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Intimations.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,

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for

SPECIAL AGENTS

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INFANTS AND INVALIDS.

THY MELLIN'S FOOD is the best for

Infants and Invalids. MELLIN'S FOOD) dissolved in milk, yield; a

Perfect Food, after Nature's Medel, contain- ing all the substances required for the support and nourishment of the whole body. MELIN'S FOOD, is not farinaceous and is

perfectly free from starch. MELLIN'S FOOD does not contain care a MELLIN'S FOOD is rich in bloud, brain, and

bone-forming components. MELLIN'S FOOD contains a large percentage of soluble carbohydrates and nitrogenous matter in such a form, that it is readily assimilated by the youngest infant or bebilitated invalid.

(Telephone No. 60.)

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SÉ HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1889.

THE Highlanders are showing our Football Club how to play. A match was played yester- day afternoon at Causeway Bay, when the Regiment won by five goals to-nit."

THR Nagasaki Express reports that a telegram was received from Tokio the zith inst announcing that in future Government officials will be permitted to publicly express their opinions on political and scientific matters.

YOKOHAMA exchanges report that fire broke out in the Imperial University on the night of the 75th ulto, the dormitories were burnt out, and the students lost a large quantity of hooks and clothing. The residences of the professors in Kaga Yashiki were at one time in great danger.

ANOTHER organ recital in aid of the Cathedral

chair funds was given last evening by Mr. Sangster, and was very well attended. The full choir sang Gounod's anthem "Send out thy light, and Miss Cameron "O Rest in the Lord," Mr. Grace assisting very effectively in the recitative. The programme included an arrange ment by Mr. Sangster of a march by Mr. Orang and was evidently enjoyed. The collection amounted to $77.

WITH reference to the proceeds of the Fête lately held in the Public Gardens in aid of the Alice Memorial Hospital we are glad to note from the following letter, which was sent us for publication, that the Fête has proved a financial success:

4th January, 1889). SIK-As you will remember it was resolved at meeting of the Finance Commince of the Alice Memoah! Haspital that an Al Frenos Pie should be held in aid of the Hospital In arder to raise funds which were absolutely required for its maintenance and for the continuance of the good wark it has been perfarming since it was first established. In accordance with that revolution steps were takes to organicos Fére, on the saree lines at in former years, which it was decided to hold on the 8th and th December. Fortunately for the under in Ladyship's.

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unwearying exertions, heartily and ably seconded by other

ladies of the Colony, who have on several previous OCCASIONS given substanitzi help in aid of the same object, the Fête proved a financial soccess. From the exclosed assement of account will be seen that the net takinge amount to §yyfa.fr, and I have much pleasure in forwarding to you a cheque for 85138.58, dia sum which has been already collected and placed in the Hang- kong and Shanghai Hank.

Where there were so many helpen it is scarcely possible to thank every one Individually, but though tha expression of thanks can be only general, It is hyped that all who did help will not think that their exertions are any the less appreciated because not specially mentioned,

IAT, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) J. H. Stewart-Lockhart,

Hongkong Secretary,

Al Fresco Feta,

A. MacClymont, Esq., Hon. Treasurer, Alice]Mezinial Hos

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ATTEMPTED SUICIDES.

On Sunday a European lady at the Docks

throat. She asked her husband to “finish the

job," we hear, but she is recovering,

About 80 this morning Douglas Ellion, the Street, swallowed chloroform. He was to leave his assistant.to Dr. Noble, dental surgeon, Wyndham employment in-morrow, Dr. Noble came down this morning and found the door bolted, and on. looking in saw Elliott on his knees near the couch. He burst the door in and called the assistant in Cruickshank's Dispensary below, who found that the man had taken chloroform or cocaine, and administered antidotes, &c., until the arrival of Drs. Cantlic and Manson, who induced artificial respiration until this evening without effect. Elliot was a young man, and was from Newhaven, Connecticut.

6. On the fifth day the waters are commanded to bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open' firmament of heaven." The earth had been commissioned to bring forth all manner of vegetablelife; it now devolves on the waters to produce animal life in the shape of fish and fowl The production of fowl from the waters is as inexplicable as the production of light before the creation of its source, the Sun. (Gen. L 20-23).

and woman are to "have dominion over the

7. Finally, on the sixth day, the earth produces attempted suicide at Hunghura by cutting her caute, reptiles and all beasts; after which Man is created after the Creator's own 'image; not only man, but woman; for "male and female he created them;" not from the earth, as no mention whatever is made of it; on the contrary, Man Gsb of the sea, and over the cattle and over all the, earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." This concludes the work of creation, as the first verse of the 1st and and chapters plainly state. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the heat of them.. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made." After this statement follows in Chap. another account of the creation of man and woman, and in a quite different manner ; man is made of the lime of the earth, and woman of a rib taken out of man's side; no reference is here made to man's sovereignty over the living world, nor to his similitude to the Deity. Of the two accounts which is to be accepted as correct i

Last night, about 8.30 p.m., P.C. McDougall, 33, heard cries of "save life" near Gibb's wharf' and although he was in winter uniform; and the night was bitterly cold, plunged in and saved a China woman who had attempted to commit suicide by drowning. To do so he had to swim: about fifty yards, and was with difficulty saved at the wharf side. His bravery, apart from personal losses-he lost two links of his gold watch chain--will probably be adequately rewarded.

THEISM v. REVELATION.

A CONTRAST AND A STUDY.."

IV.

THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE

INTRINSICALLY CONSIDERED,

(Continued)

BIBLICAL COSMOGONY.

2. Scientific view of the subject, This common-sense view of Biblical Cosmogony would in itself he sufficient to render it, unaceptable and unreliable; but we must not forget that Geological and Astronomical sciences have pronounced, their, verdict on this matter, while, on the other, haud, Bihte commentators, finding themselves harassed on every side by ever new obstacles, have resorted to makeshifts and caprici us inter- pretations so as to make the Mosaic record agree with the data of observation and science. We are now led to that important branch of investigation in which the agreement of Biblical Cosmogony with, or discordance from Scientific Cosmogony, is examined and decided upon.

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The Mosaic record of Creation may be properly analysed into the following component parts :-- 1st. As to the Time occupied by the work of Creation; 2nd. As to its Oider; 3rd. As to the Position occupied by the Earth in relation to the Universe; and 4th. As to the Antiquity of Animals and of Man upon the earth.

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me of seeing more closely Kwala_Lumpor. Property has ilsen over 60 per cent, during the last two years and will continue to make, an upward tendency when the mineral resources of the country are fully opened out. This towa is well situated and has, water and timber, in abundance. There is a glorious future for Kwala Lumpor, especially when the proposed Selangor railway is constructed. I may here mention that Mr. Scoil has recently established an ice and agrated water manufactory, which undoubtedly gives Kwala Lumpor a civilised appearance.

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I eventually succeeded in obtaining carriers and interpreters and with as little delay as possible started on foot for the next station, Rawang," a distance of about 18 miles from Kwala Lumpor, There is a good bullock track throughout. The country all round is wild, timber in abundance, with various running streams intersecting. On my arrival at Rawang I presented myself to Mr. Muir, the super- intendent of the Rawang Tin Mining Company, and his able assistant, Mr. French. These two gentlemen I can without the slightest, hesitation Bay, Bre well fitted to hold their respective positions, I have carefully inspected the Rawang Tin Mining Company's concession, and satisfied myself that nothing has been left undone by these two gentlemen. The mines are worked unnecessary expenses economically, and no have been incurred. There are over 3,000 Chinese employed at this concession and they are kept as busy as beer from morning till night The mines are alluvial and the tin is- obtained by puddling and washing, a celestial method. They have no smelting works on the spot, but the crude tin when jaken from, the mines is dried in the sun, put into sacks, and shipped to Singapore. Iam of opinion that this. method is a saving one, as nothing is lost by any Chinese coolies. I suggested to Mr. Muir carelessness or indifference on the part

that instead of c nñning his operations to the valleys, tunnels be driven into the hills in search of the lode, or reef of tini In my experience as a practical miner and enginest in Cal fornin, - Nevada, and Arizona," I have found that, in working alluvial or placer mines, we as a general rufe succeeded in finding the mother of the mineral we worked for in the hills from whence the alluvial was washed. Mr.. Muir informed me that chiefly *** owing to want of capital his company could not undertake heavy expenas in driving tunnele so long as alluvial tin was obtained, but remarked at the same time that he should very much like to see this effected. The country is exceedingly. rich and quine crops out in various directions. The companies who have concessions here and are working for tio find alluvial gold, and from samples of quartz carrying native tin which Mr. Mufr showed me, I am firmly of opinion that fa following up the float quartz and driving into the bills a very rich result would be obtained. I think if American enterprise was brought to hear upon this partion of the country a much better result would be shewn than that already effected. I was well and hospitably entertained by Mr. Muir and his staff, and they did all in their power to make my stay in their concession agreeable and pleasant.

plunge. Deceased leaves a wife and a married from the darkness" (v. 18). In v. 4-first day Ex. xx. 11, it is expressely said that—in six | daughter.

the_light had already been divided from the days Jehovah made the Heaven and the Earth, On arrival of the steamer Honam from Canton darkness; in v. 5, day and night had been the Sea, and all that in them in What matters li to-day the following further particulars of the constituted; and now, three days afterwards, we whether or not, our translators have rendered tragic event became known. The deceased went | bave the Sun and the Moon created, and charged this word by 'c eated,' when it plainly means

created in numberless passagen? Eg board about half an hour before the vessel's with the identical process of division of day from

And Elohim made the animal of the earth, after departure, and during the whole time preceding night. (Gen. i. 14—19). his final act, did not show the slightest sign of

its kind I. as 'Let us make man in our mental trouble. At about 12,10 he had tiffin

image: I. 26; The serpent was more subtle and took a couple of glasses of wine. He twice

than any animal of the field, which Jehovah. enquired of the Purser, in a very quiet manner,

Elohim had made, III. 1. It repented Jehovah whether the current was strong where they were;

that He had made man upon the earth, VI. 6: and at about 1.30 was seen by the man on the

In the image of Elohim created. He him,'' 1. look-out precipitating himself from the vessel's

27 In the image of Elohim made He him, stern, back foremost, into the sea. The steamer

IX. 6, where the two words are manifestly was immediately stopped, but all search proved

synonimous.

Verse a is evidently in unavailable.

continuation with and describes the state of the Earth' named in v, 1, when first created. And reference is made to this creation of the Earth and the Heaven, at the same time when all other things were created, in ii'4-

These are the generations of the Heaven and of the Earth in their creation, in the day of Jehovah Elohim's making Earth and Heaven. Thus we are plainly taught in the Book of Genesis according to the simple, straighforward meaning of the words, that Elohim created the Heaven and the Earth. 'in the beginning' of these six days-that is, taking into account the chrono- logical data of the Bible, about six thousand years ago." (p. 316-317, Nas. 94 987 989.)

What says Geology to this? If there is any well established conclusion is that science it is that which relates to the unmeasurable antiquity | of the earth. The facts that both singly and cumulatively prove that our globe has existed for hundreds of thousands of years before that biblical "beginning" which is traced back to six thousand years ago, are irrefutable. is the demonstration of the grounds on which this second question of time, viz the six days' conclusion rests belongs more properly to the

record, we will examine them in detail after we explain what is meant by the Genesis narrative commencing in v. a and ending with Chap. 1.

Modern commentators, on being hard pressed by the geological evidence of the impossibility of the world having been made in six ordinary daya, have resorted to the usual process of Impliation, and as they have expar ded'v. 1 into an indefinite length of time, so they expand the biblical'days' into geological periods, and argue | hat revelation is in perfect accordance with the data of science. That it is not, auffice it to say that there is ample proof that the meaning of the biblical writer is that of six common days of twenty-four hours. This is clearly indicated by the reference to the evening and morning and by Ex, xx ii, where we are told that God worked for six days and rested on the seventh day which he sanctified as the Sabbath, The seventh day was a 'common' day in the mind of the writer; by what process of logic can we underst ind him to mean a period of thousands of years by each of the preceeding days? Arch- | deacon Pratt, (Scripture and Science, p 45) says: "There is one class of Interpreters with whom I cannot agree,-I mean those who take the six days to be six period of indefinite length.. Is it not a harsh and forced interpretation to suppose that, in Ex. xx the six days' in v. 9 do not mean the s ime I left Rawang on the morning of the 19th as the 'six days' in v. 11, but that in this last December and arrived at Ula Selangor the sam00........ place they mean 'six periods? In reading evening, a distance of about 25 miles on service. through v. 11, it is extremely difficult to believe able roadway. Here, I met Mr. Bellamy, the that the seventh day Lisa long period, and the Acting Magistrate of that district and a gentle. 'Sabbath Day 'an ordinary day, that is, that the man thoroughly acquainted with the manners sume word "day' should be used in two totally and language of the country. 1 received much different senses in the same short sentence, and valuable detailed information from him. Mr. without any explanation" Colenso adds the Bellamy is a keen sportsman and he has made following very pertinent argument: Can the sad havoc amongst the wild animals surrounding. fourth, fifth and sixth days have been supposed Ula Selangor will be the terminus of a railway by the writer to be 'indefinite periods, when the from Kwala Lumpor. The matter is under two great lights had been already set in the consideration and will be shortly put into execu firmament, to give light upon the earth, and totion. Mr. Bellamy has mentioned that the rule over the day and over the night, and to Government, further contemplates making divide the light from the darkness!" "If, in ‚fict, | grand', trunk roads connecting Singapore we were to lake for the first three days the word | Malacca, and Jebore to the Selangor estate up : day to mean an indefinite creation period, yet to Burmum, the heart of the country. "The then the same word would be used in two resources of the country would thus easily ba passages directly following each other, even in brought to civilized quarters, and companies: two consecutive verzes v. 13. 14.-in two totally having conccasions here would be saved the different senses, without the least intimation expense of makis expensive rondways leading being given that from the fourth day outwards to their mines. This item of expenditure, I...... it must be understood in a different sense from assure you, is no small one, and is worthy of before, that is, in the sense of an ordinary day (1)" | "consideration. From Ula Selangor there is no (Op. cit. p. 317).

roadway to the Pahang state, any person desirous of taking the route, must be prepared to face a rough and dreary passage through a jungle district Mr. Bellamy and other friends :i advised me to defer my visit to Pahang, as the joumey would be found unpracticable. I was, however, determined to go ahead. Several of my coolies together with theinterpreters, deserted me here. This did not in any way deter men left Ula Selangor on the morning of the 20th and crossed the boundary line of Selangor-Pabang at midday. I had to pass over a heavy range of mountalus, some 3z in number, the highestauramit. being possibly 4000 feet: From this bright:1) obtained beautiful views, I can strongly recom mend to globe trotters unsurpassable viswa from this point. I camped at Bukit Kaundor at the. foot of the mountains. Here I prospected the country and found indications of gold bearing quartz, the formation being black alate with y veins of white quartz running through it. From here I proceeded to Tras, having to cross over 59 free running streams and most of these being about 5 feet deep. I prospected several streams and found gravel, which I deemed rich being of the same character that I obtained in the old Mayflower mine in California. some^.l years ago, where each prospect showed an out- put of $1 to $2 per pan of placier gold. arrived at Tranvory much played out. Here I met Mr. Fraser, a gentleman who is working tis mines. He gave me a cordial welcome atid

1. Common-sense view of the subjeti. We have examined the moral, theological, histo ical and speculative purport the Bible and found it to be fraught with so many intrinsic imperfections and contradictions that the Book's claim to inspiration and infallibility cannot for a moment be entertained. We will now turn our attention to that portion of the Bible which deals directly with terrestrial and astronomical subjects and nims at placing before its readers a succinct-cosmogony of the World. If the theory, advanced in the first book of the Pentateuch be found to be in consonance with that other revelation which is made by Nature and which is open to the observation and study received additional evidence of its having been inspired from above; but if it run full tilt against facts and scientific discoveries the certainty of which cannot be doubted, we must conclude that after this last prop of intere? evidence is taken from the so-called sacred books, the high claim of their authorship must lose all its force, and that like all other produc. tions of the human understanding, the Bible is open to contradiction and error.

elegraph convention agreed upon by the contract of all mankind, the biblical record shall have chimnology as a basis, 4,004 years before the

HONGKONG, TUESday, February 5, 1889.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE Polo Club meeting which was to be held to-morrow has been postponed, owing to the

weather.

THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Antenor, from London, left Singapore this morning, and is duc here on the rath inst,

THE men-of-war in harbour flew their respective ensigns half-mast to-day in commemoration of the funeral of the late Crown Prince of Austria.

MR. SASUKI Hayashi,, Police Inspector General and Procurator of Japan, visited the Hongkong Ganl, Peak, &c, to-day, with his suite, and was highly pleased with all he saw,

A REGULAR meeting of Zetland Lodge. No. 525, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely, Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

SAYS the Nagasaki Express :-The first instance of a foreigner being prosecuted by the Japanese authorities for shooting without a license occurred in Yokohama on the 17th inst, when a Mr. H.

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THE Shanghai Progresso of the 1st, inst, in an editorial on the disadvantages of the Chinese.. Portuguese Treaty says: "It is two years since the Treaty of friendship and commerce has been celebrated between Portugal and the Celestial Empire, and it is unfortunately just as long since our so-called advantages have been proved to be futile. Nobody doubts to-day that we have been the victims of that compact." The writer then proceeds to explain the state of oppression in which the trade of the neighbouring colony has been placed by the new Customs regulations which the Chinees Government has enforced in and around Macao as a consequence of the provisions of the ing parties,, and he concludes by expressing, hope that the obnoxiousness will in due course of time be removed and the old city regain its commercial independence. We do not find the Progresso's line of argument of much value. Although it is certain that the Treaty has brought disadvantages on Macao,-aid we were the first in the field to prove this contention it by no means follows that the city would gain by shaking off the yoke of the Imperial Customs, The very existence of Macao as a Portuguese colony depends upon the carrying out of the provisions of the Treaty; if the Portuguese fail to observe them, China 15, both justified in and capable of resisting all opposition when our bellicose neighbours have attempted to trample on their solemn engagements with Chino, their colony shall have ceased to exist.

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What has cost Newton, Laplace, Humboldt, Buffan, Cuvier, Sir Charles Lyell, Hugh Miller, Qustrefages, Agassiz and a host of modern scientists and geologists a life time of study and labour to decipher and to explain, the author of the Pentateuch,Moses, Joshua or Exra, settles with a few dashes of the pen, and the gaping orthodox world accepts the story of Creation 4 inspired truth, Biblical Cosmogony is circumscribed within the following points. We give a common-sense exposition of the 1st

We call the following interesting particulars from the appended results of the big gun com-chapter of Genesis :→→ petition of the Hongkong Volunteers, which took place on the 31st ult.

POINTS AWARDED, ast and

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We Mansfield, a British subject, who pleaded Corp. Collins5 10.25 guilty, was ordered to pay $10 to the Japanese Sergt. Osborne Government, a fine of $to, and the costs of the

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We extract the following from Messrs. Wheelock & Co.'s Ereight Market Report, dated Shanghai, 30th January, 1889-in consequence of the near approach of the Chinese New Year holidays business is at a standstill, and little or nothing will be done until they are over. For London, via usual ports of call and Suez Canal: The mails and Holt's again have the berth to themselves and are booking cargo at the same rata as quoted in our last, viz: 40: per ton of 40 feet. Holt's 8.5. Patrocius sails to-morrow and will be fallowed by the same Company's steamer Deucalion taking cargo at the advanced rit of 455. per ton of 40 cubic feet. The Glen Line sa. Glenavon due here about the th Feb. will load at current rates. For New York, via *--usual ports of call and Suez Canal;—The berth

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1. TIME-Two immense questions are evolved from the consideration of the time during which the work of Creation is alleged to have been performed, viz. that represented by the first verse of Genesis-"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,"--and that connected with the Sir Days as alluded to above. The natural meaning conveyed by the first words of Genesis is that in the beginning of the Mosaic record, in the beginning of the six days, or, taking the Bible Christian era, or 5,891 years ago, the Universe, our Earth included, were created out of nothing This was the interpretation given by the Jews, by the early Christian writers Tertullian, Origen, and by the whole Patristic theology. It was never contradicted till Geological science proved to the evidence the impossibility of the Earth having commenced to exist only about 6,0.0 years ago. Drs. Buckland and Chalmers are credited with the novel rendering of the first verse of Genesis. They detached the said verse from the following verses, and introduced the theory of the existence of an extremely long period of time between the creation of heaven and earth and their subsequent distribution, order, and the production of vegetable and animal life. The theory goes by the name of Chalme rian; but it is chiefly the work of Dr. Buckland, a prominent Geologist and the author of one of the | Bridgwater Treatites. The scientific necessity of presupposing a long period of existence for the earth before life was produced, brought about this interpretation of the first verse of Genesis. That it was, however, a twisted and therefore, wrong interpretation is clearly proved by Dr. Whewell's (another celebrated author of the Bridgewater Treatises) well-known remark "When should old interpretations be given up; what is the proper season for a religious and enlightened commentator to make a change in the current interpretation of sacred Scripture? At what period ought the established exposition of a passage to be given up, and a new mode of derstanding the passage, such as is, or seems to be, required by new discoveries respecting the laws of nature, accepted in its place?" (Rela. tion of Tradition to Palatiology, Phil. Ind. - Sc, II. CIV.) Cardinal Bellarmine was more explicit on this subject when he said that when demonstration shall establish the earth's motion, it will be proper to interpret the Scriptures otherwise than they have hitherto been interpreted, in those panages where mention is made of the stability of the earth, and movement of the heavens. Mr. Kenrick (Essay on Primeval History) says: "It la diffimit to understand this otherwise than, as sanction ing the principle that the commentator is to bend the meaning of Scripture into conformity with the discoveries of science. Such a proceed ing, however, would be utterly inconsistent with all real reverence for Scripture, and calculated to bring both it and its interpreter into suspicion and contempt."

The difficulty of assuming the biblical days to have been 'periods is such that many modern divines have abandoned the 'expansion theory and returned to the original "ordinary days interpretation, auch' as it was in vogue among, the Jews and the early Christian writers. Buigna (Inspiration, v. 38) says :- Such an interpreta tion, (the six periods) seems to stullify the whole narrative. A week in described. Days are spoken of each made up of an evening and a morning. God's cessation from the work of creation on the seventh day is emphatically adduced as 'the reason of the Fourth Com mandment,-the mysterious precedent for our observance, of one day of rest at the end of every six days of toil,for in six days, (it is declared) the Lord made Heaven and Earth. You may not play tricks with language plain as this, and elongate a week until it shall more than embrace the span of all-recorded time." And the Rev. Th. Ragg is of the same. opinion in "Creation's Testimony to its God,” We will now open the book of Geology, Nature's own Revelation and see to what con- tradictions and impossibilities the biblical pix days work of Creation leads us to. ⠀ "an

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CORRESPONDENCE

PENINSULA..

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I. The heavens and the earth were created in The maximum the beginning of time, 4,004 years before Christ, number of points obtainable for a single shot according to the marginal note on our, Bibles, was for a direct hit. Of 80, the total number|The globe which we inhabit was, after its of shots fired, including trial shots and those creation, a waste, a void or a chaos, whric fired by non-competitors, Be per cent, or 64 perpetual darkness reigned. In this immense shots were effective. Corporal Collins was the

caholic matter, while no distinction had yet winner of the Cup.

been made between its solid and liquid components, the Spirit of the Creator is alleged to have been waters, moving upon the "face of the 2. The first thing made, after the creation of the heaven and the earth, was Light, The Creator approves of his work and then "divides the light from the darkness.". In other words, light which is essentially distinct from its absence, after making its appearance, has to be separated from its absence. Quis potest capere, capiat. Light was then called Day, and darkness Night And the first succession of darkness constituted the First Day of the work, of Creation. This, of 31 31 course, on the assumption that the earth was 18 14 dat, immoveable surface, for supposing it wa 19 31 of globular form, while it was the first day on a 59 44 given spot, the point diametrically opposed to it 29 33 must not have been day at all, and all the 30 33 intermediary points must have partaken of pro- 16 15 portional degrees of day and night. (Gen. i 3.5)

3. The sec od day s'employed in the creation

[We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by congratulated me on having crossed the country 28 18 of "firmament in the midst of the waters."

Correspondents in this ocimisingly, Mr. Fraser and I left the following 39 1 The object of this firmament, or heaven, is to

MINING INDUSTRIES IN THE MALAY, at work This concession, it appears, was day for Raab where a gold mining concession 32 as divide the waters under the heaven. Conse 32 34 quently heaven and earth were full of water, or The Chalmerian attempt at disconnecting the 25 45 rather were all water, since the firmament, or first verse" of Genesis from the second and the

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ROKOKOND TALAKA o Rajah Impeh some 14 years ngo by the Sultan of Pahang, The matter, however, 28 47 heaven is made after the earth has been made, remaining portion of the narrative in further SIR, it will no doubt be of some interest to is in dispute, but hopes, are, entertained of an, 32 44

for the precise object of separating the upper supported by the argument that the Hebrew your readers to hear of the result of my recent adjustment by Mr. Rodgers, the British Rest 38 40 from the lower waters. (Gen. i. 6,7,8). We particle vau which connects the first with the visit to the Malayan States, made at the instance dent, who is expected, dally. „regret - 1. was 50 37 need hardly point out that the writer's idea was accond verse, and is translated into and, does of a few influential men at San Francisco, who unable to meet this gepileman, as he could have

to explain the phenomenon of rain, which was not show such a connection. Granville Penn particularly desired me to prospect the conces furnished me with valushia, information regand believed to be water suspended in the vaul says that was discharges the functions of tops recently granted to English synd cates, ing concessions, which I failed to obtain elsa-y will probably be 55. per ton. The next to follow | SUICIDE ON THE CANTON RIVER. above by the heavenly bodies.

all the conjunctions, both copulative and and to suggest, means, how further concessions where, I hope, however, tu come across him will be the 68. Albany, Via Cape:-The State

4. The next thing done is to cause a secession, disjunctive, its sense being determinable, in could be obtained. My pointed attention was later on, and prospected the Raub district and I of Maths was dispatched via Hongkong on the

of the carby waters or their gathering each particular case, only by the relation of the also called to the Fanjom. concession, which at must say it is truly rich. No machinery of any 27th instant with a large quantity of cargo at,

together in one place called Sea, and the appear context, and the practice and genius of the 356. per ton and has left the Paciolus the only

present in causing a stir amongst mining mee in kind is used in any one of the mines in Raub, ance of dry land, called. Earth. The whole language" The Rev. Tb. Ragg in "Creation's California.

OPP The mines als worked by Chinese-in-purely Mr. F. de Si, for newly half a century sailer loading, she has about half her cargo on

earth must have been, previous to this, deeply Testimony to its God" concludes that there may I arrived at Singapore on the 4th December. native, methods the quarts is taken out and, bokrd and will probably leave soon to fill up in an employé of Lane Crawford & Co/s, met his immersed in water, or universally flooded (the italics are his own) be a chasm of indefinite last, and after making certain private necessary pounded to powder by small haminers and then Hongkong. Departures for Londoa via Suez death yesterday by jumping overboard from the How are we to reconcile this with the and the ages between the first verse of Genesis and the enquiries, I found that it was impossible to go, washed in wooden pans and the gold thus sieved, Canal; —Holt's 1.3. Stentor (vià Foochow) on steamer Honom at about 1 p.m. when off the earth was without form and void of Gen, L. 2) second, the sacred Historian in the one enun- by the Pahang River, which la jinaccessible in a very foolish way jadeed, as, Jabould say over, the 17th, 8.s. Monmouthshire on the 19th; Mutual second Bar Pagoda. Captain Lefavour had

The third day concludes with the creation of ciating the simple doctrine that all things were consequence of the heavy North-east monsoon 30 per cent of the gold in lost therebralokkar Lina sa. Chingwo(via Foochow) on the 25th and the steamer stopped at acce (the life-buoy grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree

created in the beginning by God; and in the laiting for over four months in this season......1 | raVery little is known at present of the resources Glen Linosa. Glenwarn (via Foocher) on the 26th having been previously lowered within a few yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is (was): second, (having passed over all intermediate had therefore to make for the Panjom concession of the country between Rapb, and the Punjom Instant. Departures for New York vid Suer yards of where the unfortunate man left in itself upon the earth. Remember that the periods.) proceeding to give a brief account of vie Kwala Lumpor in the Selangor state. This concession, Repuis say the natives obtain their Canal:-The steamer Duke of Westminster and for half an hour an unavailing search

earth had been literally flooded before, even the state of the earth just prior to the creation of alternative routzi just suited me. Į Jels Singne requirements by surface washing...i was unable (via Hongkong) on the 24th instant. Via Hong. was made, only resulting in recovering the frm the beginning, that nothing has been

man and his contemporary races. This chasm pore a day after my arrival per steamer Sappho to prospect elsewhere, as my time was limited. Long and Cape:-The stamer State of Maine unfortunate, man's hat. There is too much.

pentioned about the seed which was in itself" will give ample room and verge enough for and arrived at Kiang the receiving port

particularly desirous of seeing the' onthe 27th instant, Quotations are: New reason to believe that this loss of a hitherto and that unless they were the product of all the discoveries of either Astronomy or Selangor, on the 17th idem. There is a regular super endent of the Panjom, mines, who was: chwang to Swatow, season closed. Chefeo to most respectable citizen of Hongkong has been spontaneque generation, chemical agents, die Geology. It will allow time enough, not only steam communication between Singapore and reported to be at his concession, Swatow, 13 Mex. cents per picul, small brought about by financial trouble.

solved in that universal food, could not by any for the formation of the different strats beneath | Malacca and Malaces to Klang. From Klang

at the. Punjom mines on the 26t demand, Nagasaki to Shanghai, $1.50 per ton of It was currently reported in town yesterday possible means have produced them, 7(Gen. L. us, but also for the light of even the most distant to Kwala Lumpor, a distance of 19 miles there

Employés at the conces Coal nett, for steamen $1.50 ex ship, for sailing ; that the deceased had taken the most deliberate | 11-13)-|-|| damegamo

Aylsible nebuli to travel over the intervening is a railway track and good serviceable roads were enjoying their Christmas bo verrcle, nominal. Settlements during the fort- measures to commit bịs rash act. Before pro 5. The fourth day. In characterised by the space between the orbits of their aues and ours. leased to Chinese for $25,000 per month, the lage at Punjom, situated on the bank at the night-Alvine Seyd, German steamer, 558 toas ceeding on board the steamer he left his creation of “flights in the firmament, to wit, the (Chap. vill. p. 291 2 BAT Government ondertaking to meet current running River Pahang It, fortunately happened. register, Nagasaki to Shanghai, $1.50 per ton watch, chain and other vatnships at home, sun moon and stars. Light-the-ffect but been the doctrine ong Kuhned version 11-con-egyemaca urodzinie leaves Sa pyriploma coal, despatch, Dorothy,' British barque, 310|wrote to bis son-in-law a letter informing him created by a'simple ying on the fir's/ day 'y lights, pletely refuted by Blahop Coleuse (The Lumpor I met Mr. 9. Scott acting agent i tons register, Shanghai to Tientsin, $1,400, in" of his intended departure from this world, wrote or Jamjawles—the causes, were made on the Pentateuch and Hook of Joshua critically the Punjom concersion, who in armed me that“ full, 15 lay days.” Fallung, British steamer, 753 | to the Registrar of the Supreme Court giving fourth. There is no misconstruing this, for ♥.: examined") in the following trenchant inanner - would find some difficulty in obtaining" guider,, tons register): monthly charter, private terna. | full particulers of his assets and liabilities and. 15 clearly status. And let them be for lights in: | #4 The same Hebrew word is used for fcreate " carriers and interpreters, as the journey to Pah Disengaged vessels in port:--Antoinette, British placing his family under that official's protece the firmament of the heaven to give light in v.1): 10, fax used, in vari - God creafen"}" via thie-route, was a very trying" one baique, 884 tons register; Sir William Wallaer, tion; in a word, prepared himself in the | upon the canh," "Add to rule over the day | great whiles, def and on in. Vay, or God December and January," However, by thilydday. British Barque, 968 tons register.

coolest and most tragic manner for his final and over the night, and to divide the light barratego manı tu hie: own image.” And, in | In'ostaining coolies as opponente (Al Riorded a gold

is entirely vacant, the Duke of Westminster Corph Duncan having sailed on the 24th with a fair quantity of Sergt. Dad

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10,10

cargo at 60s.; her place will be taken by the a...Sergt. Braidwood 10 D10 Strathleven to arrive about the 4th February,

the rate for which has not yet been fixed, but

Our Canton correspondent writes us under yesterday's date (→