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jury, as evidence that his purpose could not have been single; and how would he then have been satisfied to find that upon such a plea the privilege of doing the community good service was barred, and his publisher xuined?

at Government House. We appeal to Sir George Gipps and Sir Charles Fitroy! We appeal to the personal friends of both these Governors that is to say to the majority of the gentlemen portance and emolument, and also to the leading Sir James may well look back upon the jour- occupying in those days official positions of im

nalistic epoch of his career with pride, if these be members of the mercantile community-that is to say, men recently become very rich and very fair samples of his work. Everyone now knows influential in commercial affairs, and who desired that his articles were true, were bold, and were to have their new eminence hall-marked at calculated to work a reform much needed. But Government House. Think what an array for can he not recall also how they were then re- any man to faca! The Queen's representative, garded-how he and the journal which gave an her Majesty's judges, the heads of departments avenue for his protestations wore denounced as mostly appointed by H.E, or fearful lest H.E. outragers of everything which it behoves a decent should wish to displace them. The leading mer-man to respect-constituted authorities, the cha chants and bankers, and the entire Amazonian racter of women, the reputation of men of posi phalanx of the ladies who visited at Government House. Now, we are not able to adduce a single record of the opinions held by any of these dis- tinguished persons, regarding Sir James Martin at the time when he was engaged in journalism, We admit that at once, to avoid all misunder-1 standing. But we have very conclusive record of the terms upon which Sir James stood with reference to the influential persons of his early days, and are justified in assuming that as he assailed them with vehemence, they were not sparing in reprisals,

ing contemporary forgets that it is written for a vastly different class of readers to the limited-clientèle of the Daily Preis. The last named journal in Sydney would not obtain, fifty subscribers; multiply that number by a thousand and we shall be near the circu- lation of the Bulletin. The daily and weekly newspapers of New York, Philadel phia, Boston, and San Francisco are a credit to the United States, yet these journals would not sult the communities of London, Edinburgh and Dublin, simply because their style is purely American, especially adapted to American tastes. And the Times, Scotsman, and Freeman's Journal would equally fail to satisfy the citizens of the United States, The Austra lian journals are certainly more English than American in style, but at any rate there can be no doubt that they admirably

He never retracted a statement or an opinion, however false or erroneous-be never suit the tastes and meet the requirements

Were we today to refer to the highest per admitted the impolicy or impropriety of a mea- of the Australian people. As we have sonage in the colony in terms of contumely, hon- sure, however ridiculous, unconstitutional or un- already stated, the Sydney Bulletin is ever deserved-were we to go back in his genca-just. His own will was always his law- a Goliath in modern journalism, a news-logy, and, in censuring his personal shortcomings, In short, he showed himself to be possessed of to suggest that they were in some degree due to

every quality necessary for a bad" But it paper of which any country might well be hereditary taint transmitted from the harlot of a will be as well to break off here, and offer a word proud. It would be an amusing experi- monarcha sort of regal Susan Fisher-would of explanation, test any confusion arise in our that be endorsed by his Honor the Chief Justice, readers' minds. These sentences are indeed speaking from the judgment Sent, as respectable from Sir James Martin's pen. But it would be ment to have the writer of the abusive re-

SIR JAMES MARTIN AS A LIBELLER, His Honor the Chief Justice, in defending him self from the imputation of hostility to the Press, and of an inclination to establish a Supreme Court despotism, took occasion to remind the public that he himself had once been a journalist. At the same time he indicated that there is journalism and journalism, and that the kind of journalist he used to be had nothing in common with the sort of writers who scribble offensive personalities in these degenerate days. Upon the hint thus thrown out by his Honor, in the triple character of Chief Justice, ex-journalist, and censor, we have bestirred ourselves. We have sought to sit at the feet of this self-disclosed journalistic Gamaliel, and to profit by the lessons derivable from a study of the methods and system to which his memory returns with so much virtuous complacency.

tian? There is a moral in the review which it

were well Sir James Martin should not overlook. Comparatively obscure, struggling to achieve fortune and reputation, he had opposed to him the full weight of official power and the condem nation of social influence. Yet this generation can see how he, by mere force of a good cause wielded by a powerful mind-not then recognised by the many-most effectively seized two Gov- emors by the throats and knocked their heavy skulls together in presence of the entire public. The dignity of Sir James' present position, and We present our readers with a few sentences the things he has accomplished since the days illustrative of Sir James Martin's style of jouma- when he, as an obscure attorney, grappled with lism, extracted from a article of which he is the Viceroys and their sycophants, have helped people. author:-"He invented prerogatives before un- to comprehend that even then he was a stronger heard of...... Placed over a community power than his magnificent adversaries, despite of British subjects, he acted with the arbitrary their intrenchments of official position and the spirit of a Turkish bashaw, and denied to his fel-support of their hordes of official and social mer

cenaries. Can he not comprehend that events subjects here the possession of rights which the meanest man in England enjoys. Hecollected perpetually repeat themselves that as generous a horde of wretched sycophants and time-servers impulses die out, and advancing years and elevat around him, for the purpose of obtaining for him-ed station carry in their train enfeeblement of self. the most miserable semblance of support. mental vigor, and encourage a diseased growth of arbitrary maxims, the successors to his youth- fil labors must be already in the field, as strong as he was twenty years ago, as fervidly burning with the sense of a career ahead, and as fully charged with the instincts of a new era, yet to be realized? Sir James has lived to see himself justified, and the arbitrary methods of the giants he assailed recognised as mere subjects for execration. Is he desirous of emulating the "detestable tyrants" whom he once assailed, and of leaving behind him-after alla similar

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it was thus that a certain Mr. Martin ascal, or have reference to his Honor's refusal to sailed His Excellency Sir Charles Fitzroy,

reverse his first decision when sitting to hear the Were we to say that His Excellency Lord

The expressions above quoted were levelled at tudinarianism as, to be incapacitated for due Augustus Loftus is either so disabled by vale appeal in The Bulletin-Clontarf case.

no less a person than the Governor of the colony. performance of his duties, or else deliberately But they are mild compared with other passages. shirks the discharge of all but the obligatory The young journalist wrote of this exalted per- department of then-would this pass current as sonage, that, among his aims was "to level all reputable journalism? Suppose we were to go social distinctions, and reduce to the same degra- further and allege that for any men-noble or dation, the educated and the ignorant, the elegant simple-to come out to this colony under pretence and the vulgar, the honest and the dishonest, the of occupying the position of Governor, while moral and the depraved. To accomplish merely designing to find an augmentation to his this, he invited to partake of his and his lady's income, and repase for his invalided frame, is to hospitality, people of all classes and every grade palm off an imposition upon the people of the of immorality, and insulted such persons of social colony for a sham-Governor is as fraudulent as a consequence and refined habits as lic persuaded writer on a leading journal in a great city; spurious sovereign Let it be supposed that we

LOCAL AND GENERAL. to visit him, by admitting to the same room with he would be relegated to the highly in affirm that Lord Augustus Loftus has sought here them, people, of whom Cicero's description of tellectual duty of polishing up the handle more than an asylum for his infirmities, and Catiline's associates presents a strictly accurate A LODGE of Emergency of Victoria, No. 1nzó, a hospital for his fortunes; that he habitually idea-or, if it does not exactly correspond, it is of the big front door" at something like neglects all the social functions which attach to only because it falls short in comprehensiveness will be held at Freemason's Hall, Zetland Street, ..thirty shillings a week, or to some equally his position; that he omits or refuses to undergo because the associates of the abandoned and on Tuesday the 26th inst. at 9 p.m.

the small Inconveniences of attending in person congenial employment requiring bodily to give delat to banquets, receptions, and other profligate Roman were more respectable than AN Emergency Lodge of St. John, No. 618, S.C. power rather than journalistic efficiency celebrations which it has been customary with or mental capacity. This is not meant previous Governors,, to attend Suppose we offensively, nor is it in the least over-self towards the people of the colony with a con were to remark that his lordship conducts him- drawn. The Australian press is doubtless temptuous hauteur which he is scarcely ever at a capital institution for men of ability; but the pains to weil, and which has, on occasion, broken out in his own house that is to say, the noodles, of the class of the person who house provided by the colonists-and to his own. fancied himself excessively clever when he guests, with an emphasis which has been no less throw dirt at the Bulletin, quickly fill their assing 6 th so specially in boy, than en bar to those singled out-would that level in the Colonies, and have to strip off be respectable journalism, and would there be their coats or go to the workhouse.

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We have frequently stated that a news- paper which is not both honest and inde- pendent is a disgrace to the press. The old established Hongkong journals have too "many" opposing personal interests to serve to be, either honest or independent. Probably they have some claim to be re-

where the spirit of independence and free-garded as the victims of circumstances James Martin. No man can set up in antagonism would come toign of swindlers and demireps j leave Manila for Hongkong on Saturday next.

We have received, Messrs. A. S. Watson's (Hongkong Dispensary) catalogue of flower and vegetable seeds for the season 1883-1883. The selection is a varied one, and the prices exceed." ingly moderate..

those of His Excellency Sir, George Gipps 1"

Mr. Martin, it will be seen, was not a journalist will be held at Freemason's Hall, on Monday the who minced his language, and would scarcely 25th inst. at 8.30 p.m. precisely. have succeeded in obtaining for his articles publi- | cation in any of the respectable newspapers" A CONVOCATION of Emergency of United Royal which he distinguishes by that appellation to-day. Arch Chapter, No. 1341, will be held in Free- No stretch of imagination will suffice to conceive, mason's Hall, this evening at 9 o'clock precisely. for example, the Sydney Morning Herald, as at

conducted, publishing an article of soTHE-Incoming French 'mail steamer Amozone personal" and pronouncel a Lone--especially if emanating from a man who had no social stand- left Saigon for this port at 4 pm, on Tuesday, ing, and had yet achieved no reputation save for the vehemence of his attacks upon persons who and passed Cape St. James at 11 o'clock the occupied-even if they disgraced-clevated posi- same night. tions in the community. Probably, The Bulletin SATURDAY next, the 23rd Instant, being the anni- is the only journal which to day would, under Is it not the case that "respectable" is alto. similar circumstances, open its column to articles versary of the Day of Atonement, the whole of gether a social distinction, and that nothing can of equal trenchancy. Mr. Martin was, in these the-Jewish community will close their offices, pass current as respectable which sets itself in days, of a temper very much in accord with our and entirely suspend business. opposition to the cracles and professors of social own disposition of today. When he saw a condi- -shibboleths ?Respectability has little to... do tion of affairs which sapped the foundations of with virtue. Treacher Cocks is virtuous, but he public morality, he smote it again and again. He MESARE. Adamson, Bell & Co. inform us that is not respectable. His Excellency the Governor had cherished a hope that when that "miserable. they have received telegraphic information that would not, for example, ask him to dine, at Go- tyrant," Sir George Gipps, had departed from the steamer Forsetsen from Glasgow, is likely to verminent House to ineet Dear Cowper and Sir our shiores "the

an end." Being disappointles dom of speech in the public press are

over which they do not choose to have

to recognised social organizations, or challenge consequence of the predilections of Sir generally so little understood and so feebly any control! Abuses of a most flagrant the sacred alumni who have passed within the Fitzroy, he resumed his parable, and delivered indulged in, as in this city of Victoria. character, injurious in many ways to the charmed circle, and be respectable. John Milton himself as follows: Sir George Gipps, with all was decidedly not respectable during his letter his faults, drew some distinction, however flimsy Whether this is the fault of the conductors interests of the public, have been allowed years. In that regard, My Lord Viscount Ro- it may have been but Sir Gharles Fitzroy to exist without protest simply because chester had a distinct advantage over the dis- draws none. Nobody is too, low-nobody is too of the public newspapers or of the ment-

credited sectary. No man can expect to be re-ignorant-nobody is too degraded for his most bers of the community makes little differ private interests had to be served. All garded as respectable, no journal can pretend to familiar intercourse. The most shameless prosti- We beg to draw the attention of our readers to these things are perfectly well known in pass muster as reputable, who assails constituted tution--the most abandoned profligacy-the most ence, and the subject, so far as we are concerned, is scarcely worth a searching the Colony, and have afforded food for authorities-persons or institutions-no matter notorious immorality oppose no barrier against the change of date of the sailing of the O. & how corrupt, how incompetent, how contemptible admission to his house. He recognizes no beauty. S S. Company's steamer Oceanic. The investigation. English newspapers have gossips for years past. We have en- these may have become. It is eminently respect in virtue-no deformity in vice; but treats them above steamer, advertised to sail for -San no delicate scruples in plainly oxpressing deavored during the last fifteen months able to assail persons who are so humbly circum- both with an equal share of his regard. He intro Francisco via Yokohama en Wednesday, the stanced as to have no means of hitting back. duces the one to the society of the other, and does th October, at noon, will be despatched on the themselves an questions of public interest, to effect some slight reforms in local

The journalist who is very severe, in England, his utmost to degrade it by the unaccustomed yet even the richest, and most daring of journalism, and in the face of great diffi- upon the rascally self-seeking of Parnell and the and repulsive contact. The most irreproachable 7th proximo, at noon, instead of date previously our London contemporaries do not possess cullus we have to some extent succeded. ruffianly conduct of Bradlaugh may rollick in he has invited to meet the most abandoned. In notified.

imputation, and fling about exaggerations at dis- short, he has commenced a career which, unless half the independence and fearlessness of That the antiquated toryism, a sort of cretion, and be the more respectable the mere It be at once checked by the powerful voice of OUR Macno correspondent's letter, published in another column, will well repay perusal. It is more than one high class colonial journal. semi-modern feudal system, which has be exceeds the bounds of truth and propriety. public opinion, will upset the morality and

But let the same aan venture to suggest that decorum of the land 1"

Modu only a few days since we reported that Chinese will be. Printed on a superior quality of Paperin journalism, as in almost everything else, been the ruling spirit in Hongkong since H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge is a pompous Such, then, is the style of journalism to which with a NEW FOUNT of TYPE, specially ordered for the work, from THE PATENT TYPE Australia is rapidly taking a foremost the cession of the Colony to great Britain,old fool who would be outgeneralled in actual this censor of " personal and sensational publica: troops had quietly invaded Annam in great force," FOUNDING COMPANY, Red Lion Square, place among-the-nations-of-the world, required to lie shattered and rooted out warfare by any smart sergeant in H.M. Service, tions" looks back with affection. It does not ap and now we loam that the neighbouring Colony he becomes distinctly disreputable Gr let him ear to us that it will be requisite, if this be the of Macao is threatened with a Chinese" armed Holborn, Landon, and will be bound in a fashion many of her leading newspapers rivalling before the rights of the people could be like Mr. Labouchere, tell a true story about the approved model, to alter our present style very occupation. As the relations between the Macao unsurpassed by any work of the kind ever even the best journals of London and New comprehended, far less acknowledged, we marital arrangements of a daughter of the Queen, materially. Mr. Martin merely anticipated the Government and the Viceroy of Canton are re-

no language is too strong to denounce him. In verdict of posterity. Everyone will agree with published in the FAR EAST.

York. We were amused the other week at knew quite well; and thanks to Sir Join the first case the style of fournalism is approved, these strictures now. But how must they, and he, ported to be atrained, this latest move in Chinese a remark which appeared in the Daily Press Pore HENNESSY, and in a minor degree to because; although its language, amounts to out have been regarded than That the articles are diplomacy may lead to serious results. relating to the Sydney Bulletin. Our morn- the Hongkong Taligraph this has been ac-

rage and its affirmations are lies, these are to the frightfully libellous, according to prescot views caste who give and hold the social stamp, wel. without saying. They were criminally "NOTARY PUBLIC writes to the Shanghai Mer ing contemporary borrowed a satirical complished, and the "good old days" of come outrages, and acceptable lied. It is not in actionable on the face of them. One can readily cry as follows I was looking over the sub paragraph referring to the Chinese from overpowering monopolles have gone never deed "respectable" to say if you are a welcome conceive how a leader of the bar would have scription grifins destined for Hongkong and it

outrager or an acceptable liar." The modus handled the publisher and the author, and with the Sydney paper, which it introduced to to return. Personal journalism has not is less shameless, and more shameful. Society what seriously laboured, grimace of impartiality struck me that if run hero the grifin wincer Its roaders with the following comment; been popular here, especially among those quietly adopts these outrages as just vindications, the Judge would have charged the jury had there might be amongst them, but la racing ond can't "The Sydney Bulletin, a paperwhich would who laid themselves open and came under and those lies as undoubted truths, and embraces been a trial How counsel for the plaintiffs would There is not space in the compass of an seem to appeal to a very low class, possl- the lash of criticism. Probably it has never the bully and falsifier in the entirely ideal char have exerted his cloquence to characterize these always sometimes fell, and though taken as á

acter of champion of virtue and right.

as the utterances of an obscure scribbler attack lot they are very taking, getting a griffin winner Ordinary Advertisement to detail all the informably, the larrikins it condemns, thus dis- been properly understood, so it may be. So in these colonies Government House is the ing the reputation of the highest personago in is not always as easy as rolling off à leg, and o can testify that it is not tion introduced into the work, but it may be fairly courses with equal virulence and vulgarity that gentlemen with conservative proclivi- centre of respectability. It is the temple of social the land, and scattering aspersions broadcast there are not a few who asserted that no such Directory has ever been on the Chinese question." Now, as a mat-ties require to be educated up to a suffi- lame. A man may achieve political distinction, or upon the character of the wives and daughter au inexpensive undertaking even trying to get.

mercantile prominence, and be yet scarcely re- of the most responsible officials, and most tlistin- published, either in Hongkong, or any other partter of fact, the Sydney Bulletin is one of the ciently high standard to be able to com-spectable in the eyes of society. He must be guished citizens, merely because they were ac- of the East, at the Price..

best written, and most ably conducted prehend that a system adopted by the lead-initiated into the charmed circle whose opinions customed to pay their respects to the representa WE wonder how much lower it is possible for

rule society, and stamp men and ideas with values tive of the Sovereign, and to his most amlable newspapers on the face of the globe. Itsing newspapers of the world, can hardly be arbitrarily fixed by totally incompetent persons, and virtuous lady. It is easy to conceive the the old established Journals of Hongkong to THE HONGKONG-DIRECTORY-AND

principal-leader-writer, Mr.TRAILL, is unsuitable for an English Colony. So much Still thereis no denying the potency of this vehr stress an adroit pleader would lay upon these descend The manner in which our HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST! offers

one of the cleverest men in the whole has been said of personal journalism ingericht. It is absolute master of the stamp of points how he would dwell upon the wholesale poraries fulfilled their obligations

respectability-blasts with the flicker of an eye- and reckless attack upon Innocent women, the Special Advantages as an Advertising Medium. It will have an extensive circulation in all Ports of the Australian colonies a thorough connection with the Telegraph-by persons lash, and ruins with the curl of a lip. At least it invasion of domestic life, and the disregard in regard to the dramatic entertainm between Singapore and Newchwang, and the gentleman, an experienced journalist, and who know less than nothing of the subject so blights and destroys weak or onlinary oppon- of the most sacred feelings How effectively the the Theatre Royal, City Hall, on Tue ents. There has been no time during our history contrast would be drawn between the grovelling is alike infamous and contempshi scale of charges has been fixed at an exceptionally a profound scholar. Our readers may-that we propose to publish an article when a feeble individual-could-with-Impunity publisher, seeking his sordid gain in sensational formance was not advertised in the low rate. Terms can be learned on application..never have read the Bulletin, but they that recently appeared in the Sydney defy a governor and snap his finger at the clique and personal attacks, supplied by any bircling these so-called representatives of pub

have seen the Daily Press, and are quite Bullein-an article as conspicuous for its which apes the role of society. Who ever did who would prostitute his pen to ignoble ends

was, for the time, socially danined, and the and the dignified knight, the responsible officials, and consequently the organs of Suggestions for the improvement of this work competent to guage the literary, or any distinguished ability, as for its suitableness; fat went forth from potent drawing-room that he the virtuous matrons and innocent maldens who and good taste came out in their mus are respectfully solicited.

other standard attained by that colourless to illustrate the views we have so fre- was not respectable, and "a low fellah." We enjoyed the honour of admittance to his Excel The Daily Frers disposed of a public publication. We shall prescilly enable quently advocated for the purpose of propose to show that the present Chief Justice, lency's society! But let us suppose that the ment which attracted between the

Sir James Martio, was in his time regarded as a evidence were overwhelming that the articles hundred people in half a dozen imać Orders for COPIES, and for ADVERTISE them to make some sort of a comparison showing how far a public newspaper may very ill-conditioned, fellow quite the opposite of were true in every particular, that they were not purposely misleading lines. MENTS may be sent to the Agents at the various hetween a Sydney newspaper, and the legitimately go in personalities. As we a respectable foumallat. We call as a witness overdrawn, and that the vigour of the language

Awo-Govenors who have successively ruled in was merely commensurate with the greatness of ignored the affair altogeth thing that serves the purpose of a news happened to disagree with Sir GRORGE this colony, and we likewise adduce the opinion the abuse dealt with let us imagine that public that the evening print is uny medium in Hongkong.

PHILLIPPO the other day on one or two of every person of such standing as entitled them interest wore pleaded how would Sir James ems of news unless it is t The feeble trash that does duty for lead-matters, of trifling interest to his Lordship lencies, the two Governors referred to, or as to mitted extraneous matter, written by men be The commercial morality

to enjoy the personal friendship of their Excel Martin then have regarded a decision which pers ing articles in the Daily Prair is tolerated by, but of vast importance to ourselves, we give them the entrée to the distinguished circles had no association with, to be placed before the much resembles that of Her Bane

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Ports, or to

"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" OFFICE, HONGKONG, Hongkong, 7th September, 1882.

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