"The Shanghai people seem to have made 4 better celebration of the Jubilee than we did in Hongkong. We never hear the faded into the limbo of utter forgetfulness, Hongkong Jubilee spoken of now; it has
The grent defect here was that there was no function for the children, It is the little people who have to be relied upon to carry tradition along, As our forefathers handed down a knowledge of the parish og boundaries by taking the children round them once a year and giving a number of them a whipping at each mark to impress it on their memory, s0 ought the memory of epochs in history to be carried along by the children, being impressed upon however, not by whippings but by j tions, Tf it should happen that any of the children who were in Hongkong at the time of the Jubilee should be present at the centenary of the colony they can hardly preserve any personal recollection of the curlier celebration, But what Shanghai child can fail to carry down with him or hor the memory of the Settlement's Jubileet The value of early impressions and wholesome sentiments created in childhood can hardly be overrated. What Englishman in the forties ig there who does not remember the England on the conclusion of the Crimean War and the glow of enthusiasm that spread over his boyish mind? Although all the heroic achievements of our soldiers m that struggle are only so much book knowledge to him, yet by the children's rejoicings he was brought under the direct influence of the wave ut patriotism which then stiteed the nation, and he will be all the better prepared to should ho tution. be involved.
manfully his part, whatever it way
any like struggle during his lifetime, The Hongkong Jubilee was little better than " mockery. This was due chiefly, perhaps, to the fact that the celebration fell at a time when amongst the commercial classes there was hardly a cheerful heart in the colony. But this is not the only explanation of the difference in the tone of the celebrations at Hongkong and at Shanghai. In the Model Settlement civic life flows with a fuller current than in Hongkong, and everyone feels that the welfare of the place is a matter of personal concern to him and something for which he is called upon to work in his individual capacity. But in Hongkong we are all merely lookers-on at the working of a Governmental machine over which we can no control or influence. It is the who give the tone to our local and the official and military classes who give the tone to our social life. _Hong-Kong men have to little to do with the public life of the place that their affections and interests never take root in it. work up a boom in shares or proj and clear out' is the common ambition, {leaving the next generation to look out for itself."
The Amoy Gazette of the 25th ult. says At about 1 o'clock this afternoon much excitement was caused on the Bund bya fire breaking out on the premises of Messrs. 'Tait & Ca. 'The Customs' Fire Engine and others were on the pet very promptly and what might have been a serious fire was got under within half-xu-hour of its first appearance. A chimney which probably had not been swept very lately got on fire which caught on to two beams resting therein, causing @ swart blaze which might have proved disastrous but for the effective assistance of Messrs. Phillips, Thornton, Getz and others. All's well that eud's well and we are glad that this accident ended in smoke and water atily.
We have received Japan papers with dates from Yokohama to the 29th and Kobe the 30th ult,—Mr. Kuwabara, the Japanese mining engineer engaged by the Viceroy Li to inspect the cent and icon sudness 66 Shan, near the Grand Canal, has sent samples of the coal to Shanghai and Tientsin, where its quality has been pronounced excellent. It is understood that only enough coal is to be mined to smelt the iron ore from the same mines.—In the House of Representatives at Tokio on the 29th ult. a motion was carried by 166 votes to 119 that Mr. Hoshi Toru, the President of the House, yo longer enjoyed its confidence, and should be recommended to determine what measures were called for unself. After the vote had been taken, "the President said he was unable to yield to the advice resolved upon by the House as he saw nothing in his conduct worthy ofconsure,"and the Houseadjourned,—Tho vernacular papers say that it is proposed to reconstruct both the eastern and northern breakwaters at Yokohama, and the Home Office, it is said, will vote of $1,500,000 towards th—A French man-of-war, it Inconstant, went ashore in on the 22nd ult., but was assisted off by the Yenriu Kan, and proceeded.—An action was brought in Admiralty before Judge Mowat in H.M''s Court for Japan on the 24th, in which Mr. Troup, H.M.'s Consul, applied for the confiscation of the schoon: er Maud S., caught stalin Rassian li Sea, The case was 27th, judgment being resetved.—One of the' oldest Japanese papers, the Choya Shimbun, has ceased to exist.—The Japanese Diet was opened on the 28th ult.—The Tacoma, formerly the Batavia, encountered such rough weather that she was 24 days on her last passage from Tacoma to Yokohama.—A most successful farewell smoking concert was given at Nagasaki on the 23rd to Capt. McQuhae and the officers of H.M. flagship Impérieuse at the Nagasaki Bowling Club. Tu the course of the evening Capt. McQuhae and his officers presented a handsome Billiard Challenge Cup to be competed for every six months by the members of the Nagasaki Club and Bowling Club.—Count Festetics is shortly expected in Japan from Honolulu in his schooner yacht, the Toma.
We learn from the Japan Gazette that shortly after the Emperor's return from Parliament on the 28th ult. the members of the Lower House met and approved the reply to the Imperial Addresa as drawn by the President, Mr. Hoshi Toru, The reply ran as follows May it please Your Majesty, On the day of opening of the Sth Session of the Imperial Parliament, Your Majesty was pleased to come in person to perform; the auspicious ceremony, and favour us with a benevolent expression of Your Majesty's enlightened address, Your humble servants in the House of Representatives most respectfully beg to tender their deep: est sense of gratitude, and sincerely hope to carry out Your Mejesty's august desire, by carefully discussing the important offal of State and fulfilling their duty of ssi ance, 60 as to repay Your Majesty's gracious favour and to respond to the trust reposed in us by the people, with greater zeal than ever.
T remain most respectfully your most Humble and obedient servant, 7 Hosat Toru, President of the House of Representative:
The fifth session of the Japanese Diet was opened by the Emperor on the 28h ult. After His Majesty had taken his seat upon the Throne, as we learn from the report in the Mail, Count Ito, Minister President of State, advanced sented a scroll to the Emperor, opened it, and standing up, read in " clear vie Members of the House of Peers and of the House of Represontatives—We have attended in person to perform the ceremony of opening the Imperial Diet.
We have instructed Our Gubinet Ministers to submit for your delibera Budget for the 27th year of has been compiled "ccording to due administrative processes, as well as various essential projects of law We trust that you will fully discharge the function of consent dictated by the exigencies of the service of the State, The members of both Houses received this message a deep obsisauce, and Marquis Hachisuka, then advancing to the Throne, received the scroll from His Majosty's hands, The Emperor thereupon left the Chamber, and, after a very brief interval, returned to the Palace, The Japan Herald of the 20th ult, say The telegram received by Messre Samuel, Samuel & Ca., on the 23rd instant that the factory of the Russian Star brand kerosene Batoum been burned down, influenced the market here at once, sume 20,000 eases of Anchor brand changing hands immediately, at $1.825. Quotations threaten to advance, and it is anti that $2.00 will shortly be reached, The Japan Mail saya:—Tho steamer City of New York is evidently doomed to destruction. On the afternoon of the 8th november the son became ao high that all on board were compelled to climb higher in the rigging. There they remained for some time out of the reach of the huge waves which broke over the steamer. But the Frory elfurt wes rade to remote than: "At position was one of extreme danger and
Inst it was effected, and at 6 o'clock the big steamer was left to her 5
We make the following extracts from 4 very npprecitivo lending article in the fail on "Shanghai's Fiftieth Birth The Editor of the Mail was in Shnnghai on the 17th ult. The illu: ruinations in Shanghai on the night of the 17th instant, to celebrate the Settlement's centenary, were a splendid display, unquestionably the finest thing of the kind ever seen in the Far East, and probably the most beautiful ever witnessed in the World of modern times. Shanghai is neither dead nor moribund. Waves of adversity have boston against it and evil times have brooded over it, but the energy and enterprise that have made it one of the wonders of the Kast, must conquer always. What a centenary it will celebrate when we, who now write of it with just pride, shall have long ceased to remember or be remembered We learn from a home paper that the Teabwa of Theebaw, the Shan chieftain who has lately been on a vint to England, has started for the East. Che Teabwa has gone away highly gratified with the reception accorded him. He is particularly pleased with the matiner in. which he was received by Her Majesty at Balmoral, Que of his eons is being educated at Rugby.
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