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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1888.

AN Emergency meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 525, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zelland Street, on Weduceday, the 21st instant, at 5 for 5.3 pm precisely. Visiting brethren, are. cordially invited..

This Agents of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company inform us that the steamship Abyssinin, les Vancouver for Japan and this port on the 13th inst, and that the silk zx the same

TO-MORROW marning between 9 and 10.30 o'clock the steam-launch carrying the Bethel fing will call alongside any vessel hoisting code pennant C, to convey men ashore to 11a.m.; service at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, return. ing about 12:30.

Tires the Sér alla Times-On Sunday the 11th inat. the Chan Tai will leave Singapore for

We are requested to stato that Friday and Saturday, the 28th and 19th December have been selected as the days on which the Fête in aid of the Alice Memorial Hospital is to be held in the Public Gardens.

steamship from China and Japan,,was delivered Quantan, Pahang, having on board Mr. Fraser, means, as yet unknown, a Chinaman'darting out tyrotoxicon-which is supposed to be the imme-interesting. They were my introduction to the

in New York on the 15th inst. THE Siraits Timer bears that the Suez Canal was blocked from the 15th to 18th October from NUEVO CORTADOS in goo and too Boxes, number of steamships were delayed in going a steamer baving suck hard and fast. A

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A. 5. WATSON '& Co., Ltd.. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, 29th October, 1888,

The Hongkong Telegraph

Hongkong, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1888.

TELEGRAMS.

THE SEIZURE OF THE STEAM LAUNCH "GENERAL GRANT."

The following telegraphic message from Canton reached us at 6.30 p.m. to-day-

Grant case referred Peking. Consul decides no evidence against Grant,”

A LATE TYPHOON. We are indebted to the courtesy of the Spanish Cons at this port for the following. telegram from Bolinao under to-day's date:

The depression indicated here the day before yesterday to the S.S.E. of Luzon, is now located far out at sea, necompanied hy rain, and

showing a slight inclination to more in W.N.W, direction."

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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MR. A. RICHLER, of H.I. Austro-Hungarian Majesty'a Consulate in Bombay, has been trana- ferred to an identical post in Shangbai.

AN Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zelland Street, this evening, at B.go for 9' o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. SPEAKING of the slotb, Sydney Smith says;

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unskilfulness of the Pilot.

By kind permission of Colonel D, G, Anderson, the Regimental Band will play in the Public Gardens,to-morrow (Sunday), from 3.30 till sp.m. The following will be the programme :-

March. Unter Kameraden "...Faunt. Overture...... Light Cavalry".......... Suppe Valez.........Tuilight Shadows".

"Sikh Selection 11.Bariere........Rossel. Valso.......Sooner or Later” ................ Meissler. Fantusia)......* Reminiscences of Weber "Godfrey. Carotie......."True Love"... Winterbottom.

Joren, Moran, Bandmaster,

A PARIS married woman, 35 years old, who had been for some time receiving the attentions of a young tradesman, was recently discovered by her husband with her lover. The guilty pair separated and fled, and the wife remained for several days in a park, sleeping among the trees. She received no reply to a letter to her husband, and then wrote to her lover. After a short talk with him she broke away and threw herself int the river near. He sprang after her, and with much danger brought her to the shore, but she was dead. Afterwards, when the husband was brought before the dead body, he flew at the lover, and would have killed him bat for the police.

THE following are the Orders of the Day for the

1. Reports of Finance Committee, Nos, 97 and 30.

2. First reading of the following Bills:- (a) The Chinese Emigration Consolidation

Ordinance, 1888.

managing director of the Pahang Corporation (Limited), several of his assistants, and a quantity of machinery for the tin mines.. It may be noted that the abrurd rumours about the monsoon

the return' of the Bangkok after having safely having arrived in those waters are disproved by

een her barges into smooth water inside the bar of the Pahang river. The Pahang river is to be closed formally, by the Sultan's decree, on the 17th instant; but it may not be actually closed till a day or so later. "

We are informed that the first football match of the season will be played on the Causeway' Bay ground, under Association rules, on Monday next, the 19th inst., between the Club (colours) and a team of the H and E Companies of the 58th Regt (whites). There will be on the ground, as usual, chairs and refreshments for the ladies; play to commence at 4.15 pm. The following teams will represent the Club and the Regiment respectively :-

J. Balinck...

Brewin, R.E. W. Dickson. C. Erios.

Macdonagh, R.F A. Maclean (Captain)

F. Maltland.

E. W. Maitland,

R. Markwick, Jr.

1. McNair

W. H. Wallace.

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H. S. Woodcock, R.A.

Leut Huntsman (Captain) Llc. Holmes "H" Ca

Bailey, Private Hunter,

Cross, Raster Ploughman, Corp. Weights Private Aldridge,

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SAYS the Singapore Free Press:-The case of Mr. T. L. Gosling charged with selling Manila Lottery tickets came finally up on remand before Mr. Kershaw on the 8th: inst. Mr. Nanson, for the prosecution, said that since the case had been heard last he had been in com- meeting of the Legislative Council to be held on munication with the learned Counsel for the defence and had been assured by him that his Monday, the 19th inst. at 4 p.m..

client would plead guilty to selling lottery tickets, if a substantial fine was not pressed for. He had felt it his duty to forward this letter to the Attorney General, who informed him that these proceed. ings had only been undertaken to vindicate the law, so as to show people that it was perfectly legal to either buy or sell tickets. The prose cution were willing to take a lenient view of the case and Mr. Narson asked the Court to do the statement and said that his client had placed same. Mr. Jonquam concurred in Mr. Nanson's himself entirely in his hands. The defendant 3. Second reading of the Bill entitled "An Ordinance for the naturalization of Elias Isaac did not wish to do anything illegal and this lins otherwise Elias Isaac Elias Zachariah." fact was borne out by the manner in which he 4. Bye-Laws under the Public Health, Or-behaved, when his store was visited by the dinance.

of 1886.

1888.

(4.) An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 15 .) The Evidence Consolidation Ordinance, () The Compensation to Families Ordinance, (e) An Ordinance to amend Ordinance 6 of

1883.

1887,

Time distinction between gain bling in the ordinary sense and the highly respectable transactions of insurance companies cannot be always precisely determined. When it comes to giving and taking the odds on the contingency of a war in

Gambling Suppression Staff. He would not sell tickets again. A nominal fine of $15 was inflicted and the tickets seized, two only were ordered to be forfeited.

"BROWNIE," who has of late been hunting the

THE Singapore Free Press reports the following tramway accident which occurred at that city on the evening of the 7th inst., in the North Bridge Road. As tranicar No. 7, going from Tangjong Pagar to Roctor, was passing Cross Street, it stopped to let some passengers alight. When it started again a ricksha with a European passenger was coming along at a good pace, going the same way as the tram. By some wudden'y from the verandah got in between the ricksha and the tram, slipped and fell right in front of the engine. The tram was stopped very quickly but whon the poor Chinaman was picked up it was found that his left leg was badly nutilated. His right arm was torn right up to the elbow and he had sustained several severe interual injuries. He was at once removed to Hospital, where his leg was amputated and every tention paid him, but he died, 'An inquest was o be held by the Coroner the next day.

THE followingDrills for the Hongkong Volunteers ire ordered -

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the 1918, 121st and 23rd November. 7-Pr. R.M.L. Gun Drill for passed Recruits: at Head Quarters, 5.30 pm.

Squad Drill for Recruits not passed at Head Quarters, 5.30 p.m.

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* Saturday, the 24th November. Launch will leave Peddar's Wharf at 2.30 p.m. Carbine practice at Kowloon for all Members.

Uniform-Blue and Helmet.

Monday and Wednesday, the 25th and 26th November. 64-Pr. R.M.L. Gun Drill for Efficients at Murray Battery, 5-15 p.in.

diate cause of summer diarrhoea,

A TONIY-LOOKING individual, with several aliases, has been feeding the Australian book makers with a few thousands which he had previously obtained under false pretences. The wife of this crafty Juggins warbled in comic opera many months ago. Which reminds us that the non-professional wooers of actresses are generally

rogues or fools--or both,'„

THEISM v. REVELATION.

A CONTRAST AND A STUDY.

II.

THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF

DIVERGENCE.A NOSSA

interest" is merely, so to speak, a stage accessory. If you ask a Hongkongite If there is anything to see," he says: "Well, you might, take a richsha and run out 10 Happy Valley," or, "Go over the hill in a chair; there's a fine view from the top, and it's nice and cool there--if it doesn't happen to be in the clouds !". For me to whom AN argument against allowing children to drink Hongkong, passage and harbour, and capital milk in the summertime is drawn by Dr. V. C. (Victoria is the capital and the only city, and it Vaughan of the Universty of Michigan, from the is like talking of Hobart and calling it Tasmania liability of the fluid to develop the poison-way, we do to me all these had been "really to speak of it as Hongkong in the persistent

life of the Far East. Hongkong is a moderate- hills of the sort known in Southern England, as sized island, made up for the most part of rolling" "downs, I do not think any of them are higher than gooft, or 600ft, excepting the Peak. dark close grass, veried by great patches They are for the most part covered with, a of rock. The downs fast footsteps in the sea," leaving scant room for

plant their stend

long ago the future. Victoris was a haunt of bunian settlements at their base. Not so very pirates, and a very admirable haunt too. The island rups along the coast with only a narrow channel between, save where, about the middle, the channel bulges out into a harbour. The western part commands the entrance to the Chu Klang River and Canton, the London of China. The castern part leads into the stream of trade to the more northern ports, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Hangchow, Shanghai, and Naukin. Peking, the capital of China, which lies, like The corner-stone of revealed religion is reached another St. Petersburg, at the back of the great when the theory of Inspiration is properly under of the empire. The pirates chose this harbour Gulf of Pe-chi-lt, is up in the north-eastern corner stood; but the more the impartial enquirer after believes in it. The starting point in all systems the island not the opposing mainland have any truth understands of Inspiration, the less he well, and under a semi-circular sweep of the

crowding downs they made their home. Neither. of Revelation is comprised within these two visible natural resources or natural attractions propositions: "Revelation is possible; revelation of their own. The most reliable water supply is necessary, Inspiration and revelation may is on the other side of the island; but down here be taken as synonymous; when one is the jagged gorges the showers of the summer expressed the other may be understood. No rainy season roll large streams which dwindle, 7-Pr. R.M. Gun Dill for pas ed Recruits truth can be revealed, manifested by a super-but abide all the year round. The entry from natural power to the mind of man unless, by the archipelago is by the eastern channel, and Squad Drill for Recruits not passed at Heat some form or other of inspiration, which means in a fine day nothing could be more charming. the direct instilling into a man's intellect of ideas or intuitions of truths which transcend his reasoning powers, or which he cannot discover by means of his natural faculty of reasoning tions of Inspiration: The act of inspiring, breath- Saturday, 1st Decembers

ing in, infusing, and the like; inhalation; as, the Carbine practice at Kowloon for all Members. inspiration of the air into the lungs ;-opposed Launch will leave Peddar's Wharf at 3.30 pm. to expiration. "There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth him Uniform-Blue and Helmet.

Officer and Non-commissioned Officer for understanding." Job. XXXII. 8. (a) The act duty during the week ending 1st December:--

af exercising an elevating influence upon the Lieut Woolley, Sergeant McBreen.

intellect or emotions; an extraordinary elevation Officers' Parade, the question of new uniforms of such extraordinary influences and elevation in

On the 20th November, after Commanding

of the imagination or other powers of the soul; will be discussed, and great-coats issued.

as, the inspiration of the scene (3) The result the thoughts, emotions, or purposes inspired, FROM Lloyd's return for the quarter ending at their denth have good inspirations," (Shakes-ing. Behind was the amphitheatre of the downs.

"Your father was ever virtuous, and holy Sept. 30, 1888, it appears that a remarkable peare.) (4) Specifically, a supernatural divine The right from the water's edge the town increase has taken place in the amount of work influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred

ascended in verilured terraces half-way up them. in progress at the shipbuilding yards in the writers, by which they were qualified to com-

From the thicker masses of verdure on the right United Kingdom. The number of vessels innate moral or religious truths with authority; monent the peal of bells rang out, echoing. rose the cathedral tower, and at that very

against 249 in the corresponding quarter of Scripture is given by inspiration of God." 2. course of construction is recorded as 400, receive and communicate divine truth, "All a miraculous influence which qualifies men to

wonderfully in the hills. It affected me quite last year; the gross tonnages being 698.995 of inspiration in which the Inspired person is in-

strangely. One needs to have listened to bells

ad 394,340 respectively. Of late the advance capable of uttering or communicating any error

like those of Shandon Tim. II. 16 (5) Plenary inspiration, that kind

The belle of Shandon has been rapid, and it continues so; for, as

Sound so grand on compared with the quarter cading June of this that kind of inspiration in which the very words with the inspired message.- Verbal inspiration,

The Wales of the Lea" year, there is an addition of 90,877 tons and forms of expression of the divine message cathedral peal telling of inland peace, and sang poor old Father Prout, lying now, at peace nt last, within sound of them) or to some aweet building, and at the end of September there are communicated to the inspired person. were 167 vessels, aggregating 351,281 tons,

understand the strange feeling begotten of such recalling past years of childhood or boyhood, when all was, different to what it is now, to for the construction of which preparations were being made, against Be of 179,585 tons

a greeting to the far Last as this. There to the three months previously. Of the 400 vessels

tight, traced too, but darkly, not in white with verandahs and gracious greenery, stretched ont

at Head Quarters, 5.30 p..

Quarters, 5.30 p.m.

The first time I entered it was after showers never forget the curious effect of the grass and and sun had been at work together, and I'shall rocks, the gardened hills and the Chinese tombs

Thursday, 20th November. bers, at Head Quarters. 900 p.m. Uniform-Webster's Dictionary gives the following defini-high up on them. The grass was of a peculiar

Commanding Officers Parade, for all Mem- Blue, Helmet, and Side-arms.

the word are the only that will answer our present It is evident that the 4th and 5th meanings of purpose. Whether Inspiration be verbal, or essential, by which laiter designation only the important doctrinal tenets are alleged to have been imparted to man by the Godhead, it is evident

green, which I had never beheld outside Chinese pictures. The hills here and there were terraced the sheer face of the hillbide in white stones; for cultivation. The tombs were picked out on

that iron. Nature's great colourist, could give and the rocks themselves were of every hue them. We crept along the narrow channel,

sharp turn, we were in the harbour, and the picking our way through the tacking and insouciant fishing junks to the accompaniments of the angry whistle. Then all at once, with a whole scene was upon us. It was quite bewilder-

He moves suspended, sleeps suspended, rests Europe within a certain time, the operation gambling spectre in the Colony, gave it some building, 260, with a gross tonnage of 483,022, that in order that such a communication may be the Chinese quarter. All round crowded a

his life in suspense, like a young clergyman perhaps, that business of this kind is occasion-dens in our midst, which flourish in direct

distantly related to a Bishop.”

AN emergency meeting of the Sanitary Board was held this afternoon when certain alterations in the draft Drainage bye-laws, as suggested by II. E. the Governor, were discussed. After delib eration the Beard unanimously agreed to amend the bye-laws on the suggested lines. We will publish the altered bye-laws in an early issue. Mus. Simpkins (over, her newspaper)-] set, John, that the papers are taking up the question "I Marriage a Failure?" It would really make your heart bleed to read the letters that

verges on the pure and simple. Some people may be surprised to learn, ally done at Lloyd's. For example, a Stock Exchange speculator may have incurred risks whics, if wr breaks out before a fixed date, must mean inevitable loss.

He therefore

"hedges" at Lloyd's. The members of that old- established guild are for the most part engaged in the insurance of ships and cargo against the perils of the deep'; but it is quite in accordance with their traditions to insure persons, corpora- tions, or societies against the risks that would attend the outbreak of hostilities. The rate of premium will vary, of course; but a few days ngo it was ten guineas for an insurance of 100 Powers up to Aug, 1; that is to say, the odds, against war were 9 lat.

(onnage 36,916) for Germany. Steel plays a concerning man's moral naturs or his relation barthen of 6,470 tons for the colonies; and 13 human intellect to receive, as well a propensity more and more prominent part in marine archiwith the supernatural world. Granting these in the Creator to communicate, hidden truths tecture. The number of steamships being built two bypotheses, there would still retain an im- of this material has grown from 143 in the third portant question to be decided, viz. what degree quarter of 1887, to 179 in that of 1888, while the of veracity can be accorded to the human report on vessels have risen from 41 to only 49. As points are settled, the historic questi ef a godly-revealed truth? After these theoretic for sailing-ships, the entire increase is in steel then come on for solution: What value as from 10 to 27 iron craft showing no change, regards, authenticity, veracity, and fidelity is to and wood and composite ships a decline from be given to the tradition and transmission of 43 to 36.

these divinely communicated trata such as they appear in the Mosaic or Old Dispensation P advocates of revealed religion ns to the possibility The arguments brought forward by the and necessity of Revelation are all based on the assumption of the personality of the Godhead. Revelation, according to them, is possible because to the mind of man in the same manner as he is portrayed in nature. Revelation, is said to inherent in man's mind. Our reasoning faculties be probable, because of the darkness which is

are essentially fallible; a supernatural light Again, we are all gifted with an Instinct of pur- is therefore said to be the mental desideratum, suit after truth, the origin of the universe, moral law and immortality. Unless we are placed into these abstruse and mysterious subjects are under a supernatural guidance, our investigation epen to error and deception: Revelation is there fore said to be necessary to mankind.

together in this the great entrepot of earth's steamers, launches, junka, sampans, a hundred flags and a hundred tongues, all gathered

an inexplicabic swarm of Chinese harbour and extreme nations. All along the espinnado lay river boats, the sampans, the long thin cranky.. craft tugged by long thin ears, and the movable mast and many ribbed sails. Twenty or thirty althom were swooping round us already--China men,

Simpkins (a long-suffering, husband)-H'm against war between any of the seven Great mentioned by "Brownie" as being actually in the Kuling to Chungking, but that before the Creator of the universe can manifest himself blanc, at rouge. There, from the sky-high;

aid sent by some of these long-suffering wives.

Well, my dear, I don't dispute it. If a woman really starts in to make marriage a failure, she can succeed without half trying,

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MRS. DANIEL E. BANDMANN has sent the fol-

The majority of 65 for General Harrison shows that the Republicans carried all the States that lowing letter to the editor of the New York voted for Mr. Blaine in 1884 and New York and Indiana besides. The N. C. Daily News' thinks the figures stand thus:" there "voted for Mr.

Mercury

Sigand cusing from your issue of June 24, 1888, has been sout to me here, entitled "Actreasca Home Names." It is a long Est, among which stand the names of many calmable artists. YnatayMia Louise lleander is Mra, Danial Tandmaon." That is not an. The person in question is not my husband's wife, My children's honor and my own dignity contrala me so request fais ta inert this letter at your macliant courentence. I am, sit, your faithfully,

BINJICENT BANDstana (néo) Mins 3lly Pulser, 15 Gloucester Road, Kew, England, July 95, 1388. AT about 9.30 this morning fire broke out in a mat shop in 103 Bonham Strand, and it soon spread to g1 Wing Lok' Street, which is connected with the former building back to back. The Government Fire Engine, the Volunteer Brigade's and the Man On Insurance Company's engines were soon on the spot, and in half an hour's time the fire was get under, after it had com- pletely consumed the 1st floor of the mat shop and a portion of the 2nd floor of the other build- ing. We understand both premises were inauted at Messrs. Siemssen & Co.'s. A fire occurred subsequently, at Yau-ma-ti, and judging by the volumes of smoke, the damages must have been considerable,

CANADA has made gambling in stocks and shares a misdemeanour. Until Australia follows suit, says a contemporary, her laws against gam bling will be lop-sided. Why,should gambling with cards be suppressed and gambling with bits of paper called scrip be allowed to pass? Either gambling of all sorts should be put down or the law should not inter- fere at all. In some kinds of enterprises it. is difficult, no doubt, to tell where gambling begins, but the difficulty should be faced If laws against gambling me not to be the persecution of a claus. The Canadian law enacts that a person making a contract for the sale or purchase of stock in any company, with the Intent to make profit by the rise or fall in price, and without the bond de intention to give or receive delivery of the stock, shall be punishable by five year' imprisonment and a fine--"There no resting place between some such legislation es this over the whole field of speculative anter

Blaine:-

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Michigan....

Minnesota... Nebraska... Nevada New Hampshire Ohio..... Oregon... Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Wisconsin

Total,,,,,,182

To which add---New York 36

Indiana

Total Republican votes...$33 · In 1881 the following States voted för Mr. Cleveland —

Alabama

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time age as the result of his search, that there are no less than four hundred Chinese gambling contravention of the existing laws, and threaten to transform the whole of China-town into a buge gambling institution. While it cannot be denied that this deplorable vice amongst Celestials has taken a firm root in the Colony, as it does in every place where Chinese congre gate, we think the China Mail's statistician has considerably drawn on his imagination when he said that the four hundred gambling dens were the four hundred Chinese clubs which are to be found in the colony. We have not counted the Chinese clubs of Hongkong, and therefore feel astonished at the large number existence. But, be that as it may, we are positive that gambling is not carried on in every Chinese club in the colony; we mean, of course, such gambling as comes within the pale of our local ordinances. Club-gaming, whether it be by cards, or dice, or the well-known Chinese pai-kaw, is not public gambling, and it can never come under the head of a public nuisance. Although gambling games are immoral sources of pas time and amusement, still they are invariably tolerated in most European households in the Colony, and certainly in every European Club,

It is scarcely necessary to say that the above without any exception. Poker is decidedly a

personality of the Godhead, his distinction from is an essentially fallacious demonstration. The gambling game, and is it not indulged in all our

the world, his inclination to communicate hidden Clubs and other places of amusement? The

facts to man, the truth of Man's record of fuch Chinese are perfectly entitled to induge in all cannot blame the native authorities for taking line of 'argument:: alluded to can have one in their full Chinese costumes, or in the, more:

communication, must all be draumed before the what may appear to be excessive precautions moment's standing. By what process of reaser. where a new roote like that in question is thrown open for the first time. Sir John Walsham has had a hard struggle with the Tsungli Yamen to give practical effect to a clause in the Chefoo Convention, the execution

WE (N. C. Daily News) are informed that the necessary authority has at length been received from Her Majesty's Minister at Feking to take

starting rules for the avoidance of collisions have to be agreed upon with the Chinese authorities the junkmen and for the direction of the steamer. at Ichang and published for the information of

The Chinese government has not unna- turally, laid great stress on the danger to Upper River will be exposed from steamers which the numerous junks navigating the

running there. There is little doubt that the introduction of steam navigation upon the China coast has led to the destruction of numberless craft of which nothing. is heard, and where the victims of collisions get no redress, although, on the other hand, cases which, come into Court often result hardly to the foreigner. Hence we

all in jackets and short trousers, abricking and China-women, and China-children, and vociferating. Junks tacked hither and thither, making their way out to Lab in the open sea. Clumsy cargo boats drifled by, with their crews backwards from the long pole like sweeps. labouring Ineffectually, throwing themselves There waved the yellow flag of China, the yellow dragon pursuing the yellow ball. A low-lying, white gunboat hung out the blev tapering top of an American trader, waved the stars and stripes. There is the red and yellow an English sailor, in whom the old national of Spain-"blood and corruption, as I heard

antagonism still survived as a traditional hate, to a Spanish map-of-war at Manila and say, once, as he ran up the union-jack as a saluto through all this turmoil and motley show there came the echoing peal of the cathedral chimes t was really new sonsation" to me. Along the This first view of Hongkong and her harbour explanade I could see the swarm of the passers the white vested or half-naked coolies running in the shafts of the rickehas, or striding on, with brass-tipped poles over their shoulders the white their peculiar ferk, bearing a chair in the long clad and helmeted European the Hindoosintheir barettashe Sikhs in their red-grey uniforms. with immense scarlet turbans their fellow-polios homely two that, covered the Brition here, fng will the advocate of revealed religion prove bobby Tommy Atkins, too, was there, those assumptions? Will he bring forward the pacing along with his chum superbly indifferent very revealed tenets of his creed as proofs of the to the lower race, striding a salute to bis possibility of revelation, or will he resort to pairing officer with that mechanical precision former process would be fallacy pure and simple Cockney, in his travels under the blazing reason to demonstrate his assumptions? The which amused Theophile Gautler, the Parisian Maltese sun. Now first did I seo and recognise known and the unknowable: We are led to as to the darkness and weakness inherent in the the warming motley of that wonderful human human mind. How can reason attain the une ant-hill, which we call the East, an imagine that the Creator must exist outside outside all the existing beings? creation. But can we imagine an infinite being

Revelation, Theism professer the belles in

On these grounds Theism paris company with Deity without Inquiring Inte his personality or impersonality. And a religion that springs from confession of man's inability to define the which arrogates for itself the very predicates of unknowable la-to many far preferable to that the Godhead where it profoundly ignores

(To be continued.)

sorts of games in their own private Clubs, and it matters not to the public whether these institu- tiona number four hundred, or four thousand. Ve object, however, and so will the public, to ole feature inseparable from many Chinese Clubs, and that is that their proprietors transform their private establishments into real gambling of which, at the time, the High Contracting the latter is an utter contradiction of the thesis saloons for the public. This is evidently a Parties doubtless thought would be postponed. glaring abuse and Infraction of the laws sing die; at length, after the principle had been and ought to be energetically proceeded reluctantly admitted by the Yemen, the regula against. We would allow our Chinese friends tion of the collision question thrastened to exactly the same privileges that are allowed to again adjourn the matter indefinitely. Sir John Europeans is the matter of gambling amuse appears now to have arranged that, in consulta meats and other sources of recreation, occupation with Mr. Litle and with the aid of the Ichang tion, or trade; but no further. As we cannot Consul, the Local Authorities of the Province of invite the public to come and jola the poker Hupeh and Szechuen shall determine on the parties at our Clubu, ar we generally give our own spet the best course to be adopted for ensuring poker players separate apartments in the Clubs, as far as possible, the safety of both the steamer we are justly entitled to see the Chinese adopt the and the native craft. We cannot but congratu same precautions in their establishments. We late our Minister, upon the persistency with gre all prone to gambling; it matters, little as which he has succeeded in carrying his point so to what degree the Chinese or ourselves may far, and only trust that the local negotiations now Indulge in that vitiated source of amusement to be taken up will be quickly disposed of. It is That gambling is productive of more havoc true, we should have thought, the international among the Chinese masses than among our collision laws already to force would have selves, may be easily granted but as the havoc sufficed equally for the Upper as for the Lower is willingly borne by its originators, let well River, but, at the same time, we think Sir John alone. One thing we will insist on keeping right in yielding somewhat to native apprehen-

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