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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-SATURDAY, AUGUST 20m, 1881.

for nearly twelve months by the Daily Press, constitute to our way of thinking, about the most flagrant breach of press privilege that could well be imagined. In justice to the morning paper it is only fair to state that it has never gone out of its way or descended to the shallow dodges which have been a leading lino in the evening print's policy, to abuse the Governor, but has confined itself generally to what is considered le- gitimate criticism through the me- dium of its leading articles, although it has been guilty of one or two tricks which vie with anything the Mail has ever done. That such cri-

ticisms have been mainly deserved by His Excellency, that they have at

times been based on misstatement and erroneous information, and that a good deal of the harsh criticisms can be traced to the personal anti- pathies of the statistical authority and the leader writer learned in the law, is recognised on all hands. The China Mail, however, has gone on quite a different tack. Every opportunity of turning a paragraph to vilify or hold up to public opprobrium and ri- dicule Sir John Pope Hennessy, has eagerly been seized. Any petty lar ceny or breach of the peace, a case of smuggling or assault, a difference of opinion on any one of the many Correspondents are requested to forward dir insignificant matters always before

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HONGKONG, 20TH AUGUST, 1881.

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the public, the appointment of a clerk, a policeman, or a member of the Council, is quite enough for our contemporary to launch out against the Governor. The most recent case will plainly show the public on what dignified lines the Ching Mail is conducted. In the Mail of Thursday evening last reference is made to a scene in the House of Commons, on

July 11th, when Mr. Healy asked the Government why they did not send Mr. Forster to some place where his services would be better appreciated than they had been in Ireland Hongkong, for instance. The paragraph cuds as follows:-"It cannot be said that we are peculiarly fortunate here in regard to the occupant of our local. "Dublin Castle," and it is not unlikely that the esteem in which Hongkong is held at home may have something to do with our prescut unfortunate position." The name of our colony Healy, not a single reference was was casually mentioned by Mr. made beyond the mere mention of the name, and yet the China Mail thinks this a good opportunity for indulging in back-handed abuse.

tion which Sir John Pope Honnessy has shown in dealing with native questions in him to consider many questions affecting Hongkong will, we feel confident, load the native interests of this Colony which have been allowed to slumber for years and which only require the intelligent consideration and fostering care of a far- seeing, just, and energetic ruler, to give development in many a new direction.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Signor M. Vola and musicians left this for Shanghai per P. & O, steamer Brindisi this morning.

We note amongst the passengers by. the P. & O. steamer Sunda for Yoko. Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at haina, the name of Mr. A. R. Hewlett,

Canton,

Telegraphic communication between this port and Manila bas boon inter- ruptod by a break in the Bolinao- Manila land line. Owing to the bad weather the repairs to the line are likely to be delayed for some time,

The British bark Star of India, from

Manila, reports left Manila August 10th, passed Corridor same night, and experienced two days heavy N.W. squalls with rain; from thence to the 19th instanta succession of S.W. to Westerly squalls of hurricans force ship most of the time under lower topsails. Yesterday got au observation the first since laving Island of Luzon shaped coarse for Hongkong, at 6 a.m. took a pilot on board off the Lima Channel.

The Criminal Sessions were com- menced yesterday morning bofore Act- ing Chief Justice Snowden, and a com- mon jury. The chargos hoard were of no public intercat whatevor, except- ing a case of kidnapping against two Chinese women, one of whom was

found guilty of unlawfully detaining a female child named Tong Hai Tai with the parpsoo of selling her. Sent- once was reserved on all the prisonors found guilty.

A rifle match was fired yesterday at Kowloon between the non-commission. ad officers of E and F companies of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, the dis- tances being 200, 500, and 600 yards, at Wimbledon targets, and eight in each toam. E Company wou the match by 16 points, Sergeant Major Williams making the highest score in. the match for this company, whose making the top score for F company total was 4B, and Sergeant Manistre

(61), total 427.

It is a well-known axiom that a cer- tain class of political partisans deny the possession of common honesty, good sense, and creditable intentions or motives to all who may happen to think differently to themselves. It is equally recognised that conceit, or vanity, or self-love, or egotism will, on such occasions, induce the class of political firebrands referred to to

favour with, and curry

pass favour- able judgment on, the views of sons who are beneath the notice and contempt of a respectable community, for the simple reason that such views or opinions coincide with their own.

We hear on good authority that This is the sort of political general

Major Rooke, of the Royal Artillery, ship to which the public of Hong-

It says very little for the good has been promoted to a Liont.Colo- kong have been accustomed for some faith of our local press, when our neley, and that he has been requested considerable time past by the hostile Governor's acts have to be judged to hold himself in realiness to leave attitude assumed by the local press by the impartial opinions of news Hongkong at an early date. We cou- towards everything and everybody differing in any way from the self-papers published outside the colony. gratulato the Major on his wall de- If Sir John Hennessy has received served promotion. Major Rooke has assumed infallible views of the China

scant justice and little courtesy hore made himself immensely popular dur- Mail and the Daily Press. Outside his policy has been commended and in his sojourn in this colony, and we the immediate circles of these emi- praised in complimentary terms clse-shall greatly miss his genial face on nent journals, virtue, honesty, wit, where. The China Mail is fond of the cricket field during the coming wisdom, or experience could not pos- sibly exist. The one or two well-quoting from its "experienced jour- known literary notabilities who form the staff of the China Mail, and the equally well-known but rather more dilapidated coterie who write all the clever things for our morning con- temporary, puff and praise each other on the scratch me and I'll scratch you principle with praiseworthy per- severance, that is so long as their opinions do not run counter, and do not hesitate in the least to run down

does not suit the views of our even- and depreciate every person outside the magic circle whose independence of it. Our space will not, unfortu- ing authority, and we hear nothing becomes irritating or objectionable. The two old established local journals nately pormit us to reproduce in its entirety the article in question, but of this colony are at present, under a flag of truce, on the most amiablewo have much pleasure in appending the last paragraph as one of the terms. Past differences have been

fairest and most impartial opinions forgotten, the hatchet has been

of the Governor's policy in Hong- buried, and a few fragrant whiffs from the calumet of peace, have kong we have ever read!---

nalists "in Ceylon on every possi ble occasion, and it will be remem- bered what a fuss was made about a certain letter referring to Sir Henry Irving. Our contemporary doubtless receives all the Ceylon newspapers! The leader in the Ocyton Times of July 30th, being a favourable review of Governor Hen- nessy's celebrated Census Returns speech and of his policy generally,

scason.

A seizure of a large quantity of opiuma was made a couple of days ago by In. spootor Perry and an excise officer in a house in a lano off the Hollywood- road. Beside small quantities of pre- pared opium and opium boiling utensils, the Inspector captured thirty-fivo balls of raw opium. The owner, Tai Asam, who described himself as a farmer, was next day, at the Police Court, before Dr. Stewart, fined $25,with the alter- native of a month's imprisonment, the whole of the drug being forfeited.

arrangements aro 8 men aside, distances the head of the quotations. The 200, 500 and 300 yards (samo as first entries for the Goodwood Cup number- stage of Queen's Prize), any position.ed no less than soventeon, probably As the whole of the competitors live one of the best entries of modern times, beon practising for some time, a close although the three-year-olds wore but and exciting match is confidoutly anti-indifferently represented by the Amer- good shooting recorded. Although Hamilton's cipated, and there ought to be some ican colt Foxhall, and the Duke of outsider Fiddler. In nothing has been definitely settled addition to Chippendale, and Petor, regarding the Shanghai match, there Exeter, Roveller, Out of Bounds, and can be little doubt that it will come off the plater Nottingham represented the Jator

on in the autumn.

5 year olds; Robert the Devil, Bend Or, Teviotdale, Mistake, Fernandez, Prestonpans, Zealot, and Ambassa dress, made a good show for the fours," whilst Madame du Barry was the only six-year-old, and the oldest horse in the whole list of entries.

In Summary Jurisdiction yesterday before Mr. Justice Russell, Captain Stabell, of the British barque Cuba, sued the Wo Bing Yuen firm for the sum of $527.66 for freight on certain cargo shipped by the defendant on plaintiff's vessel for Newchwang. In May last. the Cuba was chartered by the defen. dants, through Messrs. E. Schellhas & Co., for a voyage from Whampoa and Hongkong to Ticutsin or Chefoo, there to discharge cargo, thence to New. chwang and back to Hongkong. The agreement for the round trip was 46 cents per picul on a full cargo of beans from Newchwang. From Hongkong and Whampoa the charterers did not guarantee a full cargo, but the under- standing was to discharge whatever cargo was on board at Tientsin or Chofoo, and then to proceed in ballast to Newelwong When loading at Whampoa, Captain Stabell doclined to sign bills of lading for some goods which wero put on board for Newchwang, as he considered that his charter-party did not compel him to carry cargo from thance to Newchwang. He, however, eventually signed the bills of lading under protest, and now claimed freight at the rate of $3.50 por ton on the cargo in question. After hearing evi- dence on both sides, and Mr. MeKean for the plaintiff, and. Mr. Wotton for the defence, his lordship remarked that, as he thought there was a question of equity as well as law to be considered, he would reserve judgment.

THE GOODWOOD CUP.

The glorious uncertainty of racing was never more clearly exemplified than by the result of the race for the Goolwood Cup, which we reproduced from In liau telegrams in our Thurs. day's issue. That the winner has fro. quently exhibited good form in her miny public performances alinits of no denial, bat on looking through tho

the most

list of high class racers entered for splenil trophy, even His Grace of Richmond and Lennox's sun quina supporters of the "turquoise and violet" could have hardly hopod for victory with such giants as Robert the Devil, Chippendale, Band Or, and Petor tocton against.

Truly

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The American pair, Mr. Lorillard's Mistake and Mr. Keene's Foxhall, would be out-classed in this company, and Teviotdale and Reveller, although sturdy bearers of Mr. Jardine's "blue and silver" jacket, could hardly expect to get quite home. Fiddler's indiffer- ent form in the Grand Prix de Paris would put him out of court; and Lord Falmouth's jady filly Ambassadress could have no earthly prospects of success. Exeter's defeat by Petronel at Stockbridge, and the antics indulged in by Peter when he mot, and succambod, to Charibert at the New- market July meeting, rather deprociat- ed their prospects, still they had class on their side, and might have boon good enough to pull through. Out of Bounds may win a Cambridgeshire for Mr. Crawford, although out of the hunt in the long race at Goodwood, whilst Nottingham was about capablo of winning a welter race for platers at Croydon. Mr. Gretton's pair, Fernan- dez and Prostonpans, are quite top. sawyers, although with Madam du Barry, who has previously been con- sidered merely a good class handicap horse, a shade beneath Chippendale's form, and some few pounds removed from wonders like Bond Or and

Robert the Devil,

Madam da Barry, the winner of this year's Goodwood Cup (2) miles) is a bay mare by Favonius, winner of the Derby, out of Strategy, and is now 6 years old. She is the property of a well known nobleman who races under the name of Mr. C. Perkins, is trained at Malton in Yorkshire by I' Anson, and would be ridden by the famous north country jockey, James Snowden. Madama da Barry was bred in Ireland and made her first public appearance in the Anglesey Stakes for two-year- olds at the Curragh in September, 1877, whore she was beaten out of place, and shared a like fate on the following of the Goodwood Cup ran four times, day. As a three-year-old the victrix being successful in one attempt, the Irish Derby, which she won cleverly. The same fortune attended her four-

year-old career, one victory in the Curragh Cosarowitch being her only winning bracket out of four tries. She thon passed into English hands, and as a five-year-old contested thirteen races, winning 9, including the Manchester November Handicap, valuo £935. Har gool form has been maintained this season, and to hor other triumphs she has now added the Goodwood Cup, and there can be little doubt that she has improved into one of the finest mares in training.

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enough the six your old daughter of Favonius had a great pull in the waights as compare with the imposts to be carried by Chippendale and the two famous four-your-olds, but one would have thought that both the Darby and St Loger winners could rive been trusted to osily concede the mic a couple of years and nine and six pounds respe tively. The only probable solution wo can think of to explain what is certain ly difficult to natarstan is that the whole of the great racehorses naned above must have been prevented by Nottingham, by Winslow out of Bello the eventualities of training from put-of Kars, has never, so far as we are ting in an appearance for the Good.] aware, won a single race, in fact his wood Cup. Chippendalo broke a form has been that of a selling plator, small blood-vessel at Ascot; Bond Or and it could only have been liis lenient was renlored hors de combat at the same impost that brought him home into meeting by influenza, and th" Dovil" socond place at Goodwood Park. was reported amiss at Nowmarkot by is the property of Mr. Craven, and ran latest newspapers, so that it is quite on once as a two-year-old, and five the cards that the expected recovery of times as a three-year-old without once these three equino colebrities did not getting his head in front. He never ran come off, with the result that they could last year, and has ovidently been care- not be properly trained to meet their fully laid up in lavender with an eye engagements at Goodwood. Horses to this particular event. of such high calibro would not be allowed to compete unless thoroughly wound up, as a defeat means deterior. ation in value to the oxtent of thousands of pounds in some cases, so it is prob- be held at the butts, Kowloon, on Satur-ably safe to assume that Madamo du Barry had the road protty well cleared for her first Cup victory. The botting forthcoming trial of skill.-Just before who shall represont Hongkong in the

in London at the end of Juno on tho going to pross we received fullor purti- Goodwood Cup was 6 to 4 against culars of the rifle match above referred Robert the Devil, 2 to 1 against Bond to. The match next Saturday at 3 p.m. Or, 5 to 1 against Madame du Barry, will be bolwoon a team of civilians, and 100 to 15 against Poter, so that the actual winor was fancied to somo captained by Mr. W. Dauman, and a toam of the Royal Ioniskilling Fusiliers, extent, although weight of money selected from officers and mon. The decidedly kept the Ascot Cup horo at

In our issue of July 18th, we an nounced that a shooting match had beon arranged to take place between team selected from the civilian, po- lice, and military marksmen of this co- lony, and the Shanghai Volunteers. We now learn that a competition will

worked a journalistic revolution." We have road His Excellency's state-day noxt, the 27th inst., to decide as to

With the opinions of our contem-mugs contoss with admiration of ment throughout with the doopost interest, poraries on local politics we have not the principles enunciated by bim us woll always coincided with their modeus for the ability which marks the whole of persistently running down the of that document and should it be present Government we never agroed.mongst the events of the future that his Excellancy should be appointed by Hor The hostile attitudo assumed towards Majesty to rule over this Colony, wo feel Governor Hennessy personally for confident that we shall have no cause to "years past by the China Mail, and regret the selection. The wise discrimina

Fernandez, by Storling out of Isola Bella, brother to the famous Isonomy, is unquestionably, one of the finest racehorses in England, although his career has hitherto been a singularly unfortunate ouo. He is owned by Mr. F. Grafton, a partner in Bass & Co's colebrated browory, and although ori ginally trained by John Porter Kingsclere, is now in Alea Taylor's hands at Mauton. Fornandoz ran unsuccessfully as a two-year-old on two occasions, Ocoanie losing him in the Now Stakos at Ascot, and Bonudesort toponting the operation in the Middle Park Plato. As a three year old ho

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