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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1889.

THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Orestes, from Liverpool, left Singapore for this port yester day morning, and in duc on the 6th inst.

Hr-Will you marry me? She (coolly)-No; nor I won't be a sister either, You're too young. He-Will you be a grandmother to me, then ?

IRON ore is produced in twenty-nine counties of England and Wales, twelves counties in Scotland, and in one of the provinces of Ireland The production has fallen off seriously during recent

VERTS.

ACCORDING to the Dujevnik. a paper published at Saratoff. Russia.. there is living there a man who is one hundred and forty years old. His name is Daniel Samoiloff and he was born at Saratoff in 1719.

MR. C. D. Harman, agent of the O. & O. S. 5. Co., inform us that the steamship Oceanic, with

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mails, &c., from San Francixen, via Honolulu, will leave for this port on Friday, the 4th inat. to the toth ulto, has arrived at Yokohama, and

NOTHING so quickly restores tone te exhausted nerves and strength to a weary body as a bath containing an ounce of aqua ammonia to each pail of water, It makes the flesh firm and smooth as marble, and renders the body pure and free from odour,

THE rape case was again on the air at the Police Court this morning, Chan Aham, the gentleman accused of taking improper liberties, was committed for trial at the next Criminal Sessions, Mr. Wodehouse being of opinion that a prima facie case þad been made cut.

THE wife of a clergyman, lately obtained a divorce from her husband, one of the items of cruelty being that he frequently pulled the hed clothes off her at nicht. We should say there is nothing more likely to cause a coolness between man and wife than this sort of thing.

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It is reported that when the body of 'Damals, Sara Bernhardt's husband, was carried to the ground floor of the house, the coffin was found too small, and it took an hour to make it large placed in an arm chair, and Sara had the courage is support Damala's head on her shoulder daring the whole time.

enough. During the operation the body was

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badly wounded on the 6th of August last by WONG YUK-SANG, the non-guild tailor who was Tang Hot, a guild man in the same line of business, appears to be still in a precarious state in the hospital, The case was called at the Police Court this morning before Mr. Wodehousa, but as the complainant was not able to appear, the hearing was further remanded till thegth last.

FROM the Sydneß. Bulletin -The Prince of Wales has just had £40,000 a year added to his income, and Robert Fisher has been summoned at Shipston-on-Stour for payment of arrears of Is, a week for the support of his mother, an old woman between 80 and go. These arrears at present amount to 1 Asked for an ex- planation, Fisher replied thus

and a year old. Ever since was nine year old have been

pays into the Tyson Club to keep ourselvesoff the parish -

It's no use, I can't pay it... Tenk at my hand. I be batwom JOHN Paird, Judge Stephen's coachman, while

at works: My wife's a poor, kelpless cressure. Her had astruka, giving evidence, at the Sydney Criminal Court

and aboun zỷ mantha igo 1 goi kliked on the thigh. by a home, The other week, stated that a certain night was so You know I be carter. My wager be 1 week. i don't lie dark that yas wouldn't be able to recognise be.

in sy power as do anything 2 and 1 be'ant so strong as I used to anybody except you knew who it was M. Rogers, Q... naked, "Was that stable gate locked 2 It was whin 1. opened it," promptly replied John. The Q.C., er quiring if there was anyone with him at the time, John answered "Yes. I was by myself and another party." Mr. Baird possesses a Scotch name, but it looks long. odds on his bailing from the Emerald Isle.

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In Koniangaro where my pidgin in, I find the Thistle grows indigenous Here gentiest reader down I sot", On pleasant bank to wet may whistle, With exclamation loud1 cried "Great Scott"! For I went plump upon a thistle, From native health and mountain blast, What brought it here? Who took it round The world, to land upon this ground And place it here at last ? Though humble be its pedigree, Yet by tradition fondly prized, In camp and ball-room utilized, A symbol of the free.

Aye here grows Scotland's pride and glory, The emblem of historic story, That springs from every hill and fen, In every old historic glen

Of hame, sweet hame. Dedicated to Scotchmen great and sma, From banks and braés? sao far awa.

D. K. GRIFFITH. Hongkong, October 2nd, 1879.

On Wednesday at 5.15 p.m. (says the Chinese Times of September 21st) Peking was startled by a ruddy glow in the sky towards the south of the city, indicating a fire of some magnitude in that direction. Upon enquiring, amongst the natives the locality of the fire, we were surprised to learn, that it was "The Temple of Heaven," and rather loth to believe it, until the information was confirmed, after we had scrambled

that such

A constable having stated that Fisher had no goods worth distraining on, the old man was ordered to pay up in a fortnight, or go to prison. That is to say, a poverty-stricken toller of 70 years is to save £3. 118. out of 245. in 14 days. That's clearly impossible, and if Fisher can't borrow, beg, or steal the money, to gaol he goes. Britain is a very Issachar among the nations.

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Viceroy during the last four years upon useless or unproductive fads.. The "rub” will come when Li Han-chang. comes to take over the Treasury balance.

There was really no occasion for chartering the fleet of Hongkong launches last month, and colour seems to be given to the statement that it was done by His Excellency so that, under the | plea of the unsettled state of the province, he could considerably reduce the debit balance at the Treasury by crediting the said launches with fictitious amounts,

It has been found that some 2,000 tons of English coke at the Mint is totally unsuitable for minting purposes, which is another serious and Loss Account. item to the debit of that establishment's Profit

Colonial Secretary in Hongkong, was a rude The sad news of the death of Dr. Stewart, shock to the entire community this morning, as the deceased gentleman commanded universal esteem and respect, and it will be long before wa shall see his like again.

THE INLAND SEA OF JAPAN.

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"WHERE EVERY PROSPECT PLEASES,” The far-eastern portion of the Asiatic continent may be compared to an old ship with a new figure-head. Japan is the figure-head, and the rest is the ship. In passing from the one to the other there is experienced the kind of feeling entertained by one who, after walking for a long time over marshy ground, at length sets foot o

one there hangs an firm soil; over the atmosphere of decay, whilst every stone and tree and flower of the other, even the very ground tself, breathes freshness and vigour and youth. Not that this is all perfection and that all im- perfection, but that there is a nearer approach to perfection in the one than in the other.

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is the absence of independent salaries for the officers, whose allowances are so absurdly small *** that often they would not pay the expenses of the yamen for a day. Besides this; the officials are subject to so many forfeitures that it in ouid- that they rarely draw their nominal allowances all, as it would be necessary to pay them all back again in firies, and at each payment they would be squeezed in the process. The other vicious cle- ment in the system is that conglomeration of duties in ona office which renders it both a physical and a momi impossibility' that these duties should be properly discharged. A man who is at once the ċivil and the criminal judge, the sheriff, the coroner, and the tax commissioner for a large and populous district, cannot possibly attend to the details of all his work. The absolute arises from the fact that there is no other way necessity for levying squeezes and taking bribes by which a magistrate can exist. In what has been already said of the comparative freedom from exaction enjoyed by the Chinese people, reference was made to the mass of the popu lation, and not to those who fall within the scope of the official lasso, which is very likely to atrangie all that it encloses. It is proverbially within the power of a district magistrate to exterminate a whole family, and how often this terrible power is exercised can never be known, Instances are continually coming to light, through documents published in the Peking Gazette, as well as by the reports of foreigners scattered all over the eighteen provinces, showing that when Chinese Govern- ment is at its worst, it is difficult to exaggerate its defects. The relation of the officers to one. another is compendiously expressed in the familiar adage, the large fish cat the small fish, the small fish eat the water-insects; the water-insects eat the water-plants, the water- plants live on the mud." The same phenome non is aptly described in Swift's lines:

"So, naturalists observe, a fea

Has smaller, fleas that on bim prey; And these have smaller still to bilo 'em ; And so proceed ad infinitum."

ST. BERNARD, Monk of Clairvaux away back in the Middle Ages, worked no mightier Influence with his golden tongue than does Cardinal Lavi gerie, Wherever he goes, in all lands-Catholic Belgium, infidel France and Belgium, Protestant Germany, the Cardinal Archbishop of Tunís and Algiers draws multitudes of hearers and millions of money to aid in putting down the infamous traffic in human flesh that has long been plied among the ignorant massca of Africa. Lavigerie's life shows what purpose, united with energy, can accomplish. Born in Bayonne in France, in 1825, be studied theology and rose to be Profes- sor at the famous Sorbonne in Paris. Under Napoleon be played an important part in the difficult task of State education; in 1867 he was A persona grata to the Roman Pontiff. By the Latter he was appointed to his see as archbishop, although the see or archbishopric was only such in name. The new appointee displayed an energy that soon astonished not only Rome, but. France

On first setting foot in Japan after long resid- ence in China,the truth of these retaarks becomes and all Europe. So energetic were his move- ments and measures that MacMahon's military apparent. The feelings indicated may perchance be the outcome of the contrast, of superficial government in Algiers got mixed up in conflict with the Bishop, Into the heart of the Dark knowledge, of first experiences; hut still they Continent he sent trained missionaries to preach might tend to modify them and bring closer Longer residence aud deeper enquiry the Gospel, the arts and sciences, and civiliz tion to ewildered savages. His suc- together what at first appear to be irrevocably fixed at the furthest exiremes, but no length of cess reads like a romance. Anxious to sup- plement the work of such. men as Living-years or depth of knowledge could uproot the stone, Cameron, Stanley and others, he went conviction that in the one case we are in the to Europe to preach a new crusade against presence of age, overgrowib, stubbornness, and slavery and trade in human flesh. To this end enmity, while in the other there shines forth the

true star of friendship and developing youth he was commissioned by Pope Lee and presented that there is here an abundance of that lofty by bim with 300,000 francs. Paris, Brussels, portant capitals and cities of Europe have hung

The Inland Sea is a worthy approach to the spell-bound to an eloquence Demosthenic in its

and terrific in its earnestness of denuncis- happy land of Japan. It is not my intention During the last few months the Cardinal here, however, to describe it in detail. I have en making a tour through Europe to bring no wish to become tedious by drawing a map classes of the people, when the latter are la

and giving the history and population of all the towns and villages on its shores. All that I features of what must be reckoned amongst the shall attempt will be to set down the most salient loveliest pictures, or rather series of pictures in Nature's gallery, as they successively presented themselves during a rapid transit.

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sure sign of true progress."

Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica- ANTONIO BOITESINA, whose performances on the roof of the house and seen for ourselvpon the Rome, Berlin, Cologne-all the large and im- pleading for the long-dimmed light" which is a

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ponderous double-bass were considered almost as remarkable in their way as the violin playing of Paganini, has just died at Parma, sixty-six years old. He composed several operas, directed the orchestra of the Italian Opera at Paris for a while, and subsequently became manager of the Italian Opera in Cairo.

AT a recent meeting of the Linnean Society in England, a most extraordinary fruit was exhibited, the so-called "miraculous berry" of West Africa, belonging to the Sapotaceat. Covered exter nally with a soft, sweet pulp, it imparts to the painte a sensation which renders it possible to partake of sour substances and even of tartaric acid, lime-juice and vinegar, and to give them a favor of absolute sweetness..

a conference at Lucerne. The conference alto have been held in Angust, but was nost- ned until after the French elections, and will

fake place in October,

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A less widely known, but scarcely less perii. nent and highly metaphorical poetical quotation, ment as it at present exists, is taken from an epitomising the condition of the Chinese govern otherwise unpublished contribution to a widely circulated religious weekly of New York. The first stanza is as follows:

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"High posts of dignity and trust

Pregnant with fainted air,

Are stagnant pools of sordid dust; Lo Kera, lo averywhere?”

Space can be given but for two instances out of many, of the conspicuous absence of altruism on the part of the officials of China toward the people, whose fathers and mothers' they are One of these relates to the supposed to be. collusion between the authorities and the worst

league with the unscrupalous rich. Not many made a long report, which was published in the years ago, the Governor of the province of Hunan Gazelle, embodying the results of his Inquiries into a system of organised kidnapping and savery existing in that province in the district Tentsin Shik Pao of the 17th September

From the island of Quelpart, a good landmark of Lel Yang. Several hundred coal mines, or bal following: On Saturday last Monsieur

re, the French Minister, arrived here from 6,000 feet high, to Kobe is about 36 hours' steam-holes, in that district are worked until and at once proceeded to see the Viceroying, and the latter half of a line connecting the they are flooded, when it is necessary

o'clock this morning, and the temple is a heap was the case. The fire was not quite at for smouldering ruins. Previous to the fire Pekin was visited by the heaviest downpour of rain that has taken place this year, simply a deluge for about an hour or so, flooding nearly every building and house in the city, and making many of the roads impassable. The

great downpour in Hongkong could not have been worse. This deluge was ushered in by a shower of ballstones, of about † inch in diameter and like pieces of glass, so hard and transparent were they, The wind also chopped round from one quarter to another with remarkable rapidity, This deluge of rain taking place before the fire burst out has created the belief amongst the Chinese that the fire was the work of Heaven,

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for any other purpose than that of Containing he agreed to pay his mother-in-law a certain all fire," and there has been nothing but trouble i gone into liquidation; this security is no longer rose in all his glory, and our gigantic steamer driven into the mines. Other persons were

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DIVORCE has been made comparatively easy in France under the new law, but a busband who took advantage thereof recently found that it was not altogether without defect. When be married annual pension, and when he obtained his divorce he took it for granted that the pension ceased. The mother-in-law did not view it in that light, however, and instituted a suit, which has just been decided in her favor.

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WE read that Prince Alexander of Battenberg is Black Currant living with his wife at Gratz in Styria, where he has purchased a beautiful villa Prince Alexander is reported to be engaged in writing his reminiscences, from the period of his nomi- nation to the crown of Bulgaria (April, 1880) until his morganatic marriage last month. He is very bitter against the royal family of England, and does not appear to entertain friendly feelings toward the Empress Frederick,

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bourne, the other week, to locally establish an

e are undecided in assigning the motive is visit, whether it be in connection with uncompleted works at Part Arthur, or with railway about to be undertaken. But if the but the foreigners believe that the lightning of visit has reference to the Port Arthur works, we Wednesdy morning three o'clock (when we had a short sharp thunderstorm with incessant would remind our readers that when the French flashes of lightning) was the cause of it. It would Syndicate contracted for the undertaking they he dangerous for a native to hint that it was the

were secured by the Comptoir d'Escompte de work of a man. One individual says that it is

Paris for the faithful carrying out of the The faul of the young Empress, because she "is

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since the marriage.

still remain unfinished, and the funds have ali available, while abrut a third part of the works. been expended. Bet the contract stipulates that for the terms therein agreed, the works were to be completed, whether the undertaking proved profitable to the contractor or otherwise. This being the case, we do not see what else need be said, except faithfully carrying out the terms of the contract With regard to railways, we find that the seventh article, of the French Treaty of Tientsin stipulates that whenever in the future China decides to build railways or other public works, French subjects ought to be entrusted with the carrying, out of such undertakings in order that they may rap the advantages arising therefrom. With such a clause in the Treaty, it is hardly to be expected but that the French Minister, now that the Throne

SOLOMON bas borne for many centuries the reputation of the wisest man this world has ever seen, but of late he has been giving himself away considerably. His latest escapade is not altogether a display of worldly wisdom, but as there is a female in the question we are perhaps Justified in giving the old man a little bit of extra license. However, to our tale. On Monday last a writ of summons--this is the legal way of putting It was issued through the Court by Miss Tofa against dear old Solomon, in which the lady claimed one thousand shekels of silver-vulgarly known as dollars-for an alleged breach of promise of marriage. Solomon, on receiving this billet doux from Victoria, Queen, Defender of the Faith, etc., remembered that he was not in

two passes through the many picturesque islands to employ much labour to bail them and lakes that make what is known as the out. An extensive association called a Water Inland Sea. The sun was still below the horizon Contract Hong composed of the vilest elements when that fine streak indicating land-so often, of society, invested great sums of money in alas, in extreme cases represented merely with wine and eating shops contrived not only to gambling establishments, which in combination cloud or the edge of a fog-bank-became visible in the dim distance, and in a short time assumed ecce large numbers of innocent people out of all the more substantial form of two large islands their means of existence, but at the same time to load them down with heavy rates of interest separated by a narrowing strait of bounding green waves. As we approached, the sun, as if toon gambling debts, until in despair of escaping light up the picture and show us it at its best, from their tormentors the poor victims were forced to sell themselves, when they were slowly entered this gate of Paradise. There was sometimes kidnapped for the same purpose. a solemn stillness in the fresh morning air, broken only by the sleepy lapping of the waves Over: the entrance to these places of torture against our vessel's sides and the occasional cry might well bave been written the inscription of a sca-gull or lapwing giving us greeting and which Dante found at the mouth of hell Who welcome to the lovely lands and glistening waters stripped of every garment they possess even enters here, leaves hope behtud.' The victims are which are their home. It was one of those mornings which leaves in the mind an impres down to their shoes and are made to bail out the sion like that from a picture representing some water in turn. This operation goes on day and scene which lingers in the memory and revives at night without intermission, and the cold and intervals in after years, bringing happiness at hunger they endure excites no plly in the hearts There was the sensation of of their task-masters. If they show the slightest. each revival power and energy and nobility from the mighty symptome of fatigue, they are beaten on the back ship on whose deck we stood, and there was the with whips, and if they attempt to escape, their sensation of the beautiful from "many a garden feet are stabbed with knives, The mines are dear to bird and bee," and green-clad slopes 'dark and the atmosphere damp and chilly, while lapping, as it were at the water's edge, and the the nature of the work is so extraordinarily Price, 75 Cents per Bottle, or $7.50 per dozen❘ THE Sydney Bulletin reports that a meeting of Terusalem, and thought bis best policy was to line, should entertain most exalted hopes. The man in unison with the gladness of Naturequently succomb after half a month of toil; while has authorised the construction of a national two combined served to make glad the heart of painful that the more weakly constitutions fre- Americans was held at Phair's Hotel, Mel-kip" without indulging in the customary attitude of China, however, in towards all alike, | around him. Even our gigantic engines throbbed' even the hardy find their feet mortify and their American Club. The Yankee Consul presided, The best laid plans of mice and men aft gang than anotber, and as she con borrow money or la the presence of the beautiful. Onward we They are not allowed to rest, and÷no medicfual ceremonial of circulating his. . . c. cards looking with no greater favour upon one nation more slowly, as if they too felt themselves bellles swell after a few months of this treatment, and the company assembled numbered a High-agley," said Robbie Burns, and this was lander from Gippsland, a Limerick man with a Solomon's experience when he boarded the "Blue brogue, two melancholy-looking reporters and A gentlemen from North Carolina, The only Funnel" steamer Sarpedon, bound for Shanghai, business transacted was a bottle of whisky, Yesterday, forenoon. Some d-d good natured "shopted" by the Irishman, and the proceedings away, and a myrmidon of the law took possession "pusson" had given "the wisest man" clean terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman of the patriarch just as the steamer was preparing The Chinese Times of the 21st September debtor" covers a lot of ground, and poor old to leave. The charge of being an "absconding says :---" A correspondent in Hongkong draws Solomon, who had transferred bis fickle affections our attention to a long letter from "A Share from the Rose of Sharon we are indulging in bolder "in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking poetle license--to a charming maiden from the Corporation, which appears in the southers Land of the Rising Sun, WR carefully escorted papers, and invites us to discuss the same. The ashore and, failing to find security, was securely shareholder's letter we consider a very able one, locked up. All women are deceivers, of course, couched in temperate and dignified language if and so we can conscientiously offer Solomon our that be any satisfaction to our correspondent sincere sympathies in his present uncomfortable Bot the affairs of the Bank as between directors position." and shareholders are, properly considered, a family concern which public journals are scarcely called upon to discuss unless when com- ment is challenged by the acts of the parties, When the Interests of the general public are affected by the proceedings of any firm or cor- poration, they become legitimate subjects of public discussion, and this is a distinction pretty generally kept in view by the Press. Our cor- respondent must be good enough to accept this explanation of our not devoting the large amount of space which would be required to the repro- received all requisite publicity." duction of a letter which, without our aid, has

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1889.

TELEGRAMS,

BOULANGER'S ELECTION,

LONDON, September 29th. The revising committee have annulled the wotes recorded in favour of General Boulanger,

STRIKES IN HOLLAND. The Dock strikers at Rotterdam have been in Collision with the Police Civic Guard. After wards it was decided to exclude Socialists and to cenie terrorism, and thereupon negotiations were commenced between the mastars and strikers.

PRINCESS NATALIE. Princess Natalie has arrived in Belgrade.

LOCAL AND GENERAL, A ROCHESTER scientist advocales drowning a the most humane form of capital punishment to which criminals can be subjected.

About RC wilcke place tomorrow afterapos respectively rock between crews picked A close and exciting race is anticipated.

from the RA, and HLM.S. Miutina.

At the Police Court this morning, before Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, a lone widow complained that a pair of silver car-rings and a couple of pieces of (unmentionable), clothing were stolen from her knows better than to raba por ought to have rob a poor " wider. His Worship soat the enterprising hawker into retires mmi for six weeks, with hard la bow, thrown in, to keep him from wearying,

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do the same from the French if she chose. If the purchase materials from the English, so she can French Minister should demur about the non. compliance with the article above referred to, have not been carried out according to contract, China can in return ask why the Port Arthur works and where further security is to come from since think that M. Lemaire, being a man of wisdom, the failure of the Comptoir d'Escompte. We will hardly make sach demands, and the com mon talk among foreigners is the merest gossip, We have good reasons for believing that Monsieur Lemaire's visit to Li Hang-chang which appears to have so greatly puzzled our northern contemporaries, was in reference to the claims made against the French Administration in Tonquin by the China Merchants Company for their godowns at Haiphong, which were taken possession of and used for storage purposes by the first army of occupation. The original claim - was stated at one million dollars, but by 'an agreement arrived at between Monsieur Lemaire and Viceroy Li, the matter has been settled by the French Government paying $100,000 within the next four years.

CANTON,

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

WE observe from the Shik Pas that Ting Kuo-chran, Commissioner of Southern Trade and Viceroy of the Liang Kiang, has pro- mulgated a stringent proclamation against the iniquitous practice of selling children, as resorted to by the famine stricken peopis Shantung. His Excellency Rates that he had received a petition from Sung Chun, an oficial of the Board of Punishments, and several others, representing that the distressed people in Shantung have been in the habit of selling their offspring since the Inundation occurred, and they request that funds might be remitted to

› CANTON, 30th September, 1869. Sheng Total, to be used for redeeming these

Very preremptory orders from Peking to the outcasts. This practice is certainly most detent- MAX J. BECKER, President of the American able, and Tiêng says he is glad that certain of the Viceroy, instructing him to pack up his baggage Society of Civil Engineers, in a recent address: gentry have already raised Tim. 1,000 and sent to and get ready to leave Canton without further to that body, draws a vivid picture of the fatore Sheng Tactal for the purpose of redeeming these delay, have reached the Vice-regal Yamén of electricity, which, he says, is certainly destined discarded children. Others of the gentry have within the last forty-eight hours, causing to excel all the forces of nature in the extended proceeded to Shantung, and there established range of its useful application. In the prosecution quarters where these redeemed children may be a good deal of consternation. The balancing of subterranean or subaqueous operations, such cared for, and afterwards, when the distresses of accounts for the advent of the ... new as tunnelling, mining, sinking of calssons, the are over, sent back to their relatives. The Viceroy has proved a matter of the greatest use of the electric light is found to be of special meritoriousness of such actions is certainly difficulty, and if romour is to be believed, the benefit. In laincandescent form it is absolutely great, and knowing that large funds must be l had. safe against the dangers from explosive gases, for the redemption and maintenance of the sold financial results of the Viceroy's terma, of office and is caisson, work it removes the risks and children, His Excellency has, in compliance with in the Lisng Kuang is likely to show most dis Inconveniences Incident to the ready and rapid the request set forth in the petition, appropriated advantageously to Chang Chib-tung's' abilities combustion of inflammable substances under the sum of Tis. 2,000 and sent it to Shéng Tactal as a duancier, notwithstanding the large sums the influence of high atmospheric pressure, to aid in this charitable worker. He has also in discussing electric street railways, and their instructed the Government Disbursement Office received by the Treasury for licensing gambling ready adaptability where cable lines and to send, whatever suppias monies there may etc. That costly plaything the Mint must stand horse traction are out of the question, Mr. remain out of the Kiangat and Anbul Relief to the debit of the account at something like Becker refer to an electric railway at Alleghany Funds to Sheng Tactal for the same object. $1,000,000, and so far it has proved a ghastly City, which, in a distance of one "sain" <opt.). And the latter has been asked to communicate of a total length of four miles ascends, with with the Halkwan Tacial at Stanghal, request allure. The Naval School at Whampoa is said speed of four miles per hour, bill over four ing him to write to the Commissioner of Customs to have absorbed another quarter of a million hundred feet bigh upon a gradient of 121 per cent, at that port, to instituts a careful search on all dollars; while the new college outside the West with numerous curves of forty feet radius, the camera arriving from the block, for sold Gate, another farcical whim of His Excellency, cars being often loaded with seventy-five people. Children, and sweating all parties who may be is credited with swallowing up from two to three Upon the lower portion of this line, the electric found guilty of harbouring sold children. The current is supplied by means of an underground Above Instructions have been pas Into efect as lacs of tacijos, tantum SARLEM connection, and on the upper portion of the Tas Shunkal and spattery will and is hard to It will not be difficult to total up an extraordinary by the ordinary overhead conductors.

evade the vigilant oyes of the law,

expencliure of six or seven million taels by the

covered islands situated so close together as tormentors calmly sitting by, at they die before gently moved, now passing between pine remedies are given them when they are sick, their scarcely to admit of our entrance, then their eyes. A still more heart-rending circum- emerging into an open sea, where the shores stance is the fact that when the mines ceased to be fell back and left us awhile alone with the worked in the spring, the unhappy water-froga waves. It was as if Nature were playing who have managed to survive the horrors they with us, or as if we were bathing in her beauty, have endured are still detained by the Water- We realized that in the truest and deepest sense Hongs in their 'dangeons, that they may be we had felt the light of Nature's smile! The available when the next season for bailing water boats with their white walls,, rocking on the comes on. They have no communication with waves, were clean and neat and picturesque. The the outside world, and in many of these mluca cottages, perched in bowers of green, looked like some hundreds of poor wretches must be minute dwellings of fairies, and now and then annually done to death, while in none is the mos we would steam within sight of buty litle tality less than some scores a year. When village, whose ant-like Inhabitants were already they die, they are buried in some hole in engaged in the day's occupations. At times we the mountain side, and as their relatives and would run right ap to the foot of a grass-clothed friends know nothing of, thele: fate, no report of hill till it acemed as if we must stop or run the deaths is made, or, inquest held upon their aground, and then with a sudden turn burst into bodies. Prohibition has succeeded prohibition an open lake of bounding blue, studded with againit Indulgence in these Barbarities, but the white nails leaping and jumping like happy miners and Water-Flongs have hitherto managed, children at play. Lake succeeded lake and to evade them.The prefect has, however, now garden followed garden, and nature never failed sent for the miners, and has distinctly forbidder to throw herself into some new and fascinating the 'ase of inch tamer Karwater frogs, __clo. position. For a whole day we sat and watched with the barbarities which they concent. They the ever-varying scenes presented to us, but we have been made to sign a bond undertaking to never wearied, even when night had dropped refrain from such practices in the future, and her star-spangled curtain before our eyes, of this bond has been placed on record." The turning over the leaves of Beauty's picture-book same memorial mentions the existence is Such are some of the impressions feebly and previous years of abuses of precisely this inadequately described left by this peep of class, in the miner to the west of Peking. Paradises and to those who would enjoy Those who are acquainted with Chidere officini happy day I would earnestly recommend a visit, Life, will perceive the meaning of the remarke however short and rapid, to the Inland Sea of that while these practices have been again and Japan-Chinese Times.

agalu forbidden, the Water-Hongs and miners have "managed to wuade thim," "" "The most care Tess reader, must be struck by the circumstance that the only punishment dealt out to the author of this long established and cutrageous system of cruelty in a stern refusal to allow them their labourers water-frage* in future, and requiring"their" signature to a bood" promiting. The relations of the nature of the government not to morder any more of them! Bad as these of Chium to the subjects under discussion are cases are they are silll exceptional and local numerous and important, but a full development | They involve but a comparatively small number of them would require much greater knowledge of officials Other Lad will more instructive than we possess, and would, besides, occupy at examples of the treatment of its subjecte by volume. The subject of mutual responsibility the government are seen on those numerous has been already treated at length, and an effort occasions, on which there is a maximum of made to do justice to its excellencies. But it danger from rebel, or of suffering from flood and must not be overlooked that Its also accompanied famine. The lastiges of self-preservation does by grave evils, which were painted out more of course lead to efforts to put down every, rebel- than forty years ago by Mr. Thomas Taylor lion, and in the end, those efforts: alwAYI: 100- Mendown. U an officer responsible for the cord. But in the meantime, for long periods existence of crimes, which he does not find before the diftory, movement of te sficial it easy to control, or of which he is ignorante till over bring relief in eight, the poor people suffer it is too late to prevent them, he will inevil the miseries. And it not murequently happens ably conceal the fact to ar to arreen himself, that the oppression of those Cent to put down the This lahat constantly happent in 11 depart uprisligi kan gril to Saich greater tuflich ments of the government, to the complete rebellion, that the posa people are driven in selimi

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