RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1961 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/vd6724704 CONTENTS FRONTISPIECE THE HONG KONG BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY PRESIDENT'S REPORT FOR 1960 PAGE 1 5 10 HON. TREASURER'S REPORT FOR 1960 TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRANCH, 1960-61: The Study of Asia: a Heritage and a Task. F. S. Drake 11 Birds of Hong Kong . . . A. M. Macfarlane 18 Flowers of Hong Kong (with one coloured illustration) B. T. Chiu 27 The Knight Errant in Chinese Literature James J. Y. Liu 30 Tibet As It Was . . . Hugh Richardson 42 ARTICLES CONTRIBUTED: The Morrison Library . . . Dorothea Scott 50 Buddhist Sources of the Novel FENG-SHEN YEN-I Liu Tsun-yan 68 Buddhist Organizations in Hong Kong Holmes Welch 98 Chinese Burial Customs in Hong Kong . . . B. D. Wilson 115 NOTES AND QUERIES 124 LIST OF Members 127 x ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1961 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/vd6724704 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch RASHKB and author Vol 1 (1961) ISSN 1991-7295 42 TIBET AS IT WAS A lecture delivered on February 9, 1961. HUGH RICHARDSON, C.I.E., O.B.E. Tibet as it is is too I am going to talk about Tibet as it was. tragic, moving and lamentable a topic for a present talk. But I shall describe Tibet before its old civilisation and culture, its ancient form of government, its religion, its liberty and indeed its individuality were swept away. I must forget for the moment this outrage and try to recreate a little of the easy-going, friendly, contented country that I remember. Obviously I cannot cover the whole of Tibet's past in this very short time. You may notice that I have not called it secret or mysterious Tibet. Of course there was plenty that was strange and little-known in the country; but to any foreigner who was living there it was hospitable and open. Many of the strange things became intelligible, and the mystery, although it was there, fell into its place. Now it is true that the idea of a rather baleful mystery was for quite a long time fostered by the policy of deliberate exclusion. But the latter is comparatively recent—it only began at the end of the eighteenth century. Before that foreigners were not specifically barred from Tibet. The occasional traveller or trader was kept out by the nature of the country, but anyone who was determined and courageous could find his way in. If the names of Antonio Daldarada, Stephen Caccella, Borazzio della Tenda and Ippolito Desideri as yet mean nothing to you, there is much enjoyment in store for you when you do make their acquaintance. They were missionaries in Tibet, mostly Jesuits, from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth. Their accounts are excellent reading, especially that of Desideri; and they all found a kindly welcome. Though they worked very hard, they made hardly any impact on the well-established Tibetan religion and on Tibetan conservatism. Conservatism was the dominant characteristic of the country. It was largely due, I think, to its geographical situation and to its natural defences, of which the Tibetans have long been conscious and proud. A very old hymn in praise of their country, at least as old as the eighth century, describes it as "in the centre of snowy mountains, the source of great rivers, a lofty country, a pure land." In that lofty country, behind the barrier of mountains, the Tibetans kept alive their peculiar civilisation, traceable in their own records from the seventh century. There were, of course, plenty of changes and developments in the course of thirteen hundred years, and some influences entered from outside. But every importation was assimilated and transmuted into a Tibetan form. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1962 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/9s166f47f 2 flourished between 1858 and 1948 was more fortunate because it was able to draw on the services of a far wider group of people who came to work in China in the years after travel and residence there was no longer restricted. The present Society is luckier still because, thanks to air travel, we have been able to draw on an extremely wide range of contributors in the first two volumes of the Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. When examining the table of contents of the six volumes of Transactions published in Hong Kong between 1847 and 1859, one sees the titles of several articles which it would be most interesting to read if copies of these volumes were available in Hong Kong. For example, in Volume III Harry Parkes, at that time British Consul in Canton, and later British Minister at Peking, described proceedings in a criminal Court at Canton, while Dr. Bowring contributed an article “On the Character and Writings of Commissioner Lin Tsih-seu”, which at that time (1851) was still very recent history. In Volume VI (1859) Dr. D. J. Macgowan wrote on Chinese opium while the Rev. Krone contributed “A notice of the Sanon district *”. This is of particular interest since the Sanon district included all of what later became the New Territories. The full list of contents of each of these volumes can be found in Bibliotheca Sinica by Henri Cordier, Volume IV, columns 2401-2. 44 By way of contrast it is interesting to consider the contents of the first two volumes of the Journal of the revived Hong Kong Branch of the R.A.S. published in 1961 and 1962. Perhaps the first point which strikes one is the wider range of subject matter covered by these two volumes. In Volume I, Mr. Hugh Richardson, the last head of the British mission at Lhasa wrote on Tibet as it was, and Professor Drake reviewed the whole field of Western contacts with Asia. In Volume II Mr. Evan Luard's newly published book Britain and China, which covers the story of recent Sino-British relations, is the subject of a review-article by Mrs. Colina Lupton. Another noteworthy point is the number of admirable contributions from Chinese scholars in these two volumes. The six volumes of Transactions published between * Although I have made extensive enquiries I have been unable to locate copies of the Transactions in Hong Kong. The City Hall Library ought to have a set. (Ed.) ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1962 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/9s166f47f Nevertheless the monthly meetings of the Society have been consistently well attended with audiences which often have more than filled this room and have averaged well over one hundred at each meeting. This regularity of attendance proves that there is in the Colony a reliable cross section of the community who appreciate what Professor Drake referred to in his inaugural lecture as the Study of Asia and our heritage. In the earlier days of the Society up to 1859 when the Government of the Colony provided a home for the Society and its library it was honoured with the presence on its Council of the Governor, the Commander of the British Forces, the Chief Justice, the Bishop of Victoria, the Colonial Secretary, the Colonial Treasurer and the Attorney General, and it had the active support of the heads of the great merchant houses like Jardine, Matheson and Co. and Dent and Co. Although in these busier days we miss the successors of some of these eminent personages we are still honoured today by the patronage of His Excellency the Governor and the support of leading members of a more cosmopolitan community than in the earlier days. We particularly appreciate the keenness of the Hon. W. C. G. Knowles, who has recently joined the Council, and of the Honourable the Chief Justice whose athletic figure some of us recall striding along the slithery slopes of Lantao on the occasion of our archaeological excursion last year. We hope that this year we may provide a further opportunity for members who do not perhaps know one another as well as it might be desired, to join in a combined social and study expedition either to Lantao or elsewhere in the New Territories. During the year 1961 nine public meetings were held at which unusually interesting lectures were given, most of them illustrated with colour slides- January 23rd James Liu "The Knight Errant in Chinese Literature" "Tibet As It Was (1936-1950)” February 10th Hugh Richardson April 10th May 13th Miss Mary Tregear "Chinese Paintings in Formosa and America" Expedition to Lantao to visit archaeological sites ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1962 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/9s166f47f CONTENTS OF VOL. I (1960/61) The Study of Asia: a Heritage and a Task, F. S. Drake; Birds of Hong Kong, A. M. Macfarlane; Flowers of Hong Kong (with one coloured illustration), B. T. Chiu; The Knight Errant in Chinese Literature, James J. Y. Liu; Tibet As It Was, Hugh Richardson; The Morrison Library, Dorothea Scott; Buddhist Sources of the Novel Feng-Shen Yen-I, Liu Tsun-yan; Buddhist Organizations in Hong Kong, Holmes Welch; Chinese Burial Customs in Hong Kong, B. D. Wilson; Notes and Queries. Page 150 Page 151 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v PROTESTANT CEMETERY IN MACAO 19 Cochin China, Siam, and who died in Macao while en route to Japan in an attempt to open that country to American trade. To the south of Crockett is Ljungstedt, a Swedish merchant, a philanthropist, an educationalist, and a Knight of Wasa, and alongside him are three small humble altar-tombs of the three children of an American girl, Caroline Shillaber of Danvers, Massachusetts, who married an English doctor, Thomas Richardson Colledge in Macao in 1833. After their return to England in 1838/39, Dr. Colledge practised his profession in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, for about forty years, and both he and his wife are buried in the churchyard of the small village of Shurdington just outside Cheltenham. Their tombstone supplied us with the Christian names of one of their children buried in Macao whose memorial does not give the child's name, for it merely refers to "the infant son of" Dr. and Mrs. Colledge. The name was Lancelot Dent, the head of a famous merchant house here in those days. One cannot mention Mrs. Colledge without referring also to her school friend Harriet Low. She came out to Macao in 1829 as a companion to her aunt. Her uncle was William Henry Low, head of the American firm of Russell & Co. Together they all three left Macao to return to the States in 1834, but the uncle died in Cape Town while on the journey home. Harriet, fortunately for us, kept a diary from the day she left Massachusetts, and it gives us most valuable information of the community life in Macao in the early thirties, as well as of many of the individual members of the community itself. Along the eastern wall near the north-east corner of the Lower Terrace is the grave of another Boston merchant, Captain Nathaniel Kinsman. His wife too was a diarist, but whereas Harriet looked at everything through the sparkling and bewitching eyes of a gaiety-loving girl of twenty-one, Rebecca Kinsman viewed the life amongst the members of this predominantly masculine society from the viewpoint of a married middle-aged Quakeress. Yet a third feminine writer to whom we also owe much was the widow of Dr. Robert Morrison. She wrote a biography of her husband which was published in two volumes, and although it necessarily deals mainly with the Morrison family, it nevertheless gives much information too about their contemporaries in Macao. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v PROTESTANT CEMETERY IN MACAO APPENDIX 21 Below are two lists of those known, or believed, to have been buried in the cemetery or memorialized in its Chapel. The first list is arranged alphabetically, and the second according to the numerical order used in the official list in the Chapel. The first list gives the location and number of the memorial, while the second gives in addition the sex, age at death, date of death and nationality. In those cases where the exact age is not known and it is certain that the individual was an adult, the evidence is given in brackets e.g. Able-seaman, Ship's captain, &c. "40+" means "40 at least". The following abbreviations are used; LIST I U = Upper Terrace; L = Lower Terrace; C = Chapel. A. ADAMS, Joseph Harod ALLEYN, Frederick Perceval ASTELL, John B. BACON, Francis W. + BALLS, Sarah Anne BARNETT, William BARTON, Charles John Wood BARTON, Euphemia Isabel BATEMAN, James BATES, Edwards Whipple DEALE, Daniel BEALE, Thomas BIDDLE, George Washington BOECK, Christian BOVET, Margaret BRIDGES, Henry Gardner BROOKE, John F. BUTTIVANT, John Henry C. CAMPBELL, Archibald S. CANNING, James CAPPER, Cawthorne + 38 U 55 L +++ 131 L 59 L + 79 L 49 L -- 11 U + 12 U 121 L 2 U 160 L 159 L 58 L 46 L 105 L 4 108 L 68 L 154 L 89 L 162 L 116 L ++ 40 U +++ +++ + 133 L 94 L 96 L 95 L 22 U 100 L 10 98 L + 87 L --- + ++ ++ +++ 151 L 7 U CHINNERY, George CHURCHILL, Henry John Spencer COLLEDGE, Lancelot Dent COLLEDGE, Thomas Richardson COLLEDGE, William Shillaber COOPER, Mark Beale CROCKETT, Ann CROCKETT, Caroline Rebecca CROCKETT, John CRUTTENDEN, George CUSHMAN, Daniel +++ ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v PROTESTANT CEMETERY IN MACAO 31 LOWER TERRACE Cont'd. No. Name Sex Row Age Date of Death Nationality 94. COLLEDGE, Lancelot Dent M Crockett Group 7/12 16 Dec. 1838 Br. 95. COLLEDGE, William Shillaber M Crockett Group 15/12 29 Sept. 1838 Br. 96. COLLEDGE, Thomas Richardson M Crockett Group 10/12 26 July 1837 Br. 97. DANIELL, Edmond Murray M Crockett Group 8/12 15 May 1836 Br. 98. CROCKETT, Caroline Rebecca F Crockett 5 Group 21 Dec. 1835 Br. 99. SENN VAN BASEL, Hugo Rudolph Jacobus M Crockett Group 2 days 20 June 1839 Dut. 100. CROCKETT, Ann F Crockett Group 21 days 21 July 1835 Br. 101. T. ? Crockett ? Group ? ? ? 102. HIGHT, John Francis M Crockett Group Adult 9 Feb. 1844 Br. 103. HARRISON, George W. M Crockett 20 Group 6 June 1844 Amer. 104. MARKWICK, Richard M Crockett 44 Group 30 Jan. 1836 Br. 105. BOVET, Margaret F Crockett 23 Group 6 Jan. 1837 Br. 106. REYNVANN, Clazina van Valkenburg F Crockett 24 Group 9 Nov. 1846 Dut. 107. KEY, Peter M Crockett Group 42 8 Oct. 1835 Br. 108. BRIDGES, Henry Gardner M Crockett Group 61 19 Dec. 1849 Amer. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v CONTENTS OF VOL. 1 (1960/61) The Study of Asia: a Heritage and a Task, F. S. Drake; Birds of Hong Kong, A. M. Macfarlane; Flowers of Hong Kong (with one coloured illustration), B. T. Chiu; The Knight Errant in Chinese Literature, James J. Y. Liu; Tibet As It Was, Hugh Richardson; The Morrison Library, Dorothea Scott; Buddhist Sources of the Novel Feng-Shen Yen-I, Liu Tsun-yan; Buddhist Organizations in Hong Kong, Holmes Welch; Chinese Burial Customs in Hong Kong, B. D. Wilson; Notes and Queries. CONTENTS OF VOL. 2 (1962) Nestorian Crosses and Nestorian Christians in China under the Mongols (illustrated), F. S. Drake; Currency Problems in a Cycle of Cathay, G. Findlay Andrew; The Buddhist Career, Holmes Welch; Chinese Seals, T. Y. Li (illustrated); Some of China's Thirty-five Million non-Chinese, Herold J. Wiens; The Pattern of Life in the New Territories in 1898, J. W. Hayes; Excavations at Man Kok Tsui on Lantau Island (illustrated), Elspeth Maneely; A New Archaeological Site in Hong Kong (illustrated), M. W. Welch; Review Article: Britain and China, Colina Lupton; Notes and Queries. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1964 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/qz20zx09r JHKBRAS LIST OF REPRINTS AVAILABLE Mail orders to: Hon. Librarian, Box 13864, Hong Kong Volume I (Prices are in Hong Kong Dollars) F. S. DRAKE. The Study of Asia: a Heritage and a Task. 7 pp. $1.40 No. of copies in stock A. M. MACFARLANE. Birds of Hong Kong. 9 pp. $1.80 10 B. T. CHIU. Flowers of Hong Kong. 3 pp. $0.60 7 JAMES J. Y. Liu. The Knight Errant in Chinese Literature. 12 pp. $2.40 10 HUGH RICHARDSON. Tibet as it was. 8 pp. $1.60 10 DOROTHEA SCOTT. The Morrison Library. 18 pp. $3.60 999 LIU TSUN-YAN. Buddhist Sources of the Novel Feng-Shen Yen-I. 30 pp. $6.00 10 HOLMES Welch. Buddhist Organizations in Hong Kong. 17 pp. $3.40 9 B. D. WILSON, Chinese Burial Customs in Hong Kong. 9 pp. $1.80 7 Notes and Queries. 3 pp. $0.60 10 Volume II F. S. DRAKE. Nestorian Crosses and Nestorian Christians in China under the Mongols. 15 pp. 4 plates (2 color). $4.60 11 G. FINDLAY ANDREW. Currency Problems in a Cycle of Cathay. 11 pp. $2.20 11 T. Y. LI. Chinese Seals. 5 pp. 2 col. plates. $2.00 HEROLD J. WIENS. Some of China's Thirty-five Million Non-Chinese. 21 pp. $4.20 15 JAMES HAYES. The Pattern of Life in the New Territories in 1898. 28 pp. $5.60 11 Elspeth MANEELY. Excavations at Man Kok Tsui on Lantau Island. 6 pp. 2 plates. $1.80 COLINA LUPTON. Review article: Britain and China. 7 pp. $1.40 3 11 11 Volume III B. T. CHIU. Flowers of Hong Kong. 7 pp. 6 col. plates. $4.40 25 MA MENG. Recent Changes in the Chinese Language. 9 pp. $1.80 26 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1975 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/j0995146d 288 Rank Name Corporal Leath* N.J. Mr Leghorn J. DONALD C. BOWIE Unit R.A.M.C. Att. R. Engineers W.O.I. Muxlow* J.L. R.A.M.C. Private Molloy* W. R.A.M.C. Corporal Nicholls* R. R.A.M.C. S/Sergeant Platt* J.H. R.A.M.C. Sergeant Peasegood H. R.A.M.C. Corporal Pike S.C. R.A.M.C. Private Pratt* D.G. R.A.M.C. L/Corporal Rennison R. Engineers S/Sergeant Roberts* J.H. R.A.M.C. Corporal Reynolds* J.S.R. R.A.M.C. Private Richardson J. R.A.M.C. Private Roberts T. R.A.M.C. Private Ross* L. R.A.M.C. Major Swyer J.E. R.A.M.C. Revd. Squires* S.J. R.A.Ch.D. Private Sinclair A.L. R.A.M.C. Private Skimins W. R.A.M.C. Private Syme J.A. R.A.M.C. Private Stanley* E+ R.A.M.C. S/Sergeant Shorthouse G.P. A.D. Corps Sergeant Smith A.W. A.D. Corps M.S.M. Sims* E. R. Engineers Q.M.S. 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R.A.M.C. Major Swyer J.E. R.A.M.C. Revd. Squires* S.J. R.A.Ch.D. Private Sinclair A.L. R.A.M.C. Private Skimins W. R.A.M.C. Private Syme J.A. R.A.M.C. Private Stanley* E+ R.A.M.C. S/Sergeant Shorthouse G.P. A.D. Corps Sergeant Smith A.W. A.D. Corps M.S.M. Sims* E. R. Engineers Q.M.S. Samways* W. R. Engineers Corporal Thompson R. R.A.M.C. Corporal Twitchett* A. R.A.M.C. Q.M.S. Tyas* T.A. R. Engineers Corporal Whybro* R.A.M.C. Corporal Wilkinson* R.A.M.C. Corporal Varty* R.A.M.C. Footnote:- No asterisk - Served in Bowen Road only One * - Served in Bowen Road and Central British School Two + - Served in Central British School only ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1979 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/2801w5938 THE MARYKNOLL MISSION, HONG KONG 1941-46 29 descended and the patrol boat lost them. The Bishop will have to take the same route and the same risks on his forthcoming visitations. While here, he performed the ordinations at the Dominican Rosary Hill chapel, in the absence of Bishop Valtorta. Dr. and Mrs. Bagalawis also slipped into Hong Kong. The Doctor told of the hundreds of patients he has been treating in a refugee hospital organized by Fathers Joe Sweeney and Joe Farnen: some of his patients are victims of gunfire by Japanese patrols making incursions into the villages outside their front lines. MARCH March proved to be a quiet month. Outstanding visitors were Dr. S. K. Yee, Counsellor to the Chinese National War Council and Mrs. (Dr.) Yee. Dr. Yee's hobby is calligraphy and he promised to give us a talk on this interesting facet of Chinese culture. Mrs. Yee took her medical training in Cleveland and San Francisco. APRIL In early April, Father Bernie Welsh departed with 250 cases of supplies and arrived at Swabue just two days before the city was taken over by the Japanese army: Father Sandy Cairns sent word that he had arrived safely at Sancian Island after a two-day sail from Cheung Chau. However, his baggage and his bag were still at a half-way stop, Kwong Hoi, where the Japanese took the place on their way to the large city of Toi Shan. No doubt Father John Joyce at Sancian had been looking forward eagerly for the goodies in Father Sandy's boxes. Three Passionists, Fathers Cunningham, Caulfield and Richardson, arranged a special deal with the China National Air Company to ship their mission supplies from Hong Kong to Nam Yeung, across the Japanese lines, for U.S. $200 per ton. Our Father John Elwood accompanied them on the flight with 21 cases of Red Cross medicine for our Kweilin Mission, and 7 cases for Wuchow. Father Elwood managed the trans-shipping from Nam Yeung to Kweilin through unoccupied territory. Dr. S. K. Yee gave us the promised lecture, and graded the efforts of those present with Father Trube carrying off the honors with the best characters, displaying the most "inner strength". ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1981 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/ff36bt18m 160 WEI PER-TI few days later from his wounds. Upon being told of the news, Juan Yuan "suspended the Company's trade and required the surrender of the man whom he termed the 'Foreign Murderers'"* + 63 To Juan Yuan, the Select Committee's reaction to his demand was in contravention to Chinese regulations. He was told by the Committee to communicate directly with Captain Richardson of the Topaze instead of going through the hong merchants and the Select Committee. Had Juan Yuan done as he was asked, he would have implicitly consented to change the Canton system. This he refused to do. He continued to hold to the principle that the supercargo of the British factory be responsible for the conduct of all British nationals in China. While the hong merchants, British traders at Canton, and Captain Richardson debated various possible courses to take, Juan Yuan suspended all British trade and held steadfast to his principles. On February 3, 1822, a Chinese official was permitted to board the Topaze and was understood to have said that he would make a report to the Governor-General. On 8 February, using as the excuse that as he had not heard from Chinese officials everything must be satisfactory, Captain Richardson took the Topaze to sea. It was at this point the crisis really became serious. The British factory left Canton within three days. The language used by both sides in their communications was inflexible and threatening. The Committee insisted upon disclaiming responsibilities for the British navy. Another two weeks passed without any sign of solution. The Committee then explained to Juan that Captain Richardson had returned to Britain to "report to his sovereign" and that "copies of all the papers would be sent to the Court of Directors [of the Company]". Juan Yuan, noting that since the Topaze had already left Chinese waters, so that it was impossible for the supercargo to surrender the criminals even if he had been willing, and as the entire account was being sent back to both the sovereign and the Company, permitted the resumption of British trade at Canton. This compromise in order to resolve a difficult case reflected Juan Yuan's willingness to make the best of a bad situation. Juan Yuan did not negotiate with the British except through the intermediary of the hong merchants, and, it was the Company that was to be held responsible for finding the criminals to be remitted to Chinese justice, although no such promise had actually been made.55 And, most important of all, the British navy was removed from the China seas. On the surface at least, the principles of the Canton system were preserved. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1989 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8336pm92h 204 Pique delighted to honour, Marvellous is the ingenuity of Jack. Difficulties which would appal the ghost of Richardson* — that prince of theatrical improvisers, he makes nothing of it. Whether it be to prepare a great banquet hall or to erect a theatre, it is all the same to him and comes to his hands as readily as the marlin-spike. Huge guns disappear and hatchways vanish from the sight and are replaced by draperies and benches with all the quickness of enchantment. We sat looking around us at the proscenium, the footlights and the drop scene, representing a view on the late of Como, and fell difficult to remain in the belief that we were on board of one of H.M. 'ships of war' and not seated in a neat little theatre". Thus far the impression of the surroundings. About the acting qualities the reviewer was equally in high spirits: in the Birthday, Captain Bertram R.N. proved to be “a gouty, choleric old gentleman, a very positive, perverse individual to boot and more than becomingly addicted to the occasional use of strong language". All these little eccentricities were him forgiven, however, when "we saw him yield to the impulses of nature and even felt a degree of alarm when he well nigh became smothered in the affectionate embrace of his loving and pretty — but somewhat bulky niece. (...) The songs of Dibdin appear to be no longer the prime favorites afloat they were half a century ago; and although we cannot but regret this, we were glad to find, from the specimens we listened to, that they have been superseded by not unworthy successors. The trill of I've heard of foreign countries. That are very fair to see But England! dear old England! Is quite fair enough for me was ringing in our ear, when it was joined in by notes of a different kind — the cheering notes, to wit, of the Dustman's Bell. We are quite converts to the doctrine that believes, for the moment, in the mimic scene which is enacting before us. How could we do otherwise at the sight of such a Dustman and such a Sally! It did one's heart good to look upon such a fresh, comely and good-looking face as Miss Sally's, and to hear the praise of it sung with such evident gusto by her honest lover in the lines: Of all the girls that dress so smart There's none like pretty Sally She is the darling of my heart And she lives in our Alley." Raising the Wind the reporter found not "so brilliantly successful but not without its merit". Summing up, his **still aching sides" testified sufficiently to the "care and trouble which the performers had taken to entertain their numerous audience'' (NCH 13.2.1858) 10.2.1858 (Wedn) PELHAM HARDWICKE (= C. MATHEWS): "A Bachelor of Arts" (1853) T: Comic drama (2 acts) J.M. MORTON: "Done on Both Sides" (1847) T: Farce (1 act) C: Amateurs F: Music by "Messrs Phu & Mor" Th: Theatre Royal (C) + * An allusion to John Richardson (1767?-1837), nicknamed "the penny showman"; in his performance of J.S. Knowles' (?) "Virginius" the ghost was the great effect (Dict. of Nat. 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