weather is hot enough to produce ly heat, and the transition from that is @ to the more virulent one of Cacoethes Scribendi—is as simple as falling off a log.
His Excellency the Governor hes taken departure, and the reins have been taken up by another elderly gentleman, who, in mercantile phraseology, so tasteful to the oficial mind—will for a time sign the fi The labours of Government have for some time been directed towards the cone coction of a marriage ordinance, which is now nearly completed. The fees have been arranged on the basis of bezique scoring—two dollars for a common, and seven for a royal marriage, The Hon. P. Ryrie considers these excessive, but some people are of opinion that matrimony is dear at any price. The Chief Justice asked if parties should be allowed to marry "in forma paupers." Jokes always fall gracefully from the lips of a Judge; but at the moment when tte limits of the poorhouse are being enlarged, with the view of accommodating " duily inerensing crowd, composed of the victims of impecuniosity—many of the inhabitants of Hongkon; would tather have lost the Latin, an had their feolinga spared. My Lord Bishop is on strike; the result, it believed, of some difference of opinion betwoon His Lordship and the inferior clergy. The merits or demerits of the dispute are unknown to the uni but it is supposed that, while the authority considers spiritual food should consist of fish, soup, and a joint, the amaher fry contend for the addition of several enirées and much table decoration, Macao has negotiated a loan, tri amount, but not altogether insignificant when contrasted with the security, two white elephants, and a worn-out Portuguese law suit.
Further Chinese loans are spoken of, offering every inducement to investors—igh rate of interest, and, for security, a n over the Woosung Bar, the only per-anent thing left in China, Some people might prefer a lean over the Club Bar The Mandarins in Canton continue intormittingly to decapitate real, or supposed, participators in the Spark tragedy. th petty sicritices to justice please the of and don't materially diminish the ion of China, Poor Mr. Mundy's ive appeal to a paternal government proved futile, as ho himself probably expected. His case is unquestionably a very rd one, but had his career as a ten-laster
he was destined from his birth—remained China. ch he informs the public uninterrupted, he would, probably, have made the discovery that the path of a chazeo is not altogether strown with flowery pekoe—Sic transit gloria Mundy, There is some likelihood of Hongkong being purchased by Bismarck, as a couling The Eh ut be induced to i the hands an admire able harbour of refuge and basis of operations for their Revenue Squeezers, to which our liberal Government accord all the privileges and immunities attaching to In your Saint Patrick's dinner. a slight inacctiracy_ must have crept into your contemporary's report of same, where ho saya-"Tu chief, a Shillelagh Couchant." Rampant, galore! or bedad that self-same sprig" has become unworthy of the hand that gently severed it from the parent
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