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Corean ideas as to the unanilable character of every race except themselves.
It
The Anniversary Tea Meeting and Concert of the I.O.G,T, Society will be held in the Temper ance-Hall, to-night. Supper will be served at seven o'clock, after which there will be a concert of a varied character. We are informed by the Secretary of the 1.0.G.T's that several fadies have kindly promised to assist in the concert, which promises to be of a highly attractive character. Visitors are invited to attend the performance which will commence at 8 o'clock.
He will shortlycisely.
We note that another attempt to carry on trade A LODGE of Emergency of Victoria, No, 1026, with Siberia, vid the Yenisel, is to be made by will be held in Freemason's Hall, Zetland Street, M. Sibiriakoff, notwithstanding the loss of the on Monday, October and, at 8.30 for 9p.m. pro vessel he sent out last year. despatch a steamer, the Nordenskjöld, laden with English merchandise, and the vessel, after win- tering at Kurelka, will return next summer with cargo of Asiatic produce.
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William Wallace of the down-trodden Fellahs of
arms should secure a victory. The only difficulty will be with China, which has not Flushed with their newly-acquired laste yet forgotten the unsettled Loochoo Island for foreign adventure, the Japanese next Question. The Chinese Emperor is the appeared off the Corean Coast, in the hope Suzerain of Corea, though, with the excep- that the painful experience which they had tion of an annual Embassy to Pekin, there
SAYS the Sydney Bulletin: It is of coarse lin closed, but up to the present time Arabi Bey, the is no acknowledgment of his authority. It
possible to classify a man before his career has
undergone at the hands of Europeans
National leaderof the Egyptiansis entitled to bere- might be put in practice against their un- is, however, remarkable that in all the
All the Year Round in discoursing on famous garded as standing in the same rank with Wallace sophisticated neighbours. Their argu-Treaty negotiations to which we have re
French cities says -Caen is celebrated in of Scotland, Tell of Switzerland, Washington of ments or the arguments of their ironclads ferred the name of China never occurs, --were too persuasive for the Seoul states- is, therefore, not at all certain that the wile IT has for some time past been no secret (wires England for stone, and in France, for a method of America, Kosciusko of Poland, Kossuth of Hun- the Paris correspondent of the Telegraph an cooking tripe; Marseilles, associated with white gary, and Garibaldi of Italy. Whether he will men. Moreover, the Japanese had of old Chinese Diplomatists are not the wire-put August 17th) that Russia has been concentrating waistcoats and a revolutionary hyun, is dear to fall from his patriotic eminence and descend into a claim on Corea, for though at present a lers of the present mente. In any case, the a formidable army in the Caucasus, with a view, Frenchmen as the abode of bouilla-brisse; Troycen mere throne winner like Napoleon 1, whether nominal Suzerain of the Emperor of collision will serve to make better known it is believed, to another invasion of the Turkish is the source of the chitterlings so much more liked he will live to see his noble mission achieved territory. A correspondent of the Cologne Ga- abroad than in England; Amiens has not only like Washington and Garibaldi; be crushed into China, from whom he must receive the rich mountainous region, which a
sette now gives the following particulars respecta Cathedral and a railway station, but admirable quietude and insignificance like Kossuth; die on his investiture, the King of "Chosin," French missionary compared to the sea up to the year 1790, was compelled to during a storm. Its crops of all semi-ing the strength of this force. Russia has, he duck ples: Lyons is famous for things fried or the field of battle like Kosciusko, or by the hands sund an Embassy to Yeddo to announce tropical and temperate products are said declares, in the province of the Caucasus 36,000 stewed with bits of parsley on thean, and for a foreign executioner amidst the jeers and taunts his accession. Accordingly, for the last to be plentiful, and it is believed that the troops of the line, 22,000 horse, 15,300 gunners, sausages; Bordeaux wine is only a little better of the successful enemies of the liberty of his and 4,400 engineers, making a grand total of known in Paris than crayfish cooked à la Bor- country, like Wallace, are alternativos which lie ten or cleven years, the Japanese have Peninsula contains mines of various metals nearly 78,000 men. Confirming the suspicions delaisé Arles is renowned for Roman reniains, the womb of the future. But to-day be is the Sir kopt a Minister in Corca, and, in addition But how far these are worked, or what are already entertained as to Russia's intentions, the pretty girls, and those saucissons which are said to the privilege of having two ports open the resources of the Government, only the writer, moreover, expresses the opinion that she to be made, despite the popular disbelief in those to their traders, they have had the right, events of the next few months will enable is preparing for another war with Turkey by way animals, of dead donkeys. which no other nation, not even the Chi- the world fully to ascertain. The freest of of compensation for England's occupation of nese, possesses, of running into any har-free trade is, desirable with every nation, Egypt. Commenting on the information sup- THE Standard correspondent wires from Con-dering the fruits of their industry, and crushing hour should their vessels be in distress. though to convince any people of the truth plied by the Cologne Gazelle the Soir says: stantinople on the 18th'ultimo. as follows:-The their aspirations for progress and elevation. CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS Their success has also had the effect of once of that political doctrine by the logic of "Russia's attitude must be carefully watched, renowned Kurdish chieftain, Sheik Obeidullah, Achmet Arabi is by birth a fellaha son of the more.directing the eyes of other nations ironclads is scarcely desirable. Happily, for it is, perhaps from that quarter that the whose exploits in the daring raids he made gave people, a plebeint. He entered the army as a final difficultice will come. We have already rise to much irritation between the Porte and private, bat, having education and intelligence drawn attention to the concentration of troops in Persin the year before last, has absconded. He he soon gained a sergeant's stripes. Hils ardent the southern provinces of the great, Empire. was indeed to come to Constantinople at the re-genius spurred him to seek higher advancement, THE Combination in all ages of iniquity and in- quest of the Sultan, and had been detained here in and by dint of sheer industry, working with honourable exile, as the guest of his Majesty, | natural gifts he successfully passed the examina- genuity renders it almost impossible, says the Although closely watched he succeeded in escap- tion which enabled him to claim a commission Overland Mail, to invent a new offence against bones mores; but the difficult task has apparently ing and it is supposed he has gone by way of as officer. Unaided by influence, he rose to the been accomplished by a young man whose name Russia in disguise, intending to regain his influ- position of colonel, but at this stage he was bigh ence and resume the control over his large pro- enough to be envied. A charge of misappropri- The Khedive escorted by British cavalry has not having transpired will, we fear, remain unperty, which includes several hundred villages, ating pay intended for his men was brought arrived at Cairo.
known to faine. The story of the 'performance
against him, and, although he courted inquiry, the proceedings were protracted by the arts of his enemies during three years. It was necessary at fast. to bring the affair to a conclusion, and it was found that nothing whatever... had been established against Arabi Never- theless, his enemies had the ear of the
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was told the other day by the wife of the original thousands of docka and herds, and numberless The declaration of the British policy in Egypt sinner, who informed the magistrate at one of dependents who are devoted to his person, which, besides, is invested with a certain religious autho the London police-courts that she had been marrity among all the Kurds in the neighbourhood of ried only a very short time, and had been per the Persian frontier. Arequest has been made to the fectly happy with her husband until her mother, Russians to watch for the passing of the Sheik at a widow, came to live with them. The husband's the frontiers, as it is feared his return to the re- manner to her then changed: he became cool
was demonstratively warm and affectionate. She remonstrated with her spouse, but without effect, and she had resolved also to remonstrate with the other offender; but before this delicate bit of domestic diplomacy could be managed, the faith- less Benedict had actually eloped with his mother- in-law. In the worlds of fact and fiction mothers-
Egypt the champion of national independence,
and the inspiring leader of their efforts to shake off. a foreign yoke, which is used as a means of plun-
REFERRING to the threatened troubles in Mada- and indifferent, while his manner to her mother gion of his former exploits may be the signal for Pasha, and Arabi's name was struck off the army:
a renewal of the unpleasantness between the Ponte: and the Persian Government, which his Majesty desires to avoid.
THE following are the scores made in the great cricket match played at Kennington Oval on August 12th and following days, between the Australians and the Players of England. The
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China resulted unfavourably to the latter, Corea would have been part of the price of peace. In the interval, however, more peaceful counsels prevailed, and the Ameri- cans again began to push their diplomacy in Corea. The United States Naval En- voy, Commodore SCHUFELDT, met, in the
gascar a New York correspondent, telegraphs to course of last May, the Corean Deputies the London papers that a schooner has cleared af a small village on the banks of the Seoul
from Halifax, ostensibly for Madagascar, about River, and succeeded in concluding a Com-which some suspicions are entertained. She is mercial Treaty with them. The conces armed, loaded with military stores, and carries sions were, however very trifling, the main provisions for forty men for nine months. Only point being the bare permission for foreign four men navigated her out of Halifax, but twenty them. Travelling in the interior for the place. purposes of trade or pleasure is still strictly We read that serious disturbances, the origin of interdicted, and, in brief, compared with which is doubtful, have taken place among the the conventions in force between the miners of the Saone et Loire. European, Powers and China and Japan, and engineer of the mines at Montceau, as well it is very retrograde.
as the mayor of the town, have been threatened However, the
with assassination, and the church and the pres Coreans cannot be expected to do every-bytery have been pillaged. Soldiers and gen- thing at once, and as Admiral WILLES darmes have been sent to the scene of the disor. was, according to a question recentlyder, and the matter has been discussed by a answered by Sir CHAXLES DILKE in Cabinet Council. Parliament, on the point of concluding a THE evening edition of the Vienna Allgemeine HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1882. similar convention on behalf of this coun-Zeitung of the 17th ulto, publishes a telegram try, the result cannot fail to be fraught with from St. Petersburg, stating that news has been The following interesting article on Corea, momentous consequences to the hitherto received by the Northern Telegraph Agency of a is taken from the Standard of the 18th ulto.: closed peninsula; though the present out report current at Erzeraum, according to which -Incensed by the change of policy indi-break may delay, matters, somewhat and Rassis purposes to occupy Anatolia. It is im- cated by the opening up of their country even precipitate a premature revolution in possible to say whether there is any truth in this extraordinary' rumour, but it has been announced to trade, the Coreans are reported to have the Kingdon itself.
lately from different-quarters that-Russia was broken into revolt, attacked the Japanese The exact significance of the revolt has concentrating troops in the Caucasus. Legation, and assassinated their King and still to be explained. The King of Corea Queen. It is added that Japanese war is a monarch whose natne does not appear We have read of strikes amongst nearly all classes ships have been despatched up the Hang- in the Almanach Gothit, though from the of business people, but the latest epidemic in this respect, namely, a strike of lawyers, is rather a Kiang River to the Capital-a course of accounts of the French missionaries he is startling novelty, A Paris journal states that a action which is likely to be followed by regarded by his subjects as a being almost strike of solicitors and barristers is troubling the other Powers. Should this news be con- too'sacred for ordinary mortals to ap-inhabitants of Le Puy, near Lyons, where the firmed, Corea has inaugurated her new proach. This makes his assassination the various members of the legal profession demand departure in a manner which can only be more remarkable., It has, however, long higher fees and the prompt payment of their bills. characterised as peculiarly Oriental. For been the case that the powerful nobles We shall no doubt have a strike amongst the ages this mysterious peninsula of China encroach on the one hand on the Royal clergy in due course, has been practically closed to the world. prerogative, ard, on the other, crush the ft is, indeed, questionable whether there is wretched people. It is this class, corres- any country of the same extent inhabited ponding to the Chinese Mandarins and the by a civilised people with which we have great Japanese feudal Princes of former less intercourse. The Chinese are not times, who have been fomenting the rising fond of communion with the outer barba dislike of foreign intercourse. They sec, or rians, though the force of circumstances affect to see, their downfall in the new has been too much for them, so that the order of things, and, as in the parallel Middle Kingdom,-in spite of the jealousy instance of the Satsuma rebellion in Japan,
We observe from Chambers' Fournal that iome curious experiments as to the action of the brain during sleep have lately been made upon himself by M. Delauney. Working on the known fact that the action of the brain causes a rise of tem perature in the cranium, the experimenter found that the converse of this was true, and that he was able, by covering his forehead with wadding, to stimulate the action of the brain. Dreams which are naturally illogical and absurd, became
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list., A change of ministry repaired this injustice. Arabi was reinstated, a man embittered against the corrupt cliquism which exposed native Egyp tians to unmerited disgrace, while foreign farceurs and harlots were loaded with benefits and honours by the wretched tools of European
cy-lenders who sat in the palaces of the Pharaohs. Arably throughout, displayed a spirit of courage which gained for him the observation: and respect of a constantly widening circle of Nationalists. When domestic agitations com, inenced in Egypt, all eyes turned involuntarily towards Arabi, known to be imbued with patriotic ideas, to be honest, and to have remained poor, when by prostituting his recognized, abilities, he might have become rich. Such is the man whom the Premier of Great Britain in straining every, nerve to crush, and to consign, in common with his fellow-workers for constitutional principles and national emancipation, to ruin,
THE Committee of the Temperance Hall have promulgated a scheme to protect the community from being victimised by drunken loafers and Sherwin, b Baracs...confirmed beach combers, which we think, de-*
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SPEAKING at Emly, county Tipperary, on July 30, Archbishop Croke sald that up to three years ago agitation was at a discount in Ireland. The people had lost heart and spirit. They had been frequently betrayed by the so-called icaders Providence to send a famine that spread like a in whom they put their trust; but it pleased
pall over the land, and this brought to the people A., C. Bauserman, Shrewsburyi a sense of their incan and mendicant condition; H H., Marie, Sherain, & and a cry was raised that Ireland was made for wurdoch, b Peate 15 the Irish, and that now or never they should-say-FS. M.Duanel, Ponte Ulyout fo that they would not only live, but thrive in the & Giften, Stressbars, y 47 land of their birth. Their rulers pondered well on passing events; they gauged their significance, and they introduced measures of amelioration, and successfully passed then. The landlords trembled through the ength and breadth of the -land, and rack-rents received, if not a death-blow, certainly a staggering blow, throughout Ireland. THE Paris correspondent of the Telegraph and as they meant very soon to pay their of the census taken throughout France on Dec. They had now a noble phalanx in Parliament, writes on the 11th ultimo :-The official returns members, they hoped to add very considerably 18th last are published to-day, and the figures to their numerical and effective strength in differ slightly from those given out hurriedly soon Parliament. Now, with regard to the future, after the operation. The total population of were they able, were they resolved, to hold France, according to the present statistics, is their own alike against Kavanagh's confiscation 37,672,040, being an increase of 765,260, since scheme and against the coercive legislation of 1876. This increase compares unfavourably with Mr. Gladstone? Would the threats that now filled that effected in the four years preceding, which the air frighten or corrupt them? (Crics of "No," amounted to over 300,000. It is furthermore He had no fear himself. In conclusion, Arch worthy of note that, to the increase of population bishop Croke said:" Violatę no law, human or during the five years from 1876 to 1881, the forty divine; stick to the old country, let no one induce seven larga towns of France, having a population you to emigrate if you can help it. Ireland is of over 30,000, contribute no less than 561,850, the fittest place for an Irishman to live in. Hold Six of these places show a decrease in their po- to the original lines of the national organisation.pulation. The City of Paris has increased the Be practical, and have nothing to do with theories, number of its inhabitants by 14 per cent, since the no matter how plausible or how attractive." last census, the population now being 2,269,023. Lyons is the second city of the Republic, with THE following comments on the foreign policy over 375,000 inhabitants, Marseilles coming next with 350,000; then Bordeaux, with over azt,boo, of Italy, were wired from Rome by the corre spondent of the Standard on August 17th "It Lille has over 178,000; while Toulouse, Saint is asserted here that there is no truds in the Extenne, Nantes, Havre, and Rouen all-register
of the markets of Manchester, Birmingham, It is, nevertheless, correct to say that and New York. The Japanese long re- the revolt, is no sudden movement; for
Tripoli, but a portion of the press oblerves that,crease in the population not living in the forty though there is no valid excuse for doing so at seven principal towns is lamentably small, belug sisted any commerce with the West. But though the assassination of the King and
present, yet, if the tardiness of the English milk only, as shown by the above figures, 204,391 for Japan was compelled to amend her ways, Queen are only now reported, the former
lary operations in Egypt should give scope to in nearly 31,000,000 inhabitants. and now is running eagerly in the oppo- was murdered some time ago. The
creased Mussulman agitation, the question might site direction. Corca, however, until very Japanoss are made the special objects of
wear a different aspect. Several vessels of the falian Squadron have received orders to visit the recently, declined, at the cannon's mouth, attack, solely, we presume, from the fact
coasts of Asia Minor and Syria. The Rassegna to open her ports or her roads to any that they are the only foreign representa- foreigners. Yet the province has never tives in the country, and on the ground
publishes a singular letter, ostensibly from Berlin, which contains the severest criticism upon Italy's ceased to be regarded with longing and that their settlement has led to the Treaty
Foreign Policy I have yet seen. It points out sometimes, covetous eyes. As far back with the United States, which had aroused
that, while Italy refuses the responsibilities of a as the seventeenth century Mr. RICHARD the jealousy of the more exclusive party
first-rate Power, she expects at the same time to Cocks, on the part of the East India to the pitch of insurrection, The end is,
enjoy all the advantages of that position, in short Company, endeavoured to open up of course, certain, should the Japanese on every leaf that trembles in the Canadian and she expects Europe to carry out an Italian policy trade with the Coreans, but failed. carry out their evident intention of retribu. American forests, every blade of grass that, waves in return for platonic professions. The editor, The Jesuits were more successful, for they tion. The Coreans; as the French found in the morning breeze, every sail that whitens commenting upon his Correspondent's reniarks, managed to gain a footing, and maintained to their cost, were brave, determined, and the sea of commerce; let it blaze from the sun at says the weak point is that no really decided in Missions up to the year 1866, when their far from unskilful in assault and defence: pontide, and be reflected in the milder radiance, telligent public opinion upon political matters agents were either murdered or had to fly Their walled cities are poor and few, but of every star that bedecks the firmament of God; has yet been formed, and those who direct public
Jet 'it'echo through the arches of Heaven, and affairs are always halting between two policies for their lives. This brought the French they have in some way become possessed reverberate through the corridors of our national being strong and respected abroad, or rich and on the scene, but though Admiral Roze | of ample munitions of war and a good temple, that the grand and sympathetic words prosperous at home. They are trying to snatch succeeded in destroying the town of Kang- store of rifled cannon. Their physique is of Queen Victoria, which flasbed on the wings of at the advantages of both courses, and are em- hoa, with its military establishments, he finer than that of either the Chinese or the electricity over the Atlantic cable and hovered barrassed by political groups, who do not perceive utterly failed to obtain any concessions as Japanese, and their intelligence and lite- like a guardian angel over the bed of the dying that Italy is not yet in a position to enjoy at once ing artistes of the operatic stage. Although his for sale at Messia Lane Craw to foreign intercourse. The Coreans, four rary culture fully as high as that of either. President Garfield, were words of pearls and dia- the luxury of a powerful Army and a ponderous once magnificent, voice was but a shadow of and $12 Packets, the $61 years later, having offended the United nation before they came in contact with monds set in the necklace of international unity--Fleet while clamouring for the abolition of taxes what it had been, the veteran's histrionic powers States, made the acquaintance of Admiral Western civilisation. Accordingly, should and harmony, hung around the neck of the God- and the carrying out of vast works at home, were conspicuously displayed in many well Ropozes, though in this case also the in-this little nation_of_eight or ten millions dess of Liberty." This is all right. It samples Signor Mancini yesterday left his house at Capo known characters, and in such roles as Gregorio
A-1. Mr. Elliott is all-right May he blaze from di Monte for the first time since his Indisposition, in Tutti in Maschera, and Du troduction ended where it had begun-with unite in a defensive war, it may cost the the sun at noontide, and be a consul forever, and in order to visit the British Ambassador, with “L'Elisir d'Amore? be achieved the expenditure of much gunpowder on Japanese dearly, even if in the end their may the fateful shadow of Jay Hubbell never whom he had a long conversation at the Hotel successes Signor Corti had ma
Bristol, Naples
this colony who will be sorry to hear eithor de, and a confirmation of the superior knowledge and ability to obtain vex him.
of the ruling classes and the opposition of they have attempted to stem the tide under his treatment quite natural and intelligent,
the more bigated-of-the-inland-residents-by-the-heroio-means-Indicated-in-the. He also found that their character was much
is every day becoming more and more one | telegrams which we publish this morning* | whereby the blood might be made to flow toward reports, of Italy having the design to occupy six figures without excceding 150,000. The in- For a Meal, 15 contus One Day's Board and
modified by the position assumed during sleep, particular parts of the body, and thus increase their nutrition and functional activity. These experiments have but slight value. Those whose lives are spent in hard work, either physical or mental, will prefer their dreams to be as illogical and vague as possible, so that the poor brain may not go on working while the body is at rest. ELOQUENCE, says the Chicage Times, is not a lost art in America, notwithstanding the decline of Fourth of July entertainments at home, Mr. Elliott, one of Uncle Sam's consuls in Canada, gave to the breeze and the Canadian Press the following choice outburst: "Let it be written
writes under date the 20th Instant The difficulty of deciding as to the right action in cases of application for relief by Europeans has. been often felt by most of the residents of Hong. kong; pressure of business or inexperience in such matters making it almost impossible to satis factorily assertain the worthiness of the applicant. In many cases the many given is spent in drink, or the clothes given are sold or pawned to obtain drink, while in other relief is refused from the fear that it might be so misapplied. There ap pears therefore to be a necessity for the inau guration of a system of Charity. The Com mitee of the Temperance Hall think that
the adoption of the this can be carried into effect with their present appliances, and they propose following system, which they trust will be hon oured with the confidence and support of the community. They will issue Tickets which will entitle the presenter thereof to a meal, one day's board and lodging, or one week's board and lodging, according to the value of the ticket The Tickets will be sold at the following rates Lodging, 60 cents One Weak's Board and Lodging, $4.00, subject to the following condi tions-ist.The river of a ticket to any appli cant for relief shall write his own name on the back thereol. 2nd-There are in the Colony WE regret to hear by private advices from Manila severat loafers who have had frequent oppor of the death at that port on the roth instant, of tunities of leaving, but who prefer to live upon cholera, of Signor Eliore Conti, the well known charity, on which they manage somehow or basso of the Royal Italian Open Company. The other to exist. They are utterly unworthy of death of Signor Corti makes the third member assistance, and the Manager of the Hall shall be of this unfortunate troupe that has succumbed to instructed to refuse admission to such, and the the climate of Manila since their departure from tickets presented by them shall be Hongkong. Signor Carti, who first came out to the donor. 3-The Manager of the Hal the Far East with Signor Cagli's company as be entitled at once to dismiss any second bass, stayed a season in Shanghai, and ticket who shall misconduct himself, eventually brought out from Italy under his own Committee reserve to themselves the auspices the combination of Italian artistes to dismiss or refuse adminission to which last visited us. Owing to indifferent busi of a ticket, but in all such cases ness habits the impressario's enterprise did not be returned to the donor prove a successful one, and after a series of being able, from the ro financial troubles the company was brought maintain a few deserving down from Shanghai by Signor Hettich, who in the
free made a good thing out of the speculation. Signor plete, take Conf was at one time famed in Italy as a barl- one board and lodgi ticket to the tone singer of high class, and as one of the lead-wil
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