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Russia would be likely to adopt. Every thing in fact points to the likelihood of her taking up a restrictive and reactionary line of commercial policy, and endeavouring to
also in practice. A similar view was taken by AuBE Hue, no man authority upon Chinese matters, and all experience goes to show that a Government which completely.
CO., close the avenues of trade against comreti ignored the views and the rights of the
tora,
Apart, however, from purely commercial considerations, the occupation by Russin of any large portion of China-and still more the possibility of her ultimately obtaining the whole of does not commend itself to those who are honestly anxious to see nal WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, progress in that country. It has been
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THE JAPANESE LOAN.
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masses-the "peasants," as they would be classed with in Russin-could never obtain such authority as is necessary to govern
The Kaiser and his suite have effectively or to introduce.necessary reform eveu if inclined to do so. Reforms in China been warmly entertained by the King can only be brought about by the influence
of Portugal. or the rule of some nation able to introduce them in accordance with the wishes of the plausibly argued that, if Russia is not people; and this can never be hoped for everything that might be wished, ale ia ut from Russia until she has first reformed least substantially in advance of China,
herself. With what has been of late and that her taking over a portion of the revealed as to the stato of affairs in that country might fairly be accepted as some country, it is not surprising that there is a step towards improving the internal ad- strong feeling against the possibility of her ministration, and would be an advance being able to extend such a system in the towards ultimate progress.. More intimate East, quite apart from the direct interests, knowledge, however, of Russian ways of commercial and other, which would b SPECIALLY SELECTED & IMPORTED government, which has been acquired of involved.
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PEACE IS NEAR."
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CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY. Though the gunter and merchants of the provinces of Cauton, Hnpek nad Hunam have contemplated and worked for several months for the purpose of regaining the rights and privilege of the Cauton and Hankow railway, the work of which has now been practically suapouded, ne fiual settlement has yet been arrived at, the financial question being hardly mantoroi. A ceneor named Wong Cheong Lin has recently memorialized the Throne asking to take steps to settle the question without unnecessary delay. In responso to the memorial an Imperial decree has been issued ordering viceroy Chang Chik Thig to deviso plans in conjunction with H. E. Sheng, the director general of the railways of China, to Bottle fis question as soon as possible so as to
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INTERESTING.
CORRESPONDENCE.
TOLSTOY AND LAND OWNERSHIP.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY DRESS.”
SIR. May I ba permitted a little of your valuable space, anent the subject of your lunder in last Saturday's issue. The leader opens ita attack on the "orazy drenuer" with the rumark Giro a mas a big name" de, &c. Is it possible that mero shouting from the bouse tops could creates a man of such importance that oven bis utterances are at once printed through- out the civilized world P
It has apparently slipped the Isader-writer's notice that Tolstoy has a "big name "for the same reason that all big won bave big names...... brains, Sir, what else counts?
The reference to Talstay on education scarcely
does him justice. I live a roculluation of
an essay by Tolstoy ou education, wherein he insists that trua education consists in acgair. ing a suliaisuoy of knowledge of the world, of mankind, and of one's relationship to the Pui King-look, the late Namhol Magistrate unisersens to know how correctly to cozuuet ano- and well known squeezer," who absconded self. It is far more to Tolstoy that a man and took rolags in Mocne after the arrival | should be honest and chute, even though he bo of the smart viceroy, and was afterwards handed unacquainted with simple equations, than that, back to the Canton Authorities by the Macao with a fall, knowledge of the infinitesimal Government at the request of the viceroy, will calculus and all the other stock in trade' of LONDON, 20th March. be banished to Chinese Eastern Turkestan modern education, in ghould be dishonest or Renter's agency reports that the in a few days to work at hard labour. The unciaste. Will anyone affirm that education
Viceroy was very anzions et tirst to take his concerned mainly with an eye to commerce- Russian Government has outlined a bead off, but as Pui in backed by many in- tends to make men either more honest or maro
fluential officers in Peking, his execution is chaste P set of conditions on which it is prerofused by the Peking Government, so that Hig pared to make a declaration of Excellency was obliged to ask his banishment to the place mentioned, which has boon sanctioned by the Poking Government. The víceroy has already selected two ofloors to go with him to Chinese Eastern Turkestan, which is under the jurisdiction of a Tartar General, and the chief resort of convicted officials, Nearly all the convicted officials who are rich enough to pay bribes to the officials, and backed by influential friends, are treated as friends instead of conviets whỳn they are sent there, and moreover they will be given appointments. The Tarinr Genes will memorialise the throne in the course of one or two years, asking for their release, and to restore thom their ranks and titles under he plea of good conduct. It is now said that Pai will be favourably accepted in Eastern Turkestan where he has many good friends, especially the Provincial Treasurer, for his oxtortion of money has already made him she discovered the use of a pickaxe und shorel i. millionaire.
Owing to the voluntary offices of France and the United States, peace
is near.
THE INDEMNITY.
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LONDON, 29th March. It is asserted that the amount of indemnity which Japan will claim case pence is decided upon now one hundred million yen.
(REUTER'S- SERVICH.]
is
THE RUMOURS OF PEACE.
quently attracted considerable attention,
LONDON, 27th March. shows to what a point affairs have come in
The air is full of rumours of peace. The that country. Some allowance must no
latest reports say that to stative, most secret doubt be made in accepting this disclosure, Maj. Gen C. J. Burnet, C.B., is to bypourparlers, with a view of ascertaining the as it manifestly comes from a person strong-attached to the Japanese army, in place of conditions of both sides, are proceeding at ONLTcommunications relating to the nous columaly opposed to the action of the Tsar and his Lieut-Geu. Sir Ian Harlton. Col. J. Lewis, the Scandinavian Capital. Lorre permanications sidresd to the Bast, this, there is so much that is fully confirmed Correspondents must forward their names and ad- advisers; Int making overy allowance for late R.E., and Maj. G. E. Pereira, D.9.0. not for publication, but as evidenes of good faith
in other directions that we may take it that All liters for publication should le written on one side of the paper only.
the statements are on the whole correct. No anonymously signed communications that have
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On 2nd barch, on beard the so. Kinging,
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Groundier Guards, temporarily Military Attachč
at Seoul, have also been attached to the Japanese forces.
Foudalism seems to exist in Cina, if it be true, as reported, that Viceroy Town has agreed to contribute Tix. 40,000 a year towards the drilling of troops in Shantung, "ou the under standing that he may see these troops when he wants them." Fancy Lord Lonsdale raising
yeamury Brigade ou like terms,
PROSPECTS OF PEACE.
LONDON, 27th March. Reuter's corresponde ut ut St. Petersburg bears that a majority of the council of Miu sters on Friday agreed in principle to the opportunccess for initiating steps in the direction of peace. This was probably com. municated to the Tsar on Saturday.
10,000 HORSES FOR JAPAN.
LONDON, 27th March.
COTTON CULTIVATION, SPREADING,
Where commercii morality winks at white lics, and black lies too; where the honest traler piuos away in the httle shop round the corner, while quasing and tricks of trade* spall success and opulence; where the "sweater' and usurer grows exceeding fat, and prostitution is winked at by church and slate it is difficult to perceive verein lies the refining and clerating influence of modern education.
It is with the land question however that your leader excites the most interest.
In the first place it is difficult to comproband how the private ownership of land can be as oki as land itself--since ownership pre-supposes the existence of that which is to be owned, and the existence of man, the owner, presupposes the existence of land in a very advanced stato, Land able to yield him natural products, as opposed to those obtained by caltiration.
Adam ate of the fruile of the earth, and found shelter under the ready made trees, long before
Your leader appreaches a very important question when he observes that "When wo Some gentry in Hing-Ling distriot where come to contemplate the enclosure, as a mere there is a large extent of tableland are now private park, of thousands of nerze
land in working hard to encourage the natives to some country whore there is not enough load cultivate cotton, which is at present chiefly to go round, we so something that sens wrong imported from foreign countries for the purpose-bat, where are we to draw the lius"P of the development of the trade. Some of tho It is not so much that it "soems" wrong; it gentry have been abroad and have thoroughly wrong, and the line will be doen as 1000 as scquired the knowledge of cultivating cotton, the people sen that private ownerships of land They have brought back a large quantity of is not conducive to the best interests of the cotton seeds, which they are now distributing | whale community.
our
own
to the natives who are much pleased to try their 1 should like to know to whom and for what fortune. The gentry Lave also given them the private ownership of land is so essential.
Barrow the question. Lo printed slips containing the way of the To
-country there are some forty millions of cultivation of cotton.
people in the British Isles, the whole of which loud is owood by some few thousands of landlords. Are the interests of the disinherited millions of less moment than those of the fow thousands who inherit ?
STINKPOTS ON A JUNK.
Two Chinese junk-masters wore obarged before Mr. Hazeland yesterday, the one with having alinkpots, muzzle-loading rifles, powder It would also be of interest to know if thera dasks and ammunition, and the other with having is an argument which can be put forward for musslo-loaders and ammunition. Inspector
the extent to which the Tsar individually can interfere in public matters is such as can hardly be realized even by those who are used to watching the netion of absolute and arbitrary Governments such as that of China;aud this has been confirmed by a large number of incidents of late all going to show that the Taar individually mixes up with mutters of state-erea those of nctive warfare-in a way which ordinary was willing to take any work ho could get. He kong nearly 10,000 horses purchased on dant did not show any Customs clearances since and yet the latter, so far as England is concera people can hardly imagine as possible. This had only sixty cents Bofore committing the behalf of Japan. The tiret steamer sails in 1897. Previous to that dafe he bad several ad, will soon follow the course of the former, and
man to the house of detention His Worshipa fortnight. remanded the case to see if anything could be dous for him.
in itself is serious enough; hat when we find also that it has been proposed that every Provincial or local Governor should
A destitute placed before Mr. Hazeland yesterday said he worked his way from South Africa to Lengkong in the Queen Holena, He was a bricklayer, could do wire-fencing, and
Eight steamers have been chartered by Langley said the men wore evidently engaged/private ownership of land, that conil not with
private firms in Sydney to convey to Hong
A MYSTERY SOLVED.
The N.-C. Daily Netce ways it is expressly An elderly Chinaman, Puu Kat Sbening,
in muggling salt into China. The first defen. qual force be advanced f r the case of private
ocnvictions, once for having too many arms on his boat and once for having too few. What was meant by this was that the junks were allowed to carry certain arme for protection, and they had always to produce their allowance when
ownership of Postsk-telegraphs, or Telephones,
conse to be ir-regulated by privato ownership. Municipal enterpriss is not being urged in vain The land restoration league founded by Alired Russel Wallacs is not in vain; G. Bernard Shaw, the Fabian Sciety and the million
he invested with all the arbitrary powers authorised to contradict a paragraph which has resident of Canton, who has been in the butt called apou to do so. This rule was made to socialists in England have not written and appeared in the Press on the authority of of visiting Hongkong once or twice yearly to provost the smuggling of arms into China. The lectured on this very topic for the last lon yours collect money on shares, disappeared mys-second defendant did not show any entries on teriously on the 20th instant. He arrived at his Customs' roturns since 1892. On bis juok Hongkong early in the present month, and pat were found arms and several boxes of loaded
He had detonators. op at a restaurant in Salt Fish Lane.
of the Tsar himself, we cun at once see an element, the existence of which must convince, all right thinking men that Russian rale in distant parts like China would be nothing more nor less than wanton
the Saigon cerrespondent of the Courrier d'Haiphong," stating that 2 Mr. Scott Cranston has been charged by the British. Foreign Office with the mission of following the operations of delimitation of the Siamese frontier." This
a defunct Chinese luk,
with him deposit receipts for $5,000 in His Worship remanded the case of the first whicha ho defendent, and fined the second $100 or two
months' hard labour.
Cu
transacted business in varions quarters of the city and in the course of his transactiona obtained an advance from one, Li Hin Cheung, the accountant of a shop in Hing Loong Street,
THE threatened sucroachment of Russia upon China, which it may now be hoped will be permanently stayed, has been looked upon anfavourably by other nations no doubt chiefly upon merely commercial aud political considerations. Such, at all events and unrestrained absolutism. Such a sys-statement is absolutely untrue, the person in are the grounds which have generally been tem could only be supported by yielding question having no mission from any dupat hoped to realise. On the 20th March he put forward. They form the simplest and, largely to Chinese Officials who would be meat of the British Government. to a large extent for that very reason, the used to assist in government, for without
A TIENTSIN CAUSE ULLEBRE. etrougest position that can be taken up in such assistance in some form Government Captain M. Jorgensen, of the Norwegian 8.8.
A Portuguess clerk named Goncalves, sporo. opposition. No doubt such an attitude of any kind would be absolutely impossible. Resolute, yesterday charged seven Russian Finns may be considered somewhat selfish and.
At this point, there would be an opening with refusing to proceed to Easebo, Japan, on some of his deposit receipts. While at the tary to the China Times, Ltd, of Tientsin, and formerly employed (according to the ovidence! prosaic, but it is at least plain and intelli- for perpetuating the system of bribery with a cargo of coal. The won had signed on latter place he was taken ill, and a cluir was reported by Jardine Matheson at Hongkong, gible and within such limits that it can be and corruption which unfortunately too for three months to go to Hongkong and culled to take him back to Salt Fish Lave, but has been sentenced to six months imprison- readily stated and, on the other hand, if notoriously exists in China. In fact, this farther. The mon being persistent were sen
tenced to thres months' imprisonment. The tor of the restaurant refused to take him in, ment (correctionale) and to pay a fine of 900 however, has attempted to bring forward
manner which would wake to their ship, and His Worship, aszented. and spoke to Pun Kat Sheung two
Loong Etreet where the accountant came out of $250 a month, and besides having two hanking accounts, admitted spending $450 a To account for this, any argument to controvert the position. ultimate improvement more difficult of Captain Olaf Johannesen, of the Norwegian: three times, and receiving no answer ordered month on pleasure.
stantial reasons against them can advanced. that has been made in this direction, is the ministration of such a character as to do attempt to induce people to believe that if Bussia obtained a foothold in China, she away with individual abuses; and this can would not adopt a restrictive trading policy, ever he hoped for from Russia, who herself
on arrival there, being at death's door, the mss.
wrong, could be easily refuted. No one, system could be consolidated and strength defendants then asked to be allowed to go back The coolios thon carried the man back to Ringreis (850) for embezzlement. He had a salary
ened in a
от
Indeed the facts are so patent that no sub-attainment than it had been before. Ifas. Kanareen, irought a similar charge against the coelies to take him to hospital. The ouglies he claimed to have won large sama by gambling,
be
China is to be reformed, it must be by the sixtron of his crew, mostly Spaniards. In this asked for $15 to convey the man to hospital, and the Portuguese Minister (sitting as Judge) The only show of argument introduction gradually of changes in ad-case the men preferred two months' imprison and eventually agreed to do it for $10. Near announced that he would afterwards be deported
ment to proceeding in the ship.
the Western Market the accountant. bocapie
separated from the chair but wont on to the To-day's advertisements include an announce hospital whore he waited in rain for the coolies ment of the intention of the Telephone to turn up. He reported what had occurred
as a self-accused gambler. Ang Portuguese known by him to be a gambler would be deported from China. The Peking & Tientsin Times gives a twenty-five column report of the couch- ding afttings, after reading which we feel entitl
but would, if for no other reason, at all suffers from the very defects which work Company to extend their service to the whole to the police on the 22nd instant, giving ed to express the opinion that the defonce was events for the sake of the development of so much harm in China.. Abore all things of the Kowloon Peninsula, and an Exobange the number of the chair. The coolies pro-
the
business men
all in vain.
If your leader labours under so grave an
orror, I fear he will awake some morn at no great distant date to discover that the so called natural order" of land ownership has passed away, and something more natural, more scientific has taken its place the change from private ownership of land to publio ownership; so much advocated by all those 'cranks," "orazy dreamera" and "impressionables" referred to.
Yours truly,
W. D. "W:D."" asks why private ownership of and is consideren "esential." "Inevitable" is the word that more correctly epito- mises the intention of that lending article. Why does "W.D." feel so sure that success and opulence "in commerce must be
due to earning and trickery, while ✩ "big name" in literature "must "mena" breins" Has he never beard of log-rolling," of the fad-hunger, and other features of the
Age that often grant the "babble reputation But now let him read again, and he will find that we gave Tolstoy credit for more than brains. He has genius that is so much akin to madness that his uttorances are not "uniformly oracular."
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS,
The Indo-China str. Læisang, frem Caloutta
the Sath inst. at 6 p.m.
and the traits, left Singapore for this port on
The C.P.R. str. Parlar arrived at Kobo at 9.30 am. on Monday, the 27th inst, and left gain at 10 pm on Tuesday for Shanghai, where she is due to arrive at ? o.m. on Saturday, the let April
most improperly conducted by Mr. Brown the chiet dificulty in the way of Russia will be opened in Kowloon on July 1at fossed ignorance of the whole affair for some the country she might take over, adopt a trading policy which would be more liberal effecting aty real improvement in China is next, with free intercommunication between days, but subsequently said that on becoming Burke, an American lawyer at Tientsin. Mr. two grans, Hongkong and Kowloon, separated from the accountant, locame frighten Gabriel d'Almeide, shargé d'Affaires and Judge, as regards other nations than she had her undenied and undisguised contempt for
This will be very welcome intelligence to od that a trap had been laid for them, and that evidently by his frequent comments and re. each side of the harbour, they would get into trouble it found in the primands, addressed both to prisoner and his Counsel) shared this opinion. Without knowing followed in other places, or thais we could the masses. Strange as it may seem, the obtain from the Chinese. There may pos- best authoritica with regard to Chion We believe the firms already established in possession of a $10 bill and a dead body, so the plaintiff manager of the China Times, or sibly be something in this view, but it has (among them the late Sir TOMAS WADE) Kowloon are sufficiently numerous to prove that they decided upon damping the dead man in a the editor of the Peking and Tientsin Times, we have always recognised that the voice of the contemplated extension of the telephone quiet spot. This was found on the bill side feel justified in offering sympathy to the formor, and in refraining from congratulating the certainly not commended itself to those best the people is a strong factor in the Govern-service will not only be a great public cen-
off Lyttelton Street, West Point, where the latter, on the energetic faithfulness with which able from practical knowledge to form aument of China, arbitrary though the rule renience, but an enterprise remunerative to body was found andor their directions. The the defendant's allegations as to plaintif Singapore on the 28th inst., at 6 pm, and may opinion as to the commercial policy which may be in theory, and in many direction-❘ the Company from the start,
papers and money on the body remained intact. character Lave been pubished.
The O. & O. str. Doric, with mails, which left hance March 4th for San Francisco via Nagasaki,
&c., arrived at her destination on the 27th inst.
The 0.8.8. and C.M. steamer Jason, left
be expected about 2nd inst.
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