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tribes who had followed the fall of the Roman ] It will be instructive to enquire how for this WHILE OUR PREMISES ARE UNDER REPAIR, Empira, in Asia the Nestorians were no less explanation will meet the actual circumstances zealous in sprosting Christianity amongst the

The Bastie tko place for romantic adven- nerthorn people. We have little evidence of

chance tares, and one of the most wonderful of these, the monut of work done, but a doonment preserved mentions, in the 4th to which ran the story of Baber must field contury twenty-four patriarchs, and fifty-six precedence, is the tale of the foundation by the bishops, belonging to the Nestorian Church. prince, commonly known as Yelu Tashi, of the between Datassons and Eastern Tartary, Karakhital Empire, which for some forty years from Kashgar to Chino found Christianity surdisme was certainly Selör, and his personal at Wild Dell, Wanchai. Road, gave his boy present capital of the province of Kansu firmly planted, and churches and congregations name was slmost as certainly Tashin, Tiger into the custody of the police on charge From this again both editors have tilataken in all the cities. In 1145 the Roman Catholic Solby, then, was a hear relation of the last et stealing $3.60 worth of ham. He had suspected the boy of stealing and when be went the route actually traversed by the Polos Bishop of Gabala (I here quote the late A. emperor of the Khitan of Liso dynas'y, who nt in the evening he put a match in the Leaving Kauchen, then, they went N.N.W. Wylie, made a journey to lay certain complaints ruled in North China contemporaneously with to a place which Polo calls the city" of Etzias, before Pope Eugenius III. Amongst other the Sungs in the math. Having incurred the pantry-door in such a position that it must fabich we may aspro to have been a halting things he told of bow a certain potentate whom samity of the Emperor, whom he had apbraid, din circulation in the United States to the effect cut in the event of anyone opening the pantry

place somewhere on the river foring he called John, who was both king, and priest, for bis berility in sot realeting the When he get back home he found that

was Christian, bail waged war against the to, threaten his throne, Selor, fed with 200 the pantry had been opened, for, the match north from Suhchico, called in modern Chinese who lived far to the east, and with his people enoroshments of the Kins, just then beginning

maps Gechina; and which loses itwolf in

enthusiasm of the Wigur, and other clans we not in the position, in which he had the great Mongolian depression. This will sovereign of Persia, and being successful hd hursen to Ucuntsi. Here he reased the placed it. This was pircumstantial evidence bring into order Folo's description of Kars-determined to start in aid of the Chris- of wrongons entry, and when Mr. Rosen korem, as well as account. for the digression tiens before Jerusalem. There was more than about, and baving raised a considerable army, the last mail wo find a portrait of the young

set out to attack the Arab invaders of western examined the contents of the pantry he dis covored conclusivo proof of theft, for a large

Asia. Se far, including Selor's professed war

piere had been cut out of a hem, and the

ory of attacking the "Arabe," we learn from course of some years he had been everywhers artful boy had effected the theft very ounningly,

the Liao Shu. The result was that in the

having first taken off part of the rind, theo dug

victorions, and bad checked Arub predominance out a piece of the ham, and replaced the sind, so

not only in Central Asia, bat had been sokson. lodged as suzerain from Persia to Afghanistan, that the theft could not be readily discovered,

He bold court at Samarkand, whera he resided Sentence one month. Inspector Collott pro-

in right royal state. In 1185 Selor died leaving seuated.

the throws to his son Ilich, probably Elios.

or Baswan, succeeded. It was during this He having died in 1155, leaving his son a winor, a regency under the Empress Posuwan, regency, and when the short-lived empire was already exhibiting siggs of decay, that the letter was written.

DARING SHOP-TREET,

On Wednesday three Chinees ragabonds went into a piece-goods shop in Queen's Rond Wost for the ostensible purpose of purchasing odds and ends, and while two of their number kept the attention of the shop-kooper engaged the third made familiar with the till. Leaning over the counter he drow out a draver containing a cigar-bor with some $15 in small change in it, and be had just grabbed a handful of 30-coat and 20-cent pieces when the shop-keeper turned round and saw him making off. The shop-kooper raised an alarm and in the excitement the thief' dropped the stolen money and ran off post-baste. He had only gone a few yards however when he was capta-ed and brought back, and he and his confederates were given into police custody, At the Police Court these two denied that they were confedemtes of the thief, bat, bis Worship found their complicity proved to his satisfaction and sent them both to prison for

THEFT OF A BIOKSHA. •

a more medicum of truth in the story. The conquest of western Asia by the Saracens had excited the patriotic fealings of the older peoples, and, though the Fersian state had entirely collapsed after the battle of Nabavand, the spirit of resistance was by no means extinct, Although the and the Mohammedan arms adraneed but slowly lime caniu Tracsoxiane and Baktris.

hore, in which Cemal and Chigitalas are mentioned. Kublai Khan, to whom the Folos were consigned, was at the time of their arrigal in Tangat, probably in the spring of 1275, engaged in wortal conflict with Kaidu; be was evidently in the north, but where may well have been uncertain, as between the war in Chine, at the fided to the care of Kublai's famous general, Bayam, and the ever active Kaidu, Kublai was kept on a continus! stretch. Here the Foles evidently restad till they got instructions to proceed to Kublai's new capital which, as ⚫f the explained in the 14th chapter prologue was situated at Komeniu. This was 'sip'ng Fu, beyond the Great Wall, which Kublai on selecting it as the site of bis court denominated officially Shangtu, Supreme Capital."

Having followed Marco in his adventurous journey across Asia from Tabriz to Pechili, wo may afford to pause to look at the condition of the Empire. With the fail of the Tang dynasty in 905 the strong bond that had held together the

Saxmanian rulure of Persia had been zealous Zoroastrians, and had steadily repressed the growth of Christianity, the number of adherents of the faith, especially outside the limits of Persia proper, was by no means insignificant. In addition to Zoroastrianism thero wore numer- our Jews and Mobichoes; bat sest to the religion of Zoroaster, that of Christianity was at once the most namerons in adherents and most influential. These Christians belonged to the Syrian Church, and acknowledged the toschings of Nestorius,

We learn but little from. Chinese sources of elör Tasks, but they tell us that he was a distinguished scholar in the Haulin, on which account he won high promotion: it then goes on to say that he became a linga, which the translators are unable to comprehend. The characters are, however, capable of being aendered eslama," and Cablentz gives the meaning of latha in Maucho simply Priest, ithout any qualification of Buddhist or otherwise. In any case the Chinese anuale

But Christianity had boon not only widely spread in Persia, bat had penetrated far into Taran, whom with Buddhism we find it con- tending in the 10th century for predominance. In the 6th century, the Chinese records tell of the rise of a new Turkish power, the Tughuls, or Helmet Turks," who became so powerful that in 545 the Sassanian King, Anushirwa,

Tnska Lama." This is correction sent to their Ilkhan, Timur, on embassy. The informs uz that he was popularly known result of this was soon esident: the two

a

reale of China was broken, and for upwards of half a century China was the sport of alven turers, five of whom in different portions of the Innd sneeeeded in establishing governments of momentary stability enclent to benoticed in the official line of empire. At list for China south

wore. We learn nothing directly of his reli of the Yellow River this state of confusion monarchs set upon the Indo Skythian king-with the subsequent title of "Prester" is was terminated by the general recognition of dom of the Ephthalites, which they parti. at least a remarkable coincidence, if nothing three months' with hard labour. Tho scium! thief, who turned out to be a man with àthe rule of a new dynasty calling itself Sung, tioned, Persia taking the lands south of the

Mohammedatism, which is, of course, compatible the lands north of the great river. There are

with his being either Obristion or Buddhist, previous conviction against him, was sentenced in the year 960. Sung was, however, by no Owns, and the Tughnis saaming Saghd and gion, except that he had a thorough haired of to four months' imprisontent with hard labour, means master of all China. During the

some slight indications that the roling house His grandson, the last of the family, according troubles incident on the fall of the old Tang, s chief of Tungutto, or more correctly Ushwar, of these Turks was Christian; at all events to the Mohammedau writers, give his daughter An old Chinese gentleman left his private origin, had seized the provinces of Shingking when Timer died in 558 he was succeeded by in marriage to Quehluk, son of Taiyang, ricksha in Queen's Road near the Western and Pechili, and with them the greater part of a son who bore the name of Isaac; as these King of the Naimans, who had taken Market on Wednesday while he wan transeting Chian north of the Hwangho. The personal were pre-Islam days, we must conclude that refuge at his court after his father had been

Isaso at all events was a Christian. The names

e'ain by Jenghiz, an act of generosity which ho some business, the cockie remaining in charge. Laure of the chief as rendered in ordinary

of his successors are for the most part Persian, ropaid by taking possession of the throne. The coolie wheeled the vehicle into the side-Chinese is pat down as Yelu Apaoki, but the

which does not count one way or the other.

Guehluk was certainly a Christias, so the pro. channel and after a little while took a phonetic elements when compared with Corean,

The succsesors in these regions of the bability in that his father-in-law was one also. stroll along the atroat, thinking the richsha point to Selir Alpgar. Anyway Belör be quite safe where it was. But when ho returned.

Tonged to the important Ushwar tribe of the Tughal Turks word the Wigues, as to whose Trize the Mohammedun writers tell us that Christianity we hare several allusions. The after Guchink's marriage he turned Buddhist, La found the thing gone. He asked the by K'itans, which in nerthorn Asia and Russia

Mohammedan anthos quoted by Eretschneider but that may very wall have been to escape the hianders if they knew anything about it and les given to China over since the name of was told that a coolio had just takes it away in Khitan. To his new empire Alyger gave his tells a curious tale of Buku Khan, the reputed reprobation of the Christians.

own family title of Selär, which, as also in the founder in the 10th centpry of the Wigar state. the direction of West Point. He followed up

The Wigurs at the time ware believers in the tito course indicated and at the top of Third

case of the chief river of the district, the Street be espled the missing rickebs, and the Sira Murem, became converted into Chinese Kam, native sorcerera, but were not content, so thief busy with a screw-driver taking the Lino. The dynasty lasted some two hundred they sent to the Khan of Khitsi, who was st Be at years, when it was overthrown by a people" idolater" for the Numi. These Numi huď ́s brass mountings off the bond. ons made to lay hold of the thief, but of kindred race, the Nüchen, or rather the latter was too smart for him and bolted. Frucken Tartars, the remote ancestors of the The coolis gave, chess and after a long pursuit present Manchus, whe established the dynasty he captured his man in Des Var Road and called in the Chinde saxalt the Kin, or Golden. took him to the Police Station and lodged a The real name of these Nüchen was Chorcha, or in plural Chorchen, and for some centurice complaint with Inspector F. MeNsb.

His Worship sent him to prison for throw they dwelt about Lake Baikal, as our anthor correctly infertas ns in his notice of Karakoram months with bard labour.

BEFORE MB. J. H. Kur (ACTING - POLICE MAGISTRATE).

HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO ́ & CHILD,

Marco, we have seen, applied the title of Pros ter John to the so-called "Emperor" of Si Hia, but be apparently forgot that it was the much imore important monarch of the Kara Khital to whom as Froster John, be in Br. I. Ch. xvi,, makos the Chorokas pay tribute.

The whole story of Prester John is sa illustra

sacred book which inculcated principles of morality, especially the avoidance of injury to others, or even to animals. After a public distion of the method in which, even in communities cussion Baka Khan and his people accepted the religion of the Book." At all events, the Mohammedan goes on to add that these Wigure wore of all the idolaters of the East the greatest foes to the religion of The Prophet. This, and

legend, but the fact remains that after his

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We recently called attention to a story then 1bat the widowed Emperor of Coron had married a charming young lady from Wisconsin, a story which we need hardly mention is absolutely 'fictitious, though we find it has been accepted as gospel in very unexpected quarters. In st i+800 if the London Daily Graphic to hand by latily-"Emily Brown of Wisconsin, Empress THE CREAM OF of Corea." The details in the accompanying Editor of the absurdity of the whole story, letterpress ought to hare convinced a London We reproduce it from the Daily Graphic for the

While Japan and Russia both threaten the" KING EDWARD VII,”. amusement of our readers:

VERY OLD LIQUEUR, political independence of Corea, that country may be said to bave been already conquered commercially by the Americans, who baye been

acquired many valuable concessions is das in developing it in tras Western style for som

no small measure to the fact that since 1898 years past. The same with which they hovo

one of their own countrywomen has occupied the somewhat invidious position of Empress of the Hermit Kingdom. Emily Brown is the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary from Wisconsin, resident in Corus pinso it was opened to foreigners, and for some time she was " CLUB" lady in waiting to the Empress Min, who was done to death so mysteriously in 1885. Shortly after the murder the Emperor Ti Hong raised Emily Brown to the rank of Bin, or royal princess, and married her, and in the follow Ing year, when a son was born, she was the dynastic laws of Cores The sen of raised to Imperial rank, in accordance with Yi Hong and Emily Brown is not, however, Crown Prince, there being a son by the late Emprees born in 1874. The Courts, both of the highest honours, and she has so far managed 'to hold her own, though her path is beset by Peking and Tokyo, bave shown the new Empress

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SENTENCE ON A ROGUE, On the 2nd inst, before Mr. Peacock, third Police Magistrate, st Singapore, J. Banester. Peniston, aliza Banester, formerly only too well known here, was charged with cheating,, by pretending to Mr. J. B. Robertson. of "Sharon," River Valley Road, that be, the defendant, was a man of means with £5,000 in the bank, thereby inducing him. to give him board and lodging; and secondly with escaping from the legal custody of Sergeat Dauns at Port Swattenham.

Before being charged, prisoner was asked his name, which he gave as Hanester-Peniston Prisoner pleaded guilty to both charger.

Mr. J. B. Robertson deposed that he lived

to reside at "Sharon,"

enjoying a considerable amount of civilisation, myth becomes mixed with history, The story of Prester John has more than a mere basis in truth: it is in the majority of its incidents at "Sharon," River Valley Road. On July absolutely true, yet the story has been told with 17th accused came that the tale had almost come down to the level ton..

bero, Jack of the Rean-stalk.

In 1208 the last king of the Wigars, having all about Buku Khan, is merely untrustworthy such an eutire absence of historical prospective, and gave his name, as J. Barton Penia-1

rebelled against the Kara Khitai ruler, and fearing punishment, threw himself into the hands of Jenghiz Khan, who had by this time become an important factor in Eastern Asiatic politics. Jenghiz received him gladly, and the

lime the Wigars certainly borrowed from of the wondrous adventures, of our nursery At the end of the month the bill was

the Nestorians their alphabet and literature. Carpini in as many words calls the Wigur Rabrack, thongli ered Christians, and

It is not from any falling off in the interest of Marco Polo's further journeys, nor from any

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A Chinese woman who Hres at 34, Station next year, apparently acting undor his instiga, in generni terms he speaks of them sa idolaters, lack of importance in the subjects and plass 11 o'clock. Accused added that he was going MILLINERY and DRESSMAKING

Street, Yaumati, and is popularly known as a witch or bellured to have communica tions with the spirits, was brought up a six-year-old on a charge of druelty to arirl. The evidence showed most horrible and revolting cruelty to have been committed upon

tion, we find Jenghiz attacking Kanan. This was the first attempt of the now Mongol empire to extend its dominions to the south.

mys that in ali the states are mixed Nesterinus treated of that we must now prepare to take our and “Sarsonas."

lease of Marco and his charming collaborators, but that the subject is too large to enter on in a notion of this sort. We shouki, indeed, require as portly a pair of volumes to discuss all the new subjects alone which have arisen since Colonel Yule made the exposition of Marso not speaking unkindly of M. Cordier himself to say that this conclmien must have been upper meal in his mind when writing his extra notes.

is The next we hear of Prester John a letter professing, to omanats from him, which was received in Europe towards the latter part of the 12th century, and bore date in 1185. Fortunately a copy of the letter

has been preserved. After boasting of the wide extent of his dominions and his real for Christianity, the letter says:"The palace in

outside the great world of literary criticism, Chinese seldom knew anything else, and were ̈while those who had studied the other phases of the subject were content to take their Chinese

[2545 to Johore to buy opals. He led witness to CONNAUGHT HOTEL, Rooms 4 and 5, believe that he had money. He mentioned that he had had a remittance of £5,000 from

home, saying this was in the Chartered Bank,

Accused mude out bo was a traveller for Ebort, Short & Co., jewellers, and had come to Binge- pore to open a branch of the firm. Witness present moment. Twa days after accused's disappearance witness made enquiries `and forind he bad gone to Penang by the Nam-

seng. A warrant for his arrest was then

at Collyer Quay. This was in the beginning of August.

Cross-examined by accused, witness said he did not think the accused bad soted insanely.

Asked what he had to say, accused said he

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A few words of explanation sro hore necessary. About the year 1082 a chief who bore the Chinese name of Li Yuenhas, but who claimed the obild. It appeared that the little girl was to be a descendant of the old imperial house of tho child of a women who owed money to Tohar, had succeeded in establiabing a kingdom addressed to Emmanuel, the Byzantine Emperor Polo's travels the work of his mature ago. It inhind not scen accused-from-that time till the With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGES the defendant and who lent the oblid to the of his ven in Tangat, which, as before men- defendant as a sort of security, at the same toned, he called Dongar. This from a protence time paying $250 a month for bor keep to emulate the fabled dynasty founded by the The prisocer, worked as a match-box maker mythical Yu, he rendered in Chinese us Bi Bis which our subility dwells is after the pattern The history of Marco's times in the Far East and the child assisted her, Witnesses stated or Western His. This kingdom extended over of that which the Holy Thomas erected for King require to bo written by a master band. The obtained. Witness introduced the socused to that when the little girl happened to spoil the modern Kansu and the adjacent lands to Goudoforo; the ceilings, pillars, &om are of rarest woods and over the gables are two golden a box the defendant beat her, and in the the north and west, and with the contempor Court sticks, bamboos, ste, that she had used a neone Lino and their gaccessors the Kin domin-apples, in each of which are two carbuncle, that upon the girl's body were produced and the marksated the entire of aorthern China. Polo gives the gold may sparkle by day, and the carbuncles Twelve archbishops of the ill-treatment were only too obvious somewhat different account of the origin of whine by night. on the girl's person. On Wednesday the the quarrel with Tangat. Jenghis was desirous sit on our right daily, and on our left twenty

have been insane to commit the offence, defendant got angry at something the child of adding to the lustra of his house by an hishops. The Patriarch of S. Thomas, the from an uncritical generation of professed bad done and forcibly made her swallow a appropriate marriage and sent to his neighbour Metropolitan of Samarkand, or the Bishop of

The Magistrate convicted accused on the first geantity of human ordure. The neighbours to request bis daughter, for a wife, a request Suss, each in his turn fever by na”

It has been the custom to decry this stran ge

One subject only, which, as it has been supposed charge and proceeded to hear the evidence of heard of this optrage and lodged information indignantly rejected. As precisely the same

to reflect on the credibility of Polo, I may man-Sergeant Dunne on the second charge. with the pulloe that led to the woman's arrest. tale in told of the leader of the Tughul Turks epistle as a silly forgery, got up by some wonder-

tion. Marco bra beenupbraided with his omissions

Sergeant Dunne deposed that he went to The Magistrate imposed the well-merited and the king of the Uvars in the mixth entury, loving Europena monk, yet the document bears

of the Oroat Wall in his otherwise graphic des- punishment of three months imprisonment we may remit the story to the realms fable, on the surface evidence of its genuineness E with hard labour.

The fact, however, remains that a war, apparently having proceeded at least front Central Asia.criptions of the loud, and the omission has been Penang to bring back the accused. While the JEWELLERY unprovoked, did break out between Jenghia and In this connection the allusion to the court of made use of to throw discredit on the entire of vessel was at Part Swetterbam he locked bis work. There is more than one reason for Peniston in his cabin. A few minutes after, the the Indo-Skythian menarch and the Apoalle the King of Si Ha

his not mentioning the wall. In the first The Soottish Highlands have been more than

Marco has no besitation in calling the prince Thomas is more than carious in the supposition place the wall does not occupy in the stoward informed witness that the prisoner bud

Chinese mind onse agitated over the mero suggestion that the

mentioned arrested the next day. course of philabeg should make way for the trwa on the Praster John, and states the demand to have that the document iss rauk invention. This soldiers of the North. Controversy, indeed, heen made in 1200, while Howorth names 1209 is accentuated by the allusion to Samarkanditassumes ything Use the importance broken out of the cabin and escapod. He was

In saying the Bazele, as kus always been more or less busy with the kill,

were built. The idea that it was a gigantic said that he simply pushed down the panel of the and one of the few things which have been placed us the your for commencing hostilities as the seat of Prester John.

work designed and carried out by one man is cabin door and walked out. He did this because beyond dispate is that it is, a healthy garb. Probally both are in part equally right and so much for the genuineness of the doen-

of ur later origin. Another and bearing more When the Fraser Highlanders landed in North wrong Jenghin, even according to Marco, ment, we are not, however, to be taken as America in 1757 it was proposed to change must have been for some reare rosking his uplying that it was so authentie cecumenical the dress account of

од suramers. The clucars successfully opposed this,

previled only it were in Chinese characters, wan of equal value.

foreign eyes. VAZIONE

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in the 82 Kt in the one of Asked what he bed to say to this, Fenistou

the cold winters and hot preparations, and the first attack may well iletter sont to Exrope by Prester John himself clasly on Polo's omission, is that at the place he realised then what he had done and wished).

and were ultimately justified by the Highlanders have inken als wolice of pion of claiming the saintance of all Christian being the healthiest soldiers in the Army. In Kansuh. But this notice of Felo's opens up the campaign in Holland in 1796 some regiments one of the interesting questions of history loat as many as three hauled from disease; but Who was Prester John? the Black Wateb, which had three, hundred recraits la its ranks, had only twenty Eve casualties, including the killed in battle.

While in Europe the Church was winning its way slowly but garely amongst the emigrant

potentetes, in his crusade against Moham medanism, but rather that it was an emanation from some over pious Nestorian priest, desiring excite the in the Interest of his Church to

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