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The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES Not 5084.

CONTENT 8.

Births, Marriages and Deaths.

Leading Artiole

The F & O in the East," Shanghai in Eruption. Who was to Blame?: Partnership Registration.. A Public Dangerou Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. An Unexploited Field Mr. Pollock's Programma. Small pox in Canton." Telegrams!

Shanghai in Arma.

Mob Law job,

The Lien-chau Massacre,

Shanghai Emeute.

The Shanghai Riot:

An Alarmist Telegram,

Partnership Registration.

Shanghai Quiet.

Meetings

The China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld.

Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ld

Legal Intelligence:-

Criminal, Sessions.

'Suit for Rest,

Police.

A Question of Jurisdiction.

Correspondence:-

The Leper's Fund.

Robinson Piano Co. v. H. Price.

Wanchai Water Supply.

'Miscellaneous Artioles and Reports -

• Kowloon-Canton,

The L. C. Electioa,

Forthcoming Races.

Turf Topics

Hongkong Medical College.

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

(ESTABLISHE

listof at all doubtful. Possibly this outbreak is the best thing that could have happened The punishment which must follow will curb the insensate desires of the Chinese officials, and help them to realise that they cannot ride roughshod over the rights and privileges solemnly conferred on the foreign como munities of Shanghai.

the WBO WAS 20 BLAMEI

(19th December.):

神六拜三 敦三十月二十英推荐

A PUBLIC DANGER.

晚七十月一十年一十三慈光 SATURDAY, DECEMBER

with the British Company, bringing with Court. This was in direct opposition to the

the native population is not roused to fury partnerships, and who more capable of un- them fast up-to-date vessels, first-class ac treaty rights and against the spirit of the

over a matter which is largely academic dertaking such a duty than Mr. HE commodation, and a degree of readiness to rules which allowed an Assessor to sit on

Then how have the susceptibilities of the Pollock, x.c., the popular candidate for the obliga which was not always found in the the beach as adviser It is inconceivable

natives bech offended 2 Did they object to vacancy? P. and O. boats, passengers from Great that a British official could tamely submit to

see their Chinese Magistrato floated, if Britain to the East ignored the vessels flying have his' country's rights openly disregarded

he were flouted, and institute a vendetts their national flag and travelled by foreign and his own claims to be heard repudiated.

against his detracton, ending in a general vessels. The cry of Wake up, Britain" The ambition of the Chinese authorities

tumult which must have serious effects On two or more occasions during the echoed throughout the land, and the P. and to rule the Mixed Court after their own

no matter how soon it is suppressed 7 past few days, reference has been made in 0. Company determined to maintain that fashion and according to their native

Or rather was this the spark which our columns to the absurd policy of prestige which they had gained in the past, practices was not to be tolerated for a and to vle with their competitors, if not to moment. Frequently the Chinese Magis

set the smouldering embers alight, and, allowing the lower part of Ice House, Street, if so, what did the embers consist of? while half of it is under repair, to remain surpass them, in the class of vessels they trate and the British Assessor have come

It must be remembered that all accounts open to vehicular traffic. Pedestrians a d sent to the Far East, in the sumptuousness into conflict, but until recently the diver. We have received, under cover, a copy of are agreed that the rioters were unarmed jostled and splashed by the fleeting rickshas, of the accommodation provided, and in all gences of opinion, to put it no higher, have the English page published in connection and unorganised. That does not seem to and when a couple of these machines going those minor details which go to make life been smoothed over. At last the Magis with the S: 0. Dally Journal of Shanghai, indicate that the officials had a hand in the opposite directions meet in the centre.it on shipboard a pleasant dream. We have trate's superiors seem to have lost patience; giving the Chinese version of the events rising, although, of course, there are more is always doubtful which will survive the seen the gradual improvement which this Mr. Kuan was urged, perhaps commanded, which led to the rupture between the British ways of killing a cat than by hanging it contest for precedence. To day at nocident. forward, and we might almost say patriotic, to assert himself, and he did so when Mr. Assessor at the Mixed Court and the Chithe impression is left on the mind of the occurred at the Des Voeux Road endý policy has effected, Leviathans were Twyman was sitting as Assessor. It was age Magistrate, Mr. Kuan, and culminated. onlooker that there is something below all of Ice House Street, which showed how, placed on the Australian run, but passengers comparatively trivial matter that brought in the riots reported yesterday. So far it this turmoil about women's quarters in gaol, fatuous are those who persist in leaving the to the Far East had to change at Colonibe things to a crisis. Should a batch of girls has been the English statement of the case Had Mr Twyman, by any action unrevealed, thoroughfare, open to traffic so long as it is into small, old-fashioned vessels, whose ton who were said to have been abducted-which has been circulated, and in fairness to become a persona non grata with the Chin undergoing repairs either by the FW D nage was no doubt considerable, but whose although it now seems clear that they were the other side some attention might be ese? There are balf a dozen ways of or some private concem, Aricksha appointments were behind the times.

A the slaves of a Chinese lady who was charged given their version. According to the Chi accomplishing one's object did Mr. Twyman was rolling along Ice House Street to passenger would travel from London to

as the abductor-be sent to the Door of nese, the Municipal Council, through the adopt the most conciliatory or was he need wards the King Edward Hotel. At the Colombo on a modemi ten thousand ton-

Hope or the cells in the women's ward of British Assessor, has been sedulously endea-lessly rough and dogmatic? Taotai Yuan junction with Des Voeux Road: there is a ner, replete in every respect with the most the common gaol? These cells have ap.vouring to encroach more and more on the speaks of the "disgraceful trampling upon barricade which will only permit of the modern conveniences; great, roomy vesselsparently a notorious reputation, and the rights of the Magistrate (either by curtailing our rights." He declares that he will do passage of one vehicle at a time. The 'rick- which resembled floating hotels more than British Assessor humanely proposed that the his power over the prisoners or interfering his utmost to erase the shame inflicted on sha had just reached this point, when ordinary steamers. When they changed into girls be kept in the Door of Hope, a philan- In cases where both the plaintiff and defen the Chinese Government." He commends another ricksha, in which a lady was seat what was called "an old tub the difference thropic institution, corresponding no doubt dant were Chinese). As we have seen, that the Magistrate for "maintaining against all ed, appeared coming from the opposite war too obvious to escape comment. They to the Po Leung Kuk in Hongkong. Then is precisely the allegation put forward by odds the sovereign rights of China," and direction. There was a collision, of course, felt "cabined, cribbed, confined," after the the fat was in the fire. The Magistrate the British Assessor-that the Chinese applauds his supporters for their "exhibition and the lady was thrown to the ground, spacious freedom: they had enjoyed on the would brook no interference with his orders; Magistrate was endeavouring to encroach on of public spirit and of loyalty to country," falling between the tram rails. At that mo larger vessel, and starting with the idea that Mr. Twyman was equally obstinate.," The the rights of the former. they must necessarily be uncomfortable they Police, who were called in, obeyed the orders the Journal proceeds, "that the Assessor all for his country; not the speech of an House Street corner. Fortunately the driver "The result is," This is the language of a patriot who darei ment a car had almost reached the Ice growled and grumbled at everything on of Mr. Twyman and disregarded the em has usurped the place of the Magistrate, official who sees a way out of a difficulty by was on the alert, and the car was stopped The China United Services Rifle Association. board. That was not a pleasant state of phasised commands of the Chinese Magia while the Magistrate does not even enjoy diplomatic methods. We thoroughly be within two yards of the lady who was lying Activity at the Docks,

things either for the passengers or the offi-trate. There was a fracas, out of which the lawful power of an Assessor." These lieve that all the truth of this affair has not directly in the track of the oncoming tram. cers, and it was not profitable from the the police emerged triumphant; the girls are assertions, so far, without "illustrations, been told; there are wheels within wheels, Had there been the slightest hesitation Company's point of view. The anival of "were lodged in the Door of Hope. TheSo long as the Magistrate was a man the Delta at Hongkong yesterday was an

for sober men seldom give rein to their on the part of the car-driver a terrible thwarted Magistrate-doubly. resentful be caring only for the loaves, and fishes of his passions so plainly over a trivial matter that accident could not have been averted. The earnest that the P. and O, Company are not cause he had personally suffered an igno past, without standing up for his rights and the mob is incensed to riot. The British Indy was taken to the rooms of the Stock- inclined to rest under the imputation of minious defeat in the face of his subor the rights of his country, the Assessor and and foreign communitics may be right; brokers' Association and after recovering lagging in the rear, while others, their trade dinates, and had muddled the injunctions of the Police managed the affairs of the Mixed the Chinese may be right, but the Chinese from the shock was escorted to her residence. competitors, are rushing to the front. The his superiors-communicated with the Tao Court pretty much in their own arbitrary have put themselves out of court by Surely this accident, and the possibilities Delta is one of the most modern of the tai, a pro forma "proceeding, we have no way." Mr. Kuan Chun, the present Magis the behaviour of the rabble. For the emeute which it indicates, will induce the authori Company's craft, a vessel of over 8,000 tons, doubt. The object was to prove that Mr. trate, is described as an intelligent and well which occurred the Chinese authorities must ties to close Ice House Street to vehicular fitted up in a manner which must meet the re-Twyman was in the wrong, but there cannot educated man, while his assistant, Mr, King, be held responsible, and in the aftermath of traffic until the work of excavating the quirements of the most fastidious and finical be the slightest question that the dispute has resided in London and mingled in for the rising it is to be feared that the 'real or ground and repairing the roadway has been of travellers. After all, the average Britisher was a premeditated attack on the foreign eign circles. They would not tolerate the iginal cause of the trouble will be forgotten. completed in this locality." Pedestrians cal has a soft spot in his heart for the P. and O. rights in the Settlement. In Mr. Twyman arrogance of the Assessor or the assumptions It has been a mismanaged business from casily negotiate the passage, narrow as it in Company. From the time he was able to the Chinese officials found an Assessor who, of the Municipal Council, and the fracas at beginning to end; there does not seem to be but the irresponsible ricksha-puller should read, he has heard of the P. and O, and no while acting constitutionally, would not the Mixed Court was "but the conflagra much credit attaching to anybody for yester.be vigorously debarred from using the short doubt wondered vaguely whether it was an budge a single step from the undoubtedtion, the inflammable materials of which day's proceedings, But we would certainly cut to Des Voeux Road. At the beat times institution or a brand of something he had rights pertaining to his office and to the had long been smouldering." The question like to get an inkling of the actual facts Ice House Street at this section is far too not yet seen. The realisation that the P. Foreign Settlements. This is not an affair over which the squabble arose seems to have which culminated in the riot,

narrow for ordinary traffic; at present it is and O. Company was practically a depart which solely concerns the British community been a houe of contention between the

almost criminal to allow vehicles into the ment of the State, that it was the pioneer in Shanghai. If the Chinese Magistrate and Chinese officials and the foreign Assessora British steamship line to the East, was not those behind him had their way, the rights for some considerable time. The Assessors

thoroughfare. People in London do not rise In their wrath and slay the Government, "always accompanied by satisfaction; some and privileges-obtained under treaties, to demanded that Chinese women and girls times disillusion awaited him at Colombo, safeguard the dispensation of justice where should not be imprisoned in the Chinese

when they meet with a long wooden erection across the street bearing the words Street if he was bound farther eastward, and it Chinese subjects residing in the Foreign cells of the Court on account of their

under repair-No thoroughfare. Why being one of the great privileges of the Settlements were concerned--would have filthy condition the officials erected Britisher to grumble, he did so to his heart's been swept away in a whirlwind. Fortunate special quarters for females and we

follow the example of the metropolis and then should not the Hongkong authorities content, until he began nearly to believe ly the situation was realised by the British are told that all the imprecations be used were authorities at Shanghai, and not only were and Italian Assessors expressed their that the German, American

close this dangerous passageway against justified. Of course that was not so, but they prepared to uphold Mr. Twyman by satisfaction with the new accommodation.

'ricksbas and chairs ? the recreation afforded him infinite pleasure, diplomatic measures, but it is now shown Not so the Municipal Council, who insisted and it did no harm until alien lines ap that they were determined to enforce that Chinese female prisoners should be sent peared on the scene. The Delia removes their rights at the point of the bayonet to the Municipal Gaol, The Journal hints one of the last of his grievances...It is

he Taotai seems to have received the that the Municipal Gaol is not all that it credit to the P and O, Company, and to Chinese Magistrate's Bowdlerised version should be, that no Chinese, sentenced to a the flag under which it. Vails. There is no of what occurred and a strong remonstrance term of imprisonment exceeding one year, need to enumerate the good points of the from the British authorities almost simul ever survives, and that Chinese women ab Della, Everybody in Hongkong has taneously. Negotiations were instituted, but hor the place. The story of the disturbance

Wanchai Water Supply.

Hongkong Opticians.

Masonic

British Naval Miracles.

"

Departures for England,

Lusitano Club,

Marine Court.

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The Zorilla Company,

The Coast Ports.

Bazaar of Toys,

Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association.

Macao Noter.

Canton Nates.

Persecuting the Caristians,

The Lien-chau Tragedy.

The Outbreak at the Mixed Court,

Mob Law.

Anti-Foreign Feeling."

The Ewo Cotton Co.

Accident to the sa. Kaifong.

To Fortify Manila,

The Floating Mice Danger,

The Closing of the Gates,

Strike at Tanjong Pagar.

Hongkong Juoks Brunei.

Sir Currimbhoy Ebrahim.

China and the United States.

Commercial:--

Weekly Share Report,

Freight Market. Exchange.

Opium

Logal and General.

BIRTHS..

On the 11th December, at Shanghai, the

wife of HERBERT JAMES ANDREWS, of a daughter (still born).

1.

MR. H. B. POLLOCK, R.C.

On the 14th December, at Woosong, the travelled; we are all travelling every day. apparently no modus vivendi has been found. in the Mixed Court on the 4th inst, is recit standard of morality in business, but they and therefore the representative of the

On the 13th December, at Shanghai, the wife of ARNOLD LAMBERT, of a daughter.

To Captain and Mrs. HUGH MACKINNON, Hbangbal, on 13th December, a son, wife of Dr. ROBERT H, Cox, of a daughter.

On the 16th December, at Shanghai, the wife of THEO RUFF, of a son,

Dec. 18th-At the Peak, the wise of L. G. BIRD, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

On the rath December, at Shanghai, NILS ERICIAMELON MOLLER to IBANEL ELISABETH BLECHYNDEN.**

On the 14th December, at Shanghai, I. WM, MENNELL IO-LUCIE M. EDWARDS,

DEATHS.

PARTNERSHIP REGISTRATION, (20th December.) The mercantile community of Singapore as represented by the Chamber of Commerce Partnerships enactment by a majority of has rejected the proposed Registration of

to-day. thirteen-according to our special telegram pronounced in favour of the Bill through On the other hand Penang has

its Chamber of Commerce, There seems to be the greatest diversity of opinion on the merits of the Bill. It does not appear that

(arat' December.) any member of either Chamber has had the hardihood to suggest that the Bill is unnces to the vacancy on the Legislative Council The election of Mr. H. E. Pollock): Këŋ sary. The opponents to the draft measure created by the retirement of Sir Paul admit that it might prove beneficial to trade Chater is entirely satisfactory. As the nomi«. interests and to the maintenance of a high nee of the unofficial Justices of the Peace, Where people at home would speak of a day's It was impossible that the parties could arrived. We have had it ad nauseam, and we abject to the terms of this Bill. They simply Colony's most varied interests, Mr. Pollock journey with something like awe and respect, at any agreement so long as the Chinese will assume that there was a row in which adopt the non possumus attitude, which is so takes his seat at the Council with a com- the ordinary individual in Hongkong trips Magistrate, instigated by his superiors, main- the police acted as they usually do in such unsatisfactory to all concerned and especially paratively free hand. He is bound to no | away on a week's voyage with the airy light tained his irreconcilable attitude. Mean circumstances, by clubbing everybody into irritating to those who are seeking a way out section or clique; he has no advantages to ness of a suburban resident. Consequently while, the high officials were busy with an order. The question of the Door of Hope of the difficulties which beset those who see push for the benefit of any ring; and be we are generally acquainted with all the beat underhand movement, indaming the pas and all the rest of it may be laid aside, al endless trouble in the Bill. Although the can, therefore, take the broadest view of features that may be expected on board ship; sions of the people, fanning their native though it may be noticed that the, Chinese Penang Chamber has by a large majority-every question which comes up for discus we have become epicures in discrimination. antipathies against the foreign community in are great supporters of that institution. In the minority consisted of three members- sion at the Council board. Although the It will be sufficient, therefore, to say that the general, and the Dritish in particular, with the deed, they say the question about the Door expressed their approval, not of the Bill as last to come forward, Mr. Pollock was admit. Delia has all those features calculated to

denouement seems at hand. Everybody knows of Hope has been dragged in as a sort of it stands but of the attempt to frame a tedly the strongest candidate for the vacancy. please, and a few others. Thus begins the how rumour, niany-tongued, spreads through red herring over the trail. The real question measure which will meet the requirements of He has already bad experience at the Legis On the roth December, at Ningpo, ALBERT revolution in the type of vessels which will the bazaars of the East. The hint that is this-was the disturbance premeditated? merchants without disturbing trade, we are lative Council, but probably what moved the KLIENE, Tidurveyor and Harbour Master, be engaged by the P. and O. Company to riot was impending reached the ears of the and if so, by whom? The supporters of the now told that there is a considerable propor electorate to use the franchise in his favour - Imperial Maritime Customs. Age 61'years, run to the Far East. We have suggested that british authorities who took prompt measures British Assessor emphatically declare that it tion of the Chinese merchants in Penang who was the fact that his interests in the welfare On the 14th December at Newchwang, the P. and O. Company-especially under to protect the British Concession and, if was premeditated by the Chinese Magistrate, foresee trouble if the Bill is passed. The of the Colony and in the advancement of WILLIAM JOHN CLARK, the beloved infant the chairmanship of Sir Thomas Sutherland necessary, the entire foreign population. By who was impelled by his superiors. The whole aim and end of the Bill is to trade and commerce were wholly impersonal, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Wilson, aged 6has come to be regarded as a British great good fortune the cruisers Bonaventure Journal, voicing, the Chinese side, says: defeat the machinations of unscrupulous As a sound and busy professional man at months, and 6 days,

institution. The reason for that is not far to and "Astrea are at Shanghai at present. That the outbreak, was premeditated by traders and fraudulent bankrupts. seek. The Company have at the present Men-of-war's men have been landed, am.

The the bar, he has had long experience of the. the Chinese is without foundation, proved prime argument in favour of the draft necessities of the mercantile community. Ai time 59 vessels afloat and four on the stocks; munition, ambulances, field guns and stores by the fact that only some ten runners were Bill is that no honest and conscientious a lawyer he has delved into the most intri case of the Macedonia to 1,728 tons in the case the operations on shore, and the Volunteers by order of the Magistrates to prevent members of their partnership. If such an coming with an unblased mind to the task of those deerhounds the fris and Osiris. The are patrolling the streets. We may rest the crowd of indigeant and infuriated Ordinance were in operation the credits of has seen light where others, blinded by their four vessels which are being built are to be perfectly assured that the foreign popula Chinese outside from gaining access to reputable firms would advance in proportion own concerns have been unable to pierce. of 6,700 tons each. The tugs, tenders, and tion of Shanghai is safe against the at the Court room." The attack. is carried to the character and liability of their pari- the gloom. Moreover, Mr. Pollock is recog lour tone Commanded by the Company The first telegram recording the news of the ese assert that the police went to Court those in favour of the Bill are newly-estab-earnest ; he has proved himself to be capable total in ma fons and LECKS of any number of Chinese malignants, into the enemy's camp. when the Chin-ners. It has been said that the majority of nised to be painstaking, conscientious, and is 411,344 lons. The P. & O. Company is unrest prevailing in Shanghai was received that morning looking for trouble. There lished firms, but that can hardly be cited as of taking an impartial view of public ques thus well entitled to be described at one of at the office of the flangkong Telegraph, were sixty present when the Court opened, an argument against the principle of regie tions, and his popularity as evidenced this the premier steamship fines in the world, in a message which had been despatch and a telephone message brought a large tration. These new firms realise the im- afternoon is founded on the solid Integrity afford every subject of Great Britain the live to the telegram which Mr. Lenzmann, of few seconds. How are we to find the truth are dealing, who are the partners of the From the first we advocated the claims of Mr. particularly in the passenger trade. It must ed at 10.45 a.m. At 11.20 a.m., according reinforcement, armed with rifles, within a portance of knowing exactly with whom they which has been the key note of his career. liest satisfaction to see his country keeping Carlowitz & Co., kindly placed at our dis-between these conflicting statements? The firm to which they are asked to give credit, Pollock, as one in whom the unofficial Jus in the van, in shipping as well as in trade, posa, the riots had broken out but there Chinese press without exception condemns and what is the responsibility of the in-tices of the Peace might fittingly and in all and much of that enthusiasm to stand in the was nothing to fear." Then came the tele-the arbitrary decision of the British dividual partners. It should be possible to good faith put their trust. Some few of the forefront is traceable to the stirring ex-gram received by Mr. E. S. Joseph,Assessor. On the other hand, the English amend the clauses of the Bill so as to meet circle of electors had already pledged them ordium of the Prince of Wales, "Wake up, which took a more serious view of the situxnewspapers, in Shanghai are by no means the requirements of merchants, without selves, to vote for the other two candidates Britain,

tion. It stated that business is at a stand-unanimous in fixing the responsibility for the unduly hampering or handicapping trade who were in the field over before Mr. Fol still," Revolution has broken out "The outbreak. Nor are the members of the The suggestion that such a Bill if passed lock bad been approached. But, as we point telegram was in code, so for revoluForeign Settlements in agreement A into law will interfere with business has been ed out, those pledges were cancelled by the one of the best examples of the energy

tion" we may read "riot." The latest news Foreign Resident in a letter to the A. C. the bugbear all along, and rather than experi appearance of third contestant for the Inspired by the Prince of Wales's call in that'

that foreigners have been attacked and Daily News speaks of the Council overment with an emasculated measure the vacancy, and our argument in support of furnished by the P & O. Steam Navigation today from our Shanghai correspondent was and that the women and chidren have been The Chinese are coming to the point of There is much truth in a southern contem other two candidates were no

The disquieting news which we publish wounded, that so Chinese have been shot, riding the rights of the Chinese," and says objectors desire to sweep it out of existence that view was generally. Company. It was once a subject of every not altogether unexpected. For a consider collected and are under gird at the Coun, standing up for thelt rights as they under-porary's remarks that “a regrettable spirit of day remark that while their rivals to the able time the Chinese authoritica in the try Club is set off by the statement stand them, oren if it gives us foreigners a ultra-conservatism seems at the bottom of Far Eastern carrying trade, the Norddeut. Northern Settlement have been overtly seek that the rabble is unorganised and with shock. The fact seems to be that the ques the crusade against this sound ten in local scher Lloyd, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, the ing to exercise. undúputed and supreme out weapons. There is only this toon whether the women should be detained legislation. In view of the opinions which British India and the Messageries Maritimes authority over their nationals tried before be, remembered that the authorities may in the Court precincts or lodged in the have been capressed in Sing Companies were exerting themselves to the the Mixed Court. In other words, they have secretly support but cannot outwardly ang Municipal Gaol was a mere pretext for the the Bill, and the arguments utmost to capture that trade which bad for endeavoured to reduce the status of the courage the emeule 'they are bound indeed disturbance that occurred There is some objectors in Penang It so long, belonged almost exclusively to the Foreign Assessors to that of were spectators, to repress it with all their might, and something behind all this which has yet to be told now whether the Goy British corporation;

were con thereby discrediting the Foreign. oficial in few poor misguided mortals will suffer for Feople don't riot and burn and kill because Straits Bettlements.

old for the eyes of the natives, Mr. Kuan, the Chin the sins of their superiors. Whatever bap some women are imprisoned in one place with the second reading

boats ese Magistrate at the Mixed Court, was the pens Great Britain ill

tool selected to effect this humiliation, and rights to be trampled

Homesd of another. A Chinese Magis is no reason why of tile and a British Assessor do not by at being led shoul

other's throats

The

e Hongkong Gelegraph the tonnage ranges from 10,513 tons in the placed at the disposal of those in charge of present; the gates were closed and locked merchants will refuse to disclose the cats questions affecting trade generally, and

MAIL SUPPLEMENT" ISSUED GRATIS. TO SUBSCRIBERS,

THE P, & O. IN THE EAST.

(16th December,)- Wake up, Britain," was the watchword which the Prince of Wales gave to the mer chants of the Mother Country in the course of a speech at a banquet which was given on the occasion of the return of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales from their trip to the Colonies some years ago. The effect of that exhortation has been seen in the increased trade returns- of Great Britain during the part year, But

SHANGHAI IN ERUPTION,

(18th December.).

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