THE vitality of a conspicuous nuisance often exceeds thet of the proverbial cat. Such an undoubted nuisance is the presence of the opium hulks off our bund. They are most! unsightly, two of shorn recalling the! Ark of which childhood lifts the roof, and takes out Noah and his family and the anima's many of which Noah acted most injudiciously in saving from the flood. Two of them are really hulks which have been cut down and built up until they have lost all the beauty which each of them may have had when she walked the waters like a thing of life, the ship-breaker's yard being now their only proper home. We might continue to put up as we have done for years with their unsighvliness they were really necessary to the commerce of the port; but their necessity has long ce departed, the bonding facilities which were once confined 10 them being now available on shore, 'They are an anachronism which not the most zealous Society for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, if there were suc a thing in this' pushing progressive city, would spend a minute ora cash to protret, Obsolete, ugly, and useless, they survive to camber the river under the sacred sgis of vested interests.
They are not only negatively a nuisance as being neither necessary nor ornamental, but they are a very serious obs ruction to navigation, and but for the division of authority from which this great waterway suffers, they would have b en condemned and removed long ago. There are influential shipowners here whose vessels rarely or never come' above the chowchow water, and they therefore take little interest in the removal of obstructions above that point; but those whose steamers come up to the upper reach of the river and the wharves on and above the French bund are persistent in their complaints of the danger these wretched objects are to navigation. How would the Customs be ridiculed and abused if th lowed natur: obstructions to remain in the fairway of the Huangpu where these artificial HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. For the cure of debility, also L: verand stomach complaints, is ivappreciahle medicine iso well known in every pat of the world, aul the cures performed by its use are xo w.nderful, that now stands pre-emine:.t above all other dies, more par for the cure of Vilious an - liver enmplonts, disorders of ergs atin Stet free respiration pr-voted xp-1f on eeretive "rans the morbid matters which] pewiue 8 i flumm tion, pain, feter, debility, phy-ies decay, thus annihilating, by their purifying perties, the virulence of the most vainful and devastating diseases,
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