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21th instant.

ON further reflection, we think there can be little doubt that it is Lord F. Cavendish who has been murdered and not Mr. W. H. Forster, for wo were informed by Reuter a few days since that Mr. Forster had resigned and had been succeeded by Lord F. Cavendish; therefore Mr. Forster was have been described as the ex-Chief Secretary, no longer Chief Secretary for Ireland, and wouk,, by Reuter, if he had been referred to.

Two privates of the Gun Lascars, turbaned Pun-

jaubees, were up this morning at the Police Court on a charge of indecent bathing yesterday, and assaulting the Police. Captain Hewett, R.A. was in attendance Police Constable Lyons, the

A MEMORIAL tablet has been recently erected in St. John's Cathedral to the late Mr. Charles May and Mt. Theophilus Linstead. The tablet is in the North-east corner of the Cathedral near the organ, and is composed of a white marble cross on a slab of polished black marble, the panel bearing the following inscription:~~~

before the Colonial Office, by compiling not see in that street a traffic managed Two thousand and thirty-nine actual shipwrecks from the Report of the Select Committee entirely by Chinese coolics, and crowded occurred throughout the world last year, and of the House of Lords, and other public by chairs, jinrichshas, and pedestrians, the estimated value of the property lost was Sources, a mass of information of more or to whom the use of a pavement or side-25,000,000, this sum, including British property-

owned in the United Kingdom and the colonies, ANOTHER pleasant illustration, says the Tele less practical utility and value which is walk is something like a sealed book valued at £180,000,000. As compared with the graph, of the kindly feeling entertained by our perfectly well known to every person who It is authoritatively stated that the result previous year, there was an increase of 359 in the afforded by an American yachtsman's generous Transatlantickinsmentowanis the "old country"is has taken the slightest interestin Tramways, of enquiries at six different towns elicited number of wrecks, and an increase of about and this he has "dished up" and presented information to the effect that the Local 100,000,000 in the value of property lost, the contribution to the fund at present being raised in Plymouth for the purpose of re-erecting the to the Earl of KiDEALEY as "personal | Authorities of these places carried out last year having been an exceptional one for

famous old Ehtystone Lighthouse upon some experiences." His lordship is of opinion through their own engineers at the expense gales and storms, and for the loss of vessels of suitable spot within the precincts of that town. that Mr. PRICE's observations deserve care of the tramway companies whatever alter large tonnage with valuable cargoes. British Mr. Gower, the owner of the Silver Spray, an owned sailing vessels and steamers aggregated American yacht lying windbound in Plymouth ful consideration. We regret to differ with ations to the public sewers the tramways the Secretary of State, as we cannot see may have necessitated.

"In Hongkong." / 1,048, the number of steamers being 191, foreign Harbour, has transmitted fifty pounds to the

steamers fly-six. Of the coast of England, Mayor in aid of this enterprise, accompanying complainant, having had to go to Hospital from how Mr. PRICE has thrown light in any one

observes Mr. PRICE, "it will be very im Scotland, and Ireland, 826 ships were actually his munificent gift with kindly and sympathetic the effects of the kicks he received in the instance on the difficulties of the position. portaat to observe the same wise rule, and lost, British-owned vessels farming three-parts of

We have not hesitated to siate our con- it will be of still greater importance, in this total. One hundred of all flags sank through words that cannot but greally enhance its value abdominal region, the case was remanded till

in the estimation of every Englishman. "I am Thursday. victions, based on what we believe to be consequence of the practical sanitation of collision, and 4,134 persons perished.

surc," writes Mr. Gower, "that there are many sufficient grounds, that the introduction of the Colony being yet in an incomplete state,

Americans, admirers of sound work and in- a tramway system into Hongkong, would to have it clearly understood at the outset, prove a great mistake. The peculiar con- that it will be for the Tramway Company

domitable pluck, who would gladly be repre- sented in the fund for preserving this fine old ditions of our general traffic, render tram to defray the cost of any temporary

structure in some place where its light may still ways unnecessary; the state of our roads removal of their lines to other streets.

shine as an example, if no longer as a warning; present difficulties and dangers which that may be found necessary in the event

and, in their behalf, I beg to forward you the en- would not easily be overcome; and the of main drainage works being executed

closed cheque as an American contribution." The French have a shrewd little proverb to the prejudices of the Chinese-even allowing along Queen's Road." This is sheer non-

effect that "small presents keep up friendship," that all other conditions were favorable, sense, as there is no street in Hongkong,

and such graceful acts as that above recorded which we cannot admit ---may be calculated excepting Queen's Road and possibly

are without doubt eminently calculated to clench upon with great certainty as an absolite Praya East, where any sane person would

the rivets of amity which happily connect America and England at the present time. The preventive to the commercial success of think of constructing a tramway. The the undertaking. Personally we have no value of Mr. PRICE's general ideas may

generous inspiration that prompted Mr. Gower's objections to tramways. Under favorable | be judged by this example of the careful (?)

both countries. We recognise in it with sincere donation fully entitles him to the gratitudes of circumstances they are undoubtedly an study he has evidently bestowed on the of a neatly packed battle of wine. The "out-gralification a fresh and convincing proof that economical and convenient system of lo- subject. With the questions of motiveraged tectotaller," after describing the bottle as a Bis requested that all communications rela-comation. These favorable circumstances | power and maintenance we will not deal | nuisance," and also as "a kind of touting which ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., lead, do not exist in Hongkong; still, if the pro-at present. It is to be presumed that the ought to be discontinued," adds that he has dressed to die “Manager, Hongkong Telegraph"

moters of the scheme insist on making the promoters of the scheme have taken the poured its contents down the sink, and hopes that and not to the Editor,

Letters on faliturial matters in be sent to The attempt, and receive the assent of Her precaution to make themselves thoroughly many others will do the same. Some will in- Editor and not to individual members of the Majesty's Government, they have our best acquainted with these mallers from more dulge in the less heroic hope that the wine mer the rapid growth of the plant still continues.

chant may in future send his advertisements in Communications intended for publication must wishes for success, and shall receive what-reliable authorities than Mr. J. M. PRICE.

their direction, be accompanied by the name and address of the

ever moral support it may be in our power writers, not necessarily for publication; but as evidence of good faith."

to offer. Honestly, however, we are com- Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele-pelled to dissuade them from embarking graph will always be open for the lair discussion in an enterprise which can have few, if any, by correspondents of all questions affecting public intereses, it must be distinctly understood that prospects of ultimate success, which, in fact, the Editor does not in any way hold himself res

cannot but end in disastrous failure. ponsible for opinions thus expressext.

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1882,

Mr. J. M. Paice, apprehending that the Colonial Government might experience some difficulty in a scheme so new to the Far East, made it his business to make a „detailed personal examination of the con-

visled the fares are sufficiently reduced tó

As intensely amusing letter, signed "An Out raged Tectotaller" says the Overland Mail, has appeared in the Times. It seems that the tecto- taller in question has been subjected, not to one outrage merely, but to a long series, though it was the last of the series which acted upon him as the proverbial straw upon the proverbial camel. For many years he has regularly received a large number of circulars from wine and spirit mer chants, asking him to buy their intoxicating liquors" and, as if this were not bad enough some miscreant has actually dared to send to this "abstainer from such drinks of thirty years'

standing "so be describes himself-a still more gross and palpable advertisement, in the shape

blood is thicker than water..

Sacred in the memory of Chandles. May, died at sea agil April, 1879, in the faml year of his age, on his homeward passage, after at year' labours in H,M. Civil Service, * All Thy wave, and hillues are gerne over asc,"

AIM OF

Theophilus Instead, son-in-law of the above, fled at Nongs kong 29th April, 2381, aged 65 yeaTK,

THE remanded case in which a shop coolie was charged with breach of his conditional pardon, came on again to-day before Captain Themselt. Police Sergeant Campbell saw the defendant ou the 2nd, near the Canton steamer wharf, and noticed that he had undergone the ceremony of on paying a second visit to the wonderful Cactus branding at some past period, and when the at Whitfeild Police Station, of which we gave a gaol records were overhauled, a tolerable photo description some two weeks ago, we found that of the man was discovered. To-day, Campbell said he was directed by the Acting Captain Since last we wrote the Cactus has put on another Superintendent of Police to withdraw from the six feet to its height, and is now over twelve feet prosecution, when the prisoner was discharged.

--ཏམས༔ མ-- A FARM labourer, on his way to America, was high. We further noticed that the Whitefeild Station is looking in a most deplorable controbbed yesterday on board the steamer of his box containing clothing, money and kis passage tion, much more hike one of those deserted and dilapidated mansions in Macao, than a flourish.

ticket, valued altogether at $100. He placed in section of a most flourishing department, the box below his berth on the lower deck, and The outside stairs have, recently been done up,

presently, upon looking round, saw a man coolly but not by the Surveyor-General's Department. walking off with it. He hastened after the pur The inen living in the Station began to get loiner, but the great crowd prevented his securing ashamed of the shabby exterior of their domicile,.

the man then, who passed on the box to some one else, as when he came up with kim, just as the and put the stairs through, on their own account. All praise is due to them for the interest they they are believers in that trite sayings, "that a thing of beauty, is a joy for ever." However, in this instance, their taste was sadly at fault, as was at once patent to our artistic eye, and they had much better have left the thing untouched. Whitfeild Station, as it appears at present, looks somewhat like a much faded and patched up cast that has been treated to a spanking new silk velvet collar; the freshly painted stairs shewing up the other parts of the building to a nice old tune. Although

fellow was descending the ladder to get into a

struction and working of some of the General of Hongkong when he wrote these however, that a roadside artist could achieve take in beautifying their surroundings; no doubt boat, he was without the box, upon which the

tramways in Great Britain, including those of North London. Edinburgh, Dublin, Chester, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Manches- ter. Birmingham, and Huildersfield, with a view to acquiring whatever information might prove of practical use in the consi deration of the Hongkong scheme, and he submits the information he obtained at some length. For all the use it is over

tenance of tramways with which we were not previously acquainted. He units all reference to the most important part of the subject, so far as this Colony is concerned, the necessity for the introduction of this new mode of locomotion. He does not

In concluding his remarks Mr. PRICE submits that, in giving facilities for rapid A REVIVAL, in low art, observes a contemporary, communication to the public from one end seems to have taken place in London lately. We of the town to the other, the project bits de not use the term law art" in any offensive sense, but simply because the artist works upon fair to prove of great public utility, pro-the pavement, with the blue sky for his studio roof, and the flagstone for his canvas. Many of bring the use of the cars within the means the cripples who decorate sheltered apots in the of the masses, and that, on these grounds, side walk with pictures in chalks of a salmon or the application is worthy of "Your Lord-Jumbo, a "Sunset in Wales," or a "Storm at ship's favorable consideration and that of Sea, do so in a rough, though not unfrequently the Colonial Government." The Surveyor clever, fashion. It is somewhat hard to believe, quite such a triumph as is narrated by a cerre- spondent in the following letter to a morning contemporary: Would you allow me to notice a triumph achieved a few days ago by one of our parement decorators well known to London pedestrians? Fic had just completed a roas: beef well underdone, when I saw a starving dog lick it, find it to his taste, and try to make off with it. In vain the artist defended his picture with his crutch; the dog licked it clean away. How hungry the animal mast have been, or what a rival of Zeuxis and Parrhasius we have in our midst!" Certainly that animal must have been very hungry, very hungry indeed. We may further add-what a splendid rival of Baron Munchausen we have in our midst.

lines must have known right well that under no possible circumstances can tram cars in this Colony afford such rapid means- of communication as the jinricksha, and further that the reduced fares he refers to are simply impossible if the scheme is to prove pecuniarily successful. This system of vague generalising, which is eminently characteristic of Mr. Perce's literary style, is, to say the least, misleading.

With many others, we are unable to un:

derstand the drift of Mr. PRICE's com

munication, nor can we see its justification. Mr. PRICE is an officer of this Colony, ab- sent on leave, and we cannot but consider that his assumption of a right to address the Colonial Secretary in the manner he has done is, under the circumstances, a flagrant breach of official etiquette, which ought not to have been permitted to pass uncensured.

TELEGRAMS.

Reuter telegraphs from London under yester day's date that a Cabinet Council had been held on Sunday to consider the serious state of affairs in Ireland, and that another meeting was to be held that day.

The Conservative Leaders have announced

their intention of supporting the Government in their Irish policy, if repressive measures are adopted.

The Times denounces the Government.

WK understand that the case Lee Tuck Cheong 2. Daddell has been privately settled, the defen- dant agreeing to pay the costs of the trial and the

owner has not since set his cyce. He handed. the man, of whose identity he said he was sure,

over to a Policeman. Mr. Wodehouse remanded the case till to-morrow.

THE Evening Maudier has the following in its Inst issue "We understand that a numerous party of Chinese residents went on board the Coptic last night, and were much pleased with what they saw of the good ship and the wonder-

near the truth

we think it would have been better for the ful invention of Swan's incandescent electric likely to prove either to the Colonia!

"peelers" to have left the painting and decorating light." It so happens that the wonderful inven- Office, or to the promoters of the Hong-

of the stairs alone, and to stick to their legitimaiction of Swan's incandescent electric light was The latest contributor to the tramway kong Tramways the painstaking re-

calling, viz., protecting the peace and running not in a good humour on Sunday night, and re- literature of the century is Mr. J.M. PRICE, searches of the indefatigable Surveyor-

in law breakers, which work they are specially fused to show itself to advantage; instead of the Surveyor-General of Hongkong, at pre-General, might just as well have been kept

paid for, and not for painting staircases, we by no Chinese residents being much pleased with what means think that the work of doing up the place they saw of the exhibition, the show was really sent in England on prolonged leave of locked away in the secret recesses of that absence. This clever officer of our local official's capacious brain. No possible

He wants to go to sea and be a boy pirate, like should not be done, and that at once, but we go postponed till last night. The visitors on Sun- government, whose leave of absence has comparison can be drawn, so far as a

what he reads about." This was the description further and say that it should have been done day evening merely partook of a claret cup and given to Mr. Paget at Hammersmith Police-court some considerable time ago, as it is now more arranged for another visit on Monday, which been renewed once or twice on the old ex- tramway system is concerned, between

by Mr. Dracett, of the aim and ambition of his than four years since any repairs were put on latter, we are glad to say, was attended with all euse" urgent private affairs," appears, on Hongkong and either one of the populous

son and heir, Alfred, aged thirteen. This young the building. For Sanitary purposes alone, the the success anticipated. We are very anxious his own showing, to have been spending a centres visited by Mr. PRICE. A description

hopeful, says the Sportsman, had been taken into station ought to have been whitewashed, inside to keep our evening contemporary somewhere great deal of his very valuable time on of tramway cars in the moon, would have

custody by the police upon a charge of loitering and out, and a very grave error of omission lies at business which would seem to be neither been just about as sensible as the Surveyor-

in Sinclair's-gardens, Hammersmith, for an un- diedoor of some one for not seeing this very neces- urgent or private. We do not grudge any General's meagre common-places, bor-

lawful purpose. The father added that the boysary thing done. Our police force are, as a rule, HAWKER was charged this morning before Mr.. of our public servants their well-earned rowed from other sources he it noted, re-

was quite content to stay at home and work for a well conducted lot of men, and the constables Wodehouse with being in unlawful possession holidays, although we cannot but think that ferring to London, Edinburgh, Dublin,

him until he took to reading "penny dreadfuls." | although the whole force costs us a deuce of a lot, of a passage ticket to San Francisco, value $45. These turned his head, and nothing now would are by ac means highly paid. They are entitled A Chinese Police constable found him offering this kind of thing is carried to extreme and other large English towns. He

suit him but going to sea to roam the ocean as a to have their domiciles kept in proper order, and the ticket for sale on Praya Central at 6.30 this limits; but we certainly do not approve of finds that the subject of Tramways divides

pirate. On this occasion Mr. l'aget discharged we are also justified, as taxpayers, in asking that morning, and upon asking him where he got officers who are paid out of the revenues of itself naturally into three principal heads,

the youth with a caution. On the next he will every care should be taken of the men who come it, defendant said a clansman had given it this Colony, again and again obtaining con- namely: construction, motive power, and

get the first taste of pirate lie with a birch xod. so far to protect us, and who cost so much to bring to him.-The owner of the ticket identified cessions In the shape of renewed leave of maintenance, and then launches out into

If the land is really in earnest, his father should out. We are awhilly anxious that everything it as his, and said he could not find it absence from their duties. on grounds, elaborate dissertations on these various

Then he could troist the black flag; and "Mckinnon" disease from journeying down to ing carly, but that he had never seen the defen hire him a small skiff, and buy him a catapult. ahquld be done to prevent the newly invented when he went on board the steamer this mom- which in say the least, are of a question-subjects. Mr Price tolls us nothing about ablo wharacter. We think that our views the construction, motive power, and main

go pirating around for a few days in the neigh Whitfeild Station and, as is well known, a costdant beforç.-In his defence, the prisoner said bourhood of the Pumping Station, which, as or two of whitewash, or paint, is a great he picked the ticket upon the Praya, did not will be generally endorsed when we say

everybody knows, is the most desolate stretch safeguard, and may keep the newly invented know what it was, and did not offer it for sale. that Mr. J. M. Paten would have been very

on the Thames Championship Course. He might never-ta-he-roated-out disease at respectable However, InspectorStaunton said it was a common much better employer attending to his

even go to the extent of burrowing himself a cave distance. No doubt; our contemporaries will, practice with certain enterprising Celestials to lic duties--for which he is well paid-in Hong

in the embankments being thrown up there by after we have pointed out the way to them, sec in wait at the Hasbour office and pick the pockets kong, than in making, an altogether un

the navigators. If this did not suit the lad's what grave dangers the men living at Whitfield of intending emigrants of their passage. tickets, necessary and useless detailed personal

fancy he might make himself a lair in the withy Station have gone through on account of their which were then offered for sale at a reduced examination of the construction and work- | refer in any way to the prospect of suc-appeal, and a sum of $5,000 to the plaintiff, and beds above Barnes-bridge and make periodical place of residence not having been whitewashed, price, and that the pick-pockets usually did so ing of some of the principal tramways cess as a commercial undertaking which resuming possession of the property in dispute. raids upon unsuspecting pleasure craft or the etc. according to all recognised sanitary regula-with impunity, as large crowds were assembled In Britain, even although the aim of his this scheme possesses. In point of fact.

neighbouring sweetmeat shops.

tions, and will probably give our absent Governor, at the place. The ticket annexers alway cun WIELE Mr. T. P. Barmım is engaging the atten-

Sir John Pope ilennessy, another rub for notningly deferred doing so until after the emigrante Inquiries was, to use his own expres he has collected from various sources sion, with a view to acquiring what a mass of minor details concerning tram-

tion and earning the wrath of the English people As the German Crown Prince was recently seeing this thing done; we, on the other hand, had passed-Six months' imprisonment with by purchasing their favourite "Jumbo," he is not crossing the Fennbrücke on his way to the bar who court no man's favour, and fear no man's hard labour was awarded. over Information might prove of praeways, which, almost in their entiraty; were Idle at home. His advertisements in the Ameri- racks of the Guard Lancers at Moabit, his atten- frown, give it as our firm conviction that the much tical use in the consideration of the freely discussed in this journal months ago. can journals are a marvel of cleverly inflated

tion was attracted by a group of shabbily-dressed helauded Mr. J. M. Price is at fault, and very | “POLIUTO" AT THE CITY HALL. Hongkong scheme." Was Mr. J. M.. We do not propose following My, PRICE verbiage. With the view of giving English, persons, consisting of a middle-aged man and much at fault, in the present instance. Little PRICE employed by the promoters of the through his lengthy pamphlet, as our space speculators a lesson of the proper way to go about three strapping lads, ranged in line on the jobs, as a matter of course, do not raise lasting The Italian Opera Company gave the last sub- proposed Hongkong Tramways Company is limited, and it would serve no useful end! things, we may mention that it will be more kerbstone, and giving the regulation military monuments to perpetuate one's fame, as the scription performance of the second series at the, to make these inquiries, and write the re-

salute. His Imperial Highness walked up to the suggested new Central School and sundry other Theatre Royal, City Hall, last night, when was to dwell on mere minor matters of Jetail. effective if in the future, instead of saying "tho port now under review? If so, his conduct There are many things stated which could management has spared no pains," they will an man and spoke to him, saying, "I sce, you have works of magnitude would do, nor do they leave produced Donizetti's grand opera "Poliuto." The requires explanation. If not, we think that easily be contradicted and refuted, and at energy, limitless ambition, combine to present to

nounce that, "Millions of money, ceaseless been a soldier; these are your boys, I presume. that margin which is so well understood by the audience was a large and appreciative one, and Have you any more of the sort ?" "No, Imperial officials in that important department, yelept the the representation equalled in almost every so far as the Government is concerned, it a more fitting time we may see the neces- the public a number of peerless; pre-eminent, and Highness; I was discharged invalided, and have Surveyor General's; therefore they, the little jobs, respect the best efforts of the company during would have been time enough for the Sur-sity of dealing, critically with these so-precious exhibitions, far excelling all former been bed-ridden for a long time, in consequence are allowed to look after themselves. The the present reason. The opera, which bad veyor General of Hongkong to make in-called personal experiences. There are, efforts of the greatest living native show genius," of fatigue and exposure incurred during the Shau-ki-wan Road is a much frequented one, never previously been performed in this Co- quiries about the working of tramways however, one or two matters which may Or, again, what British talent could equal this campaign of 1870-71: All my bones seem to being a very pleasant drive, and apart from lony, is taken from Corneille's famous tragedy when he was requested to do so. If Mr. properly be briefly alluded to. Mr. PRICE, style of thing:-"An astounding and bewilder have become soft, and poverty has well-nigh Sanitary requirements, a little work on the "Polyeucte," and can boast of dramatis attrac PRICE had displayed as much celerity in who ought to know as much about ouring collection of the earth's salient inducements. broken my spirit." "Where were you wounded 7" Whitfeild Station is certainly a desideratum. As tiens of a high order whilst Donizetti's music. attending to many greatly, neglected works roads as any person in Hongkong, ex-

A herd of twenty-two mountainous elephants, asked the Crown Prince. "At the battle of Soor, the building stands at present, it is a perfect is simply magnificent Space will not permit us in Hongkong, as he has done in compiling presses the belief that the convenience of the whose united tramp would snap asunder the June 18th, 1866, shot through the shoulder, right eyesore to all who took at it, and when we take to give a detailed sketch of the plot of the opera, cables of the great Brooklyn-bridge. Brustad, arm lamed for life." "Give me your hand. 1 into consideration that a respectable class of which is merely a few of the incidents of the cele a mass of useless, matter for which there public will not be interfered with if double the Norway giant, greatly larger than any other am truly sorry for you. Write to me, enclose men live there, and have made its surround-brated Frenchman's immortal tragedy strung to- was absolutely not the slightest necessity, lines of tramways are allowed' in streets pan alive. Chemah, the Chinese dwarf. Two your certificates, and friscribe the word "Soor' on ings, garden, &c., &c., into a perfect little Eden, gether; besides the fabled story of the martyrdom It would have been much more to his credit. that are as narrow as thirty feet, and single wild men of Borneo. Miss Myrtle Corbin, a the back of the envelope." So saying, Frederic we think they are entitled to some consideration. of Saint Polyeucte must be generally known to Mr. Prieg's observations on the Tramway lines in streets that are as narrow as young girl with four perfectly funned legs. Lu William shook hands heartily with the astonished Should the "McKinnon" fever came stalking all students of heathen mythology. The scene is scheme convey nothing that we were not twenty one feet from kerb-stone to kerb- Lu the daring, hurled through the atmosphere veteran, and went his way. A few day's inter, along from Tai-ping-shan, we sincerely trust it will laid at Melitone, the capital of Armenia; the well acquainted with previously;_in_fact, stone. It seems a pity that Mr. PRICE did like a meteor from a huge catapult and who the man's case having meanwhile been investi- stay its destroying hand before it reaches Whit-time A. D. 250; and the principal incidents the his statements, which he says. are the re- not also Inform us where we are to find in jumps from the ground to the roof of the building gated by the Crown Prince's orders, he received feild; however, we know of a Russian Count, an conversion to Christianity of Polinte, and the sult of personal experience, are, like his Hongkong a street suitable for a tramway Miss Zeo sliding down a wire by, the hair of her a handsome sum of money from the privy purse unblushing undertaker, and one or two more of attempts inade by his father-in-law, Felice, who deductions and suggestions, of no practical which measures ten yards wide. In Edin- surnamed the little giant, and myriads of other in writing that steps were being taken by the "McKinnon" would not be mourned for by us

head. Major Atom, only a 33-inch Liliputian," of the noperial Fieta-Martial, with an intimation" "a like kidney, who if they fell Victinis to the direto Roman Covernor of the city to induce binto abandon the new religion as the Emperor had value whatsoever. Like many other ori-burgh the keen sighted Surveyor-General bighly interesting and most marvellous wonders, latter in person to provide him with a permanent for such a lengthy period as Li Hung-chang in ginal (?) writers, Mr. PRICE has attained saw a double line laid along a street that which no other man alive could present to the appointment suitable to his capacities and tends to devote for that purpose over the remains his object of keeping himself prominently was only twenty-two feet wide. But he did public."

physical powers of endurance,

of kis late mamina.

issued a very severe edict against all Christians. Polite was deaf to all entreaties, refused to listen to fair words, or givo way to threats; ru-