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THE SACRED CITY OF MUKDEN.

A TRAVELLER'S NOTES.

BY A CORRESPONDENT OF " THE TIMES IN MUKDEN.]

Mukden, sacred city of the Manchus, home of their dynasty, and consecrated by the tombs of the first two rulers of their.

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For this fine memorial of the past is nut ad cmpty shell. Its pageantry has gono, but tokens of Imperial State remain,. You enter a hall flanking the main court- yard. Cupboard after cupboard is opened in the fong wall-wooden and highly. inflammable and its contents are pro [duced for your inspection, a case of

Per Sumatra for London, Mr. and ASTROGURE 175 jewels, including a notable string of grey brick, and above the portal a gate-

their strings, the other sister's businçsa Mrs J. Wilshire, Mr. and Mrs. Fuller, large pearls, a vellow Imperial robe house with triple roof, tiled and decorat- was to seize the clothes of the lads who Miss McGill, Capt. J. W. Sucpp, Mr. W. richly embroidered, beautiful pictures one like the building just below Passing trespassed on their premises to bathe. Metters, Mr. R. E. White, Mr. J. Steele, silk rolls, and so forth Weapone- swords with jewelled hills of jado and though, underneath, you enter a large Not very amiuble old ladies it is to be Mr. S. E. Soper, Mr. F. Dickworth, Mr. inner rectangular court, perhaps, to feared. They were excessively jealous of G. Bate. Mr. L. Robinson, MN. finely oramented scabbards, a most hazard a guess, 00 yards broad by some their privacy. When the new road from Cunningham, Mr. J. E. Ogburn, Mr- interesting antique helmet, a saddle with 200 long, entirely enclosed by the same Paddington to Islington"-the long road C. H. Baselwood, Mrs, C. H. Haselwood, its handsome trappings, and many things besides Porcelain, too, of the Ming massive wall through which you have just which is known in its various stages as Mr. and Mrs. W. 3. Fenry, Mr. J.

and entered it. In the centre, near the Marylebone-road, Euston-road,

Moore, Mr. W. H. Westgate, Mr. D. M. Dynasty and later, stacked on dimly further and approached by a broad Pentonville-road--was projected, one of Lapaik, Mr. J. T. Giddens, Mr. L uguted shelves In miscellaneous Tarps 4 kittens

MY LORD, a informed of rond Mr. Keene MR. J. K. Keith, Mr. the Emperors of the Manchu line were

intended to be made at the lack of your AB. P. Capon, Mr. A. G. Cheesman, G. F. Jones, Mr. 4. 1. Delorme, Mr. grace's estate, which, from the dust and Mr. F J. Edwards, Mr. W. Edwards, number of people, must entirely spoil those Mrs. T. E. Stephenson; for Marseilles, fields, and make them no better than one Mr. FW. Lyons; for Singapore, Mr. common land. 1 most humbly entreat your

VESSELS EXPECTED.

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The N.V.K. str. Kumano Mare (Aus tralian Line) left Sydpoy fur this port expected here on the 17th November.

• printed the 20tlust kabobeer house a rich muscum.geous like the other buildings, in which lord, the Duke of Bedford echar land. ILand Mr. E. Gaston, Mr. J. Cainpbell,

The E. & A. str. St. Albans, from Sydney, etc., left Port Darwin on the 12th November, for this port (via Timor and Manila), and may be expected to arrive here on or about the 22nd Novem- bor.

THE CANADIAN MAIL.

The C.P.R. atr. Empress of India left Shanghar on the 10th November, p.m. and is due to arrive here on the 13th November, at 3 am..

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grace to prevent such an evil, for it will be Toussant and Mr. J. R. T. Chalmers. impassible for me to hold your grneo's ostate without a large abatement of rent.

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The palace is in the heart of the inner went to do reverence to their ancestor. city. The tombs lie far outside and many On the top of the wall beyond it, corres miles apart. They are those of Nurhachu, the founder of the Manchu Dynasty, who ponding with the gateway at the lower end, is another triple-roofed buildings died in 1827, and of his son and successor containing a massive tablet, erect on a T'ai Tsung, who died in 1644, just before the Manchus supplanted the Ming Dynasty plain stone pedestal, bearing in the three and mode themselves masters of Peking. languages the name of the deceased. Nurhachu's burial-place is ten miles or Immediately behind is the setual tomb, an immense dome-shaped mound, with a more from the hotel by a wond indescrib- able when the loose alluvial soil is dry, single tres growing on the summit. It is of sun-dried earth, caked and smooth and and impassable for wheels when it is wet,

It stands in a large It is a matter of a good two and a half almost white. houra to reach it, with all conditions similar to those of the great rectangular orescent-shaped area enclosed by walls favourable, straight through

through Mukden court and connected with its two upper from the west, and out into the country corners by the points of the crescent The abatement of her rent, which was, at Forrest, Mrs. Martin and child, Miss H side beyond, so that you have plenty of entrance to the tomb is below, in the

at of Gibbon, Mrs. 1 Buckhill and child, Misa lo any case, she and her sister seem to Bridges, Miss McCurry, Mr. E. Dawson and The str. Indrakuala leit Sabong on the variety. There is an inner city, rectan- centre of the concave wall of the crescent quitting the premises, the road was made. N. Wilden, Miss B. E. Newcombe, Miss 6th November, and is dus hero on the 13thyalar and symmetrical, confined within and is approached from the temple by have been the last Cappers of Capper's child, Miss A. Armstrong, Miss C. Boyant,

high massive, an port a

Farm. The Swedish East Asiatic Co's chartered which the gates are still closed at night, Emperor's name. It is closed and com- The farm passed into the occupation of Mrs. J. O. Harlow and children, Mr. str. St. Helene loft Singapore on the 5th though above only one of them does the pletely covered by an oval porcelain November, and is expected to arrive here ancient gate house remain.

Covering a plaque, bearing for device, in brilliant one. William Mace, who grazed forty cows. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rothney and on the 13th November..

much larger area beyond its limits is the colouring and high relief, the Imperial But times were already changing. By the children The N.Y.K. str. Kamolura Maru (Bom outer town, with a feeble, ruinous wall dragon.

The walls are broad and end of the eighteenth century Bloomsbury Per P. & 0. str. Macedonio, connecting bay Line) left Bombay for this port via of crumbling mud. Both are filled with crenelated, with two-storeyed and double though not yet the world of bricks and with the stoamer Assage at Colombe. From Singapore on the 27th October, and is the clon-packed multitudinous industrial roofed houses at the four corners of the mortar we know, was fast losing its London October 17th and from Marteilles Old Post Ofte Buildings expected hero on the 14th November netivity and hubbub of Chinese life, with rectangular court, gorgeous like the other Pastoral aspect. The farmer was giving October 24th To Hongkong: Mr 5 Mont- The H.A.L. str. Istria left Singapore loungers also not a few, and half-starved buildings. From one of these, or, still way to the tradesinen. The buildings gomery, Capt. W W. Lindsay, Mr. and

Cantelowe Close were no longer used for Mrs. Shepard and child. on the 8th November, am, and may be pigs innumerable, the only scavengers. better, from the loftier gatehouse on the

For P. & 0. str. Simla, from London. expected here on or about the 14th Noveralt is not till you pass into the central entrance wall, the view is superb. Over cattle, but as a livery stable for the city that you meet, among the signs and the dark fire at your feet a river flows horses of the gentry and well-to-do stop The P. & 0. str. Sardinia left Singa shop fronts, some that make their appeal across the immediate foreground, and keepers, who rode into town daily from October 18th-To Hongkong: Lanso-Sergt. pore for this port on the 8th November, direct to the foreign customer- Shoes.beyond is the vast Manchurian plain their homes in the étill rural districts of W. Eodes, Miss E. Walker, Mrs. Kennedy at 2. pm, and is due here on the 14th bootsfactory"; "Democratic Hotel"; Rich with the green and gold and brown Hampstead and Highgate and Finchley, and children, Miss S. S. Ward, Miss L Atoms ride, burdered with trees, led from Bostell, Major L L Hopper, Mrs. C. November, at about 6'a.m.

Ming Too, tailor: Every kingdom of ziponing crops, it stretches south and

east and west, fill it merges in the distant Tottenham Court road to Miller's Parsons, Mr. R. K. Miller, Mise Boggs, fashionable."

Stables, as it was called. In recent Mr. and Mrs. E. Walker, Mr. C Walker, blue of the mountainous horizon.

years the old landmarks have gradually jun Mrs Cousins and children, Alts. majestic sepulchre, worthy of the founder

Brown. disappeared, and handsome furnishing of a great dynasty.

establishments have been erected in the Per P. & 0. str. Borneo From London Tottenham Court-road, neighbourhood.. November 16t.To Hongkong Miss M. C. Dawton, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Spriggs, Mr. M. Bain, Mrs. Copley Foyle and child.

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Euro The N.Y.K. str. Kashima Maru (Euro pena Line) left Yokohama for this port via ports on the 5th November, and is expected hers on the 17th November.

The American and Manchurian Lino had Jaft New York on the 10th October, and is due hore on or about

if the 25th November,

The Swedish East Asiatic Co.'s str. Canton left Port Said on the 4th Novem her and is expected to arrive here on the 2nd December.

THE MAUSOLEUM OF NURHACITU:

LONDON'S FARMHOUSE.

An hour or so after you have left the city you gradually approach a finely-wooded mage-mish a steep clḥng to the plain, and above its sombre fire stand out in contrast the glowing roofs of the Imperial mauSO- leum. A great rectangular area, fully half a mile in length, enclosed by walls, TOTTENHAM COURT-ROAD RELIC TO DISAPPEAR. runs from south to north up the face of the ridge. In the centre of the bottom wall is a richly decorated gateway,

The N.Y.K. str. Hitachi Maru (Euro pean Line) left London for this port via ports on the 25th October, and is expected whence a broad avenue processional here on the 3rd: December.

The Georgian farmhouse off Tottenham Court-road which has withstood the march road, paved and flanked at the lower end of the improvement builder for so many The American and Manchurian Line by sculptured animals-horses, camels, years is shortly to be pulled down. It has str. Kandahar left New York on the 25th and the like ascends the hill, bridging always seemed an anachronism that a October, and is due here on or about the the gullies that intersect its track. Here farmhouse should exist in modern times 15th December.

and there the ascent is so steep that it The Swedish East Asiatic Co.'s str. breaks into a flight of steps. On the within a mile of Charing Cross. The Ceylon loft Gothenburg on the 30th Octo-suore level plateau at the top is a timber demolition was sure to come sooner or ber, and is expected to arrive here on or building gorgeously painted with intri-later. The premises are required for an about the 14th December.

cate designs in many colours, double The str. Glenstrae passed the Suez roofed, the tiles of rich Imperial yellow. extension of the business of Messre. Heal Canal on the 28th October, for Hongkong Within, supported on the back of a Son, furniture manufacturers, of colossal tortoise of marble, magnificently Tottenham Court-road, end Mr. Ambruse sculptured, is a massive flat pillar or Heal has prepared some interesting tablet of great height, its face inseribed particulars of their early history

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in the script of three languages Manchu, About the middle of the eighteenth Mongólian, and Chinese-with a record of century the farm came into the possession the reign Covering it is a lovely ceiling of two Miss Capper, maiden ladies, whose of square panels with a device of three habits you them some local notoriety. lotus leaves, gold, on a deep-blue ground. J. T. Smith, in bis amusing Book for Smailer buildings, for necessary offices, a Rainy Day, thus describes thero flank this one at a suitable distance, sO "The ground behind the north-west end of Russell-street was occupied by a farm This is but the beginning of the Lelonging to two eld maiden sisters of the approach to the sacred burial place. A name of Capper. They wore riding little beyond-higher up the hill-is a habits nad men's hats. One used to ride great gateway, piercing centrally a lofty with a large pair of shears after boys who wall of inmenso thickness, built of cool were flying their kites purposely to cut

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