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The White Cloud took the placa of the Kin- Kinng on the Macao route to-day and will con- tinue running on that line until further notice. The Kiukiang will take the place of the Monam on the Canton river for a week, starting on Mon- day next, the Honain requiring some slight repairs. WHILE her Majesty's 'ship Agincourt was making preparations to put to sea on February 6th, her fore-topgallant mast broke off at the cap. Three men were on it at the time. One of them alighted on an iron stanchion on the forecastle, the stanchion passing through his body and killing him; another fell across the forecastle bridge and was killed; whilst the third was caught in the rigging and escaped with a shaking. At the place where the mast snapped off the wood was found to be completely rotten.

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ject, Mr. EMANUEL is reported to have gone AN inquest will be held at the Government Civil

THE Times correspondent at Calro says that THE Army and Navy Gazette says:-We hava news from the Soudan confirms the serious good authority for knowing that Lord Wolseley ahead in the following strain:-

Hospital to-day at 4.30 on the body of a China- | He said the observances, customs, ideas, pre-man, aged about thirty, which was found floating

nature of the present position:-"Four thousand has reported so strongly against the comb judices, and superstitions of China were vast, and in the harbour at go'clock this morning. Drown

Egyptian troops are at Darfour and five thousand sariat and transport of the army, as at present aa yet almost unworked. The widespread tradi-ing is supposed to have been the cause of death.

more at Bara and Obeid." Although not closely constituted, that an influential committee is tions of the Aryan family, down to the homely AMILY AND DISPENSING superstitions of our own peasantry, the myths of IT was on the New England wreck, and the bil

invested they are cut off from anything but about to be appointed for the purpose of consid fitful communication with the outer world. The cring the advisability of its immediate reorgan FAMILY

Oceanica, and the popular tales of Scandinavia low's were a bit angry. The cook ran up to one

relieving force is at Khartoum, under: Abdelitation. had received illustration and often erudite com- of the clergymen, weeping. "We'd be lost," he

Kader, who will now be superseded by Alaidin ment from capable pens. In endeavouring to deal with the observances of China he had some said, "we'll be lost now. We must trust in

Pasha. The latter will have Col. Hicks as chief WE read in a home paper that Mr. Justice Chit- exceptional advantages, having made the langu Him." "What," cried the parson, in deep ang age à study during his five years' residence in uish, "Trust in Hima! Are all the boats gone?"

of the staff. Two to three hundred miles ty has ordered the committal to prison for con- separate them from the beleaguered forts, and tempt of Court of Samuel Pritchard Jones-who, that country, and the assistance of some of his He then ran up on deck. - Fact |

the rebels have closed up the wells, which as the Judge observed, sold his son into Chinese friends, from whom he bad taken

renders relief almost impossible till after the slavery, from which he was rescued whilst several notes on the subject. That a popula. A SUBSCRIPTION has been opened in county

rainy season, three months hence. To attempt with a troupe of acrobats in Constantinople-for tion so enormous that of China-variously Wicklow to present Mr. Parnell with a testi- estimated at from 250,000,000 to 400,000,000

should present

a hold of most interesting in-monial. At a meeting of the Ovoca branch of the

relief now with the present insufficient force having attempted to induce the boy to leave Dr. quity was less strange than, that so few inquirers National League it was decided that the testi-

would be to invite defeat, involving the loss of Barnardo's Home. should as yet have essayed to explore it. The monial should be a handsome one, and more than

the Soudan. To leave the force unrelieved is to run the risk of their being compelled to surrender. doings of every Chinaman, from Emperor ta lie, were affected and guided by astrological adequate to clear off the old inherited mortgage portents, divinations, &c., in which even the confidence that half of million would be sub- BANDMANN's stay in Madras appears to have they hay vaginal motion, exists as to whether educated, who affect to despise confidence that half a million would be sub-proved as financially unsuccessful as his recent ; they have mean to hold out. Seninbur is mean them, place a practical trust. It must not, scribed in a few weeks.

Bombay and Calcutta experiments. We note while also in revolt, and it would seem necessary however, be supposed that these superstitious beliefs differ to any material extent from those

from an advertisement in the Straits Timer that subjugate this province before attempting current amongst humanity elsewhere. Turning

the great tragedian will shortly open in Singa- operations elsewhere. Alaidin will, therefore, a moment to the page of Western history,

pore with "A new London company," We probably occupy the period before the rainy they found that the belief in oinens, divinations,

wonder if "Trompet-blower" will pluck up suffi-season in restoring order in Sennaar, and will then &c., had, since the earliest times, influenced com-

cient courage to pay Hongkong another visit march tothe relicfoftheforts if they arostfolding munities in comparison with whom they inclined,

It is hardly likely, and yet it is just passible, as out, and endeavour to suppress the Mahdi - with somewhat undue arrogance, to term the

the other bând, a Reuter's telegram states that ' ACCORDING to the Bulletin, success has made Chinese barbarous. In the

century they found a Council of Church Pope Gre

he would certainly be risking his precious car. case if he ventured again into the Australian despatch from Col. Stewart contains intelligence gory II, Charlemagne, his successor, and the

"showing the falsity of the recent alarmistiumours abbots and bishops of Scotland and France,

regarding the state of affairs in the Soudan vehemently denouncing beliefs similar in all re- spects to these in vogue in China. The great

The recent defest of the Egyptians at Mahdi, Martin Luther himself believed in superstitions

telegraphef from London on the 7th inst, com as gross as any recorded. Then there was Mint

plicates matters considerably, and renders it not thew Hopkins, the witch-finder. The Puritans of the New World outyied in their superstitious

improbable that British aid will have to be in bigotry the worst absurdities recorded in Chinese

voked before the False Prophet is effectually disposed of. annals. It was well to recall these matters, be cause the enlightened of the present age were apt to sicer too unreservedly at the It is requested that all communications rela-blind gropings after truth of less favoured ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., be ad- dressed to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph" and not to the Editor.

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races. Treating more particularly of super- stitions as to personal fortune, Mr. Eman uel said that in China, as throughout the Western world, curious superstitions attach to human life in all its various stages. The hour and day of an infant's birth were as much matter of solicituds to the Chinese female as to the wise men of our own north country hamlets. Before the birth of a child a ceremony is per- formed by a priest, to frighten away the demons who were supposed to haunt the mother. A

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IN country places people still entertain an absurd antipathy to banking their money. A worthy old couple who lived at St. Columb recently died and left their only son 150, which was buried the garden. The heir went and unearthed. treasure one evening, gloated over it, and returned the coin to the earth. During the night a man who was not the heir came to the garden, digip the treasure, gloated over it, and carried it off A SYDNEY contemporary states that from 1872 to 1882 there were crushed at the Charters Towers diggings 398,966 tons of stone for 653,845 oz. of gold. During 1882, 43,715 tons were crushed for 79,187 or. of gold. The Day Dawn claim

rocking an empty cradle. In Henderson's Folkstallation of the officers of three Lodges is an- lore of the Northern Counties" the first verse of nounced, vir: of St. John's Lodge, No. 618, S.C.;

fragment says:-

Victoria, No. 1,026, and United Service, No

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"Oh rock not the cradle when the baby's not la,

For thla by old woman is counted a sin,

it's a crime su ishumanit may na" be forger, And they that would do it has lost sight of brave,"

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Colonies.

THE Spanish frigate Aragon, with the Captain- General of the Philippines, Senor Don Fernando Primo de Rivera, Marquer de Estella, on board, arrived in harbour this morning from Manila... His Excellency arrival was the signal for the i usual round of saluting from the shore batteric and the flagships of the various squadrons now represented in our waters,

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Kosmos, of the World hypercritical, In the administering of an unmerciful castigation to Tennyson, called forth by his "Promise to May,.. he says:-Maries should have died when he was descending from his Teutonic chariot; Thack cray should have laid his pen finally down before he wrote 'Philip; and Alfred Tennyson, if the sequel of his industry were to be such trash as The Promise of May, should have sunk into silence, since he sang the last Idyll of the Kings:

17a Kh's last seana-what prodigies surgelse 7 - Fears of the brave, and follier of the wisey From Marlborough'a syns the dreams of doregs flow, And Swift spires a driveller andʼn show,'?”:

CHICAGO, it appears, can justly lay claim to reckoning among its inhabitants the man with the longest beard in the world, or, at any rate, if This is capital "copy, of course, for style; but there lives one with a longer beard, he has never what Mr. Escott says about Philip on his way put in an appearance in answer to Adam Kirper's through the World" is great rot; the book being a most delightful study, of Paris, and thoroughly repeated challenge. The individual in question-healthy in tone which is a good deal more who is now in his sixty-sixth year, is a German

THE Freeman's Journal strongly recommends Irish Nationalists to contest the seat for the county of Dublin rendered vacant by the death of Colonel Taylor, and not let the Conservatives walk over. points out that, though in 1874 Mr. Parnell himself contested the county and was defeated, has yielded from 25,962 tons of stone 59,524 KL.. of gold, or an average of about 3 oz. 7 dwt. per times have greatly changed, and public opinion in ton, and a total value of £199,999. Its total divireland is roused against the Government and the Tories. Our contemporary's views apparently douds amounted to £129,999 B, and 12,000 had a very unstable foundation, as a London had been spent in plant.

telegram dated the 1st inst., announces that THE Keystone, a well known masonic newspaper, Colonel King-Harman, the Tory candidate, was published in Philadelphia, in its issue of January elected by an overwhelming majority. 20th says:-Masonry in Hongkong, China, ap- GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, the well known pears to be in a flourishing condition, as appears joumalist, is said to be remarkable for extreme by birth, and so early in life as eleven was re-than can be said, with truth, of either Vanity from the news of the Craft in the Hongkong | nanchalance, a white waistcoat, and a red nose.markable for the hairy development on his chin. Fair" or "The Newcomes"-which are, looking Telegraph of December 11th ult, a copy of He likewise used to boast that not even the At that age he began to shave, but left off the use at them from a Congregationalist point of view, graph will always be open for the tair discussion widespread superstition exists at home here which has been fraternally sent us. The in-smartest counsel could upset bis equanimity in of razor at sixteen, since which time he has of the world worldly. In the "Promise of May,” cultivated his beard, made a little fortune out of than of the people who produced it, since, it is

the failure

was perhaps less the fault of the author - it, and earned notoriety by it. When as a

"business" should be produced at all. It seems young man he entered the German army he pretty plain, no piece which is all pitch and no boasted of a moustache measuring, it is sald 3 ft. long; but the inconvenience this appendage that in "The Promise" the hero, Edgar, bas occasioned him induced him to sacrifice it. Soon speeches about Freethought as long as the Mont afterwards he went to America, where he has Cenis tunnel, and the dialogue is, generally since resided-the wonder and astonishment of speaking, as baid as the proverbial badger. Mr. his fellow-men. His remarkable beard over Irving accepted the Cup," he cut it down so, that when Tennyson went to rehearsal he cried twenty years ago measured 5 ft. in length." Then he cut it off disposing of it to the Chicago to have it back again. And so the “Cup” was Museum for 75 dols. Since he has left it uncen Bad though Mr. Tennyson's last by exhibiting himself and by the sale of his has done so much good work. Will Kosmos"

do any better, we wonder at 731. portraits. Between the years 1877 and 1881 it had grown a ft., and at the present time the American papers say it measures.exactly 13ft When he goes out he rolls it round a leather girdle which is altached to his waists but within doors he allows it to hang down to its full lenght, enveloping his feet in it if the weather happens to be cold. As he is now growing old he has made his arrangements for what is to be done with his beard after death. By the terms of his will it is to be cut off and sold to any amateur of. such natural phenomena who will pay the high- bis son, who singularly enough, though verg ing on forty-is as beardless as a youth of fourteen.

Advertisers are requested to forward all notices intended for insertion in that day's issue not later than THREE O'CLOCK so as not to retard the early publication of the paper.

SHE was a widow, and he was a retired naval steward. She was in receipt of a salary of ten shillings a-week as a sempstress in Devonport Dockyard, while he had a pension of fifty pounds a-year and owned several houses. He promised to marry the charming widow, but his name was light, and he blighted her young affections. The result was an action for breach of promise of

court. His nose being so red, he had acquired a habit of toning it down with a little powder, and he had a sprinkle of this embellishment on the first time he stood up to be cross-examined by Sergeant Ballantine. All the preceding counsel had treated him (he was called as a literary expert) with great consideration, so he rather defied the Sergeant than otherwise. "Mr. Sala," said Ballantine, rising, "you've got some flour on your nose." Then he was all "broke up." A smart man would have replied: "No, Sergeant, it's not flour-it's blossom."

TO SUBSCRIBERS. Arrangements have been made to publish The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 4 PM. Sub- scribers in the central districts who do not receive their copies before FIVE O'CLOCK will oblige by posee rock;" which meant, "Don't rock the marriage. The heart-broken widow pleaded her in the Queen's Bench Division an application touched, but continues to make money out of it effort is it seems a pity to slate him when he

at once communicating with the Manager.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1883.

MR. P. H. EMANUEL, who will be best re- membered as the marine reporter of our morging contemporary and as an amateur

Now, strangely enough, Chinese nurses in the South of China had precisely the same belief. A little four year old girl, who was a very in timate acquaintance of his (Mr. Emanuela) in Hongkong, some two years and a half ago, began rocking the cradle in which her newly-hem sister was usually laid to sleep. An amab, or nurse, rushed at the child, exclaiming. "You no g die, makee luck so fashion! That baby b'long d cradle like that, for if you do the baby will die." As it happened the baby did dic, as was fully expected by the medical attendant; but of course the amah found in the anticipated fact a verifi- cation of her prediction, and further inquiry satisfied him (Mr. Emanuel) that the superstition was identical with and quite as widespread as our own. In Germany it was usual to lay in the cradle of a child soon after its birth a package of snap-dragon, blue marjoram, black cumin, a right shirt-sleeve, and a left stocking; while, on the authority of Mr. Henderson, in Scotland, the little one's safeguard is held to be in the juxtaposition of some article of dress belonging to its father." In China this custom was paral leled by those prevailing in Germany superstitions regarding marriage, showing the throwing of rice and the use of bride cake were similar to the English practice. The lucky days for marrying were the first, sixth, and tenth of the month. He went on to show that the be- trothal ceremony was deeply interwoven with superstitious observances. The paper concluded with a notice of the superstitions connected with deaths and burials.

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cause so well with the jury that they immediately ordered her a substantial solatium in the shape of three hundred pounds damages, which the faithless Blight will have to pay. The elder Weller's advice to his son-"Bevare of the vid dies, Sammivell," apparently still holds good for those who will take it.

ON the subject of the Chinese newspaper lately York the correspondent of a San started ( Francisco contemporary saysThe arst number of the first Chinese newspaper ever published in this city is to make its appearance to-day. Wong Chip Foo is the editor in chief. The matter is will contain is to be written or selected by Wong Chin Foo, who will dictate it to a Chinese scribe, He in turn will print or paint it with India ink and a pointed stick upon sheets of paper, from which from the stone in the shape it is to appear. The publishers any that but for this process the publi cation would be impossible by reason of its cost In the past "It has been custonjary to engrave

prestidigitaleur of considerable ability, has land. Mr. Emanuel then dealt with the Chinese invented by Professor Haselmayer. A strongly as a matter of fact, plaintiff was not a memberfest price for it; the money to be handed over to it will be photo-lithographed, and then printed

been favoring the members of the Portsea Jewish Literary and Debating Society with his views on "The Superstitions and Cus toms of the Chinese. Mr. EMANUEL had a deservedly high reputation during his residence in Hongkong for his audacious self assertion-usually termed impudence and it would seem that he remains still

unfettered with the trammels of modesty. Had the worthy ex-reporter's abilities 'been at all commensurate with his ex-

that

From the above summary it would seem

that if the learned lecturer actually knew anything of Chinese superstitions and cus- toms, he had sufficient tact to keep the knowledge to himself. Mr. EXAMUEL's ex- ceptional advantages in dealing with the observances of China," namely, a study of the language during his five years resid- ence in the country, and the assistance of some Chinese friends from whom he had taken several notes," will amuse all who had the slightest acquaintance with the energetic marine reporter of our morning contemporary. We wonder if the anxious inquiries made by a number of our Chinese friends as to Mr. EMANUEL's whereabouts, after, that gentleman's sudden disappearance from the Colony two or three years ago, had anything to do with The Superstitions and Customs of the Chinese"? Possibly those were some of the Chinese friends from whom he had taken notes"! For

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the whole of each Chinese work to be published, because the sixty thousand characters of the a language are not represented by type. Wong Chin Foo says leading men, among the Chineis not merely the honour of being chronicled, but in this city are pleased with the prospect of reward more substantial and the highest distinc- tion bestowed on those who save human lifer A Posing a paper that will convey to them German barque, the Prins Adalbert, hard pressnews of the week in those beloved hieroglyphics

the literature of the tea trade, But the same ed by the fury of the hurricane, was being towed that Americans can be brought to think of only in into Swanses, when the tug-rape broke, and the connection, with washbils, recracker labels and was driven ashore on the rocks to the west of the Chinamen say that Mumbles Head. Once within the shelter made by that bold projecting point, with its brilliant

are in New York white beacon, she would have been safe; but now

and thirty Chinese she was at the mercy of the billows. Her position:

admit that but few mediately a lifeboat put out to her assistance to the full was noticed from the village behind, and im-

manned by eleven gallant fellows. Five of these were members of one family. Skilfully she was by sturdy arms alongside the vessel, when a sea capsized her, and her crew were flung waters. With a rare perseverance and inte they succeeded in getting on board again other gigantic swell drove them and thele the age ofthe eleven, four portf cogulfed by the receding tide, and ed to obtain a foothold, but in a mis aition, bruised, battered, and Lacerate family of five, three were rescued, father, but one of these is not expect

by a Mr. Heymanson for an injunction to restrain the defendants--the committee of the Hanover square Club-from expelling him was heard lately. The differences arose from the black- balling of four friends of the plaintiff, and a letter written by the latter on the occasion, stigmatising the committee as "bankrupt in courtesy and every gentlemanlike instinct." With this letter PROFESSOR Haselmayer's performance on Thurs: Mr. Heymanson sent in his resignation, which day night attracted another large audience and the committee refused to accept unless he with- everything passed off most satisfactorily. The drew the objectionable part of his letter. This most noteworthy item in the programme plaintiff declined to do, and expulsion followed, was the celebrated Cabinet illusion-atrick The application was refused, on the ground that, made plate-glass cabinet, bound with wood, of the club, and therefore no injunction could be is placed on the stage, close to the foot-

granted to prevent his expulsion. lights. In the front part of the cabinet a pair of hand cuffs are fitted, with locks attached. A HOME paper points out that the number of Two gentleinen from the audience come on the people who have of late accused themselves of stage and carefully examine the cabinet and its murder for the purpose of securing a free journey AN incident of heroism brightens the record of fittings. Madame Haselmayer is then introduced home by land or sea has been somewhat con- disaster during the recent gales on the English to the audience; she enters the cabinet, which is siderable, and the example of these cunning self-coasts which deserves, says a home contemporary only large enough for the purpose, places her accusers has just been followed and improved hands in the "bracelets" which are securely upon in a somewhat amusing manner. An fastened, the cabinet is then closed and locked. unknown gentleman has recently made many A canopy is let down hiding the cabinet from the appearances in the Queen's Bench Division of audience; at the clapse of 18 seconds Madame the High Court and has endeavoured to make smilingly appears, the curtain is withdrawn and the some statement, but the judges have steadily cabinet is discovered empty, the locks apparently refused to hear him except through counsel, so untouched, and nothing to explain how the lady on Monday last he made a last frantle attempt got rid of her shackles, and secured an exit from to secure a lotus standi by asking to be com her prison. The trick was very cleverly permitted for wilful and corrupt perjury. Mr. Baron formed, and was loudly applauded To-night Pollock refused to grant even this last despairing Professor and Madame Haselayer will make plea, so the poor suitor will have to tax his in- their last appearance before a Hongkong audience, genuity in devising yet another plan. when several startling novelties, particulars of which are detailed in our advertising columns, death of the late Archbishop of Canterbury will be produced. The electric illuminations was, remarks the Sydney Bulletin, due to an ill-steered past the futting lighthouse, and imp should prove a gerat attraction, and we shall excess which originated in a remarkably charac

teristic manner. At the commencement of his- pect to see the largest house of the season.

Illness the spirit of devotion to his duty, which was a marked feature of his career, impelled him Ho KAT WAN, an opium dealer, appeared before Mr. Wodehouse this morning on a charge of to go to Osborne to confirm the sons of the having in his possession, without a proper per Prince of Wales in August last, against the mit, a quantity of prepared opium, Dr. Ho Kai strongly expressed opinion of his medical ad appeared on behalf of the defendant. Defendant wiser. "It is the last thing I shall do for the admitted the possession of about 303 taels of Queen," he said, and I mean to do it." He his own sake, we trust that Mr. ExNUEL prepared opium and said he had purahased. It caught cold, and the attack of inflammation of the will in future, when giving the literary and from the We Tang Shop, which is licensed to sell Jungs which came on was the beginning of his debating society of which he is such a dis-prepared opium. Tuoi Ma Chat, an accountant Jast illness. His flunkeyism killed him. If itemible are his injuries. His scalp was tinguished ornament the benefit of his in the Wo Tang Opium Shop stated that he Chinese experiences, take steps to prevent known the defendant and has had dealings with the publication of what he must be per hinz. He has not sold any opium to the delen fectly well aware, can only lead to his dant this (Chinese) year. Last year, on Janu being made the laughingstock of all who ary 27th, he sold him more than 360 taels and THE 124th anniversary of, Burns' binbday was one had his neck broken, and the othe

gave him the bill for the same which is now in celebrated throughout Scotland on January 25th smashed in by the violence Court marked "A." "The bill is dated, 6th The Edinburgh Burns, Club had a dinner in | bravo gitle, daughters of a lighth know anything of China and its customs.”

January 1883." He does not, when selling Waterloo Hotel, Edinburgh, and the toast of the heard shrieks of distress, and rushed opium, give any other certificate than a similar evening, The Memory of Burns," was proposed of the boiling cauldron. They could bill to the one produced. The oplum he sold to by the Rev. Dr. Bees, of St Giles's Cathedral Ho Kat Wan was in the jars which are now in Burns' monument In George Square, Glasgow, Court. The value of the opium sold was over was profusely decorated; toasts to his memory $200. His firm does a large business in were drunk, and his ballads were ung with prepared opium. After bearing the evidence, enthusiasm at dinners held to celebrate the occa Mr. Wodehouse fined the opium holder/ission. In London the anniversary was celebrated the sum of $300, with the option of three months at St. James's Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, imprisonment. The opiam found on his pre where concerts were given respectively by Mr mises to be forfeited and handed over to the Ambrose Austin and Mr. William Carter. The THE Jewish race will probably become extinct Colonial Treasurer. The opium) was pounced first part of the programme at St. James's Hall when it has performed its mission:" remarked an upon by P.C. 102, George Crook, from faforma consisted of excerpts from Burns. Mr. Sims Israelite in the course of a discussion on the sub-tion received, there being no less than five: Reeves SantaŁAÚD ject for you know, he added, addressing's worthles of the informer class engaged in the Gentile sitting at his side, the race hay mille case. These artists were ordered to be rewarded sion.Yes sardonically replied the Gentile, with sto cach if the fine of the sube: “that of selling old clothes cheap!”

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traordinary pretensions, he would cer- tainly have created a sensation in the world. However, although brazen-faced "check" is but a poor substitute for the more substantial attributes of know- ledge, ability and experience, it cannot be denied that Mr. ExANVEL's great, pnergy and exceptional audacity have gained for him a certain amount of notoriety as an authority on Chinese matters. We need hardly say that, as a matter of fact, the oracle of the Portsea Jewish Literary and Debating Society knows practically as much about the Chinese language, the Chinese people and their customs and superstitions as the enterprising globe-trotter of the Mrs. BRASSEY stamp, who pays a flying visit to Hongkong, Canton and Macao, and then publishes three volumes of arrant rubbish, gleaned from unreliable guide books and hotel and steamboat gossip, as personal experiences of China and the Chinese. Ink is cheap in these days, and there would be no objections to crack- brained enthusiasts slinging it freely in relating their globe-trotting adventures and experiences, if they would only refrain from publishing their milk and water twaddle.

After carefully perusing the newspaper report of the "Interesting paper" read by our old acquaintance, Mr. P. H. EMANUEL, to a large attendance of the Portsea Jewish Literary and Debating Society, we are at a loss to discover anything of the slightest Interest, in any way relating to The Superstitions and Customs of the Chinese." MrD

EMANURE appears to have collated from various sources a hotch-patch of vague and unini

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Iris stated that the famous libel case of Belt Lawes will not be further proceeded with, although a rule nit for a new trial has been obtained

WE are informed by the Agents (Messrs. Mel chers & Co.) that the Austro-Hungarian Lloyd's. steamer Orion leat Singapore for this port yester

day, at noon,

and

had only been the sons of a pauper he had gone, against the advice of his medical attendants, to confirm, what a glorious Christian death his would have been

where Mdene

and both legs were broken `th seve this state he had to cling let two 1 beaten by the angry surf. Thet

lives were discovered in the spl

a pair of struggling figures almost

of them, but still too far to be gra

of them, Jennie Ace, had an, took off her shawl, and, tying threw it, rope, fashion, to the was too short; but the daunt only sixteen-did not to the waves to her waist second time, was ena walls out of dan is not dead in our

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