1875-01-22 — Page 4

Extracts.

TO THE BARQUE OF ST. PETER, (After Home, Odam L. 14.j

Saint Peter's Barquel on" of troubles" drifting,

Say, whither art then True?.

To barbour? Oro toss on currents säifting

A derelict forlar?

Rethink then of thy hulosta strained and creaking -

Ucfore the Northern leat

Thy tattoral rigging mul thy timbers leaking;

Thy boat and breaking mast,

Thy holdfasts, scarce koop deck and keel together;

Gane me thy wall, 7,

-The minted Elgyres wkom, in scowling weather,

Thu oftast filled upon.

What boots it that from Apostolio forest

Thy parent plask, was hews, ?

Ite plrength, when with the elements thon warrect,

Before their breath ia urown!

Szol) trust. However gaudskilt the mach

However fair her form,

The pilot fuis in her what brought to wrelle

With the chicing storem.

Lose foraller than mine thei perely veusteat;

And, therefore, ill at emo

I watch the drift inte unequal context

With hose grim Teuton wear.

-Pall Mall

FATE OF A COMMUNARD.

It was pitel-dark, for the gas lampa Eva not been fit that night, but the rays of two lanters held aloft by men with drawn awords threw a lutid gleam on some hundred bayorata. The pavement on

ent on both sides of the way apparED |

red to be covered with soldiers A woninn's voice was crying, "That notorious Colonel Fielot-he has

francs about him. the feats of 250,0

THE DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22ND, 1875.

huvi bedding

Insurances.

THB LONDON ASSURANO EL

IRCORPORATED-NY ZOYAL OBARTEL '

HIS MAJRATY KING GEORGH THE FIRST A.D. 1720.

GAMMONING A GAMBLER An aneciate of Burleigh's. Gray's-Imi days, as quaintly related by his old historian, may afford soms gratification. A mad companion having enticed him to play, in short time he lost all his money, and backs to bis compartan,

· ΠΑΡΑΣ is the used play bafora. And "Being afterwards

anong

bis other company, he told them how "such a one

a one had misled him, saying he would a.device to be even with him. "Let prosently have mo I against the wall, and make su oud And with a long trouke he made a hold in of me quickly. I have rothing to the wall, near his playfellow's bedhead, and There was an instant a deliberation, then the iu a fearful voins speak thus through the group opened; and shadows scomod to futter tronker

O mortal, man,

in play, cozenage, on the wall. A clump of men stood out thy horrid time consumed a par report of damned and clear in the glow of the lanterns, and the and lewdness, or eles thou art luminous circle formed some dozen barrels canst not be saved Which boing spoken

at midnight,

alone, so amazed uprose. They something wild and terrible

a treat for fear. of bin, as drove him before, the for,

Policias temet for stras not avoceding £6,000, a

on reasonable teras.

"It's true!" ane vered Fielot'a roze. me stand

for Mr.

the tiles rang in the night sir, & fecond Most penitant and heary, the next day, in shadow rushed forward and blended itself presence of tho youths, he told with troubling

what i with the fire. A straggle exsued, and ons

a fearful voice spake to him at mid- shadow seated to rapel the other, but aud- might gresit, asked him forgiveness on never to play again; and call- denly both dropped to, the earth together.ug the woman embrating the man, and raving: his knees, and restored him all his money,

Oh, Vietor, forgive me!".—Co

!"-Cornhill.

bedding, and books. So two gamestera were both reclaimed with this tarry device, and never played more. Many other the ice merry jests I have beard him tell, too long to be here noted."--Cacad Old and New London"

our

SHAKSPEARIAN CRITICISM.

What is the cause of the superiority of Gorman Shakespearian oriticism to that in

• Before we country

47swer the question we must distinctly know what is meant by criticism In Shakapote's case

EXERCISE FOR CHILDREN. Slow walking is of but litta usato any one there are two kinds, the phikeophical and the purely exegetical and vertal Wo admit, na a sanitary measure, it should be quick criticism wo have no uue to set against Ultidiren of our towna appear to be almost shat without any rearve, that in

Philosophical

sophical and risk. Such large numbers of the child- or Gervinus Bu or Gervinus. But in criticism the case is different. We

the parely phitelogical up to walking as the only out-of-door exercise bare that they czu take, that it is

undersigned having been sppointed Agenta, for the abure Corporation, are prepared to grant Imrances as follow MARINE DEPARTMENT, Policies at surroni antes, parable either here, London or at the principal Ports of Indio, China, and Australin

current rates.

FIRE DEPARTMENT, colicies insted for long or short periods at

A discount of 20 *į, allowed,

LIFE DEPARTMENT.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. t# 1968Пongkong, 26th faly. -1872.-

SUN FIRE OFFICE. HS Tadoraigned is prepared to Grant. Policies against Fire to the extent of $45,000 on First-class Riska.

A Discount of Twenty par cent. (20%) upon the Current Local Rates of Premis will be al- lowed upen Insurancos effcoted with this Ofco.

TG. LINSTEAD,

Agent, Sua kiza Quce. 1335. Hongkong, 26th August, 1974. LONDON AND ORIENTAL SEDAM. TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE, 137, LEADERKALL STREET, LONDON ESTABLISHED 1843.

Insurances.

YANG-TSZE INSURANOB ASSOULA,

·TION OF SHANGHAI,

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS 800,000 TABL

LICIES granted du Marine Risks to all

paris of the World, at current rates. This Association will, until further notice, provida out of the carainga, firat for an intfreet dividend of 15%, for shareholders on Capital, and thermafter distribute among Policy holders sonoally, in cash, ALL the profits of the Underwriting Business pre sata to amount of premium contributed,

RUSSELL & Do

Agente.

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SPANISH STRIDNO, Kow, and are prepared to grant Insurances et LONG ELLS, MMSearlet..... Current Rates.

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Gime Steamers and Sailing Shipa.

A. TOIVER, Agent. Er Hongkong. 1st Tuly, 1867.

A BAD SLEEPER. He (George TV) never gets up till 6 in the afternoon. They come to him and open the window curtains at 6 or 7 in the morning he breakfasts in bed, does whatever business ho can be brought to tract in bed to, he reads every newspaper quite through, dozes like Abbott, Fleay, Furnival, and Skent,

to be made three or four hours, gets up in time for din-like

the most of; and whore, as in the country, a against all

But the curious point is walk can be made to include all sorts of times sleeps very ill, and rings his belt forty in night if he wants to know the hour, wade bad our own. We allow the ferrames--leaplog, running, climbing, and so though a watch bangs close to him, he will mans to reap all the honours in the fold of forth-notting

gould be One of Shakspearian eritivism. for this is the

the great dificulty in

ner, and goes to bed between 10 and 11 to mention others, who can hold their own sans to be deepisod, but one, by risks on behalf of this Offico, by First Fire to the extent of $40,000, on Buildinge, or SKUATHING METAL..

A have his valet down rather than turr bia if be

to cars.

not

sue causes for a Gajority of English bors and Wand to look at it. The same thing finding any publisher who is gland in

they

of

to un.

01

on Goods stored therein,

Vassels.

Captain,

Flag &

'Riy

Тола

But still, constitutionalis un girls, the usual laine wants a glass of water he won't stretch out dertake the publicatio

not afford a his hand to get it. His valets are céarly does not auswer Dyes used to exerea

a sufficiently enough. It does ony Shakspearing wide outlet for the boiling orer of their ywork. It

from the publisher's fun and vitality; neither does it equally destroyed, and at last Lady Conyngham pre-point of vailed on him to agree to an arrangement by of view. The Jato Mr.

point

Revelop

Ell the muscles of their which vait on him on alternate days, that unless he had possessed menns

those of the arms, back, chest The service is still mest severe, as on the his own he could never have published bin and abdomen being left.

Bimost

inactive. the edition of Shakspeare. The late Mr. Staunt

Mr. Staunton, To

two essentials we must give days they are in waiting their labours are than whom finer verbal critio sover existed, them games and sport, out of which, if right- Albay incessant, and they cannot take off their 45 elethon at night, and hardly lie down,Mr. need to complain bitterly that ho could not ly directed, double the enjoyment and double Chins

find a publisher for his notes on Bhulspeare the hard word la to be got. Fran the bois China! Grevillea Memoira,

upon which he had spent so make your ofterous merriment and noise of these pursuits ame

Chinkiung toil. Halliwalla edition was published by is good for

the chest them ph

physically. How | subscription, and is a sculed book to the is

and Forms$ by the shouting Lad free and

and Glenroy of the voice that always 19

is beard Hailong

ABOUT CRICKETS.

ebauro

T'ho celebratel naturaliste, Linnæus and maltindo. In Germany the case is different. strengthened and the lungs exercised and Faivaa

Bonnot, were disposed to consider insects as deaf; but the knowledge of Shrimpers more accurate be made Manilius say,

"I will tell it oftly.

of

You triskele shall not hear it.”

A good edition or commentary on Shakspeare loud use of

is sure to find a publisher.-Weturiteter throughout, the games of childhood and Hangang

Review.

THE LAKE OF GENNESARETH, AND TIBERIAS.

Kinshan'

thoi very nokinase they are unware making use of a very important Jupan means of health.The Management of Infaney Kia Kinng t and Childhood in Health end Diecase,

Kwangtung Legislator Jeoner

A farmor going to gat his grist ground sta

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As soon as it becomes dark, the chirping of

The road from Nazareth to Tiberias leads crickets ingrense, and they come running forth, often in

in great

from the size over the low ridge which bounds the valley numbers,

on the north-west, across a broken table-land, of a feu to that of their full stature. The and through the village of Kosna, regarded mill, borrowert a hag of one of his neighbours. Little Ozpiran instrument on which the male plays consista

in theby geographera as the traditional site of The poor man was knocked into the water. Massilia strong nervures, or rough strings ang in Galilee. Sefurich, Sep. wheel, and the bag went with him, Bo. was Nausing

the ancient wing-cases, by the friction of which against

drowned; and when the melanoboly now was Norna brought to his wife, che exclaimed, My gra Orissa each other a sound is produced and commu. phoris, is passed. It played an

But in the herois nicated to the membranes stretched between Part

unsuccessfal

al resistance cious! what a fors there'll be abant, that bag?" Pantaxet in the same way that the finger, pro-hither the Sanhedria retired after the fall of of the Jews to the Romans under Titus, and

Powan thom,

Poyang's duras doret it out a post google the Jerusalem. The huttle-field of Hattin is THE SWISS LLOYDS TRANSFORT Prism

diffused over its surface. To most people the chirp of the cricket conveys to the mind the likewise distinctly seen, where the last great des of a perfectly happy being. Thus, to the Saladin, issuing in the total destruction of battle WOR fought between the Crusaders and Prince's question, "Stall we be merry?

the Christian army sud the establishment of crickets. The the Foine answers, as many as cries their the Koslom power in the East. The hills learned Scaliger took such a fancy to thei which enslose the lake song that he was accustomed to keep the but the lake itself is not seen till me reach in a box in bie study. Osbeck states that

allied the summit of the steep descent which leads

the

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Farie. Capital..

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Spaniards confine some insects of a down to Tiberias, u thousand feet balow Aggregate Capital...

genus in cagce, for the sake of their song, aud me

UB,

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1043" Hongkong, 14th January, 1876.

depressed basin nearly seven huu

hundred feat mon house crickets are kept and fed in a kind below the lover of the sea. Some geologists WILL grant Policier at Current Ratee on of iron oven, and sold to the natives, who like

of an extinct their chirp, and consider it a great soporifie have supposed it to be the crater of a

volcano. More carotul investigation, how- Cassell's Popular Natural History,

over, proves that this is a mistake, it is but a part of that long line of depression which, starting from the a level

near the Lake On Richard II. coming to the throne Huleh, sinta dow along the whole Ghor or Chaucer got somewhat into trouble, through valley of the Jordan till of the Dead Sea it his leaning towards the side of the people in has recebed the anparalleled depth of thirteen the civil broils which disturbed the carly part hundred feet The lake is about thirteen of that king's

mign

Some of the poet's miles in length, by about six or seven in Bay as was so violent in hie par- breadth at the widest part. The mountains biographers tianship that he was obliged to fly from the on the eastors side rise to a beight of twe

Holland; but this hundred feet, but they are flat and wrath of

of Government

ta

is most decidedly a myth. Chancar's nature toxious, destitute alike of colour and of foliage, was not of that stuff of which martyrs are The scanery has reither the bold outline of made. He certainly, it is trae, inclined to the Swiss lakes, nor the rich verd ube popular Canse.. His friend and

the

verdaut lovel ports of

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Garibaldi Glory H. & L.

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Lette

Lucky

Lacru Madagascar Malvena Marquis of Arggle Morning Ligh Morning Star Onward

patron uens of our own. The tamer of Win

1 Company, are prepared to grant Policies Lord Maenalay the Duke of Lancaster was the chief leader of

rof dermere, stripped of

I of their glorious mantle of against Fire to the extent of $60,000 on any: Laboral

foreals, would give & No doubt the poet chalik.

& not ucapt illustration; and parts.

FIRST-CLASS BISK, ed tyranny in any form, and no doubt be of the shores of the sea of Galilen. We e do

ished to see the Church of Rome purgant

not read that nur Lord ever enteral Tiberias Current Bates, from her worst abusse. Very likely, also, be The reason, is doubtless to be found in the may have sometimes gone privately to hear fact that it was practically a heathen Wickliffe prenost, and his heart way have though standing upon Jewish booty,

drawn towards the new doctrines. But its founder, bad brought together the arte End Greece, most assuredly Lo showed bie feelings and

the idolatry of Rome, and the groas

Af and lewdness opinions in a very raild, cantions way, and

There was a theatre for the only sign of the king's displeasure was a the performance

a palace roofed with gold, in imita Semporary stoppage Chaucer bad for some years received. This tion of those in Italy, statues of the Roman

of the pension which stachiam,

meet have made Chaucer and his

of

of coasties, a forum, &

He

issue of the Policy,

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Agents. Imperial Fire Insurance Company. 339 Hongkong, lat Maroh, 1874, :

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Brit. bk Aur. bk Brit. for Frun. bk

Brit, k Ger. bk Samk

Siam,-b Ger, str

*848 Vogel, Sogedora & Co

432

606

Chinese

Chefso New York

Sydney

Cheloo

Brir. ab

.890; frder.

Dronning Lentz

Dan. bk. 289 Older

Brit. bk Ger. bg Ger hk DAY Ger, soh "Brit, sh

334 Order 860 Orler Order 230 Order 1907 Order 478 Order

·Valleon' Nicol. Kinet Friederichs Petersia Leapfera

Batavis

Singapore

Chefoo

Taiwanoo

Taiwanfoo

Singapore

Shung bai

Brit. bk 379 Order Ger. bk 457 Order

Chefño

Faigori Taiwanfoo

Ger bk 1 397 | Order

AMOY.

In pori en 5th January, 1875,

Pasedag & Co

209

Brit. 85

618 Russell & Co. 514 Remedios & Co

$50. Ospain

120

Chinese

450

P. M, S. 9. Co

400 Boujau & Co

423 Tack mee

Aderino Alerta Carl Ludwig

Michelson Vogel

Gor. ach 134

Obaloo

Ger. bg. Gerby

Pasedag & Co.

233 H. A Petersen & Co

-Bangkok

Touron

884 Siemseen & Co

Eaglet Friendship

brit, k

592 Boyd & Co

Siam. bk

480 | Brown & Co-

Ger. bk

−430 -|- Bourjan ̈& Üɔə

Brit, sh 450

Ruzaria 4.06

Metéar

Ger. bg Siaui, bg

242 Tusedug &.Ou

195,

Browir& co

Brit, sh 2877

Vogel, Hagedorn & Co San Frúnciavo Mitade

Ger. b

330

Pusrang & Co

Edlefarn

Siam, bl 570

Chinese

Peter

Mous

Ger, by.

246

H. A Petersen & Co

Stimson

Brit, b

Rozario & Oá

Rebecka

Martinsen

Ger. sch

241

Pusedug & Co

Otto

Adumbon

Ger.bg

231 Captu

Rubicon

Rainey

Brit, ach

204

Boyd & Co

Portland

Вадае Rapid Rusulia Earah Nicholson

Smith Griebend F. ante M. Trennebja Selkirk

Brit. ab

374 Rozário & Co

Dunedin

Velda

Interg

Ger. bi

322

Pas-dag & Jo

559 Frazar & Ce

Velox

Maider

Dut, Bob

187

H. A. Peterson & Co

Sium, k

Spinach

217

Remedios & U

Manila

FOOCHOW.

T. M. Ot:en

F. Sais

Gresa

Britǝh Siam, ab Siam, bk. Siam. bk Brit. "bk

339

Tuck.mé & ✡a

300

Thek-meu & Ca

654

ObiLeed

718

Wo Putza & Co

Adelu

Lapham

Amr.bk — 387 Chinese

Barredo

Span, bk

261

Biegiseca & Cù

·Muoila

Mudgett

Bundean

ame.. sh Fren, bik

1320

Birlay & Cu

Iloilo, &c.

Melalers & Co

F. J. Haut

Brit. sh

the decline of life, know what gods, and busts of the deitied emperor. Undersigned having been appointed games Croma

who was not aent but waso the lost sheep Agents for the atore Company, are pre-St. Paul means were like; but doubtless cheery wit of the house of Israel," might well hold pared to GRANT INSURANCES at Current Tai Watt and worry smiles made bome music and home Himself aloof from such soonos as these Rates. light around the scantily-spread table, A Modern Tiberias is terwards, however, the

te pension was restored. the Of the Can

Canterbury Tales,"

store-toure of

thousand inhabitants. A

of about two proportion that vast of these are Jews, who regard it as one of

their

+

Tamera

MELCHERS & Co., Terca Agents, Boyal Insurance Company. Ther635 ti 1780 Hongkong, 29th October, 1874

Vidal

SECOND COLONIAL SEA AND Weymouth FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY"(F ̃ ̈~ ́~

BATAVIA.

HE Undersigned, having been appointed

Agents in Hongkong for the above Com- Chase pay all SPECIAL ATTENTION OF Jubz Adam SHIPPERS to the low rates of premium charged for all steer risks, besides which x Brokerage of THIRTY-THRED and ONE.

of fancy, e of humour, of pathos, of

ir boly places and have here a rabbinical IL and of strong, manly commun-sense, we school. It is filthy and squalid, beyond even have no space to speak here. They were the average of eastern towns, From the the work of his ripened powers in middle age, swarms of vermin with which it is infested, and probably the old man was still busy with the Arabs Lave a proverb that the king of them when he heard the whisper which called the feas lives at Tiberias." Wilson says him to his rest. A Clutter of Liver. that on spending anight here he was literally covered with them and placked them from his coat hy handfuls. In common with the THIRD PER CENT. (3) will be allowed MODES OF SALUTATION. places in the valley of the Jordan, it suffers on riska to ports in China, Japan, the Philip Tho Nuehr tribes on the White Nile have, severely from earthquakes. In the great praes, and the Straits, On rek to all other according to Mr. Petheriok, a rather peeshar shock of January, 1887, the Turkish walls ports the Brokerage will be FIFTEEN FER

sthed of saluting a stranger. A chief which surround the town were shattered, and CENT. (15%) only.

laid prostrate As,

under the entered the cabit of that gentleman's Nile in maay places bost, sud kneeled on one knee, after which, present Government, nothing is ever repaired, grueping my right hand, and turning up the fortifications remain in the dilapidated the past, he quietly put into it, and then, condition in which they were left nearly forty

Northward from Tiberis my face, he deliberately re- years ago. Nort Booking into peated the e process. Staggered at the man's bills on the western ride slope gently down udacity, my first impulse was to knock him nors to the edge of the lake. The strip of Town, but his features expressing kindness shore is of extraordinary

Though eaay ompliment with all posible interest. His to believe that the glowing

it

aly, I rented my age by returning the now uninhabited and scriptions of

WAS

broad

Name.

Adventure

SIEMSSEN & C...........

Agente

INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER AND SPROIAL ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.

if 1020 Hongkong, Lat July, 1874,"

Challenger NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILS Charybdis

INSURANCE COMPANY.

Oariew Dwari Frolic

Growler

Established 1809."

Hart

Hornet

Iron Duke

- CAPITAL £2,000,000,

Kestrel Meonco

THE Undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for Midgo

the above Company, are prepared to grant Modeste

tabliabed." In one form or another pon plain-chat of Ginuesaret. 208 Policies against TIRE to the extent of £10,000 Mosquito

on the

mys

Blog «cem, naturats the first our

Btoole naively puts it,

bec

Leading

nt the following rates, sulifect to a discount of

per orar, rør annum.

Swinger Sylvia Thalia Thistle Victor Emman tiet

Othoritwelling Houses,

sed strictly as soob, and

Godoma, Office,

flight seemed excessive, and, resuming bis Josephus wars in so degree saggerated. expressed his conviction that I must In about an hour after leaving Tiberias we a great chief. Similar salutes followed find the hills gradually recede, leaving a

ants, and friendship ath his attendants,

sign of human habitation is a cluster hovels near

the water's edge. The on any Building, or on Merofundice in the se, Ringdove exlating prava are a few remains of other building, age of 20 method of veral tribes, though

polita BOINA ATG cording to our ways of thinktion) not to which seems to have a watch-tower Detached and semi-de flo the hand, but only to pretend to do Migdol). A pain-tree rises from the coutra tsohed Dwelling. Horses It is difficult to imagine what can have of the village, and a few thorn-bushes cluster removed from Town, and

Origin

1 of such an extraordinary.cus round it. The mudera na Mejdat reminds thar Contents

where having begun, ue that this was Magdale, the

came whore after Sarlahip," though i dan, Papuans, and home of Mary Magdalene. Into the disputed

it is on the opposite the their Contents ustralians,

age Eskimo, who rab noses together as the question na

great a debt of grati- may be noted that after they be-tude she owed to her Lot, who had deliver one civilised they also take, with no smalled her from demoniacal possession in ita

and how dity, to the civilized method of salutation most aggravated form; how foudly and to bis norvice, ne peuple show their admiration by his devotally she attached herself ng, while a greater number szpress by this ministering to Bia of her substance, waiting exceeding 3 months

sean it or at his cross, pressat at we

at his entombmeat, beep y contempt. Many rough in the presence of a

her ricon Lord when He had barat "the come is considered

off his hat when bonds of death and led captivity captive." A

takes European ore his guests; u Olinamau consors As we stand amongst these crumbling ruins. he honours them by clapping his on his and squalid horrela, we cannot but reflect

to her

Shops, Son, and their Gon-

perburean way of saying "How d'v'do?"hero. We know distort we do not enter tents....

Hirough

lite

SHORT PERIOD INSURANCES.

Not exceeding ten days, à of the minaal rats. Not exceeding one month...

Áborel month,and not

above 3 montbe, and

ited life is stand toperior, though watching at me sepulchre, and Brat to wel 'not' esereding 6 months)

moro

a in their presence. It is not, however, upea the fact that through her the name of

eye wafo to take the Mongol as a type of this mod me pad to all the language

ette

o

for he considers no gift more ap- of Christendom, is commemorated in the nged relative, than & art-noblest occlesmuntical odifioo of zodorn opriate to an

Above 6 mouths, the fall original wate

GILMAN & Go

Agents.

₫ 1908. Hongkong, 8th May, 1874- NORTH GERMAN FIRM INSURANCE COMPANY AT HAMBURG. TAN

HE Undersigned having been appointed Berrrs for the ahora Company, the pres

coth presant, however, which in France, and bells a conspicuous place in our pred to GEANT INSURANCES to the extent otors circles would be considered more military history as that of the almost in- of $65,000, on first-class tieke at current vitca. actically appropriate than polite.--Book of pregnable stronghold of an Abyssinian tyrant.

---Sunday at Home, Races of Mankind

·T. Wath

Been, k

129 | Chinese

929 Afessugurias Maritime

900 Russell & Co

RECEIVING VESSELS & HULKI.

Harbour Master 318 Water Police

Mather!

Horspool

Pw. Mog. 283 Halk

H. M. S.,BRIPS IN THE CHINA SQUADRON,

Rig.

Captain:

Braba

Robertson

In port on 10th January, 1875..

SHANGHAI.

In portin 3th January, -1975,

The munics of the namerung steamere, luga. mall craft, and receiving hulle employed on the Yong-two tre noi included in this table.

Ger. I 295 Order

Adimson, Bell & Co

Sbangbai

Jardin, Matheson & 0. New York

Condor

Coruus

Drogium

Barlar

Brit, a109" „Vider Brit, bh

447

Gen. Washington

Ackies

Brit. bk.

414

Moiris, Lewis & Ou

Georgina

Mitchell

Brit. bi

200

Morris, Lewin & Do

Where At

Golden State

Dolano

Aur, sh

944

russell & Co.

∙Hamborg

∙Kruge

Gerbk

320 Rd. Sebelts & Co

Inverness.

Petra

Brit, bk

75

Błutkia.

Gärnler

Fren. bk

201J, S. Baron

Kronprinsessen

Hndern

DE BL

344

horas, itice & Co

Miss Glen

Nichols

Brit, bk

549

Wo. Pustan & Co

Menu

Oamost

Brit k

Bardhy

Thomson

Brit. sh

856

Molkenborgh

-Gerbk

2130

Sally.

Long

786

Dryadule, Ringer & Co London

Serpent

Abel

Mater

Star of the West

Taylor

St. Francois

Simon

Amar. ah 3102 Fron. bk

Now York

Velolty

Martin

Tandervord

doubles gnu va 9| 100 | John d'Arcy

Hoogtong doudle so gum pl.

Capt. M. J. Thomson Menila Stenin Corvette 17 400 Capt T. E. Smith Singapore

3 160 doub, so, gan il

Gomdr. J. Church Shangani. doub. ae, gun). 420 Camdr. Hön. Dayton Hongkong double so gun y) 100 Comdr. C. E. Buckle dorb, so, gun 1

4120 Comdr. W. Stewart double to, gan sa 4 120 Opmur. T. H. Royne double se, gan vlij: + 120 | Oomdr. Cumeron doub, so fron sb. 14 800 Capt. W: Arthur. double ro, gan yli 4 100 | Comdr. Theobald Military Hospital

Amuy

On a Cruise

Bingapore

Hougtong

Fasakaw

Hongkong

En route to England

Tientsin

Shangbai

Jupan

Nugueski

domb. sc. yun vl. · 4 120 Comdr. Grant

14.350 Steam Corretto gun-boat-g 4 60 Liant, Comr. Pani doub. e. gun yl

3 160 Comar. Singleton doub, B. gan 2 60 Lieat Comr: Bolitho double ga, gun vì.180 Capt. St. John 1.Steam Corvette 6400 Capt.H.B.Woollup ubi Tokoba

doub, es, guu_V6%] 4. 120 Comre F. Stirling Bangkok Receiving'ship 2 600 Comdr. J. E Parish Hongkong

FOREIGN MEN OF WAR IN HARBOUR,

Name

Nation

Tons

Ariadne Anoold Dang-wea

Friedrich

German cor 1700 Ras. correste 2205. Amp; goa.hout 250 Aust: friguts 1040

Kubro

•Tirtof O'Sullivan Osterraiober

MELCKERS & Co. Lintio

tl 874 Hongkong, Lat May, 1874,

SHIPPING IN THE CHINA WATERS.

Hankaw Kobe

Northampton

Omba Progrées

Wo. Turner

New York

402; Lane, Ornwfurd & Co

Brit. al 116 FAdamson, Dell & Qo'

Brit. al Frin, bk 208

Jarding, Matheson & Co Louden Wes. Postan & Co

Frazar & Co

2253 Little & Co

Brit. b. 420

Wai, Prstan & Col

Brit. bk 43 | Fryzur & Ce

УОКОНАМА.

In port on 10th January, 1874,

Brit Ab 800 Wilkie & Rubicon Brit, ach

Arar.eeb

Brit. bk

100 Calon & Jupon T'ding Vo

33

370 ||| E. M. 8. B., Co

Cluptain:

Glamorganshiro.

Biabils

Hokaido

Bohaize

Myrtle

Color

Pride of the Thames Brown Sudan

Обави.

Hør, bk

*904 [Order:

Benjamin Aymar

Carricks

Air, bk Britab

918

Dar, hk

*Colina

Comet

Amr, th

Cutwater

Order

Villo de Bivadavia Camina

Windhaver

MANILA

In port on 12th January, 1975,

616 Order

360 G. V. P. Petel & Co

1357 Order

Amr. st 030 Puela, Habbell & Co

Span, by

246 F. Munoz

Amth 1262 Order: N

Brit-ah; Brit, sh Spur, ba

800 Suits, Ball & Co

210 Order 663

209 | Chino & Josan,

Span, eb 567 F.Reyea

204 Chino & Contin 937-Order

Span, bg

Spank

Brit. on

267 Bussell & Sturgis

846 Order

Printed god Published by Wasan E. Je, Wydiam trost, Hongkong."

GTRÍDA

Hamilton

Fearch.

Captain.

Flag

6 Big

Consignes

Destination

Joseph Haydn Leite Lord Macaulay Atarimu,

Amr. bk Anan bà

377] Order

Order

Nuevo Japanto

Pepita

WHAMPOA

Peria del Oceano

STEAMB38.

Briti sle

69. Kwok Agboong

Findlay

Span bg