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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1889.

The Rev. Dr. ThirdlyIs not your bill rather THE Jewish, Timer ways: Queen Margherita I have Scriptural authority for making it high, great, admirer of Jews and their literature. On high, Dr. Diagnose? Dr. Diagnose-Yes; but of Italy is an ardent student of Hebrew, and a and you, as a clergyman, should not object." "her recent visit to Venice she gave a private the passage to you. It reads: Physician, beel the Jewish community, and received him in the am not aware of such authority." "I will recall audience to Signor Caen Porto, chief rabbi of thyself.”

most charming manner.

sively the love of his subjects. Education ender widely extended. Science and Art found in him the late Sovereign's rule has, been fostered and

an earnest patron, and he, was ever eager to monarch, his Majesty was a scholar of a very reward the deserving. Apart from being a good. high order, and possessed an intimate knowledge THx Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High-mours the premature death of such a wise and of most Continental languages. The nation landers will play the following programme at the Barrack. Square to-morrow evening, com

good ruler, and Macan has done everything possible to show the sympathy she feels with mencing at 7.30 o'clock

the Royal Family in the grievous loss has sustained. The forts have fired minute guns at minute intervals, and the churches and public offices ate draped in mourning, Messages of condolence have been despatched to Lisbon,"

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NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS.

· ROYAL' PRETENDERS.

A GROUP OF CROWNLESS KINGS, The doctrine of the divine right of kings, though many persons think it died on the scaffold

vitality. It is an important, article in the creed with Charles I, will shows un extraordinary of the great mass of the Russians who believa implicitly in the White Car. It is commonly held in Germany and Austria, though the Pro testants of the empire would not probably confess it,

ward and the other to the southward of Consort last spring in accordance with built are said to resist heat and cold far better night of the 1at inst. It appears that the thief branch of the royal family have maintained for

Amey on the 16th, between Breaker Point and Pedro Blanco, also came in for a share of its violence. With the exception of the loss of the rudder of the steamer Whampoa we have hot heard of any serious shipping

SUPREME COURT.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. A. G. Wise, Acting Puisne Fudge.)

THE V. 8. C. REGATTA.

"A habitual pilferes of other peoples' orchards met his fate at last," says the Kuangpae, "on the "went out on the night in question, and was 10 occupied with digging out the treasures of neighbor's melon patch that he failed to detect the advance of a tiger, which carried him off without disturbing the owners of the melon fields. This was found out to be the case, when the next morning several rustics entered the melon patch and saw a number of melons cut and neatly laid together ready to be carried off as soon as the thief hid finished his job, when grim death, in the shape of a tiger cut short his career. The remains of the thiti was found lying about three bundred yards from trunk and limbs being carried off in the digestive organs of the tiger, leaving only the melon-like the scene of is fatal depred stron; almost all the

fruits the pilferer had stolen on previous patch in exchange for the many similar-shaped head" of the thief to the owners of the melon

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is less strong in Italy and Spain, except that the mission, and the belief is shared by a large proportion of their subjects. The idea followers of Don Carlos, rigid and fanatic Catholics, sill make it the motive of his claim to the crown, which the representatives of his

upheld, by the Count of Paris, who represents the last fifty years. In France the principle is the younger branch of the Bourbons. He is in exile, but his followers fight his cause with energy and ten hy. The Bonapartist Pretenders rely less on this supposed right than on a popular attachment to the name of their family, which they presumed to inherit from the great Bonaparte, its founder. It is the French and Spanish Pretenders who are principally engaged countries the rulers are firmly seated, and there in exploiting the principle. In other monarchical

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English and applied to the banished Stuarts, When James II was obliged by the revolution The name "Pretender" was first used by the

Louis XIV, then on the throne of France. He he was received with favor by the Pope and by of 1688 to make his home on the Continent he

died in 1761, leaving a son, James, called by his Continental friends James II. He was the first The following story from Peking is related by Pretender.. He was bom in 1688 and died in the Ta'un Wan — A woman who had long been 1766 at Rome, where he received a palace and a pension from the Pope. Such was his faith in suspected of being a Procureas and Kidnapper of marriageable young women, but against, whem the divine right to the English throne that be their was no proof, as all her victims never found him on it without any exertion of his own. His believed the Continental Powers should place their way back again, was found out in the follow- ing manner, one day last month. It appeared that on, Charles Edward, believed that the divino this woman had been trying for some time to right should be uphold by force of arms, and in persuade a young girl, her neighbor, to leave carrying his principles into action he succeeded her home for the nonce-and if successful, a in making a great deal of trouble and filling a very, very long nonce-to go on a sight-seeing considerable part of the history of his time. He

had a little "tiff with her mo her, and so within two days' march of London, but was excursion. It seems that the woman heard the landed in Scotland, raised the Highlanders, had day before her detection that the young girl various successes which enabled him to approach took the opportunity of sympathizing with finally defeated at Culloden in 1745. He creaped. her intended victim, at the same time insin- to the Continent with difficulty. At the request dollar into the girl's palm for "pocket of England he was banished from France, and that she would be ready the rext day to accom-

after various wanderings about Europe he died pany her temptress for a walk in the city. His younger brother, James Edward, diel in But fortunately the young girl-about sixteen 1807 With him disappeared the last

Stuart line. it," when the probable reenit of losing her fair Fears of age had a whole night to sleep over name for ever if she were "found out" came to good girl she resisted the temptation and resolved her commonsense with vivid force. So like a to return the dollar given her by her temptress on the morrow. The morrow came, and the from making the delightful 'excursion pourtrayed told the woman the reasons that prompted her by her temptress. Whilst in the midst of a

other, some neighbors heard the argument hot argument about "loss of face" on the one side and being left in the lurch, on the and accordingly laid hold of the would be kidnapper. She was taken to the ancestral temple being a married woman-and there confessed in detall her former misdeeds, 1 was then decided to hand her over to the authorities to be dealt with according to law but when the woman heard of this, knowing full well that this meant that her life was at stake, by the process of strangulation, determined to fore-stall iron-armed law and so getting hold of a sharp knife, had the nerve to cut her own throat, thus explating by own hands the punish ment which would surely be dealt her by the temple reported the matter to the magistrate of laws of the country. The Elders of the ancestral their district, and then gave a sum of money to the dead woman's husband to get hits another wife."

whelming visitation, but really in com- parison to what other places have suffered, and continue to suffer, our experienceof the unprecedented atmospheric disturbances is altogether minor one. It would appear, however, that the good fortune THE projectors of the famous Blue laws of Con- we have enjoyed of escaping serious necticut, under-which a man might not kiss his wife on the Sabbath, would find much to admire typhoons for the past fifteen years, was in the recent regulations put in force in Servia. likely last week to have been interrupted, A law has been passed requiring all shops and as a study of the question seems to places of busines to be cinsed not only ou

Sunday, but on all the holy days of the church indicate that two typhoons were passing as well. All told the numer is 180. The law at the same time at no remate distance is rigidly enforced. A shop-keeper who supplied. from us, or else that a typhoon of extraordicted days was recently fined roo francs for his A customer with a little rice on one of the inter- dinary area and radius was split into two crime. parts by the mountainous ranges of Ir will be remembered by many of our readers Formosa; one part passing to the north-who take an interest in Chinese news and politics that, when His Majesty Kuang Hou married the island. From a most interesting general uange he issued an Act of Grace, for the chart which has been sent to us by an commutation of the sentences of all condemned experienced officer of the Imperial Maritime the varius degrees and heinousness of their criminals in the Empire in accordance with Customs' staff, who has already been instru- crimes. In accordance with this Act therefore, mental in giving valuable storm-warnings ing the criminals has arrived, the Emperor has and as the time-Autumn Sessions-for sentenc- and information to mariners, we see that appointed by a recent decree certain high officers on the 14th inst, the revolving storm met by at the capital to look over the various cases filed the steamers Canton and Kutsang off the at the Board of Punishments and give lighter sentences in each according to their several The islands, had crossed in a westerly degrees. The following are the names of the

A QUESTION OF CONTRACT, direction from the Pacific, and the coast

officers-Ngah-La-Ho-Pu, Grand Secretary, Teang Fuk Ki, of 164 Wing Lok Street, sued Li Hung Tsao, President of the Board of Rites, Carlowitz & Co., for $1,000, for non-fulfiment of n the vicinity of Wenchow experienced Sung kuel, Senior Vice-President of the Board of contract-Mr. Francis, QC, instructed by Mr. Is outer edge. The centre of the storm Civil Appointments Shu Ch'ang, Senior Vice- Rodyk, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. which we felt on the night of the 15th and téh, Junior Vice-Presidents of the Board of ReThe defendants agreed to supply a quantity of President, and Ch'ung Li and Marquis Tseng Che Robinson, instructed by Mr. Hastings, defended, morning of the 16th instant, passed about venue, Hau-fu Senior Vice-President of the Board boiler cuttings, which they obtained from Bom. sixty miles to the eastward of the Colony, of Rites, Wang Ming Man, Senior Vice-President bay, and did not so. The defence was that the travelling in a north-westerly direction and ofthe Board of Works, and En Tang, Junior contract was dissolved by consent.-His lord- giving Canton likewise a berth of the same Ir the proposed Peking-Hankow railway fails

Vice-President of the Colonial Board;

ship gave judgment for the defendant, with costs. distance. We experienced its outer vortex to become a fail accompli, there will not be only, "but it must have raged with con-wanting apologists amongst the Chinese to try to explain away the "bitch." Here is a apecí- siderable violence in the neighborhood of

A well-attended meeting of the rowing men. Chelang Point and in the districtsit traversed Tientsin Rumours are rife, at the present was held in the Gymnasium lastvening, for the men which has been going the rounds Itely in connected with the Victoria Recreation Club to the eastward of Canton. The steamer moment, that the proposed railway between La purpose of deciding on the arrangements for the Kou Chiao and Hankow will not be undertaken, for the present at least. This is owing to the Regatta Ms. J. F. Halliday presided. serious squabbles amongst the two principal the Regatta was held last year on the 13th and Mr. G. C. Master, (hon, secretary) stated that of two rival fictions-Englishmen and French-year on the 19th and 20th December. Thereason Syndicates tendering for the work; composed 14th December, but they proposed to hold it this men! These merchants have each put in their of this was that the oars which had been ordered claims in such a forcible manner and in such had not yet arrived owing to the strike atthe Docks Excellency has lately been frequently seen of next month. It was proposed to commence throwing up his hands in weariness and utter training on the 7th November, which would despair in his endeavours to reconcile the fero- give them bix weeks, and this he thought was cious representatives of these two Syndicates, quite sufficient. They would meet on the 6th His Fxcellency, therefore, finding his efforts at November to pick crews for the Chairman's effecting a peaceful solution all but futile, has Cup and, in order to give every one a chance, memorialized to the Throne the exact state it was proposed that if there were a large num- of affaire, with the recommendation that the ber of entries for this race those who were proposed line be "shelved" sine die for fear of not picked in this race should be given the another European War His Majesty the Em- first chance in the races for the German and peror, whose philanthropy is world-embracing, American Cups, those who had been already acknowledges the justice of his Prime Minister's picked in the Chairman's Cup not being allowed remarks, and sanctions the suggestion by writing to row in these races unless there were some down "Let it be so with his Vermillon Pencil blanks, in which case the crews of the Chair at the end of the memorial. An Anglo-Frenchman's Cup would draw for the vacant places, gratifying to members of the two nationalities, entries to allow all to row in the Chairman's War is therefore averted, which should be highly in case of there not being too large a number of whilst China could afford to wait a little longer, Cup, this proposal would of course fall through. until competitions of such nature wear them- In the case of any member of a crew being selves away by the impassive attitude of the prevented from continuing training, it was pro Celestial Government."

posed that the Committee should have the power INSPECTOR LEE, inspector of Brothels, charged of appointing another. member to fill his place. the proprietress ofthe Foon Fa brothel, Tai-ping. Some unpleasantness occurred in a similar case shan, this morning at the Police Court with having last year, and it was thought that this would be as an inmate a mere child of thirteen years of

obviated by allowing the Committee this power. age. The defence was that the little girl was They would be best informed of the form of the not · an inmate, but had just called at rowing members and would be therefore best the brothel in question laat night in search of her able to appoint the fairest substitute. To obviate mother, who was a servant in the establishment, anything like the recurrence of the Mayblossom for some money to buy the customary candles trouble of last year, it was proposed to make a days of each month-to-day being the first of the only, namely, that the International, Chairman's and incense for " joss on the first and fifteenth new rule, applicable to the forthcoming Regatta tenth moon-when she was espied by a zealous Cup, Members' Cup, German Cup, and American district watchman in plain clothes, and arrested, Cup must be rowed in club boats. Other races, together with the defendant herself. As the such as the Ladies Purse and Garrison Cup, little girl was miserably dressed, which seems to

could be rowed in club boats or boals of contradict the assertion that she was an "amate" similar build approved of by the Committee. and as the district watchman stated in evidence. Hitherto the International had always been that he saw the child enter the brothel, we are mile race, but as this was one of the most inclined to think that there must be a good deal important races of the regatta, it was proposed An Old Man found a Rude Boy up one of his behind the case which Inspector Les would have to make it a mile and a half. Many mem- apple trees and desired the young marauder to done well to inquire into a little before taking bers who took very little trouble in training come down, speaking to him with pleasant words, ste s in the matter, instead of merely taking the

were able to row for a mile, and it was thought prefer to remain in the Band-wagon." replied the report of the district watchman as gospel truth.

which are sweeter also than the honeycomb, "Iricilles. that some difference should be made between

If it be true that Carlism began with an in.... As there was a previous conviction against these and other members who made some

Boy, who held the Ace.. The Old Man threaten? Justice, it is none the less true that but a small fined her fifty dollars or six week's hard labor, Chairman's and Members' Cups were a mile scapegrace told him to go to the defendant his Worship, Mr. Wodehouse, sacrifice and went in for thorough training. The ed him with personal violence, but the young minority of Spaniards now desire to see Don ander Ordinance 19, Section 34. Yet we would and a half and the International was quite a Old Man, whose patience was soon gone, I will had been rigidly excluded from the royal suc respectfully submit,--knowing

witten in the Spelling-book, ir, as it was. Carlos on the throne. It had its origin in the "Then, sald, the following causes...Uatil fifty years ago wamen the ways that important as these. If it was thought that three are dark and the tricks that are vain of the races of a mile and a half were too much the visit you with the extreme penalty of the Law" cession. Ferdinand VII, who had been confined heathen Chinee, whenever spite and malice Members' Cup might be reduced to one mile. Whereupon the saucebox tauntingly told him to in prison for seven years by Napoleon, was per Mr. Duer moved the adoption of the Com-go ahead and draw his bill and he would soon seemitted to return to power in 1874. Wishing to prevail that in this case fast mentioned, at least, there is something queer about the mittee's proposition.

how much meat there was on a woodchuck in De-exclude his younger brother from the succession, Moreover, we have it on credible Mr. Duncan seconded, and an amendment cember. The Old Man, nothing loath, at once is abolished the Salic law, anticipating that a engaged the services of an Able and Learned daughter instead of a son would be born to him. The date of the Regatta was fixed for the 19th linguished in the columes of the local press for the child, who afterwards became Queen Isabella Lawyer, who was also a jurist, and was dis. Hie expectations were realized for the person of and 20th December. Arace for members under 20 having been added, the proceedings terminated. ble matchless Forensic Eloquence; while on his Second. When he died he made his wife. Chris- part the Rude Boy, by pledging a portion of the lina of Naples, Regent till Isabella should arrive WHILE jewelry counted among the fine arts, says

of the Tree which he occupied, was able to at her majority. Don Carlos did not accept this secure for the defense a Pure-minded, and | disposition of the crown, and from itresulted the a writer in the Contemporary Review, the

Honorable Counselor, whose fair fame as an first Carlist war, which began in 1833 and A FRENCH scientist has been producing artificialways searching after divine beauty, and the hand Mt. J. D. Humphreys and Dr. Ho Kal. Long minded Advocate had never been called into tender. He returned to France and was permitted Jewelers were train d artists; their hearts were Board met yesterday. Everybody present but Attorney, and spotless reputation as High-ended in 1839, with the expulsion of the Fro- emeralds by fusing silica, alumina and glucina, with traces of oxide of chromium, with acid follows the heart. It was so from the remotest meeting great deal of talk. Resulta-Resolved question save by those who had dealings to reside at Bourges, but under strict surveillance. molybdate, of Lithia, at a temperature of from times, and indeed to the eighteenth century, that copies only of documents should be cir- with him. The Old Man, who was Right In 1847 he was allowed to go to Austria, where 600 deg, to 700 deg, for fifteen days.

when commercial enterprise opening the flood-culated among the members. Resolved, on the ful Owner and was possessed of the he took the name of Count Montemolin.. Ha gates of Eastern wealth, European workmanship motion of Mr. Ede, seconded by Mr. Francis Tree by Descent Purchase, Eschest,

strengthened by of his son, His son mača several invasions in. the last Christmas box for home must be ready.ments formoney. Lysippus hammered gold before the Board, at an early date, a report showing the his Lawyer, who put in additional claims as to Spain, the first in 1845, the second in 1849, A large assortment of new and extremely pretty be touched stone, Many of the old Florentine manner in which the public laundry work of the Riparian Owner, Freeholder, Tenant by Courtesy, and the third time in 1860, when he was captured cards, including many portraying Chinese 10. masters began life as working gold-smith Colony is at present carried out, and giving any and Right of Discovery. In re the Defendant, by Queen Isabella's generals, and, to sacape Japanese scenes, are displayed at Mr. Brewer's, Botticelli, Francia, Verrochie, Andrea del Sarto, suggestion for Improvement of the general the Rude Boy, merely put in a claim of Naked from prison, was obliged to sign a formal act of whilst for local bestowal numerous presents of a and many more 1 and some never forsook this laundries." Resolved that the Refuse Disposal Possession and claimed Title by Occupancy. abdication which he did not hesitate to repudiate more costly description are offered. The quaintides lovely branch of art, but combined it with Committee's report be approved. Resolved, The Old Man went for him on Ouster, Trespass, Immediately afterward in behalf of his brother, of photographing various scenes in and around sculpture in marble and bronte, like Benvenuto on the motion of Mr. Mitchell-Innes, after a lot Waste and Subtraction, to which the R. B. Don John, who pretended to inherit sights to the the city, and grouping them in miniature, with Celilai and Pier Maria da Feschis. The royal of discussion, that "Messrs. Danby and Leigh repiled by charging Disturbance of Tenure, Spanish throne. In 1868 Don John abdicated appropriate mottoes, has been claborated by Mr. Crow, # well as the coin of the people, be informed that the charge brought by them The case was called and put off, and set down and fa favor of the present Don Carlos, who was Griffith, and a large selection are shown by was originally the artist's natural province, and against Mr. Cooper has, as to thres of the adjourned; it was postponed, decided and carried them so years old and is now 40. He married a Messrs. Kelly and Waith.

It seems to me that the making of jewels-that instances, not been sustained, and that as to the uprit was reversed and remanded; it was stricken | niece of the Count de Chambord, and when the ts, joyaux, beautiful thing to gladden fair fourth instance Mr. Cooper has been shown not from the docicet with leave to seinstate, and latter died there was some talk among French Masses. Tong King Sing and Chiae.yan, whom women, ought to rank as an art par excellence, to be responsible for his action in the case; and withdrawn with leave to amend; it was argued legitimists of considering him as the legitimate we noted as having arrived in this colony on the and not a mere trade, seeing that it is not only the Board regret that such charges should have in Chambers and surcharged for Rejoinder, and heir to the claims of the elder branch of the 12th inst, with the intention of taking over the independent of sordid details, as dressmaking been made without sufficient grounds-Com. was on the point of being rebutted for demurrer Bourbons to the throne of France. When Isabella Tamchou. Silver mines from the old company, apart from dae needlework never can be, but has mittees were appointed to report on the new in Trover with wisprision of Alimony when the was compelled to leave Spain he thought the arrived here yesterday morning from trip to the widest scope to work in of all handicrafts, rules for the Market Inspectors, and the cultiva-old man died, without issue, leaving the Rude time opportune to assert his claims, and accord- though in a miniature form. All that painting and ton of calflymph here, and in the end Dr. Boy In possession. His own Attorney, however, ingly issued a proclamation to the people of

THE consumption of alcohol doubled in France between 1875 and 1885.

THR French Government is reported to have taken charge of the telephone stations in the

Country:

It is said that 40,000 cubic feet of natural gas are equal in heat-creating power to one ton of anthracite coal.

THE Greek Patriarch of Alexandria, Mgr Sophronius, is 99 years old and has been a priest for seventy years.

THE meeting of the Shareholders of the Hong kong Marina, Limited, fixed for to-day, was adjourned until Saturday,

THE lace trade gives occupation to almost seventy thousand women in Normandy, and to nearly two hundred thousand persons in

France.

By special request the Military Mummers will repeat their performance

"Slasher and Crasher" and "Checkmate" on Saturday night. Particulars are advertised.

DURING A recent lecture some one asked Colene? Ingersoll in what he believed. Robert replied "In what I see. I believe in this audience of 2,070 people, at $1 per head sắmissión."

A REGULAR Convocation of Victoris Chapter, No. 535, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 forg o'clock precisely, Visiting companions are cordially invited. THE seating capacity of St. Peter's Church, Rome, is 54,000 of Milan Cathedral, 37,000 St. Sophia's, Constantinople, 23.000; Notre St. Mark's, Venice, 7000. MESSRS, Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam- ship Abyssinia, from Vancouver on the gth lust, arrived at Yokohama yesterday, and will leave for this port direct, to-morrow,

matter.

A varied assortment of favourite kinds; the Dame, Paris, 21,000; Pisa Cathedral, 13,000 authority, that any fine evening if the inspector having failed, the motion was carri÷d, ›

pincipal difference between them being more one of personal preference than of quality; all are pure, and the base of all is the same, but the perfumes differ. New kinds will be introduced from time to time, as occasion requires.

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cares to do so, he could arrest dozens of under-aged girls who are really inmates, instead of the scare-crow specimen produced this morning at the Police Court.

THE SANITARY BOARD..

LEARNED IN THE LAW.

The experience of the Stuarts has been curiously repeated in that of the Carlist Preten In the Inhabitants of the mountainous districts of ders. The first found their principal supporters Scotland. The Carlists could never have dona anything without the active co-operation of the eastern part of Spain corresponding with the Banques, who occupy a region in the north- highlands of Scotland. The Basques are nearly

the time of the Pretenders toward their vested. related to the Celtic race to which the Highlanders belong. The sentiment of the Highlanders at Kings is only comparable to that which the Basques feel for Don Carlos, The modes of warfare are much the same,

were famous for their faults or they misfortunes Spanish princes bearing the name Don Carlos long before the disease called "Carlism was added to the many other troubles from which Spain bas long suffered. The first was son of John of Aragon and Blanche of Navarre, born in 1420. When his mother he inherited the throne of Navarre, which his father took from him. Insisting on his claim he was imprisoned several times and died, as was supposed, of poison.

The second Don Carlos was son of Phillip II, ever sat sa the throne of Spain. Don Carlos was one of the most fanatical and odious Kings that

ill-looking, a cripple, and as distorted in mind as in body. Having conspired against his father he was arrested and confined si lunatic till hi death, which occurred shortly afterward. Hoban filled almost as many pages of history as the Prince Charles Edward, and poems, operas and tragedies have helped to perpetuate his eccen

We also keep in stock a great variety of the ANOTHER mail or two will bring the time when drooped before new and more promising invest. "That the Sanitary Superintendent submit to and Forfeiture, had his claim Alienation, died in 1855. He had abdicated in 1844 in favor:

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1889.

Tux record of the year 1889 so far, show the mines well satisfied with their future pro embroidery can do with colour and design can Ayres gave notice of his intention to ask, at the requested him to came down, to which the Boy Spain containing › the,tens! formalities--peace, it to, have been a year unparalleled for its pects. A meeting of the two gentle Mr. be done by enameling, chasing, incising, emboss- aixt meeting, if there was any prospect of the 'replied that he had learned a little law himself liberty and prosperity for the country. Not suc ings all that sculpture can do, whether the Tylam supply extending above Hollywood Road, by this timer whereupon his Advocate, remind ceeding then, he waited Hil the troubles of

succession of disasters, as well as of being. one of extraordinary atmospheric disturb ance. Storms, floods and other fearful calamities have followed one another with unexampled frequency in different quarters

others interested in this colony, of whom

Ho Amel is one, took place last night in the Tung Wah Hospital Library to arrange the portrait of a friend or the most suggestive story, preliminaries before taking over the entire may be presented in petto by the brush, by the management of the Mines, which will include burin, by mosaic, by such modeling as wo find the Tal Yu Shan Lead mizes also, the two in old Greek and Etruscan and Cinquecento mines will, we hear, be called in future, jewel work. There are no silks as; brilliant the Tien Hus Mines. The well-known Admiral as minerais, no paints as lasting and there the above-named Mines as well as having a lucency in such

color with tranS-

and if so, how soon? Then the Board dispersed.

TRE DEATH OF KING LUIZ I.

OF PORTUGAL. D

A Macao correspondent sends the following:

of the globe, and k would seem as if we had Fang, we believe, is also a large owner of is no material comblay and variety us -A telegram from the Home Office at High-minded Advocate, "he had a chump of a American newspapers, was made moro mémora-

not seen the last of these dire afflictions, for the hurricane reported by telegram in the Irish Channel has caused terrible havoc to life and property. This colony has much to be thankful for, that it has escaped the disasters which have overtaken neighbor

hg places, with so little damage. The torrential rains of May laat seemed to us. at the time to have been an almost over

him that a little learning was a dangerous Amadeo, son of Victor Emanuel and King of thing

#took a large-sized Rocic of irregular shape Spain from 1870 to 1873, began, when be raised from his pocket, knocked the Boy clear out of the rebellion in the Basque provinces, which he orchard at the first shot and assumed Possession: Carried on in savage fashion till the accession of by Villanage My name is Dennis," cried Alphonso to the throne, which occurred a year the Dying Boy; "but lawonder why the Old or two after. Amadeo's: abdication. This cam« Man didn't do that? Because," replied the paign, which was reported fally by some of the big interest in the shares of the On-tal Insur precious stones-except natural flowers. Now, Lisbon to the Governor of Macao has just lawyer who didn't know how to play the winning ble by the bloody conduct of one of the leaders been told that the new Tien-hsia Mining Com-lewel, because they die to-morrow. A Jewel Luis, after a prolonged filness of many months off all his client's clothes, examined his teeth to it was at last ended Don Carlos retired lato ance Company in this colong. We have also dowers, best of all ornaments, cannot rank as conveyed the sad news of the death of King cards when he held them." So saying, he took of Don Carlos, the Care of Santa Cruz. When pany will not be the Europhobist concern it has must be an imperishable possession, for only in His Majesty was born on the October, as if they were filled, and sold the Cadaver-to France, firing from his rear guard a voller of hitherto had the name of being but that European an enduring material does the true artist embody 1838, and succeeded to the Throne of Por medical student, ith the right of reversion of proclamations. Thence he went into England the new management. This of course is awers when he obeys the mystic Impulse to create lul reign of twenty-eight years his Majesty did with him. Thus do we see that it is easy enough shared the favor of the Spanish pretenders capital will also be allowed to be favested under his happiest thoughts and invest his closest toil tegal in November 1861. Dering an event the bones to himself after the student got through and afterward to Venice, which bar, with Trieste, rumor, and should be taken for what it is worth, worsething do' beautiful as flower. So the everything in his power to improve the welfare to make an honest living at the practice of the The Count of Paris was born in 1838, and was Yet from our knowledge of the well-known pro bright metal, or substance as tough as mineral of Portugal and her colonies and benefit the theory of law, if you only know how to put the consequently so years old when his grandfather clivities of the new directors, the rumor may not formation, remains the proper woaicis for at people. Probably Portugal has never been kink in the lariat,Burdette in Brooklyn Luis Philippe, was obfled by evolution to be very far from the truth after all

applied to the finishing touches of dress.

I mind by a sovereign, who has earned so exten. | Bagler

leave France Before leaving Louis Philippe