As one floats in a sampan between the fair shores of Soochow, picturesque, beautiful, and wealthy, one wonders if it would be altogether beautiful if the accessories were Venetian or otherwise Italian; but perhaps to the Chinese their beloved Soochow is all the more charming because it is teeming with Chinese life. Has Soochow plumped for the boycott or hasn't it? There was a rumour that they had piled up all the American cigarettes of the Pinhead" brand last week and burned them; then it was contradicted. Anyway, they had thought of it, talked of it, and would like to have dono it, if they had not feared they might be out of pocket by so doing. On another occasion, the American mon of Boston did actually throw the tea overboard. They too had been deeply wronged, their pride wounded, their foolings trampled on. Their cotamerco already half-strangled by Cromvoll's Commercial Navigation Act, which obliged their ships to return empty, limiting them to trade only with the. mothorcountry; how wore they to endure the farther burden of a duty on toa, or the exactions of the Stamp Act, or even a duty, retained as.an assertion of right upon six indifferent' articles of commerce, such as load, glass, painters' colours? 'They could not endure it, it was too much, it was the bricks without straw. From' that hour they sought opportunity to got free from us.
Great happenings, euch as the Amorican Revolution, often grow rapidly out of seemingly small beginnings. Wounded sentiment often carries the course of events further than would political expedioney, or political conflict. 'There has been, no doubt, a rankling pique at the back' of the boycott movement. not a mandarin troated as a comfort emigrant, and cast into prison?' Are the Chinese indifferent to the restrictions imposed upon their entry into the United States? Is the avaricious Chinaman to be baulked of his commercial ambitions without striking a blow? Are there to be no reprisals, no retaliation "Hereditary yellow bondsman, know yo not, who would be free themselves must strike the blow. To arms, then, China! En avant, Celestial compatriots! Oust the mighty Americans from their seat, and send these rich men empty away," It is with this sort of stuff that the native papers are misleading theirroadors, 18 G. L. Jessop~:..1 1 Denton cuswul 8 12 1 19 Blythe..
11 0 Signifies not out.
In was announced the other day that Sir Michael Hicks Beach has been pointed umpire in the coming arbitr: between the Straits Settlements Government and the Tanjong Pagar Dock Cor pany to decide on the price to be paid by the Government for the undertaking. The "Straits Times" now announces that "the following gentlemen sre roe Jones, the "Father of the American yppoars that the groat sailor Paul it
Navy," whose remains have just been transferred from Paris to the States with much pomp and circumstance, owed his invulnerability to a coat of mail whick he wore under his outer clothing, and which he gave to his friend John Hyslop, with whom he used to reside when he was in New York, The coat is made of hammered wrought iron and weighs thirty pounds, and is lined with strong canvas
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.