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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-THURSDAY, JULY 14TH, 1881.

Archbishop Croke in his Tipperary address, boldly asserted that Dillon, Davitt, and Sheehy had been wrongfully imprisoned, as they had committed no crime, and no honorable or impartial jury could convict them. And this blatant balderdash is actually applauded, and approved of by the Irish Times and other high class journals. We do not propose following the reverend Archbishop through his vehement denunciation of the proceedings which the Government have been compelled to undertake against the general body of Land Leaguers; but if open sedition, and undisguised conspiracy against the Crown do not constitute just grounds for arrest, we know nothing of contitutional law. It is the more surprising that a man of Dr. Croke's princely rank and well trained intelligence should take such an inexplicable course, when it is considered what gigantic efforts the present Government have been making in order to tranquillise Ire- land, and to introduce an improved order of things which they hope will inaugurate a new era in Irish history. Mr. Gladstone's Land Bill is one of the most extraordinary measures Notices to Correspondents. ever laid before. an English Parlia- All communications should be addres.ment, and it speaks highly for the sed The Editor Hongkong Telegraph," courage of the Government, and for 15, Wellington Street.

the desire for genuine reform which has marked the actions of the mass of members, who constitute the great Liberal Party, that a bill of such a revolutionary character, intended solely to benefit the hewers of wood and drawers of water in the Esmerald Isle, should have been persevered with, in the face of an opposition which would have swamped many a government at the first reading, Whether this bill will pass the House of Lords, or like other measures of a similar tendency, be tabooed and thrown out by that fossilised body of hereditary legislators, time alone can show; but it is certainly poor to find all their exertions in the pub- encouragement for the Government

lic interest thwarted in every pos- sible way by a bigotted peasantry backed up and encouraged by a parcel of rascally adventurers, and an irreconcilable priesthood.

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HONGKONG, 14TH JULY, 1881.

yesterday afternoon and will relieve the Lapwing at present at Shanghai. The Swift was commissioned at Chat- ham on the 15th March last for servico

to the steamer lost bis life on Sunday ous charactórn illi dagorous: to the evening by the capsizing of a sampan pance and good order of the Colony. as recorded in those columns on Tues. The investigation is still proceeding us day, but no second casualty has occur

we go to press “ red as reported by our contemporary, and it seems rather rough on the crew to consign another of their number to Davy Jones' locker for the sake of inserting a paragraph. .......

The Laertes, which arrived this morn- ing reporta having sighted the steamer Elgin on a rock of the Bombay Shoal.

on the China station, sho is a new vessel having been built recently, of steel, with her sister ship the Linnet, by the Thames Iron Shipbuilding Com. pany, and engined by Ronnie with machinery of 870 h.p. She carries three 20 por. B.L., and two 7 inch, 4 tons, M.L. guns, and one Gatling, with a complement of 73 men all told. The Swift can carry sufficient coal in her bunkers to sustain forty days steaming at seven knots, and could make a trip from China to England without the necessity of coaling ou the voyage. It is rumoured that she will probably be employed as a despatch vessel to the Detached Squadron during the time they may remain in China waters. The following is a list of her officers :--- Commander William Collins, Lieuton-afternoon. ants Vernon A Tiadall and Arthur H.

Shirley, Navigating Lieutenant Frank J. Harwood, Staff Surgeon George B. Murray, Paymaster Francis R. C, Widdon, Chief Engineer Peter Colqu houn, Gunner Michael King, and As- sistant Engineer John W. Hole..

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About nine o'clock last night the body of a Chinese house boy about nine. teen years of age, was found hanging in the servant's quarters of a house in Wyndham-street. The body was re moved by the police to the Government Civil Hospital where an inquest will be held during the course of this

We observed a relay of coolies busily engaged scrubbing the slimy landing steps at Peddar's Wharf yesterday afternoon. This was not done befire it was wanted, and many a dim vision of sprained ankles and broken limbs, bas now been dispolied, we trust for evog and ever and a day longer.

In answer to Scrutator" we have to state that the Exchange quotations in this morning's Daily Press are totally unreliable.

The Wei Sing Lottery business is still the subject of general conversa- tion, but nothing definite will be really known until the question of a second auction has been settled. That four different offers of one million and fifteen thousand dollars have been made to the Macao Govern- ment for the monopoly we do not for one moment believe, in fact the report is merely "a weak invention of the enemy," which any person can easily see through. Nor is it at all likely that "more than one Hong- kong syndicate are known to have made arrangements to deposit not only the $20,000 required before bidding, bat likewise to lodge $100,000 in the Banks here before going over to Macao to-morrow to From our American files to band

bid for the Farm." The only Hong- per steamer Belgic, we learn that a

kong syndicate likely to have any- most destructive fire bas occured in A case of considerable importance thing to do with the concern, is that Quebec, on the evening of the 8th Jaue, and certainly of great interest to the organised by Mr. Pitman, of which newspaper world has just been decided Mr. Ho Atim is the leading spirit. laying a large portion of that city in ashes. Many large and imprtant build- by the Master of the Rolls. The Times Mr. Ho Atim went over to Macao ings have been destroyed,, and the newspaper published a memoir of the yesterday and it is understood that greatest consternation prevailed a. Earl of Beaconsfield, the value of which he took $100,000, with him, so that mongst the inhabitants, over 1,500 may be estimated from the fact that a

presuming this to be correct, busi- families being rendered homeless. The publishing firm immediately advertised

ness is evidently meant. On Monday police and firemen are described as

The Life and Work of Benjamin having been to a great extent demor- Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield)," add- last we hear that he offered to pay alised, and plander and robbery ap-ing, "reprinted from the Times". The

Mr. Loureiro, the Portuguese Consul pear to have been carried on in the proprietors of the Times brought an

General in Hongkong, the sum of most open manner, liquor stores es-

action against the firm, and in the $50,000, cash, and to give a pro- pecially coming in for a considerable meantime moved, before the Master of missory note for the remaining fifty the Rolls, to restrain them from pub. thousand, payable in one month, share of patronage. Five lives are known to have been lost, but there are lishing, printing, selling, or advertis.. to take over the lottery monopoly at still missing one woman and three ing such a phamphlet until the action the original price of one million and children as to whose fate there is a had been tried. The plaintiffa relied fifteen thousand dollars; but "Mr. About 600 upon a decision given in 1869 by Vice-Loureiro would not move in the degree of uncertainty. houses have been destroyed and the Chancellor Maling that a newspaper matter unless the whole $100,000 cost of the damage done has beeu did not require registration under the were paid down. Unless Mr. Ho ronghly estimated at $1,500,000, local Copyright Act (1842), and that its Atim arranges with the Macao Go- insurance offices losing to the extent proprietor was entitled, without anch of from $250,000 to $300,000. Most registration, to protection against ernment to take the concern over of the sufferers are in fair circumstances, piracy. The Master of the Rolls, on the terms of the first auction, the but many are rendered destitute, and however, considered the Times a perio- second auction will doubtless come subscriptions are being raised for their dical, and the word periodical is men- relief, the Legislature voting $10,000. tioned in the Copyright Act, and, there. The fire occurred in the wooden built fore, the proprietors of the Times could not sus for protection. The subtle portion of the city in which the more prominent insurance companies are distinctions and technicalities which said to have declined to take risk, and regulate our legal decisions are very it is believed that the loss will fall puzzling to ordinary minds, and tend chiefly on Canadian companies.

From what we understand the long talked of Chinese agencies, in the principal cities of Europe and Amer- ica, are likely soon to be carried out in a systematic and efficient manner,

proposed Association will not be confined to executing orders, or selling produce on commission; but a large which now go through the London proportion of Government orders, branch of the Chinese Foreign Customs, will be likely in future to go through this channel. The head quarters of the Association will be in Hongkong.

It is some consolation to know that the religious agitation is only of a local character, and that the indiscre- One of the most noteworthy factstions of Archbishop Croke and his connected with the recent troubles clerical supporters have already been in Ireland, is the defiant, we might severely admonished from the Vat- also say threatening attitude as ican. Cardinal Manning, Archbish- sumed

local chiefs of the op McCabe, of Dublin, and the Roman Catholic Church towards the many powerful English nobles who British Government. It is perfectly add weight and lustre to the Roman true that, in all the wars, riots, Catholic Faith, lost no time in lay-It is said that the operations of the and outrages, which for years haveing their views of Dr. Croke's in- blackened what might have been a terference in secular matters which fair page of Irish History, the gen- concerned him not, before the Pope, eral body of the priesthood have and His Holiness, it is stated, im- always, either directly or indirectly, mediately requested Archbishop borne a prominent part; but only Croke to report himself at Rome, in exceptional cases have the princes and instructed the Bishop of Lim- of the church shown anything like erick, Dr. Butler, to suspend Father disaffection towards the Government. Sheehy, as soon as he was released Cardinal Newman, one of the great-from prison. This is as it should est lights the Roman Catholic Church be, and admirers of Leo XIII will be has ever produced, and one of the glad to find that, in this, as in almost best friends the Irish people have every matter which has come before known in the present generation, him, His Holiness has exhibited the has ever, in the midst of Fenian same sensible views, and enlightened scares, attempted revolutions, and statesmanship which so distinguish agarian outrages, shown himself ed the whole career of Cardinal no less the people's friend and ad- Pecci. viser than the devoted adherent of the state. It is therefore with great. pain and surprise that we read of the extraordinary speech delivered at

The gunboats Eslt and Tweed having Tipperary by Archbishop Croke, on had their crews paid off are now left the action of the Government in sum- with only a small number of men on marily arresting, and lodging in gaol board of each, just sufficient to keep the Land League agitators, Dillon, the ships in order, and they will go Davitt, and Sheehy. The interfer- over to Kowloon for safety during ence of Church dignitories in political the approaching typhoon season, affairs has ever in the past been tlie fore-runner of grievous complica- tions, and from the undue influence which the priests invariably ex ercise over the minds, of the ignorant and impulsive peasantry, there can be little doubt that Dr. Croke's ill timed interference in secular affairs will ultimately lead- to some restriction being placed The double screw gun vessel Swift, upon the whole race of clerical agi-5, Commander W. Collins arrived hero

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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The Midge, 4, which has been lately manned temporarily from the Kestrel went over to Kowloon yesterday and has taken up her position abreast of the Coal Sheds, where she will remain, laid up in ordinary, until the arrival of a new crew from England, when she will be re-commissioned.

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Another combination recently at- tempted by the Chinese, of monopo- lising the carrying trade between Hongkong and California is likely to prove a failure, if it has not al- ready done so. In the face of the strong position held by the existing Steamer Companies, controlling as they virtually do, the goods traffic by Railway from San Francisco, this result is not surprising. It is only

to be wondered that the Guilds did not move with greater caution and ascertain the strength of their adversaries position, before attemp ting a fight which has proved so com- plete a failure..

more and more to lower their confi. dence in, or respect for, the law. No Press is more liberal thau the English in allowing extracts and quotations from its colatons when the object is the spread of information for the public

taken advantage of, and appropriated benefit, but it is a very different affair when ita labours for the public are

for private ends.-Japan Gazette.

A body of police under Inspector house in Powan-street last night, and Perry made a successful raid 'apon a sacceeded in arresting upwards of seventy men, all fully armed and equipped for mortal combat. It ap pears that two men belonging to dif- ferent clans had settled their affections on the same lady, who occupies the distinguished position of an inmate of a brothel in 'Square-street. A few evenings ago the rivals met at the house of. the fair but frail one, and high words ensued which ultimately led to formal challenges being ex- changed, each agreeing to collect Lis clansmen and fight the matter out to the death. Last night was fixed on for the fray and when Inspector Perry arrived at the head quarters of one of the belligerent parties in Powan-

off as advertised.

We have been favored by Capt. Scale of the s.s. Laertes with a copy of The London and China Express of June 10th, from which we take the following items:-

The Chinese gunboats Iota, Kappa, and Lambda now on their

passage out, reached Malta on June 6th. The troopship Tyne, from Hongkong, has arrived at Portsmouth.

92nd Regiment, has received the Major G. S. White, C.B., of the

Victoria Cross for conspicuous brave- ry in the Afghan Campaign.

in Austria by the suicide of Field- Marshal Baron Uchatius, the inventor of the bronze guns which bear his

Great sensation has been caused

name.

In a conflict near Salonica be- tween a body of Turkish troops and a band of brigands the latter were annihilated, only one being taken alive.

The statement that negotiations were in progress for the cession of the Sooloo Islands to Germany is contradicted.

Immigration to the United States is still increasing, and since the 1st June, 20,046 emigrants have landed, of whom more than 8,000 were Ger- mans.

Mr. Biggar, M.P. has been hooted and hissed on the Glasgow Exchange, and owing to the rough treatment he received was compelled to retire.

street, he found active preparations-in progress. A large quantity of lime was heating over a fire, and when sufficiently dry was being stuffed into small chatties to be thrown over the heads of their oponents. The chatties, were expected to break, and while the victims were partially smothered in We are requested to state that no the dry blinding lime the onslaught accident befel any of the crew of the was to be made with bamboos, fight- German steamer Brutus on Tuesday ing irons choppers, &o. Ono man who

The latest mail advices confirm the the 12th instant, as reported in the evidently occupied the position of a columns of the China Mail of that date, great captain amongst them was read-recent-telegrams of the serious riot The Brutto arrived here on the aftering from a paper, exhorting them to which occurred at Yale, in British Col noon of Saturday the 9th, and she has stand their ground and fight like men,

umbia." "The Chinese laborers struck had no occasion to shift from the and not net like children. This morn against the imposition of 2

per cent position she then took up in the centre ing they have been charged before Mr. of the harbour. A fireman belonging B. E. Wodehouse with being auspici-

on each man's wages by the Chinese foremen, and, six hundred strong,