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THE HONGkong telegRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1868.

Consul like RuSSELL. ROBERTSON, so iden tified and interested in British commerce with Japan, should find his last rësting place on the crest of that range, of historic hills facing the “matchless "or Fusiyama.moun- tain, where Commodore PERRY first landed and negotiated bis famous treaty which opened "to Japan. such beneficent results, results which the deceased did his bost, in the true interests of Japap and civilisation to promote, we venture to think is particularly appropriate. Moreover, we recognize it 55 SEED singularly befitting that his bier should

be borne to this place of repose by his life-long friends, such representative pioneers of British

commerce with Japan as Messrs. MACPHERSON, KINGHON, MOLLISON, RICKETT and E. B. WATSON; and all we can say is that the soil of “áï Nippon" has received the remains of many illustrious men, men great in patriotic achievements and mightly deeds, but we are convinced; it contains the ashes of no, worthier man than those of RussELL BROOKE ROBERTSON,

SWEET CORN

for immediate sowing:

DİVARLONG - DISPENSARY,

Hiengkang, and March 1848,

The Thong Telegraph

Jogokogt. FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1888.

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Tak sickle of the dread reaper has been unusually native amongst those whose names must ever remain associated with the progress, in modern times, of the two great nations of the extreme East-China -and-Japan Within the short space of a month have been marshalled to their long rest Baron vox Richroven, Consul-General Zarre, and 'Ressett Robertson, British Consul and Judge of Her Majesty's Supreme Court in Japan. The value, from a scientific and commercial point of view. of the work performer by Barón von Rigitores, as will as its marked fitlelity. buermes vach day more apparent and is lestined in our opinion to bear faller fruit. For the past twenty years Consel-General Zarre, with zealous devotion and ability, has gujelened the commercial-interests-of-the great nation he represented in Japan, with a sagacity and circumspection which had won for him the good will and esteem ol all as well as the approbation of his superiors in Germany. More than once he had been called upon to take charge of the Legation in Japan and elsewhere and' proved himself as deserving, of the high opinion which had been' Tormed of his qualifications and capacity by the veteran diplomatist HERR VOR BRandy at Jilling Mum..Alinister Resident in Japan. The universal esteem in which the deceased was held by the native and foreign com munities of Japan, as well as the profcund regret at his untimely end, must be à consolation, however poor, to the German, (community and their respected representa- tives at Poking and Tokio. Of the late RUSSELL. BRAKE ROBERTSON, it is not too much to say that he lived and died the personification of what is bes and most noble in the term-a „true) English gentleman. The honours which [were recently conferred upon him. (upon (which), frontour point, of view, we do not plage any particular value) are an out- wair inlication, at all events, of the -Sovereign's and the Government's appre "Bigtion of the value of his services, but this do not gauge, in our opinion, the loss the country has sustained by the premature removal of one whose conscientious and intelligent discharge of his duties reflected a lustre on British civil administration in Japan, which will not be easily dispelled. Gifted with an imperturbable temper. possessing a particularly courteous and charming" manner and bearing, he was "like necessible at all times to high or taw native or foreigner. During the Troubloux and excing times of young Jupan, the calm dignified manner in which ho performed his duties merited the admiration of his countrymen, and the care and considerateness he bestowed upon all-matters, submitted to him, justly appealed convincingly both to native and foreigner.

But yesterday, it seems, two figures might be seen walking together, 'the elder leaning on the younger's arm, on

uplands of Yokohama; the one ben elderly, spare, intellectual-looking hh, the other no less so, of a Byronic "type, from under whose curly clusters of thair beanied forth a pair of kindly sympathising eyes and whose voice was one of peculiar softness and attraction.. while the devoted respectful affection shown by the younger to the elder --a Houching sight.not easily obliterated from memory-showed them to be, as they were father and son, Sir BROOKE and Russet.L ROBERTSON. Was it too presumptuous then * to have indulged in the hope, alas now only too futile, that the son's promising. career might even eclipse the father's? If it were not, that what we venture to „Atkińk÷further onnobles the character of RUSSELLBERTSON, we should refrain from, however delicately, referring to a shadow which crossed his early domestic }}le; but the fortitude, dignity and magnanimity with which he bore that trial adds so much

to dur Appreciation of his character that wo have wentured to touch upon it with all excuse; That the remains of, a 'British

PLEGRAMS.

(Reuter.)

FRANCE.

LONDON, April 25th.

A Manifesto has been issued by the Count de Paris in which he states that the movement in favor of General Boulanger will be futile, and that the revision of the constitution will result in the establishment of a monarchy.

(From the Straits Times.)".

FRANCE.

PARIS, April 17th, M. Jules Ferry, speaking at Epinal, described General Beulanger as a mutinous soldier whose proceedings and programme recalled the Second of December, 1851.

politics to unite against this would-be Casar.

He called upon all sections of Society and

"IRELAND.

LONDON, April 18th. Mr. Dillon has been arrested in Dublin and conveyed to Drogheda and charged with inciting tu non-payment of rent. He has been remanded.

OBITUARY.

Matthew Arnold. Elde sou of the late Rev. Thomas Arnold, 13.1), head master of Rugby, born December 24, 1822, at Lalchain, near Staines, where his father then resided with private pupils was cducated at Winchester, Rugby, and Balliol College, Oxford. He was elected Scholar of * Itallioi in 1840, won the Newdigate prize for

Taglish verse (sübjeça, “Cromwell") in 1843, - graduated in honours in 1844, angi was elected Fellow of Oriel College in 1845. In 1847 the late Lord Lansdowne nominated him his private secretury, and he acted in that capacity until his marriage in 1851 with the daughter

of the late Mr. Justice Wightsaan, when he received an appointoient as one of the Lay Inspectors of Schools, under the Committee nt Council on Education, a post which hê

has lately resigned. In 1848 the "Strayed Reveller, and other Poems," signed "...” appeared, followed in 1853 by "Em edocles on Etna, and other Poems," with the saine signature. In 1854 he published a volume of poems in his own name, consisting of new pieces and selections front the two previous volumes. This was followed by a second scries, when the first two volumes were with- drawn from circulation, Mr. Arnold, who was eleased Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857, published in 1858, "Merope," a tragedy after the antique, with a preface, which the

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THE QUEEN.

April 19th. The Queen and the Emperor of Austria meet next Monday at Innsbruck.

THE CANADIAN FISHERIE The Dominion House of Conisions has passed the Fisheries Treaty, but the Foreign Commitice the United Sintes Senate. have resolved to ecommend its rejection.

THE SUEZ CANAL, .

The Porte declines the modifications of the convention, as proposed by the English and

French Governments.

(From the Courrier de Saigon) GENERAL BOULANGER, ·

PARIS, April 10th,

General Boulanger has thanked the Dordogne lectors and stated that his election signified the country's regeneration; he declines inccept any candidature outside the one he has accepted for the Department of Nord.

FRENCH INDO-CHINA:

April, 1th. M. Richaud will be Acting Governor-General during the absence of M, Constans,

FRANCE.

LOCAL AND GENERAL:

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CAPTAIN Collinson with a party, including Mr. Leyburn, is said to have killed another tiger near Amoy.

IT is stated that the Imperial Customs Authorities have engaged two professional divers from London,

L'Avenir du Tonquin reports an increase of mad dogs in Hanoi, much, to the discomfort of pedestrians both, native and foreign. Messrs. Butterfield & Swire inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Priam, from Liverpool, left Singa; ore for this port on the morning of the 25th inst,, and is due on the rainus of the railway. The railway company Sercombe-Smith a menther of the military police

THE Austrian corvette Fäsana left Singapore military forces yesterday appears to have had a on Sunday last for Balhvía.

good effect in giving confidence and bringing out to duty many of the ricksha men, for this mutuing PRINCE de Saxe Weimar arrived here by the the chairs and ricksha were plying, though not M. M. steamship Djemnak, from Singapore, en

very numerously, as far westward as Jauline's coute, for Vakeshima

godowns. However, even with uk chion heats. and rickshas off duty, the consequentes to trad will not, we think, be near so serious as at first supposed, for with the fine calm weather and transhipped by means of sea-going junks existing at present, much cargo can be shipurd and the mooring of stemmers in couples, which the P. and O, and Holt's line are already engaged morning, plying for hire, and the condition of the in. The sampans along the west Praya are, this native quarter is quiet.

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1st proximo, The Foochow Echo hears that the line of stemmers established to run between Tansui and

Hongkong has been stopped by the authorities, as it interferes with the junk trade between the two above mentioned ports.

The Straits Times regrets to learn that cholera has broken out in the Criminal Prison is Singapore It seems to be of a virulenttype as it has carried of three patients in a very short space of time. Two of thein, named Nin Jok and Yeo Ah Jek (the laster of whom had only to serve a day or two more to finish his sentence) died on the 17th, and another, named Now Ah Reow, died the next morning at 8 o'clock. On the 17th three more deaths from cholera occurred among Chinese prisoners in the Criminal Prison, so that El. MT. Coroner had six inquests to hold. Cholera was the verdict returned in each case. Several more prisoners have since been taken ill with the same tell complaint.

Death from

completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway has SAYS the London and China Express-The enabled a great saving to be made in the niministration of the Pacific division of the Royal Navy, and has entered it possible to expense. The dockyard and depot of Esquimal strengthen the squadron without incurring large is situated on the island of Vancouver, at the

is willing and able to convey stores, machinery? and whole ships' crews at very low rates froni the Atlantic to the Pacific seaboard, and there- fore the Admiralty has decided to commission and repair ships at Esquimalt, on even a larger scale than is already done at Malta and long kong, By the extension of Exquinat dockyard and the use of the railway the saving will amount to a considerable sun annually.

MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVA

COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon, when there were present: His Excellency the Governor (Sir William Des Vœux) Dr. F. Stewart, Colonial Secretary, Mr. Russell, Acting Chief Justice, Mr. E. L. O'Mally, Attorney-General, Mr. A. Lister, Colonial Treasurer, Captain W. M. Deane, Superintendent of Police, Messrs. P. Ryrie, A Wong Shing, (unofficial members) P. McEwen, C. P. Chater, J. Hell-Irving, and

The minutes of the previous meeting were. read and confirmed.

This morning at the magistracy before Mr. was charged by a coolic with assault and battery, The complainant's clothing was covered with blood and be had a cut on the left fuchend., His story was that he was attacked and beaten last night by the policeman without cause. The court was crowded with men of the crotic class.

Several witnesses for the defence, all men of the 58th Regiment, who were doing duty as police- men, said the row took place in Cochrane Street anything more than order the complainant to and that they did not see the defendant do disperse along with the crowd. Finally bis Worship dismissed the case.

Governor bythe cargoboatmen on strike, received, The petition presented to His Excellency the the following answer which was posted through outtown yesterday. We append a translation --

OFFICIAL ANAVEN TO TER PETITION OF ang unari, Sir William des Vaux, KC,G, fasernor of Hongkong audits dependencies, brewith answereth the petition of the range boatmen That having a deep sympathy with the brig class, I should have given their peticios a very careful pe sideration with a view to reame all came of Just cresplat if there in such from a regalation passed before my anal fu the Colony, ad, they approached me when they first heard of the ne faw, and before it came into free as regards them, They kave, lansaver, been mistes! by al advisers in the womewis of obtaining my intervention, and have entered luto a combinertion at give way to incintillati na, and that cannot catert in their grievances while they maintain sheir presem altitude of resistance

teves f, as their best friend, in we thent tout if they While such Tegetting the serious foas they are inlithgom probing their cestation from Labour, the community will gradually learn to do without it, and thus their means oflivelig, will be altogether last.

The Colonial Secretary laid on the table two financial-measures which H.E. the Governor leam but the finish towerimentales of sin ser para pro-thein tr to defray the cost of new posts and rails on the recommended the Council to vote, viz -$505 Garrison parade ground; and $720 for salaries to four additional clerks at the Generál Pust Office, at $30 per mensem, till the end of the year. On the Colonial Secretary's motion, seconded by the Colonial Treasurer, these items were referred to the Finance Committee.

The Colonial Secretary also laid on the table! some further correspondence relating to the Gap Rock Lighthouse.

April 19th. At the Chamber of Deputies an interpellation was addressted to the Government concerning the internal policy of the country; the discussion was ended by an order of the day expressing confulence in the Government, and adopted by 379 against #17 votes.

WE are informed that quite a fluster of excite The Chamber-hut-adopted the nomination-of-ment was created last og mongst the à Committee for revising the Constitution, residents of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank by a sudden scream of alarm from outside, near the water, at about a quarter to ten o'clock. Ü those who rushed out on to the verandan Mr., Thomsett was the first to see and to take in the situation of some one being in the harbour immediately opposite the Bank buildings. With great promptitude he ran down the stairs and on reaching the Praya' wall, without hesitation, took a header into the briny" where a few vigorous strokes brought him alongside a drowning person whom he seized and conveyed to the shore. This rescued person proved to be a native girl of about 12 years of age. Prompt measures were taken to restore breathing and circulation when Drs. Gerlach and Cantic The Attorney General_in_moving_for, the arriving, the girl was carefully-attended and in-second reading of the Bill entitled "The Coroner's the course of two hourse she was sent to the Abolition DOrdinance, 1888,' said that the object of this Bill was to abolish the office of Coroner Civil Hospital. We take this opportunity of congratulating Mr. Thomsett on his gallantry and to transir his duties to one of the lural and decision, failing which, there is no doubt the Magistrates. It was proposed to do away with girl would have been drowned. How she came a jury at Coroner's inquests excepting in cases of

suspicious circumstances,

OUR American exchanges ex S.S. City of Sydney having come to hand just as we were going to press, we have to postpone publication of American news till ta imorrow.

'A REGULAR inecting of Zetland Lodge No. 525, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zelland Street, on Friday, the 4th proximo, at 8.30 for 9 pm preci ely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited YAHY-few-teamen-says-the-Shun-frao, have arrived at Kinkiang for the present season and only is. 10.0) were set up a try, whit last year the amount was 100 000 aris THE formes tiovernor of Foochow named Pies

By His Excellency's orders, a letter from Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, dealing with some of the suggestions made by Mr. A. P. McEwen at the last meeting, was read

Preservation Ordinance referred to in yesterday's The following are the provisions of the Pence

Proclamation:-

being broken a Justice of the Peace may call Section 6 provides that whenever the peace is

order and in apprehending persons breaking it. upon bystanders to give their aid in preserving.

Section 7 gives Justices of Peace authority to disperse riotous or unlawful assemblies persons refusing to disperse are liable to three months' imprisonment.

by persons duly authorised, and gives Justices of

Section 8 prohibits the carrying of arins, except - the Peace power to authorise constables to search for arms. The possession of arms is punishable by six months' imprisonment.

Section

Paou-ti, has, the Fouw Echo understands to get into the situation has not yet transpired. prisoners dying in Gaol or under specially be liable to whipping, in place of or in addition~~

teen appointed to screed the Viceroy Yang, wit is transferred to the North in province as Governor-Genier 1 of Skepsi and Kasuh.. WE hear the during a bail storm Swatow on the 9th ist. a large passenger bont from Chaa. Yang was turned over and seven personsdrowned, the Fishing Stakes. Many athers close to the same spur tax. Iwan simflady_anfanumee! during sudden gasts.

SAYS the N. C. Daily News:-The Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James, has completed his purchase of mining plant for Kweichow'at extraordinarily low prices, and the way in which the work was done reflects great credit on the ingenuity of the Chinese Embassy in London. the buyers, who were utterly ignorant of the details of what they required!, were introduced"] by a firm here to their agents in London, a firm of engineers, and these gentlemen made out a TUE Straits Times is informed that a German complete list of the plant required with the squadron, consisting of the jsmarck, figsh price against every separate article. This f Commodore Hewisner, and the corvaust was then taken to the Chinese Embassy, Careta and Olga, is duc fri Singapore-ne while the prices were cat of a number of

heved as flagship by the Leipzig, month from Japan. The Bismarck will le cepics made of it. These copies were sent mund to all the manufacturers Great Britain, who; thinking that their execution of this would be the prelude to larger orders in the future, tendered lose money on a first crder. The lowest prices at very low rates, at which they were content to were accepted, the sent bring that the whole plant costs the Chinese some thirty per cent. less than ordinary rates; but it is probably the last time that they will be so successful, for their mode of doing the business has effectually disgusted their friends both here and at home. THE Russian Navy continues to make vast strides, and at the approaching two-hundredth anniversary of the formation of the first Russian

A SIMPL› bat ingenious anethod of filling shelb with dangerous compounds has just been before the American Navy Department. Insteal of filing the shells with a mixture of the dangerous elements, they are, separately placed in botild, which will explode by the impact of the shei. containing them.

THE new magazine rile recommended by Small Arms Committee seems (says the Lord and China Express) doumed to failure, if ther is any truth in the rumour current that beside

The M. C: Daily News hears, from a trus warthy source, that matters have improved i Corea; affairs in Seoul were very quiet, and it hoped that good progress will now be made it improving the state of the country. It ale hears that Mr. Denny will main at his pual, and will not return home as he intended doing som

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WE (London and China Express) test, thi the Shanghai correspondent of the Standard; for once right when he telegraphs" It is report "that Li Hung-chang has declared himad favourable to the opening for Europea commerce of the Si-Kiang, or West River So many of his previous communications hat proved incorrect, that however desirable it mi seem, we must receive the news with caule for the present..

The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the Bill was read, a second time.

The Attorney General moved that the Council go into committee on the Bill; H.E.' said it would be more convenient to postpone consider- ation on it till the Council disposed of other nattes before it, and the subject was dropped. of the Rating ginanse, 1888; the Colomini The Colonial Treasurer moved the 3rd reading Secretary seconded, and the Bill was read a third time and passed.

The Attorney General moved an ainendinetto the European District Reservation Ordinance, 1888, to the effect that a clause should be added allowing the Chinese coinuity to erect within the reserved district such buildings as Chambers

Commerce or any tenement similar to is, bu excluding all houses of habitation for Chinese

The Colonial Secretary seconded

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reply given to Mr. Wong Shing at the last His Excellency anid that with regard to his meeting, he thought it would be desirable to avoid the erection of private buildings altogether in the reserved district, as it would, in course of me, become difficult to discriminate between buildings; it would probably require the author Chinese dwelling houses and their public rities to watch over them to see whether such buildings are in contravention of standing orders or not. Therefore he approved of the limitation introduced by the Attorney General,

The new Section as proposed, was then read third time, was passed into law.

His Excellency made some remarks as to the deficient translation of his reply to the petition presented by the Cargo batmen, and the Colonial Secretary read a correct translation, such as. was handed to us for publication to-day.

Mr. Rytic having asked whether he could make any reference to the subject of the prescal strike of cargo coolies in the Colony, His Exceitency replied that he was at liberty to put any questions.

priciples of Greek tragedy are discussed, and the recent accident reported as having happend fileet, seven new large vessels will be comincnced and carried, and the Bill having been read a In 1861, three lectures "On Translating up nr was otherwise disabled twice recently

to Major Lockyer, the modified Lee rifle burt

Homer," which he had delivered before the University of Oxford, In the same year he published the records of the educational systems of France, Germany, and Holland, which he had previously submitted to the Government in the shape of a Report, having been sent in 1859 as Foreign Assistant Commissioner to the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of popular education,

time since. obtain further information respecting the various plans of education adopted in those countries, Mr. Arnold, who has contributed, both in prose and in verse, to periodical literature, collected and published in 1865 some of bis prose contributions, under the title of "Essays in Criticism." Mr. Arnold again visited the Continent in 1865 to procure for the Royal Commission on Middle Clus Education information respecting foreign schools for the middle and upper classes, and published in 1867 a volume on this subject. In the same year he published "Lectures on the Study of Celtic Literature in 1868, "New Poems;" in 1869, a collected edition of his poems and "Culture and Anarchy, an Essay in Political and Social Criticism in essay on Puritanism and the Church of Eng-5 land" in 1871, "Friendship's Gailand being the Conversations, Letters, and Opinions of the late Arminius, Baron von Thunder-Tea- Tronckh}" in 1873, "Literature and Dogma: an Ersay towards a better Apprehension of the Bible: ;" and in 1877 “Last Essays on Church and Religion." In 1867. Mr. Arnold ceased he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Edinburgh, and in 18yo from his own University of Orford,

1870, "St. Paul and Protestantism, with an

By kind permission of Colonel Anderson and th officers of the and Northamptonshire Regimen the Regimental Band will play in the Publ Gardens, on Sunday, the 29th inst., from 3.30

pm. The following will be the programme:

March......Mentury "ummy.........iNewtont Centur.Schabert "

..Бырра Selection......Acís and Balates"..

"...... Handel Velse..Douce Souvenance. Wakitaufa Felection (and): Maaltana "gpipes..................... Wallace, Volae...........{Pros De Toll"

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take fares, This state of things ought to be at- tended to without delay.

provides that persons convicted under any of the three preceeding sections shall to, any other penalty prescribed by the Ordinance, Section to gives power to enter houses and effect arrests.

Section 11Any perzon during the con tinuance of any froclamation under this stoppage of the sale or transit from place to Ordinance, unlawfully combining to procure a

or other persons to discontinue the sale or transit place of provisions or other articles, or unlaw- fully combining to precure shookeepers, dealers, from place to place of provisions or other articles, person from purchasing or from being supplied or preventing or endeavouring to prevent any with any such articles, shall, on summary con viction thereof before Magistrate, be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term. not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or to both."

Section 12 gives the Governor in Council

sidered necessary for the public safety. subject of Her Majesty, whose removal is con power to banish any person, not a natural born

acting in good faith under the provisions of the Section 13 grants an indemnity to any person Ordinance against liability in damages or other wise for any act done by him.

petition recently presented by the coolles of The following is His Excellency's teply to a the Tung-kun district. It was translated into Chinese and circulated throughout the colony, to-day

warling, I shall take care that special protecties is afforded the

That they will inform me of the locality where they intent and desire that they shall make it known that any ill disposed persons endeavoring. prevent them or any other people from fallowing their lawful occupation will be punist with the smo severity while the ringleaders and especially those who at secretly nesting others to disurder will in addition be banished altogether from the Colony.

A Government General Notice has been placarded in town to-day, to the following effect:-

Whereas it har me to my knowledge that many of the Colles throughout the colony have been made to stop was not of thi own accord, but through threats of violence, notice is hereby given that just as it is unlawful to compel you to work alatt your witt, it is also unlawful as conps! you to stop working. In Imida tion to prevent the doing of any lawful act such as bongst wirk for your 1velihood is a serious offence, and the Intimidators, f discovered, will be punished sevenly, Les willing workers slien work as before, and every protection will be afforded them,

hundred soldiers has been craising in ateam We hear that a force of from two to three

whether that was in connection with the present launches about the harbour, but are not sure

about the strike will be found in our report of the troubles ar was simply an ordinary drill the part of the military. Some additional information proceedings of the Legisintive Council held this afternoon.

FLOATING THE S. S. "ARDGAY."

Captain G. R. Stunt, of the London Salvage His Excellency said that it was not incumbent Association, in company with Mr. R. Cook, on him to discuss there the goodness or badness of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock

Company, of the regulations passed before he came to the

arrived here yesterday from Colony. He could say that any organised

the coast of Cochin-China where they scheme to disturb the peace of the Colony would had been to examine the position of the be promptly and effectively repressed. He hadkamer Ardgay as she now lies embedded in heard so many rumours of efforts having been of the steamer's position does not apprehend any the san Captain Stuart after a careful survey had to chaturb order, that he was convinced of difficulty in floating her, and should his Company the truth; had enquired of the Police authorities in London approve of the terms which have connection with this strike, and would see Whampoa Dock officials, there punished.

incident in connection with the building of a at different ship-yards on the Black Sea. An

first-class ironclad, now in hand at the private Kundishev-Volodin ship-yard at Nikolajew, illustrated the doubtful Messings attending the present Russian protectionist policy. The order for the building of the ship in question was given to the above firm on the distract under. standing that all the material used was to be Russing, the Government being ever auxious to give the home iron and steel industry a life. The Dandishev-Volodia establishment conse-

Mr. Ryrie then said he was anxious to know what measures had been adopted by the local quently solicited tenders from three large iron works (those of Putiley, Briansk, and Nevski), the Colony, as the commercial community was authorities to check the strike now going on in but the prices asked for steel ranged between roubles 45 kopecks and 3 roubles 60 kopecka per was not sufficient Police supervision on the Pryn suffering great inconvenience there from. Thero pood (about 16 kilos.), while the best English kopecks f.o. b. Although the duty on steel lago was proceeding, West in a chair at 1 pm, to-day, steel was simultaneously offered at trouble to to keep the men from intimidating the coolies who were willing to work. The bon. member himself kopecks gold per pood, there was a considerable when some Chinese stopped his coolles. That difference in favour of the English quotation. The ship-yard drew the attention of the naval

was a clear case of intimidation, and the autho authorities to the unreasonable prices demanded rities should take immediate steps to repress it, permission to use English steel so as to teach by the native sleci manufacturers, and obtained. There were rickshas to be seen all along the streets with their icats taken out, as if intimating the home makers a useful-lesson-Engineering

to the passers-by that their drivers would not THE following shows the total number of breech- loading guns belonging to the six Great Powers and afloat on January 18, 1888. For conven: ience of comparison the guns are roughly classified-Great Britain, guns over to tons, Ibits Momar, Bandmaster.2, guns between go and 100 tons 14, guns between 3 and 50 tons 496, guns under 5 tona, 545. SAYS the Singapore Straits Times: For mai France, guns between 50 and too tons 38, that investigations have been ordered by ti Germany, guns between 5 and 50 tons

157, under 5 tons 35r. Austria, guns between 5 and jo tons commander-in-chief of the German Navy to fit

50 tons 155, under 5 tons 167. Italy, guns over 100 tons 20, between 5 and 30 tons 21, under 5 tons

tions in the course of next week. The the King of Italy, in acknowledgment, of his

130, or a total for the six chief powers of Europe committee on the Coroner's Abolition Ordinance plant, and machinery for the work will enre of the young Duke of Genoa, who lived in

of 3,916. These figures show Great Britain to be when our report left.

supplied by the Dock Company and will Mr. Arnold's family while pursuing his studies

be of such a nature as not to tax their in England, Mr. Arnold's collected poems

loading guns afloat. We have, indeed, fewer

resources to any appreciable degree. Captain THE COOLIE STRIKE. were reprinted in 1877, and again in 1881 and

these weapons than Germany has, and only

Stuart's plans will consist mainly in cutting the 1885. He has edited the Prophecies of Isaiah,

just as many as Russia. We possess, it is true,"

vessel out. She is at present embedded in-about "The strike against work on the part of the ten feet of sand, and all-that-will-have- And selections from Wordsworth, Byron,

more than half the existing naval breech-cargo men stands in much the same position as` loaders of from five to ten tons in weight; yesterday, although if there be any difference, below the surface of the sen, by which Jobinson and Burke. He published in 1879

to be excavated down to about fifteen feet. a volume of mixed Essays, and in 1881 a

but on the other Batid, France has more the situation is improved. Shippers and others time the Ardgay will be in a kind of volume bearing the title of "Irish Essays and

than twice our number of guns of under five connected with cargo who on the first appearance, dry dock, to which a water channel from the dellvered at Cambridge. the annual Rede Organ Recital, we would venture a few bit in the Estimates, these facts demand serious have, during the last two days thought out is, let in through this narrow channel - the Others." On June 14, 1882, Mr. Arnold

tons. Taken in connection with a paragraph of the strike found themselves somewhat at a loss sex must then be constructed. As the water his subject being "Literature and to the individual who passes as a musical cre consideration. That: paragraph states that the situation, and, with the usual fertility of vessel will fost in her dock, and the wider Leite, summer of 1886 he was occasionally in the Chiss Mail. We refer considerable delay has occurred in the delivery resource which setdam fatta energetic people, have excavating of the channel will then be proceeded made Doctor of Laws at Cambridge, and the notice in that paper in last night's issue of guns at the dates previously promised," and discovered ways and means of surmounting many with the steamer being hauled out gradually in the autumn of that year he visited the the Recital at the Cathedral on Wednesd that "so few breech-loading guns of large calibre apparent difficulties. Many of the stevedores as the work of cutting gods on. The natives United States and delivered there three evening. The critic in

of the Pedal Org concerned in their manufacture, whether they be steamers were always ready to work, and their a poor, uncffeuding, Teoble lot of people who published by him. In 1886 he again visited as a broomstick or of the nature of a sed private contractors or Woolwich Factory, scem cessation from it was more in obedience to fear will, however, work heartily at such laboure the Continent, to procure for the Education chorus: however, be has succeeded in taki tohaveante-dated the finish of their work." This than to any feeling of sympathy with the Captain Stuart thinks that if the conditions here Department Information on certain questions himself amusingly ridiculous in his ignoraz means that a long time aust yet clapse ere we strikers; these people have now got police were anything like those on the coast of England connected with maintenance and management on both subjects. We will not discuss. can hope to replace all our obsolete guns with protection. In one or two cases-which might or Holland, where be could socure and work sand of elementary schools. Mr. Amold's Report question of the position that singers should ra modern ones; and that it is impossible for us readily be applied to all-some steamers in parips, he would have the Ardgay afloat in a has since been published. In 1886 he paid up when performing a quartette, also referred immediately to regain that incontestable super the harbour are moored together in couples, week after commencing operations; as it is, the a second' visit to America]-Sten of the by this amateur bungler; his "hint" is too s) iority over France which we once possessed and thus transfer whatever goods require work will have to be done mainly by hand. Zime.

to entertain,

Lendon & China Expresa,

transhipment. The donionstrailon made by the sxcavating. ...

to hold the Poetry Chair at Oxford; in 1869 time circles it may be interesting to kad | between 5 and so tons 284, under 5 tons 1,130 how many delinquents, had been arrested in been partially made with the Hopwill be

and

In the year 1871 the Order of Commander of aut the practicability of putting the skle-ligh 09, under 5 tons 210. Russia, guns between Sand: that they and their instigators be adequately nothing to stop him from commencing opera-

the Crown of Italy was conferred on him by

a

of steamers so as to form an angle of sevent five degrees forward with the top-lantern, Su putting of the signal lights has been propost by a member of the Meteorological Office, as such a position of the lights In future it wou be quite easy to make out the course of anoth steamer at night. For instance, head light al red light perpendicularly together would indict a course of 75 degrees to the left of the observy vessel.

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WITHOUT criticizing the programme of the

very inferior to France in the matter of breech- of

The Council had resumed consideration in

Discourses which form the last volume about as much of the an evidently knoj | have hitherto been made in this country that all men who, stow the cargoes in the holds af on that part of the coast are described as