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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1883.

blind not to see it, what must he think of the charts with which he has supplied him- self and what must be his opinions of the compilers of such guides (?) to navigation? Such, as we have just stated," is not the complaint of one or two, but of numbers, and until we have legislation authorizing periodical verifications of nautical surveys, we can only anticipate new and hitherto, unknown dangers of the sea's cropping up from time to time at the expense of valu- able property and an unnecessary sacrifice of human life. 10

Tux appointment of Sir HARRY PARKES as British Minister to China, is, says the Boston Herald, well worth noting, for it offers an impressive illustration of the principles which guide the British government in the, bestowal of important diplomatic positions, -principles widely different from those held in favor at Washington As an example of the American method, and itisan-example-perfectly in point,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.” THE French are sald to continue to feel very sore at the English occupation of Egypt. THE Graind Opera House at Parisis to be illumi- nated with 1,800 Edison incandescent lamps. THE crowned heads of Rusta, Austria, Italy and Germany, are to meet at Berlin in the

autumn.

village of Nuenkirschen, Germany, was recently destroyed by fire, its entire population of 1,300 being rendered homelçis

IT is stated that the Spanish army consists of 134,000 men, of whom 94,000 are in Spain, and the rest in the Spanish West Indies. THE Viennese authorities announce that married men will not be permitted to go up in a balloon without the consent of their wives and children We observe that the Italian residents in Tunis have been forbidden by the Dey to publish newspaper. He will only sanction one which is in Arabic and Freach

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THE telegrams in the Indian papers brought on by the steamship Moray, from Calcutta, contain nothing of special interest that fias not already been published in our columns. We regret to hear that the Editor of our evening contemporary has been confined to his bed owing to an attack of fever since Saturday last. We sincerely hope he may soon be able to resume his professional duties. These libel affairs are not all sunshine-even to the winners.

WHEN Lord Palmerston, the Premier, was lying ill with gout, a very smart epigram was composed, referring to himself and Lord Derby, both being laid up with the same malady :--

The Premier de, the Premier our Art both laid up with pedal gost,

• And no place can they go to: Hesee li en, ves thri, though of al Their differerser were manifold,

They now agres in fola.

of Commons last month on the subject of re- IN a discussion which took place in the Ilouse. cruiting for the Army, Lord Hartington proposed, in order to check the drain into the reserves, that besides the Indian troops being offered bounties, the Government should also offer bounties to men in the Home regiments, who

||-His lordship-mid that, for the present,--all wil}- be allowed to extend their services to twelve years, with the option of being re-engaged at the expiration of that petiol, and a larger bounty. will be offered for their extension, He als pro- posed that men should be enlisted for twelve

SIR EDWARD MALET, who was lately appointed British Minister at Brussels, will proceed to his. post during the autumn.

:Messes DavitT, Healy and Quinn were re- leased from durance vile on June 6th. The Gov- emnment are generally blamed for what is alleged to be misplaced leniency.

We are informed by the Agent of the P. MS. S. Co., that the Co.'s steamer City of Peking from San Francisco, has arrived at Yokohama and

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CORRESPONDENCE.

[We'd not necessarily ericans the opinions expressed by Correspondents, in this column.) ARGUMENTUM AD HOMINE To the Editor of the "Hanakosa ThisORAPIE.” SIRAs the following may not prove unin teresting to your readers and to the public gen erally, let me at once, plunge into the matter at issue by quoting from Macklin the following: "The law is a sorn, al hoesia fer ser science, that smites in your face while it pick yer pocket, and the glorious uncertainty of is 14 of cale use to the professors than the justice Thus can it be said of three libel suis in

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will and for this pon on Sunday next the 8th which The Hongkong Telegraph has been instant.

implicated. A résume of the last unparalleled THE Albanians objected to the cession of ferri-action, together with its results, from a disinter ested point of view, may not prove uninteresting tory to Montenegro, and were only dispersed by to your readers and with such knowledge of the the Turkish troops after severe fighting in which facts as were laid down in the three journals of this Colony, (as, although the court was open to many lives were lost on both sides. A number

the public, still all were not present at the hearing of Albanian villages were burned to the ground of thecase,) one's ideas must be taken impartially by the Turks,

from these three papers, to be laid before those of the public who may have one-sided views in

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We observe that the bombardment of the Mada- the matter..

gascarports by a French frigate, caused immense

destruction to British and foreign merchandise. This led to Her Majesty's sloops Dragon and Dryad receiving, instructions to protect the lives and property of British subjects in Madagascar. :

take the selection made-last-spring-wherNO 11, will-be-held-in-Freemasons Hall are available for draf to extend their service: WITH reference to the Earl of Rosebery's reaig- entirely hors du comidal. To what this circum-

A CONVOCATION of Emergency of United Chap. Zelland Street, on Saturday the 7th instant, at for 5.30 p.m., precisely,

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the President was called to appoint a minister to China, Mr. A&Thur's choice

“WHY, I'd like to know," said a lady once to a fell upon Mr JoHN RUSSELL YOUNG, A-MAN- of ability no doubt, but quite without ex-distinguished Judge, "cannot a woman become a successful lawyer?" simply arises from perience or training in diplomacy, What

out any pay," answered the judge.

is more, Mr. Young could claim no better invariable habit of giving her opinion with years three years' service with the colour, and---

&c bead-acquaintance with the Chinese court and

people than he had gained while accom

office:

-the Star route cases in the recent trial at

nine years with the Reserve.

the Home Office, telegraphed by Reuter about a nation of the past of parliamentary secretary of month ago, it appears that his lordship resigned not through any difference with his colleagues as Annemced, but in compliance with a wish that

the office should be held by a commoner,

THE French Minister for Foreign Affairs, speak ing in the Senate on June 1st said that although the French-force-in-Tonquin was at present small, it will be before the end of the month

difficulty, and be further said that it was not anticipated that the Chinese will interventi

The recent action libel of James Bulgin against Robert Fraser-Smith, will have such prominence in the annals of Journalism in, the Far East, as to make it a cause célèbre of the day, not from the actual facts connected with the details of the matter at issue, but from the prima facie cis- cumstance of penna versus penna being throwa

two reasons presents itself to me, vw, incompati stance may be attributable is open to conjectures not a few, yet of them all, but one or the other of bility to wield the pento such effect as to crush and annihilate Mr. Fraser-Smith's remarks in the Telegraph, or, that an inward consciousness of the facts as set forth by Mr. Fraser-Smith, ap proaching a phase of stranger than mere fiction, tempered, as it were by a timorous uncertainty as to the supportabilky of allegations whose pre sentable variety, reduced sich supportability eater of time, which a battle of purbarsiks

-be accompanied by the name and address of the mark the contrast in the qualifications for AN-awkward-mistake was make in carving business should be thoroughly exposed in open FOR picking the pocket of one Chun Afun, who answer, coples of which are now before the Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele reached his 5th year. Yet he can count finger pointing heavenward sculptured on the held responsible for his introductions; in long market, of 7o.cents, which amount was found three words, ambiguous, in themselves, and ad-

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1881.

A BOMDAY Contemporary asks:-"Is there, we wonder, any secret understanding between the two Powers (England and France) that, if France does it attempt to meddle with our affairs in Egypt, England will not concern herself with the proceedings of France in Madagascar and Indo-China?"

The Ceylon Observer of May 26th says that the most startling piece of intelligence it has to pre-LIAVUK, a vehicle driver, faced Mr. Wodehouse the indiscriminate sale and use of this dangerous sent to its readers, is the announcement of the this morning on a charge of plying hu two-fluid, and we shall, in an article later on, en honours conferred upon the Governor, the Lieut wheeler for hire without a license yesterday. deavour to point out some of the many evil with exant-Governor, and other officials in Ceylon. Joseph McGann F.C. No. 77, stated that be ar-which the indiscriminate use of kexosite oil fa "Everybody is asking what have the recipients rested the 'ricksha-man as he had no license. attended.

Mr. Li stated in, his defence that he was a pri-THE "Glorious Fourth proved too much for the done to deserve such marks of Royal favour."

vate vehicle driver and called on Chang Afong, "PLEASE, sir, there's nothing in the house to

#£1,800,

further stated that the two-wheeler has been his property slace September last. The constable a few sailors wanchee ricksha? His Worship was recalled and said the defendant called out to fined the unlicensed member in the sum of $2, with the option of performing shot dill and oakum picking for a period of seven days. The enterprising Li Ayuk anted up the amount and left the "home of justice" with a comical grin on his weather beaten visage. A GERMAN account, recently published, gives, says the Japan Mail, some interesting details of

the Chinese forces. The Manchu army which

-rights, duties, privileges and qualifications of en Worhip" to "planks over ten dollars editor. The writer would submit an answer)

veracity.

and disorderly yesterday They gracefully might be elicited from a Chesterfield, til will the ten dollar difficulty, although it appear they retired, being unable to successfully grapple with have the merit of unquestionable, candour and The qualifications of the Editor of a journal, wers of the opinion yesterday: that they could--expressed in alew words which may be saidtocom. "damed well lick creation.” 7

prize all requisite explanation, arethat he is aðla and competent to prepare a journal for publi cation editor are inseparably connected. He bus the An Editor's rights, duties and privileges as an

ileges a right to attack all or any principles which are, to his editorial mind, adverse to the private or political advocacy of his journal, and it is, in his turn, his business, or rather his duty to defend with his editorial pen all aspersions upon either

NOTWITHSTANDING, the numerous; altractions

his journal or upon himself in his editorial

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elsewhere, consequent on a large number of our citizens being engaged in holding high wasgail on the glorious fourth of July, a fairly large audience "rolled up last evening to witness the performance at Chiarini's circus. Various changes had been made in the programmit and the invaded China in 1601 consisted of four bodies, artists were greatly applauded for their exhibitions capacity. distinguished by the colours of their banners, of still and daring. The company give a grand from choice, and in constituting himself an editor,

Arreditor is, usually, if not invariably so, yellow, white, red, and blue. Later on four performance this afternoons under the distin- he becomes himself a servant of the pubile in new divisions were formed, which received ban-guished patronage of His Excellency the Governor, catering, for news and other literary matter for ners of the same colour, but with blue or red and party from Government House. Another their delectation, the public paying for the same, criticising adversely if not to their taste or borders respectively. Besides these eight Man- perfomance will be given this evening at 9praising if in accordance with their views chu divisions, there were also engaged in the o'clock when a complete change of programme and convictions. In their condemnations as well campaign Mongolian and Chinese auxiliary will be offered, including the great "Carnival as in their praiaca ile public do not condemn.or troops, who in 1644-1647 were again divided on the Ice"; never before seen in Hongkong. praise the article written, but they condemn For into eight banners each. In each of these As the company will leave here on Monday next praise the writer, or rather the editor, of them, this latter personage is not always the writer. we cannot do better than advise these who have Again, it is part of the duty of an Editor to ex- (24) banners, forming the elements of the army,

press the views of the public, to whom he looks all arms are represented. Tactical sub-divisions got already seen the mammoth exhibition to are not known, only administrative ones. Each hurry up" and lose no time in doing so. To for the support of als journal, whether they be Manchurian and Chinese banner is divided into those who have already patronised the circus we favorable or otherwise, and above all it is ble duty to consider, to look upon, and to act with five, and each Mongolian banner into two bri- say "go to-night" and witness the grand ice his journal, and with his editorial self, as the gades, and these again into an indefinitenumber || specacle.

diary of the public publically, and not as a cer Atala gentleman, who though a public official, of companies. The organisation is a territorial

ting to Subscriptions, Advernemens clips

ACRAZY lawyer-interrupted the proceedings-in-A-CORRESPONDENT-writes: Your account of the irate Captain's method of getting a bogus seller

alone might have possibly speedily eradicated. and not to the Editor. -Letters on-Editorial matters to be sent to "The Panying Gen. GRANT on the famous tour Washington by thricking: "These men are to come up to time is surely too good to be true! sufficiently strong to cope with the existing putting the mailer before your readers it Editor, and not to individual members of the around the world. Now turn to the record mocent. There is a conspiracy; not guilty, not I sincerely with that someone would screw up

will be necessary to begin at the beginning," and this cannot be better done than of-the-new-British minister at Peking, and guilty, not guilty." He was promptly ejected his courage to the sticking place and take the

discussion from a matter of fact and common- Communications intended for publication must"

law into his own banda, so that this scandalous

sense point of view of the petition and its writers, not necessarily for publication; but as

monument ordered by a Rondout man for his Court. In other places the broker is always was purchasing the day's chow chow at the writer. Yet, according to priority, a question of evidence of good faith.

Born in 1828, Sir HARRY PARKES has only cemetery lot. He directed a hand with the index graph will always be open for the fair discussion by correspondents of all questions affecting public no less than forty-one years of continuous stone; but when the job was finished the finger kong he claims the auctioneer's privilege-nil upon the prisoner, Mr. Chun Ayan received his stingerprints as a

or answers which, from the present aspect must distinctly understood that

faults, defects, and errors of description at pur- cong from the magistrate, to retire, from the arbitriram What is Libel-needs an answer the Editor does not in any way hold himself res-and-ever-creditable official service. From was found to be pointing the other way.

chaser's risk. These conditions must certainly vulgar gaze for the next six weeks, where he of legal interpretation in this Colony, it is be ponsible for opinions thus expressed

his youth up he has been connected, in oné

be exceedingly profitable to the amateur broker. will receive his conger in paura for arduous exer-yond the power of the writer to give.

The plaintiff Mr. Bulglo, in paragraph No 3 of way or another, not only with the English

From what I have heard in town your leader on

tions in the model establishment at the Junction his petition says of the plaintiff foreign office,, but with English diplomacy

the share gambling has met with the hearty of Hollywood Road and Wyndham Street.

and in relation to his business or profession of journalist, &o,, (the-italics are the writers) in the East In 1842, the year which

approval of the general public. Square dealing. In the Police Court to-day, before Mr. Wode there by to our mind, that Mr. Bulgin brought the oplum war to a clow, though

no "taxe to grind" will always entitle you to he was then but a boy of 14, just released

respect, and keep the Telegraph up to source house, one: Wong Aste, was fined two dollars for himself as 37r. Bulgin, and Mr. Bulgin as Editor sent high standard-the only independent open-hawling kerosine oil in contravention of ordin- Bulgin was jointly and severally spoken of personally and editorially by the defendant in from a London school, be began his civil

to-all paper in Hongkong,

Lance 8 of 1873. We would suggest a greater his journal. Was this taken notice of in service career as one of the suite of Sir

vigilance, on the part of those concerned, towards the Court, or was this the interpretation intended HENRY POTTINGER, the victorious negotiator

to be conveyed? To my mind an ambiguous assent may be given, yet when I read over the of Nankin. Thus young PARKES saw the first

proceedings. I obstive both incongrulty and humiliation of the Middle Kingdom by

instability on the part of the plea. As far as British arms, the opening of the five ports

expression of opinion goes, personality in the matter rests upon another question, partially to foreign trade, and the formal cession of

discussed in court, without any true meaning legal or otherwise, being arrived at; a question where Hongkong to Great Britain. Later in life he represented his country at no fewer than

a carpenter residing at Tai Wong Street, Wan- capacities of William Perry hd Walter Warren on the issue of any case similar to the subject

"IT has come to our knowledge through, the to her flag in his presence. In his 26thfish I sent in?" "Please, sir, the cat 'ave cal property and Li. as his-servant. Chang Along each; or retire for a forth it for being drunk which, though not couched in such language as three of the ports which had been opened eat," said Brown's landlady. "How about the chai.who claimed the 'richsha' as his private who were requested this morning. by "his one in hand would devolve, being, namely, the medium of numerous shipmasters connected year, he served for a short time as Consultth." "Then there's some cold chicken

"Please, sir, the cat Wasn't there wit with both the British and foreign mer- at Amoy. In his 25th year, he was ap- of some sort?" Please, sir, the cat cantile marine, that the inaccuracies of the pointed acting consul at Canton, a post sight, I must do with cheese and please various charts and diagrams of the Eastern which he held for two years. In his, the cat "Then, darn it, cook the cat Seas, issue by the Admiralty, are so 34th year he was made consul at Shang- and let's have it all at once." humerous and of such a serious nature as hai,, and retained that position for threeA CURIOUS exhibition has lately been on view to demand the instant attention of all those years, till his elevation to the dignity in the north of London. It consisted in nothing whose interests are in any way concerned. of minister plenipotentiary to Japan, but an array of cigar ends collected during seven The facts, as represented to us, are of Nor does this enumeration complete years' peregrinations up and down the metto- great importance, and when it is remen- the record of his distinguished services.politan thoroughfares. The enterprising collector bered that defects of the kind alluded At the age of 27, he went with Sir Joux reckons that in this time he has travelled nearly to, mean placing precious lives and BowKING to Siam as secretary of legation, twelve thousand miles on foot, and be has picked valuable property in jeopardy, the public and escorted the Siamese ambassadors to up 600,000 pieces of cigars, averaging an inch and a half each. He is said to have valued his naturally enough look to us to take all London. In 1858, at the age of 30, he was stock, thus literally composed of odds and ends, available remedies to remove a crying evil, made commissioner at Canton during the The charts of the routes to China have all, occupation of that city by the allies. Two or nearly all, been more or less drafted years later, when Lord ELGIN and Baron THE steamer Ehrenfels which left for Yokohama yesterday took a second instalment of twelve from hurried surveys made to meet the GROS went to China a second time as handsome and well bred Hungarian stallions requirements of the rapid strides made in special ambassadors, Mr. PAREES, for he and mares, specially imported from Hungary by the cominerce with China and the Far had not then received knighthood, accom- the Japanese Government, to form the nucleus Enst from 1842 up to date. Beginning panled the expedition to Peking as Chi- of a breeding stud in Japan. A more promising from the Straits of Sunda, the usual nese secretary to the mission. In this ex-lot of horses we have never seen in the Far point of entry for vessels approach-pedition, while trusting with ill-founded East, the whole of them combining quality, bone Ing the China coast, and running as confidence to the safeguard of a flag of and substance in a marked degree. Several of far north as the coast of Siberia, extend- truce, he fell into the enemy's hands, and them were bred from pure English stock, which ing cast and covering the whole of Poly was kept in confinement for six weeks. now plentiful af the Imperial Stud at Kisber, nesia, including, on roule, the Malacca During his imprisonment he was exposed Straits, Java Sea and the numerous straits and channels with which it abounds, Gulf of Siam, the China Sea, Gulf of Luzon, Gulf of Tonquin, Corean Gulf and Sea of Japan together with all their tributaries, we have but a superficial knowledge of these walers, and nine-tenths of their „dangers--havė" from time to time owed their discovery to the loss of property in connection with the mercantile marine of the world. It can hardly be doubled that a greatmany of the shipwrecks | His services and sufferings at-Peking | In these waters might have been obviated, won for Mr. PARKES knighthood as a civil In the course of a recent debate en vivisection had better guides, in the shape of reliable commander-of-the-Bath -and-an-appoint in the Prussian Landtag, the Minister of Public surveys, been afforded to those luckless ment as consul at Shanghal, the leading Worship, Vor Gossler, cited the following r

markable case: A young lady, belonging to an navigators who have solely through faulty British consulate in China, an office carry aristocratic family in Konigsberg, gradually lost charts lost their vessels. We cannot justly ing a salary of $7,500 per annum. He her power of vision, until at last she was entirely find fault with hydrographic offices, but it retained this consulship for three years, till blind. Her eye, on being examined, was found certainly appears as if a grave respon- March, 1855, when he was promoted to to be perfectly sound; whence it followed that the siblility rested on those who made the in- the position of envoy and minister pleni-seat of her trouble must be in the brain. All accurate and misleading surveys which potentiary to Japan, with a salary of treatment proved unavailing until the discoy have so often led to disastrous results. It $20,000 per annum. After retaining ery was made that she had received some months in the fault, but we will not attempt to say that office for eighteen years, a term which previously a heavy blow on the head from a falling talist, who examined her, convinced the geulist restoration of the Mikado to undisputed and the surgeon that the affected pars must be supremacy, as well as the introduction of that section of the brain which his experiments on the railroad, the telegraph, and other monkeys has proved to be the central station for civilizing influences in Japan, Sir HARRY sensations of sight. The big had evidently in PARKES has just won another round on the juted the membrane of the brain. This made official ladder. He goes to Péking as en perforation of the skull necessary a very dificult voy, minister and chief superintendent of operation which, however, in this case was com

paratively simple, Because the exact locality in British trade, with a salary of $10,000 pe the brain was known, whereas in the case of annum. It is emphatically a filing ap- prince whose skill was perforated for a pointment, for no living man can claim a similar reason, previous to Dr. Munck's dise more perfect familiarity with the language, coveries, the operation had to be repeated thirty: the customs, the history, and the politics two times. The young lady recovered her

eyesight completely." of the mysterious Flowery Land.

Hungary.

Jones weighs 15olb, and when he bought it, it

around Peking, the Tsin-lü, and the Tebu-fang,

who are employed on garrison duty throughout

Tchu-fang, in 840 companies, about 108,000 men.

said for the privais public." COURT OF APPEAL,tis. both the right and the privilege of an Editor to receive the support of the public whose the MASTER of the ROLLS and Lords views and whose policy he advocates, and I have

Justices -LINDLEY and Fav.) ***

CASBABOULOU V GIDD, LIVINGSTON & CO.

to indignities and ill-treatment, and JONES says that the white flannel suit he bought threatened with a cruel death. So great a year ago has proved a very economical invest-ne, except in the case of the troops in and SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE and who was in no way connected with the Prass, were the atrocities committed upon thement, and has been of much use in his family, captives, that of twenty-six British subjects fitted him remarkably well. After tire first wash who were taken, only thirteen survived ing, his eldest son, who weighs toolb. less than their sufferings, and all of these bore.jones, senior, found it an excellent fit T marks of what they had undergone. It washings more made the garments delightful for ́ was to punish the Chinese government for a youth of nine, and at the end of the season the. its barbarity to Mr. Paxxxs and his combaby was adorned with babiliments which had panions that the alles pillaged and burned thrunk just enough to make them fit for chile ant of creeping clothes. This year Jones's wife the Imperial summer palace.

uses them as a dish-cloth."

maneviyat Farmor heard where such support was not given to uphold an editor in such advocacy, the same being, as it were, the mirror of public duties and pri-

'to'ba

ing themidves within the radius of the the action with which we are, now get it heads but a casual observor to sep mode of procedure adopted in bring- action before Judicial notice was ong cope of an editor's necessary ade juncir could be excluded. I fail to see whera

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„the "private publi comes into play Thers fare but two question which arise out of my argument upon this matter. Either the planu Mr. Bulgin is or is not an Editor? Which is it? In the first place if he be an editor, then he had an editor's redress Or if he be no editor then

irse to the means of redress, usua

lays cinim toʻbeing an color, and

ush, and obtained redress, anner, then, Eccordi qualifications etc. of an editor and which we maintain, to sintiff's claim that be in an

falis to the ground f ticle which appeared in the

the whole Empire. The Tsin-ti, in 1,165 com- (Before panies, numbered about 105,000 men, and the They receive permanent pay and are soldier for This case raised a question as to what is the thought, Hfe. Their sons inherit their rights and duties. measure of damages when a commision agent. Werhero ¿qualifications, During the time when they are not actually called abroad has supplied his principal with goods of vileges out for war service they may engage in civil an inferior description to those ordend. The pri

plaintiff, -a merchant in London, Inquired" by, dealing pursuits, and this, in addition to the un- telegram of the defendants, who are commision warlike character of the nation, explains why merchants at Hong Kong, at what price they could ing the there is so-little-martial spirit to be found among buy certain kind of opium

plied, and the plaintiff ordered them them, Each banner is under one general, cases of the opiam described. two lieutenant-generals, and besides has its purchased for the plaintiff, what the own special officers. The commander of a be the opium ordered. The invo garrison, or the commander-in-chief of a pro-warded to the plantiff, who are vince, bus to rely upon himself entirely, and price of the opium. The oplin turn

drats drawn upon him by the the formation and drilling of the troops are offerior quality; and the plaintiffs left to him. Thus it has been possible for Li Hung-chang and Tao Tsung-tang to arm and organize their troops in European style, so that while their corps, numbering 70,000 and 40,000 men respectively, are armed with breechloaders (mostly Remington), and Krupp guns, and white

artillery, the remainder of the troops still carry of those actually sent, thus treating the relation. Felgraph of 5th June, refer to Slain Afr. Bilgi bows, spears, swords, and in some cases match between himself and the defendants if that of locks. The militia is divided according to pro- vendor and vendee. The defendants fald 30% vinces, and is said to have a total strength of into court. Mr. Justice Manisty and Mr. Justice 651,677 men, Bo generale, and 7,077 officers: Williams held that the plaintiff was only entitled

to recover his actual los restaros

For the plainder The higher grades are chiefly occupied by civil Mr. Pollard appeared for officers, and all military authorities are placed Cohen, Q.C.; and Mr. Anatie, QC or the

Their Lordships affirmed the under the territorial civil authorities. The Chi defendantagnes dep rese fleet consists of 59 ships of various con pealed from on the ground that the structions, partly built in England and partly of vendor and vendee did not exist betwee armed with Armstrong and Vavasstur guns paties, but that of principal and cent and has tent Among these ships there are 47 gun-boats, of fora breach of duly by an agent, the

can recover only the actual damage muliere which are armed with o-ton guns; 6 with 7 retion of the breach. Their Lordship are of anc ton; a with 25-ton, 4 with 35-ton, and a with 38. opinion that the som paid into court covered the qualified to ton.gune

ilos suffered by the plaintiff➡L;&#C\Expters: "newspaper and was a man of low character and

as he had already held in advance a porcion of the opium, he bad to make an allowance to other the purchasers. The remainder was sold

lower price than that paid for it by the plain- tiff It was admitted that the kind of opium in questions could not have been purchased at Hagkong The plaintiff claimed, in an action against the defendants, the difference between | cellor,

to what cause or causes this.fault_may be covers the fall of the Shogun and the board. Professor Munck, the famous experimen- their fonts also are provided with German the value of the goods of the description cold and had alr

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