Tue brief obituary line which relates the death of the late Governor of Hongkong will be read with melancholy feelings by old China residents. For many years Sir John Bowring managed to keep himself prominently before the public, and though the pro-fund ity of his Jearning and the extent of his attainments in foreign languages were sometimes rudely called in ques tion, it cannot be gain said that Sir John was prodigiously industrious end that he was generally in advance of his age. 'A few brief particulars of his life may
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