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fined and inprisoned with great regularity and despatch. His latest incarceration well illustrates the difference between American and English law In regard to defamatory articles. He was indicted for publishing a statement which contained a ent. On the trial he proved every allegation but series of accusations against a well-knɛma reski- one and on this failed because the chief witness had either vanished or been spirited away. He attempted to prove the last charge by secondary evidence; to obtain a commission; to withdmw a juror and to obtain an adjournment, but each request was denied. Under the judge's ruling, according to English law, he was found guilty upon the whole indictment, and sentenced to jail for six months. The punishment did not break up bis paper as his enemies had hoped and predicted, but increased both the subscription and advertising lists. His managing editor, William P. MacLean is the Col. Cockerill of the East. Capable, cultured and fearless, he can write with equal ease in vitriol or honey dew,

The Hongkong Daily Press in a handsome sheet, well writer, printed and edited. It is exceedingly conservative in tone and represents the old mercantile houres very much as the weekly N. Y. Tribuns did the farmers in ante- bellum days. It follows the English practice and prints long letters, prolix editorials and literary clippings to the crowding out of news matter. The manager is D. Warres Smith, a good business man and capital publisher, The editor is George C. Cox, an able and well Informed writer; the sub-editor J. L. Cox is a good all around reporter.

The China Mall in the third of the Hongkong English" dailies and is a well established and mannged afternoon sheet. It is not as well printed as it should be, the ink, overlaying, underlaying and registering being at times way below par. It classes in style and work with the Daily Press rather than the Telegraph. Its editor George Murray Bain is a well educated English gentleman and the sub-editor. Wm. Robertson a very competent man. Their work to an American seems lacking in vitality and what dear dead Doctor Wood called "local color."

Besides these dailles there are the overland China Mail, and the Government Gazette weekly, the China Overland Trade Report, a fortnightly and the Chino Review, a bi-monthly The celestials have no less than five daily organs. The oldest and hest is the Chung Ngai San-P4 or International News; the Wa Tr Yat-Poor Chinese Mail; the Trun-wanyat do or The Daily Circular; the Puf-Pe or Daily news and the Wai-San-Vat-Po or "the Universal' Daily News" All are Intelligent and interesting. They contain the news, trade-reports, lems of interest (to Chinese) and a few advertisementi,

Amoy, though a rich industrious city bas no energy except for trade and is as dead intellectually as a mummy. Its leading paper is the Gazette, commonly called the Amoy Astonisher. It receives the souoriquet from the fact that several times a year It astonishes the community by publishing a paragraph of reading matter. The rest of the twelve months it prints advertisements, customs reports, weather-bureau statistics, steamer lists and mall announcements, The Times edited by Wm. J. Allan is a bright and readable paper but hovers on the verge of bankruptcy and litigation.

Foochow reads the Daily Echo, a modest and neat little paper edited by D. Rotarlo. The name la appropriate.

Shanghai, which is the only commercial rival of Hongkong has two excellent dailies. The North China Daily News is a subriantlal mercantile Journal, careful, accurate and up to date. Its owners, Pickwoad & Co. have built up a large subscription and advertising list and derive a bandsome income from thek paper. The editor is R. W. Little, an experienced journalist of great general ability. The staff consists of three or four reporters all of whom do creditable work.

The Shanghat Mercury is a capital evening newspaper, run very much on the lines of the N. Y. Commercial advertiser in its palmiest days. J. D. Clark, the proprietor is a live man who knows journalism and does his best to make bis paper

success. His staff, are all capable and educated news-gatherers.

The two dailles Issue weekly editions under other names, the Newr becoming the North China Herald and the Mercury, the Citlal Empire. Both are well edited and very read- able.

There is also a weekly called the Tempirance Union, which is the organ of the Missionaries and the Probibitionists. As might be supposed It never contains aught which would bring the blush of modesty to the cheek of shame and about as often any article above the level of duil medlocrity..

The Mongolians have two dailles, the Sum paé and the Hu-bao, (both meaning the Shangbal News}. These have an immense circulation and sell for 8 and 10 cash a plece (a cash being one-tenth of a cent.)

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of the bad feeling created here by the anti-Masses swindled by a property qualification chinese legislation of the United States to run which deprived them of the power to vote, and down the American goods and exalt thir own. the middle-class entered on its co-rule with the Careful scrutiny bows, that they have muleatistocracy. Thus the. Houses of Lords and considerable progress in their efforts.

Common as we at present know them were formed, and when the late lamented Albert the Respectable made that foolish remark with which we opened, he meant that this new arrangement was then "on its trial,"

Equally remarkable is the cost of a paper and of advertising. It is just the opposite of what prevails at home. A daily newspaper is sold here at any where from 20 to 30 cents a copt, ten times as much in Christendom, while an advertiser pays just about one tenth of home pricem.

It may be safely inferred that the people so common in Uncle Sam's great cities who buy 6, 8 and 10, papers a day are very rare in Chios,

"REPRESENTATIVE

GOVERNMENT\" WHAT IT. HAS DONE.

That wonderfully mediocre person, who crops up rather unexpectedly in one of the works of Herbert Spencer at Albest the Respectable," once observed that "Representative Government was on its telal." This prolific and much-puffed German princelet, unlike Charles II. of obscene memory, "never did a wite thing," and said foolish things as the sand on the seashore for multitude. The above is to be taken as one of the latter, but the bony of the unexpected and the evolution of history have given the phrase a meaning, utterly different to that which its atterer intended, but most profoundly true.

The rule, and by rule we mean the despotic rule, of the genuine British aristocrats dates from the expulsion of the Stuarts, and the collapse of the ridiculous" divine right of kings" theory in the so-called "Grest Revolution" of 1688. The genuine British aristocrats were the colossal Landowners the men who still survive in the shape of the Duke of Westminster and the Dukes of Devonshire. These men used the popular revolt against the secular and religious tyranny of Charles II. and James II., or the Paritan revival, for their own utterly selfish class Interests. There were to be no more Cromwells and Commonweaths, thank you, with shopmen or yeomen or artisans rising to become admirals like Blake, or generals like Ireton, or Protectors private secretarie like Milton. No; the country was to be run by the colossal landlords and for the colossal landlords, whose younger sons were to administer army, naval and civil service as the organised soldiers and police of their graces and their lordships. From 1688 to 1832-almost a century and a hall-this despotic rule lasted.

The results were briefly these: A corruption of the legislature, which, under its supreme manipulator, Lord Walpole, reached a pitch un- paralleled save in the rottenest days of Roman and Spanish aristocrat corruption, the day of Verres and the monsters of the Inquialilon. Almost all the new great private fortunes date from this period, and Smith, the contractor, whose descendant is the downy Lord Catington of to-day, may stand as a familiar type of the movi komines, or brand-new pobles who arose from the plunder of the people. So much for the interfor administration. Externally we have to note the wars and their result in that monstrous so-called "National Debt," whose millions of interest drag annually at the throst of the cor- temporary British tax-payer. The National Debt, a device whereby the dominant class could wage war purly in its own interests, and Jay the whole burden of the cost thereof on the nations, dates from the "great Revolution.". Of these wars the one which was the most prodigious and shameless was the relentless war waged against the French Repubic and its continuator, the Empire, the way which broke the French naval power at Trafalgar and its military power at Waterloo, and introduced England and the continent to the iniquities of the Holy Alliance and the partition of Poland and Italy.

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these are our Australian equivalents, and what are they but a lower-grade replica of their English fellows?'

This is the history, the pitiful history of the derradation of Labour in England and the rule ofthe middle-class and "Representative Gavern- ment." It is the same in America: was rapidly becoming the same in Australia. On its trial.” O prolific, much puffed and murton- Over half-a-century has passed since this new headed German Princelet Nay, on its trialn arrangement was initiated, and its results are now patent to all. The trial has ended eitherger; apparent as the most hateful of all tyrannies the world has ever seen, the mill Bat this way or that, so far, either in failure or in has ground men slowly and surely to rwder. success. Let us consider this, the rule of the The apathy of the sacrificed masses is passlog middle-class, in the same simple, historical

Labaar arouses itself to make Democracy, the manner as we have considered the former rule, power of the People, felt and feared. Despil is reckoning comes closer. It comes closer in a rude but thorough educator. The hour official Europe. It comes closer in America. It comes Henry George Henry George, the man of law closer in Australia. "So completely," says and order" and "constitutional mathada "2 10 completely bas representation passed out of the hands of the American people, that it can never be regained, perhaps, except by a revolution. Sydney Bulletin.

the rule of the aristocrats.

In 1815, then, followed that is called "The Great Frace." The Continental peoples, the peoples of France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Austria, were rezolutely held down and almost the whole energy of men was cast into the new forms of ladustry. Machinery made its appear impetus unparalleled in all history. More sheer wealth has been created in the last half century than in any other five, or even ten centuries, This is thedistinctive feature of our age-through theoretic and applied sçlence, the discoveries of the great dentists, and the application of these discoveries by the great mechanicians. The re- suit has been remarkable. In the old Feudal days the colossal, land-owners supported vast armies of retainers who gave to them their ser- vices as soldiers to return for shelter, food, and general protection. Machinery, by enabling the rich to offer what appeared to be the means of fedependence to the masses, seemed to harmonise at once the modern demands for individual free dom and for the new impetus of the creation of wealth. Capital and Labour became the two utterly distinct entities of Adam Smith and the race of "political economists" which culminated in John Stuart Mill and his crowd of attendant satellites..

ance, and the creation of wealth received an

KOREA.

(FROM OUK CORRISPONDENT.)

CHEMULPO, July.Kita There is not much news to report from here since I wrote last. We have had a great deal of rain of late, but as this is our rafov season that is nothing unusual, and healdes it is very, beneficial for the coming rice crop and the farmers very naturally rejoice at the downpour an that account. One day last week we had a minfall of over three inches in fourteen hours. We will be losing a good many of our foreign residents soon, Mr. and Mrs. Stelubeck are leaving for home shortly, and I also hear that Mr. C. Wolder. chief of the firm of Messrs. O potent and damnabis fallacy! This is the Meyer and Company, Intends paying the distinction between Capital and Labour. Among old country a short visit at an early date. the aid feudal retainers” the principle of compes Mr. Steinbeck kept fine hotel here for tition was dormant. They had certain work to several years. It had a billiard-room and a do and duties to perform, and in return they were hawling-alley and for a time paid very well, secure of decent maintenance. Not so among but as we have been visited here by so few men- the modery Masses Competition being unres- of-war lately and as there is now a hotel here tricted, mere and more did the wretched men kept by a Japanese and another owned by a sacrifice the worth of their work to the ever-Chinaman. a Foreigner in this port does not seem increasing exigencies of existence resultant in to have much chance in that line of business any improvements of machinery and the condensation longer. Mr. Steinbeck has pulled down his of Labour. Capital scooped in the nett total of establishment and has built about a doren the sacrifice, and the New Slavery was an houses is Japanese style on the site, which were, established fact. Were the old feudal lords all rented as soon as they were finished. tyrants? Perhaps 'so, but at least they housed and fed their slaves, whereas the new capitalists washed their hands of everything but the pay- ment of there" wages," which left these "Britons who never never, never!) would be slaves" to toll and starve and rot death as they pleased! And all the while the Press rang with the pœans of "unexampled progress," "liberty and the same laws for all," and (Gnal acme and apotheosis of a “Chritian civilisation!"). "Representative Government!"

all were utterly at one in puiting down a "law- lessness" which threatened not only the present case but the stupendous future prosperity which was just dawning on their intelligences. That pros- perity was only possible by means of machinery, and, therefore, for machinery they (backed up by their soldiers, sallors, and police) would perish I There was (happily) no need for that. They had only to deal with a mob of mad dogs, and the special consiables" of 1848 are the notable predecessons of the great Exhibition of 1852, when one of their number, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the debauched scoundrel who had meantime waded through blood to tbrose," fnaugurated in France, as our precious Queen and her mutton-headed Consort did in England, the new Holy Alliance of Birth and Capital against strangled and degraded Labour.

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The Bishop's church close to the new dispen sary, which by the way is just finished, is rapidly approaching completion, and it is ex- pected is will be ready for consecration in a few weeks. In fact building is going on here on all sides, and people who only know the port as it was some years ago would not recognise it now,

Trade is very Bilsk. It is a pity the China Merchants oeglect the place as they do. If they sent two steamers a month regularly, instead of one at uncertain dates, they would find the arrangement much more to their profit. Shippers would then know when they could send their goods to Shangbai and the commerce of the port generally would be immeasurably improved. One step in the right direction is the substitution of the Yehafn for the Kwangch? on this line. The Yeksin is a much larger and better fitted vessel, but if both ships were on the line it would answer better still. We wonder here when some enterprising firm will put a powerful steamer of shallow draft on the river to run between this place and Mapoh the nearest port on the river to Soul The Lungehow which is now on this line is too small and antiquated for the service,

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(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT)

TIENTSIN, July 31st. Mr. W. N. Pethick has now been officially appointed as sub-director of the China Railway Company, by a despatch from Peking.

I am Infarmed that His Excellency the Viceroy has intimated to Baron von Seckendorff that he has decided that Dr. Irwin is to con- true to hold the office of Fleet Doctor to the Northern Squadron, and ie be medical adviser to His Excellency's Yamin, and that he will nut require the aid of a medical man from Ger- many. So ends this Intrigue.

I regret to say that after all we are to lose Mr. Teng King-sing, whose health is not improving, He leaves for japan by the first steamer, but the doctors doubt if that will restore him, ·

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DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

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The dredging operationgs, by the two dredgers got out by the French Syndicate and put together last year at Taku, does not seem to have given satisfaction. One was to have experimented yesterday at Pel Tang-Kao, In the presence of the two deputies, Messrs. Yang and Sun. TheyTHE Company's Steamship have not yet returned so I cannot tell you any thing about the working of the dredger, but will do so later on. The dredger may work better in the river than in an open roadstead, such as Port Arthur and on the barof the Yellow River.

Thus that gigantic and terrible process a pro- cess which even the new Staffords have bleased as meeting the ideal policy of "thorough," began -the process of the degradation of Labour / The very commercial slang terms, bore witness to it. People spoke no longer of workmen in the factories; they were only "hands" What, verlly 1. Had you drilled the hearts and souls out of them so well as that? Yea, verily, and, what is more, the heads also. For the masses were the numbers, and these millions of sheep who sought

the capitalistic shears with such a stupid stoicism, held also the remedy. True, they made some efforts against their fate. Bands of starving, desperate men went about the country-Mercury, breaking machines when the capitalistic trick was first sprung upon them. But aristocratic The French Republic was the protagonist of lord and middle-class commoner-anclent noble, the Rights of Ma. It preached Liberty,brand-new noble, gentleman, shopman; priest- Equality and Fraternity. It is still customary for the English to speak of Napoleon as an ambitions tyrant, and Waterloo as the glory of a free people that overcame a people of slaves. This, now in the Impartial light of history, grows thin even to emaciation The Code Napoleon, which is still the law of France and which France has clung to passionately through Restorations and constitutional Monarchies and bastard Empires and bastard Republics-which the German Rhine provinces have clung to equally passionately, and which rules even to-day in German Alsace and Lorraine instead of the German law this Code, which we hope to see Australia adopt almost in its entirely daring our own lifetime, is the most stupendous legislative effort after equality the world has yet seen. It makes an equal division of land and wealth among a man's children compulsory. It strangles entail, with one hand Labour's next efforts seemed at last in a better and disinheritance with another, and makes direction in the direction of organisation and drill, huge estates all but to impossibility. Similarly These efforts we know by the name of Trades the civil and military administration of Napalena Unionism. Trades Unionism meant the first The word "Shun" and "Ha" are synonyms was an equally stopendous effort after liberty attempt at co-operation of the thousand oppressed of the name of Shanghal-the former is perhaps and fraternity, and to use the Emperor's splendid small units against the one oppressing big taken from the name of a Prince Chin Shin words) "La carrine ouverte aux talens unit. But how hopelessly restricted was Ite pro- Kiln, who ruled that reglan and was afterwards tools for the hand that can use them 1 He took gramme from the very start, and bow doomed to deified by the people on account of his many farmers and workmen, as Cromwell had done, ultimate failure! Trades Unionism never faced benevolent works. The word Shan meats also and made them cofeels or generals, magistrates the great initial iniquity of the plonder of Labour to "report" or to make an official report. or ministers, princes or kings. Is it any by compettion wages, Trades Unionism never-Mercury- When it is coupled with the word "Pon" it wonder that the aristocratic countries-England, | held up the banner of Labour one and indivisible, expressess, the fact of an inferior official making Gemany, Austria, Russia-England, Germany All Trades Unlonism then tried to do was to SCOTT's Emulsion of Pare Cod Liver Oil with a report to bis Superiors. Such reports are Austela, Russia where birth alone made keep up weges where they were, and to save the Hypophosphites, is the most valuable remedy. called "Shun Pos"

possible rule, military, Daval or civil, would not skilled workmen. It tinkered the old, worn-cat, for Consumption, Scrofula. General Debility, The word "Hu" or Fa-Foo is a proper literary could not rest till this man had conquered them kettle, and by letting a part of Labour, large in Wasting Diseases of Children, or classical name of Shanghal and is understood or they him?

itself but comparatively quite small, enjoy a mild Coughs, and Bronchitis that has ever been by any Chinese when it is used even without any The vast bulk of the English "National" competency, robbed Labour as a whole of its produced. It is very palatable: It is very fat- prefix, or affix, but the word "Shun must be Debt, then, is the history of the frantle and at best men-formed an aristocratic class in its own tening and strengthening. It will ease at once coupled with the word "Chlang" or "Klang." last successful effort of the British aristocrats to ranks to trample on the mass below it-put off the most violent cough and will give bath.com- "Chiang" or "Klang” is “River" So "Shus overcome Napoleon, and the ideas he incarnated, the day of a final reckoning for a whole geners fort and strength to the sufferer, I possesses Chiang or "Klang "Is also the classical rame of and strangle republican France fato humility. tion, and made the victory of the middle-class the combined virtues of these popular remedies Shanghal, and in literature, the Klang" often This debt was not all merely expenditure on the utter and complete. It did more and worse! As in their fallest form. Any Chemist can supply dropped for the sake of brevity,

army and the navy. It came also from the the tide of democracy-and that is the tide of The circulation of the Shus Poa vades from gigantic subsidies paid by England to its Labour-glowly roze, this better class took the S. Watson & Co. (Ltd.), agents li

Hongkong and China.—{ Advi. 10,000 to 30,000 copies dally. This paper is the miserable allies the kingly cut-throats of Berlin, bribe of an extended franchise to support the greatest organ of public'opinion in China.. It is. Vienna and St. Pelmburg. Well, at last they aristocrat and the middle-class in retaining the read by the Emperor, the Empress and all the succeeded. Napolma was sent to be worried to abominable status quo. They took this bribe high officials in overy part of the country. The death in St. Helena, and France trembled under from Diell in the Reform Bill of 1867, and Hu Pos has made strenuous efforts to compete * throne supported by foreign bayonets, and they gave him bis Imperialistic and fingo with it and has been rewarded with some Europe was

Dictatorship of six years, from 1874 to 1880. at perce success. It issues about 9,000 copies daily. So much for the mle of the genuine British This is the history of "Representative Govern-

Tientsin had a paper the Chinzir Timis, but | gristocrats. By 181y, Bowever, the date of ment," the history of the degradation of Labour !, has it no more. It died last month from Inan!» Waterloo, the brandnew aristocrats had added | And what a succéss it has been, what a success tion and nonsupport, but there is still a Chinees | solidity to the body and force to the enervated | for the robbers, great and small, whose ease and Times in the Chinese language living--a paper | souls of their dissolute predecessors and partners. | wealth his sprung from it 1. The tolling and about a years old-with a very limited dreals. But more! The potent middle-class, the shop. | starving millions—the London labourer and the tion.

keepers, had come upon the scene. Their country agicultural labourer reduced to the level At Peking Is the King Pon or the Peking | power, though real, was wholly unrepresented in of brute busts-man, wife, and children to be Gazette a daily lusue. It is an official organ and | the legislature no less than in the services supported on a wage which averages under tos, prints nothing but the Imperial Decrees and Napoleon called England a nation of shop a week-a great swarming mass of stupid and official rescripts. It circulates all over China keepers, because he saw that it was from the debauched humanity, there are the foundations | CHINA and is found to all official Yamens, schools and shop-keeping class that the floods of wealth on which is reared the stately edlice of British colleges and among people of high education and which paid her soldiers and sailors and sub-liberty," "the unexampled progress," "the wealth Besides Decrees and Rescripts, it can- sidized those of her ailles proceeded. He did Justice and mercy of a Christian civilisation of telas the decisions of all important civil or not see that the middle-class was then merely Represantolive Government 1 Representative criminal cases and the memorials of cenata and | the tool of the aristocracy. And for long the Government? Representative of what? Tako high officials.

middle-class did not see it, Then began its | the roll of te legislators insed by the Pall Mall A noteworthy fact is that the United States mwakening, and with it the horn of the Anal || Gazette, and run it through. Out of the 6oo and supplies nearly all the type, used in printing agitation against "rotten boroughs," "Rotten odd men who make up la House of Commons, Chinese papers and books. Formerly wood was boroughs" were boroughs returning the will you find 40 who have not been educated at employed for the purpose exclusively, The nominees of the great "nobles. Originally the English public-school-at Eton, Harrow, Tollo wood types were hand made and quite expensive they had been under the control of the Crown, Rugby, Hurlborough, and the like 7' Will you With great care they lasted a long time, but that is, from their foundation under Edward find five genuine working men? You will not! with hard work wore out in a few months. VI. (1547) right up to the expulsion of the Gentlemen and rich shopkeepers, these and none Their carving gave profitable employment to Stuarts and the fall of the power of the kings, but these; lawyers, officers, and men of leisure thousands of artisans in every city of the Empire. The middle-class had the numbers on their of the aristocratic schools, and the tribe of caple Hope Most of these type: cutter were ruined by the | side, and they had plenty of money, The tallats and employers, these are 99 per cent. of Victoria Fak Introduction of the American metal type, which result of the combat could not, then, long be this "Representative Government. But what are now found in not only the const cities but far | doubtful. In. 1832, Recordingly, after having, Australian needs to be assured of this when he up in the interior. In the last five year Euro- und the Masses is their cata-paw in all the can see win his own eyes the class of men wha pean type founders have endeavored to gala a - more dangerous pans of the work, the aristocrats: have hitherto "represented" Aím? Squatters, Husan foothold, is tile ngekel súd have made mich HFD - gave way the form Bill was passed, the 1 lawyers, doctors, employers, commission-sgenii,

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HONGKONG TEMPERATURE.

(From Mans, Gao, Walconat & Ca's Register,

Today.

Barganet e COREY MA Tharamamaga a abaratorike

Thera matar atk. (Wat beibi Thermata- .. Thermoser

(do) Tharanikazioa amesanajanje Sharinmontamulikula aut(rowar wakt

COAST METEOROLÒGICAL

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STATION.

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الوسوم Magad

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"FORMOSA," Captain Hall, will be despatched for the above Ports on TUESDAY, the 18th instant,

at NOON,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,

General Managers. Hongkong. 15th August 1801.

PUBLIC AUCTION,"

“HE Undersigned has received Instructions

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HTRACK.

OUSES at the Peak, and at BELILIOS

ROOM and SHOP in BRACONSFIELD Queen's Road.

Consignees wishing to receive their Goods on the Wharf are at liberty to do so, This vessel brings on Cargo:- From Trieste, ex SS. *IMPERATRIX,” transhipo:fat Bombay.

From Calcutta, ex S.S. "SELENE,” tran- shipped at Colombo.

No Chims will, be' admitted after the Good have left the Godowns,and all claims must be sent in to the Undersigned before Noost on the 19th inst, or ther 'will not be, recognited.

No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the igth Inst., will be subject to rent.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 13th August, 18gr

THE CHINA SHIPPERS' MÚTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM LONDON, LIVERPOOL, AND

SINGAPORE

THE Company's Steamship OOPACK* having arrived from the above Ports, Coustonces of Cargo are hereby informed that their Gooda are being landed at their risk, lato the Godowns, of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, at Kowloon, whenca delivery may be obtalued.

have left the Godowns, and all claims must be No claims will be admitted after the Goods

sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before | Noon, co the 18th Inst, or they will not be

recognized.

Ail broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godawas, where they will be examined on the 17th instant

No Fhe Insurance has been effected, and any | Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 18tha”

inst, will be subject to rent.

Optional cargo will be forwarded unless notion to the contrary be given before, at 5 pe TO-DAY.

'Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co. Agents. Hongkong. 11th August. 1841.

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Į PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

NOTICE

Co ONSIGNEES of Cargo per Steamship

sido.

"CHINA

The above Steamer having 'arrived, Consignses: of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Countersignature, and to take ARCADE,Immediate delivery of their Goods from along Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees risk and expens

J. S. VAN BUREN,

Agent. Hongkong, roth August, 1841.

GODOWNS in Duddell Street, BUNGALOW, "DELMAR,” YOW:His-te..

Apply to

BELILIOS & Co. Hongkong, 15th August, 1801.

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Intimations.

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHIA,

(Sole Agents for Mike Coal Mine). HAVE OPENED THEIR BRANCH HOUSE IN SINGAPORE, from 1st July Instant.

1.00

Tilt Address-M Mileul,” Singapore. *New Building, Battery Road, Singapore.

2003

PG FALCONER & CO,," 1X7ATCH and CHRONOMETER MANU- W

NV-FACTURERS and JEWELLERS, NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,

MACHARTS and BOOKS, E

• No. 48, Queen's Road Centrali

FOR SALE F

BEST STEAM COAL.

THE Undersigned, having been appointed Agents for the sale of the WAN AN (Formon) STEAM COAL, are prepared to supply the same in any quandtics to suit bayers ?

VERY REASONABLE RATES,take

SPECIAL QUITATIONS TO LARGE CONSUMERS.` --

For Particulars, apply tow

TUCK YUE & Co,

No, 32, Praya Centrál

Hongkong, óth June, 18;