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        "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]",
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        "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "The Hongkong Register. \n\n24 \n\nNO. 6. FEBRUARY 10, 1857. \n\nLeaving his shop, which was to be burned, to take While we cannot fail to admire the philosophic ed; a largeness of thought, which has some of the effect of lantry and self-devotion to which he pished briefly\n\nestrup They think in lakhs and pounds, of provinces advert. There were on board the Birkenhead, in að- sare itself, and carrying biz \"pate in peril\" into view which our contemporary tales of this as fut parishes, of populations and classes of society. Mondition to the soldiers, a number of women and children a place where it could be more easily cut off. To every other great question, we must confess our we have seen race to warm the Katrs se children, and sick persons. The discipline exhibited by the troops as the inference is natural, that he feared to lose selves at a loss in arriving at way thing like a Tinta Joelity, cannot regard & Katie war i\n\nwyl:tu-\n\nhis family, and knowing he would do so if he repractical solution of his vast problem. It is, in its purtent. Tee who saw a badron more numbered and while the vessel was going to pieces under their feet was efficient than that of the Mediterranean despatched to Kanot remarkable. The only boats available were filled mained here, unless he first of all lost his life, he present unwieldy hulk and shapeless outline, too goon sus phrase, canol consider air davedition to Naples with the women and children, und went off from the fled with them to save himself, taking with him, as many for ue. It is like the discovery of a new very exfestive effort. Even the advance of Rusis which ship's side; so that the officers Kil soldiers, remaining he supposed, the lives of a large number of foreign-planet outside all our known sidereal system, and which has seen the red ine in a single reigu embrace King means of safety, and, calm and motionless, awaited the swallows comicis in a year, per less strange to a public on deck, deliberately deprived themselves of their only ers as a peace offering to the Mandarins; perhaps which we must consequently take upon trust of doms grew in a Frapoan houseby. This disposition, sinking of the messe). Their noble conduct was well also calculating that in the event of the poison the mathematician's calculations. When the however, though wo adnit its advai rugs, las one very described by Captain Wright, one of the survivors, who\n\nserious drawback. It war's triday to their true proportion, carrying off a large number, he would be more Friend has added the three or four hundred but it blinds us somewhat to tou alcance of the events\n\nu a private letter, said that all the odiders received their with us mattips round 1, the said that all the odiders received their with us mattips round 1, the sunly vir rus taan indemnified for what he lost here. Waat he 1 millions of China, to the hundred and fly with Stienst the account of ties attack Chaton, que af bucking, lastead of going to she bottom; that, indeed, orders and had them carried out as if the men were êm-\n\nspeculded ist um 1 effeat at focision would exorci never saw an crabarkation conducted with such\n\nan\n\nthe boats were filled with women and children, and fer a war of conquest, the Exeter Hall wit be clamorets must inevitably be swamped if their living freight were\n\nwas to lose here was advanced as a reason why he millions of Hindostar, his aggregate becomes a was not likely to commit such a crime; it was ecraething so stupendous, that the very idea cakes n the opium trade Of de few who believe at Sir Johu absence of note and confusion at there was not a however shown, that he was nothing more than sa our breath away, especially if this heterogenous Bowring intends to keep the city, the majority regard the single ery or morietur from any of the men; but, just active, perhaps thriving tradeanan. We say. per- mass of peoples and tribes and nations, is expected as a lead to in inexplicable To Plori before the final plunge a suggestion having been made, polertiary it is said, can have a settled policy lie at that ail who could swim should jump overboard and join haps thriving tradesman, because it may be, that to cohere under the unity of the same Imperial ient is not infected by the with dreams of the? Friend of the boats, the officers begged them not to do so, because if he were able collect his recounts he would be Rule emanating from a geographical speck in the Indiu. aowa sled the Condly ental powera will not per in a position to pay the very heavy debts he owes. Northern seas at a disttee of ten thousandil us to hold land in Cia, Dist Pa-Esment, will not suf perhaps not. Hut, to continue with his statement, tuiles. It is true this is the age of wonders and against the frightful siaughter of them and brothers! Be increased, when the men replied by a cheer and only he takes bread to be consumed by his family on monster undertakings. We are told that distance fort is, and is; be, it is said, a mers provali, rifuru three of them attempted to reach the bonds (Heat the passage, and to be given away to his friendsinis anihilated. We are at this moment putting in the Earoy will not have the mears to follow our bear.) This net of chol keroism, which had been es\n\nIt may guntoran, Tha bombardment, and virtual timated at its full value, not in this country alone but lus native village. Strange to say his liberality in electric girdle around our Indian dominions, conquers of the third city in the wori thay be simply an abroad, and find done much to sustain, and even su czise, commences on board of the steamer, and we find which will virtually establish our imperial presence \"incident.\" The tempt to retain it may be premature, or the high character of our army for unflinching diset- biru cutting up the not very large supply of four at Calcutta and Delhi, and carry the imperial fiat may be overbell, or y bu rastrate by the Jealousy of\n\nother European powers. But it may also be, that another pline, was beyond all praise. This result was in a greet loaves among a dozen people! Then we are told for peace or war and all the main issues of gov stroke los sounlod of the great passing ball which this Can- incasure due to the efforts of Colonel Scatoo, who was he offered 50 and eventually $100 if the crument, to eur most distant borders, in less than sury is ringing veus the ions of the Bast. Bin your certainly no ordinary man, and who rare talent for own view of the subject is upon to grave question \"Sir gaining the effections of the soldiers unter his command steaner would go back to Hongkong that night, the fortieth part of \"forty minutes.\" Even at\n\nJohn Bowring, the qua phitose e Gadici, is not and moulding them to his will had trained these men, the offer being made after the fires were put out, the same put are the solitudes of the the great ways for the sake of falling on his face. most of whom were young and untried levies, to face It must have been one of Ahlum's unlucky days Euphrates Valley, hitherto but the lonely halting His sotions at least indicate something very like a settled danger and death with unshaken fortitude. (Hear, hear.) in which so many extraordinarily suspicioua cir- place of the wild Bedouin, being broken in upoti detuviction, Frau is not about to oppase, for the men of An equal meed was due to all the other officers and men cumstances were arrayed against him, though his by the heralds of our civilization, as they map it the grims were in the breach, and the Muleur values prosent on this trying. occasion, (Hear, hear.) The patente cordial. While France and England net in ect, youngest officer of the regiment, to whore life was full Inek certainly was in the ascendant on the trial, as it for that iron road which shall convey a future\n\nit masters very little whed the reader of Barope chriose of hope and promise, trod the deck by the side of his to fancy in the mater. Nor is it at certain that he blow the result shews. To go on to other points, we have British Viceroy within a week from St. Jamess to\n\ncommander with an em a step, and looked upon the will be misouderstand at home. Lord Palingesson is still first of all his numerous contradictory statement the Ganges.\n\nghastly horrors of death with as much travery and com- dietacor, and likely to remain no, and it was lord Palmer- as to whether ho was going, or not going to leav-\n\neton who said that one day we should be compelled to co-\n\nposure as those who had been longest ingred to peril ing Hongkong. He tells the public in a chop; i\n\nquer China\n\n(Haar.) He (Mr Gordon) did not think'it too late to That grent Seligious body which you call Exe fer Hall, and which when in earnest is evorger than a the\n\nmark the country's sense of the discipline and heroisuz of men who liad thus calmly sacrificed their lives la savo\n\nIt will no doubt be argued,-if we have thus\n\nJudia, while\n\nis not on the side of Manchester. Every religiosa peper others, and he therefore begged to put the question uf\n\nnien\n\nthat he feguing he tells people that he fears centralized our rule and comenlidated our power he must go, at the very time he had his worthy over the vast continent of India, giving the philosophers in the kingdes, on the snigeer of amuxation aid grandmother's letter in his pocket which ad- blessings of peace and goed government to itaf mack in England approves the unexation of Use. The which he had given notice. (Tere, hear.) vised him to remain, aud on which advice he said long oppressed and plundered races, shall we repeated murders of Missionaria, the prepetual insults co Sir G. Grey said that every one acqualated with dew he intended to act. We have bie final assertion | shrink from a similar mission upon thus, waere Christianity, avove ail de up-rising of a new high which,citemstances just described he his hon. friend must\n\nbe it what it may, is founded on the Bible, have borne teir\n\nIt la nut vo ceronic a many insgime that the len filly concur in the feeling tribute which he had paid to that he would not go home, and by way of every enormity of misrule and every phase of it.\"\n\nthe gallart and devoted band of British officers and adencher the purchase of a cargo of word; net social disruption and suffering, seem to cry aloud pounders even will protest. The sales about the mild Hit-\n\nwho lost their lives on the melancholy occasion of the withstanding all this he does go. He is brought to the Invader in the naine of our curamundou which slinded Fatope for half a centary, have never\n\nbeen circulated about the Chinese. That race is underated wreck of the Birkenhead. This act of cole daring, per- back, tried, and found not guilty, and the crime humanity; and shall we shrink from this great duty very nearly in its true character, as one in which disgusting furitest by men who were not inspired by the incentives\n\nuncenaid by a cruelty abhorrent the warat is now laid to the charge of two abeconding fore. solely through fear of offending political jeal seriguality\n\nor surmanded with the glory and excitement of the bat men, who, far any thing we see that could be! Ousica, and because of the sgnitude of the of the ropean peoples. It is just possible,we write in tlefield, bat under circumstances in which there were no mumise deference to the community who deals in api approving eyes to see them, deterred to equal measure brought against them, might return and take their enterprise? Its mognitede is, after all perhaps, that England say vitare le approve. And then-\n\nof admiration and gratitude with the brightest achieve. trial, in all confidence that the black deed could more Collossal than formidable. It may be that!\n\nIt is useless to predict, when the event inust so speedy ments in our military history. (Hear, hear.) With it will be found to lie cather in pussive bulk and falsify or realize all speculations. But if ever Cons of these sentiments Her Majesty's Guvernment were co- be proved by no evidence that would satisfy helpless inertia, than in any vigorous and intrinsic a failug Empire wore laiby on the fan of any land they tainly prepared to take into consideration the propriety jury of this place.\n\nThere is one consolatory point of view in this China would be but the double of what we have den up sing from below, but of its wir rotenness. The referred to. (Hear, hear.)-Times, July 19,\n\ngreatness. Numerically, the task before us in apparent in China gow, The Central Goverment is\n\nof erecting some permanent memorial of the description dying, not of any attack from without, ast event of any sad- had business, it is the fact, that the English public\n\nActually achieved are not bland thiresy, and that an Baglish jury effort it would seem to sink into insignificance in which, whatever the Manchester actout may say, a national Military people weighed down by their scaldbrug civilization have Just all the virtues which spring of strength, and without will do what it believes to be ste duty, even al though that inty may run counter, not only, to the comparison. We are year by year, doubling eztaremos a net posible. They have not even pride, for outside prefice, but even to the opinion of the and quadrupling with success, every domain of their exclusivisin is rather that of a Spanish aristoorsey than a healthy self-assertion, A new creed with some of our productive system; shall we then besitate, if the renate et Christianity and all the ferocity of Judziem judge on the bench. fa that view the trial is a great triumph. Perhaps the Chinese may not our Destiny thrust it upon us, to double the area is striving to attain dominion, as the Huguenots strove, and understand it, perhaps they may think that, what of cur Indo-deminions, and the census of unred. The sticial caste, selectal by competitive examira\n\nconquered populations? the Attorney Gencral happily designated judiciome prodigality\" may have bought justice to At present, however, all such magnificent con- turnside its blow-We cannot help that and must captions as these are remote and shadowy and so- trust to further teaching. In our first Burmese war the same brutal proceedings were carried on see our forces held at bay on the very threshaid of ash a handful of marines, is an fecere by the social ty time he has learned the value of a chapeau and sword, against as as are now being carried ou by the the Friend's great enterprise, the discussion of company predaniant for cudurfer, that it dare not even leave Since this zaemorable event, however, things have gone\n\nthe city til Fel ne given permansson. That ly to mu Chinese-poisoning and massaure-two years after quest seems premature. Still it is the first office thinking the frature of the recent angle. There are towar on asal. Nothing daunted, var countrymen #sad the commencement of that wor one of the ablest of the politician to forecast the future, especially in the world whose poputation would have forn Sir M. Say-still crowd the offices of the legations in London and Paris, chieftains, who had been among the moet ruthless on the eve of such an undertaking as we find our lab for lane. Tasre are tone the population of demand an introduction to Majesty. General Cad- of our opponents, issued an orier, that every before us at Canton, and in this view the disens- there is another town on earth in which a million of people, Dallas, sed made has appearance at court iu full military which would have'iled in parte terror. Bat we question if walleder, of Pennsylvania, has been presented by Mr. English soldier captured abonid be spared, and sion even of remote possibilitica can do no harm. with death raining over head, dared neither a fight car fly costume, wearing a badge of the Order of Cincinnati well treated. Let us hope we may have similar While we cannot follow our contemporary into Nothing but an iron social organization, noting on a rane half a yard sung No mistake about him. Another results from similar conduct in China.\n\nhis tremendous scheme of \"building up second produced such a result. Tits & resil Romsun Famples, an\n\ndeprived of the smallest capacity for Freedora. would have personage has also had his card endorsed by the cham- which cannot endace, berlain-Mr. Hart, of Philadelphia--and he had the\n\nAMERICAN PRESENTATIONS AT European Courte\n\nThe following appears In the New York Herald :— By the last accounts from Europo we learn there has been no new phase at court of an alarming character. The peace of the world not having been disturbed by tien. has all the cold cruelty of the doctrinaires hour thus Rystem fosters without the inzen which sometime gives\n\nthe contretemps of the West Point Professor, there is then strength. The gread Mansela robs the trader, and reason to believe that the secretary of state will not be retis any coin but wirh a specis: stamp. The Governor called on to communicate with Me. Dellas on the inher General pepitates two hunted a day, and teaches his ent vid clolites rights of mankind in genersi and Ameri\n\ncans in particolar. The embarrassment of Mr. Dallas is\n\nme what out of place; while to us upon the spot who Braves to make faces to frighten the Barbarians to their\n\nshipe The great population of Cantem, 100 cowardly to over, and the Weat Pelne professor has retreated. By this\n\nAnglo-Indian Bapire,\" we het Bonod to admit and the vale help scene to be, ay in the OWING to the prisoning case, a great clamor has that mighty contingencies are even at this ma-Tuption of the still vigorous barbarians. The Chinzee may lagesally, doubtless, to obtain a court dress from the costatniers at the usual price. Though sat a military been raised us to the necessity of the government, looming the troubled horizon of this; The insurgenta tave not yet predané a caw idea, If men, like Professor Muhau, he was not afraid to have a ment declaring martial law. We hardly think country. In entering upon a campaign against Christians, they are all Chinese, still consider\n\nslaughter the reacties: patl: to domini, still punca sword dangling between his legs. Probably the amiable striel master of ceremonies did not know what un honour he parties clamorous for martial law clearly un- Cant n, it is not impossible that in our very first\n\nexaminations\" as the end of all good urvornment, still ex was conferring on his sovereigu, nor did the Queen derstand wint it is, Martial law tho hand-step we shall have crossed the Rubicon of our hicind the old hawed of light from without,\n\nknow it, either. She wea probably not aware that in ing over to the military, the lives of the civi-destiny in furthermost Asis, and shall ultimately\n\nWe contas, \"herefore, dat we recive without pleasure the her presence stood in very respectable bookseller, and a fians. It existed in Scotland and in Ireland for fad ourselves involved jo anch inextricable com- roport that no material auistance will granted to Sie Hebrew of the Ilebres.\" Grub-street, though itself many long years-read what good it did in either plications, that we shall neither be able to with- John Bowing frota India. It is of erase vais to hope that excluded from the drawing-ruus, might on this pECA- Martial bus was proclaimed at the draw or stand still. The situation even in its berately on the reale of hallding up as Indian Europe, the fraternity Healy, it is time our foreign legations\n\na Government composed of Englishmen will set itauit deli- country.\n\nsion have glorified itself upon the reception of one of Cape of trucù riops (wo haljeve) a few years ag very first phase, is big with the most formidable That is not the English fashion. The gut reault must - were protected from this constant avalunetic of irrel- Bid some excesses committe d'under it were brought presentments ze regards the fature, and with theive slowly, and be in a matter forse day, or sur con- seines will scarcely be at rest. But weistande sufficient\n\nJerz, who, baving acquire money enough spend six Lo the notice of Parliament. Earl Grey had the buribers it may lay at our door. A military oc- to hold Canson Baglish opinion has been pro muaths in Europe, seek every opportunity of infing it al court Godfish and old clothes have heen sufficiently hardihood to defend it. and appeal to the example upation of the Southern capital of China-it might sll be granted. Nobody is India at least, doubts of the Duke, which brought that great nun ou ia banking centre at once the wealthiest and most that the Plenipotendary is in the right. The organent that represented abroad, and the dealers in these articles we have not men to send is after all only proity to look t aloid now hold up. The truth is, we are running our legs to tell Earl Grey he did not know what he turbulent city in the empire, appears inevitable, Europeans are not wanted. A Chinese is just as Pttle privileges it.to the ground. Our foreign minister should was talking about. He said \"I certainly licht The appropriation of the Imperial revenues pro tema, marel for a sens as he is for An Englishmay, and we can decline presenting any but those whe by their public countries occupied by my armies noder martial follows a matter of course, and pro fem. at dolormined fud se What are tes reginents of loc-\n\nula infantry Indin? The gay could be ill up ook dietiverian. Ar eminent man, or an accomplished and services and position at home are fairly untruted to the law, but I did bot administer the crim.onl justice lost, the Imperial Government is supplanted by\n\nand conveyance for them cen, un reluced to a prestin về of those countries. that was done by the ordina. an invading Power, and, once suppisnted, what ry tribunals of the country; and the only persons Seer shall foretell the day of its restoration, with I beld subject to martial law were those composii subduct, and with the evil spirit of centuries so may wild elements of disorder to be first the armies nuder my orden\n\nMartial inw will not mend the matter; and be\n\nyand the summary execution of spies and the de. portation of vagrant Chinese wa kertainly alone not proceed. We have warned the government as to the necessity of vigilance, and we have urged them to adopt proper precautions, but we equally warn them against the brutality of Military Jaw which ought solely to be confined to the regain- tion of military men.\n\nCommunicated)\n\nHepere, There are or cough for hire. What is earful woman, right very well expect this attention- wasted is new men or steamers, but a formal rengusion of thought in some cases within our knowledge, even when it has been intimated to suit that their appearance at of says is to sell cotton. The pher, and it is pochtaps the the faci, waste so low to ac-zpt, that the Anglo-Saxen Te in this mixteenth neutmy has fivo furetless to perform. One court would be agreeable, they have declined the honour\n\nblom infancy, to oper. with a strong hand a pak by\n\nrather than enjoy it with so many of the impurient and\n\nworthy. We propose to publish, as for as possible,\n\nto be scourged out of a stubborn goneration, lor, is to ride, to reduce the Asiatic vices to trends\n\nto us as Captain of Industry, to protect civilation, in the names of those Amereens who, when abroad, auc- We may assure curselves that a discipline such as this, is not the work of a flying campaign; way we must admit it to be quite upon the cards, that complications arising out of the emergency which taker our forces to Centon in our day may find them there in that of our children'\n\ncred in their straggles to encounter royalty, and who which a tesching me powerful tun eyes that of Anow- Ledre, may was its way abroad. We have in how the jungle anmoy our ministers with appications for the privilege. as wel as sell the are, to not as pincere as well as pillars, A curious list it would be. Is is not very ereditable to to be the teachers of truth as well as tre thoney changes of oat country to be thus known through our tuft hunters, clo world friend of India, Derober, 25, 185.\n\nand it is time we should cease trespasilag on the good nature of our legations, and the iegulations which all ther nations conform to without hesitation or uncivility. ---Globe.\n\nRECEIVING SHIPS.\n\nVeseli..\n\nA\n\nCAPTAIN.\n\nOWNERS.\n\nFort William Congkong M Dermott. P. & 6. St. N. Co. vielen Adam\n\nHOUSE OF COMMONS-- Friday, July 18, To our thinking the feature of the present struggle is, that it has come upon us without a\n\nLOSS UP HER MAJKATY'S SHIT \"DIRKINHEAD.” word of warning, noiselessly as the tread of Fate\n\nMr. Gordon anked the first Lord of the Treasury itself, not only without our seeking but after the\n\nwhether he would take into consideration the propišety Ws desire to draw the attention of the readers most humane and patient attempts to avert it;\n\nof erecting, in the chapel of Chrises Hospital, of else where, sone permanent memorial of the gallant auci of this Journal to an able article in the Friend of and that it has now assumed character which self-devoted conduct of the officers and inen lost in Her India of 25th December last, containing some in. admits of no compromise upon our part save an Majesty's ship Birkenhead on the 25th day of Febranty, teresting speculations on the present hostile crisis ignoble and a dangerous one-that we have now to 1832. The hon. member observen that it might be usk- at Canton, and on the possible alternative to which fight it out not merely with the Government of ed why he raised such a question at a perful so long it may give birth, in the progress of what our con- Chine but with the people of Cunton, and nuts the erent to which it referred. Its answer was, temporary assumes to the inevitable Destiny of merely with the people of Canton in the better war way happily terminated and we si evinced our Cast it was not an unfitting time for us, now that the Great Britain in the Eas tite que grand sense, whose pridle we shall subdue, but with gratitude to the army which fought and suffered for us ruling and abs bing Poser. In a word, the its infuriate militia, longer a patriotic soldiery, in the Crimea, to recognize services which, though of a Friend of India is not without hope that the amenable to control, but broken by defeat and peaceful character, were universally admitted to he as existing situation at Canton is but the first step disgrace into a desperate banditti, against whose balliunt and distinguished as Gay recorded in our soun\n\nHarlequin tcy's quands. The circumstances connected with the in a career of conquest, the final result of which ravages their own people will be driven to in-loss of the Birkenhead must be so fresh in the ory shail be. (thongh not necessarily in our day or plore our protection. Such is but a faint outline of all that it would be unnecessary for him to canke sur generation) the absorption of China proper into of the probable work out out for the first batta. hat the most passing allusion to thear. The vessel a our Indian empire. Thisis a bold flight certainly, lions in he landed at Canton-Who shall especially for waxen wings within the melting foret all the end 2\n\nheat of the tropics, and we have only to hope\n\nboth for sake of the advocate and his courc, that\n\nit may not prove an Icaran che.\n\nRENT EVENTS IN CHINA-Angle ladinas negaire, simply from tha tireumians by which they are surround\n\nge tooup ship--was ontployed in encrying to the Cape of Good Hupe the draw;hts of vanous regiments. to the amber of 500 men, under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel Seaton, and she sailed from Queenstown in the\n\nWhimay\n\nGarant\n\nBrown\n\nM-Muric\n\nC. S. Lungrana\n\nItunoll & Co.\n\nJard.nu, M. &. Dent & Co.\n\nDent & Co.\n\nJardins, A. & Co Jardine, M. & Co. Dent & Co.\n\nDeat & s\n\n. Heard & Co. Deat, Beale & O Jardine, M. & Co.\n\n8. Sens & Co.\n\nRoger\n\nD. S. Sons & Co.\n\n11\n\nCana Family boluy Itupavil Any\n\nWition\n\n[P. F. Cama & Co.\n\nJameson\n\n33\n\nSwntow\n\nSalva\n\nHongkong\n\nPatinder\n\nLord Aust\n\nTernate\n\nChichen Fitzgibbon\n\nBarton Mahamoudie Folthau Crawford Water Watch\n\nBeby Ann Which\n\nWoosung Endicott\n\nFaily Jane\n\nPiketonu Nimrod Sea Horse\n\n¡Baylis\n\nCali\n\nKappel\n\nP. F. Cana & Co.\n\n17\n\nHenderson musty & Ca\n\nJardine M. & Co,\n\n323",
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        "content_text": "## Sir I Royer\n\nLelli sand\n\nWait the answer\n\n4. Admiralty awardingly.\n\ninform M. Falt.\n\n0/11 77\n\nM. 15/5\n\nthen\n\n3147\n\nF\n\n1151\n\n20/hs\n\n24750 bringing 239\n\n## 6. Regent's Park - Exeter:\n\nSit\n\n16.\n\n**RECEIVED**  \n**19 MAR 1861**\n\nMy health not having improved since I first applied for an extension of leave of absence, I beg to request that the Duke of Newcastle will reconsider my application of the 8th ultimo, for the reasons stated in my letter of that date regarding my departure from England.\n\nMy departure was delayed, for the reasons specified in your letter of the 8th instant, until the 20th proximo.\n\nI will subject my impaired health, immediately upon my arrival in China, to all those coil consequences most dreaded for invalids in the months of July, August, and September.\n\nMet Samuel Perkins of Exeter and John Prichard of New Cavendish Street, London.\n\nDowning Street.\n\nSurgeons\n\nSir Frederick Rogers",
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        "content_text": "# 335\n## Memorandum Sheet W\nLondon September 29, 1878\n\nI have the honor to inform you on my return from a voyage to Sweden, taken on the advice of Dr. Gull, that he is in Scotland; therefore, without his advice, I have secured passage for myself and Lady Poule and her maid by steamer to leave Marseilles on the 1st of December next (not the 29th of November, the stated date erroneously given in a former Letter).\n\nI purpose to go on Friday next to Gloucester and Exeter; but communications to my present address will be duly forwarded to me.\n\nI avail myself of this opportunity to renew the suggestions which, at great length and after much investigation, I made in former Communications to the Governor of Hong Kong, especially regarding the death of W. Alexander.\n\nThe Right Hon. the Earl of Kimberley, Secretary of State for the Colonies...\n\nand distinctives will be sent to the Colony, and that then there would be no need to act at home & call. Here at present, I can consider this question. Perhaps it may be well to speak to him before the Legco; it may be useful if Mr. Huberta and Mr. Meade could find time to discuss the subject with Sir J. Pope Hennessy before he came forward with his suggestions.\n\nIt appears to me that the Government & the Supreme Court have equally neglected to see that a proper set of Rules are framed. The Supreme Court is in fault. I think it would be very useful if some general rules of the kind referred to by W. Branstrom have been framed.\n\nMr. Hubert, Oct 14, Works, refers to the manner in which the papers were dealt with, requiring explanation. Sir J. Pope Hennessy's letter was received. It is connected by Dr. Bridges to W. Branstrom (no date), who had waited till his scheme was out to the As. Secretaries.\n\n... \nSir, \nSEP 11 1887 \n\nPage 363 \n\nK",
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        "content_text": "# THE DAILY PRESS\n\n## HONGKONG, OCTOBER 6TH, 1884\n\nTHE reluctance of the Government to adopt extreme measures for putting an end to the present unendurable state of affairs in this Colony is understandable if somewhat unsatisfactory. Exeter Hall to a very large extent controls Downing Street, and sentiment has in no small degree emasculated the Ordinances which have been made for the administration of justice in Crown Colonies having a mixed population. British officials are expected to govern almost by moral suasion, and any severity is apt to elicit stern rebuke from the Colonial Office, or a number of unpleasant inquiries in the House of Commons. By pandering to sentimentalism Sir **JOHN POPE HENNESSY** made many supporters in Parliament, and secured freedom to work incalculable mischief here. When the late Governor succeeded in getting the punishment of flogging practically abolished, he deprived this Government of half its power to repress disorder. We are not advocates of the lash as an ordinary punishment; there is a certain amount of brutality in it that is revolting to the feelings, and it is questionable whether public flogging has not a hardening effect on the minds of onlookers. But experience has proved to demonstration that in this Colony it is absolutely impossible to properly control the criminal classes without this punishment.\n\nChinese criminals understand the **argumentum baculinum** better than any other. They have been disciplined by the bamboo for centuries, and with them it is a far stronger argument for order than a term of imprisonment. Some of the most intelligent and influential Chinese in this Colony have also strongly advocated, in our hearing, a return to public flogging. One Chinese gentleman, who thoroughly understands his countrymen, assured us that floggings administered inside the Gaol lost more than half of their efficacy, as the criminals will not admit having undergone the punishment when they come out, and the deterrent effect of what is not witnessed becomes almost nil. He expressed the opinion that floggings should always be awarded for crimes of violence, and should be administered on the spot where the crime was committed. If this were done, the offence of ear-piercing, now so common, would soon be put a stop to. Similarly, no doubt, if a dozen of the leaders of the present riots were triced up to triangles in some public thoroughfares and treated to a few dozen lashes, the moral effect would be quickly apparent. These riots are, we still believe—though we observe with great regret the spread of a violent anti-foreign feeling among classes of the Chinese from whom something better might have been expected—due to the incitement of some few mischievous spirits, and if these men were once arrested and an example made of them, the riotous spirit would quickly die out. The majority of the cargo-boat people are not only willing but anxious to resume work, but the rabble still endeavour to intimidate them and drive their craft from the harbour. It is, however, high time that the Authorities decided to take uncompromising action with a view to restore order in the Colony. They cannot any longer allow mob rule in British territory; at all costs, the dictation of a few mischievous persons must be put down. The cargo boat strike is ended, but the reign of disorder is not over. Efforts should now be made to bring the fomenters of disturbance to speedy justice, and to arrest and deport the rowdies who have led the van in the riots.\n\n## THE STRIKES AND RIOTS\n\nFrom the hour to which time our last report recorded proceedings—2 a.m. on Saturday—nothing of any great importance has happened in the way of rioting or deeds of violence. All Saturday night, the place was perfectly quiet, the streets round the Recreation Ground, Gap-street, &c., which had been the scene of so much violence and tumult but a few hours before, being quite deserted and empty, perhaps even more so than on ordinary occasions. In some houses, there was a display of lanterns to keep up the religious festival. In spite of the prohibition of the authorities to hold the usual dragon procession on Friday, there was something of a procession that night, there being two large illuminated paper dragons, and a lot of fancy lanterns, carried by the usual rag-tag and bobtail, with an escort or guard of coolies carrying bamboo poles, apparently ready to resist any attempt to stop the thing by the authorities. There was no collision, however, and the procession was not seen for long, there being probably too many bodies of police and military patrolling about the streets. Ample means were taken to maintain order and peace during the night. As we have said, a large force of the Buffs was quartered in the main hall and adjoining parts of the Tung Wah Hospital under the command of Major Howarth, so that they were in the midst of the troubled part, ready to turn out in a moment for any outbreak. The Chinese were kept away from the doors of the place by police, a detachment of whom were on duty there under Inspector Grey. Mr. Wise and Mr. Mackean, Police Magistrates, were also in the Hospital, ready to give their authority to any proceedings which might be deemed necessary in case of an outbreak. Pickets of Buffs and police patrolled the streets with only moderate intervals between each, and as there were some grounds for apprehending attempts at incendiarism, the fire engines and members of the Brigades were all ready to turn out at a moment's notice. Happily, there was no call for their services, and no rousing of peaceful people by the alarm of the fire bells. Afloat, also, protective measures were taken, the harbour being well patrolled by the launches and gigs of the Water Police under Inspector Cradock, the crews being armed to the teeth.\n\nThough all passed so quietly during the night, the rowdies were astir the next morning early and on the lookout for any cargo boats which might be disposed to go to work again, and...\n\nPage 446  \nPage 450  \nPage 451",
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        "content_text": "4 Extract from Colonial Office List 1901.\n\n236\n\nGOMPARTZ, H.H.J. -\n\nAustralian Settlement\n\nEd. at Bedford Sch., and Exeter Coll., Oxon.\n\nChinese (scholar); End. class lit. hum., A. (1880);\n\nCadet S. Settlements, 1890; passed final Exam.\n\nDec. 1893; Asst. Supt. of Police, Penang, Aug.\n\n1895; 2nd Asst. Prot. of Chinese, Penang, Jan.\n\n1896; transfd. to Hongkong as Asst. Regr.-Gen.\n\n1897.\n\n*\n\nHongkong.\n\nApptd. Asst. Regr., Hongkong, 7th September,\n\n1897; Actg. 1st Regr., 1st July, 1898 to 31st\n\nMay 1900. Apptd. Asst. Col. Secy., 1st Jan., 1900.\n\nApptd. Member of Land Court 1st June, 1900.",
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        "content_text": "Page 243\n\nGOMPERTZ, H. H. J.-\n\nEducated at Bedford Schl., and Exeter Coll., Oxon. (scholar); 2nd class lit. hum., E. A. (1890); cadet S. Settlements, 1890; passed final Exam. for interpreters Chinese, Dec. 1895; ag. 3rd mag., Penang, Aug., 1895; 2nd asst. prot. of Chinese, Penang, Jan., 1896; transfd. to Hongkong as Asst. Regor-Gen., 1897.\n\nApptd. A.Regor-Gen., Hongkong, 7th September, 1897; Acte. 1st mag., 1st July, 1899 to 31st May 1900. Apptd. Asst. Col. Secy., 1st Jan., 1900. Apptd. Member of Land Court 1st June, 1900.",
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        "content_text": "to Lowell - \n\nW. Barker \n\nis also serving \n\nwith the ang.... \n\n... \n\nI will start in \n\nthe circle \n\nwe have to write to this.\" \n\nyou \n\nof \n\nEdne. for \n\nA \n\nman \n\nJ \n\nM Allen \n\nJon Colling \n\nNeet 30/11/14 \n\nPlease aft to B.of. \n\nB. of 9. telephoned to \n\nsay \n\nselection will take time (months) to carry out by end of Jan. \n\nas desired by \n\nthat it was quite impossible to get an \n\n... inform ... by desp. that no date ... \n\nCandidate \n\non \n\n5. of S.'s books was \n\navailable, & that application has been \n\nmade to B. \n\nof \n\nwill be advertised \n\nCandidate \n\nbus selection \n\nin time to take up duty at end of Jan. \n\nJ. F. Morris. Age 34. Wellingborough \n\nJesus (Camb.) Ord. degree, good deal of teaching experience, but not a trained teacher. Good \n\nreferences \n\nR. B. Barker \n\nAge 24 Blackburn Grammar School & Manchester University. \n\nM.A. Teacher's diploma. Prefers administrative & educational work. Good refs \n\nSaid to be a \n\nJule, C.B.B \n\ngood teacher. \n\nAge 37. Married. \n\nExeter School. Exeter Coll. Oxford. \n\nOrdinary degree. Teaching experience. \n\ngood references. \n\nis impossible. \n\n5.12.14",
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        "content_text": "# EX-OFFICERS.\n## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| Rank | No. | Regt. | Age | Medical Notes | Qualifications and Previous Employment | O.U.T.C. Present Courses. Locality. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Major | D.O. 949 | A.O.D. | 63 | Good | Ed. privately 25 yrs. Reg. Army. 7 yrs. Staff Officer, to L.G. of Police Local Forces (West Indies). 5 yrs. Inspector of Police, Barbadoes (West Indies). Rejoined Army on outbreak of war. | London. |\n| Lieut. | D.O. 885 | R.E. | 40 | Good | Ed. privately. Sound commercial experience. Knowledge accounts and book-keeping. Asst. executive officer New Romney and Romney Marsh Food Control Committee. | London. |\n| 8.-Sergt. | D.O. 887 | A.S.C. | 65 | Good | Ed. privately. 5 yrs. Allmey & Layfield, wholesale provision and shipping merchants. 7 yrs. Paterson, Lalaw & Co., West Africa, buying palm oil, cocoa, cotton, &c. Considerable exp. cattle breeding and plantation work. | D.O. 896 |\n| Lieut. | D.O. 912 | R.E. | 20 | Fair (Gassed). | Ed, Watson's Coll., Edinburgh, and Univ. 1912-14 Course Faculty of Arts M.A. Languages, Literature and Psychology, 8 yrs. Course Chemistry, Physics. [French] | London. |\n| Sergt. | D.O. 918 | B.E. | 34 | G.S.W. R. leg. | Ed. Brighton. Reg. Army, 1864–1890, Held staff appt, as asst, mil. secretary to G.O.C., West Indies; rejoined 1915; appointed as area commander for Berkshire. (Recruiting Staff,) [French.] | London. |\n| Colonel | D.O. 975 | B.E.A. | 73 | Good | Ed. privately. 1 yr. clerk Commissioner Taxes. 4 yrs. Lloyd's Bank, S. Africa. 2 yrs. Standard Bank, S Africa. 2 yrs. Central Mining and Investment Corporation, Ltd., S. Africa. yrs. Manager Lichtenberg. Ventersdorp Rly, Trading Co. 3 yrs. Organiser S. Africa Unionist Association. [French, Dutch, Kaffir.] | Wales. |\n| Capt. | D.O. 976 | R.F.A. | 49 | Good | Ed. Cambridge. Reading for Cambridge Tripos when joined Army. Adjutant labour group and secretary to O.C. Chinese Labour Corps, Experience, public speaking. [French, Chinese.] | Wales. |\n| Major | D.O. 979 | R.Q.A. | 46 | Fair | Ed. Cheltenham and R.M.A. Woolwich. Reg. Army 23 yrs, 1 yr. Purveyor in East, 2 yrs. poultry and fruit farming British Columbia, & mos, superintendent mining camp. [French, Hindustani, Baluchi, Persian, Chinese.] | Berks. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 982 | Tank | 38 | Good | Ed. privately, University Coll, Wales, B.A., economics, law, &c. Sec. to coal exporter. Cardiff, Sen. Housemaster Univ. Sch., Victoria, B.C., 2 yrs. [French, Welsh.] | Wales. |\n| Fleet Paymaster, R.N. | D.O. 921 |  | 49 | Good | Ed, privately. $1 yrs. R.N. Service. Thorough knowledge of accountancy. | Dorset. |\n| Lieut. | D.O. 985 | W. Riding | 36 |  | Ed. St. Albans. Articled to auctioneers 3 yrs., clerical work, railway hotel dept., till outbreak of war, | Herts. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 931 | Middx. | 24 | Injury | Ed. privately. 3 yrs. clerk Stock Exchange. Representative Shell Marketing Co. (1 yr), Supervisor farm tractors, control staff. Knowledge internal combustion engines. Photography. | Kent. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 986 | B.B. | 22 | L. leg. | Ed. Bristol Grammar, 2 yrs. clerk, Nichols, Young, Hunt & Co. | Devon. |\n| 2nd Lieus. | D.O. 940 | I.S.C. | 22 | Good | Ed. privately. 2 yrs. private secretary. 1 yr. supervisor, Food Production Dept. Shorthand and typing. Interested in mechanical engineering. [French.] | Private |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 955 | D.L.I. | 25 | Fair | Ed. privately. Clerk, decorator and plumber's business 7 yrs. | Devon. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 956 | Cheshire | 25 | Good | Ed. Wellington, Sandhurst. Continuous army service since 1885. [French.] | D.O. 961 |\n| Major | D.O. 961 |  | 64 | Good | Ed. privately. 5 yrs. mining and smelting, America, Employed Harvey's Chemical Works, Plymouth, until 1890, Since then own business grease manufacturer and oil importer. | Dorset. |\n| Capt. | D.O. 965 |  | 56 | Good | Ed. privately. Army career only. | Devon. |\n| Lieut | D.O. 993 | R.F.A. | 27 | L. arm. |  | Somerset. |\n| 2nd Lieut | D.O. 995 | Labour Corps | 53 | Nephritis | Ed. Exeter Grammar and H.M.S. \"Britannia.\" 14 yrs. Naval service retiring with rank of Lieut. 14 yrs. British Columbia Copper Co. 2 yrs. chief clerk, Mexican Oil Co. | Warwick. |\n| Capt. | D.O. 996 | I.A. | 47 | Good | Ed. Grammar Sch, Preston, Cambridge Univ, B.A. Left Univ. to join Army, [French, Arabic, Greek,] | Surrey. |\n| Lieut. | D.O. 997 | E.G.A. | 34 | Good | Ed. privately. Knowledge Morse signalling. 3 yrs. Oriental Telephone Co., Calcutta: 9 yrs. Nat. Telephone Co., London; 17 yrs, asst. 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        "content_text": "## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| Rank | Regt. | Age. | Medical Notes. | Qualifications and Previous Employment. | O.U.T.C. Courses. | Present Locality |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 26 North. Fus, | 36 | Good | Asst. schoolmaster; 2 yrs. training at St. Andrew's Univ. qualifying cert. with distinction. English; Board of Education Cert. (Teaching). |  | London. |\n| Private | 29 |  | Good, L. leg damaged. | Ed. privately. 8 yrs. with paper makers as ledger clerk. 10 yrs. asst. buyer manufacturing chemists; left to join Army. |  | London. |\n| Lieut. | 31 North. Fus. | 36 | Heart trouble. | Ed. Charterhouse. Reg. Army 1906-9, rejoined 1914. Principal overseer, Royal Lab. Woolwich, Knowledge explosives. [French.] |  | London. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 26 E.E. |  | Good | Ed. privately. 8 yrs. apprenticed Backworth Collieries, Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne as mining engineer. [French] |  | Cornwall. |\n| Lieut. | Border. | 28 | Fair. Rheumatism. | Ed. privately. 7 yrs. asst. mining eng. at Edmondsley Colliery, Durham, B.Sc. Mining M.I.M.E. Certificated colliery manager and surveyor. [French] |  | Durham. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 42 Somerset. |  | Fair | Ed. privately, 7 yrs. app. mech. & mining engineering Cumberland. 2 yrs. Crows Nest Pass Coal Co., Fernie, B. Columbia, 1 yr. studying for colliery manager's cert., Cumberland. [French, Italian,] |  | Northumberland. |\n| Lieut. | 32 R.F. |  | Good | Ed. Exeter. Corn merchant 1895-1914, and general farming experience. |  | Norfolk. |\n| Major. | 58 Worcester, |  | Good |  |  | Wales. |\n| Capt. | W. Yorks. | 50 | Good |  |  | D.O. 304 |\n| Capt. | 39 R. Warwick. |  | Fair | Ed. privately. 18 yrs. with Bradbury, Greatorex, wholesale drapers. Buyer and manager of silk and velvet dept. |  | Essex. |\n| Lieut. | Worcester. | 31 | Good. Lost R. eye. | 3 yrs. appren. drapery trade. 5 yrs. salesman various drapery firms. 5 yrs. salesman Remington and Royal Typewriters Co., Ltd.” |  | Berks. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 36 R. Berks. |  | Good |  |  | London. |\n| Lieut. | M.G.C. | 25 | Neurasthenia. | Ed. Gordona Coll, Aberdeen. 4 yrs. app. drapery trade. 4 yrs. wholesale firm, buyer, traveller. |  | London. |\n| Lieut. | R.G.A. | 29 | Good |  |  | D.O. 559 |\n| Lieut. | 237 Gordon H. |  | Good | Ed. Merchant Taylors and Oxford Univ. M.A. 6 yrs. est.-master Middlesex Educ. Comm. Exp. of social and administrative work, |  | London. |\n| Lieut. | E. Surrey. | 28 | Damaged R. foot. | Ed. St. Mark's Training Coll., Chelsea; schoolmaster (elem.), 3 yrs. instructor in woodwork and elementary scale drawing master in Evening Continuation Schools; special subjects: Business methods, |  | Hants. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 32 Tank. |  | Good | Ed. privately. 14 yrs. Smith & Lister, Cannon St. Drapery and soft goods trade. 4 yrs. junior salesman; 10 yrs. traveller. Experience internal combustion engines and has carried out experimental work with machineguns. |  | Essex. |\n| Pioneer | 23 R.E. |  | Good | Ed. Military College, Adjutant and military instructor of cadets at Haileybury for 6 yrs. Essayist for many yrs. [French, German and Italian (Interpreter).] |  | Gloucester. |\n| Private | 25 A.P.C. |  | Fair | Ed. privately. 3 yrs. app. Selfridge and Harrods. 7 yrs. salesman in various firms. |  | London. |\n| Sergt. | R.F. | 24 | Good | Ed. Oxford Univ. Organist St. Peter's, London from 1892 14 yrs. school manager. 3 yrs. Board of Education, Several yrs. asst. master pte. school. |  | Cumberland. |\n|  |  |  |  | Ed privately. Served as pupil teacher, Education Authority. King's Scholarship Exam. 1906, then appt. asst. master. |  | Somerset. |\n|  |  |  |  | Ed. Birmingham Univ. Master Sutton High 2 yrs. [French.] |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  | Ed. Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne. Technical College, Derby. College of Preceptors (Honours). King's Scholarship (Honours). Schoolmaster under the Derbyshire Education Authority. |  | Oxford. |\n|  |  |  |  | Ed. London Univ. B.A. (Hons.). 3 yrs. schoolmaster Northallerton Grammar, Experience on recruiting duties under M. of Nat. Service. Knowledge of office routine. [French.] |  | London. |\n|  |  |  |  | Ed. Southend. Elementary teacher and Pitman's shorthand Instructor. |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  | Ed. Christ's Hospital and London Univ. 2 yrs. asst. master Ilminster Grammar. [French.] |  | Somerset. |\n\nH.Q. D.O.-20.7.18.  \nH.Q. D.O.5-20.7.18.  \n18409",
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        "content_text": "## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| No. | Rank | Regt. | Age. | Medical Notes. | Qualifications and Previous Employment. | O.U.T.C. Courses. | Present Locality. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O.1059 | Gunner |  | 21 | Good | R.F.A. |  | D.0.1398 |\n| D.O.1398 | Corporal | 34 R. Fus. |  | Fair. Fracture jaws. | Ed. privately. yrs. experience clerk office. Knowledge of accounts and office routine, ABİNANÇO. Since 1900 outdoor claims assessor Alliance Assurance Co., London. |  |  |\n| D.O. 706 | Major | 38 N. Stafford. |  | Heart trouble. | Ed. privately. Cambridge Univ., M.A., LL.B. Solicitor. Town Clerk of Newcastle-on-Tyne. [French.] |  | London, |\n| D.O. 844 | Major | B. Irish, | 57 | Good | Ed. Downside and Trinity College Dublin, Beg. Army 22 yrs. including service in S. African war; retired 1902; rejoined 1914 until 1916. Member of Inner Temple. Legal experience (military and civil). 12 yrs. journalistic experience. Knowledge secretarial duties. Good organiser. [French] |  |  |\n| D.O.1468 | Assist Paymaster | R.N.R. | 26 | Good* | Ed. privately. 8 yrs. Pearl Assurance Co., London, as travelling inspector, organiser, etc. |  | Yorkshire |\n| D.O.1056 | 2nd Lieut. | 87 North. Fus. |  | Fair | Ed. privately and Nottingham Univ. 16 yrs. Winfield & Sons, Ltd., Nottingham, lace manufacturers. yrs. lace merchant, own account. [French.] |  | Notts. |\n| D.O. 848 | Capt. | Welsh | 38 | Good | 3 |  | Notts. |\n| D.O.1286 | Lieut. | 21 Notts & Derby |  | Good | Ed. privately, 1 yr. clerk with E. Mellor, lace manufacturers, Nottingham. |  |  |\n| D.O. 866 | Capt. | 40 R.W. Surrey. |  | Fair | Legal. Ed. Rugby. Articled clerk to W. Morgan Griffith, solicitor. 6 mos. gold mining S. Africa. 1910, passed Final Law examinations. Afterwards on own account at Swansea. |  | Hants. |\n| D.O. 25 | Lieut. | 25 H.L.I. |  | Fair | King's Coll, London, and Dublin Univ. 2 yrs. in office Barrington & Sons, solicitors and land agents, Dublin. [French] |  | Ireland. |\n| D.O. 144 | Major | 45 R.F.A. |  | Fair | Ed. Queen Elizabeth's School, Yorkshire. Practised as solicitor since 1897. [French.] |  | Kent. |\n| D.O.1074 | Lieut. | 26 K.A.R. |  |  | Ed. Rugby. 6 yrs. articled clerk to solicitor. General experience. |  | Surrey. |\n| D.O.1077 | A.B. | R.N.V.R. | 20 | Fair. B. leg amputated. | Ed. Eton House Sch. 1 yr. Fearnley Line Ltd., Fenchurch Street. Left to join forces on outbreak of war. Now student of Middle Temple with view to becoming barrister. |  | Essex. |\n| D.O.1084 | Lieut. | D.L.I. | $2 | Fair | Ed. Exeter and Univ. Coll., Durham. M.A., Clerk in Customs Office. Passed As Surveyor of Taxes Exam. Private Tutor (France). |  | London. |\n| D.O. 384 | Capt. | 85 R. Scots. |  | Good. Eye trouble, | 4 yrs. low clerk, Stevenson & Johnston, Langholme. 8 yrs. managing clerk, Cecil Roberts & Letts, solicitors and estate agents, Bulawayo, S. Africa. |  | Durham. |\n| D.O.1144 | Captain | Gen. List. | 49 | Good | Ed. privately. Trinity Coll, Dublin. Called to Bar 1892. In practice 7 yrs. Travelled extensively. Knowledge finance. [French.] |  | London. |\n| D.O. 417 | Lieut. | R.E. | 29 | Good | Ed. privately. University Coll, Cardiff. 5 yrs. company sec. Articled barrister (2 yrs.). Hobbies: photography, horses, motors. |  | Middlesex |\n| D.O.1188 | Lieut. | 27 R.F.A. |  | Good | Ed. privately, 1 yr. articled solicitor H. Mander, Coventry. 4 yrs. articled H. L. Whiley, Malvern. Knowledge Local Gov. U.D.O. Malvern U.D.C |  | Cheshire |\n| D.O. 497 | Capt. | 28 B. Staffs. |  | Good | Ed. London Univ. Law Student 1909-1914. Special Army 1914-18. |  | London. |\n| D.O.1198 | 2nd Lieut. | 38 R.M.F. |  | Fair | interest, military matters. Hobbies: photography, woodwork, |  |  |\n| D.O. 583 | Trooper | 30 Res. Cav. |  | Good | Ed. Cambridge Univ. Solicitor, admitted 1903; called to Bar 1908; retired 1914. [French.] |  | London, |\n| D.O.1242 | Lieut. | 36 Gen. List. |  | Good | Ed. privately. Dulwich and London Univ. Practised as barrister. 11 yr acted as secretary to Limited Comps. Commercial experience. |  | London, |\n| D.O. 623 | Capt. | 46 North. Fus. |  | Fair | Ed. Cambridge Univ. Student of Inner Temple till outbreak of war. |  | Glondeater. |\n| D.O. 664 | Lieut | 28 R.F.A. |  | Good | Ed. Trinity Coll. Dublin, Law Course, Qualified solicitor. 8 yrs. Rooney & Tunney, Dublin, Govt. Stockbrokers. yrs. W. G. Bradley, Dublin, solicitor. 2 yrs. practised own account. [French and Gaelic.] |  | Ireland. |\n|  | Lieut. | 29 R. Scots. |  | Fair | Ed. privately. Oxford Local Senior Exam. Fully qualified solicitor. Ed. Belfast and Trinity Coll. B.A. Dublin, 2 yrs. R. T. Porter, solicitor, Belfast. 2 yrs. British Columbia Govt. Examiner of Titles, Land Registry Office. [French] |  | Ireland. Northumberland. |\n\nB.Q. D.O.-29.7.18.\nE.Q. D.O.-29.7.18.",
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        "content_text": "# EX-OFFICERS.\n## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| No. | Rank | Regt. | Age | Medical Notes | Qualifications and Previous Employment | O.U.T.C. Courses | Present Locality |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O. 859 | 2nd Lieut. | 21 London |  | Fair | B. eye blind. Ed. privately. 4 yrs. journalistic exp. on provincial newspapers. |  | London |\n| D.O. 212 | 2nd Lieut. | 42 R.E. |  | Good | Certificate B. of T. Master Mariners. Seafaring, surveying, and mining. [Spanish.] |  | Cheshire |\n| D.O. 888 | Private | 28 Suffolk |  | Good |  |  |  |\n| D.O. 962 | Lieut. | 46 Middlx. |  | Good | 7 yrs. publishing and bookbinding business. Understands ledger work and office routine. [French, German.] |  | Lond |\n| D.O. 19 | Lieut. | 32 R.E. |  | Fair | Ed. privately. Served in Reg. Army, Engaged literary work Novelist. [French, German.] |  | Kent |\n| D.O.1143 | Private | 24 R. Sussex |  | Good | Ed. privately. 18 mcs. training all branches printing. 1 yr. course drawing Brighton School of Art. 1 yr. bookkeeper in nursery, Southwick. |  | Surrey |\n| D.O. 388 | Commander | 60 R.N.R. |  | Good | Ed. privately. 7 yrs. app. letterpress machine minder, 1 yr. machine minder. Joined army at outbreak of War. |  | London |\n| D.U.1168 | Sergt. Maj. | 28 London |  | Good |  |  | London |\n| D.O.1296 | 2nd Lieut. | 25 S.A.F. |  | Good | Ed. S. Africa. 5 yrs. engineer priming office, P. Davis & Sons, S. Africa. [Zulu.] |  | Oxford |\n| D.O. 487 | Major D.G. | 15 | 55 | Good |  |  |  |\n| D.O.1263 | Private | 83 London |  | Fair | Ed. Marlborough, Cambridge Univ. Joined staff Daily Mirror. Dramatic critic and editor weekly journal until outbreak of war. |  | Middlesex |\n| D.O.1903 | Staff-Sgt. | 64 S. of M. |  | Good |  |  |  |\n| D.O.1459 | Lieut. | 51 R.D.C. |  | Fair | Ed privately and Camb. Univ, M.A. (Math. Hons.) Continuously engaged artistic, literary pursuits. Exhibited Academy. Contributed articles philosophy, art. Travelled round world. [French, Spanish.] |  |  |\n|  | Major | 59 |  | Good | Ed. privately and Germany, 8 yrs. asst. manager needle and pin manufactory, William Avery & Son. Since 1891 writer fiction. Books published by Nelson & Sons, Read MSS. for publishers. |  | Bailway, Shipping, and Transport |\n| D.O. 143 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| D.O. 148 | Lieut. | 37 B.I.F. |  | Good | Ed, Aberdeen Grammar, and Merchiston, Edinburgh. Served as cadet and 3rd Officer Merchant Service, Shaw, Savill, & Co. (4 yrs), J. M. Campbell & Sons (3 yrs.), and Jas. Nourse & Co. (3 yrs.). 7 yrs. Mid. and Sub-Lieut. R.N.R. 8 yrs. sugar planter with Sandbach, Tinne & Co., and Booker Bros., McConnell & Co. [Hindustani, Javanese, Chinese,] |  | London |\n| D., 208 | 2nd Lieut. | 29 Labour Corps |  | Fair | Ed. Liverpool Univ. Apprentice Holt & Co., shipbuilders, Liverpool. Experience shipyard and drawing office. Shipbuilding, Belfast. Mgr. construction works in China. [Chinese,] |  |  |\n| D.O. 536 | Capt. | North. Fus. | 40 | Good |  |  | Worcester |\n| D.O. 586 | Lieut. | 30 A.S.C. |  | Fair | 35 yrs. transport commercial operative superintendent, Bombay, G.L.P., Railway; Also Dist. Traffic Supt |  |  |\n| p.o. 595 | Colonel | 67 A.S.C. |  | Good | Ed. Armagh and Dublin Univ. 24 yrs. Reg. Army. Considerable administrative experience as adjutant, recruiting duties, etc. 5 yrs. an underwriter at Lloyd's 2 yrs. farming in Nova Scotia. Director of African Coal Co., Natal. Knowledge shipping, docks, method of handling consignments, stevedores, bills of lading, stowage of cargo, holds and decks. |  | London |\n| .0. 398 | 2nd Lieut. | 28 Devon |  | Fair | Ed. privately. |  | Suger |\n| .0. 680 | Lieut. | 28 B. Irish |  | Good | Ed Queen's Coll., Cork. 8 yrs. pupil electrical and mechanical engineering, W. G. Walker & Co., Westminster. 3 yrs. Best, engineer permanent way, Canadian Pacific Rly. 4yrs. resident engineer, Sudan Govt. Rlys. 2 yrs. district engineer Burma Rlys. Railway surveying and construction in Mesopotamia during present war. [Arabic, Hindustani,] |  | Hants |\n| .0. 701 | Bombr. | 42 B.G.A. |  | Good | Ed. Darham, 20 years Manager Morpeth Steamship Co., Director North Eastern Marine Eng. Co., Ltd., Director Sunderland Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., manager Sir T. Lipton Ship Stores Department, London. |  | Devon |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Ed. privately, Farming prior to war. Attached to Commissariat Dept. receiving, checking, supervising despatch of supplies. Good correspondent, accurate at figures, Can control labour, |  | Ireland |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Ed. Haileybury. Thorough knowledge of administrative staff duties in various capacities. Knowledge of transport. [French.] |  | London |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 19 yrs. G.W.R. Co., (Exeter goods dept.). Thorough knowledge of general railway classification. |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Ed. Pembroke Coll, Dublin. railway clerk L. & N.W.R., Dublin. |  | Northumberland |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Ed. King's, Warwick, 8 yrs. agent for Vickers (Scotland), H. H. Vivian & Co. and John Bibby Sons & Co.; 12 yrs. securing contracts from railway companies and engineers. |  | Wilts |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 7 yrs. |  | Ireland |\n\nH.Q. D.O.A.-29.7.18.\nE.Q. D.O./M-29.7.18.",
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        "content_text": "51\n\nBusiness Interest in University.\n\nGratifying evidence of the increasing estimation in which the work of the University is held is furnished by the encouraging change in the attitude of business people to its graduates. There was a time when there was apparently no room in business and manufacturing firms in the Colony for the Hong Kong University graduate; but I am glad to say there are clear signs of the gradual disappearance of any prejudice against him. Outstanding business concerns like Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, the Asiatic Petroleum Company, and the China Light & Power Company, have indicated their willingness to encourage selected graduates to qualify for employment with them and to provide them with facilities to show their worth in actual practice. Messrs. John Swire & Sons, Limited, London, have also recently approved a scheme whereby two selected graduates of the University will be provided with free passages to England each year for further study and to gain practical experience. This is assistance in the highest sense of the term: in some aspects of the University problem, more valuable than even direct pecuniary assistance. For unless openings to employment are available for our graduates, experience elsewhere teaches that a University education may be a curse rather than a blessing.\n\nGraduates & Government Service.\n\nThe question of the employment of graduates in Government service was also under serious consideration during last year, and we are encouraged to hope that the time is not far distant when even more vacancies in Government service than at present will be open, under approved conditions, to selected graduates of the Hong Kong University. It is a matter for gratification that 11 of our graduates hold posts in the Medical Department of Government.\n\nAs you know, this University is a residential one; that is, residence in a University hostel is, in general, an essential condition of admission to the University; and exemptions from residence are only granted in special circumstances by the Senate. Any increase in hostel accommodation has, therefore, a most direct bearing on University life. It is therefore with great satisfaction that I call attention to an important addition to the residential facilities provided for undergraduates which was made by the opening on the 16th December, 1929, of Ricci Hall under the management and control of Jesuit Fathers of the English Assistency. The hostel, which is a fine building situated on Pokfulum Road within easy reach of the main University buildings, provides accommodation for thirty-five students. The resident staff will consist of a Warden, a qualified doctor, and a qualified engineer. The hostel has a library of its own, and special facilities are being offered for extramural tutorial work.\n\nWoman's Hostel Scheme.\n\nLast year the Vice-Chancellor mentioned the appointment of a Committee, under the Chairmanship of Col. Skinner, R.E., to raise funds for a woman's hostel, and expressed the hope that the Committee would be successful. Something has been done towards realisation, but progress has been slower than was anticipated, and up to date, a sum of only $14,000 has been collected. The estimated cost of the scheme is about $120,000, so that the balance to be realised is still considerable.\n\nThere were thirty-eight women students on the roll in 1929, and residential accommodation could only be arranged for fourteen students in premises rented for the purpose by the Church Missionary Society. The remainder resided with their parents or guardians.\n\nA pleasing feature of the movement for the collection of funds for this hostel is that the lady undergraduates themselves are actively participating in the campaign by organising concerts and entertainments in aid of the cause. I am informed that two of these ladies, while in the Straits Settlements during the last long vacation, formed a working committee composed chiefly of graduates of this University who are now working in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States to carry on propaganda work and to collect funds; with the gratifying result that over $3,000 have actually been paid in through their efforts, and promises of further contributions have been obtained. This, you will agree, is an admirable illustration of the spirit of self-help and service to the University.\n\nA Munificent Donation.\n\nAnd now I come to a matter which has afforded the utmost satisfaction to the University authorities. During the period under review, the University received a donation of $120,000 from Mr. Fung Ping Shan for the provision of a building for a Chinese Library in the University. He has given $100,000 for the building and equipment and $20,000 as a contribution to the endowment fund to meet the maintenance charges of the Library. In providing a sum for the recurring expenditure on the maintenance of the Library, Mr. Fung Ping Shan has set a most commendable precedent. It is not often remembered that when donations are made for a building for a particular object, the University has, as a matter of course, to be financially responsible for its maintenance; and in many cases, this is an item of some magnitude. A site on the University estate has been selected for the proposed Library, and it is expected that its erection will be commenced shortly. I desire, on behalf of the University, to voice its grateful acknowledgment of the munificence of Mr. Fung Ping Shan; and I can imagine no more appropriate record of it than the handsome building in contemplation.\n\nI will finish my account of the building activities within the University by referring to the conversion, during last year, of the building at the western entrance of the University into a laboratory for the Biological Department, accommodation for which was urgently needed.\n\nGloomy Financial Aspect.\n\nIt is natural that the academic aspect of a University should stand out most clearly in the public mind. But of equal, though more prosaic, importance is the financial aspect. A University cannot, any more than a business concern, outrun the constable without dire results. And the Budget for 1930, which has passed the University Court, does not make exhilarating reading. For it shows expenditure at $666,345.00 and revenue at $603,500.00; or a deficit of a little over $60,000; and recent currency movements may increase this figure to $80,000. Now I wish at once to emphasise the fact that this prospective deficit is not due to extravagance or to any avoidable cause; it is in the main the result of the fall in the exchange value of the dollar, which most of us outside the University have equal reason to deplore. The salaries of the permanent University teaching and administrative staffs are on a sterling basis; and in translating sterling salaries into dollars, a loss of over $50,000 alone is entailed on University funds under existing currency conditions.\n\nInadequacy of Salaries.\n\nFurthermore, the subject of the adequacy or otherwise of these salaries has provided grave cause for anxiety; for, without adequate recompense, teaching and administrative standards cannot be maintained. Besides, the labourer is worthy of his hire, and none more than he who is engaged in the honourable, invaluable, and exacting work of education. His Excellency, as Chancellor of the University, appointed a Committee to go into the matter during last year; and the Committee has reported in no uncertain terms as to the utter inadequacy of these salaries. But if effect is to be given to its recommendations, an additional annual expenditure of $140,000 will be required with the dollar at 1/8, and of $176,000 with the dollar at 1/6. Add this amount to the existing budget deficit of $80,000, and you will get an aggregate of $256,000 in excess of revenue.\n\nIt is obvious that without assistance from outside, the University cannot face this increased expenditure.\n\nGovernment Aid Urged.\n\nThe University Court has asked the Colonial Government to enlarge its annual grant of $50,000 to one of $250,000 per annum. If the dollar had remained at 1.8, this increase would have enabled the University to balance its Budget comfortably and to make the long overdue and much-needed additions to salaries. With the dollar at 1.6, unless the resources of the University are still further increased by a grant out of the Boxer Indemnity or from other sources, it will be impossible, until exchange improves, to give full effect to the recommendations of the Salaries Committee.\n\nNow the request even for an additional grant from Government of $200,000 is a large demand to make; it requires justification. I propose to justify it, mainly, by the experience of the British Government with regard to its contributions for University purposes. I think I am entitled to say, categorically, that without these contributions, supplemented by grants from Local Authorities, no University in the United Kingdom could keep its doors open; so it becomes most pertinent to ascertain what proportion these contributions and grants bear to the total income of certain typical Universities in the United Kingdom. In the case of most of them, these contributions and grants are in excess of fifty per cent of their respective total incomes; while to cite some individual instances, Bristol University receives 70 per cent from these sources; Exeter University College, 78 per cent; Leeds University, 59 per cent; Nottingham University College, 67 per cent; Sheffield University...\n\n[2]\n\n[8]\n\n52",
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        "content_text": "138\n\nBusiness Interest in University.\n\nGratifying evidence of the increasing estimation in which the work of the University is held is furnished by the encouraging change in the attitude of business people to its graduates. There was a time when there was apparently no room in business and manufacturing firms in the Colony for the Hong Kong University graduate; but I am glad to say there are clear signs of the gradual disappearance of any prejudice against him. Outstanding business concerns like Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, the Asiatic Petroleum Company, and the China Light & Power Company, have indicated their willingness to encourage selected graduates to qualify for employment with them and to provide them with facilities to show their worth in actual practice. Messrs. John Swire & Sons, Limited, London, have also recently approved a scheme whereby two selected graduates of the University will be provided with free passages to England each year for further study and to gain practical experience. This is assistance in the highest sense of the term: in some aspects of the University problem, more valuable than even direct pecuniary assistance. For unless openings to employment are available for our graduates, experience elsewhere teaches that a University education may be a curse rather than a blessing.\n\nGraduates & Government Service.\n\nThe question of the employment of graduates in Government service was also under serious consideration during last year, and we are encouraged to hope that the time is not far distant when even more vacancies in Government service than at present will be open, under approved conditions, to selected graduates of the Hong Kong University. It is a matter for gratification that 11 of our graduates hold posts in the Medical Department of Government.\n\nAs you know, this University is a residential one; that is, residence in a University hostel is, in general, an essential condition of admission to the University; and exemptions from residence are only granted in special circumstances by the Senate. Any increase in hostel accommodation has, therefore, a most direct bearing on University life. It is therefore with great satisfaction that I call attention to an important addition to the residential facilities provided for undergraduates which was made by the opening on the 16th December, 1929, of Ricci Hall under the management and control of Jesuit Fathers of the English Assistancy. The hostel, which is a fine building situated on Pokfulam Road within easy reach of the main University buildings, provides accommodation for thirty-five students. The resident staff will consist of a Warden, a qualified doctor, and a qualified engineer. The hostel has a library of its own, and special facilities are being offered for extramural tutorial work.\n\nWoman's Hostel Scheme.\n\nLast year, the Vice-Chancellor mentioned the appointment of a Committee, under the Chairmanship of Col. Skinner, R.E., to raise funds for a woman's hostel, and expressed the hope that the Committee would be successful. Something has been done towards realisation, but progress has been slower than was anticipated, and up to date, a sum of only $14,000 has been collected. The estimated cost of the scheme is about $120,000, so that the balance to be realised is still considerable.\n\nThere were thirty-eight women students on the roll in 1929, and residential accommodation could only be arranged for fourteen students in premises rented for the purpose by the Church Missionary Society. The remainder resided with their parents or guardians.\n\nA pleasing feature of the movement for the collection of funds for this hostel is that the lady undergraduates themselves are actively participating in the campaign by organising concerts and entertainments in aid of the cause. I am informed that two of these ladies, while in the Straits Settlements during the last long vacation, formed a working committee composed chiefly of graduates of this University who are now working in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States to carry on propaganda work and to collect funds; with the gratifying result that over $3,000 have actually been paid in through their efforts, and promises of further contributions have been obtained. This, you will agree, is an admirable illustration of the spirit of self-help and service to the University.\n\nA Munificent Donation.\n\nAnd now I come to a matter which has afforded the utmost satisfaction to the University authorities. During the period under review, the University received a donation of $120,000 from Mr. Fung Ping Shan for the provision of a building for a Chinese Library in the University. He has given $100,000 for the building and equipment and $20,000 as a contribution to the endowment fund to meet the maintenance charges of the Library. In providing a sum for the recurring expenditure on the maintenance of the Library, Mr. Fung Ping Shan has set a most commendable precedent. It is not often remembered that when donations are made for a building for a particular object, the University has, as a matter of course, to be financially responsible for its maintenance; and in many cases, this is an item of some magnitude. A site on the University estate has been selected for the proposed Library, and it is expected that its erection will be commenced shortly. I desire, on behalf of the University, to voice its grateful acknowledgment of the munificence of Mr. Fung Ping Shan; and I can imagine no more appropriate record of it than the handsome building in contemplation.\n\nI will finish my account of the building activities within the University by referring to the conversion, during last year, of the building at the western entrance of the University into a laboratory for the Biological Department, accommodation for which was urgently needed.\n\nGloomy Financial Aspect.\n\nIt is natural that the academic aspect of a University should stand out most clearly in the public mind. But of equal, though more prosaic, importance is the financial aspect. A University cannot, any more than a business concern, outrun the constable without dire results. And the Budget for 1930, which has passed the University Court, does not make exhilarating reading. For it shows expenditure at $666,345.00 and revenue at $603,500.00; or a deficit of a little over $60,000; and recent currency movements may increase this figure to $80,000. Now I wish at once to emphasise the fact that this prospective deficit is not due to extravagance or to any avoidable cause; it is in the main the result of the fall in the exchange value of the dollar, which most of us outside the University have equal reason to deplore. The salaries of the permanent University teaching and administrative staffs are on a sterling basis; and in translating sterling salaries into dollars, a loss of over $50,000 alone is entailed on University funds under existing currency conditions.\n\nInadequacy of Salaries.\n\nFurthermore, the subject of the adequacy or otherwise of these salaries has provided grave cause for anxiety; for, without adequate recompense, teaching and administrative standards cannot be maintained. Besides, the labourer is worthy of his hire, and none more than he who is engaged in the honourable, invaluable, and exacting work of education. His Excellency, as Chancellor of the University, appointed a Committee to go into the matter during last year; and the Committee has reported in no uncertain terms as to the utter inadequacy of these salaries. But if effect is to be given to its recommendations, an additional annual expenditure of $140,000 will be required with the dollar at 1/8, and of $176,000 with the dollar at 1/6. Add this amount to the existing budget deficit of $80,000, and you will get an aggregate of $256,000 in excess of revenue.\n\nIt is obvious that without assistance from outside, the University cannot face this increased expenditure.\n\nGovernment Aid Urged.\n\nThe University Court has asked the Colonial Government to enlarge its annual grant of $50,000 to one of $250,000 per annum. If the dollar had remained at 1/8, this increase would have enabled the University to balance its Budget comfortably and to make the long overdue and much-needed additions to salaries. With the dollar at 1/6, unless the resources of the University are still further increased by a grant out of the Boxer Indemnity or from other sources, it will be impossible, until exchange improves, to give full effect to the recommendations of the Salaries Committee.\n\nNow the request, even for an additional grant from Government of $200,000, is a large demand to make; it requires justification. I propose to justify it, mainly, by the experience of the British Government with regard to its contributions for University purposes. I think I am entitled to say, categorically, that without these contributions, supplemented by grants from Local Authorities, no University in the United Kingdom could keep its doors open; so it becomes most pertinent to ascertain what proportion these contributions and grants bear to the total income of certain typical Universities in the United Kingdom. In the case of most of them, these contributions and grants are in excess of fifty per cent of their respective total incomes; while to cite some individual instances, Bristol University receives 70 per cent from these sources; Exeter University College, 78 per cent; Leeds University, 59 per cent; Nottingham University College, 67 per cent; Sheffield University...\n\n[2]\n\n139\n\n[3]",
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