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readers know that the MACKAY commercial sion will give rise to enormous confusion valuable evidence. Our | The Singapore Free Press thinks the doci. trenty signed at Shanghai in the following | and controversy. It says: "There will be September, and ratified in July last year, contained an undertaking that the Chinese
no holding down the exulting dissentieuts Government would
# who stood apart at the time of the uuion within the next two "of the two non-established Churches four years, remove the artificial obstructions so clearly pointed out" by Captain LLOYD. As we have said, the advertisement to which we have directed our readers' attention appears as evidence of Chinese good faith, long looked for, come at last. It may not be all that the Hongkong Chamber believes to be desirable, either in extent or manage. ment; hut as it evinces a better intention on the part of our Chinese neighbours, and promises amelioration of an intolerable state of things, we may rejoice in it, if only as an earnest of more to follow. Presently we may feel more at liberty to point out where we consider the remedy is not sufficiently thorough to cure the ills that have so long endured.
THE SCOTTISH CHURCHES.
(Daily Press, 21st August.)
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years ago. They were, up tal the begin; ning of August, but as the amputated end "of a puppy's tail. They now find that the "House of Lords has decided that the out-off fragment is the real puppy, and the qund- ruped itself is now but as a loppel off excrescence. There is an infiuity of humour in the deadly earnestness of the issue now thrown into the arena of Scottish ecclesiastical strife. The debate will be almost universal. And in the midst of it 'all, the Auld Kirk that swept her house "C so clean at the Great Reformation will sit and anile in unmoved serenity, while the Presbyteries, Synods, and General Assem- "blies of her sister Churches convene them- selves together to consider this thing that "hath befallen."
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explicitly to the Viceroy of the Two Kwang. Again in January 1886 the Chamber of Commerce resumed the subject, nothing having been done, and addressed both the British Consul at Canton, Mr. A. FRATER, and the then Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, Mr. N. R. O'Conoɛ. Two or three months later, the Chamber telegraphed to the Bri- tish Minister: Canton River obstructions | not yet removed, no steps taken, urgent, important." To that the Governor of Hongkong was requested to reply that the "best attention of Her Majesty's repre- sentative was being devoted to the matter, as he was *
fully aware how important the matter is to the commercial interests of Hongkong." It appears that the opinion of the German Consul at that time, Mr. VON MOLLENDORFF, was that it would be better to make Whampoa the port of Canton, and leave the obstructions, but our Consul stated strong objections to this course, and was upheld by his superiors. In reply to requests for further information, the Cham- ber of Commerce in June 1886 explained that
in consequence of the necessity imposed! upon steamers to anchor at Whampoa, in- "stead of proceeding to the anchorage off
Our well-esteemed contemporary, the Shameen, the agents areobliged to maintain Singapore Free Press, notes the silence of
(Daily Press, 21st August.) “communication with Canton by steam
TOLSTOY'S advocacy of a policy of non- REUTER with regard to the litigation by resistance is still being quoted in the Orient, launch at an average monthly expense of the Scottish Churches, and quoting iu full and variously commented upon. In a brief "$300," and " every steamer loading and the telegram we received from our London reference to his letter in the Times, we discharging at Whampoa is detained from office early this month, deals with it recently touched only upon some symptoms one to three days because of the delay in editorially. By an inadvertence, we allowed of his long notorious mania, and did not obtaining the requisite carg›
boats."
it to read "Scottish Church," instead of the consider it necessary or advisable to treat Steamers lost at least two days each voyage, plural, which would better have summarised the supposedly religious aspect of the posi- and in the case of the Shanghai-Canton the parties interested in the decision of the tion he takes with regard to war. steamers, making about two trips a month, House of Lords. Were it worth while, we
Our that meant a money loss of from $15,000 to | might argue the comment of our
northern contemporary the North-China $20,000 per annum. There was an average porury that "
contem- Daily News in a still briefer comment there is no 'Scottish Church '.' of nine steamers thus affected, so the total using the analagous phrase
seemed to suggest that TOLSTOY's message loss to British interests, ou account of these Church
"the Christi¬n was merely a faithful echo of the Sermon in stones put in to obstruct the French, was be more to the point to quote our contem-famous let'er-we have to admit that a as an example. It is, however, the Mount. What we have real of the tween $135,000 and $180,000 a year. estimate did not take into account the losses which appear to be well-informed.
That porary's other references to the subject, | partial perusal was the most
we could incurred by outside vessels trading from Hongkong Daily Press telegram applied, was what we should have expected ToLSTOY The manage convinced us that the gist of it rice ports. Ocean-going arrivals with cargo says the singapore paper--"to the dispute to write. It is not, as we understand it, for Canton did not tranship it at Hongkong. culminating in litigation between the Christianity; but rather a melange of all They discharged at Whampoa. One answer United Free Church of Scotland and the the debris of the great Russian's ethical to all this may be gathered from a telegram Free Church of Scotland. The circum-reading, moulded and overspread with the sent from Hongkong in July 1886: “Shalu stances of the union of the Free Church Barrier Canton, being filled with stone
sauce of his abnormal mentality. It comes "of Scotland and the United Presbyterian as near the Chinese policy of wu wei as Viceroy's orders please urge Yamen to Church of Scotland into the United Free anything European cau come. countermand." Most of the Consuls at Church of Scotland are concisely explained Apotheosis of the Inert, and we misappre- It is the Canton wired Peking to the same effect. ' below, as well as the conditions that led hend the Galilean cult if that is any part of In November, in the same year, Messrs. "to a secession by non-contents with the its formula. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. complained that
Even CHRIST scourged the Union, who indeed hold that with them wrongdoers in the Temple. the delay was becoming worse than ever,'
Buddhism and and not with the United Free Church kindred philosophies fail, even in the face and that the demand for cargo boats was
"is the historic continuity and the greatly in excess of the supply. The result
of their apparent popularity, by denying
·legal claim to endowments and buildings." the attributes of humanity. Was a block." This led to a petition to The explanation referred
GAUTAMA the Hongkong Government, which referred trouble back as far as 1863. Owing to essential character of their human nature; takes the and the CHRIST did not repudiate the to the stubbornness and injustice of the strong opposition to the amalgamation pro- they counselled the subjugation and control Native Authorities. The Viceroy of Canton posed, there was a compromise, in the shape of the passions. had "
steadily disregarded" the order from of a Mutual Eligibility Act, which per-understanding disciples to allege that tiesa It was left to their mis- Peking, to remove the obstructions. Iu-mitted congregatious to call ministers from emotions were per se immoral. TOLSTOY, in stead, the Viceroy gave orders that they either body. should be strengthened, as a
Agaiu, in '94, on the initia- his works, if not in this letter to the Times,' ff permanent "tive of the United Presbyterian Church, a tells men that they have no business to be defence." As it was the deep channel that "fresh movement was made for union. In men: it is more blessed to be passive bad thus been interfered with, it amounted 1900 the United Presbyterian Synod automata. Unconsciously, he is a plagiarist practically to a breach of the Treaty open-
“agreed to union unanimously and the Free of the Chinese sage Lao TsZE. According ing Canton. It is characteristic of Chinese “Church Assembly agreed by a majority to the somewhat abstruse doctrines of Tao. methods that they should at this time "of 557 in a house of 615 members. have been talking also of dredging the
as elaborated so painstakingly by Mr. F. H, The Union took place in Edinburgh BALFOUR, an old-time Shanghai sinologue, Woosung Bar. If this advertisement in on Wednesday, October 21st, 1900." it would appear that the Russian preaches to-day's issue promises anything, it is that Amalgamation with a we are to be gratified a little sooner than looked too much like disestablishment Chinaman.
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a greater extreme of inactivity than the the Northern Port, which is still hammer to the objecting members of the "national follow the line of least resistance, to drift The latter deems it wise to ing away at the Chinese authorities. In Scottish Church," us it April 1902 the Hongkong Chamber of Com- | called, but which is content to be named would have us lig down and follow no- might be with the tide of circumstance. TOLSTOY merce, which was then doing splendid work the Free Kirk." These conscientious whither; he bids us sink under, rather than in instilling local points-of-view into the objectora appear to have been out-voted, float on, the tide. Whatever he professes, mind of Sir JAMES MacKay, had their atten- | and "extruded by the majority tion drawn to the memorandum of Captain the use of the Free Church buildings and It is that following the line of least resis from the Chinaman has been Taoist in practice. LLOYD, of the steamer Hankow. They funds." Thereupon they went to law, and tance that has enabled China as a nation to supplied copies of it to our various repre- it was the House of Lords' decision in their exist through all the chances and conquests sentatives interested in the negotiations, and | favour which we recorded on August 3rl. of its thousands of years.
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