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GENERAL REMARKS. The Mentholmenal with N. N. Wiy breezes and fun weather. On the 4th day a strong Breeze sex in frag the Bateand, which continued until the Tech and swan Palamed by Ny, and Why. Breezes winds were unsteady for the re- (masa dar of the mouth; on the 25th day very unsst new Addish water sein, which coatinted with
y me pa v sorgeneepest of December The ta kanporature of the first half was about degreze above the latter half of the month, and on the gracle was nuder the general averago,
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cleverness saw through the trick offered to be played off in dressing up an illusory opponent, an1 calling him a merchant; now, however, that that cock won't fight, the Friend detects something in the dates of Pair Play's letters and our remarks on them, which clearly shews the duplicity of The May and ya corn spondent." The latters are not dated from Cantony" he exclaims. Why | should they and what the Friend would com clude that if they were written in Hongkong, (which however he assumed to be the case, when he attributed them to His Excellency) it looks very like a trick, as we said before, n stale trick P' We never supposed the letters (which are dated from no place, be it observed;) were written in Canton; for the first reached us long before the Mall con- taining the article it replied to could have got there, -our paper having been published on Thursday, while Fair Play's first klem was received and in types on Fridu je.
actually to the at Cartog white peoning his effè
But surely it was ant necessary for the writer
sions, in order to be considered "a fair expositor of the opinions of its. British residents." Dies not the tend to cxpound the airs of the provineist ally Erlend Con June to timp, with fur lesa ri.bt, pro-
where we are told he never was at all? And will be not set himself upon as an oracle on everything relating (to China, when he returns to his native country, many thousand miles away from the scenes he will then expatiate upon t
Grind in dangerous. Id the ocean,
Thont 30 feet from the general sur face, the water in comparatively still. I then, by any means, agitated, rufila Hoid is broken and dispersed, the water to lewward of the obstacle beco mes smooth and it is abeolately astonishing to se how pusily even a small floating budy will effect thik.
In the Salzkammergut, in Austria, the woodme employed on the mountains culling slavo wool, cast the bilets into the river which floats them
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that votes were recsaved from nati electors and that the accrecy of the ballot was violated, but t mittee or burgan to which the electign inferred report od that the charges were kivulgus, and 31 Diseb scaux continues a member of the theater, and af fords his aid to that most unpopular M. Alarem die Nom: Tud report of the contritive
lection was opposed with great zeal at care by M, Gustave de Beaumont, the anth rot a on Ireland, who declared that of the huted to Degakusraux and the Glove persevered in, Representative Cavern would be at an end The spach of AL 7:1 mom produced considerable edict on t and the Centre Gauche appear now w join the Gauche in looking for Hector Hot l'a nerotary Refors. On this question F. Planet been Witherto silent-or worse than sil v, dish, fed if now, at the twelfth hour, hee dis forti turdy convert, it is because he sees varetur la merical majority opposed to hims, and forth present at least, all hope of office is to from his view. At a inerting of the member tre. Gauche, which was held this delas ric house of Al. Gsomeron, Thiers is said de meespr god himself strongly as to the necessity of patth stop immediately to the flood of corruption. These ninarks of the ex-Minster, sincore or insincerO, WELL- well received, and the proposition of M. Thiers w
animously adapted This complete fusion of !- Centre Guiche and Gauche on this question sen to have awakened the attention, if nes the fears. the Alinisters, and we should not be at ¿ surprised if M. Guizes, following the exniaple of Fir Reben Peel, took the question altogether out of the bank of his opponents, either to atitle it, to palter with Be a double sense, or to carry it as the English Minis ter carriel the.com low repeal The King, b ever, is well known to be opposed to ali project f Electoral Reform, so thit Daless Guizol and the chatel are moved onward by a preponderant majo rity, the question, with the opposition the bighat perennage in the state can make little pregu
down into the Joke-tho Traunson-where they are finally collected. For this purpose a rope is thrown across the lake-sustained on the surface by corks, after the panner of the ridge rope of fishing net, and thens the store wood, floating about at random, is retained by this simple contrivance until they come to pick it up; and on a winly day, it is partictly surprising to sou how excel Intly the loose peices of wood, retumed du site by the rope, not as a Breakwater; producing a stanoth- mess on the Gou of the bike, for a long distance to Jeeward, whilst to wind-ward of this simple bar- pier the water is lashed into a foam,
We may water. take this as a familiar example of a floating baik- We shall now say a few words on the one favented by Daniel Tavlor R. N. This bronk water rany, of course, be of any length; but the individual Bats or sections are 6il fort long; of the form of a perfect prism; built of beams, crossing and re. crossing each other in an almost endless series We are not the apologists of Fair Play, but few secured by bobs. The timber employed by Capt. men in China are less likely to lend themselves to Taylor is red pine, so arranged that three farths n" deception. From the opinions selforth in his of the structure is immersed; it being 'always 19 letters we certainly disgont, but upon any subject at below the level of inmersin, and 6 feet out of they are entitled to respect, and we trust that he
the water. It is moored obliquely to the wave, will not anon bo called upon to date them from and admits the aea to pass under, over, and through Canton. In short, the deception the Friend talks it; thus breaking and dispersing the waves, and of exists in his own hoddle and no where else, converting all within its barrier into smooth water. But how funny it is to find the hitherto infalible The moorings are not of chain, but of straight- director of publia opinion now proclaiming his regained timber, in lengths of 12 feet, with con- adiness to be "Jed into error !" For our own nesting links; by this means the specific gravity part we have all along thought that to be a pact of the moorings is greatly diminished so that, ex lar weakness of his. -- China Mail, Dec. 24.
elusive of the connecting links, it does not exceed
The constitution of the Cabinet confianes put the (Veracity cannot perceive that in deceiving by 20 per cunt, that of water. This invention has
same as it was at the beginning of the session Mar- the public on the subject of the Fair Play's let- been tested at Brighton and found to succeed per
shal Soult is still President of the Council, thoaph he has not attended a Cabinet Council for min, thats tera he did anything wrong-ho did not be di fectly, and they are now constructing a Break-
a twelve month, or left his seat at Gooltberg for rect, but merely equivocated, and according to water on this principle to be moored of Boulogne. his standard of morality, this appears to be
Major Parlby's invention comes next, for which
more than ten months. The Alurquis of Daluatia, commendable,
the Society of Arts voted bin a silver metal
son of the Marshal, and Ambassador at Berfin ar The principle of this Breakwater is
15 taken from rivid at Parisa few days ago, it is reported with a what may be observed in every part of the world.iew of making certain stipulations previons to the viz. the effect of reeds growing in icers and lakes, surrender of the Presidency by his aged parent, but
Veracity indulges himself with a few imper- tinences at our expence. For two years we diave afforded a theme for thesexe
THE NECESS
PALIBAKIATER IN COLOMBO NA STEALA
At the bear of car going to press, 10 M) The Zede Mory Wood had not arrived. For They of the vessel there need be no ap- prehension, as there is no doubt that if her Canation Datanen Bein My A Tender Bund that he could not reaple China in The to enry the mail to Ragland on the 30th. be would retura to Niñgapore in order that ine clam of communication should not be Broken,
tion Company has enteral and i contract with As the Pentasalir and Cleomal Steam NavigA
H. M's Government to astalih a direct commu
Our Canton friends will of course attend to the following Circular,
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION. THE Senior Nawn! Oficer having stated that he will be prepared to despatch the Mails by a Man- of War Brig at Noon on TESDAY, 20th inst., in the rest of the Non arrival of the Lady Mary Ward, previous to that date, Notice is hereby given that the General Mails will be sloped at a C'clock on the Evening of the 2 th inst, and that a Gary Mail will be made up the following between the hours of 9 and 10 under the
ftegulations.
THOMAS HYLAND,
Post Office
Post-Master,
Lady Mary Wood "ar.. despatched on the 30th,
have been favored, with the copy of a Almanack for 1847 published, or rather by Mr. Robert Rutherfurd. It is the. Sof the Gentleman who edited the Almanack last year, and for Coust- ses will be found extremely useful,
tion of surface drains of hewn to the beauty of the would just hint to the Gentlemen this work that, without stall board a me regard might be lic comfort. At present after mace, the first operation is
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three splendid Steamers of 1925 tons, and 450 horse power each, we earnestly but respectfully would suggest to the Colonia Government the necessity of constructing, forthwith a Breakwater in the Roadsted, for the purpose of securing the visits of, those ships to his port in all seasons.
At present this place by no means posarsses the character of security for vessels in all weathers, so satisfactory to the Mariner, as well as the Mer chant. During one quarter of the year nearly, communication between vessels and the abore is not safe; therefore; this must act as a bar and binderance to mercantile "operations. A Break. water would obviate all this; and as long as one is not constructed, so long will we hope de mort fication of seeing those Sehers pass, by our very doors, to seck pufer Anchoragent that second. rate anten of the way place Point de Galle,
But where is the money to come from? This will be the cry. Economy and revenue** are as
familiar to our ears in this Island as "beasehold
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This a happy Idea, and in our opinion is supehart and here the muster must yield his own views or to Capt. Taylor's; for a vessel can snit throw Major Parlby's break water without int
injury, in et direction; and a particular entrance to a harbo be the directing of the wind. It is calculated tha is required, but wessel can enter or leave whatev the expense of a breakwater on this principle, equal nearly a mile, would be £160,000. This the kind to that o; Plymouth, which is 1700 yards long or has will and cou of one that would suit our finance best,
The last is Capt. Norton's invention. He had observed that on a liko or pood where the lotus groeps, y ban there
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28 of England, Pearson, Whampoa.
24, Corsair. (Str ] Soames, Macao. 21, Dart, (Am) Porter. Csusingmoon, 24, Margt. Wilkie, Duncan, Whampoa. 21, Velež, (Sp. BE.) Salado, Macau,
DECEMBER, She is a Burong breeze, the water was that after a storm at sea, the solid timbers of a Comparatively mouth and he had also observed wrecked vessel were splintered to pieces by being driven against shore, while a wicker basket escaped uninjured theas the remilts suggested the ides of constructing a floating in Cakwater of eelors. We really think that cither one or other of the two Fatter plans would answers perfectly in Colombo Easterly direction from that prong of rocks running Ronds. Let the structure corried out in 2 North
out from the saling battery, und may good luck and prosperity attend the undertaking.Ceylon
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FRENCH POLITICS.
During Deputies has been almost exclusively engaged in past week, the French Chamber of what is called the verification des pouvoirs. This process is somewhat equivalent to our election com. mines, but fortunately for electors and elected, is much shorter and more summery in its system of procedure, and much less
Cxpensive than that abo
Gods" and as we are stauch advocates for the one, and as few things gladden our hearts more than beholding an Exchequer full to overflowing, we would suggest that instead of expending £10,000 in repairing the Fort walls,-now happily useless a part of this sum, or the whole of it, he laid out in constructing the useful object we are reacm. mending. Let the Fort walls look after themselves for a few years longer-they will not run away; and we will always be able to find them when they present, Head Fortification in the rage at home at present, and very properly so seeing that is the event of a war, our immense fleet of Merchant shipa may find safely in flight and run into the harboursable system prevailing in England, which it of refuge now being prepared for them along the would be a gross perversion of terms to call an insti poast of the United Kingdom. The case is different tution either of law or judicatore in France, counsel the day for Old England when we have to bombard I respect of Cerion; and grim and dreary will be are not alloyed to complicate the phioest questions
before these an enemy from the Port of Colombo, or any other Fort in the Island. We root not let our John Balliam be scared out of us by the savage rape ing of a parcel of bellicose they have enough la do nearer home
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