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Intimations.

A. S. WATSON & CO.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE American ship Kate Davenport undocks at | The Hand of the Buffs will play the following Kowloon this afternoon.

programme in the Public Gardens, this after noon, commencing at 5 puan. :--

ance of every individual member of the opposing sides. The soldiers were a fairly uniform lot; lithe, active men, per- THE Great Northern Telegraph Company an- fectly trained to their own peculiar system,nounce that the Siberian land lines between Cha-

WHOLESALE A RETAIL but conspicuously lacking in weight and barowka and Michailo are interrupted.

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Deliveries in Town and Hagbour from

7 AM to 7 PM.

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power. The scratch crowd had weight on

REUTER wires that serious riots have occurred at their side, and that was all, They had Wrexham amongst the colliers. The military never pulled together, and three or four of were called out; but when the message left Lon- the men were almost useless. Still on re- don the riots were still in progress. eciving the word to "pull." the nondes" THE trial of Roxlerick Maclean for attempting cripts immediately obtained a slight adto assassinate Her Majesty the Queen has ended vantage, showing that they were superior in a verdict of "Not Guilty:" the Jury who tried in strength, and although this advantage | the case declaring the prisoner to be insane. was short-lived after the soldiers had en-

A CooLTE and a cook were sent to six weeks and two shrapnel shells will be fired from each trenched themselves in the soft turf, it hard labour each this morning, by Mr. WoDE-au at distances to be determined upon. There

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THE Generat, accompanied by his staff, Colonel Crawford, commanding the Royal Antilles, and ether officers, proceed to-crow morning at ten 'clock in a steam-launch to Belcher's Point, to witness fiting practice at a floating target from a seven pounder mountain battery, consisting of four guns. Two common, two double common,

HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon. There were present :—

Tin Western Daily Press publishes a census' showing the number of persons who entered all the public houses in Bristol one Saturday evening between seven seven and eleven o'clock. Albut 2,000 enumerators were engaged in the compila- tion. A sunday census taken by the same journal showed that about 6,000 persons were present in the churches and chapels on that evening. The Saturday evening census showed that 104,000 entered the public houses in the fourbers. hours, 55,000 being men 36,000 women, and

13,0cǝ children,

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His Excellency the Administrator (Mr. W. H. Marsh); Dr. F. Stewart, Acting Colonial se- cretary: Mr. Jas. Russell, Colonial Treasurer Mr. L. L O'Malley, Attorney General; and Messra. P. Ryric, and Ng Choy, unofficial mem-

The minutes of the previous meeting having been read by the Acting Clerk of Councils, Mr. stewa Lockhart, were duly confined.

OPDINANCE,

THE BANKRUPTCIES OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE

It is authoritatively stated that Mr. Labouchere was the real author of the Majoribanks amend-

The ATTORNEY-GENETAL said—I beg leave to ment to sir Stafford Northcote's motion excluding introduce a bill entitled the "Bankruptcies Of Bradlaugh from his sent. It was an adroit pro-fical Assignee Onlinance, 1882.". The object of

proved that the Buffs were at least lacking HOUSE, for stealing copper nails, the property is a batter, in course of construction at Belcher's Posal, declaring the oath, or afination, optional. the bill which is stated in the preamble, is to re-

in one great essential to success in pulling namely:-main strength. The police and

of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Point, which His Excellency will probably from the Ilingham Dock.

inspect.

gunners fairly held their own until they | A REUTER'S telegram dated the zoth instantA TELEGRAM in the singapore Times, dated debates. Mr. Bradlaugh's fiends say that his were made under Ordinance 15 of 1867, and the

We observe by a telegram in the singapore Times that the House of Lords threw out on the second reading, without a division, Lord Redesdale's bill requiring members of parliament to declare their belief in God. From the state of feeling through out England on the subject this result was in

'socals keeping silent, and was almost car. ed. It doubts as to the status of the Official Assignco and was supported by the Moderates, the Radi-move certain obstacles in the administration of certain banki aptcies, which have arisen from is now admitted that it might have been carried with reference to these bankruptcies. The dif had the Government consented to adjourn the ficulties arose originally out of appointments that

effect of this Ordinance would be to supersede- spirited appeal to the people expresses an actual all existing appointments under that Ordinance intention to continue the controversy outside of and place the Ufficiel Assignee in charge of all

bankruptcies. the House, and that he will not at present at tempt to enter the Commons.

March 24th, states that the House of Commons by 487 against a votes agreed to the motion granting Prince Leopold an additional ten thousand pounds per annum. The members who voted against the motion were Radicals and extreme Home Rulers.. sir Charles Dilke and

Mr. Fawcett abstained from voting. Royalty may probably be more onamental than useful, and possibly may be neither useful or graa. mental; however, so long as is a recognised appendage of our form of goverament, it is but right that it should be maintained in a manner worthy of the British nation.

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We observe from last home news that negotia- tions for a Copy-right convention between Great Britain and the United states are suspended, President Archur and secretary Frelinghuysen not sharing General Garfield's views on the sub. ject. THE terms in which the Athenæum an- nounces the suspension of negotiations for an international copyright, imply distinctly that President Arthur and Mr. Frelinghuysen have The following which speaks for itself, serves as no desire to remove from America the stig.na of a leader in last night's China Mail. It is unique treating alien authors as pariahs without legal in this respect that such senseless twaddle could rights. THE Athenam expresses reg.et, but not be found except in the columns of our even-is not surprised that Mr. Arthur does not share ing contemporaryIt will doubtless interest the views of Mr. Hayes and Mr. Garfield. some of our readers to lea: a that samples of our proposed Tramway permanent-way alived the other day in Hongkong-that is, specimen pieces of the proposed rails and crossings. This augurs favourably for the initiation, and proves that the promoters of the undertaking are alive and awake" as regards the same. We lena that steam motive-power is commencing to be em-

The bill was then read for the first time.

NATURALISATION: Dr. STEWART said-With Your Excellency's mission, I will move the first reading of the following bills-An Ordinance for the natumlisa- tion of William Quincey, an Ordinance for the naturalisation of Hu Wa, and an Ordinance for the naturalisation of Ko shun.

The Ordinances were read a first time.

THE TRAMWAYS.

His EXCELLENCY said-I beg to lay before the Council, by direction of the secretary of state for the Colonies, letters from Mr. Price referr.. to me to deserve consideration. The papers, ing to the tramway scheme, which appear have come rather late, as the Ordinance has been passed and sent home for Her Majesty's approval, but I think under the secretary of

got winded, and confused by the strange which came to hand this morning states that the method of pulling adopted by their adver- House of Commons has read a second time, the saries, and only succumbed after a severe bill for charging the necessary election expenses struggle. From our observations of this to the rates The Ministry supported the bill "tug" we ventured to predict to an which was carried by a very small majority. officer of the regiment, that if a picked The Rassian Cruiser Vesinik, which alived team of policemen met the Buffs at the yesterday from singapore, exchanged salutes this Royal Artillery Sports, it would be almost morning with the port, the French flag-ship La any odds on the "men in blue." The Victorieuse, and the Victor Emanuel. Later officer referred to, laughed at the idea, as in the morning the Russian Consul visited the he considered his men quite invincible.

Vestnik, and received the customary salute upon leaving. When we alluded to the sitting-down system of the Buffs as unsportsman-like. [7] we had no intention of insinuating that it was dishonourable or unfair. We NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. had not the remotest idea that any body of men meeting an equal number in fair and honourable rivalry could descend to take any mean or unfair advantage of their opponents. We opposed the system proved by Mr. Forster's courageous and con- TIK Irish feeling is supposed to be slightly im- of pulling, but did not impute unfair mo-

cilatory speech at Tullamore. Mr. Biggar has tives to the men who pulled. It was there-taken pains to dispel this illusion by an unus be accompanied by the name and address of the fore a great surprise to us, and so it must sually ferocious attack on Mr. Forster. Private have been to the gallant officer who accounts say that a much larger propa. ion of so immensely enjoyed our "unsportsman-rents is coming in. like "allusion, when a curious member of THE Chinaman who swindled a shopkeeper our the team of Scotch policemen opposed to of four dollars which he obtained from him by the Buffs in the final heat of the Tug of falsely pretending he could get hint cheap pas- War at the Royal Artillery Sports, made sage tickets to America, was this morning sent the significant discovery that several of to four months' hard labour by Mr. Wodehouse. the soldiers had their boots thickly studded The swindled shopkeeper is the same individual with spikes to enable them to secure a firm who had to hand over five Mexicans on Wednes foothold. The secret of the success oh-day for assigning foreigners to a Satanic instead tained by this light team against heavier of an angelic category. He is thus nine dollars north, and gave the French, milita: possession WITH reference to Mr. Irving's latest shakes- sert residing in the Iralian Convent.

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1882,

"ANOTHER of our unsportsman-like tugs of war," sarcastically observed a gallant

officer of the Buffs to a brother militaire, as

the picked team of his regiment dragged the rope hand over hand from a team of gunners, and were declared the winners

men was at once explained. The delin- quents were promptly ordered to change their boots, and in a few moments the two opposing forces met on equal terms. To those who have made themselves practi- cally acquainted with athletic exercises, the result was a foregone conclusion before

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evitable.

cut of pocket at present.

He is

It is asserted that the committal of MacLean who attempted to assassinate the Queen, for high treason, instead of a lesser charge, is due to a belief of the legal authorities in his insanity.

ployed on the Calcutta Tramway Lines, and that through the streets of Rangoon." the snort of the "Iron Horse" will soon be heard

it is an unpleasant duty to be continually ex- posing the errors of our evening contemporary of the public, we must not shink from. Only few days ago it closed the Kaiping mines in the

the China Mail but one which in the interests

a

WE read that the Lords' Committee announce formally that they will proceed with the inquity into the Land Act, notwithstanding that the majority of the Commons condemns the inquit, but it is well understood that the attitude of the Government and the resolute unanimity of the Liberal majority have convinced the Lords of the

stale's instructions I am bound to lay them before the Council, and I shall give instructians to have them printed and circulated. They are very lengthy.

His EXCELLENCY then added-As I think the

Ordinance which has passed its first teading at the instance of the Attorney-General is a very Chief Justice is unwell and unable to attend important one, and as my learned friend the to-day, I propose to adjourn the Council until. Thursday next for the second reading.

The Council then adjourned.

POLICE COURT.--THIS DAY.

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ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO ROU.

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necessity of prudence in their proceedings. Mr. Labouchere's motion, affirming the needlessness of the Upper House, can no more be carried than Lord Redesdale's proposal to require a declara- tion of Theistic belief from every member of Ho Asui, and Chu Alin, cooks, were charged this Parliament One expresses while the other pro- morning before Mr. Wodehouse with assault motes the growing conviction in the country of with intent to rob Theresa Davite, a married The complainant, who is apparently the approaching necessity for modifying the Italian, said she was the wife of existing legislative privileges of the Peers.

Davile, an unemployed joiner, and was at pre- On the 19th instant at 7 p.m., she was up perean attempt it is stated that "Romeo and

stairs in 59 Praya Central where she and her husband were then lodging, she went to the Juliet was produced at the Lyceum with an elaborate, magnificent and vivid realization of kitchen for hot water for tea. On the pre-

stage. The scenery, costumes and grouping went to her and said "You have got no more Italian life never before seen on the English vious day the second prisoner, a servant em- ployed in the house, who speaks Portuguese, the pictures and the splendor of the performance clothes to go out with. You have been robbed." elicited continuous applause from the most dishe put her hand in her pocket, and said she had stinguished audience ever yet present at the Ly-at they had not taken her money. Her clothes a few more dollars to buy clothes with, and ceum on a “first night." In other respects it had actually been stolen, and she knew it. They was less successful. Mr. Irving's Romco is intel- ligent and passionate, but far too reflective, hoody and self-conscious. Ellen Terry's Juliet, though criticised as wanting strength, was grace ful and free from exaggeration, but too mature in manner. Mrs. Sterling, as the Nurse, was the only other exception to the mediocrity of the

performers.

LATEST advices from home state that the Channel Tunnel controversy continues no: less actively, though less publicly. Sir Edward Watkins' rivals accuse him of misleading the large parties that were recently invited to inspect the tunnel, alleg. ing that the borings are not carried under the sea

that

ware stolen from her room during the night, while she and her husband were asleep. she did not know who took the clothes, but she spoke about it in the house next morning, and also reported it to the Police, so the fact was notorious. she had the conversation with the second prisoner on the afternoon of the day before she went to the kitchen for hot water. Nothing further hap pened until she went to the kitchen, where she found the first prisoner, who is the cook in the house, and the second prisoner and another man, The cook was standing, the other two being not present, together, doing nothing particular. seated. The moment she entered the kitchen, the second prisoner got up and shut the door, at the same time saying something in Chinese to the others, she asked the cook to let her have some boiling water. He got her the water, and she was going to the door, when the second prisoner put his hand against it and would not let her

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out. At the same time

of Tonquin, both of which events are somewhat LOUIS MERSEBERRY, of Gerany, a scaman of premature. Last evening it reproduces a letter the Elise, was charged this molding before Mr. which the editor says "confi..ns what we have yesterday. The coolie said he was engaged with headed by Mr. Tong King-sing of the China Wodehouse with refusing to pay jinricksha hire heard from other sources that an organization the prisoner from E to. It o'clock, but could not

Merchants Company has taken over the shang get him to pay up. Defendant, had been drink-hai and Tientsin line" of telegraph. "Our Mur ing but was not drank. Defendant said he had ray" is wrong again, as Mr. Tong King-sing has no the men set to work. The Scotchmen were spent all his dollars and so could not come up to official connection with the proposed scheme; mast cet cainly not in any such prominent capa. taller and stronger, and probably weighed time. The Magistrate found him sa cents or on an average 2: lbs, per man heavier than two days' imprisonment, and to pay 25 cents to city as the China Mail assig, is to him, their antagonists. These were overpower.

the jinricksha man, or lic up for another day in

In continuation of his annual inspection of the ing advantages, which no amount of discip. the Hotel in Arbuthnot Rṇail.

Garrison, the Major-General commanding, ac- linearskill, rio lying flown or any other spe- Tute dinner, in celebration of the peaceful ces.

companied by his staff, inspected the Royal En cial system could counter-balance. It was sion of Thessaly, under Land Rosebery's Chair-gineers and Any Hospital Corps at ten o'clock a good 20 to 1 on the police when the menmanship, was remarkable for the number of dis- this morning, on the parade ground in rear of took the usual strain on the rope, and it tinguished Englis men, mostly Liberals, who Wellington Barracks. The Engineers, seventeen was the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to leading member of the Greek community in Lon-

were present, and for the absence of nearly every strong, were formed up on the right of the Any Hospital Corps, which numbered sixteen. The a ten cent piece, five seconds after the don, who declined to take part in the festival to ranks having been inspected by His Excellency, of the preliminary heat in the Open Tug word "pull" was given. With one effort which Mr. Grenadius, as the oficial represen- the parade was dismissed, the men's kits and of War at the Royal Artillery Athletic the policemen had their opponents on the tative of Greece, was necessarily invited.

the corps books and barrack rooms, &c., being Sports on the afternoon of Saturday last. move, and they never gave them breathing not reported to have been present. The Greek inspected. The officers of the Royal Engineers "How unsportsman-like "

time until not merely the leading man, but Ministy declines to accede to the request of Mr. queried the

present were--Lieutenant Colonel Papillon, as was generally supposed, but along the shore. Commanding Royal Engineers, Majers Palmer It is doubtful, notwithstanding the denial of the other! "Have you not seen the Telegraph almost the entire team had crossed the Grenadius' recall. We won the tug of war at our sports from line. The so-called invincibles had suc-

and Molloy, and Lieutenant Ruck; and of the same charge, whether a troublesome character a team of policemen the other day, and the cumbed almost without a struggle to oppo.

Medical Department--Deputy Surgeon General has not been reached in the stratification. The he began to search er, passing his hands over

person, the other men coming up and assist Telegraph considers that the mode of puiling nents who were unpractised, untrained,

Thomson, Brigade surgeon Hungerford, surgeons opposition of the military authorities to any tunnci ing him. These latter scized hold of her 22.11. adopted by our men is unsportsman-like," and undisciplined. The heroes of the 25

Wolseley and Crick, and Lieutenant of orderlies whatever is still uncompromising, except with and tried to pull the ring off her finger, producing The public generally expect and desire as a re-

Brewster. Major Palmer had command of the Sir Garnet Wolesley's personal opponents. The a mark which she shews, she also got a mark on was the reply, and the speaker laughed minutes struggle at Singapore had been grimly at the ridiculousness of the idea.dragged over the line like so many children sult of the trial the consignment of the prisoner Royal Engineers, and Brigade Surgeon Hunger general dislike of the scheme is increasing rather her right arm, where the second prisoner struck to Broadmoor Lunatic Asylum during her Ma- ford of the Army Hospital Corps. The General than diminishing. The recent visit of Mr. Glad her while she was trying to open the door to get away. she screamed out, and her husband, who It was quite true that the Telegraph did ven- in less than ten seconds. There were no

jesty's pleasure. The Treasury soliciter says aleo inspected the torpedo stores in charge of stone and a large party of members of Parliament was in the house, went down to the kitchen. ture to express an opinion of its athletic re- trenches to sit lown in, no spiked shoes to MacLean is prima facie sane, and that the Ma- Lieutenant Ruck, R. E., whom His Excellency indicates a readiness for an Inquiry, not an ap she succeeded in catching the second prisoner by the queue and keeping hold of him until assia- give them an unfair advantage, and the gistrate had no authority to inquire into the state complimented upon the highly satisfactory con- proval of the project.

tance arrived. The first prisoner and the man not prestige of past successes proved a poor of his mind. It appears highly improbable that dition of the stores. He also inspected the Me- WE note that on his return to Russia Ge- present in Cour: took hold of her by the waist substitute for lack of weight and strength. the charge of high treason is advanced with a dical stores, Garrison Dispensary, &c., express-neral skobeloff delivered an address to a num and tried to make her let go the second pri And so it will ever be in the Tug of War, view of obtaining the death penalty, MacLean ing his satisfaction with everything he saw. His ber of Russian officers, stating that the best soner. Her husband seized the first prisoner and Good is reported to have laughed several times at the Excellency afterwards proceeded to the hospital Russian is the Czar, "Europe knows," he said, dragged him away from her. The landlord also came and offered her money not to call the police. above all other athletic games.

evidence given by the Eton College students.

ship Meeance on a visit of inspection.

"what he thinks on the slav question." His Her husband insisted on calling them. An Indian condition and perfect discipline are un-

recall was only a new humiliation proceeding | Constable came, to whom abe shewed the mark doubtedly great things, but without strength LUIZ MARIA PEREZ, an apprentice Engineer at

from a man who, with blood and iron, had founded on her arm and tried to explain matters, but he and weight they are of little avail, and our the Cosmopolitan Dock, summoned Joseph Kew,

an empire which must be destroyed by Russian did not seem to understand, and went away with

out arresting anybody. The next day she laid blood and iron skobeloff asserts that his much- friends of the Buffs will do well to note this 20, of Australia, Engineer, for assaulting him.

the Information produced at the Police Court, if they desire to retrieve their recent defeat. Complainant said that on the 19th instant at

Nothing was taken from her. Her purse was not in her pocket at the time, for which the second pri It is only fair to the Buffs to say that they 4.30 p.m., he was at his work outside the Engine

Pared

Zim hands over lier person. Her rings are difficult to took their beating like men, and although shooter. He asked who did it, when defendant

soner was evidently feeling waen take off. she considered second prisoner was the there were many gloomy countenances visi.

came up and ordered him to his work. He refuse

leader in the affair, as it was he who tried to per- ble amongst those who believed in the In- to be ordered by defendant who was only an

vent her from going out. she thought the matter vincible theory, they resigned themselves apprentice like himself, a fact he pointed out to

was pre-arranged, because it was her habit of an evening to go down about 7 o'clock and get tea to the inevitable with that equanimity so him. Defendant said he should report him to

before going to bed, and the prisoners knew this, eminently characteristic of the true Briton. the forenian, complainant said: "Very well, you

and when she went for the water the second pri- have no power to ander me about." Defendant

soner did not shut the door openly but in a very Nothing succeeds like success, and as the "grack" team of the Buffs had never

WE are informed by the Agent of the Eastera then slapped his face, and when told he would

notice it. At this point the case was remanded Extension Telegraph Company that the Messa-bo summoned, slapped him again. He has no

quiet kind of way, as if he did not want her to

met their match, had in fact "walked away" geries Maritimes Company's steamer Oxus with marks, and was very little huit. Mr. Wodehouse

till Saturday at half past nine o'clock. with every team to which they had been the next inward French mails passed Cape st. discharged the case. opposed almost without resistance worthy James's bound for Hongkong at 8 o'clock this CHINESE Police Constable 283 brought a coolie of the name, it was no doubt'excusable for morning.

up this moming for assaulting him in the exces their partisans to indulge in the belief that we hear that the mortal remains of the whale

tion of his duty. He was on duty, he said, on both the men and their system were in- lying in the Cathedral Yard in Wellington street,

the 16th in St. Francis-strect, where he saw the vincible. We had good reasons for think- including the jawbones which samson had not

prisoner and several others gambling at fan-tan. ing otherwise. The story about the an opportunity of trying upon the heads of the He arrested the defendant, who struggled violently and effected his escape, having first let the con- twenty-five minutes tug with a team of Philistines some few thousand years ago, are

stable have a crack on the ribs with a bamboo gigantic Scotch policemen in Singapore, likely shortly to ornament a Northern Museum.

pole. The constable, who highly desired to gaze proved to our minds most conclusively that Ho AKEw, a widow, charged a Chinese scamon once more on the features of the man who had the Buffs had been greatly over-rated. with assault she said the defendant, her lover, served him such a nasty trick, had the happiness No properly pulled tug of war over lasted got drunk and assaulted her, cutting her on the of meeting the prisoner yesterday, when he the half of twenty-five minutes; it was wrist with a pair of scissors. He also broke her promptly collared him, taking care he did not evident in fact, that the men must have dressing case. He was in the habit of doing escape this time. The coolic, who denied the been-sitting-on-the-ground perfectly-help-|-

this kind of thing when in his cupa. Defendant offence, anying it was the constable who assaulted was fined a dollar or three days, to pay $1.40 him, was sent to three days' hard labour as a less after the first four or five minutes.

amends to the widow, or a further four days, and rogue and vagabond, for gambling, and was When the Invincible Bulls faced a mixed also to be bound over in $5 personal recogni further fined two dollars for obstructing the con team of policemen and gunners at their zance to conduct himself properly for the next stable in the execution of his duty, or an addi- own sports, we carefully rioted tho appear-six weeks.

tional soven days,

porter to the effect that the system of pulling in the tug of war introduced into Hongkong for the first time by the men of the Buffs was neither a test of strength or skill; that the plan of sitting on the ground, digging the hocis into the turf and pulling the rope hand over hand with the apparent object of getting ten feet of rope and not the op. posing team over the line was ridiculous to look at, devoid of interest to onlookers, and quite "unsportsmanlike." These were our opinions fairly and honestly expressed; when the gallant officer above alluded to, made the remarks we have quoted, we had seen no reason to alter our original views; we have discovered no reason since that time, mais au contraire.

house, when some one shot at him with a pea-

WE (Gazette) notice that the following Pro- clamation has been posted up in Amoy and the neighbourhood:- PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY ADMIRAL PENG FOR

THE SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING, Gambling is a vicious practice and is danger.

talked-of speech addressed to the servian students was duc, if not to the pen, at least to the collabor

he

MAILS EXPECTED.

THE AMERICAN MÁIL,

The P. M. steamer City of Tokio, with the succeeding American mail, left san Francisco on the 8th April, and is due here on orabout the 7th

ous wherever it takes places. As the presentation of the editor of Za France. It had been time many rascals meet together to gamble, in published some four days when skobeloff arrived violation of the law, and Foreigners are en in Paris. His speech was frank and unreserved, gaged to screen them, the morals of the people as was to be expected from a man who did not thus being more than ever corrupted.

The representatives of

the different Nations suppose that his words would be made public. have been communicated with, to the end that He had said nothing, however, that was not mutual action may be taken to suppress the whispered by every one in Russia, even among vicc. A reply has been received from the the advisers of the Emperar. No one was German Contul condemning the practice, and stating that to foster it is hateful to the people more astonished than himself at the excite. of all Nations.

ment his speech caused. Everyone sought to The habit must be put a stop to and the turn it to account, but more especially the offenders must be driven away. Permission has party which is seeking a return to power in been granted to enter and search houses, and France. Even Madame Adam took a hand in it Foreigners are not to place any obstacles in the way, and, if there are any, who intentionally to gratify her personal hatred against Bismarck, oppose the execution of the law they may be who had insulted her as a woman in the journals scired, and detained in custody until their au; he controls. Thus his so-called speech was that they may be punished.. This is fair, just, and the fleet. He was so overwhelmed with thorities can be communicated with, to the end printed on fly sheets and sent to the regiments honourable and right

Yesterday, in the rear of the Ho Feng Temple, visiting cards and ovations from officers, that it Gamblers were concealed like rats, and although was plain all thought war was imminent with several were captured and will be punislied, the Germany. From Germany, he received a pile of left Sydney on the 30th March, and may be majority escaped, and are now in hiding. These people are incorrigible and will, it is to be feared, anonymous letters of the most insulting kind, corrupt the good amongst the people.

some of them even accusing him of cowardice for Petty Officers have been placed in command returning by way of Austria. In reply to a ques- of Braves and Troops of the line armed with tion from Skobeloff as to whether the Emperor Foreiga guns,

with orders to make. periodical rounds of the streets and markets to search for would send for him, Ignatieff replied that the Gamblers at all hours in the urban and subur Emperor had taken no part whatever in his re ban districts, and to surround and enter houses call. It was simply an act of military discipline suspected of harbouring them, so that none may with which His Majesty hnd nothing to do, escape punishment.

This Proclamation is issued for general in Ignatieff added-This will not prevent your formation and all are warned not to disregard, seeing the Emperor at the fitting moment, like but to scrupulously obey I

all officers of your, ranke”.

May.

· STEAMERS. EXPECTED.

The E. and A. s. 8. Co.'s steamer Catterthun

expected here about the 22nd instant.

The O. 8. 8. Cole steamer Jason, left singa“ pere on the morning of the 16th, and may be ex- pected here on or about the 23rd instant.

The Austro-Hungarian Lloyd's steamer Orion left singapore this morning, and may be expected here on or about the 29th instant.

“THAMES-STREET INDUSTRIES," by Percy Russell. This illustrated Pamphlet on Perfumery, &c., published at 6d, may be had gratis from any Chemia or dealer in perfumery in the Work, or JOHN GOMMELL & Co., London-[AX[YE].