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intellectual oppression which are enforced on the masses. But as their efforts to shake themselves free from the undesirable yoke arerendered useless by the sanction the local Government gives to the oppressors, it may he fairly inferred that the future of true. liberty, of progress, and of advancement In the Philippine Islands, is now more pro- lemation than ever, and that as long as the press, the books, and all other manifestations nl intellectual freedom, are hitched to the retrograde car of chricallam and monasti- isin, the inhabitants of the neighbouring Arthipelago may rely on having the problem of their future welfare solved against them.
LEGRAM S.
(Reuter)
THE "TIMES" AND THE PARNELLITES,
LONDON, July 15th. The House of Commons has read a second time the Bill for a special committee of inquiry into the charges made by the Times against the Parnellite party.
ITALY AND MASSOWAH.
The Italian press approve warmly of the Tue Manila news sent us by a correspond-ude taken by the Government against the ent under date the 2 rst inst. and published French claims in Massowah. in our issue of the 26th, short and concise as it is, presents a very characteristic
(From the Straits Times.)
THE SOUDAN.
LONDON, July 26th.
An “English. Pasha" who is reported to be organizing a large force on the Babr el Gazel for the recs quest of the Soudan from the Mahdi is stated to be none other din it. M. Stanley,
THE STANLEY EXPEDITION. It is reported that Stanley with a strong force illustration of the spirit of religious intoleris marching upon Khartoum for the reconquest ance which reigns supreme in the Philip of the Mahdi, pine Archipelago. We refer our readers to the disgraceful occurrence which took place at that city in connection with the suppression of books supposed to have been written in direct antagonism. to the A resident of ecclesiastical authorities. Manila, on being either suspected of denounced of being in possession of works of an anti-clerical character, is incon- tinently ordered to surrender the publica- tion, his domicile is entered and searched; he is ordered to reveal the name of the bookseller of whom he purchased the book; the bookseller's shop is then searched for more copies of the forbidden print; these are seized, sequestered, and destroyed, and both the seller and the purchaser are
RUSSIA AND GERMANY. The Czar and the Emperor have met and landed together at the Peterhof,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Massus. Carlowitz, & Co. inform us that the steamship Stars, of the Navigazione Generale Hana, left Singapore yesterday for this port.
thrown into prison. Such was literally DIVISE SERVICE FOR SEAMEN:-On Sunday the fate of Señor VADD, as related by the morning between 9 and 10 30 o'clock the steam- launch carrying the Bethel flag will call atengside correspondence alluded to. The only
any vessel hoisting ceda pennant C, to convey aggravating circumstance was that in this men ashore to 11 am. service, at St. Peter's case, a civil authority himself, the Governor Seamer's Church, returning about' 12.30, of Binondo, became implicated in the
·A Pastorat letter from Cardinal Moran was read transfer of prohibited books and probably the other Sunday in all the Sydney metropolitan suffered the consequences of his deed. Catholic churches, find part of this letter expressly Our correspondent adds that these forbade the solemnisation of marriage at night proceedings of the superior authorities, time, "except in cases of extreme urgency." Catholics' me now commanded to be married hainous and abominable as they are,
dong the Mass celebration fact which will tend to considerably increase the church congreg. tions, and augment the gate money, so to
are perfectly covered by the Penal Code in force in the Island, which prohibits the sale, purchase. transfer or keeping of any books of an anti-clerical
We are informed by the agents (Messrs. Russell & Co.), that the "Union" Line steamers Guy Mannering, from Hamburg, and Dorset, from London left Singapore for this port the former yesterday, and the latter to day, may be expected to arrive on the 3rd and 4th proximo
respectively.
subsist on animal diet; a dog can, I believe, be taught to subsist on vegetable diei, But it would be as impossible to teach a sheep to eat flesh as it would be to make a lion feed on grass.
DOCTORS are proverbially callous. We now read of a celcbrated surgeon who calmly dissected the love of his youth, the girl he had danced with, had gone boating with, had taken long country rides with, had kissed and caressed and had hoped to wed-the prospective domestic angel of his home, the wife of his bosom, the mother-of-his-children, the sharer of his jors and sorrows; and he calmly dissected her.
He was on a visit to
MESSES. ADAMSON, BELT, & Co. inform us tha the steamship Zambesi arrived at Yokohnina oday, and will leave for this past on the 31s inst.
MR. C. D. Harman, agent of the O. & O S. S. Co, informs us that the steamer Gaelit, with malls, &e, from San Francisco to the itth inst, has arrived at 'Yokohama, and will leave for this port to-morrow,
T12 steamship Bitola kefe Koke for this port on the 24th inst., and is due early un Monday. To clean marble statuary, or any mable sui face which has become soiled by dust and fir ger
THE champion mean woman lives on a Northers marks, mix quicktime with strong lye so as to forma a mixture having the consistency of cream.S.W river. Recently she lost valuabl and apply it at pace with a brush. Allow the gold watch and advertised for the same, announc composition to comin' for a day or two, and ing a liberal reward, An honest, hardworking then wath it off with soap and water, whereupon farm-labouter found the watch about three mile from town, and trotted joyfully back with hi the marble will appear as though it was new.
find. When he handed it over to the large
"Humph You hearted female, she said: seemed to have knocked the watch about a gou deal, but, however, you may come to the baraw. and have any drink you like."
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By kind permission of Major W. T. Ellis, and the officers of the and Northauittonshire Regiment, the Regimental Band will play in the Pablie Gardens, to-morrow (Sunday), from 9 till 10p.m. The following will be the programme
March Cudden Suulmaan " Overture... Bohemia"... Selection..
"Irish Alta".. Vale
Southera Bresce
Selection..
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Sraith
Hallo. „Godfrey.
For Lendon-
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Hɛ-"And now you promise to fondly love and chetish me through all the "future years, my darling one? She Well, George, I can't say ns to the exact number of years, far one of us'll probably pan out Gist; but I'll agree to set up three good, square meals nudayi,as long as he hang out together. And next morning she proudly exhibited a solitary ring to Paw and
ANOTHER member of our small European" com- THE Foochow Echo. publishes the following munity died this morning in the Hospital. Mr. Tea Export since its last issue;
J. Nielsen, tide-surveyor in the imperial Marilline Customs, entered the institution some days ago, suffering from a chronic pulmonary complaint, and succumbed, as stated, his morning, He was an oki well-known resident, having resided in China nearly thirty years. He had only returned from his own country about twelve : monilis, and was. contemplating going back to commence farming as soon as he got better. The funeral took place this afternoon, and was attended by many friends,
For Hamburg:-
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YK CHUNG, of No. 135, Queen's Road West, first floor, was to day charged before Mr. Scrcombe. Smith with enclosing his verandah, Mr. F.'A' Cooper, Inspector of Buildings, the complainant said he had warned the accused a week ago of this unlawful proceeding. He was fined $35. A scavenger contractor was also fined $50 for committing a breach of his contract by not removing the sutlage water of the Peak Hotel, The occupier, of No. 87, Praya Central, second. floor, was fined $25, for enclosing his verandah
in contravention of the laws of the colony.
THE sympathetic editor of a Kentucky paper writes as follows of a friend: "We see by private letter that our old friend and formen colaborer, W. T. Fing, has, been lynched by a tot of frolictome fellows over in Hansen county It is putty bad for a feller to be snatched of from his usefulness in this way, Finn was a a gentlemanly fellow, and we are sorry to know that he fell in such bad company. It may b possible that he stole the horse, but he no doubt dit in fun. He was a great joker, and ofter Look things just to show that he was in a metry mood. This thing of snatchin' a feller up and
There was a time when it didn't ainuunt to much.
in him is getting to be a serious business, but times have changed. The spirit of fun is
not as broad now as it used to be
The most curious, instance bi a change of instinct is mentioned by Darwin. The bees carried over from Humpshire to Barbadoes and the Western Isles ceased to lay up any, honey
them. They discovered the weather to be 10 afer the first year, as they found it not useful to
fine, and, the materials for-making-honey_so... plentiful, that they quitted their grave, prudent and mercantile character, became exceedingly
profligate and even in some measure, de-
bauched, ate up their capital, resolved to work no more, and amused themselves by fying about the sugar-bouses, and stinging the blacks. The fact is, that by putting animals in different situations you may change, and even, reverse, any of their original jopensities. Spallanzani brought up an eagle upon bread and
milk and fer a dove upon ruw beel" As for the bees they only followed or took the lead of the African negroes, in the same locality, who, freed by a benevolent nation from the slavery of prá- ducing sugar for their white masters, and given their freedom at the cost of 10 000,000, to the British people, refused any longer to tail for their hanana grow spontaneously and maintain per- daily bread, in a country where the yam and the eat health and even vigorous life, without the necessity eitherof cultivation or of labour,
PRIMITIVE man, wherever he was first cast, whether in one centre or more than one, must of necessity, says 'a writer in the Contemporary evicte, have found his food in the plant world. We cannot imagine him commencing his career learned in the arts of hunting, killing and cooking the lower animals for food. Many infer from this circumstance that the argument in favor of the vegetarinn practice is copied direct from nature, signed and delivered by her. Not quite so fast. There is one interposing barrier to the free acceptance of a vegetarian deed and set of conveyance of food from nature to man. Nature. herself, of her own right royal will, makes for Titus Vanity Fair Lord Gorge Hamilton bas animals, herbiverous and carnivorous, one dis- | again answered the panic-mongers who imagine tinctive animal lood, a secretion from the living that, this country right, be invaded at any animal organism, a fluid which is a standard food moment by 100,000 Frenchmen, who could meat and drink in one the fluid known underminediately much on London. Loid George the name of milk. Against absolute vegeta showed that an invading army, to have any rianism, then, we may fairly set up one exception chance of success, must be landed completely derived from nature as the unerring guide. On equipped for baithe and match--that is, it observing the habits of animals we discover must bring its horses, its land transport, another natural fact. We find that animals of its Cavalry and Anillay; that it would quite different natures, in respect to primitive require 480,000 tons of shipping, or, say, selection of food, possess the power of changing 240 steamers with an average of 2000 tons their modes of feeding and of passing over, as it per steamer, to convey such a force of 100,co: were, from.one class to another. This change over the sea; that no pot on the French coast fs distinct but limited, and we must accept it could accommodate such a flext that conge with all its limitation on the other. The fruit- quently this farce must be cinbarked at several eating ape can be taught under privation to ports, reaching probably frums Dunkirk to Brest; that amplu notice would thus be given to England, who would therefe e not be taken unprepared; and that this force would require at least two days of calm weather to disembark. The English tek eleven hours to disembark only, 30,000 men, with 24 guns and a small number of horses, at Eupatoria in 1854, When Napon prepared to invade England in 1815, he assembled a force of 150,00 men, with 40,000 horses. Now, seeing that the population' of England, and its means of rapidly concentrating by railway opposition to an invasion, have douled since 1810, 15 not likely that any French General would be She was a splendid woman, and the flint-hearted sp foolhardy as to attempt to invade England medico selected and preserved sections of her with, any less nusther than Napoleon thought heart, her lungs, her liver-Ugh! He had necessary? if, as is suggested by some wise these specimens mounted on glass slides, and acres, the French acuit incurry out an inva can now contemplate under the microscope sion scheme piecemeal-that is, by landing one. little bits of "Mary in Heaven." And this Army Corps at a time art sening their tran- A WRITER in a Gaman contemporary makes The annual expenses of the Papacy are said to reminds us of a little anecdote of Harrie apoits back for another--they will run two great the following startling calculations appes of amount to about 7,000,000 francs. The burden "wch was originally." observes the Brussels Martineau given by James Payn in his "Literisks; one, that the Army dorp fra landed may Prince Bismarck's great speech in the Reichstag is substantially met by the Peterle, penny, be attacked and defeated by an overwhelming The Chancellor spoke for peatly two hours, and any. Recollections." Harriet, at Ambleside, in the Lake country, force of British; and the other, by a south to his speech were listening Europe, America, Con der "an English idea. But in 1867, after The narrator of "Tales of Political Economy" westerly breeze spunging up, and the landing Australia, put of Asia and at feast the British the twenty provinces of the Papal States had was as deaf as a past, and all conversation was on an open beach becoming impracticable. Of part of afica. If the population of Europe is been reduced to live, the Peter's penny was carried on per medium of an ear-trumpet. Pays, course, should the French obtain possession of estimated at 330,00,00, and it is supposed that quickened into new life in Belgium," The first Harriet, and Harriet's physician passed many a harbour on our South Coast and also obtain many children and illiterate persons have at all incitement to the generous endowment of the rich and poor, was given by the diocese of and many an evening playing dummy-whish, control of the Channel, an invasion would events heard allusions to the speech, it is no Papacy by the freewill offerings of the faithful, and though in this game, silence is golden, the be within the hounds of probability. All our over-estimation to say, that 165,000,000 10 two men talked freely before their host withast harbours on the South Coast ought to be at once peals forined Bismarck's-udience. In America Ghent. Its example was quickly followed in her Hearing a word of what was said. One fortified. Ramsgate is unfortified; Dover is at least a third of the population-that in to say, other lands. Until the year '1870 the average over 17,000,000-hive, read the speech, and yearly result of the Peter's penny was 7,117,000, night she doctor informed Payn that Miss fortified; Folkestone is unfortified; Newhaven is
South America has perhaps contributed franes.. Since that date it has constituted Martineau was such an enthusiast in the cause toif:d, Shareham is only partially fortified.
10,000,000 readers. In japan, China, and India, the sole income of the Pope, and in no single of science that she had bequeathed her head and requires another battery to the east of the
sants have read or heard of the speech; in During the present jubilee year the Bishops of after her death to a phrenological society. Fayn entrance, and one on the high ground behind there resenting Asia, at least 65,000,000 inhitiyear has been lower than 6,000,000 francs. expressed incredulity, but the physician informed village. The feminder of the English ports to
Australia half of the population of 4,000,000, and Latin Christendom have handed in to the Pope him that it was quite true; he bad special the westward, as far as Land's End, ate more or
the extraordinary sum of 32,500,000 francs, in South Africa at least 3,000,007 are sure to means of knowing;, he was one of the executors less fortified, with the exception of one or two
bave read the speech. This, shows that the Tlie Jubilee mass of Leo XIII. brought of her will, and to him had been entrusted the Cornish fishing harbots.
Chancellor had an audience of no less than nearly 3,000,000 francs. Tite Papal treasury is CONSIDERING the amount of rack blasting 264,000,000, and it may be said without fear of consequently in a good condition. The "Work which is going on in the colony, and which contradiction that never yet any man on earth for the Extension of the Faith, founded at Lyons has had so large an audience, and one which in 1812, provides the Papacy with a fund for begins every day at noon, to such an extent, as to make the twelve o'clock gun at Jardine's listened with such breathless attention to his alike a useless expenditure of powder, and of words; and even Napoleon's balictins after the sound, it is not a little singular that so few Moscow catastrophe are insignificant as.com. accidents happen to human life from the shower pared to the effects of Bismarck's speech......... ACCORDING to an old Spanish tradition, of stones which may be observed flying aboutA WEITER in a London magazine says that actors. Columbus' discovery of America was mainly due in all directions as the result of every explosion and actresses are a long-lived race, which is an to a hard-fought game of chess. Ferdinand of On the roth, inst., however, two workmen who mption we do not intend to question, although we have serious doubts whether his remarks Spain, the story goes, used to pass the closing were making their retreat from a building re
on the Peak, were caught by one of these legis, will, apply to those ladies and gentlemen who, hours of each day over the chess board, his
a stone from which killed one and riously during the last two weeks, have been so earnestly principal antagonist being an old grandee, whose skill put the monarch's play to a severe test. injured the other. Yesterday afternoon Mr. striving to amuse the Hongkong public, and at the same time to play themselves out of exist ence. With the thermometer on the stage of Columbus had long been dancing attendance at Sercombe Smith was engaged at the Police Court
and trying the contractor, Tsang Shan, and his the Theatre Royal, at 100 degrees Farenheit, the Court, in pursuance of the one object of his investigating the circumstances of the man's death
foreman on the charge of negligent blasting and with three rehersala a day, in such weather life-the grand expedition in search of a new world -and although he had hitherto failed in his aim, yet he had enlisted the sympathies of which had been preferred against them by
as this, surely an actor's fe in Hongkong the good Queen Isabella. The day arrived when Inspector Perry, Mr. Dennys watched the case cannot be very happy, even though it be long on behalf of the accused. Sergeant Kendrick,All professions, says our scribe, are healthy the great navigator was to receive his final answer. He wended his way towards the palace of the Northamptonshire Regiment, said the compared with trades. What men, he asks, at nightfall, more with the intention of bidding explosion was seen by himself and a comrade
are longer lived than scientists, lawyers, clergy. men, physicians, and the actors of comedy and farewell to Isabella than from any hope of from the Military Sanitarium. The two men success. Isabella, however, had not resigned were walking abreast, when a big stone of drama; on the stage? In some professions, the situation in Europe, and the uninterrupted herself and Columbus to defeat, and upon being which he saw bounding through the air notably the bar, the early training is enid, in notified of her favourite's arrival, she sought the struck one of them on the head and then half serious banter, to kill off the weaklingu king, who, being absorbed in a hard fought bounced into the body of the other, killing the and Government-protected clericalism...
game with the old grandes, was in no mood first, and breaking the arm and leg of the other What benefits the inhabitants of the
to be bothered by the unfortunate sailor. The Philippines In thus unconditionally surren-
Queen's interruption' bad the effect of merely the hill.. Oog visiting the bodies he found the stone to be about 30 lbs. weight, spattered with dering their freedom and their dearest
distracting his attention, causing him to lose his principal piece, a los which was blood and broken in two; it must have been privileges to the tyranny of the clolster and
Charles Anderson, a seanian of the ship followed by volley of imprecations of buried. some 350 yards from the blast and the chapter? Will religious intolérance ever develope to its full capacity the Immense CAN we hold, says the Land, that the connec. sailors in general and Colòmbur in particular, much farther than he had ever known one go, Elevate him to wealth or sleep bim in tuin, Henry James, which, Jeft Newcastle for San- tion is a purely accidental one between the tire. The game grew worse and worse, and defeat having witnessed many auch explosions. The often dies of softening of the brain he who has Francisco in March last, and became wrecked from: bad cyf agricultural resources of that, fertile Archi-less physical vigor and bufl-dog tenacity of life stared the king is the face, while the grandee
posted at various places warning pedestrians of feels, unless he has cultivated a hobby, that he Newcastle Hospital, suffering
has no place in the world, and often dies of He has published a sad tale of the sufferings pelago, and transform it into a gigantle and purpose of the English race, and the fact of chuckled as loudly as he dated. Now, Isabella, gongs were duly sounded and men were seen made his fortune and has retired from business on a reef near Palmyra Island, is now in the producing centre in the close proximity of their tongue being the language of millions'upon without ever having played, had picked up con- danger. The person who filled in the powder insuition. As a rule, the professional man of the crew after leaving the island in an open so many consuming markets? Will monks millions, and bidding fair to become the universal siderable knowledge of the game by watching charge, in his evidence, maintained that the fifty has learned what he can do. If he boat, and before reaching Samoa. They were
· regenerate the native population by means thought-medium; their empire, upon which the ber husband and the nobles, and when Ferdin- stone which killed the man was not more was unit for the line be took, he has slipped at sea to days, and did not meet with a vessel full of interest and with little trouble or anxiety Anderson to Sydney, whence he came to New- of the brevlary and the scourge? Will sun never acts the priceless services they have and told her that her brotage should be success than ten or twelve cattics, and did not out of it; if he is making a fortune, it is a career of any kind. The British consul at Samoa sent the Spanish Government derive any rendered to the cause of civil and religous liberty, ful or otherwise according as the game resulted, fly further than many others he had noticed: to himself. It is not his own case which the castle, which was the last place be shipped at in
and the intellectual influence represented by she immediately bent all her energies on the The charge was of the ordinary kind and barrister pleads, the physician combats, and the this colony. LONDON, June 22nd. advantage from a dependency which is such names as Pitt and Gladstone, Carlyle and board. The contest had been unusually long, the accident was the first he had known parson arraigns. If, again, he is but moderately
successful,
bis earnings, though small, are pretty, In the House of Lords last night, Lord Elphin under the grip of those very powers of Bacon, Wesley and Spurgeon, Newton, Darwin, and the courtiers clustered around the table, during a period of three months. Mr. Dennys, safe. He gets as near an approximation to stone, in replyife to the Earl of Carnarvon, darkness which were the direct causes of and Spencer? The great national movement of much amused at the excitement of the king and for his clients, beld that all usual precautions had security as Fale, in a world such as this, accords, stated that her Majesty's Government were con- the decadence of Spain, and which would Germany, which has been accompanied by such the smug satisfaction of the old grandee. And been taken, but Inspector Perry said it was and he may hope, bar exceptional circumstances, sidering the question as to the advisableness of have brought on her total ruin, but for the a remarkabite display of intellectual energy, as is, so the game went on, which was to decide the customary to cover up the blast with wood and that the future will be as the past. His occupa prohibiting the entry of foreign men-of-war and healthy reaction which once set in among signalized by the names of Leibnits and Kant, discovery of a new world, until Isabella leaned bushes, to keep the stones from flying, and this tion meanwhile bring him, considetation and troopships into any of the fortified ports of the her noble sons and led them to proscribe Goethe and Schiller, Helmboltz and Virchow, towards her husband's ear, and exclaimed: had not been done. This morning Mr. Sercombe- intelligent surroundings, and his life is fairly British Empire.
life, on which the world is much given to make the monastical orders from her shores? Bismark and Yun Molike, has its foundation in "You can checkmate him in four moves?" In Smith in concluding the case, said he was pot and pleasantly varied. In these things lies, we Anyone who is acquainted with the the almost intolerable military drill and war-like the utmost astonishment, the king re-examined taken; there was nothing in the police constable's me, on sonably suppose, the secret of that long training of the two Fredericks, was fostered by the game, and found that his wife's assertion evidence to show that boards and wood had comments, and has made them since the creation Philippine Islands and with Spain, will, to a the bitter object leason on the value of phyical was correct.. In a few minutes checkmate was been used to prevent the flying of debris, but of man. Once the philosopher's temperament such had been forgotten or neglected, in conse men of sedentary occupations or in those certainty, answer these questions in the prowess inculcated by the wars of Napoleon, and declared, and the game won, and the king arose everything went rather to prove that the use of is reached, the combustion of life is not rapid in negative. We feel convinced that in Manila was inseparably connected with the rise of the and announced that Columbus should depart on quence of which he should commit the first workers of the bands and brain who have got itself, three quarters of the educated classes great. Turnverein, system of gymnastics under his voyage of discovery, with the title of defendant for trial, and discharge, the second: on the shady side of slaty, and who are still able
Bail was taken in two sureties of $500 each. to occupy themselves wil light labour are kicking agains!, all these measures of Father Jahn,
The
prak, which is collected at the offertory. "An
ald drg for a bard' road,"
UE celebrated art critic, Paul Leroi, says: "The Waited States have the inestimable good fortune how to escape from that disease just as from the minous folly of peace armed to the teeth, an ideal of civilization which America takes great care rol to envy Europe for. The result of this lucky
situación is that the Yankees see their artists
Payn was horrified that the man could sit even- ing after evening playing whist with the woman whose head he looked forward to severing from her body, and refused to make a third at any future game, but the unsentimental surgeon played on just as usual.
colour. It will thus be seen that the Manila authorities were quite within the limits of their jurisdiction in carrying out. one of the meanest, and most repulsive have no official art. Their wisdom has known work of removing the lady's gifted cranium. measures of oppression that our century has witnessed, or. in other words, that intellectual freedom is a chimera in the neighbouring Spanish settlement. clergy, who rule supreme there, wield the thunders of religious intolerance with the same violence.und irresponsibility as these were wielded by their predecessors of the Inquisition a couple of centuries ago. Public opinion is still fettered in Manila as it was during the dark ages in Europe. A religious 'censorship governs its press, which is free only in name; the private opinions of its independent citizens are pryed into by the emissaries and spies of the monks, exactly in the same way as these things were man aged in the Inquisition times. People who are adverse to the clergy are treacherously denounced and mercilessly persecuted the rack and the auto-da-le have been substituted by other more subtle, though equally vile devices of religious persecution, and the whole colony groans and totters under the, yoke of s. retrograde, a dangerous, and yet, a Government-paid
improving from year to year with a marvellous rapidity, and constituting, much quicker than was to be expected, a school in which originality, and a very high order of originality, promises to be the distinctive charactenstic." Ar the adjourned inquest held this morning by Mr. Wodehouse, the Coroner, touching the death of two ricksha coolies and one woman on the 23rd instant, at a fire in a house in Second Street, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. Acting Superintendent Horspool, in his evidence, said there was a greater number of deaths at fires now than formerly, owing to the houses being built higher and the chances of escape down narrow and flimsily constructed staircases, more difficult. He thought no blame, for the deaths in question, could be attached to the Fire Brigade; be had never known a life to be saved by the Brigades; he thought a lito salvage Corps would be a beneficial thing, but that it should be quite distinct from the service of extinguishing fires, in the case of such a Corps vendering serviceable assistance, it would be necessary to have quicker information of the fires than was at present customary. There was a "Fire Escape" in the colony; but it was quite useless for getting up the hill strects on such occasions bamboo ladders
were used. I
"Admiral of the Ficet.7
man. He saw the two men fall and roll down
all
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tnissions; it has contributed from 1823 to 1887. no less a sum than 220,000,000 frants. Its contribution for the last twelve months amounted to 6,548,000, of which Germany contributed only 409,000 francs and Austrin only 80,000 france, as the reporter observes with regret.
NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL, -
The China Navigation Co.'ssteamship Chingtu, Capt. J. D. C. Arthur, from Sydney via parts of call, arrived in harbour this morning. We are indebted to our Australian exchanges. for the subjoined telegrams;
LONDON, June 20th. Tremendous gales have occurred on the coast of Iceland, where a large fleet of French fishing boats are always stationed.
A large number of the boats were lost, and.
farmen were drowned.
June zist.
The Hungarian Delegations have sanctioned the special military credit of 40,000,000 florins, which was demanded on account of the uncer tainty which continued to prevail in regard to increase of military power by other States,
The appeal against the sentence of six months' To some extent this is true of all professions.imprisonment with hard labour, passed upon Men without self-control die, as a rule, young. Mr. John Dillon, M.P. for East Mayo, for having whatever their occupations. In other case, publicly advocated the "plan of campaign," has however, the conditions under which the bean beard. classes named exist, are the most favourable. The sentence of the Court was confirmed.
Mr. Dillon will be imprisoned in Dundalk The two things that mbat readily kill men who
NEWCASTLE, June 21st. attain middle age, are anxiety or loss of interest. gaoli The man who goes to bed not knowing whether a turn in the share or money market may no
vessele from British fortified ports.
Lord Carnarvon advised the Government to adopt measures for the exclusion of foreign was In the House of Commons this evening Mr. John Morley, M.P. for Newcastle-on-Tyne, gave on the Government for their administration of potice of his intention to move a vote of censure the Crimer Act
That the administration of Irish affairs by the
The terms of the motion are at follows—
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