1899-09-16 — Page 3

ON ZEBRAS,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1899.

SHIPPING NOTES.

Contract for Asbestos. · The Admiralty contract for asbestos goods for the ensuing twelve months has again been awarded to the United Asbestos Company, Limited. It comprises Italian asbestos fibre

Victor metallic sheeting, tape, rings, and joints of all kinks; Victor" metallic packing; Salamander" cloth packing: pure "Salaman, der" cloth, tape; special hard-twisted yarn, and other goods. This is the fourteenth year in which the United Asbestos Company have been awarded important contracts by the Lords of the Admiralty.

"Submarine Sentinel"

Professor J. Cossar Ewart, in the course of a lecture on "Zebras and Zebra Hybrids." at the Royal Institution, London, recently, began by discussing the invisibility that had been attributed to the zebid at short distances, and described some of the observations he himself had made on this past. These quite bare out the belief that it was possible for a man not only to hear a zebra breathe, but even to rush loto it without being able to see it. Young rebras were less. casily seen than adults," but in his experi ments with a full-grown one he found that on starlight night it became invisible” at ten yards and in moonlight ai fony. After giving reasons for supposing that not so very long ago the horse was completely striped, he proceeded to consider why its stripes hd disappeared, A Corsican engineer named Orecchioni has and came to the conclusion that the reason was invented a new "submarine sentinel," being to be sought in the fact that they ceased to be "an electric auto-indicator preceding the vessel of any special use to the animal as a protection a; a fistance of 500 or 400 metres, and connect against his eneinics, Just as the horse haded with it by two flexible cables kept taut by been gradually losing is stripes, so the zebra, the propulsion of the submarine sentinel, pro he thought, had been increasing them, and in perly so-called, which moves by electric power. the quagga there was perhaps, an instance of} The cables convey the electric energy from the reversion..

generating dyan on board to the receiving dynamo contained in the body of the sentinel, and also transmit instantaneously to the officer on the watch, by special wires, an electric signal indicating the presence of any obstacle, emerging or submerged, such as the hull of a vessel, a wreck, sork, or iceberg." The inven tion has gained the grand diplôme d'honneur at the International Congress on the Saving of Life at Sea just held at La Rochelle.

THE SULU AGREEMENT. The following are said to be the terms of Agreement entered into between General Ilates for the U.S. and the Sultan of Sulu. The U.

S. will protect the Sultan and his people against all foreign aggression. The Sultan agrees to recognise the sovereignty of the U. S. The re- ligion of the natives of all the archipelago will be respected. The U. S will occupy such ports in the archipelago as it deems necessary. Pur chases of lands must be with the permission of the Sultan. Firearms are absolutely prohibit ed to be imponed in any form. U. S. courts similar to those in the Philippines will be esta blished, to have jurisdiction except over native troubles. The U. S. will suppress piracy.

CHINESE JEWS,

THEIR ORIGIN WRAFFNO IN MYSTERY,

China, da common with all the other nations- of the earth, hasart her jewish settlers, a caste whose origin was wrapped in mystery,. and whose descendants are fast disappearing, absorbed by the Mongol multitudes in whose midst the remnants dwell. In Chinese matin. scripts of the greatest antiquity (says Israel), the Taow-Kin-Kedow, or Separators of the Sinew from the Flesh, are referred to. They were also known as the Worshippers of Heen, Heaven, or the Deity. They caine from Sivti or the West Country. The date of the immi- gration is dureriai. Tradition states that they settled as early as 249 B.C., but the more probable peril is between 58 and 75 A... when colonies of these people were known to cxist in Kai Fung-fon, Hansho, Ningpo, Peking and Ninghin. Their language is a jargon of Hebrew and Chinese, with a distinct trace Persian. The possession by theur of the Book of Ezra proves that they were separated from their kindred after the date of that work, but of Christianity they had heard nothing. One sup position is that they formed a portion of the followers of Alexander's army, and by some they are believed to have introduced silk into the country of their adoption,

A JESUIT MISSIONARY'S DISCOVERY. The first discovery of Jews in China is due to Jesuit missionaries, to one of them, Father Gorani, in particular. In the account of them that he has left, he states that they were en- gaged in husbandry, and commerce. They also cultivated- learning, and some of their inscriptions pawe that members of the colony attained bigh rank-even to that of mandarin -ip their country, and gained the favour of their Emperors. One of these inscriptions, that date back to the beginning of the sixteenth century, records the high estimation in which the Emperor of that day held his Jewish subjects, on account of their integrity and fidelity in the magistracy, in the army, in agriculture, in com mence, and in the due observance of their re- ligion. They had great respect for the name of Confucius, and in accordance with the custom of the land they canonised their ancestors. In other respects their religious observances agreed with those of Jews in other lands. On the Sabbath they fit no fire, and all their meals were prepared on the previous day. The can. venant of Abraham was not forgotten. They intermarried only anong themselves. They attempted to make no proselytes. Their synagogue was according to the Jesuit's account, apparently built in a style similar to that of the Temple. It was situated in an open space, and included within its precincts a Holy Place and a Holy of Holies. In the latter the books of the Law were kept and it was only entered by the High Priest, the most striking portion of whose uniform was a scarlet silk sash passing over his right and tider his left shoulder. Father Coraui stated that the sound of their service resembled that which he had heard in the synagogues of Italy. These Jews have expec- tations of the advent of the Messiah.

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Shamrock

Sir Thea Lipton's "Shamrock." derechas been supplied by Alexan, South Shields, Cardiff, and London, with nautical instruments and compasses, the fatter, two in number, being of the firm's special patented designs. The binnacle-stands age of the best seasoned tilak of nent design, and are decorated with bands of shamrock leaves carved round the top and base, with a rentré-piece consisting of the shamwork,, rose, and thistle entwined, Surmounting the tentre-piece is the following lettering,

GO SODRAP DIA LINE"

of wages. Foreigners receive here the same rates of wages that are paid to British seamen

There is a great deal of nonsense talked and. written about the "British tar;”, but it must be borne in mind that he is not the only seaman in the world, and it is an indisputable fact that all the Scandinavian nations produce extremely excellent scamen. The sailors of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark were famous in out times, as Britons found out to their cost and although Englishmen would naturally prefer to see English ships manned by English sailors, yet such a resul: is one of the things that can never be brought about by any amount of legislation; it is simply a question of the survival of the fittest; and if British sailors want to hold their own on board British ships they must take more than one leaf out of the Dutchman's book, and they must take care to be not only equal to, but in all respects for surperior to the foreigner-Fairplay.

EXPANSION.

We take the following from an article in the August number of the Forum by Mr. S. E.. Moffen, entitled "Ultimate World Politics."

When we (Americans) discuss the subject of National Expansion, we should do so in the light of one momentous fact, the greatest, the most profoundly significant, that has ever con- fronted the human race. It is this-that the definitely, for the first time in history, the in- movements now in progress are about to settle

ternational relatious of the whole earth.......... Some of the elements of this settlement can be clearly foreseen. There is room for only three World-Powers-Great Britain, Russia, and the United States. The French train

colonial

nol survive the stress of war with a great sea Power. So is that of Germany. The most formidable nations of Continental Europe, outside of Russia, must sink to the rank of second or third-class Powris. Europe. in of the

the face. of the World Powers next century, will exactly reproduce the condition of Greece in the face of Macedon and Rome. The rivalries of France, Germany, and Austria will precisely parallel the rivalries of Athens, Corinth, and Thebes before hare This, however, being in Erse characters loner. National power must have a solid basis

of population and territorial extent; and, cramp caused considerable speculation as to its mean-

ng, which I find is the motto of Saint Paitick, ed in a few hundred thousand square miles

nd says Ireland."

cach, the Continental states must bievitably be dwarfed by the Powers that have had the fore- thought or the good fortune to spread over the globe.

New Pacific Line.

NOTANDA.

CALENDAR.

SEPTEMBER.

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Conventions, which are not treaties, but delight N.E. breeze, modemte sen, hazy, with clarations by the Queen granting autonomy to occasional rain. Amay to Swatow fine clear a portion of her subjects, will not be renewed, weather, fresh N.E. wind and easterly swell. So long, the Premier said, "as the Swalow to Hongkong fine weather, fresh Conventions were observed, so long as

E.N.E.. wind with moderate sea. Vessels at they were given their due vitality, I be. Amoy on the 13th instIrene, Meefoo, Jasan, lieve that every party in England was and barque Vale of Doon. At Swatow on the willing to recognise and sustain them. But 15th inst.Chefvo, Dagmar Phra Chula these Conventions are mortal. They are liable Chom Klas, Kiang Pak, Pakshan, and Tai to be destroyed; they can be destroyed by the cheong. act of the parties for whose beneft they were concluded. But 1 wish to protest against the idea that they constitute an immovable land. mark to which, whatever may happen, we shall infallibly recur. I believe the reverse is the case. Little as we are disposed to disturb these Conventions while they are allowed fair and honourable life, very few of us now if we could retrace the history of the last twenty years, would ask that the scal of England should be applied to Conventions in that form. Whatever happens, when the validity of these Conventions is impeached, I believe they belong from that time entirely to hisory. What will take their place I do not know, but it will not be Conventions in the, same style, I am quite sure that if this country has to make exertions in order to secure the miest clementaty justice for British subjects-I ath quite sure they will not reinstate a state of things which will bring back the old difficulties in all their formidable character at the next turn of the wheel'

Lord Salisbury is a great diplo matist, and no one familiar with the language of British diplomacy can doula that these words contain a menace which the milers of the Trans vant will chi well carefully to study. Any amount of time is allowed them. It has even been pro posed that they should join in a Commission of Inquiry to report upon the precise effect of desire to interfere with their independence, their recent alterations of the franchise.

if interprétext according to the obvious sense of the locols upon which the Conventions were founded, is explicity denied, but they must sooner or later concede the equality they pro wise or they must take the consequences. "We refuse," said Lord Selborne, "to give any pledge which would limit the means at our disposal to scure the end that we desire." We believe that this is, in effect, the decision of the whole country. Lord Kimberley, who leads the Liberals in the Lords, only advised “pation; pressure" before war could be considered justified; while Sir M. Campbell-Bannerman, in the Commons, unly regretted, as we also dn, that the franchise bad been made the pivot of settlement, and that the consequence of war, if it came, night be a deepening of the race differences between the British and the Dutch. The parties were, in fact, of one mind, though one was dis * Suggestions are being, made by the Trans-s The regions in Asia and Alrica which Great Siberian Railway authorities to the managers of Britain already has under mortgage will bring posed to display more patience, and to wait the Pacific Steamship Line for a working agree-

more hopefully for concessions than the other, her empire up to not less than 16,000,000 ment to be entered into with a view to divert-square miles, or one-third of all the land of the and, while waiting, was more adverse to any ing much of the Western Alangic traffic into Russia and Eastern Ruppe. The idea appears Persia, Central Asia, and Chin not to speak of the concessions ontst be granted, that there earth. Russia has within easy reach, in Turkey.ence of war. Buth, however, considered that to be that a line of steamers should be Europe, eugh territory to raise the total area

must be guarantees as to their finality, and it established to run between the terminals of the of her dominions to fully 13,000,000square miles.

if they were refused, but one deplorable alterni Siberian railway and Sin Franson, Scaule, What then, will be our position? Including ative would remain. This is clearly the in- etc., on the other side of the Pacific. Negotia-Hawaii and Puerto Rico, we have 3013127 Cape, and, we fancy, upon Pretoria, where the pression produced by the debates upon the tions will toulless proceed for some time, and there are considemble difficulties to be over

lealing Beers are sullenly awaiting foller reports and more complete details as to the come, whilst the ultimate success of the scheme is problematical. The cost of carrying the pro duce by rail from: Nicolaiefsk or Vladivostock

meaning of the Commission which it is proposed to them to appoint. across Russia will be a serious item to face, but if specially low rates are given by a paternal Go. vernment there is no inherent impossibility, in the proposal, and it may come to a pical issue before long ; particularly if political cyat siderations in regard to a Russian-American alliance are allowed to outweigh mere pecu- niary interests. Undoubtedly a powerful chain of communication would be formed if Russian enterprise succeeded in connecting the Eastern terminals of Russian taitways with the Westem shores of America, some 1,300 miles distant,bers of the English-speaking race. That would and the progress of the negotiations will he watched with interest, not only by politicians. but also by the shipping interests of this country, already threatened in more than one direction by schemes of Russian origin.

"The Supply of British Seamen."

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Some, correspondence appeared in Standard recently €11 The Supply of British Seamen," the writers making reference to Mr. Ritchie's speech on the ne casion of the distribution of prizes on board the Worcester. The first letter is from Mr. R, J. Corurvall-Jones, of Croydon, author of a

History of the British Mercantile Marine." After remarking that the influx of foreigners into our mercantile marines becoming year by year a more and more serious matter," he says:

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square miles. If we annes the whole of the Philippines, we shall have 3,737,455 We may expect that, somer or later, Cuba and the rest will give the United States in all something over of the West Indies, will gravitate to us. That 5,80 sare miles. As our national temper

We do not suppose that very much is expected does not permit unprovoked aggressions upon from this Commission, yet we think it judicious and right to have proposes its appointment. It our neighbours, there is no other important feld of expansion ppen to us, unless Canada and gives the reasonable party among the Dutch at Mexicu should voluntarily cast in their lots the Cape, in the Orange Free State, and in the with ours. If that should happen, we should Transvaal itself, time to exert their weighty have a splendidly compact domain of about idence, and either persuade or coerce the 7,900,000 square miles,apable of holding itsstigate Dopper minority whom Mr. Kruger own under all conceivable conditions. But it represents. If the Commission makes it clear would still rank only third in. territorial extent.

that the British demands have been granted, then all ground for immediate quarrel will have been removed, while if it shows the contrary, the Boers will gain the opportunity, very soothing to their national pride, of making the further concessions required in the shape of a declaratory Act, explaining and enlarging the provisions of the very obscure statute they have already passed. Time is secured to them and Gali opportunity of reflection, and it is difă- cult to doubt that with these advantages they will be able at last to compel themselves to yield. They know, they must know, that if ike British are united they are invermatched, and these debates will convince them, if they understand politics at all, that, to the extent of demanding proper treatment for foreign resid- ents in the Transvaal, the British are united, Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman desires to start for the goal later than Lord Salisbury, and even in his annoyance cries out "false start," but both are determined to arrive, The Boers

Another alternative is a reunion of the men-

wake us sharers in a dominion of 20,000,000 square miles, commanding all seas, and em- bracing half the population of the world. What- ever the rest of mankind might de, the people of such a domain would be secure. So far as international relations were concerned, they would have reached the ultimate stability; the planet would contain nothing outsitle Their borders that could endanger them......

THE DEBATES ON THE TRANS-

VAAL.

the luxury of treating Englishmen more nummer ous than themselves as a crowd pénible et scorvéeable à miséricorde.-Economist.

The debates recently held in the Lords and Cominous up the dispute with the Transvaal were in a high degree creditable to Parliament. With the surest exceptions, the speakers were at once temperate and firm, while they dismay keep their country, but they must give up There are many reasons that copduce to the

played a mastery of their subject matter sich gradual decline in the numbers of British mer-

as is rarely manifested except in a debate upon ghani seamen, and unquestionably one reason

internal politics. The long and rather wear. is the steadily falling rate of wages. The pay some controversy has, in fact, acted as education, of an A.. on board ships out of the port of and there was less dispute about facts than we THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL. London is now exceedingly low-two pounds

every remember in so grave a debate. The fifteen shillings a month being about what speech of Lord Selburne in particnlar was a Jack gets at the present time. This, to a great luminous history of the entire quarrel, as it extent, is the result of diis foreign competition. Scarcely a ship now leaves London or any oft have been related by one who though British in sympathy, was Boer by birth and our great ports without a very considerable antecerleats,

We can imagine no narrative percentage of her crew being "Dutchmen "... more entirely fair, and recommend its the sailor's term for foreigners, Swedes, Nor wegians, Fins, Danes. Germans, and Frenchmenerusal as reported in Timer of July 20 even to those who fancy diey understand are all Dutchmen to Jack. England is a Free fully the genesis of the quarrel. Here and Trade country, and the profits on all matters there, perhaps, mistake was committed. connected with shipping are now cut 'so ex- ceedingly fine, that so long as there are Dutchmen to be found who are willing to work for lower wages than English mercantile Jack, so long will shipowners employ them--and very naturally, too; but, at the same time, with the inevitable result of still further lowering the wages of the English AB. But, low as the present rate of pay is on beard British ships, it is higher than the foreign sailor can command on board ships of his own country, and so the comes to us; and, besides that, most English ships are better victualled than foreign ships, so that the foreign sailor gets, from his point of view, double advantage by shipping on board British vessels--he gets better wages than he would get on board his own ships and lie is better fed into the bargain, s.

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Bromeler...........

Meteorological means based on fifteen years observations to 1898.

29.82.1

77

$33

Thermometer

Humidity

Rainfall

TO-DAY.

Saturday, 16th September, 1899. Chinese--12th of Sth moon of 25th year of

Kuang-mi. Sun-Rises

Sels

High water--Morning

Afternoon Low water-farning .........

shr. 47min. "bh. min. Shr, train. 7hr. 33min.

Jione

ler. 5qmin.

Afternoja

ANNIVERSARIES, 1701--James 11. of England died. 1881-New Convention between Censany and

China ratified at Peking. 1834 Public meeting at Shanghai on France.

Chinese difficulty.

1893-M. H. Becher, mining expert, drowned.

at Pahang. 1896-600 Armenians killed at Klurput, Com-

modore Holland boisted his pennant on H.M.S. Pictor Emanuel, 1897-Attempted assassination of President

Diar of Mexico. 1948--Edict ordering Board of Revenue to

submit proper detailed accounts.

TO-MORROW.

Sunday, 17th September, 1899," Chinese-131k of Sth miren of 25th year of

Kwang-s Sun---Riste...

Sets

High water Morning

Afternoui Low water Morning

Afternoon ANNIVERSARIES"

5kr. 47min. Chr. pin. 6hr, zamin. phr. 5min. ohr. guin thr. 32min,

Clearances as the Harbour Omsa: Deuteros, Genmall str for Hongays Grufurg, British str., for Shanghai. Kong Pak, British str., for Canton.

angle, Chinese str, for Shanghai. Salvadora, American str., for Annoy Yikrang, British str., Tor Swatow, Mausang, British str., for Sandakan. Pak Kong, British str, for Canton. Chunsang, British str., for Samarang, tongkui, British sir, for Bangkok," Sabine Rickmers, British gtr, for Swatow.. Maidzuru Maru, Japanese str., for Swatow. Puchow, British sir, for Shanghai. ffaimun, British str., for Swatew, Triumph, German str., for Hoihow. Keongwai, British str, for Hoihow. Alesia, German str, for Singapore. Gaelic, British str., for Amoy

Kwai Lum, Britikh steam-launch, for Mücad Lightning, British sir, for Singapore.

Departares.

Sept. 16, Bengal, British str., for Europe... Sept. 16, Coromandel, British str. for Shanghai. Sept. 16, Gaelic, British str., for San Francisco. Sept. 16, Lighting, Britishi str, for Calcutta Sept. 16, Alesia, German str., for, Singapore. Sept. 16, Maurang, British str., for Sandakan. Sept. 16, Kanglee, Chinese str., for Shanghai." Sept. 16, Sandakan, German str, for Kudat. Sept. 16, Woosnug, British str, for Iloilo. Sept. 16, Rosetta, British str., for Japan. Sept. 16, Maidsuru Maru, Jap. str., for Swatow. Sept. 16, Loongmoon, Ger. str, for Shanghai. Sept. 16, Thaler, British str., for Swatow,

Passengers-Arrived.

F'er Loosok, from Bangkok, &c.-14 Chinese) Per aitan, from Coast Ports-Mr. Ping, and Mr. and Mrs. Hung.

Doparted.

Per Coromandel for Shanghai-Messrs. H. St. John Knight, T, Ross, J. Nosa, and Col. A. R. Fraser.

Per Rosetta, for Yokohama—Mr. G. E.-Pierce. For Nagasaki-Messrs. Correard, Kannabel, Yasuaka and 1 child. For Kobe-Mr C. E. Richardas.

Per Bengal, for London-Mr. C. Penticost and children, and Mr. P. M. Millar. For Mar seilles Mr. E. Kellner, Dr. and Mrs. Thomson and children. For Colombu-Mr. S. Haugh | ton, Master-GunnerE. Thorpe & Mrs. Thorpt.

For Singapore-Messrs. N. Ruchwaldy, "B. ` Raster, P. Mejias and Gonzalez.

Per Grelic, for Stanghai-Mr. P. G. Mollen- dorf, and Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Boyle. For Yokohama Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Nolker and servant, and Mr. J. P. O'Neill. For San Fran cisco-M. J. R. Benedict, Miss Virginia Craven, Mr. James H. Love, Cal. J. W. Pope, Messrs. H. M. Martin, Lai. Tai Wing, Dr. H D. Wilson, Messrs. Lee Shun, F. G. Bos-

1812-Moscow burnt. 1874--Hongkong Pier and Godown Co, closed. 1891 Decisive naval battle between the Chien, J. W. Terry, Geo. . Mehring, Geo. W. Ackermann, W. W. Cogging and A. Funk nese and Japanese squadrons off the

for London--Messrs. T. "Greidanus and K. Yalu River, the Chinese losing five

Gadelino. vessels.

15-Admiral Noel's ultimatum accepted by the Porte. Postaf system on Aresterii, lines established in China,

1897-Battle of Mahmund.

AGENDA.

TO-MORROW, ~~

CHURCH SERVICES,

St. John's Cathedral: Commnuniòn, 7 ani,

*Matins, 11 am., Evensong, 5.45 pu Roman Catholic Cathedral:-Mass at 6 a.m., 7am, 8 am, and 9.30 am. Benediction, 5.n.

Union Church: Services, 11 am, and & p.m. German Bethesda Chapel, West Point and

Moming Service, It adn.

St. Francis' Church, Wanchai ;--Mass (Chin,h 6 am., (Part.), 7.30a.m. Benediction, 5 PM

St. Joseph's Church, Gareleń Road :- Morning

Service (English), 9 am,

St. Anthony's Chapel, West Point:-Mass,

8.th.

Wesleyan Methodist Church: Services, ro.30

a.m. and 5.45 p.m.

St. Peter's Seamen's Clinrch 2-11 am and

6.30 p.m.

SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.

MAILS DUE. Gorman (Sachsen) 19th inst, Indian (Kronsang) anth inst. American (China) 1st inst. American (Doria) jotli inst.

Canadian (Empress of Chian) 4th prox. American (Nippou Maru) tojḥ pros.

STEAMERS EXPECTED,

Names.

From.

Due.

Ores:cs..

Singapore

To-morrow

Glamus

Singapore

Sept. 18th

Sachsen

Singapore

¡Sept. 19th

Singapore

Sept zoth

Singapore

Sept. 20th

¡Singapore.

Sept. 20th

Sept. 20th

Kumsang... Servia Candia... Kanagawa Maru... Moji........ Yawata Maru... Thursday Id....Sept. 21st Chisa

Japan Sept. 21st Kagoshima Mara. Bombay Sept. 2gth. Doric

San Francisco... Sept. 30th Empress of Chien Vancouver......Oct. 4th Nippon Maru......!San Francisco...Oct. 10th,

We warld direct the suention of shipping fema the style in which "Steatsers Expected"" and ""I Projected Sallings" are now published in these columns, and in se doing respect- fully urge the managers ofshipping firms to give ardute to pled gratis with the latest available information every day. their clerks to Bernials this office, on the forms already ang

PROJECTED SAILINGS.

Ship,

Destinationi

Date.

Airlie

Sydtiey, &c..........jOct, 2nd- America Mara San Francisco, &c. Nov. 14th Andalusia ........flanie, &c.

Nov. 15th Argyll ............ New York, &c......Qk desp. Bayem... Strails, &c.

..Nov. 8th

Belgian King .....]San Diego, &c.

Oct. 31st

Candia

london, &c......

¡Oct. 21st

Canion

..London......

Sept. 21st

Carlisle City San Diego, &c. Carmarthenshiro San Diego, &c. Challenger...

New York

Sept. 20th

Nov. 15th

Ok, desp.)

"The Silk ex Co.'s sigamer Glenogle, arrived | Deric. in New York on the 13th inst.

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The T. K. K. steamer Nippon Maṛu with nails &c. left San Francisco for this part Honolulu, Yokohama, Inland Sea. Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai on the 12th inst.

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOS DOCK RETURNS,

nt Kowloon

Cosmopolitan

19

Emp. Chinn Emp. India

Emp. Japan Futami Maru.... Gaelic Glenogle

Haiman..

Haitan......

San Francisco, &c.(Oct. 3rd

China City of Peking..San Francisco, &c. Nov, zist City of Rio

San Francisco, &c. Oct. 27th Coptic

San Francisco, &c. Nov. 4th San Francisco, &c. Oct. 10th Vancouver, &c......Oct. 25th

Nov. 22nd Sept. 27th Thursday 15, &c... Sept zotl n Francisco, &c. Nov. 30th Victoria, B.C... Oct. 17th Swatow, &c. ||Sept. 17th Swatow, &c... Sept. 19th Heidelberg Harre, &c. Nov. stb Dock. Hongkong Maru San Francisco, &c. Sept. 23rd Indrani............New York, &c...... Sept. 18th Kagoshima Maru Kobe & Yokohama Sept. 29th Kanagawa Maru. Marseilles, &c......Sept zand Künig Albert... Straits, &c. Dec. 13th Kosai Maru. Vladivostock, &c.. Sept. 28th Kweiyang

Tientsin

Sept. 20th Lennox.......

Victoria, B.C.... Nov. 4th Maidzuru Maru...Swatow, &c. Sept 17th Monmouthshire..Victoria, B.C.......Oct. 7th Nippon Mart San Francisco, &e Oct. 19th Nürnberg Hayre, &c.

Sept 26th Shanghai.......Sept 29th-

Straits, &c. ....... Jan, rath New York, &c......Oct. 4th: New York, &c......Sept. 23rd Straits, &c. ......Dec 27th London..... Sept, zath Marseilles, &c... Sept. 21st Japan

THE ONLY SURVIVING CONGREGATION. Another account of a Christian expedition in China contains a report of an interview between a Clineso Jêve and a Jesuit Father. The former recognised the characters of a Hebrew Bible, but was unable to read them. He said thai there were ten or twelve families in Peking with a synagogue and a copy of the Pentateuch that had been preserved for over 500 years.. There was also a large Jewish population at Hannsho with several synagogues. In other parts of the Celestial Empire, however, the Jews were dying out on account of the want of places of worship. They possessed the: Fen- tateuch, which they called the Canonical Book. Esther, Ezra, and Maccabees Baron de Lacy computed the age of their existing copies of the Torah as dating back no further than 1620, and these had been greatly damaged in the inunda ation of 1642. Their former set was, according 10 his account, destroyed by fire about 1600, while a still earlier one was lost in 1445, when the Hoangho overflowed its banks. In a paper The writer is entirely wrong as to the current read before the North China Branch of the scale of wages for A.B.'s in London. The Roy 1 Asiatic Society in 1859, reference was ordinary wages of the port at present are: maile to a description in an ancient record of the Atlantic 64 ios. per month, Suez, etc, 3 ras. service of the worshippers of Heen. These to £4, Mediterranean 44 5s, Baltic and Bay with the Dutchmen of South Africa. As services were held in a foreign tongue by two£4 55. Seeing that lie wages paid here are grades of officers corresponding to Rabbis and much higher than those mentioned by the Scribes. Another authority,, Barrow, states, writer, they must, according to him, be very that many of them forsake the religion of considerably more than whatthe foreign seamen their forefathers, and arrive at employment, in

are getting in their own countries, which dis the State. Few anlong them, I understand, poses of the assertion so often made, and except the Rabbis, have any knowledge of the repented by An Ex-Apprentice," who also Hebrew tongue." The only congregation that writes to the Standard, that shipowners has survived to the present day seems to underpay the British seamen they empley be that of Kai Fung für In his town, no and resort more and more to "Dutchmen," less than seventy families originally, sett because their profits only allow of foreign placed on terms of equality; and, thirdly, that value, an investment in them inust obviously. Jed—but they numbers have dwindled con---labourg Mit zurewalls fanes with minskat beer, the antitube in the sture of a very long lock uppe siderably, and now. barely reach the total of the foreign sailor does not get inmk-toing been treat ever since as a subjugated" | "Economist, seven familiesThese are considered by the anything like the same extent that the British people, neighbouring Chinese a sect of Mohammedans, sailor does;"" that the Dutchinan' is pretty ordinary cleamess and force by Lord Salisbury statement repeated, with extra- They have had ho Kabbi since the beginningsure to turn up on sailing day, and to turn up himself. This, it was agrued on all sides,

The report of the huge undertaking in the success of which the citizens of Manchester are so deeply interested, not to mention the large body of general shareholders, shows that there is a long hill to climb before even the fixed and cumulative capital charges can be met, For the half-year ending June 30th the gross revenue of the Ship Canal proper amounted to 124,183, and the expenditure Mr. Chamberlain laid too much stress upon to £91,350, leaving a net balance of £32,826. which can hardly ise at stake in a dispute with ditional net revenue the necessity of defending British prestige, The Bridgewater canals furnished an ad- Isla de Cuba......

of £21,904, making fala de Latton a State so far inferior to Great Britain in a balance available to meet fixed charges Carlisle City.... extent and in resources, and we connot think anaouling to £55795. The interest on H.M.S. Bonaventure. he was wise in sneering so, bitterly at Mesurs debentures issued to the public requires Fether Schreiner and Hofinery's readiness to accept 41.742, aongage on-surplus-lands-absorbs Legazpi, proposals from the Transvaal. Those gentle 1,000, and the interest on the debentures men. Have, no doubt, a certain sympathy ich by the Manchester Corporation amounts D: Juan Austria with Dutch settlers--t strong party feeling, to 112,500, making a total sum of £158,242. C. C. Klan anxious for compromise, ant as they are the half-year of £102,447. A comparison with the

fact---but as they must be sincerely | There is consequently a deficit for the Taiyuan chief men in a colony where the colonists, are corresponding period last year, however, shows

PASSED THE CANAL. wiser to overlook that, and while regretting gross receipts of the Ship Canal showing an August-Kawicht Maru, Si, Gottarda, 2nd of mixed nationalities, it might have been that some progress is being made, the Outward-11th August-Laos, Savoia, 18th that they were not entirely British to have increase of 17,488, while the total net balance August Abergellie, Acar, Afghanistan. accepted-their-efforts us in intention sincere expanded by 11;126. For the past half year, 25th August Glaucus, Sam, Java, Orestes, Nothing puzzles a doubtful friend like entire therefore, the company is able to pay the inadimir. 29th August-Andalusia, St. Mary, confidence in the sincerity of his professions.terest on all the debentures in the hands of the Sachsen, Odessa, ist September-Rentaris After all, we are striving for peace, and public, whereas the revenue last year fell short gou, Bingo Maru, Omba, Tonkin. whether we obtain it or not, we have to live at £2,073 of the sum required for that purpose. Homeward-1st Sept.-Kamakura Maru, to the Manchester Corporation on accoun least for a generation on terms of equality There is also a balance of £10,093 to go

Yangisar. a rule, however, the speakers displayed of arrears of interest. The amount al debit much largeness of mind, and placed the of net revenue account in now Z995,712, argument upon a high level, They passed as compared with £707,936 a year ago. over small details, and contended, first, that the Should the present growth of revenue be Transvial was not independent in any interna-

maintained it will be sonte nine years before tional or complete sense, its rulers, having no power to conclude treaties with foreign States; charges, and in the meantime a huge debt is the undertaking is able to overtake its fixed secondly, that they promised, when the Con being piled up for accrued interest. Although, vention of Pretoria was signed, that British and therefore, the £8,000,000 of preference and Dutch residents in the Transenal should be ordinary shares may be of some prospective

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of the century they have parted with their sephorim their synagogues have been long in rains, and they themselves are in extreme poverty, Almost, the last we find of them is a few sentences in The Taiping Rebellion in China, in 1861 wherein Kai-Fung-fu is refer red to as being famous to Europeans as the city in which the anfall and only tribe of Jews in China have their synagogue and carry out their roligious observanček.

sober" and that the foreigner is "more thrifty than British mercantile Jack;" and lie con cludes with the following remarks, which really approves the action of British owners in cimploying a proportion of foreigners, though the writer takes up an apposite siant when he, quite erroneously, as shown above, states that our owners pay low wages, such a5 22 159; per menth for AB's in London, and take "Dutch sien" with a view to bring about a falling rate

SHIPPING REPORTS.

Lourok, from Bangkok, va Koli-si-chang, re-

Captain Jas, B. Jackson, of the steamship.

and S.W, winds and fine weather." Bangkok posts:-Hongkong to Bangkok moderate S.E. to Hongkong moderate S.W. and N.E, winds with fine weather.

could not last, the Transvaal being a merc enclave in British dominion, and only important because British energy and industry fore, ndjured to remedy the wrong, lest it should had made it rich, and the Boers were, there- be necessary for Her Majesty's Government, however reluctant or, however patient, to have recourse to other means than argument. In that event, sail Lord Salisbury in sentences Captain Roach, of the "sicamship Haitan, which have not been sufficiently.quoted, the from Coast Ports, reportsFoochow to Amoy

Shipping.

Arrivals.

Parramatta

Preussen Ping Suey..

Pisa

Prinz Heinrich... Pyrrhus Riojun Maru... Rohilla Sachsen

Sept gath Singapore, &c...... Oct, rith

Marseilles, &c.......Oct. 6th

Sado Maru Sarpedon Serbia

London...

Suevia

Havre, &c. ¡Manila

Sengkang... Tacoma

Taiyaan...

Thyria Valenta Yawam Maru

TETARIOS, Gennan steamer, 1,574, T. Desler, 5th Sept.,Saigon tih Sept., Rice and General. Siemssen & Co. HALAN, French steamer, 377, W. Bast, 15th Ynensang...

Sept, Manila 12th Sept, General.—A. R. Many

“Eposok," Brush steamer, 1,070, }. 1). Jackson, |-

15th Sept., Bangkok 8th Sept., and Koh si-chang nih, Rice and Timber-Butter field & Swire. Hue, French steamer, 704, 1. Merlees, 16th Septa Haiphong and Hollow 15th Sept. General-A: R. Marty. HATTAN, British steamer, 1,183, J. S. Roach, 16th Sept.,-Foochow via Amoy 13th Sept. and Swatow 15th, General-Douglas, Lapraik & Co.

ST. HELENS, British str., 2,580, Luckhams, 16th Sept.,Sambos foth Aug., Kerosine. .-Meyer & Co.

Havre, &c.

Oct. 3rd

Oct. 30th.

Oct. 19th Sept.zand

Victoria, B.C......Oct. zist Pon Darwin, Rc... Sept. 27th San Diego, &c. Oct. 15th Europe, &c. Sept. 30th Marila (Direct)... Sept. 18th Japan Sept. 23rd

FTOW to gain Flesh and Strength. Take after each meal about a tablespoonful of Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Live Oil with Hypo phosphites. It is almost as palatable as inilk delicate children and sickly people suffering and easily digested. The rapidity with which

and thrive upon this diet is truly marvellous, from weakness and wasting, diseases improve As a remedy for Consumption aud Throate Affections and Bronchitis is unequalled by any other preparation in the world, "Any Chemist can supply it. Sote Agents for Hongkong and the Empire of China, Watkins & Co., Hon? kong Adv