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DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED,

CHEMISTS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1890.

MRS. HANPICK" So you thought I was an angel once, did you?" Mr. H-"Yes" Mrs. H. -And you don't think, so now?" Mr. H.-"No! but I live in hopes that you soon will be." And a dreadfully suggestive silence reigned for the

next half hour.

THERE will be a game of Polo on the Race and, that all property held by them in the course, to-morrow, at 4 p.m.

A PRETTY serious row took place on the steamer Fushiki Maru, yesterday, between the crew and some coolies who were discharging conl. A dispute arose between them and the Japanese

Republic shall be confi-cated.

Under the new constitution a system of universal suffrage has been adoped. The Assembly has consequently been deferred to election of member for the General Legislative enable the names of the voters to be registered.

DAKIN BROS. specialities suitable to the The Straits. Hangkong, until to-morrow. In dumsage-boards. The third male-Brackie-morning on the subject of sustraliano federation

season's complaints :

INFLUENZA.

their first innings the Straits men totalled 87, to which the Hongkong players responded with123, this total being mainly due to the capital stand made by Ram and Davidson. On going in wickets for 20. Play will be resumed to-morrow morning.

Sr George Bowen writes to The Timer this

He says that he is firmly convinced of the loyalty of Australia to the British Empire, but thinks it is desirable that the Australian colonies should be federated..

It is rumored that the British-India Steam

Vancouver route.

bas despatched 8,000 troops to Citscatlan to supa The period for wine, stringent and anti-nonsen press a rebellion headed by General Rivasi sical law-making on the entire subject of immi

Dom Pedro is much defected by the deather" gratson in here. "Will the United States prove his wife, the ex-Empress of Brazil. The metself equal to the demands of the people and the dical attendants of bis Majesty are anxious as occasion? That can be determined by nets in the state of his health.

alone. What does Congress pirpose to do the coming session In connection with this matter ? «To further postpone an effective grapple with the

problem would be criminal.—Troy Times.

The death of the ex-Empress has cast a gloom over the rejoicings which are being held in Lis bon over the accession of Carlos, the new King of Portugal.

It has been officially denied that the property- of the late Imperial family, of Brazil has been confiscated,

The inituensa epidemic is decreasing in Russla

and western countries of Europe. ?

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We learn that the Governor of Macao, Admiral Francisco Teixeira de Silva, has petitioned to his Government to be allowed to resign. He knows he will have to go, when the new party ge's into power. Viscomte Paço d'Arcos, who, was Governor some eight years ago, is spoken of as his successor. The rumour that the King of Siam is contesting the seat is quite without foundation.

THERE is only one really comfortable attitude for a ricktha coolic to be in. That is to be hauling his vehicle along, and lo king back, over it, to see if anybody is going to get in from the rent. Lieut. Dundas was riding in a ricksha along Queen's Road yesterday, when one of these star- vazers came along. The rickshas collided, Mr. Dundas was thrown out, and the retrospective one was fined $a to-day,

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EARLY this month the barque Joseph A. Spinney, picked up a cauce containing six. South Sea islanders who had been blown nut to sea, and were in a starving condition. They were taken to Kobe, and the question how is-How are they to get back. Capt. O'Keeffe, the man who collects all the copra, offers to settle the matter, if the Japanese authorities will assist him. He is going back in about a week, and will take them down for nothing. He thinks they are Mugamsug Islanders, and he wants to keep solid with that interesting race. Anyhow, it is very kind of him, and the Japanese Consul ought to wire for the men to be sent down at once.

ordered the sailors into the forecas·le, but as he turned to go aft they ran out again, and renewed the quarrel. There were twenty or thirty coólics, with piles of coal handy to throw,

but the latter headed the Chinamen right off. laying three of them out. Unfortunately one of the salios used a knife, however, stabbing the principal debater on the other side in the Chest, and matters became so serious that the Water Police had to be signalled. The crew were brought up to-day, before Mr. Wodehouse, and Dr. Atkinson spoke as to the condition of the four men, saying,that the one who was stabbed was in a very critical condition. The prisoners were remanded,

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MAJOR-General Bevan Edward's report on the defences of Australis, given in our Sydeny exchanges, contains the following:-A common

system of defence, can only be carried out by a federation of the military forces of the colonies, each State agreeing to organise its forces on the same system, although they may continue to pay and maintain them separately. An officer of the rank of lieutenant-general should be appointed to inspect the forces in peace, and command the whole in war. If the colonies had had the advice and assistance of such an officer during the last few years, their forces would be more efficient than they now are, and they would have been saved much unnecessary expense. It is, there fore, strongly recommended, even if a federa- tion of the forces does not immediately take place, that the colonies at once agree to the appointment of this officer, to advise them, inspect their forces, and to be ready to take command in time of war. Before the comple- tion of the railways which unite Adelaide, Mel- bourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, it was impossible | for the colonies to co-operate for defince; and this is not even now possible, on account of their different organisations, and because the colonies cannot employ their forces outside their

would be more economical and far more effective than the present system of purely local defence. Suppore, for instance, an enemy captured New- castle in New South Wales, the joint action of the colonies wruht at once supply a powerful force to retake it. The fact that 30,000 or 40,000 „men could be rapidly concentrated to oppose an attack upon any of the chief cities, would deter an enemy from attempting such an enterprize; and this can be accomplished by means of a common system of organisation, and without materially increasing the present strength of the forces. It would also prevent the unseemly scares which take place whenever the relations of the mother country with a foreign power are. somewhat strained the mere fracture of the

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It is announced that H.R H. the Prince Maud, the third daughter of the Prince of Wales, is to bo married to a brother of the Empress of Germany.

The labourers permanently employed at the docks have formed a union, and desire to sepa- rate from the Dock Labourers' Union. The dack labourers 'refuse to agree to this course,

alleging that the labourers are working with the masters to crush the dock labourers.

December 16th. The report that Mr. Knappe is likely to return to Samoa as German Consul has been con- tradicted.

Major-General Pinto has wired the Portuguese Government that he has done nothing hostile to the English, and was able to prove he rendered them services.

The death is announced of Count Karolyi, the eminent Austrian statesman, from apoplexy.

Mr. John L. Toole, the English comedian, will leave with his company upon an Australian tour in the R. M. S. Britannia,

Mr. F. O. Licht estimates that the European beet crep of the present season will give a surplus of 681,000 tops of sugar. The production of the last three months shows an excess of 410000 tons over that of the last period..

A revolt was organised at Rio de Janeiro on the 18th instant by bodies of soldiers and sailors, headed by several officers of influence, against the new Republican Government in Brazil

Severe fighting took place in the city, but the rising was eventually suppressed.

The Treasury, is exhausted, and financial crisis is imminent,

There are symptons of a general conflagration in the affairs of Hrazil, and the Government, of

critical positi.u

The malady is very prevalent in some parts of the United States. Fifty thousand cages are reported in New York..

If it was not the late unlamented Joseph Miller,

proposed the test of pronouncing "the British Constitution: Truly rural" as infallible for asccntaining whether a person were ebriate or otherwise. The alleged humour of the concep- tion lay in the assumption that, when a certain stage of intoxication was reachedƒ the nearest u bibulous person could attain to the pronuncia tion was "Brisha'tushun tooralaoral.” An alterior result, undreamed of in the foe Millerian A LEADING, REPUBLICAN JOURNAL CALLS FOR philosophy, has been to illustrate the evil of

"RESTRICT THE FOUL FLOOD."

A NEW CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT.

In considering the Mongolian immigration question, the causes why the Chinese are impelled to come to this country are of little'moment. It) first to last landed on these shores The best is sufficient that nearly half a million have from

estimate is that about 200,000 form, part of the heterogenous population of this country to-day Just at present, owing to the operations of the Ex clusion Act, the incoming of this race is far less than at an earlier period, bet violations surreptitiously come into the United States of the law are frequent. Chinese, for instance, through British Columbia, and no degree of vigilance can wholly prevent this lacessing immigration. The wonder is that rough planeet towns have been so lenient with such arrival and their conniving countrymen already on the ground. In 1993 the Act referred to will expire, zo. that if there shall be no new legislation on the subject to go into effect then, free Mon golian immigration will once more startle the Caucasians of the Pacific Coast.

taking in vain any sacred name. The British Constitution has never been the awful and venerable thing it was, since it has thus been associated with rusticity and muddle. Denuded, by this absurd' accident, of the attribute of British Constitution has been exposed to a divinity which once hedged it around, the scrutiny unqualified by reverence of mind. It has supported the investigation extremely L The discovery has been made that it is little better than a pretentious sham. Magna Charta, The Petition of Right, The Habeas Corpus pretty baubles to amuse the vulgar. Each is, all Act, The Act of Settlement, pre but are/manght when put to the test. Habens Corpus, the very essence of the rights of the common people, was suspended ten years, after it was passed, and has been pretty constantly in a state- olsuspensa everšince, whenever it would have been serviceable. It is, like other British con stitutional rights, purely omamental, used for show when there is no need for it, and thrust aside when there is equal Justice for the poor and the rich-that is Constitutional also. It is like- wise strictly, Topralooral!

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We need not go back into far hyegones to illustrate our contention. Two recent incidents

utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the Chief Justice Sir James Russell intends resuming own borders. Combined action for defence which General Fauseca is the head, is in preventing a pestiferous paganism from forming Here are the facts touched as lightly as may be.

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WE have heard many inquiries lately whether his duties in this colony-and if so, when? The learned fudge obtained six months leave of absence, in addition to two months' vacation. leave, on the 16th of last April, and, so far na the public here are concer, who are the persons most materially interested-nothing has been heard of him since. As over nine months have clapsed since his Honour vacated his seat in favor of Mr. Fielding Clarke, the taxpayers of Hongkong are not unreasonable in wanting to know how much longer the Chief Justiceship is likely to appointment,

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THE Grat series of boat races arranged for our Singapore visitors were brought to an issue this afternoon. Reserving full details for a futher issue, we only give bare results. In the gourd race, Singapore v. Hongkong, the ter took the lead from the start and paddled in easy winners by three legs. The scratch race for fours was cleverly won by Kennedy's Crew, who were generally regarded as 1kely winners. Singapore was supposed

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cable between Port Darwin and Batavia, which recently took place, was sufficient to cause un- easiness throughout all the colonies, and in Victoria prenarations were actually made to resist an attack.

NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.

AUCKLAND, December 26th.

News from Toga reports that an extensive and des rective fire broke out on the 16th ult It completely destrored the Government bonded stores, atmaury, writers' offices, and other build- ings, in addition to a large quantity of gun- powder, dynamite, and kernsene which the armoury contained, and three heavy guns be longing to the Tongan Permanent Artillery. A large quantity of goods belonging to various storekeepers in the bonded warehouses was also @nsumed. Everything was ln t.

LONDON December 16 b. Both the Czar of Russin and the new King of Portugal are suffering from the Russian in |

enz, which has so suddenly affected Europe, The Czar is reported to be suffering from a second attack of the ailment, which is of a severe character.

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It is no narrow Americanism that impels the press of the country to stand by the principle of exclusion in the case of the Mongolians Pas! sing by all the industrial grounds for it, the American nation cannot afford to overlook the question of ordinary morals, the necessity of plague spots in all the large communities,bffhe | country. 1 cannot be denied that such, as the Mongolians were when they first came from China such they remain. They atenyulnerable to the civilizing influences upon which Europe nad America depend for the promotion of all their vital institutions.

will serve our turn more than amply. The "Maiden Tribute" is one. The recent Club scandal is another. First, the Maiden Tribute. A. certain, man, a journalist, learned that the destruction female virtue was not merely a casual, statistical concomitant of the unequal di ions which subject very poor girls to 100 temptations offered by very rich men. It came within his knowledge that the inevitable was systematized that it had become a regular traffic. Not only do the original immigrants bring attended with conditions brutal and unnatural. hither all of the most debasing vices of Chins,The predestined victims of an evil derangemente[' but their offspring perpetuate them. The society, known to humbugs and fools as our evidence is that the children are not a panicle modern civilisation," were not even permitted to better than their parents. They are one and all suffer by their average fate. They were cozened virtually beyond the reach of any influe ce scepi |'and.decoyed, like lambs-sold and butchered. what is essentially Chinese. There is a son of The Scotch name for butchers in "fleshers." In hereditary character stic which impels the rice fandon female children of tender, years were to proceed within straight and narrow lines and Just handed over, like calves, to shers. Girls resist all attempts to in prove it according to a of riper age were sold likewise to similar buyers, better civilization. This is the testimony of They were swindled, unhappy creatures, out of Abbé Huc, a missionary,*:-

the poor solatium of their doom. They were The Chinese are so completely absorbed in not even-permitted the dream of true love which temporal interests, in the things that fall under precedes, for those less miserable, the disillusion. their senses that their whole life is only ninement of betrayal and abandonment. The very lesialism put into action, * **Lucre is language of misfortune with them assumed a the sole object on which their eyes are cant grimmer and more morbid meaning. They stantly fixed. •

A burning thirst topake of being "seduced when they were being faculties, the whole energy of their being. They was too shacking. It was not fit for a Christian realize some profit, great or small, absorbs their outragedy All this one man told to the world. never pursue anything with ardor but richer and country to hear. A Christian country shuddered natural enjoyment. God, the soul, a fature and stopped its ears. The accuser aftered life, they believe in none of them, or rather they proofs He was prepared with names of the straight line for home rapidly

flesbers, A. Christian country, thereupon, Notice some of the peculiarities overhauled the dead-beat Singaporean, and a

gull which separates the Chinaman from the one soul guilty of the horrore disclosed was ever hundred yards from the winning post held a

American The "riental believed in and practices brought to justice. Not one of the bloodhoundo clear lead. The muscles of Shepherd's right

infanticide. He regards woman as a piece of of the law was ever put on the tracks of one of aire giving way at this point, he had to stop

The lady is prevalent in Paris in o

property, a plaything,' to be bought and sold thèse gilded, ravishers. There seemed almost pulling, but after all was only beates a bure quarter of a length very lucky victory for

malignant form Six per cent, of the number of at his pleasure,. In almost no other race he to be an apprehension lest the bloodhounde, if condition of the female sex more infernal, more fairly loosed, night be found baying on the door. Tregar hen. In to-morrow's events the Singapore

persons attacked have succumbed to its effects. crew will be a bad last for the four-outed rape,

pitiable, The home in the sense which makes steps of minstone-perchance of a palace. The An extensive strike of colliers bas taken place the word a synonym of goodness and greamess mighty arm of Justice was, indeed, raised once. which ought to be a very tight fit between the

After 13 rounds had been fought it was evident at Charleroi, in Belgium. Ten thousand men

in out social life, is unknown to the Chinaman. Her hand fell weightily on the shoulder of [Naval, Military, and Club ciews and if a single that Smith was beaten. A number of Birming-are out, and the strike is spreading.

sculling match can be arranged betw en Bramham roughs who were present,"armed with Successful experiments have been made in the

He herds where other races instinctively separate | the accuser | 12 (27 well and Tregarthen, the Northamptonshire man sticks and knuckle-dusters, then rushed the Bay of Cadiz, on the coast of Spain, with a sub-into families. He has no conception of and no wilt win by two hundred yards

ring, aulking Slavin. Smith at this stage retired marine torpedo bat, which reappeared four done so much to harmonize and elevate people sympathy with all the enterprises which have and Slavin claimed the fight on a foul. The miles from the spot where it vanished. | referee, however, ordered the fight to be resumed,

News has reached here to the effect that Mr. but reiired when the roughs again broke into H. H. Johnston, the British Consul in South the ring and attempted to aassult Slavin, The East Africa, is annexing territory on behalf of referee finally declared the fight to be a draw. Great Britain on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. The fight lasted for 22 minutes and Smith Mr. Abington, believing that Slavin won the appeared to be utterly beaten. The referee could recent match with Smith, the English champion, not give an impartial decision, as be appeared has deposited £500 with the New York Herald to be in a state of terror. It is hoped that he to bind a match with Sullivan on behalf of will yet declare Slavin to have been the victor. Slavin. Slavin, previous to the fight with Smith is reported to have been completely Smith, had announced that he would seek a pulverised by Slavia,

match with John L. Sullivan in the event of

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HOGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1890.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

MESSRS, Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam. ship Parthia left Vancouver for Japan, &c., on Tuesday morning, the 21st inst.

FIFTY-FOUR more fire cracker fiends were slam- med with the sword of Justice this morning. Mr. Robinson fined this lot 25 cents each. The 141 yesterday got off with ten cents. AN Emergency meeting of St. John Ledge, No. 6IR, SC, will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at R.30 for g o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. "Loo-Chow" sends a response to the two letters published by us with reference to the carrying of kerosene ou on local trading steamers. We are always willing to give both sides a show, but "Loo-Chow""is a trife too trenchant. A temperate argument will be permitted, but no personalities.

THE Band of the A. and S. Highlanders will play the following programme at the Regsits to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 3.30 p.m. March..."Arm In Arm "for.................Frachnatt. Valeo......Toreador"

Royle Selec ion... Realniscences of England" a.Godirey. Gayoso Njoy"............................... Katun Galop." Iramer Fidel DACES are crowding io. Besides the round of swell balls yet to come off, the Warrant Officers, Stoff Sergeants, and Sergeants of the A. and S. Highlanders are giving their annual quadrille pany on the 20th ins, and the St. John's and United Service Lodges are organising a similar festivity for the 3rd February," THERE is a time for everything. Mr. Lee was highly effective in his tourney, with Sir Sloper, at the Pantomime last night, although he had a donkey's hide on. Put the Celestial, not of the A.D.C., who got himself up as a lon, and paraded the streets as sucit, on Wednesday, was fined $10 to-day by Mr. Wodehouse,

AUSTRALIA keeps making a lot of fuss about the Chinese, saying they "must go," and so on, but apparently the heathen who are there are by no means "mashed" on the place. Two men left it by the dirtie, anyhow, even although they had no tickets, and were sentenced to a week's imprisonment each to-day for stowing away. REVD. de Wit Talmage has a beautiful scheme for reducing the whole world to "Christianity," He has satisfactorily figured out that if every Church Christian makes one convert a year, and each convert does dito, at the end of ten years there will be 1500 million "Christians" to wear lang black conts, take up collections, and the sugar, and file sheir shovels. The world would require another great Flood and a fresh start.

a certainty in the single sculls, but nly by the greatest fluke in the world dil the gond thing " come off. E. B. Shepherd, who represented Hongkong, after being left lengths behind by wretched steering, and losing at least a hundred yards by going inside a junk anchored in the fairway, when ance

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News of the derelict Rack Terrace still reaches us. Captain O'Keefe, who is here on his annus visit from his home in the Carolinas, handed simall lin case to our reporter this morning. which he said he had got from the natives of the Sonsareille, or St. Andrew's Islands, lest February. He was going his rounds among the various stations, as be had done for years, and was visited by clusters of canoes. In one of them was anive formerly in his emplry, who gave him the case, which contained three photographs, & duplicate bill of exchange, and a master mariner's certificate, issued by the Minister of Marine for Canada, in 181. to Augustus Welsford Harris. The Kanaka said that about three months before a water-logged ship the biggest he hadever seen-drifted past, with her tattered maile flapping. He and the other islanders boarded her, and found her deserted, the deck ring below the surface, They dived int the cabi, and gut out a variety of things, such as compasses, sextante, etc., and this case. Captala O Keeffe thought it could not be the Rock Terrace, as soon after that she drifted ashore over a thousand miles away, in a con- trary direction to that in which the current set. On refering to the report of the Court of Inquiry held in May 1888, however, we find that the name corresponds with that of the first male, so that it must have been that reggel, and the mystery is explained.

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The Russian army is badly affected by the influenzi, and fully 20 per cent. of the total en rolment are in one stage or another of the ill

In Central Europe the rrogress of the epidemie has been marked with much interference with the ordinary course of trade and commerce. In Vienna, and tp a corresponding extent in various towns of Germany, trade is parily paralysed. In the Austrian city many schools and the Uni- versity are closed, LONDON, December goth. Her Majesty, the Queen is preparing further extracts from her diary for publication, including some original verses,

The E. and A. S. S. Co.'s steamer Airile, Captain W. Ellis, arrived from Australia this morning. We take the following telegrams from our exchanges up to the grst ult.;-

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December 23nd.

Further particulars which have been received reape.ting the prize fight at Bruges, in Belgium, between Frank P. Slavin, of Australia, and James Smith, the champion boxer of England, show that Slavin was in reality victorious.

The cases of the disease reported in England never think about them at all. the great stopped not merely its ears, but his mouth. Not

are all of a mild character, and it is considered doubtful whether they belong to the Russian farm.

December 27th.

Later details of the Slavin-Smith prize, fight | victory. state that, neither of the men was seriously The Pelican Club has offered the sum of injured. Slavin was repeatedly hindered in his rooo for a boxing match between Slavin and attempt to strike decisive blows at Smith by the Jackson. constant scrimmages which took place between A serious earthquake has occurred in Sicily, the spectators of the fight. An ugly rush was Several ersons were killed, also made by the roughs at Slarin when he leit The capital required for establishing the the ground, but he managed to escape in safety.grency for the exploration of Australasia, has Immediately after the fight Slavin returned to been subscribed. the Frenab coast and embarked for Dover.

The newspapers, in commenting on the fight, strongly condemn the bagkers of Smith for the brutality and cowardice they displayed in preventing the fight from being fairly carried

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December 24th,

A movement has been started in England for raliing a fund for Slavin,

Slavin arrived last night at Margate and received a perfect ovation from a largo crowd who had assembled to see him land

ounding interviewed sign, drengir ded the displayed at the fight and said that he was desirous of face Ing John Sullivan. "He has deposited £100 as an carncat of his intention to make an engagement with Sullivan.

December 24th. The Partage : Gwernment have forwarded ad sparch in reply to the Marquis of Salisbury's demand that Mr for Pinto shall be recalled from The Portuguese authorities declare that Major Pinte merely repaised an attack on the part of natives and that the British flags complained of having been lowered were found amongst the baggage captured from the natives, The Parto guese Government admit, however, that British flags were lowerered which had been hoisted at other places in Portuguese territory,

UNDER the heading "France and Canada." the San Francisco Bulletin of December 18th remark-Its reported that the French Government will give careful consideration to the appeals for protection from French Cana dians. It would appear at the first glance thas the French Government could have nothing to do with the Internal affairs of the D minion, or any other British Colony, The French Cina. dians and their ancestors have byen British sub- jects for over a century and a quarter. Their claim South-east Afr.ca. for protection, and the anticipated response of the French Government, are based on the Treaty of 1763, by which France ceded Canada to Great Britain. By its terms the colonists were guar niced the free exercise of their religion, and the right of the Catholic clergy to continue to receive their The French accustomed rights and dues, Canadians claim that those rights and Immuni- ties are now assailed by the policy of the Dominion, and ask France to hold the British Government to treaty guarantees. The' cone fiscation of the Jesults estates bus long been a fruitful source of contention. That is presumably settled by the recent bill compensating the Order in cash for the loss of the lands, but other questions remain open in Club KAN connection with religious matters, There is also a strong political discontent, mingled with dfferences of faith. With these problems pres sing for settlement in Quebec; the dissatisfaction of the Maritime Provinces concerning.fishery and general political issues; the discontent of Manitoba over questions of race, religion' and railroad monopoly, and the antagonistic position of Bilth Columbia regarding Chinose im migration, the Dominion is anything but a hap, farally.

It is suggested that his Holiness the Pope shall arbitrate in the difficulty between the twa

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The second instance is but of yesterday. It termed "high" life has occurred.. An heit to a is whispered, that a horrible scandal in what la of other races. Whether in San Francisco of dakedon, an earl's brother, a clergyman, a imall elsewhere, he is "not amenable to law, but Be stroop of military officers, and a little crowd of governed by secret tribunals unrecognized and other persons of fashion are alleged to be im

These tribunals levy taxes, commend masses rumour, a hasty scuttling beyond seas of notable unauthorized by law." Says an authority; plested. There is a swift, undercurrent of of men, intimidate interpreters and witnesses persons, a simultaneous resignation of com. enforce perjury, regulate trade, pupiah she missions by dandy officers of Her Majesty's recary, remove witnesses beyond the reach of bodyguard save the mark! Then, once again, the courts, control liberty of action, and proventa man speaks out Journalist again. The the return of Chinese to their homes in China story is one which is associated with a pillar of salt, with fire and brimstone from Heaven, without their consen."

There are the Mongolian Incorrigibles which of cities laid desolate. It is a story which this country is asked by a paltry sentimentalian recalls the obscene revels of Tiberius at Capri, to admit in swarming millions into the country of Caligula of Commodus, and all that human, Upon them Christian missionaries scarcely make vermin who filled the Imperial Throne of Rome.

Taylor, of the any impression, Says Canon 1

The names of the participants are given to English Established Church -

|| Justice, and ¡the › Goddess, momentarily half- China is perhaps the most disheartening case awake, grants warrants for the arrest of the The population is reckoned at 383,000,00; The offenders and lifts her sword. Butthat feat accom annual Increase by the excess of births owes plisked, she nods again, and lets her weapon fall A French Colonial Congress is to be held la

deaths would be about 4,580,000 Last year the with a crash upon the head of the journalist who Paris in January to discuss the question of the Church Missionary Society baptized 167 adult bad dared to disturb her slumbers 1. It is almost the same story as the first, repeated. Till this mo introduction into New Caledonia of Rifan At this rato it would take the Church Musionary Moors from Algiers, and convicts from Annam. Society 27.909 years to overlake, the gain, toment, although, the principal alleged offenders are Another matter to be considered will be the heathenism in a single year. If the population known, not one arrest has been made save that desirableness of laying a cable from New Cale-wetestationary, it would take more than 1,630,000 of two miserable participants, one a boy and the man who ventured to accuse one'ofilba donia to Australia, and the question of the de- years to convert the Chinese Empire Une

If, on the one hand, the Chinese are Invyler former by name Upon him has fallen swift 'velopment of trading relations between New

Caledonia and the New Helitides will also be able to the best Christian and civilising forces retribution. He is subjected to prosecution as a of the times, they, on the other, through the criminal and bail is at least temporarily, refused, discussed,

alliance which they find in vicious natures, while the modern emulators of Caligula and irrespective of race, have a most demora sing Commodus chuckle at his dilemma from their

Average Auerican readers of the cashew nesreal across the fear, whic

preshaye Incidents, such as little conception of the moral foulness which the Mongolians disseminate wherever they go. The number of Caucasian men and wotter who have owed their ruin to the opium and piber Micce brought by the Mongoljans would be startling could it be fully known fase vanuks

Mr. Gladstone and Mr. J. A. Froude have written to Sir Henry Parkes upon the question of armning responsible government to Western Australis,

Racial troubles have occurred in the Southern States of North America. In a dranken riot which took place at Jessup, in the State of Georgia, between the negroes and whites, ao of the former and two white men were killed,

Four Ironclads of the British Mediterranean squadron stationed at Malta have received idstructions to proceed to Lisbon,

Décember 28th,

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presega evolutions. The epoch of the Parc aus Ce |_ was succeeded by the epoch" of the Reign' of error will be vain to keep prating the people of England that the law of the land, recognises no distinctions of "rank"or condition that there is not one law for the Thobe Whd knother for the rich, when such telling lessons are gived that although the law is the same for all conditions-of-men, the administra tion of it is mighty different. It was but the

What is the duty of legislation with reference to this Asiatic element?! Let all present treaty obligations be carried out, and no more incurred incompatible with distinct American interests to far as they are affected by contact with the race other day that a Royal Duke assaulted a reporter, furthermore, the Scott Exclusion Act bould and a servile inagistrate refused even to grant be reacted with such amendments as experib a summons calling upon the notorious danger

It is reported that an American squadron has been ordered to Lisbon to enforce the claims of Mr. Macmardo, the contractor for the line of railway from Delagon Bay to the goldfields.

The European powers will refuse to reengniscence has shown to be acessary for complete dodging Field-Marshal to answer for his rul the now regime in Brazil until the National ectiveness. There is no go of disguising the fanism. Ajudge did indeed great a mandamus Assembly of that country has formally confirmed Chinese evil from the public and cayering up compelling the magistrate to do the first part of the establishment of the Republic,

with insipid, twaddin about broad bumaduri. | his duty. But no mandamus could compel him to The rate of mortality in Paris of late, from nism Tae first great duty of the Republic is to do more, and the case was, when heard, die- maladies indirectly the result of the prevailing protect its own culzens from the streams ct.Old missed. A tule later a flunkey of the Heir Induensa epidemic, is higher than during an World immigration pollution. The United States Apparent was summoned to answer for having Powce no duty to the rest of the globe"which kept a funkdy of his own-on" the principle of epidemic of cholera.

should impel it to open wide the doors the little fleas having lesser flean upon their lege entrance of most destructive forces

to bite them without paying fluskey dax, Government is its inertia when sharpy prompthing equally majestic-did not condescend to Qnd of the great faults, to be found with out "The great creatore--a Groom-Porter or some,

and decisive legislation is aceded to come with appear. He caused the Court to be apprised such a measure as immigration evil, for instance, that he was detained elsewhere in attendance on No longer should the lowest and vilest classes of his majesty master These are but straws, Italians and of oth-ør Europeant haplooslitiks be¦| Meanwhile, the course of ordinaryį Justice runa admitted intġ this, country (day more than the smoothly on, The bank-clerk who emberries Chinese. The coming of this objectionable fifty pounds, the starveling who steals a lost foreignism, to quote the Chicago Timis, the the ruffin who beats his wife, do not find leading Democratic paper of Billnoid, has done that in their cases warrants remainin more to sopardize American Ingliutions than ↑ issued or "unse-ved, or that prosecutors. The Government of the Republic of San Salimost any other one thing which statesmencabar adroitly clapped in Umbo for daring.

"Recuse them. "And the prople of Great Britaią and his family shall be banished for two years Vader, one of the Central American Repablics, designsto

Mr. Newton, solicitor, appeared before the police court to-day charged with conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice in connection with certain scandalous disclosures at West End

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The Gas Stokers' Union Intend to call out the stokem employed at the North London Gasworks unless the South London Gas Company expel thë non-unionista la their employ, mokykla

December 29th, A large body of walten stormed the Barnwell prison, in South Carolina, and seized and shot eight negro murderers.

December 10th. According to a telegram received in Lisbon After some evidence had been taken the from Southeast Africa, Major Serpa Pinto asserts further hearing of the case was adjourned that he has established Portuguese authority at

The new Republican Government in Brazil | "Alfaland," Par have decided that Dom Pedro, the late Emperor,

Was asserted for the prosecution that Newton offered free passage to Australia to several persons concerned, the object being to exculpate Lord Arthur Somenet, who is alleged to have been a member of the club and a participator.in the scandalous practices

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