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BIRTH.

On the 18th June, at 12A, Praya Eust, the wife of J. S. NAZER, of a son.

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Jongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 20TH JUNE, 1881.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-MONDAY, JUNE 20TH, 1881.

of the two great leaders. We have personally witnessed two separate Liberal Governments ousted from the

newspaper of standing in the King-in 1856, his subsequent commissions remarks werd thon addressed by the dom as follows:-

bearing date, Sub-Lieutenant 1861, Ber. Pastor to a large and respecte "There is much error and misap- Lieutenant 1861, Kapitan-Leiutenable assemblage of spectators who hard earned emoluments of place and prehension abroad as to the personalant 1870, Korvetten-Kapitan 1874,, had followed the procession. Im... power by the splendid talents and sentiments that prevail among men and Post Kapitan so recently as the mediately on the conclusion of the oneralship, combined, of Disraeli; who are divided in politics. Their 12th April last. Captain Kupfer last sad rites, the different detach- and on three occasions at least within words must necessarily from time to first visited China in 1857-8 when ments returned to Victoria and em the last thirty years, have Tory hopes time be sharp; their judgments may the Count Eulenburg entered into a barked from Peddar's Wharf in the and prospects been ruthlessly upset occasionally, may warrantably, may commercial treaty with the imperial most perfect and orderly manner for by the burning eloquence, unrivalled necessarily be severe; but the general courts of China and Japan, the first their several ships. During the popularity, and terrible earnestness

idea of persons less informed than of the kind which had been entered

course of the day the flags at the of William Gladstone. Under such

those within the Parliamentary circle into by Prussia with the nations of German Consulate, the German mer. circumstances it could hardly be is that they are actuated towards one

the Far East. Captain Kupfer was chant hongs, and German vessels expected that these two men would another by sentiments of intense anti-a man of large and robust habit of in port were flown at half mast. in their inmost hearts, have fostered pathy and hatred. Now I wish to body, and was of the most genial and Consequent on the death of Captain kindly, friendly feelings one towards take this occasion, with the permission happy temperament. He enjoyed Kupfer, the command of the Freya the other, and therefore it was ex- of the House, if for a moment I may the utmost respect and osteem of his devolves on Kapitan-lieutenaut von pected that the Premier, in moving degenerate into egotism upon a subject brother officers, and was perfectly Lepel-Gnitz. the adoption of a resolution for a much too high for it-I wish to record idolised by the scamen serving under National Memorial in honor of his in this place and at this hour my con his command. His health generally. late antagonist, would make not viction that in all the judgments ever

was good, but he occasionally caused attempt to conceal his true opinions delivered by the late Lord Beacons uneasiness of mind to his more of Lord Beaconsfield. Nor did he, field on myself he never was actuated intimate friends by intermittent signs only his frankly expressed views of by sentiments of personal antipathy?" of heart disense, and he was watched the departed statesman' were hardly Sir Stafford Northcote spoke the with the greatest anxiety by Dr. in consonance with public expecta-truth when he remarked that a mon. Clouth, and the medical officers tious, and in honoring the memory

of the Freya and Iltis, who of Lord Beaconsfield, will tend to do

attended him professionally for some much in removing the belief that

days past on shore. No hopes were political opposition must always be

however entertained of his permanent associated with a spirit of intolerant

recovery; and although the symptoms bitterness; and cannot but prove

of his malady gave no immediate that political opponents of the most

cause for alarm so late as Saturday by mutual feelings of high personal

during the course of the afternoon pronounced type may yet be actuated

morning, a change suddenly set in

cel-which terminated fatally. The de- cased gentleman was known to a wide and extensive circle on the coast of China, outside the service, and his death at so comparatively early an age when most men are in the prime of life, will be deeply re- gretted far and wide.

admiration and regard.

Indulging in no unmeasured eulogy on Disraeli's.splendid achieve- ments in his country's service, the Premier's speech was marked throughout by an earnestness of pur- pose, and a felicity of expression which carried all before it. He paid a just tribute to his rival's claims to a permanent place in history, and spoke admiringly of the strength of purpose which had overcome almost insuperable difficulties, and carried him through tasks of great magni- tude with honor to himself and credit to the country. The carcer of Lord Beaconsfield, in Mr. Glad stone's opinion, was in many respects the most remarkable in our Parlia mentary history, and the only one in his experience which could be compared to it, was the earlier career of Mr. Pitt. Admitting that his name would for all time be associated with at least one great Constitutional measure, the important change in the principles of the Parliamentary franchise, which was hastened by Mr. Disraeli's personal act, the Prom- icr, without putting himself in the position of an admirer of the part taken by England's representatives at the Berlin Congress, believed that one who was Disraeli's political friend might have fairly said of him when he came back from Berlin-

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In the House of Commons, on Monday evening, May, 9th, Mr. Gladstone, in laying before the com- mittec a proposal to erect a public monument in honor of the late Earl of Beaconsfield, delivered one of the most remarkable speeches of the present century; a speech alike characterised by good taste, and good feeling, and showing all that resistless eloquence which has placed the Aspice, ut insignis spoliis Mar- Prime Minister in the front rank. of cellus opimis Ingredituri victorque vi- orators of this, or any other age.ros supereminet omnes.". It would not For nearly forty years Benjamin be fair, or just, (adds Mr, Gladstone) Disraeli and William Ewart Glad- even if it were appropriate in point stone were political opponçats, of time, on my part, to attempt to give and it is not too much to say that a historical picture of Lord Beacons never in the history of the English field. I, who have been soparated from nation have two men, rulers of a him by longer and larger differences nation's destinics, opposed each other than perhaps ever separated any with such consistent determination, persons brought into constant-contact with such intolerant bitterness, and in the transaction of public business to all appearance, with such personal it would not be fair to him, it would mutual hatred, as the dead states- not be fair to his friends, to draw a man and novelist now at rest in picture which must be more faintly Hughenden Church Yard, and his colored, aye, and differently colored great rival, the present First Minis- if executed by my hand than that ter of the Crown. The persunal which they could fairly claim. Dwel- antipathy which was supposed to ling at some length on his extraordi- exist between the two rival statesmen nary intellectual powers, his strength has been the theme of fruitful discus of will, his longsighted persistency sion in all circles where politics found of purpose, reaching from his first home, for many years past, until entrance upon the avenue of life to it came to be an understood thing its very close; his rentarkable power that an undying hatred of the most of self government, his great Parli- malignant description lurked under amentary courage, and the strong neath the polished address which sympathy which he always showed always marked the utterances of the for the Jewish race, the Premier feel two chiefs when opposing each other ingly referred to the deceased states- on political matters. That there were man's great affection for his wife, plenty of good grounds for such infor which he characterised as a devotion ences can hardly be doubted, for it profound, grateful, and tender-a may

be safely asserted that the worthy example for the country in reverses which at various times, which he lived. Apologising for in- the two rival factions, composing troducing what might be considered England's great political parties, a personal matter the speaker then have sustained, word frequently solely referred to a question which had owing to the exertions of either one been discussed vehemently by every

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ument of a higher character than any that could be carved in stone or marble, had been erercted to Lord Beaconsfield by Mr. Gladstone's su- perb speech. Au oration more nobly conceived, or more splendidly ex- pressed had probably never been walls, sacred with reminiscenses of heard within St. Stephen's hallowed

Pitt, Fox, O'Connell, and other chrities of byc gone ages.

Is there no moral to be drawn from the above, justly applicable to our own political and social circles We have seen that two men, probably the two greatest politicians of the present age, after struggling against each other for close upon half a century with all the bitterness, that for all time has marked political dif. ferences, set an example of mutual forbearance, which would honor all mankind to imitate. Fortunately, or unfortunately as the case may be, there have been grave differences in political matters in this colony be- tween the Head of the Government, and a majority of our leading colonists for years past, and it is a fact, much to be deplored, that men of education, culture, and refinement should have permitted these differences to so largely affect social life. We blame no particular section of the commun- ity, nor do we stop to enquire whether the Government or the op- position has been responsible for a state of affairs which is hardly credit able to our boasted civilisation; but would simply point out, that political differences need not necessarily mean all hatred and uncharitableness, and that personal antipathies between opposing classes for more differences of political opinion, are alike dis- creditable to all concerned.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The funeral took place from the German Consulate at five o'clock yes- terday evening, and formed thegest and most imposing service spectacle witnessed in Hongkong since the funeral of the late Lieutenant O'Geran of the 80th regiment in November, 1874. The body was dressed in the full uniform of deceased's rank, and was placed in a massive camphor- wood coffin with wreaths of flowers placed at the head and feet, and a plate bearing a simple inscription showing his rank in the service and the date of his death. The

procession moved off punctually at the hour appointed, headed by the band of the Freya; a firing party of 100 men from the Freya and Iltis, marching in the European continent al formation of sections of ten, with its proper proportion of officers. Next followed the corpse carried by chief petty officers, aud accompanied by seaman bearing palm leaves, bouquets of flowers, and devices in evergreens. The cortege passed down Wyndham-street and eastward along the Queen's-road until the foot of Zetland-street was reached where a hearse was in waiting, and during a short halt the body was deposited in that vehicle. On the march being resumed to the strains of the band playing alternately portions of the "Dead March in Saul," and a German hymn, the procession had been considerably enlarged, and included a marching party of officers and men from the Freya; a party Hongkong, 20th June, 1881. of Marines and Blue Jackets from Health Officer reports Hongkong Victor Emanuel and other British free from any epidemic of infectious war vessels now in harbour, and of 3,588 Chinese he examined this Spanish man-of-war Legaspi and the or contagious disease, and that out parties of officers and men from the month as emigrants, none was suffer-despatch vessel Marquez del Duero. ing from small-pox. The Governor therefore hopes that Quarantine will not be enforced against Hongkong."

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The following telegram, wired to Sydney this morning has been placed at our disposal by the Hongkong Government.

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"From the Colonial Secretary Hongkong, to the Colonial Secretary Sydney.

The Legislative Council will meet on Friday, the 24th instant, at 2.30 p.m.

It is our painful duty to record the rather sudden death of Post Captain Paul Kupfer of His Imperial German Majesty's corvette Freya, which took placo at the German Consulate, Peddar's Hill, on Saturday.afternoon at a quarter past four o'clock. The late Captain Kupfer was the son of the Ober Burgomastor of Borlin, and was in the fortieth year of his ago at the time of his death.

He first joined the Imperial navy

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Thero wore also present Dr. Eitel, Private Secretary, and Lieutenant Cox, Aide-de-Camp, to the Governor, and nearly the whole of the German residents in the colony. Immediately behind the corpse a velvet cushion was carried by a warrant officer bearing four decorations which had been conferred on the deceased; the Red Eagle of Germany, conferred in 1874; the medal for long service; the Danish war medal of 1874 and the modal for the Austrian compaign of 1866. On arriving at the cemetery the usual burial service of the Tuther an church was read in a most impres sive manner by the Rev. Pastor E. Klitzke, of the Berlin Foundling Hos pital; throo-volleys-were-fired over the grave and a few appropriate

To-day being the anniversary of Her Majesty's accession to the throne, the several ships of war now in harbour have "dressed ship," and display the usual amount of gaily coloured bunting, and the customary royal salutes were fired at twelve o'clock.

His Excellency the Governor and Lady Hennessy have taken up their residence at Mountain Lodge for the summer months.

cot Gold Cup (about 2 miles) which was set for decision on Thursday, June 16th, resulted as follows;

We hear that the race for the As-

Mr. Charles Brewer's, b.c. Robert the Devil by Bertram out of Cast Off (T. Cannon.)..

Duke of Beaufort's, bl. c. Petronel by Musket out, of Crytheia (Goater,).....

Mr. C. Blanton's ch. h. Exeter by Cathedral out of Lady Sophie (Rossiter.)

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and placed horses will appear in to- Full particulars of the winning morrow's issue.

Foot-ball playing in Scotland ap- pears to be an excellent source of re- venue to the various charities of Glas- gow and Edinburgh. No less than eight thousand spectators (and this was rather below the average), as sembled at Kinning Park, Glasgow, on May 8th, to witness the final un- decided tie for the Glasgow charity cup, value 300 guineas, between the crack clubs, Queen's Park and Ran- gers. The utmost enthusiasm was manifested in the match, which after some splendid play, resulted in favor of Queen's Park by three goals to one. The gate money to be handed over to the local, charities, will ex- cged £700:

An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon at the Government Civil Hospital, before the coroner, Mr. H. E. Wodehouse and a jury, to enquire into the cause of the death of an able seaman, Franz Zasen-k- berg, of the American ship H. H. McGilvery. The evidence laid before the coroner was of the simplest and most formal kind; deceased was em- ployed aloft, and from some reason which he alone could have explained, he missed his footing and fell from the fore-top-gallant yard to the lower hold of the ship, a distance of 127 feet, death being instantaneous; Drs. Lochhead and Marques gave deceased must have sustained by the evidence as to the injuries which

fall, and which must have caused im mediate death. The jury without hesitation returned a unanimous verdict of "accidental death."

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The double screw iron river gun- boats Eek and Tweed, arrived here yesterday from England, having been commissioned at Sheerness on the 4th February last, specially for ser- vice in China. They will be paid off to-morrow, the crews being dis- tributed amongst the other vessels of the China squadron, and the boats themselves placed in the first class steam reserve. They left Plymouth on the 17th March, towed across the Bay of Biscay by the steam tug Seahorse, as they are not con- struoted for ocean sailing, but, being flatbottomed ure meant for