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A. S. WATSON & CO. INVI

NVITE INSPECTION OF A WELL

SELECTED STOCK OF FANCY CHRISTMAS

GOODS,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1883.

in "plack dread gloves" packed up his traps and hied him across the great empire to the City of Palaces,

Somehow or other the splendid elacu- tionary powers of Daniel Edward, even in

the sublime “boem of boetry,"

Hi diddi diddle, an eat and ze fiddle, Za dog he Jomp over re mocn."

did not draw the Calcutta theatregoers. The history of Mr. BANDMANN's recent doings had CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS preceded him, one or two of his victims were

COMPRISING :--

IN GREAT VARIETY.

SWEETS AND CONFECTIONERY,

CUT GLASS TOILET BOTTLES.

CHRISTMAS CARD ALBUMS.

IVORY BACK HAIR BRUSHES.

SCIENTIFIC TOYS.

not unknown in Calcutta-one poor wretch whom he had beguiled from a happy home

in Adelaide, and afterwards turned out in the streets, had died there--and the famous FANCY SATIN COVERED BOXES. American tragedienne Miss LOUISE POMEROY, who was running an opposition, completely monopolised the attentions of lovers of the tragic muse, BANDMANN finding that Narcisso, Omelet," "Zhylock" and "Odello" failed to draw, and seeing that Miss POMEROY. was playing "Leah" to crowded houses, determined to rus "the ATKINSON'S, HENDRIE'S, AND LUBIN'S little donkey" the divine Beaudet-direct- ly against the American star in Miss BATE- MAN'S great part. We will allow the Indian Daily News, the leading Journal in Calcutta,

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Says our contemporary, criticising the Initial performance of "Leah" by the BANDMANN-BEAUDET Combination:—

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On Wednesday night HERR BANDMANN, in pursuance of the system of rivalry which at present appears to engross him, placed Leah on the beards at the Opera House before the smallest audience we ever recol-

her hatred, though strong, is not so strong as her love, that it has only overlaid her love and that her heart is true to her lover at the core and in spite of all things. Nowhere in the play did she bring out the grand and noble nature of the Jewess more beautifully than in the way in which she recognised that the man she loved was noble both in heart and mind, and that she felt the native nobility of her own nature in that she loved such a man.".

It is recorded that when "Trompetblower

IT is strange how much better many people can bear when their eyes are shut. Just natico at church how many people listen in that way... An Ohio man is said to be the owner of 75,000 dols, worth of dogs. It is supposed this sum is arrived at by estimating sausage meat at to'cents per gound

ATELEGRAM to an Indian contemporary states that the Prince of Wales will lay the foundation- stone of the Indian Institute at Oxford during

the present month,

Ir is stated that the Suez Canal Company have finally decided to postpone making a new Canal parallel to the present one, and to proceed with works in connection with the construction of the three great stations at Kantara, Timsah, and the Kilometric station No. 133.

A REGULAR Lodge of Zetland, No. 5a5, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening at 8.30 for 9 o'clock...

THE first order for the suppression of a newspaper under the Crimes Act appeared in the Dublin Ganetie on December 16th, in reference to the Irish World, published in New York. The im portation of this journal will accordingly in future be prohibited.

We are glad to learn that the Canton-Kowloon Telegraph works are now being satisfactorily proceeded with. On the 30th ultimo 783 poles had been erected covering a distance of over 31 miles, and on the foilowing day the cable was successfully laid in the Chung Tang Creek. The land line for the distance laid is already in capital working order.

meaning the aforesaid DANIEL EDWARD BANDMANN-read these critiques in the Daily News, he indulged in a few of those choice expletives, which are so indissolubly associated with his name, and tore his glossy curis in impotent rage. As his "I ONLY want to show you one thing more, Pro. advertisements do not appear in recent fessor: I have invented a short way of boring issues of the Calcutta paper, it is not im- mountains, which, I think, will prove valuable."

NINE-TENTHS of the unhappy marriages are, ac possible that the tragedian nobly avenged "My dear sir," burst forth the wearied listener cording to the Rising Faton Gazette, (a well himself by withdrawing his advertisements if you would only invent a short method of known Georgia journal) the result of green human and press privileges. A failure in Bombay boring Individuals, you would indeed confer a calves being allowed to roam at large in the so- ciety of pastures without any yokes on them. and Calcutta, ostracised from the Austra-lasting bonefit upon the race,?,

They marry and have children before they do lian colonies (where an exceedingly warm

THE following, according to Vanity Fair, is an mustaches; they are fathers of twins before they reception awaits him if he ever ventures incident in Anthony Trollope's life. He was in are proprietors of two pair of pants, and the little back to Melbourne and Sydney) it is the small coffee-room of a wayside inn warming girls they marry are old women before they are just on the cards that the eminent actor his back at the fire, after the manner of English-twenty years of age. Occasionally one of these and author may condescend to honor men. Two youths of the true novel-reading age gosling marriages turns out all right, but it is China with another visit. With many other were seated at an adjacent table discussing admirers of Mr. BANDMANN, we should be mutton chops, but still more eagerly discussing the merits of Trollope's novels of the Barsetshire glad to renew our former pleasant asso-period. Their summing-up was decidedly favour clations with such a distinguished apostle able and eulogistic, save on one point. They And in order that his recep- both agreed in declaring themselves heartily sick of high art. tion should be a fitting and appropriate and tired of "that etemal Mrs. Proudie." At this one, Ling Shing's pair of celebrated juncture, with a gesture of his arm, Anthony been carefully dusted and made ready for happen to be the author of those novels, and

have overheard all you have said; and now I'll active service,

tell you what I'll do—I'll go home and kill Mrt Proudie ! And he was as good as his word, for in the very next number of "The Last Chronicles of Barset" she died suddenly of a fit of apoplexy.

We are informed by Messrs. Adamson, Bell and Co., Agents of the Nouvelle Compagnie Marseil laise de Navigation à Vapeur, that the steamship Stambon, the ploncer steamer of the Company

left Singapore for this port yesterday. The Stambout will be followed in about four weeks by the Amerique. Both these fine steamers were builton the Clyde, and specially constructed for the requirements of the Far East. A rotics In our advertisement columns gives full par ticulars of this fatest shipping enterprise." AT Canterbury, on December 25th inst., it is stated that a serious collision took place between men of the Inniskillings and Buffs. Nearly 200 men were for, an hour engaged in a fierce en- counter with belts, and bayonets. Many were injured, and one man in the Inniskillings had his bead laid open. The riot was quelled by some non-commissioned officers rushing into the melee just as one excited soldier had gone to the assistance of his comrades with a fixed bayonet. Extra guards were mounted, and all the men were confined to barracks.

A MEETING of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon at 2.30, to deal with the following matters

(t) Second reading of the Bill to consolidate and amend the law for Distresses for rent ris medan Cemetery Ordinance (8 of 1867),

(2) First reading of a Bill to amend the Maho First reading of a Bill entitled the Com panics Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1883

- (4) First reading of a Bill relative to Medical Diplomas.a

dressed to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraphinlect having seen at a Calcutta theatre: the double clumped short thirty-sixes have Trollope interrupted by saying, "Gentlemen, I house. But,they see a girl who looks cunning published by the Berlin semi-official press, and

staff.

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The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1883.

DANIEL EDWARD BANDMANN, the eminent

pit was fairly filled, but the stalls presented a "beggarly array of empty benches" that must have been in the highest degree chil ling to the actors,"

The central object in the evening's. entertainment was, of course, Miss BEAU- DET's impersonation of the title role, Last year we had very frequently the pleasant task of awarding praise to Miss BEAUDET for her creditable delineations of the parts composing her repertoire, or, where they were too obviously beyond her powers of performance, for the fullness of promise she gave of maturing into a really brilliant actress: this year, we see with pain, that, from mistaken, advice or some other un- fortunate causes, she appears in emotional plays verging on melodrama, and essays parts which she is, to our mind at least, quite incompetent to perform satisfactorily. We see this with regret, as previous to her arrival here we had looked for- ward to noting with pleasure the improve- ment a year's study had made in her, and the progress she had made towards the successful future we anticipated for

her."

́"Miss BEAUDET's Leah was, as might have

TELEGRAMS.

LONDON, January 31st, APPOINTMENT OF THE NEW FRENCH MINISTER FOR WAR M. Campenon has been appointed Minister for WAT

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ILLNESS OF THE NEW FRENCH PREMIER.

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The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies: upon the cashiering and expulsion of pretenders was interrupted by the illness of M. Fallieres. February 1st.

FRANCE.

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M. Campenon declining to act as Minister of War, M. Thebanden has been appointed.

France has declined the mediation of England with Madagascar.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ENGLAND, to feed her immense population, but to import food to the annual value of one hundred millions sterling.

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a clear case of luck. If there was a law against young galoots sparking and marrying before they have all cut their teeth, we suppose the little (5) Consideration of the Tramways Bill in cusses would evade it in some way, but there Committee:20 ought to be a sentiment against it. It is A report of the meeting will appear in our next. time enough for these bantams to think of issue. finding a pullet when they have raised money ACCORDING to home papers it is rumoured that enough to buy a bundle of laths to build a hen the true source of the recent alarmist articles and they are afraid there are not going to be improved upon by a number of the leading enough girls to go around, and then they begin journals of Europe, was the intention of the Rus to get in their work real spry; and before theysian Government to deal a new and important are aware of the sanctity of the marriage relation loan in Germany. For reasons with which we they are hitched for life, and before they own: a are not made acquainted, it did not suit the Ger cook-stove or a bedstead, they have to get up in man Government that the said financial project the night and go after the doctor, so frightened should succeed-at all events, not in Germany. that they run themselves out of breath and abuse it is hardly necessary to add that the apprehen the doctor because he doesn't run too, and when stons of war inspired by recent bellicose publien- in the house to wrap up a doll-baby. the doctor gets there there is not enough locations in the European press have resulted in the

SAYS the Indian Daily News-In the year 1880-81, the importations of tea into India showed a falling off, and it was hoped by some that this was a proof that there was an increasing

temporary renunciation of any endeavour to effect the proposed loan. It is now generally consumption of Indian tea in the country.

believed that there is little chance of the peace During last year, however, these hopes were not AN American contemporary points out the gratiof Europe being disturbed, and that slight im- realised as the imporis again. largely increased.fication with which the Paris press has hailed portance should be attributed to the sensational It has been observed that while, the price of the election of one Antoine at Metz, the capital statements published last week. ** Indian teas has increased by about 14 per cent. of Lorraine, as a sign that the people of Alsace- there has been a slight fall in the price of the China Lorraine are dissatisfied with the government BARON MARTIN whose death is chronicled in article, and the greater part of the importations Germany has given them. The new member the Indian papers as having taken place on have been of an inferior quality, with an average belongs to the party that has never ceased to January 1oth, was the son of Mr. Samuel Martin value of eight anaas per pound. The Collector of protest against the annexation of the two proof Calmore, Londonderry, and was born in 1807. Customs points out that while the consumption of vinces. It is difficult to see any good reason for He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, en- tea is said to be increasing amongst the natives

the existence of such a party." As the two tered at Gray's Inn în 1821, and afterwards at up-country, the trade is left almost entirely to provinces had belonged to France for two the Middle Temple; practising at first as a special the Chinese, as the tea planters of India do pot centuries prior to 1871, it was natural that the pleader. After having been called to the bar by seem disposed to take the trouble to enter into population should first dislike the separa: the latter society in 1810, he went the Northern"

This is a matter to which tea planters should tion, for they did not then know whether direct their attention, for it is difficult to under- Germany would give them kind or harsh treat stand how a foreign anicle can be imported such ment. But all doubt on that head is now dissi long distance cheaper than it can be grown on pated. The German Government of Alsace the spot; and as far as the question is affected Lorraine is as mild as any in the world. The ought certainly to be in its favour. WRITING on the Curiosities of Evidence" Leisure Hour observes that some of the more ignorant of the Roman Catholic Church have a curious idea of the sanctity of an oath. We remember an old hish woman being called as a witness at a recent assize at Liverpool to prove on the part of the defence an alibi as to the evidence utterly irreconcilable with the state prisoners. She was duly sworn, and gave ments of other witnesses of undoubted veracity: it was quietly suggested by a clergyman in court that the Testament used in administering the

tragedian who made Shakespere famous, bean expected, a hysterical maiden, very quarter miles long. During the progress of the by quality, the greater strength of Indian tea taxes are much lighter than they were under Aug 1847, was elected, on Liberal principles,

oath had no cross upon the cover. On this repre--

sentation another book was sent for which bore the sacred symbol; and being somewhat relut tantly resworn on the new volume, she did not besitate to say, on being questioned, that all her testimony just given, was false, quietly re.

the French rule, and full half of them are indirect from customs duties, While the taxes direct and indirect in France average as high as $8 per head for the support of the central Govern; ment, those of these two Germanized provinces do not exceed $6.50. The revenue in 1879 was $9,933-799, the population being 1,531,804 The assertion that the people are of French blood, and that the French and Germans cannot affiliate, is

nearly all German. The country was a part of the absurd. The blood of Elsass and Lotheringen is German Empire from the days of Charlemagne, under the Hapsburgs, the Franconians, Hilen stauffens and Hapsburg-Lorraine emperors, for thousand years before the French kings got possession of it. And, according to the latest. estimates, it appears that but 300,000 are of French, against 1,350,000, of German origin. They have merely gone back to where they

originally belonged.

circuit, and gained reputation In Liverpool and other towns by the ability he exhibited in the conduct of cases. He married a daughter of Sir Frederick Pollock, the Lord Chief Baron, in 1843, was made QC, and at the general election in

one of the members for Pontefract, which be re presented till 1850, when he was appointed a Baron of the Exchequer, and shortly afterwards knighted. He resigned his judgeship at the close of the year: 1873, and was sworn of the Privy. Council. He rejoined the bench of the Middle Temple in 1878, ***

THE Standard correspondent writes from St. Petersburg un, the 2nd December: A letter in

the Turkestas Gazelle from Vyernoe states

that on October 14th a large number of Chinese troops with guns and colours arrived at Alin- tinsky, Station, which had been abandoned by the Russians in accordance with the Treaty of the Ist of that month, and laying hands on the former Elder of Ananiskin, who had returned for some property left behind, tortured him to death. The ame fate befell a clerk of the merchant Tara-

from taking their reve

has been lar

THE St. Gothard Tunnel, which pierces the Alps between Italy and Switzerland, is nine and a and Louise BEAUDET, the chaste and ac- fair of face, considering the fact that she works, 177 men were killed on the spot, and 631

others injured, some of them fatally. complished young artiste who won such lived an outcast life in the open air, and kudos by her acting on and off the stage in was without head-gear, strong of passion, THE Aborigines of Australia are dying off very this ultra-virtuous colony last summer, ap- and shrill of tongue. In the quieter scenes rapidly. The last annual report of the Ramah pear to have signally failed to please the where she made love to Rudolf, Miss BEAU-Yuck Mission of the Moravians, states that the census returns of the colony show that the natives discontented and captious critics of Bom DET was most successful, but the tragic have decreased in ten years from 1,330 to 768. bay and Calcutta. "Trompetblower," fire, which, in Miss BATEMAN struck awe meaning the said DANIEL EDWARD BAND- into all her audience in the famous curse, employed in New Jersey, United States, for

WE read that carbolic acid has been successfully HANN-this is the phraseologic style sane was sadly wanting on Wednesday, and its extciminating flies and mosquitoes. A small tloned by the Supreme Court of Hongkong, place was ill supplied by facial contortion piece of cloth saturated with the acid was hung and for copying which legal sharks charge and vehemence of gesture and action."

up in a room, and in two hours the flies bad the modest sum of two dollars per follo of In the same copy of the Indian Daily disappeared: 72 words--get into hot water with the press News from which we extract the above, A RECENT Parliamentary return shows that, in in Bombay. There was nothing particu- Miss POMEROY'S Impersonation of Leah is the five years, 1877-81, sixty-eight bodies (sixty larly singular in that as a greatest of all criticised in the following terms:-Miss males and eight females) were found in the artistes manages to quarrel with the Fourth POMEROY, In the opening scenes, carried Thames within the precincts of the city of Lon-

soff Both bodies were burnt, seemingly alive. Estate wherever he goes, simply because the hearts of her audience with her by the don district, and. 1,810 (1,270 males and 540

marking, in answer to a remonstrance from the

On the 17th were found the bodies of two Cose the number of newspapers that will degrade way in which she brought out that Runotr. females) in the metropolitan police district.

counsel, that she supposed she might say what

sacks, cut in pieces by the same Chinese, and two their columns by barefaced and lying and LEAK loved each other with the rare FROM the report on military prisons it appears she pleased as long as she was not "sworn CONCERNING Sir Joseph Napler, who died ro

days after their comrades saw their horses near puffing of one of the most notorious im- and beautiful affection of high natures, and the number of men discharged from the army on the blessed crucifix The custom of cently, some stories come to Vanity Fair from those of the Chinese. The Chinese authorities- postors and mountebanks that ever dis- because their spirits were kindred, and for bad conduct in each year since 1868 is a kissing the thumb instead of the book was con- Dublin. When Lord Derby made him Lord pretend to disbelieve the whole story, which the graced the histrionic art, are luckily limited both were noble. She finely realised and follows:-1869, 2,4701 1870, 1,616; 1871, 1,9324dered by many an evasion of the moral obliga Chancellor in 1853 It was found that, though Consul in Kaldia, is engaged in unravelling in number. Papersofthe Fish Wrapper, Maud-pictured forth the depth, and force, and 1873, 1.694; 1873, 2,065; 1874, 1.648: 1875, 1,667; tion attached to an oath, while to others holding legally qualified, he was physically disqualified is difficult to restrain people on the Russian side

for the dulles. To mend the inconveniences of of the fer and Shanghai Mercury type are happily | overmastering power of affection in the 1876, 1,682; 1877, 3,003; 1878, 1,811; 1879, 2,091 the Testament upside down was deemed an

1880, 1,826; 1881, 1,518. (

equally efficacious release. These and other dis extreme deafness however, he mastered, in ad frontler rare on the face of this terrestrial sphere. southern and intense nature of the Jewess. Of course Mr. BANDMANN had several cases Further on her scorn and agony were IN our description of the Masonic Ball in yeater reputable artifices are, however, very little lavance of each case, all the documents connected atory mus In the Bombay courts; but it so happens in keeping with the strong gladness with day's issue we appear to have fallen into the dulged in at the present day. When the cele with it, and the subsequent performance in court it as it standpina that Indian judges and Indian juries are which she had gloried in her affection. mistake as our morning contemporary with brated Serjeant Hill conducted a defence at the partook very much of the character of dumb ful relat

regard to the music. The colleagues of "The bar of the House of Lords, he propounded show, so far as the observation of Sir Joseph var not quite so easily gulled as were our When Rudour cast her off, it was Buffa" in the musical department were not the a question" to a witness which the counsel went. Year after he was appolated Judge, of local Solomon and that wonderful combin-plain that she did not comprehend the members of the band of the U.S.8, Richmondy on the other side objected to. After much Appeal "What!" exclaimed Mr. Justice Keoghi ation of intellect and Intelligence, the jury reason of ble scorn; but when she did they were the band of the French flag-ship Le had bean said on either side, the law a man who cannot hear the sound of bisn In the Telegraph libel caso, and the conse apprehend that he had permitted that a Victorieuse

Lords themselves disagreed, and the bar and allows bell, to make him Judge of a Peal!! S quence was that all his attempts to pose trial should be made of her affection as a THE American Artisan says that poison of any an abience of two hours they were re-admited, Evangelical, and was a prominent and energette the strangers were ordered to withdraw. After Napler professed himself at all times a staunch as a martyr and representative of injured thing to be measured by money, she seemed description, which has been swallowed, may be Innocence fell flat on the judicial ear, and to soar above him, and to dwarf him into rendered harmless by swallowing two gills of and the Lord Chancellor Informed Mr. Hill supporter, of the Church Education Society, and Daniel the Great was mulcted in costs littleness-so mean did she make it ap-sweet oil. An individual, with a very strong that the House decided the question might be when Disestablishment became law he helped in each instance. The people of Bombay parent that man must be who could suppose constitution, should take twice the quantity, put. Please you, my lords," said the Ser to frame the new constitution of the Irish Churc declined to acknowledge the dramatic pre- that love could be bought or sold. Again, This of will neutralise every form of vegetable Jeant, "it is so long since I asked the question, Observing one day a peasant tensions of the arrogant tragedian and after she had been cast off, nothing could of mineral polson with which physicians and that I forgot what it was, but with your lord-brook Road angrily belabouring

ships permission I will put another." A withe remonstrated with him, withheld their patronage from his per- be finer or more pathetic than the way in

ness was lately called on a trial at the Old Your Lord and Master rode formances, so that the season, proving a which she blessed the bride and bride- THE following statistics are given of a snow Bailey to prove an alibi, He solemnly swore salem.” “If he had this

he would not be financial failure, had to be unceremoniously groom, whoever they might be, and storm in the United States. The storm extended that the prisoner on the night and at the hour cool reply cut short. Rumours of nose-pulling and yearned out of the widowhood of her own wide, and the average depth of the snow was one bed at a distant part of the parish. Nothing sociate of Whites

over a district, 1,500 miles long and 300 miles, in question, 11.25 P.M., was at home and in Napler was the near desolateness to witness and look upon their foot. The weight was estimated at five tons to could shake his testimony, for he said he more widely happy faces, as in some sort a token that the acre, or 3,200 tons to the square mile, or had looked at the clock just as the pris ploddings solemn, her own sorrow should not be wholly with-- grand total of 1,410,000,000 tons of now, and oper went up stairs, and he had set the clock he presented, the out & cure, But in the scene where she this weight of snow fell in one storm, and withis night with the church clock himself the same overwhelms Rudolf with reproaches, and a period of four days, clothe

day, and it was certainly 11:25 pm. strikes him, senseless with her curse. An Irish cale Lent to the stable to bring it do

the time zoW blandly

examined, point Miss POKEROY showed a power essentially forth a traveller's home. Not knowing which tragic, terrible because of its earnestness, the two strange horses in the stable and affecting because it was so plainly the the traveller, and wishing to avoid the appe sald 16 you outcome of a great and bitter grief. In the

sama both animali a brought

kicking were rife in Bombay, and we can readily believe that when such violent measures were resorted to, the courageous champlon of the good name, fair fame and persons of the fair sex was made an un- of the However, the good people of Bombay, like the good people of Lon- don, were very quick to perceive that Mr. BANDMANN was. Indeed the only exponent

of Dragic Bower and they said

are doo good vor us, you vaste your dime last scenes, again, when she finds her way here, you go mit your gifts to Calcutta

where they can appreciate ranting and

back to the house of Rudolf, by an effort of

the highest skill Miss Founnor shows that

roaring"" and so the Inventor of Hamlet in spite of the curse and the separatio

chemists are acquainted,

ayeler

بخانه ها را به

monumen full of

White

with caution, but

and Chips