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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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Two Gan-Luscars died yesterday, and were this morning solemnly warmed up over a wood-fire at Wanchal. They did not revive.

blameless for the accidente ils view of the matter, and a very practical one it is, will perhaps commend itself to the person who made it his special business to initiate the proceedings at the police court!

The difficulty of driving safely THE man who só murderously, assaulted a Sikh at Wanchai last week was again remanded to through the streets and roads of this day, the constable being still la Hospital. colony is only known to those who

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JEAN ALBAREL, the individual at Wanchai who | Sikkim difficulty are ‚a. selle wine direct from his native vineyards, has Thibetans insist that their sovereighty in ghim fallen a victim to bisignorance of the distinction shall be admitted. between wholesale and retail. He has a license to sell liquors in quantities of two gallops and upwards, but the other daya servant of Inspector Swanston, bought a bottle of brandy from him for forty cents, lastead of congratulating himself on having got it so ridiculously cheap he told the Inspector, who pulled Albarel up for infringing his license, The case was before Mr. Wade

are in the habit of Indulging in what / THE Airlie, which arrived yesterday, proved so house to-day, when Albarel, through an inter-

preter, said that he thought his license covered all sales. The ease was remanded.

Tur declared value of Imports and Exports A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. passed through the Custom Houses of the treaty 618, SC., will be held in Freemasons Hall,ports of Japan during the year 1887-8 was as Zetland Street, on Tuesday, the 12th instant, at follows :-** 8.30 for 9 pm, precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

strong an attraction to fourteen sampan-men, I should be a healthful pastime. If there, that they boarded her without waiting for are any recognised rules of the road, permission. They paid $14 for the pleasure

to-day. as in all other cities which have any pretensions to civilisation, they are want- only ignored and it appears to be nobody's business to see them carried out. Instead of using the side-walks, which we assume were specially constructed for pedestrians, and leaving the road-ways for MELLIN'S FOOD does not contain cane-sugar.vehicles and general traffic, we find the MELLIN'S FOOD is rich in blood, 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.

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pavements almost entirely neglected and the streets crowded with Chinese, who shuffle about obliviousof everything around them. A carriage comes along and the driver finds the utmost difficulty in picking his way; a confused mass of pedestrians and rickshas impede his every step, all his shouting is of no avail, and to save a serious accident he lightly "flicks" the leading obstructionist with his whip and passes on, generally receiving a choice quotation from the Chinese classics as a return for his well-meant kindness, We would be the last to advocate the slightest Importers and Exporters of MANILA CIGARS. license being permitted Europeans in

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striking Chinese, but in point of fact there is no other way of either riding or driving safely along the streets under the existing system but by good humouredly "flicking" with the whip those who remain deaf to all other warnings. When a mandarin passes along the streets of a Chinese city a number of lictors with whips clear the way for him, and they do not merely "flick" those who happen to be in the way. This, being a national custom it may be that the lower classes of Chinese who crowd our thoroughfares do not recognise any other signal to allow a passage to vehicles! But however that may be, we contend that those of the community who drive carriages and other vehicles, and conform to the rules

LAST night the Artillery had gun practice of a novel character on Stonecutter's Island. The electric light was thrown quickly on the water at varying distances, and blank charges were fired at suppositious boats within the field of the light.

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OUR Macao correspondent in alluding to the recent decree issued in Lisbon abolishing the Colonial Boards of Treasury and creating separate Exchequer dureaux, gives the following new scale of salaries of several colonial function- inherent in such a system of distribution. The aries, and calls attention to the anomalies Diocesan Bishop of Macao gets $3,700 per annum ; the Chief Justice $2,700; the Crown Attorney $1,450; the Procurator of Chinese Affairs $1,450 the Colonial Secretary $1.760 ; the Surveyor General $2,350; the first clerk of the Treasury 8000; the first clerk of the Colonial Secretary's Office $705; the Colonial Surgeon $1,0ro; and the chief of the Treasury department $2,900. It will thus be seen that the highest paid official of the colony is the chief of the Treasury department, while according to the provisions of the new decree, this entity is exempt from qualifying himself by an examination in primary instruction. Our correspondent adds that this is the height of injustice and ridicule and affords a clear proof of the erratic manner in which the Portuguese colonies are administered. There is neither common-sense nor scruple in the governing bodies in Portugal; Colonial appointments, being entirely the result of favoritism and jobbery, are not only inefficient, but prejudicial to the Colonies. we hear it reported that a movement has been started by some tradesmen in the colony to form a coalition amongst themselves for the sole purpose of studying the ultimate retours of those of their new customers' whom they have reason to suspect of being in what is termed the 'fishy' state, and of establishing the limits of credit to be allowed them. Several wholesale and retail dealers are alleged to have been consulted on the matter, and to have readily promised to join in the secret ring, with the laudable intention of protecting their own interests against the dangers which are inherent to the chit system so largely prevailing in the colony. We have purposely qualified their intention as a laudable one, as we feel convinced there is no system so injurious to trader and customer alikens that of an unlimited credit. The trader runs the risk of never being paid, while the customer is under the perpetual danger of of a privileged class asking for special or being sued for his overcharged account, or exclusive privileges, but the community at summarily relegated to the Debtors' prison The new precautionary measures are especially large claiming rights for which they are intended for the jeunesse derde of all nationalities heavily taxed. And we fail to recognise and on whose inbora probity or habits

thrift acquired from good example in Europe the philanthropy which turns up the whites or America, the climate of Hongkong, har of its eyes when a Chinese street obstruc.exercised a peculiarly dissolvent effect. It has tionist receives for hisown safetya harmless reminder with a driving whip for being contumacious, and yet sanctions a white man being stripped to the skin; tied up to a whipping post in Victoria Gaol and degraded and brutalised by a semi- The moral of all public flogging. this is that the Government would find better employment in making adequate provision for maintaining some sort of order in the public streets than in sanc- tioning such a paltry prosecution as the one under consideration, and that justice would be rather the gainer if Mr. Acting Magistrate POLLOCK leavened his legal decisions with a modicum of that estimable quality called common-sense,

The Hongkong Celegraph

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1889. THE action of Mr. POLLOCK in fining Mr. DAVID KENNEDY of the Horse Repository five dollars for nominally assaulting & coolie has caused a good deal of discussion, especially amongst the members of that privileged class who vary the monotony of life in this not too lively colony by occasionally "riding in carriages." Paltry In itself the case assumes considerable Importance from two or three points con- nected with it, and which would seem to require some explanation. It is understood that the prosecution was directly instigated by the Government. As the alleged assault was of the most trivial character it is not

easy to understand what business it was of the Government to interfere at all in the matter. So far as we can see there was no principle of outraged justice to vindicate,

no broad issue, at stake of the least

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Government protection as the coolies who Ignore all regulations and either Ignorantly or purposely place themselves in constant danger of being run over.

It is not a case

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter.)

AUSTRO-HUNGARY,

LONDON, February 3rd. The Archduke Charles Louis, brother of the Emperor, bas resigned the heirship to the throne in favor of his son François,

Importance either to the Executive or to any particular section of the community. The coolie who was assaulted had the same remedy ready to his hand as any other resident, foreigner or Chinese; if he felt aggrieved, on applying at the Magis- tracy a summons against his assallant would at once have been granted. But this martyr. does not appear to have thought that he had any grievance and he took no steps to make himself out victim to European brutality until Instigated or prompted by some high Government official, some soft-hearted and soft-handed | has failed. philanthropist who would have been very much better employed minding his own. business. Here is another peculiar phase of the case. · The assault was committed on January 12th, but it was not until the 26th that Mr. KENNEDY was haled up before his Honour.”. It took either tha complainant or the instigator of the prosecution exactly a fortnight to discover the enormity of the offence.

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Mr. KENNEDY was driving along the street and a coolie, notwithstanding being warned repeatedly to get out of the way,

THE PANAMA CANAL.

been remarked that the pissage through the

Sacz Canal has a tendency to obliterate in the minds of many who had been previously accus- tomed and trained to regular habits of life and to weigh expenses in the scale of incomes, all sense of regularity, order, punctuality and even duty and common honesty Although we do not endorse this far-fetched hypothesis, we are sure climatic influences have a great deal to die with the loose style of living and of dealing which is observable in most of our new arrivals from England or America, particularly among the youthful fraternity. Heat is charged with the mission of expanding bodies; it probably acts in a similar capacity with the mind, and pra duces a corresponding transudation of all the moral principles, leaving nothing behind but a residuum of dormant feelings, which a sudden awakening in a Court of Justice or a transplanta. tion to the cooler recesses of the Gaol will eventually stir into life and due poignancy. We think the proposed tradesmen's coalition is a good preventative remedy for that general discase that is so prevalent among us an extra- vagant use of the credit system.

A BI-WEEKLY Portuguese illustrated burlesque paper commenced its circulation in the Colony on the and just, under the denomination of Hengkang Alegre, or "Gay Hongkong," and under the editorship of a Mr. José. D. dos Remedios. The paper is lithographed, contains several caricatures of the Porta-goose fraternity, and is declared to be for family circulation," The first number contains what purports to be a sketch of a statue raised to Napoleon the rat; copy the Italian Inscription in its correct form; for Gi ultimi giorni di Napoleone Primo, he writes Gli ultimi giorno. This is evidently a trace of the Macao patole, the artist's own mother-tongue, language destitute alike of pumber, gender and grammatical inflections. The body of the paper consists of a rhapsody in what is

The attempt to floa! a new issue of capital the artist, by the way, forgetting

(From the Avenir du Tonkin.). THE GENERAL MAGASINES-OF-

HAIPHONG.

PARIS, January 20th. The Budget committee has unanimously rejected the project of re-purchasing the General Magazines of Haiphong,.-

(From the Courrier d'Halpkong) THE FRENCH MILITARY HILLS

PARIS, January zand, The Chamber of Deputies has voted the Military Bill after a second reading,

THE TUNISIAN 'DEBT.

January 24th.

The Chamber of Deputies has adopted the Bill

obstinately remained an obstacle in front of relating to the conversion of the Tunisian dabe. was the bearer of the news brought of our cor-

FIRE AT HANOL.

HANOI, January 25th,

A fire occurred 'at 6 o'clock in the afternoon

in the Paper village, and was extinguished out 8. Chanceller Hauser, the commander of the side of the head. Fire Brigade, was slightly wounded, on the left

THE CHAMBER, OF DEPUTIES.

PARIS, January 28th. No incident has occurred in the Chamber of Deputies. Several groups belonging to the

· parliamentary majority meet every evening. DEATH OF THE EMPEROR OF ANNAM.

- HairHono, January 31st, The Emperor Dong-Cant died suddenly on

the carriagel Mr. KENNEDY then "ficked" him with his whip, and only avoided running over him by the merest chance, And for this well-intended “flick” the Government is credited with hounding on a criminal prosecution against a respectable member of the community, and a saplent magistrate imposed a penalty of five dollars, Although the coolle was not in any way hurt, it must be admitted that it was very wrong of Mr. KINNEDY to flick" him with his driving whip. However nominal the offence, it constituted the sgth inst. at Hud. an assault in law. Had the coolle been knocked down and run over he would only have got what he deserved, and se, no charge of carelessness, or recklessness was alleged against the driver of the vehicle, the latter would have been beld:

(Special to Hongkong Telegraph.) SERIOUS RIOTS AT CHINKIANG...

SHANGHAI, February 6th

12.31 pm, at " There has been serious zloting at Chinktang, The British and American consulates and even hongs have been burnt..

1884,

1887. Exports...65,705,607.00 52,407,679.00 Imports...65,455,205.00 44,34,248.00

131,160,813.00 96,711,927.00

Of the above the following was passed through the Customs →→

1888. Exports... 5,625,297.00 Imports... 2,173,319,00

7,798,616.00

1887. 4,364,751.00 1,451,567.00

5,816,338,00

THE SUICIDE OF A DENTIST.

Despite the unwearying efforts for thirteen

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assisted by several Good at maritan Colony, assisted Good Samaritans,' Elliot Douglas, the assistant to Dr. Nable, died last night from the effects of the chloroform he had taken in the morning. An inquest was to have been held by Mr. Wodehouse this afternoon at the Magistracy, but as the witnesses were late it was adjourned until tomorrow.

We hear that deceased, who was twenty-five

years of age, was doctor of dental surgery by profession, and joined Dr. Noble about two He was weak-minded, and was months ago. latterly depressed because several rubberies had been committed by the office-boy. He was to

gone to California by the City of New York to-day, but on Monday he said he did not think he could get away, as the police were watching him, which of course was quite a hallucination. He came here originally for the benefit of his health, and Dr. Noble recommended a sea to have taken two poisons, but what they were vojnge for the same reason. He is supposed is not certain. Chloroform is believed to be one.

THE ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

FUND,

The following is the Statement of Account of the Al Fresco Fête in ald of the Alice Memorial Hospital held in the Public Gardens on the 28th and 2gth. December 1888

Receipts.

Lady Des Voeux, assisted by Mrs. Wodehouse, Mrs. Jost, Miss Salmon, Mrs. Yeatherd, Mrs. Mackintosh, Mrs. Belilios, Mrs. Layton, Miss. Cameron and the Misses Holworthy$ 403.71 Mrs. Bell-Irving, assisted by Mrs. Noble, Mrs. Bird, Mrs. Andrew and Mrs. Hirst.....

Mrs. Chalmers, assisted by Mrs. Ford,

Miss Crown, Miss More, Miss Haze- land and Miss Chalmers

Mrs. Forbes, assisted by Mrs. Hunting- ton, Mrs, and the Misses Hancock Mrà. G. Coxon, Mrs. Hanigan and Miss B. Cameron Mrs. Jameson, assisted by Misses Lam. mert, Misses Edgar, Miss Kneebone, Mrs. Cooke and Miss Cale Mrs Manson, assisted by Miss Withers

and Miss Hopkins.............................. Dr. Cantlic...ə cəsə¶à« Fine Art Gallery-Mr. and Mrs, Light- ・ ・ ・

wood and Mr. Ough Bar & Grill Room Mr. I. H. Stewart:

Lockhart, Messrs. E. Band F. Shep- herd, Mr. Dorabjee and Mr. Thomas Doll-Capt. Clayton, Lieut. Lee, R.A.,

and Mr. Thimm......... Programmes Tickets...... Miscellaneous........

Total

Expenditure.

Bills paid. Coolie bire.. Bad Coin and Discount

Cash in Bank............. Chits outstanding

$5.118.58 846.03

176.30

580.60

186.37

1,329.27

235.27

61.69

M. Floquet, however, refused to take up the challenge.

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Two hundred Costacks, who were nominally. bound for Obok, in the Gulf of Aden, have In replying to a deputation wall Waited upon arrived at Suakim, on board an Austrian" him in the interests of the Panama Canal Com-steamer. They were closely followed by an pany, M. Floquet stated that the Monroe doc-Italian man-of-war, and a strict; watch is being trine prevented active help being extended by kept upon their movements Ne the Government towards the furtherance of the Panama Canal works. At the same time, however, it was intended to accord the scheme unstinted moral support.

Mr Sewell, United States Consul at Samor, has been examined at a secret sitting of the Foreign Relations Committee, at Washington, He stated that unless it was intended to yield to Germany the entire control of the Samoan group, be Powers must take decided action. German appression, be declared, was entirely responsible for the division, which existed among the natives. It was important that, at least, the neutrality of the group should be secured.

The German Press assert that steps have been taken by the Authorities at Berlin towards restoring order in Samoa.

The Spanish Government have frustrated a plot laid by a guerilla band, who intended to effect a landing on the Spanish coast.

It is reported that the Earl of Dufferin, the late Viceroy of India, is concluding a treaty of 'alliance between England and Italy,

In a letter published in the Statist, a corre spondent writing from Melbourne denounces the Melbourne land boom, and accuses members of Parliament of utilising their knowledge of State secrets to enrich themselves.

The members of the Melbourne Hunt Club have purchased ze red deer from Lund Derby, from his celebrated Knowsley herd. The deer

will be shipped at London in February next,

The council of the Royal College of Surgeons have censured Sir Morell Mackenzie for publish- ing his book on "The Illness of Frederick the Noble," which contained charges against his colleagues.

January 13th.

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A football match was played yesterday at Stockport between the Maoris and a local team The match resulted in a draw, each side obtain ing a goal.

Following upon the recent explosion of a bomb in the Royal Palace at Madrid, news is now to hand to the effect that a petard has been ex- ploded in the Archbishop's palace at Valencia,

The truth of the report that Princess Alix, fourth daughter of the late Princess Alice, was to have been betrothed at Easter to the Czarewitch of Russia has been denied.

Lord Charles Beresford intends to have in the House of Commons a resolution to the effect that the British fleet ought to be able to defend the coasts and trade of the United Kingdom, and to the British Colonies against any other, two be sufficiently powerful to ensure the safety of

European Powers combined,

The German Government have shipped 12 guns to Africa for the expeditio organised by Captain Wissman, which will shortly start for the relief of Emin Bey.

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January 14th. Russia is in reasing her army by the addition of 00,000 riflemen, besides the formation of tea new brigades of frontier guards. Large ein forcements are also to be sent to Turkestan.

The Panama Canal Company has, issued shares to the extent of 60,000,000 francs. The.. Spanish Republics of Central America regard Senator Edmund's resolution, expressing dia- approval of any European Government under taking the construction of the Panama Canal, as infringing national rights.

Sir John Gorst, political secretary to the India Office, has sailed by the New Zealand Shipping, Company's steamet Tongariro, on a visit to New Zealand.

In a mach al Casticford, in Ireland, the local team beat the Maoris by 3 goals to 3 tries

The Reichstag has been asked to vote a sum of 2,000,000 marks to reinstate the German East African Company, Prince Bismarck intends to make a speech in the Reichstag on Tuesday in defence of the scheme.

The latest intelligence from the Soudan is to the effect that a large force of dervishes has left 147.25 Dangala,, and is now marching upon, Wady Halla, with the intention of making, an attack upon that stronghold.

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An intensely bitter party feeling has been imported into the election to the French Chamber of Deputies for the Department of the Seine 10.75 (Paris), for which General Boulanger and M. 4.329.00 Jacques, President of the Seine Comcil are 70.76 candidates. Both parties are spending immense

sums of money over the election, $8,035:38

Admiral Kimberley, commanding the American corvette Trenton, has been ordered to proceed to Samoa. $2,052.24 Archbishop Croke, of Cashel, in speaking of 40 soldiers being sent to assist the police of Ireland 14.03 in evicting tenants for nonpayment of rent, declared that such an act cried to heaven for $1,070.77 vengeance.

Several American men-of-war have been despatched to Panama. Trouble is feared in con. nection with works for the completion of the Canal, M

The Victorian Government has placed a 3ì per cent, loan of £3,000,000 on the London market. The minimum is fixed at par, and tenders will be opened on the sand. ga

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The loan is expected to average L103- Eighty-five per cent, of the amount of the loan will be payable on March 5th.

The loan is already quoted at a premium of 4 per cent.

January 16th, In commenting upon the announcement of the new Victoria Joan, the Standard this morning declares that the loan is required to enable the credit institutions in Melbourne to come easily through the strain resulting from the land boomi

The question of the colonial policy of Germany chiefly with regard to West Africa, was debated in the Reichstag yesterday. The criticisms of Herr Bamberger and Herr Richter upon the action of Government; incensed Prince Bis marck, who declared that the strictures levelled against the Govemment were unpatriotic, and were calculated to injure the prospects of parley- ing with England upon disputed points of colonial policy. He declared that it was impossible at the present to liberate the slaves in East Africa, and considered that it would be better to try

and prevent more natives from being enslaved. The colonial policy Germany would not be abandoned simply because of the errors into which they had fallen, and the sacrifices entailed at the outset, ....

Professor Tyndall writes to the effect that the reckless conduct of Mr. Gladstone on the Irish question has enormously increased the difficulty of solving social and political problems in the colonies.

Mr. John Dillon, M.P. for East Mayo, who ́la about to visit Australia, states that he intends to appeal to the boundless genérosity of the colonists to provide means for the support of the stanch campaigners in the Irish cause until the general elections take place

Mr. Greenwood, formerly editor of St. James's Gazette, asserts that Prince Bismarck attempted 10 nobble, that journal. Mr. Greenwood explains that he resigned his position on the paper because he was not alloted to pursue an independent policy with regard to Germany,

Mr. Steinkopf, the present proprietor of St. James's Gavette, denies that Germany has any hold on the paper.

The Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies bas, by a large majority, rejected M. Floquet's Income Tax Bill.

Sir John. Gorst, Political Secretary to the Indian Office, who was reported to have left on a visit to New Zealand in the steamer Tongariro, will only proceed as far as Teneriffe.

The Boulangists have declared M. Floquetto be a coward for declining to accept the challenge to a duel. thrown out by M. Laur, in the lobby of the Chamber of Deputies.

Prince Bismarck announced in the Reichstag yesterday that when the official reports had been received regarding the recent disturbances in Samoa, Germany would take definite action,

The semi-official Russian journal, Novor Vremya, states that other measures are proposed, in order to raise the effective strength of the Russian army on the Western frontiers,

NAVAL COURT: OF ENQUIRY ⠀ INTO. THE LOSS OF THE

** ANGLO-INDIAN

Finding of a Naval Court held at Her Britannic Majesty's Consulate at Tamsul on the 15th day

of

January, 1889, to investigate the circumstances attending the wreck and abandonment of the British sailing ship Anglo-India Official number 73,303, between Nam-kam and take one the North-west Coast of Formosa, on the 6th day of January, 1879, when on a voyage, from Shanghai to Iloilo, The Anglo-India was a saling, vessel full-rigged 1,549 tons registered tonnage, official number. 72,301, built at St. John's about 1877, and belonging to St. John's, New Brunswick

It appears, from the evidence given before this Court that she sailed from Shanghai on the 3rd January, 1889, in ballast, with a crew of 23 bands all told, and that from the evidence of the Boats -swain and 8 seamen (which however the Court regards as. insufficient, that the last land acea was Video Island W.N.W. about one mile the ** chip then steered a coume 5.W. by S. which course was steered until she struck at Molbow, 8 miles N.E. by Ey of Paksa Point, in thick

That Thomas Murray, the Boatswain, who was acting as Second Mate, with eight men put off in a beat under the Captain's orders to lay | out a line and bring boats through the surf, that they were st once attacked by the natives stripped and drives inland, thus being prevented from rendering any further assistance.!

it is reported that the perpetator of the White-rainy weather with a strong breeze. NARAN chapel murders has been traced to Tunis, and $5,964 61 captured there.

Sir Thomas Elder, of Adelaide, who has been Total......$5,035.38 | seriously ill, is now better.

J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,

Hon. Secretary. ·. Audited and found correct,

A. G. DOWLER, A.CA. Hongkong, 30th January, 1889.

MACAO.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

Macao, February 6th, 1889. HE. Teixeira da Silva assumed yesterday

The rule nist obtained by Mrs. Dion Boudicault for a divorce from her husband, Dion Boucleault, the actor, has been made absolute."

The Governor of Obak, in the Gulf of Aden, has been ordered not to permit the landing of the 100 Cossacks who arrived there in an Aus- trian steamer.

It is stated that the "Cossacks wish to found a Russian colony at Taura Bay,

Commission,

That the Captain and the remainder of the crew seeing how the above boat's crew had been received, put to sea in two boats on the afternoon of the day of the wreck, and although caritul enquiries have been made nothing further has been heard of them, in basque et LNIANEMUILAS That after the vessel had been abandoned by the crew she was looted and burnt by the natiyes *** of the Island

Sir Richard Webiter, the Attorney-General, and counsel for the Timer, stated that the evidence now being taken before the Pamell Times Commission as to the cause and effects of crime in Ireland, In connection with the stances above stated finds as follows by peterni

That the Court having regard to the circum | Intended for Fortoguese verse, interspersed the reins of Government. At 2 pm, the Muni National League, is nearly concluded. He will (1) That the, evidenca is, unmtisfactory und”” with various caricatures of very indifcipal Corporation and the Government Council probably proceed with the question of the authen- not sufficientto, warrant any anding as, to the ront character, which, like Napoleon I's ullimi | assembled in the Senate House, and Bishopticity of the Parnell letters next week

| way in which the navigation was conducted, giorni, probably allude to existing types of the Medeiros in handing to the new Governor his Mr. George. Broderick, Warden of Meston more especially se no log books or papers were Cynocephalus Portugaria la this Colony, Miron made a speech referring to the financial College, Oxford, who was summoned, to appear navedenen Mehrere The Lusitanian language made use of in the and commercial state of the colony, to which before the Commission for comparing Michael) That, the master and crew appear to have paper is by no mcant undefiled, gram H.E. replied in a few words. Senhor Basto, Jr., Davitt to the Whitechapel murderer, has been conducted themselves properly, and used their mar being, as usual with' the Macao literati, President of the Municipal Corporation, in exonerated. har peitosan megala Opening the rag almost at random every line. delivering the Keys of the Holy City to the Mr. William O'Brien, M.P. for Cark att utmost exertions to save life,

Fatid the

(3) That proper discipline appears to have the rag almost at madom, we found a Governor, expatlated upon the decadence of proprietor of the United Irishman newspaper, been maintained on board ist nurkolat by few lines which literally translated have an the Portuguese colonies la general, and of who was arrested for the publication of an article (4) That the Court desires especially to direct undefinable meaning: The steamer Vingio Macao in particular, owing to the absurd in that journal severely reflecting on the Tímal-↑ the attention, of the Board of Trade to the fact system of centralisaties of powers pasued by Parnell Commission appeared before the Coin-that, this vessel is not the first that has been respondent in Shanghai." The short leader the Government, He insisted on the necessity misson to-day. He claimed his right to criticise looted and burnt on the coast of Formosa, and with which the paper is futroduced to its readers of adopting a systems of self-government, such the proceedings of the Commission, but that steps should be taken to induce the Chincte Is a chaotic mass of nonsense, The editor fully as is in vogue fa the British Colonies. H.E. disclaimed any intention to intimidate! Judge Government to make a serious effort to put asserts that bis paper will be the “basis on having briefly replied to Senhor Basto's speech, which to form the literary taste of his readers which is laid to have particularly spendent has been reserved the Common stop to this practice in the future, Among the so-called caricatures thereis one which in the Governor's breast-all repaired to the witness named Tago, who was a member of the is directly aimed at the English community—and Cathedral, where a Te Dium way, sưng, the committee of the Killos branch of the Loigus, - this is the only reason, we have, thought fit to | Monte Fort firing three suivons of 21 guns. This swore that he and another man murdered a'laod' devote's few lines to the Hongkong Aŭgri. As | completed the ceremony of installation of the | grabber named Hooligan by order of the League. individual is represented with a pair of enormous our new colonial dius-ex-machind in bis niche. The local president paid them-money, which"

was obtained from the central league in Dublinerende katary pedal projections, with the following inscrip tion underneath : “One has only to look at his feet to know that he is an Englishman. This is

Mr O'Brien tendered an apologetic stateme, R. B. MARFOOD, which was accepted by the Commission on Assist, Paymaster, R.N certainly a novel system of ethnological distine- fr

The Chronicle states that her Majesty's

THMS. Çockchafer, **** tionscapecially when it comes from a petty copying clerk who draws bis subsistence from an English office, and from a class of people whose phizica" are in so many instances purely and simply living maps of China 1. Apart | from few other Insignificant caricatures and more insignificant varies, the Hongkong. Alegre is in our opinion an exact reflex of that plate, of intellectual emptiness, moral distortion, And social vulgarity for which 'the majority" of the Portuguese community of this Colony, of Shang, hal, and of the neighbouring Athens of South Chips, stand conspicuousal, Cole

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| |Government are aware that Stanley is safe; but " that it would be impolitic at the present joncture to disclose his whereabouts NC Daily News.

A scene occurred in the lobby of the French Chamber of Deputies last evening, M. Lang, a

HeraldLONDON, January Fith Boulangist Departy, accused M. Floquet of having General Count Menabres, Italian Ambassador made-use of secret service money to delest at Paris, has officially contradicted the report General Boulanger in bis candidature for the that Italy had threatened to blockade, Tunis If Department of the Seine, M, Floquet, retorted Frapos, enforced; the " degree- regarding the || 'by docluring Mi: Lauria statender) to be an ine employment of Italian teacher Lipatterns famous calumny, M. & Tankis challenged. M. The parleyings Between the Thibetang and Floquet to duel, which the former fisted the British at Gustong for a settlement of theʻi apon, lá order to prove the truth of his charg

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