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NOW READY.

DOUND VOLUMES of the TRADE RE BRYO 1870. Price $10.

Apply at the Daily Press Office. Hongkong, let February, 1871.

BIRTH At Hongkong, on the 20th instant, Mrs. P. KARRERA, of a daughter.

MARRIAGE.

Tayvalery 4) bp thefly Prasa tem this offer un

o Tursing working at 1019, as he lame mensager helt the utilise at 10.35.

The Daily Press.

by the Government quite long enough for studying the Estimates. Perhaps they are afraid that if the public had too long a time to consider then, they might suggest addi.

Lions.

estimates is to conceal the Colonial expendi Lure. At all evocte this end is most effectu ally attained by the plan which is now adopted, ospecially ns in an onliuary war the length of time allowed to the public to ascer tain how they are called upon to expend

Ws are requested by our correspondent "W" from $800,000 to $1,000,000 a your is at the to to an error which occurred in his letters utmost a fortnight. It may be stated with the amount wc pap" to the Hon. Mr. Austin confidence that, pressed as people in Hougcing £2.000 namely, salary 21,500, and audit kong are with business engagements, it woulding £50, not £3,000, as elated,

We havo bean requested to mite that the In- quest with reforesco to the poisoning case was adjournal to Friday next, 22nd inst, at 4 p.m., at the Magiercey in place of to yesterday, as erroneously stated in the report,

THE DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 201, 1871.

INQUESTS. Twoinqueals were told yesterday by A. Lister, E Coroner, with a jury consisting of Messre, H. Wicking, J. H. Maclohoon, and J. Popple well

In the Brat oneo,

J. Sior, Polio Corporal No. 38, stated that a little after 6 pm on Monday, the full of some Busses was reported to him at the Cross-rands Station. Taking a constable with bia, he saw woman among the rains with her head visible.

man Bazaar, for breach of Section Villal Ordinance, 7 of 1863, for not reporting change in tenancy. Mr. Charita Ostoad, appeared for the Registrar-General.

Defendant's excuse for non-compliance to Ordinance was that be forgot all about it.

Fined $25, or one month imprisonment.

ABUSE. Fine was paid,

bome or habitation,

· NO LANTÈLUS.

About twenty no lamp cases were dieposed af by fins from 10 senta to 20 couto, acording to their merits.

ARSAULT.

DISCREPANCIES IN THE COLONIAL ACCOUNTS TO THE EDITES OF THE " DAILY PRESS," SI-Is the Supplementary Estimates for 1836, page 8, I find the Excem of Aerts over Liabilities on 31st December to be $187,365.04

In the Estimates for 1872. pige

1869 stated to be................

I find the Actual Rorevue for

In the Supplementary Estimates H. Alford, Inspectue of Builtings. stated for 1859, paga 12, I find the Actual be utterly impossible for any single man in

Expenditure stated to be..... the Colony to master the subject within that

The houses, 191, 193, 195, ware built before I space of time; if, indeed, it would not be

oame to the Colony, They were not barned

Showing a balance of ped at N 197. Whe I first knew the housesBat on page 31 find the Excess ahaost hopeless for the most skilled account

down in the fire of August, 1868, which stop.

bey had no verandabe. In theuatsun of 1868, of Assets over Liabilities on Blat ant to place in a thoroughly clear light the

We hear that the Hon-Mr-Paws defoté, Messa. Tarner & Co.'s compradore applied for December stated to be...... true nature of the demands so glibly made Attorney-General to this Colony, will procect permission to build five verandizbe, it ending

Being a deficiency of...... upon the public every year. Our corres home shortly ou leave, and it is stated as proba there three. He emplyed a man called Chan pondant W." has dono good, servire in ble that tire on. Mr. Bab, Judge of the Su-ring-chung to build them. I inspected thems

In the ame way, for the year' placing before the public the actual summary Court, will be appointed Acting Attorney while they were in course of construction. The

General. We trust this rangement will not work was of a cheap nature, but not such Re 1870, I find the balance on Sat De which are paid to the beads of the different be made as it is highly undesirable that anyone could object to. The pillars were of brick, and cember, 1869, as above to to... In the Estimates for 1872, page departments, together with some of the more should occupy the position of judge and advo-the cross supports of granite. The upper part

was of brick and the roof tiles. I have examined 5. T find the Actual Revenue for the rains, and I fancy that the Lenryminacabesed 1870 stated to be..... important pensions which have to be pro-cate at the same time.

the foundation of one of the piers to sink. The vided by the public. A perusal of his letter

pier common to Nos. 191 and 193 has sun. When the foundations were put in, they scored satisfetiny: Of the tsremaining verandahs, The sinking of the pior between 191-and-193 would be sufficient to bring down the pier.

By Jaror-So long as the terms of the Building Ordinance ore complied with, the law cannot interfere with buildings. Ishould any the work was a cheap bargain, the interiority con aisted of badly mixed mortar, and Inully selected and badly laid bricks.

BEFORE THY HON. H. JBALI TOTG-AYOONT,SOU JURNG CHOW, $265.50.

will suffice to give the Community of Hong-CUIRT OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION. kong some faint idea of the Leaofty which they enjoy by being under British rule, and this case was an action on a bill of embang-was-is-unsafe and is to be taken down at once. made by the defendant at Penang. The money of the amounts which are paid to the powers use to be paid on arrival of bis junk in Hong that be as compared with the work which kong. She did arrive, but was wreaked in the they perform. Look at the amount paid to typhoon, Defendant admitted his ability, and the COLONIAL-SECASTARI, £1,500 for doing his Honor aid he could-not go in the gata Secretary's work, and then an addition oftion of the typhoon. Judgment for plaintiff.

In the Supplementary Estimatea for 1870, pugs 8, I and the Actual Expenditure stated to be

But on page 91 Bud the Exces of Assets over Liabilities on 31st December stated to be.

NAGASAKI.

(N. C. Daily News)

NEWSPAPER SENSATIONALISM,

(Beaminer

The effect hero aimed at is, of course, that of Juvenal's grand line.

As Derly KS any bi, sixty years ago, an article appeared in the Examiner, which, for the minute fidelity with whiel it insisted spou revolting and loathsome physical detaile. Jeares far behind even the nastiest of the mans paty areatives from whies wi hare quoted. Simi

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is calculated to perceptibly at the annul average of offensive cranes, shoir ignoranou of human, Date is as mentable their self-conceit. Upon any less charit able hypothesis, their maniaoul eulogies of virtue, and their prurient power of sketchity vica its ugliest aspecte, deacrve even a

& AAVE!YT CEDsure tlinu that which we have passed.

Falu ispanaria likit at pulvinar sñerem." Toliconen. Then, when we think we have at

During the recest trial of Mr. Pook, The The Africa, Having completed the inring of all events with £3,000 a year, taken leave

the cable from Vladiwastook, he lait for home. consel for the defence called the attention of Wo ng hardly point out how deservedly it is the Hon. COIL SMITH, we had, he turns up

The Gas de says there is general dissatisfaction the judge to certain cheap and musty woodents missel, or how the writer who assays,the mEHTI + • felt at the sea-completios of the Frasion over which were clouintal to ore te prejudices of Boonasio" in one Solumn and that of again, and that we have to pay £6) for is

laud lino frome Viadiwastook, comple of against the prisoner. One of these was a fancy the "Daisy Chain" in the next, breaks down chair coglies. Sixty pounds a year, on which

4. J. Carr, of the Happy Home Tavern,

blocks of boaves in the city were bint down ontruit of Mr. Pook himself, upon every lives. uilely betreon his twe ill-matched stools.

Suot writing needs no critiolem. It simply the Bib, and the, damage, would hyra baeumeut of which crino and villiny, were unraia. many a clergyman lives at home, for marrying. Queen's Road Central, stated that nearly op.

A married woman, scd Pob-a-tai, sum grester, but for the exertions of 250 yolunteers takably stampad, Another was it portrait of needs to be plainly called what it is. Any Laying shops on the ground floor, and brick about the RRGISTRAR-GENERAL! The SUR. posite to bie boyos were couse Chinese hottack, [1593 VETOR-GENERAL moves atoul for £100, but randahs on the first floor crer the foot way. ncned one Abad Fakeer, Sewing, in Lus. from the Ocons. The Gastle thinks the dignity the nuhappy girl. A third was a highly sug paper which inerts it deliberately pander to was at the time no laughing, water fully writes itself down to the level of an un- that includes a borsa. By the by, as any About 6 pm, on Monday witness heard a eraeli, sar Row, for nalawfully aking alasive language of the Consular Body will suffer by the appoint- gestire cartoon of the murder Reelf. All this the arbid appetites of its readers, and wil-

and sew the veranduls of three houses fallen: to the complainant, calulated to provoke a ment if a Chinese ofeint. The Chinracines At Obrist's Church, Canton, in the study ever seen hief riding? The Curse of the rain and no wind. Everything breach of su geuce. Defoudant admitted the gantile community are making ready for their Mr. Fool; and the judge very properly made ilustrated" Newgate Calender." The offence is instant, by the Venerable Arelidancon Gray,

ne to intimate that their pablication was na borrata of vice, la stimulate and promote tha M.A. WILLIAM TREZEVANT WRIGHT, Ea, Jurica las no chair coolic allowance, pro- quiet in the street proviusly. Witness charge, and was fined 83, or the choice of Revan expected Gussal, by putting their books in some very forcible remarks upon these disgnat. aggravated by the lines preset that the offence against law as much us against decrney. practise of virtue. This Is, ga a matter of fact, Commander of H.1.0.M. gun-rosol Piloong, to kably beause he is supposed to be sitting all went to the middle teus and heard moping days imprisonment; preferred the former. order and preparing themselves to eubmiting prdnete of cheap art, and even went su far writer's real object is, by dustling upon the The Solicitor-Gener, being officially present, untrue. The writer's real object in to tickle the MARY DAWSTOE, eldst daughter of Jaunce

boys were recovered alive. Witness, heard no laurage to a Mahomedan. Priest, who also got

GREAT DIVORCE SUIT.

was asked whether Government was inclined to dopraved palates of his readers. The Ties Stell, 40, Great Coram Street, Russell day; and we don't see the exult coolies under the rabbish. Search was made, and two The same defendant was fined $2 for abusivo gmesfully to squeezes,

[1897 allotted to the COLONIAL-SECEDTARY, but he other price. The police arrived in a short time summons out; this was paid aleo.

BGGUKS AND VÄGANONDE,

In the case of Milne v. Milne and Fowler, interfere in the matter. Forgetful for the and the forging Port are at least as anxiocin "Square, London.

Poon Akum, broker, identified oue of the makes up for it by a charge of $192 for

Jacob Strake, a sinon unemployed, was sent Lord Penzance gave julgam an August 3rd.oen bat Mr. Bruce'e enie delight in to bavos sue other daily papers that their readers bodies as that of Tung-chow-put, his wife. He atelien at the Peak. Then we had a very was not on the aput at the time of the accident to guul again for six weeks, for lying about The quation was whether the separate property more upon his hands than he can by any pos should not commit murder, forgery, and adul tory; but yet they sever provoke ua to cry, with of the wife could, under the peculiar nature of the sibility mannge at once, Sir John Coleridge ro nent little account at the top of page 13 for He lived in one of the housee. He never knew the streets..

settlements, be dealt with by the Diveroo Court, plied that, if the Government took to interfor. Sir Peter Teazle, "Ob, damn your sentiments." Clerk of Councils, 31,060--just as though not the house to be sunnie. Mars. Turner & Co.'s

James McDoasid, also a stan unemployed, The husband was the late chairman of the Saling with azek publications it would have Noither do they turn naide to gloat over a flig compradore isthe landlord. Nobody belonging one of all the clarks in the COLONIAL-SEONE to the bousehold was seriously hart except his was sent to guol far one month, for having unford Quarter Sessioils, the respondent being a enough to do. There was more truth in thear a hideous one: they simply pass it by ; or, if TARY'S office could take a note of about wi

daughter of the late Samuel Brooks, the well mark thai is at firet apparent. Ic. spite of they notice it at all, notice it gravely and half a dozen meetings of the Council in the

known bauker at Manchester; there the efforts of Lord Mayor Bealey, the Police decorously, laster of yelling and bollow. with a delight worthy of a apondent, at the time of the elopement, jug News and the Day's Dings are pertinatiously ing ter coures of the year; and we must not forget

the stigondary magistrato at Manchester. hiruded upon our notice; and to pretend that tipsy find. The kind of terature of which The lady lied property to the extent of £5,000 our eyes have never fallen apon the highly say we have been apoaking in offence which can. to notice that under the AUDITOR-GENERAL's HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 2014, 1871.

Department we continue to pay $11,000 for

an unnecessary affectation of innocence. Va cruel wrong to those upon whose relatives and In opposition to the conventional belief, printing, tationary and forms for all Depart and got her out alive. She was sent to Hospital Ng-nam-sou, P.C. No. 7, eummoned Foong a year, and when the suit was heard the jury gestive tablenz of theant, aporthe robust fetuale nut be too distizally depinaced. It is it in GOLDSMITH in one of his inimitable essays.ments, and $600 for coale. This is "the/where she in doing se well na, may be, consider moey, occupant of brothel No. 90, Sqture-streetare £1,500 damages against the co-respondent, legs which form the stuple of the other, would be sult to public deconey and morality. It is a ug hor injurice. Afterwards witness tubud fer quiawfully as initing and boating the and condemned both the respondent and ca

of was whether the settlements could be varied any offenders in their own particular line. A pretence that it sulerves a moral purpose is declared that the ues of language was to con. way the money goes" in Her Majesty's thy dead body of a man, the male deceased.dmplainant, when in the execution of his repondent in costs. The point Low disposed fortunately the instrated papers are not the friends it-lurpy-lika-apriokice ita filth. Its ceal one's thoughts. On the same principle Crown Colony of Hongkong. No wonder After this be found the body of the female de. Juutios, by throwing stones at him, by which he and to what extent. Loyl Penzance femerknow style of leading article has lately comic into the merest curt, And—it Lord Campbell's

Cheong Achun, cimployed in to Tak Tai a man without a lactora. Fined $, which was respondent and co-rendent in a most aufn-one two papers whose boast is of the large is little better than a legal scarecrow. it would seem that, in Hongkong, thie nse of that two or three days, are considered Conood. The badion were removed to Hospital. was struck about the body, because he took up that the enae aliowed the conduct at the tushion, for which we have 10 thank those Aot does unt apply to it, Tori Campbell's Act

vourable light. The lady had a large forms of their circulation, and of which we can tudo, and the co respondent evidently specul only say that it has absolutely all the demerits Sille-mercer's shop, Third Street, identified the paid.

lated on enjoying it. His Lordship varied the of those same vulgar woodouts without their other body so that of Cheong Fing. He did a street-conlie, und had just left witncos'a luuno

anttlemente by extinguishing the wife's interest one and single vodeeraing paint, The Hua. therein, as if she were dead, and the court alstrated Policy News-ta do it justice does not oliva near the nocne of the accident. lle was before the latter heard the fall. He must have been passing under the rentab. Wiluese

directed the trustees of the property devised pretend that its cars cus of the latest horrid went to deceased's house to look for him, but

and bequeathed in the wife by her father's will murder" setve any high moral parpoen, or that larly, Je 1840. William Makepeace Thackeray, Cut Ruding bin, cause to the Hospital, and

to pay over to the busband 2360 a year out the prooveds of that property. The result is they, in any way, promote the education of the in Fraser's Magazine, dwult tinueringly upon

mes. They please its purchasers, and thut the dying tonios of a strangled Ba

Each of thear articles was writton identified his body. "Deceased's wile was with

that the husband will reveise for binwalf, and

is enough for the Nos, which simply presents ali. tim.

423,653.01 the maisterauce and education of the children, thea for what they are, unfavoured by any for purpose. Bach may fairly claim to

£1,500 a year. On the motion of Dr. R. Ai Dr. Young's report on the bodies was read

"appropriate admition." The writer of be judged by ita fuita. Public expontions beve 81,061,018.05 | Pritebari, the decree nini was made absolute. what, in default of a uame, may he called a low been abolished by lan. Flogging in the army, was identified by be-ujured woman in Hou- to the jury, showing that the miste deceasel pital on her husband.

trugody-leader, scle to work in a different style. for all practical purposes, no Imper exists. THE LOSS OF THE "MEGÆRA." - He first indales in an elaborate piece of Did we believe that the gentlemen from whose $12,853.45

Globe, August 4th.)

word painting, in which be carefully gets writinge se bare ders and there called the It will be in the cry of our readers tha: before his readers the partion crime which stray bloesus were really in auraest,-did we $148,164.50 on the 2nd of Aron we called public attention is hit thomo for the day, in all its peculiar rask them with Thackeray and the Hante, to the condition of her Majesty's troopship physical natiness, and then, baring done even their English would have been sacred. Migare, which was then lying in the Cave of this, be winds up with a glowing calorism, But charity itself has its limits. It is barely 123,031.58 Cort, and aboat to start on her royage to by way of grace after meat, upon the bean conceivable that the writers of these dirty We need not remind our distribos are merely the victims of an inor- Anstralia with 33 offers and 350 men on board. tien of virtue. $25,132.71 From facts that had come to our knowledge renders of the wootouts that reprecated, ortinate anity. They can hardly imagine that bhrough a private obami, we felt it a duty professed to represent, the Eltham uurder. they will put a stop to marder--the Huats warn the Government that if the abip went to But we donbt if there w

course and vigor. down adultery, as Thackery wrote down" sea ta a elate witch was manifcally unseawor which, considered as a piece of one on them not a stop to gging; or that they will write Boaded that their grindy and preface ohgjenc 8123,031.88 thy, they would instr the gravest responsibiliaus aketaling, at ell approached the following public executions. Nay, even if they are per

ty. The statement which appeared in The imaginary description of the game scene: Globe was made the subject of a question in Finally, when she had gone to the perilous 914,976.37 the Ionse of Commous, As a matter of course, tryst, angry words led to ortel blows; and the

our nasertions were said, to be false or all that was left was the miserable little wreck $1,19,008.25 staggerated Official returns were produced to of humanity, crawling on bands and kaces across show that the ship was fit to go to seas that the dirty lane, with her head bobbing up and the defoots to which we alluded, and which we down in her agony, her temples all sashed in, 677.224.10 bad magnited, were simple matters, alitulug her brains Isceratcil and twelve wounds on her

of easy remedy, and the Megara was seat on face." g100,794 15ter vornge. The ship pat into Simon'e Bog

Then, as a poodaut to this, comes an equally on the 15th of May, and resumed bar course lü Australia on the 23t6 of the same month. The vivid picture of the moederar as he

SUEZ CANAL. 15411729 Admiralty has now received two tetograms: the rushes away, slipping and leaving his hasty THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE

no from Batavia to the effect that HMS Footsteps on the maddy path; and hot and

(Bronomist.) Being a deficiency of $6,000.00 Megara bas run nahore in a sinking state at wild with terror, with the mark of Chin upor

The present state of the Suez Canal amply WONG-TONG-SHAN 1. A. IA TURFER; $45.00.

St. Paul's Island, crew and passengers all bim, buging for something to alea's away the

confirms the anticipations respecting ita trafito £500 for auditing his own accounts-in all

Mr. Wicking and I thought it was a very -Pinintit sued on a kind of order or pencil.

I understand that the explanation given by sarec; the other from the Commodore, Hong marke of blood from his elothes."

which we formad on the nre of its inauguration. £2,000 a year when, for example, the Gedrawn obeque on the Hongkong and Shanghai bard thing that these maple should lose their the Colonial Secretary is, that I have in his long, dated August 3-4.53-

Between the mental condition of the man

In two articles we pointed out the extremely ZRNOR of Labuan gets only 4500. We are Bank, signed by Mr. Gibson. The order was lives. Some one we to binme for homses fall own words mistaken Estimated Assats and Megura cau ashores ainking; St. Paule who cau deliberately, and with a sort of palpa hypothetical aberaster of the data upon which not for unduly cutting down salaries, but we for $75, the defendant having paid $30 en acing after being built for only three years.

· Mr. Alford and if bad mortar were used he/Liabilities" for "actual Rsveipte and Disburse- Zaland; all saved. Have chartered steamer heie blo pride and pleasure ia bia wurk, write sach i the expectatione of an enormota traffic were

take peoule Sydogy.”

very nasty and disgusting descriptions us are bad, and described with some minuteness the cannot help thinking that the work the Ilon.eutint.

D. Turac explained that the onder was might bully the man into using better, but he

If he has shown how or where, I could bave What may have been the sufferings of the these, and that of the artist who sits down to Mr. AUSTIN does, would be well paid atmade when he had fands of Mr. Gibson's in his could not compel him to do so. He was not answered, but as it is, thia explanation is no ex-poor fellows on board the leaking ship and oneketel for the Police Newa s'onara cartoon of magnitudo of the trade of whisk the Canal could to obtain more, we sait, would require the £1,500, and that if a payment is to be made anda. When it was presented te had only aware that there was a drain under the place.

$80 remaining, and he told the plaintiff be Mr. Lister-said there contd be no doubt of Planation, and the only conceivable terning the island of St. Paul, and what they must still the very same subject, there can be little, if only at first obtain a share. For the Canal

kun stlach to it is, that what the Estimates call endure befora succour reaches them probablya any, appreciable difference. Indeed, the method

such a vet was not to be creatoil in a day. for auditing, the auditing should be done by could have that sim on account. The thing the cause of death, bat way special finding of "Statement of the Asa to and Liabilities of mouth hence it is not only to conjecture. But | must, each one, be much the same. The rention of a large fleet of acrew sten mera, and

had nothing to do with him.

the jury he would transmit to the Colonial the Colony" is not really a Statement, but so for the presence of this little island on the way writer, or, as it may be, the artist, first ankes. The enterprise would do very well, we enacled. His Houor, after some besitation, took this Secretary.

Fatimalo. Unfortunately for this explanation between the Cape and Austentia the sinking" bimsdf familiar with all the minstest details ad, if the shipping passing through amonatel Mr. Wisking said this was only one instance, the Estimates most carefully have the words ship must have been doomed. As it is, we may given in evidenes, and then proceeds to couUE view, especially na the cheque was stumped

at starting to a million tons per annum. upt with is recipi-stamp), and give jahut he knew of others, two within a week. Probable · or Betimated bofore every hope that the cheapo so happily effected way be them all together into one horrible and sick this language we were takes pretty severely to ment for defendant

The other jurora Bot ouderring in any tablo which is estimated, hat in regard to the complete, and that the crew and passungete waying tableau, which, in the ous cuso, caenpies so

task by the prompters of the Canal, who had Mr. Turner asked for compensat on, as it put special finding, the fureuso said it was nut Balanes Sheet, as it may be called, no such word all survive. The moral of this deplorable affair, many lince of loaded bourgeois, and, in the beau indalging in expoetations of a trofie et him to very great inconvenience to the way worth while to forward Eis wis opinios, Re

арреага.

perfectlyne we know it, ie, however, afficiently other, curers a many square inches of boxstarting of 3000,000 tons, riang rapidly to from the Bank even for a quarter or balf an had felt is his duty to say what a bad said. It is to ba regretted that previous to 1869. plain. The Hagrant neglect of warning, and wood. Tas this in the dus operandi uotally double that figure, and more. But now that Mr. Moorsom hare wrested a finding to the the Supplementary Estimates do not contain a the infatuated obstiny which induced an in pureed is, indeed, clear, trom the naively un effent that greater care should be used in the statement of the Actual Bxpenditure, so that I outpetent Administration to send auch a ship conscique confession of a gentleman who dis- the first year's report in before ), our senio Laying of foundations.

than otherwise. Between the inauguration and annable to compare the balance abeat as the Megara to sea, heavily laden, and in a coursed to us, the other day, upon what huetion in found to have been rather aver-sangning the 31st of May last-a period of sixteen Ultimately the jury found "Accidental form or years, but it is unfortunate for the condition eren approaching that which we been called the Forest Lane Tragedy: Beatb," and a special Anding as follows: Wo sorre these of the Colonial Becretary's ex-detailed on the 2nd of Murch, and which form:

To ace death rendered utterly degraded, monthe-the total number of ships which pass- consider it desirable that the Sarveror General, plantion that so far the deficiency ia-cused the subject of Mr. Karanaga question to hideous, beastly--to see it deprived of every ed though tha Clanul sus 33. weighing 787 or his deputy, should have power so enforce thelative. If there had been a deficiency one your r Gosoben ou March 6th, call for euething remnant of sanctity and tenderness, and made tons, the number of paneengers being 46,376, use of satisfactory materials and workmanship and an excess the other, it is possible shoes ore than waere passing vensure. The part what the death of bird or brute can never be. This is vory far short of the maximum of in the construction of foundations,

planation might have been accepted, but, as it mony and recklessness of the Government, an object of moral horror and of physical loath. 1,000,000 tons which we allowed for. And ia, I cannot put any faith in ita correntes, apparent in the misnanagement of every de- The second case then procesedell.

wencement, the vorage recoipts of the present Lecia cheong, Q.F.0 66, said he found the win as I do the total ignorance of the partment, is fast approaching a point at which onesie met he a apestanin ag revolting thongh the trafic bas freased from the com-

Colonist Secretary in the osttor of accounts, they unst borume istolerable ever to the manch, happily, it le Fure."

Having premise thus much, io of course your still indiate a traffic considerably less than decensed at Possession Point inside the ruins

goes on to describe this "bappily rare spoc-1,000,000 toca per manu, After these figures wondy was voted, ít did not matter on what of the cirens, lying on a banel. Winces spoke and meinbring bie statement that so long as complaining, but all-enduring British public. to him, but he returned no answer. Froth was abjent it was spent, as long as it was spent up- The Times writing on the subject thinks "the tuole," with a minute scrupulosity of detail we cannot uder at the fact, that for the last

ipany has been unable year the telling us how one body was so far gone in a coming from bis worth and moss, and bis legs der the same head as that for which it was telegrams received at the Admiralty yesterday, state of decomposition as to poison she at the interea on its works for were swollen. He was sensible, and got up, but voted.

following upon of the loss the Cephain and the

and otherwise revelling in "filth volve au anual payment of £100,000 he euld not walk or speak, Witness left him

I naz, yours faithfully,

Atraming of the Agincourt, cantat but producemosphere, DAVID WELSH,

a painful impression en the pahtis mind. The indescribable," and "pools of closted blou,"tarcat, besides sinking fund; in charge of a corporal, and woot for an ambi

Hongkong, 19th Beptarober, 1871,

troopship Megara has been lost half way be with all the gusto of a dog rolling itself over 1,000,000 tons trould only yield a grose An equally fine receipt of £400,000, from which a largo deduc lance. Dencased, was dead when he returned.

Uarreem Singh, P. Corporal 317, said he frat

theca the Cape and her destination, Australis, and over on a piece of carion. WE DO NOT PAY.

17 any one will look at a wap, he will and two pictures that of the Bayawater tragedy, the tion would have to be made for workingerpentes. found the deceased lying on bench. He dent Inkang 63 for un ambulance, and stopped with

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS."

little alanda, St. Pari's and Ansterdam, laying on valgarity of which is aggravated by the Of course the managers of the company have the man. When the ambulance came deaensed

So, In your impression of this day there in mi ocean just in the middle of the course fact that, in common with certain bideons plenty of explanationtbe privoipal being that was dead. He was found at 1.30 am, he died appears over the signature"W" a list of the from Cape Town to the southern point of Wastekitobea which appeared about the same in the the war bad prevented traflis; but anyone who at 2.30a.m., and ho was taken to the dual amounts we pay. By the words "We pay," 1 Australia. Upon the former of these isolated Dog's Doings, it was given to the world while han watched the movement kuwa that the Osual outines the war could have checked can make t 315 am. The ambulance did not arrive till presumo the writer means the Colony pays, and points. the Magure was run in a sinking state the case yt Mrs. Flora Davey was still sub has really done a large banineus, and that no 3.15, thaagb it was sent for at 1.30.

would point out to tiui ne serious error in early in the last month, or, perhaps, towards judice Lee-shoong, recalled, said he arrived at the his statement. He says: "We pay the Pet the end of June.

*We only know that the man lice stat muodifference. Weabould like to see it explain- J. H. BARRELET 1. PEANCE, GALL, AND which are paid by means of the plurality of RICHARDSON-$57.50 The same decision, Mr. Central Station at Lt, but could not get master $1,100 per waan, and Elis) for tra- consisting of 35 offers and soine 30 inon, bod with a knife, and bleeding to death, while ed how the war, wape prinoii maritime effcot coolies for mine time. He went w look for velling expenses, besides free house. Now, bave kil been saved, and, though the brief tele. the wretched woman in agony a kucaling beeido as the blockade of North Ocruan porta, soatd offices. No system could possibly be hit upon tichardson's vane being track out.

coolios. and fetched them from Taipinahan,

poses the demand for the exchange of gooda better calculated to secure a minimum of work

* KWOK ON, CHOT YUE AND SOO-ER ENG-

between Europe and the East. Has any Mr. Línter onid this explanation was perfectly Sir, the Colony pays the Postmaster only £000 graphic despatches veived at Whitehall him, wailing out, Ob 1 anve him! Oh! pray for have altared so much as the theory sup

year, while the Imperial Government pays give no information on the point, wo him! Oh! I fear I did it, 1 fear I did it.

As an afterthought to which purtoon, the,

other trade, any that between Europe and for a maximum of pay; and the estimates caor-04310. his was another action on a satisfactory.-

Dr. Yeang said that the body had a small bim £100, muking in all £1,000 not £1,100. Then, may assume that at the actual time when

again, the Colony bears no portion whatever of the ship was acliore the weather writer kindly adde tiut it would be aufair to aro to framed that only the most careful bill of exchange draw-Singapore, but ar attention to them will enable anyone to know Brereton appeared for the first defendant (the ulcer over the right collar-bone, the face, arms, the £100 for travelling expenses, those ara us not otherwise than fire. What would take these words an implying guilt of wilful America, been so ebecsed? The conclusion is,

and legs being, swollen, and the body much in what manner some of the galarios are projection on the ground of jurisdiction. He said emaciated and very dirty. In s parse attached entirely defrayed by the Imperial Post Ono; have been the result had got these ieleta murder an excuss the impudence of which is that however beneficial the Canal will be to the a to free house. I may inform the carping" W of S. Faal and Amsterdam lain in the way is alzoot matebless, and which would probably world, the cats by which the shareholders were for the accident that a superior species of sorow vidad for; or on the other hand, what some the defendant was not a resident in the colony to the waist, he found some prepared opium that our able Posenster-General pays out of too distressing for rig to disou. We shoull have gone for very little indeed had the igens perended to find the money ware delusive. But

heb llved at Maso, and only came over bare On post mortem examination he found the heart his own pocket a rental of £63 10s, per annum not, indeed, be justified in suggesting thereof the trini been ather than it was.

the close of the worka, the of the amounts put down mean.

For those who write this kind of literary gar Steuer was invented between the commende For when his junk was wrecked.

disease. Deceased must bare been sick for for his quarters. A man who pretends to give flection but for the circumstances under which ample, it is goborally understood that Mr. This being nduitted, the other defendant (the sume time. The stomach was nearly empty, and figures should at least be accurate. A distortion the afficers were embarked on board the Aegera bag remonstrance in uscicas Tour know per- nant wo

anntained no opids, and no other poison that such as the ous I have pointed out above makes when she set out ch ber voyage. When we feetly well what they are about, and sin wilfully Canal would have been astus Gaan LISTER, Mr. Toxxecut, and Mr. WODIEOUSE master) took the same objection, and it was receive salarice as Interpreters, but where do also shew that all the parties were barn with be conté fod. He believed the leased died the remainder of his statement utterly aure- remember the warnings then given wa cannot and deliberately. If a paper has a large cirou al failure and as things go, it has been

the dominions of the Emperor of China from inflammation of the investing membrane

in sonie of the other sume stated, it is not ne of her disappearance in inid pean, akawa nastinese, and to expect to have a good dish of promised.

Still it in a Bucondary matter how far the we find this in the estimates? As far as we The question next prese as to the origin of the of the heart, and this was the cause of the liable. Although it is easy to point out errors aroid shinking of the risk which has been ruslation, its readers are sure to like this kind of very far isdeed from the necess that was cessary to commost further an them. In ad- and authongnt of, uuid after months of slowly it servad op hot for them at regular intervals. shareholders sro affected, and the main questions das understand it; we believe the eum ap case of action, which Mr. Brereton contended swelling

dition timosarapy, I think W. may fairly sazing hope a metanetely eviction of her Indeed, the writer must be be bunan-very for the public are the means of torning the pears under the Estimate for the COLONIAL.ross in Singapore,

The bill was not made payable to order, and

be charged with making remarke which are ex-loss bad forced itself up the minds even of often be laughing in bis avera. SECRETARY, where we find two interpreters therefore could not be endorsed: Otherwise,

ceedingly invidious he and the Head Master those most dearly intersted in believing her frequently possessed of a vigon and ability enterprise to account now that the Canal is finished, and has the prospect of a traffic which abore the low trade to which they are prostí- will at least maintain it in working order. Pa and Inspector of Schools, and the Governor of possible safety."

tuted. Hie English ie slaat always graphis, at £500, and one interpreter at £400. Now, Lie Honor said, it could have been endorsed over

the Gaol, work for their salarios. Is it not well if there were a representative Government us to mats the cause of action originate

known that the Pustmaster-General worka

way. Assording to the il- the colony. He was afraid the plaintiff lind

The Advertier as The loss of the Me and is always righ, pulpy, and full-favoured, are glad to see that the Suez Canal ia quito gaite as hard, and the two magistrates employ gera will recall to the memory of our readers, But it is when he leaves the Newgate calendar, sure of paying Mak-along-tai and Chen-wah-chui, night the greatest assiduity and deligence in sifting the fact that she was denounced is unsas-ant opens, the brain-book, that tras genita pulations put forward by the promoters before. oil coolies, were charged by F. C. Gorinde, No. wat all cases ibut come before them; did not worthy, and was held as such by sailors: that blazes forth. It is, indest, a sort of trick of hand, the working expenes were calculated at 100, with throwing sight soil into the sea near Sir Richard bimeel werk bard when he was a queation was asked about her in the House of the trade to pretend that these morbid teaders £400,000, which it would have taken a very large are written with a high, moral purpose. Exact gross traffic to pay, but sotul experience, it appears, gives a mitoh more inoderate sum. The * The rain of Tong-AFOOR 600-SUNG-the Canton Wharf, at the very early hour of

Cummons, und blind assurances of her excel

annani maintenance of the canal is now rockoned 5.30 a.t.A

Jent state received in answer. It would appearly as the old ballad began

Thay cut his throat from ear to ear,

[at £68,000, and the expenses of goneral admin. Defendants excused themselves by stating

that the vessel, being in ziaking condition, CHOW was reconsidered after this judgment, but

His brains they battered in

istration at E117,201-total, 185,000. An kis Honer found that in that case the bill was

there was no boat at the place, and they were

was run ashore Happily all lives are reported to have beco saved, which does not in the least

annual tonnage of 460,000 would cover this, and absolve the admirally, if it should sara entu

the present traffic is more. There will at any is top probable--that the vessel, when she sailed, and then, recollecting that "the morale of the rate be surplus of kome sort for the debentures 1 was what she reported to be totally uses public meat he respected," added, as an appro-holders; and although at the present high rato worthy. The sathorities who send out a ship in priate reflectlov..

someone else, say on £600 or £700--for which the services of a thorough accountant ould msily be secured. Then there is the onormous salary of the REGISTRAR-GENERAL, to which, according to the Estimates, it seems is to be added the full salary of the CoLONIAL THEATRE. This of course must be a misoar

Pensation.

D. E. CRAWFORD AND ANOTHER. JOHN BAYNAS, 302 20-Debe aduitted. Judgment H. N. RIOKARTEEN. JOHN Barras, 515.00, —Admittė....___Judgment,

K. N. RICKERTZEN v. J. W. PRANCE AND B. E. GALL, $21.00-Mr. Tuller appoured for the defendants, to inform the Court that they had been adjudicated bankrupts. The claim was admitted.

take; but anyhow £1,200-the saw which Hi Honor did not think this a cue for rum it is anderstood the REGISTRAR-GEERRAL is to gel, is out of all proportion to the nature of the work, which, except as to the inter- preting, the Colony would probably be bettor without, especially as the department“totals" no less than $16,878 It will probably be difficult to sec money's worth for money out of the BRGISTRAR-GENERAL's Department, when this gun is borne in mind. In the Sue. VETOR-CBKERAL's Department we of course become lost in totals, in which the unlaries-- large enough in all conscience-sink into in- significance compared with the magnitude of the works. The Judicial Departments are also at extravagant rates, when the amount of business which has to be transacted is taken into consideration. But the actual samounts known to be paid-the clean round wime for Heads of Departinonta, are not sa much to be objected to as the enormous totals

Plintiti to proceco in bankraplay.

A. BOTEJAU AND ANOTHER V. PEARCE, GALL, AND RICHANDSON-8200.40. Mr. Toller appeared for the defendants, and as regards the first two, pleaded their bankruptcy, while as to the last, he could show that he was not a partner.

Mr. Brereton, for the plaintiffs, did not press the chain against the third defendant, and bis name was struck out.

Judgment as to the preseding case.

owner of the junk), and took a preliminary ob-

in Hongkong, the way this matter would became, though he was sure the Ordinance was treated would be somewhat as follows:-

Mr, So AND So I sea bree interpreters dowa in the Colonial Secretary's Department. Are thers any foreign interpreters in the offics?

OOL SUOTE: Oh! those emoonts are the enlaries for Messrs. LISTHU, TONNOCAT, and WODEHOUSE.

never intarded to apply to stel cauce as this. However there were the words, and be could not alter them.

*

wowana kada

The jury found"Death from natural roses.”

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

19th September. BEFORE J. RUSSELL, Esq.

HELPED TO VILL UP THE SEA.

Mr. So AND SO: Yes; hat those gestionez, endorsed in Hongkong by the defendant, be obliged to throw it into the sea. Fined $5 each,

stated there that the slip had swived and

or three weeks' imprisonment. They had no

I think, are not in the COLONIAL SECRETARY's the mossy was dus. That made it an accoquash, and went to gaol, uffice: nm I mistaken P

JOL. SECTY.: No; they are not in my office statul ut ill events, if it was not a promissory

F

Mr. Bo-AND-0: Oh then in point of fact 2016

NATIVE IMPUDENCS,

meets."

Secretary.

hire, to say nothing of his sleepless Private was displays animas, and I therefore leave him to his own sweet reflections,

Yours truly,

FAIR PLAT. Hongkong, 19th Beptember, 1871.

SHANGHAL

(N. C. Daily News.)

Ber erew and passangere,

+10

drsauce of warning, that afterwards prövER aqft for service, are under a tremendously augmented responsibility, in a moral sunce

Re is not nu.

His name was Mr. Willinta Woare.

He lived in Lyon's Inn-"

"I can assure you, resters dear,

It was a board ein ??".

For

pay

and erou

of interest, viz, 10 per cent, it would take 1,000,000 more tonnage to cover the charge,

it should be passible somehow to get rid

An impudent Celestial, named Les--abeong. this stin is simply an error, and should be

* CHEAK-CHIN-POS V. CHOY, TUB, AND SOo.cook, to Mr. J. A. Mator, in Wyndham- struck out-from this Department at all crents.

The P. & U., it is said, are to resume their SHANG-HOY.-$600.00. This creo was similer street, in bis employ only 14 days, asked on the and so this little irregularity would to be one in which Kwok-on wis plaintiff, right of the 15th for leave to sleep out of the speedily die vatural death. I the like Braraton tuk the sams objection, and bleues, and his master not consenting, be toch ecasting line from Hongkong to Swatow, Amay We may ural, becaur there is notoriously so the writer of the low tragedy.leader, having of the burlen by borrowing at a lower rate the sulke and went down abaira. Shortly after, and Fouchon, using the Ateamers Madras and no such thing as responsibility inerred first adorned his tale, always goes on to plot of intercet. Ferasps a chillion tons would bis moral. What a horrid thing," he gravely be enough to clear working expenses, and or heuds of aay govern. is master regairing bis services, called him Boubay; their places being taken by the Go by the head toamner we should doubtless sey the end of Hanor deoked that he had no jurisdiction.

mental department DOW. If the anthotelle ar, "is druskenness." What a sad crime a moderate olurge for loanay 5 percent. The detay in the arrival of the Japan ruil ritics cannot make some underling suffer, blasi," in short, is hy who ne'er concloes, there wilt at any rate be a real pros is murder. What a grievous fault is forgery."interest. If the debenture-boiders should fore- nine-touths of other sinjilar abuses-for abuse WONG-EN-SERRO. SO IRENG-CHOY. auswer called again, no answer; n third long and Avocx from the Australian lino,

cheong considering himself a better un appears to be due to the Golden Age having, ou they contrive to bury all responsibility. In that

party to dispose of to a new company, which it undoubtedly is that a man should be 850000. The ne question arose bere, and his time, no answer; be then called fourth. Les

case a Blue-book, sufficiently thick and beavy! Beats by ill-drive to walk."

Iteluctantly we are compelled to illustrate our would start with a capital proportioned to the charged for in the estimates under a depart. Hovor enquired whether, if the junk had never chassess his auntrymer term "F-quis," the 3th, discovered the Ovata Bica aground on

arrived in Hongkong, there would bare be actually ezavered, and camo np to his employer Galates Bauk, 66 miles from Hiego. The does the duty of a tombatere over the grave.

We cannot say however that the plan which ment which he does not serve, and for work and ease of action, and whether therefore the not wonster) in an insolent mood, and wished Golden Age returned to Eiogo and towed as all on board the Afegen are huppily saved, complaint by yet another quotation. A divorce business

cause of uuium did not originate in Hongkong know what he wanted Mr. J. A. Maber barge down to enable the grounded steamer to pahlia indignation will probably not be roused case, it may be remembered, was beard the other

Mr. Brereton said he did not think there thinking this to be more turn whit he agreed lighten, but met her proceeding at 8 30 4.3. on from its inertness on this ocasion. If any day, of so painful a nature that, for the sake of is likely to be taken is very promising. The was on arrival of the vesel" would defeas to pay him good wages for, slapped his face, the 9th, so that she must have got off with the thing is said about this loss, we shall probably all concerzad in it-in tum interests of commou directors of the company propose to borrow

on which the aggrieved Oclestial flow off to the night tide. police-station, and gave himself up as one thrust

which be does not do.

But so fearfully and wonderfully are the estimates framed that it is most impossible

to dissover even such flaws as this. It is a mattor of great difficulty to find what is being paid to a single individual. Wo may find man off the estimates altogether so far as they can be made out, and yet receiving £500 a year; or like the REGISTRAR-GENE.

be actually charged for at the rate of £2,000 What with fixed estimates," "provisional Bud temporary" by the bys there is a great

the bill if she did aut arrive.

His Honor said he should reconsider all the sore as regarde jurisdiction.

out without puss er lantern, and yesterday pro

The present ouse was partially investigated cared a summons against his employer. Moan- on the merits, and adjourned, as Mr. Bertan while, bewent to bio employer and demanded his was not fully lastrected.

wages, stating he no wanale stop, and bis

defondant,

ABUSIVE LANGVAOR

TIENTSIN.

be treated to a wonderful eulogy on the virtues, diarity, at any rate, if not of simple decency-about £800,000 to clear of innubrances and and amiable qualities of the late Firat Lard of courment would have seemed impossible. The pay their way to the end of this year, after of the Admiralty by the present First Eird. In guilty couple were, indeed, neither more nor less which they bope tha: the increase of traffic will (H. C. Daily News.)

the present day, trimpesch a blumter or any guilty than is al inch cases, but they had pul them through...We need not describe the Dates to 9th September say that the water on sulug worse, on the part of a Minister ou certainly been far more imprudent. Indeed, financial arrangement minutely, but it coul the East and West plaina had, during the past Lubbles repeatedly of bit réponsibility when their sasignations had heaome matter of local fessedly depends on the traffic, and of this wo B. LOPES V. C. L.. VOIKMANN-6539, for Ployer paid him. Mr. Bassell discharged the six days, falien 2 to 3 inches. The river water be is about to commit a wrong, irada valy to a notoriety, and the evidence against them, what bare our doubts. The starting point is a busi still flowed into the plaies, the gape not having personal tribute to bis amazing virtue and ever else it may have been, was, at any rate, not nese which will yield £400,000 per annum goods sold sed delivered Defor.dant not in

been filled up, not does it seem likely that this worth. If we had's Alegrera at our disposal, we circumstantial. We might easily have been implying about 1,000,000 tons of shipping and of the unhappy pair, conceived in a mo per annum in looked forward to. All such J. de O. Medina, a public-bouse keeper, eam-will be done until the river becomes much lower, should know better box to lead her than with prepared for a description of the meetings an increase of 280,000, or about 200,000 tons, DAL, he may appear as down for £700-and attendance; judgment for plaintiff,

moned Mr. V. Julien, seamen's boarding-house which will be the case about the end of October her Majesty's officers or troops,"

beut al inepination worthy of Orld's Meta.calculations are nopearily speculative; bile if there is any serious deficiency the new bor- OMUN-AROS . P. BUTTADO. $25.17-Deeper, in thist be did on the 18th September Sailing busts and cances are the peder of the

morphoses. Bat we were, we freely coafoes, fondant pleated hankruptcy, Judgment for unlawfully are abusive language to the comday Steps were being taken for the distribu-

Mr. Macaulay, secretary to the Speaker of the harily prepared, after such a description, to rowings necesary to curersucocesive deficits will defendant.

plainant, whereby a breach of the peace might tion of the 80,000 picule of rice placed at the Dominion House of Jummons, was killed on the had our writer souring aloft into the blue ether involves rory heavy annual obarge. It would be much better at once to attempt a couroraiou has been nosnaioned. omplainant stated he disposal of Li-hung-chang. The weather con- deal of provisional and temporary" this year

"Can mothers like Mrs and here, in of the present mortgage debt, and a redue- Ottava county. He was knocked down and so The great Mordaunt Bourdat is, rawour Weat to the Spanish Consulate, and it was there tinned hot both, day and night, aul dickness 18th July, in an election riot at Montebello, of the purest morality, -and finally that grand standing dincubus,

the undertaking, o us to correspond the Civil List, we never know when we have states, likely soon to be revived. The lady, it! he was abused, Julian and done it before, was pretty genend amonges the antires à diy kicked and beaten that he died cookin zeal to point a moral, the penny-a-liner betion of the various ather

is estated, bisa been discharged by the medical but baring no evidence his case fell through, Book of wild geess were heading south on the afterwards. There is great excitement in the comice so forgetful of all commas charity us to 1st Sept.; last year the first fook going in the

mention the unhappy lady's, namà...

more nearly with the reality. begun with a man or finished with him. en ander whom she was placed, and reported in fact be is cuationally proroking him,

Defendant stated he only got excited a little me direction was even on the 24th Sept, very city, where the daceaed has ratly friends.

The Post says the question of the Lower return from walks liko bers, to Pengethley not to be impossible to induce the dehenture- Whether an official is in the Colony or not to be perfectly are. The Perthobire papers

Danube appears to be disturbing Eastern Goras, and rub upstairs into their auraries, bulders to accept a smaller interest, and com. does not very louch matter. Mr. CRBAGE is state that she is at present sourcing at Mon- because the compliant went on board of shortly after which coul weather set in.

Europe once more Ita St. Petersburg cor and take their babies on their knees and feel praise their clim for the remainder by a Fined 20 shillings, and ordered to enter int away, but his demory and his salary are still creiffe house, is that county, the residence of ship, and procured his work."

her father. The Echo says the statement that dear, very dear! We don't much mind his Bir. Obaries Mordaunt intends to renew divorce, recognisance to keep the peace for three Americaupapers make the startling statement respondent staten that we govaral rug of the delight of their little hända olinging to share in the sarplan profits. The matter is

on the in the wain of $25.

that witbia the last ten years Congress has conversation is extremely warlike, not, however, them, and then parohanes teach them to say. primarily for the abareholders and credito given away to railroad corporations as much as if in prospoot of an immediate reptare with Pray Godt blena papa and manus,' and concerned: but the matter is also of public in absence, and shall be glad to hear that he has proceedings is, at least, premature

The Honorable the Registrar-General sam.land as the whole area of the original 13 States Asetrin, but with the settled conviction that leave them with a kiss and a mother's bonedic-terest, as is never for the general welfare to leave an important enterprise in the hands of moned Tri-a-chip, hongeholder of No, 16, Gil. of the Union.

suals raptore is now a mere queation of time, 'tion-

good aport; but we do object to continuing

lo pay his salary. We don't want tizers button to the jurisdiction:

* The cast warn ustimately rearred for reponder

KEGISTRATION.

capitate of

1 dught