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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1889.

(From the Courrier d'Haiphong)

Councils.

BOULANGER.

August ist. General Boulanger has renounced his inten. tion of contesting any seats for the General

Augurt and, General Boulanger has addressed a manifesto to the electors is which he thanks them for their support, and prophesies that he will triumph at SPECIAL

[AL TERMS TO LARGE BUYERS.the General Elections.

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COAST ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO,

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DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,

LIMIT E D, CHEMISTS,

THE "ANADYR."

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE American batque Spartan left Yakobama

for Hakodate on the 19th uho. ́ with a cargo of Australian coal for the British. Beet,

A JAPANESE prince named Shimaru'is very fond of making clocks, and is said to amuse himself by personally undertaking their manufacture. He is also said to have been devoting himself to other industrial arts, and lately made a godan (checker-board) from pure gold obtained from some mines in his possession. It is 3 feet square and about 9 inches in thickness. The checkers are of gold alse, one set being silver gilt to distinguish it from the other. They are to be exhibited at the Exhibition next year.

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In connection with the 555th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn an interesting ceremony took place on the sand June on the battlefield, | The Messageries Maritimes Company have when the Scottish standard and the British en- abandoned the steamship Anadyr.

sign were unfurled from the Borestone flagstaff, In the presence of nearly 10,000 persons. Pro- fessor Blackie performed the ceremony, and said there was greal danger of a small nation like Scotland losing its nationality when united with a large nation like England. He wished some changes made in th-constitution of things, and Scottish Parliament to meet in Edinburgh and do business in a national way. The Rev. David Macrae, of Dundee, said England had been slow to learn the value of nationality, and she had always been anxious to extinguish the smaller nationalities around her. She had failed to extinguish the nationality of Scotland, and she was trying the same game in Ireland to-day As she did too years ago in Scotland, when the latter's answer was "Wallace and Bruce." THE magisterial inquiry into the death of the Scotland demanded Home Rule. and the man- thief who was fatally beaten by some Junk-agement of Scottish affairs not only in the A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. people at Yau-ma-ti last month was concluded Interests of Scotland, but in the interests of the

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A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, SC will be held in Freemasoni' Hall, Zetland Street, on Monday, the rath instani, at B.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

It now appears that the Messageries Maritimes' steamers Oans and Anadyr were entering Aden harbour within sight of each other on July 11th, when the collision occurred which sent the latter yessel fa, the battom within a quarter of an hour At an inquiry held at Aden it was found that the Orus was to blame for the disaster, in trying to enter the harbour, at the same time as the

The

O sustained very little Anadyr. damage,

Tua Daily Press of this morning says :—” His Excellency the Viceroy of the Two Kwang has, we bear through Chinese sources, made another new depviure. He has despatched steam- launches up the West River to bring students from western Kwangtung and Kwangui to attend to the provincial Examination for the Sui-tsal degree, which will be held at the beginning of next month." As customary when dealing with matters pertaining to the land we live in," our contemporary again displays such lamentable Ignorance, that it would be interesting to know the "Chinese sources” of its information. His Excellency the Viceroy has not despatched ant the craf thus employed being the old stern wheelers propelled by manual labour which run regularly between Canton and the towns and cities in nd. And it may possibly interest the Daily Press oracle to know that what he designates the "Sui-tsai" examinations took

A PARIS telegram dated the tat inst, states that General Faidherbe is so seriously ill that his condition causes great anxiety.

THE annual aquatic sports in connection with the Victoria Recreation Club are fixed for Friday and Saturday, the 23rd and 24th instant. A good programme li being provided.

THE cholera epidemic mentioned in the Manila papers the other day, said to be ravaging the North of China, appears to have been much exaggerated. From a correspondent we learn that the epidemic was really confined to some districts around the port of Hankew, and that it has subsided so far that no fears are entertained of a second outbreak.

ANOTHER recruit to the noble army of go- betweens. Our ancient friend the King of Siam, in addition to eighteen almanacs, a paste-board Belilios medal, and a warrant for somebody's arrest, sports upon his manly bosom a placard which states that he is a destitute share-broker, with a bed-ridden wife and an incredibly large family, and that the most impossible commissions will be gratefully received. We have commis- sioned him to find out how Steamboats are.

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to Kitin. If sufficient funds are available to be free application of the omnipotent dollars-- continued N.E. to Hün Tsuen the principal A professor of the Chinese histrionic art, named Chinese city on the Amoor, and 'n branch line Huang, in addition to his daily, Avocations, N.W. to Ningata in Upper Manchuria. The peculated in smuggled saltpeire, using as a fatter official, Just mentioned, will be made tool in his transactions a certain man named Director ofthe Southern and North-western Rail Tang. This had been going on for way, that going South to run from Tientsin.to considerable period, when one day the inevitable Tsinan-fu the capitalofShantung, thence connect- result occurred. Tsang, having" passed off" a ing with Teing Chiang-p'oo to Nanking or Chin. lot of saltpetre, took the proceeds and tried his kiang, on the Yangtare. The North-western line Jucle with them at fan-tan; but unfortunately will run through Kai-feng-fu the capital of Honam for his master, and, as the result, showed, thence to Si-ngan, the capital of Shensi and worse for himself, be lost all the money, and further to Lon-chow-fo, the capital of Kansu. coming to Huang told him that the saltpetra This lice will terminate, at the latter point. had been seized by the excise officers and con- Further, on westward it is proposed that the fiscated. Huang, however, smelt

and matter be taken up by the Governor General of on investigation, obtained proofs of the contra- Kanau and Shensi, who in conjunction with the band article having been regularly sold to a Governor of Chinese Turkestan or Hsin Chiang certain manufacturer of fire crackers. Upon this (New Dominion) will see to furnishing the funds Huang upbraided Tanng. for his "absence of for this very necessary enterprise. It is stated sincerity," winding up with the remark that that that the Governor of Chinese Turkestan Liu Chinese-hating foreigner who writes to the Daily Chin Tang the famous, lieutenant of the late Nets at Shanghai on "Chinese Characteristics," Viceroy Tso Taung Tang, the Conqueras and who had so much to say on" absence of sin- of Kashgaria and Kuldja, who asked for cerity "amongst Chinese, would be only too glad his opinion about the feasibility and utility of

to hear of this episode and make so much railways in China, gave a somewhat remarkable

more capital out of the fact that even half a document to the Throne. The first passage of dozen numbers would not be sufficient to con- his Memorial was for railways, the next against, clude this subject. To prevent further mistakes, then for them and the next against, and so on therefore, Huang made a vicious lunge with a to the end, the last paragraph being against rail. dagger into the vitals of his accomplice, and with sach effect that the Kwang fne says that CONSULAR procedure all over the East is by no ways, while the first was for them. The memo means a perfect system, but there seems to be rial has not yet been published in the Peking"Tsang entrails dangled out of the wound," Gazette, but I am informed that the Throne causing his almost instantaneous demise. Now considerable room for improvement in the way British subjects are looked after in Manila. The rather puzzled at getting at the true meaning of came the godsend. Trang's relatives claimed this Governor's opinion. As we know that H.E. indemalty, failing which a war of reprisala " officers and engineers of the Althacraig, who

was threatened. And so Huang bad to "foot Janded there with nothing but their dungarees Liu Chin Tang is the only allberate Governor or other working clothes on, were unable to obtain in Chinese officialdom, having been recommended up the bill for an elaborate funeral, plus a a single garment, although the German Consul for the past of Governor of Chinese Turkestan by widow's endowment fund, whereas if justice had hastened to provide for those of the crew who To Tsung Tang, more for his brilliant services were to take its course, Huang would have had, in in the reconquest of that country than for anything the first place, to suffer banishment for smuggling were his countrymen, although they were, for the time being, British subjects. According to else, and the Throne knows this too, it follows that saltpetre (a government monopoly) and for the the Diario, a sum which had been kindly sub-this Governor's amanuensis, whoever he is, murder of his test and accomplice would have must be a clever man to be able to veil the true had to give a chance to the Daily Press's thoughts of bis principal. By what I do know "Travelling Commissioner to write up" his of this governor, I am inclined to think that he obsequies in the so-called potter's fieldin Canton. docs det favour railways into his antrapdom, as whereas now be is lord of "whatever he surveys" and four months journey from Peking, by the establishment of railways outside the greatwall he would be brought within ten days of his Imperial Master and wold be liable to send for instructions concerning every little matter to the Central Government.

scribed for the benefit of the unfortunate men was forwarded in due course to the Consul, which official said "No, thank you,” and added that the Consulate was providing for them, This, of course, was highly appreciated by the subscribers, and by gederal consent the money was given to a local hospital. The Diario contains a letter of thanks to the Russian vice-consul, from Mr. Nicolaieff, one of the passengers, but we don't notice anything of the sort Addressed to Mr. Gollan, Her Britannic representative of an English tradesman in Queen's Road had to be actually smuggled out of Manila because the English Consul was too busy to grant him an order for a passport out of the countrytoo busy; forsooth! In a short time this hard-worked gentleman will be retiring on a very satisfactory pension, so until that event we can hardly look for any improvement.

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The purest ingredients only are used, and the before Messrs 5. 1 Thornton and A. W. utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the O'Sullivan, Thriņus J. Keaughran, a journalist steam-1aunches up the West River for students, Majesty's representative. Only last week the

of considerable renown in the Straits Settlements, pleaded guilty in sending a letter to the Chairman of the Trustees of the Raffles in titution contain ing matters defamatory to the character of Miss Emily Laura Rankin, under See. 5oo of, the Penal Code. The magistrates, in sentencing the accused to one year's simple imprisonment, severely commented upon his conduct.

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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTI.

THE ascent of the Red River by M. d'Abbadie's steamer Lookay is the great subject of rejoicing in Haiphong a present. Two or three previou attempts had been previo sly mide for the great importance of a water way to the Interior Messrs. Marity and d'Abbadie, with a specially has long been felt, but all of them failed until built steamer, reached Lan-kay, the Chinese- frontier. Húminations, public dinners. &c, have

celebrated the successful enterprise, and probably a-l tilia will soon be constructed to develope the

new market

THE Straits Independent says that owing to the great scarcity of money prevailing in Penang At present, many petly firms are collapsing, and a few of the biz ones look rather shaky, and that If this great drught of money continues. much longer, several of the latter will have to give up Penang is not the only place where money is "pretty tight "just at present. In this colony so much money is tied up in the shares of unproductive companies that even men of considerable wealth find it no easy job to carry on their business without, troublesome financial difficulties.

AKAD.COM and three inferior members of that class were charged before Mr. Wodehouse to-day with assaulting one Francisco de Cruz a foreman in the employ of Messrs. Bird and Palmer. According to the complainant, the men were working on a house at the Peak, making concrete, when he saw them put two big' stones in it. He got on their track, and immediately all the coolies, ied by the prisoners, assailed him with bamboos and stones, and he had to fly for refuge to the Palice Station. Three of the men were arrested, and as, on bis return, hostilities recommenced, a fourth was wathered in. The headman was fined $5, and the others $2.

It is requested that all cornmúnications relating to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., be addressed to the Manger, Heng nothing to do, doesn't he, Talegraph" and not to the Lidltor.

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place nearly three months ago However, there will be some examinations "held at Canton next month, but for the Ku-jen degree, which is the Celestial Empire. And will dear old Granny second grade in the literary ladder of the tells us what she means by saying that stadenis are coming from Kwangsi in steam launches to pás examinations in Canton ? Does not our contemporary know th every province and that Canina is the metropolis of Kwang in Chin has its own metropolitan' examinations, Tang, not of Kwang-si? We are sadly afraid that the DP. "Chinese sources" must be taken to mean the ubiquita s office boy, or the coolie who turns the crank of the printing machin 2

THE Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders posseIH in Private James Anderson of "C" company a poet of no common ability. Mr. Anderson's work is necessarily crude and unpolished, and lacks the technical knowledge of the experienced versifier, but it has nevertheless the ring of true poetry. The following lines which appear in the Regimental News for July well-written and interesting little sheet that is a credit la the Regiment-will compare not unfavorably with the recent productions of poets of far greater pretensions than this humble follower of the muse ; -

ONLY A PRIVATE SOLDIER, Only a private foldier drawn from thesher's bed - Te resque a man from drowning he'd plunged in the fined alone, Only a private sokfier, was, clammy, cidd, and dead-

And in saving the life of a brother and gallanty lost his own i Yet the bystanders say with a shudder, as they glance at the coki,

dead Gare' Al's only a private sokliler,, there's plenty to fill his place.

And fought at his side dill they fell in death placed thr" by the Daly two private soldiers that stood by the Prince of France,

Zululance;

They stood stere defying & ngos, scoming ta shirk the sirfs Each man for his country's banore was willing to give his life The Prinon la yet sore lamented, bui da urooper manner Kriot

were heard Os not they were private saldian, if they red or died none

cared.

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Only a privala sidler- a marie for the focus'a bell-

Ose sworn for a paltry shillog to die at his county's call;, Thorst, could them be wisdom in one who's so poor and low! Who must do what he's told and think not wisdom in him-oh no! At least the thought of some people, who sexs us as less than Beware the poor wors may car, and prove he's a man-what

тал,

thent

saže, nd scom,

the may turn on the mats who treat him with coldness, with And prove that he's far more power than those who were better

bor That the poor in this world's mosay, he has gifts that no

wealth can buy- The rest gifs of Fruth and kencur, courage to da or dia, Then that ye she private soldier with farrier whome'er you can For the but a humble soldier, remember-be'a still a man,

JAL AsDussor, Private, C. Qompany,

THE DARVEL BAY TRADING COMPANY.

The statutory meeting of this Company was Mr. H. Heyn presided, and those present were held this afternoon, at the mfices, 9. Queen's Road Mesirs. F. Dodwell, O. Brandt, F. Rapp, R. C, Wilcox, R. Fuhrmann, and F. Hohnke (secretary). The Chairman sald he had o ly to tell them that all the shares had been applied for, allotted, and paid up, and invited questions.

Mr. Brandt asked a string of questions, in reply to which

The Chairman said: The work is going on satisfactorily, but the results have not been very creat yet, as the coolie-houses have first to be built, and almost all the wood has been cquired for them. There are about 2500 feet in stock now, however. The greatest difficulty has been gettin coolies; several of the last batch deserted here, and we were sending filly arrived Captain Kothbart has not encountered more by the Memmon, but she went before they any difficulties. at least he has not complained of any. We nie ready to ship a cargo of word, but we have been unsuccessful in our attempts to buy a steamer, and we shall have to charter onė first.

That concluded the business.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, July 20th. Several battalions of Turkish troops have been ordered from Beyrout to Crete,

ÇANEA, July 22nd. Cretan insurgents have expelled the Turkish authorities at Vamos and Cedonia, and burnt the archives of the Government. The peasants have taken refuge in the town of Retimo; it is appre. hended that unless the Porte concedes the

· reforma asked; that the different parties in Crete | will coalesce and demand the apnexation of the Island to Greece.

LONDON, July sand.

The Kurdish chief, whose crimes bave been the subject of some cutspoken comments bas arrived at Constantinople. He confidently expects a full acquittal.

After H.E. Marquis Tseng, Chowfu and Shen, we have the names of Tang Thotai (Tongking sing, Director in chief of the Kiping elliery 15 assistant Director to Chowla and Wu Taotai (Ng, choy) Director of the present Tientsin- Shen. The railway southwards terminating at Kaiping Railway, to be assistant Director to either Nanking or Chinking will be expected to be continued by the Viceroy of Liang Klang, whoever he may be at the time, who with the Viceroys of Min-chieh, Liang Kwang and Yuen- Kuei, as his colleagues most see to the mixing of the necessary funds for the finishing of a complete railway system south of the Yangiszr.

For funds to commence this great undertaking, six large syndicales of Chinese merchants (names not yet procured) have pledged their willingness to contribute ten million tacle each. Of these, two syndicates have already given five hundred thousand taels each to the present governor of Kiangsu, 'as an earnest to their pledge. Although the rumeur of the amount may be inaccurate, the pledge is a fact, as I met one of the gentlemen connected with the syndicate while en route to Peking who

assured me of the fact.

(the governorof Kiangsu) has been the first to get So we see that the last memorialist on railways the necessary fands for the undertaking of which he has advocated in language, equal in force to that of the most enlightened amongst Chinese Governors, H.E. Liu Ming-chuan, of Formosa, May China have many more such ardent cham- plons of progress !

NOTES FRóm chinese PAPERS,

On Sunday the 4th instant a sudden gust of wind capsized a coal barge near Honam, precipitating the occupants of the boat into the water. Casualties unknown. At the same time at the Sam-sui jetty a flower boat also followed suit, but timely help rescued the fair denitens from death by drowning.

The Viceroy, in the absence of the Lieutenant Governor of Kwantung, will preside at the examinations for the degree of ujen at Canton, commencing about the 1st of September next, and will not appear out of the Examination Halls until some time during the middle of the month. No one will then be permitted to "interview. His Excellency during his enforced incarceration. Persons wishing therefore to get an audience are advised to do so now, before he goes into limbo."

A petty official who had been found guilty by the district magistrate of false accusations against the people for the purpose of extorting black-mail, and who has been stripped of his rank by order of the Throne, will und rgo his final examination before the Commissioner of with three accomplices. It is rumoured that, Justice of Kwang Tung to-day (8th), in company unless a full confession be made, the culprits will have to undergo certain tortures in order A steamer from the West African coast reports to extract the truth from them. that Emin Pasha, with 9,000 men and large Now, Mr. Norman, Granay's Traveling

read an allocution strongly protesting against the The Pope held a secret consfatory, at which he erection of the Giordano Bruno monument in Rome.

WITH the additional 36,000 per an um which the Prince of Wales is trying to rush the English for, H.R.H's income is brought up to 136,000 a year, Forty thousand pounds be has as heir apparent, and the Duchy of Cornwall brings him in on the average a net profit of £60,000, to which must be added the allowance Her Majesty is credited with granting him in recognition of the many regal functions he has to take part in Is as her representative. The Princess of Wales,

it should be mentioned, draws 10,000, which THE Field, commenting on the refusal of the in the event of her being widowed would, accord- Royal Yacht Squadron to allow Lord Dunraven ing to Act of Parliament, be increased to 10,000 to race the Valkyrie for the America's Cup But then a fellow spends such a lot when he has

Go ahead, Tummy of the Royal Yacht Squadron to be a party to under the new deed of gift, says —“The refusal

the scheme for foisting a rew deed of gift on the Communications Intended for publication must be accompanied details as to the earthquake at Kumamoto-Managing Commitee of the New York Yacht Coast, by the same and address of the writers, not necessary for Kiushu hen been visited by a cruel calamity, Club. Indeed they appear to be quite dazed by. publication; but na evidence of good fath

The Official Gazeils of yesterday (gth) reports the refusal and seem incapable of giving any Wait the columos of the Hongkong Telegraph walthat at 49 minutes past eleven on the night of intelligible account of the provisions of the new. be open for the fal discusalon by correspondents "of all questiona affecting pubile loserenta, it must be distinctly understood that the 28th.net, a violent earthquake occurred indeed, All the surviving donor can say about the the Editor does not in any way hold himself responsible for Kumamoto, the chief town of the province of Higo, matter is that the principal point in view in eplains thus exprested,

celebrated in ancient times for its huge castle its adoption was to adapt it to the changed ranking next to the great fortresses of Oaks, condition in respect to the increased size of the Advertisers are requested to forward a notione intended for Tokyo and Nagaya-and in modern for the pro-yachts bullt for racing. This reads remarkably tracted siege ghich it sustained when beleagured | Like a statement not in accordance with the facts. Insertion in that day's issue nos laser than Three o'clock so s Bot to read the mély publication of the paper,

by the insurgents of Satsums under the leader, Has the surviving donor forgotten that the first Advertisecents and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a

ship of the renowned-Saige, Exact particulars of two challenges for the (weyica's cup were xed period will be continued until countermanded.

the catastrophe are not yet to hand. We are made by the owner of Cambria, 200 tons, told that the earth was fissured in several places, and the Livonia, 281 and that so yacht that houses were levelled that there were Ilves | approaching these 1970s has since competed lost as well as minor tejuntes inflicted, and that for the cup? The surviving doncs claims to be

Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The Eflix" and į THE Japan Mail gives the following additional world's sport has had a depressing · effect on the quantities of ivory, is marching caniwards to the really have seen, you had better attend this final

ent in Individual members of the study,

TO ADVERTISERS.

The Houghang Telegraph has the largest circulailin of any Engilah pewspaper published in the Far East, and is therefore the. best medium for Advertisers. Teems can be learnt an application.) The Hanghong Telegraph'e muzzbar atika Telephone Central Kachaage in No. 1,

TO SUBSCRIBERS. Subscribers The Honghong Telegraph wis raspact!!... reminded that all Subscriptions are gayäili in pdyance,

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noises usb The Tokyo Shimpo, in its provisions of the new deed, and he is sold to

Che Hongkong Delegraph corously

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1889.

TELEGRAMS.

THE PREMIER ON EASTERN AFFAIRS,

LONDON, July 30th, In the House of Lorda a debate took place on ́Eastern affairs." Lord Salisbury eulogized the conduct of the rulers of Bulgaris, and said that the aspect of the East generally was more cucouraging, that there was less tendency in potentates both great and 'small to speculate on the possibility of troubles in Turkey, and that the conduct of Russia entirely accords with the pacific professions of the Czar.

at the time when the telegram was despatched, the elginator of the new deed, and says that he pamely, forty minutes past four on the morning can see no fair objection to it. We are not of the 29th instant, the rumbling of the ground surprised at this, if all he can say in its favor is had not teased. It appears from a telegram that the yachts which compete for the cup have Hōthe“ Nigpon, that prior to the 26th inst. increased in size. General Faine is also supposed bbard from Aso-yama; and to have bad some band in drawing up the issue of the 29th fast, published before the bare approved of the ten month notice on the receipt of the news of the catastrophs in Higo, ground that American's-that is, himself-were related that in the neighbouring province of put to some inconvenience in producing a Bungo, in the districts of Takanam! and Kami, suit ble yacht to defend the cap against the funaki, the ground, throughout a space of Ginesta, Galatta, and Thistle with six months" about nine ores, began to crack on the notice only. This is all very well, and we heartily 28th of last month, and that the phenomenen sympathise with General Paine and admire his | continued until the whole surface was covered boldness and judgment in producing two such with a net-work of fissures. The people of vessels as the ffayflower and Volunteer, and no the neighbourhood were described as being in less do we admire the same spitit, exhibited a state of great anxiety. Bungo does not by Malcolm Forbes in building the Puritan, possess any volcano included in the "active" | but General Paine appears to have temporarily list, but Higo has celebrated Asoyama, the only lost sight altogether of the challenging party in "active" volcang in the island of Klusha. This his reference to the new deed, while dwelling on mountain riseső a height of over 1,500 metres. the ten months' notice. It is all very well to Its last caption was in 1875, when a large make the general statement that the new deed quantity of guyish-white pumice ashes was is fair and sportsmanlike, but such general discharged it would teem, however, that more statements do not answer the speciáo objections or less constant discharges of this nature occur, to the deed which we raised on its first appear Ainasmuch as the river Shire (white), which flows ance, and which every yachtsman on this side by the base of that, mountain, derives its name of the Atlantic, and many on the other side, from the ashes mingled with fis water.

have reiterated.” -

Tik bears that Prince Henry of Battenberg will be created Duke of Kent,

The general expectation in official quarters now is, that we are entering on a period of com. parative quietude in foreign affairs; there will he a talk from time to time of movements of Russian troops and of disturbances in Servia, but anything like a real crisis is some weeks, perhaps months, off yet,

· RAILWAYS IN CHINA.

(FROM A CORRESPONDINT.)

Tientsin, 25th July, 1889. The much mooted question of railways and their establishment has at last been yelled This is not yet known beyond the circle of a favoured few, and as what I am about to write will be known within a few days, I do not think that I shall be transgressing on the good nature of those who have favoured me with what they have been informed from Peking

examination. It would be better than writing sensational articles gathered second-hand from the lips of some high-falutin member of the Con- sular service at Canton,

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* A custam common in ancient times," says the Kwang pao, “but of late years quite obsolete, was revived the other day, when a chair-coolie belonging to a wei yuan under General Fang was convicted of stealing some clothes belong ing to a soldier. This we yuan after the administration of a number of blows with the bamboo on the nether parts of the delinquent, ordered an arrow to be run through his ears, on which was stuck a notice giving an account of the man's crime."

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CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.

THE AUSENCE OF SINCERITY,

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That very few foreigners can ever bring them. selves to give Chinese invitations in a Chinese way, goes without saying. It requires long practice to bow cordially to a Chinese crowd as one goes to a meal, and remark blandly, 'Please all sit down and eat," or to sweep a cup

of tea in a semi-circle just as it is raised to the lips, and addressing oneself to the multitude. observe with gravity, "Please all drink." Not less real is the moral difficulty of exclaiming at suitable situations, "K'o t'ou, K'o t'ou," signify ing, I can, may, must, might, could, would, or should (as the case may be) give you a K'o l'ou': or of occasionally interjecting the observation, "I ought to be beaten, I ought to be killed, meaning that I have offended against some detail ofthe roles of etiquette; or of stopping. In the midst of a horse-back ride, upon meeting a casual acquaintance and proposing to him, will get off and you shall side, quite irrespective of the directions in which you may be travelling, or the general frrationality of the procedure. Yet the most ignorant and uncultivated Chinese will frequently give these invitations, with an air which extorts admiration from the most unsympathetic Occidental, who pays the uncon- scious tribute of him who cannot, to him who can. Such little ceremonies, as we have had repeated, occasion to observe, are enforced con- tributions on the part of individuals to society at large, that friction may be diminished, and he who refuses to contribute will be punished in a manner not the less real, because it is oblique. Thus a carter who" neglects to take his 'queus down from his head and descend from his cart, when he has occasion to enquire the way, will not improbably be given a wrong direction, and reviled besides. To be able to determine what is the proper thing to be done when Orientals offer Presents, is in itself a science, and perhaps as much so in China as in other countries. Some things must not be accepted at all, while others must not be altogether refused, and there is generally a broad debatable land, in regard to which a foreigner can be sure of nothing except that, left to his own judgment, he will clmost Infallibly do the wrong thing. In general, offers of presents are to be suspected, especially those which are in any particular extraordinary. Of this class are those which are tendered on the occasion of the birth of a son, in reference to which the classical dictumn "I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts," in universally and peren. nially appropriate. There is always something behind such an offer, and, as the homely Chinese says of a rat dragging a shovel, the larger end

the one that is behind, or in other words, what is (virtuelly) required in return is much- greater than what is given. Of the hollowness of these offers, many of our readers have no doubt had experience. We have ourselves had occasion to be but too fàmiliar with the details. of a case, in which a theatrical exhibition was offered to a few foreigners, by a Chinese village As a mark of respect, of course with the implied ledged-by-suitable feasts. When this basour understanding that it should be duly acknow- was defisitely declined, it was proposed to devole the funds, or rather a small part of them, to the construction of a building for public use, done. No sooner, was this agreed upon, that which in the case of the first was actually eleven other villages, also deeply smitten with gratitude for famine relief and medical help, proceeded to send deputations to make on their part formal offers of theatrical exhibitions, which, they were perfectly aware would be and must be declined. The representatives of each village received the intelligence of the refusal of these honours with the samesad surprise, each of them offered to divert the funds to question to the public building already referred to, and each one of them allowed the matter to drop at that point, and no further reference whatever was ever made to it by any one of them! It is not foreigners only who are beset to this way. Rich Chinese, who have had the misfortune to be made happy, are sometimes visited by their neighbours with congratulatory gifs of a trifling character, such as toys for a new born heir, presents, the total This piercing of the cars was a very cruel value of which is practically nothing, but which custom prevalent in ancient times in the must be acknowledged by a feast the invariable Chinese armies, but fortunately, since the and always appropriate Chinese response. It is coming into power of the present dynasty, on occasions like this that the most inexpert in an almost forgotten form of torture. The Chinese affairs learns to appreciate the accuracy process of car piercing may be briefly put of the Chinese aphorism, which observes,, when thus The culprit is made to kneel down, one it eating one's own, he eats till the tears bound hand and foot, and after his sentence come, but when he is eating the food of others, has been read to him, the point of the he cats till the perspiration flows. It frequently arrow is then run through the tympanum of the happens under such conditions that the host is left ear and out of the right car. The story of the obliged to assume the most cordial appearance crime, written on a piece of white cloth, is then of welcome, when be in inwardly fuming with stuck on the feathered end of the arrow, and the rage which cannot, possibly be expressed with- notice of the punishment placed at the other out the loss of his face, which would be even end. One hour is the limit of the punish. more deadly than the loss of the food. This ment generally; during which time the culprit | suggests that large class of expression," which sometimes parades through the town with comp under the general des Son of face-talk.! gong beating ahead of him to attract a crowd, That much of the extern rum with which but usually he is made to kneel down before foreigners are freedy in their employ, the gates of the place where his misdemeanor especials in largo Wrá mele extemal took place, and with his face towards the¦ voncer, casil® “seen by contrasting the * street... The Chinese say that the common. „behaviour of a same persons in public and in result of such a punishment is either deafness private, it laald that a Chinese, teacher who for life or idiocy,Ed, Telegraph.] is ina ma of the proprieties at his foreign

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The Marquis Tang, Vice-President of the Censorate, it is settled, will be the future Direct- or general of Railways over the whole Empire, and I dare say that by the time that you shall have received this the Imperial Decree confirming the appointment shall have been promulgated. I have even seen and met several offelais just down from Feking who have offered their congratulations to the Marquin notwith. standing that the sanction ofthe Throne has not yet been received. The next on the list are Chow Fu, late Customs Total at Tientsin, and now Acting" Judicial Commissioner of Chibif, and Shen, Jate Tactal of Tientsin. These two officials are to be, the former Director of the North Eastern ine, L. the line to run from Kaiping or Lut'al, the terminus of the present Kalping-Tientsin Railway, to Shan-hai-kwan (Easter Terminus of the Great Wall The following story shows how many in Polting, for the reason that to mojice him at that thence, across through Lower - Manchuria | portant cases are " squashed ? in Canton by a ''ilme would lead to a public recognkjon of the last.