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ACCORDING to intelligence derived from Slavonic sources, a severo eturagement was fought, on June 19, between the Austrian troops and the in surgents of Zrvani and Ulok. The insurgents are represented as having been at first success- ammunition. The Austrian less is said to have ful, but subsequently forced to retire for want of

been too killed, and the insurgent loss thirteen. IT is asserted that Sir William Thompson's new nautical compass has been shown to be a great improvement on the old instruments. As yet it has only been tried on board her Majesty's ships stationed at home ports, or on vessels proceeding obtained, so far, leave little doubt that this new on trial trips. But the results that have been compass will soon be universally adopted in the Royal Navy,

FOR leaving her master's service without giving | THE- Euphrates undecked. at Aberdeen this proper notice, Chun Akin, a nurse in the canploy-morning. The Halloông came out of Kowloon ment of Mr. Frier, a clerk in the Audit office, Dock to-day, the Paul Jones taking her place. was this morning fined $5 or 14 days' imprison. We read that at the opening of the railway from

nent by Captain Thomsett.

Brisbane to Sandgate the other day, the Mayor Captain Thomset this untning with indecently luncheon which farmed part of the "ceremony," LAI YAN, a Taoist priest, was charged before of the latter charming seaside resort, after the

assaulting Kwok Kwai, wife of Chun Cho. The called for a yolunteçer to propose the toast of lady said the priest put his hand on her breast"The Ladies" An aristocratie Brisbane citizen, Street. She called out to the police and gave Volunteer Furce with that gallantry which forms as he passed her early this morning in Gilman who occupies a high position in the Queenstand

bim in charge. His reverence said he was rub-so conspicuous a trait in his character, at once

bing his back, and his hand touched the woman accidentally.The Magistrate discharged him. YESTERPAY at & pan. laspector Donald Thon son, in charge of the Western District, bare down, in all the strength of a warrant, to vilicate the offended majesty of the law, outraged by a set of

on the first floor of No. 41 High Street, where the sharp-eyed Scotchman had fretted them Donaid, and these Captain Thomett this morn- out. Nine Celestials fell as spoil to the zealous ing fined ten dollars cach, with the alternative of a month's hard labor.

offered himself as the ladies' champion. He said he thought that the seaside was a particularly Ladies, because at the seaside you saw more appropriate place to propose the health of the of thein than anywhere else." Having got thus far, the worthy officer was interrupted by a general

while others hid their faces in their bandkerchiefs. present tried to look unconscious, some blushed, The speaker, without the movement of a muscle of his face, continued-"I hope this inter- ruption is not to be taken as an indication that

those present do not like to see much of the

ladies.

For my own part, the more I can see

of society. They came also with appro- a code of professional morality specially priateness from a man occupying the posi-adapted to meet their own convenience. tion which he fills, just as they would have There is no villainy so flagrant, so clear, or fallen with propriety, In the old time, from so infamous, that a lawyer of the highest the High Priest standing at the altar in the stamp will refuse to help it out. No Temple. And the truth of the declaration scoundrel, however debased, need ever would not have been affected, nor would hesitate to approach any lawyer, however the usefulness of the public utterance have distinguished, with the object of hiring him been materially abated, because that High to prostitute his talents by exerting these Priest himself presided, with serene and

to cloud the truth, defeat the ends of real CARBOLIC DISINFECTANTS. self-satisfied complacency, over a caste justice, and obtain the seat of justice to an which had become utterly corrupted from act of infamous wrong. Justification for its divine mission, and was actually re-

such enormities is sought to be afforded by monstrating against theft and evil from the specious sophistry. The advocate is not altar of an institution which had becometo arrogate to himself the functions of judge admirable as had been its original consti- and jury. It is for him to accept his client's tution "a den of thieves." As already hypothesis and place it to the best advantage indicated, the most serious symptom of before the court. He may believe his client A PORTUGUESE gentleman, Mr. Michael F. rascally gamblers, who had ensconced themselves titter all round the table. Some of the ladies lepravity consists of the moral insensibility to be wrong to be a plunderer, a ruffian, an School at Dadur, is said to have made a dis- Pereira, head amster of St. John's Portuguese which has supervened upon a habit of oppressor. But he cannot how that he is. wrong-doing. A sadder exhibition of that That is for the court to determine. Thus forti-hitherto unknown to the botanists of India." covery of an efficacious cure for snake-bite FELLOW'S SYRUP, insensibility could scarcely have been fied, the hired advocate addresses all his A correspondent of the Times of India says that imagined than that afforded by a Caarnas talents, all his ingenuity, to convincing the he has seen the new cure'tried upon a dog which denouncing iniquity from the altar of the dispensers of justice that representations, had been hitten by a cobra, and that it was per- Temple, or a Judge Isses condemning which he personally believes to be, and infectly successful. tricks of trade from the bench of the Su- his heart is convinced are, false and in- preme Court, each alike unconscious of the famous, are honest and true. Before him moral dunghill from which he was crowing he sees a man whom he inwardly is cer- abhorrence of the condition of the barn-tain his client has shamefully wronged or yard he saw before him. “

now seeks to injure. Yet he does not Like the Hongkong Telegraph, the Syd- Llunch or falter at the spectacle, or at his ney Bulletin has no cause. to love the own inward knowledge. He resolutely gentlemen of the long robe." It is there-addresses himself to clinch the injury and fare scarcely to be wondered at, that our aggravate the wrong, contemporary, still suffering from the effects of legal injustice in connection with

Again, even when a lawyer has a just case, the custom of his trade habituates Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The a remarkable decision in a libel suit, a hint to see the appeal to law, even when Editor and not to individual members of the decision which is a standing disgrace to the technically successful, defeat its own object. Communications intended for publication must legal history of New South Wales, should The successful litigant is not infrequently be accompanied by the name and address of the take up the test so glibly handled by Sir quite as hard hit as the unsuccessful. It writers, not necessarily for publication; but astironts Isses, and turn it against his has cost him two hundred pounds to re- evidence of good faith.

Whilst the columns of the Hongkong The Honour's own profession, And this has cover one hundred; or, to defeatan attenya | graff will always be open for the bir discussion been done with such adroitness and skill. to swindle him out of two hundred, he has by comespondents of all questions affecting public interests, it must be distinctly understood that and in such a trenchant style, that lawyers to expend two hundred and fifty. Justice the Editor does not in any way hold himself res-all the world over might well blush at the has, under the ministration of lawyers, be ponsible for opinions thus expressed.

publicity given to the disgraceful associa come such a farce that, in most instances, TO ADVERTISERS.

tions connected with their every day basi. the actual allotment of the original bone of Advertisers are requested to forward all notices intended for insertion in that day's issue not later ess. All the sophistry in the world can-contention becomes of secondary import. 15,000; Damietta, 28,000; these are the Mediter- this sentence, and point out that it is because of Mr. T. Studie than THREE O'CLARK so as not to retard the not excuse illegal extortion; rustam is no ance. The real anxiety of litigants'centres early publication of the paper.

better justification for legal dishonesty in the question of costs. Legal proceed. tricks of the trade-than it is for at-ings lave, heen converted into the most

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Arrangements have been made to publish tempted swindling. hý any other class of demoralizing, sort of gambling, with bar The Hongkong Telegraph daily at a rat. Subtradesmen. It was surely a scathing satireristers and attorneys for proprietors of the theit copies before Five O'Clock will oblige by on Sir GEORGE INNES's outburst of righteoushells, and grave judges for croupiers. at once communicating with the Manager, indignation against tricks of the trade" Litigants have a chance of fleecing one to have brought under his notice, the another. but subject to the certainty that existence, within the hallowed precincts of whoever loses shall pay beavily to the

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THE house properties in Queen's Road Contrai, Banham Strand, Queen's Road West, West Street, and Square Street, Tai-ping-shan, soll by Mr. J. M. Guedes yesterday at noon, realized the sum of $26,756, and were secured by five different Chinese purchasers. The ground and eight houses in Shelley Street and Mosque Junction soki at 3 p.rs, were secured by a Euro- pean customer for the sum of $8,200. REFERRING to Mr. O'Connor Power, Mr. Davitt says: "He is the man who got me into in favour of Colonel Kelly; next he deserted Fenianism. He first deserted James Stephens Kelly in favour of Colonel Roberts; and then deserted Roberts in favour of Mr. Tatt. Mr. Butt he deserted to join Mr. Parnell, and lie has descried Mr. Parei in favour of himself. He was the first Fenian to go to Parliament, but he has been a traitor to every party who rusted him"

The following are the respective populations of the principal Egyptian cities-Alexandria, 220,000; Rosetta, 40 miles east of Alexandria,

rancan lowns. Cairo with 350,000; Tanta with 40,000, and Zag-a-Zag with Go,coo, are the Delta towns. The Canal towns are Port Said 9,000, Ismailia 3,000 and Suez 12,000. Alexandria is.

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wonderful proof of the growth of Egyptian trade since the days of the battle of the Nile, when it boasted of only 6,co inhabitants.

Hongkong Telegraph Justice ever which he presides, of a system privileged ufficials. Loril Beatritax, him- exactly what I said." The late Mr. lanes once

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1882.

doesn't know anything about the law of a case, THERE is a certain judge who, whenever he and it is shown him, invariably says "Just so

self one of the craft, being asked to define amusingly utilized this. He said: "Your Honour, La lawyer, said:-"A lawyer is a learned with that legal acumen which is so famous, that gentleman, who rescues your property from discrimination which is familiar to all who know your enemies and keeps it for himself."

you, that intellectual capacity which shatters Of course lawyers never over-charge! ignorance like a goblet, will see that this case is Certainly they do always. There never

settled by the well-known one of Regina v. Smith, yet was a lawyer's bill which was not re-made the expectant court shriek with his "Just so unique and standing all alone." His Honor duced if submitted to taxation. This is so." one of the charms of the business. Law-

A CHINESE postman charged a ticksha coolie, of them, the better like it." Wherent there was before Captain Thomsett this morning, with general confusion. plainant deposed that at a quarter to cleven this The annual cricket match between the Universi careless driving and injuring him. The com.

morning he was on. Praya Central, when defen- ties of Oxford and Cambridge was played at dantknocked him down with his 'ricksla, causing Lord's on June 26th and following days. After a the bruises he skewed. The whed of the vehicle very interesting and exciting match, Cambridge passed over him as he lay on the ground-in eventually won by seven wickets. The following his defence, the coolie said the defendant got in are the scores: his way, and he could not help it. In order that he might be duly impressed with the necessity of "helping" it in future, the Magistrate gave. This him the option of disbursing $5 or going to gaol dant elected to retire from society for the period for fourteen days with hard labor. The defen-

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dominions is not confined to the traffic in women. Sturd I would appear that slave dealing in the British Hamblon, e Paravi-

cini, C. T. Stull Mr. N. Meleld, Runsay, and children in Hongkong, out of which so much M J. Paterson, we t capital has been waade lately. In Indian papers we read that Hafir Abdool Kaiyum, convicted at the Bombay Sessions of importing four Sidhce them, as slaves, was sentenced, by Mr. Justice Me, K. & girls into Bombay as slaves, and with removing Mr. 17. B. Studd, 2 Handles, h Lathany, to simple imprisonment for three months.

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the demand for slave gris men like Hafiz Abstr. CW. Wright, Robin. 37 Times of Ini says that the leniency of the dool Kaiyum attempt to keep up a supply. The

Bhopal State was mixed up in the matter. It is seldom that cases of this kind see the light; or, sentence is the more to be regatted that the

if they are suspected, it is seldom that they can be effectually proved. There is, it appears, a DAVID SMITH, of Scotland, Chief Engineer of the through Bombay, and, perhaps, if Mr. Justice morning before Captain Thomsett with drunken- traffic in slave girls and in eunuchs carried on British steamship Bengkalis, was charged this Latham had been more severe, the sentence ness and neglect of duty yesterday.-John Dare, would have acted less as a warning to be cau- master of the Bengkalis, said he went ashore on tious and more as a deterrent.

the 1st instant at 4 p.m., previously telling the THE present Khedive of Egypt, Mohamed bad weather, and that defendant was not to come defendant to bank the fires, as he anticipated Tewk, is the sixth since Mehmet Ali, the an shore. He also told the chief mate that no- founder of the dynasty, who was appointed one was to leave the vessel. He further gave Governor in 1805, and soon after made himself orders that the steamer was not to be moved from absolute master of the country by force of arms, her moorings. The next day, the and, he was He was the recognized ruler of Egypt from 1811 looking about for his ship and could not find her, to 1848. The father of the present Khedive, with the aid of the police he eventually found

commonly known as tricks of the trade, vain to seek among grocers and bogus- yer's charges are carefully fixed-by law. EVERY musical amateur is acquainted with the Ismail I, was recognized by the Sultan by firmanter at anchor under Tam-loo, with her pumps

moment.

of trickery so thoroughly disgusting in its barefaced knavery, as to cast all other forms of trade trickery completely in the shade. And this system of barefaced ex- Is an article on "Adulterated Justice," the tortion is supposed to be sanctioned by Sydney Bulletin refers to some comments | custom, and protected by privilege. made from the bench by Sir George Innes, There is no occupation, there is no trade one of the judges of the Supreme Court, so corrupted by tricks and chicaneries, dealing with that species of arrant rascality, says the Bulletin, as the legal. It would be As our contemporary justly remarks, it jewellery vendors for men who with less yers. Ifeomplaint be made of overcharge, The Kings' Highway," and "London Bridge" his paying an increased tribute to the Sultan's defendant lying down asleep in the fore-house compositions of Molloy. Among his songs, of 27th May, 1866, obtained on the condition of broken-down. He went on board, and found the is an excellent thing to hear denúncia self-consciousness of doing that which is their bills are studiously revised and cut are familiar to every vocalist or concert goer. tions of discreditable practices from a discreditable palm off more adulterated down-by a lawyer. The amount

civil list. It was from Ismail I thatM. de Lesseps drunk. The chief mate also was not sober. He ́man to whom the administration of justice goods upon the public than is done by the saved is generally almost enough to pay and extremely felicitous. There are, for example, Canal. The shares which Ismail held in the Victoria... Yesterday at about 7 p.m. he gave the so His pianoforte compositions are also numerous obtained the required concessions for the Suez got the ship under weigh, and brought her back to is entrusted. Sir GEORGE INNES deserves legal community, or who take more sur- the other lawyer who is employed to raise a series of "water-pieces " of most delicate and canal were sold to the English Government indefendant in charge for being drunk. He had the thanks of the Sydney community reptitious and unfair advantages than do objections to the first lawyer's bill.

Aquaint beauty, much reminding ene of the style 1875 for about four millions. But the large sum been drunk repeatedly.-Police Constable James for his emphatic strictures, and merits legal practitioners. Outside their profes- barrister selfs his talent to a client. Bet and manner of Clementi, Molloy is not a pro-

he thus received was not sufficient to relieve said he went on board the Bengkalis at a quar- especial commendation for the aptness with sional avocations, all grades of cheats may he is not under any obligation to deliver risters in England, and music is with him simpelled to abdicate in 1879, under the pressure the captain. When he got there, the defendant fessional musician. He is one of the leading har him from his embarrassments, and he was comer to seven yesterday evening, by direction of which he addressed himself to the really he- and, in fact, generally are decent the goods. He may with perfect propriety ply an accomplishment and a relaxation. The of the French and English Governments. The was given in his charge for being drunk and at shameful features of the question. It is not fellows enough. The man who, without accept ten times more work than he can large profits which he derives from his charm present Khedive, by a decree of November, tempting to abscond with the ship. Defendant only bad that dealers should cheat the compunction, palms off upon you, in the perform. When his client, who has staked ing compostions are entirely devoted to charit public by palming off inferior for first-class way of business, rubbish for genuine arti- bis very existence upon his ability and able purposes, his professional income being suf the supervision of the Goverments of France police hulk was for being drunk, and neglect of 1879, placed the administration of Egypt under was then quite sober. The charge entered at the articles, and adulterated for genuine goods; eles, is often tender-hearted, charitable reputation, comes into the hall of judg- ficient to render him entirely independent of his it is still more seriously mischievous, that even nice in his sense of right and wrong ment, the eminent counsel is absent-musical earrings.

and England, represented each by a Controller duty.-A Chinese foreman and the Chinese cook traders have fallen into the habit of justify on all subjects not interwoven with, or "Engaged in another Court, your Honor." THIS is the free and flashing style in which a sible only to their own Governments. By another they had sees the defendant drunk. The General, invested with large power, and respon of the steamer deposed that they could not say ing their crime to themselves: The direct exactly parallel to, his own line. So with His Hunor accepts the intimation with European paper describes a lady: "She appeared pointed an international Commission of Liquida- the defendant told him he was sick, and that he decree of April, 1880, the present Khedive ap-former also aid that about three days ago Injury to the public is. after all, the lesser individuals in the legal professions. Per- out surprise, is a privilege of the in a translucid nimbus, bathed in the ideal gleams evil. The Indirect damage effected by the sonally, they are as other men. There profession--a perfectly understood thing. of enchanting apparitions, with her tresses Baked ion, composed of seven members. The Commis (the fireman) must take care of the engine room, lowering of the whole tone of morality in a are among them the usual proportion Perfectly understood by the attorney-yes. in a golden clout, traversed by radiations of

sion was invested with power to examine the and on the 1st instant defendant told him to commercial community, is of infinitely more of generous, high-principled, and self- By the client not at all. He would have jewels such as we see in the dreamy head of La whole financial situation of Egypt, and draw up a light the fires.--In his defence, the Chief En

As Sir GEORGE INNES pointed respecting men.

law of liquidation regulating the relations gincer said he denied having been drunk. In the other affairs of preferred the certainty of a less distin-Valliere. The snake-like sinuositics of her tightly but. traders have managed to so sear their life, there are plenty of them who are į guished advocate's attendence, and atten- embroideries of melusine flame; a wallet of France, Germany, Austria and Italy pledged previously been in the Paladin, from which he

drawn skirt of ambrosia velvet, were travened by

between Egypt and her creditors. England, He had been to days on the steamer, and had consciences by halit, that the prick of all that doth become a man. But, intion, to the chance of a celebrated Counsel's flowers, hanging poetically at her side, infused a

themselves to accept such law of liquidation. remorse or shame is now unfelt. They matters connected with their profession, absence, and the almost certainty that if touch of innocence into all the splendour, Under MASTER-GUNNER Daniel Cambridge, who, after amined by Captain Thomselt and characterised produced certificates. Tha certificates were ex- arm their lisams with a conventional pad-they suffer from a diseased conscious- he did attend he had scarcely glanced at the cloudy ustling of her petticoats of lace ap ding which they call the custom of the ness; they are affected by a moral paral- his brief before he opened it in Court, seeing peared a silken azure stocking embroidered with trade," and imagine that, because they ysis; their senses suspend their functions, that his bag is distended or his office-desk silver quivers, and a jewelled satin slipper that have become insensible to disgrace, they There is not a judge on the bench-there heaped with more briefs for one week than the Empress of China would envy. The beauty, Are honest men. An offence which every has never been one-whose nostrils was he could read, let alone study and con- in her delicate coquetry, her delicious softners, man commits, and which carries in its truly sensitive to the recking odours from sider, in a month of close application balk." It's sad to think that this ineffable being and her highborn audacity, was Queen of the train no present punishment or social de- the mass of festering corruption under his What lawyers call professional privileges, has to cat three meals a day, or die.

action, and his wounds have accelerated his death. gradation, is regarded as no fault at all. nose, although the stench is so powerful laymen are apt to term tricks of trade, and

SIR,In your Wednesday's loader, in the lowance of 10% a year for conspicuous bravery in course of your attacks on Consul Loureiro, you The age has become so extremely business that it poisons the entire atmosphere of they are apt to look upon judges merely Os the evening dress of the season, which is cut like that it has practically deposed a God society. Courts of Justice, which should be as dealers who have made the best market extent has the lowness of the bodice been carried sergeant in the Royal Artillery under Sir Richard Loureiro. Allow me to inform you that although the Crimea on September 8th, 1851, during the said that it is the current gossip in Portuguese lower than ever, Truth remarks:-"To such an assault on the Redin. At that time he was a

circles in Hongkong, that Mr. Bastos throws the who no longer launches thunderbolts or a solace for the injured and oppressed, and for themselves.

blane of the publication of his pamphlet on Mr. blasts the sight of liars; and it now regu- a terror to wrongdoers, have become the

that some ladies cannot consent to appear in Dacres, and volunteered with three others to it is generally believed here that Mr. Bastos did lates its life by the only power which really exact contrary: they are a terror to thein- trade in a former libel suit in which we be called a triumph of nudity," and so they useful, but two of the four were killed, and Cameiro, it is, nevertheless, not a fact. When this We exposed a few tricks of the legal what, with its atter absence of sleeves, can only spike a Russian gun. The exploit was success throw the blame of the publication en Mr. Lou- meddles with personal comfort and self-jured and oppressed, anda solace to wrong-were engaged; it will indeed be passing little lace fichus to supplement the incomplete bridge was wounded in several places, including a gentleman resident here wrote to Mr. Bastos belief commented to gain ground in Hongkong, esteem, Social Recognition. Nine out of doers. We refer moré particularly to civil strange if another opportunity is not dress sent home by the inodiste. Other ladies, ten average citizens 'now-a-days would process,

the lower jaw, which was badly shattered. Later asking for an explanation, and he replied that he rather be damned in eternity than be" cut" are clumsy machines which complete in a

As to the criminal, courts, they afforded us from our latest appearance again, indulge to the fullest extreme. It is by no in the same day he went out, under a heavy fire, was very sory to find that his friends entertained

before a public tribuna!,

means uncommon to see the opening of a dress in front of the advanced trenches and brought in could be so infamous as to throw the blame of his

such a bad opinion in public, and the tenth would decidedly complicated blundering way the work which

of him as to think that he reach almost to the waist in front and quite to the rather he damned by his Maker than ex- the police and the lower tribunals cut out

a wounded man, in which act of devotion he was pamphict on anybody. These are Mr. Bastos communicated by his priest or

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

waist at the back. This is the pointed style. We himself wounded a second time. He was also in very words. Thanking you for the insertion of cold for them. In this case, the State bears the

think it is a very pointed style. The old rounded other engagements, and was rewarded with the above. shouldered by his conventiele. The failing brunt of the expense, and the man who has A LoDGE of Emergency of St. Julio, No. 618 S.C., more. The square bodices, sometimes openonly in from his own Government. When he left the bodices,having no sleeves, seem to recede more and medals from Sardinia and Turkey, as well as

I remain, &c., is not new. It is eighteen hundred years his head broken or his property stolen by will be held at Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, front, sometimes both back and front, seem to be army he was appointed a yeoman of Her Majesty's We give our correspondent's communication for

Hongkong, 4th August, 1881. since, in a community tottering on the open methods can generally secure ven- this evening, the 4th instant, at 7.30 for 8 o'clock all square, and no bodice. Then there is a new Body Guard, and on one occasion, while serving verge of dissolution, a greater censor than geance, if not restitution, without submitting The other day a Madras paper published are fastened at the throat, but spreads open widely tracted the notice of the present Emperor of

whatever it may be worth. We did say that Sir GEORGE INtes noticed the vaster im- to further injury or additional plundering, markable leading article. The heading was below. Trulli adds, all these varieties are cut so Russia, then Casarewitch, who asked him where

evening bodice, called eil du roi, which is in that capacity at Marlborough House, he at Mr. Bastos threw the blame of the publication: portance attached to high-places in the But in civil processes the whole machinery"The Suez Canal, and the article consisted of excessively low that even a spray of flowers is he gained his Victoria Cross. In the Crimea.

of the pamphlet, to some considerable extent at least, on the Portuguese Consul General, but synagogues and to greetings in the market- of law has been so perverted as to have two words-"See telegram."

we had such a good authority for the state- places, than to rectitude of life and love of become an instrument of fraud rather than

ment, and as it is currently believed in Fortu- often not only an ornament, but, serving as a at the Redan-your Highness," was the reply. guese circles, "B.'s" explanation does not in right.

a recourse for the injured. The ministers

observes that you cannot speak about a balldress To which the old soldier responded, "Yes, your veil, is positively a charity. Figaro delicately "Ah,"said the Russian Prince, "I too was there."

any way shake our conviction as to the actual Sir Geonor Innes's remarks were, there of the Temple of Justice-barristers and

from the wais upwards, because there isn't any Highness and I hope we shall never meet like

truth of the matter. Our correspondent errs fore, true, and called for by the condition | attorneys-have concocted for themselves

greatly in crediting us with having attacked Mr. Loureiro; it is quite the other way.-Ed. thing to speak of

H. K. Telegraph.

will be held at Freemansons' Hall, Zetland A REGULAR Lodge of United Service, No. 1,341, Street, on Tuesday evening next, the 8th instant, at 7.30 for eight o'clock precisely,

completing a service of thirty-three years in the employed as custodian at the Ordnance Select Royal Artillery, has been for the last twelve years

died. He was several times badly wounded in Committee Office in Woolwich Arsenal, has lately.

He gained the Victoria Cross and a special al-

that again."

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