Press gives full account of the magnificent, ball given on the 8th by the Leal Senade to H.E. Sr, de Roza, About eighty ladies were present, and the ball passed off with great éelut, the company not breaking up until six in the morning.
It is reported from Manila, says the Daily hat the Albay Voleano has recently been in a state of violent eruption.
The Duily Press states that M. Collin de Plancy, Secretary of Legation at Peking, has been appointed French Consul at Seoul, Mr. C. P. Chater has been unanimously elected as a member of the Legislative Council in Hongkong by the Justices of the Pence, in the room of Mr. F. Sassoon, resigned.
Tt was mentioned recently that a column of two hundred were on its way to chastise some marauders in Tongking was stopped by the illness of its commander, Colonel Duparre. News has since been' recei that the gallant colonel fell dead from his horse while on the March, in consequence of an attack of fever. He was in his forty-seventh year, and his courage, energy and activity were known and admired both in France and Tongking, where his services dated from the beginning of the war with China, He was made chevalier of the
and officer in Tongking, and his name had Legion of Honour during the war in Mexico, been oont in for promotion to the command "The Mentory will be long kept of this soldier, whose hand is found inscribed on all' the glorious pages of the conquest of Tongking," says the Courrier Haiphong.
'The Courier d' Haiphong complains that while not long since ten Chinese entered Tongking for one who left it, the stream of migration is now flowing the other way. There are three principal causes for this the capitation tax, the gambling farm, and the new customs duties: Chinese arriving in Tongking are divided into four classes, of whom the frat pay 300 francs year, the second 100 francs, the third 25 franes, and the fourth 10 francs Of one hundred ran; firat class, four to the second, twenty to the nese immigrants, one belongs to the
third, and seventy-five to the fourth; and ten francs a year is a serious tax on the labourers who form the lowest class, The gambling farm, by legalizing and encouraging gambling, is doing incalculable harm to trade generally, and the new customs duties, intended to protect French manufacturers, are forcing many Chinese merchants to close their establishments, and this reacts on the foreigners. Happil Conatans is ex; to visit Tongking before long. When he through on his way home, he shewed himself ready and anxious to listen to the representations of the colonists, and do all in his power to assist them, and from him may fairly be measures prudent, enlightened, No newspaper may publish an article deand useful; and the colony, #o full of life, fending an offence against the law,—even so strong, which is anxious to develop if the law is confessedly a bad one. No itself and only asks for a little encourage-official documents of any kind may be pubment, will eagerly respond to his call. lished or alluded to, without the consent 'A Naval Court has just been held at of the department concerned. The Home Kobe on case of the British gt Macedon, Minister may suspend, prohibit or confis-which arrived at Hivgo from Philadelphia cate a newspaper, if its tone be judged to jon the 22nd December last, and which be detrimental to the public peace, or in-must have been a floating hell. On her juncus to society and existing customs—arrival it was found that the whole crew, however open to attack those customs may except the master, mate, cook and steward be. These are only a few of the regulations, were suffering from scurvy. Five of the and very heavy penalties are attached to crew died on the voyage. One died of the breach of them; and yet they are con-scurvy on the 25th of September, having sidered to be markedly more lenient than been triced up to the mainmast by the those previously in force: Captain the week before, and kept at work "The following important case, as reported up to the morning of his death. One man was lost overboard on the 7th of October, in the Ceylon papers, was decided on the 21st ulto. by the District Judge of Ceylon, and the Captain neglected to lower a boat and may be interesting to our readers to try and save him, Another man died, Joseline Eleanor Andriesz effected an in-November, having been ordered up by the by falling from the mizenmast, on the 20th surance on the life of her husband, the late John Andriesz, in her own favour, for Rs, doatewain to scrape the mast when he was 3,000 with the Standard Life Insurance unfit from scurvy, to go aloft, Another Company. On his death, the widow claimed nian died of scurvy on the 13th of Decem-the amount of the life policy. The Comber, and another on the 19th. after having pany refused to pay her the amount unless been several times dragged along the she signed the discharge as executrix of deck by the mate and boatswain, even her husband's last will and testament. on the day of his death, The captain This she declined to do, presumably be-was fined a total of £19 12. 6d., the mate cause in that case the amount would be and boatswain each £5 16s. 3d., all three claimed by the creditors of her husband. being also "'cautioned and reprimanded Mr. Advocate Wendt, instructed by Mr. and the Naval Court left it to the British
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