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But however large or small these alleged proūts, it may unhesitatingly be accepted that they could not under any circumstances justify the shares of the Company being rushed up to something like.75 por cent, premium. This wonderful "boom" is therefore a transparent sham, and it is earnestly to be hoped for the public weal that its engineers will be hoisted with their own petard.”

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We have no intention of preaching a sermon on the commercial'immorality so rampant on what is known as the Hong- kong Stock Exchange. That popular institution is composed chiefly of fools and rogues, the latter class forming a strong majority, on whose "behalf we do not hold a special brief. But we are interested in the legitimate share business of the colony and in upholding the reputations of the honor

THE largest electric plant in the world will soon be put in operation. London is to be illuminated by electricity, and a contract for the immense undertaking has already been made.

A TERRIBLE Sentence-New Judge-Have you anything to say in mitigation of your sentence? Murderer Nothing, your honor. Judge-You know that executions are now done by electricity? Murderer-Yes, your honor. Judge Then it is my painful duly to sentence you to work as a lineman for the Overhead-wire Electric Company until you are dead, dead, dead. (Murderer fainis.).

Á BRICKLAYER living at West Point has a daughter who is, comparatively, fair to, look upon. An old woman who lived with him took her out for a walk one day, and they rambled girl for about $50, and came back and had a as far as Macao. There the old crimp sold the high old time with a companion. Unluckily the latter "peached, and the aged slave-dealer is

now on remand.

THE French gunboat Aspis left Yokohama for ate earnestly, engaged in the work of Chris- Kobe on the morning of the 15th inst.

tianising China. To bring a heathen' nation within the pale of purely Christian ideals and THE Committee of the Hongkong Rifle Associa principles, would per te be one of the most laud- tion have decided to hold their seventh Prizeable motives for proselytiam had the heathens Meeting at Easter. Further particulars will be who are taken in hand been devoid of all moral announced later on.

worth, did they believe in the annihilation of the soul after death, or were they devoid of all nation of a supreme Deity presiding, over-the Universe. Buins China incontestably possesKey and adheres to a code of morality just as good, as elevating, and as redeeming as the moral which is found in the Gospel of Christendom, the main reason for converting China to our standard of objects aimed at by the missionary fraternity, morality, which is advanced as one of the chief

Tus Chins Mail says there is no limit to the age at which a man may make a fool of himself. The erudite missionary Editor has evidently

effusions.

been reading some of "Brownie's" recent

IT is staled that Mr. George Lewis, the famous of the law than, any other man living. Com English solicitor, makes more out of the practice pared with his gains, the income of the most successful barrister is insignificant. Mr. Lewis obtains whatever fees he chooses to demand, court under one hundred guineas. and under no circumstances goes into a police

THE Abbé Crozes, for many years chaplain of at an advanced age. He attended especially all the prison of La Roquette, Paris, has just died

1860 and 1887, among them being La Pommerais, those criminals who were guillotined between Avinain, Troppmann and Billoir. M. Crozes lar stimulant just before execution,

loses all its force.

We are then referred to the spread of dogmatic Christianity na the main purport of missionary proselytism in China; but here again the ground sinks from under one's fest. The Christian sects that are engaged in preaching dogmasto China, are almost as divided found in the Creeds which they respectively among themselves as are the dogmas that are

England missionaries, Metho lists with Preshy- profess. Confront Unitarians with Church-of- terians, Baptists with Swedenborgians, and all

CARBOLIC, COAL TAR, BROWN WIND. ''able and trustworthy men engaged in it. room So yards in circumference, and, as she always supplied the condemned with a particu- the so-called' Protestantsects with the all-

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and vice versa. Now, nobody will attempt to assert that the extraordinary fluctua tions in the Steam Launch Company's shares are in any way connected with the Improved position or enhanced prospects of the enterprise; they are merely a very significant gambling index. The intended victims of the raid are said to be certain enterprising speculators who, to use the jargon of the Share Market, have "sold short" for forward delivery about three thousand shares. As the total stock consists of only two thousand shares, it requires no special intclligence to see at a glance how easily the short-sellers ". could be cornered by the exercise of illegitimate influences, nor any great skill In figures to reckon the difference between shares sold at par (by a person who had none to sell to another who had no money to pay for his purchase) and redeemed at 70 per cent, premium. What will be the outcome of this "boom"A

IN view of the approaching Freemasons' Ball fetched, should be interesting to our "girls" the following calculation, if not a lestie far- One waitz will take a girl six times round a ball- turns once in each yard, that brings the distance up to 1440 yards, which means that cach waltz is three-quarters of aile lang! If 18 walizer are gyrated through during the evening, the dis- tance traversed is exactly 14 miles and 14 miles "done" on an ice-cream, in an artificial atmas phere, and late at night, too f

FOR brutal frankness Queensland journalism the presence in its town of the member for the takes the cake. A Noither paper, speaking of district, says: "This disgraced piece of Parlin- mentary humanity returned to this morn

last election indicated, is somewhat about two

sceptical about the assertion, but we may feel has actually returned. Our readers have sten him. We have been compelled to breathe in the same street, and further forced to realise the humiliating fact," &c., &c. Public men in Australia have to put up with a great deal. And yet they seem to prosper. THE growth of New York into a city as large as London is how will take place in a much shorter if we include Brooklyn in the great metropolitan period of time than people commonly suppost, community. The population of New York and Brooklyn combined, as the registration for the million five hundred thousand, two-thirds in New York and one-third in Brooklyn. The rate ordinary, but even if the rate between 1870 and of increase since 1880 seems to bave been extra- 1880, or about one-third in the ten years, is kept up, in twenty years we shall have a population of hard on five million, or more than what is called the Greater London now contains.

the Cathedral, on Monday evening, the 28th MR. SANGSTER will give an Organ Recital in inst, at 9 p.m. The following will be the programme:-

-Overture (Fidelio)

Allegretto Grazioso... 15 Offertoire in E. Sulo, Salve Maria..

(Mp. W. E. Crow). Adagio from ard Symphony). Solo. Be thou faithful unto death.

(Me. C. Lammert),

Anthem) -March Calibre..

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Beethoven. Towes, C. F. A. Sangster, «Mercadante,

Mendelssoba Mezdison.

.........Lachner.

few mushroom speculators will disappear-Zach the Pics From the Corpoation Handel, from their daily haunts and Hongkong will know them no more, one or two victims may manage to meet their liabilities or effect a composition, the ingeniou wire-pullers will look virtuously indignant and curse their luck in not having made a greater haul, and the Launch Co.'s shares will drop to their normal value.

A collection will be made in aid of the Organ Fund, ·

Says the Lancet-From the time when medical knowledge was first embodied in rules of practice. and probably from a much earlier period, music has held a recognized place in the treat- ment of disease. In no class of diseases, however, are we likely to derive so much benefit iri from the use of so pleasant a remedy as those affecting the mind itself. In melan=" cholia and allied states of depression its value is generally admitted in our own day. Ancient practitioners were also cognizant of its usefulness in this respect. We must all have felt how suitable is its infinite variety and facility of expression to the changing moods of the same, and it is therefore the less difficult to understand how straying minds are pleased and settled by its charm. Certain it is that its beneficial effect in this case considerable, and our readers, though possibly unable to acquire a knowledge of the art, should at least possess, and if needful assert in practice, a sense of its therapeutic value.

A CORRESPONDENT writing to a Sydney fashion writer from the Richmond River, grows almost maudlin over the calm conduct of a lady whose bustle came off whilst she was on the wild high C at a local concert, It seems that, instead of calmly went on with her warble, and then breaking down and beating a confused exit, she

behind her! maneuvred a graceful retreat, kicking her bustle

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You may talk of fabled heroines who lived in clays of yore, And faced the storm of battle in finids that swami with goro. Yet nobler far that gallant dame who haver moved muscle, But kept on calmly singing with her feet fast la her bustis.

THE Caucasian rogue cannot teach his Mongo. lian brother much. He is down to all the little moves like ring-dropping, &c., and a new swindle has been started. An operator yesterday made three gold rings and seven dollars by it He stopped a woman in the street and showed

her some little bits of yellow metal encrusted: with clay, telling her that he was a bricklayer and had just found them in an old building be was pulling down. A confederate just then. came up and offered four dollars for each of the "nuggets," telling the woman, in an "aside," instantly, and was permitted to purchase five for that they were gold. She swallowed the bait

herings and money. Of course she knew five but that didn't satisfy her. minutes later that she bad bought bits of brass, looking for the lucky bricklayer.

The police are

THE annual distribution of prizes and presents at the Victoria Home and Orphanage took place this afternoon. The superintendent, the Rev. performed by Lady, des Voeux, among those J. R. Ost, presided, and the distribution was present being the Rt. Rev. Bishop Burdon, Revs, Hamilton, Grundy, Reusch, G. B. Gold- smith, Hartmann, Hon. Stewart-Lockhart, Mr. Sercombe-Smith, and many ladies. The Rev. J. B. Ost. read the report, which was favorable, after which Lady des Voeux. presented the prizes to the various little China girls, who ducked very funnily on receiving the rewards. After a short address. from the Bishop Mr. Stewart Lockhart was desired to address the children in Chinese, but he blushed violently and excused himself. The children then sang the National Anthem in Chinese, and after some tea-drinking, the proceedings terminated.

SUPREME COURT.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.' (Before the Chief Justice.)

A CHINESE TRADE MARK CASE, Leung Chik Wan, a tea-merchant,' claimed $20,000 damages from, and a perpetual in junction against, Ng Un, a departed rival, for using his trade mark, the characters "Hang Mee." An injunction had been already granted, but when the case was last before the Court Mr. Justice Letch let the oily-tongued Ng off, and he took advantage of the opportunity to take himself off.-M. Francis instructed by Mr. Holmes, appeared for the plaintiff; the defendant did not appear.

aweeping all-condemning adherents of the Roman Catholic persuasion, and you will under- stand what a mees of dogmatic contradictions the so-called Christian proselytizers are driving the benefit by all this distorted process of speculative Chinese masses to Will the masses ever

philosophy now in existence were let loose. religion? The fate that would befall a people if a horde of teachers of the various systems of

Among them, the theist who upholds the existence of a Godhead apart from the world, the pantheist who demonstrates that all that exists partakes of the divine substance, the positivist who proclaims the knowledge of phenomena as the limit of the human under

landing, the causist who insists on the cause- the tangible world to mere forms of the human and-effect principle, the idealist who reduces all mind, and the sceptic who denies the very possibility of certainty in any scibili,—that would exactly represent the intellectual status of the masses of China who have become a prey to the thousand-and-one variations and contradictions of the Christian dogmas such as they are propounded by the missionary frater- nily. Cui ton then imbue the masses with all sublimity was simply due to its elevated mora- the speculative paraphernalia of a religión which was originally devoid of all dogma, and whose lity?

HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" for 1889 Tax Steam Launch Company "corner" is the topic of the hour. Rumours of European and Chinese syndicates that are said to have been formed for the express purpose of "bulling" the scrip of this paltry concern

Is it not high time for the Government are as thick on "the Rialto" as

to step in and prevent these disgraceful "autumn leaves in Vallombrosa." Most scandals? The persons who illegimately of these rumours are doubtless lies of rush up the shares of a joint stock company the most barefaced stamp, the reported beyond its actual value for purposes of syndicates are likely enough weak inven- gain are guilty of obtaining money under tions of interested traffickers, but the false pretences, and, are worse criminals stubborn fact remains that shares which a

than the common pickpocket. They are few weeks ago were quoted at a heavy gamblers pure and simple and of the discount, and which are perfectly well worst and most unscrupulous type. If it known to be almost valueless, are now is against the laws of this colony to sell a quoted at from 65 to 75 per cent. Manila or Chinese lottery ticket, or to play premium on the paid-up capital. That a fan-ion and other similar games, why

corner" has been rigged, and a first should this barefaced gambling with scrip pectus of the Hongkong Electric Light Company, Color Howell stated that he had been of controversy, commenced to define their beliefs

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Mr. Francis began by proving the service of the writ, first of all reading an affidavit filed in December by the defendant, in which he asseverated his innocence of any fraudulent intention and his deathless desire to stay in the

He left next day.

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We are told the doctrinal divisions which characterise the teachings of the various sects are being more or less sunk into a common fund of theology, and that the missionaries, albeit professing diametrically opposed dogmas, are working together in their common task of con- assurance, but deny its force. It is an ulter verting China to Christianity. We accept the impossibility that a Unitarian can work in unison with a Trinitarian in endeavouring to Convert a heathen to Christianity; and it is: equally irrational to suppose that a Roman Catholic priest will ever work hand-in-hand with an unbeliever in Papal authority, with a view to convert the heathen. Proselytism is the out come of religious convictions, and no missionary, however charitable he may be to his brethren in principle-or in delusion, would sacrifice his cherished principles to help his alleged brother-in-God. The old religious antipathy, so emphatically denominated the odium theologicum, is far from being extinct; it is a latent fire which at the slightest touch of con- troversy is apt to burst into flame, Tange montes at fumigabunt should be the appropriate motto adopted by the missionary brotherhood. A Even taking the dogmas of Christianity in their simplest form, and making due allowances to what are termed lateral discrepancies, we find the missionary enterprise of spreading a knowledge of dogmatic Christianity a pre-eminently perilous task. It is a well-known fact that Christian dogmas arose from the controversies. the ancient Churchmen had with the Jews and the Pagans of the primitive times. No trace is found of what now passes for the "Symbol of the Apostles" before the fourth century of the Christian era. The Apostolic age was purely Evangelic; the morality inculcated by the founder of Christianity was all-sufficient to keep men. In submission to the social order, in harmony among themselves, and in the exercise of heroic deeds of virtue. The successors of the Apostles struck out a new path for themselves; forgetting the simplicity of their original creed, they stood out in battle array with Gnostic and 'Aryau, and in the heat in direct antagonisms to those of their adversaries. Hence the Creed. It was a formulary of tenets invented to oppose the adversaries of dogmatie Christianity. The tenets concerning Baptism, the Real Presence and other Evangelic teachings do not appear in the Creed, probably because they have not been contradicted; whilst the high morality, the heroic charitableness, the intense love of humanity, and the self-sacrifice of which the Gospels are so redolent, are not even mea- tioned in the Creed; we are nevertheless told that an implicit belief in the articles of which it is composed, is the sine qua non for salvation, In conclusion, we will repeat that since Christianity derives all its value from its high standard of morality, its propounders could not do better than abandon their theological preach ings and return to the simplicity of the Gospel, As regards China fa particular, since this ancient nation possesses a written Code of Morality of pre-Biblical origio the Christian missionaries would do well to harmonise the LESLIE STEPHEN in a recent number of the

Gospel standard with the national standard of logic is at variance with modern religious thought.

separation, by a free use of the dogmatic wedge. Nineteenth Century shows how curiously Paley's

Chinese, ethics, instead of working at their He saysLet us look at Paley' logic. Why

The regeneration of China can only be achieved How do you know that? By a divine revelation His Lordship said that the plaintiff asked for are deeply rooted in the old Chinese scriptures. should 1 not lie? Because liars will be damned. have lost $4,000 or $5,000 each year.

by a due development of those, elementa which made by the founder of my religion. How do the destruction of the 1 bels, an order for the Adogmatic superstructure raised on them and you know that it was a divine revelation? defendant's accounts during the last four years, involving the numerous intestine contradictions Because I can prove that certain miraculous an order to restrain him from copying the chop, which are inherent in and attached to theologic events happened in Palestine eighteen centuries and damages.

| Christianity, is useless and prejudicial to the ago. Upon this showing the pyramid is balanced Mr. Francis said that he did so because progress of China, and upon its apex, and morality in most precarious although the defendant had closed his shop head equilibrium; its very existence is made to depend had gone to Canton and a carrying on the THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT upon

the evidence of a particular set of events at || business there, and an order would be effective.

EASTSUGAS BRIGADE... a particular period of history. I do not pause to there. inquire how far a man of Paley's intelligence could seriously accept the argument which seems to be implied in his writings. The bare fact that he could state his case lu terms susceptible of such an interpretation is significant of the change which has come over the discussion. I only cite "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND

him to show by an extreme case what is the HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" offers

tendency of the doctrine. His theory involves the belief that the essence of virtue consists Special Advantages as an Advertising Medium. It has an extensive circulation in all Ports of these three launches has been fairly

obedience to an external sanction. The good

klava on October 25th, when bo was slightly Founded, and of: Inkerman on November 5:18541- between Singapore and Newchwang, in the successful; they are stated to have cleared

man and the bad man differ only in the calcula

We have often endeavoured to discover what It was at the battle of Balaklava that the charge Australasian Colonies, the United States, and the whole of the current working expenses, NDERLY-Jawkins, did you ever hear me sing superadded to human nature; it means obedience leading motives, what finality, what hopes can of the light. Brigade took placeabat famous the United Kingdom, and the scale of charges has been fixed at an exceptionally low rate, including the cost of management a rather Within a Mile o' Edinboro Tood" Jawkins place it is imposed upon us by another being, ing their immense ramifications of religious have since been shed, and which remains to this to a law promulgated at a definite time and justify the missionary brotherhood in extend, change in connection, with which oceans of ink Terms can be learned on application.

ambiguous phrase this, which the volatile-No, nor within a mile of any other tune, and would have no meaning but for a specific proselytism throughout China. Viewing the hour an inexplicable, mystery, about which we Chairman ought to have explained in A COOLIE with a bad record against him burgled promulgation by the legislator. At the present question from the Impartial standpoint of Come know little more than that, in the Poet Laureate's Suggestions for the Improvement of this work detail or left unsaid—, and in addition to a shed in a market garden at West Point the day the logical position is inverted Christianity parative Religion from a portion precisely words some one bad blundered. On the are respectfully solicited.

other night. He got some bits of jewelry, and

is recommended because it teaches sound similar toʻthat taken by an inquirer into Com morning of October 25, 1854 12,000 Russlang have left a small sum as profit each month now he is waiting for the next Sessions, by Christianity. It is therefore, assumed that trace this gigantic missionary movement to redoubt in the vicinity of Balaklava, manned by

morality, not morality because it is recommended perative Anatomy, we have not been able to under General Liprandi, attacked and took-*- Unfortunately the amounts of dollars or cents constituting these small monthly auber Arnold, as a prct, the praise he deserves law, which, whatever they may be, are indepen-air Our peculiar standpoint becomes, il tassians then assaulted the British position, and A CRITIC in the Edinburgh Review, while giving, we have some reasons for reversing the moral anyjustificativa principle or self-sufficient Fation about, three, hundred : Turks) Tän victorious profits were not mentioned, nor was it for classical purity and rhythmic grace, styles dent of the supposed revelation. Otherwise we the more necessary when we consider the cons, were driven back and severely handled by the stated whether they were sufficient to cover his work "a sandheap of shitting judgments, of should fall into the vicious circle of justifying flinting elements which prevail in the botom heavy cavalry under Sir James Scarlett," At this the Interest on the capital already paid up. crembling opinions, conflicting cries, and the belief by the conduer, and the conduct by the of that vast missionary family who tolice critical moment, an order upposed to have

crumbling creeds,”

belief

||themselves wills the comfutine idea that they lamansted from Lord Ragian, but communicated.

class swindle carefully arranged, admits of no doubt whatever, but who the enter prising riggersand philanthropic swindlers may happen to be is at present a mystery. We hope at an early date to have the pleasure of enlightening the Hongkong pubile as to the identity of these ornaments to the community who have for some The WINNERS of all IMPORTANT RACES time past been earning an anything at HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, FOOCHOW, but enviable notoriety as professional particulars, carefully compiled from the most reliable sources, make THE HONGKONG in bringing into disrepute the perfectly DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR honorable and legitimate business of the EAST," a vade mecum for all classes of

local Share Market. sportsmen.

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published to another column. For some time be permitted to go on unchecked? Can past it has been an open secret that arrangements looking for the defendant since the 6th anyone dispute that this is class logisla-were in progress to introduce the electric light on December, but unsuccessfully. His shop used a large scale into the colony, the leading promoter to be No. 1 Chu Kwong street. Witness tion which cannot possibly be justified! of the project being Mr. C. P. Chater, whose recent visited the premi es in September and saw To attempt to put a stop to all forms of visit to London has initiated a number of 169 chests of tea with the "Hang Mee" speculation by legal enactments or other local enterprises of considerable importance. mark on them, besides several thousand labels. The Company's prospectus gives a deal of in- He produced one of the labels, and a paper wise would be absurd, but where gambling formation, and very plainly sets out the scope of bearing the trade mark of the plaintiff, which he laws are strictly enforced, as is the case the undertaking. That this new departure will found in the shop. He saw defendant's employer In this colony so far as the Chinese are receive a large share of public support is certain, burning a lot of these on the 6th December. The

and there can be very little doubt that electr. tea he saw in September had since disappeared. concerned, public scandals of the type of lighting will receive a fair trial. Personally Leong Sik Wan, the plaintiff, said:-1 am a this Steam Launch Co. fraud ought not to have the fullest confidence that it will prove a tea merchant, carrying on business in Bonham Strand, and have for my hong name Hang very

far distant when tramways and steam- Mee." I have been established 29: years. stocks and shares is a misdemeanour; the launches will universally use electricity as their expat tea to Australia. The clock mark law there enacts that a person making a

motive power, and in such case a very wide and was registered in 1835 It has been used by contract for the sale or purchase of stock emunerative field will be opened for the Cam- the defendant, without my consent. I heard in pany's operations. The Hongkong Electric 1884 that some one had been pirating my trade The Hongkong Steam Launch Company, in any company, with the intention of Light Co. seems to be thoroughly deserving of mark, and I registered; I found last year that if

public support.

was the defendant, who was sending, tea to Limited, is yet in its infancy. Active making a profit by the rise or fall in price,

Australia. "Before 1984 I was selling 16,005 or operations were only started a few weeks and without the bond fide intention of

17,000 chests annually, but after that year it ago, and as a matter of fact actual giving or receiving delivery of the scrip;

about 9,000 last year. The reason was that they decreased 4.000 or 5,000 chests. I only sold business is only in the Initial stage. With is liable to five years imprisonment and

forged my marks and sold bad tex cheaper. of three second-hand fine. Might we be permitted to suggest the exception launches, which were taken over from one to His Excellency the Governor that an of the promoters of the enterprise, two of Ordinance based on somewhat similar lines which are employed as ferry boats and would prove a public boon in Hongkong the other as a "dispatch" boat-whatever and put a stop to a state of affairs that has that may mean-the Company has nothing long been recognised as a disgrace to the to justify its raison d'Uri, and but for a colony! collision sult in the Supreme Court and some very silly nonsense talked by the Chairman at the statutory meeting of shareholders held the other day, it would probably be unknown as even a minor factor in the commercial life of the colony. It is claimed that so far the working

LOCAL AND GENERAL. H.M.S. Cordelia, Capt. H. H. Boys, left Yoko hama for this port on the 15th inst THE 0, & 0. 5. S. Co.'s steamer Arabic, from this port, arrived at San Francisco on the 12th

inst.

THE meeting of the Legislative Council which was to have been held to-day is postponed until

farther notice.

a

tion of chances. Morality, then, in something'

His Lordship did not think he could give. damages, except something nominal, like one farthing. He could grant the rest

The Crimean War, which broke out in 1854, afforded to Lord Lucan the great opportunity of his life. He was then fifty-four years old, but. with the vigor, courage and energy of a man of thirty. His reputation as a cavalry: officer obtained for him the command of the Cavalry division in the Crimea, and he took part in the RELIGIOUS PROSELYTISM IN "battles Alma on September 30th, of Bala

Mr. Francis thought his client had shown that he suffered injury.

His Lordship granted the injunction and order

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