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DEATH.
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At Swalow, on the 3rd July, after a short and painful illness, JAMES HAMILTON PINKERTON, Chief Officer of the S. Ș. Dale, aged 32 years.
The Hongkong Telegraph
MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED CRATIS TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1883,
THE meeting of Hongkong residents in the City Hall on Saturday afternoon, the 14th inst., convened for the purposeoftaking into consideration a proposal for the erection of a memorial in honor of the late Sir Arthur KENNEDY, was in every sense of the word a thoroughly representative one. Presided over by Sir GEORGE PHILLIPFO, the Chief Justice of the Colony, the assemblage in cluded most of the leading members of the various races of which this peculiarly cosmopolitan community is composed. Men representing many different nation- alities, of various shades of both social and political thought and opinion, and of al-
SUPPLEMENT.
Hongkong Telegraph.
Hongkong, which has extended over a period of thirty-three years. Mr. BULKELEY JOHNSON was strikingly felicitous when he said that the prosperity of this place does not depend upon the policy, good or bad, of any man, and his allusions to Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY as a courteous gentle, man, an able and impartial administrator, _and_worthy representative of the Civil Service of the Crown were exceedingly graceful; but the excellent effect of these remarks were completely marred by the ill natured, injudicious and totally uncalled for underhand references to Governor HENNESSY, It seems a great pity that Mr. BULKELEY JOHNSON should have thought fit on such an occasion to show spiteful feelings, and considered it necessary to satirically emphasise that Sir Arthur KENNEDY had not invented race dis actions, nor fostered class enmilies, and was not a genius; and there was surely no rea son why he should have gone so far out of his way to assume the role of panegyrist to his friends the "able counsellors." The honourable member apparently possesses the fatal facility of never knowing when
to let well alone."
THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1883..
20JUYS
SIXDOLLARS PER QUARTER.
olection of a body of gentlemen to act,as | tinued existence of which are calculated to For these not one single cent has ever had been taken in a foray made two or three a committee, which with a resolution bring the Government into contempt been demanded by or paid to the Harbour days before, and were put there that the general brought forward by Mr. Justice RUSSELL
We have before us a copy of "The Department. The remaining two men to public might know, what O-Teng-Pur.could conveying the sympathy of the community Merchant Shipping Consolidation. Or makeup the full number quoted above were dessin long one day, and known by ste
passing to the members of Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY'S dinance of 1879, which, according to the shipped last Mondayon board the American villagers to be such, had a taste of their scom in family, brought the legitimate business of wording of the preamble, is an ardinance ship C. D. Bryant, and the master of that a volley of vituperation to which his cars were the meeting to a termination."
enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, vessel paid no fees, nor was he asked to inaccustomed. This was fallowed up by the As we have previously stated, we with the advice of the Legislative Council do so.
pantomime of a decapitation, the villains sawing, thoroughly agree with the object of Satur-thereof, to consolidate and amend the On this branch of our subject little at their own necks with their hands to help him the better to understand-what-they-would- day's meeting, and with the decision so laws relating to merchant shipping, the more remains to be said. In our opinion, be glad to do if they dared. All along that unanimously arrived at A public statue duties of the Harbour Master, the control which is based on the construction and waterway to the Hu city, foreigners, missing appears to us to be the most appropriate and management. of the waters of the wording of Ordinance $ of 1879, the to and fro as they must needs sometimes do, memorial, under all circumstances, that colony, and the regulation of vessels navi- exactlog of these permit fees from were sure to run a gauntlet of insult. The could have been lopted, and we cannot gating the same. Without wasting time foreign sailors is clearly illegal. The monotony of common curses was varied with doubt that the gentlemen in whose hands beating about the bush, we think it best to question of what has been done with these
an occasional shower of 'clods, stones, and the task of carrying out the work has been stato plainly that in various departments fees is for the Government to investigate around they were sent flying after the crockery | broken crockery, Ifthere were any dead cats lying placed, will ensure that our tribute of presumed to be under the direction and An impression is abroad that they have in hopes they would find a lodging on the bost respect to Sir AnȚuur Kesseby will alike supervision of the Harbour -Master, there not gone into the Colonial Treasury that, of the passing foreigners. In this kind of worry prove a credit to the munificence and taste appears to have been for a considerable in justice to all concerned, ought to be set the O Teng-lue people were scidom found want of the community.
ting past a series of incomprehensible right. Why the steamers of the Pacificing Only their village lay a short distance. misunderstandings, glaring misinterpreta- Mail Co. and the ship C. D. Bryant should from the canal, and not being able to see the tions, or gross blunders in carrying out have been exempted from the fees charged coming foreigner in good season, they lost many the provisions of the act we have just againstthe seamen of other foreign vessels
precious opportunities which were improved by quoted. As our space will not permit us is another matter which requires an official
more fortunate villagers living on the banks. to deal with the whole of our subject enquiry, Colonel Mossy, the Consul, for But there was no remedy for it. An end, how- in one article, we will confine our remarks the United States has, we believe, written ever, came unexpectedly. There was a small in the present instance to that branch of to the Government on the subject, and British, gugboat in port. One day a few of its the Harbour Department to which is en as the rights of the foreign scamén men in one of the ship's boats took a pull into trusted the shipment and discharge of sea- could not possibly be in abler and is same canal where insult and injury to passers-by were reported as so coinmon. They men in Hongkong.
more experienced hands than in those of went in beyond O-Teng-Pue a short distance, the old Confederate chieftain, there can
without any mishap. It was said that some of be little doubt that, as the result of his re- them fired off their guns in the rice fields, ande
time started on their return. presentations and protests, all grievances after
But this was too much for the fiery temper of will be fairly remedied, and the true state O-Teng-Puc. That a handful of British marines seamen accurately defined." of the law as regards the shipping of alien should dare take such liberty near a town which could show its pile of human heads, was more than flesh and blood could bear. The alarm was sounded. The clans millied, and off they started with spears, matchlocks, cleavers, and stones, to pursue the retreating seamen. A long running ight ensued. The marines were chased and stoned. Some of them met with severe injuries," and it was a marvel that they had not been killed reached their vessel at Swatow. The whole set- outright. Bleeding, battered, and exhausted they
posted off to Ilongkong. dement was in exckement, and news was bastily
most every recognised creed in the known world came together with but one accord the generous impulie to honor the illus. trious dead. A distinguished officer of the British Crown who had spent a life-time in. the service of his country in nearly all parts of the world, Sir AxTHUR KENNEDY Crossed the boundary-line which separates us from all earthly hopes and thoughts, full of years and honors, at a time when his public labors were ended, `when, as Siri statue, should the proposed memorial take ence to the common practice in Hongkong shipping and discharge of seamen, we find
We are credibly informed that it has been the custom in the department just named to issue permits to masters of vessels of other than British nationality, authori- their respective consulates, and to charge sing such masters to ship their scamen at for such permit a fee of one dollar per man. On reference to section 3 of chapter 5 in Ordinance No. 8 of 1879, dealing with the it stated that
be shipped in de duty on band any merchant shipshatever else where than at the slice of the Harbour Staster, to shall change
*Masam srall, except with the Harbour Mauer's sanction,
for every seaman shipped, a lea uf one dellar, such fee to be paid, in the fist instance, by the master of the ship attipping such nex.
shall require such
makanan dipped; and the liatbour Strater front reach esmun to lodge with him his certificate of discharge fiunt the last
the Treaury,
HAIPHONG."
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT:)
• Haiphong July rath, 1883. arrival of the transport Annamite-with-reinforce Nothing of special importance, il l'except the
ments, has occurred since 1 fast wrote. I came
down from Hanoi by the Ruri-marn a few days. ago, and will probably remain here for the next
Now, this was not a desirable state of things,
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This, now, was too much for the British Ad- miral to bear. That his marines should be
Treaty, in his judgment, called for instant rebuke. on board. The Teng-Pus, people heard of it, and made dire threats of vengeance, if any of... them should visit the village. But soldiers did
Two years ago in dealing in these columns with what at that time was the vexed ques- tion of Chinese-coolie emigration to the Australian Colonics, we indulged in some strong animadversions on the unsatisfactory manner in which these so-called free em- The remarks made by Mr. REISERS grants were examined prior to leaving this on behalf of the German community, by cclony by the officers of the Emigration M. ROMANO for the Portuguese, and Department. We then said referring to by Dr. He KAL in the name of the Chi- the notorious Glamis Castle case. That nese residents were brief and to the point. the Emigration Officer's examination The same cannot be said of the prosy was a thorough farce, must be patent to harangue delivered by "the honourable every one who knows anything of the man. the Surveyor General, That worthy offi- ner in which these sham examinations are dal was called upon by the Chairman to conducted, and we must hold the Governor bring forward a scheme which he was sup responsible for permitting such a state of posed to have prepared for erecting a affairs to exist.". And with further refer- GEORGE PHILLIPPO very aptly expressed it, that form. Mr. Paice commenced by of one government official filling two or "he had retired in order to enjoy some some misapprehension-about-a-schemo--liberty-of saying was a principle rotten explaining that the Chief Justice was under three different positions, which we took the period of rest at the close of his life. Sir having been prepared, as he had merely to the core and wholly indefensible. we ARTHUR KENNEDY's public career was un- questionably a long and useful one; the been asked to prepare some information observed: "The time has surely come distinctions conferred on him by an appre as to the probable cost of a statuc. The when the Augean Stable wants a thorough clative country were fairly earned; he had honourable gentlemen modestly disclaimed cleaning out, and we would strongly -having had an extensive personal experi- recommend that a start be made at once
abing and failing the production of such certificate, rich seaman shall be bound to give satisfactory fplanation to the Harbour won the palm and had a right to wear ence in monumental works, but he had re- in the Emigration Department." Most of Master of the cause of the nas-production thered. The above eight or ten days. Ip. Hanoi the troops. are. stoned down a public water ay recognised by It And although men's good actions are
medied this deficiency by consulting an our readers will remember that Captain
mentfused for shall be accounted for by the Harker Master to suffering greatly from the intense heat, and a
than monuments of brass and marble,
of Harbour Master, Marine Magistrate, would appear hy a side wind (iz.the Haze roads has been progressing, most satisfactorily, &c., held that of Emigration Oncer, took bour Master's sanction) to justify the permit and the general arrangements inside the cances umbrage at our remarks, and formally system above alluded to; but a closer in- sion have been auch improved. The enemy applied to the Government for permission vestigation of that and following sections has made no offensive movements for a con- to institute proceedings for libel against conclusively negatives the assumption; in siderable time past, but they are stationed in tion led to serious complications in the applies only to British and Colonial ships were prevalent timr the Black Flags had been this journal, Captain THOSETT's applica- fact, it is plainly set down that the ordinance great force a few miles from the town. Rumours Executive Council, and the position taken The remaining sections of this chapter strongly reinforced by Chinese regular troops up on the matter by Dr. STEWART, who was clearly show that the powers possessed by from Yunnan and Kwang-si, but these reports in that officer resigning (1) his position, and Colonial vessels, are vested in the va advices from Namdinh state that the garrison then acting as Colonial Secretary, ended the Harbour Master with regard to British Governor Sir Jous Porr HENNESSY after rious Consula or Vice-Consuls where for there has been almost constantly subjected to stating to the members of his Council that eign vessels are concerned. But admit-bombardment by the Annamese, who, however, he had as a matter of fact officially repriting the very remote contingency that the keep at a safe distance, so no damage has been Harbour Department had for years been illegally collecting these fees owing to an arraneous interpretation of the clauses of some., the ordinance, it must be admitted that it On arriving at Haiphong I was glad to find that such fees shall be accounted for by Saigon. She was out at Ha-long Bay with the is plainly enough laid down in sections that the transport Hismite had arrived from the Harbour Master to the Treasury." We rest of the fleet. The reinforcements brought ask the question on behalf of the public on by this vessel numbered goo soldiers and go fees collected for these permits been re- gularly accounted for to the Colonial Treasury? If so, we shall be pleased to pression which has got abroad that such has not been the case; If not, we should really like to know in what manner they have been bestowed for the benefit of the colony,
said to be undying, and more enduring able professional gentleman."" in his THOMSETT, who in addition to his position At the first glance this section of the act / good deal of sickness prevails. The work on the ten-of-war came up from Hongkong with soldiers
who shall say, that the spontaneous exawn department, and the cast of a pression of opinion of the community of figure in bronze of heroic stature, executed by the best talent in England, and Hongkong on Saturday, that the memory erected on a granite pedestal, would come of "good Sir ARTHUR" should be perpetto about 88,000. So far so good, and had uated in the place he loved so well by a memorial statue, was in Itsell not a greater the special information which he had been Mr. Pasce quietly sat down after supplying honour to the man dead than had ever been requested to furnish, there would have bestowed on him throughout the many been little room for cavilling. But the years of his eventful life!
Although the preliminary proceedings in unfortunate victim to cacoethes loquendi, and honourable the Surveyor General" is an the City Hall were drawn out to a some instead of collapsing after performing his What alarming extent by the staggering part of the programme, he must needs in- luence of some of our leading orators dalge in a tiresome farrago of inflated the animity of feeling which prevailed fustian, of which we reproduce the follow-manded the Emigration Officer on account from beginning to end was especiallying, as a choice specimen;
of the insuficient examinations of em: gratifying. As usual on such occasions a
If I have interpreted your sentiments correctly, grants, declined to permit Captain Titos good deal of verbose nonsense was in- dulged in by more than one of the speakers; then I think we should not embark in a Kennedy SETT either to withdraw his formal appli- and statements were made with reference Scholarships all admirable no doubt in their the question was eventually submitted to the Institute, Charity, Endowment, or in Kennedy cation or to institute legal proceedings, and to Sir ARTHUR KINNIDY which had much militarian object. If you embark in these what Secretary of State (Earl KIMBERLEY) who better been left unsaid, as they will not will happen a century hence, or less, I may supported Governor HENNESSY's action, and bear the light of a strict analysis. The say a quarter of a century hence? Society laid down a rule that underno circumstances learned Chief Justice waxed quite eloquent in this colony is ever shifting and changing, a justly merited tribute of respect to the every year to be suceeded by new ones, and ings for libel against a. public newspaper without the express sanction of the Home character of his old chief and friend, quarter of a century hence your Kennedy en-
such means will have faded in the haze and bour Master was not what could be accur man whom you specially designed to honour by
sons for believing that the worthy Har mist of years, and but few persons beyond an occasional student of local history would ately termed a free agent in his wild crus- know how or why your memorial came by the ade against this journal, and as we
visit the village. Between two and, three hun- dred men were landed and marched out to O. shook their heads as the troops filed off, and Teng-Puc Brave old Chinamen in Swatow
were going to." The soldiers were only a said, "Those soldiers little knew what they few, while O.Teng-Pue could muster four to be trifted with 1 or five thousand men, and was not Some of the observers
are not credited by the French officers. Latest went so far as to say that none of the soldiers
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would live to come back, and there would be serious time indeed. But the soldiers silently ale along the narrow reached the town. They drew up in line and wended their way, winding in and cut in single pathway until they
done Fever and dianthos are still trouble-fired volley over into the town. It was not intended to harm them, nor, indeed, was any special harm done by the discharge. The
the result. The villagers-men, women, and was intended to produce a panic, and a paste was balls pattered on the roofs of the houser. It
children-fed in crowds. After giving them a into the town. Frivate dwellings were not in- little time to get out of the way, the troops went
part in order to intimidate the villagers." They then filed out of the town and sat down under the trees to eat their lunch in quiet and comfort. What impudent and self-assured fellows these. were to be able to eat at such a time as that. They marched leisurely homeward, re-entering Swatow with the placidity of men just returning
in. paying what we cannot doubt was it is like a dissolving view, old faces disappear could any colonial servant take proceed. Whose interests we represent-Have: the officers. I hear as I write these lines that 450 jured, but one or two old temples were burned in
are going right away to Hanoi in the Rur maru. It is understood here that none of the
and so far as we are able to judge, his dewment would be there, but the memory of the Government. Although we had good rea- be the medium of removing a strong im. reinforcements will visit Haiphong.
י,
I went round yesterday to M. Roque's to have a look at the ponies. brought down from your port by the Nam-fan. I met Cap tain Garceau there, who told me he had a
very rough passage down, which accounted for two or three of the ponies looking rather sick, as
from a stroll.
Now came a storm of diplomatic excitement. in due time the matter got into Parlament. There were questions put by one honourable
estimate of Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY WAS A singularly correct ons. We do not, how ever, consider that Sir GEORGE PHILLIPTO displayed his accustomed acumen in in
name of Kennedy. I would point my meaning moreover, were in a position to prove the dicating what could only be taken as a most invidious comparison between the by an illustration: We have in the middle of literal truth of every word we had written abilities of Governor KENNEDY and those our city a large pile of buildings called the Muras to the unsatisfactory character of the of his immediate successor in Hongkong; Barracks. They are not a thing of beauty, official examination of Chinese emigrants,
perhaps, but they are pretentious, by reasons of nor can we subscribe to his lordship's their vast and capacious dimensions. Not far and quite prepared to defend our state quasi-apologetic observation, that such or from them we have Murray Road and a Murray ments with regard to the necessity for a thorough cleansing of the Augaan dinary qualities as a readiness to discuss at Pier, and there is also Murray Battery. It ail times any private or political subject of would surprise some of you to learn that all Stable," nothing was farther from our importance and to give a straightforward these structures were so called in order to do intention or desire than to reflect per answer that might always be relied honour to the name and to perpetuate the mesonally on that well meaning but some.ally to the question of these pri fees, one of them, a dark grey, but although a on to all questions on public matter of one who was much revered and esteemed whatirascible oficial. Ourattack wasmado Matter's official reports for the years 1880, pretty good rider he could not "maintain affirming the same thing. The landing of troops
by the generation who preceded us. I would ask are more to bo desired in a Gove how many of us, in spite of the hopes and aspira ernor than even the most brilliant intellect. tions of those who preceded us, know who Mur According to this standard of reasoning, ray was, and notwithstanding all the structures intellect in a colonial Governor is a useless bearing his name which confrunt va as daily re-
minders of that name. I think it would be the directed attention to abules in various dé- incumbrance, and the fittest candidate for natural feeling of this meeting that the honoured such a position le a well drilled depart name of Kennedy should not be consigned to the mental clerk, who makes up for his lack same precarious fater and therefore I think our of brala power by a strict adherence to preference would naturally be that the memorial the fixed rules of official red tape. This to be adopted should take the form of a statue, is, of course, all nonsense, and we can only because a public statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy assume that the Chief Justice, probably would never lose its individuality.
Humanum est errare. Our researches into the matters alluded to above have been they had not got over the effects of the voyage, conducted methodically and with scrupul- I thought them an exceedingly good looking lot ous care, and yet it is possible that in some of animals, sturdy and fit for good service. Two respects we may have erred; but, if so, of them especially were very thin, but as I hear has neither been through recklessness they were taken up from grass they could not nor carelessness. With regard especi- well be otherwise. A French officer mounted
a most minute investigation of the Harbour.
throws no satisfactory light on the matter.
of
his seat, and quickly came down a crop per. After a few days rest the panics will be sent up to General Bouet at Hanol. Our native ponies are very small but hardy, and capable going through a vast amount of work; however, the French are unable to procure any as the na- tives stand in fear of the mandarins.
It is rumoured that the French will shortly make another sortie in force from Hanai; but 1 don't believe it, and am of opinion that very little
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to and fro. There were criticisms censures
the
gentleman and answered by another. There were depatches numerous and voluminous sent deat out right and left cnticisms and cons part of the navy was declared wholly unjustifi- able. Appeals should have been made to the Chinese civil authorities. The matter should have been settled by diplomacy and negotiation. The Chinese officials were equally vigorous in to punish the village was wholly improper. The Tactal complained that he was not allowed to punish them himself. Viceroys and Cabinet Ministers re-echoed the sentiment, and discon tens swelled in volume, and the whole afair was pronounced most ill-judged and unfortunate.
without knowing, and meaning 'wall, | Nothing more quickly destroys an error able to certain officials-called for some these statistics with the records :at the in the way of fighting will be done until the cold alowed to deal with them, but the Taotai had
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The memory of the O-Teng-Pue affair has almost passed away. Some things may be said! now which would not have been tolerated then. I will be granted that this method of deal ing with the O-Teng-Pue offenders was irregular, but the emergency was not a common one. It was said that the Tastai should have been
very little power to deal with any case. At that Nothing more has been heard about the so- | very time there were scores of villages at bloody calledanned attack on Haiphong by the Annam- feud. Some of these villages were weaker than ese. It was, as I stated at the time, a plunder them. The 6-Teng-Fuc would have defed him, ing expedition, and was very much exaggerated. or their strength and influence was such that The accounts of the affair in the other two Hong- they could have compounded the case in some kang papers were really laughable. There is way. There would have been a long wordy corre- "pedal correspondent here, and I suppose he spondence, a for petty police demonstrations, must write something,
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'As I wish to and these few lines by the Nam- vlas I must now say au revoir. Hope to have Another strange phase in these proceed-something more interesting to send next time.
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O-Teng-Pue, yet the could not deal with
on a rotten system, and not on individuals 1881 and 1882 respectively-vide the Go whose responsibility could of necessity. only ernment Gateites for 1881, 1882 and 1883 be limited in extent. Since that time we have in the course of duty occasionally. In 1880 the number of seamen reported as partments of the local government service, being shipped is stated at 6392) In 1881 and it was only the other day that the very there were 6940 and in 1883 no fewer than important subject of arranging the contracts 9704. These numbers represent the exact for the execution of public works-which had amounts paid in to the Colonial Treasury. as shipping fees, at the rate of one dollar become a matter of common talk in the colony in a manner anything but credit per man. But on examining and comparing
Harbour Department, we find that the: spoke or refundo, If, as has been often said, than to attempt to establish it scientifically, exceedingly plain-spoken truths, distinction is not in being heard of far and so we leave Mr. Price's extraordinary The above references have been elicited figures we have quoted refer only to sen- weather sets in.
men shipped on British vessels, and do not- wide, but in being told, straightforward loglo and apropos illustrations to com- by another government abuse, or perhaps include those shipped by the respective and loving what i right, the late Sir mon-sense consideration without further it would be more accurate to say, by what Consuls on board foreign vessels. At the ARTHUR KENNEDY requires no apologist, comment,
is said to be a government abuse of publia German Consulate the number of seamen but has every claim to take place in the It was a relief after the affected Jesuitism rights under departmental auspices, which shipped last year total something over 1,300, front rank of modern colonial rulers, He of the Surveyor-General to hear Mr. A. is at present causing a good deal of dis- and the records of the United States Consu- was admittedly not, a brilliant statesman, P. MacEwis in straightforward, manly cussion throughout the colony, and which, and it is said of him by those who had fashion come to the real abject of the it seems to is, calls for a thorough investi- late show that 479 men wore shipped on American vessels: These are the figures opportunities of knowing him best, that he meeting, namaly, to propose that a public gation in the interests of all concerned, from but two of the eighteen consulates in was too easy going, and in later years too statue be erected as a just and grateful A short time ago a willy correspondent the port. 'much disposed to leave heavy respons! tribute to the memory of Sir ARTHUR KEN- proposed to us for elucidation a conundrum bilities in the hands of his subordinates. Mr. MacEwax with excellent judgIncidentally relating to Hongkong and its He was, however, a successful and popular ment referred to the great interest Sir management of the internal affairs of ings at the Harbour Department requires Governor of Hongkong notwithstanding ARTHUR always took in, and the subatan-government. It was worded-In what explanation. From statistics supplied to
OLD TIMES AROUND SWATOW. this pronounced Tory proclivities, and it is tial support and encouragement he Tre- manner does Hongkong in its official eles from the United States Consulate, It ap- In recognition of the sound judgment which quently gave to our national sports and ment resemble an oyster just removed from pears that during the present year up to
THE C-TENG-PUE, AFFAIR
hot avenge their own quarrels, but must fall ensured success in his government, and pastimes, and made eloquent allusion to its bed beneath the wayes?" The answer yesterday's date $43 men had been
Between five or six miles north of Swatow, back behind Chinese soldiers; or it might have the sterling qualities of the man which won his social attributes, which, combined with was neat and appropriate:-"It opens its shipped on board American vessels, him popularity, that the citizens of Hong his upright character and administrative official mouth just sufficiently wide to let and upon 380 of these a fee of one and on the main water channel to Hu city' been made to appear that the punishment of the kong propose to pay him posthumous ability, tended to make him one of the most you see that there is something Inside; but dollar per man had been paid to stards the town of O-Teng-Pue. Its people are village was in part for other offences,
popular respected and successful governors when enquiry is made as to what that the Harbour Master's Department in mainly tillers of the fields, but in the days of But this proceeding of the British naval Mr. BULKELEY JOHNSON's speech was, that ever came from the Colonial Office something is the mouth hermetically addition to the usual consular fees. The Junk ascendency many of them were sailors, who officers, inégular though it may have been, and taken as a whole, ach an admirable one, Mr. RIZIE's references, when seconding closes. A column of the most bitter question at once arises why were fees had become more bold and venturesome from one not to be used in ordinary circumstances, During the disorganization already spoken treatment of the case could have produced. The that it was a ply the the FE HENNESSY mania, Insler dical works as the advance of education and not more effectively or more satirically whole pumber? That is exactly what we of, O-Teng-Pac attained a disreputable pre- foreigners were evidently capable of taking care
hoof, the proposal for a statue, to such prac Invective and pungent criticism could charged only on 380 and not on the trip abroad
had a remarkable moral effect, which to other osionally cropping up. The hon the establishment of our lighthouses, which lay bare that world of red tape which wish the Harbour Department or the eminence. Several smaller villages were tri of themselves. The effect was visible and marked ourable unofficial member, though B. will ever be associated with the name of constitutes Hongkong officialdom, and Government to explain. The vast major butary, hiding themselves under the protection all over the country. Evidently, it was not tafe stranger to Sir Arthur K
aby and Governor KENNEDY, were also strictly to which is the bane of the colony's preaperity, ity of the balance of 163 were shipped of the large village, Together they could to abuse foreigners Retribution heart his policy as the
the the point. After Mr. T. JACKSON, Mr. C. Political revolutions are the gradual out on board the steamers of the Pacific Mail command, it was claimed, six thousand men at hand, and came quick and irreklstibly.”
the bang of a gong, ready to fight other villages that they began a change of tone princely house of JARDINE,
CoP CHATER, and Mr. H. N. Moor on behalf come of extended and enlightened ex-Company as follows:-
que engue had been successful ment of foreigners the entire foreign
of t which, as he very properly out," of the Parsee and Indian communities had perience of the debased character of other
beyond its neighbours have reaped the benefits of that had been identifiad with the
spoken in favor of the proposed memorial forms of government; a revolution in the the colety since its foundation, had taking the form of a public statue Mr. Augean Stables" "of our official depart- doubted claim to be heard,
her. MacEwis's motion was unanimouslyngreedments is therefore most likely to be brought
to Mr. W. H. Fouses then proposed the about by an exposure of abuses, the con
honours. N
from his own personal connection
with
In Roma
and there the matter would have ended. The fact would still remain that O-Teng-Fue had | driven away a Britisa boat's crew, and had suffered nothing for it. They would have had their laurels and worn them, and Consula and passers-by would have been vilified more than ever. But, then, it was said General Pang and his soldiers were available. Yes, it is true, but had he been sent for, the per the Englih dare all through the country would have said,
Its people, therefore, became insolent and quar ever since in the opinion of many, relsome, and defiant to all passers-by, On the history of Swatow has produced such dates one occasion à reliable witness passing by sawatantial recurity to the whole
an evidence of their ferocity in half a deren ni that morning march on
human bonda stacked up by the rouilside. Thay | Star in the Estl
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