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LONDON, January ɔyth. The Chillan Rebels have bombarded Coronel.

STRIKES SPREADING IN SCOTLAND.

Strikes and riots have taken place at Greenock

(From L'Avenir Du Tonkin.) THE FRENCH CHAMBERS.

PARIS, January 17th, The Chambers met on the 13th without inci- dent The same Presidents and Committees were'definitely re-elected except in the Senate, where M. Demole was appointed Vice-President in succession to' Magnin, voluntarily retired. Dry Plates; Bromide Paper, Dishes, Sundries Deputy Floquet on taking the presidential chair and Requirites of all kinds.

mades speech which was loudly applauded, and in which he reviewed the work accomplished by the Chamber and that still remaining to be drae, recalling the Republican sepirations of the country, as displayed in the result of the elections of the 4th January, and concluding by quoting Noa 22 & 14, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

the words of Gambetta to the effect that it was necessary to surround the Republic with insila. Hongkong, 26th January, 1891.

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ANOTHER daring robbery with violence occurred this morning near the Harbour Master's office. A coolie, maid to be a Chinchew native, was get Upon by three Cantonese and whilst two of them held him, the third cat cff his belt and purse, which contained fifty-four cents. The man who did the cutting was arrested, but the of ers made good their escape.

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IT is reported that M. Piquet, Governor-General | Alexander and Suferð, first-class havle-ships ; of Indo-China, will return to France in April the Nartisans, fast-class cruļser; the drethuta, "

Reuda, Medusa, and Aførsty, second-class crui- vessels, and a flotilla of six first-class torpedo sers ; and the Cyclops and Hydra, coast defence

last week, where they were required to anamer to

Tux three men who were up at the Police Court

the charge of pirating a boat in this harbour and taking therefrom four chests of opiums valued at $1,200, again paid their respects to Mr. evidence they were allowed to go upen their way Wodehouse this morning when, owing to lack of rejoicing.

THE average Australian bush-town, asys an exchange, is of an inflammable order. It is buil! chiefly of old boards, kerosene tins, grass, bark, and all manner of combustible wreckage, and i liable to blaze spontaneously at the shortest the horizon, the fire-brigade-when there is one notice. Therefore, whenever a light appears on

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English barrister, was brought up on remand Charles Stewart Kaw, Japanese, but in charged with attempting to murder Edwin Brooks, possession man to the balliff of the Bramp lon County Court, by presenting loaded revol

K ver at him while attempting to eject bim from a room which he occupied at 4. Holly.terrace South Kensington, under an order of the judge. Dr. Walker said he had examined the prisoner, who spoke incoherently. The witness" was of prisoner pleaded not guilty. In a long rambling opinion that he knew what he was doing.

The story he said he was acquainted with Lord Sais- bary, and said he heard a noise at hindo" r, which was broken open, and he was pulled out al bed undressed. He resisted, and wanted to know the meaning of theassmalt. He denied presenting the revolver, and said he simply. Plowdan had great doubt whether he ought not bought it to use in case of emergency. Mr. to send the prisoner for trial, but he bore in mind that he was a foreigner, and there fere should 'desi with the case as one of stituted an assault. He wished prisoner le common assault. Presenting a revolver con-

understand that he was den ing with him leniently owing to his Ignorance of English customs. He ordered him to find two sureties in £25 each to keep the peace for six months, and in default to bo Imprisoned for one month. The prisoner wished to address the magistrate, who, however, refused to hear him, and be WAY - then removed.

tion at Peking.

pels its old, dismantled tunel ready for action, and harnesses up the goat with a clothes-line, and makes sure that the water jag in filled the squirt in working order, and starts at full tear for the scene of action. One night not long AT the Legislative Council meeting to-morrow, go the people of a town out on the plains were the Orders of the Day will be :---

reused by the incendiary clang of the alarm Financial Minutes,

bell, and looking forth they saw a red glare far First reading of a Bill entitled "An Ordinance away on the sky-line. It looked as if the for the Naturalization of Edward Jean Max whole globe had commenced to flare up, and Paquia."

the firemen felt that a great undertaking was in Committee on the Hill entitled " An Ordinance

front of them. Their own horse was dead, but for the Naturalization of Lai Siu Tang,"

they impounded the animal that propelled the local dirt-cart, and hitched it to the Committen on the Bill entitled "An Ordinance engine before it was awake. The tailor seized for the Naturalization of Choi Wal, otherwise Chol Tsun."

on a helmet which concealed everything but his legs, and grasped the reins, and the butcher hung. on behind with another helmet that barely covered one cat. Some of the brigade was in its night-robe, and some of it was attired in a THE bigyan tree is familiar to all from the pic-dishcloth and a belltopper, and the captain had

The Gazette of the 23rd inst, announces under tures given in the geographies. It spreads hardly anything on at all except a false tooth and its branches far and wide, and sends down boot, but the claims of duty were above all other has been graciously pleased to appoint Heary date Foreign-Office, Dec. 1, that the Queen vertical depending rootlets, that, on reaching considerations, so they woke up the horse and Howard, Esq. CB, now Secretary to Her the ground, take firm hold and develop started. The glare on the horizon was growing Majesty's Legation at Peking, to be Secretary into large supporting trunks. There seems larger every moment, and wider, and redder, to be hardly any limit to the size it may

and the brigade realised the urgency of the

to Her Majesty's Embassy at St. Petersburg attain. In Hindostan, where it reaches the danger, and took a bee-line over everything and William Nelthorpe Beauclerk, Esq., now greatest perfection,

A Second Secretary in Her Majesty-Diplomatic The old barse out of the dirt-cart seemed to be Service, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Lega- endowed with human intelligence, and he flew through the gloom like a spectral horse

Mr. Beauclerk's previous flying upon the wings of the morning over services are officially given as fellows

land of dreams. He tore down the firs

He is an M.A. and LL.D. of Trinity College, slope at a reckless gallop, with a dog after him,History Honours, Was nominated an Attaché Cambridge, where he graduated in Law and and then he ploughed with his immense Oct. 28th, 1873; passed an Examination, Dec feet through a hedge, and scraped off two of th company, and be negotiated the rise beyond and 17th, 18734 was appointed to Copenhagen, May fell at the top, and kicked half the machine

16th, 1874; was promoted to be a Third Secre splinters in getting up again, and when he go!Public Law, January 11th, 1876; was transferred tary, Dear 17th, 1875 ; pasted an Examination in up crashed along for the next mile on three legs, to Athens, January 27th, 1876, and temporarily. fer he was trying to scrape a clad off his ear with the other one. He hitched the off and wheel in Chargé d'Affaires from Jan. 30th till Feb. 3rd to Berne, Nov. 5th, 1877, where he was Acting a fence and carried it along in his mad career 1878; was transferred to St. Petersburg, April brarce with an axe; and then he found a long hut presently the butcher knocked off the encum-

7th, 1879; was promoted to be Second Secretary, stretch of level ground before him and pounded

June 20 b. 1879; received an allowance for know along with the vigour of a horse that meant to ledge of Russian; was transferred to Rome, Feb. gallop through all eternity. Eight miles had 14th, 1880 was appointed a Secretary to the... been covered and the fire was still ahead, and

Sanitary Conference Rome, May 2, 1885, about the middle of the ninth mile the whole and was one of the Secretaries to the Industrial machine got wrecked against a tree, and the 12th May, 1886; was transferred to Washington. Property Conference at Rome from April 29th to horse went on alone. The chief of the brigade. full of twigs and dead leaves and bark, and the 9th to Nov. 6th, 1888; from Feb. 23rd to March was fired up among the branches with his hair Sept. 26th, 1887, and to Berlin April 1st, 1888.

where he noted as Chargé d'Affaires from Oct. rest of the party were mostly impaled on different 14th, 1889, and from July 17th to Sept. 30th, parts of the fence. They disentangled themselves slowly, and with a lot of copleus profanity, and 1889. Is a J.P, and Deputy Lieutenant for the beld a meeting, partly on the fence and partly in

County of Lincoln. the ditch, and resolved that even though the cagine was a plie of dislocated fron by the road side, and its motive power was galloping for the distant Pacific, their honour required that they shou'd reach the confiigration or perish. But just at this moment the butcher burst into choice. execration, and cursed the fire and the fire brigade, and every separate and individual member thereof, together with his father and his mother and bis grand-uncle and his wife's second try and all his collateral relations, and their relations as well, and he cursed the town and the surrounding district, and said that their officer was a Chinaman and the father of a hog. And then he choked and stuttered with rage, but as he pointed to the east the rest of the party looked across the plain, and realised that they. had been galloping like a crowd of faries to ex-ent cloguish the rising moon,

WHEN GOY. Hopetoun visited Coranderk, the Victorian Aboriginal Station, recently, under the chaperonage of Water-jug Premier Munro bis Ex: drew attention to the fact that most of the aboriginal women were nursing white or plebald bables, and that the percentage of true black We have received from Mesirs. Noronha & Co.

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was extremely small. a copy of their "Book of the races for 'gt." The

"I have-a-- work is very creditably get up, and is well worth heard of albino aboriginals," said the Earl, "but I did not expect to see them in such the money charged for it.

numbers, and so near Melbourne," Munro said be couldn't explain the curiosities, but the super- intendent of the station could and did, "You many distinguished visitors coming to see us" see, melud," he said confidently, "we have so The aboriginal ladies are understood to attri: bute the comparative lightness of colour of their latter day offspring to their own adoption of the pernicious habit of eating too much #pflour" possu without the corrective aid of even a bit of

THE agents (Messrs. Adamson; Bell & Co.) inform us that the steamship Queen Elisabeth, from Glasgow and Liverpool, left Singapore yesterday afternoon for this part.

A REGULAR Convocation of Cathay Chapter, No. 1165, will be held in the Freemasons' Hall. precisely. Visiting companions are cordially Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock

invited.

THE Mormons, who have been compelled to submit to the legislation of the United States against their system of marriages, have secured a vast tract of territory in Northern Mexico wherein to settle.

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WHAT sleep Is no one knows. The prevailing theory an to its nature in that of the physiologist, Preyer, who holds that refuse matter accumulates in the nervous centers in such quantities as to bring about insensibility, which continues until the brain has been relieved of the waste matter by its absorption into the circulation. Whatever

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LioTax Chinese transport Felchiu nrrived at Tam. feats of endurance, men may accomplish, they ❘ cousin twice removed, and his aunt in the coun passing between this country and all the places

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A HEADMAN of the "Broken Coffin Secret 0.60 Society at Penang has been sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment for instigating an assault on a witness who had given evidence against the Scalety.--No wonder the scum of China laugh at one laws)

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cannot live long without sleeping. Under every condition of bodily and mental suffering, men sleep. Those condemned to die, although they fear their fate, generally sleep the night before execution. Soldiers have been known to sleep when on a long and wearisome march while walking in the ranks, or lying on a bed of stones, or in the mud and water. The question is often asked. "How long can a raan live without sleep?" The victim of the Chinese "waking torture seldom survives more than ten days. Those condemned to die by the waking torture are given all they wish to eat and drink, but sleep is denied them. Whenever the poor victim closes his eyes he is jabbed with spear and sharp sticks until he is awake. There is no torture more horrible.

TAZ subjoined Notice to Mariners, which will interest the seafaring community, has been for- warded to us by the commander of a "coaster" who after passing within a few feet of a sunken Junk in the Sugar-loaf Channel (Swatow) was the grateful recipient of the printed warping. Our correspondent informs us that he entered Swatow a little before dawn, there was then no warning light exhibited in the channel in ques-

THE following items of general news are taken from the London and China Express of the 26th ultimos

the Admiralty: Deputy Inspector-General. A The following appointment has been made at Turnbull, to Hongkong Hospital, to date Dec

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Gibraltar on the 24th. Inst. from Portsmouth, Her Majesty's troopship Himalaya arrived at She subsequently embarked the 25th company for Hongkong, and sailed for Malta, es route for China.

Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon, V.C., who is about Captain W. H. May late flag-captain to Vice to hand over the command of the China station to Sir Frederick Richards, has been selected for the post of principal naval attacks on the tion and he wonders that his ship did not run

Continent. The appointment is a great com foul of the sunken Junk seeing that the Suger-pliment to Captain May, as he is a comparatively loaf Channel is very narrow. The police to Junior captain to be chosen for such an important mariners runs thus "Custom House, Swatow, post, 26th January, 1891. Notice is hereby given that Junk les sunk with her mast visible about a5 feet above water, fa's fathoms at low water spring tides, in Sugar-loaf Channel with the Light Tower bearing N. W. N. distant 1 7-10th affected by the tides. A red flag has been arutical miles. The position of the junk is

fastened to the mast and a red light will, if possible, be shows during the night out to much reliance should not be placed on the light, as the wreck is inaccessible in stormy weather, stare being taken for the speedy removal of

wreck"

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With the advent of the cool weather the Franco-Chinese Commission to delimit the fron- tier has recommenced its work. M. Frandin is the President, and M. Mahe, Captala Didelot, and Dr. Pethellas are the other members. Three lieutenants are attached to the mission as top graphical officers. The escort is com posed of 250 native troops,

report

The carduct of the Chinese Gwernment with refere co to Admiral Lang is, it is gladly believed, says the United Service Gasstie, being warmly rescated by the authorities. Until satisfactory Advices received in Paris from Saigon explanations are given, Lord George Hamilton that M. Pavie had returned there from Pangkok the Chinese Navy, but also declines to allow had succeeded in bis mission, which was tot sot only refuses to permit British officers to join and left the same day for Tonquin, M. Paris. those already serving in it to renew engagements obtain from the Bison Geremend the which are termin Himalaya, which left the important points on the banks of the est blistment of French commercial agencier at Her Majesty's troopship. Portsmouth on the 17th fast, with 1,100 officers River Meko g. The Court of Siam had, more and men, encountered a very severe gate on the ever consented to the construction of tele 19th inst. between the Lands End and Queens graph line between Samber (Cambodia) and town. The wind blew with violence from Luang Pirabang, thus extending the Indor AM American exchange, under date the 22nd the south-south east, and there was a very bigh Chinese telegraphic system. We may add to ultimo, contains the following report of a sen running, which made the big ship roll very the above Information that the Basic which wonderful surgical operation:—Colonel Michael much. Several heavy seas broke on beard, and has been specially constructed to pass the Kton Murphy, ex-State Senator and veteran flooded the decks Many of the men were | rapids on the Meikir, kan just had a very suc- County Democracy leader, has just undergone thrown out of their kammocks and three soldiers Cessful trial at Nonte, and that she will leave a surgical operation of great risk, the exact wers knocked down with much violence directly for the Par counterpart of which has probably never before sustaining severe injuries, which necessitated A very ingenious system of fraud, bys been performed in this country, and but two or their removal on stretchers to the Queenstown number of landlords having houses to let and three times in Europe. The operation is "gasto Military Hospital or medical treatment. The certala tradcamen have been victimised, was 1.00 A BIG "bia" in steamers was done at Singapore temy," and is that of making an artificial mouth troopship took her departure. In the evening for exposed at the Central Criminal Court. The

on the 19th instant when the sale and purchase for the stomach by cutting through from the Gibraltar.

prisoners, three in number, were known members New crews for the Raftler and Swift, on the of a gang of swindlers, who have for a long time 1.10 of seven steamships, being the balance of the surface of the body to the stomach and inserting

flost of the Netherlands India Steaps Navigation

tabe through which nourishment can be intro-China station, and reliefs for the East Indies been carrying on similar operations, and have it Con was effected. Three were bought on account daced into that organ. Last summer a fibrous station are to leave England on the 1st, prox. hitherto managed to avod detection. Their structure began to form at the lower end of the in the Tyne, vid the Suez Canal. According to plan of operation was to obtain, by fraudulent of Mensen. Holt for their Java trade, and four on 75 account of the Straits Steamship Co. (Limited)sophagus, caused by an ulceration, and by the present arrangements the Tyns will lease references given by the one to the other, posiss

for their local lines.

second week in September the channel of Sheerness on the 29th Inst. Portsmouth on the son of houses in suitable positions, which they communication to the stomach had become 31st inst, and Devonport on the 1st prox. Tan let out la lodgings, and keeping the rents so so small as to prevent the passage of food. An a trifls of 500 or thereabouts, says the Yaval obtined effected their escape on the arrival of day without making any payment to the inch to the left and below the entiform cartilage Tyne to enable her to proceed to Hongkong down through the layer of flesh until the stomach and back. The Admiralty were desirous that passession of several public-banse, which they was reached. The stomach was then drawn she should, if possible, proceed to sea with a stocked on credit, and, securing, the proceeds through the orifice, and was held suspended in defective screw shalf, but the dockyard officials realised to the course of business, made off la she wound by a gold pin, which was to serve as at Chatham declined to accept the responsibility, several instances they were able to compel the a guide for Bubsequent incision into the and hence new screw shaft is being fitted to deluded owners, to pay them; solid sums to stomach. The portion of the stomach drawn the vessel. Very little is being done, however, termluate their undersirable tenancies. Fortur through the opening was then stitched to the towards making good her other defects, and ately, by a clever mancarie, the police became sides of the wound so as to give it time to when the vessel returns from her Chins trip she acquainted with their tactics, and by the cons adhere. The incision into the stomach from the is likely to be all defects

viclon which has been obtained the plot has exterior serves a double purpose; it enables

been laid bare,graha him to obtain nourishment and it also enables the physicians to treat the stricture successfully, As soon as the stricture shall have been, eliminated and Colonel Murphy can eat in a nominal way, the tube will be withdrawn and the artläcial opening will be sewedyp,

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1,10 Mr. G. Nangasaki of Tokio, clerk of the departe incision three faches long was made about an' and Military Argus, lu being expended on the lord.in, They even succeeded in gettfag:

ment of foreign exchange of the Bank of Japan, 1.00 arrived at Frisco at the end of last month. He was sent there by his employers especially ta study the American clearing house methods. He 0-40 remained in 'Frisco for ton days, after which he went to spend several ́months in New York 0.40 prior to going to London. a50

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· Bishop Auser, from South Shantung, of whom mention was made in our last issue, has received A Telegram from St. Petersburg as to the prow the order of the Red Eagle of the Third Class, Jected Siberian Railway staten as followsuperdid with the Star from the German Emperor Scrioms, diferences of opinion have lately The Admiralty have ordered an emergency arisen between. My Vishnegradaky, Minister of feet" to be kept ready in connection with the Finance, and M. Habbenme Minister of Waya Medway Bidal Reserve. It will consist of the and Commusic long, regarding the projected