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The readings at Mr. Noble's this day are as follow :—

8 4.30...

9a.m.....

.29.467

.20.182

10 am.

29.472

I am..

.29.464

12 Noon

12.30 pan

.29.388

12.45 p.m....

29.480

.29.35-1 ..29.346

I p.m. With the present indications, it is stated by authorities on the law of storms that, should the wind now veer -to-the-North, a typhoon is almost-a.. certainty as soon as the wind gets round to that point.

LATEST COMMERCIAL

INTELLIGENCE.

Monday, August 22nd, 1881.

Ono o'clock P.M.

Business is completely at a stand- still throughout the Colony, not merely

in Shares, but in all other branches of commercial enterprise. Barometer readings, and the probabilities of the gale, which has raged during the night and is still raging, turning into a typhoon of the old fashioned type are the only topics of the hour. On Satur- day afternoon, a fow Dock Shares were disposed of at 49 for the end of Sep. tember, and that was the only trans- action worth recording rather weak at 48% premium. Our other quotations remain the same as on Saturday,

The stock is

per cent.

Shares. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking

Corporation Sharos-106 premium, ex div. Union Insurance Society of Canton-- $1,675 per share ox dividend, China Traders' Insurance Company's Shares-$1,600 per share, ex. div. North China Insurance Company-Tis.

1,125 per share...

Yangtsze Insurance Association-Tls.

820 per share.

Chinese Insurance Company, --$305

per share, Buyers.

On Tai Insurance Company, Limited --

Tls. 148 por sharo. Hongkong Fire Insurance Company

Shares- $995 per share. China Fire Insurance Compay's Shares

-$285 per share, Sellers. Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Com-

pany's Shares 48% premium. Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam

boat Compruy's Shares-823 per share premium, Sellers.

China Coast Stonni Navigation Cora.

pany-Ts. 162 per share, Hongkong Gas Company's Shares →→→

$82 por share.

Hongkong Hotel Company's Sharos-----

$1024 per share, Sellers. China Sugar Refining Company, Li- mited-$155 per sharo, Ex. Div. China Sugar Refining Company (De- bentures)-3 per cent premium. Hongkong Ice Company's Shares-

#127 per share, Sellers. Hongkong & China, Bakery Company,

Limited-$43 por share. Chineso Imperial Government Loan

of 1878-38% premium. Chinese Imperial Government Loan

of 1881-33% premium.

Exchange.

On LONDON,-

Bank Bills, T.T,

3/8

Bank Bills, at 80 days' sight, 3189 Bank Bills, at 4 months' sight, 3/83 Credits, at 4 months' sight, ..

Documentary Bills, at 4

months' sight,

On PARIS,~~-

On BOMBAY,---

Bank, T.T.,

3/8

310

+

Bank Bills, on demand, ......4.63

Credits, at 4 mouths' sight,....4.73

On CALCUTTA,

Bank, T.T.,

On SHANGHAI,--

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-MONDAY, AUGUST 22nd, 1881.

14th August, Genoral-Siemsson & Co.

August 20, Oswald, German bark, 445,

Brinckmeier, Chafoo 1st July, Beans and Vermicelli. - Wieler & Co. August 21, Kjobenhavn, Danish bark

358, N. Magboby, Newchwang 22nd August, Bonus.-Wieler & Co.

Augrat 21, Namon, British steamer,

632, Westoby, Coast ports, 20th August, Genoral-Douglas, Lap

raik & Co.

August 21, Channel Queen, British bark, 609, Lo Lachour, Keelung 11th August, Coals. Ed. Scholl- hass & Co.

DEPARTURES. August 20. Darlington, British steamer,

for Guam,

August 21, See-wo, British stoamer,

for Shanghai. August 21, Larch, British steamor, for

Shangluti.

August 21, Conquest, British stoamer,

for Hoihow.

August 21, Thales, British steamer, for

Caist ports, August 21, Naples, British steamer, for

Shanghai.

PASSENGERS.

ARRIVED.

Per British steamer Namoz, from Coast ports, 150 Chineso.

Per American stamor Ping-on, from Haiphong, &c., 15 Chinese.

Per German steamer Prins Wilhelm, from Singapore, Messrs, Gradon, F. Bucka, W. Wolskey, Plischneiu, and Busanoff.

ABSTRACT OF "PEKING GAZETTES."

The following aro taken from the __N_O._Daily News :—

June 29th-With the exception of an announcement from the Governor- General at Wu.ch'ang, to the effect that Tls. 10,000, being a second instalment of the Ts. 50,000 due this year from the salt lokin to the Imperial House." hold, has been sont to Poking, the whole of this day's Gazette is occupied with a memorial from the Governor of province, having been denounced by a Anhui. An expectant Taotai in that

person whose name is suppressed, for having failed to report the fact that his nephew was serving in the same pro- vince, and the Thotai of the Feug, Ying Liu, Ssu Circuit having been accused by the samo individual of ex- torting fees for his expenses while on- gaged on an inspection of the frontier, also with putting an innocent man to death, the Governor was called upon for a report. He states that an inspec- tion of the ancestral record with which the Taotai and his so-called nephew are farnished shows that they are not related to each other by ties of consanguinity within the prescribed limits, being de- scended only from a common ancestor nine generations back. Also that the p-called nephew is not serving di rectly under the Taotai, who is om- ployed on police duty, and has no ter ritorial jurisdiction. He considers. however, that the Taotai was guilty of extreme carelessness in not stating dis- tinctly upon his arrival in the provinco in what relation the District Magis- trate stood to him. As regards the charge of extortion against the Taotai of the Feug, Ying. Liu, Sau Circuit, whose name is Jen Lan-sheng, the me. morialist finds that while engaged on the tour of inspection referred to he took his own followers and horses with him, and demanded no supplios from the officers through whose jurisdiction he had to pass, paying for everything himself. This conclusion has been como to after making enquiry at all the places along the line of route he took, so that there can be no doubt as to the accuracy of the statement. As regards the last charge, viz., that Jên Lan-sheng took on himself to put a person to death in the T'ai-ho district, the memorialist has to report that the individual in question, Hsuan-Yuan Kuan-ching by name, had been taken red-handed in acts of brigandage with other members of an affiliated society, and had resisted capture. On the fact being reported to memorialist, he sent express orders to Jen Lan-sheng, who was near the spot, to go at once to the district and hold a second trial, and, if the man was found guilty, to have him summarily executed, as the people were in an excited state, and it was neces- sary to nip the elements of sedition in the bud, The Taotai wont to the dis. trict town and tried this man and four others who were seized for the same offence, and, finding that the facts as elicited by him coincidelin every par ticular with the report furnished by the Magistrato, he had them all exc- cuted on the spot. In conclusion, he prays that the expectant Taolai above referred to and the district Magistrato, who are descended from a common an- cestor, may be committed to the Board For Manila, por Esmeralda, at 3.30 for the determination of a penalty for

Per French steamer Menzalch, from Yokohama, Mr. Page and child, Miss Mazagran, and Mr. P. Brown, for Hongkong. For Marseilles.-Messrs. C. F. Martin and E. Bornard.

SHIPPING REPORTS. The American atcamer Ping-on, from Haiphong, &c., roports fresh S.E. wind, squalls, and rain.

Hongkong Temperature.

(Taken at Messrs. Falconer & Co.'s

P.M.

Register, Queen's-road).

HONGKONG, 21st & 22nd August. BAROMETER-1, P.M.

...20.782 Do. 4. P.M....... ...29.688 THERMOMETER-1 PM. ....84

Do.

....81. IP (Wet bulb) 80. Do.

4. P.M. Do. 80. BAROMETER-9 AM.

.29.498

80. THERMOMETER—) A M. -

Do. 9 A.M. (Wat bulb) 79: Do. Maximum

...85. Do. Minimum (over night) 79,

Do.

MAILS. The following mails will lose:- To-day, 22nd August,-

For Shanghai, per Castello, at 5 p.m. For Hoihow and Pakhoi, per Welle, at 5 p.n., instead of as pro- viously notified. For Shanghai, per Amoy, till further notice. fo-morrow, 23rd August,-

p.m.

On Thursday, 25th August,

For the United Kingdom and Eu- rope, via Naples; to Saigon, Straits Settlements, Batavia, Bur- mah, Ceylon, India (via Madras), the Australasian Colonies, Adou, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar, per Amazone, for printed matter at 10 a.n., and letters at 11 a.m. 222 | On Thursday, 1st September,→

222

Bank, T.T.;

72

Private, 30 days' sight,

723

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE,

ARRIVALS. August 20, Ping-on, American steamor, 67. A. a. SleCushin, Haiphong, Pakhoi, Hoihoi, and Macao, 15th August, Gonoral.--Russell & Co. August 20, Menzalch, French steamer,

1,276, fomery, Yokohama August 14th, Mails and Guneral.-Mossa- gorios Maritimes Co. August 20, Prinz Wilhelm, German str., 846, H. Brorson, Singapore

failing to explain the relation in which they stood towards cach other.

REHABILITATING SILVER.

Whon by comes together again it may be hoped. Monetary Conference

the members will be ready for work. They have already discredited thom- solves by the floods of verbiage and idle theorising some of their numbor For the United Kingdom-and-Bu-havo poured-forth. The indefatigable

ropo via Brindisi; to the Straits Settlements, Batavia, Burmah, Ceylon, India, Adeo, Egypt, Malta, Gibraltar, and Mauritius, per Ancona; printed matter at 2 p.m., letters at 3 p.m.

On Friday, 2nd September,-

For Nagasaki and Yokohama, por

Malacca, at 5 p.m.

|

M. Cornaschi is again to the fore with anothee pamphlet called Questions ad. dressed to the British and Belgian Dele- gates; and though some of these are pointed and pertinent, wo have warning here of the old dangor. M. Cernuschi cannot leave the high priori' road, and has boiled down to a series of seventeen propositions the formidable paper which set everybody at and out of the Con- forence laughing. He still starts with tlie the magnificent generalisation, Money is a legal and mathematical valuo;' A dog frequently worries a cat, bat'legal' because the logislator regulates man, who is nobler than the dog, the oirculation, and mathematical, for worries himself.

the value of money is in inverso ratio

What is marriage? One woman

more and one man the less.

to its inass-that, is to say, the quantity of it in cirulation. Now this sort

of thing will not do at the Con- ference, if its deliberations are to come to any good. What has to be mainly considored, and if possible secured, is some agreement between the Powers in regard to the uso of silver. Sir Louis Mallet startled people by his propositions on behalf of the Indian Government. He will doubtless return to Paris with definite instructions, and Governinont of our great depondency it will bedimo plain how far the

are prepared to bind themselves as to the future. If they are ready to pledgo themselves to the retention of silver aff currency for a considerable sarics of years, there will be a basis for de- liberation. Germany is willing to come to terms, so as to relieve the market from the apprehension of being flooded with her demonetised silver. Germany, it has been suggested, might utilise ler thaler-pieces by making them the basis of a note circulation. Might not the Bank of England do likewise? No change in the law is needed to enable it to do 80. Under the Bank Charter Act it is authorised to have silver in its issue department; and if silver can be restored to its former value there is no reason why it should not do so aguin. The difficulty in the way of this and all similar stops is of course the absence of a free coinage of silver and gold. That implies a fixed ratio of value, and here is the crux of the whole problem. Nood its solution be despaired of while we have the power of increasing the value of silver by augmenting the demand?—The World.¦

AN ENGLISHMAN AS A

MATADOR.

The people of Seville have lately had the opportunity of witnessing a soine- An what extraordinary spectacle. Englishman staying at Soville, son of a London Banker, after looking on at a bull fight, was roused to enthusiasm by the skill and courage of the gordito, and obtained from him a namber of lessons. Quito lately be took his placo in the area, and is said to have amazed the spectators by his skill in handling the cloak and throwing the banderillas, and above all by the cool- noss with which he faced one of the nost savage of the bulls, and killed it by a skilful stroke with the stabbing sword.-Malta Times,

MacEWEN, FRICKEL & Co.

GENERAL STOREKEEPERS, &c.

HAVE FOR SALE.

Groceries.

Crosse & Blackwell's, Colebrated Ilonso- hold Stores.

John Moir & Sons', Celebrated House-

hold Stores.

American Stores of all descriptions. Huntley & Palmer's BISCUITS & CAKES, BÚTTER. Danish & French, Philippe

& Cannud's PATES &c..

CHUTNIES & CURRY POWDER, TEYSSONEAU'S

FRUITS in juice.

COFFEE, SUGAR, &c., &c.

Wines, Spirits, &c. CUTLER PALMER & Co's " CARTE BLANCHE." HEIDSIC & Co.'s MO- NOPOLE, pts. and qts. ADOLPHE COLLIN'S BOUZY CABINET.

MUMM'S (JULES) CHAMPAGNE

pts, and qts.

NEYEN'S (BODEN) BOUZY,

pts, and qts.

EXTRA SEC, quarts. Charles Heidsiecks's WHITE SEAL, pts. and qts: VEUVE CLIQUOT PON SARDIN, pts. and qts. Theophile Roc-. derer & Co.'s VERZENAY MOUSSEUX, pts. and qts.

Krug's CHAMPAGNE, pts. and qts.

OUTLER PALMER & Co.'s CHAT- EAU MOUTON. LORMONT, pints,

and quarts. ARAUZAN (Chateau), pints and quarts, ERMITAGE LUDON. THIBOUT (Chateau), pints and quarts. CHATEAU LAROSE (Curcier & Adet's),

pints and quarts. CHATEAU LAFITE, pints and quarts. IRES GRAVES, pints and quarts. BREAKFAST CLARET, pints & quarts. OLD INVALID CLARET.

St. JULIEN, &c., &c. Breakfast Claret.

Burgundy, Hock, Sherries, &c. Chambertin, Chablis (White), Liebfrau

milch. Hockheimer, Niersteiner, Stein-

berger Cabinet. Rudesheimer Berg, Koninin Victoria Berg, Chateau Yquem, Grand Vin, Haut Sauterne Marsala, Saccone's Palo Dry White Seal Sherry, Yellow Seal Amontilado Sherry, Cutler Palmor

and Co.'s Sherry, Invalid Port (1848), Hunt's Port.

Brandy, Whisky, Liqueurs, &c. 1, 2 and 3-star Hennessy's Brandy, La Grande Marque Brandy,'

Cutler Palmer & Co.'s

Brandy, Rouyer Quillet & Co.'s Brandy, 1 to 4 stars; Finest Old Bourbon Whisky, highly recommended, Kinahan's LL Irish Whisky,

Jamieson's Irish Whisky, Royal Glendee Whisky: AVH Gin, Swaine Boord & Co.'s Old Tom Gin: La Grande Chartreuse, Green

Yellow, Maraschino de Zara, Curaçoa

pints and quarts; Angostura, Boker's and Orange Bitters, &c., &c., &c.

BASS'S ALE, bottled by Cameron and

Saunders, pints and quarts. GUINNESS'S STOUT, bottled by E & J. Burke, pints and quarts. PILSENER BEER, in quarts. DRAUGHT ALE and PORTER, by

the Gallon.

London is undergoing a rapid pro-and cess of beautification. Public edifices of noble design and elaborato decora- tion are springing up on all sides, and the improvement in our house archi- tecture is so great and withal so swift that many years will not have passed before the British metropolis will be not alone the largest but also the most maguificent in the world. As for the 'City," properly so called, the build- ings in course of construction there are not to be surpassed for grace and elo- gance. The West End too, grows in splendour and beauty year by year, so that altogether there is good reason for the belief that the lapse of time will bring with it still stronger notice and still development for that love of Lon- dou which is with Englishmen and Englishwomen an absorbing passion.— Builder.

For Sale.

FOR SALE,

NGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR

FOR. 1881.

NEATLY PRINTED ON CARD BOARD. PRICE:-10 cents,

De Souza & Co.

JUST RECEIVED.

SELECTED ASSORTMENT of MENU CARDS, SEAT CARDS, VISITING CARDS.

Apply to

DE SOUZA & Co.

FOR SALE.

A TABLE Showing the mean time of Rising and Setting of the Sun calculated for the Latitude of Hongkong or any other Latitude if requirod.

PRICE:20 cents.

De Souza & Co.

Fine ALE, bottled by MacEwen, Frickel & Co. ALE and PORTER, in hoggheads"

rated Waters. SODA WATER,

LEMONADE,

TONIC WATER,

SARSAPARILLA,

dc., ko,, &c.

The Finest Stocks of

CIGARS, CAVITE CHEROOTS, PRINCESA CHEROOTS,

PRINCESA CIGARS, AROCEROS, VECUEROS,

&c.,

&3.

"PERFECTION" All Specially

Selected.

EMPRESS OF INDIA, and Best NAVY,

STATIONERY, BOOKS &c.

Franklin Square " Library,

"Seasido" Library,

Hurpor's Half-hour Series.

French Novels.

Medical Works.

School Books.

Presentation Books."

Works of reference &o. Stationery for Ladies and Office uso. Direct from the manufacturers the best

and Cheapest in Hongkong, Special orders in this line excuted ona

vory moderate terms.

Papers ruled to any pattern and stamped.

Plain, cameo or relief. Dios engraved to order. Office requisites

of ovory description. Milner's Fire Proof Safes, Cash and Doed

Boxes, Brushware. Cutlery, Crockery, and Glassware. Builder's Hardware material, Sporting Guns. Revolvers and Sporting

Ammunition.

Saihasking and Rigging promptly cxo-

cuted.