore k., azri those in the body of the Shipping or midway between each shore to masked c., in conjunction wild the Sguroa denoting the mentions. \n2. From Gas Works to the Novelty Iron Worke \n### Section \nB. From P. and D. Co.'s Office to Peddar's Wharf. \n7. Feur Nare! Yard to the Fiez. \nbox \n### RC 20957. \n1. From Great island to the Gas Worka \n6. From Fadder's Wharf to the Naval Yard \nFrom Novelty Iron Works to the Harbour dater's Dœfice. From Earbuds Master's to the P. and 0. Ou.'s Ģice. \n8. From Pitta East Prist. \n---- \n### Captain. \nStig and Date of \nVoices or ease. \nDestination \nHig. \nArrival \n8. E'stonls will as a general rela be for aided by Ferate Ship not by Coutras Mall Packet. The Port Ofs coserves se umelon, and it clearing devory in caves! tight of electing shopperty for tran tiles tumber of parcela is spel as to retard Esceipsatser correspondens. My responsi \nthan \nfor backs, but, whatever the weight of packet contafting ay parally witte of Chen Jesus, Mungulia, Tibet, the Tue Clock Tower, Queens Road Cen-pap, it will wet be charged fo Easter Anipeg and the \"Her set. \" tral, in be with Pedder's Whis \nThe sender of Rey Recieved generally, we defaike list of abjects General Fost Office, Hoaghong Chung it alt a Row \npon which coexitations we oogmcılalış \n### German Club, Spreme Court, de, invite is ismægurated, \nwww.bor. \nwillia a stone's throw Chinese Ladin. Grigal contributions in French, Get parish, Italian Tor Lagitan Club and hazy, Sbellay St. tugasza, are sourschi Bednars freveramets Offices, the Sacrorerint, &o., \nnear the holic Gorders. \nare as to premat a rohtut \nthat of the most rout \nwere bearing on Chine ccatism, fines \non paying an extra fea of o cente. \nbacopted with regard to any fartel, bet the Region wil see the The limit of weight to Books and Com reial Pages to Foreigu Foes basical any bat a very reale per- 61ba Pallares for web offices are limited tablity of lon to sed must uns exced these \nubevenue: 3 inch by itches by \n### St. Jou's Cathedral (Anglia), \nzun J'orade Gromm sidention is plac paid to ibu Review Roman Catholic Caredral, Welling \nSweet. \ndepartures \nther as \"Nous\" head reinross being \n### Notes and Bepiter \nclamited tegen Church, Higin Street. given, when furnished, so previous Nožni B1. Peter's Neuenburch, West Print or Carles, as are also close queries which St. Joseph's (KC) Char), Ganian though any for Informativas, furolabı, aven Road, Bear Kenney for \nor orphed details reneeming the at-Tapetance Hull, erisly adapted for \nb. It le sirable to make his Questo proper as brist and as mnoh to the possiblə \n| \n### The China Beine \nkm July and August, 1876, is band. Is anys the forty-two anya wary acut into uosipato for the best pap on the advantages of Curiality ter \ndavelopment of Sale All car lesen ed preistes khoi là entenciou to this svorkuly enterprising Revie. It is a sig pagod, bi-menthly, repertory of watch low are sestaining shoot China *IN incture of hiero Ponizy in vaja volumen is sure workh the pries of the žievis, kūr dress China Now, Hongnny-Northern | Ürisian únicate (U.B.) \nber \nanen, Qusar's Load Eust \n301- West B \nພະນ \n### R. E. A. and Chiny Colegraph Co., and \nthe Great Northe Pergraph to,, Marion Hose, Gong's Hand.\" tascais hall, Zedand Street. \n### Victoria Recreation Cank---Bath house! \nsea last-wuse, ke,-Praya, beyond the Gecket Ground, beside the \"City fie!! \nhe Baracke and Narat med Military \n### Store \nparkerenk Je to the wird, and cover a koga area. \n### Stores, Books, &c. \nincles. \n.. means No Registration, \n### Countries of the Pata! \nUnion, The Union may be taken to conspelar Keops, net foreign passione in Ama, Japan, W. Africa, Harpt, Mauritius, all \nN. Amenca, Mexic, aleator, Caři, \nVal' Nas \n4. The public re cantined at tu persaud \nfound the facts with a Period Hurope, d, which dres not exist \nthe Bochung \nbabe Java \nHout countries to which Hongkong wards Carespondenou Laylax juin Gerd Fodic or ng \nbeat to du so, it resory that the Kang-bhi ..... following lost nicely \n...Wooney \n... Rondeli \n### 3 Wantry Amal, 5079 |CM. \n«Oschen ... Brit. \n### Betmarks \nK'leon Dout Fontan lo \n6. Poincisosh Leat \n502 Sept \n### BiB \nskr. 1700 k. \nJaGibb, Livlegatoa de Ca 20e, M. 3. A. Da \n### Apertalian Porta \nJardine, Matteson & Co. \n21 Russel & Co. \n2. \n19 \n18th Hang SIA Dat 1512 Oct \nstr. 137.5.& po Dock Un \n231 Octo \n843 e 140. 31. Co. \n1057 Ooi. 23 Gae. P. Starons à . \ndewchang Holhor, & \n### E-MITTIT \nat daylight \n¡Holbow, An, \nShanghai \nCo-murtos \n¡Tag Prive \nSAM1979 \nAversich \nDiGlavo \nUhy of Tokia. \n8 citurroy Brit. \n6 h Hall. \nBrit. \n### Deronsite.....n an \nF \nHot... \n5 baner \nPolesen.....Chi \n2 bittidor ...Onwlo \nlamer. \nDutch est. \nChola uch \netr. \n### JOEL \n74 Opt. Wildongian Lapralk & Cu \nKumes Porta \nloon Desk \n*Path, dayligas \nne Deck \nMarvelja \n. Maasz \n7 Romedios & Co, \n¡Manila \nPo-day \nJBut \n741 Dot, \n21 Samen & Co. \nthaoghal \nSenhue. \n„ider. \n69 Oct \n14:3bsamaau & Ca \n298 Oct. \n2020, M. 8. N. 06 \nShanghai \nBrit. \n65% O \n2030, R. Bierros & Co. \n933 Out \n18 Koan Fat Hong \nBangkok \n23rd inel \nair. \n48 Mar. \n24 China Traders unorance Co. \nate. 1039 Chut. \n17P. 20. 8. N. Cn. \nki Yokohama \n80 ct \nrides, R. Sisroun de Cu. \nJaustralian Porte \n24th fant \nstr. 388 Oct \nKinging. \n1. No Letter Facket, whether to Young... Brit. \ncan be said! \nFrail, forn, Vesiesals, 21 Argentine registered or \nRepabli, da bilan, with all jewels, precies tee, or a thing ticking Hondure, Bermuda, Disa, Fren, Netherlands, Portuguese peroral ya, is hakka to C4 l'acker \nTrakia, Guiana, ¦ for Postmeni: ABERYS Palicum \nsuŭ Spanish Colonies. \n### Countries or 13 the Union-The chair? \ncountries kod in the Caion are the AP tralasian Greop \n### Postage to Vaior Countries. \nGeneral, by any mouku some \nLuton, \n30 cents per or conis cal \n10 cents. \nZacuta cact \n2 suis par Scu \nation, Post Carda, east-wpens \nBooka, Paikuras and i \nCom Papare, There is no ekarzome restrauted erro. apadne wishin the Petal Taka. \n### J'idge to No Union Countries. \nHawaiian Kingdom \n### Omeral Gutter \nHesier, Tailor, \nSebata orientai tiacural contains the fol- lowing notice of the Chius Fuziotela \nthe title of a puestion, \nly reached as from Boug.-T. N. Discoll, dû and 47, 1ks lately 2 kang, whers has been set on fuck an in Quears Road, by special appeiztruant sen.8 zenperea cartingallon of Sous and to E. Ma Limeriu on China and Japan, the extinction \naf which chefui saxial a year de kwu sgu kak \nand segraded in Europe as well \nEn China Thmpresest publisation, judging, \nby the river now tntire us, la intended to! \n### Cleozomerers, Watches, Jowellery, \nLestor \nBordo Patt \n### Nore. \n+ \ndisps and Chr. FALCONELLO, West Judice (Non Unit, Burias, Queen's itoad Control. \n### Costa Rica, Grenc, Now Graula, Nicaragua, 'ze, Paragliay¶. \nItegistration, Newspape \n### American and Buglich Stores, Books, \nscopy & positian, as tegendu Chitand send speeindly selected Cigars-Mac Deighbouring countricovnat elmila \nto that which has keen fed in Tadis by the \nCatania Niet ut proat dayrus of ut \nEF, FRICKEL & Co. \n### Aerial Newers and cheng Ra-Book \ndi fattura, \nOF \nFue. \n10 \njuline, \nFeride!! \n2. This Regulaties panjabies the condit¦ Sea Gu of Excieraz of dutiable setincs, unless this Sunda quantity one best small na to make the Tiales \nample of no valge. \n### Wolle........ \nê. The firoits of reight alumed are si \n### Budowa -- \nBook and Papem to Britan úton | \n5 s; to the Cortinant, Au, Patton to Britist, Offer, Slox if wit \n### Bailing Vosk \nSbEepkias B \nHajdoná \nVincar.......... jammander \nAgnes Mair's Love ...........Br. \nsh \n458 Bapt. 190. M. 5. N. Co \n851 8epk, \n200. M. & N. Oo \n131ayar U. \n27 Carlowite & Co. \nout intrinsic value; to the Chularity flee Book Servier. ! 14284z. 27! Vezel & Co. \nda, 8 OF. \n3 kidones ..........Port. sh, 602 July Ale H. Safthe Packer Amur, sh \n### Sidemcy \nfor the loss of a legineral Letto Apala \nThomsen alt 3:0.50. fazer umaśžer, bgę, „skátamora......Amer. Contabriacal! \nAmer faulsen Dan. \n### The Post Offint \nta noy legally naposafts | Che Bitte for the wife delity of Regatora cress Camere \nunderco, has benyoforth it elit to prCurs pared to make gooch the acabaria of Dagmar \nwo lost while eng lash Do ina-wners of 319, în vari Kami. --------------- \n### Florum Alghingale \nà adolulɲin .............. Falt bye. Ford \n2 Borgwards.. \nC, Rovided \n1. That lies daly observed at the condivista në Registration requir \n2. has the fat is securely welos \nia Numably by <zveiopa \n3. That application we made to Pomnator Ger \ngang i \nof \n### France \ntes Great Adaira \ndental W. Ingley Johann lentich \nW \nbye. \nEradno & Co. \n1487 Repi. 199. &0. S. X. \n210 Dok. 30eur & Co. \n896 at 11aler (5. \n✡o. \n990 Sept 20, Arnhold, Karbery & Ou. \nJul Aug. 20 Arabolt, Karry \n### Euvre \nand Humihang \n(New York \nSa Franciao \nCa. \nNew York \nbe 222 1000 17 Arnhold, Kurberg & Co. 20 apt. 18, anhold, Karberg Un \nEduard Schelbase & Co. 464 Opt. Amhald, Karberg & Co. Cine,bletiza 252 let. 3Barlowits de Ou Kanto Fch, bat.. $0 Sept 20 Lardstelu à Ca Tompson. 1676 Sept 18 & Co Dadless, brie. 1098 c. 811Adamron, Bell & Ca \ntiaram. Jej 411 18jahod, Karberg & Co. .............................................♣ kobieciaker, Sm. so. 245 Saph 14daari Sabalias & Co. Mgails ............$ Ünumer. Ger b 521 pm & Co. \n..............2 Pelierma... Stat. Leja. નામ ચિન \n### Bust \n...........for. bre. t. 20 Captada Sath Jumeries.ok Kawwht. Amer. . 2262 et 17 Roll & Co. Sparta 18 Vincent...... \n81 Aug 27W. B. Bay \nged that the loss of while the Serastesi \nThas the Prator Coasalan B. All4kitidredgewer. bga 636 Sept powderor was in the lefody of the Betti Portal administration in Chine, that it not assed by any faul on the past of t sender, by destruction by few, or shipwra: ae by the digno or cegligence of a person in ply of \nį medļatuly tho Jeza m \nrausing that er een bestowed of its your prints, do, cholos Teixete and Digans. Azzahralia, New Zealand, Tanaris, zać upon the regation of it literature,' VABLETY STORY, 40, mist. vix Torres Brash, Lotters, 19; 20 eppolops being invariably and Macar antiquities, and ordial develop to any Queen's Road. nothing of ionisatie, have id to tas \ngistration, it; Norte, Books Rail Pattatre, 4: Piu a Lettera, ; e- \n### Belation \nof inspottant force of inform Watches Jewelles, Charte, Bingen-gration. 10; Neespapers, 2; Bookt aan ation, romāneizg zare sur chansi of pub las, Optically, Murdan's Pattern, Ecity as is now previdad extremely dimir Pencil-exes, &- Nosch, agent. able and contribution of web Inistro & Zaobu. \nmay fairly be looked for from the azalers i \nof the foreign consular services, the Ukinena \nSabal, the Lage, St. Helery and sea mno, in Aden, Lettore, 25: fagetration, \nGuus, Kides. Parde, Ammunition,10; Nowspapers, \"; docks sal Pattern, 5. \n### Chalu \ncorps, and the misionary body, and Sportsons's test all descrip \nneng wham bigh degree of Chinese tione.-W SCRDY & Co., \ndubai a nes nauidwoly cultivated here, at Hoof Begoonsfield \nwad who freeverally represented rubbe sigui q \nLuraber of the dining by yes. bighly rurulé \nantijs at C. Legguise manager wet pot fire. \nHa7. E. J. Zital, in which the piano al \nhabourdonvášky girnil, da ozsoklons | \npresental of the chronykɔgat i \nproblems and a agamenta involved in cordato Taker or FaZNE FOB CIKAIRE, \nhexion with this important work. Some trusinisce feus Okiama Levels and playe \nmarked by both secrecy and freshness \nđ style; and an account is the vacuna of \nthe Chinese poet-statesman of xbo elernɔiù entury, Sn Fung-plo, by Mr. E. C. Bowza, le mot only historiusally valuable, but is also distinguished by its literary grize Bonds nokioen rẩ new books relating to Ühine and the East, which will be a useful fensum of \nthe Neview, if carried out with, punctuality \nani \nwe are glad to note that \n### Arsi \n\"Queries” sir dantlusă în \n### ÚHA \nKAREES, AND BEATS, \nAN 288 COLANT OF HOSAKOND. \n### Quadra \nmå fordinary Pulierny Bosto \nHalf hour,....10 st.. | Hour,... 20 ot. \nThree hours...50 ot.. | Six hoary,...70ah, \nDay (from C), One Dollar, \nTo Vicenza Pe% \nbrad a place in in pages also. It is to be Four Curling \nPop at this cig le contributions Three Cli \nen China about may evolua aiTİLAY \ndegree of cesary mai to shat which won i \n### Tiro \nCuties, \nPingle Trige, \n$1.00 \n0.88 \n£0.70) \n...$1.50 \n1.20 \n... 1.00 \n### Band \nor by Prà fuo lum). \ndisplayed during the lifetime ut ita prefe-Four Candies, \nres the Belo,and ibal tius na Fierce \nmay re the support zoomacy to izme \n### Thres \nCaulics, \nJe continance. The publication is later. The Candies,... \ned to wopcer avery two months, sud vili \nform a mistenklai osteso mag \n**THE CUINÈGE MAIL.** \nTo Vannia Cat fte kaval oF EMPRESA \nThis paper is usual evary Four Coolina \nGay. The ausription he fed at For The Colin, Bullare your anama deifvened to Hog Two Coles, by Ken Doliers Fifty Conde in- \nauding p pohugs to Coat porta, \nis the frest Chines Nunapaper wer woved under pursy nice nation The albef eupport of the paper is a derived trop the nails couly, og whom and to be found a yusutom se ouetes novary phace tiene bustave andlega footing. \n• The projectors, hating their catastes \nupon the ces reliable information fera \n### FRA) \n### Siuple \nTrip \nRaam (Zirut or op. Hod-for-lume.) \n$1.60 \nG.00 \n2).40 \n### Foar \nConli AA11.00 The Cooli \nTwo tholes,... \n...... 0.70 \nThe Return Face crebraces a trip of ot more thou thres hone \nFor every bow part of an hour Abere three hours, tack Coshio will be entitled to \n### si \nvarton Fork in Chi and Jays-Day \nfrom Austria, California, Singapore, \nPoong, Budget, deler places roque \nby the China, tunelu \njankind to garatuz are altimate \ncitati u berwena pol \ncon The savantagea cinted to advar \nfitonal pay of b cent \n### Trip \nPeatu.75 each \nlie. \n2 hours) tiap20) sack coito. \n### Limes \nOras (sessih). \nHour, \n...10 \nquie \nDall day, \nZY eenin \ntire are therefore unasunily j \n### Bayr \nle foreign ennenails gegarails w \nLind \nto their interest to pull themselves of \nthis \n### DUST \n262 900LIK BIAR. \nThe fold men toe oper of shis descrip \nstun gundasted hy native offerta, but 1 Classes Dont 17 % at 900 \nprogresive and sati-obstructiys in tone- \nxmont 1t we then cars board; Lot Class Cargo Bost of \nsamwanda \nbudet and laterat ; \nwhile on the other deserves svet ald that our bu \nto it by intuigueza, \n### Lake \nFagin jouet entries Edittain \nwith Trand, Shipping and Commercial \nNous am RYELINATED \n3thanription \nabove zay be sent to \nfor etter of this \n### CEO. MURRAY BAUN, \nChina al disa \nFREDERIC ALCAR, COLONIAL, NEWSPAPER & COMMIS- \nSION AGENT, \n11, L'anest's Lons, Lombari Brest, \nJORDUR. \n182 Coloma Press sapplied se New- paper, Hooke, Typia Juk, Press, Papers, Correspovirus, Letters, sad any Super Gake on dan ter \n### AOTION \nTO SUIFPERS. \nColonial Fampspær exsoirul at the of Adverse and the Hakka \nare regalarly al for the inzetlen \nand is good 600 \n$1.00 \nad Clue Carys Host - Boat of 500 \njo, \nUgo Bolo 17-ax Best of 2011 \npicula, Hald Ding, \nAmoxil axton charge to mite un dels 'ir Hegiralicu to ritish \nHeydd Facton The Ban \nmax, 1 wate \n• CREAM DE SAFe vin San Froito \n### LOOAL \nPOSTAGE \nF \nid) No Parent Post \n### Local \nDenver. \nGard Now! \n1. All corespondenæ jvataí beluso 13.01 on any wook day for adiramar în Vistoria will be delivered the day, \nand genomally whhin two hours, unless the \ney should be sobered by this Contract \n### Invitations, \nde, can veterally be delivered within Victoria at the privati anuses of the addresses rather \nt \npiazem of blinder, it wish to that effect \nsuch application unless I aino la inel. \nbond book, wh which reach their destiamion, althoighà | a broken or deteriorated edition. \n### Forber \n### Money \nOrder Regulations. L--Most Ordian ang exchanged wiù e United Kingdom, New \nwalu Qusariand, South Australis and Darvin, the Strata Settlements, Warto Australia, and forcept at Shanghai) uzd the Jam ropite. Hongkong z bens cris ca Shanghai, uzd vice verad \n### Email \nsame may be tedid between the other Fort by ame of Puss Stamps, subject to change of ons per cunt. It owling them, \n### 740 Cak \nrisun \n..................Taliem. Gu. \nbqo \n550 10st \n### ULAZION \nDrew \nat Yak \n--Mary Mom Ondert are supplied residente af the avaler Ports in this way. Fly \nAn application for an orisalted up, Tang Yong \n### South \nSea Islanda \nPiontula \nSand Feanalizo \nLuntia \nHer York \nHavre and Hamburg \n16 Bong Song Woo \nGülows & Cu \nMeyer & Co \nLoutco \n19 \n743 Dat \n40,00. B. Bivens \n### Man-of-war \nin Hongkong Harbour. \n480 \n### REFF \nK'loan be \nYasa Wun Tex \nSisphope Grov \nJans 21 \n### Reph \n22 \n### Commander. \nCom. Klas \nJ. Farrow \nB. U. Naplor \nComedore Smith John G. JoDHE \nOct \n### Date \nof \n### Forsels \nNawa, \nHlay, \nClass. \nTora Gune. \nH. P. \nJingl \n41. \nC. I \n### COZMAN \nAnde \nMAD-OF-WAT \nOct. \nSuntint \nBut vol \nKD. Chinno \nPeronne prakser \n354 \nBritish \ngao rekl \n- \n184 \nLa 31 \nKritish \nmilhar doepitai \n3091 \nBritish \nganhout \n1:00 \nKetah \nJotama-tore's flagship 2087 \nBritish \ntorrat-ship \n304 \nJave 2 \nAs Canton \nChinese \nzenbort \nexcit frigate \nand is ezciated with a stage, directe, Magus... \nand unsealed scvelops in the Postuwster | sne \nthe wastest issuer offen The application Midge \nst be sampanied with the tail regatta Road, (incrading commuwen) in ebegns, paelage Wi \nstein, or other guivalent of cash, and ni \nfittin margin about bu left for variatious | \nof mathsage. The Praiaster in the Hal King \nender, suede o in the envelope, and Kargualun \nreturns the change, if any, by teal eppar \nhunity, with a Meslpt for the letter, if i \nget to las registered, as it always single \nb. Oare should be taken to me te \npplication Nma, the Muney Order Ollies close me zure before the depar \nIberoo of the windm \n4-No order must exserd 418, at £50, will 27 include any fraction of a pony, vor more than two such orders honed to the se person, in favour of the same page. by the authe mail. Ordere will be drawn \nat the creat rata of the day and paid t the rate of the day when the advios uzivud, \n### The \nmission is as followe>-- \n### Orders \non the United Kingdom, \nUp to 18 ent \nיז \nار \nM54 \n£).......... \n72 \n### Land \nIntercamslal Ordan. \nUp to $5 or A...... \ni \ntor 10....50 \n- of Money Draer Offces in th \nUnited Kingdom may be unsalted ar \nbe exprezed by the der, here all longkong Shangh \nceraspondanes is invclubly deliver m 6.Names must be given in full (except \nLa metre plans of babes. \nwhen there is more than we \n### Boxholders \nwho desire e tu mad Cizen- | \nbe given if the order be rosed (a 26, Dividend Warts, Inexations, Cards, but the anal the Pago el t \n### Lobaques \ndew, all of time acme weight, to address are rose). It can then be paid, Hong, Bangkok, or the Furia of Chirs through Bank, and may afterwards in! and Japan, may sliver them in the Postpally crossed in ang Bank. Office stamped, the postage bring then \n### batch \nmust constat of at least ten \n### Fach \nhas signed it in the proper plans. \n### Buzholders \nmay also woad Vatterordor en be traced in anus \n### HONGKONG, MAULU \nAND CANTON RIVER \n### STEAMERS. \n### Nama \nTONE Captois \nJohaug \n760 Ogatun \nKiu Bhan \n40% \nKia Ki \n61 \nHentai, \nHayiand \nKlong-ping \nB Indu \nPovah \n1500 Carg \n110 \nLatovener \nSir J. Jaejoption! 154 \nSpark \nTong Ting \nWhile Gland \n314 Depre \nLiners \nB \nEw Bok Tong \n1200 \n250 \nM. Marble \n### CHINESE \nQUN-VESSELS \nIN CANTON WATERS, &C \n### Naste \nTrace Aus \nH. r. \n### An-lau \nChuu- \nDalterfold and Swira Cbro-ko \nK., D. & M. B-boat Co. Obing-ou T., C. & M. & string p \nC. M. & & Co. \n### Chau-tong \n5., UM, 6-bout Co.-le \nK. Acheng & Sonz \nE., C. & M. & boat (to \nC. M. 8. 7, Qu \n### Peng-chou-ba! \nQUAD2.06 Shum-i \n20 Benog, A. H. Q. & M. 8.bast Ce. 50-ang \n180 BE \nYOUSO NEIPPING IN PORT, \n### She \nanes places in the mane way. Eu-ok pasment of s additional comedia. Pater \n### In \ncase of low of an order, pesadly for Symphe \nvelopes vcntaining Patterns may be wholis i stopping Pade to the Br \ncloned if the nature of the contents be fast \nw tho like, Sheldraks \nfor Timasto Geriam brig \n### VSN-UPAWASH \nK. Achwong & Su \nKing-kw \nKinogahow \nLin-yen \nTalag \nChioge \nBritish \nFroueb \n| 2829898398889 \n### Commander \nJ. Godsli \nSlewati \nA. Walker \nChirrem Admini \nA. Gercenta \nChae A' Ho \nO. 1 Falaser \nPing Tre \nJ. H. Wade \nJ. B. Marry \nChing \nErd \n### MUNONANT \nHALLĀKU PANİKES \n### Blue \nJacket \nProcura \nForward Flo Fodvig \nKir \nMary \nMattie Macleay \nPaul Jooen \nSin of the North \nD. Maria de Molna \nGarooding Motate Nanacacy \nAroedown l \nfor Mauila \nBritish hargne \nSauce brig Brilled bacque Hele bu Brabr Slam \nbrig \nfor New York \na kerge Jock \njarital brig Bettiah barte \nSuanish cncratite Runboat 1. M. correcta \nV. A surefte \nHustlar marty \nM. axrette \nPranol frigate \n### patals, \nger Day, \npats, yer Lead, \n900 \n### MERⱭJANI \nSTRANKSA, \n-- \n### ival, \npor Day, \nfed \nplums, par Law, \nand Base Cage of 100 \n1. \n### Oct. \n9, 1880, HERCHANI STAMBULA. \n### Bankow \nBellish \n*Addits \nBrisb \nBrown Brothers \nAlso Can \ntor Shanghal \nClfaca \nCart Ludvig \ncle, per Day, \n### Class \nCarge Rosa - \n7.71 \n### Sost \nof ou \n1.60 \n| charged to the sender's servant. \n7.--No order can be paad till the Payon Nation \nfor Bongbong \nKiang-plan \nChiness \nP \nKrilish \n### MENBOLANT \nVALMINU VRANDON. \nLy \nGarsau sobeiner \nKung Wo \nburttioh \n1,34 \nMavico \nArvaria \nEritish \n50 \nProlong \nguaboat \nBloch \nfor Laden, da \n### SHIPPING \nIN SHANGHAI HARBOUR, \nBritish \nPell \nTaks \nReikish \nBЯKish \nCutrone \nOkin-tong \nBettioh \nfor Jcndum, ?ro, \nTeb-ata \nDatoare \n! Teritora Mari \nup.maste \nVidoratio \n### WALLING \nYARALA. \nFute mhiru Glamis Castle Gleneagles \nAdranus \nSkozesu bary EG \nNayanth \nBilish \nAzbasador \nFeghous \nfor London, a. \nBenjamin Aymar \nThemales \nVigilant \nH. M. de vossel \nChinese \n- \n### Bog \nOns \nor Pulizway BORIA, HON \n+7 \n6. 10 \nled or stated to the Postmaster \nshould \nbe may cowokery, and Order Ofice for instruction. \n$1.00 approved by him. Prated Cleoutar may be inserted in anob Fattom Packer. \n&- the order be nat presented within \nsix months an additoral commission will \nhe charged if not within twelve months, \n### Past \nThe public in retailed that, the money will be forfeited. When the \nNothing in Shin Sonlosteronta private sycəm\" \" share la se auch thing a Pamel Post order in oues paid no ipreter sinim cars buiomed \n\" \n### STREET \nDONE. \n### Sale \nof Hire for stint Ocalier. \n19 \n### DUG \nDay.......0$ 0, \n### One \nout,NATES \nKit \nthe boys bale in Fact pricala \nto Auro de Math rombie and dis entertaina \nprinterent sta danand by pazeistent attoripis i Hoarder dan be paid until she advice Fei Yuen \nto soud amali valuabin for through the relation to it has been eautyed. \n### Fancy \nWork, and similar preunia are con \n### Pat \nFast Carion Artiolar of Drew, \nfinaly wing refuse, the sandam having \noften spent more in Portage us \navo veil the traight by seamer. \n• Made out ou s printed fora which is zroglind¦ Bue-Jun \ncowbio. \n### Harding \nNot Local Oudere un Shanghat are draws at 2 put \nrefond can be unde an auch parcels of the vale of Stamps abliterated before tho nors of the coutente was discovered. \ni dor \n- nice to pile, d \nla cate for Arening z the tested Ning- \n### Ani \nin er et hanghai. \n### On \n14, 1880. \n**MEJUKANT ETRAMNER** \n### American \nVazion \n#Slut Left park oz andved at HauzkoHR \n### Printed \nand prebilahed by Gao, Muanat Baig, at the China Mail Olian, Na 2, Wyndham First, Hangkeng. \n### Excentive \nCouncil \n### Present \nFriday, \n122nd October, 18 \n1880. \n### this \nExcellency. Governor Sir John Pope theverry : 2CM tj. The Honorable Is Acting bestowish hentary Dr Sudrick Stewart: The Honourable The Attorney General Edward Houghton Ornellay \n### The \nHonourable Johor Macrails. Bios. \ntheent. \n### His \nExcellency Major General. Emraison-Courseranding Troops. \n### The \nCouncil meets this \n### Summons. \n### The \nMinutes \nSeptember \nday \nat 5 Rite. by special \n### Council \nheld + \nthe 18th \nELL \nare read and confirmed). \n### The \nfollowing letter from major General Bousoon!",
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        "content_text": "Wong nai-chung \n\nSau ki wán, \n\nShái wán, \n\n10% \n\nNo. 5. RETURN of the POPULATION of HONGKONG, exclusive of the MILITARY and Naval DEPARTMENTS, &c., \n\n3rd April, 1881. \n\n  \n    \n    WHITE.\n    CHINESE.\n    COLOURED.\n    TOTAL.\n  \n  \n    \n    Males.\n    Females.\n    Males.\n    Females.\n    Males.\n    Females.\n    Males.\n    Females.\n  \n  \n    VICTORIA DISTRICT,\n    1,634\n    1,406\n    71,328\n    4,379\n    357\n    162\n    73,319\n    5,947\n  \n  \n    Chinese Residing in Victoria, in Employ of Europeans,\n    \n    \n    25,533\n    1,150\n    \n    \n    25,533\n    1,150\n  \n  \n    VILLAGES.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Shek-ò,\n    \n    \n    311\n    218\n    \n    \n    311\n    218\n  \n  \n    Tái tǎn-tuk,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stanley,\n    \n    \n    2,201\n    1,073\n    \n    \n    2,201\n    1,073\n  \n  \n    Aberdeen,\n    \n    \n    119\n    94\n    \n    \n    119\n    94\n  \n  \n    Heong-Kong, Pok-fú-lam, Kau-lung,\n    \n    \n    203\n    190\n    \n    \n    203\n    190\n  \n  \n    Boat Population,\n    \n    \n    517\n    312\n    \n    \n    517\n    312\n  \n  \n    Temporary Residents,\n    \n    \n    960\n    345\n    \n    \n    960\n    345\n  \n  \n    Prisoners,\n    \n    \n    162\n    169\n    \n    \n    162\n    169\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    425\n    210\n    \n    \n    425\n    210\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    6,435\n    2,586\n    \n    \n    6,435\n    2,586\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    17,961\n    \n    \n    \n    17,961\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    11,028\n    11,373\n    \n    \n    11,028\n    11,373\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    17,961\n    \n    \n    \n    17,961\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    5,233\n    \n    \n    \n    5,233\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    11,028\n    \n    \n    \n    11,028\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    162\n    26\n    \n    \n    162\n    26\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    604\n    28\n    \n    \n    604\n    28\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    654\n    28\n    \n    \n    654\n    28\n  \n  \n    TOTAL,\n    1,634\n    1,406\n    108,097\n    44,761\n    357\n    162\n    110,088\n    46,329\n  \n\nRegistrar General's Office, Victoria, Hougkong, 1st June, 1881,\n\nJOHN GERRARD,\n\nActing Registrar General.\n\nNo. 6.- ABSTRACT of RETURNS furnished from each House occupied by CHINESE, in the COLONY of HONGKONG, stating Number of Persons resident therein, and Mortality.\n\nNo. 7.----ABSTRACT of PARTICULARS in regard to CHINESE POPULATION of HONGkong and Kau-LUNG,\n\n  \n    \n    MEN,\n    WOMEN.\n    Boys.\n    GIRLS.\n    TOTAL OF EACH PLACE.\n    MORTALITY.\n  \n  \n    City of Victoria.......\n    62,744\n    17,253\n    8,579\n    8,280\n    96,856\n    3,358\n  \n  \n    In employ of Europeans,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    VILLAGES.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wong-nai-chung,\n    239\n    152\n    72\n    66\n    529\n    \n  \n  \n    Shau-ki-wán.\n    1,777\n    740\n    424\n    333\n    3,274\n    \n  \n  \n    Shái wán,\n    88\n    65\n    39\n    29\n    213\n    \n  \n  \n    Shek-ò,\n    150\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Túi-tán tak,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stanley,\n    139\n    120\n    64\n    70\n    393\n    39\n  \n  \n    Aberdeen,\n    23\n    11\n    13\n    86\n    30\n    \n  \n  \n    Heong-Kong,\n    398\n    216\n    119\n    96\n    829\n    \n  \n  \n    Pok-fú-lam....\n    818\n    236\n    142\n    109\n    1,305\n    83\n  \n  \n    Kau-lung,\n    89\n    96\n    69\n    73\n    321\n    \n  \n  \n    Total,..\n    5,395\n    1,783\n    1,040\n    803\n    9,021\n    \n  \n  \n    Grand Total,..\n    76,251\n    21,676\n    10,824\n    10,340\n    118,991\n    3,846\n  \n\n1. Shau-ki-wán includes San T'siin, Hung-Heung-lò, Tung Lo Wán, Pak Shui Wún, Tefat-tsze-inúi, Shin Tsing Wau, Wong Kok Tsui, and A' Kung Ngain.\n\n2. Shek-ò includes Hok Tsui and To-ti Wán.\n\n3. Stanley includes Tái-t'ám and Wong Ma Kok.\n\n4. Aberdeen includes Ap-li-chan.\n\n5. Pok-fú-lam includes Lap Sap Wan.\n\nRegistrar General's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 1st June, 1881.\n\nJOHN GERRARD,\n\nActing Registrar General.\n\n  \n    Countries.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Kwei Obaú,...\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Not stated, ...\n    18,497\n    718\n    19,215,\n    \n  \n  \n    Che-Kiang, .\n    3\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Kan-Soo,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Shan Tung,\n    21,251\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hoo-pee,\n    113,462\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hoo-Nan,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Kiang-Nan,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Austria,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    India,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sydacy,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Persia,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wan Nam,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Grand Total,...\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nVictoria,......... 62,744 17,263 8,579 8,280 96,856\n\nKau-lung,......... 9,322 3,573 2,050 1,660 16,608\n\nGrand Total,.. 138,462 \n\nJOHN GERRARD,\n\nActing Registrar General.\n\nPage 202",
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        "content_text": "29\n\ngoes about barefoot all the year through, dons shoes and stockings, the slave has to wear wooden clogs. Considering the deep hold which this system has on the Chinese people, it is not to be wondered at.\n\nThis form of slavery is comparatively rare in the Canton Province where it occurs only in connection with very wealthy families, but is said to obtain to some extent among the so-called Tán-Ká or boat population of Canton, many of these families being in the relation of hereditary slaves to wealthy clans under whose protection they live and to whom they pay a portion of their earnings. The slave, however, has nothing in his outward appearance or condition to distinguish him from a free person. Although I spent the greater portion of fifteen years in some inland districts of the Canton Province, I have never, to my knowledge, seen such an hereditary slave. I am told that generally the nearest acquaintances know a slave to be such and that the only outward distinction of an hereditary slave is the rule made by custom that on New Year's day, when even the poorest free man ...\n\nI am sure there is not one such hereditary slave in Hongkong. But suppose one came here and was told that he is entirely free on British soil, it would make no difference to him whatever. For he looks upon his master as a refuge to fall back upon in case of sickness, and anyhow he treats his relation to his master as a family relation and views his adherence to it as a matter of honour. Besides, any such slave has always a chance of purchasing his freedom and if once affranchised, his descendants in the third generation can compete for official honours.\n\nThis system of slavery, whilst comparatively rare in the Canton Province, is more frequently practised in the Fohkien Province where, by custom, the third generation of an hereditary slave regains freedom. But the principal seat of this slavery is in the agrarian districts of Shantung and most especially in the Hwai-chau, Ning-kwoh and Chi-chou Prefectures of the Ngan-hui Province. It is also said to exist to a large extent among the fishermen of the Cheh-kiang Province. But in all these cases, the slave is a member of the family to which he belongs, which is answerable for his life to the State, and the law permits all such slaves to redeem themselves by money payment, when the contract which restores liberty to the slave is to be stamped and recorded in Court.\n\nUnder these circumstances, I have no hesitation in saying that it seems to me impossible to identify this curious mixture of contract service, family dependence and slavery, which characterizes the Chinese analogue of slavery, with that slavery which the history of European society evolved and to which our law books, Acts of Parliament and Orders in Council refer. To deal justly with the slavery of China, we ought to invent a new name for it.\n\nDomestic servitude occupies an entirely different position. Whilst the hereditary slave and his immediate descendants are excluded from all competition for official honours, domestic servitude does not imply such disability, although the law treats the domestic servant during the term of his engagement as under the entire control - life, of course, excluded - of his master, who is answerable for his misdemeanours and involved in his crime.\n\nIn all arrangements, contracts or deeds regarding domestic servitude, there are invariably the elements of a monetary transaction, just as in the case of deeds of adoption. The sale, and especially the pledging of persons, whether adults or children, for purposes of domestic servitude is the ruling custom all over China. The law, although sanctioning the sale of children for purposes of adoption within each clan, and even from without, is here in advance of public opinion, as it expressly allows, by an edict of Kien Lung (A.D. 1788), the sale of children only to extremely poor people in times of famine, but forbids, even in that case, re-sale of a child once bought.\n\nPractically, however, the indiscriminate sale of children for purposes of domestic servitude is not interfered with by the law at any time. On the contrary, the advance of law over custom, here indicated, is but slight, when we consider that the law sanctions the custom of temporarily pledging one's wife, concubine or daughters to another family for purposes of domestic servitude. In the latest edition of the Penal Code, I find, appended to the Section headed \"pledging wives or daughters,\" the following note: \"This prohibition refers only to pledging, in return for money received, one's wife or concubine to another man whose wife or concubine she is to be (till redeemed), but the practice, so extremely common at the present day, of poor people pledging, for money received, their wives or daughters to others for purposes of domestic servitude is not included under this prohibition.\"\n\nA male domestic either himself makes the contract with his employer, which binds him to the latter for a number of years, or the domestic may have been handed over by his parents to the master, who pays the parents, may be, a sum, in advance, so to say, of the wages to be earned. The same is the case with grown-up or elderly female domestics. But the largest majority of all female domestics in China are young girls of more or less tender age, most of whom enter upon their domestic servitude when four or five years old.\n\nThe reason for this immense demand for young female domestics lies in the system of polygamy which obtains all over the empire and which has a religious basis. A son being required to continue the family sacrifices, anyone whose first wife proves childless will consider it his religious duty either to adopt a son or to take a second or third or fourth wife until he procures a son. To die without a son is considered a heinous sin against one's ancestors. But in a family consisting of several wives, there is no room for the sort of servant girl to which Western nations are accustomed.\n\nAs eunuchs are forbidden to all families below the rank of a prince, the custom of purchasing young girls for the performance of the lighter domestic duties became the general practice of all well-to-do families since time immemorial. Such girls may either be pledged by their parents for a certain time or sold for good. When only pledged, the case is generally this: a family being in urgent distress and requiring immediately a certain sum of money, takes one of their female children, say five years old, who has been sufficiently impressed with the misery at home, to a wealthy family...\n\n...where the child becomes a member of the family and has perhaps to look after a baby. The father receives a small loan on the security of this child, and when that loan is repaid with interest, the child returns to her father's family to remain there till, in the ordinary course, she is sold as a betrothed or, as we call it, married. But the child may be sold out and out. In that case, invariably a sum of money is paid and a deed is drawn up called, by a common legal fiction, \"a deed of gift.\" The child becomes the domestic servant of the family and is as entirely under the patria potestas of the head of that family as if she were a slave, with the exception that an all-powerful custom requires the master to find a husband for his servant girl when she is of age, and the moment she is married, she is as free forever as any married woman can be, and no touch of servitude clings to her descendants.\n\nThat Chinese can scarcely comprehend how an English Judge could come to designate this species of domestic servitude by the name slavery. On the contrary, intelligent Chinese look upon this system as the necessary and indispensable complement of polygamy, as an excellent counter-remedy for the deplorably widespread system of infanticide, and as the natural consequence of the chronic occurrence of famines, inundations and rebellions in an overpopulated country. But the abuses to which this system of buying and selling female children is liable in the hands of unscrupulous parents and buyers, and the support it lends to public prostitution are too patent facts to require pointing out.\n\nThis system of domestic servitude is very common in Hongkong among well-to-do Cantonese, less common among the Fohkien people and comparatively rare among the Hakkas. The reason is that early betrothals and early marriages are common among both the Fohkienese and especially among the Hakkas, who have, moreover, the custom of sending the betrothed, as soon as she is able to walk, say when three or four years old, to the family of her future husband, where she remains till her marriage and has exactly the same position and performs the same duties which the purchased servant girl is required for in a Cantonese family. I must mention, however, by way of explanation, that polygamy is also comparatively rare among the Hakkas.\n\nTo foreigners, of course, it seems very unnatural that children should be sold into domestic servitude. But the Chinaman sees nothing unnatural in it because almost every social arrangement in China, betrothal, marriage, concubinage, adoption, servitude, is professedly based on a money bargain. The roots of this whole system of slavery and servitude are inseverably interlaced not only with the general social organism but with the national character of the Chinese.\n\nThe British soldier who takes his shilling may be said to have sold himself into slavery. The British sailor, after signing the articles, may virtually be a slave for a period. But these forms of servitude, created by an Act of Parliament, can be swept away entirely by another Act of Parliament. They are not bound up with the social organism and have no root in the national character. But the slavery and domestic servitude of China are institutions which nothing short of the general dissolution of the whole social system of patriarchalism can possibly remove, for they are ingrained in the very blood and brain of China.\n\nTo understand the social bearings of domestic servitude as it obtains in Hongkong, it must be observed that, although the Chinese residents of Hongkong are under British rule and live in close proximity to English social life, there has always been an impassable gulf between respectable English and Chinese society in Hongkong. The two forms of social life have exercised a certain influence upon each other, but the result now visible is that, while Chinese social life has remained exactly what it is on the mainland of China, the social life of many foreigners in Hongkong has comparatively degenerated and not only accommodated itself in certain respects to habits peculiar to the system of patriarchalism, but caused a certain disreputable but small class of Chinese to enter into a social alliance with foreigners which, while detaching them from the restraining influence of the custom and public opinion of Chinese society, left them uninfluenced by the moral powers of foreign civilization.\n\nThis exceptional class of Chinese residents here in Hongkong consists principally of the women known, in Hongkong, by the popular nickname \"hám-shui-múi\" (lit. salt water girls), applied to these members of the so-called Tán-ká or boat population, the Pariahs of Cantonese society. These Tán-ká people of the Canton river are the descendants of a tribe of aborigines pushed by advancing Chinese civilization to live on boats on the Canton river, being for centuries forbidden by law to live on shore.\n\nThe Emperor YUNG CHING (A.D. 1730) allowed them to settle in villages in the immediate proximity of the river, but they were left by him and remain to the present day excluded from competition for official honours, whilst custom forbids them to intermarry with the rest of the people. These Tán-ká people were the secret but trusty allies of foreigners from the time of the East India Company to the present day. They furnished pilots and supplies of provisions to British men-of-war and troop ships when doing so was by the Chinese Government declared treason, unsparingly visited with capital punishment.\n\nThey invaded Hongkong the moment the Colony was opened and have ever since maintained here a monopoly, so to say, of the supply of Chinese pilots and ships' crews, of the fish trade, the cattle trade, and especially of the trade in women for the supply of foreigners and of brothels patronized by foreigners. Almost every so-called \"protected woman,\" i.e., kept mistress of foreigners here, belongs to this Tán-ká tribe, looked down upon and kept at a distance by all the other Chinese classes. It is among these Tán-ká women, and especially under the protection of those \"protected\" Tán-ká women, that private prostitution and the sale of girls for purposes of concubinage flourishes, being looked upon by them as their legitimate profession. Consequently, almost every \"protected woman\" keeps a nursery of purchased children or a few servant girls who are being reared with a...\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "## No. 3.\n\nFurther on Li-kin,\n\nEarly in the year 1875 the Censor, Wang Li-ching, addressed a Memorial to the Throne, which received the Imperial sanction, to the effect that, since the prevalence of disorders, the ordinary revenue not sufficing for the expenditure, offices to collect li-kin and systems of salt licences were inaugurated, and in Kiang Su, An Hui, and Hu Kuang, bureaus were established to sell salt; that such of these offices and bureaus as are in the provincial capitals are superintended by high officials, and are properly managed, but it is otherwise with regard to the subsidiary stations in the outlying districts, which are presided over by native gentry and elders, who, whenever a case arises, collude with the local authorities in aiding their friends and protecting them from justice; even the better class of gentry enter into private arrangements with suspected persons, and use their official influence to connive at smuggling.\n\nThe employment of gentry and elders in their own villages to supervise li-kin offices leads to abuses too grievous to mention. In An-Hui and Hu-Nan, to each of these subsidiary stations there is one seal of office and half-a-dozen officers who use it, and in other provinces there are other malpractices.\n\nThe Memorialist proposed, as a remedy to this state of affairs, that in future no one should be employed in his own district as wei-yuan (deputy of a superior officer) in the collection of li-kin.\n\nFurther, on the 23rd April, the Board of Revenue addressed a Memorial to the Throne, which also received the Imperial sanction, and which was to the following effect:\n\nLi-kin, though not a regulation source of revenue, yields more than any other impost, except land tax, salt, gabelle, and maritime duties. It is of three kinds: on miscellaneous goods, on opium, and on salt. It was first imposed in the beginning of the reign of Hsien Fêng to supply the necessary military expenditure, and now, though peace has been restored, it has to be maintained to supply contingents to Peking and to various disturbed provinces, and to pay the local expenses of maintaining order in the provinces in which it is raised.\n\nThe Board has frequently memorialized the Throne, praying that orders should be sent to the high provincial authorities to furnish it twice a-year with detailed accounts of li-kin receipts. In consequence of these Memorials, the Provinces of An-Hui, Kiang-Si, Hu-Peh, Fu-kien, Kwang-Tung, and Kwang-Si, have duly sent in these returns. Kiang-Su, Cheh-Kiang, Shan-Tung, Shan-Si, Hu-Nan, Yun-nan, and Fungtien (Manchuria), have either only reported the gross receipts, or have delayed sending the returns. Ho-Nan and Sze-Chuen have only sent returns of the li-kin levied on opium, and have not stated whether or not li-kin on miscellaneous goods is there levied. Chih-Li, Kwei-Chow, Shan-Si, and Kan-Suh have only furnished yearly Returns.\n\n| Province        | Status of Li-kin Returns                                      |\n|-----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|\n| An-Hui          | Duly sent detailed accounts                                  |\n| Kiang-Si        | Duly sent detailed accounts                                  |\n| Hu-Peh          | Duly sent detailed accounts                                  |\n| Fu-kien         | Duly sent detailed accounts                                  |\n| Kwang-Tung      | Duly sent detailed accounts                                  |\n| Kwang-Si        | Duly sent detailed accounts                                  |\n| Kiang-Su        | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Cheh-Kiang      | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Shan-Tung       | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Shan-Si         | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Hu-Nan          | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Yun-nan         | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Fungtien        | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Ho-Nan          | Only sent returns of li-kin levied on opium                  |\n| Sze-Chuen       | Only sent returns of li-kin levied on opium                  |\n| Chih-Li         | Only furnished yearly Returns                               |\n| Kwei-Chow       | Only furnished yearly Returns                               |\n| Kan-Suh         | Only furnished yearly Returns                               |\n\nFrom the reports to hand, it appears that the total receipts on account of li-kin of the Empire are about 17,000,000 to 18,000,000 taels a-year; of this, only 1,200,000 or 1,300,000 are sent to Peking for the troops, and a few hundred thousand for public works; the rest is either retained in the province that raises it, or sent in contingents to disturbed provinces. It seems to the Board that the amounts retained are excessive, but as only a few of the provinces send in detailed accounts twice a-year, which are very vague as regards expenditure, and as the other provinces only report the gross receipts, the Board has no data on which to take action.\n\nAgain, where there is not a fixed amount of li-kin leviable settled, the Government has to rely on the integrity of the collectors; this is why the Board has asked for lists of the names of all persons employed at the subsidiary stations, so that regulations may be put in force by which rewards may be conferred on the meritorious, and the useless got rid of. As yet, the provinces have only sent Reports of the stations closed or opened, and have not given the names of the superintending officers, so that for several years past, the Board has not been able to bestow recompenses or inflict penalties upon them.\n\nFor the last few years, the receipts from li-kin have been falling short. The Board considers this decrease must be caused by malpractices on the part of the collectors, and quotes the Memorial of Wang Li-ching (an abstract of which is given above) in support of this view. It also quotes a Memorial of Censor Wang Chan-lao, praying that the provincial authorities should be directed to send in Returns of all the li-kin stations within their several jurisdictions. Under the above circumstances, the Board suggests the promulgation of the following orders:\n\n1. Detailed Returns of the three denominations of li-kin must be sent to the Board every six months.\n2. No person must be employed as branch collector in his own district. Such persons as are now so employed must be dismissed.\n3. Stricter supervision must be exercised over the subsidiary stations. Purchase of posts and extortion must be put a stop to.\n4. Li-kin must not be collected more than once on petty trade.\n5. There must be a wholesale suppression of unnecessary stations and barriers.\n6. There must be means of rewarding or punishing deputies according to their merits or demerits.\n\nThe Board believes that if the above rules are strictly adhered to, the receipts on account of li-kin will increase year by year.\n\nThere is another suggestion which the Board considers of still greater importance. The fact that there is no fixed amount settled of how much li-kin should be levied, that the Board has not been able to decide what percentage should be sent to Peking, and that the tax is paid at the station by the merchant, causes the li-kin to be quite a different kind of impost from the land tax, which is collected by Government. Hence, each province looks upon the li-kin it collects as its own money to do what it likes with, and the wei-yuan who collect it, not being responsible officers, have no fear of the consequences of their acts. The reason why the supervision of the high authorities has produced no satisfactory result is, it is believed, because these li-kin sub-collectors combine in sending false Returns and in embezzling the receipts; and it is on this account that, though the Board has asked for a list of the names of all these wei-yuan, it has never received them. The wei-yuan naturally fear that if once they give in a list of their names, there will be an end of their illicit gains, and take good care not to give it; the high authorities screen the wei-yuan, do not press for the list, and disregard the Board's Memorials. The Board, therefore, prays His Imperial Majesty to again order the provincial authorities to forward the Returns, Lists, &c., without delay, under penalty of degradation in case of disobedience.\n\nOn the 15th April, the Board of Revenue addressed a Memorial to the Throne, which has received the Imperial sanction, and which is to the following effect:\n\nOn the 3rd January, the Board received a Decree ordering it to report on a Memorial of Censor Hsu Ting-kuei, which stated that, though since 1864, the south and east provinces of the Empire had been restored to order, though land tax and Chinese duties in these yielded a revenue equal to that formerly raised, and li-kin and foreign duties had increased 100 per cent, no reduction had been effected in the army or militia. He accordingly suggested that Imperial Commissioners should be sent into the provinces to aid the provincial authorities to disband the militia and convert them into regular troops, so as to effect a saving in army expenses. He further stated that the provinces had not supplied the Board of Revenue with proper Returns of the receipts from li-kin, and instanced the Liang-hwai station, which sold more than 500,000 salt licences a year, and levied 84 taels odd on each licence. He calculated that if to this were added the sums raised by selling licences in Cheh-Kiang, Fu-kien, Kwang-Tung, and Sze-Chuen, the amount so realized could not fall short of some 12,000,000 taels, and that, if further li-kin on miscellaneous goods were added, the amount would be probably doubled. Very little of this money, however, reached the Imperial Treasury. He accordingly proposed that Commissioners should be sent to the provinces to report on li-kin receipts and expenditure.\n\nOn this Memorial, the Board of Revenue remarks that li-kin was first raised in 1861* to supply funds, then urgently required.\n\nIn 1868 and 1874, the Board called on the various provinces to furnish it with half-yearly Returns of the receipts and expenditure of the li-kin, and advised, in the latter year, the abolition of as many stations as possible.\n\nThe tax itself, li-kin, is only an expedient to which it was necessary to resort pro tempore. In the north and west of the Empire, peace is not yet restored, and military operations there entail an enormous expenditure, which, as well as the contingents to Peking, is entirely dependent on the li-kin.\n\nUnder these circumstances, it is evident that the Board would not for a moment allow false Returns to be sent in; the frequent Memorials of the Board are a proof of the attention it has bestowed on the matter, and it now takes this opportunity to again pray His Imperial Majesty to direct the attention of the provincial authorities to its Memorial of 1873, calling upon them for Returns of receipts and disbursements, and to abolish such tax-stations as can be dispensed with.\n\nThe Board considers that some confidence should be reposed in Viceroys and Governors, all of whom the Board feels certain deserve the high trust reposed in them, and that no Commissioners should be sent to report on li-kin, or to aid the provincial authorities in disbanding militia or in converting militiamen into regulars.\n\n*It began in 1853, if not earlier.-T. 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        "content_text": "## 154 \n\n**THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH**\n\nIn all cases in which Japanese, especially Government departments, are plaintiffs in our Courts, it is eminently desirable that the fullest investigation should be accorded, and the judgment based upon the clearest reasoning.\n\nSevere indisposition has compelled Mr. Martin Dohmen, H.B.M. acting consul at Yokohama, to take leave of absence. His place will be filled by Mr. J. J. Enalie, the senior member of the consular corps in Japan, with the exception of Mr. Russell Robertson, who is now acting judge of H.B.M. Court for Japan. The appointment of Mr. Enalie has been received with much satisfaction, because the nomination of Mr. Dohmen about three years ago was regarded as improper, in view of that gentleman's shorter service and inexperience. The appointment of Mr. Hannen to be acting chief justice of the Supreme Court for China and Japan has enabled the arrears of appeals to be cleared off. Several cases tried here in 1877, and appealed to Shanghai, have been decided; but the delay, expense, and anxiety have weighed heavily upon the suitors. The probability of Mr. Rennie being promoted to the chief justiceship of Shanghai and Mr. Hannen appointed to Yokohama is a gratifying prospect to the communities of both ports, where the gentlemen named are well known and highly esteemed.\n\nThe Kaitakushi, or Colonization Commission, a department of the Government which has been for years past regarded with the utmost aversion and suspicion, is now finally abolished, the government of Yezo being assimilated with that of other parts of the empire. Hakodate, Sapporo, and Nemuro are made the seats of three ken; and the business of colonisation will henceforward be attended to in a separate department in the two latter ken. This change will probably save the national purse seventy per cent of the former cost of this service under the loose administration of General Kuroda, who is now said to have resigned his office. Probably, finding his occupation gone, no other alternative was left for General Kuroda.\n\nThe settlement is a prey to fatty robberies and burglarious openings of warehouses and abstraction of portions of their contents. The police do not seem equal to the task of suppression or detection; and this, combined with the intolerable condition of the settlement, again suggests the necessity for the formation of a municipality in which the residents shall be properly and effectively represented. The new order in council contains references to municipal and land regulations applicable to the open ports of Japan, which revive the hope that we may eventually succeed in placing this settlement under our own control; and to enforce the observance of the regulations upon those whose defiance of all laws is now a standing reproach to, and testimony of the weakness and inefficiency of the courts of those nations enjoying extra-territorial rights yet unable to control their own people.\n\n[FEB. 21, 1882]\n\nIt is now stated that Mr. Shishido will not be removed from the Japanese Legation at Peking, but will return to his post in March. The Loochoo question is, according to the Japan Herald, likely to crop up again during the summer, and \"the foreign emissary of the Japanese Government, still tarries in Peking,\" where he is supposed to be endeavouring to do something in the grievance between the two Empires. The Echo du Japon also refers to the same question. Two Loochooan delegates, who visited Peking with the idea of enlisting the aid of China to recover the lost independence of their home, have recently committed suicide, driven probably to desperation by the delays and sinuosities of Celestial diplomacy.\n\n## KOREA\n\n## FUSAN\n\nA Japanese newspaper, the Mainichi Shimbun, recently printed a note to the effect that Ri-Saison, step-brother of the King, assisted by three formerly distinguished officials, had attempted to break out into rebellion; but that their scheme was nipped in the bud, and the conspirators were arrested. Now the same paper gives further intelligence from Seoul stating that the three ex-officials were beheaded and dismembered on the 2nd Dec. The heads were suspended by the hair from poles; and the arms and legs, roughly wrapped in straw, were put on piles of faggots, while the dismembered trunks were left lying on the ground at the foot of the same. The second names of the traitors were placarded on the exposed corpses, but not their family names. Ri-Saisen, in consideration of his being the nearest relative of the Sovereign, had his capital sentence remitted, and was exiled. Ri Reisboku, one of the would-be rebels, committed suicide in prison by biting off his tongue.\n\nRumours are afloat that the King has sent a message to Peking asking for arms and soldiers to expel the Japanese who have fastened on two settlements on the shore opposite the West Coast of Japan. All accounts agree that the Japanese are very cruel, and that the Koreans are minded to rise and massacre them. The Chinese, it is stated, are even more sensitive about Korea than about Loochoo.\n\nThe Government are about to establish Custom Houses, the working of which is to be on much the same principle as the one now adopted by China in collecting her revenue on foreign bottoms.\n\n## CHINA\n\n## PEKING\n\nA very serious quarrel took place some ten years ago between a military mandarin named Chen Kuo-jui and Li Shih-chung, Commander-in-chief of the forces of Kiang-nan. An edict appeared in the Peking Gazette in 1871, in reply to a memorial from Tseng Kou-fan on the subject, degrading the two officers for their unseemly brawl. The Shen Pao of Jan. 2 contains a proclamation by the Governor of An-hui to the effect that, acting on the Imperial authority, he caused Li Shih-chung to be arrested secretly on the night of the 1st of the current moon in a garrison, and then and there beheaded.\n\nWe have enjoyed, as best we could under adverse conditions of trade, the holidays incident to the season. Christmas was observed by foreign residents in various ways; and the new year by our Japanese friends. Poverty and stagnation are, however, too visible through the outward show of festivity; and it is evident that if this country is to maintain its commercial relations with the world to the satisfaction and advantage of those concerned, a thorough and radical change must be made in the restrictive laws which impede trade and embarrass every producer and merchant alike.\n\nThe mail via United States, originally intended to leave Jan. 10, is postponed to Jan. 21, to the great inconvenience of merchants here and the annoyance of those in China whose letters are on the way to connect here with the steamer that was to leave on the 10th. The withdrawal of the excellent and regular service of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company has been a source of much loss and inconvenience to foreign mercantile interests in Japan; and the probability is that a memorial will shortly be addressed to H.B.M. Government praying for its restoration.\n\nA general meeting of the Asiatic Society has been held at the Chamber of Commerce, Tokio, the Rev. J. L. Amerman, Vice President, in the chair. Mr. Ernest Satow read a paper entitled \"Notes on the Early History of Printing in Japan.\"\n\nIt is stated that Mr. Tekeha Pinpei, President of one of the Provincial Assemblies, has been decapitated in his own house, and his wife mortally wounded by three unknown men, who announced that robbery was not their motive. It is supposed they were actuated by private spite, or had some political object in committing the crime.\n\nA serious mutiny among prisoners broke out in the prison at Hamamatsu, Shidzuoka ken, on the 24th Dec. Eighty prisoners combined to escape, and made a desperate attempt to carry their plans into execution; but guard and police were at hand, and, by use of arms, the ringleader being shot dead at the outset, the revolt was subdued, but not until many were seriously wounded on both sides.\n\nThe Japanese newspapers state that the Miyee-kan, iron sheathed corvette, one of the three constructed by Sir E. J. Reed, on her return voyage from Persia, where she had been on a special mission, showed signs of deterioration, supposed to be due to defective construction.\n\n## DRAFT\n\nPage 55\n\nThe O.A.G.\n\nMr. ... \nMINUTE.\n\nPraesoni saful Дария\n\nMr. Wingfield.\nMr. Bramston.\nMr. Meade.\nMr. Herbert.\nMr. Courtney.\nLord Kimberley.\n\nsubmitted.\n\nb: 13.8.194\n\nit. Hoy Kay 51\n\nPii, 6948\n\nRECO\n\nREGO 16 APR 82.\n\n18April:82\n\nMy attention has been drawn to the ...\n\n678210\n\nthe Gleaner by Addicati\" to iding\n\nThe Courier reports that the Sub-Reader, Chang Chi Tung, has been appointed Governor of the Province of Shansi. This promotion is a remarkable one, from the fact that a Sub-Reader belongs to the fifth degree of rank, whereas a Governor of a Province is second in grade only to Viceroy, as the former has almost equal power with the latter, and has under his immediate command the whole of the military forces of his Province. A Sub-Reader, on the other hand, holds but an insignificant office, and the only importance that attaches to it is on account of the freedom of speech permitted in memorialising the Throne—a prerogative which is shared by the Censors. The sudden promotion of Chang Chi Tung from insignificance to importance is to be traced to his having written the famous memorial against Chung How and his more recent intrepid letter to the Viceroy Li Hung Chang. In politics Chang belongs to the Tso party, and he is regarded by them as one of their shining lights, destined shortly to blaze into the refulgence of a Viceroy.\n\nThe North China Daily News correspondent writes:--The French Minister and his family have arrived after a very considerable absence. The British Minister and Lady Wade have also arrived. It must be a source of the greatest pleasure to all Peking residents to see Lady Wade once more. Important negotiations with the Viceroy regarding opium duty have, it is reported, been occupying the attention of the British Minister and Chinese high officials at Tientsin, and doubtless the interests of the victims of the opium vice, as well as those of the two countries more especially interested, have not been overlooked by either statesman. Tsao Tsung-tang joined their deliberations at Tientsin on his way south. China has a few enlightened and able statesmen at present who seem determined to grapple with this enormous question. Very considerable interest is taken in the subject at present, and if nothing effective is now done it is to be feared another equally good opportunity may not arrive. It stands to reason that before the Chinese are able to drain their own ...\n\n\"I was ... from \"to \"monopoly there\"\n\n1 Feb. p. 162 Explow\n\nHannisy\n\nbyt? Kimberley privately. Oct. 6.\n\nRKA. Oct. 9.\n\nEnclosed extracts from the \"London & China Telegraph\" of the 13th and 22nd February, the meaning of which I am unable to understand and shall be glad to receive your ...",
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        "content_text": "940\n\n16 Mai (CHAMBRE)\n\nbattre un Gouvernement qu'ils voudraient, au contraire, pouvoir soutenir.\n\nDÉBATS PARLEMENTAIRES\n\nà\n\nAnnée 1888\n\nAnnée 1883\n\nkcang-Bi....... »\n\nDÉBATS PARLEMENTAIRES\n\nune erreur.\n\nM. le rapporteur. Ce n'a pas toujours été\n\nM. Georges Perin. Je crois qu'il vous sera très difficile d'établir que le grand mouvement d'affaires à Haï-Phong, est fait par les Français; je dirai même que nous aurons grand peine à y supplanter, par notre commerce, les Anglais qui y sont établis depuis longtemps.\n\nmême de la première expédition au Tonkin.\n\nkin a été une entreprise nefaste, et que nous en supportons aujourd'hui les conséquences.\n\nMême en supposant que nous puissions donc, messieurs, je viens aujourd'hui demander à la Chambre de réfléchir, et au Gouvernement de ne pas entrer dans cette voie unique de tous les produits d'échange dans l'extrême Orient, auxquelles je suis aussi sensible qu'il y ait abdication pour cet officier de grande valeur, ce grand voyageur, parce que je crois que, aujourd'hui encore, il ne faut pas aller plus loin que nous avons été, par le Gouvernement, par le ministre de la marine, qui permettait au Journal officiel de déclarer, alors que cet officier était mort glorieusement au service de la France, que la cause de nos difficultés était que M. Francis Garnier avait probablement outrepassé les ordres qui lui avaient été donnés.\n\nJe roove, en outre et c'est ici le second côté de ma discussion, que nous pouvons ne pas aller plus loin que nous avons été, par le Gouvernement, par le ministre de la marine, qui permettait au Journal officiel de déclarer, alors que cet officier était mort glorieusement au service de la France, que la cause de nos difficultés était que M. Francis Garnier avait probablement outrepassé les ordres qui lui avaient été donnés.\n\nPour moi, j'ai déjà eu occasion de rendre hommage à cet officier de grande valeur, ce grand voyageur; je l'ai fait à une époque où qui que ce soit, il y a un autre point de vue à considérer, celui de nos intérêts réels, qui seront toujours avantageux, ou seront même glorieux, matériels, de prospérité coloniale; c'est ce point que j'ai à m'expliquer et je ferai en quelques mots.\n\nL'opinion publique a été trompée et elle a été trompée sur cette question de la prise de possession du Tonkin, qu'on la présente comme une terre promise, où tout est au moins des doutes et des doutes très sérieux.\n\nMais laissons, si vous voulez, de côté cette question et venons-en aux faits.\n\nOn dit ensuite: il faut ouvrir des débouchés au commerce et fournir un aliment à notre marine marchande.\n\nD'un seul mot je montrerai que, là encore, il y a une illusion.\n\nOuvrir des débouchés au commerce! Mais le jour où nous serions complètement maîtres du Tonkin, croyez-vous que le commerce français saurait s'y créer des débouchés, et croyez-vous qu'il aurait fait le jour-là ce qu'il n'a pas su faire dans la Cochinchine, ce qu'il n'a pas su faire encore à Haï-Phong où nous sommes, où rien ne l'empêchait d'agir et de se créer des débouchés?\n\nM. Paul Bert, Lesquels ? Quel est votre système ?\n\nM. Georges Perin. Mon système, je l'ai déjà exposé il y a deux ans et malheureusement sans succès.\n\nMais les faits nouveaux qui se sont produits ont donné raison à ce que je disais, et c'est ce qui me fait un devoir de la répéter aujourd'hui, du moins en partie.\n\nJe ne viens pas vous proposer d'abandonner purement et simplement le Tonkin, ce qui pourtant - soit dit en passant - pourrait se faire sans mettre en péril notre colonie de la Basse-Cochinchine, sinon diminuer momentanément, je le veux bien, le prestige de la France dans l'extrême Orient.\n\nA une certaine époque, on a dit, dans la commission du budget et ailleurs, que, si nous nous retirions du Tonkin, nous serions à bref délai obligés d'abandonner la basse Cochinchine.\n\nA quoi l'amiral Jaureguiberry répondait, nos collègues de la commission doivent s'en souvenir et les procès-verbaux de la commission en font foi, l'amiral Jaureguiberry répondait que cela n'était pas soutenable, qu'il y a 250 lieues de distance entre la basse Cochinchine et le Tonkin et que l'abandon des quelques points que nous occupions au Tonkin ne modifierait en rien notre situation dans la basse Cochinchine.\n\nJe reconnais, messieurs, que, si nous nous retirions purement et simplement du Tonkin, notre prestige dans l'extrême Orient pourrait en être un peu amoindri, et ce n'est certes pas cela que je viens proposer à la Chambre.\n\nMais, avant de faire connaître le moyen terme qui, je le crois, serait de nature à sauvegarder tous les intérêts, je pense qu'il est nécessaire, vu la grande importance donnée par le rapport à ce côté de la question, je pense qu'il est nécessaire de montrer comment cette question est devenue aujourd'hui une de celles qui préoccupent le plus le pays.\n\nM. Paul Bert. On a été odieux pour lui et pour ses compagnons !\n\nM. Georges Perin. A cette époque, en 1873, j'ai protesté et j'ai dit: Il y a quelqu'un qui a outrepassé les ordres qu'il avait reçus, mais ce n'est pas l'homme qui est mort, qui a eu le tort de mourir; car, s'il eût été vivant, il aurait su se défendre, ce n'est pas Francis Garnier, c'est l'amiral Dupré.\n\nM. le rapporteur. Qui est mort aussi, M. Georges Perin !\n\nIl est mort, je le sais, mais je puis répéter ce que j'ai déjà dit quand il était en vie: L'amiral Dupré aurait dû passer en conseil de guerre, parce qu'il avait enfreint ouvertement les ordres de son chef, le ministre de la marine.\n\nJ'ai là le texte même de la dépêche qu'au mois de juillet 1873 M. le ministre de la marine envoyait à l'amiral Dupré et dans laquelle il lui disait: Sous aucun prétexte, pour quelque raison que ce soit, n'engagez pas la France au Tonkin.\n\nLe ministre d'alors faisait valoir des motifs sur lesquels je ne reviendrai pas; il suffit, pour les deviner, de se rappeler que, en 1873, on était bien près de 1870.\n\nL'amiral Dupré n'a pas tenu compte de cette dépêche; il a donné des ordres à M. Francis Garnier, qui, lui, devait les exécuter, et j'estime que ce n'est pas sur ce dernier qu'on aurait dû faire retomber la responsabilité des événements graves qui sont survenus et qui ont eu pour conséquence de nous faire abandonner le pays dans des conditions déplorables, je le reconnais, et cependant, pour mon compte, je ne reproche pas au gouvernement d'alors de ne pas être resté au Tonkin.\n\nEt que ceux de mes honorables collègues de l'Assemblée nationale qui aujourd'hui sont au banc ministériel me permettent de le leur dire: puisque dans leur exposé des motifs, ils paraissent faire même un crime au gouvernement d'alors de n'avoir pas été en avant, de n'avoir pas tout au moins maintenu notre occupation, ils auraient dû formuler leurs critiques autrefois, lorsque le traité de 1874 a été discuté.\n\nIl ne faut rien exagérer cependant.\n\nLorsque nous discutions dernièrement la question si grave des récidivistes, M. le ministre de l'intérieur disait avec raison que certains cahiers électrons réclamaient cette loi; mais je ne sache pas que, dans aucun cahier, sauf peut-être dans celui de M. Blancsubé, on trouve formulée cette demande de la solution de la question du Tonkin par la prise de possession ou par un protectorat effectif de ce pays.\n\nLeurs s'en soient préoccupés.\n\nMais je reconnais que, si les électeurs n'ont pas donné un mandat formel, à cet égard, à leurs commettants, il y a une opinion publique qui s'est formée, dont le Gouvernement peut avoir à cœur de tenir compte, et je ne me dissimule nullement que, si le Gouvernement acceptait ma solution, il aurait peut-être à remonter le courant de l'opinion publique; mais c'est un devoir pour lui, si l'opinion publique a été égarée.\n\nOr, selon moi, l'opinion publique a été égarée par deux raisons: d'abord, par une raison extrêmement louable et que je respecte, par une raison de sentiment, et ensuite par une raison d'intérêt mal compris.\n\nLa raison de sentiment, c'est l'histoire de Francis Garnier.\n\nCeci dit pour la partie historique, je crois que ce nom de Francis Garnier, qui apparaît entouré d'une auréole de gloire et de dévouement à son pays, les journaux s'en sont servis, comme ils avaient le droit de le faire, pour entraîner l'opinion publique; mais nous devons examiner les choses plus froidement, et après avoir rendu hommage à ce citoyen, à cet officier de très grand mérite, nous n'en devons pas moins examiner impartialement la ligne politique qu'il a suivie dans l'extrême Orient.\n\nM. le rapporteur. C'est une erreur; il est vrai que cela n'a pas toujours été une erreur.\n\nM. Georges Perin. M. le rapporteur me coupe la parole, mais je continue.\n\nOn ne parle plus aujourd'hui, dans l'exposé des motifs et dans le rapport de M. Blancsubé, du fleuve Rouge et des grands avantages pécuniaires que nous en pouvons retirer.\n\nEt cela est si vrai que les gens sérieux disent: Le jour où nous serons maîtres du Tonkin, nous suppléerons à l'insuffisance du fleuve par un chemin de fer.\n\nle président. Vous répondrez, mon rapporteur, mais n'interrompez pas.\n\nM. Georges Perin. Cette considération est laissée un peu de côté, et avec raison: c'est que ce fleuve est peu navigable.\n\nVous savez qu'à cet égard les renseignements les plus positifs, les plus authentiques ont été fournis par M. Tardieu, dans un rapport que le Gouvernement a bien voulu me communiquer, et qui dit à cet égard:\n\nSi on recherche dans quelles proportions les divers pavillons ont pris part au mouvement maritime, on trouve que le pavillon anglais couvre 35 p. 100 du tonnage total; le pavillon américain 20 p. 100; le pavillon chinois 23,5 p. 100, par ses vapeurs seulement, sans compter les jonques; le pavillon allemand 11 p. 100; le pavillon hollandais, 5,5 p. 100; le pavillon français 5 p. 100.\n\nDans la saison des hautes eaux, des courants de foudre; à l'époque de l'étiage, des bas-fonds et des rapides; en tout temps le manque de sécurité, au milieu de ces forêts habitées par des peuplades à demi-indépendantes; et enfin les avanies que les fonctionnaires annamites, ou les bandes d'aventuriers à la solde du gouvernement, font subir au commerce.\n\nLa navigation française tient, jusqu'à présent, une trop faible place; encore ne l'occupe-t-elle que grâce aux voyages du vapeur subventionné par l'administration de la Cochinchine française.\n\nVoulez-vous me permettre de vous donner l'avis de M. Tardieu, qui a été et qui est encore, je crois, un fonctionnaire du Gouvernement, et qui a été chef d'affaires à Hai-Phong ?\n\nM. le rapporteur. Il a été mis à la retraite !\n\nM. Georges Perin. En tout cas, il a été consul à Haï-Phong.\n\nM. Tardieu, dans un rapport que le Gouvernement a bien voulu me communiquer, dit à cet égard:\n\nLa navigation française tient, jusqu'à présent, une trop faible place; encore ne l'occupe-t-elle que grâce aux voyages du vapeur subventionné par l'administration de la Cochinchine française.\n\nEt alors il envisage le manque de sécurité résultant des Pavillons noirs.\n\nJe reconnais que l'honorable collègue M. Blancsubé, qui a une grande autorité dans cette question, me dit que c'est une erreur.\n\nPour moi, je trouve que M. Francis Garnier s'est trompé, que l'entreprise du Tonkin a été une erreur.\n\nSingapore, et qui sont actuellement en possession du commerce - brali possidentes, c'est vous - vous ne les débusquerez pas de cette situation, sans établir un régime de protection, ce que, du reste, vous ne voulez ou ne pouvez pas faire.\n\nJe crois donc que vous ne créerez pas de débouchés à notre commerce, je crois que vous ne fournirez pas un aliment à notre marine marchande.\n\nJ'arrive à la question des mines.\n\nTout à l'heure, M. le ministre des affaires étrangères vous a montré à quel point le Gouvernement se préoccupait de cette question, puisqu'il a dit qu'un des motifs pour lesquels il n'avait pas voulu accepter le traité de M. Bourée, c'est qu'il cédait à la Chine la partie du Tonkin la plus riche peut-être en mines.\n\nJe parle des mines de charbon, car dans une carte qui nous a été donnée tout à l'heure et que tous mes collègues ont entre les mains, des mines considérables, des mines argentifères, aurifères sont indiquées dans une autre partie du pays.\n\nJe dois reconnaître que le Tonkin est un des pays miniers les plus riches du monde.\n\nJe vois sur un point de cette carte: Mines d'or et d'argent; sur un autre point encore, mines d'or, mines d'argent.\n\nEt enfin, messieurs, notez ceci : grosses pépites d'or.\n\nM. le comte de Douville-Maillefen. Dans une région inexplorée ! (On rit.)\n\nM. Georges Perin. Grosses pépites d'or ! Ceci rappelle tout à fait l'Eldorado de Voltaire, où il n'y avait qu'à se baisser pour ramasser des cailloux qui étaient des diamants et de la terre qui était de l'or.\n\nVoilà donc un pays extrêmement riche en mines, et je comprends qu'on veuille les exploiter.\n\nA cet égard, je voudrais faire une seule observation.\n\nOn a regretté, - le Gouvernement a pu le voir et le lire dans divers journaux, que des promesses de concessions aient déjà été faites.\n\nM. Jules Ferry, président du conseil. Quelles promesses ? Qui a fait des promesses ?\n\nM. Georges Perin. Je dis que ce bruit a couru...\n\nM. le président du conseil. On a dit une chose qui n'est pas exacte; cela arrive souvent du reste.\n\nM. Georges Perin. Je suis heureux, et c'est un peu pour cela que j'ai soulevé la question, de vous avoir fourni, monsieur le président du conseil, l'occasion de déclarer qu'on n'avait fait aucune promesse de cette nature.\n\nJe souhaite qu'on indemnise M. Dupuis qui, probablement, a droit à une indemnité.\n\nUn membre au centre. La Chambre l'a jugé.\n\nM. Georges Perin. Mais j'ai regretté que, ce jour-là, une parole semblable ait été prononcée à la tribune.\n\nJe crois qu'il ne doit pas y avoir de promesses faites à l'avance.\n\nSi nous prenons le Tonkin, où l'on trouve des pépites d'or à fleur de terre, je voudrais qu'il fût entendu que vous ne donnerez la concession des mines que par une loi.\n\nJe sais que vous avez le droit de le faire par un décret, mais pourquoi ne pas faire aux colonies ce qui se fait en France.\n\nEn ne faisant la concession que par une loi, la question se trouverait discutée devant la Chambre, et ainsi aucune accusation malveillante ne pourra se produire.\n\nDoit-on prendre un pays parce qu'il renferme des richesses minières ? (Sourires. Très bien ! très bien !)\n\nVous avez des mines en maints endroits, dans des pays dont vous êtes possesseurs.\n\nJe ne parlerai pas de la Guyane, où les mines sont inexploitées; mais dans l'extrême Orient, au Cambodge, il existe des mines extrêmement riches.\n\nSur cette carte, on aurait pu indiquer les mines d'or du Cambodge: on pourrait les exploiter.\n\nEn prenant le Tonkin uniquement pour ses mines, vous vous engageriez dans une aventure dont les avantages ne compenseraient pas les inconvénients.\n\nMais enfin, messieurs, on dit qu'il n'y a pas d'hésitation possible, et on veut rassurer la Chambre qui, avec raison, se préoccupe des finances de la France, sur l'importance des dépenses.\n\nLe Gouvernement le comprend; il nous demande de débourser 5 millions seulement, et il ajoute aussitôt : Le pays où nous voulons aller pourra largement compenser les dépenses que nous aurons à faire.\n\nLe Tonkin fournit 18 millions d'impôts que l'on pourrait sans trop faire crier le contribuable, porter à 30 millions.\n\nM. le rapporteur a été plus loin; il a parlé de 80 à 100 millions.\n\nPrenons le chiffre de 30 millions, c'est celui, je crois, que M. le ministre de la marine a donné à la commission du budget.\n\nEt l'on dit: Ces 30 millions suffiront à toutes les dépenses: 10 millions pour l'expédition proprement dite, 5 millions pour les menues frais; on donnera 5 ou 10 millions au pauvre Tu-Duc qui, ainsi, ne sera pas trop pauvre.\n\nA ce prix, dit-on, nous posséderons le pays.\n\nEh bien, franchement, quand on nous propose d'aller nous établir dans un pays et qu'on nous dit, en mettant tout au mieux, que ce pays payera tous les frais de la guerre, on nous demande tout simplement de mettre la population tonkinoise en régie.\n\nVoilà, je crois, comment les choses doivent s'appeler.\n\nJe crois, moi, que nous avons mieux à faire.\n\nJ'estime que nous devons développer par d'autres moyens notre prospérité coloniale et je voudrais l'asseoir sur une autre base.\n\nQuelques membres. Laquelle ? Quel est votre système ?\n\nM. Georges Perin. On me dit : Quel est votre système ? Je vais vous le dire dans un instant.\n\nAujourd'hui la question est posée nettement.\n\nIl n'est plus permis de croire qu'on s'établira au Tonkin avec une compagnie, comme cela a été dit.\n\nSi nous prenons le Tonkin, l'honorable M. Blancsubé pourra réclamer une grande part de gloire.\n\nIl est de ceux qui ont le plus poussé le pays vers cette entreprise, et qui ont le plus contribué à y entraîner l'opinion publique.\n\nVoici ce qu'il a dit le 30 mars 1881, devant la société académique Indo-Chinoise.\n\n(M. Blancsubé fait un signe de dénégation.)\n\nC'est dans le Bulletin de la société académique Indo-Chinoise que je trouve la complète reconstitution de cette conférence.\n\nSi ce n'est pas à cette société que vous l'avez faite, c'est peut-être au boulevard des Capucines.\n\nM. le rapporteur. A quelle époque ?\n\nM. Georges Perin. Le 30 mars 1881.\n\nVoici ce que vous avez dit :\n\n260\n\n14 Mai\n\n(CHAMBRE)\n\n941",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure\n\n## INTERESTING MEMORIAL FROM THE TSUNG-LI YAMEN ON COAST DEFENCE.\n\nThe following translation of a memorial from the Tsung-li Yamen on the pressing necessity of coast defence and the need of quieting the dangers near at hand so as to guard well against those in the future is made by the N. C. Herald :\n\nThe Franco-Annamese question is somewhat different from the former Russian difficulty. Whether it is decided to preserve peace or to declare war; to act on the offensive or defensive, the dangers on the south-west will ever remain unchanged. When a foreign invasion is imminent, coast defence must not be for a moment forgotten. Annam and Kuangtung are connected with each other both by land and water, and troops have been ordered thither to guard (against any attack from the enemy). Military reports are now awaited from Peng Yu-lin and Chang Shu-sheng, and plans will be devised upon consulting them.\n\nBut let a review of the coast be taken. The Pai-yang (Northern Ocean) defence embraces Taku and Pei-tang and slightly watches over Lü Shan (Port Arthur); but the protection of Teng-lai is nil. The Nan-yang (Southern Ocean) defence includes the river and the sea with Kiang Yin as the strategical point, and guards Su Tai. As to Teng-lai, Ting Pao-chên in his Memorial considered Tengchow, Chefoo, and Wei-hai-wei as the essential points to be defended. The Governor of the Province (Shantung) however had erected only five forts in and near Teng Shêu Kau which are insufficient to well protect the coast.\n\nThe 800 marines under the Superintendence of the same Governor had been transferred by Li Hung-chang to the gunboats Chao-yung and Yang-wei of the Pei-yang squadron and whatever guns there are of the old pattern. When Wu Chang-ch'ing was instructed to organize the defence of that province, he had only a short time to act in and did not accomplish much. Now the inundation has come; our army and our funds are only capable of dealing with one point at a time and not sufficient to defend all the points at once.\n\nOur Yamen has repeatedly been devising plans and methods of defence on behalf of that province. It is not necessary to increase the garrison of Tengchow, as there is a chên tai stationed there. Wei-hai-wei from its natural advantages is very defensible. But Chefoo with its broad expanse of sea, and level sandy coast, a haven for merchant vessels, has ever been exposed to and sought after by foreign vessels, and therefore a heavy garrison is needed for its protection.\n\nAs Wu Ta-ch'êng watches over Lan-lo and Wu Chang-ch'ing is placed in Korea, they cannot be spared from their posts. The Throne is petitioned to instruct the Pei-yang Superintendent to select an able commander who will take with him trained soldiers from four to six camps and hold Chefoo. When Chefoo is secure, then both Lü Shan and Ka Tang will be safe.\n\nThe most important of the coast defence undertaken by Tso Tsung-tang is Po-mao Shan. The strait of Po-mao is situated 70 li east of the Chou Chi mouth and is the receptacle of the sea-flowing rivers of Soochow and Changchow. In the time of the Ming dynasty alarms were communicated by means of smoke signals at Po-mao to warn the people of a Japanese invasion.\n\nThe sea outside the strait is broad, and steamers pass and re-pass in it. The natural dangers of the place can be judiciously employed to make its defence effectual. The sea ports of Liu Ho, Ta-chien Fou, Hsü-liu Ching and others, through which the Capital of Kiangsu can be reached, are away from the Metropolitan city over a hundred li and are nevertheless to be defended.\n\nTsung-ming, an isolated island in the sea, relies solely on the chên-piao who commands but a weak garrison. If an alarm of war is sounded the isle is difficult for reinforcements to reach; every precaution for protecting the place should then be prepared beforehand.\n\nThe organization of the fishing brigade in the southern provinces is indeed an admirable idea; it prevents spies in the inland waters and can assist in harassing the enemy along the sea-coast. But fishing brigades may only be able to protect the people (in cases of need); they are of no avail in a battle.\n\nThe defence of Kiangsu needs more funds than can be spared; and if a tax is collected and militia instituted, people will ever be kept in a state of alarm and doubt. Therefore the Throne is petitioned to command the Fatai of Kiangsu, under the head of Winter Defence, to pick able-bodied men from the six or seven districts along the coast and class them in divisions of 300 each.\n\nThey are to be given rifles and ammunition and trained stuff year from three to five months in winter and spring; they will be able to handle their arms well and be thoroughly disciplined in that time. In peace they may detain and arrest salt-smugglers; in war they can patrol the sea-ports. In carrying this plan into execution, the funds will not be wasted, people will not be disturbed, and the many districts close to each other will rest in security.\n\nThe salt smugglers along the shores of the T'ai Hu who appear and disappear at intervals are doing a great deal of harm to the community and interfere with the organization of coast defence. It is imperative to crush any rebellious project on their part in the bud; then no danger will be apprehended from them at the rear when fighting an enemy in front.\n\nLet the Throne instruct the Fatai of the province to collect volunteer boats that they may capture these desperadoes and change them into loyal subjects; then land, sea, and lakes, (freed of them) may become tranquil.\n\nThe coast of the Min province is washed by the Che-yang (Chêkiang Ocean) and at the furthest end by the Canton sea. The government of this province requires an able official as the ever vigilant watching (for an opportunity to attack China) must be guarded against.\n\nIf the high authorities of the province consider tranquillity, and able rule, and not intent on devising plans for defence, at the first stir of the ocean's waves (war) Formosa, Peng-hu, and Amoy will be untenable. It is prayed that the Throne will bestow some thought on the province of Min either in appointing some able officials or decreeing some old generals to govern and protect it.\n\nThe isolated isle of Ting-hai, the port of Cha-pu, Ningpo, and Chou-shan in the province must be placed under the strictest surveillance. Some time ago a Decree was promulgated ordering Lin Ping-chang to take charge of the coast defence, who from his experience in war affairs will be able to bring it to an effectual state, and Your Majesties may rest at ease on that point.\n\nAnother matter, however, must be brought to the Imperial notice. The coast defence was instituted about ten years ago; the money expended on purchasing guns and ships amounted to tens of millions, and yet in case of war nothing can be relied on; the preparation for defence against Russian invasion cost the outlay over ten millions, and still the coasts are in a disorderly state.\n\nThe provincial authorities shirk their responsibility by complaining of the niggardliness of the Boards, while the officials of the Boards in turn fail in their duty by charging the provincial authorities with indulging in extravagant expenses. The dilly-dallying, the waste of time and opportunity, are all due to the faults of our Yamen.\n\nEven if the judgment of not censuring us, we cannot fool ourselves on the question of coast defence. The Yamen considers the protection of trade and defence of the coast to be two points of essential importance. The coast defence being in an unworthy state, it is not likely that trade will flourish.\n\nFrom this time forward let the coast defence be ever kept up in an efficient condition. The preparation which exists against the threats of the French today will be improved upon for defending the coast in the future. After receiving a Decree in reply to this Memorial, our Yamen will diligently study the naturally defensible points of the coast and the new invention of foreign gunboats, consulting with the Board of Revenue with regard to funds, with the Board of War in regard to tactics and military affairs, and with provincial authorities on procuring able commanders.\n\nWhen the country can remain at peace (without dishonour) or go to war (with confidence) then our reputation for being powerful will be established, and rebellious projects will be stifled. When preparation (for coast defence) begins, then danger ceases.\n\nPage 333\n\n**An unpublished decree from the Empress is also sent to us, but it contains nothing of importance beyond an expression of opinion on the part of Her Majesty that the schemes of the French are \"wily and insatiable.\"—ED.**\n\nPage 420",
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        "content_text": "# Paris, 30 Avril '1884.\n\n## Journal Officiel 1er Mai 1884\n\n**Le ministre de la marine a reçu du général Millot le rapport suivant sur les opérations qui ont eu pour conséquence la prise de Bac-Ninh et la retraite de l'armée annamite et chinoise :**\n\nIl y avait deux partis à prendre : ou bien aborder de front les défenses accumulées sur la route d'Hanoï à Bac-Ninh, en faisant de ce côté l'effort principal ; ou bien tromper l'attente de l'ennemi, chercher à prendre ses positions à revers et menacer sa ligne de retraite, en concentrant tout le corps expéditionnaire entre le canal des Rapides et le Song-Cau, vers leur confluent, pour faire tomber la place sous l'effort combiné des deux brigades et de la flottille remontant le Song-Gay.\n\nDe ces deux solutions, la première devait fatalement entraîner de grands sacrifices d'hommes, la seconde semblait pouvoir être obtenue avec des pertes moindres et amener un résultat plus complet. Le général en chef n'hésita pas à adopter cette dernière. Il arrêta en conséquence les dispositions suivantes :\n\nLa 1re brigade partira d'Hanoi, passera sur la rive gauche du fleuve Rouge, longera le canal des Rapides, le traversera vers le marché de Chi et opérera sa jonction avec la 2e brigade. Celle-ci, quittant Haï-Dzuong par eau, débarquera au confluent du Song-Cau et du canal des Rapides, s'emparera des hauteurs de Tron-Cau et de Doson, prendra à revers les défenses des Chinois sur le canal des Rapides et favorisera ainsi le passage de la 1re brigade. La jonction du corps expéditionnaire une fois réalisée sur la rive gauche du canal des Rapides, les deux brigades réunies se porteront en avant et enlèveront successivement les deux lignes de défense ennemies s'étendant, la première, du massif important du Trung-Bon au barrage de Lag Buoi ; la seconde, de Bac-Ninh au barrage de Dap-Cau. La flottille combinera son action avec celle de la 2e brigade, en marchant à hauteur de sa droite.\n\n## DÉTAIL DES OPÉRATIONS\n\n### Journées de 7, 8, 9, 10 et 11 mars\n\n#### A) 1re brigade\n\nLe 7 mars, à 5 heures du soir, commençait le passage de la 1re brigade sur la rive gauche du fleuve Rouge ; opération suspendue pendant la nuit, reprenant le lendemain, dès la pointe du jour (5 heures), et, malgré des difficultés matérielles considérables, s'exécutant dans le plus grand ordre au moyen de soixante-quatre jonques et trois remorqueurs. Le 8 mars, vers huit heures du matin, la tête de colonne se mettait en marche.\n\nLes avis fournis par le service des renseignements avaient établi d'une façon positive que l'ennemi occupait Bac-Ninh avec le gros de ses forces, avait poussé de forts détachements vers le Song-Cau et le canal des Rapides, et tenait en particulier les directions et les points suivants :\n\n| Direction/Point | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| A) Route de Hanoi à Bac-Ninh | Des travaux de défense étaient échelonnés depuis Dinh-Ban jusqu'au canal des Rapides. |\n| B) Route de Bac-Ninh à Phu-Thuan-Thanh | Les points de Chi-nè et de Phu-Thuan-Thanh étaient occupés. Le village de Chi-nè était très sérieusement organisé. |\n| C) Hauteur du Tron-Cau | Plusieurs ouvrages se trouvaient sur cette hauteur. L'organisation défensive du Tron-Cau était complétée par les redoutes de Yen-Diah (sur le Song-Cau). |\n| D) Route de Bac Ninh à Lang-Son | Des retranchements existaient depuis Bac-Ninh jusqu'à Ben-Thuong (sur le Thuong-Giang). |\n| E) Hauteur de Doson | Couronnée par un petit fortin. |\n\nEn outre, deux barrages sérieux étaient signalés sur le Song-Cau : à Lag-Buoi et à Dap-Cau.\n\nLe 11, à deux heures cinquante minutes de l'après-midi, quatre jours après son départ d'Hanoi, la 1re brigade, suivie d'un immense convoi de deux mille coolies, était tout entière sur la rive gauche du canal des Rapides, qu'elle avait franchi au village de Xam. Le canal présente en cet endroit une largeur de 90 mètres. Le passage s'était effectué en moins de 6 heures au moyen de deux canonnières, de jonques remorquées et d'un pont de bateaux rapidement assemblé par les détachements du génie et de pontonniers.\n\n#### B) Marche de la 1re brigade\n\nLa brigade, débouchant du marché de Chi, se leva vers le nord, dans le double but de se rapprocher de la 2e brigade et de déborder par le nord les défenses du Trung-Son.\n\n#### B) 2e brigade\n\nLa 2e brigade, partie d'Haï-Dzuong par eau le 6, avait pris pied à la montagne des Sept-Pagodes (confluent du Song-Cau et du canal des Rapides), s'était emparée le 8, avec le concours de la flottille, de Tran-Cau, du fort de Naon, des ouvrages de Yen-Dinh et de la hauteur de Doson, après une série de combats vivement menés. Dès le 9 au soir, elle se mettait en communication avec la 1re brigade au moyen d'émissaires et de la télégraphie optique.\n\nA midi cinquante minutes, le général en chef donnait l'ordre au général commandant la 2e brigade de prendre ses dispositions de combat. Les bataillons se déployaient immédiatement, tandis que l'artillerie, traversant la rizière, allait prendre position et commencer à canonner les pentes du Trung-Son.\n\nAprès une préparation qui durait près d'une heure, la première ligne d'infanterie s'ébranlait, soutenue par une deuxième ligne formant réserve. Les villages au pied des pentes, les premiers sommets du Trung-Son sont enlevés avec entrain. Notre infanterie poursuit de ses feux l'ennemi qui cherche à gagner les pitons les plus élevés, et se porte bientôt en avant, pour briser la dernière résistance, sur la deuxième ligne de défense.\n\nQuelques coups de canon tirés sur Bac-Ninh suffisaient à briser la dernière résistance, et bientôt deux bataillons d'infanterie, sans sac, se portant en avant, entraient sans coup férir dans la place. A cinq heures cinquante minutes du soir, le drapeau français flottait sur la grande tour de la citadelle.\n\n### Journée du 12\n\nLe 11, à deux heures de l'après-midi, la concentration du corps expéditionnaire était un fait accompli. Le général en chef donna l'ordre suivant pour la journée du 12 :\n\nL'ennemi occupe une première ligne de défense dont la droite est appuyée à la hauteur du Trong-Son, et la gauche au Song-Cau, vers le village de Val. Entre ce dernier village et celui de Lag-Buoi, un barrage ferme le fleuve. La 2e brigade partira de Doson à six heures du matin et se portera sur la ligne ennemie. La flottille, partant de Yen-Dinh, remontera le Song-Cau, détruira le barrage de Lag-Buoi et appuiera l'attaque de la 2e brigade. La 1re brigade quittera son cantonnement de Xam à six heures et demie du matin ; elle se portera d'abord au marché de Chi, en suivant la rive gauche du canal des Rapides. Elle se dirigera ensuite sur le Trung-Son et s'en emparera.\n\n#### A) Description de la position ennemie\n\nLa position de l'ennemi, le 12 au matin, s'appuyait sur les hauteurs fortifiées de Trung-Son et au village retranché de Xuam-Hoa. En ce point, la ligne se brisait vers une direction ouest-est, pour couvrir une boucle accentuée du Song-Cau et le barrage de Lag-Buoi. Ce barrage était défendu par une forte batterie bien armée et par un fortin sur la rive droite, par des redoutes étagées sur la rive gauche. Entre le village de Xuam-Hoa et le barrage existaient sept redoutes carrées.\n\nC'est sur le Trung-Son que les Chinois avaient établi leurs principales défenses. Les sommets de ce massif étaient couronnés de quatre forts, dont les feux se concentraient sur la route d'Haï-Dzuong à Bac-Ninh qui passe à l'est de ses pentes. Cette route était également commandée par un cinquième fort, situé au sommet d'un cône isolé à l'ouest du massif.\n\n#### C) Marche de la 2e brigade\n\nLa 2e brigade, cantonnée dans les villages autour de ses positions de Doson, avait rompu à six heures trente minutes du matin et pris son ordre de combat en arrière des villages formant rideau, à trois kilomètres en avant de l'ancien fort de Doson, face à Xuam-Hoa. Les reconnaissances ayant permis de se rendre compte de la position de l'ennemi, le général commandant la 2e brigade s'était décidé à faire une fausse attaque sur les retranchements du barrage, et à percer la ligne ennemie à la cathédrale de Keroi.\n\nPendant ces mouvements de la 2e brigade, la flottille s'était avancée sur le Song-Cau. Elle avait pour instructions : maintenir sa tête en arrière du pavillon de rectification, porté par le corps de débarquement, qui était lui-même en échelon derrière la droite de la 2e brigade ; ouvrir le feu sur la batterie et les ouvrages du barrage ; ces ouvrages ruinés, diriger son feu sur les ouvrages de la rive gauche, s'avancer ensuite jusqu'au barrage et commencer aussitôt les travaux nécessaires pour obtenir un passage praticable aux canonnières et aux jonques.\n\nL'ennemi, qui comptait 25 à 30 000 hommes, s'était enfui en laissant en notre pouvoir une place où il avait accumulé depuis plusieurs mois des défenses sérieuses, où il avait envoyé ses meilleures troupes et ses chefs les plus renommés. Il nous abandonnait une centaine de canons, une batterie Krupp, quantité de fusils se chargeant par la culasse, des munitions (poudre et cartouches), et enfin de nombreux étendards.\n\nAu quartier général, à Hanoi, le 21 mars 1884.\n\n**Général MILLOT**",
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        "content_text": "153 \n\ntrial. \n\nto seize them and bring them to \n\nThe pirates of smuggling \n\nwith the smugglers \n\nin \n\nclique \n\nleagued \n\nSociety, \n\nbound together, both ships and men, \n\neither to \n\nengage \n\non plunder a \n\non occasions fervent, or to trade in \n\ncontraband salt, \n\nSaltpetre \n\nand gunpowder; and breaking \n\nor to support \n\nthe law to help thieves, or to \n\ncontraband opium and other goods \n\nwith which to corrupt Authorities. \n\nLikin, and so, \n\nAnly and Likin, \n\nand so, from \n\npirates and smugglers down to \n\nevery \n\nsort of scoundrel, \n\nthey forming a distinct \n\nband. \n\nclass of \n\nof effective \n\nChiefs and \n\nnot taken to make a clean sweep \n\nof this lawbreaking class, as time \n\ngoes on, the subjects \n\nof other countries must all equally \n\nsuffer. The interests at stake are of \n\nimportance. Outlaws \n\nof \n\nthis sort are \n\nthe \n\nenemies of every nation. \n\nI have especially detached a Brigadier General with a larger staff of Officers \n\nand rank \n\n(given in detail) \n\nto take the steamers \n\n\"Pong Chao Hai\", \"Wai Chung\", \"Chen Jung\", \"Chih Kiang\", \"Kwang Hgan\", \"Tai Ching Ching\" and \"Hai Tung Chi\", and with authority, to make \n\na thorough search, in Chinese waters from Hongkong \n\nto Macao. \n\nIt is just possible that to escape \n\narrest the criminals \n\nmay hide \n\non land or water within \n\nforeign boundaries. It is \n\ndesirable that you should despatch soldiers and police to help in their arrest; this only will the raid be effective. \n\nI shall therefore be \n\nvery \n\nmuch obliged \n\nif you will express to the Governor of Hongkong my \n\nhope that whenever \n\nany `...`",
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        "content_text": "Frontier Line.\n\nFrontier Line.\n\nCession of Mung Lem and Kiang Hung to China.\n\nDelimitation Commission,\n\nARTICLE III\n\n[The Shweli to the Mekong.]\n\n€\n\nFrom the junction of the Namwan and Shweli the frontier shall follow the northern boundary of the State of North Hsinwi, as at present constituted, to the Salween, leaving to China the loop of the Shweli River and almost the whole of Wanting, Mong-ko, and Mong-ka.\n\nStarting from the point where the Shweli turns northward near Namwan, i.e., from its junction with the Namyang, the frontier shall ascend this latter stream to its source in the Mong-ko Hills in about latitude 24° 7′ and longitude 98° 15', thence continue along a wooded spur to the Salween at its junction with the Namoi stream. The line shall then ascend the Salween till it meets the north-west boundary of Kokang, and shall continue along the eastern frontier of Kokang till it meets the Kunlong circle, leaving the whole circle of Kunlong to Great Britain.\n\nThe frontier shall then follow the course of the river forming the boundary between Somu, which belongs to Great Britain, and Mêng Ting, which belongs to China. It shall still continue to follow the frontier between those two districts, which is locally well known, to where it leaves the aforesaid river and ascends the hills; and shall then follow the line of water-parting between the tributaries of the Salween and the Mekong Rivers, from about longitude 99° east of Greenwich (17° 30′ west of Peking), and latitude 23° 20', to a point about longitude 99° 40′ east of Greenwich (16° 50′ west of Peking), and latitude 23°, leaving to China the Tsawbwa-ships of Kêng Ma, Mengtung, and Mengko.\n\nAt the last-named point of longitude and latitude the line strikes a very lofty mountain range, called Kong-Ming-Shan, which it shall follow in a southerly direction to about longitude 99°30′ east of Greenwich (17° west of Peking), and latitude 22° 30′, leaving to China the district of Chen-pien Ting. Then, descending the western slope of the hills to the Namka River, it will follow the course of that river for about 10 minutes of latitude, leaving Munglem to China and Manglün to Great Britain.\n\nThe frontier shall then follow the boundary between Munglem and Kiang Tong, which is locally well known, diverging from the Namka River a little to the north of latitude 22°, in a direction somewhat south of east, and generally following the crest of the hills till it strikes the Namlam River in about latitude 21° 45′ and longitude 100° east of Greenwich (16° 30′ west of Peking).\n\nIt shall then follow the boundary between Kiang Tong and Kiang Hung, which is generally formed by the Namlam River, with the exception of a small strip of territory belonging to Kiang Hung, which lies to the west of that river just south of the last-named parallel of latitude. On reaching the boundary of Western Kyaing Chaing, in about latitude 21° 27′ and longitude 100° 12′ east of Greenwich (16° 18′ west of Peking), the frontier shall follow the boundary between that district and Kiang Hung until it reaches the Mekong River.\n\nARTICLE IV.\n\nIt is agreed that the settlement and delimitation of that portion of the frontier which lies to the north of latitude 25° 35′ north shall be reserved for a future understanding between the High Contracting Parties when the features and condition of the country are more accurately known.\n\nARTICLE V.\n\nIt is agreed that China will not cede to any other nation either Mung Lem or any part of Kiang Hung on the right bank of the Mekong, or any part of Kiang Hung now in her possession on the left bank of that river, without previously coming to an arrangement with Great Britain.\n\nARTICLE VI.\n\nArticle VI of the original Convention shall be held to be modified as follows:- It is agreed that, in order to avoid any local contention, the alignments of the frontier described in the present Agreement shall be verified and demarcated, and, in event of their being found defective at any point, rectified by a Joint Commission appointed by the Governments of Great Britain and China, and that the said Commission shall meet, at a place hereafter to be determined by the two Governments, not later than twelve months from the date of the signature of the present Agreement, and shall terminate its labours in not more than three years from the date of its first meeting.\n\nIf a strict adherence to the line described would intersect any districts, tribal territories, towns, or villages, the Boundary Commission shall be empowered to modify the line on the basis of mutual concessions. If the members of the Commission are unable to agree on any point, the matter of disagreement shall at once be referred to their respective Governments.\n\nARTICLE VII.\n\nIt is agreed that any posts belonging to either country which may be stationed within the territory of the other when the Commission of Delimitation shall have brought its labours to a conclusion, shall, within eight months from the date of such conclusion, be withdrawn, and their places occupied by the troops of the other, mutual notice having in the meantime been given of the precise date at which the withdrawal and occupation will take place. From the date of such occupation the High Contracting Parties shall, each within its own territories, hold itself responsible for the maintenance of good order, and for the tranquillity of the tribes inhabiting them.\n\nThe High Contracting Parties further engage neither to construct nor to maintain within 10 English miles from the nearest point of the common frontier, measured in a straight line and horizontal projection, any fortifications or permanent camps, beyond such posts as are necessary for preserving peace and good order in the frontier districts.\n\nARTICLE VIII.\n\nSubject to the conditions mentioned hereafter in Articles X and XI, the British Government, wishing to encourage and develop the land trade of China with Burmah as much as possible, consent, for a period of six years from the ratification of the present Convention, to allow Chinese produce and manufactures, with the exception of salt, to enter Burmah by land duty free, and to allow British manufactures and Burmese produce, with the exception of rice, to be exported to China by land free of duty.\n\nThe duties on salt and rice so imported and exported shall not be higher than those imposed on their import or export by sea.\n\nARTICLE IX.\n\nPending the negotiation of a more complete arrangement, and until the development of the trade shall justify the establishment of other frontier Customs' stations, goods imported from Burmah into China, or exported from China into Burmah, shall be permitted to cross the frontier by Manwyne and by Sansi.\n\nWith a view to the development of trade between China and Burmah, the Chinese Government consent that for six years from the ratification of the present Convention the duties levied on goods imported into China by these routes shall be those specified in the General Tariff of the Maritime Customs diminished by three-tenths, and that the duties on goods exported from China by the same route shall be those specified in the same Tariff diminished by four-tenths.\n\nTransit passes for imports and exports shall be granted in accordance with the rules in force at the Treaty ports.\n\nSmuggling, or the carrying of merchandise through Chinese territory by other routes than those sanctioned by the present Convention, shall, if the Chinese authorities think fit, be punished by the confiscation of the merchandise concerned.\n\nIn addition to the Manwyne and Sansi routes sanctioned by the Convention of 1894, the Governments of Great Britain and China agree that any other routes, the opening of which the Boundary Commissioners may find to be in the interests of trade, shall be sanctioned on the same terms as those mentioned above.\n\nPage 269\n\nPage 280",
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        "content_text": "C\n\n2\n\no the Molè stream, running between Kadon and Laisa; thence the Molè to its confluence with the Cheyang Klia; thence the Cheyang Kha to Alaw Pum; thence the Nampaung stream to the Taping.\n\nARTICLE II.\n\n(The Taping to the Shweli River.)\n\nFrom the junction of the Taping and the Nampaung streams the frontier shall follow the Taping to the neighbourhood of the Lwalaing ridge; thence a line running approximately along the Lwalaing ridge and the Lwalaing stream to the Nawan; thence the Namwan to its junction with the Shweli.\n\nGreat Britain engages to recognize as belonging to China the tract to the south of the Namwan River, near Namkhai, which is inclosed to the west by a branch of the Nam Mak River and the Mawsiu range of hills up to Loi Chow Peak, and thence by the range running in a north-easterly direction to the Shweli River.\n\nIn the whole of this area China shall not exercise any jurisdiction or authority whatever. The administration and control will be entirely conducted by the British Government, who will hold it on a perpetual lease from China, paying a rent for it, the amount of which shall be fixed hereafter.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\n(The Shweli to the Mekong.)\n\nFrom the junction of the Namwan and Shweli the frontier shall follow the northern boundary of the State of North Hsinwi, as at present constituted, to the Salween, leaving to China the loop of the Shweli River, and almost the whole of Wanting, Mong-ko, and Mong-ka.\n\nStarting from the point where the Shweli turns northward near Namwan, ..., from its junction with the Nanyang, the frontier shall ascend this latter stream to its source in the Mong-ko Hills, in about latitude 24° 7' and longitude 98° 15', thence continue along a wooded spur to the Salween at its junction with the Namoi stream. The line shall then ascend the Salween till it meets the north-west boundary of Kokang, and shall continue along the eastern frontier of Kokang till it meets the Kunlong circle, leaving the whole circle of Kunlong to Great Britain.\n\nThe frontier shall then follow the course of the river forming the boundary between Somu, which belongs to Great Britain, and Mêng Ting, which belongs to China. It shall still continue to follow the frontier between those two districts, which is locally well known, to where it leaves the aforesaid river and ascends the hills, and shall then follow the line of water-parting between the tributaries of the Salween and the Mekong Rivers, from about longitude 99° east of Greenwich (17° 30' west of Peking), and latitude 23° 20', to a point about longitude 99° 40' east of Greenwich (16° 50' west of Peking), and latitude 23°, leaving to China the Tsawbwaships of Kêng Ma, Mengtung, and Mengko.\n\nAt the last-named point of longitude and latitude the line strikes a very lofty mountain range, called Kong-Ming-Shan, which it shall follow in a southerly direction to about longitude 99° 30' east of Greenwich (17° west of Peking), and latitude 22° 30', leaving to China the district of Chen-pien Ting. Then, descending the western slope of the hills to the Namka River, it will follow the course of that river for about 10 minutes of latitude, leaving Munglem to China and Manglün to Great Britain.\n\nThe frontier shall then follow the boundary between Munglem and Kiang Tong, which is locally well known, diverging from the Namka River a little to the north of latitude 22°, in a direction somewhat south of east, and generally following the crest of the hills till it strikes the Namlam River in about latitude 21° 45' and longitude 100° east of Greenwich (16° 30' west of Peking).\n\nIt shall then follow the boundary between Kiang Tong and Kiang Hung, which is generally formed by the Namlam River, with the exception of a small strip of territory belonging to Kiang Hung, which lies to the west of that river, just south of the last-named parallel of latitude. On reaching the boundary of Western Kyaing Chaing, in about latitude 21° 27' and longitude 100° 12' east of Greenwich (16° 18' west of Peking), the frontier shall follow the boundary between that district and Kiang Hung until it reaches the Mekong River.\n\nARTICLE IV.\n\n[No addition to original Convention.]\n\nARTICLE V.\n\nIt is agreed that China will not cede to any other nation either Mung Lem or any part of Kiang Hung on the right bank of the Mekong, or any part of Kiang Hung now in her possession on the left bank of that river, without previously coming to an arrangement with Great Britain.\n\nARTICLE VI.\n\nArticle VI of the original Convention shall be held to be modified as follows:-\n\nIt is agreed that, in order to avoid any local contention, the alignments of the frontier described in the present Agreement shall be verified and demarcated, and, in the event of their being found defective at any point, rectified by a Joint Commission appointed by the Governments of Great Britain and China, and that the said Commission shall meet, at a place hereafter to be determined by the two Governments, not later than twelve months from the date of\n\nPage 272",
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        "content_text": "(16° 50′ west of Peking), and latitude 23°, leaving to China the Tsawbwa ships of Kêng Ma, Mengtung, and Mengko.\n\nAt the last-named point of longitude and latitude the line strikes a very lofty mountain range, called Kong-Ming-Shan, which it shall follow in a southerly direction to about longitude 19° 30′ east of Greenwich (17° west of Peking), and latitude 22° 30′, leaving to China the district of Chen-pien Ting. Then, descending the western slope of the hills to the Namka River, it will follow the course of that river for about 10 minutes of latitude, leaving Munglem to China and Manglün to Great Britain.\n\nThe frontier shall then follow the boundary between Munglei and Kiang Tong, which is locally well known, diverging from the Namka River a little to the north of latitude 22°, in a direction somewhat south of east, and generally following the crest of the hills till it strikes the Namlam River in about latitude 21° 45′ and longitude 100° east of Greenwich (16° 30′ west of Peking).\n\nIt shall then follow the boundary between Kiang Tong and Kiang Hung, which is generally formed by the Naulani River, with the exception of a small strip of territory belonging to Kiang Hung, which lies to the west of that river, just south of the last-named parallel of latitude. On reaching the boundary of Western Kyaing Chaing, in about latitude 21° 27′ and longitude 100° 12′ east of Greenwich (16° 18′ west of Peking), the frontier shall follow the boundary between that district and Kiang Hung until it reaches the Mekong River.\n\nARTICLE IV.\n\n[No addition to original Convention.]\n\nARTICLE V.\n\nIt is agreed that China will not cede to any other nation either Mung Leni or any part of Kiang Hung on the right bank of the Mekong, or any part of Kiang Hung now in her possession on the left bank of that river, without previously coming to an arrangement with Great Britain.\n\nARTICLE VI.\n\nArticle VI of the original Convention shall be held to be modified as follows:—\n\nIt is agreed that, in order to avoid any local contention, the alignments of the frontier described in the present Agreement shall be verified and demarcated, and, in the event of their being found defective at any point, rectified by a Joint Commission appointed by the Governments of Great Britain and China, and that the said Commission shall meet, at a place hereafter to be determined by the two Governments not later than twelve months from the date of\n\nPage 376",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### September Received SECTION 1.\n734\n\n## No. 1.\n### Li Hung-chang to Sir Chihchen Lofêngluh.-(Communicated by Sir Chihchen Lofêngluh, September 7.)\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nShanghae, September 6, 1900, 2:55 P.M.\n\nTHE order and peace in the South and East provinces of China shall be maintained by the Chinese authorities in strict accordance with the Articles agreed upon, and the Viceroys and Governors will exert their utmost to afford protection to the foreign and native, Christian and non-Christian, lives and properties within their jurisdictions; but it is now found that an insurrectionary organization headed by Kang-yu-wei and Liang Ki-chao, amalgamated with the Cantonese notorious rebel, Ku-Sing, and the chiefs of the Triad Society, Pan-Sing-Kwei and Lew-Fuh, affiliated with the different Secret Societies, propose to uprise in the two Hu (i.e., Hunan and Hu-Peh), three Kiang (i.e., Kiang-Su, Nyan Hui, and Kiang Si), and the two Kwang (i.e., Kwang Tung and Kwangsi) provinces. They call themselves the National Protectors, but in reality they are rebelling against the Government for their own end, and disturbing peace and order.\n\nI may mention the recent case of Tang Chung Chai for illustration. He was a rebel in Pih-Kan of Tin-Tung when arrested by the Viceroys Lew-Kwung-Yih and Chang Chih Tung; he confessed freely that he was in the party of Kang-yu-wei; a quantity of ammunition, guns, documents, and papers confiscated proved the accuracy of his confession. This case is well known to both foreigners and Chinese.\n\nIn the Province of Canton (Kwang Tung) the Secret Societies are still more numerous. Their head-quarters are at the Gardens of Yu-Yu-Chih, in Hong Kong, and at the \"Reformer\" of Chih Sing Magazine Office, in Macao. They meet secretly at the two above-mentioned places to plan their insurrectionary scheme. The most prominent members are-\n\n| 1. | Ho Lien Wung. |\n| 2. | Ho Muh Ling. |\n| 3. | Hsu Ching.    |\n| 4. | Lew Chien Ling.|\n| 5. | Meh Mung Hwa. |\n| 6. | Chen Chung Yen.|\n| 7. | Yung Wing.    |\n\nThey visit Hong Kong and Macao frequently to arrange the plans and dates of uprising, for the purchase and supply of rifles, guns, and ammunitions stored in coffins and imported from the Straits Settlements into Canton. These rebel leaders, if they be not arrested and punished according to law, will certainly set the whole of the Southern and Eastern provinces in a blaze similar to what the Boxer movement did in the North, and do unlimited damage to the foreign trade in China.\n\nI have therefore to request you to bring this telegram before Lord Salisbury and persuade his Lordship to issue telegraphic instructions to the Governors of Singapore and Hong Kong to adopt stringent measures for the investigation and arrest of these rebels, and to keep them in prison so as to nip the insurrection in the bud.\n\nBoth foreigners and Chinese would derive great benefits from the action of Lord Salisbury, and be grateful to his Lordship.\n\nPlease reply by wire.\n\n[2321 g-1]",
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        "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]",
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        "content_text": "Canton, 27th August, 1901.\n\n1. I have the honour to inform you that I have received the following Report from Pai Ching Pn, Magistrate, Easting. In the Manhow District:\n\nKong Esin (Parsavarance) Piracy Case.\n\nYesterday (August 26th), the British Consul-General had the witnesses from Kangkong, Ho Chick, Kiang-Po, Fu-Tung, Chu You Chang, and Hi Bai Shan sent to my yamun, and I, jointly with Mr. Stewart, British Consular Assistant, had up the five prisoners, viz., Ta Kuo, Chong Yap Chow, Ya Han alias Lei Shang, Fong Chan Fa, and Ta Pu, to be confronted with the witnesses and examined.\n\nHiang-Pai stated in evidence that while the boat was being pirated, Chen Yu seized him by the queue; while Hiang Kusi held him round the chest; and a boy searched his person; he lost about 2 dollars. Afterwards, at the Court in Kangkong, he was confronted with them (and recognised the two culprits as the right men; Ka could still recognise them, but did not know their names or surnames).\n\nI had caused the prisoners in question to be singled out from a number of other prisoners; Ho Chick at first pointed out Sheng Ta Te, and Hiang, at one pointing out Tung Ta Yu and Hiang Ya Kuo as the criminals who had committed robbery on board the launch. Their statements were absolutely clear, and there seemed no reason for doubt on the subject.\n\nAlso Chu You Chang and Hi Bai Shan said that they were both Christian converts who had been partners, keeping a Sanchow and Isanghau goods shop in the Tu En Street at Sanning. Subsequently, Chu You Shang opened on the opposite side of the street a carpenter's shop under the name of Chan Olan. On the 9th day of the Intercalary 8th Moon, early in the morning, Chen To Nan alias Hi Ya Chang called together some scores of men who came with weapons in their hands, saying that they had come to look out for and kill (someone), and after making a disturbance, both the shopkeepers had made a witness statement and fled far away in terror; and afterwards made an accusation before the Sanning Magistrate asking for their arrest to be underscored. Then Ta Han and Hi Ya Chang absconded to Kangkong. Chu Yon Shang and Hi Bai Shan reported to the Hongkong authorities who arrested Chen Ya Han.\n\nThe witness further stated that Hi Ya Han was resident in the same street, called the Tu No. Street in Sanning, and that he was well acquainted with him; he sometimes sold pork and some things from a \"Pai Ka\" basket - evidence enough of his being a mauvais sujet. The antecedents of the prisoner were very unsatisfactory, and Chen...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]",
        "content_text": "The result of a memorial addressed by him to the Dowager Empress advising that the system of palace Eunuchs should be discontinued as it was degrading to the first lady of the Empire to assume that without the Supervision of Eunuchs the Empress would not be virtuous, and the Entire System depraving from Every point. As the Dowager Empress would not entertain his Memorial he obtained leave to resign. Sie (hertung diang) tells me that he serious Timble anticipates trouble in Canton province from the appointment of a new Manchu tiduroy, so much so that he is about to purchase land in the new territory and build a place in which he can feel that he and his family will be safe from outrage by rothery.\n\nToo much for my gleaning from Prince Fear Chen Auk regarding his Jurite internal political affairs in China. At Rajarati's I learned that efforts are being made to induce the Japanese Government to make it a free port.\n\n## Page 450 \n\nGovernment House.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904",
        "page_number": 572,
        "title": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904",
        "content_text": "THE TIMES, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1904.\n\nLANSDOWNE'S declaration. Year by year the imperative need of a definite policy, and, we think, the broad principles on which it should be based, become more manifest. The time has come when it is hopeless for private enterprise, without the assurance of State support, to compete successfully in the prosecution of large undertakings in China. Its rivals are no longer private individuals or associations of individuals; in one form or another they represent powerful European Governments, and against the resources of each Government, which are firmly directed to fixed aims upon consistent and intelligent principles, it is in vain for private Englishmen to struggle. They too must enjoy State support, if they are to be on even terms with their competitors. It need not necessarily take the form of pecuniary support, though the brilliant financial and political success achieved by the genius of LORD BEACONSFIELD, in the purchase of the Suez Canal shares, and the political results accomplished by the construction of the Sudan and Uganda railways demonstrate that, on occasion, a bold departure from the hide-bound traditions of the Treasury may prove of the highest advantage to the Empire. It need not often take the form of guarantees—which are only pecuniary support in the second degree of under...\n\nIn the years before the outbreak of the South African war there were few questions of foreign politics in which the public took a deeper interest than in the railway problem in China. Our Correspondents at Peking and Shanghai carefully laid the main factors of the problem before the nation and explained their political and commercial importance. They realized, as most intelligent Europeans in the East do realize, how intimately policy and commerce are of necessity knit in Oriental lands, and they exerted themselves with great ability to bring this fundamental truth home to their fellow-countrymen. Their efforts were attended with a large measure of success, and, under the pressure of the opinion which they did much to create, British Ministers reluctantly discarded some of their most comfortable illusions and awoke to the revelation that in half-civilized lands railways under foreign control are powerful political weapons. Under the same pressure our diplomacy was authorized to take part in what was called the \"battle of concessions\" in China, and at the end of 1898 our Minister at Peking officially recorded the results. These made a good show on paper, but unfortunately most of them have remained mere paper ever since. Two years ago our Shanghai Correspondent reviewed the then condition of the nine concessions, embracing more than 2,800 miles of railway, which our Government paraded with so much self-gratulation in 1898. The other day he repeated that salutary survey. The result is practically the same. We have completed 570 miles out of the 2,800 allotted to us, and there is a prospect of our building another 180 this year. The lines which we have finished are the Northern railway from Peking to Tien-tsin and Niu-chwang and the Pekin Syndicate's short line from the Shan-si mines to Wei-hui. The line which we are about to begin is the line from Shanghai to Nanking through Su-chau. The other concessions are either concessions and nothing more, in 1904, as they were in 1898, or they have altogether evaporated into mere interesting reminiscences. Other nations in the meantime have been actively developing the concessions made to them; Germany, France, and Russia have all displayed energy and enterprise in making the railways which our Foreign Office used to disparage as very dubious speculations. These nations appreciate the principle, recognized by CAPTAIN MAHAN, that in China, as in Persia, \"local commercial interests now underlie political and military control.\" Even Belgium, as we have recently seen, which cannot be suspected of this kind of ambition on her own account in China, has fearlessly embarked in railway construction across the British sphere, with a shrewd appreciation of the fact that the political and military \"value of her concessions will always enable her to find champions to protect them, or purchasers to take them off her hands upon terms to her advantage.\n\nThere has been one object-lesson, our Correspondent points out, which might have been expected to enlarge the views of the Government on railway policy in China. In January, 1899, they screwed their courage to the sticking-place and officially \"took note\" of the promise given by the Tsung-li-Yamên to the Hong-kong and Shanghai Bank that China would not alienate any of the Northern Railway lines to any foreign Power. \"The far-reaching and fortunate results of this 'undemonstrative support have been,' he declares, \"sufficiently conspicuous.\" They include, in a great measure, not only the maintenance of our own position in North China, but also that of the independence of the Chinese Government. The guarantee saved the railway from remaining in Russian hands after the Boxer troubles, and with the railway in Russian hands the subjugation of the Palace to Russian influence would have been complete. But, in spite of this lesson, the Foreign Office seems to have relapsed into its traditional attitude. When SIR ERNEST SATOW went back to Peking, more than twelve months ago, Lord LANSDOWNE declared that he went back with fuller powers and with a definite policy on the railway question. We are unable to believe that it is the fault of so able a diplomatist as SIR ERNEST SATOW that so little has been done to justify Lord LANSDOWNE's declaration.\n\n...undertakings in foreign lands. But, if Englishmen are to engage in such undertakings, as they must do if we are to maintain our place in the remoter markets of the world, our Government must back them up with the zeal and the perseverance which other Governments display in encouraging their countrymen. When British concession is as sure of diplomatic support as a Russian or a German concession or even as a Belgian concession—British capital will be forthcoming in plenty for opening the Chinese markets to British trade and manufactures. It is the plentiful lack of that support which is largely responsible for the undeveloped condition of so many of the concessions we have obtained, and which is leading foreigners to hint, and Chinamen to suspect, that we do not intend to develop them at all.\n\nPage 569\n\n0.0\n\n38877\n\n0\n\nThe necessity of doing something with our concessions may be illustrated by the case of the Hang-chau line. This is to be an extension of the Shanghai-Nanking line. The latter is described as the most valuable concession of its kind in China, while its control in British hands is indispensable to the protection of our interests at Shanghai and in the Yang-tze valley. We have had the preliminary contract since 1898, but the work has not yet been begun, and it is only after a strong remonstrance from our Minister that the obstructive attitude of SHENG TA-JÊN has been at last overcome and authority given for the issue of the bonds. But, though SHENG has done his best to retard the construction of the Nanking line, China has alleged this delay as a reason for refusing to discuss the final agreement for the Hang-chau extension. The gentry of Che-kiang have displayed an unexpected interest in the railway question. They have witnessed with concern the prospect of a British \"monopoly\" of concessions in that region, and they thought out—or adopted—an ingenious proposal to defeat it. It appears from the documents which our correspondent \"YANG-TSZE\" supplies this morning, that, in order to \"balance the power\" which we might ultimately acquire, they proposed to build a second line from Shanghai to Hang-chau. They offered to subscribe half the capital themselves, and they made an agreement with a German firm to provide the other half. They do not seem to have placed implicit reliance in their German associates. They applied for and obtained a guarantee for the 2,000,000 taels which were to be provided by the German firm from Dr. KNAPPE, the German Consul-General at Shanghai. The project, we understand, has fallen through. Its history survives as an instructive warning of the dangers of delay in carrying out our concessions, and as a practical reminder that, while Germany claims for herself a special position in Shan-tung, she also adheres to the contention—which LORD SALISBURY repudiated in 1898—that the Yang-tsze region is still \"unreservedly open\" to her enterprise.\n\n&\n\n14 NOV C",
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        "content_text": "## LXVI \n296 \n70 \n\n**MBM Colaul General Haukows** \n\nDesp* 0.45am. 6/9/05 \nTo Governor Hongkong 85cd 5.30pm 6/9/05 \n\nNo. four, 4.B.M Ministry at Peking instructs me to telegraph to you these alterations in the loan agreement.\n\nPage one. Paragraph one Cancel third line from \"act\" to \"office\". Paragraph two add, \"the Viceroy has been imperially appointed to devise means for the resumption of the Canton Hankow railway and the proposed loan has been reported to the throne and His Majesty the Emperor has issued decree approving of an agreement being made by the Viceroy of the two Kiang provinces and the Governors of Hunan for themselves and their successors in office\". Third line after \"funds\" add \"to redeem concession for the building thereof heretofore granted to an American Company\". Eleventh line after \"assistance\" add \"to buy back the shares in the said American Company\". Twelfth line cancel from \"with\" to \"of the\" and substitute \"and so perform said vpscial\". Article one. Second line for \"Viceroy\" read \"three provinces of Hupeh, Hunan and Kwang Tung,\" and third line add \"the exact division of the responsibility for this sum could be settled and announced later\".\n\nArticle two. Sixth line for \"Viceroy\" read \"three provinces\".\n\nArticle four. Fifth line \"cancel\" from \"the\" to \"thereof\" and substitute \"sterling account at the option of government of Hongkong\". Article five. Eighth line. for \"in case\" and \"Viceroy\" substitute \"should hereafter opium revenue of the three provinces not suffice to meet payments, the Viceroy of Hupeh may agree with the Hunan Kwang Tung Governments which province's quota is insufficient and such province shall be\". Tenth line cancel \"of his province\". Fourteenth line after \"to\" agree with Hunan Kwantung which province is in default and that province shall be. Article Six - Eleventh line after \"province\" add \"Kwang Tung\".\n\n## Article Kom \nFirst line for \"paid\" read \"remitted\". Second line for \"order of the Viceroy\" substitute \"Chen Chi Meister As Exaheny Liang\". Fourth line after \"million\", add \"9000 odd\" and for \"29\" read \"six\" and in seventh line leave date blank pending instructions.\n\n## Article Eight \nFirst line for \"or\" read \"before\" and for \"shall\" read \"reported to the throne and has\". Second line for \"obtain\" read \"obtained\". Third line after \"loan\" add \"agreement\". Fourth line after \"Peking\" insert \"by the Chinese Foreign Office\" and cancel from \"before\" to \"it\" and.\n\n## Article Nine \nFifth line for \"guarantees that\" substitute \"has by telegraph consulted the\" and second line after \"Kwang Tung\" add \"who has replied\" and for \"consents\" read \"consenting\". Article Ich for \"quadruplicate\" read \"in six parts\" the Viceroy at Canton and the Governor of Hunan being added.\n\nFraser \n10",
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        "content_text": "## RAILWAYS IN CHINA. BRITISH CONCESSION THREATENED,\n\n**(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)**\n\nSHANGHAI, Oct. 18.\n\nThe success of the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung's efforts to cancel the Canton-Han-kau railway agreement has encouraged the issue of an imperial edict, dated September 23, approving the recommendation of the Board of Commerce that similar cancellation should be applied to the preliminary agreement with the British and Chinese Corporation for the Su-chau-Hang-chau line. The Viceroy Chou-fu is directed to devise ways and means for carrying out this instruction. The movement has the support of the gentry and merchant classes in Che-kiang province and receives enthusiastic notice from the \"China for the Chinese\" section of the local Press.\n\nInfluential native opinion blames the British concessionnaires for the delay in the signature of the final contract for this railway, though the cause really lies in the habits of procrastination of Sheng, Director-General of Railways, official returned from Peking on September 30, since which date he has been occupied in negotiating the German commercial treaty.\n\nThe Viceroy Chou-fu, who has been a target for the denunciation of the censors during the past six months, is to-day reported to have been transferred to the Fu-chau Viceroyalty, Tuan-fang being nominated to the Nanking Viceroyalty.\n\n## HONG-KONG, Oct. 12.\n\nThe Government is introducing an Ordinance in Council raising a loan of £2,000,000 for the Kowloon Railway and other railway purposes.\n\nReuter's Agency states that one million sterling of the loan mentioned in the above telegram is required in connexion with an advance made by the Government of Hong-kong to the Chinese authorities for the purpose of enabling China to acquire from an American syndicate their interest in the concession granted for the construction of the Canton-Han-kau railway, a line which, when completed, will have the greatest commercial importance for Hong-kong.\n\n### Paraphrase of telegram from Governor Hongkong\n\nWith reference to my telegram of the 13th instant, the Viceroy has now asked for a loan of £450,000 on further identical terms to enable him to redeem Hankow Canton Railway bonds at 22% premium as the American Agreement prescribes. He says that the Belgian minister with French support makes this an unopposed pretext for claiming the right to take up the lapsed concession.\n\nThe Viceroy has been negotiating with the British Chinese Corporation for a loan, but their terms are high. If you can induce the Corporation to lower their terms, it will be less than what they can get from any foreign source, and this would be the best arrangement. Otherwise, and if the present arrangement is followed, I propose that a supplementary loan be made, but it is something to be avoided.\n\nPussy maing le back, (mber her. was not reconstructed as it appears to be unrelated to the rest of the text, which discusses railways in China and related political developments. \n\n`XCR(85)72` and similar references were not present in the original text; however, file references like `GR1178/1922/32(III)` were also not found. The text \"PRINTED No 169) FOR USE LASTERN 88. OA IAL OFFICE COLONIAL 15424\" appears to be a file or document reference but was not reconstructed as per the given instructions since it wasn't clear if it should be treated as a file reference to be wrapped in backticks. \n\nPage numbering was not explicitly present in the provided text.",
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        "content_text": "180\n\nShensi and Kansu, the Southern limit of the Diocese being the 28th. parallel of North latitude, but exclusive of such parts of the provinces of Sziechuen and Kweichau as lie to the north of the said 28th. parallel of latitude.\n\nNOW it is Our Royal will and pleasure, and We do by this Our Warrant under Our Royal Signet and Sign Manual revoke the said Warrants so far as limits were thereby assigned within which the said Right Reverend George Evans Moule and his successors should exercise spiritual jurisdiction, and in pursuance of the said 2nd. Section of the said Act We do assign Mid China limited by the Southern boundary of the province of Shantung, the Eastern and Southern boundaries of the provinces of Shensi and Kansu, the Southern limit of the Diocese being the Southern Boundary of the province of Cheh-kiang in part and the 28th. parallel of North latitude in other part, but exclusive of such parts of the Provinces of Sziechuen, Kweichau and Fuhkien as lie to the North of the 28th. parallel of latitude, as the limits within which the said Right Reverend George Evans Moule and his successors shall forthwith exercise spiritual jurisdiction over the Ministers of the Church of England and other persons above mentioned:\n\nProvided always that it shall at all times hereafter be competent for Us and Our successors to revoke this Our Royal Warrant, and in accordance with Section 2 of the said Act to assign such limits as may from time to time seem expedient to Us within which the said Right Reverend George Evans Moule and his successors shall exercise such spiritual jurisdiction as aforesaid.\n\nGiven at Our Court of St. James the seventh day of February in the Year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and six and in the sixth year of Our Reign.\n\nBy His Majesty's Command.\n\n(Countersigned)\n\nE. Grey.",
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        "content_text": "723\n\n2\n\nI inclose a sheet of tracing paper on which I have marked lines (a) and (b), together with all names to which reference is made in Shih Taotai's Memorandum. I have added little else, lest the trees should obscure the wood; though I have taken the opportunity to identify and insert nearly all the localities mentioned in my despatches Nos. 11 and 37 of 1905. By superimposing the tracing paper on Shih Taotai's map, the remarks which I would now venture to submit will, I trust, gain in clearness.\n\nIf our motto is to be stet pro ratione voluntas, there can be no doubt that we could force Yunnan to acquiesce. She has few, if any, troops worth the name, and her treasury is empty. Should we proceed to administer up to \"Scott's Line\" she could offer no overt resistance.\n\nAs regards the blank in both our maps, the ground styled by Governor-General Ting \"Manbai Magna,\" and by Shih Taotai \"Territory of the Wild K'a,\" I do not think that the Yunnan Government would be inclined to raise difficulty. The only objection they might bring forward would be that this region lies well to the east of the boundary line drawn by Liu and Ch'en-tajen in 1900. But although Shih Taotai continues to identify Loi-mu Hill with the \"very lofty mountain range called Kong-ming-Shan\" of the Treaties, still I think that he would hardly have handed me, with the Governor-General's assent, his present map unless his Government are prepared to yield the ground between the Liu-Chen line and Shih's \"watersheds of the Namma River,\" or at the least to erect it into a sort of buffer State. (In his Memorandum he does, it is true, propose that it be divided.) They might possibly give up those parts of the Upper Hulu and of Mengtum that lie south and west of \"Scott's Line\"; what they will certainly strive to retain is the \"territory subject to the Hsi-ming Sawbwa,\" that is, Mong-hka and Mong-hsaw (coloured pink in Shih's map).\n\nIf we force them, without further explanation or negotiations, to surrender this district, we can hardly fail to embitter relations between Burmah and Yunnan, if not between Great Britain and China. We could not well occupy and administer it without at the same time either subduing the Wild Wa or—what would be scarcely less trouble—some and expensive becoming responsible for their recurring raids on undoubted Chinese territory.\n\nIf, on the other hand, there is still room for amicable discussion, I would venture to suggest that the following arguments might be brought to the knowledge of Governor-General Ting:\n\n1. The Agreement signed on the 4th February, 1897, by Sir Claude MacDonald and the late Grand Secretary Li Hung-chang, modifying the Burmah-China Frontier and Trade Convention of the 1st March, 1894, must be accepted as binding on the Governments of Burmah and of Yunnan. For purposes of the present controversy it is sufficient to apply this axiom to paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 3 of that Agreement, which read as follows:—\n\n\"The frontier shall then follow the course of the river forming the boundary between Somu, which belongs to Great Britain, and Meng Ting, which belongs to China. It shall still continue to follow the frontier between those two districts, which is locally well known, to where it leaves the aforesaid river and ascends the hills, and shall then follow the line of water-parting between the tributaries of the Salween and the Meikong Rivers, from about longitude 99° east of Greenwich (17° 30′ west of Peking) and latitude 23° 20′ to a point about longitude 99° 40′ east of Greenwich (16° 50′ west of Peking) and latitude 23°, leaving to China the Tsawbwaships of Keng Ma, Mengtung, and Mengko.\n\n\"At the last-named point of latitude and longitude the line strikes a very lofty mountain range called Kong-Ming-Shan, which it shall follow in a southerly direction to about 99° 30′ east of Greenwich (17° west of Peking) and latitude 22° 30′, leaving to China the district of Chenpien Ting. Then, descending the western slope of the hills to the Namka River, it will follow the course of that river for about 10 minutes of latitude, leaving Munglem to China and Manglün to Great Britain. The frontier shall then follow the boundary between Munglem and Kiang Tung.\"\n\n2. The above two paragraphs were transferred, without substantial alteration, from the Convention of 1894 to the Agreement of 1897.\n\n3. The Convention of 1894 was drafted in English in London, where it was translated into Chinese and signed in both languages by Lord Rosebery and Hsieh Fu-ch'eng, the then Chinese Envoy to Great Britain.\n\n4. The only truly scientific method of indicating locality on the earth's surface is that of latitude and longitude. With this method China has been acquainted at any rate since the Jesuit Survey in the K'ang-hsi reign more than two centuries ago. The Chinese maps bound in with the native Gazetteer of Yunnan (\"Yunnan Tungchih\") employ this system. The references, therefore, to latitudes and longitudes in the Agreement cannot be ignored by the Yunnan Government, as they were, in effect, ignored by Liu and Ch'en, the Boundary Commissioners of 1900; these references are of the first importance.\n\nOn the contrary,\n\n6. The references to latitude and longitude in the clause now under examination are four, namely:\n\n(a.) Longitude 99° east of Greenwich (17° 30′ west of Peking), and latitude 23°20'.\n\n(b.) Longitude 99° 40′ east of Greenwich (16° 50' west of Peking), and latitude 23°.\n\n(c.) Longitude 99° 30′ east of Greenwich (17° west of Peking), and latitude 22° 30'.\n\n(d.) A point on the Namkha River situated 10 minutes of latitude from where the boundary between Menglem and Kiang Tung diverges from that river.\n\nThe first step to be taken is to mark the above four points on the map of the survey of India—a map the correctness of which is admitted by the Yunnan Government, as regards its physical features and lines of latitude and longitude, since they have adopted it as the basis of their own chart.\n\n(The four points are marked in red on the tracing paper.)\n\n6. When the above points are marked it will be found that they fall very nearly on the crests of certain mountain ranges admitted by Shih Taotai to be watersheds. The word \"about\" in the Treaty allows for the small difference found, but it would certainly not admit of the very great difference—40 minutes of longitude—required if the Liu-Ch'en line is to be taken to represent that of the Convention.\n\n7. Between points (a) and (b) the boundary, according to the Convention, is to \"follow the line of water-parting between the tributaries of the Salween and the Meikong Rivers.\" The water-parting is marked on Shih's map, and coincides with that portion of \"Scott's Line.\"\n\n**\n\n(This is not altogether the case between 99° 30′ and 99° 44', where \"Scott's Line\" is drawn across the supposititious head-waters of the Nam-hoit, Shih's Nan-wa. Mr. (now Sir George) Scott himself described it as \"to some extent conjectural.” Our main contention, however, is not affected—that we follow the watershed.)\n\n8. At point (b) the Convention boundary \"strikes a very lofty mountain range called Kong-Ming-Shan, which it follows in a southerly direction to point (c). Now, Shih's map admits that between (b) and (c) runs, in a markedly southern direction, the \"main watershed between the Mekong and the Salween,\" which watershed is merged at about longitude 99° 45′ and latitude 22° 40′ in a range which he calls K'ung-ming Shan. His Memorandum describes this K'ung-ming Shan as falling within the jurisdictions of four Sawbwaships—Hsi-ming, Mu-nai, Menglem, and Mengpin. If the term is to be confined to the range as marked on his map, then Mu-nai and Hsi-ming can have nothing to do with it; but if it includes the whole \"main watershed above, then the description in his Memorandum tallies with the wording of the Convention.\n\n9. For it must not be forgotten that, as stated above (section 3) the Convention was drafted in English. Now, no Englishman, unless trained in China, would distinguish between \"kung\" in the first tone and \"kung ('hkung'), with an aspirate, in the third. Writing by ear he would set down both as \"kong.\" No Chinese hieroglyph being supplied for this particular name, the translator in London naturally adopted one of those for \"kung\" (without the aspirate), and among the \"kungs\" that one which is in most common use and would harmonize sufficiently well with \"ming\" (\"clear\"), namely \"kung\" (\"just\").\n\n(He took, I suspect, similar liberties with the hieroglyphs to be used for \"Kunlong,\" two paragraphs higher up. I am inclined to think that the \"kuu\" is not \"kung\" (\"work\"), as he wrote it, but \"kun\" (\"whirling water\").)\n\nThe name Kong-Ming-Shan, therefore, of the English text must be taken to represent K'ung-ming Shan, and not, despite the Chinese text, a Kung-ming Shan, if such there be.\n\n3\n\nB 2\n\n[2147 an-1]",
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        "content_text": "10. We have no reliable evidence that Mount Loi-mu has ever been known as Kung-ming Shan, but only the assertion of General Liu, who never visited it. Sir George Scott, who did visit it, and who could interrogate the natives, declares that such a name as Kung-ming Shan is not applied to it. Even if it were, Mount Loi-mu cannot be the \"very lofty mountain range\" of the Convention, for this last runs, according to the Convention, from longitude 99° 40′ to longitude 99° 30′, whereas Mount Loi-mu is a solitary peak in longitude 99° 0′.\n\n11. From point (c) the Convention boundary \"descends the western slope of the hills to the Namka River.\" If point (c) were Mount Loi-mu the only possible slope by which to reach the Namkha would be the eastern. It is perfectly clear that the Convention boundary approaches the Namkha from the east and not from the west.\n\n12. The point where the boundary between Munglem and Kiang Tong diverges from the Namka River\" is admitted by both parties to be \"Cairn 1 on the south, where the Namyung stream debouches into the Namkha River\"-to quote from Shih's Memorandum. To find point (d), therefore, all we have to do is to measure 10 minutes of latitude (or 113 geographical miles) in a straight line to meet the Namkha on the north. This falls in the near neighbourhood of the Su-hsing (Hsuphse) stockade. It cannot possibly fall, where Shih's map makes it fall, at Nungkiu (Nawnghkio), for that is 45 minutes (or some 52 miles) north of Cairn 1.\n\n13. It will thus be seen that all the arguments from the (a) latitudes and longitudes, (b) watersheds and rivers, mentioned in the Treaty support Scott's Line,\" and do not agree with Shih Taotai's line, still less with that of Lin and Ch'en-tajen.\n\nThere remains the argument employed in Shih Taotai's Memorandum, namely, \"according to the Treaty Chenpien is left to China, as is also Menglem, and this implies that all territory controlled by Chenpien or Menglem is left to China.'\n\nNow by Article V of the Convention of March 1, 1894, Great Britain agreed for certain considerations to renounce in favour of China all the suzerain rights in and over the State of Menglem, formerly possessed by the Kings of Ava concurrently with the Emperors of China. China, by officially accepting this renunciation, formally admitted that Great Britain had possessed such suzerain rights up to that date, March 1, 1894. The asserted surrender to China by its Sawbwa, Li Tungming, of Hsi-ming (Mongkha) in 1891, the \"recovery by Imperial troops\" of Menghsaw in the same year, and the Memorial and Rescript that ensued--all of which are brought forward as arguments in Shih Taotai's Memorandum-cannot possibly be admitted to prove China's claim, since they took place previous to the above date. Menglem could not extend its territory, whether at the expense of Hsi-ming and Menghsaw or otherwise, in 1891 without the consent of its co-Suzerain Great Britain, This consent was never given; on the contrary, we have consistently protested against Chinese troops being sent to, or stationed in, Isi-ming and Menghsaw.\n\n14. As regards Chenpien, this Sub-Prefecture was not created till 1887, after the British succession to the suzerain rights of the Kings of Ava had been recognized by China, China, therefore, could not include in Chenpien, which was to be directly administered by Chinese officials, any territory over which Burmah in 1886 had possessed suzerain or co-suzerain rights. Accordingly the expression \"Chenpien \"as used in the Convention of 1894 does not, and cannot, comprise any territory, such as Hsi-ming, Menghsaw, Menglem, or Kiang Tung, that came under either of these categories. It is not, however, necessary now to argue this point, for Shih Taotai's map distinguishes clearly between the district directly administered by the Sub-Prefect of Chenpien and the territory subject to the Hsi-ming Sawbwa.\" Chenpien proper, in short, is left by \"Scott's Line\" entirely to China.\n\nPage 44\n\n15. A similar argument applies to the districts marked in Shih Taotai's map as appertaining to:--\n\n(a.) Upper Hulu, south of the watershed between the Great and Little Nam-kun Rivers (the Nam-kun and Nam-kawn); and\n\n(b.) Mengtum, west of the watershed between the Namt'ung (Namtum) and the Great Nam-kun (Nam-kawn).\n\nAny advance subsequent to the 1st January, 1886, made by Mengtum, Mengkaw, Kengma, or Mengting across their frontier lines as these stood on that date cannot be admitted by Great Britain as valid. If the above States can prove that certain villages were really administered by them south or west of those lines before 1886, then by Article VI of the Treaty of 1894 the alignment as laid down in that Convention may be altered \"on the principle of equivalent concessions.”\n\nPage 5\n\nI shall be glad to learn whether it is the desire of your Government that the above arguments, or any modification of them, should be communicated to the Government of Yunnan.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum on the Yunnan-Burmah Boundary, from the Namting to Nalawt, by Shih Hung-shao, formerly Acting Intendant of the Southern Circuit, and now Intendant of the Eastern Circuit.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n(Handed to Consul-General Wilkinson, July 25, 1906.)\n\nTHE present Memorandum deals with the undelimited frontier from Cairn 3 at Lai-bsing Shan (Loi Hseng), by the junction of the Namting and Nampa streams on the north, to Cairn 1 on the south, where the Namyung stream debouches into the Namkha River.\n\nThis boundary, it is to be observed, includes certain stockaded villages under the jurisdiction of the Mu-nai Tussu (Sawbwa), territory that has for many years paid land tax and \"corvée\" to the Chenpien Sub-Prefecture. There is Hsi-ming (Mengkha), originally subject to Menglem, but which later on seceded under Lo(hei) insurgents. Its Sawbwa, Tunguning, in the seventeenth year of the Kuang Hsi (1891) gave in his allegiance at the head of his men, and it has long been subject to the control of Chenpien. It has for years paid land tax and \"corvée.\" A Memorial that received the Imperial assent is conspicuous in men's eyes and ears. There is Mengso (Menghsaw), which also was originally subject to Menglem. It seceded under Han Ping-chao, but was recovered in the seventeenth year of the Kuang Hsu (1891) by Imperial troops and reverted to the control of Menglem, which receives land tax and * corvée,\" For all the above are records that may be consulted.\n\nFurther, this boundary follows the Namkha River from places east of the Namıkhan River, such as Namping, Kuauteh, Lungkhan, Fulang, Moyang, Lengkhau, Suhsing (Hsuphse), Kunghsin, Wengwo, and Manpien, some dozens of stockaded villages that were either old Menglem territory which for years paid land tax and provided labour and has never seceded, or which, having seceded under the rebels Cha and Han, has long since been recovered by the Imperial troops and for years been garrisoned. This is undoubtedly territory controlled and governed by Chenpien and Menglem (or, by Menglem in Chenpien).\n\nAccording to the Treaty, Chenpien is left to China, as is also Menglem; and this implies that all territory controlled by Chenpien or Menglem is left to China.\n\nAgain, the Treaty reads, \"shall follow the course of the river forming the boundary between Somu, which belongs to Great Britain, and Meng Ting, which belongs to China. It shall continue to follow the frontier between these two districts, which is locally well known, to where it leaves the aforesaid river and ascends the hills.\" If the boundary-line follows the Namting River, that forms the boundary, then not only the whole of Panbung, in the Upper Hulu, would be left to China, but Hn-pan (Hopang), belonging to Pank'uang (Pangkuan), in the Lower Hulu, and other places, would all have to be marked off as Chinese.\n\nIf this is abandoned and another boundary-line proposed, it would not follow the Namting River, but would start from the south bank of that river, west of Tungkha Hill, and go by Kungmeng (Kawngmawng) and the Menglin (Mongling) Hills to the Pach'ang Hills. To make a division by the Panhung and Pankuang Hills (2.q., to divide along the line of hills forming the frontier between Panbung and Pank'uang) would leave Panhung, in the Upper Hulu, to China, and Pank'uang, in the Lower Hulu, to Great Britain.\n\nAgain, it was originally suggested to leave the parts of the Kawa (Vü) territories bordering on Yünnan to Yunnan, and those bordering on Burmah to Burmah. This suggestion was very fair. The Wild Was' lands lie between Yünnan and Burmah. When delimited, account should be taken of local conditions. In short, Yunnan cannot overstep the Wild Was' lands and occupy districts controlled by Burmah Sawbwas; nor can Burmah overstep the Wild Was' lands and occupy districts controlled by Yunnan T'ussu. This is equitable dealing.\n\nPage 729",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n364\n\n[October 27.]\n\n0.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n45640\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMemorandum by M. Cambon~(Communicated to Foreign Office, October 27, 1906.)\n\nA la date du 22 Mai dernier, le Secrétaire d'Etat pour les Affaires Etrangères a bien voulu remettre à l'Ambassadeur de France un Mémorandum relatif aux massacres de Nan-tchang du 25 Février, 1906. Sir E. Grey attribuait toute la responsabilité de ces déplorables incidents à la conduite imprudente des missionnaires Catholiques, et il protestait en termes assez vifs contre l'établissement de relations officielles entre les missionnaires Catholiques et les fonctionnaires provinciaux du Céleste Empire.\n\nL'Ambassadeur de France est chargé de faire observer au Secrétaire d'État pour les Affaires Etrangères que les droits des missionnaires Catholiques en Chine ne sont pas réglés par le Traité de Tien-tsin, cité dans son Mémorandum du 22 Mai, mais par le Décret Impérial du 15 Mars, 1899, relatif à l'exercice de la religion Catholique en Chine. Ce Décret Impérial est appliqué depuis huit ans; il concerne tous les missionnaires Catholiques, aussi bien Anglais, Allemands, Italiens, que Français; il est bien connu des autorités Britanniques, et il semble même, d'après les conversations du Chargé d'Affaires de France et de celui d'Angleterre relativement à la présente affaire, que ce dernier l'interprète d'une façon plus large que son collègue de France. Les instructions les plus strictes ont été données aux agents et missionnaires Français afin d'empêcher ces derniers de s'immiscer dans les affaires d'argent, querelles, litiges et procès intéressant les Chrétiens indigènes; instructions qui paraissent avoir été rigoureusement observées, et en particulier dans l'affaire de Nan-tchang.\n\nDans le plus bref délai possible, le Ministre de France à Pékin a chargé un Secrétaire de sa Légation, M. du Halgouët, de se rendre à Nan-tchang, où il est arrivé le 20 Mars, 1906. De l'enquête minutieuse à laquelle il s'est livré, il résulte que les missionnaires ne peuvent être tenus pour responsables, ni du suicide du Magistrat Chinois, ni des désordres qui ont ensanglanté Nan-tchang, et que l'on se trouve simplement en présence d'une de ces explosions de Xénophobisme si fréquentes en Chine et que les mandarins sont loin de décourager. L'enquête du Vicomte du Halgouet eût certainement été facilitée si le Consul d'Angleterre à Nan-tchang eût bien voulu le seconder et lui communiquer les résultats de ses propres recherches. Mais Mr. Werner a refusé de s'associer aux démarches de l'agent Français, et il a quitté Nan-tchang le 20 Mars, jour de l'arrivée de M. du Halgouët, qui a eu quelque peine à le joindre à bord de la canonnière sur laquelle Mr. Werner était déjà embarqué.\n\nLorsque le règlement de cette affaire fut terminé à Pékin, le Chargé d'Affaires d'Angleterre n'a pas dissimulé au Ministre de France qu'à son avis, M. Bapst avait fait preuve de trop de condescendance envers le Gouvernement Chinois en acceptant les termes de la proclamation du Gouverneur du Kiang-si relative aux réclamations des Chrétiens Chinois.\n\nIl semble donc que le Mémorandum du 22 Mai dernier ait été rédigé sur des informations hâtives et qui ne cadrent en aucun point avec celles qu'a recueillies l'enquête minutieuse de l'agent Français.\n\nLe même Mémorandum cite à la fin l'opinion donnée par le Rapporteur du Budget des Affaires Etrangères pour 1906. L'Ambassadeur de France croit devoir rappeler au Secrétaire d'Etat pour les Affaires Étrangères que les rapporteurs des budgets en France sont des Députés ou des Sénateurs, qui n'expriment dans leurs rapports que leurs avis personnels et qui ne représentent en aucune façon le Gouvernement de la République. Leurs opinions n'ont pas plus de poids que celles des membres du Parlement Britannique, dont l'Ambassadeur de France n'a pas coutume de s'autoriser dans sa correspondance officielle.\n\nAmbassade de France à Londres,\n\nle 26 Octobre, 1906.\n\n[2183 dd-1]",
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        "content_text": "368\n\n2\n\n2. Pakma to Hsunchow.-Above Pakma, where is a well-known li-kin station, the river is found running through a large plain, which, with varying width, stretches from Pakma up to Kuei Hsien. The mountains in the far distance on the north form a continuous range, which occasionally sweeps south towards the river, touching it 30 miles south above Pakma at Konghon, and again 15 miles above that at Hsunchow. These mountains have the valleys at their base scantily covered with pine. The river banks are from 20 feet to 30 feet high, and from the ship can be obtained only occasional glimpses of the plain, which, at least near the river, appears to be well cultivated, producing rice, mulberry, and sugar-cane. Frequent villages are scattered along the banks, but even in this fat country the population does not appear to be great. Ping Nam is an important market town, and Konghou, well placed at the lower junction of the West River main branch with the Yu Kiang, is the busiest place we meet until we arrive at Hsunchow-fu, situated at the upper junction of these two rivers.\n\n3. Hsunchow to Kuei Hsien-At Hsunchow (Kueiping, Samchow are the local names) our route leaves the main branch of the West River and follows the Yu Kiang, which is here only about 250 yards wide. The country between Hsunchow and Kuei Hsien seems to have a natural division line just about the place where the Kueiping and Kuei Hsien prefectures meet. For 40 miles along the river below this boundary the banks show at intervals a dark red stratified rock, while throughout the 15 miles above, between the boundary and the town of Kuei Hsien, limestone rock is predominant. With this division a change in the nature of the country corresponds fairly closely. The first 40 miles of land along the river seems practically waste land, a rough, uncultivated continuation of the plain we have been following from Pakma, growing coarse, long grass with a few pines. In the stretch of 15 miles approaching Kuei Hsien the plain is very flat and well cultivated, producing sugar and rice. The bamboo reappears and pines almost disappear. One or two villages are dotted along the banks, and it was in this district we saw the first carts, which are unknown between Hsunchow and the sea.\n\nThe above description will help one to realize the fact that for fully half of our entire route between Wuchow and Kuei Hsien the country appears to be quite unproductive, except for timber on the hill-sides. From a commercial point of view the most striking fact is the scarcity of river traffic between these two points. Except near the big centres like Hsunchow, Konghon, and Kuei Hsien, and to a small extent Têng Hsien and Ping Nam, one meets nothing on the river for mile after mile except an occasional junk carrying firewood, hides, or poultry, and some fishing-boats. A few steam launches, most of them flying the British flag, represent the foreign-built vessels. Some small timber rafts were seen below Konghou.\n\nAs regards animals, buffaloes and red cattle are fairly numerous along the river banks, especially near Hsunchow, Kuei Hsien, and Ping Nam. Above Hsunchow one enters the pony country. Ducks and geese are frequently seen in large flocks.\n\n3. Notes on Towns en route.\n\nTêng Hsien is the West River port for Wat Lum, an important distributing centre in the south of the province, which has also a seaport in Pakhoi, on the Tonquin Gulf. Except for some 30 miles near Wat Lum, goods can go by boat from Pakhoi to Têng Hsien.\n\nBefore the opening of Wuchow in 1897, Wat Lum was within the area of commercial attraction of Pakhoi; since then, it has been gradually drawn within the West River area. Sumatran oil is the chief foreign article now taken by Wat Lum from Pakhoi, and even this import seems to be dwindling in quantity year by year. If the French railway is ever built from Kwang Chow Wan through Wat Lum to Kueilin, it will follow the valley of the Têng River.\n\nKuei Hsien. I called on the Magistrate, who was very friendly, and who informed us that, apart from the \"Moorhen,\" only one foreign gun-boat had visited the town this summer; he disagreed, however, with his Secretary as to whether it was of French or German nationality, finally deciding in favour of French. It does not say a great deal for the impression made by the different foreign gun-boats that the \"Tsingtao\" has since been remembered as French.\n\nOn the 12th August I paid a visit to the San Cha Shan silver mines, 15 miles to the north-west. The first half of the journey, before we got into the hills, was over a large fertile plain cultivated with rice and millet (\"kao-liang\"). Here we met a constant procession of men carrying baskets of liquid indigo into Kuei Hsien. Rice, however, is the chief product of the district.\n\nThe Chinese overseer in charge of the mines said they had been closed now for over a year. After running at a loss of from 2,000 dollars to 3,000 dollars a-month, the Hua Sing Company had made them over to Government. The expenses latterly had been about 6,000 dollars a-month, including 20 cents a-day each for some 250 coolies. The coal used for smelting was Japanese, and cost on delivery at the mines 20 dollars a-ton. This included 6 dollars a-ton paid for carriage by coolies over the hills from Kuei Hsien. About 100 tons were used each month. The produce of the mines was valued at about 5,000 dollars to 3,000 dollars a-month; but, though the loss was thus heavy, the overseer believes that some Chinese Syndicate in Hong Kong will attempt to work them again. A great many of the old employés were still living near the mines. Some were washing for ore in the hill streams, making, they say, about 10 cents a-day; others of the old employés had taken to indigo cultivation, which is carried on here with considerable success.\n\nKuei Hsien boasts two new-model elementary schools, upper and lower grade. Each has 100 pupils. Expenses are defrayed from the \"t'u chuan\" (tax on pigs killed), the revenue of temple lands, and the proceeds of the old University, now abolished. The schools were opened only this year, and are not yet quite complete. English and Japanese are to be taught in the upper-grade school by Chinese instructors. The French missionaries here, on whom I called, propose to build a church shortly.\n\nHsunchow Chow-fu.The 15th August, the Emperor of China's birthday, was spent here, and the \"Moorhen,\" dressed ship for the occasion, and gave a firework display in the evening, which was much appreciated by the inhabitants. While mentioning these details, I may add that throughout the trip the \"Moorhen\" did its best to show the flag, having a jack in the bow, a white ensign at the main, and the same aft.\n\nI did not see the Prefect, as, according to the message from his yamên, he had gone to the hills in connection with some ceremonies in honour of the Emperor. This official had just taken over office from his predecessor, of whom Mr. Fox had to complain in 1904.\n\nThe church of the French Mission was built in 1902, and is a conspicuous feature in the town. The city is well provided educationally, having primary and elementary schools and a middle college, all on the new plan. The elementary schools were clean and well ordered, while the middle college was quite palatial. In the latter the students, for some of whom there are dormitories, number over 200, and English and Japanese are both taught by Chinese instructors.\n\n4. Competition with West River Trade.\n\nWhen in Pakhoi, I was informed that before the opening of the West River the total value of trade between Nanning and Pakhoi was over 1,000,000 Haikwan taels. This has been almost entirely diverted down the West River, and the Nanning trade with Pakhoi is at present practically nil.\n\nLately native newspapers have again raised rumours as to French engineers surveying the Lungchow-Nanning route, but the intermediate country is generally recognized to be so poor and dangerous that it is extremely doubtful whether a line from Nanning to connect with the Haiphong-Hanoi-Dongdang line would pay. Except perhaps in three winter months such a line, provided there were no differential rates, would probably do little to divert the general current of traffic from the West River. As for the proposed railway from Nanning to Pakhoi, the apparent failure of Kwang Chow Wan as a commercial port is likely to prevent the French from building such a line, if they ever seriously thought of it, which seems doubtful.\n\nAt Wuchow many rumours were current in regard to the imminent opening (effectively) of Nanning, and the Commissioner there, Herr von Strauch, left for Nanning in a launch on the 7th August with a view, it was said, to making arrangements for Customs quarters.\n\n5. Attitude of Natives: Piracy.\n\nThe natives along the route were quite friendly; in no case was insult offered to any one when ashore. The usual crowds formed in the streets to stare, but their behaviour was generally orderly.\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "Extract from \"Chine-tail\" of the 4th. November, 1907.\n\nIMPERIAL CHINESE COMMISSIONER.\n\n2369\n\nJAN 22 1908,\n\nBanqueted at Hongkong.\n\nHis Excellency Yang Shi Chi, the Imperial Chinese Commercial Commissioner, who was appointed by the Throne to travel abroad with a view to developing China's foreign trade, arrived at Hongkong on November 2 on board H.L.C.M. Haichi (1,800 tons), one of the finest cruisers of the Northern Squadron of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the Haiyong, of the same tonnage, accompanying. His Excellency, whose suite includes Taotai Mun Yew Chung (Deputy Director General of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, and Director of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company), and Mr T. S. Pojui, (Hon. Cantab., Assoc. Inst. Civil Engineers, London, also Secretary of the Board of Agriculture Industries and Commerce), and others, was banqueted by the leading Chinese business community at the Tung Tien Hotel on Saturday evening at 8 p.m. There were present some eighty guests, and among those invited were the Hon. Dr Ho Kai, the Hon. Mr Wei Yuk, Messrs Fung Wa Chun, Lau Chu Pak, Tai Tsze Kong, Taotai Wen, of the Imperial Chinese Telegraph, and others. His Excellency Yang, accompanied by Taotai Mun Yew Cheung, and Captain of the Haichi, arrived punctually at a little after 7 o'clock. The Commissioner, who is about forty-five years of age, looks extremely healthy, and after being introduced to the members of the business community present, photographs of the party were taken by flash light. The banquet commenced at 8 o'clock.\n\nAfter drinking the health of King Edward VII, proposed by Fung Wa Chun, and that of T. I. C. M. the Empress Dowager and Emperor, proposed by Lau Cho Pak, Tam Tsze Kong addressed His Excellency in a most cordial manner to the effect that he hoped His Excellency's mission might meet with every success which would tend to the development of China's foreign trade as well as secure the co-operation of all Chinese merchants abroad, ultimately furthering Chinese commercial interests. His Excellency replied fittingly, thanking those present for their cordial welcome. He concluded his remarks by inviting the party to tea the next day on board the Haichi.\n\nMr Chan Kiang Yu, the energetic opponent to the present administrators of the Canton-Hankow Railway, next spoke of the non-compliance, by the present administrators, with the Chinese commercial laws. He asked His Excellency's help to pacify matters, requesting His Excellency to inform Chinese merchants abroad of the effect that of the $8,000,000 which had been paid as first call on the shares, a greater portion was made up by subscription by these merchants.\n\nHis Excellency replied that as the Throne had already appointed Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheng to be Director General of the line, he no doubt understood what was best to do, and he was the proper person for him (Chan) to approach on his arrival.\n\nOn Sunday at 3 p.m. in response to the invitation of Commissioner Yang, members of the Chinese community went on board the Haichi. As the launch conveying the guests approached the representatives of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which were anchored in Kowloon Bay, a band struck up. His Excellency Yang received the guests most cordially. By the courtesy of Commodore S. K. Shen, Commanding the Northern Division of the Imperial Chinese Navy, who was with the Greenwich Naval College, England, and had been with Great Britain's Mediterranean Squadron for two years, the guests were shown over the cruiser Haichi which was preserved in a most creditable manner.\n\nAfter taking tea and photographing, His Excellency addressed the party. He was glad of their presence. He hoped that in the not very distant future, China's Navy would be increased with larger and more powerful vessels than the two present, and that wherever there were Chinese merchants there would be seen the Dragon flag on the water.\n\nThe two cruisers, with His Excellency, left port this morning anchoring outside the harbour for the rest of the day. The next places of call are Manila, Saigon, Singapore, Penang, Java, and thence His Excellency and suite will proceed to Europe and America by mail steamer.\n\n128",
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        "content_text": "As I have already mentioned, there was a disposition on the part of some members of the Diplomatic Body to question the propriety of the decision arrived at, and this feeling has since found expression in the letter from the Italian Chargé d'Affaires to the doyen, copy of which I have the honour to inclose.\n\nBaron Vitale asks that the procedure adopted in this case may not be regarded as a precedent for the future, and suggests that the Mixed Court, instead of only holding a preliminary inquiry, should itself try Chinese residents in the Settlement who may be accused of such crimes. This suggestion appears to me impolitic, and unsupported by the existing Agreements between China and foreign Powers.\n\nNeither by the Rules of 1869 nor by the amendments which are now under consideration can any such power be claimed for the Mixed Court, and a grave situation would, in my opinion, arise if we make such a claim on behalf of Chinese who had been concerned in revolutionary designs against their own Government.\n\nThe revolutionary movement in the Yang-tsze Valley which culminated in the recent rising in Hunan still gives the Central Government very grave cause for anxiety, and any attempt on the part of foreign Governments to invest the Mixed Court with exclusive jurisdiction over revolutionaries in the Shanghae Settlement would convert the place into a centre of sedition and be deeply resented by the Chinese Government.\n\nIt is only right to add that there seems to be no disposition on the part of the foreign community or the Municipal Council at Shanghae to embarrass the Chinese Government, and, as will be seen from the inclosed article which appeared in the leading daily newspaper at the time, the decision of the Diplomatic Body was received with acquiescence.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed)\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n### Mixed Court Magistrate's Warrant\n\n(Stamped by Senior Consul, January 7, 1907.)\n\nJanuary 6, 1907. I HAVE received secret instructions from the Viceroy of the Liang Kiang to the following effect:—\n\nAccording to the secret report of the District Magistrate Chang I, the latter has heard from a Brevet-Major of the Liang Kiang forces, one Yuan Fu Tsai, that the accomplices in the Tien-tsin bomb outrage and leaders of the Kiangsi \"Ke Ming Chun\" rebels, by name Chang Pao Ch'ing and Huang Yi (Huang Hsiao Chen) are at present at the hostelry for students from Japan in the Ningpo Road, and that Colonel Chang Fu Kuan has been instructed to watch the place. These men are to be secretly arrested and sent to the capital for punishment.\n\nIn accordance with the above instructions, I issue orders for secret arrest. The runner Yang Chiu is hereby commanded, with the aid of the tipao, to arrest the persons named hereon forthwith, and have them brought before the Court for hearing.\n\nLet there be no delay, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n(Sir),\n\n(Seal of Court.)\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\n#### Doyen of Diplomatic Corps to Consul-General Sir P. Warren\n\nJanuary 22, 1907. THERE should be a preliminary inquiry at a public sitting of the Mixed Court before the Magistrate and Assessor, and if they are both satisfied that there is a *primé facie* case against the men and evidence of identity is forthcoming, they should be handed over to the Chinese authorities.\n\n(No. 16.) Sir,\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n#### Consul-General Sir P. Warren to Sir J. Jordan\n\nShanghae, February 5, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith copies of correspondence which, together with a report by the Assessor, Mr. Barton, on the case, set forth in detail the circumstances connected with the arrest, preliminary hearing, and surrender to the Chinese authorities of the political offenders Chang Pao Ch'ing and Huang Yi.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed)\nPELHAM WARREN.\n\n* Not printed.\n\n### Taotai Jui to Consul-General Sir P. Warren\n\nShanghae, January 11, 1907. I HAVE received a report from the Mixed Court Magistrate, Mr. Kuan, to the following effect:—\n\nCaptain Hsia Ming-kao has received secret instructions from the Viceroy to come to Shanghae and arrest two leaders of the Kiangsi rebels named Chang Pao Ch'ing and Huang Yi (alias Huang Hsiao Chen). He procured the assistance of runners and effected the arrest. Chang and Huang engaged the lawyers Jernigan and Fessenden to appear on their behalf, but the latter were persuaded by the Assistant Magistrate Sun to withdraw from the case.\n\nHowever, the British Vice-Consul, Mr. Barton, said that a despatch either from the Viceroy or the Taotai would be necessary before the men could be handed over, and that he would also have to ask the Consul-General for instructions. The Magistrate therefore requested me to address you on the subject.\n\nThese men, Chang Pao Ching and Huang Yi (alias Huang Hsiao Chen), are two important rebels for whose arrest secret orders were issued by the Viceroy. Now that their capture has been effected, they should be sent to Nanking for trial.\n\nI have therefore the honour to request that you will give the necessary instructions for these men to be handed over to the Mixed Court for transfer, and favour me with an early reply.\n\n## Inclosure 5 in No. 1\n\n### Notes of Interview of Mr. Barton with Taotai\n\n(Seal of Taotai.)\n\n(Extract.)\n\nJanuary 12, 1907. MR. BARTON called on Taotai in city by instruction of His Majesty's Consul-General with reference to Taotai's despatch asking for immediate handing over of two political suspects, Chang and Huang, arrested on a Mixed Court warrant at instance of Nanking Viceroy.\n\nMr. Barton explained that the Consul-General was anxious to assist Chinese authorities and had no desire to protect the accused. He only asked the Taotai to...",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nJ. O. P. BLAND.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co, to Mr. Bland.\n\nShanghae, January 28, 1907.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nConsidering it most important that you should be promptly advised of any developments connected with the Chinese railway Shanghae to Kashing, we wired to you on the 23rd instant as follows:-- \n\n\"Chinese railway Shanghae to Kashing, 35 miles, first sod was cut 21st January outside Shanghae City, large demonstration,\" We have advised the British and Chinese Corporation.'\n\nWe have now pleasure in handing you, for your further information in this connection, copy of the Engineer-in-chief's letter to us, dated the 23rd instant, Memorandum giving full details of the proposed line.\n\nWe are, &c.\n\n(Per pro. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.)\n\n(Signed) JAS. MCKIE.\n\nPutting aside the question of ignoring the existence of the preliminary Agreement dated the 13th May, 1898, for the construction and working of the railways from Soochow to Hangchow and Ningpo, provision for which has been made at considerable cost in constructing double line works on the section of our railway from Shanghae to Soochow, I venture to express the opinion that the sanctioning of these competitive lines constitutes a direct breach of the terms of the Shanghae Nanking Railway Loan Agreement, Article 17, paragraph 2, which reads as follows:-- \n\n\"It is further agreed that, without the express consent in writing of the Director-General and the British and Chinese Corporation, no other rival railway detrimental to the business of the same is to be permitted, and no parallel line to the Shanghae-Nanking Railway is to be allowed to the injury of the latter's interest within the area served by the Shanghae-Nanking main line or branch lines.\"\n\nYou are doubtless better informed on all these matters than myself. Still I feel I should be failing in my duty if I omitted to call your attention more particularly to the proposed competitive line to Soochow, which, if allowed to be built, can only be detrimental to the interests of our railway.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed) A. H. COLLINSON.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Collinson to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.\n\nShanghae, January 23, 1907.\n\nYou will have noticed in the papers accounts of the proceedings in connection with the turning of the first sod of the Shanghae-Kashing Railway on Monday last. A rough outline of the proposed route of the railway was given in yesterday's \"Sin Wan Pao,\" a translation of which I handed to Mr. McKie yesterday afternoon.\n\nThe route described in the \"Sin Wan Pao\" has to some extent been confirmed by the private information I have been able to gather, and I am further informed that the survey is in active progress on the lines indicated; also that land acquisition has been commenced.\n\nYou will notice that it has been proposed to extend the line from the Chekiang boundary to Hangchow, this part of the work being constructed by the Chekiang Railway Company.\n\nI am reliably informed that another Chinese Railway Company is surveying a line from Soochow to Kashing, where it is also proposed to make a junction with the Shanghae-Kashing-Hangchow line. If these proposals are allowed to mature, another route will be established by rail from Shanghae to Soochow (via Kashing) in direct competition with the Shanghae-Nanking Railway.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n### A Rough Outline of the Route and Construction Work of the Shanghae Kashing Railway\n\n#### Mileage\n\nThe Shanghae-Kashing line commences from outside of the Big South Gate, where the native city garrison is situated, and ends at Feng Chin Chen, under the jurisdiction of Sung Kiang Pu. The total length of the line is 191,000 feet, which is equal to 36.1 miles or 106.1 lis. To the west of Feng Chin Chen is the Chekiang boundary-line, where the Chekiang Railway will join on and build their line right up to Hangchow.\n\n#### Rivers and Creeks\n\nBetween the Shanghae station and Feng Chin Chen there are a great many rivers and creeks to cross. The biggest of them is Hang Liao Chin.\n\nWe append here the names of some of the rivers and creeks, with their widths and depths:\n\n| Names | Width (Ft.) | Depth (Ft.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Shih Tui Chiang | 88 | ... |\n| Tsao Ho Chin | 160 | ... |\n| Heng Tang | 45 | ... |\n| Hsia Chia Ping | 50 | ... |\n| Chu Chiang | 80 | ... |\n| Tung Chun Shen Tang | 274 | ... |\n| Pang Lang Tan Nan | 70 | ... |\n| Hei Chiao Ping | 43 | ... |\n| Ta Chang Chin | 75 | 10 |\n| Chang Mao Hu | 20 | 4 |\n| Lung Hua Chiang | 80 | 7 |\n| Chang Chia Tang | 60 | 10 |\n| Heng Li Tang Nan | 70 | 12 |\n| Sha Chiang | 55 | 6 |\n| Jai Chun Shen Tang | 75 | ... |\n| Chang Chin Nau | 50 | 4 |\n| Kuei Chao Tang | 32 | 4 |\n| Siu Nan Chiao Tang | 65 | 3 |\n| Lu Kang Chin | 266 | 25 |\n| Chang Sni Chiang | 79 | 8 |\n| Ta Heng Liao Chin | 720 | 75 |\n| Huang Ni Chin | 295 | 18 |\n\nThe remainder of the mountain streams and side creeks that the line crosses amount to 169, and the width of them all is equal to 5,298 feet.\n\n#### The height of the land to be raised at the various places are as follows:-\n\n* From the Shanghae station to Lung Hua, 3 feet.\n* From Lung Hua to Mai Chia Lung, 1 foot.\n* From Mai Chia Lung to Hsin Chuang, 2 feet.\n* From Hsin Chuang to Hsin Chiao, 3 feet.\n* From Hsin Chiao to Sungkiang East Gate, 3 feet.\n* From Sungkiang East Gate to West Gate, Siu Nan Tang, 6 feet.\n* From Siu Nan Tang to Huang Chiao, 8 feet.\n* From Huang Chiao to Han Chiao Ho, 9 feet.\n* From Han Chia Ho to Feng Chin, 4 feet.",
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        "content_text": "## 18. The guards on the above-mentioned launches shall always be in uniform and shall always carry their revolvers. They must always be prepared for emergencies. They must on no account congregate for the purpose of gambling or drinking, nor must they smoke opium. They must keep a particularly strict look-out at the time of the departure of the launches. Any breach of duty will be punished by dismissal and suitable penalties.\n\n14. The police on the above-mentioned launches will be provided with certificates in English and Chinese with the official seal attached to prevent any other person impersonating them.\n\n15. In addition to the police on the above-mentioned descriptions of launches, there are also police at all the larger ports of call whose duty it will be to examine intending passengers for concealed fire-arms. Any culprits found by the launch police in the illegal possession of fire-arms will be handed over by them to the land police to be brought before the local authorities for trial. If there is an alarm of pirates, a call will bring immediate assistance from the land police.\n\n16. If any member of the launch police is found to be incapable of carrying out his duties, he shall, in the case of single passenger launches, be reported by the captain; and, in the case of launches with tows, by the master of the tow to the launch police authorities, so that an efficient man may be found to replace him. Any of the police found in the possession of stolen goods, such as clothing, money, &c., shall, on satisfactory evidence that they are robbing passengers of their property, be court-martialled and executed on the spot.\n\n17. Any of the launch police having affairs of importance to attend to must first apply for leave to his head authority, and must not leave the launch before a substitute has taken his place.\n\n18. In addition to the supervisors appointed by the launch police authorities to control the system, there are also the officials of the Admiral, whose duty it will be to make secret inspections to ascertain whether the Regulations are being observed and whether the members of the force are efficient. They will make recommendations from time to time in order to prevent the system becoming ineffective in the lapse of time.\n\n19. All the above-mentioned descriptions of launches must only allow passengers to embark and disembark at the appointed places, namely:\n\n(1) Places on the waterways of the East River: \n| Place |\n| --- |\n| Whampoa |\n| Mi Chang |\n| Ma Chung |\n| Sui Tang |\n| Kwai Hai |\n| Shi Lung |\n| Lu Lan |\n| Teh Kang |\n| Sui Tsun |\n| Po Lo |\n| Whei Chow |\n| Han Kai |\n| Tao Kao |\n| Tung Kwan City |\n| Tai Pin |\n\n(2) Places in the district south of Canton City, and on the waterways of the West River:\n| Place |\n| --- |\n| Shih Pi |\n| Le Chu |\n| Po On Chung |\n| Hao Kao |\n| Yung Chi |\n| Kwei Chow |\n| Ma Kang |\n| Tung Ma Nin |\n| Si Ma Nin |\n| Chun An Hsu |\n| Kan Chu |\n| Chin Kiang |\n| Ho Tsin |\n| Ku Lao |\n| Tai Pin Hsu |\n| Fu Man |\n| Sze Hsien Kan |\n| Ma Kou |\n| Ho Kou (i.e., Samshui Beach) |\n| Tsin Chi |\n| Yung An |\n| Kwang Li |\n| Kou Li |\n| Pei Tu |\n| Shao Chin |\n| Lu Pu |\n| Yuch Chen |\n| Ho Ting Kou |\n| Liu Tu |\n| Te Ching |\n| Tu Cheng |\n| Fung Chuan |\n| Wuchow |\n| Lung Kiang |\n| Shui Teng |\n| Kuan Shan |\n| Huang Lien |\n| Lo Lou |\n| Li Hai |\n| San Hiang Miao |\n| Chou Chun |\n| Chao Lien |\n| Pei Kai Kou |\n| Chiang Men |\n| Tan Shui Kou |\n| Shuang Shui Kou |\n| Hsin Chang |\n| Ti Kai |\n| Hsiao Lan |\n| Kang Kon |\n| Shih Chi |\n\n(3) Places on the North River route:\n| Place |\n| --- |\n| Fu Shan |\n| Shih Mun |\n| Ts'u Tung |\n| Hsiao Tang |\n| Hsi Nan |\n| Samshui |\n| Lu Pao |\n| Shih Ko |\n| Tsin Yuen |\n\n(4) Places in the district north of Canton City, Tsung Hua, and Hua Hsien:\n| Place |\n| --- |\n| Shih Men |\n| Kwan Yao |\n| San Kiang Kou |\n| Nan Kiang Kou |\n| Wu Ho Hsu |\n| Tan Pu |\n| Chih Ni |\n| Pei Ni |\n\n20. Any of the above-mentioned descriptions of launches which act in contravention of these Regulations, either by taking passengers on board at unauthorized places en route or by omitting to carry out the search for concealed arms, will be subject to such penalties as the nature of the offence may require. If the launch concerned is foreign-owned, and the offender is a Chinese employed on board, the local authorities are to communicate with the nearest Commissioner of Customs, and the Commissioner, in turn, with the nearest Consul, who may send a deputy to watch the proceedings. If the offender is a foreigner, he is to be dealt with in a manner similar to that prescribed by Treaty when a foreigner is found travelling without a passport. He will be sent to the proper Consul through the Commissioner of Customs at the nearest port.\n\n21. At all places where such a course is practicable, the launches and tows referred to in these Regulations will hire for their regular use sampans and small boats to convey passengers to the launches and tows. The captains and masters of the launches and tows will at once notify the Inspector and police on the launches of every sampan or small boat so engaged by them; the Inspector will, in turn, notify the head of his Department. Where such sampans and small craft are regularly hired, no other boats shall be employed for the aforesaid purpose.\n\n22. These Regulations are provisional, and subject to Ministerial sanction at Peking.\n\n## (No. 26.)\n\nSir,\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Consul-General Mansfield.\n\nPeking, June 4, 1907.\n\nYOUR despatch No. 19 of the 23rd April only reached me on the 24th May, and pressure of other work has prevented an earlier reply.\n\nThe Provisional Regulations for the suppression of piracy, copy of which you inclose, appear likely to increase the difficulty of giving effect to the engagement made by the Chinese Government to organize a preventive service under Customs control.\n\nAs you will be aware, from the copies of my recent despatches to Sir E. Grey, which have been sent to you, I have been holding the Wai-wu Pu to this engagement, and I should be very reluctant to convey the impression that, by accepting these tardy proposals of the Viceroy, we considered them all that is required. That the Chinese authorities intend this measure to take the place of the service of cruisers under Customs control is rendered evident by a message which I received on the 1st June from the Wai-wu Pu, communicating the substance of a telegram from the Viceroy to the Board of Finance, in which his Excellency urges that as he is prepared to take these measures it seems unnecessary for the Customs to spend money on cruisers, but, if they elect to do so, such vessels would of course only serve for the prevention of smuggling and have no powers to suppress piracy.\n\nIn view, however, of your telegram of the 3rd instant, from which it appears that the Rules have not been enforced, I think it would be advisable, considering the interpretation which the Wai-wu Pu evidently place upon them, that you should notify the Viceroy that they could only be accepted as a complement to the scheme to which the Wai-wu Pu have already given their assent.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) \n**J. N. JORDAN**",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMr. G. J. Marshall to Messrs. Porteous Tyler and Rowe.\n\nMy dear Mr. Porteous Tyler and Rowe,\n\nKanchow, October 7, 1907. YOU will have heard by wire of the riot here. I don't know where to begin or how to end in writing you, and I know you will be longing for news from Kanchow. You are, we know, praying for us, and we so need your prayers at this time; pray on. On Thursday at 3 o'clock A.M., Shu-Hsieh-teh, the Roman Catholic priest in charge here, came to see me. I was awake, and got up to see what the dogs were barking so much about, and found Mr. Shu in a very excited state. He told me that Kiang Sheng-fu of Ta-O-Li had been killed and the place burned (you know Ta-O-Li is the Roman Catholic village, about half way between Nan-Kang and Tang-Kiang), and that there was sure to be great trouble. There were two small officials and two or three soldiers killed. An Sheng-fu escaped and got to the city about 8 A.M. I do not know how many Roman Catholic converts have been killed; over 100 are reported killed, but I think that is exaggerated. Thursday, at daylight, 200 or 300 Roman Catholic converts, and perhaps a lot of bad characters, entered the city. The Roman Catholic premises were just full of men, women, and children. Their converts must have come from all directions, and soldiers were guarding their doors and a crowd collecting. By noon the crowd began to shout and clap their hands and throw stones, &c. At about 1 o'clock they broke in and began to plunder, and at 2 o'clock the place was in flames. Su Tel-Ren and I kept our door wide open all day, and invited all who came in to sit down and not stand about the door and gather a crowd. Many of our people came and went, and all said do not be afraid, there will be no trouble here; and all the people seemed friendly. When I saw the roof of the Roman Catholic place fall in I thought it was time to get ready to escape, if necessary, so I told the Halls and Mrs. Marshall, and we got ladders ready to climb the wall into the neighbours joining the school, and there Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Marshall and a lot of Chinese sat under the tree waiting. About 4:30 o'clock the Hsien came and wanted us to go to the yamên. I told him we preferred to go to the Dao-Tai Yamên, and he was pleased, but never offered his chair for the ladies, nor did he send his men for bearers, so I sent for bearers, and when they came I escorted Mrs. Marshall to the yamên with a host of women and children. We passed the Roman Catholic place, and through Ri Ja-li the crowds were terrible, and we had to go slowly, but they opened the way for us, and no one seemed to want to hurt us. The Hsien did not even send one of his men to escort us. After Mrs. Marshall got to the yamên we sent the chair back for Mrs. Hall. The Roman Catholic priests, I think five in number, were also here, so at dark the Dai-Tai sent us to the Fu Yamên; we found Mrs. Home there. You may be sure we were all tired, but not able or ready to sleep. The Chi-Fu was exceedingly kind (he is the nicest Chinese official I have met). He spoke of sending us all away that night, so at midnight Mr. Hall and I, with a few Chinese, went to our place to get some necessary things for the journey; and if we only had expected a riot the next day, I assure you I would not have stopped till I had cleared our place of everything that could well be carried away.\n\nWe got the friends off at about noon the next day (Friday). Mr. Home and I returned to the West Gate, the people on the street still seemed friendly. I called a small chair and went over to our place, and I saw by the looks of a few Lu-Lans who were there that they were not gathered for any good purpose, so I went at once to the Dao-Tai and told him the place needed protection. He said he had (Fen-Fu) commanded the officials to look after our place. I had not been here long till word came the crowd had started to loot our place. You can imagine my feelings better than I can tell you. I comforted my heart that God was in and above all and decided to remain here. The Chinese begged me not to go to the chapel. The looting at the West Gate began perhaps an hour later than at the East Gate. There was not one person at our place from any of the yamêns to keep the crowd away. I believe if there were a few men at our place they could have protected it. There is not a door or window or bit of furniture or a book left, all swept away, the school is a complete ruin, the walls of the chapel and our house, and the roofs are in good condition. Oh the West Gate is such a ruin, the house will have to be rebuilt, more than half of the roof is gone, the other half hanging, all the wooden partitions have been carried away, and some of the posts that support the roof badly damaged and some taken away. The women's quarters and the place where the school was is very badly wrecked.\n\n5\n\nThe chapel roof and walls are all right, there is not one door left. Hu, the rice shop; Fu, the former barber; Chong, the medicine shop; Ny, the butcher and rice shop; Mrs. Chong, the cloth shop; and Fu-Shao-Gi have been looted and lost their all.\n\nThe Chen-Tai came out and wounded four men and Fu-Shao-Gis, who were looting (two have since died), and this put a stop to the looting. He would have opened fire on them, if the Dao-Tai was willing. The Dao-Tai was afraid it would cause further trouble and he had not sufficient soldiers to protect his yamên. The next day early the Dao-Tai put up Proclamations all over the city that any one attempting to cause any trouble would be killed on the spot, and all has been very very quiet since. The four men who were wounded at Fu-Shao-Gis are Feng-cheng-Hsien men from the Carpenter Street, and men who were arrested with the West Gate things the day of the riot are all Kan-chow men, Lu-Lans. They have been terribly punished and will likely be executed or die in gaol. One Kan-chow man was caught last Friday with a few things (of little value to us now) from the East Gate. He was also punished. So far as I know and have heard, the looting of our place was done mostly by the Lu-Lans and the Feng-Cheng carpenters. Feng-Shan was burned the day after our places, the old watchman saved twelve tables and Mr. Powis' bed. Nan-Kang, Tang-Kiang, Feng-Kang, Hueng-shih-tsing, and a large number of the country Christians and inquirers have been looted, and in some cases burned. Sin-Feng and Long-Nan and La-Ti were safe the last we heard. We thank God for all. There are about thirty of us here in the Dao-Tai Yamên.\n\nHis comfort and care, and I am specially thankful that there has been so little murmuring. One cannot but ask, What shall the harvest be of all this suffering and loss? May it be a harvest of souls being saved and spiritual blessing to us all! My heart aches when I think of all the time that has been spent in this city and district and on Feng-Shan buildings, and now they are ruined. My earthly belongings were but few, I think they will be less in the future, why we seek to lay up treasure in Heaven.\n\nYou will be glad to know Mr. Home seems comforted and is well. We have but little spare or quiet time these days and am sorry we have not been able to write you all,\n\nSoldiers are arriving almost every day and 1,200 are expected to-day from the capital; when they come the Dao-Tai is going out to Tao-Ti and Tang-Kiang to deal with the Boxers there, he means business, I think. We hear orders have come from Peking to exterminate the Boxers and rioters. I am going to the East Gate this morning with a few Chinese to clean up broken glass and begin a few necessary repairs. We hope Mr. and Mrs. Tyler be along soon, they will be much needed here.\n\nWith every good wish to you all. \"Let not your heart be troubled.\"\n\nYours in Christ,\n\n(Signed) GEO. J. MARSHALL.\n\nP.S.--Please send to Shanghae.\n\n(Extract.)\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nRev. W. S. Home to Mr. Mills.\n\nChina Inland Mission, Kanchow, November 6, 1907. YOU will be glad to learn that Mr. Marshall and myself have just returned from the country this morning. All has been satisfactorily arranged. We find that sixty-three families have suffered in all; an indemnity of 13,503 dollars is to be paid to them, which is a very moderate sum for so many sufferers. Some have lost heavily. The Taotai Keung-or, rather, Judge-is still in the Nankang district; he is doing all in his power to restore order in a wise and permanent way. He is just the man for this crisis.\n\nHe has looked after our interest, and we are very thankful to him for the speedy and satisfactory settlement of our affairs. Some of that money is to be paid in a few days and the balance shortly. We are so thankful for settlement; this sets us free for reconstruction of the ruins.\n\nHope Mr. and Mrs. Tyler may soon be here, and also Mr. Rowe. The Meikles also may come along any time. It must be a comfort to them that their place has escaped. We have a letter from Mr. and Mrs. Seiple; they are safe, although they have gone through a great storm of rumours.\n\n24",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[8594]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[March 10.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nQuestion asked in the House of Commons, March 10, 1908.\n\nMr. Mitchell-Thomson,-To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether an Agreement has been arrived at with the Wai-wu Pu regarding the Che-Kiang Railway Loan; and, if so, whether he can state its terms.\n\nAnswer.\n\nI am informed that an Agreement has been signed, but I cannot state its precise terms, which have been arranged at Peking with the British and Chinese Corporation,\n\n[2880 K-1]\n\nPage 256\n\nj\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "## Minutes of a Meeting held at the Imperial Chinese Railway Offices, Shanghai, October 24, 1903 (2nd Meeting).\n\nPresent: Messrs. Chen Shan-yen, Li Wei-ho, Wang Tsun-shan, and Yang Hsiao-shen, on behalf of His Excellency Sheng Kung Pao, Director-General; and Mr. Jamieson (with his Secretary, S. Y. Kiang), representing the Peking Syndicate.\n\nMR. JAMIESON submitted the Minutes in English of the previous meeting, copies of which had been forwarded to Mr. Chen, and inquired if they were correct. The members stated that they were correct.\n\nThe Chinese members stated that his Excellency Sheng had instructed them to bring forward another point. It appeared that besides coal, the Syndicate proposed to work iron, as one of the estimated sources of earnings of the railway was freight on the transport of iron, and probably they proposed to make steel rails and other railway material. He begged to inquire how that was.\n\nMr. Jamieson replied that the right to work iron was included in the Concession, and undoubtedly the Syndicate intended to exercise it. What particular form the industry might take, he could not at present say, but they had the right to manufacture iron of any sort.\n\nMr. Li then said that in that case the Syndicate would come into direct competition with the Hanyang ironworks, in which his Excellency Sheng was largely interested, and in assisting the Syndicate to build this railway, he would be injuring his own particular business. It was, therefore, necessary to find some means of safeguarding the Hanyang ironworks before he could proceed to discuss the terms of the railway agreement.\n\nMr. Jamieson inquired what proposal his Excellency had to make in the matter. Mr. Li replied that his Excellency's idea was that the Syndicate should undertake not to begin their ironworks for a period of years until the Hanyang ironworks were firmly established, and in reply to a further inquiry of Mr. Jamieson, Mr. Li, after consulting with the Chinese members, said they thought a period of thirty years would be sufficient.\n\nMr. Jamieson said this was absolutely out of the question. They might agree to consider a short postponement, if it was otherwise made worth their while, and provided it was understood that the term of sixty years, as stated in the Concession during which they had the right to work, received a corresponding extension at the end, but a postponement of thirty years was preposterous.\n\nSome discussion then followed as to the time from which the sixty years were to be deemed to run. Mr. Jamieson stated that the time would run from the date of the issue of the permit by the Governor of the province concerned, as provided in Article 1 of the Concessions. They had applied to the Governor of Honan for such permit, and it was expected it would be issued in a month or two, and the date of the permit would be the commencement of the term as regards Honan.\n\nAs regards Shansi, the Syndicate had not yet had time to select areas for working, and no permit had yet been applied for. When issued, it would in like manner determine the commencement of the term as regards Shansi. The iron ore, so far as they knew, was found only in Shansi, and it would, therefore, be a few years yet before the Syndicate would be in a position to do much in the way of developing ironworks.\n\nMr. Jamieson considered his Excellency Sheng's fears that the Hanyang ironworks would be injured by the Syndicate's competition were quite unfounded, as annually over 100,000 tons of iron of various sorts, not counting rails and railway material, China imported, and there was, therefore, an ample market in the country for all that could be produced in both places for many years to come.\n\nMr. Li remarked that the import of iron was falling off, and the production would soon exceed the demand, and then both the Syndicate and the Hanyang ironworks would be ruined.\n\nMr. Jamieson replied that he was not aware there was any falling off, though the Customs returns would show, but he thought the Chinese members were taking a very shortsighted view of the future in supposing there would be no increase in the demand. With the railway development now going on, there was bound to be an enormous growth in the demand for iron and iron manufactures of all sorts in China itself, and it was surely better that China should supply this herself than import it from abroad and have to pay for it. Besides, as soon as the home market was supplied, they could export it—to Japan, for instance. The more iron that China could turn out and sell, the better. His Excellency Sheng should remember that the Hanyang ironworks were not the whole of China, and consider the advantage of the people at large.\n\nMr. Chen remarked that his Excellency was naturally bound to look after his own interests first.\n\nMr. Jamieson then said, as regards the particular point raised, if the members would formulate a definite proposal for postponement for a short period, five or ten years, he would consult the Board, but he could give no sort of assurance that it would be entertained, and, in any case, they would expect some countervailing advantages.\n\nMr. Yang suggested ten years from the date of completion of the railway to Tsechow. Mr. Jamieson replied that he could not accept that, as that part of the railway might never be built; besides, it would be folly to build a railway and cut off one of the main sources from which freight earnings might be expected. Any postponement must date from the signing of the railway agreement now under discussion. Also, he wished to know what countervailing advantages they could offer for such postponement? Had the members consulted his Excellency the Director-General in regard to the point reserved at the last meeting, viz., the consideration to be given for the shares which they were asked to present to the Chinese Government?\n\nMr. Li said his Excellency had instructed them that the question of safeguarding the Hanyang ironworks must be settled before anything else was discussed. As to countervailing advantages, the guarantee itself was the advantage to the Syndicate.\n\nMr. Jamieson reminded them that the Syndicate already possessed this so-called advantage by virtue of Prince Ching's promise to Mr. Townley. The line was to be taken over on similar terms to those granted for the Russian Cheng-Tai line. He could not bargain in respect to that.\n\nMr. Chen said his Excellency Sheng did not admit that at all. His Excellency had himself advised Prince Ching that the line should be guaranteed, and it was in consequence of his advice that Prince Ching had promised it to Mr. Townley, and that was why the matter had now been referred to him to settle. The Syndicate had, in fact, obtained the promise from his Excellency Sheng, and he was free to impose any terms and conditions he might think necessary.\n\nMr. Jamieson said he knew nothing of what advice his Excellency may have given to Prince Ching, and it did not concern him at all. All he knew was that there had been a definite undertaking given by Prince Ching that the line should be put on a similar footing to the Russian Cheng-Tai line, and if his Excellency did not consider that binding on him, it was useless for them to go on discussing any longer. With much reluctance, he must place the matter again in the hands of the British Minister, and he begged them so to inform the Director-General.\n\n## No. 51.\n\n**The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.**\n\n**CHINESE RAILWAY INDEMNITY.**\n\nYour telegram No. 257 of the 19th instant.\n\nForeign Office, November 28, 1903.\n\nHis Majesty's Government authorize payment to Chinese Railway Administration of interest referred to in your telegram No. 257 of the 19th instant. The interest on the £90,000 advanced by British Railway Administration, as to which we are in communication with the War Office, should not be included in the payment.",
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        "content_text": "# HONG-KONG, KOWLOON AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES.\n\n124\n\n## Map of the Region\n\nThe original map appears to be a geographical representation of Hong Kong, Kowloon, and adjacent territories, including various place names and geographical features.\n\n\n| Location        | \n|---------------|\n| CHU KIANG      |\n| CANTON RIVER   |\n| TUNG WAN       |\n| Pian-ti        |\n| Ling-hu-ho     |\n| Tai-Tong-tu    |\n| Tong-lai       |\n| Hsin hi        |\n| Wu-shai-ngan   |\n| Shak-kan       |\n| KUI HAN        |\n| Ten-tsu        |\n| Timg-col       |\n| Chong-hang-kung|\n| Apo-           |\n| Long-her &     |\n| Lung-fa        |\n| Pa konge       |\n| Tigam-kei      |\n| Ki-abur a      |\n| Yong-tai-shar  |\n| Sai Hering     |\n| NAM-TAO        |\n| Ha-isal        |\n| TAL-CHAM BAY   |\n| Ping Chang     |\n| TRIANG         |\n| Kwaimis        |\n| Ma-chec        |\n| Lin-tin        |\n| Pac-th         |\n| Wang kongs     |\n| Lilong         |\n| Tel-wo-chan    |\n| Pu-kak         |\n| Hoi-line       |\n| Sha-co         |\n| Yam-ion        |\n| HSIN-NG AN-tong|\n| Loforgo (SUM-ON)|\n| Sam-chun       |\n| Wa-had         |\n| Chak-win       |\n| DEEP BAY ANHAU |\n| Shui-wan-ton   |\n| Tereksi-bang   |\n| Lang-ke        |\n| Chin chan      |\n| Pet-kang       |\n| Nan-long       |\n| TALO           |\n| Yo Shur-leu    |\n| chu-la-Nek     |\n| LAN-TAO        |\n| (TAI U SHAN)   |\n| Langtaubhy     |\n| Sha-Cap        |\n| Sha-tau-kok    |\n| Shung-tungh    |\n| Kaichung       |\n| Marbent        |\n| Crooked 1.     |\n| Song-shau      |\n| Crossesnt í.   |\n| Hain-tem       |\n| Shang Chur     |\n| Archang        |\n| Blut Hd        |\n| Wang-ling-ta   |\n| ik-yan         |\n| Tiw kolo       |\n| Shan-wynma     |\n| Love           |\n| Lim-chang      |\n| Ram-tin/       |\n| Channe         |\n| Tain           |\n| TOLD HARBOUR   |\n| Un-in          |\n| Tai-lam chung  |\n| (TAL-PUNG-SANG)|\n| BA             |\n| Wong-muo       |\n| Tipjuk         |\n| Hasha          |\n| Frog.shat      |\n| Tom            |\n| Ho-tongoz      |\n| Port Island    |\n| Grase 1.       |\n| Tep-oun        |\n| Tanka wa       |\n| THE Joey       |\n| bg Chak-Feristi|\n| Shak-heng      |\n| Hei-wang       |\n| PChin-hang     |\n| ing-on-ww      |\n| Ha-yong        |\n| к              |\n| Fing Head      |\n| Fung Gey       |\n| San ast-wan    |\n| Ping           |\n| Proge 1.       |\n| Toma 1         |\n| Gaealt 1.      |\n| Taf-no-sham    |\n| Lok La H       |\n| Tal-shui-hang  |\n| Fet-kong       |\n| Sai-kurg       |\n| Shetic         |\n| $TRA-WERD      |\n| (Chuala        |\n| hue            |\n| Lai Ch         |\n| Shelter        |\n| Sham Shui      |\n| i              |\n| Ping-chau      |\n| Grati le       |\n| Chau-kung      |\n| Silver Mine    |\n| Bar            |\n| 3              |\n| Taiku etay     |\n| VICTORIA       |\n| Pokfulam       |\n| \"Shau-ki-want  |\n| Aberdeen       |\n| HONG-KONG SE   |\n| Shill-jai      |\n| Jas Chou       |\n| Ninepir        |\n| A Group        |\n| Taki           |\n| Ts-tank)       |\n| Jam-tung 1.    |\n| Lo-chav        |\n| Ingan ADNIM    |\n| ang-me-k       |\n| Fury Rocks     |\n| Sun-kong       |\n| aktres         |\n| Way-lan        |\n| JAMMA CHAN.    |\n| Cheung Chak    |\n| Tai-want       |\n| Lamma          |\n| Sha-ku-wan     |\n| (For Lit:)     |\n| 1              |\n| Stu-A-Chau     |\n| Tat-A-Chow     |\n| Tric           |\n| Lap-cap-mi 15  |\n| LEMA           |\n| CHANNEL        |\n| chi-chau i     |\n| 1              |\n| Mies R         |\n| Fit absu       |\n| Kak-ten        |\n\n## NOTE\n\nTerritory under Convention of 1880  \nBoundary under Convention 1998  \nSmeliat Mee the chin)  \nSamun  \nVrstnance Survey Offen, Southampton, 1999.  \n27  \n521",
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        "content_text": "In conclusion, I have the honour to suggest that it would be much more satisfactory if the Ministry of Finance sought the services of an independent expert and took his advice upon this important matter.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nWILLIAM D. LITTLE, Chairman.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nCash Notes: Reply from Viceroy of Liang Kiang to Inquiries of Provincial Assembly about the Government Banks at Nanking and Soochow\n\n1. Amount issued in cash notes (from establishment of banks) up to end of 4th moon:\n\nFrom head office, 190,360 dollars.\n\nFrom branch office, 1,838,063 dollars.\n\nTotal, 2,028,423 dollars.\n\n2. Kinds of cash notes issued:\n\nBy the Nanking Government Bank, 1 dollar, 5 dollars, 10 dollars.\n\n3. Number of Chinese dollar notes as compared to Mexican dollar notes:\n\nChinese dollar notes printed, 6,554,700 dollars. Mexican dollar notes printed, 4,437,000 dollars.\n\nOf these have been put in circulation: Chinese dollar notes, 3,169,700 dollars. Mexican dollar notes, 2,075,000 dollars. There are now getting ready for issue: Chinese dollar notes, 3,385,000 dollars, Mexican dollar notes, 2,362,000 dollars.\n\n4. With what character marked:\n\nThere have been already marked notes to a value of 5,244,700 dollars, bearing in all 1,623 characters of 1,000 notes to each character, with the exception of \"Chiu,\" 10-dollar notes, of which 800 were issued, and one-dollar \"chen\" notes, of which 700 were issued.\n\n5. Limits of issue:\n\nQuestion (a.) Is a defined limit to the number of notes to be issued fixed before issue?\n\nReply (a.) No limit was settled beforehand. Afterwards the limit was fixed at 10,000,000 dollars.\n\nQuestion (b.) Is every issue of notes made in order to meet the demands of the market?\n\nReply (b.) Cash notes are issued either by the head office or from it through its branches, and the amount of each issue is regulated to the requirements of the market.\n\nQuestion (c.) Has the Nanking Government Bank already followed out the requirements of article 9 of the regulations of the Treasury concerning a limitation of an excessive output of cash notes?\n\nReply (c.) The regulation for the redemption of cash notes mentioned come into force next year.\n\nBut fearing that excessive issues of cash notes to meet the redemption of which no ready money was in hand might disturb the market, and to give the stitch in time, we have only issued 20 per cent. of the number of cash notes previously decided upon.\n\nSecurities to meet a demand for cash payments sufficient to cover this issue are deposited with us.\n\nWe now intend to await the issue of the Treasury's notes to invest our ready money in them, and then gradually to replace our old notes with Treasury notes as our old notes are returned to us.\n\nThe present circulation of foreign cash notes in the interior is a great source of loss; and our use of cash notes not only refreshes circulation but is intended to recover our national rights; and we have already reported in detail to the Viceroy to put this on record with the Treasury.\n\nQuestion (d.) Is 20 per cent. of the present issue of cash notes to be withdrawn this next year?\n\nReply (d.) The answer to this question has been given above (c).\n\nQuestion (e.) Have you in hand 40 per cent. ready money to redeem your notes, and have you reliable bonds and securities to cover the other 60 per cent. of your issue?\n\nAre these securities and ready money held in your office, or deposited elsewhere? Reply (e.) A daily return of the amount of cash notes issued by the head office is made, and does not much exceed 200,000 dollars. The daily return of ready money in hand is over 100,000 taels, or more than 40 per cent.\n\nThe amount of cash notes issued by our branches per month amounts in all to 1,800,000 dollars, and they hold over 40 per cent. of ready money.\n\nThe balance of 60 per cent. is either deposited in pawnshops, or loaned to merchants, or loaned on property, all of which are reliable securities, which are deposited in the head and branch office.\n\nOf this ready money we hold for the provincial treasurer-salt revenue, pay offices, provision offices, 350,000 taels; for taotais, customs, office, and works, 1,443,000 taels.\n\nPage 348\n\n \nPage 348\n\nPage 348",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nChapter XII, sections 118--120.\n\nChapter XIII, sections 122, 123, 133, 134, and 139. Chapter XIV, section 140.\n\nChapter XV, sections 147-157.\n\nChapter XVI, sections 158-162.\n\nChapter XVII, sections 163–165.\n\nI regret that I have not received any copies of the drawings referred to in section 8.\n\nThe considered opinion of three such eminent engineers as those who sign this report ought to go far to convince all impartial readers as to the wisdom of the scheme that has been adopted under the direction of M. de Rijke to improve the deep-water approach to Shanghai. There has, as you are aware, always been a considerable amount of criticism of M. de Rijke's scheme and, as the work was proving far more costly than was originally anticipated, it was clearly of the greatest utility to have this independent judgment thereon before a final decision was reached in regard to additional funds for carrying through that portion of the conservancy scheme which still remained untouched. The consulting engineers fully endorse the judgment contained in the enclosed note from the Wai-wu Pu as to the excellence of the work executed by M. de Rijke and, after carefully considering the various criticisms of that gentleman's scheme, they are able to state as their deliberate opinion that that scheme as carried out is the best that could have been adopted and that there is every probability of its being permanently successful. In regard to the rival channels for selection as the permanent fairway, they are of opinion that \"the right course was adopted in the decision to improve and develop the Junk Channel\" and they clearly explain the grounds on which they have arrived at that conclusion.\n\nIn Chapter IX, after giving some figures proving the satisfactory results already achieved in the improvement of the navigable channel, the consulting engineers mention the names of various persons interested in the shipping and general trade of the river whom their delegates, Messrs. Wilson and Matthews, interviewed in Shanghai, including the local agents of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-Amerika Shipping Company and Captain Schellhoss, the technical attaché to the German consulate-general. These gentlemen were practically unanimous, the report says, in their approval of the works already effected by M. de Rijke and in the hope that the works in progress would be completed.\n\nFinally, in section 139, we read that the results produced by the works already executed appear on the whole to be of an entirely successful character.\n\nWhen, however, we turn to the chapter dealing with the further works included in M. de Rijke's scheme, but not yet commenced, we find that the consulting engineers are no longer in complete accord with M. de Rijke, though they are at evident pains not to hurt his feelings unduly.\n\nIt will be remembered that in April of last year M. de Rijke put forward a detailed estimate for the completion of the conservancy work involving an expenditure of something like 9,000,000 dollars over and above the sum already allocated by the Chinese Government. This scheme naturally met with considerable criticism and was rejected by the Chinese Government when presented to them by the diplomatic body. M. de Rijke, however, as will have been seen from his memorandum, which I had the honour to enclose in my despatch No. 225 of the 13th July, never modified his opinion as to the necessity of carrying out his scheme in its entirety. In Chapters VIII and XV the consulting engineers first describe the various further works included in M. de Rijke's scheme and then proceed to discuss the question of their urgency or necessity.\n\nThe only works which they describe as essential and urgent are (1) the final closing of the old Ship Channel; and (2) the completion of the present dredging contract of 1,200,000 cubic yards. These two works are, I presume, completed by this time, or anyhow will shortly be so, as should also the construction of the jetty at Woosung.\n\nUnder the heading of works of importance, for the construction of some of which at all events, the necessary funds should be provided as early as possible, they mention the whole of the training works proposed by M. de Rijke on both sides of the river between the upper end of the Astræa (Junk) Channel and Cosmopolitan Dock, and the training works on the right bank of the river below Pheasant Point opposite Woosung. But even as to these latter works the consulting engineers state that they are not convinced of their desirability or necessity, which future experience alone can prove, and they condemn the proposed dredging on the convex side of Pheasant Point as unnecessary and unlikely to have any permanent result.\n\n3\n\nUnder a third heading the report mentions the works which for the present need not be proceeded with, though ultimately some of them will be required. These works include the dredging opposite Cosmopolitan Dock, the cutting back and dredging at Pootung Point, and the dredging near the native city. The total of the dredging work proposed by M. de Rijke, but not commenced, amounts to about 7,500,000 cubic yards, and it appears from the present report as if the major part, if not the whole, of this costly work could be spared.\n\nIn Chapter XIV the consulting engineers deal with the paramount importance of providing for the careful maintenance of the new works. On this point I shall have the honour to address you further, when I have received the minutes of the meeting of the diplomatic body of the 1st instant, at which were discussed the steps to be taken in order to convince the Chinese Government of the urgency of continuing the conservancy work on the lines laid down without any interruption; the question of the provision of funds for upkeep and for any new work that might be found necessary, and finally, the possibility of a conservancy board on the lines of the Haiho Conservancy Board at Tien-tsin.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nWai-wu Pu to M. de Kuczynski,\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\ndu\n\nPékin, le 15 juillet, 1910. (Traduction.)\n\nÀ la date du 3 janvier, 1910, votre Excellence a bien voulu m'écrire au sujet de la Whangpoo Conservancy. Mon département avait alors reçu un décret Impérial chargeant le Gouverneur du Kiang-Sou de se rendre à Shanghai pour examiner la question. Comme à ce moment le rapport au Trône de ce haut fonctionnaire n'était pas encore parvenu à Pékin, je n'étais pas en mesure de vous donner une réponse immédiate.\n\nActuellement vous voulez bien me faire savoir que les représentants des Puissances à Pékin sont désireux d'être mis au courant de ce que le Gouverneur du Kiang-Sou a rapporté au Trône, et vous me demandez de vous donner à ce sujet des informations détaillées.\n\nLe Gouverneur du Kiang-Sou a fait savoir qu'il s'est rendu en personne à Shanghai sur le champ des travaux, et que, accompagné du Taotaï des Douanes de Shanghai ainsi que d'un ingénieur spécialement engagé pour l'inspection, il a examiné en détail ce qui a été fait. Depuis l'accord spécial conclu au sujet du Whangpoo Conservancy, le prix des travaux avait été évalué à 9,200,000 Haikwan taels, cette somme comprenant l'intérêt de l'emprunt et les frais d'entretien.\n\nDans le contrat conclu par la suite avec l'ingénieur en chef, de Rijke, on fixa un terme de quatre ans pour l'achèvement des travaux, et on décida en conséquence que les sommes nécessaires pour lesdits travaux seraient intégralement versées en quatre ans. Les plans et le contrat furent alors sanctionnés par le corps consulaire et les travaux commencèrent.\n\nRien, donc, n'a été omis dans l'ensemble des travaux à exécuter; leur coût total a été, après évaluation, arrêté à la somme ci-dessus, les fonds ont également été versés chaque année. Actuellement huit à neuf dixièmes des travaux sont terminés.\n\nIl y a quelque temps, un groupe de fonctionnaires et de marchands de toutes nationalités sont allés les visiter à bord d'un vapeur, et n'ont pas tari d'éloges. L'ingénieur spécialement engagé les a également examinés et les a déclarés très satisfaisants. Ceci pour les excellents résultats qui ont été obtenus.\n\nIl reste encore à exécuter un ou deux dixièmes de l'ensemble; le Taotaï et le Commissaire des Douanes ont mission de veiller à ce que les travaux qui restent à exécuter soient rapidement poussés.\n\nQuand la somme prévue aura été complètement versée, quand les travaux seront complètement achevés, la Chine aura rempli toutes les obligations qu'elle avait contractées par l'accord spécial. Tout sera donc terminé, l'ancien chenal doit être bouché, afin d'empêcher l'apport de vase et de sable et de protéger les travaux exécutés.\n\n395",
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        "content_text": "## Page 2\n\nThe months of October and November last. Suppressive measures had been vigorously conducted within the last two months and much of the crop had been destroyed. He is of opinion that there are still some patches of poppy cultivation here and there in outlying parts of the prefecture.\n\nHis Majesty's consul-general at Shanghai forwarded on the 15th March the copy of a report compiled by Mr. Ezra, who had sent two Chinese for the special purpose of investigating the conditions of opium cultivation in the province. These men left Shanghai on the 19th February and returned on the 11th March. According to their report, poppy was being grown in no great abundance in the Chinkiang prefecture. The neighbourhood of Haimen (50 miles north of Shanghai) and Tungchow (60 miles north-west of Shanghai) was full of poppy, and large fields were under cultivation. The villagers at the latter place had stated that the senior of their local headmen owned two fields, and had twice uprooted a few plants in order to show his zeal in the anti-opium campaign. In the unfrequented districts around Nanking miles upon miles of poppy-fields had been seen, and there was an area of 30 miles under cultivation in the Kiang-ning prefecture. This does not appear, however, to be borne out by the statements of His Majesty's consul at Nanking, given above. According to the two Chinese, poppy was also being grown to some extent in hundreds of places along the Kiangsu-Honan and Kiangsu-Shantung borders, and the neighbourhood of Haichow was covered with the fields for a distance of 50 miles. The report states that \"the foreign missionaries resident in the city [Haichow] confirm the fact that no attempt has yet been made by the local officials to restrict the growth.\" This is to some extent confirmed by the information furnished by His Majesty's consul at Chinkiang. In the northern district of Su-chien the poppy is reported by Mr. Ezra's two investigators to be cultivated extensively, and the supply in this district alone is declared to be adequate for the needs of thousands of smokers.\n\nHonan.\n\nThe \"Central China Post\" of the 21st March published a report on the authority of a missionary that the poppy was being grown on fields belonging to the President, Yuan Shih-kai, as well as on those belonging to his relations. The Peking \"Daily News\" of the 17th March stated that strict orders had been telegraphed to the Governor to investigate the district concerned, and to carry out prompt measures of suppression at all costs.\n\nHupeh.\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Ichang reported on the 27th February that the prefect had gone on a special tour, and had found large areas under opium cultivation in the north-west. According to information received from the Belgian missionaries, the cultivation had increased greatly in the south-west district of Li-chuan. His Majesty's consul reported that apparently poppy was not being grown elsewhere in his consular district.\n\nSzechuan.\n\nThe acting consul-general at Chengtu reported on the 2nd March that he had received information from missionaries that greatly increased cultivation had taken place in the Chien-chang Valley, in the south of the province, during the past year—more especially in the tribal territories beyond Chinese control. The poppy area in this region embraced the prefecture of Ning-yuan, and the districts of Hui-li and Yen-yuan, together with the intervening territory of the independent Lolos. Three good crops had been harvested in quick rotation. Feeble and ill-directed official efforts had been made to destroy these crops but without success. In Western Szechuan a general recrudescence had taken place in the prefecture of Ya-chou since the revolution, but the area under cultivation was less than in former years. The crop had been grown for the greater part in out-of-the-way places, and in the country under the jurisdiction of the native chieftain of Mupin and the tribal lands in the district of Fu-lin. Renewed instructions to suppress cultivation had been issued recently, but the area is difficult of control, a great part being mountainous. In Northern Szechuan there was an inconsiderable amount of cultivation in the prefecture of Pao-ning and the district of Chien-chou. A large amount was being grown in the districts of Kuang-yuan and Chao-hua. Little or no attempt at concealment was made, and the plants flourished in close proximity to the high roads. In the prefecture of Lung-an the enforcement of suppressive measures against the large crops had given rise to local disturbances. In Eastern Szechuan no effort had been made to check the cultivation around Kai-hsien. The acting consul-general also reported that, in addition to the localities mentioned above, small crops were being undoubtedly raised in the more remote places throughout the province. He added that reports from many districts showed an apparently complete suppression of cultivation, and that the cultivation did not appear to have reached really serious dimensions anywhere but in the Chien-chang Valley, where a condition resembling anarchy prevails.\n\n## Page 3\n\nThe acting consul at Chungking reported on the 3rd March that, with the exception of some districts close to the Kueichow border, opium cultivation had been effectively suppressed through Eastern Szechuan. The authorities, he stated, had been actively enforcing the removal of all poppies from these districts. The information from Chungking is not confirmed by the acting consul-general so far as Kai-hsien is concerned. A consular officer has also received information from a trustworthy source, based on observations made during a tour in the neighbourhood of Wan-hsien (25 miles south of Kai-hsien) to the effect that the poppy is growing there freely in all directions.\n\nYünnan.\n\nHis Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu has forwarded information, dated the end of January, from missionaries in Northern and Eastern Yunnan, which shows a large amount of cultivation in those parts. In the Prefecture of Chao-tung the quantity under cultivation was larger than last year, and in the adjoining Prefecture of Tung-Ch'uan the poppy had been freely planted. In the Prefecture of Wu-ting the poppy, especially in remote districts, flourished probably in larger quantities than last year. Prohibitory proclamations had been issued, but little or nothing had been done to check the cultivation among the non-Chinese tribes. In the eastern Prefecture of Ch'ü-ching, the missionary had been on a recent tour, and had noticed a considerable quantity of poppy in fields along the high road. He was informed on good authority that it had also been planted in greater abundance in the hill country away from the main roads. The planting was more extensive than last year, but a large amount had been lately destroyed by soldiers, so that he estimated the local crop this spring at one-half of that of last year. Speaking generally, he considered that the officials in that prefecture were doing very little to prevent cultivation. In a later despatch His Majesty's consul-general reported, from a Chinese source, that the poppy had been sown this year in the districts of Tengyueh, Lung-ling, Yung-ping, Wei-hsi, and Chung-tien, in the west; in Szemao, Chen-pien, and Yung-kang, in the south; in Lo-ping, Chan-yi, Yung-shan, Ta-kuan, and Lu-tien in the east; in Yuan-mow and Lu-chuan in the north. He estimated, on the authority of a Chinese in touch with the local opium dealers, that the yield this season is expected to be three-quarters of the amount last year. The consul-general has received information from a native source that the tutu is doing his best to stop opium cultivation, and is constantly issuing orders to that effect. In the neighbourhood of large towns, the local officials, aided by the military, are able to prevent the planting of the poppy, but in more remote districts—especially in those inhabited by the tribes—they are quite helpless. Several have offered to resign sooner than attempt to interfere with the people's poppy fields, and the soldiers told off for the destruction are beginning to complain that they are laying up trouble for themselves when they leave the army. The tribesmen in the districts bordering on Tonkin and Burma have threatened to emigrate if they are prevented from growing opium.\n\nKueichow.\n\nHis Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu has forwarded information, dated the 27th January, from a missionary at An-shun, 50 miles south-west of the provincial capital, to the effect that the poppy had been planted in greater quantities than in any season during the last six years. The local officials, however, had begun to take energetic measures for suppression, and, as a consequence, the farmers had begun to plough up the poppy and sow beans. A missionary informant writing from Kuei-yang, the provincial capital, on the 1st February, stated that the poppy was widely planted, certainly in larger quantities than before the revolution. He continued that it was reported that in some districts the officials were taking strong measures to suppress cultivation, but that they seemed helpless in the district of the provincial capital itself. In a later despatch the consul-general reported, on trustworthy information based on a recent tour, that the poppy had been seen \"growing everywhere in several districts in the Prefecture of An-shun, and also in the southern Prefecture of Hsing-yi.\n\n## Page 536",
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        "content_text": "## Page 90\nNo Bestiale des Age Akin, Gwen, [pd\" Cuical glande \n\n140 \n\n3 \n\nM \n\nJ \n\nRight Lung \n\nLeft Lung \n\nSebagai seamana best | Whole Lung granite vi oppimised form | Carry Kviz qa and Tamporna nanoj \n\nplay inclusalting, byt | chady studded incltaną i gang filialia \n\nrappus naariulda que, gong kanilang sa \n\nfall frequen \n\nthighhigh \n\n4th styling + \n\nPlum \n\nRecerantial glance \n\nThink a sšlemak toe hy bang, Sulanged varme all groups, but this mught me wwith funtem Excl'argsta tindingy & aktu, hati suratly dumati \n\ncandal, fubuela, an upper feli \n\nuntuk lift \n\nIntestinia \n\nLiver \n\nAptem \n\n| does not adam me quedó – has wrong, tly upficial hakum, hit kanini Thon Victorian & kampanet) an \n\n89 \n\nIntracraniet \n\nRemarks \n\nko. \n\nVing weduped njection, probable when: 1 konung (lift rapportée), « Instinction, & Lung, von biang, \n\n240 \n\nDINNE \n\noffensool giant more focal glandular affention gaunatly \n\nJ \n\nEndogat ramanan að vigti dilan \n\n| U., Kaligran quran fake) = M \n\nKumar \n\n| Deucent along bayon | the bli vija jua musail form, wett a casandro fiunt \n\nshift side maky \n\nLALISK \n\n37 \n\nTabernalia keralafummamman vl'ausilio | large canf(imageriala kund anuntur \n\n(piline) via st. That tage of folate, be to \n\nAM! \n\nJatt bebe, ale oral cave forslandai M. \n\nthat gland më right litus ventumpul se i vraquotat, sedang- \n\nmust stijft, a vsa kubistine of sexy canalim \n\nte per fing Tra glauch zuloqué szarow \n\nmali ukilin \n\nAH.S + 35 \n\nfor there are most of hiring \n\n14 LI M 36 \n\n| Chattig masklar aukapera)”, B-qqosant autheran \n\noh wow upper Lexy plungime, une hept Sukmalum irmaolofonammmans it, mosting Adlivin one cipta spjau Enlarge mange til at det 100% vida. Koľa \n\nMiglia li czoláčím 1. \n\nHi ha aquad' thi vis, qui de praktorent \n\nML \n\n| Cortigċaralimus) was \"mchorasi'mon hortarlaps won Constige Tinigteren) M. “Indigovalam banda. Qolovima ir aptas vou type ingested a sustine gland at night Likes, nat \n\nVudy shumtim số the \n\nAnd entered reason, bad mer and extend for \n\n-\"bas Kochuvelen (kumpuest \n\nAnd whe \n\n11 Life calia + dutta | Miliang tindirila ogging sold at 10 kan ske almy dylanzamen | porbonić upatta qangir dalang \n\nin front pad of paid en of \n\nLisboa due implanto \n\nwał w płacis \n\n|| Cichqon of migla hidung tinat \n\nHow muliery \n\n241 \n\nLAL \n\nLas \n\nلين عيكم لي \n\nV \n\nAufmen putredial castpos me \n\nmyli wide. \n\nThe miliony, all suproficial Keany story on ever \n\nMany auchany out base along Subarinn fincere \n\n[WL \n\nHal 3-12 May \n\n14 I \n\n+ \n\n- \n\nMalay grey more as any guy pocasional image in internetinktas mashatit me unghi Centerque, segist wich, nath\" forest\" ja vastatin \n\nGulayed, aural adlines, many cantau \n\n1447 J \n\nM.$/ \n\n|18 karamą, Kibarko zrakový di tratt frin; condom heilspy & quay hi lampaced Kong int \n\nLeben \n\nbvimo farine del cavan in tight side \n\n14. \n\nL + \n\nK \n\nFondit qua\" ka taga of fathom Fistinction by deed off incurvaria and lobe, kantonalefnammmata in film, hittila on night, Häckened i \n\nal' at line. \"Communia kellőkevitščini, ma zasty stīga \n\nCollar & Fabermalas glands as upper part of \n\n| Bus tulangist Trang of pics srautas, (ku vna cumikas \n\nkutiny mauendi comme forent\" \n\nMoraitis fenteen peper que simin seederqui, coolme, norus. \n\nHow mustang, mcorby all m \n\nHuomat warging from widiary recommcmont large. \n\nKim to dish of a fore \n\nfrom Kan I wear me the dismaltrate, forms on this \n\nsagana 150 mme quer Cassati tufanda \n\nHarry untion on tonal timungk \n\nProbably benuary alimentary \n\n| hänga mamak belitian, \n\nthyl) {utadvent] ba đ \n\nZaw meshing, a manje poly Viri olarga (laen in Karten | 18 18. oblige skatera kabinama lang sa kan \n\nin unter d \n\nCher metasing is con \n\ntug \n\nR \n\nنے یہ \n\nCarinis glaub, kita, opentraalial mogli sams \n\nshes of bone she met \n\n150. \n\nD \n\nने \n\n2 \n\nClarity studded all through with grey \n\nLester \n\n| Oman from opperial purmat kasking In \n\nStyle cuda egen mot of su gland at lidu, m \n\nne značku, gang fibiades olidated. Kray! Ka \n\nmiling \n\nnight\" sada, veoma or digit \n\nfor w \n\n251 \n\nDS \n\nN 40 \n\n| Covilų (manga) 61, Kaburutan bosofo bilay ago Along Court, mert ein to \n\nAtterret might upper life Exalongadu zanzman põhiline le pidu, honest \n\nAfL \n\nM \n\n> \n\n1 \n\n25 J \n\nM \n\nfrontenditious busad of penemasta. V. 18. \n\n\"Then camemus feu (beanojota), milion haiding meadhied (Gray) for lobe, \n\nMirough Hunt\" of loung \n\nagny \n\nmandal glandin a fun tatmortem mulli” wighti \n\nConcan ventsuget framarracheal growth night side \n\nKa Patil y Futuretan bere aliquamnand Phonics on regis vide \n\nJones of prime up for fred of the \n\n154 \n\n+ \n\nJ \n\nАряне довед \n\nKacharak, pil bīm, us forum foray into the for What's in Flaniere lytside \n\nL \n\nbrida, a fraskať tuloged remanem bre, nelin \n\n## Page 91\n1 \n\nHas any \n\n2481 \n\nJAY \n\nLuar \n\nand admired. possibly by regrating trails from gloved at upper spasi qetë media, ar \n\nbut must post l'avante \n\nکی دیگر کے \n\nThis Jong rundy Both sys \n\nLug \n\nLungs primarily most affected freat me tenang ball ice corelated glaced. \n\n250 \n\nof fruity nggugat fiskaln \n\nK \n\nSarunas Time \n\nla comung widermy a mas su prima datang shown use. Make the item bi dampreet, for at home, won ne vomical mening \n\nalim safada a l'hongand be to f Age of and \n\nucaí en bjť\" auftume past! quin \n\n| Apane munting listemeke, at have recei \n\n247 \n\nHow suition \n\n252 \n\nFotos Kanin Püree sadık \n\nServet veilang di from head \n\nHow melonry at have \n\ntexts lung inthischt hat had \n\nexpanding gend \n\n253 \n\nTractory do prowhead, \n\nKaum low \n\nsusan. | Har midlaany in cortical aven \n\nhango offrand to be older art”, Kine Kå porth math may hawn Lagu Minang. K. dialing \n\n454 \n\nC \n\nof sight' bað mig \n\nI brouss generated in funtarum munakry, na waitinal or mountain games affecettes forad \n\nMo Imitig die tye. Min kangjesi tautat daude \n\nLAS M M2 \n\nRight Lenny \n\nLythm \n\nPleura \n\nHessiastical glands \n\nTakamalam, bosankafesinintman, all Lobis, maan taivastaa berada jaunumu, bett béka, Čabinet Lane Caj, oj right sides. Folia » jointrastral nadangel z omten, menght matt Jaunt bonus 10, a sanga na (filler) a",
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        "content_text": "5. Lepers have been freely introduced into countries free from the disease e.g. London, Paris, the United States of America, and whereas for the most part no precautions have been observed, in no instance has the disease spread to others.\n\nC. To this may be added the important consideration that were the disease communicable by these means the length of the time during which each leper would be a source of danger being great, the disease would soon affect many of the population.\n\n7. The above views are derived from the late Sir J. Hutchinson's work on the subject, but there are others to be added e.g., the extremely narrow limitation of leprosy in certain centres, often very small, although there is free communication between their inhabitants and the neighbouring population,\n\n8. The disease is often confined in certain places with a mixed population to particular races or nationalities although social intercourse is unrestricted.\n\nAccording to Hirsch, China from the southern and eastern coast districts as far up as the mouth of the Yangtse-Kiang has been the headquarters of the disease from time immemorial, and the provinces most affected by it are Kwangtung, Fukien and Che-Kiang, and to refer to Hutchinson's views again we find him stating that leprosy has obviously spread along the shores of the Pacific in company with the Chinese immigration wherever they go the disease appears and the explanation seems to be that wherever they go they carry their habits with them; especially do they establish themselves as cooks everywhere. They are skilful cooks and they can make use of many things which no one else would look at; decomposing fish and potted fish are among the delicacies in which they deal.\n\nI have seen a fair amount of leprosy in Africa and some in China. In both countries the use of fish cured by salting, smoking, or drying by exposure to the sun is an established practice and the evidence for the fish hypothesis which has merely been glanced at in this note, seems to amount to a high degree of probability.\n\nThe Chinese regard leprosy as a contagious disease and they stand in great dread of it, on the other hand they do not regard small-pox as an infectious or contagious disease and have no fear or dread of it. The Chinese point of view is given in a note by Dr. Thomas of the Tung Wah Hospital, he states \"I do not think leprosy has spread very rapidly among the Chinese. The Chinese people have a great dread of leprosy, and they will shun anyone who is reputed to be a leper. In fact, they consider many harmless skin diseases as leprosy, particularly leucoderma. They are firmly of the opinion that leprosy can be transmitted by sexual relations. They have no idea of the comparatively long incubation period of the disease, and I have had very many cases for consultation because\n\nB\n\nthe men believed that they had contracted leprosy from a suspicious woman. In cases of rape, the one thing that the woman or her relatives fear is the contraction of leprosy. I have often made it a point to ask lepers whether any of their relatives are lepers also, and I have not been able to get one answer in the affirmative. I do not know what bearing this has on the possible methods of infection; but this comparative rarity of multiple infections in a family may be due to the fact that the leper when once suspected is cast away. It must be understood that my statements have reference only to the class of people I see daily, viz., the poor and middle classes. I do not know what the rich families do with their leprous members, I have experience with only one rich family. The head of the house was undoubtedly leprous, but he was not shunned. Of course this may have been due to the fact that it was a case of nerve leprosy with no disfiguration; also, being the head and support of the home, such blemish must of necessity be overlooked.\"\n\nVenereal diseases-The returns of the number of cases of syphilis and gonorrhoea show a slight increase in the amount of syphilis treated this year, but no great difference from the returns of earlier years as indicated in the statement which is included in this report. Since the beginning of 1921 a supply of novarsenobillon has been kept in stock and it is given to all employees of government whenever it is prescribed for them. In 1921, 182 doses were used and in 1922, 141 were prescribed; already in this year 121 doses have been used. Although a free clinic for the treatment of all who are affected has not been established, yet a considerable amount of free treatment has been provided by government as set forth in these statistics. I do not know of any reason for believing that there has been any increase in the amount of venereal disease in the colony, but, as I remarked in last year's report, it seems almost certain that there is more attention paid to the diagnosis and treatment of it by both the patient and the medical attendant.\n\nMalaria. During the rainy season there were times when the rainfall was insufficient to scour out the eggs and larvae of mosquitoes from the pools and other collections of water and to this is to be attributed, in part, at any rate, the prevalence of malaria to a greater degree than is usual. Another effect of alternate periods of rain and drought is that the conditions are not suitable for the natural enemies of the mosquito larvae because the pools do not exist long enough to allow of their being stocked with small fish, newts, and insects which prey on the larvae. Then each batch of immigrants into a malarious region, especially when they come from districts in which malaria occurs, seems to result in a recrudescence of malaria. When the number of immigrants is large the whole community is liable to feel the effects of it, the prevalence of the disease to be increased, and the infection is less likely to be as confined to children as it is when it exists among a sedentary population which has become immune to a greater or less extent.\n\nThe number of cases reported from three of the hospitals which contain the greater portion of cases was 921 and in 1921, 702, The varieties of malaria occur in the proportion of 90-95 per cent\n\nPage 29",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG SECTION\n## PAGE 1\n\n| Full Names | Nos. | In English | Sex | Marr-ied | Age | Nation-ality | Birth Place | Profes'n. | Last Pass Port | Any Gov't Service | Add: Names of Shops. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Wong Tik Kwong | 2. |  | Male | Yes | 19 | China | Anfai | Merchant | H.K. | N11 | No | Yee Hau Loong |\n| Wong Chor Woon | 3 |  |  | No |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Tong Suk Woo | \" |  |  | Yes | 19 | P | 21 | Canton |  | 14 | 1 | 11 | 34 | S'hai | The China Tea Company |\n| Hg Siu Fung | 11 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chiu Shiu Sang |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chow Nim Tong | 35 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 7 |  |\n| Lau Sing Sam | # | W | 體 |  | 11 | 11 | \" | 體 | 25 | 11 | 11 | # | 11 | 11 | 8 |  |\n| Chan Tsze Man | 26 | Foo-Chow | # | 11 | 1 | # | M | \" | 體 | 9 |  |\n| Lan Tak Hing | 277 | Swatow | ต | 11 | 19 | Wah Lam Company | Hammer Company | 請 | 10 |  |\n| Fu Seung Lam | 11 | \" | 24 | 11 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Choy Kai Ming | 1 | 帽 | # | \" | 11 | 11 | 11 | 26 | H.K. | Hipson Company | 18 | #1 | 11 | 14 | # | 髒 | 19 | 12 |\n| Chan Him Hai | 22 | Foo-Chow | 體 | H | 11 | 11 | 17 | \" | 17 | 19 | 13 |  |\n| Chan Tin Fat | 18 | M | 11 | 11 | ស | 14 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chan Chi Pak | 25 | Canton |  |  |  |  |  | Wah King Trading | 1 | TE | 15 |\n| Lou San Sam | 22 | 1 | Swator | 11 | # | 19 | Company | \" | 曾 | 19 | 11 | f | 怜 | M | \" | 16 |\n| Chan Tong Lau | 19 | Canton | : | 14 | 11 | \" | 11 | 1 | 11 | #t | 11 | 17 | Yadging Cher | 21 | Swatow | 11 | 17 | \" | : | # | 11 | 11 | 18 |\n| Tam Kit Sang | 49 | Canton |  |  |  |  | Koon Yick | 11 | 11 | 11 | 19 |  |\n| Woo Ting Cheong | 34 | Kiu-kiang |  |  | Late Gov't | 340 | \" | Service |  |  |  |",
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        "content_text": "| Nos. | Full Names | Sex | In English | Marr-ied | Age | Nationality | Birth Place | Profes'n. | Last Pass | Add: Port | Any Gov't Service | Names of Shops. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 39 | Chow Seung Kan | Male |  | Yes | 35 | China | Canton | Merchant | H.K. | Nil | No | Nanyung Bros. Tobacco |\n| 40 | Ng Nai |  | \" |  | 28 |  | Com. China Company |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 41 | Lo Siu Tong | # | 體 | \" | # | . | 32 | 1 | 11 | W |  |  |\n| 42 | Chu Yeung So | \" | \" |  | 39 |  | Wang Hing Company |  | 19 | 1 | 19 | # |\n| 43 | Chiu Hon Sang |  |  |  |  | China Product Company | # | \" | 19 | # | 11 | 11 | 帽 | n | 1 |\n| 44 | Chan Chee Wing |  |  |  | 49 | Н.К. | Kung Shun Co. | \" | 11 | 11 | 1 | # | 19 | 19 | Yu Dai |\n| 45 |  |  |  |  | 39 | Canton | Chun Hing | \" | 14 | n | \"I | \" | W | \" | 10 |\n| 46 | Mak Fan Chow |  |  |  | 38 |  | Kwong Tai Cheung Woo Kee | \" | 11 | \" | 1 | \" | 1 | \" | Siu Yine Chow |\n| 47 | Ku Po Fan |  |  |  | 29 | Kiang-su |  | H | H |  |  |  |\n| 48 | Hu Chung Hing |  |  |  | 30 |  | 11 | 11 |  |  |  |  |\n| 49 | Chan Fung Hin |  |  |  |  | 11 | 11 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 50 | Chan Fung Ton |  |  |  | \" | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 51 | Chin Ching Po |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 52 | Chong Ki Chun |  |  |  | 10 |  | 11 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 53 | Chan Wing Chan |  | བྷུཀྨཝཱཀྵུ$ |  | No | FI |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 54 | Chan King Tseung |  |  |  | Yes | 8 £ N 8 8 8 8 | 11 | #t | \" | 1 | Heung-shan | H | P | \" | 體 | 20 | Shia Sincere Co. Ltd. | Hing | # | \" | 11 | 19 | # | 10 | 23 | # | 19 | 11 | # | 32 | Sam-Shiu | \" | H | \" | 體 | 22 | Foo-Chow | 19 | 11 | 21 | Sunwei | 1 | \" | # | # | 30 | Namhoi Honts & Co. | Hip Fat Ho | Ho Chun Kee | Swatow Trading Co. |\n| 55 | Chiu Yat Sun |  |  |  | 49 | Swaton |  |  |  |  | 342 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 56 | Wong Yu Wing |  |  |  | 19 | No | 2 | # | 性 | R | 體 | 11 | 11 | 20 | M |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 57 | Mak Poon Lau |  |  |  | Yes | 45 | Namhoi | Shuntak | 11 | \" | #1 | 11 | Chinese General Chamber of Commerce |  |  |  |  |  |  |",
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        "content_text": "The CANTON GAZETTE.\n\n廣州日報\n\nRegistered at the Post Office as a Newspaper\n\nVol III 485 CANTON, CHINA, 民國十四年八月十二日星期三 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12 1925,\n\nSingle Copy: 10 Cts. $2.00 A Month #24.00 A Year\n\n## Municipal Council And Canton's Civic Progress\n\n### Stability and Progress.\n\nThe inauguration of the Municipal Council on Monday deserves comment. Despite the extraordinary situation in which this city and this province are placed in consequence of the barbarous acts of the subjects of certain Foreign Powers, the people, under competent leadership, are moving, and moving steadily, in their progress towards civic betterment.\n\n### SIGNIFICANT GESTURE\n\nWhat is the significance of the ceremony on Monday when the Councillors took the oath of office and assumed their corporate responsibility as a Municipal Council? Their gesture was an assurance of confidence to the people of Canton city and a challenge to our foes within and without. As representative citizens of the city, they indicate their faith and confidence in the stability of the new democratic order ushered in on July the First, and are prepared to co-operate actively and intimately with the Executive to build the Greater Canton that shall worthily uphold the proud and ancient eminence of Canton as the Queen City of the South.\n\nLet it be carefully noted that the Municipal Council which has just been instituted is not merely an **ADVISORY** body, but a **SUPERVISORY** and **LEGISLATIVE** organ, responsible for the general direction of the activities of the City Government. The Municipal Council as now constituted is charged with power to enact such laws and regulations as usually fall within the scope of modern Municipal Governments. Upon the Municipal Council will rightly devolve the problems of Municipal Taxation, Revenue and Expenditure. The Council is to meet at regular sessions to deliberate and pass upon the measures which the Executive Commissioners propose for the efficient conduct of the affairs of the Municipality.\n\n### PUBLIC CONFIDENCE AND SUPPORT\n\nScarcely fifty days have elapsed since the new City Mayor and his associate Commissioners took up office. With a practically empty treasury confronting them, they put their shoulders resolutely to their tasks. It did not take long for the evidence of Municipal activity to become apparent to the people: the daily sanitary work of the city has since been performed to the evident satisfaction of the people, and the mending of the public roads is proceeding apace despite temporary difficulties in obtaining materials. The educational difficulties, which have long been chronic, are being grappled with systematically, and soon it is hoped that the City's public school system will be placed on a sound footing. The police have got rid of the troops which had been quartering within the city.\n\nBut whatever progress has been made in the short period since the new City Commissioners took up office, has been largely due to the confidence and goodwill which the people, through its representative citizens, have shown towards the new Government. Without the financial assistance provided by the new Municipal loan, it would not have been possible to set the Municipal machinery going with such comparative smoothness and absence of friction.\n\nAnd it is an earnest of the better days that are now before us, when we see representative citizens, chosen equitably from the chief groups of a complex community - from the fields of commerce, labour, agriculture, education and the liberal professions - ready and willing to undertake the responsibility of Municipal Government for the common welfare of the community.\n\n## Tang Chi-yao Leaving Yunnan.\n\nGeneral Ching Chin Inspects Troops.\n\n## Commerce Leaders on Trade Permits.\n\n### Meeting Of The 4 Chambers Of Commerce To Discuss The Question Of Special Permits For Transportation Of Goods---Resolution Passed.\n\nThe General Chamber of Commerce, on account of the issue of Special Permits by the Commerce Department for the transportation of goods, which, in their opinion, would cause all sorts of obstacles for merchants, called the Presidents and Representatives of the Union of Merchants Association, the City Chamber of Commerce and the Cooperative Merchants Association, in a joint meeting on the 10th instant.\n\nThe meeting was attended by over fifty thousand persons. Flags with mottoes such as \"Down with the Lin Hu, Hong Chao-lin and Tang Poon-yan rebels,\" etc. were everywhere. A full report will be published tomorrow.\n\n## New Rules For Coast Shipping.\n\nSince the outbreak of economic war with the imperialists and blockade of the seaports, the Hongkong Government has received instructions to regard coastal navigation. And all the anti-imperialist unions of the whole province have been notified to act according to the following rules duly drawn up:\n\n1. Steamers of any nationality except British or Japanese are allowed to run to and from any of the various ports, provided they will not call at Hongkong.\n2. Upon entering port, steamers must positively be subject to the inspection of the labour or picket corps of the anti-imperialist unions.\n3. No export of food stuff or any other raw material from the inland districts is allowed.\n\n## Demonstration And Parade To Urge Suppression of Rebels.\n\nIn order to combat the machinations of the Imperialists, it is necessary firstly to put down the counter-revolutionaries and tools of Imperialism; a huge provincial demonstration parade was held on the instant. The labour unions are prepared to carry on a long struggle till final victory is attained by the people.\n\n## Conference Of Chaochaw And Swatow Natives Residing At Canton.\n\nIn view of the public excitement on account of the illegal taxations and extortions on the part of Chen Chiung-ming's generals, a meeting was held at twelve o'clock yesterday by all circles in Canton to urge immediate action by the Government. A conference was held at the Hall of Canton University, for a conference to discuss the matter of urging the Government to put down Chen Chiung-ming's forces, and to restore the control of Swatow, etc. Those present were the representatives of the Swatow and Chaochow Reconstruction Association, the Taipo Public Assembly, Sin Ling Tung Society, the Fungshun Public Assembly at Canton, the Chaochow and Swatow Students Union of the Canton University, etc.\n\nThe conference was opened at half past two o'clock in the afternoon, and Mr. Chau Loo was elected Chairman. The meeting began at 3:50 in the afternoon; Mr. Woo Chung Tong, Vice President of the General Chamber of Commerce, presided and announced the formation of the meeting. He said, in a brief statement, that they were requested to attend the meeting to discuss the question of abolition of the issue of Special Permits for the transportation of goods, as petitions have repeatedly been received to that effect.\n\nThe following resolutions were passed:\n1. That the various organizations of Chaochow, etc., be united together to form a powerful organized Body, so as to deal with Chen Chiung-ming's forces, and to plan progressive methods for the future reconstruction of the Chaochow districts.\n2. That the natives of Chaochow districts residing in Canton be all requested to participate enthusiastically in the great Parade, and to urge the Government to restore the control of Cha chow districts.\n3. That Preparatory Office towards the construction of the \"Joint Union of the Chaochow organizations in Canton\" be used on their participation in the Parade of the 11th August.\n\n## Form Branch Of Cooperative Aeroplane Association\n\nAt the Headquarters of the Defense troops under General Wu Toh-chen, a meeting was held to inaugurate a Branch of the Cooperative Aeroplane Association. There were present, Mr. Chen Pak-nin rendered his report on the present political administration of Chen Chiung-ming's generals in Cha chow, etc. General Wu Teh-chen announced that there is difficulty in the enforcement of such permits.\n\nMr. Liang Tso Hiang said that he had been sent by Commissioner Soong to discuss the obstacles in the Regulations governing the issue of such permits, and a request was made for abolition of such permits. Mr. Woo added that they (the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and Unions of Merchants) had already held a meeting and expressed opinions and agreed that the points, regarding such permits, which require discussion.\n\nMr. Wong Kok Shing said that the Special Permits are suitable for imported goods, and it appears that exported goods would not be subject to these permits.\n\nMr. Cheung Fat Yu said that Commissioner Soong stated yesterday that the Special Permits do not apply to inland villages, but the local press had published an advertisement from the Pickets of the Workers.\n\n(Continued on Page 3)\n\n## Construction of Highways.\n\nAs previously reported, the Government, at the request of the strikers, has approved the plans for highways. The Bureau of Highway Construction proposes to construct firstly the highway to Whampoa by the strikers; at the same time a highway between Poon and Font Road will be built by disbanded soldiers. Preparations are being made for the organization.\n\nReceived Telegrams have been from Yunnan saying that Tang Chi-yao has decided to flee from Yunnan. General Fan Shek-sang's troops from Poshik city are marching on Yunnan and will soon capture the capital of that province. At the time, General Ching Chin went to the northern districts to inspect the troops there preparatory to dispatching them for service.\n\nGeneral Chiu Hi-chen's Kwangsi troops are bearing in on Tang Chi-yao from the north. Tang Chi-yao's troops driven out of Kwangsi cannot fight any more for they all know that the end of Tang Chi-yao's rule is come. Volunteers in Ta Li-fu have been planning to overthrow Tang and welcome General Fan Shek-sang. In all probability, there will be little fighting in Yunnan and will be ended upon the entry of General Fan's forces.",
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Special Vinoma \n\nRear Seats \n\nnt \n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1925. \n\nSoviet Mercantile Fleet \n\nThe \n\n\"Sovtorgflot\" \n\n\"MONGUGA\" $74 \"PAMIAT LENINA\" \n\nwill leave Canton for Swatow and Shanghai and Vladivostok on or about 18th August. \n\nFor further particulars apply to \n\nPetroleum Office of Trade Mission of U.S.S.R. in China at Canton \n\n(Agents of Soviet Mercantile Fleet \"Berfo glat\") \n\n2nd floor, Central Bank of China Buildings, The Bund. \n\n行銀央中 \n\nTHE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA \n\nEstablished by Government Mandate of 7th August, 1921 \n\nOfficial Government Depositary \n\nGENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED \n\nTelephone: Central 199, 444, 777. \n\nTelegraph Address: \"CENTRAL\" \n\nTSE VUNG SOONG \n\nChief Manager \n\n東 \n\nThe Bank of East Asia, Ltd. \n\n(CANTON BRANCH) \n\nSAPSAM HONG STREET, CANTON. \n\nHead Office-HONGKONG. \n\nCable Address---**FASTA BANK” \n\nSHAMKEN, \n\nTelephone No.-1876 West. \n\nAuthorized Capital $10,000,000.00: $5,000,000.00 \n\nPaid-up \n\nReserve Fund \n\nBRANCHES & AGENCIES throughout the World. \n\nEvery kind of banking facilities:- \n\nGranting loans on approved securities. \n\nSelling drafts and buying bills on Foreign agencies, \n\nTHE ORIENTAL HOTEL \n\nAND \n\nRESTAURANT \n\nTHE BUND \n\nFACING THE PEARL RIVER \n\nWith the Whole View of Canton City \n\nFrom the Roof Garden \n\nModern Accommodation and Comfortable Equipments \n\nHot and Cold Baths \n\nServe best Foreign and Chinese Meals \n\nWe prepare party dinners \n\nThe Sincere Co., Ltd. \n\nUniversal Providers. \n\nThe Bund, Canton \n\nNew Arrivals Of Tinned Goods And Silks \n\nOur Own Manufacturers:-- \n\nAERATED WATERS, PERFUME, GLASS WARE, METAL WARE, RATTAN WARE, FURNITURE, &C, SOAP, \n\nOUR ROOF-GARDEN:- \n\nCinema and a Variety of Chinese & Foreign Plays \n\nAdult 35 Cents, \n\nAre shown DAY & NIGHT.-- Admission \n\nSavings Department. Concessions to small depositors with current accounts interest \n\nTHE SUN CINEMA. \n\nPROGRAMME FOR \n\nAugust 12th to 0th, 1925 \n\nTRIANGLE PLAYS \n\nPRESENTS \n\nDOROTHY DALTON \n\n \n\nThe Far Eastern Trust and \n\nSavings Bank, Ltd. \n\n34, SECOND MALOO \n\nWEST BUND, CANTON. \n\nHONAM-SUB \n\nCABLE ADDRESS \"BANKTRUST\" \n\nBRANCH \n\nTA KEE TOW \n\nAll descriptions of Banking Business transacted, \n\nInterest allowed on Current and Savings Accounts and \n\nLoans granted on approved securities. \n\nIN \n\nFIXED DEPOSITS. \n\n\"The Dark Road” \n\nIN FIVE BIG REELS \n\n$1,80 \n\nVarious Comedies \n\n \n\n \n\nTHE \n\nChina Development \n\nCommercial \n\n& Savings Bank, Ltd. \n\nTelone (9-tra] 792 \n\nAditing, West Bugend B'. \n\nCroston \n\nTHE SUN Co., Ltd. \n\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS \n\nWEST BUND; & WAI OI STREET, OLD CITY. CANTON, \n\nfe in to join advantage to visit our Wholesale and Retail Departments. All kinds of China silk piece goods, boots and shoes, hats, outfitting, etc. \n\nPROFESSIONAL QUALITY \n\n7 out of 10 cases of \n\nHEADACHE \n\ncan be cured from eyestrain. If you were a victim of this trouble, you should have your eyes examined soon. \n\nDO IT AT THE SUN CO. \n\nDr. K. K. Yang, who takes charge of our Optical Department, \n\nhas specialized on Ophthalmology and Optometry. \n\nJET \n\nSuits for our third floor, well-stocked for \n\nDR. KÜNK, \n\nA modern Banking and up-to-date... All manner of interest rates allowed for all kinds of deposits. \n\nLoans granted on approved securities \n\nBANK OF CANTON LIMITED, \n\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG, \n\nINTEREST ON FIXED OR WITH \n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS \n\nFor 12 Months 5% per annum, \n\nFor 6 Months 4 per annum, \n\nFor 3 Months & per annum on the daily credit \n\nbalance of over $100.00, \n\nOn demand \n\n2% per annum \n\nChief Manager \n\nLABOR AND PEASANT MOVEMENT. \n\nTHE CANTON \n\nGAZETTE \n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925. \n\nCommerce Leaders On Trade Permits. \n\n(Continued from Page 1) \n\nPeanut Oil Shipments \n\nDiplomatic Commission's Report On Shanghai \n\nShootings \n\nNo Enthusiasm For Judicial Inquiry--Chinese Rights Recovery \n\nMovement. \n\nPeasants Movement. With The Strikers. \n\n„Outing to the best product of elibe th Workers infinging the vari joik being insul? cirat far the preda Government Devises Means To \n\nMeeting Of Peasants Union OffThe \n\nSow bad but all good to be the people, to saul rely Aid The Workers On Strike. 1st Division Of Pun Yu District. \n\ntransporth a sie abject to ajan skipun ka the hum A present the movement for the inspection, and this shows that the Taingear wind beachwang Bia the (YBOX QUE YEASANT CORRESPONDENT) \n\nand Nationalist Revolution \n\nthe authorities \n\not oflented buke massage, shipping bus bort tilf After the establishment of the Nations emancipation has \n\nuniformily is the internal affairs, tied up, and regular supplies of oil only the faulted brake from Shock Of French Minister's Split. Diplomatie turpe have ap \n\nPeasants Union of the 1st division \n\nprogressive, Rod towardɛ the actio Mr. Long Ton Hing said the Geotou lava imen impossible Paris sud Teky, is generally) \n\nfelt tore that thpt of the parently reanvered from the sbank Pon Yo! Fongebuan) f \n\nof the rains wochers on ekrike, Commit-ones Buty land taken up tuns causing a ries in the murkor \n\nConniving to Shanghai should be of the Fench Minister'e rezigna District great soccer das fillorect \n\nthe Governmel has led its be the maler with His strikers, adde \n\nThe Cute Balta Unkel liebed bioause it participeter, in att pablico give them advice and estistuuon, the Butte Cermitte died rent Mr. \n\nSo for very little Tadication for I was told to day that the vacancy thas create on the Uɔra- activities. This is the third soul goes the Atrike a garrist into Lai Torg Fo to the Come Shaughst kan spesially pirates; meeting for skation of Commit fot, the Gavermout has red Department to deal conjully wished a forge consignawel of pear on glee by the Legatione contain would most probanly as Members. Everyone attended the} \n\ndevire no efforte to \n\nen forit. so said that this in simply full from Tsingtao, for shipment turning its esetents, but the Chinese led in the course of a few days. \n\nIt is nateraled that the moment are thornghiy convinced that it) After the recting with interess. \n\nmaintaining the livelihood of the matter the part of the Pickete Caston to meri leoni nada. misssacre of the bite Persillut. Me-trikers, and \n\nA gram bas bra rectly contains wittesuls cond-matia of the Walebicoupe agres to limit the ital diturions to the Shangbai 1 taken further sed it can be iti u the met Lum Pub-abus, the prepa krew steps to plan for this organizing held by the rite it from Shanghai stating that the Shanghai. In the encantas, affair and disttangle it entirely well that in neder to gata fedemtion of a fre Labor Employment Boday. \n\nwas shipped to Caxton per 8.8 therefore, the excuse of the Legather fauce, the L-gations will \n\nHua Tan1 \" Yang\" to tins that pubility would be a fester inte formal negations. they should be crited. \n\nTwo Problems, \n\ndesirable në the prcent time would \n\nThere does aut seam to be ruah \n\narrive within a few days. It is an \n\nipated that the price of oil on the \n\nt seem to be tenable, for the bope that this will secar for some \n\nreport on the progress sẽ chlá i \n\nwill drup \n\nBurns:iudings of the Commiration canuettes how ver, for pessimistio views \n\nUnion during the past half year. \n\nhe said Agency, and will be \n\nJone of them saying to-day, \"Every \n\nof esucer ions to the Chinese side of thing is right up is the st.\" \n\nthe \n\nasket \n\nMr. Wis Chung Tong said that \n\ndisending the question Specia! Porrults, there are two lar] (2) Reading a report from the viraduced to work at the taaleries porte: & niste which require dia. cedially the oil spot w salt. contain anything like the number \n\nare the rais sung the Diplomate, Provincial Prasanta Bulou giving of the Qovernment, Organized curiou pervious to other points;- \n\nbio of gel permits, hai 1.vfile care silaged in Chines circles. The Judicial Inquiry particulare of the Sbike and Pelili | Bodies or private onneeros. \n\nnal conditions, \n\nSOLUTIONS: \n\n(1) A 1 I'm perleliete Sad Erbed sny tinta to \n\noverthrew our revisionary \n\nmeet, we take it that this preval. ni \n\nwamacre is no opportunity for \n\nnational revelation to come lo touch with the Imperialists, \n\nReports are to be made by a \n\n(1) I The Hous of Special Permits \n\nFly \n\nwiched to know what slegs are to be \n\nthe factorior together with the \n\nHere shali-hed? of names of Camic workers, and & \n\nStill the authorities are \n\ny \n\nI have tried to obtain official \n\ntaker in case of an IGLESINE colnetant, even to discus3 be repropilen on the Shanghai suggestion \n\n(3) be in revani juchfying And detention of gcle after the they say that it is tharugbly of judicial inquiry me a prelunicary moso to Diplomatic nogatíations. at tinn of Sucis! Permits, and understand abrand bath \n\nthe question skoold content and in spirit. One fois! be British Legation refuse to cros heronghi sussidered and prep tuld me to-day that the Commission rant on this or any other anggen ensures adopted in safeguard the cted an the eyes and curs of the tine and other Legation are not nthusiastic, the g-coral opinion Diplomatic Corps and that their findings were intended merely being that the bat way out of the \n\nMr. Chow Tie bong said that \n\nbeats for the Tegations in their present imposan is to concentrate on wh the Chinese the task of commiting the Chinata \n\n\"It's setrue tovernment to a conferences \n\nfuture. \n\native-vuot \n\nto be cent mostly to the shove the fame of puniat Purists, but mentioned raployment Agency. | there permite abon'd be perfine₫ 1 giving paritenters of the retire-goode which necessarily seqnies \n\nIt should be sorate and appointments of workers.aponia! permission. The workers who are now set of pheduled as to what sort of good#] () As the Torpaciaklata do do! | employtcut will shen he introduced are specially emitted and what] like na to have any protest in Recording to their order of registra-sort of goods can be transported thought glat per missing is zorgulations \n\nfreely. There are send goods. thesarily quired for \n\ngads and native tate, ned that \"ggest that the report evatuise \n\ned to ma sa. Who will you appiat parahase of which in weessary le \n\nwholesale condemnation,\" he said. \n\nWhen asked the nature of the judgest Who in to suggest a meet demands, but which are for special permission should only he list of goods to he boycotsed \n\nobtained when its cecessarily peers autarquently extended judicisi inquiry? Whose respost- the Commission, this official replied bility is F It was felt that the regaired for the gonde. \n\nwwa entirety outside the Mr. Lee The Ting said that he \n\nthat they wers iustimated to tey to \n\nmatter \n\nGnd basia of onderstanding with nommatenae of the Diplomatin Corps quite agreed with the option the Chinese delegates. This agro Chinese \"Obstacles\" Mr. Le Long Yo \n\nthat the qualienment, bait it been sirived at, wond \n\n(2) The atrikers are not striving for their own privilegra but striving \n\nfor national freedom \n\nChild 15 Cents, \n\nHOTEL \"ASIA.\" \n\nWEST BUND, CANTON. \n\n亞洲大酒店 \n\n廣州市西 \n\nDOW \n\n49 \n\nBeveral questions were propound- \n\nBuoi pinion is that, as long \n\nthe Shanghai Comantasion' \n\net e they axercise their finsreini \n\ntun, to work at these fmolorice influence to purabase tools such as \n\nwhich will be only allowed to tak Chang Teo-lin, He Yao-nan, ou the workere from the Emply Chen Chiong-ming, Tavg Punjab ment Agency first before they are and other anti-revolutionarists to allowed to employ outridle workers. \n\nMr. Chiu Riang Yo said that опросе аль \n\nBerides the above Agency, Lonsidera at the isang of each Workers Reception House will alan Special \"ermits and he put into be retablished to norept the workers forer, for it is within the power of \n\nunemployed. Their \n\ndaily the authorities to dreide whether of adapting proper meastires to if have been used by the Diplomatie) \n\ngoard the future stoukk he Carpa to gain a complete ander (4) Strike is the only wesJOG \n\nexpenses will ho fixed ecording to Special permission is to be given o \n\nby naslona to try to persuade the that we have to fight against the \n\ntheir profusion while \n\nthe But, bat en har part we should considered, but that a list of the standing with the Chinese Cover report serasina a pstery, it would echinit the case to Daperiliis, therefore if our strike responelbility of using the fandsgather to publie epioion sequods abcold be made unt first 1nment. He wisked to emphasize that: \n\nthe much discussed document could blese to complication anj that: is successful the Government is also so reset those ux penina will be whotter suob Squaint Permita should \n\nnot be made public for the reasor judicial inquiry, they being fully ancetesful but if is fails the Gov shouldered by both the Government be enforced or nut- \n\nHodded at preclamation should be issued for that it containert confidential vinced that the report contatos an indiętoget of Shanghai. In information which was intended for theen streamatseen the ChiansO thero 6:0 gonta wbich requiro \n\nMr. Chiu Kiang Ya said that re the sole use of the Diplomata in Jonger exist. \n\nA Worker Training Rehoal will special permistion and these are (a) Wo pensaate living i \n\nhe instituted within the aboy goods belarging to the nations with tentatives should be nominated their negotiations with the Chines glowy villeges provive ile dame Reption Hopen lo benel the whieh perange of Huseietconnee Jay this Chimeran Deperiment in Govornicent. \n\nthe vare Delicate Position \n\nMerever it has always bron dea cacemic and political oppressional workers \n\ntid comparatively stan has been difend, and it is \n\n[vidared in Peking that the Chinese from the Io perinata as the people valushie Parsing in the the art nucess to spunify in detail ni \n\nLater meeting of the maider themselves the judger on of all claeren presise. Therefore agro-ding to their usual profession. these grode. \n\nDiplomatie Corps 1983 held the Shanghai affair. They always morning. No statement refer to the British as the culprits efter was Kiven out, A British and will not approach the problem report Legation officiel saying that the to the alightest spirit of vara pre- \n\nposition we so delicate that nothing mias \n\ntriñera. \n\nwe must also do cur bit to help tho The neurre in this soholi will b \n\nfor grjually inorvused in faturs \n\nELECTION. Mr. Wong Hung Ploihe aake of promoting the estu \n\nwas cleabed as the Priest, and \n\nof trokers, \n\nvold \n\nLeonjunction with \n\n：： Khambers of Commerça \n\nPestigate and to decide what sui \n\nwill Jequire Spei \n\nin \n\nE \n\nthut \n\nMr Chow Chin Sheen Fald that of goods In considers the enfora meal of the Permissing, \n\n» Special Permite quite thorough investigation a Impossible breaust of the \n\nMr. Puo Kam Hong said that event of Specis! Perrite sheold \n\nVice President. Mesers Yi Ram Cheaper Fire-wood For difficulty and tesuits in derling \n\nMr. Ta Yang was elected as the \n\nHot, So Ku and Chong Xu more \n\n堤 \n\ncheted sa members of the milte and Massrs Lon Sek And Wong Yon, Tow Pa elected as judge \n\nL'o- Mus wore \n\nDESTRUCTION OF PEASANTS UNION AT HAI LU FONG. \n\nLEADING HOTEL IN SOUTH CHINA \n\nFirst Class Accommodation, Hot and Cold Water Service Throughout, Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators. Perfect Sanitary Arrangements. Spien- did Dining Room, Meals a la Carte, Excel'ent Cuisine. Public Bar. First Class Billiard Room. \n\nRoof Gardue \n\nBanquets, \n\nSplendid Views of Canton City and Pearl River Hairdressing Saloon. Moderate Rates. \n\nUNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF \n\nTHE SUN CO, LTJ, CANTON. \n\nHIGH-GRADE \n\nJob Printing \n\nEXECUTED WITH \n\nPROMPTITUDE \n\nAND \n\nACCURACY \n\nAT LOW COST \n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE \n\nPRINTERS & PUBLISHERS \n\nCanton. \n\nwith such permits and on secourt: \n\nof the time for shipping the goods being a shot. \n\nskuld be made. \n\nFald \n\nuld say: \"Now that the first port is unfavourabls, you want 'armiker liquiry.\" \n\nKuomintang Leadership. \n\ncould be issued in the Press. Thie attigial \n\nthat your \n\nThe underlying fant of the pre- permitted reappondent might b ho temporarily auspended and that \n\nthat the Carpa End madent situation is that the Shang- the Cinmei Dë Depurament bebeen idle in three lost for weeke, affair been completely in istenes on Scoing that firemund is a daily \n\nMr. Le Tie Ping euid that, in requ zied to form in juration but that the usture of the diecur near sha inged by \n\n{with Commercial circles, theBious must remain sceret peril aceh recovery of perige rights. The cessity for the people, the Gay \n\nbie opiblor, the eve of Special \n\ntime on it was opportune to make slagan. \"Abolish Unequal Treating\" lab ur glass Me, an \"Association of ennen? gave special orders to the \n\nby the l'ems for the \n\nany aument to the waiting warld.sted to ba mnapilize} parpore of deltae simics at tho Esat, West \n\nFrons efter gaatters Fundor Rusintang, bat sowadays oven Meericua in miting the importation of foreign investigation for the parate of \n\nluvestigating into the question. jstand thas the Waichinupa has at the most gamervative Chinese, wha and Forth Rivera veling that they should preveu gods that the products of our \n\nyot acerpted tire Legational thru months ago would have con The Chairman, having laid the exhortion of the easiled prut clius | country \n\nongiortation \n\nflow battled befa any ditens wild mees are reacting themselves the side of the rights rayhty sins take pluca ch other matters, made This is the argument Low bez movement.--Peking Correspondent \n\ncarried on by theu Juiling, the of the N. C. Dally News \n\nfor \n\nA telegram from the Peasants fees on all junts carrying fir foreign eruntries are not fer, and hove proprenis before the membe- iw point beat the Shanghai case-moedach rail as th Faik \n\nUnica of Hai Fung, \n\nrends: \"A \n\nveer 500 \n\nhan:1 Roldiers \n\nthat be thinks that free transporta- \n\nfor the \n\nFangwood Ea Cartan, sed should give \n\nwas Amendment tebel them every proficios Instead. \n\nThese orders hayo bee heya ton of goods from one place to ing commented by Lo Yet \n\nYoung by the various defrate armice, and another in an ew couster should passed by the musetingi- Tange Chok Moy, Yoce Viu Chong in the past few days the varius a permitted, but the distinction Pass Resolution \n\nChore, are fireword junka at 660 different was kind of grods should be stated. Seng Bad Chung being assisted by Cheng Bon Nemecticus have been able to arrive at \n\nIn added thek tice su and other uti-resolutiousrists and Canton in perfect safety without! \n\nthe nemaity of paying the prate Capitalists and nailed to one group. They are being careled by the re- \n\nb- General Trb. Their le sia \n\nle to rain the pensant of Flai anri \n\ntion fera en-erate? \n\nKeon the extention of Pea mach \n\nprein Permits may perhaps \n\npexible with regard to trade with \n\n“That be spesixi permits will be \n\nquired the goods which are Dok; the gods of the romy vations. The The va i us Chemibres \n\n& reign compris, but it is absolute for Commerce for \n\nng there junk by the lunal hundits | ly impossible d'or interne! trade, \n\nLu Fang. The Prasanta Uniors bse not \n\nof Hai Lu Fang and Chin Tongeving \n\nنا \n\nbeen a heavy \n\nbefor \n\ntho protection of the \n\nwere destroyed by the rehols, and armies: hesos the great deep in the the Preddent of the Executive price of fireword on the inseket. \n\nJu edditio: 47 the Committed Mr. Sit Aam Yito wai \n\nkidnapped. \n\nAs the \n\nthey \n\nbruke inty \n\nMr. \n\nChoy Tel \n\nCommittee of that division and \n\n+x-Presilent of the Executive Traine, amely:- \n\nCheck on \"Enemy\" Goods. \n\nAmmittor \n\nHow British Oppress the \n\nChinese Seamen in \n\nHongkong. \n\ncurtain \n\nChinese TOS\", \n\nif \n\nstrikera in \n\nCanton wre facing starvation and that they อวน!! strike Bod return to Canton they would meet the same fate. \n\nThe seamos replied that they \n\nconjointly with the Authorities, to avsetigate to what ark of godle named Chan bau, who had been wall strika even though they \n\narrasted and detained by Hongkong Government for seizetize) \n\nMr. Pan Kam Blong said that | og enemy auflon gunde.\" \n\nWork \n\nthered to ₫ nth. \n\nthe particular reason of iasing The suggestion of Mr. sheve such profel Permits to do Kok Sbing to winate the Proud was recently expelled from \n\nbaye veranen of financial commction; \n\nChinese \n\nseamen \n\nAgain Ho Baiskwong threstened \n\n•hem by saying that if they do ant \n\nbe \n\nĮsomply with his order, they would \n\nhe \n\nsubject to arresŠ. The seamen \n\na that they would prefer to be \n\nlime large shipments of fireworks! the house of also arrived from the North River with certain foreige patiune. ad Bid-st of the four Chamb-tot Hongkong is connection with \n\nverzner only applies Commerce as representatives to see strike, has come up in Cantos and the Beation by the Ynot-Han Railway that the Low, \n\nto genie \n\nof the Britial and the cho Commissioner of Commerce related how the British Imperialists imprisoned than to continue thir \n\nwith fe added that and \n\nin employ. consult \n\ntim oppresg Japanese patious. \n\nHearing this, its halfcaste the Commerce Department should ainut the procedure, was passed Hongkong. \n\nby \n\nand Messrs the meeting, be reqeated to prepare a list of \n\nWhoo the bitsking\" re-ompradora, He Sawong, beame ordered #greatly enraged and gnode of these nations with signs Chow Tin Hong of the Cneral turned to Hangkang from Tinstein the Bettiah palice to \n\norented great disturbanes and \n\nthe first! tulsbery. loners of division received the same treat ment. This band of rebels compos ed of over 2000 had arrived at Lui Wo Cheng cu the 6th inetant, \n\ndare not disarm that Turing Those few days the Generals of Chen Oblog-ming were trying to Sorada \n\nHN and and rent their \n\nMonday Ear cara \n\nTuesday six cars \n\nWednesday four cars \n\nThursday night on \n\n(including night train) \n\nFriday eleven CATA \n\n(including night traio) \n\nSaturday four ears \n\nto \n\nfor identification and mark out Chamber of Commeros, Liang-toug \n\nSunday four cars \n\nEach of the above cara contained \n\nabout ten thousad catties of fire-goods \n\nof Commerce \n\nAriest and \n\nThe seamen were sentenced to \n\nthe which are far que daily to the City Chamber, Ya Hu-om the 7th alt, the British, realis ake them to the Harbour Master quirements and of which purchase of the Union of Merebant, anding that the Chinees we mew on for trial. is necessary, and then for the trova Trung Shau-dek of the Cooperative board the said vessel u uld join the \n\nware wriks, ordered the reveal to be two weeks' imprisonment if they portation of snch goods Special Chamber \n\nbat taninateri « representatives to monerd at Leesamman. for frure still insisted to strike. The seamen Permite will be innuit, \n\nThen they were permasted refused and so wera imprisoned. not belonging to ourg with Mr. Liang Tan-hing,shere. \n\nWhen the term of imprisonment prices of which have enemy natius should not require representatives of the Commerce sot to join the strike by one of the \n\nDepartment, \n\nGate | Louis of British Imperialism. Com-woe sarved, they were expelled from overtbrow the therefore greatly dropped day by such permite. \n\npradoro Ito Sui-kwang who threakon Hongkong and come up to Cantou Mr. Ire Long Yu said that he missioner Soneg. Our day, as there is already so over. Government, \n\nstriker, adding that is weekend. The meeting ended at 5.30 p.m. the has miroudly studied the question of \n\nspies to Hai Lu Fong to raise up wood, the \n\nap \n\nNationalist \n\nto \n\nGovernment must take note of this, stock \n\nand \n\n200",
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        "content_text": "ENCLOSURE No. 2.\n\nvei ilin vainquetas sidd zot kan julle.\n\nDom:Valans qısðl·lim [autos sit vals Judenoiding bas\n\n.aqoord Jaivoë msiauíl to tueurkosteb\n\nbairtạo li,doids „Josonerga aidt mit ning a'sieauf\n\nin to moitanyaal edt eď Liku,red tot yitsoo yïav eď film big ni aluvouriavog se‡‡ km:00 Jadrumsmoć. 20 madawa yażzboltatni Julqouq orsakıð sáð yaom fwv abusgaqorq da brad sent a beta\n\n(Extract from the Wa Tsz Yat Po, Hongkong, 18th August, 1926)\n\nFears from foreigners re alliance made by Fung Yuk Taeng and Tseung Kai Shek with Russia.\n\n(Telegram from Shanghai dated 17th.) Information has been received from a foreign source that Russia has made a secret treaty with Fung Yuk Taeng, Tseung Kai-shek, Luk Chung Lun and Fan Chung Bau. Fung will be the Executive of the Communist National Government in charge of North Manchuria, Fang Tien, Kirin, Hak Lung Kiang and Jehol. Russia will send an expedition to help Fung to expel Cheung Tao Lam. Tseung will be Executive of the National Government in charge of the 8 Districts in Hu-nan, Kwong Tung, Kiang-su and Chi-kiang; Fan in charge of the 6 Districts in Ho-nan, Shen-si and An-hui; and Luk in charge of the 8 Districts in Chili, Shantung, Chet Ha Yi, Sui Yuen, Kan-su and Sin-kiang. Russia will help them with arms to expel Tu Pei-fu. The treaty has been signed by Fung in Russia as Chief Representative. Tsui Hin has been sent to take the letters of appointment back to Canton. Fung is making preparation to go back to Ping Ti Tsun to make all the arrangements,",
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        "content_text": "TOP SECRET\n\nU.20964\n\n10 NOV\n\nCopies to:\n\nCanton No. 238,\n\nPeking No. 44\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG. 4th October, 1926.\n\n354\n\nGov 20545/26\n\nEnclo. No. 1.\n\nEnclo. No. 2\n\nEnclo No. 3.\n\nRIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nIn continuation of my secret despatch of the 30th September, on the subject of the civil war in South China, I have the honour to enclose translations, taken from the Taun Wan Yat Po of the 29th September, (a) of a letter written by General Chiang Kai-shek on the 26th to Mr. Ch'iu Wai-sang (†), president of the Che-kiang Public Association, and (b) of a letter dated the 17th September written by Marshal Chang Tso-lin to Marshal Sun Ch'uan-fang.\n\n2.\n\nThe position of the present Canton Government in Kuang-tung itself appears to grow increasingly precarious. I enclose a cutting from today's issue of the South China Morning Post which states that, according to a reliable report received from Canton yesterday, Wai-chow on the East River has been captured by the forces of General Ch'an Chi-eng-meng, which are advancing towards Shek-lung on the Kowloon-Canton railway, and further that Shok-ki, a township of the Hengshan district, just north of Macao, has been captured by a band of 3,000 bandits under Ngai Pong-peng. If these reports are true, hostile troops are operating in districts not far to the east and to the South of Canton city.\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\n3.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 1.\n\nTranslation.\n\n357\n\n(Extract from Tsun Wan Yat Po, Hongkong 29th Sept. 1926).\n\nLetter from Tseung Kai Shek to Chu Wai Sang.\n\nSome time ago, Chu Wai Sang, President of the Che-kiang Public Association, sent a wire to Generalissimo Tseung with a view to peace-negotiation, and a telegram in reply was duly received from the latter. Yesterday Tseung again wrote a letter personally and sent it to him through Cheung Ngok Kwan, declaring his intention not to occupy Kiangsi. The letter reads as follows:-\n\nTo\n\nMr. Chu Wai Sang,\n\nI trust you have read my telegram of yesterday. Now I must ask that first of all Sun Chuan-fang must withdraw his re-inforcements in Kiangsi. If he really has a sincere desire for peace, I can have the whole Kiangsi returned to his control, even if it were taken by my troops. My troops only want him not to invade Kwong Tung, Hu-nan and Hu-peh. As to the negotiations that have already been made, Ho Shu Chuk and Cheung Ngok Kwan know all the particulars, and you can ask them. I will keep my promise towards Sun, and can have Kiangsi returned to him, even if it were taken. I have no desire to prolong this calamitous war, or to invade Kiangsu, Che-kiang, An-hui and Fukien. (A part omitted) I still regard the present position as one of local conflict, which cannot be considered as a real state of war. Anyhow if the re-inforcements in Kiangsi are withdrawn, I can surely have Kiangsi returned to him. But it rests with him to give definite expression of his views.\n\nTseung Kai Shek.\n\n2",
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        "content_text": "# Outline of Cantonese history from September, 1911, to date.\n\nIn the sanguinary sea of chaos and anarchy which constitutes the history of China since the downfall of the Manchu dynasty, no province has suffered more severely than Kuang-tung. An omen of future troubles was seen at Canton, when on the 19th September, 1911, Kuang-tung declared itself independent and His Excellency Cheung Meng-k'o, Viceroy of the Liang Kuang provinces, fled hastily to Hong Kong. Four robber-chieftains, Wong Wo-shun, Luk Lan-ts'eng, Shek Kam-ts'un and Li Fuk-lam, at once seized Canton and held its 72 guilds to ransom. Every vestige of law and order disappeared in the province, and every town and hamlet armed itself for private defence against pirates and brigands.\n\nAfter a short reign of terror the robber-chiefs withdrew and Tseung Tsin-kwai, a native of Che-kiang, was \"elected\" provisionally to be Tu-tuk, the new title for Governor, of Kuang-tung. In this office he was succeeded a few days later by Lu Hon-man, a native of Kuang-tung, who as a student in Japan had met Dr. Sun Yat-sen, of whom he became a warm admirer. He had in his earlier career been editor of a vernacular newspaper at Hong Kong, but he had never before filled any official post. The lieutenant-Governor under him was Ch'an Chiens-meng, also a native of Kuang-tung. Both these men now stepped into the lime-light for the first time and they were destined to have a considerable influence on the course of events at Canton during the following years. On this occasion, however, Lu Hon-man had but a brief spell of office at Canton: for in November, 1911, Dr. Sun Yat-sen...\n\nPage 393",
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        "content_text": "must be paid into this land, opium sales and smoking dens Office, and purchase stamps for exportation. Punishment for all infringements, etc.\n\nEstimated opium fields in this district:\n\n  \n    Chin Kuei Li\n    6,591 mou\n  \n  \n    Hsiang Tien Li\n    6,392 mou\n  \n  \n    Lien Kiang Li\n    1,905 mou\n  \n  \n    Shan Hua Li\n    1,588 mou\n  \n  \n    Hsiao Li\n    1,588 mou\n  \n  \n    Yung Hsing Li\n    1,350 mou\n  \n  \n    An Hsien Li\n    1,191 mou\n  \n  \n    Jen Teh Li\n    1,191 mou\n  \n  \n    Shan Li\n    635 mou\n  \n  \n    Hsing Tai Li\n    23,762 mou\n  \n  \n    ...\n    1,187 mou\n  \n  \n    ...\n    143 mou\n  \n\n(6 Chinese mou = one English acre.)\n\nNurth West Fukien.\n\n\"Bandits and soldiers prevent us moving about as we would wish, but I think it is true to say that in Kuang Tseh, Tai Ning, Kien Ning, Shuin Chang, Eo Ning and Shao Wu districts no poppy is being cultivated.\n\n\"Opium use is on the increase, a considerable quantity is smuggled in all through these districts, mostly from the Kiangsi province and by the Min River traffic.\n\nHing Hwa Poppy is now being grown everywhere both in Hinghwa and Sienyo counties. In two districts of the latter county the common saying is \"the people must now eat opium instead of grain\" as from 70 - 90% of the fields are planted with the poppy. I have seen square miles of white flowers and the atmosphere is heavy with the scent. In these regions poppy supplants wheat. Smoking is on the increase.\n\nFoochie, Nantui. An \"Opium Industry Company\" was formed in the provincial Capital in Feb. 1926 with branches throughout the province. Its object is to buy up opium and sell to all and any. The syndicate commenced with the modest capital of $200,000 in $500 shares. Any shareholder with more than five shares may be elected as a director. Directors to be paid as well as receiving dividends. This syndicate is a great blow to small opium dealers for the former is cornering the supply and at the same time adding $2 an ounce to the selling price. It is estimated that about $100,000 is thus raised monthly. All must buy and sell through the syndicate; smugglers when caught will be tried and punished as criminals.\n\nChang Pu. Judging from my own observation I should say that there is more opium planted this year, than either last year or the year before.\n\n'The official sum to be collected this year in this vien is $620,000, the same as last year, but including the squeeze of the tax gatherers. It is estimated that about $1,000,000 will be taken from the people. Coercive measures are used to collect the taxes. The number of people who have abandoned their homes and fled from the district at the approach of the tax collectors, indicates their inability to pay. Amount of tax varies with different villages and individuals, it may be $3 or $4 a family or as much as $80 per working man. The influential and wealthy pay less, the poor and defenceless pay more.\n\nFu Wung. Between 50% and 80% of the cultivated ground is bearing poppy. The drought has spoiled the crop, so this year though more has been planted, less opium will be obtained.\n\nHONAN\n\n1925 shows only slight variations from preceding year. Owing to war and banditry probably less opium has been grown, though the increase in its use indicates increased traffic from neighbouring provinces. The morphia pill habit shows no sign of decrease. The year has not produced any restrictive legislation, land taxes have increased and the farmers would eagerly plant more poppy, were it not for bandits who persistently raid all opium areas.\n\nHonan has been subject to wars of various kinds all through the year. Officials constantly changing, hence the desire to make all they can while in office. Under the stringency of funds to meet military expenses the Opium Suppression Bureau came into existence again this year under Chief Director Yang. Branches were established throughout the province. In the streets of Kaifeng, the Capital, were posted numerous placards announcing, \"South of the Ta Yu Tai is the opium shop with pure Shensi opium; any one who comes will get it\".\n\nEvery hotel, inn and brothel is sanctioned to provide opium on payment of a licence, the cost of which varies according to 1st, 2nd or 3rd class.\n\nRecently the Bureau issued instructions that all opium fines and taxes should be transferred to the capital once a month.\n\nAny dealer may obtain the monopoly rights for his locality on payment of from $1,000 to $5,000 for a period of three months.\n\nNarcotic drugs are rampant in the 7 districts like Changteh north of the Yellow River,\n\nSouth Honan.\n\nNanyang. Opium is enormous in Nanyang, it is imported from Szechuan. Formerly Szechuan opium was smuggled into Honan, now it is imported in bulk usually in quantities of 200-300 piculs, each weighing 1,000 ounces.\n\nImported opium is taxed 20 cents an ounce.\n\nThe Defence Commissioner has monopolised opium in eight counties and receives a revenue of $500,000.\n\nKishan, No poppy grown in this hien. The question of opium cultivation was put to the officials of South Honan last winter, some acquiesced and provided seed. Others refused,\n\nTangho, Wu Yang, Fang Chang, Uyang Hsien, Sheki Chen. As far as we can ascertain, no poppy is grown in these districts. Opium smoked freely and lamps going all day in practically every barracks.\n\nOpium taxation offices in all cities; the men in charge are appointed by the military. The local Governor (now out of office) tried to impose a tax of $8 per mou on opium land. Proclamations were issued prohibiting the sowing of poppy, but seed came along in abundance, and everyone was told that they must sow 4% of their land,\n\n500",
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        "content_text": "# Ngok Fi, A FAMOUS CHINESE Hero\n\nNgok Fi was born in Shau Chow in the province of Honan during the reign of Hwei Tsung in the Sung dynasty. Three days after his birth, his father and his house and property were flooded and destroyed by a sudden deluge that happened to his village; Ngok Fi and his mother escaped by sitting inside a great cistern. When the cistern floated to a village, called \"Unicorn Village,\" they were rescued by a rich man whose name was Wong Ming. Then Ngok Fi was brought up by his mother in Wong Ming's house. He was filial and very fond of learning. He treated those who were brave and truthful as if they were his own brothers. His teacher Chau Tung was a great, learned man, and was full of military ability. He taught Ngok Fi all that he knew, both civil and military matters.\n\nWhen Ngok Fi became a soldier, he vanquished all the robbers of the empire, and gained many wonderful victories by defeating the Kin or eastern Tartars who lived in the North of China. In honour of his success the Emperor Kao Tsung wrote \"Loyalty, Fidelity, Ngok Fi\" on a banner and gave it to him. He led an army of God-fearing men to fight against the eastern Tartars, and drove them back to the North of Honan. The bravery of his armies made the Kin so frightened that they said to each other, \"It is easier to pull down a mountain than to overcome the armies of Ngok.\"\n\nAs Ngok Fi wanted to defeat them utterly, he led his soldiers to Chu-sin-chan. One day, he received twelve golden tablets from the Emperor, who summoned him to return with his army. If he did not obey the Emperor's command, he would be punished, since it was a great crime for a person not to listen to the orders of an Emperor. If he returned with his army, the Kin would come into the country to plunder towns and seize land. This thought caused him great anxiety, but at last he decided to leave his armies in Chu-sin-chan to prevent the Kin from coming into the country and went to see the Emperor by himself.\n\nTsun Kwui, a cruel and cunning minister, wanted to make peace with the Kin, and because the Kin had bestowed on him a large annuity, he had promised to return them lands north of the River Wan; he was also jealous of Ngok Fi. It was he who spoke evil of Ngok Fi before the Emperor and caused him to call the great general back.\n\nThe twelve golden tablets that Ngok Fi received were thus not sent by the Emperor's purpose, but through the ingenious, crafty scheming of Tsun Kwui. When Ngok Fi had gone half-way from Chu-sin-chan, he met several officers sent to capture him by Tsun Kwui's order, but they were ordered to tell Ngok Fi that they came to capture him by the Emperor's command, thus the great general made no refusal. He was brought back to the Capital of Bin and was accused of treason. He and his sons were put into prison for two months, and they were killed there by Tsun Kwui's order. Ngok Fi died at the age of thirty-nine, his faithfulness, filial devotion, bravery, and benevolence were respected by people for thousands of years. Still to this day many people go to visit his grave which is situated near the West Lake in Heang-chow, a great city in the province of Che-kiang.\n\nTANG YUK HING, \nClass 1.\n\n## \n\nThey all came in splendour, and each bowed low to her hostess. The Rose, their hostess, asked them to go in the garden for tea, because, she said, it is much fresher than in the room.\n\nWhen she saw the Lily, she exclaimed, \"How pure and fresh you are, and oh! how gracefully you carry yourself!\" The Lily smiled and said, \"Queen, I am not comparable to your exquisite complexion, and what kind of scent is it that you use? It is so sweet.\" The Rose blushed, and showed two bright red spots, and she looked lovelier still, and said, \"I use a kind of perfume made especially for me by my perfume-maker. He named it 'Rose,' because I always sprinkle it all over myself.\"\n\n\"The sweet-maker, the other day,\" said the Violet, \"asked me to name some of his sweets. I thought for a long time, and I suddenly remembered that the sweets were light purple, and so I asked him to have them named 'Violet.'\"\n\nThe Pansy, who had been silent from the beginning to end, gave a faint sigh, and said, \"How I envy all of you! It seems that when I walk beside you all, I look so short and undignified, and all your beauty outshines me, so that I feel humble beside you all.\" The Queen soon comforted her, and said, \"My dear Pansy, why do you say such words? Why, all the people round us wear you in their buttonholes.\" The Pansy brightened up instantly, and soon they all bade the Queen \"Au Revoir\" with very low bows.\n\nLAM YAN YUK, \nClass 2.",
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        "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE NO. 3\n\nExtract from the South China Morning Post, 7/4/27.\n\n104\n\n## SHANGHAI COMMUNISTS\n\n### Empty Denial of Soviet Principles\n\n### HEALING EFFORT\n\nShanghai, April 6. A manifesto jointly issued by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has just been issued in Shanghai. Mr. Wang Ching-wei signed it on behalf of the Kuomintang and Chen Tu-shiu, the foremost Chinese Communist chief, signed on the Communists' behalf.\n\nThe statement declares that the Communist Party will certainly not disregard the Three People Principles of Dr. Sun Yat-sen or overthrow the Kuomintang or its leaders. The Communists deny that they will establish autocratic rule by the proletariat but will establish a Republican Government by the oppressed people.\n\nThe Communists also deny that they will organise a Soviet Government in China or take over all the Foreign Concessions by force. They assure their support of the Northern expedition, and ask that the members of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party should sincerely co-operate to accomplish the national revolutionary movement.\n\nThe Kuomintang members here held a conference in Shanghai yesterday to discuss how to give Mr. Wang Ching-wei a rousing welcome upon his return to power. An important conference was held in the Army Headquarters on Monday evening when Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, Mr. Chang Ching-kiang, Mr. Wu Chi-fai, and Mr. Tsai Yuan-pei were present. The first and second resolutions of the conference were not announced, but the third one ordered the Kuomintang and other public organisations to adjust their policies.\n\nMarshal Chiang Kai-shek had a conference with the officers of the 1st and 2nd Divisions, now stationed in Shanghai, yesterday afternoon, at which the Marshal made a report on the real condition of the Kuomintang. He asked the generals not to pay attention to rumours now current.\n\nMarshal Chiang Kai-shek has appointed officers to censor the newspapers in Shanghai, not permitting the publication of laws concerning Kuomintang internal trouble.—Nam Chung Pam.",
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        "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE NO.2\n\n## No. 146\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nI returned to Hong Kong ten days ago. I spent about two weeks in Shanghai, and three weeks in Nanchang and Hankow. In the latter two ports, I saw the prominent members of what I may call \"the Nanchang clique\" and \"the Hankow clique,\" including Borodin. Borodin is of the Hankow clique. I met him, but did not discuss political matters with him.\n\nChiang Kai-shek, Chang Ching-kiang, Huang Fo, and Chang Kwen are the most important members of the Nanchang clique, while Hsu Chien, Sun Fo, Tang Yin-tat, T.V. Soong, and Eugene Chen are predominating in the Hankow camp.\n\nThe Hankow clique hold the view that China cannot be unified and ruled for long by a dictator, but by a party, and that party is the Kuomintang Party. They maintain that no individual, however distinguished and valuable to the Kuomintang Party, should have supreme power in the Government. They hold to this view very tenaciously.\n\nOn the other hand, the leaders of the Nanchang clique consider that China to-day needs a strong man to unite and to govern it; and they think that Chiang Kai-shek is the man. The Hankow clique, under the guidance of Borodin, strongly combat this view, and believe that they hold the whip-hand, and that in the end they will triumph over Chiang Kai-shek, because they have the support of Labour, whose organization is now so strong.",
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        "content_text": "# The CANTON GAZETTE \n## 廣州日報 \nRegistered at the Post Office as a Newspaper \n\n**Vol. V No. 955 CANTON, CHINA, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1927** \n民國十六年五月二十三日星期一\n\n## NANKING, A TURNING POINT IN FAR EASTERN AND WORLD AFFAIRS!! \nNANKING EVENTS MARK THE PASSING OF EUROPEAN INFLUENCE, PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH INFLUENCE IN CHINA. SAYS AMERICAN EDITOR. BRITISH ACTIONS SEVERLY CRITICIZED.\n\nBy J.B. POWELL\n\nMr. Powell, editor and publisher of the **CHINA WEEKLY REVIEW**, has been extremely sympathetic with the Nationalist Movement. The influence predominant in Asia today, it naturally can be only a matter of time until America and Russia will come to an understanding.\n\n## The Editor.\n\n### General Feng Yu-hsiang's Troops Arrive In Honan\nTungkwan is Temporary Headquarters of 20,000 Nationalist Troops\nNationalists About to Surround Pengfu\nChief Chiang Returns To Nanking\n\n**Single Copy: 10 Cents** \n**$2.00 A Month** \n**$24.00 A Year**\n\n## WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE SENDS GREETINGS TO CHINA'S FEMINIST ORGANIZATIONS\nFrom Shanghai \nCLAIMS TO STAND FOR FREEDOM AND PEACE; TO SUPPORT CHINA'S MOVEMENT TO RID THE COUNTRY OF MILITARISM AND IMPERIALISM; ADVOCATES ABROGATION OF UNILATERAL TREATIES AND BETTER CONDITIONS FOR THE WORKERS\n\nChiang Kai-shek, Commander-in-Chief of All the Nationalist Armies, has returned to Nanking from Shanghai at 7 a.m. on the morning of April 25th, 1927. He was welcomed by Messrs. Chang Ching Kiang, Li Shek-tsun, Yang Shu-chang, and Chen Ying-sze.\n\nHankow, May 19.—According to a Japanese source, General Feng Yu-hsiang's troops have arrived in Honan and number some 20,000. Their temporary headquarters are at Tungkwan.\n\nThe tension in Hankow is growing more serious. The anti-British feeling in China is severe. Further, it believes that, in view of the strength of the Nationalist Movement, this country should take some definite steps to show goodwill.\n\nThe Women's International League for Peace and Freedom sends Greetings to the Federation of Feminist Organisations in China.\n\n\"Recognising that China is passing through a national struggle in which the Canton Government, is the rallying force for a democratic Government, and when the regular application of strictly legal claims is impracticable, the Women's International League urges that the British Government should:\n| Action | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| A. | Not intervene on any side of the national conflict with cash, credit or munitions, nor sanction such intervention by any of its nationals; |\n| B. | Withdraw all ships of war from the Yangtze and other Chinese territorial waters, removing if necessary for their safety, any British nationals who may desire this; |\n| C. | Let it be known that it is willing to enter into treaties with the Chinese on a footing of equality, abandoning extra-territorial rights and control of Chinese taxation. |\n\nNanking, May 20.—The first of the Nationalist Army Corps, after taking Chuchow, are now advancing Northwards and are about to surround Pengpu.\n\nThe British Section taken from the **REVIEW** for May 14, 1927, shows his great interest in the solutions of the problems of construction now pressing for solution in this quarter of the world.\n\nThe dispatch says: \"We have been informed by your Secretariat Department, that you have decided to put the Telephone Bureau under the control of the Municipal Government. We cordially invite your co-operation with us in the endeavour to spread the truth, to resist the war spirit and to make men realise that the only way to protect women is for men to cease from fighting each other and firmly resolve to settle matters by reason and goodwill.\"\n\n(Signed) H.M. SWANWICK, on behalf of the Executive Committee.\n\n## The New Municipal Government\nSince Mr. Lum Wen-kai assumed the mayorship of this city, certain changes have been made in the Municipal Government: Yiao Sze-yee has been appointed Chief of the General Affairs Section, Chau Hok-tong, the Chief Secretary, and Ng Chek-ying, Accountant. Mr. Lau Wei-shik's resignation from his position as Commissioner of the Bureau of Finance has been accepted, but his successor has not been decided upon.\n\n## AN APOLOGY AND CORRECTION\nFor the past day or so, our editors in charge have inadvertently inserted the words \"Northern and Southern\" in these columns in connection with the Revolutionary War. Such words are entirely misleading, and the Management of the **Gazette** has to apologize to its readers for such a mistake. However, those who are responsible for them have been summarily dismissed from office. The Management wishes it be peremptorily and explicitly understood that the war in China is NOT between the North and the South, but between the progressive Nationalists and the reactionary militarists. Any one who is a loyal adherent of the Kuomintang and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen is a progressive Nationalist, irrespective of locality.\n\nThe Management.\n\n## To Prohibit Gambling, Is Kuomintang Order\nIt expresses the hope that Great Britain will pursue the policy of restoring to the Chinese complete control of their own finances, whatever may be done by any other power.\n\nA notification has been despatched by the Provincial Kuomintang to the Party authorities of various districts to enforce effectively measures for the prohibition of gambling.\n\nThe notification says: \"A prohibition order has been issued by the Ministry of Finance to forbid gambling. Should unscrupulous gentries of any district be found guilty of protecting the gamblers and encouraging gambling business, the district Kuomintang authorities are authorized to arrest the gamblers and ring leaders, destroy the gambling dens and punish the gentries in accordance with military law.\"\n\n## To Conduct Kiangyin Bombardment In Shanghai\nShanghai, May 20.—In view of the bombardment by a British cruiser at Kiangyin, on the southern bank of the Yangtsze in Kiangsu, causing damage to the Chinese population, the Foreign Minister of the Nationalist Government, Dr. C. C. Wu, has ordered the Foreign Commissioner of Kiangsu to take up the matter with the British Consul-General at Shanghai.\n\n## Commissioner Of Municipal Bureau To Resign\nCommissioner Lau Wei-shik of the Municipal Bureau of Finance has recently sent in his resignation to the Municipal Government on account of ill health. Mr. Lau is known to have done good work during his half year of service. He has been generally appraised for effecting the installation of the automatic telephones in this city and for making good efforts to organize the municipal bank which will be soon inaugurated.\n\n## (Continued on Page 2)\n\n## NANKING, A TURNING POINT IN FAR EASTERN AND WORLD AFFAIRS!! \n(Continued from Page 1)\nThe Underlying reasons for these great and historic developments naturally predate the Nanking incidents of March 24 last: they really back to the front defense lines which the World War which left victors and vanquished so weakened and so beset with deep-seated war animosities, that the so-called European accord in respect to dealings with the 'backward' nations of the Orient, could no longer be invoked.\n\nDuring the course of the Britain and World War, Great Britain, in combination with Japan, forced Germany out of China. After the war, Great Britain, with the assistance of France, Italy, and the United States, forced Russia out of Europe and into Asia.\n\nThe influence predominant in Asia today, it naturally can be only a matter of time until America and Russia will come to an understanding. The growing influence of America, Russia, Japan, and China, the nations, which due to geographical location, territorial extent, economic and human resources, are by right justly entitled to dominate the North Pacific area.\n\nThe Canton-Kowloon Railway to Resume Express Train Service\nThough through traffic has been resumed by the Canton-Kowloon Railway, the resumption of express train service has so far been delayed, owing to the lack of locomotives and Freight cars. It is learned from the Managing Office that the express train service will be able to start on or about the first of June.",
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        "content_text": "## Declaration Of The Sun Yat-sen Univ.\n\nAuditing And Regulation Committee For The C. M. S. N. Co.\n\nThe China Merchants Steam Navigation Company to be Maintained, Assisted and Protected. To Devise Plans and Means to put the Company on a sound and Efficient Basis. Committee-men to Receive no salary from the Company-to Show close Cooperation between Gov't, and People.\n\nTo Urge Mr. Tai Chi-tau To Return:\n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1927\n\n\"CHING TANG\"---PURGE THE PARTY--- MOVEMENT: SLOGANS FOR THE PEOPLE ARE ISSUED BY PROPAGANDA DEPT.\n\nThe rumour that Mr. Chau Lu will be appointed by the Central Executive Committee of the Kwangtung Provincial Special Kuomintang, as the president of Sun Yat-sen University, created a sensation in educational circles here. The students and the staff of the University declared that Communist Chau Lu is not qualified to take up the position and therefore he is not welcome.\n\nYesterday a telegram was sent out by the University students to Nanking to urge Mr. Tai to return to Canton promptly and resume his post as the head of the University. Then in addition to this, a representative, Mr. Sun Shib, secretary of the University, has been sent to confer with Mr. Tai at Nanking with regard to the matter.\n\nThe China Merchants Steam Navigation Company. Messrs. Chang Jen-chieh, Kuo Tai-chi and seven others have been appointed by the Nationalist Government to form a committee for the auditing and regulating of the said Company.\n\nThe committee was formally inaugurated yesterday and a meeting held for discussion. The following is a declaration issued by the committee to the various public organisations of Canton yesterday :-\n\nUnder joint instructions of the Central Political Council and the Nationalist Government, this Committee is formed in order to examine and regulate the affairs of the said Company. We, the members of the Committee shall respectfully observe the doctrines of our late Director, Dr Sun, in that a government of the people, by the people and for the people must be honest. We shall study the causes of the deficiency of the Company, devise plans for the extension of its enterprise, and work for interests of the shareholders as well for that of the community through co-operation of the Government with the people. The capital and property of the Company shall be strongly protected, its business duly maintained and the opinions of the shareholders and the general public fully respected.\n\nWe shall not receive any salary or any other remunerations. As to office expenses, same will be paid by the Government so as to show the spirit of the Government to serve the people. With regard to the actions of the Committee, we are desirous to be put under the supervision of the shareholders and the community. Should any of us be found and proved corrupt, intolerable by both people and national laws, we shall be willing to have him tried by the people and punished accordingly. It is our earnest hope, therefore, that the shareholders and the whole nation will rise and give us all the necessary support.\n\nThe China Merchants Steam Navigation Company of Shanghai alone is the largest navigation company in China. It was formed even prior to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Fifty years have now elapsed since its formation and the Company has made little or no progress, its routes are still confined to the Yangtse Kiang and the South Coasts, while the power of navigation of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha are at present prying between all ports of the world. Furthermore, the property of the Company has all been mortgaged. The capital of the shareholders is being gradually reduced. Should such conditions continue indefinitely, it is feared that the power of navigation would fall entirely into the hands of foreigners and the shares of the Company rendered mere scraps of paper. This would not only be a loss to the shareholders but also a great detriment to the welfare of the Chinese nation.\n\nThe Following Slogans, Prepared by the Propaganda Committee of the Kwangtung Provincial Special Kuomintang, are an Embodiment of the Aims and Spirit of the Nationalist Movement.\n\n1. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is treacherous to Dr. Sun Yat-sen.\n2. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which massacres the Kuomintang members.\n3. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which gives up the Special District of Hankow.\n4. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is destroying the People's Revolution.\n5. Down with the Chinese communists who are in disguise.\n6. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is utilizing the masses of people as tools.\n7. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is plotting the downfall and destruction of the Kuomintang.\n8. To be against the Three People's Principles is to be Counter-Revolutionary.\n9. To be against the Kuomintang is to be Counter-Revolutionary.\n10. All power and authority belong to the Kuomintang.\n11. All true and loyal comrades of the Kuomintang must unite and rise.\n12. Down with all Counter-revolutionaries.\n13. Down with united official covetous attendants, Yangtse Kiang and the Noh...\n14. Concentrate the powers of the Kuomintang.\n15. Down with the Fenglien ie., federalism or nationalism, the remnants of Chen Chiung-ming's followers and any other similar clique of Militarists.\n16. Down with Imperialism.\n17. Eradicate all corrupt officials, greedy gentries, and unscrupulous merchants.\n18. Be on guard against those who lean toward the Right Wing.\n19. To call a Strike against the Counter-Revolutionary.\n20. Those who refuse to come under the direction and guidance of the Kuomintang are no Revolutionaries.\n21. The masses of the people must rise and clean Fei-teh, must rise up the Counter-revolutionary Chinese Communist Party.\n22. The masses of the people must rise and support the Chinese Kuomintang.\n23. Support the Central Government at Nanking.\n24. Support Nationalist Forces.\n25. Down with the bogus governments at Wuhan and at Peking.\n26. Down with the most devilish Chinese Communist party.\n27. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which com... against the San... (Three People's Principles.)\n28. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which gives up...\n29. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is destroying the People's Revolution.\n30. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which utilizes the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company.\n31. To clear out all the Chinese communists who are in ambush.\n32. To clear out all the Chinese Communist Party.\n33. The true revolutionary soldiers must rise up and overthrow the Chinese communist party.\n34. Down with those bad characters who take vengeance under the pretext of \"Ching Tang\" work.\n35. Down with those dishonest Kuomintang members who tolerate the communist elements.\n36. Execute Hsu Chien, Teng Yen-ta and others who betray the party and the country and frustrate the Northern Punitive Expedition.\n37. Execute the unworthy and covetous Sun Fo who betrays the Party and the country.\n38. Execute Borodin who curses and disturbs China and the Kuomintang.\n39. To clean up all the corrupt officials and political opportunists.\n40. To clean up all the scal Sharks and unscrupulous gentries.\n41. To deal severely with those who study the \"Cheng-hsueh\" doctrine, made jointly and give us all the necessary effort, we can restore the navigating foundation of our country.\n42. To dismiss Wang Ching-wei who betrays the party, endangers the country and is ungrateful to the masses of the people.\n43. The Three People's Principles are the principles for national salvation.\n44. To realize all the party principles of the Kuomintang.\n45. It only is the Kuomintang which can realize the welfare of the peasants and labourers.\n46. To reclaim all concessions, leased and ceded territories.\n47. To emancipate the Tibetans from the oppression of the imperialists and the Mogolians from that of the communists.\n48. To unite all the revolutionary advancing and oppressed People and make joint efforts to overthrow imperialism.\n49. Long live the Success of the National Revolution.\n50. Long live the Kuomintang of China.\n\n(Sd) Chang Jen-chieh Kuo Tai-chi, Soong Han-chiang, Pun Chi-tse, Yang Chuen, Yang Sui-luh, Li Koo-feu, Yu Ho-teh, Cheu Members of Committee.\n\n## Advertisements\n\n**AH FONG STUDIO**\n\nGIVE US A TRIAL SATISFACTION GUARANTEED\n\nWe beg to announce to the public that we have lately added to our studio many modern inventions whereby photos taken by us compare favourably with photos by well-known photographers abroad.\n\nWe have engaged experts to look after our developing, printing and enlarging departments.\n\nWe have always on hand views of Canton as well as postcards, etc. Eastman & Agfa films a speciality. Proofs will be shown at our studio if required.\n\nJust taken a NEW PANORAMA OF CANTON CITY; for sale $1.00\n\nTelephone No. 531 W.\n\n**CANTON WIRELESS STATION, MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS**\n\nSEND YOUR MESSAGES BY WIRELESS\n\nCheaper and Faster Service\n\nAddress: No. 1 SAI HAU STREET\n\nMessages, official or private, are despatched immediately, day and night.\n\nApply to Office at 50 (old number) Second Bund (Yee-Maloo) Nankwan.\n\n**THE PETER MUSIC CO.**\n\nMusics and Musical Instruments. Sole Distributors.\n\n\"Morrison\" Pianos and Winner Records\n\nTuning and Repairing Pianos\n\nBuying and selling old Pianos\n\n33, Mui Chin Street, West, Tungshan, Canton.\n\n**Pearl Theatre**\n\n(Opposite DUTCH FOLLY, THE BUND)\n\nPROGRAMME FOR Thurs. to Sat., May 19th to 21st. At 2.30, 7.00, and 9.15 p.m.\n\n* BUSTER KEATON in \"SEVEN CHANCES\"\n* OUR GANG in \"THE COBBLER\"\n\nNext Change! Commencing Sun. 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        "content_text": "**SECRET**\n\n## CABINET 6(27)\n\n24 145\n\nExtract from Conclusions of a Meeting held at 10 Downing Street, on Wednesday, February 2nd, 1927, at 3.30 p.m.\n\n### CHINA\n\n(Previous Reference: Cabinet 5(27) Conclusion 1.)\n\n1. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs informed the Cabinet that the telegram containing the text of Eugene Chen's statement to Mr. O'Malley explaining his refusal to sign agreements in regard to Hankow and Kiu Kiang unless we refrained from landing a military force in Shanghai was now being deciphered at the Foreign Office but was not yet available. He thought it important, before taking a decision, to learn the views of Sir Miles Lampson. In the meanwhile he did not feel in a position to make proposals to the Cabinet, and suggested that the question should be adjourned.\n\nThe Secretary of State for War raised the question as to whether the Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment, due in a few days at Hong Kong, should proceed to Shanghai or be disembarked at Hong Kong. In this connection attention was drawn to telegram No. 1316, cipher, of February 2nd, from the General Officer Commanding at Hong Kong in which",
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        "content_text": "# Secret \n## CABINET 5(27)\n\nExtract from Conclusions of a Meeting held at 10 Downing Street, on Wednesday, February 2nd, 1927, at 11.30 a.m.\n\n## 2 \n## 148 \n\n### CHINA.\n\n(Previous Reference: Cabinet 4(27) Conclusion 1.)\n\n1. The Cabinet had before them a **Memorandum** by the Chief of the Air Staff on the subject of the provision of aircraft in China (Paper `C.P.23(27)`).\n\nThe Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs read to the Cabinet a telegram just received from Mr. O'Malley, Hankow, dated February 1, 1927, (No.36) reporting that Eugene Chen had refused to sign any agreement about Hankow and Kiu Kiang unless we refrained from landing a military force in Shanghai.\n\nSir Austen Chamberlain had not yet had an opportunity to consult his Department about this telegram, and the actual terms of Eugene Chen's statement were contained in a previous telegram from Mr. O'Malley which had not yet arrived.\n\nIn the circumstances, the Cabinet agreed to consider all questions relating to China the same afternoon at 3.30.",
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        "content_text": "-7. \n\nContrary lesson is taught by recent history. \n\nIn the Boxer Year, 1900, the authorities of \nthe Kuang-tung, Kuang-si, An-hui, Che-kiang, \nKiang-su, Hunan, Hupeh, and Shantung provinces deliberately disobeyed an imperial edict from Peking ordering the extermination of foreigners. \nThus, middle and South China stood aloof from the \nwar in the north. Under present circumstances, \nthe Northern militarists, who are actually at \nwar with the South, would probably welcome tacitly (if not openly) a blockade by us of \ntheir enemies. They have themselves often \nthreatened such a blockade. It is significant \nalso that, as recently as last month, the Nanking \nGovernment should have welcomed any sanctions the Powers might decide to apply at Hankow. It is \nunlikely, therefore, that blockade or other \ncoercive measures taken by us against the South would unite the North and South against us. Patriotism as understood in Europe does not yet \nexist in China, and the lack of cohesion between \nthe North and the South is amply illustrated in Chinese history.\n\n(5) \"Assuming a state of war \n... Mukden railway\". \n\nThere is at present no question of blockading \nChina as a whole, and we do not doubt that a \nregional blockade, such as that of Canton, can be",
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        "content_text": "The CANTON GAZETTE 廣州州日報\n\nA B C\nRegistered at the Othee 29 A\n\nVol. V No. 955 CANTON, CHINA, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1927 民國十六年五月二十三日星期一\n\nNANKING, A TURNING POINT IN FAR EASTERN AND WORLD AFFAIRS!\nNANKING EVENTS MARK THE PASSING OF EUROPEAN INFLUENCE, PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH INFLUENCE IN CHINA, SAYS AMERICAN EDITOR. BRITISH ACTIONS SEVERLY CRITICIZED.\n\nBy J.B. PoWELL\n\nMr. Powell, editor and publisher of the CHINA WEEKLY REVIEW is has been extremely sympathetic with the Nationalist Movement.\n\n--The Editor.\n\nhsiang's Troops Arrive In Honan Tungkwan is Temporary Headquarters of 20,000 Nationalist Troops\n\nChief Chiang Returns To Nanking\n\nSingle Copy: 10 Cents $2.00 A Month $24.00 A Year\n\nWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE SENDS GREETINGS TO CHINA'S FEMINIST ORGANIZATIONS\nFrom Shanghai CLAIMS TO STAND FOR FREEDOM AND PEACE; TO SUPPORT CHINA'S MOVEMENT TO RID THE COUNTRY OF MILITARISM AND IMPERIALISM; ADVOCATES ABROGATION OF UNILATERAL TREATIES AND BETTER CONDITIONS FOR THE WORKERS\n\n(Special to the GAZETTE)\n\nautonomy in fiscal matters, and to revise the Treaties so that they may meet with Chinese consent.\n\nChiang Kai-shek Commander-in-Chief of All the Nationalist Armies, Haukow, May 19. According to a Japanese source, General Feng Yu-hsiang's troops have arrived in Honan and number some 20,000. Their temporary headquarters are at Tungkwan.\n\nMessrs. Chang Ching Kiang, Li (Delayed) Shek-tsun, Yang Shu-chang and Yang Hu at the station. Upon arrival, the Commander-in-Chief went to the Ching-an Temple\n\nFurther, it believes that, in view of the strength of anti-British feeling in China, this country should take some definite steps to show goodwill.\n\nThe British Section taken from the REVIEW for May 14, 1927, shows his great interest in the solutions of the vast problems of construction now pressing for solution in this quarter of the world.\n\nGeneral Shah Tao Yan, have advanced up to Yochow, situated at the North-east of the Tung Ting Lake in Hunan and having direct railway communication with Hankow.\n\nAfter noon, he attended the memorial service held at the public recreation ground at which he delivered an impressive speech.\n\nGen. Li Lieh-chun had gone to see him to consult with him about party and national affairs.\n\nAt 7:30 p.m. of the same day, the Nationalist Commander-in-Chief attended a welcome party given in his honor at the Lun Wo Tai Theater by the City Kuomintang.\n\nAt this party, he delivered another impressive speech.\n\nThen he returned to Nanking city at midnight by special train.\n\nNationalists About to Surround Pengfu\nThe first of the Nationalist Army Corps, after taking Chuchow, are now advancing Northwards and are about to surround Pengpu.\n\n\"Reds\" Prepare To Quit Wuchang\n\nTo Be Under Control Of Municipality\n\nGovernment should:\n\nNot intervene on any side\na. we have rejoiced in the movement for the liberation of China\nb. Withdraw all ships of war and troops from the Yangtze and other Chinese waters, leaving if necessary for their safety, any British nationals who may desire this;\nc. let it be known that it is not the policy of the British Government to negotiate or arbitrate on matters of dispute between your country and the Chinese.\n\nNewspapermen, in the course of their daily work often write things, the true significance of which they fail to recognize.\n\nHankow, May 19.-It is reported that General Yang Sen's forces have landed about 70 miles below Cheng-Li and it is stated that they were yesterday in conflict about 15 miles away with Wuchang.\n\nIt is of course too early to gauge the final outcome of the events which have emerged from the Nanking incidents in their almost world-embracing ramifications, but it is safe to say now without much fear of contradiction, that the failure of the European Powers, particularly Great Britain, to bring about intervention in China, as a result of the Nanking events, really marks the turning point in what has generally been known as the Far Eastern Question.\n\nSome of these reports are of particular interest in connection with the developments mentioned in the beginning of this discussion.\n\nAccording to a dispatch from the Telephone Bureau to the Municipal Government, the Bureau will be put under the control of the Municipal Government, upon the approval of the Canton branch of the Political Council.\n\nOn May 5, the Japanese Toho news agency in a dispatch from Peking stated that the British Government had given instructions to Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister in Peking, to the effect that there was to be no \"second Note\" on the Nanking outrages.\n\nThere is considerable danger and anxiety, but also of hope.\n\nWe stand for Peace and Freedom, and we believe that without Freedom there can be no Peace.\n\nWe pledge ourselves on this side of the world to do our utmost to restrain the use or the threats of force, and to induce our Government to negotiate or arbitrate on matters of dispute between your country and the Chinese.\n\nAN APOLOGY AND CORRECTION\nFor the past day or so, our editors in charge have inadvertently inserted the words \"Northern and Southern\" in these columns in connection with the Revolutionary War.\n\nSuch words are entirely misleading, and the Management of the Gazette has to apologize to its readers for such a mistake.\n\nThe Management wishes it be peremptorily and explicitly understood that the war in China is NOT between the North and the South, but between the progressive Nationalists and the reactionary militarists.\n\nAny one who is a loyal adherent of the Kuomintang and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen is a progressive Nationalist, irrespective of locality.\n\nThe Management.\n\nTo Conduct Kiangyin Bombardment\nA notification has been despatched by the Provincial Kuomintang to the Party authorities of various districts to enforce effectively measures for the prohibition of gambling.\n\nThe notification says: \"A prohibition order has been issued by the Ministry of Finance to forbid gambling.\n\nShould unscrupulous gentries of any district be found guilty of protecting the gamblers and encouraging gambling business, the district Kuomintang authorities are authorized to arrest the gamblers and ring leaders.\n\nThey are further authorized to destroy the gambling dens and punish the gentries in accordance with military law.\"\n\nCommissioner Of Municipal Bureau To Resign\nCommissioner Lau Wei-shih of the Municipal Bureau of Finance has recently sent in his resignation to the Municipal Government on account of ill health.\n\nMr. Lau is known to have done good work during his half year of service.\n\nHe has been generally appraised for effecting the installation of the automatic telephones in this city and for making good efforts to organize the municipal bank which will be soon inaugurated.\n\nSince Mr. Lum Wen-kai assumed the mayorship of this city, certain changes have been made in the Municipal Government: Yiao Sze-yee has been appointed Chief of the General Affairs Section, Chau Hok-tong, the Chief Secretary, and Ng Chek-ying, Accountant.\n\nMr. Lau Wei-shih's resignation from his position as Commissioner of Finance has been accepted, but his successor has as yet not been decided upon.\n\n(Continued on Page 2)\n\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "To Urge Mr. Tai \n\nDeclaration Of The Sun Yat-sen Univ. Auditing And Regulation Committee For The C. M. S. N. Co.\n\nThe China Merchants Steam Navigation Company to be Maintained, Assisted and Protected. To Devise Plans and \n\nChi-tau To Return \n\nThe rumour that Mr. Chau ku will be appointed by the Central Executive Committee to be the president of Sun Yat-sen University, created a sensation in educational circles here. The students and staff of the University declared that Chau Lu is not qualified to take the position and therefore he is not welcome.\n\nMeans to put the Company on a sound and Efficient Basis. Committee-men to Receive no salary from the Company—to show close Cooperation Between Gov't and People.\n\nYesterday a telegram was sent out to urge Mr. Tai to return to Canton promptly and resume his post as the head of the University. Then a representative, Mr. Sun Shib, secretary of the University has been sent to confer with Mr. Tai at Nanking with regard to the matter.\n\nIn order To preserve the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, Messrs. Chang Jen-chieh, Kuo Tai-chi and seven others have been appointed by the Nationalist Government to form a committee for the auditing and regulating of the said company.\n\nThe committee was formally inaugurated yesterday and a meeting held for discussion. The opinions of the shareholders and of the general public were fully respected.\n\nAs for the actions of the Committee, we are desirous to be put under the supervision of the shareholders and the community. We shall not receive any salary or any other remunerations. For office expenses, same will be paid.\n\nFollowing is a declaration issued by the committee to the various public organisations of Canton yesterday:—\n\n“The China Merchants Steam Navigation Company of Shanghai alone is the largest navigating enterprise of our country. It was formed even prior to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Fifty years have now elapsed since its formation and the Company has made little or no progress, its sailing routes are still confined to the Yangtse Kiang and the N. and South Coasts, while steamers of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha are at present prying jointly and give us all the necessary directions.\n\nFurthermore, the property of the Company has all been mortgaged. The capital of the shareholders is being gradually reduced. Should such conditions continue indefinitely, it is feared that the power of navigation would fall entirely into the hands of foreigners and the shares of the Company rendered mere scraps of paper. This would not only be a loss to the shareholders but also a great detriment to the welfare of the Chinese nation.\n\n“Clothing, Food, Dwelling and Travelling are the four principal requirements of life. In his ‘People's Livelihood Principle’ and ‘Outlines of National Construction’, our late Director Dr. Sun, has laid special emphasis on the urgent solution of these vital problems. Being formed for the realization of our late Director's principles, the Nationalist Government cannot fail to take every step to reform and maintain the said Company.\n\n“Under joint instructions of the Central Political Council and the Nationalist Government, this Committee is formed in order to examine and regulate the affairs of the said Company. We, the members of the Committee shall respectfully observe the doctrines of our late Director, Dr. Sun, in that government must be honest. We shall study the Causes of the deficiency of the Company, devise plans for the extension of its enterprise, for the interests of the shareholders as well as that of the community, through co-operation of the Government with the people. The capital and property of the Company shall be strongly protected, its business duly maintained and the interests of the shareholders and the whole nation will rise and settle the matter.\n\n“(Sd) Chang Jen-chieh, Kuo Tai-chi, Soong Han-chiang, Pun Chien, Yang Chuen, Yang Sui-lu, Li Kuo-fei, Yu Ho-teh, Chen Fei-te, Members of Committee.”\n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1927\n\n“CHING TANG”---PURGE THE PARTY--- MOVEMENT: SLOGANS FOR THE PEOPLE ARE ISSUED BY PROPAGANDA DEPT.\n\nThe Following Slogans, Prepared by the Propaganda Committee of the Kwangtung Provincial Special Kuomintang, are an Embodiment of the Aims and Spirit of the Nationalist Movement.\n\n1. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which massacres the Kuomintang members.\n\n2. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is treacherous to our late Director, Dr. Sun Yat-sen.\n\n3. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is destroying the People's Revolution.\n\n4. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is utilizing the masses of people as tools.\n\n5. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is utilizing bandits and labor usurpers to oppress the Peasants and Laborers.\n\n6. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is undoing the work of the Northern Expedition.\n\n7. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is plotting the downfall and destruction of the Kuomintang.\n\n8. To be against the Three People's Principles is to be a Counter-Revolutionary.\n\n9. To be against the Kuomintang is to be a national Counter-Revolutionary.\n\n10. All power and authority belong to the Kuomintang.\n\n11. All true and loyal grades of the Kuomintang unite and rise.\n\n12. Down with all counter-revolutionaries.\n\n13. Down with all opportunists.\n\n14. Concentrate the powers of the Kuomintang.\n\n15. Down with Imperialism.\n\n16. Down with the Fengtien clique of Militarists.\n\n17. Eradicate all corrupt officials, greedy gentries, and unscrupulous merchants.\n\n18. Support the Nationalist Government in readjusting the affairs of the Company and to realize the principles of the National Construction Plans of our late Director.\n\n19. To call a Strike against the Counter-Revolutionary Chinese Communist Party.\n\n20. Those who refuse to come under the direction and guidance of the Kuomintang are no Revolutionaries.\n\n21. The masses of the people must rise up and clean out the Counter-revolutionary Chinese Communist Party.\n\n22. The masses of the people must rise and support the Chinese Kuomintang.\n\n23. Support the Central Government at Nanking.\n\n24. Support Nationalist Forces.\n\n25. Down with the bogus governments at Wuhan and at Peking.\n\n26. Down with the most devilish Chinese Communist party.\n\n27. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which gives up the Special District of Hankow.\n\n28. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which compromises with the Fenglien militarists.\n\n29. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which is against the San Min Chu I (Three People's Principles).\n\n30. Down with the Chinese Communist Party which utilizes the masses of people as tools.\n\n31. To clear out all the Chinese communists who are in ambush.\n\n32. To clear out all the Chinese communists who are in disguise.\n\n33. The true revolutionary soldiers must rise up and overthrow the Chinese communist party.\n\n34. Down with those bad characters who take vengeance under the pretext of the Communist Party.\n\n35. Down with those dishonest Kuomintang members who tolerate the communist elements.\n\n36. Execute Hsu Chien, Teng Yen-ta and others who betray the party and the country and frustrate the Northern Punitive Expedition.\n\n37. Execute the unworthy and covetous Sun Fo who betrays the party and the country.\n\n38. Execute Borodia who curses and disturbs China and the Kuomintang.\n\n39. To clean up all the corrupt officials and political opportunists.\n\n40. To clean up all the Opportunists.\n\n41. To deal severely with those who study the \"Cheng-hsueh\" doctrine, Reactionaries.\n\n42. To dismiss Wang Ching-wei who betrays the party, endangers the country and is ungrateful to the Kuomintang.\n\n43. The Three People's Principles are the principles for national salvation.\n\n44. To realize all the party principles of the Kuomintang.\n\n45. It is only the Kuomintang which can realize the welfare of the people.\n\n46. To reclaim all concessions, leased and ceded territories.\n\n47. To emancipate the Tibetans from the oppression of the imperialists and the Mongolians from that of the communists.\n\n48. To unite all the revolutionary advancing and oppressed People and make joint efforts to overthrow imperialism.\n\n49. Long live the Success of the National Revolution.\n\n50. Long live the Kuomintang of China.\n\n相影 AH F NGSTUDIO 芳亞\n\nGIVE US A TRIAL\n\nSATISFACTION GUARANTEED\n\nWe beg to announce to the public that we have lately added to our studio many modern inventions whereby photos taken by us compare favourably with photos by well-known photographers abroad.\n\nWe have engaged experts to look after our developing, printing and enlarging departments.\n\nWe have always on hand views of Canton as well as postcards, etc. Eastman & Agfa films a speciality. Proofs will be shown at our studio if required.\n\nJust taken a NEW PANORAMA OF CANTON CITY; for sale $4.00\n\nTelephone No. 531 W.\n\nSEND YOUR MESSAGES BY WIRELESS\n\nCheaper and Faster Service TO Shanghai, Nanking, Foochow, Hankow, etc.\n\nAddress: No. 1 SAI HAU STREET\n\n號麑第復後阿基沩\n\n#6\n\nNOTICE\n\nThe S.S. \"Sainam\" and \"Nanning\" will leave Canton for Wuchow every Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 a.m.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:\n\nSAI HING NAVIGATION CO. LTD.\n\nSHA KEE\n\nMessages, official or private, are despatched immediately, day and night.\n\nApply to Office at 50 (old number) Second Bund (Yee-Maloo) Nankwan.\n\nCANTON WIRELESS STATION, MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS\n\n號十五牌門路馬二關南\n\n行琴得彼山東\n\nTHE PETER MUSIC Co.,\n\nMusics and Musical Instruments. 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        "content_text": "List of Chinese Characters for Names mentioned in the \n\nGovernor's Political Despatch of the 3rd of July, 1930.\n\nChiang Kai Shek (蔣介石)\n\nHan-kow 漢口\n\nHu-nan 湖南\n\nHong Chow 衡州\n\nChangsha 長沙\n\nYo-chow 岳州\n\nHo Chien 何鍵\n\nKiu-Kiang 九江\n\nChan Chai Tong 陳濟棠\n\nCheung Fat Fui 張發奎\n\nChe-kiang 浙江\n\nYung Chow 永州\n\nWU-chow 梧州\n\nWat Lam 鬱林\n\nKuei Lin 桂林\n\nLiu Chow 柳州\n\nPinglo 平樂\n\nWong Yuk Cho 黃旭初\n\nHon Choi Fung 韓彩鳳\n\nLui Woon Yim 林雲陔\n\nPei Chung Hsi 白崇禧\n\nYeung Ting Chung 楊鼎中\n\nChan Ming Shu 陳銘樞\n\nLam Wan Koi 林雲陔\n\nSha-kie 沙基\n\nLung Chuan 龍川\n\nYunnan 雲南\n\nNanning 南寧\n\n24",
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        "content_text": "122\n\nEXTRACTS FROM A REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMODORE, HONG KONG –\n\nFEBRUARY 1935.\n\n5. The Chinese (Yueh Hai Squadron) cruisers \"Hai Chi\" and \"Hai Shen\", the former flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Y.C. Kiang, R. C. N., came to Hongkong for refit between the 18th and 26th February. The usual salutes and courtesies were exchanged.\n\nTheir Excellencies the Governor and the General Officer Commanding, the Senior Naval Officer, Hongkong (Captain Manners, Royal Navy, H.M.S. \"Suffolk\"), myself and all Captains and Commanders in command of H. M. Ships at Hongkong lunched with Rear-Admiral Kiang on board the \"Hai Chi\" on the 26th February. The lunch was very well arranged on the quarterdeck, the after part of which was rigged as a stage. During lunch the officers and ship's company put up a very creditable Chinese theatrical performance, including sword-dancing, accompanied by a Chinese orchestra.\n\nANTI-PIRACY\n\n12. Seven patrols have been carried out during February, all by destroyers.\n\n13. One Chinese gunboat was sighted during the month, the \"Wu Fung\", stationed at Autau.\n\n14. W/T Communication. Each patrol vessel has established communication with Autau, Ping Hoi, the Duty Police Launch and with the \"Wu Fung\", although slight difficulty has been experienced with the latter.\n\n15. Southern Communication Scheme has been carried out very well with the exception of the \"Muinam\" (see below) and the Blue Funnel s.s. \"Diomed\" who failed with three consecutive reports. No anxiety was felt, as the \"Diomed\" carries no Chinese passengers and has a British crew.\n\n16. Northern Communication Scheme. Only three minor failures have been noted.\n\n17. The China Navigation Company and Indo-China Steam Navigation Company have instituted an inter-communication scheme covering the sailings of both lines north of Shanghai.\n\n18. The s.s. \"Muinam\" (China Navigation Company) left Hongkong for Singapore at 1500 on the 2nd February, with orders to report at 2200 and at 0400 and 0945 on the 3rd February. Shortly after 1800, a report was received from the Master of the s.s. \"Seistan\" (Douglas Steamship Company) that he had seen a steamer standing into Mirs Bay - \"looks suspicious\". At this time H.M.S. \"Defender\" was on patrol, and H.M.S. \"Decoy\" (having landed the Chinese soldiers who were chasing the \"Tungchow\" pirates) was proceeding southwards along the coast to Hongkong. H.M.S. \"Dainty\" was next for patrol, commencing at 0900 the following day, 3rd February. On receiving the \"Seistan's\" report, I at once ordered \"Decoy\" to search Mirs Bay and informed the Hongkong Water Police and Colonel Chen at Autau. \"Decoy\" arrived in Mirs Bay and anchored in Pengchau Roads at 2010, having sighted no ships on passage. Visibility had become very bad, and the Hai Shen beaches had to be searched by an armed motor boat. At dawn \"Decoy\" was able to search the Bay thoroughly, found nothing.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936",
        "page_number": 39,
        "title": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936",
        "content_text": "## In conclusion the General apologised for not being able to visit personally more Chinese merchants to get their views. He took the opportunity of saying good-bye to the merchants, hoping that one day they could visit him in Canton, where they could have more time to exchange views. He thanked the Chamber and all its members for the excellent entertainment.\n\n## Aeroplane Donors Thanked\n\nIn a speech the Mayor, Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, said that for many years he had been away from Canton serving the Central Government in Nanking. For this reason he had little chance of visiting Hongkong, and to meet such a distinguished gathering of the Chinese business leaders was a great pleasure to him.\n\n\"As explained by General Huang just now,\" said the Mayor, “to pay an official call on His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, is the first reason of the visit of the Canton officials, while secondly the officials also want to meet the overseas Chinese here.\n\n\"On behalf of the National Government I wish to thank all Chinese in Hongkong for their generous donation and unselfishness in contributing half a million dollars for the aeroplane fund in connection with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's birthday. Such a good spirit is comparable to that of even the most patriotic peoples of the European and American countries to-day.\n\n\"Although Hongkong and Canton are on a different footing, actually the closest of relations exist between the two cities. If we can bring prosperity to both, the people in the two places will be directly benefited. For this reason there is every necessity for commercial and economic co-operation between Canton and Hongkong.\n\n\"As most of the Chinese residents in Hongkong are Cantonese, Canton serves as a backbone to them. Consequently a bad Government in Canton will not only disappoint the Cantonese in Hongkong but will have other detrimental effects on this Colony as a whole. The present Government in Canton is determined to carry out its readjustment programme to the fullest extent, so that prosperity will be brought not only to Canton but to both cities. If any future opportunity should arise, the Canton Municipal Government will be most willing to receive any constructive advice which may be given by the Hongkong Chinese.\"\n\n## Other Chinese Receptions\n\nAt the Hotel Cecil at nine o'clock yesterday morning representatives of 280 local Chinese organisations, including trade and labour associations and schools, gave a reception in honour of the visiting Canton officials. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Tang Chi-ching, who delivered the speech of welcome on behalf of the 280 organisations of Hongkong and Kowloon. The Chairman stressed the point that in cementing better relations between Hongkong and Canton they would increase the prosperity of the two leading cities of South China.\n\nAnother speech was made by Mr. Li Sing-kui (Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce).\n\nThe happy function came to a conclusion after General Huang Mu-sung had replied thanking the hosts for their excellent entertainment.\n\n## A Cordial Welcome\n\nLater in the morning, at 11 o'clock, another Chinese reception, given by a number of local commercial, educational, medical, religious and sports associations, was held in the Kam Ling Restaurant, at West Point. The reception was presided over by Mr. Ip Hau-chuen.\n\nAt this reception General Huang Mu-sung said that the Chinese Government was determined to push on with the new life movement in Kwangtung, as shown by the rigid suppression of gambling, opium smoking and the miscellaneous and unpopular taxes. This would relieve the financial burden of the people and would permit them to proceed with the rehabilitation work. In short, it was the hope of the Canton Government to push ahead the reorganisation of Kwangtung, making the province a model province of China. He said that there was great hope for a speedy recovery if the overseas Chinese continued to give support to the Government whenever they could.\n\nThe Mayor of Canton, Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, said that he was greatly impressed by the enthusiasm shown in the many entertainments which had been given in their honour.\n\n## TRADE DELEGATION\n\n### Big Party of Businessmen Arrive from Canton\n\nBusiness men of Hongkong and Canton were enabled to fraternise at length when, in connection with the goodwill visit of His Excellency the Provincial Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, and the Mayor of Canton, a party of Chinese business and financial representatives arrived from Canton yesterday morning.\n\nThe visitors were headed by Mr. Ho Tsap-ping, (Chairman, Kwangtung Provincial Chamber of Commerce), and included: Mr. Chow Dien-pong, (Chairman, Canton Chamber of Commerce), Mr. Chen Yu-chien, (Chairman, Canton Bankers Association), Mr. Li Lu-chao, (Director, Canton-Kowloon Railway), Dr. Chien Shu-fan (Lawyer), Mr. Kiang Ying-chi, (Manager, Canton Municipal Bank), Mr. Loo Im-min, (Manager, China State Bank, Canton), Mr. Chan Lim-chung, (Chinese Manager, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, Canton), Mr. Tsai Chang, Manager, (Sun Company), Mr. Chung Ping-fung, (Manager, General Bank), Mr. W. J. Wen, (Manager, Bank of Communications), Mr. Yiu Pak-loong, (Director, Department of Navigation), Mr. Tang Ying-wa, (Manager, China Merchants Steam Navigation Co.), Mr. Lo Ting-yu, (Director, Weaving Factory), Mr. Shen Tsiao-chiu, (Secretary General, K.T. Provincial Kwokmantang Headquarters), Mr. Wilfred Ling, (Municipal Government Planning Committee).\n\nThe party was received in the Jacobean Room of the Hongkong Hotel by members of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, and light refreshments were served while introductions were exchanged.\n\n| Name | Affiliation |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Hon. Mr. Stanley H. Dodwell | Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd. |\n| The Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson | Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. |\n| The Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson | Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. |\n| Mr. G. Miskin | Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd. |\n| Mr. P. S. Cassidy | Messrs. J. D. Hutchison & Co. |\n| Mr. J. R. Masson | Messrs. Butterfield & Swire |\n| Mr. T. A. Mitchell | Messrs. W. R. Loxley & Co., (China) Ltd. |\n| Mr. K. S. Morrison | Messrs. Reiss, Bradley & Co., Ltd. |\n| Mr. G. W. Sewell | Federation of British Industries, Ltd. |\n| Mr. W. Shewan | Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., Ltd. |\n| Major V. E. Duclos | Canadian Trade Commissioner |\n| Mr. G. C. Pelham | H.M. Trade Commissioner |\n| Mr. A. Brearley | The Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China |\n| Mr. J. W. Platt | The Asiatic Petroleum Co., (S.C.) Ltd. |\n| Mr. J. H. Jessen | Messrs. Jebsen & Co. |\n| Mr. A. B. Raworth | General Electric Co., Ltd. |\n| Mr. H. Owen Hughes | Messrs. Harry Wicking & Co., Ltd. |\n| Mr. A. K. Mackenzie | Messrs. Harry Wicking & Co., Ltd. |\n| Mr. R. D. Gillespie | The Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. |\n| Mr. F. Stafford Smith | The British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd. |\n\nFrom the Jacobean Room, members of the party went to the St. Francis Hotel where they were received by members of the Chinese business community, while others were shown round the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building by the Chief Manager, Mr. V. M. Grayburn.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938",
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        "title": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938",
        "content_text": "# Enclosure No.4.\n\n55\n\n**Detective Office,  \nWater Police Station,  \n12th December, 1937.**\n\n**KIANG PAO LIEN**, 23 years,  \nActing First Officer, Customs Cruiser \"CHA HSING\",  \nNative of CHE KIANG,  \nStates:-\n\nAt noon on 11th December, 1937, the ship left Hong Kong for DEEP BAY. At about 14.20 hours on that date I was in the Ward-room and the ship was about half a mile south-west of BLACK POINT in British Waters. I was actually lying down asleep when the Chief Engineer Mr. R.F. YOUNG came and told me a Japanese warship was firing at us. I then heard the sounds of shell fire. I heard about 20 shots. The Chief Engineer and I remained in the Ward-room and about a quarter of an hour later I felt the ship go aground. I then went to the main deck where I saw Captain COOK, who instructed me to abandon ship. I saw we were aground on the beach at YUNG LUNG WAN, British Territory. I assisted the Commander to take the ship's log, paper and contents of the safe ashore. I also assisted to secure the ship by dropping the anchors. At that time I could see a Japanese warship coming towards us from the direction of CHAK WAN. The Japanese warship was then about two and a half miles away, but I cannot say for certain whether it was in Chinese or British Waters. After we had grounded the Japanese warship fired about five more shots and was still proceeding towards us at full speed. The Commander, myself and the remainder of the crew consisting of 24 or 25 men climbed over the bow and waded ashore. By this time the Japanese warship had anchored about a quarter of a mile away from our ship. I was instructed by the Commander to remain in hiding on the hillside and observe what occurred. The boatswain LIANG HO and two seamen remained with me. The Commander had already left for CASTLE PEAK to report the matter. About half an hour later I saw a motor boat lowered from the Japanese warship and a number of men in uniform boarded it. The motor boat approached our ship, sailed round it,",
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        "document_key": "CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945",
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        "title": "CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945",
        "content_text": "119\n\nХ\n\nNOTE IL\n\nMiscellaneous Items.\n\n-\n\nGeneral Pan's finances. The Hong Kong Administration have settled this question temporarily by making occasional advances to General Pan; he has now had, I think $H.K.150,000 – against signed receipts. No arrangements have been made for any recoveries; nor has any rate of exchange been discussed. It would seem undesirable that this position should continue. My suggestion, which was generally endorsed by Brigadier MacDougall and in conversation with General S.K. Yi, was that settlement should be part and parcel of any general arrangement reached in respect of British repayments for our official expenditure. I told General Yi that a sum of $H.K.100,000 per month was out of the question and asked him to reduce demands to the real minimum.\n\nGeneral Pan's Mission. This large group, which includes no fewer than five generals, is a nuisance to the Hong Kong Administration in general and to General Festing in particular. They have little to do and merely create problems. On the British side the implications of the Chungking agreement are understood and the Chinese will get the Japanese equipment left in Hong Kong. Meanwhile a few Japanese ships are being got ready for service and will be used by the Administration for immediate needs.\n\nHong Kong facilities for Chinese troop movements. The arrangements to use Hong Kong as an embarkation point for Chinese troops proceeding up the coast have been well handled and General Ho is quite satisfied and asked me so to inform General Chen Cheng, to whom I have written (copy attached) enclosing a letter from General Ho. A first party of Chinese troops has arrived at Kowloon and one division will start embarking for Dairen as from to-morrow. American liaison officers with this group seem happy about the arrangements made.\n\nThe Return of Chinese to Hong Kong. Brigadier MacDougall will welcome Chinese business-men to return to Hong Kong, but suggests that they must find their own means of transportation, except in special cases. They do not wish indigents to return but cannot stop them and it is estimated that the exodus from Free China is now at the rate of about 1000 a day. I cleared a visit for Mr. Tsai, the Secretary-General of T.V. Soong's Bank of Canton, at H.C. Kiang's request and suggest that he may be given R.A.F. lift from Kunming; but Brigadier MacDougall must be warned beforehand of his arrival. I have informed H.C. Kiang who will send Tsai to see us when his passport etc., are in order. I think he might be given letters to Brigadier MacDougall and to the managers of the Hongkong and Shanghai and Chartered Banks.\n\nPiracy. There has been widespread piracy which has curtailed fishing and junk traffic. Anti-piracy patrols by the Navy and R.A.F. are now taking place and the fishing fleet goes out under naval protection. There is talk of a \"Q-junk\" operation to make an example and frighten pirates from the neighbourhood of Hong Kong.\n\nCommunist forces. There are still some Communist units in the New Territories. Contacts have agreed that they will evacuate northwards as soon as General Festing can take over the areas. There are not enough troops yet to close the frontier or to take over at present and the Commander-in-Chief has supported the General's request for one more brigade. General Chang Ch'un Fa-kwei has suggested from Canton that he will soon move up and close the frontier and all are agreed that it would be best to have the Communists out first. General Festing is off to Canton to meet General Chang on October 5th.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947",
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        "title": "CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947",
        "content_text": "## 1947 \n54297 \n\n## Suicidants C.0-129/613/6 \n| Name | Date | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| two Chinese soldiers of Kwangtung P.P.C. | 3/11 | 24/1 Wele(R537) 241/11 25/1 |\n| Miss Maye |  | him Mayle |\n| Mr. Galsworthy | 25/16 |  |\n| Mr. Dale |  | R.53 PUT DE |\n| Miss Whyte | \"/6. 4/ | R.204 |\n| Miss Galsworthy | 15/7 | 3.204. R.201 12/8 |\n| Miss Whyte | 1/10 | Miss Whyte (R.537). 110. |\n| Mr. Wallace | 5.35 2/10 | in Maple 534. |\n|  |  | Tho In Galsworthen 15/10 |\n| MR. Mayle |  | r. Sace 2340 24 |\n|  |  | to Candy 25/10 |\n| Mis Hardwide | 25/0 | (H-534) R.531 PUT BO 31/10 |\n\n## 55941/780/8 \n6,000 11/46 N.M.Ltd.",
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        "title": "CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947",
        "content_text": "## C.I.N.\n1 Foreign Office  \n2 Foreign Office  \n\nF.7419/376/10  \nF.8467/376/10  \n\n9-6-47  \n2  \n30-6-47  \n\nThis appears to be a further incident where the M.K. authorities hold one version of the story (set out at flag A) and the Chinese authorities another (flag B). The Chinese first demanded from H.K. the release of the two members of the Po on Peace Preservation Corps who were committed for trial in H.K. in connection with the incident described at A1, and the handing over of the Junk Master & same members of his crew; but receiving no agreement from M.K., they then approached the Embassy stating that \"according to international practice, soldiers of one country cannot be arrested, tried or punished by the Government of another country for any actions done in the course of carrying out their orders.\" They had in mind, presumably, the informal agreement whereby Chinese soldiers who committed offences in the colony were handed over for trial by the Chinese authorities. This informal agreement was terminated on 27th Feb. (see Flag C). The incident in question, however, occurred on 6th Feb., but as Mark Young points out at x1 of flag A, Chinese did not at the time invoke the provisions of the informal agreement, and cannot therefore refer to it now. The 2 soldiers have been sentenced to 4 years imprisonment, and are held in Hang Kamp. This seems to be a purely legal matter, but it will be interesting to see the reaction of the Chinese to the despatch at flag E.\n\n3.5. Whyte +/2",
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        "content_text": "No action is required purely for our part.\n\nAn unworldly 15/7 datum لنا\n\n3. **Foreign Office** - `F.10701/376/10` 15-8-47 Put by. D.Z. Whyte 78 at once **Foreign Office** `F.12612/376/10` 29-8-47 It all is. This case is so likely to cause considerable trouble, and the Embassy have now suggested that the Sentence of the two P.P.C. might be referred to Wallace & Co. to see. Then put by. 5.3. Why to /10. Mr. Magler has made ... do not think long kap divest reprum & in consti Cast.",
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        "content_text": "## Mr. Galsworthy\n\nWe are not, I think, in a position to comment on this aspect, but Mr. Lamb's proposal that, as the result of Vice-Minister Yeh's outburst, the Governor of Hong Kong should remit, as an act of clemency and in token of goodwill on assuming charge of the Administration, the unserved part of the sentences passed on the two members of the Kwantung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps, who are at present imprisoned in Hong Kong, is very definitely our concern.\n\nThis is the case I spoke to you about recently. The attitude taken up by Mr. Lamb in the face of Vice-Minister George Yeh's antics seems to me to be pathetic and strongly reminiscent of the appeasement policy prior to the recent war.\n\nWould you see any objection, from the I.R.D. point of view, to my writing privately to Mr. MacDougall, saying that we should be interested to hear what view he took on this proposal, which we here feel is open to the strongest objection on general policy grounds?\n\n8.10.47.",
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        "content_text": "## Mr. Mayle.\n\n1. We spoke about this.\n\n2. There are two aspects about this suggestion that strike me as being particularly objectionable. The first is the implication that the remission of sentences for crimes committed in a British Colony is something that may be determined on grounds of political expediency. To my mind, the remission of sentences should be governed either by the general principles of penal administration or on the inherent merits of individual cases. I would not think that in assessing the merits of individual cases, purely extraneous political considerations could properly be taken into account. This view may, I think, perhaps err on the side of puritanism, but personally, I regard as distasteful the suggestion that, simply because the Chinese are apparently prepared to make a fuss about this case, i.e., in other words, to employ blackmail tactics, the Governor of Hong Kong should seriously consider exercising his prerogative of clemency on the prisoners now serving sentences.\n\n## B\n\nThe second objection that I see is perhaps a rather more practical one, namely that if the Governor were to remit the sentences, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs would no doubt regard it as a belated acknowledgment that we have been in the wrong, and in any case, as a precedent encouraging them to adopt similar blackmail tactics on future occasions.\n\n4. I believe that the remission of sentences is entirely the Governor's prerogative, and that normally",
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        "content_text": "## \nnormally we would not intervene from here. However, the suggestion that he should exercise his prerogative in this case has been made purely on political grounds, then I personally would see no objection to our expressing our views on the suggestion on the same score, namely political grounds. When we discussed this, I think you agreed that, before writing to Mr. MacDougall to enquire what view he took of the proposal, and possibly mentioning the practical objections that we see to it, you would mention to the Foreign Office what we are proposing to do. If they agree with our view, they might even feel inclined to write to Mr. Lamp himself, which I think would be all to the good.\n\nBut I should imagine that in any case the Governor has decided the question one way or the other by now.\n\nAnrals walley  \n15. 10. 47.\n\n(I apologize for the delay: We have been swamped with Bunna & UNO business)\n\n## \n\nMr. Galsworthy (through Mr. Dale)  \nI agree and propose to write to Mr. Scott as in the draft attached. Would you please say whether you agree. I send through Mr. Dale in view of the reference to the exercise of the prerogative of mercy.\n\nmayla  \n23.10.47.\n\nI show to hayle the agreed to some modifications him lives I have made.\n\nhe always whain from Humphing to lay down pics fortere ear Len & political considnations Cause the prerozdur money-tacks ... may sometiening ham to the weighed. But I lamint it is right to stick to khamon politicas ... I entuly after.\n\nAu Salouilly  \n24...  \n25710",
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        "content_text": "## \n| Date | Sender | Receiver | Reference/File |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 29-10-47 | ? | D.B. Whyte | 241/11 |\n| 30-10-47 | A. L. Scott (F.O.) | Sir A. Grantham | F.14520/376/10 |\n| 3-11-47 | Sir A. Grantham | A. L. Scott (F.O.) |  |\n| 3-11-47 | A. L. Scott (F.O.) | Sir A. Grantham |  |\n| 13-11-47 |  |  | Museve, Gadea |\n| 25-11-47 | A. L. Scott (F.O.) | Sir A. Grantham |  |\n| 25-11-47 | Sir A. Grantham | A. L. Scott (F.O.) | Lotin A. Grantin |\n| 29/11 | Aur. |  | 257/11 |\n\n? Inform Scott as in draft who.\n\nAcknowledgement.\n\nVery satisfactory.",
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        "content_text": "## C.O.\n\n**DRAFT**\n**REGISTERED No.**\n\n**DRAFT AND RECORD COPY**\n`54297/1/47`\n**SECRET**\n**LETTER SENT**\n\nColonial Office,  \nChurch House,  \nGreat Smith Street.  \nS.W.1  \nDATE  \n25th November, 1947.\n\nMR.  \nMR.  \nMR.\n\nDear Grantham,\n\nMany thanks for your letter of the 13th November regarding the suggestion that the two Peace Preservation Corps men now imprisoned in Hong Kong should be released. I need scarcely say that I was very glad to hear that you decided not to release these men. I have passed on what you say in your letter to the Foreign Office.\n\nTo\n\n## ENCLOSURES\n## FURTHER ACTION\n\nYours sincerely,  \nfod (N.L. Mayle)\n\nSIR ALEXANDER GRANTHAM, K.C.M.G.\n\n[4556B] Wt. 26930/440 50m. 9/45 C.N.Ld. 748",
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        "content_text": "## RESTRICTED\n### DRAFT\n\n**C.O.**\n\n**REGISTERED No.**\n\n**DRAFT AND RECORD COPY**\n\n**LETTER SENT**\n\n`54297/1/47`\n`F.14520/376/10`\n\nDear Scott,\n\nImprisonment of Two Members of Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps in Hong Kong.\n\nI have now had a reply from the Governor of Hong Kong saying that the objections to which I drew attention in my letter to him (set out in paragraph 3 of my letter to you of the 3rd November) were very much in his mind as in the minds of the Members of the Executive Council, with whom he discussed the matter. In the upshot, he decided not to release the men.\n\nThe Governor adds that neither General Chang Ch'i-Kwei, when he was on a visit to Hong Kong from Canton, nor George Yeh, nor anyone else at Nanking mentioned the matter to him, although they had plenty of opportunities of doing so. He should, therefore, have gained little and might have lost much had these two men been released.\n\nYours sincerely,\nAL SCOTT\n\nTo \nBoyd, (N.L. Mayle)\n\nColonial Office, Church House, \nGreat Smith Street, \n3. **DATE** \n25th November, 1947.\n\n**ENCLOSURES**\n**FURTHER ACTION**\n10\n\n[4556B] Wt. 26930/440 50m. 9/45 C.N.Ld. 748",
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        "content_text": "**SECRET**\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong\n\n13th November, 1947.\n\nDear Mayle,\n\nThank you for your letter No.54297/1/47 of 3rd November regarding the proposed remission of sentence of the two Peace Preservation Corps men. The objections to which you draw attention in your third paragraph were very much before my mind as before those of the members of Executive Council with whom I discussed the matter. In the upshot, however, I decided not to release the men.\n\nNeither General Chang Fa Kwei, when he was on a visit here from Canton, nor George Yeh, nor anyone else at Nanking, mentioned the matter to me, although they had plenty of opportunities of doing so. We should therefore have gained little and might have lost much had they been released.\n\nYours ever,\n\nRECEIVED\n22 NOV 1947\nC. O.\n\nN. L. Mayle, Esq.,\nColonial Office,\nLondon.\n\nPage 10\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "## C.O.\n\n**LETTER**\n\n**SET**\n\n**DRAFT AND RECORD COPY**\n\n**REGISTERED No. 8**\n\nColonial Office,  \nChurch House,  \nGreet Smith Street,  \n**DATE: 3rd November, 1917**  \n`54297/1/47`\n\n**RESTRICTED**\n\n**DRAFT**\n\nMR. Mayle  \nMR.  \nMR.\n\n**ENCLOSURES**\n\nDear Scott,\n\nMany thanks for your letter `F.14520/376/10` of the 30th October about the two members of the Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps, now serving sentences of imprisonment in Hong Kong.\n\nI have written to the Governor of Hong Kong, as proposed in my letter of the 29th October, and I will write again as soon as I have his reply.\n\nYours sincerely,  \nSyd. (N.L. Mayle)\n\nA.L. SCOTT, ESQ.\n\n**FURTHER ACTION**\n\nTo  \n(11/44) [3693] Wt. 43090/394 50m. 12/44 C.N.Ld. 748",
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        "content_text": "## C.O.\n\n**REGISTERED No.** 54297/1/47\n\nDRAFT AND RECORD COPY\n\nColonial Office, \nChurch House, \n12 Great Smith Street, \nS.W. 1.\n\n**DATE** 3rd November, 1947.\n\n**DRAFT** \nMR. Mayle \nMR. \n\n**SECRET**\n\nENCLOSURES \nFURTHER ACTION Anid. (9).\n\nWe have had from the Foreign Office copies of correspondence between Lamb, at the British Embassy, Nanking, and MacDougall concerning the two members of the Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps, who are imprisoned in Hong Kong.\n\nWe should be interested to know what decision was taken on the suggestion which Lamb put forward in his letter of the 25th August that the unserved part of the sentences of the above men might be remitted as an act of clemency and in token of good will on your assumption of the Administration.\n\nPerhaps I might say that the suggestion appeared to us to be open to two very strong objections. The first is the implication that the remission of sentences for crimes committed in a British Colony is something that may be determined having regard to purely extraneous political considerations. The second is that if these sentences were to be remitted after Vice-Minister George Yeh's fanatical outburst, it would be extremely difficult to convince the Chinese that this was not done as the result of his display, with the consequence that they would be encouraged \n\nTo \n**SIR ALEXANDER GRANTHAM, K.C.M.G.**\n\n[4556B] Wt. 26930/440 50m. 9/45 C.N.Ld. 748",
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        "content_text": "- 2 \n\n13 \n\n24 ComaO DA \n\nto use similar tactics in the future and, what is perhaps equally objectionable, would assume that we accepted political expediency as a reason for remission of sentences.\n\nSgd. (N.L. Mayle)",
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        "content_text": "(F.14520/376/10)\n\n**RESTRICTED**\n\nR.531\n\nMay on the Mine.\n\n146\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.**\n\n30th October, 1947.\n\n31/10\n\nDear Mayle,\n\nThank you for your letter `54297/1/47` of the 29th October about the two members of the Kwangtung Peace Preservation Corps now serving sentences of imprisonment in Hong Kong.\n\nI see no objection to your suggested action, and I agree that generally speaking political considerations should be excluded in considering sentences for criminal offences wherever committed. But it is, you know, a very Oriental practice to pardon criminals on special occasions and anniversaries, and I do not think British authority loses in prestige by conformity with that practice. As regards your second point, it is now nearly twelve weeks since George Yeh's outburst, and I venture to think that to release the men now would not be connected in any way with that display. Indeed, I would go so far as to suggest that Princess Elizabeth's wedding day might be a suitable occasion to announce the remission of the balance of the sentences being served by these two rapscallions. I am always in favour of \"showing mercy\" from strength, not weakness.\n\nYours sincerely,\n(A.L. Scott)\n\nN.L. Mayle, Esq.,\nColonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "15 \n\n3 \n\n`54297/1/47` \n\nDear Scott, \n\nColonial Office, Church House, \nGreat Smith Street, \nS.W.1. \n\n29th October, 1947. \n\nAns'd. (6) \n\n**Imprisonment of Two Members of Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps Hong Kong** \n\nOn the 29th September you sent us under cover of your reference `F.10701/376/10` copies of correspondence from Nanking including a copy of a letter which Lamb sent to MacDougall, in which he suggested that the unserved part of the sentences of these men might be remitted by Sir Alexander Grantham on assuming charge of the administration as an act of clemency and in token of goodwill. \n\nWhile fully appreciating all the difficulties in Nanking, I must confess that I was shocked and alarmed to see that this suggestion had been made in the circumstances described in Lamb's letter, and in particular after Vice-Minister George Yeh had made this the subject of a hysterical outburst which Lamb himself describes as, in fact, tantamount to blackmail tactics. \n\nThe exercise of the prerogative of mercy rests with the Governor, and the Secretary of State does not normally attempt to influence him. Nevertheless, I feel that the issues involved here are such that we ought to put our views in the matter to the Governor privately and ask him what action, if any, was taken on this suggestion. \n\nA. L. SCOTT, ESQ. \n\nI would",
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        "content_text": "I would accordingly propose to write a private letter to Sir Alexander Grantham, saying that we should be interested to hear what decision was taken on the suggestion and stating the objections which we see to it. The first is the implication that the remission of sentences for crimes committed in a British Colony is something that may be determined having regard to purely extraneous political considerations. Secondly, if the Governor were to remit the sentences after Vice-Minister George Yeh's display, it would be extremely difficult to convince the Chinese that this was not done as the result of his display, with the result that they would be encouraged to use similar tactics in the future, and, what is perhaps equally objectionable, would assume that we accepted political expediency as a reason for remission of sentences.\n\nBefore writing to Sir Alexander Grantham on the above lines, I should be very grateful for your views, both on Lamb's suggestion and the view which we have taken on that suggestion here.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n**Sąd.** (N.L. Mayle)\n\n16",
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        "content_text": "Wt. 23364/665, 8/47; 50,000. S. & S. Ltd\n\n54297/1/47\n\n? \n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Mayle\n\nMr. Daca\n\n7/10/47\n\n24.10.\n\nMr Gulwin 25/101.\n\nMr.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. S.\n\nMr.\n\n------------ \n\n**DRAFT. LETTER.**\n\n**Secretary of State:**\n\nYour Reference...... \n\nDeep. 29/10\n\n17\n\n5\n\n29th October 1947.\n\n**Imprisonment of Two Members of Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps in Hong Kong.**\n\nA.L. SCOTT, ESQ., \n\nFOREIGN OFFICE.\n\n**FURTHER ACTION.**\n\nOn the 29th September you sent us under cover of your reference `F.10701/376/10` copies of correspondence from Nanking including a copy of a letter which Lamb sent to MacDougall, in which he suggested that the unserved part of the sentences of these men might be remitted by Sir Alexander Grantham on assuming charge of the administration as an act of clemency and in token of goodwill.\n\nWhile fully appreciating all the difficulties in Nanking, I must confess that I was shocked and alarmed to see that this suggestion had been made in the circumstances described in Lamb's letter, and in particular after Vice-Minister George Yeh had made this the subject of a hysterical outburst which Lamb himself describes as, in fact, tantamount to blackmail tactics.\n\nThe exercise of the prerogative of mercy rests with the Governor, and the Secretary of State is not entitled to intervene. \n\nNevertheless, I feel that the external issues involved here are so serious that",
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        "content_text": "that we ought to put our views in the matter to the \nGovernor privately and ask him what action, if any, \nwas taken on this suggestion.\n\nI would accordingly propose to write a private letter to Sir Alexander Grantham, saying that we should be interested to hear what decision was taken on the suggestion and then proceeding to set out the objections which we see to it. The first is the implication that the remission of sentences for crimes committed in a British Colony is something that may be determined on grounds of political expediency. In our view the remission of sentences should be governed either by the general principles of penal administration or on the inherent merits of individual cases. It does not seem proper to take into account in assessing the merits of individual cases purely extraneous political considerations.\n\nSecondly, if the Governor were to remit the sentences after Vice-Minister George Yeh's display, it would be extremely difficult to convince the Chinese that this was not done as the result of his display, with the result that they would be encouraged to use similar tactics in the future, and what is perhaps equally objectionable, would assume that we accepted political expediency as a reason for remission of sentences.\n\nBefore writing to Sir Alexander Grantham on the above lines, I should be very grateful for your views, both on Lamb's suggestion and the view which we take on that suggestion here.",
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        "content_text": "## Mr. W. I. T. Wallace, Colonial Office \n\n19 \n\n`F12612/376/10` \n\n**WITH THE COMPLIMENTS** \n\nOF THE \n\n**SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS** \n\n44-4uette `F167011376/odis Ag.(3)` \n\nForeign Office, \n\nSept. 29th, 1947. \n\n`54207/114` \n\nTEL \n\nSUSEP 47 \n\nC. O. REGI \n\n32959--1",
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        "content_text": "No. 458 (10724/1082/47)\n\n## Nanking\n\nHIS Majesty's Ambassador at Nanking presents his compliments to H.M. Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit to him the under-mentioned documents.\n\nBritish Embassy, Nanking\n25th August, 1947\n\n### Reference to previous correspondence\n\n| Name and Date | Description of Enclosure |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | Copy of letter to Mr. MacDougall, Hong Kong from Mr. Lamb, Nanking, No.202 (10724/1082/47) |\n|  | Copy of letter from Colonial Secretariat, Hong Kong to Chancery, Nanking. No. 57, of the 7/8/47, Ref: 10/2706/27 |\n\n### Subject\n\nEnclosing copy of memorandum from British Embassy, Nanking to Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the subject of the arrest, trial and conviction of two members of the Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps.\n\n3479, 18997\n\nPage 20\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "No.208 (10724/1082/47)\n\nCopied to: \nChina Dept., F.O., No.458.\n\n**BRITISH EMBASSY**\n**NANKING**\n25th August, 1947.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n21\n\n(My dear MacDougall,)\n\nI enclose a copy of a further memorandum which we have addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the strength of the Chancery letter to Secretariat No.57 (10/2706/47) of the 7th August, in reply to the objections of the Chinese Government communicated to His Majesty's Embassy on the 3rd July on the subject of the arrest of the two members of the Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps. (Incidentally the Chancery letter under reply, I now find, was incorrectly dated June 19th; it should in fact have been July 19th.)\n\n2. I am not very happy about this our latest communication to the Ministry, or for that matter about the whole affair. Not that there can be any question about the men's guilt; whatever may have been their official mission, it is clear enough from the evidence that they were engaged in a piratical operation of their own (I take it that there is absolutely no doubt that the assault upon the junk did take place in Hong Kong waters). There is, however, in my opinion a weak link in our defences with regard to the agreement relating to the special treatment of armed forces, which makes our case at least vulnerable, and I can't honestly say that I am convinced by the Secretariat's comment that \"the irrelevancy was confirmed by the fact that the agreement was never invoked\", presumably at the time. This agreement certainly has been quoted since, though the Chinese arguments are somewhat confused.\n\n3. In any case, I am afraid that this incident may be worked up sooner or later as the basis of an attack upon Hong Kong. There is no doubt that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, perhaps under the usual pressure from the Overseas Affairs Commission or other violent Kuomintang organisations, are ready to make the most of it. For example, in the course of a long interview with Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, George Yeh, on 13th August, he subjected me to a decidedly fierce attack about this case, which he used as a focus, or one of them, of a tirade against Hong Kong and all the Colony's works, threatening publicity etc. He simply refused to listen to reason. This is of course no justification for us in any way modifying our stand, and certainly I have no sympathy for this work of hysterical outburst, which is in fact tantamount to blackmail tactics. I am, however, thinking in terms of expediency with a view to the future and wondering, therefore, whether as a matter of practical politics we should not consider the possibility of eliminating a potential source of trouble and embarrassment. What I had in mind was...\n\nD. M. MacDougall, Esquire, C.M.G.,\nColonial Secretariat,\nHong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "## \nwhether it might be feasible and acceptable for His Excellency The Governor to remit the unserved part of their sentence as an act of clemency and in token of goodwill on assuming charge of the Administration. Such a gesture might have considerable psychological value in advance of His Excellency's visit to Nanking when the question might well be raised during his calls upon the principal Chinese Government officials. At any rate I submit this thought for your consideration.\n\n(Yours ever,)\n\n(L. H. LAMB)",
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        "content_text": "0.462(`10724/1082/47`)\n\nCopied to: \nMr. MacDougall, Hong Kong.\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Embassy present their compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and have the honour to refer to the Ministry's memorandum Ou Series No. 36/13901 of the 3rd July on the subject of the arrest, trial and conviction of two members of the Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps.\n\nThe Embassy have the honour to observe that it has been confirmed from the Hong Kong Government that the acts for which the two men were tried were proved in a properly constituted Court of Law by a judge sitting with a jury to have been committed within the territorial waters of Hong Kong and to be contrary to the laws of that territory. The right and competence of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in respect of illegal acts done anywhere within the boundaries of Hong Kong whether on land or water cannot be questioned. The jurisdiction of the Hong Kong Courts of Justice in the present case is therefore clearly established.\n\nAs the Embassy previously informed the Ministry, the individuals concerned were found guilty of acts of armed violence with intent to rob which would in itself indicate that they could not at the time have been engaged in carrying out the orders of their superiors. Moreover the records show that the junk which the men attacked was loaded with fish and no evidence appears to have been adduced at any time to establish the allegation that it was engaged in smuggling rice into or out of Chinese territory.\n\nIn view... \n23",
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        "content_text": "20\n\nIn view of the prevalence of piracy in the surrounding waters the Embassy feel sure that the Ministry will agree that the Hong Kong Government would as a matter of principle be justified in taking a grave view of irresponsible movements of armed men in their territorial waters.\n\n**A.**  \n**BRITISH EMBASSY**  \n**NANKING**  \n**25th August, 1947.**\n\n24",
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        "title": "CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947",
        "content_text": "# No. 10/2706/47\nNo. 57\n\n**COLONIAL SECRETARIAT**, Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong.\n\n7th August, 1947.\n\n25\n\nDear Chancery,\n\nThank you for your note No. 167 of 19th June, 1947 enclosing a copy of the communication from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the conviction of the two members of the Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps.\n\nWe would be content with a polite rejection of their somewhat startling contention that the Supreme Court of Hong Kong had no jurisdiction. It will be recalled that the acts on which the two Peace Preservation Corps men were tried and convicted were proved to have been committed within the Colony's territorial waters and were contrary to the laws of Hong Kong. Although we agree with the Ministry concerning the irrelevancy of the informal agreement (the irrelevancy being confirmed, if it needed confirming, by the fact that the agreement was never invoked) we are at a loss to suggest any very novel reply to the Ministry. It would perhaps be well to leave the Ministry under no illusion regarding the power of the Supreme Court concerning illegal acts done anywhere in the Colony or the waters thereof.\n\nThe Chancery,\nBritish Embassy,\nNANKING.\n\nYours ever,\n**SECRETARIAT**",
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        "content_text": "Mr. A.N. Galsworthing, Colonial Office.\n\n`(F10701/376/10)`\n\n**WITH THE COMPLIMENTS  \nOF THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE  \nFOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS**  \n\n26  \n\nReference:  \nCopies also sent to:  \n--  \nForeign Office,  \nAug. 15th 1947  \n8B  \n`[33842]`",
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        "title": "CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947",
        "content_text": "No. 167 (`9230/1032/47`)\n\nCopied to: -\n\nForeign Office No. 313\n`F10701/376/10`\n\n**BRITISH EMBASSY,**\nNANKING,\n19th June, 1947.\n\n27 copy for Co. (Mr. A.N. Galsworthy)\n\nDear Colonial Secretariat,\n\nOur despatch No. 117 of the 4th of June enclosing a copy of a note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the conviction in the Hong Kong court of two Chinese members of the Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps found guilty of using arms with violent intent and without license.\n\nThe reply from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of which we enclose a copy in translation, seems to us to be rather a feeble effort. As far as the irrelevance of the informal agreement is concerned we feel we can accept this contention, since it is in our interest to do so. If we do however, then the second argument adduced by the Chinese is clearly a non sequitur.\n\nWe should however be glad to learn in due course what reply you would wish us to return to this note.\n\n(2)\n\nColonial Secretariat,\nHONGKONG.\n\nYours ever,\nCHANCERY.",
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        "title": "CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947",
        "content_text": "## Memorandum from Ministry of Foreign Affairs to H.B.M. Embassy\n\nDated & despatched 3/7/47 Received 12/7/47\n\nNo. `Ou 36/13901`\n\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs present their compliments to H.B.M. Embassy and have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the Embassy memorandum No.299 of 4th June regarding the sentences of imprisonment passed by the Hong Kong Court on two soldiers of the Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps.\n\nRegarding the statement in the Embassy's memorandum referred to above that the informal agreement concluded during the war between the Chinese and British authorities granting extraterritorial status to Chinese troops moving through Hong Kong lapsed on 27th February, the Ministry consider that this agreement has nothing to do with the case in question, because it concerned questions of offenses committed at Hong Kong by Chinese troops in transit, while the present case is one in which Chinese soldiers were carrying out official duties in a Chinese Government vessel; as they were not troops in transit through Hong Kong and had not committed any criminal act in Hong Kong or elsewhere in China, the agreement is not relevant to the case. Furthermore, this incident occurred on 6th February, which even from the standpoint of the British authorities was within the period of validity of the agreement. The Chinese Government consider that the Hong Kong Government had no authority in this matter and the Hong Kong Court **a fortiori** no jurisdiction; as already stated in the Ministry's memorandum No.`Cu 9167` of 5th May, they are unable to recognize any decision of the Hong Kong Court in regard thereto. Since, according to the Embassy's memorandum, the status of the Chinese soldiers has been recognized, it is quite clear that the Hong Kong Court have no jurisdiction in the case. It is requested that the Embassy will refer to all the relevant memoranda of the Ministry and will without delay request the Hong Kong Government to release the soldiers forthwith so that Sino-British friendship may be maintained.\n\nIt is requested that the Embassy will take action accordingly and return a reply.\n\n**(STAMPED) MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS**",
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        "content_text": "## The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office 2\n\nWith the Compliments of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.\n\n`F8H64 346/10`\nReference: `FO 29 54297/1/47`\nJune Letter of 5th (`F4419/346/10`)\n\nCopies also sent to:\n| Office |\n|--------|\n| Admiralty |\n| War Office |\n| Air Ministry |\n| Home Office |\n| Dominions Office |\n| Colonial Office |\n| India Office |\n| Burma Office |\n| Treasury |\n| Board of Trade |\n| Trading with the Enemy Department |\n\nForeign Office. 30th June, 1947.\n\n**RECEIVED**\n1 - JUL 1947\n`C. O. REGY 32653`",
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        "content_text": "No. 299 (`7252/1082/47`)\n\nCopied to:-\n \nForeign office No. 436\nHong Kong No. 117\n\n30\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Embassy present their compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and have the honour to acknowledge receipt of the Ministry's memorandum No. Wai 36/11137 of the 28th May regarding the case of the conviction in the Hong Kong Courts of two Chinese members of the Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps found guilty of using arms with violent intent and without licences.\n\nHis Majesty's Embassy duly appreciate that the two convicted persons have been recognised by the Chinese authorities as members of the Chinese military forces. Whereas, however, jurisdiction over Chinese soldiers in Hong Kong was handed over to the Chinese authorities during the war period as an emergency measure for special purposes under an informal Agreement between the British and Chinese authorities, the British authorities gave notice of the termination of this Agreement on the 27th February of this year, whereupon the position reverted to normal and Chinese Service personnel once again became subject to the jurisdiction of the Courts of the Island.\n\nCopies of letters addressed by His Majesty's Consul-General in Canton to General Chang Fa-kwei and the Special Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announcing the termination of the Agreement are enclosed by way of confirmation. A copy of a letter which Sir Mark Young wrote to General Lo Cho-ying which has a bearing on this aspect of the matter is also attached for the Ministry's information.\n\nThe Embassy are at the same time communicating to the Government of Hong Kong a copy of the Ministry's memorandum under reference.\n\n**BRITISH EMBASSY,**\n\nNANKIN,\n\n4th June, 1947.\n\nPage 30\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG, 12th May, 1947.\n\n## 31\n\nMy dear General Lo Cho-ying,\n\nSince you mentioned to me during my visit to Canton the case of the two Po on Peace Preservation Corps men who were tried and sentenced to terms of imprisonment in Hong Kong in connection with the Deep Bay shooting incident last February, I have again considered the matter.\n\n2. It is true that in accordance with the understanding embodied in the recently terminated informal agreement for the surrender of military personnel, I have in the past handed over for trial by the Chinese authorities persons committing offences in this Colony, when I have been satisfied, before their cases came up for trial in the Hong Kong courts, that the Chinese authorities wished to hold the trial themselves on the ground that the offenders were members of the Chinese armed forces. In the case of these two men the provisions of the informal agreement were not invoked by the Chinese authorities and although certain representations were made on their behalf it was not urged that they were regular soldiers whose cases might have been dealt with under the agreement or that if they were released by the Hong Kong authorities they would be tried in China. Consequently the trial took place in the Hong Kong Courts and the men have been convicted by the Supreme Court of this Colony and sentenced to four years imprisonment.\n\n3. Both Colonel Hem Locke, when I saw him on April 25th, and you yourself have now suggested to me that although the men have been convicted and sentenced it might still be possible for them to be handed over to the Chinese authorities on the analogy of the informal agreement, as being members of the Chinese armed forces. I am very sorry not to be able to comply with the request that these men, who have been convicted of a very serious offence of a sort that we are doing everything in our power to stamp out, should be handed over before they have served the sentences which have been imposed upon them. These sentences, as I informed Colonel Locke, seem to me to have been by no means excessive, considering the gravity of the offence.\n\n4. It would have been very gratifying to me if before my departure from Hong Kong I had been able to comply with a request of yours, and I feel sure you will appreciate that I should have done so if it had been at all possible.\n\nWith very kind regards and assurances of goodwill,\n\nYours sincerely,\nM. YOUNG.\n\nHis Excellency General Lo Cho-ying,\nGovernor of Canton,\nCANTON",
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        "content_text": "Ref. `(19/72-6/47)`\n\n**British**\n\n**Consulate-General,**\n\n**Canton,**\n\n27th February, 1947.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to enclose herewith a copy of a letter which I have this day sent to His Excellency General Chang Fa-kuei concerning the termination of the movement of Chinese troops through Hong Kong and of the informal arrangement connected therewith whereby Chinese military exercised jurisdiction over such service personnel passing through the Colony.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\n(signed)\nYour obedient servant,\n**RONALD HALL**\nConsul-General\n\nSpecial Commissioner for Foreign Affairs,\n**CANTON**.\n\n32",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nRef. `(20/72-6/47)`\n\n**British Consulate-General,**\n\n**Canton,**\n\n27th February, 1947.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform Your Excellency that I am in receipt of a communication from His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong concerning the arrangement made after the termination of hostilities for providing facilities for the passage of a large number of Chinese troops through the Colony for redeployment to North China and to an informal understanding come to in this connection whereby Chinese military exercised jurisdiction over Chinese service personnel while in Hong Kong.\n\n2.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong wishes me to request Your Excellency to draw the attention of any Chinese officers who may be concerned to the fact that now that these troop movements have ceased the informal arrangement referred to above, of course, also ceases, and Chinese service personnel who may happen to be in Hong Kong, now that conditions are again normal, are subject to the normal jurisdiction of the Courts of Hong Kong as was, in fact, the case prior to the outbreak of hostilities.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Excellency's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\n(signed)\n\n**RONALD HALL**\n\nConsul-General.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nGeneral Chang Fa-kwei,\n\nPresident's Canton Headquarters,\n\nCANTON.\n\nPage 33",
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        "content_text": "## \nGalaworthy, Eng., \nColonial Office \n\nWith the Compliments \nof the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. \n\n`F74619/376/10` \n\n**Reference:-** \n34 \n\nCopies also sent to: \n| Office |\n|--------|\n| Admiralty |\n| War Office |\n| Air Ministry |\n| Home Office |\n| India Office |\n| Burma Office |\n| Treasury |\n| Board of Trade |\n| Dominions Office |\n| Colonial Office |\n| Trading with the Enemy Department |\n| Foreign Office |\n\nJUN 8 194... \nD \nBOJUN • 32653",
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        "content_text": "262(6160/1082/47).\n\nHong Kong No. 95  \nForeign Office 8/0 322  \n35  \n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Embassy present their compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the Ministry's Memoranda No. 36/8804 and 36/9167 of April 30th and May 5th respectively on the subject of the arrest by the Hong Kong authorities of two armed Chinese nationals in connection with a shooting affray at sea in the vicinity of the island.\n\nThe contents of these two memoranda have been duly noted and are being communicated to the Government of Hong Kong for their information. As stated, however, in Mr. Labouchere's letter to Dr. Yeh of 25th April, the case has been duly tried in a properly constituted court of law and on the evidence produced, the two Chinese have been found guilty by a jury of assault with intent to rob, shooting with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and possession of arms and ammunition without licence. In the circumstances, it is not within the ability or competence of the Embassy to express an opinion in the matter, particularly as they have no first-hand knowledge of the facts. They would nonetheless at least suggest that the exact place and circumstances of the affray would be material factors and that in any case, even if a plea of superior orders were sustainable, it would have to be proved that the act in question (and its time, place, and objective) was in direct response to specific orders. In this connection, it has already been stated that the Governor of Hong Kong sees no reason to doubt the soundness of the decision reached at the Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court on 22nd March. The Ministry will, moreover, have duly considered the letters addressed on behalf of the Hong Kong Colonial Secretary to the Secretary of the office of the Commissioner for Kwangtung and Kwangsi on 20th February and 13th March, which explain the reasons for which the Government of Hong Kong were not in a position to respond to the latter's request for the release of the two men concerned or for the handing over of the crew of the junk also involved in the incident.\n\nIn the communication of March 13th, it was stated in this latter connection that three fishermen suspected of being responsible for the shooting of the two dead companions of the two men concerned had been charged with manslaughter and with possession of arms without licences in the New Territories and therefore in the jurisdiction of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Embassy are at the same time able to assure the Ministry that the Hong Kong Government are fully prepared to meet the desires of the Chinese authorities with regard to the return of the weapons stated to be the property of the Kwantung Peace Preservation Corps and have already in fact given instructions for them to be handed over to Dr. I.N. Kwok for transmission to the interested authorities.\n\n**BRITISH EMBASSY,**\n\n**HANKOW,**\n\n14th May, 1947",
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        "content_text": "# Nanking to Hong Kong, No. 112\n\n**TELEGRAM SENT:**\n\nDespatched: 7.4.47\n\nNanking\n\nFrom: Stevenson  \nTo: \n\n**Cypher.**\n\nHong Kong (Confirmatory copy by bag)\n\nDirector of European Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed member of H.M. Embassy verbally April 3rd of report that four Chinese soldiers had been overpowered near Hong Kong by smugglers whom they had been sent to capture and that two of the soldiers had been killed and the other two had been delivered by smugglers to British Authorities at Pingshan by whom they were being held for trial on charges of robbery and carrying firearms without license.\n\n2. Ministry of Foreign Affairs request release of two soldiers and return of their firearms and equipment and state that in due course they may demand extradition of one of smugglers named Wong Pui.\n\n3. News item in North China Daily News April 3rd quotes denial by Ministry of Foreign Affairs source that any protest regarding what is obviously same incident has been forwarded to Government of Hong Kong by Kwangtung Provincial Authorities. Same source is also quoted as commenting that no provincial authority is entitled to lodge protests in matters involving international relations and that \"incident itself was regarded as trifling one and would no doubt be settled shortly by direct negotiations\".\n\n4. Circumstances suggest that Ministry of Foreign Affairs are not sure of their grounds but I would be grateful for your advice as to what to reply.\n\n**STEVENSON.**\n\n36",
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        "content_text": "# TRANSIATION \n\n37 \n\nfrom Ministry of Foreign Affairs to H.B.M. Embassy \n\nDated and despatched 5/5/47 \n\nNo. `Ou 36/9167` \n\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs present their compliments to H.B.M. Embassy and have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Labouchere's letter of 25th April to Dr. George Yeh, on the subject of an attack by a smuggling boat on soldiers of the Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps, of whom two were captured.\n\nThe Ministry have the honour to observe that the two Chinese mentioned in Mr. Labouchere's letter are soldiers of the Kwangtung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps who were wearing uniforms and badges. Soon after the occurrence of this affair, representatives were despatched jointly by the Office of the Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs for Kwangtung and Kwangsi and the Kwangtung Provincial Reconstruction Headquarters to certify to the Hong Kong Government the identity of the soldiers. After the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had received a detailed report from the competent authorities, a memorandum was addressed to the Embassy requesting that the Governor of Hong Kong should be moved to effect the immediate release of the two Chinese soldiers who were under detention. That the Hong Kong Government persist in regarding these Chinese regular soldiers, whose identity has more than once been confirmed, as smugglers, and have sentenced them to terms of imprisonment, while the smugglers go free and unpunished, is a matter for profound regret.\n\nAccording to international practice, soldiers of one country cannot be arrested, tried or punished by the government of another country for any actions done in the course of carrying out their orders. Considering the serious nature of this case, the Ministry desire specifically to inform the Embassy that they entirely refuse to recognise the sentences passed on the Chinese soldiers by the Hong Kong Court. At the same time, it is requested that the Embassy will take serious note of the case and will immediately telegraph to the Hong Kong Government asking them to take effective action in accordance with the requests put forward in the Ministry's memorandum No. `On 8804` of 30th April. A reply is requested.\n\n**(STAMPED) MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS**",
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        "page_number": 38,
        "title": "CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947",
        "content_text": "## \n38 \n\nLubes ey \n\nketor; näum from Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ...\n\nDespatched 3./4/47 \n\nNo.Qu 36/0004 \n\nX \n\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs present their compliments to His Excellency and, with reference to Ministry's memorandum No.Cu 7007 of 5th April concerning the case of the soldiers of the Kwangtung Provincial Garrison Forces who were attacked by smuggling ships, have the honour to state that a detailed report has been received from the competent authorities to the following effect: \n\nOn 6th February, Lance-Corporal Kuo Keling-min, superior close soldier Yeh Ch'I-hun, 1st class soldier Tan Kai-sheng and 2nd class soldier Mu Awei-sheng, all of the 1st Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the Peace Preservation Corps at Shwachun, carrying one light machine gun, three rifles, and one rifle grenade magazine, in execution of orders received, boarded a boat to seize rice smuggling ships on the sea near Pei Shih Chou, which is within Chinese territorial waters. They met two small smuggling vessels and ordered them to stop for inspection. The small vessels disregarded the order and proceeded straight towards, and berthed alongside, a three-masted vessel which was lying at anchor. Before the boat in which Kuo Keling-min and the other soldiers were embarked had approached near to these vessels, the three-masted ship fired first with a native gun at their boat. At the same time, the two smuggling vessels turned back, closed in on and attacked the boat. As the attack was unexpected, Kuo Keling-min and Yeh Ch'1-hun were killed. Tan Kai-sheng and Mu Awei-sheng, the remaining two soldiers, together with the weapons, were captured by the three-masted vessel, which sailed into Hong Kong waters. The master of the vessel handed over the captives and weapons to the Police Station at Tsinghai, Hong Kong, and falsely accused Kuo Keling-min and the three other soldiers at the local court at Tai Po of the charge of smuggling firearms and attempted arson in Hong Kong waters. \n\nThe Ministry wish to call the attention of the Embassy to the following points: \n| Point | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | The four soldiers of the Peace Preservation Corps were under orders to carry out preventive duties and wore uniforms and badges; |\n| (2) | These soldiers were pursuing smuggling vessels owned and piloted by Chinese nationals within Chinese territorial waters; |\n| (3) | The smuggling vessel fired first, killed two Peace Corps soldiers, and captured two others. |\n\nAccording to international practice, soldiers of one country cannot be tried by the government of another country for any actions done in the course of carrying out their orders. The Chinese Government are therefore greatly surprised and cannot but regret that, according to a report, the Hong Kong Court should have passed sentence of imprisonment on the two surviving soldiers of the Peace Preservation Corps. It is accordingly requested that the Embassy negotiate by telegram for the immediate release of the detained soldiers, Kuo Keling-min and Tan Kai-sheng (not Yeh Ch'i-hun as cited in error in the Ministry's memorandum of 5th April) and for the return of all the weapons which they carried. \n\nThe",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nThe Ministry wish further to observe that Huang Pei, master of the smuggling ship, and his party, who are all Chinese nationals, or being pursued within Chinese territorial waters openly fired guns, refused to be captured and killed Chinese soldiers, they should naturally be severely punished. When the judicial authorities have completed the necessary arrangements, a formal request will be made by the Ministry for their extradition.\n\nIt is requested that the Embassy will take notice accordingly and return a reply.\n\n**(STAMPED) MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS**",
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        "content_text": "No. 22 (10/2706/47)\n\nCopied to:-\nConsulate General Canton No. 23\n\n**COLONIAL SECRETARIAT**\nLOWER ALBERT ROAD,\nHONG KONG.\n\n13th March, 1947.\n\nDear Chancery,\n\nWe forward herewith for your information\ncopies of correspondence with the office of the Special\nCommissioner for Kwangtung & Kwangsi, Hong Kong, together\nwith a police report dated 8th February, 1947, relating\nto the detention of two Chinese soldiers in the New\nTerritories.\n\nThe British Embassy,\nNANKING.\n\nYours ever,\n**SECRETARIAT**.\n\nPage 40\nPage 41",
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        "content_text": "# \n## \n### \n\n(10/2706/47)\n\nSir,\n\n13th March, 1947.\n\n41\n\nI am directed to refer to your memorandum No. 36/448 of 4th March, 1947, on the subject of the detention of two Chinese soldiers in the New Territories and to inform you that the following two persons, namely, Ng Kwai Sang, aged 28, and Yip Kai Wun, aged 19, now stand committed for trial on charges of assault with intent to rob, shooting with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and possession of arms without a licence.\n\nIt is expected that an early date will be fixed for the trial at the March Sessions of the Supreme Court, Hong Kong.\n\nWong Kan, Wong Mun, and Wong Cheung, who are fishermen owning and operating Macao-registered fishing junk No. `9326A` \"Ngan Lee\", armed with five cannon and five rifles, which are not covered by Hong Kong licences, and who claim that they were delivering their catch to Un Long in the New Territories when attacked by persons whom they thought to be robbers, have been charged with manslaughter and with possession of arms without licences.\n\nAs the incidents which are the subject of the prosecutions described above occurred within the jurisdiction of this Colony, I am to express regret that it is not feasible to accede to the requests of the Governor of Kwangtung as transmitted in your memorandum under reference.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n(signed) P.C.M. Sedgwick\nfor Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Secretary,\nThe Office of the Commissioner for Kwangtung and Kwangsi,\nMinistry of Foreign Affairs,\nHONG KONG.",
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        "content_text": "# Memorandum No. 36/448\n## Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office of the Commissioner for Kwangtung and Kwangsi\n### Hong Kong 4th March, 1947\n\nTo:  \n**The Colonial Secretary**, Colonial Secretariat, Lower Albert Road, HONG KONG.\n\n42\n\n## Re: Detention of Chinese Soldiers in the New Territories\n\nWith reference to our memoranda Nos. `36/332` and `36/405` of the 12th and the 24th February, 1947, respectively on the above subject, I am directed to inform you that this office is now in receipt of a further communication (`Tai-tien No. 52801` of the 22nd of February, 1947) from the Governor of Kwangtung, transmitting that according to findings submitted to the Governor, the smuggling junk which had attacked the patrol party on the date concerned has been verified to be a three-mast junk carrying Macao Licence No. `9326A` and owned by its master by the name of Wong Pui. In light of the present findings, the Government of Kwangtung has demanded in his communication that the Government of Hong Kong be good enough to effect not only the release of the Chinese soldiers concerned together with their arms and equipment but also the handing over of Wong Pui and his accomplices and his junk to the Chinese authorities for trial to be conducted in Canton.\n\nIn addition to the above communication, this office is also in receipt of official letter No. `6610` of the 24th of February, 1947, from the Headquarters of the Kwangtung Peace Preservation Corps, confirming that the armed smuggling junk concerned in the present case had actually engaged in smuggling activities in Chinese waters through unlawful possession of arms on board.\n\nIn view of the above finding, I am therefore to request that the Government of Hong Kong be good enough to attend to the present case as requested by the Governor of Kwangtung through expediting the release of the two Chinese soldiers",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n43 soldiers together with their arms and equipment and the handing over the junk-master Wong Pui (**黃沛**) together with his accomplices and the junk for court trial to be conducted in Canton.\n\nCOPY NO. `6251/45TS`\n\nSir,\n(signed) C.Y. LIANG\nSecretary.\n3rd March, 1947.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge receipt of your Memorandum No. `36/405` of 24th February, 1947, relating to Detention of Chinese Soldiers in the New Territories, and to invite your attention to my letter No. `6251/45TS` of 20th February, 1947.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,\n(signed) P.C.M. SEDOWICK\nColonial Secretary.\n\nThe Secretary,\nOffice of the Special Commissioner\nfor Kwangtung & Kwangsi,\nChinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs,\nHong Kong\n\np. 1",
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        "title": "CO129-613-6 Arrest of members of the Kwang Tung Provincial Peace Preservation Corps 10-1-1947 - 25-11-1947",
        "content_text": "## Memorandum No. 36/406\nTo:  \nThe Colonial Secretary, Colonial Secretariat, HONG KONG,  \n\nMinistry of Foreign Affairs  \nOffice the Commissioner for Kwangtung & Kwangsi.  \nHong Kong 25th February, 1947.  \n\nRe: Your letter No. `6251/45TS` of 20/2/47  \n\nI am to acknowledge the receipt of the above letter on the subject of the detention of the two members of the Kwangtung Peace Preservation Corps.  \n\nCOPY  \n(signed) **C.Y. LIANG**  \nSecretary.  \n\n## Memorandum No. 36/405\nMinistry of Foreign Affairs  \nOffice of the Commissioner for Kwangtung & Kwangsi  \nHong Kong 24th Feb., 1947.  \n\nTo:  \nThe Colonial Secretary, Colonial Secretariat, Lower Albert Road, HONG KONG  \n\nRe: Detention of Chinese Soldiers in the New Territories:  \n\nFurther to our Memorandum No. `36/332` of the 12th of February, 1947, on the above subject, I am directed to inform you that this office is now in receipt of a communication (`Tai-tien No. 52669` of the 15th February, 1947) from the Governor of Kwangtung, confirming that the two Chinese soldiers detained in the New Territories are members of the Kwangtung Peace Preservation Corps detailed for preventive duties on the Border and requesting that the Government of Hong Kong be good enough to effect the immediate release of these two members together with their arms and equipment for handing over to the representative of the Provincial Government now detailed in Hong Kong.\n\nIn the said communication, the Provincial Government of Kwangtung has further pointed out that while there is now obviously no difficulty for the Government of Hong Kong to accept the fact that these Chinese soldiers were carrying out their duties at the time when they were ambushed and overpowered, there should be no further ground for the Government of Hong Kong to withhold the release of these members of the Chinese Government Armed Forces on the mere pretext that they were charged for armed robbery by junkmen who are armed smugglers themselves.\n\nIn view of the above clarification of the fact, I am therefore to request that the Government of Hong Kong be good enough to effect the immediate return over of these two Chinese soldiers together with their arms and equipment as requested by the Provincial Government and to favour this Office with an early reply.\n\nWe are sure that in no way will the Government of Hong Kong tolerate, harbour or protect any smuggler.\n\n(signed) **C.Y. LIANG**  \nSecretary.",
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        "content_text": "# 6251/45TS\n\n20th February, 1947.\n\n## 45\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to refer to your memorandum `36/322` of 12th February, and to the discussion which took place this morning between Mr. Wu of your office, Mr. Kwong Fai Nam and Mr. Holmes of this Secretariat on the subject of the detention of the two members of the Kwangtung Peace Preservation Corps who were recently charged with armed robbery.\n\nThis matter is still under investigation. The evidence now in the hands of the Police indicates that there will be a case for the two men at present in custody to answer in the courts. Mr. Wu was understood to inform Mr. Holmes that according to information in his possession the Peace Preservation Corps guards were carrying out an anti-smuggling patrol at sea and had inadvertently entered British waters in pursuit of a sampan which they wished to search when they were attacked by a junk. No evidence in support of this version of the incident has so far come into the hands of the Police. Any such evidence which there may be will no doubt be produced when the case comes up for trial. In the meanwhile I am to inform you that in view of the serious nature of the charge it is regretted that it is not possible to consider the withdrawal of the charge or the release of the two men.\n\nWhen the case next comes up before the Kowloon Magistracy it will of course be open to the men to apply to be released on bail but it should be understood that in cases of this nature it is generally considered that there are good grounds for the Police to oppose the application.\n\nWith regard to the weapons which were handed over to the Police as a result of the incident in question, it is understood that these form material evidence in the case and must be retained as exhibits until the case has been heard.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour obedient servant,\n**(signed) P.C.M. SEDGWICK.**\n\np. Colonial Secretary.\n\nOffice of the Special Commissioner for Kwangtung & Kwangsi,\nChinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HONG KONG",
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        "content_text": "# Memorandum No. 36/322\n\n**Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office of the Commissioner for Kwangtung & Kwangsi**\n\nHong Kong 12th February, 1947.\n\nTo:\n\nThe Hon. D.M. MacDougall, C.M.G  \nColonial Secretary  \nColonial Secretariat, HONG KONG\n\nRe: Detention of Chinese Soldiers in the New Territories.\n\nI am directed to inform you that this office is in receipt of a letter of the 10th February, 1947, from Mr. Chiu Ching-Chiu (), a member of the Kwangtung Provincial Government detailed at Shumchun for the prevention of rice smuggling from Chinese Territory, in which he refers to the detention of two Chinese soldiers in the New Territories on the 6th of February, 1947, following a reported incident which took place at a point called Pak Shek Chow () on the Border.\n\nAccording to the letter of Mr. Chiu, on the 6th of February he had sent a party of four Chinese soldiers to proceed by a small craft to Pak Shek Chow, where rice smuggling was reported. Unfortunately, this party was ambushed and fired upon by smugglers from one large and two small junks. As a result of the attack by the smugglers, one sampanman was wounded and two of the Chinese soldiers were killed. The remaining two Chinese soldiers were detained in the New Territories. It was learnt that they were sent to the Fingshan Police Station and later transferred to the Taipo Magistracy on the 8th February. Their names are: Ip Kai-wun () and Wu Kwei-sang ().\n\nMr. Chiu has already reported this incident to the Kwangtung Provincial Government by telegram, and I shall be grateful if you will be good enough to investigate into this matter and to furnish this office full particulars of your findings. An early reply from you on this matter will be appreciated.\n\n(signed) C.Y. Liang  \nSecretary.",
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        "content_text": "# 47\n\n## Subject: Gun Battle in Deep Bay\n## From: 9.8.P./K\n## To: Hon. C.P.\n\nPolice Headquarters, Kowloon. Date: 8th February, 1947.\n\n1. On 6/2/47 at approximately 1200 hours, Junk No. 9326A, Macau licensed and also licensed by Macau to carry cannon and rifles, entered the mouth of Deep Bay. The master stated that this was his first visit to British waters for some considerable time.\n\n2. The junk was loaded with fish destined for Un Long Market. At 1230 hours, the master sent six junk fokis, all unarmed, with a sampan load of fish with instructions to proceed up Un Long Creek to the market. When the sampan was about 400 yards distant from the junk, a second sampan fitted with a sail and cover over the rear portion approached and the occupants shouted out to the junk sampan crew, ordering them to come alongside and give them some fish. The junk sampan immediately turned about and rowed back towards the junk, pursued by the second sampan, which then opened fire. The brother of the junk master immediately returned the fire with a rifle from the junk to cover the retreat of his sampan, which eventually reached the junk in safety with no injury to the crew.\n\n3. A running battle between the junk and the sampan continued for approximately two hours, during which the junk was heavily machine-gunned from the sampan. Eventually, the junk master decided that matters had gone far enough and fired a cannon ball at the sampan, which missed by 400 yards but apparently terrified the occupants of the sampan, who immediately surrendered.\n\n4. The junk master sent a sampan to take the other boat in tow, and, going aboard, they found two dead men in Po On Peace Preservation Corps uniform, two further uninjured men in uniform, and two fishermen, one of whom was wounded. The occupants of one sampan stated that the four uniformed men had seized their sampan and compelled them to row out into Deep Bay, where they had robbed a second sampan and were about to do a third robbery when the big junk intervened.\n\n5. Unfortunately, the junk master released one sampan and crew, who sailed away and cannot be located. He then took the other sampan in tow and sailed to Lau Fau Shan, where he went ashore and reported at Ping Shan Police Station.\n\n6. Police found two dead Po On Peace Preservation Corps guards on board with a Japanese Bren gun, a rifle mortar, two rifles, a mortar shell, and a quantity of ammunition.\n\n7. The two surviving guards, who belonged to No. 1 Troop, Kwangtung Peace Preservation Corps stationed at Sha Tsui near ...",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nThe mouth of the Shum Chun River have been arrested and charged with armed robbery.\n\nThe junk has been taken round in Police custody to Yaumati.\n\n(signed) G.S. WILSON\n`88P/K`\n48\n\nEnd",
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