The consecration of the Rev. W. J. Boone of St. John's College, Jessfield, as 'American Bishop of Shanghai, juri diction in China; took place in Trinity Cathedral yesterday morning. The Right Rev. Bishop Williams, of Tokio, was the consecrating bishop, assisted by' Bishops Moule and Scott,' A large number of Chinese priests and deacons were present in canonicals. Morning Prayer was conducted by the Rev. F. R. Smith, the Leasons being read by the Rev. Y. K. Yeu, Service, Bishop Scott ascended the pulpit and preached a masterly sermon from Revelation I, 17, 18. It is not our intention follow the Bishop through a discourse was perhaps the most powerful ever delivered in Shanghai. Its full force; how-over, can only have been appreciated by those who were acquainted with th what exceptional circumstances attending the consecration of Mr. Boone, and the tion in which the consecrating selves placed. Nothing, been more impressively delicate than the way in which Bishop Scott dealt with this part of his subject, while his allusions to the old and venerable whose name is and has hi for years past a household word in China, and whose mantle was now descending on the shoulders of his son, were made with tenes and grace.
eration Service was then pro-the usual form, the Ameriing used, ' The newly-made Bishop was invested with his episcopal robes by the Rev. E. H. Thompson and a Chines clergyman, it falling to the lot of the former to read' the mandate from the President of the House of Bishops authorising the consecration.
Ther was a moderate congregation, ico was not choral, old erg: -chamber, and several j native laymen, presumably converts, sat in the body of the church, THE FRENCH-MAIL PAPERS, Sin Edmund Hornby's article in the Pall Mall on 'War and the 'Treaty Ports of China' is no doubt fresh in the recollection of our readers, This week a writer signing himself 'Sinensis' "walks into" the late Chief Judge in exceedingly proper style, and makes mince-meat of his principal arguments and assertion in the character of a scribe whi ought to be checked, and whoever Sinensi may be there can be no doubt that he much the safer guide of the two in matters relating to China, He say The amazement with which I read Sir Edmund Hornby's article in the Pall Afalt Gazette of Aug. 26, on War and the Treaty Ports of China," was considerably tempered by the reflection that if this gentleman wrote at all on the subject, his tone, unless he had changed much in recent years, would be violently anti-Chinese—the tone of the di appointed diplomatists, the disappointed mei chaute, the disappointed everybodies of the East. "And I took further consolation when asked myself, Who is the writer who dogmatises 20 freely on Chinese fortification, soldiers, politics, geography Sir Edmund haa minced hie words 0 little, that he will not, be offended if I take a liberty, and. say that hia views now on Chinese questions afe of little more value than those of the man in the affect." Ho has left China, if my memory serves me aright; for absut.-ten ba residence in that country he li and much has ocourred in that tim
at one of the open porte as Chief Judge of Her Majesty's Supreme Court—an office in which he had nothing to do with the Chi except such as came as. plaintiff before and his knowledge of the country is confined to occasional journeys on circuit to. other open porta, There is a note of warning in the first two sentences of the following paragraph which echoes muth that we have written on the same subject during the past weel The French colonisation of Formosa; says Sir Edmund Hornby, will be an," unmixed ing" to the trade of the world;—like the French colonisation of Cochin China; of rs, of Tanis? Where has been the ing," mixed or unmixed, to the trade of the world in these places? Formosa, accord. ing to this authority, Las immense mineral wealthy is uncultivated, and has a population which is uncared for, and cruelly governed, If a ship comes to grief near its shores, or eutera its harbours, the crews are certain to be murdered or sent off to the mines 5 and, to crown all, it is supposed that hundreds of European sailors are so immured," while the 1000 take no trouble to prevent the abore gines from doing what they like (a fow lines back they were cruelly govern Whea [read these confident and dogwmatical state. ments I can only Formosa has never been explored, and no one can say gep, and stare, anything of its mineral wealth, There are few coal mines at Keelung, not yielding much; "immense mineral wealth" is pure fancy. Sir Edmund Hornby had Consular officers partly under him in thave very liars Lours, where, ne tells us, ships cannot enter without their crows being murdered, Will Bir Edmund quote a single writer of repute who "supposed" at any time during the past ton youre that there wei Buroponu sailors immured in Formosa or working in the mines Ho cannot do it, "Sineusis,' however, is almost as much an advocate as Sir Edmund Hornby himself, and his partiality quite as strongly marked. Another very attractive paper in this week's Budget is by Miss Constance F, Gordon Cumming, headed 'Life on the Ri Foochow.' Miss Gordon Cumming graphic and attractive writer, and has rare gift of reproducing in vivid coloura has witnessed perhaps years Hero is a characteristically told assisted at a very exciting scene of w ge when cruising on the Min in" La oat, A glorious pink sunset, witt lueavy grey claude, was succeeded b; ficent thauderatorm, with vivid followed by terrific rain, which came down just like a water-spout, "In half an hour the tain had ceased, but the river was in flood, It wat mut that every mountain tore come raging down every gully in the mountain forests, and sweeping down quantities of cut logs all ready for the market, Such valuable firewood was a prize most precious to the boatmen, who were wild with excites ment, and they spent the evening rowing about in the gig, which they filled again and that every corner of the boat was cram till they had rescued such a qt ality and the decks were piled up with this cious salvage, As we hoped to reach Foo chow on the following day the iucouvenieuce to us was emall compared with the value of the prize to the crew, The capture was 10 exciting that we helped them by holding lanterns and candles, with a plate held over the glass shade to prevent their blowing out, We saw lights moving all along the shore, and arked the head boatman what they were. Men arealing wood," he replied, and we forbore comment It certainly was. better that the crew should get what they could than that the wood should float seaward 5 certainly its rightful owners could never recover it,
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