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Portugal is not to transfer the settlement or Any of its dependencies to any other power, without the consent of China. (3) Portugal shall co operate with China in collecting the Opium | -----|-revenuo-ji-Macao and its dependències, in the same manner as England is to co-operate in Hongkong. (4) The Chinese Customs Stations are to remain where they were previous to the Treaty, and will be under the direct control of the Inspector General of Customs, (5) The co-operation was to commence on the 1st April, 1887, and it was ta þear a provisional character until after the Treaty should be ratified, when it was to assume a permanent character.
Mr. A. P. McEwen asked the Council whether there was any au lit h the Government's expen- diture in connection with the defences of the Colony.
His Exceliency replied that there was no audit, but he would provide for laying before the Council all the particulars connected will the expenditure in question.
The Colonial Secretary read a message from the Governor, in which he recommended the passing an Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance for the reservation ofthe European district in the town of Victoria,"
His Excellency after reading the message himself, expressed his desire that the Council should pass this Bill. It object was to provide for the health and comfort ofthe European community by checking the alarming rate at which the Chinese population of this colony invaded all the districts where Europeans are located. It ¦ was proposed to delimit a certain district where the Chinese were not to build houses; what that district was, would appear from the Ordinance.
The Attorney General moved the first reading of this Ordinance; the Colonial Secretary seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.
The Colonial Treasurer then moved that the Council go into Committee on the Bill entitled The Rating Ordinance, 1888, The Colonial Secretary Seconded, and the Bill was read Section after Section.
Mr. C. P. Chater moved an amendment on Clause roof this Bill, to the effect that machinery should not be taxed. The amendment having been put to the volc, was lost by a majority of 7 against 4.
The uncil was in Committee on this Bill when our report left.
OUR MACAO LETIER.
MACAO, March 5th, 1888
I am not sure whether you are aware that a French prophet thirty years ago vaticinated the decadence of this city, in as vivid language as. that used by Macaulay when he depicted the New Zealander of the future taking his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. I am referring to the Abbé Hue, who in his work entitled "L'Empire Chinois" crowned by the French Academy, has the following passage concerning Macao :-"Aujourd'hui Macao n'est guère plus qu'un souvenir l'étab husement anglais de Hongkong lui a donné le coup mortel it ne lui reste, de son antique „prospérité que de belles maisons sans locataires, et dans quelques années peut-dire, les navires européens, en passant devant la presqu'ile ou fit cette fière et riche colonie portugaise, no verront plus qu'im rocher nu, desolé, iristement batta par les vagues, et où le pêcheur chinois viendra faire sécher ses noirs filets.” *
Delenda est Carthago. Such is the sentence pronounced by irrevocable destiny over this city, You have heard a great deal about a revival of Macao under the new Treaty; would you believe that this international compact is not only useless but highly prejudicial to the future interests of the colony? A brief review of the circumstances which have brought it about will convince you and everybody else of my assertion.
Now, it is easy to see that these provisions are highly disadvantageous to Macao, and to Por 'tugal. In the first place, China, which has come for- ward and offered libenter to enter into a compact with Portugal, has been led by motives for her own convenience, while Portugal reaps no advantage, either in territorial aggrandisement or in facilities of trade Seendly, there is a great disparity. between the Hongkong co-operation in collecting the opium revenue and the arrangement in vogue in Macao. The Hongkong arrangement is only an experiment, subject to being repealed after a year's test; while the Macao co-operation is perpetual, as tasting, in fact, as the Treaty self Thirdly, the ground rent which Portugal formerly paid to China for the occupation of Macao is now substituted the co-operation in collecting the Opium revenue. If the former tenure was simply an emphiteusis, for being conditional on the payment of the ground rent, does not the same system still obtain, now that we are to assist in collecting the revenue of the Imperial treasury? Fourthly, by the decree of the 20th November, 1845, Macau was declared a free port, By the recent Trealy, the Macao importers and exporters of merchandise are paying not only the direct transit dues, but also the lekin to th Chinese Government. If the Treaty revokes the decree, and our port has ceased to be free, what hopes are we to entertain of any shipping prosperity for this colony? Lastly, the occupation of Macie by Fortugal is conditional on the latter nation never transferring or alienating the settlement to any other power. Does not a condi- tional possession under such circumstances simply mean that Macao is not a Portuguear possession?
one year's hard labour; but before the time
expired, they were set at liberty by the Tartars, who were then invading the country. The Portuguese adventurers at length quitted the Tartars, found their way to the coast, and embarked again for Ningpo. Being treacherously abandoned on a desolate island, where they almost died of hunger, Pinto and his companions were taken off-by-a-pirate, and soon afterwards driven by adverse winds on the coast of Japan."
JUNIUS,
THE EARTHQUAKE' IN YUNNAN,
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found. The inhabitants of those regions have some compensation for the alarms to which they are often exposed by great botanical and mineral richness and variety, and remarkable fertility of the soil. The medicines and chemical waters that cure human maladies are there in abundance, and all sorts of productions grow readily in response to the hopes of the husbandman.-N. C. Daily News.
TIENTSIN.
March 17th, 1888. On Thursday morning, the rgth instant, the French gunboat Vipère and the British gunboat Merlin left our port by orders from their respective Admirals. The French vessel. it is said, has gone to japan The Merlin will remain at Taku awhile, paitly to refit, and partly to carry out her regulation target practice.
We are informed that a trial of Krupp against De lange guns-field pieces-was held this week at the West Camp, at the instance of the French Consul The De Bange guns were served by French gunners from the Vipire, and the Krupp by Chinese artillerymen. The French claim a decided superiority for their gups in point of rapidity of fire, but no details have reached us,
Excellent fuel is now made at Kaiping, and as the Messageries Maritimes use large quantities of coal dust, bound by coal tar into blocks, we should think that if prices are not too high, and can compete with the article imported from France and England, there will be a large demand for Shanghai. The Kaiping patent fuel is particularly suitable for use in the Chinese men-of-war, as it gives off less smoke than coal, is also better for storage, as it deteriorates less than coal, when in the open air, exposed to sun, wind, rain, heat, cold, &c. The reseive stores at Port Arthur and Wei-hai-wei should, therefore, be mainly composed of patent fuel. Kaiping, like Japan coul, rapidly changes for the worse, and loses its evaporating power if stored long, whereas good patent fuel can be kept for two or the years without much, if any, deterioration. A very valuable industry, important to China commercially as well as in a military sense, can be founded at Kaiping.
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We have received a letter from the principal wod market of Mongolia, but for want of room cannot publish it this week. In the meantime we mention that by orders of the Viceroy Li, a proclamation has been issued, giving effect to
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obtained a reprieve. Ever since, the shop has, by way of gratitude, supplied gratuitously to condemned criminals on their way to execution as much wine as they wish to drink. Each criminal. is aupplied with a bowl, and; when he has taken his last draught, the bowl la solemnly smashed on the pavement, hence the title of the establish- | ment,~Chinese Times.
Ruskin's ROMANCE.
Many people who know the name of John Ruskin as an art writer and critic are not acquainted with the story of his life, which is one of the most romantic ever recorded. How he counted, married and was divorced from a woman he regarded as his ideal of perfection, it well known in art and literary circles at home, but the nutside world has either forgotten of inever knew the strange story. Ruskin's recent serious illness has directed attention to this
romance.
It was said that Ryskin did a strangely way- ward thing when he consented to get married. He did a most erratic, and to the public a most inexplicable thing when he arranged for his divorce.
He had accepted some of the loftiest traditions about womanhood that men sometimes read of and talk about, and he looked for his ideal companion. One night he met her in the drawing-room of a London friend, who, without his knowing it, had brought the young lady to meet the eyes of the great writer.
1888.
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It was a June night, he was 35, and she looked like a Greek goddess.
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Their wedded life was peaceful, friendly, kindly to the highest degree, but there was not a spark of affection to lighten their existence. She admired the great man she had married,TO-DAY. And was grateful for the wealth and comfort he showered on her. He worshiped her as he would the marble made life-like by the sculptor's
chisel.
There was nothing human about the life they led as husband and wife and she was a woman who in her heart, like all true women, laughed at the traditions that made her sex love distant worship,
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wif's picture. This man was Millais, and One day Ruskin brought an artist to paint his he was a bright, cheery, handsome fellow, human, every inch of him, with a great and absorbing love for the beautiful, and a willing ness to tell of his love.
nificent woman, and when he had finished he
He began-to-paint-the-portrait-of-the-mag-
was in love with bis friend's wife..
Womanlike she saw it, and perhaps she was not full of sorrow and reproach. It was the first
her feet. tribute of real menful love that had been laid at
is recognized in the mice. It seems that camel's the protest of Barod von Ketteler, whose action wout is adulterated with sugared water mixed with sand flirt, and sheep's wool by sand mixed with lamp oil, so that even sifung does not thoroughly cleanse it from Iraudulent admixtures. could be much improved if the hardy, native
No doubt the cultivation offruitin this province. trees were grafted with suitable varieties. At the great Jesuit college, about 250 / to the South of Tientsin, very fine Marit Louise pears, a delicious kind,. are grown successfully on the native trees; and that excellent missionary and real benefactor of China, Dr. Nevius of Cheloo, shows how fine grapes, and apples, equal to the absolute perfection, and other fruits, can be growths of Europe and America, strawberries in
of the native farmers at Chefoo now earn grown in a wind-swept garden at Chefoc, Many
considerable sums yearly from their grounds, by growing fruits on trees grafted by shoots given by Dr. Nevius and Mr.. Fuller, also of Chefoor-the-inter-another-useful-and-tonewbut John Ruskin secured it for her, and one It is difficult to obtain a divorce in England, olent man. As the country people could fairly bracing morning in the early winter, a month be called on to pay for seedlings or saplings, for after the divorce was granted, Ruakin stood beside fruit grafis, foreign seeds, cuttings, etc., a garden the couple in one of London's quiet churches, and self-supporting. and foreign expert in charge would be, ere long, saw them made man and wife.
Of late years His Excellency the Viceroy has had large quantities of willow trees planted along the canals. The trees grow quickly, and furnish charcoal for the powder mills. But charcoal made from willow is not the best; it is too deliquescent. In India the charcoal used for gunpowder is entirely made from carbonized millez stalke. Cunpowder so made, is less liable to deterioration from age, damp, or atmospheric influences, than if wood charcoal is used. The reason is, no doubt, that millet stalks contain silica.-Chinese Times.
PEKING.
Complaints are frequent of the unsatisfactory relations between Chinese and foreign officials, which are becoming gradually worse,. The absence of spontaneous courtesy on the part of the mandarins is not a new thing, but they are apt, if not sharply checked, to drift beyond the stage of merely dissembling their love" and come perilously near the point of "kicking down stairs." Not only are the communications of the Ministers of the Yemen vain and rabid, and ollen as silly as if they were addressed to school. boys, but in their so-called friendly intercourse they tacitly treat the foreign representatives as crying off engagements that are in the least inferior, making the most flimsy excuses for inconvenient to themselves, while disregarding the convenience of the foreigners.
And Ruskin? His wide eyes saw the romance. that was weaving around those two lives, and his heart realized how little affection, he had to lavish -on the woman whom he had made his wife.
How he told her the story of his pride in her,
she lay prone at his feet, is one and the sacrifice he was to make for her, while which only he or she could fell.
the things
That was a good many years ago, and since... then Millais has become rich and famous, and is now Sir John, and his wife is my Lady Millais.
The warmest, sturdiest friend the struggling painter had in his toiling days was the man whose wife he had married, and through all the John Ruskin has been. the welcome guest and years of Millais' later success and great honor, almost daily visitor to the man and woman whose lives he so unselfishly crowned with happiness.
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Having shown more or less clearly what appears to me to be the seamy side of this much belauded Treaty. I will conclude by expressing a hope that coming events may not confirm my gloomy prognostications. As I have commence may as well finish it with another from this epistle with a quotation from a French author, well-known English work--"The Chinese" by John Francis Davis. In my next I will translate Dr. Gomes da Silva's report on Macao, as a confirmation of my opinions on the matter.
Among the early and desperate adventurers from Portugal, the exploits of Ferdinand Mendes Finto have, by the help of some exagger ations, handed his name down as one of the chief. Having arrived with a crew of other desperadoes at Ningpo, he learned from some Chinese that to the north-east there Chinese kings, full of treasure. Pinto and his was an island containing the tombs of seventeen" companions succeeded in finding the place, and plundered the tombs, in which they found a quantity of silver. Being attacked, they were obliged to. retire with only part of the booty and a gale having overtaken them upon their return, in the neighbourhood of Nanking, only fourteen Portuguese escaped with their lives: In August, 1886, when Governor Rosa's unforthese were taken by the Chinese, and after tunate term of oface was nearing its end, the some maltreatment were sent to Nanking, and Inspector General of the Chinese Customs pub condemned to be whipped, and to lose each in an appearance in Macao. He had been
man a thumb. They were next conducted to commissioned by the Imperial Government to Peking, and on his way thither Pinto had visit all the southern ports of China and to report occasion to admire the manners of the Chinese, upon the best plan to put a stop to the contra-
their love of justice, and the good order and band traffic which was carried out in these places industry that prevailed among them. Arrived to the detriment of the Customs' revenue. Sir Robert Hart, during his few days stay here, bad at Peking, they were at length condemned to the opportunity of watching the opium move. ment which was clandestinely going on in this port: he witnessed the surreptitious shipping of the drug by the natives, who under full protection of the Portuguese authorities, managed to smuggle large quantities of the article into Chinese territory. He submitted to the Peking Government that the only means la repress this evil would be enter into a treaty with Portugal, stipulating for that Government's co-operation with China in the collection of the Opium revenue. The treaty did not originate with Governor Roza, as is flsely asserted. It was neither the work of his patriotic zeal, nor of his intelligence, nor of his initiative; it was Sir Robert Hart's own creation on behalf of the interests of China. Governor Roza returned to Portugal, vid America, in December, 1884, and found Mr. Campbell already in Lisbon, laves ed with full powers by the Pelding Government to enter into preliminary negotiations for the signing of a protocol. The Portuguese Government, that had twice failed in its attempt to ratify the Treaty drawn up by the Viscount of Prays Grande in Tientsin in 1862, thought that all obstacles had now vanished, as China, of her own accord, came to offer Portugal Treaty the preliminaries were soon agreed upon, a protocol was signed in Lisbon, and Senhor da Reza despatched to Peking to conclude the Convention. The Portuguese press became jubilant over the exent, and without enquiring whether the conditions were or were not favourable to the nation at large, and to the colony of Macao in particular, took to praising the newly made Minister to the sky, attributing to him all the supposed success of the negotiations,
Of the three sorti of earthquakes, the circular, On the 23rd June last, Minister da Roza, the linear and the vertical, this was of the linear accompanied by bis secretary, made his triumphal kind, and the direction east-north-east, and west- south-west. This we may judge to be neatly at entry into Macao amidst artillery salvacs and the frantic hurrahs of an exultant populace. In right angles to the prevailing direction of the a few days he got together his suite, composed valleys, lakes and rivers in that part. From the of Mr. Pindella, as Secretary, Mr. P. Nolasco da centre of intensity, a little to the west of the city Silva as Chinese Interpreter, Mr. Czorie as of Shih-ping, there was a decided extension of the by but not just yet. amanuensis, and Mr. Su Wos Fang as Chinese eatbquake wave northward in the direction of the good for all nailons, and for all times of interHongkong, 27th March, 1888. - clerk. They left in July for Peking, and after lake, as well as westward to the city of Wei- course on respectful terma, has to be set aside, having had their eyes opened by the Chinese yura, a hundred and twenty miles. Nothing is because now this Minister, and now that, has f Minister for Foreign Affairs, they returned to
said in the king Garafts of any sinking, as in some special favour to solicit from the Chinese, Macao in November, having concluded their the case of the earthquake in Kansu and northern and until he has secured that he dares not assert ITALIAN negotiations and loserted important alterations in Szechuen, four years ago. On that occasion a his independence. the original protocol.
Yamda in the city of Kial-chen went down under The Municipality of Macao went raving with the earth's surface. Judging by, the words of joy in welcoming the successful Ambassador, the Memorial which described that earthquake, Triumphal arches were erected in his honour, it was by no means so destructive as the present Te Deums were sung in the Cathedral, and age. On the same day as the Yunnan earthquake grand ball was given Senhor da Roza at the there was one also in Szechnen, so we are told Camoens Gardens where the Senate was located in a native newspaper, at Lu-chon. This As there was not sufficient furnitute in the rooms however has not been authenticated by a report la of the Senade to entertain the great Minister, the Peking Gaselle. Lu-chou is 350 English the citizens were asked to contribute what tables miles north-east ofthe locality where the Yunnan and chairs they could dispense with; the Bishop earthquake occurred. The report says that ten of Macao gave away a great portion of his thousand preous lost their lives, and that at 3 articles de luxe; asubscription was sent round the two great shocks of an earthquake were town to defray the expenses of the entertainment, felt at Wan-hau and Pau-sheng. A warning is acts at Handi. M, Constane is no doubt right and even the Chinese were asked to contribute appended in, the native newspaper against | in "restraining the ultra-exclusionists of the PAPERWEIGHTS/" FRUITS, and SOLIDAR being GOOD FRIDAY, this OFFICE and SWATOW ****
How His Excellency ansepting these reports as true, without official colony, but what an argument to ice all of must have thanked his stars for being an earthquake, the native, newspapers say that the the most important French dependency is to be confirmation. Among the events of the Shih-ping of liberality The whole economical policy of auddenly raised to civic honours, which by right belonged not to his but to the true They also say that the land subsided at Luchou special group of Franch manufacturers
chief mandarin of the city had a leg, broken governed by the supposed private interests of a promoter and the final negotiators of the Treaty!
Weil, what are the ments of this much vaunted and became a lake. This place is on the Upper Do the foreign Ministers realise what the Treaty? It contains $4 clauser, and, matalis Yangtze and only elg sy miles above Chung. represcatation of 30 or 40 or 50 or 60 millions of mutandir, is a transcript of the old Convention", king, so that we shall soon learn, whether this people, civilised, Intelligent, progressive, implies] elaborated in 1862 The following are the report is a true one, gelischen P
My Does it carry no dignity? Or only as much as stipulations of the protocol?: (1) China confirms On hearing of earthquakes in western China may be bartered away for some pettifoghing the perpetual occupation and government of we naturally think of the bot springs, and oil laveur Ancient history tells of one who was Macao and is dependencies by Portugal. (2) deposits. It is known that the metals have least, for his mess of postage wound outside the FRENCH and GERMAN TA
weils of those regions, as niso of the metalüferous | hungry and sold his birthright for food. He, at with
Macné a to-day but a memory of the past; the Englah (“many ages ago, been poured up in a molten form Not far from the execution ground silony of Hongkong has ludicted on is a mortal, blow All that through fissures in the earth's crust. The crust “femmalun‚of Ing former penupariky jen luk dae houses devoid of.
samanth. A few years mark and the kroplan Nipa that may of the earth; in? likely to be thinner in those parchance pass by that lathum which was onon, the cradio sta localities than elsewhere and hence the frequent (brave and opolest Porto 369 settlements will vody kiti vakad: desolate rocke, sadly washed by the wayat, and where the Chinese
volcanic disturbances which we hear of in those:
· Acharatna w131 spread his back wit të dry v
parts of the earth's surface where the metals are
maney towards it.
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(FROM A CORRESPONDENT IN PEKING.) The earthquake that has just been reported to the Emperor as having taken place on the 14th January in Yunnan is the most severe found in the Chinese records. It commenced at 6 in the evening and lasted till 4 in the morning. During that time there were twelve or fourteen principal shocks, and the destruction of houses and human life was very great. The locality is mountainous and dotted with beautiful lakes. The fine kind of tea called Foo-er-cha comes from the neigh- is famous. Not far away are the silver mines of bourhood, and also the copper for which Yunnan
of Burma. It is in this favoured spot a few miles south of the Yunnan lake, known as Tienchib,
The fault appears to rest on the foreign that this disaster occurred. The centre of the earthquake was at Shib-ping-chau. The whole Ministers themselves who have so long submitted extent of country disturbed by the earthquake-ir-to-improper treatment. Why should they For the HONOKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING- about 170 miles in length from east to west, and The general instructions of their respective sixty miles from north to south. Shih-ping lies governments, coinciding with the dictates of in a rort of central position.
common sense enjolning conciliatory demeanour, need not be interpreted to mean ke-towing to the mandarins, and if the corps diplomatique would but act together, they could impose any canons of etiquette they chose. Why do they not 7 Because so many of the Ministers have separate interests to serve, and like St. Augustine when he prayed for purity, qualify the petition The general principle,
T. H. WHITEHEAD, Manager, Hoogkong,"
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the gist
March, 1838, at his Sale Rooms, Duddell Street, at a P WITHOUT RESERVE
The position has of course become aggravated since the fashion set in of foreign MinistersHE turning broken. Diplomatic usages count for little with the man who has an axe to grind, in shape of a financial or industrial or any other transaction to be put through. How policy and principle have to yield to the power of pelf is obvious to the meat obtuse, M. Constans has 3* been telling the public of Tongking that theyThe REMAINING PORTION of a fine must not insist on their protectionist and exclusive collection of ITALIAN WORKS of ART in financial policy, because certain French people MARBLE, ALABASTA &c, comprising bave contracts with the Chinese Government, FLORENTINE, ROMAN, ETRUSCAN, which might be imperilled by any anti-Chinese And OTHER VASES, FRUIT STANDS, STATUETTES, GROUPS, ANIMALS MARBLE TABLES,
Catalogues will be issued previous to the sale. TERMS OF SALE AT Cutamanya dalam
BIERTOSA GÜR. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
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·LADY residing in England wishes to have "or, Three. Children to EDUCATE
Shun Chib Gate, there is a very respectable and hom old established wine shop, generally, known by the designation of the Broken Bow House, Many years ago a former proprietor, got into trouble was condemned to death, but eventually
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CANTON DISTRICT. LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 34.
** JUNK SUNK OFF LINTIN ISLAND,
TOTICE is hereby given that a large Junk lles sunk in 3 fathoms North East of Lintin Islands distant about 3 miles.
High peak of Lintin bears S. 370 30 W, Fan-ti-ak
Sul-chan Pagoda
N. 51° W,
-North,
A red flag will be holsted by day and a sed, light exhibited at night, until removal.
{. The above bearings are Magnetic.
.....
Approved!
FRANCIS W. WHITE,
Commissioner, Custom House,
J. H. MAY,
Harbour Master.
Canton 26th March, 1888,
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