The rebels at Suakim are renewing activity.
FRANCE'S COLONIAL POLICY, ferial statement announces French Senate and Chamber ut Deputies will organize a Protectorate in Tongking and Mudagascar, but no more expedition We understand that tenders for the Ching Merchants' debentures in China amount to about £450,000. Tenders at £5.2.6 received 80 per cent., and above that in fall, Herr vou Syburg, the new Vice Consul for Germany at this port, arrived here the Anadyr on Fridxy evening.
We her that a gontlems is Excellency jay from Ningpo, and is now stay' at the Tien Hon Kung on the site of old Railway Station He came up to Shanghai very quietly.
We are informed that SeutiorJ. J, Cuelho de Carvalho, Portuguese Consul has recently arranged a Commercial with the Chinese Government, It i that the Lisbon Government will appoint bassador, probably the Consul.
to proceed to Peking early in BMarch this year to ratify thia Treaty.
The Directors of the New Oriental Bank Corporation, Limited, have declared 'a dividend for the half year ending 30th September at the rate of 5% per aunum, The ladies of the Benevolent Suciety beg to tender their sincere thanks to Mr. O'Brien and the members of th Opera Company, for the sum of $287, the entire proceeds of the performance of H.BLS. Pinafore on 28th December, 1885, And they also desire to thank Me, Mann, Messrs, Major Bros, the Shanghai Water= works' Ca, the Trustees Thentre, and their generous assist A Correspondent addresses us nttscking Dr. Yates's Grok. It requires but little acquaintance with that language to know that the word "superstitious," applied by St. Paul to the Athenians according to the Authorised Version, conveys an altogether erroneous impression of the original. What the Apostle really said wan complimentary. rather than repronchful; "I perceive that all things ye are mororeligiously-disposed [than other people)." The use of the Greek word in thy sense of superstitions" found only in later authors; writer invariably sing it ae uby Revived Version, again, carefully "the unknown God" into an unknown, our Correspondent la perfectly right in cla he wor St, Paul, "Whom therefor y worship, hin "moat ai ow that Paul did make use of a Ho found out what achings with which Dr, lotter clearly refers to 1D} the book of this prophecy" mesua all the sixty-aix boo the Bi it exists to-were nut written at the tine—is just a little inadmissible.
A Correspondent writes fom Chemulpo under date of the 29h December Per. haps it may interest some of your mo tile or nautical readers to be infor: our port has bee to date, and prob: some time to cv! did not interfere The monthly exhibition Art Society was hold at ti Hall on hured bers had apparently been resting from the Inbours in the cause of art during the Christmas and New Year holidays, as the show was an unusually small one," The were, however, a few very fine pictures amongst the exhibits, notably a lifelike and very pierising portrait pretty little boy, entitled " Archie, a splendid copy' of the picture "In the foal's stable," by Rach, the original of which may be remembered as forming the first prize in Menars. Kelly & Walal's Art Union of 1884. A study of mayuolios, life siz", in oils, was a striking piece of work, and's landscape in oils, "A glowing aunt set," was exceedingly pretty. An effective little snow acone was much' admi among the best of the water-colour ings waa a pair of aeon titled respectively
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