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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-SATURDAY, JULY 9тu, 1881.

Per Mei-foo, Chinese steainer, from San Francisco, &c.-M. Lunt, Mrs. Chin Shu Tang, I European and 400 Chinese in steerage.

SHIPPING REPORTS. The British steamer Ächilles reports left Shanghai, July 2nd, and experi- 3/81 enced strong S.W. monsoon to Fuo- 3/83 chow. Loft Foochow, July 6th, after 3/9 which experienced light winds and fine 3/9weather to port.

On LONDON,

Bank Bills, on demand, Bank Bills, at 30 days' sight, Bank Bills, at 4 months' sight, Credits, at 4 months' sight,.

Documentary Bills, at 4

months' sight,

302

ON PARIS,-

Credits, at 4 months' sight,

OR BOMBAY,

Bank, 3 days' sight,...

On CALCUTTA,

Bank, 3 days' sight,

2254

On SHANGHAI,-

Bank, sight,

Bank Bills, on demand, ......4.71-

Private, 30 days' sight,

4.81

2251

Hongkong Temperature.

(Taken at Messrs. Falconer & Co.'s Register, Queen's-road),

HONGKONG, 8th and 9th July. BAROMETER-1. P. M,

4 P.M...

Do. THERMOMETER-1 PM.

.29.950

.29.910

.87.

Do.

4 P.M.

.85.

Do.

1 P.M. (Wet bulb) 81.

Do. 4 P.M.

Do. 80.

BAROMETER-9 AM.

THERMOMETER-9 A M.

....86.

.29.910

Do. 9 A.M. (Wet bulb) 79. Do. Maximum

....87.

Do Minimum (over night)-82.–

MAILS.

The following mails will close:------ To-day, 9th July,-

For Shanghai, per Yangisze, at 2.30 p.m.; and per Himalaya, at 330 p.m. For the Straits and Lon- dou, per Achilles, at 5 pm For Hoihow and Haiphong, per Kang- chi, at 5 On Monday, 11th July,—

p.m.

For Straits Settlements, per Serapis, at 2.30 p.m. For Manila, per Diamante, at 3.30 p.m. For Bangkok, per Dale, at 5 p.m.' On Tuesday, 12th July,-

For Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, &c. &c. &c., per Brisbane, at 11.30 a.m., instead of as previous ly notified. For Saigon, per Adrio, at 3.30 pm.

On Thursday, 14th July,-

The Chinese steaner Mci-foo re- ports bad fine weather throughout.

SWATOW.

Wo hear from a correspondent at Swatow that a typhoon visited that port on Saturday the 2nd instant, do- ing considerable damage to the houses near the river and destroying several. jetties. Most of the buildings on the Swatow side were inundated to a depth of three foet: Wo believe that the Ka-chio side came out of the storm with better fortune. This accounts for the bad weather we experienced here and for the serious fall of the glass on Friday evening-Amoy Gazette.

SHANGHAI.

The Comet.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE

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but it is certainly rather an awkward. proceeding. It is open to a double construction; either it is an assertion of right which the Japanese have hover surrendered and in position from which they have never recodel, or it can be construed into a defianco. When affairs are subjudice, though the sword may have to be the arbiter, and when nations feel warm on a subject, an incident of this character is always calculated to prejudice the case, aud inflame the minds of the parties, to such a great international question that respecting Loochoo." How. thia circumstance may mean

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much, or it may mean little. Looking at it superficially, for we are not ac- quainted with the particulars of the affair, the chances are that it will load to a series of explanations and remons- trances which probably will eventunte in a spoody rupture. And yet after all, the action of the Japanese may have been taken out of feelings of humanity, and we would be willing to believe this were it not for the peculiarly strained relations existing between these two nations. At present, we have only to bide a wee and see how the affair terminates; but we fancy that none of us know the day nor the hour, when Japan and China will be engulphed in a doadly war. Nor do we know what trifle might not form the match where- with to fire the mines that undermine the national relations of the Celestial Empire and the Land of the Rising Sun.

"SHANGHAI COURIER." SIR-The Rev. R. F. Dechovrens, Mauritius appears to be a most Director of the Sicenwei Observatory, estimable colony: Sir George Bowen, in his interesting and learned remarka in a despatch to Lord Kimberley, just upon the new Comot, published-in-published with other papers relating your issue of Thursday last says:- to her Majesty's colonial possessions, "The Comet now shining in the neigh-repeats the remark of ono of his pre- bourhood of the North Pole first ap- peared on the 24th or 25th instant. That it must have been observed by means of instruments before it became

visible to the naked eye is probable, for such an object hardly can escape the attention of numerous observers especially addicted to searching for Comets and studying their motions. It had not, however, been discovered on the 10th May, for the Boston astro- nomical jourual, Science Observer, of that date does not mention it; and the scientific reviews received from Europe by the last mail are equally silent about it."

On reference to Nature for May 19th, however, I find that the new Comet has not been neglected by European savants, and that it is called by them Swift's Comet, 1881. According to the journal above given, M. Bigourdan has

decessors to the government on the colony, to the effect that the progress achieved under manifold difficulties by area, Alled him with surprise and the small cominuiity in so limited an

larger than an average Euglish county admiration. For Mauritius, though not has an annual public revenuo exceeding £700,000; and an annual trade (includ ing exports and imports) valued at nearly £6,000,000, sterling. Thus, Mauritius," the Malta of the Indian Ocean," as it was called by M. Thiers, while ranking as a first-class naval and military station with Gibraltar, Malta, Hongkong, and Bermuda, is also a wealthy colony, carrying on a valuable trade with Great Britain and

with the British colonies. It should be ranembered moreover, that Mauritius pays a military contribution at the rate of £70 for evory artilleryman

ice of what are now the north and south poles would rapidly melt, and a freshet as unusually destructive as the Noachian deluge would distribute Esquimaux, polar bears, and relics of the Franklin expedition all over the globe. The native African kings would- be suddenly frozen on the ice of the new north pole and would be thus preserved by millions as food for a new race of polar bears. New York would have a climate like that which Gainoa now has, and its inhabitants would become addicted to nudity and relapse into barbarism. Tropical forests infested with

equatorial animals would spring up in the Central-park, and hardy sportsmen of San Francisco and devoted missionaries from the cold and presumably Calvinistic latitude of the Sandwich Islands would come to our city to hunt elephants, and to con- vert the heathen aldermen to the creed of Christianity and the practice of trousers. Iceland would send to shiv- ering Italy for its ice, and, under the enervating heat of the climate, Scot- land would abandon its oatmeal and the intellect of Edinburgh would be undermined with bananas and pombé. Such are appalling results which, according to our esteemed scientific contemporary, are to follow the gird. ling of the earth with a continens line of telograph. When this is completed, electric currents will, of course, bo constantly sent along the wire, and the earth currents on their way between the poles will be interrupted. Before very long every curront which now flows between the polos will be seduced- by the influence of the telegraph wire into flowing in the plane of the equa- tor. When this babit is established the poles of the earth will shift, and the equator will shift with them. The present axis of the earth will be in the plane of the new equator, and the new poles will take up positious, one in Africa and the other in the Pacific inclination to the ecliptic, and as the Ocean. The earth will thus change its

haviour, a revolution will take place ecliptic will at once resent this be in the solar system, the disastrous and far-reaching effects of which cannot be even imagined.

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Little has hitherto been known of the Zuni Indians, a tribe some two thousand strong, occupying a narrow valley about thirty miles in length, sita- ated upon the western frontier of New Mexico, not far from. Fort Wingate, in a south-westerly direction. The opening up of railway communications, however, in the neighbourhood of that far-lying territory has brought the Zunis into notice. They have

For the United Kingdom and Eu.calculated the following elements of and engineer, and of £10 for every lately been visited by several western

rope, vid Naples; to Saigon, Straits Settlements, Batavia, Bur- mah, Ceylon, the Australasian Colonies, Pondichery, Madras, Calcutta, Aden, Egypt, Malta and

this Comet, from the Dan Echt obser- vation on May 2nd, and observations made at Paris on May 5th and 7th :- PERIHELION PASSAGE, 1881.

soldier of the line, towards the support of its small garrison of imperial troops--Courier.

The New York Times thas gives

Gibraltar; printed matter at 10 Longitude of perihelion...... 397 64 prominence to a new danger which lias

a.m., and letters at 11a.m. The following mails may be ex- preted

On Tuesday the 12th instant :-- The American mail of 5th June.

On Thursday the 14th instant—- The Erench mail of 10th June.

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May 21.0013, Paris, M.T.

ascending node 19 245 1881 Inclination....... 81 40 58 Lag, distanco in perihelion...... 9.755.68

MOTION-DIRECT.

Though observations will not be longer practicable in those Intitudes, the Comet may, perhaps, be observed in the southern hemisphere, it being un- derstood that telegrams have been sent to the Cape and to Australia (by Lord Crawford) with this object. According to the above orbit on July 9th the Comet will have one fifth of the insten.. ARRIVALS.

sity of light on the night of discovery. -July 8, Achilas, British steamer, 1528, There is un clase resemblance of ele C. Anderson, Shangbai via Foo-mouts to those of any Conet previous. chow, July 2nd, Tea.-Batterfield y calculated. and Swire.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

July 8, Mei-foo, Chinese steamer, 1281, Cunningham, San Francisco 4th Jung, Honolulu 17th June, Gen- eral. --C, M. S. N. Co.

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DEPARTURES.

July 8, Tay Walt, Siamese bark, for

Swatow..

July 8, Xenia, American bark, for

Vancouver's Island, July 8, Harriet H. McGilvery, Amorican

ship, for Manila. July 9, Malacca, British steamer, for

Yokohama.

July 9, Takasago Maru, Japanese

atcamer, for Kobe, &c.

PASSENGERS.

ARRIVED,

Yours faithfully,

Shanghai, 2nd July, 1881. ́

ARAOD JUNR.

been discovered to the stability of the globe-It is well known that the eltric currents of the earth flow from pole.to pole and ran across the plane of the equator. The needle does not point to the north because one of the earth's poles is in that direction, but the steady flow of the electric currents compels the earth to place its poles in the situation in which we now find them. Had these currents originally flowed from east to west or from west to east the earth's axis would have bees forced to shift its position, and the equator would have been placed in the plane of one of what are now called the meridians. When we once grasp the idea that the earth is really the slave of its electric currents, and that instead of the neodle following as it is roughly said to follow the On Thursday a Chinese junk brought direction of the earth's axis, the earth's some Loochooan sailors into Shang-axis is dependent on the direction of hai, who had boon shipwrecked off the China const. The Loochooans werg not as one would suppose, handed over to the Chinese authorities and cared for, but they wore at once takon in hand by the Japanese Consul, and supplied with necessarios, and they will, we understand, bo sent at the expenso of the Japanese Consulate to their nativo istand. Titis slight incident might fan into a blaze the dispute that has been pending for some time, between the Japannse and Chineso nation on the Loochooun question. We cannot say that this is an arrogant assertion on the part of the Japanese

currents.

the force which moves the needle, we danger of meddling with the earth's are prepared to perceive the awful

wittingly to change their direction, Were wo wittingly or ans

tremendous cataclysm that our globe we should not only produce the most

has ever experienced, but, we should probably upset the whole time table of tire solar system, and bring about a series of frightfut collisions. Suppose for a moment that the north pole were to bo suddenly shifted to Ujji, and tho south pole to an opposite point in the Pacific Ocean. There would be an immediate change in the ol

climate of

-Per Achilles, British steamer, from repesentatives here of the uzorahityovery part of the earth Under the

Shangbai, 22 Chinese.

of their country ovor the Loochoos; hont of the new equatorial rogions tho

explorers, who report that they are skilled agriculturists and horsebreeders, worshipping the sun as the creative principle, and living in large pyramid- a buildings, several storeys high, but forlorn of doorways. Those quaint dwellings can only be entered through apertures, forming as it were, the apex of each residential pyramid, and approach- ed by movable ladders; but every storey, inhabited by one, or more than one family, is externally fringed by an open gallery, which serves as a sort of ladder station. The chief

personage in the tribe is a high priest, who lives by himself in a huge temple, the outer walls of which are decorated with strange hieroglyphs. This func tionary is believed by the Zauis to be. in the possession of magical secreta, enabling him to regulate the seasons and

control the weather. The skin colour of most of the tribo is a dark browo; but a few Žanis have been observed who, although in no other respect differing from their fellows, are light complexioned, with fair hair and blue eyes. It would appear that these abnormal Zanis are regarded with loathing by the rest of the tribe, and with them being strictly interdicted live the life of pariahs, all intercourse.

the Zuni Valley. Doily Telegraph. to the brown-skinned inhabitants of

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