'When the P, & 0. steamer Gwalior broke down, 150 miles from Hongkong, was unable to sail, and drifted down to Hiauan, where she anchored, a boat sent in charge' of the second officer (Mr. F. H. Seymour) to Macao for assistance was overhauled and robbed by pirates on the way, but through his courageous conduct was allowed to proceed, and eventually reached its destination. The directors of the Company have presented a gold watch to Mr. Seymour in recognition of his services on the occasion, A curiosity is on exhibition at Melbourne in the shape of s variegated boy. He is of Kafir parentage, and of the undoubted African type, but his skin is mottled, The white portions are exactly like the skin of a european, and the dark portions are of a rich brown hue, The hair, too, is partly Black and partly white, and the mottling extends even to the irides of the eyes, upon each of which there is a white speck, which, however, do not in the least affect his Poalthy, and intelligent. He is believed to ower of vision. He is strong, well made,
be about 13 years old,—Melbourne Argus.
The following curious statement is made by the Paris correspondent of the Pall Gazette:—'A missionary, the Rev. Father Rémy, has just arrived here from Thibet, where he seems to have made a number of conversions under rather peculiar circumstances. He was condemned to be quartered, and his legs and arms were duly attached to four horses of the country. 'The Abbé is said to be very powerful man, and either his limbs must be uncommonly' strong or the horses employed to quarter him have been uncommonly weak, for he resisted all their efforts. His persecutors, we are told, struck ith admiration, embraced the martyr and Christianity. This certainly a great triumph for that species of religion called muscular.
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