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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1883,

of a sortie, and have developed an uncom- fortable practice of impaling gederal and other commissioned officers, when caught. This is quite contrary to precedent. It has hitherto been one of the blessings of civilization that all the torturing was done by the apostles of enlightenment and pro-

more convenient, some high and mighty hereditary Princa QUACKABOO, whom His Most Sacred Majesty's troops had caught somewhere, or with whom it had suited his Most Sacred Majesty to enter into alliance. The blessings of civilization were by those means diffused successively among the pagans of Mexico and of Peru. An infi- [gress.

THE German steamer Lide is booked to replace the Danube at the Cosmopolitan dock to-day, The river steamer Khungchow will leave the Aberdeen Dock to-morrow, OWING to a slick rope. which caught the pro- peller of the King-chow the other day, this steamer had to go into the Aberdeen dock to re- pair some slight damage done.

W

of age, was up at the police court this morning on a charge of stealing "joss ornaments of the value of $5, at Yau-mah-tee, yesterday. The depraved youngster was sent in to the," Hotel for a spell of six weeks' rope un-ravelling, IT is a cheerful reminiscence to bring to mind just now that immediately after his coronation, the late Czar Alexander II asked one of the which took place under the most happy auspices, Maids of Honor in attendance how she enjoyed the ceremonies "Oh, so much, your Majesty," she replied; "I hope we shall have another soon!"

SAYS Mother Shipton:

When my Lord fatta la my Lady'a lepa England beware of some mishap","

A MAN from Ohio started a paper out in Kansas the other week and wrote the following salutatory:"I have this day assumed control of the Weekly Whoogog. Of course I intend to thoroughly and entirely change public opinion in this community, but I wish to assure the people that I will do it slowly, very slowly," LEUNG AFOOK, an unemployed culinary artist, was up before the "beak" this moming on charge of stealing a quantity of crockery ware valued at $1.30, from a hawker boy. The un employed one tried to make out that he only took in for a six weeks' spell of hard labor for his the things for "lark," but his Worship sent him practical joking.

PREPARATION is being made for the formation of water way through Palestine from Acro, on the Mediterranean, to Akaban on the Red Sea "The undertaking is yet in ita preliminary stage nothing more having been done than to form a small company, with the Duke of Madborough as chairman and other distinguished persons as directors, 10-spine-capital wherewith to survey the proposed route. In order to construct the Palestine Channel, it is proposed to make a canal, as miles in length, from Hatia, in the Bay of Acre, through the plain of Asdration

to the Valley of the River Jordan. This canalis

to be 200 feet wide and 40 feet deep. This will

bring the Mediterranean into the heart of Palen- tine. In order that the waters of the Dead Sea

FUNG AHING described as a hawker, was may be made to mingle with those of the Red brought before the Magistrate this morning on a Sea, it is proposed to cut a canal twenty miles pector Quincey, who arrested the man in to the Dead Sea. If this thing were success charge of being a rogue and vagabond. Ins in length from the head of the Gulf of Akabah Upper Lascar Row, yesterday at 3 pm, stated fully performed, it is expected that an Inland that a gathering of some 2000 Chinese sur sea about 200 miles long, varying in width from rounded the defendant in great anxiety to three to ten miles, and deep enough to float learn the winning character of the Tate Fa lottery vessels of the largest size, would extend from the Mr. Fung stood in the centre with stretched hands Mediterranean to the Red Sea. Referring to the showing the winning characters. The crowd was objections which may be made on the grounds tumultuous and noisy. Mr. Wodehouse, who of the mcred associations of Palestine, the writer heard the case, discharged the defendant on that gentleman saying he was not announcing the winning figure of the Tam Fa lottery. WRITING on French detectives a writer in the Nineteenth Century says:-Les Agents Secrets are not only personally unknown to the general public, but, save in exceptional cases, even to each other. It is known where they may be found a

says it is possible that the new enterprise may be proved to the satisfaction of many

nite multitude of souls were saved at the But, to come nearer home, we have civi- CHEUNG TAI HII, a youth of some twenty years slight cost of roasting such hardened lized Fill. The usual plan. First, mis- wretches as insisted upon sharing the sionaries; then filibusters; lastly, low and damnationwhich had been the lot of unnum-order. And now we have New Guinea bered generations of their forefathers, who just commenced, and the Rev. Mr. Laws, had been so unfortunate às to exist before the regulation missionary, took photo- the Spaniards discovered that there existed graphs of the ceremony of stealing, and a continent-full of them, living and dying sent them to the Sydney Mail with his under no better care than the loving kind- blessing, no doubt. And the filibusters ness of Him who created them.

have followed, already, In due course. There seems little room for doubt that But we are getting so sensitive, owing both armies were in downright earnest. chiefly to the moral lessons, inculcated The army of missionaries converted the in Exeter Hall by the Y.M.C.A, that THE SHANGHAI PHARMACY, susceptible and burned the obdurate pagans we cannot stomach filibustering unless with equal zeal. To the former they inculit be done in proper form by Royal cated the lessons of civilization with patient Warrant, and by robbers in livery. So devotion, and the monuments of their pious New Guinea is to be a Crown steal, and meaning that when Easter falls near to Lady and devoted labours, in the form of mission, a special indulgence will, no doubt; bey (March 25th), England is threatened with some dire calamity. It is passing strange that churches and schools, yet stand sprinkled issued by the new Archbishop of Canter this prophecy has often been fulfilled. For over the face of the territories which were bury, who will, probably, in due course instance, Easter fell exactly on the agth this the scenes of their labours, and where ordain a superior brand of missionary, year-and John Brown died! martyrdom not unfrequently crowned their call a Bishop, and send him, out to

THE Emperor Sigismund, in conversation with own lives. Stirred by a glorious emulation, sanctify the theft by his presence and Theodoric, Archbishop of Cologne, asked the

THOUGH Hungary is one of the richest mineral and the coast of Africa received their mis-yachting and picnicing, the new Bishop happiness. We can not, sire, expect it in this do not frequent the Prefecture more than can be little more than defrays working expenses, prin- sionaries and their filibusters, and churches will return to England (for his health) and world." "What, then, is the way to gain happi- helped. They have nothing whatever to do with tipally owing to the unprofitable manner in which ness hereafter ?" "You must live virtuously." serving summonses or executing warrants. There the State mines are worked. Two causea baya and-forts-sprang up-beside-every-estuary-preach_moving sermons to large and WRITING on the gth ulto. under the heading which their navigators discovered. France deeply emotional congregations, and collect "What do you mean by that expression?”- are among them men who have lived in almost "Aitherto failuenced this state of things-tray the "A Universal Steal" our clever Sydney.emulated the enterprise of her Catholic a fund for providing native catechists with mean," answered the Archbishop, "that you every class of life, and each of them has what insufficient meds of gransport and the existence contemporary The Bulletin, places before sisters, and Canada and Louisiana acknow-chewing tobacco and SPICEK's version of its readers one of the truest and best written ledged the blessings diffused by monks and Genesis. The only trouble is the Invete, articles we have seen in the public press muskets. Nor were Protestant commun-rate obstinacy of the Heathen. In all these for years past. Our contemporary's obities far behind in the splendid and religious long centuries, and despite the differ. servations are so much to the point, and undertaking. The Pilgrim Fathers and apply with such cogency to our own position in Hongkong and in the various portions of the Chinese empire where Western elvilisation has set its all-conquering hand, that we make no apology for reproducing-

devout men and women, to be the fulfilment of the prophecy of Ezekiel to the effect that there is to be a broad ses in the desert, and that the hers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim

hongkong Telegraph Portugal was not long in following sulit labours, And, after a couple of years Primate how he ought to get so, as to obtain moment's notice when wasted, but, as a file, they countries in Europe; the producer of the infire

HONGKONG, Friday, July. 27, 1883.

the article in extenso.

TELEGRAM S.

LONDON, July 25th. COMPENSATION TO TENANTS' BILL.

The House of Commons has passed through committee the bill for granting compensation to

tenants,

CHOLERA AMONG THE BRITISH TROOPS IN EGYPT.

should always pursue that plan of conduct which

you promise to follow when laboring under a fit

of gout or indigestion.”—

a

Transylvania is especially susceptible of impr of no proper mining Act. The mining district in ment, and the mines already working in that province, after having been for long able, now bear 5 per

centr

own. In the course of their duty some of them ay be called a special line of business of his mix with the receivers of stolen goods; others with thieves; many with what are called in Paris commercial rascals and not a few with those whose "industry "it le to melt silver and other statistics, from property of a like faluable nature. Forgers, are not unfavourable, but it is

the right of propriet sharpers of all kinds, house-breakers and horse-ation stealers-a very numerous and most industrious districts is necessary. The statistics class in Paris-have each and all their special follows agents of the police, who watch them and know 187% 16.0 ditto, and 1880, 16.5 dite, thus show. where to lay bands on them when they are ing in late, years, a considerable augmentation. atsume and "act up to any character, and who milioni mètres centrer, 1879, "wanted." A French detective who cannot The Tave iron production is the

cannot disguise bimuelf in any manner so effect-

1.3 ditto

Firon

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remainder sisa charcoal.

12,000

the umgest

It was in a Latin class and a dull boy was ences of race and locality, they obdurately wrestling with the sentence, Rex fugit, which, with a painful slowness of emphasis, he had the gaol-ships for the Plantations carried persist in dying out just when there seems rendered "The king flees? But in what other the Bible and the arquebus to the Red a chance of converting them. It was so

tense can the verb fugit be found ?" asked the Indian; but it is humiliating to confess in Mexico and Peru, in Canada, Louisiana teacher. A long scratching of the head, and that it was merely worldly gain which and New England. It is so in New Zen- final answer of "Perfect," owing to a whispered impelled France and England upon the land and Australia. It is coming to that prompting. "And how would you translate it favoured coasts of Hindostan, where their in Fijl. And so it will be, reasoning by then ?" "Dunno," "Why, put a 'bas in it. Alluding to the heading of the article respective missionaries wrestled with the analogy, in New Guinea. This consola-Again the tardy emphasis drawled out: "The A.Universal Steal" the Bulletin remarks Devil and each other, and their respec- tion, at any rate, remains. The lesson king has fleas." that the phrase is not a pretty one, and tive armies fought with sacred zeal in the comes from Tasmania. The last of the SCENE-Large tailoring establishment in Glasually as not to be recognized even by those who that this is the age of pretty phrases. quarrels between local potentates, and native race is as likely as not to be a gow. Enter stalwart farmer. Polite tailor: know him best, is not considered fit to hold his "Sweetness is on the tongue of delightful-finished by first göbbling up all the native thoroughly pious person, with a genuine-Well, sir, what can I have the pleasure of do--appointment. Their ability in this way is marvel panderers to the hypocrisy of the day, and rivals who had engaged their aid or re-appreciation of the blessings of civilization ing for you today? Stalwart former: "Hiv ee lous. One of them some years ago made me of the fren maiufacture in Hungary has been any guld stoot claith for makin' coats?"Polite bet that he would, in the course of the next few greatly retarded by, the want of suitable fuel the agrecabic flatterer of this generation sisted their allies, and ultimately by the-and rum.

tallor: “All qualities, sir. What style would days, address me four times, for at least ten and even now, though intenor prates finely about light. Civilization in English driving the French Into the sea.

you like, sir ?"—showing pattern-card. Stal- minutes each time, and that I should not know are used with advantage the absence of fuel our stronghold. The enormous march in In that part of the pagan world the ordin-

wart farmer: "Hoot toots, man, I'm no wantin' | him on any occasion until he discovered himself of a better description is still a gies refinement and humanity which has been ary process has been reversed. We

óny of yer Frainch things! Mak it muckle in As a matter of course I was on my guard and to the production of iron in made in eighteen hundred years is a con-

launched out our filibusters first, and when

the waist for kail-suppin', an' short in the tail for mistrusted every one who came near me. But Vegetable fuel la of necessity used stant theme of smug congratulation. En- they were satiated with plunder, and began

doon-sittin', an' pit bane buttons on; that's the the man won his bet. It is needless to, inquire imat

2nd of pawtrin' for me."

into particulars. Let it suffice to say that in the shty-six blast furnace only four use eith lightenment marches, we are told, with to think it time they justified themselves in

course of the next four days he presented himself giant strides; and the schoolmaster is the eyes of Heaven, we lot loose a swarm everywhere abroad. Magnificent codes of missionaries and prepared to plead at of laws everywhere exist to suppress the bar of the ETERNAL that, even if we offences against individuals and society, did steal the land and the gold of the and their multiplicity will be accepted by pagans, we always intended to save their the future historian either as testifying to souls as soon as we could make it con- a splendid and universal development venient, and had quite filled our pockets-- of the moral sense, and a grand apprecia- and, quite emptied theirs. tion of the golden rule, or as evid ence of an extraordinary prevalence and by-gones? We are better, wiser, more infinite variety of criminal tendencies and humane, more honest now. We have actions during the periods when such codes changed all that. Have we? Not a bit were necessary. Could the antiquary of of it. We are hard at it again. And so -the future have access to such documents are our neighbours. Just the same old as budget statements of this age, it seems sham. The same old genuine insensate probable that he would not long hesitate belief that, so long as we send forward an to decide that the latter is the true explana-advance guard of missionaries with mouths tion of the extraordinary complication of full of benedictions and hearts full of zeal, to the English. First you send a missionary, criminal codes which embellish the statute there can be no possible objection to our books of every nation In Christendom. following up with our filibusters, And, And as the individual morality of to-day | moreover, it is ridiculous to employ such would be judged on this evidence, so the term as filibusters when the forces on. 'national morality of to-day would be tested gaged are regular troops, wear the'llvery, by International treaties, records, and pro-and draw the pay of the Queen. Be tocols. It is a humiliating fact that these, sides, there are British Interests and dispassionately regarded, will supply, inevitable necessities, and things. Pro. more prominently than any other facts, the vidence will surely recognise the distinc. history of a Universal Steal.

tion. For example, how are we to keep

WE hear from Macao that a gale raged there on Wednesday and Thursday, without, however, causing any particular damage either afloat or Four deaths from cholera are reported amongst Canton on Tuesday evening made an attempt to ashore. The Potrai which came down from

the British troops in Cairo.

get away on Wednesday morning, but after clear ing the lighthouse had to put back, and was com- pelled to remain at her moorings until this morn- ing, when she left for Canton at the usual hour

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

in the character of a bootmaker's assistant, a standing that the forests in the immediate facre driver, a venerable old gentleman with a of the ironworks are much reduced, and in some great interest in the Bourse, and, finally, as a cases entirely exhausted, yet there is no reason Assuredly, the man deserved to win his bet, for waiter in the hotel in which I was stopping, | to

mplain of the want of wood and charcoal gary& official table shows the total exte in no single case had 7 the faintest suspicion of his identity,

rowth of

THE FOFE, though unseen, still reigns over

But these are old stories. Why rake up We are informed that the steamer Claymore left The lowest reading of the barometer during the subjects more numerous than those of Cesar

a

Singapore for this port on the morning of the agth inst.

VICTORIA and the other Australasian colonies Hebrides, the Solomon islands and other groups urge the British government to annex the New of islands in the Pacific.

"I know you," said King Theodore of Abyssinia, then you send a consul to look after the mis sionary; then you sand an army to look after the

consul,"

AN afflicted editor writes y

***If billows and pillows and hours and flowers,

And all the brave rhymes of an alder day, Could be furfed together, this gunfal wandiser,

„And certed, or carried on "wafta' away, Nor ever aguda trocted surmah, met

How much awer volumes of varsa share'd bet “

gale on board the Yotsat was late on Thursday night when it stood at 29.24.

total wreck. A lengthy report of the affair ap- We hear that the well-known steamer Spark has come to grief close to Cape Cami, and is a

atmosphere of antiquity, its tortuous strecta, were. His is still the old Rome, with its hoary

frowning walls, and dim grandeurs. As to the

Papal memories: The Pope is now 74, a tall, 1 new Rome, with miles of square blocks of box- like houses, broad windy streets, and rare un- finished spaces, no one could associate these with

ivory-complexioned man, with a benignant expres

pears in this morning's Daily Press on the au thority of Captain Rose, lately in command of sion andamiling Ups, bearing the stamp of indelible the Spark. As we have strong reasons for be firmness the expression of a man to bend, but lieving the report in question to be's very garbled and incomplete version of what actually ever to break Leo XIII. Is tall's he took place, and as we are almost certain that years well walks upright, and thus makes the an enquiry will be held into the circumstances most of his inches. His hair is snow white, and attendant on the loss of the vessel; we shall, in naturally forms into a crown about his highly the meantime, content ourselves with chronicling developed brow; his long face is serene, the fact that the old Spark has spluttered cut this hammonious sonorous voice and a wide

small eyes dancing with Intelligence

of existence in a smooth sea and on a beautiful' moonlight night.

A MAN in Illinois has brought a suit for divorce ONE sultry Sunday a minister was thundering because his wife allowed him to go to work away at his drowsy congregation, the ma-

for several mornings with no other breakfast

knowledge of languages, which

speake

with the correctness of a professor. As Arch- ved by

bishop of Verugia he was gre laity and clergy and that

she did not know how to play and had not the here! There is a main preaching to you who has effort about him i no straining

his efforts. At last he shouted, "Wake-up brought with him to means to pay for.

the

of the world

Imp vernment: the temporal disastrous, and that, mount in possession of its alon

not a European nation which enjoys power we steal something in Egypt? There can be

All Christendom is hard at it. Thero is fast hold of what we stole. In India, unless than.cod liver off, and had bought a piano, which | jority of which would go to sleep in spite of all in attested by the number of

to carry out its purposes that is not engaged nothing morally wrong under such circum-

only half a shirt on his back!" It woke them pronounces no. doquent bravad in a grand mission to the Heathen. And, stances. And the Archbishop of Canter in every instance, the purpose of that mis-bury blessed the colours, too. So that, all "PROFESSOR," said a student in pursuit of know-tremendously. The next day a delegation of IX, and commits no blunde slon is to pick the Heathon's pocket. And things considered, there can be nothing ledge concerning the habits of animals, why ladies visited the parsonage and presented the of diplomacy, the old Papa Identical enterprises have engaged these objectionable in our annexing a tract near does a cat while eating turns her head first one preacher with a package containing some very wields like a veteran willa virtuous communities all the time during Libarla, and slaughtering the "rebel" way and then another" "For the reason," nice shirts, saying "that it was a shame that he surely awaits their the last-well, all the time. Without going there, Because as soon's ever we have replied the Professor, that she can not turn it should be reduced to half a shirt to his back, cautious and firm, the

He replied, after accepting the shirts with thanks, becomes one both ways at once.#--

"that he was not literally reduced to half a back too far, however, we may start with introduced law and order,"--by killing

.: P the, discovery of America, which was the all the natives who fail to recognise in. You write a beautiful hand.' I wish I had shirt, although he wore only a half on his back; signal for Spain, then the devoutest of vasion as "law," and military ex such a hand," said Mr. Flasher to a lady clerk he wore the other half in front of him."... nations, to launch an army of mission ecution as "order"--we will resolutely at the hotel. "Am I to consider that as a pro- WHAT is a gentleman ? is a question almost as had lost every vestige aries-and another of filibusters to set to work to "spread the bless-posal?" asked the lady, "Well-er-yes, if steal as many souls and as much of ings of civilization," as thickly as possi- my wife is willing to let me off," replied the

accomplished Flasher: the New World as their prayers ble, upon the survivors. And similarly and spears—could conquer. Smitten with the French and Portuguese will convey the WHEN Bismarck returned from the deathbed of -a-deep-commiseration for the spiritual same blessings except that they will in an old comrade, for whose vacillating, Impulsive darkness, and an equally deep apprecia- troduce the errors of Rome on the banks character he had always had much contempt, he tion of the temporal. wealth, of the pagan of the Congo, after they have set the was asked if he had been present when he made people of Mexico, the one army, In the true natives by the ears, caused the shedding his will. "I was there while the lawyer, wrote spirit of self-denial, devoted their lives to of oceans of blood (of negroes merely), out his last hesitation and testament; no one

could call it a will." carrying the gospel and the fire-stick to provided they do not find it necessary as these pagans; while almost simultaneously a slight preliminary to cut each others' the other army Imbued the savages with a throats first in an honourable and martial proper sense of the value of the gospel of way. And so also in Annam and in Ma peace by illustrating how exceedingly dagascar the French have the same the "Retreat." The defendant denied the clean a Catholic army could strip a coun- grand work in hand, rendered, it is true, try of valuables, and how particularly somewhat complicated in Annam by the Promptly it could abuse the women circumstance that the pagans there are and hang the "Rebels" that bun- more than ordinarily hard to convert bar of the window at the shroff's room to the

kuni had begun. on then-whore and to kill, and have exhibited an Incon slated their lawful Sacred Majesty the

eign, His Most | venient aptitude for resisting enlighten-

CHAN ARZE, a coolie, was arrested by Alexan- der McGregor F.C. 74, this morning for supply ing a prisoner with opium just before entering

charge, stating that he did not know the man at all, but the constable testified to the contrary as he saw the defendant hand the drug through the

nex, who concealed the narcotic under his His Worship relegated the filedly imprisonment, with hard

of Spain, or, If! ment when the blessing assumes the form || „labor.

toy

meddwhile

then

old as the hills, which bar been answered in hand, never was many different ways, but it is clear that the word such a pitch at least has a relative and not an absolute mean-" "diently gath ing as some insist, and that it varies with the An early times. Here is what Lord Chesterfield says private "A gentleman always attends even to the choice of his amusements. If at cards he will not play chocol cribbage, all-fours, or puit; orin sports of exercise be seen at skitties, Icap-frog, football, cricket, driving of coaches, &c, for He knows that such an imitation of the manners of the mob will indelibly. stamp him with vulgarity." In another of his letters to his son he says There are liberal and illiberal pleasures, as well na liberal and liberal arts. Scottish drunkenness, Indiscri- minate gluttony, driving coaches, rustic sports and such as fox-chases, horse-races, &c, are infinitely through below the honest and industrious professions of most a tailor and a shoemaker. And yet people who with call themselves gentlemen do most of these ing things nowaday and even those who are noti kare gentlemen consider themselves such in conso

ours

BATTLE!

gan. amusing