British ship Dou Enrique, was charged in H.B.M.'s Volice Court on Tuesday before Mr, Jamieson on an adjourned simmons with being constantly drunk on board a neglecting his duty. Rowland Hill, Secon Officer, nud J. H. Redgera, Steward, both deposed to having seen Chisholm drunk on board on these or four occasions within many day: any instance when Chisholm had actually refused or been wnable to obey a defi order given to him by the Ca Worship said that though drankenu board waa very reprehensible still there was not much evidence of refusal or neglect of duty on the part of the accused. He should therefore content himself wi Aefendant to forfeit the same time he recon saded the Osptain to dind the man.
The China Mailof the 21sthasthesecurions reporls:—A rumour is current here to the effect that the barriers in the River alleged and believed to have been placed there during the Franco-Chin troubles will not be so difficult of removal as has been supposed.—Tudved, if all reporte be true, the tiny bridges noroms the river at the points referred to are about all the obstructions whicl have to be removed. Now, it has been frequently stated by eyewitnesses that junks or pontoons filled with stones have been sunk at there points, and that the passages have thus been effectually blocked; but many days ago it wax found (so says an authority which should be reliable) that there were six or seven fathoms of water where a dead block was supposed to exist, Either there must have been some mistake, or the outer world has hitherto been led to be in th of barriers which tions, true one, then " somewhat ludicrous ele introduced into the di the subject. It is, of course, true enough that an imaginary barrier, is, in one sense, as good as n real one—nntil an attempt in made to force it by a belligerent. But ces sity of prolouging the imaginary block on the ground of return of complications appears less genuine that it would have been had the passages really been blocked, as they wore believed to be. Probably the flueds have swept the obstructions wut to sea, or distributed them equally along th bed of the river. Whichever explanation may be forthcoming, or accepted, it i volves a question into which the Chi authorities are called upon to The aspect of the subject which mo: nearly interests Enropenn merchants and traders is, that the so-called obstruetions will be the more easily removed if they never really existed or if they have been carried down steam by the current, Strategy is a favourite study with the Eh nese, and the cheaper the strategy the more acceptable the result would be. If, therefore, the Canton authorities have blocked the Canton approaches with imagi~ nary obstructions, they may have saved munch expenditure of funds, Who may or may not be the gaiver, it is not for us to any. Possibly more may be heard of the barriers when they come to be removed.
The Chinese rendition case in Hongkong, which we lately commented, was jed on the 2ist May." The es the following account of again remanded yesterday al on account of the non-arrival of the witness: for the presee Mr. Caldwell, who defended the prisoner, Cheong Achi, stated that the Canton authorities lind received a telegram from Fu forming them thatthe gunboat which was to have brought the witnesses down had been required for nurse expected the witnesses inthe Namoa in a few days. Mr, Wils n, who defended the prisoner, Mr. Watton having left the oniony, opposed the further remand, observe that it was strange the whit was said at the previ ight it arrange Mr, Cal well could sly produce " copy and further "djourued the case, There is evidently mistake the above as Mr. Caldwell is acting fir the Canton auth Nagasaki Express of 22u says, Me. W. N, Lovatt, Commissioner of the Fusan Customs, was! passenger from Fasan to Kobe in the Higo Maru Mr, Lovate's successor in the Corean Customs, Mr. Pity, arrived from Shanghai yeater-day, and will romain here until Mr, Lovatt returns from Kobe, when they will proceed in company' per Higo Maru to Fusan, At the date of the Last mail leaving Tapan, the 19h inst., Peter C. Fullert moater of the U.S. schooner Arctic, was under trial in the U.S, Consular-General Court at Yokohama charged with having the 23ed April, 1886, unlawfully aided and assi-ted G. R, Watkins, lately Pay-muster of the Ossipee, in deserting from the U.S. Naval service, and with havin; bsequontly harboured, concealed, pr tected and assisted Watkins, knowing him to bea des-ter from the service, course of the case, the accused was in consequence of ircegulsrity in the com-paint Laid against him but " corrected wed, and he was 1 only n few a from the Court, Me. Lowder, his deavoured to show that hay' dismissed, the again for the same often -General, decided against him, wud when the mail left the case was still proceeding.
The Hiogo Neves of the 18th instant has the following remarks on the outbreak of Cholera in Kioto and Osaka, whi numbers of cases and dear!
Although the daily return boyerd question that the number of cases of cholera is on the increase both in Osal and Kioto, still there is good" re believe that—so far as foreigners are concerned ta—there slight cause easiness. Every about this time there are a great many instances of what the Japanese ure pleased to style chol well known and it among old resi same sick ually experienced years ago withi if any, notice. The had not then informed that, ug both in Osaka and Kioto have been almost exclusively confined to p living in the most unhealthy portions of those cities, and more particularly to the lower classes, whom there is much want and distress, which ravage the effect of tary conditions surrounding them.
view of our informant is corroborated by a commu by the Kenrei of Kanagawa to the Herald on the same subject. It is there anted that most of the eases reported in Osaka are not infectious, an impossible condition of cho-Tora, as non-medical persons understand it. Cholera that is not infectious possesses few terrors, The Rising Sun contradicts the rumour that smallpox is prevalent in Nagasaki.
We (Rangoon Gazette) hear from Maudulay that Mr. Clquhoun, Deputy Commissioner of the Sagain district, has been acting with vigour and, aided by Mr. Mac-Dermott, Superintendent of Police, has the worst dacoit or rebel gangs i the borders. The first batch of Hindustanees for police work in Upper Burmah will be, we believe, a lot chosen and despatched to Mr, Colquhoun by Captain Muir, Commanding the Viceroy's ly guard, who was lately in Burmah with the Viceroy.
The Bombay Gazette announces in a telegram from Simla that the Maharajah Dhaleep Singh was stopped at Aden, because the Government had discovered that he had published " proclamation evidently intending to stir up mischief, The Maharajah, on receiving orders to atop at Aden, stormed his fellow-passengers that he had. rather expected to bs atopped at Gibraltar. Between Suz and Aden he surprised the on board the steamer by discarding the European dress and hat that he had hitherto worn, and appearing in native costume, with a Punjabi. puggaree, suppl the transformation at the sume time by the oriental salaam for the ish salutation, He landed, with his wife and six children, under protest, but without waking any overt opposition to the government orders, A telegram in the San Francisco Chronicle under date of 20th April say: Committee on Foreign Affairs to-day came to a final decision: on two measures relating to the Chinese. The Belmont resolution indemnifying the Chinese for loxsos tained by the Ruck Springs riot was adopted ously, The amount in $147,7 was next taken up. "Pie Committes struck out, by a majority vote, the clause which provided for the for-feature of a Chinaman's right to return to try if ho stayed away two years, clause was regarded as a flagrant violation of the treaty. The Committes next, by a majority vote, amended the bill make it applicable for ten years, or till 1896, instead of twenty years aa provided by Morrow. third modification of th bill was in Section 8 'This section, stood originally, prohibited the ma any vessel feom' bring' any more than one fifty tous burden, The Committee struck out all the force and meaning of this clause by adding the provision that it shall not apply to_any person who is for the United existing treaty. As all Chinamen with cortificate are entitled to land, this claus does not affect them, nor does it touch amand as no others are permitted to come, the section lutely meaningless, and it to make it, The other provisions of the bill in regard (o the character of the certificates issued were allowed to remain as they are. All the Democrats except Chairman Belmont voted in favor of the Morrow bill, ied, and all the Republicans and Mr, Belmont against it, Both measures will now be favorably reported to the House.
Says the Penang Gazette:—The Chin are reported to be pouring into Burm nich to the disgust of the Indians, wh in John Chinaman a most formidable rival. Already there is a large Chinese population in' Rangoon, and among them are many well-to-do merchants, Unfortunately, very few of the Chinese speak English; otherwise the In uld not a leg to stand upon, A correspondent ays that in house-work a Chinaman will eventually be cook, gardener, ance, bed and table servant, &e., all in one. Caste forbids this in men from India, but our Chinaman is free from all auch observances and in the coming struggle for life prepared to give odds on the latter
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