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MARSKILLKS, November 8th. * Mall advices from Dahomey state that owing to the action of the Amazons in mutlisting pri soners, Colonel Dodds has ordered his men to glye no quarter to the enemy and to shoot all prisoners

The Governor of Porio Noro telegraphs that Colonel Dodds attacked the fortress at Macao on November 2d and captured it after a des- peaste fight. The Dahomans attacked the French column on November 5th, bat after four hours of hard fighting they were defeated, the French having one officer and six men killed "and four officers and slxly men wounded,

PARIS, November Bib. The anarchists are at work again here. This morning policemen found am Iron Instrument resembling a saucepan near the office of the Carmaux Mining Company, took it to the police station and began to examine it. It exploded, killing four policemen and wounding another fatally, wrecking the building.

When the consternation" had subsided a search was made of the station, and four bodies were found. They presented a ghastly spectacle, being horribly mutilated.. Besides the killed the Inspector of Police was mortally wounded,

So violent was the explosion that houses in the vicinity were shaken to the foundations, and the occupants rushed into the streets, fearing the bulldings were about to fall. Two stories of the Police building were completely wrecked, and the whole street was thickly, strewn with debris, It is not believed the men killed ever knew what struck them. They are so fearfully man- gled that death must have been Instantaneous, The excitement caused by the outrage grows in intensity, and many threats use minde,

BRUSSELS, November 8th, The King to-day opened Parliament in person. His majesty drove from the palace to the House of Parliament, The socialista were alert and large numbers gathered from central points, singing lustily the "Marseillaise" as the King passed along.

In speaking to the Senate the King alluded to the proposed revision of the Constitution, saying he was convinced that it was to be the work of

concord, wisdom and progress. His majesty referred to the general commercial depression, which, he declared, had been made worse by the rigorous protective tariff. Nevertheless, there was no diminution in the country's production ar ber commercial activity. For the ontlets of com- merce new markets were being discovered.

When the King concluded Janson and Ferron, Radical Deputies for Brussels, roso from their seats and shouted, "Long live universal suffrage.” As the King returned to the palace and the civic guards returned to their depots bands of socialists followed them, shouting for universal suffrage.

VANCOUVER (B. C.), November 8th

A special naval irain conveying about goo sallors for H.M.S. Daßkut, Nymphe, and Hyacinth mrtved at midnight last night, reven days and six hours from Halifax, General satis faction is expressed at the Canadian Pacific Railroad's arrangement for transportation.

PARIS, November 9th, The Temps, commenting upon the result of the American election, says: "Seeing that the campaign was fought solely no economic issue It is clear that the Americans feel llitle, if any, affection for the McKinley bill and the 'beauties of protection. The Americas people also have for years past perceived that the Republican movement was exhausted, that there was no "question of principle at stake, and that it was absurdly fullle to be carried away by the memo- ries of Lincoln and Grant,"

After the dispatches from Dahomey had come In today announcing that Cana had been captured by Colonel Dodds that officer was, gazetted to the grade of general.

MANCHESTER, November 9th. The strike among the cotton operatives has thrown 44,000 persons out of employment. A propotal has been made on the exchange to put Northeast Lancashire in order to assist the on half-time all of the mills in North and federation to fight the operatives. Some of the weaving sheds at Burnley are working on short lime while others are closed. The stock of the yards has become exhausted as a resulí of the strike,

PARIS, November gih. The excitement caused by yesterday's dynamite explosion is beglazing to abate so far as the people are concerned, but in political circles the feeling increases. There does not appear to any proof that the deed was done by Carmaux workmen, or that it originated in that thike. It seems to have been the work of Parisian anarchists.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1892.

cup valued at £500, and was offered by the Portsmouth Park executivo.

The Standard's Pails correspondent sends an account of an interview with one of the Italian anarchists, who declared that the anarchists would make no more attempt to blow up inhabited houses, because they always killed the wrong persons. Henceforth they would confine their operations to banks and town halls. He added that two of his friends had just left Carmaux and would be beard from before long,

PARIS, November 10th.

see-the subject of the Eastern routes was agato 'brought prominently before the public The Immediate cause was the Indian Mutiny, for when the 'nation recovered its breath after that terrible surprise, there was a natural disposition to discuss all manner of means for preventing a repetition of the catastrophe, and one of the means was a method for the rapid conveyance of troops to the East in case of another emergency.

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'he extent of 1,000 men per month each way would keep the ships fully employet, with the other traffic for which they would be avalible.

During the Mutiny the cost of sending but telafiurements ranged from Ler to £49 per mas, making an average of 30 per man. At this rate, 1,000 meu per month each way would cost £720 ceo per annum. That if the transport Asst. were at liberty to fillup with passengers, bullion, and light freight, the cost of conveying the troops would not be more than £15 ver man, if so much, and Government subaldy of about

Ford's Idex was that the ships should be bullt and owned by a Company, but should be always available for Government use to the extent of Government requirements in returs for the pay. ment of an annual subsidy, but also at liberty to fluo with private prasengers and cargo.

him. At the yames entrance crowds naturally collected around the foreigner and I waited while my card was being taken in, Seon the officer returned saying the "old gentleman" was busy, which meant that I could not be seen. But I did not intend to be thus publicly humiliated and saubbed. In a very few minutes news would have spread round the town and matters might have become unpleasant for us. I therefore told him to take the card back.and state that I insisted on seeing him and since I had received his card I It was about this time, then, 1858, that must be admbted to his presence. A third time Captain John Ford laid before the public some In the Chamber of Depaties to-day Frime the officer came bark and I then advanced and " "suggestions respecting the best route for the-

needed to avoid a prospectiva annual outlay of Minister Loubet asked that Wednesday be fired told him that I insisted on Bià immediately conveyance of troops to India, with remarks on £300,000 or £350,000 would be all that was for discussing a bill increasing the penalties that returning and admitting me, that this treatment the polley and advantages of establishing £720,000 on transport service may be tpflicted on newspapers publishing and this kind of politeness I had not been Improved transport service, which are well accustomed to. · Upon this the large doors were worth our attention as pertinent to our present articles that incite to murder, and pillage, The

thrown open and I had a very pleasant interview. purpose of tryping the links of Intercommunica. request caused much excitement, the members of the Right accusing the Government of weak. The magistrate was a Huuan man and I did my ilon between the Eastem and the Western

worlds. ness in regard to the Carmaux troubles and in best to enlighten him on many points. Soon

after I left be re'ned my call on my boat. Captain Ford's plan was founded on the dealing with the socialists,

He remained over half an hour chatting with us | propositions that the most natural,'propez, and debate the request was agreed to.

The spirit tax came up, and notwithstanding on religious and other subjects, I did my beat Independent bigt-road for us to the East is the the opposition of M. Rouvier, Minister of Finance with the official so that in future, when he meets

ocean'; that we ought to command that route, a foreigner, he may treat him with respect and and had not yet made the best'use of it ; and the Chamber decided by 349 to 145 to suppress all State duties on wines, beer, etc. The report courtesy, as I think he will. These officials travel that as the privilege of passing through Egypt of the Budget Committee declared that the allover the empire, never remaining long to any requires the acquiescence of one or more foreign adoption of such an amendment would entail. one place, so ia influencing them one really Powers, it is always liable to interruption at the deficit of 88,000,000 francs.

influences vastly more than a single individual. time of utmost need Anarchists continue to send threatening letters-F. S. L. In the N. C. Daily News. to Baron Rellie, president of the Carmaux Com. pay, and Reitz, special commissary. Another explosion of anarchistic origin was reported late last night: from Colombos, a rubarb of Paris. Anarchists Constant and Martin'say they are delighted with the result of the explosion, which was a "perfectly splendid" access. They further say: "We shall blow up all our enemies. Noae shall be spared. Plenty more surprises are in store."

After a heated

Commerce of Paris, entered into su sgreement M. Hiolard, vice-president of the Chamber of

a few months ago with the liquidator of the Panama Canal Company by which he undertook to form a company to continue the work on the Panama canal, in order to prevent the lapsing of of the concession granted to the old company by the Government of Colombia. The agreement Was signed by the liquidator July last and will expire on September 31, 1893.

Hielard's organization of a company provides that a syndicate with a capital of 180,000,000 france shall take over all the existing assets of the old Panama Canal Company and that the latter shall receive 5 per cent. of the new capital and one-half ibe net profits.

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The French have captured Cans, near Abomey, the capital of Dahomey, with the loss of sixteen Hilled and thirty-two wounded. This practically ends the campaign.

A TRIP UP THE POYANG.

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(To be continued)

GO-OPERATION IN CHINA.

THE VILLAGE THEATRE.

I.

Theatrical representations in China are the direct outcome of a certain form of co-operation Theatricals have also a special fonction in con- on the part of the proprietors and of the players become say other co-operative enterprises,

being employed to attract customers in fairs of furnished as a penalty for violating some law or custom. It may therefore be worth while to consider in a little detall some of the superficla! aspects of these phenomena. That the Chinese are very fond of theatrical representations is well known to all who live in Chips. The Chinese trace the origin of the stage to the times of the emperor Ming Huang, of the Tang Dynasty (died 762) who, under an alias, is sup- it is a popular saying that if the players neglect posed to be worshipped as the god of play-actors. to do homage to this patron, they will altogether fall in their representations, whatever these may be.

With the history of the Chinese, stage, we have In this connection no concern. According to the Chinese themselves, It degenerated from its ancient function of a censor in morals, and has become merely a device for the amusement of the people. Itĝis a remarkable circumstance that while the Chinese as a people are extrava gantly fond of theatrical exhibitions of all sorts, the profession of play-actor is one of the few which debar from the privileges of the literary examination. The reason for this anomaly is

In what we have to say of Chinese theatres we must disclaim any knowledge of them at first hand, that is to say, by listening to acted plays. There are several obstacles to the acquisition of such knowledge by this method, even were other difficulties lacking. Most Chiacse plays are laid out upon so extravagant a scale, as regards time, even several days. The most indefatigable that they may be spread over many hours, or European could not listen to the entire per- formance of any one of them, without becoming utterly exhausted. The dialect in which the actors speak is en different from the spoken language, that it is hard to form an idea of what they are saying. The tone adopted is that shrill falsetto, which is not only fatiguing to an Occidental heater, but almost of necessity unlatclligibic.

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The transport service of the time was certainly than unsatisfactory state. It was before the age of troopships, and when it was held by succesitve Governments that the employment of vessql of the Royal Navy for transport service was improper and undesirable, because calcu, lated to weaken, the defences of our shores and naval stations. The defects of the system were painfully evidenced during the Mutlar, for the relief forces despatched to India were from two to five months-on-the-voyage,

been mademis we have shown in pravicus The failure of all the attempts which had

articles—to establish steam communication with

the East round the Cape of Good Hope was discouraging, but they all resalted either from the mistake of auxillary steam-power or from The employment of Insufficient power and tonnage,

Capiain Ford understood the character of the past efforts when he boldly proposed the employ- ment of first-class tion screw steamers of not less than 5,000 tona register each, and filted with engines of not less than 1,000 horse-power. With such steamers he proposed to' average a speed of 300 miles per day-not an extravagant expectation so that the voyage to and from England and Cape of Good Hope......70 days India would be performed in 41 days, thus:- Detention for coaling at the Cape... 3π Cape of Good Hope and Calcutta....

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Here, It will be observed, there is no allow ance for monsoons, and the average of 300 miles a day is taken to apply to both eastward and westward pasanges.

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This was his idea that such vesicli as he proposed would have ample space each for 2,000 troops with their baggage and Armament, officers; and officers baggage, besides full rations for the voyage, and banker space for twenty-four days steaming. Only one stoppage, therefore, would be necessary that at the Caps of Good Hope, where, of course, Government depots of coals and stores would have to be formed.

from India at Gibraltar in thirty-six days, or at Upon an emergency, 3,000 men could be accom modated upon each of these wessels, and landed

Malta in thirty-nine days,

Now we see what Ford was driving at the character and always avaliable as an indispens-

creation of a distinct transport fleet of an efficient

able arm of the service.

but

The idea was a good one, and was supported also by the unsettled state of affairs in China, not only by the experience of the Indian Mutiny, which at the time seemed to promise any count of occupation for any number of years of, such swift and capacious vessels as Faid proposed. Such a fleet, he contended, would: and would incrence Its power without adding to give a ubiquitous character to the British army. it's numbers and cost. As to cost, however, out ingenious friend omitted to reckon the capital outlay and the annual expense of maintenance of his transport Lect.

We started, three of us, on our well

However, the whole matter was described as appointed house-boat at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 16th, from Kluking to make a

merely a question of steam-power, lonnage, journey up the Poyang lake. Our business was

and capital, as it is even unto this day to preach the gospel and to distribuie Scriptures said to be the degradation of the theatre by pan-bave paid as commercial enterprises in bis day Whether such steamers as Fort proposed would and tracts. An account of the journey,, dering to vitlated or even licentious tastes. To description of the features of the country, and what extent the plays'ordinarily acted are of this

may well be doubled, for boats of 5.000 tons the various incidents of the trip may prove not sort, It is impossible for foreigner to decide. had not then been constructed, uofnteresting to many readers. We were two boat- The truth seems to be that the general (theuse-made malice epsides capable of developing loads of foreign preachers and native evangelists, teal) contempt for the stage and its actors in 1,000 horsepower o a six weeks con- and quite conspicuous wherever we went. The China, is a product of the moral teachings of

tinuous run had yet been put together. Both first night we made forty-five down the river Confucianism, which uncompromisingly con

fron ships and engines were more costly in along a route well known to travellers by the demus the perversion of the right uses of those days than in these, and the initial cost of river steamers. Not far below Kluklang, in the dramatic representation. But while this (theore

such an enterprise as Ford anggested would have darkness of the night, we saw just ahead of ustical) view is the one which is constantly met, it

been enormicas. But then be did not look at it a native boat with a large light hung out just as is like many other Confucian doctrines, chiefly

from a commercial point of view alone. we approached, and apparently full of men. They halled us to pull up to this of course disregarded in practice.

remarkable for the unanimity with which it is

we paid no attention, whereupon they rowed to pull up alongside. There was no wind, and our heavy bost was forced ahead at a very slow rate by a couple of men at the yuloht. Hearing an altercation I went out and learning that the stranger was filled with pirates I wamed them off. Finding that they had to deal with boat as they had suspected, they made off for the foreigners and a foreign boat, and not a native shore and let us alone. This is the first experience of this nature i have met with so near an open port, and the Chinese officials ought to look out for these enterprising subjects just under their very notes. These water-thieves generally give foreign boats a

wide berth: they know that foreigners generally carry firearms with them and do not care to test the value of the prize at such a high probable cost, They are apparently content to take poorer and easier game.

When to these embarrassments are added the Late in the crening we reached the mouth of little stream where we anchored for the night.excruciating music, the discemfast attending the dense crowds, and the universni confusion which This is quite an important naval yard in a way, la no invariable concomitant of a Chiasse Here are made the scores and hundreds of small theatre, it is not strange that these representa A fortnight ago they discussed the question gun-junks which travel up and down doing river tions have far Westerners very few attractions, whether it was advisable to attack the adminis-police duty, and which are found in every large after the first glance has satisfied curiosity tration of the Carmaux affair at once or later, and many small anchorages. At daylight the This indifference on our part la almost unintelli The use of dynamite was finally decided upon next morning, the 17th, we were off again and gible to the Chinese. That a foreign traveller, and the explosion of yesterday was the result in a short time had covered the fifteen # that who is told of a theatre in fall blast at the town The machine was to have been placed opposite separated us from Hukow which is, as its name at which be expects to spend the night, should the house of the Commissary of Police. signifies, the month of the lake. The city is of feel no joy, but should deliberately push on so M. Lagasse, the lawyer who defended Raya kriss rank and is a pear affair all round. It is as to avoid spending the night at that place chol and who had seen that criminal before prettily situated and might be the centre of an this is to the Chinese profoundly incomprehen- his death, declares that Ravachel told him there immense trade. All the tes, paper and other sible With the excepiton of a few large cities, would be no danger of an explosion before merchandise from the south of the province passes the Chinese have no theatre in our sense of the winter because the machine required a certain this place to Kiukiang and elsewhere. It would term, provided, with sents, and enclosed by walls degree of low temperature for its preparation, be an Immence saving of labour and time if this and roof. The stage is a very simple affair, and and that was difficult to oblala to summer with convenient spot were made the entrepôt. The entirely open to inspection. Sometimes it is out attracting the attention of neighbors.

mouth of the lake is here about the same width built like a temple with an open front, but by far Yesterday's attempt corroborates the anter as the Yangtre river and is guarded on both the larger part of the rural representations of tions of Ravachol. All the newspapers deinand sides by two forts mounted with foreign guns. theatrical companies take place on a temporary the suppression of this kind of outrage with The fort on the Hukow side was destroyed by scaffolding which is put up for the purpose the pitiless severly. In the opinion of the Chamber lightning last year. The lightning, it was said, night before the plays begin, and is taken down several persons, An Investigation was held in resemble their ancient Grecian prototypes in due time and on the repart of the Governor to

that they are a migratory band, going wherever the Throne the official in charge was cashiered they are able to find an engagement. The stage because he had not exercised proper vigilance. requipments, like the stage itself are of the It will be remembered that one of the native simplest order, the spectator being required to essayists recommended Hukow as the site of a supply by his Imagination most of those adjuncts great national naval yard; he advanced some in the way of scenery, which in our days are strong arguments in support of his choice. carried to such perfection in the theatres of the Certainly there are facilities for just this kind of West. There is no divition of a play into work. This place in the site of the summer separate acts or scenes, and what cannot be residence of the late Pang Yu-lin, the great inferred from the dress, or the pantomime of the Admiral of the Yangtzo. A pile of walio actors, they must expressly tell to the audience, buildings situated on a great rock are visible to as for example who they are, what they all who travel on the steamers, This Pong was have been doing, and the like. The orchestra a great man in these regions, and was held in is an Indispensable accompaniment of a great dread. It was his custom in earlier theatrical representation, and not only bursts days, when he was a sworn enemy to all opium into every interval of the acting, but also clanga sellers and smokers, to go around the cities he with ferocity at such stirring scenes as a battle visited in disguise, and when he had obtained attack, or to add energy to any ordinary event. such information as he wanted he would com- Apropos of this resemblance between the mence crurade: against these same dealers. Greek stage and the Chinese, which must have In his later days he apparently degenerated and struck many observers, recent writer (Mr. H. it is said that his own guards, at this very place, E. Krebbiel, in an article published in the indulged regularly in the pipe,

Century for January, 1891) his declared that the Chinese drams is today in principle lyric drama, as much so as the Greek tragedy was. The moments of intense feeling are accentuated, not merely by accompanying music, as in our melodrams, but by the actor breaking out into song. The crudeness and Impotency of the song in our cars has nothing to do with the argument. It is a matter of heredity in taste, NC. Daily New

But it was to be more than an arm of the service engaged in peaceful times in the deportation of troops to and from India, and, if need be, China. Ford's plan looked to great extension of the general passenger traffic between England and the East, traffic which he judged. would develop enormously were Indo-British Colonies established in the different Presidencies. Public servants and other passengers would, be contended, be enabled to travel much more comfortably in these large ships, and would not be subjected to the, harassing and irritating changes and delays incident to a journey by of Egypt. Then the reduction of the voyage between England and the Cape of Good Hope to hold that Colony with fewer troops and would also conter upon the South African settlements "all the benefits, obtainable from so great an acceleration of the pestal, commercial;; and: transport services ***

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yesterday's explosion will "advance the return to struck the magazine and blew it up, killing the moment the last play closes. The play twenty days would, It was urged, enable us to

power of M. Constans by two months,

LONDON, November toth.

A dispatch received here states that while entiboat was taking passengers ashore from steamer at Jada ft capsized and twelve occupants were drowned

Colonel North has decided to send à string of horses to America next month to fill engage ments mado 'a year ago. These horses, which will be under the control of Colonel Themes P. Ochiltres, includ El Diablo, whose recent defent of Orme at Newmarket is still fresh to the public mind, Iddesleigh, Sir Frederick Roberts, High Commissioner, Rough and Ready, and Artero. They are to run for big handicaps while Eltham Queen, Antipyrine and Emita are engaged in the American Derby, Queen Teabella stakes and the Sheridan "stakes st Chicago. Several two-year-olds will accompany the contingent, which will be one of the most valuable ever sent from England.

Arthur J. Balfour has written a letter in which he says one of the most practical remedies for the fail in British exports will be to reform the currency in the direction of bi-metallism.

Joseph Chamberlain, writing on the same subject, peints out that the condition is as bad in protected countries as in England, from which he reasons that the causes are not principally in

the tariff.

There is another common rumour in connee tion with the man and it is that he made a boast that he would cut off ten thousand heads. He was one of the privileged few who could take off a head at his pleasure and report it to Peking after ards. He lost us time in getting to work The Duke of Portland, in a letter to his and got, in due season, to the aise thousand, tenants announcing his fatention to sell his nine hundred and seventy-eighth, when there lands, does not hesitate to say that the depres came to his cars the common talk of the people sion in the agricultural industry is due to the that he would die as soon as he had decapitated fren importation of agricultural products.

the ten thousandth. Thia.cauend him instar.

கட் The Sportiman announces that the great hand, and in recent years he despatched but stallion Ormonde will come back to England | few to the other world, and finally died without from Buenos Ayres in January, . It adds that quite reaching the goai he had set before himself.

he will serve here ten rares at 300 guineas esch. After breakfast we went ashore and spent before bis new owner, Wiliam McDonough, has him taken to San. Francisco, labana

The match between Colonel North's six-year

several hours preaching and selling Scriptures and tracts, 'disposing altogether of about three hundred copies. We had a better reception than

eld horse Nunthorpe and Lord Rosslyn's four. I have ever before experienced at this place.

(To be continued.)

TO FAR CATHAY.

XI.

A NOTABLE BCHIKE.

Ten years after the abortive enterprise of the India and Austrails Mall Packet Company year-old colt Buccaneer, run to-day at Portsmouth When I returned to the boat I found the magis- during which time the P. & O. had, bean Bask, we won by Barnett. The prite mas awake had sent his card down, so I went up to seeing the service with Chins as we shall presently

So that really Captain. Ford was anticipating both the Holf, the Castle, and the Union Lines, as well as the modern type of big troopships engaged chiefly in the Indian service.

His plan was defended as comprising there advantage-the establishment of rapid, direct, and independent communication with India by the ocean biɛhway the acceleration of the postal, commercial and military communications with the Cape of Good Hope; the providing of regular and speedy transport for the conveyance of troops India in espacious, well-ventilated ships; the supply of ample accommodation for the transit of large numbers of public servants nod general passengers, freed from the incon ventences at the Journey across Egypt; the parention of inconvenience to the pubile service through any stoppage of the overland route; an important extension of our mercantile marine an efficient substitute for the éveiland route should political events make that insecure; the creation of a transport service. available not for. -India-alone-hut for any part of the glabe in caseTM

circumstances. of need, at less cost than under "the existing

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Captala Ford's plan, indeed, exhibited great shrewdness, foresight, and grasp of possibilitles. But, of course, it was too much for any British Government to swallow all at once.---Boirplay,

SINGULAR BUT TRUE.

Co-day's Advertisements.

THE WONDER OF THE AGE.

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It is singalar, seeing how much depends on good health, that a little more pains is not taken to tropress on the people a fow simple rules for its preservation. Thus, bad drainage is the main canso of typhoid fever, which kill 20,000 people in England tion and loss of vitality unless well ventilated, not yearly. Small and low bedrooms engender corrump.

only in the day time, balat zight. An Ill ventilatod | bedroom is a froquent casso of sleeplessness. Okiläran

are especially sufferers from badly-ventilated bed-EO roops. That is the chief cause why children of the poor look ho sickly. It may be said that people have a right to be filthy. So they have, unless they are an activo nahoyence and danger to their neighbours. For that reason thore is greater logic in prosecuting a dirty thann drunken man. Wherodiacuse heralds neuralgis, tired aching limbs and other well-known its approach by such signs as indigestion, headache, symptoms, a course of Clements Tonio will quickly restore the

normal health, as fustaneed in the case of in Honor Judge Miller, who writes:--Oourt House, Winton, Quemiland, June 16, '91.-Last. Dscomber while

from Mattaburma te Winton, I veran while travelling enddenly sized with a violent attack of vomiting and diarrho. On my y arrival at Winton, Mr. Campbell (of Corfield and Fitzmaurice) poriunded me to take Clements Tonio; ona dono relieved me. I continued to FOR A FEW DAYS ONLY IN HONGKONG. take it for two days, at the expiration of which I wor completely recovered, and I have much pleasure fa testifying to the beneficial effects I axperienced from taking itGrauville George Muller, judge of the Contral District Court, Winton."

Scorr's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites, for Rickets, Marasmus and all wasting disoides of children, is very remark- able in its results. The rapidity with which

Scott's Emulsion' In cases of wasting in young children gain flesh and strength upon it is very wonderful. Read the following "I have tried

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Another point of considerable Importance," wrote Ford, is the prevention of inconventence to the public service, owing to any unexpected stoppage of the overland transit, as the passage A GREAT SUCCESS I vid the Cape of Good Hope will henceforth be performed in nearly the same space of time and with far more comfort i so that, in fact, the line of monthly steamers I propose will form an efficient inbaitute for the overland roule, which, however Indispensable to British interests, we may suddenly be deprived of at some momentous crisis, notwithstanding the increasing necessity for our retaining it. This proposed extention of our mercantile navy will be of the greatest utility to many respects especially if the aspect of affairs in Europe should become unsettled, "

Would it pay? Well, in the first instance, it had to be remembered that troops would certainly have to be conveyed to and from India every year. in all the years to come 1 for however much be made of the Indian Army, it was certain that we could not depend on it alone, and must always maintain a proportion of British troops in India, which proportion must be changed at short interi vals for canitary reasons. This propertion would haveto be larger in the future than ever it had been in the past, and was, therefore an annual item of expenditure of growing dimensions which could not be avoided.

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No, 525.

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