The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-02 00:00:00

THE' SUN, LO NDO N, ON AY "EVENING NOVEMBER 2. 185'7.

'of some defn nct matron. There are graves -
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also. Someti; mes these are mounds, sometimes
(Thee' die Times' Special Correspondent.) coffins placed upon the earth, and sometimes cof-
Jan, eased ovkir with dry brickwork. Occasionally 1
ON THE"' IMPERIAL CANAL, AUG. 10. a beggar has i made his home in the coffin, and comes 1
I have a Nin Iwo servant hired for this triP, f" • forth from it t o beg.
Shanghai, I found Mr. The only Cannes° objects which to
when; . moon an iving at the eye of
.L'Ltn trying to ecenmenicate with his countrymen Western taste are really beautiful are the bridges
English, it was plain tnat he that cross their 'canals at frequent intervals. The
by in ens of Cantoiat
willow-p
do them attern p
juslate,tice. Sometimes they consist so faithful in other matters,
wauld not be of muc le use to me in difficulties up does not
the country. I had nes idea that those provincials
of three arches, but generally of only one. In the
were so entirely incon eprehensible to each other. latter case solid masonry of carefully faced granite
Thi voice of A'Yu awoke., me to a sense that I was or limestone advances into the water from either
We w ere moored in the suburb side. In the centre springs a light and graceful arch
a public character.
a 'ed., every barge in the —more than a • semicircle, quite half an oval ; it
of the city of Kiahing,
tied tsy spectators contem- springs 40 feet high, and the crown of the arch has
neighbourhood was crow not twofeet of superstructure resting upon it. There
Isnoring Barba-
and, doub ass,
plating the sleeping tiers, is keystone, but the thin •
no coping stones are cut in
Tian. The excitement was ves`jr great when the the proper curve. The bridge itself is a terrace
outer foreigner -threw aside
his .mosquito curtains mounted by steps on either side at an angle of 45
jacket and sleeping trowsers, degrees. The eect is very graceful and airy, and
and appeared in loose
but it reached its highest point ,v . hen he took aa' no wheeled carriages are used in China (except
wheelbarrows) they answer all practical purposes.
healer into the canal. The best part of the enter-
A sunset on the Imperial canal, with the monu-
tainueent, however, seemed to be when the ba;rba- ments on the banks, a vista of these bridges, and
rime his swim being .accomplished, had to climb UP the mountains of Nganhwui in the far distance, is '
the rope into the boat, with his dripping pajamase a sight I shall remember when I look again upon
es
and pull all his curtains about him. The water is
I Claud
We a and Turners.
re thankful that at lost there are mountains
quite: clean, and the Chinese throw nothing away. i'll view ; for this perpetual level, fat and. fertile as
We have now got into districts where the people it is, grows depressing.
very rarely see foreigners, and their surprise and It;' is our fifth day, and we are expecting to reach
astonishment are as great as .4 they had never even Hanwchan, where all our difficulties of transit must
seen one before. I confess I think this perpetual be exp (listed.
While' writing I have passed along five miles of
mobbing insufferable. My Ch inese disguise does
rural dist rict with banks all builtup, like a Parisian
very well to go through a city in a chair, but it will
quay, of wrought granite, and the towing-path
not do to walk about with. The first dog I meet carried over stone bridges which cross the frequent
resents the imposture and draws upon me the cri- branches of this immense artificial navigation. I
ticism and curiosity of the multitude. A despair of convoying the idea of
vastpa work,
natural fer-
Chinese bourgeois wears no hat. 140 is the only enormous traffic, patient iaquiry,_ _
human creature who shaves his head and defies tility, individual content, and peaceful prosperity-
the blazing sun. Five minutes of this would with which this journey impresses me. The pago-
infallible produce brain fever in a Europeon, go we des are in ruins, and where the quays have fallen
are obliged. to use either the straw hat of the there is no hand to repair them. The Imperial
Chinese peasant or the pith hat of the Hong Kong grain junks are rotting a and the few forts are in
merchant. You must, however, weer Chinese , decay. But these evidences of decrepitude in the
clothes ; you could not move a step through these rulers have not yet operated to affect the personal
cities in European clothes—they would excite a ha ppiness which springs from fertile lands and in-
frenzy of curiosity. I saw much more of the city of dustrious husbandmen.
Kiahing by water than I did by land, but these At the end of one of the old straight lines of this
cities of the delta are like Venice or Amsterdam, it highway we discern at last a far extending mass of
is only from their canals that you can see them. houses, whose walls exult in bright whitewash and
Although but a third-class city, we were at least whose roofs are all of old grey tiles. These houses
an hour passing through Kiahing. There are vast seem to intend far back and to overspread the
sto-es of that thick poitsry ware used at Shanghai plain that intervenes between the bank of the canal
for baths and coarser utensils, much of it well orna- and the highlands that form the background of our
metlted. There are large carpenters' shops contain- present view.
lug the simple silk-winding machine of the Chinese, This, seen through a mob of junks, moving and
in every stage of completion. We are now far ad- sill, is Hangehau as it appears from the Imperial
vapeed into the silk district. There ie a large eats- canal. All things indicate the capital of a
.great
bliehment for crushing seeds and making oil. We province. Our old frientls the Imperial grain junks
land to inspect it, and the proprietor is polite and have been rotting in hundeeds for the last ten miles,
explanatory. There are tea-shops overhanging the the canal has been of extending width, Mandarin
water, and the customers, naked to the waist, are passage boats, towed by strings of coolies have
lounging and smoking and sipping from their gone by sounding their gongs and flaunting their
little cups a weak infusion without milk or sugar. banners, while the Mandarin looked out from his
Theu there is a break in the continuity of habita- seat of honour, and from behind his fan eagerly
tious—a rick of rice straw and a grove of mulberry eyed the strangers. The commercial navy of Cina
trees, not large round topped trees such as we see in (per sang—ito schooners or lorchas) were taking
France and Italy, but trees free to grow as nature in paper, tea, rice, oil, bamboo basket work,
pl* sex, and bearing their leaves down to the bottom and a thousand other articles of produce. They are
of their stems. Of the mi'lions of mulberry trees I loading the tea here in its natural state in cheets
have seen in this part every one has a good healthy protected by matting. It is all for Shanghai andthe
foliage, and not one has been stripped in the manner export market. That is to say, it is all of that high-
I have somewhere seen described. Passing this dried. kind which will pass the sea. I counted. 18
age icultural interval, we again immerge into the junks of about 200 tons each lying together ready-
city. We seem now to be in a district of merely laden with this European necessity.
domestic dwellings. The enormous signboards SITRIFRBS OF BANGCHAII, ANG. 11.
covered with gigantic Chinese characters are less The irrigation wheel has now entirely given way
frequent. There is a fat Chinawoman and her to the wharf The banks on either ride are as the
pretty little round plump daughter hanging out banks of tie Thames when it reaches the city's
clothes in a very small number of square inches of eastern suburb. High above roofs and masts rise
drying ground under the eaves of their cottage. two lofty poles, whose cross bars show them to be
In another building there is a solitary damsel em- ensigns of official authority. They stand before a
plo red upon her embroidery ; and in another a large public edifice. In China all public edifices are
palm-leaf fan is being used to drive the mosquitos of the same pattern ; josshouses and palaces and
out of the curtains. The little domesticities of life public offices might and very frequently do inter-
are going on while the men are at business. change their purposes without much alteration.
Thrpughout the whole extent of Kiahing and of The building before us has the usual double tier of
eve.ey other city in this neighbourhood there are shelving roofs with upturne -1 corners, as though
well-finished quays of faced granite, having at every the original designer of this style had taken the
20 yards broad stone stairs down into the water ; prows of four Greek galleys and put them toga-
upon these the long-tailed race both men and chil- ther, with their rostra facing to the four cardinal
dr. n, stand and fish. Some of the stores are very points. It also has a very extensive gallery, which
extensive, rap along way back, and are divided comes out on piles into the canal, and is roofed and
free their . neighbours by thick and high per • t y ornamented in proper official style, and crowded
walls; but the houses are all built to the same pat- widt Chinese officials. This buildingis the celebrated
teiri—a garret above a shop, a slanting roof of " Pain Kwan," or "Ta Kwan"—the "new" or
tilers and projecting eaves over both the shop and the "great" Custom-house. This is the foe of Men-
the garret. This. is the unvarying form. Sign- cheater and Leeds, and. Nottingham and Sheffield.
boards withimmense characters, the presence or This is tha first lock in the ascending water-way.
abeence of flowerpotaand casements, and the various here British calicoes get their first ltft, to be still
characters of the commodities for sale constitute f.irther lifted. at very short stages. There is no es-
the. only difference. We entered Kiahing through cape. Here the Imperial canal ends. There are
an archway in the wall, and quitted it through a small feeder; which come down from places in the
similar aperture. There is no difference between neighbourhood, but here the navigation ceases.
the city and the suburb, except that inside the walls There is a magnificent navigable river which rolls
tho.canals are narrower. on the other side of the city, but with this the Ica-
A:gain we were in the country, among the mul- penal has no connection. Such is the Imperial
berry trees and the rice-fields, the patches of policy. Here at Hangchow everything must be
tobacco, the sepulchral mounds, with their waving transhipped.
banners of high reeds, the gourds trellised on We pulled up at the Castom-house, and lam
ba, nboo framework, and the agricul tu ral population ready for the rigorous search which must take
all at work—men and women, with equal energy, plate. I was determined to solve this mystery of
treading at their irrigation wheels. Here is the the differential duties. I had a piece of printed
secret of the fertility of this great delta. Every calico
and
a packet of clasp knives, and also some
hundred yards a little family treadwheel, with its of
my Chinese clothing, not yet worn, on the table.
lint.) of tiny buckets, is erected over the canal, and I was fully resolved to have a considerable discus-
the water is thrown up to refresh the mulberry sion over the payment for these things.
tress or mature the rice. When the Arabs learn After a few moments, a man, something between
to labour like this the plain of the Metidja may the Coolie and comprador class, and without even
become as productive as this delta of the two rivers. the small pyramidal official straw hat, put his head
We must have passed 10,000 people to-day engaged into the boat and said, as plain as unintelligible
in this irrigation process. words and significant gesture could speak, "That
Towards evening we arrived at the first-class city will do ; go on."
of Keashin, where I found myself surrounded by " But tell him," roared Ito A'yu, "that I have
all the scum of the city. They were never hostile, duties to pay."
bet they stoop and poke out their heads and stare "He telkee all right."
their very hardest at you in a close circle. They " Tell him these boxes are all full of salt, and
ge.itly lay hold on your hand to examine the ring. the boat is full of contraband goods."
TI py beg to be allowed to remove your spectacles, " He talkee no mindee."
and make the most impertinent remarks upon the "Tell him we haven't paid the boat toll."
cotour of your eyes. Mine are of the most ridiculous "He talkee bamboo boatee man."
and unnatural of all colours—blue ; and they are At this hint we were at oncepropelled from the
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CHINA.

Ruth a curiosity that a crowd of Chinamen will
st.t,re at them for half an hour without winking, hut
oc easionally laughing heartily to each other. My
htef prosecutor at Kea9hin was a fellow who
squinted horribly. I thought myself justified in
pc inting out this fact to the crowd, and thus got rid
of him, for there was a roar of laughter, amid
which be slunk away.

shore, and I was left with my British produce to
mourn over the fallibility of the best laid schemes.
It was quite evident now that the officials were
determined to ignore our presence. I knew there
was a toll that would amount to nearly a dollar
each on our boats ; they refused, however, to take
it from us. They allow us now to pass the Cus-
tom-house unquestioned. They are ~..learly treat-

All this is mere curiosity. There is no feeling of
he utility to strangers. If a Mandarin were officially
informed of our presence we should probably be
arrested and sent back ; the fact that no one cares
to•do so shows that the people feel no displeasure
at 'our presence.
'After a little intercourse this would all cease, but
at present it is an insufferable affliction. I am not
fa's'tidious, but ahundred Chinamen crowding round
said pushing one another close upon you is not a
pnasant position. You must add, moreover, that
th p thermometer is standing at 100, that these fel-
lo jr3 are all naked to the waist, and that the Chinese
atek, not only a mate race but also eminently a cuts-
11.110US people.
ifieashin is but a larger Keahing. AU these
cities on the plain are just al'ke. At Keashin, how-
WA-, we leave that network of canals which, al-
tlkftigh over 50 yards broad, are now narrowed to a
cifttleol by 1 ght bamboo partitions on etch side.
Ttae enclosed sidewater is hired and cultivated as
gardens, a water-loving root, which the Eng-
call " buffalo head," and which the Chinese
reAch affect. Worse, however, than the ling gar-
-4410, the huge hulks of the Imperial grain junks
eietiumber these small canals. Since the rebels have
been established at Nankiu the inland communica-
tion has been stopped, and the food of Pekin goes
raiund by sea. Many hundreds therefore of these
jocks have become useless. They are rotting in all
directions, filling up Vie channels—some above
w4kter, some below, all of them in decay. They
mist not be broken up, or sold, or burnt—they are I
Itiaperial property. At Keashiu we enter upon the
4aperial canal. Between the carefully piled banks
at this noble river, for it is as wide as the Thame4
at Kew, we journey for three days, passing and
ea. etimes tarrying at villages and t wins and cities.
It the country, however, which is most inte-
resting.
• ..
God made the country and man made the town."
may be
in batrue England, but here man has as much
making the country as in making the
b w-n.
:There is no lack of objects pass up towed
th-se hardy boatmen.Theirritatiortwneels are
constantly gotißrg' rritetrawa-
junksnder
their awning of mats. The
e
ver ceasing—who shall number ,he vehicles f._ir
i
tiater-carriage whic:i China; pos3esles The fiaher -
teen with his flock of fishing cormorants psrclied
On his punt or swimming after him is passing up
under the banli, and I notice that if a cormorant
g..;t3 a large fish which he caintio swallow, he takes
it to the punt and receives something which his
tauter pushes into his
mouth in return for it ; but
if it be an eel or small fish he tries to escape with
it and swallow it, and if he is beyond the reach
bf the fisherman's crook he generally does so.
Near the towns the banks are lined at intervals
°T‘ few hundred yards with triumphal monuments
lit atone. This monument i 3 of one type but n t
a'.ways of one pattern—two bright square pillars,
:two or three horizontal bars bearing inscriptions.,
and a pediment on tho:top like a section on the
roof of a Chinese temple. They have erected six
of these at Canton to celebrate the expulsion or
the English. Here they commemorate the virtues

ing the three -Englishmen as 15ogberry thought it
best to treat rogues. Now I began to make frantic
inquiries from Chinamen about the matter I had
ietended to settle myself. I am told that at this
" Ta Kwan" they take 15 cash, or about three-
halfpence, for a piece of China cloth, and 400 cash,
or 3s. for English. A Chinaman will always
give you an answer, and it will generally be the
first phrase that comes into his head. I paid
little attention to this assertion and should
not have repeated it, bat that it seems to accord
with my subsequent experience. Shanghai is full
of English goods ; at Keahing and lE!ashun I
saw some English " domestics ;" but after we had
passed the " Ta Twan" I never saw anything Eng-
lish exhibited for sale, except English sewing cot-
ter', which had penetrated even to the primitive
city of Peh Kwan. It may be that the duties on
English goods are as heavy as my Chinese infor-
mant says, but I must admit that I do not think
the testimony worth much.
We now held a council. Shall we try to invade
the city or not 1 Hangchow is, next to Pekin, the
most zealously-guarded city in the empire. " There
is; Heaven above, but there are flangchow and
Soo_loo on earth," say the Chinese poets. It was
for no short time the Imperial capital. It has al-
ways been essentially Chinese. Annals of martyr-
doms tell still of the massacre of 800 Christians at
Hangchow. During the last war many of our kii-
napped sailors were sent here as to a place of secu-
rity, and butchered after a mock trial. Several
Europeans have sail they have been into the city,
but they have given no more description of the
place than if they had not been there. They pro-
bably passed through in well-closed chairs. Even
this cannot be easily done. The lasi attempt was
made by Mr. Edkins, and it resulted in his being
taken into custody and sent back under an escort
on his road to Shanghai.
On the whole, it was thought wiser to go on at
once to the famous lake, with its gardens of ling,
its fairy tea-houses, its mighty Buddhist temples,
its Imperial Palace, and its pagoda-crowned sur •
rounding mountains. Oa one side it wadies the
city wills, so we shall not be far away. It is the
glory of Hangchow, and the boast of the Celestial
Empire ; so it is probably much better worth see-
is4g 'hail the city itielf.
VILLAGE OF SEHOO, AUG. 14.
Avoiding the gates of flan;chow, and making a
wide, circuit, we tracked our way through devious
ditches up to a village ball a mile distant
le
fwt
and°a chars, and eana:dits"bouts'ith eassinsei ed
1 of Hangchow. This v is full of coolies
the burgesses .stant from the
to be to convey
fitHertoehnegiscvhan about to the temples
and gardens.
for us. We lie no entrance into the lake
fever seem
in six inches of green
seem to float around.
water.
oThreeu r
daysAn i gguh et
weres and
sv sleptpassed n thisn t
the
etswamp.the
great
Buddhist
temples and in the monasteries o
take us to the Temple of the Great°Bzes. They
mighty bust, 40 feet high, carved out of the rock I'l
Igilt—thence to a still larger temple, where
pagoda and 49 colossal idols commemorate the 49
transmigrations of Buddha. Thence across rich

pleasure grounds, where streamlets ripple and some
spots are shady, bnt where still that knife•grinding
din pursues us, for—. . . . . ... ._

"Sole sub ardenti resonant arbusta cicadis."
We are borne to the Temple of the Fish Buddha,
where enormous carp grow fat in pleasant ponds.
At least a thousand of them contended for our
-votive biscuits, and some of them weighed to a
fisherman's eye quite 401 b.
These temples, however, great as they are in size
and gorgeous grotesqueness, are but as little Welsh
churches compared to the wonders of the " Yun
Lin," the "Cloudy Forest." This is not so much a
temple as a region of temples.
It is suggestive of the scenes of those ancient
Pagan mysteries where the faith and fortitude of
neophytes were tried, and their souls purified by suc-
cessive terrors. It is a limestone district, abounding
in caves and far-reaching dark galleries and myste-
rious internal waters. These natural opportunities
are improved by a priest and an altar in every cave,
gigantic idols cut into the rock in unexpected
places, rays of heavenly light which only the faith-
ful votary ought to be able to see, but which, as
they come through holes bored through the hill,
sceptics sometimes catch sight of ; inscriptions 2,000
years old, but deepened as time wears them. The
place is a labyrinth of carved rocks, a happy valley
of laughing Buddhas, and Queens of Heaven, and
squatting Buddhas, and hideous hooknosed gods of
India. There is a pervading smell of irankincens ,
and the single priest here and there in solitary
places, moaning his ritual, makes the places yet
more lonely ; and through this strange scone you
pass through narrow paths to the foot of the colossal
I errace steps which mount to the temple itself. The
wild birds are flying about this vast echoing hall of
Buddha ; the idols are still bigger and still more
richly gilt. In the great " gallery of five hundred
gods" all that can be done by art, laborious, but
ignorant of beauty, reaches its climax. _ _

The cowled and tonsured bonzes came forth to
greet us. Excellent tea and great choice of sweet-
meats await us in the refectory.
The wonders of this Hangchow Lake deserve bet-
ter description than the objects of these letters will
allow me to attempt. The temple and tomb of the
faithful Minister of State, Yo Fei, occupy acres of
ground and thousands of tons of monumental wood,
stone, and iron. The Imperial palace upon the lake,
with its garden of rockwork and green ponds, its
large library of unused books, its dim metal mirrors,
richly embroidered cushions, and ricketty old chairs,
opened to us with great difficulty, and under the
immediate pre-sure of the almightly dollar. I
hope some one under less imperative obligation to
eschew the merely picturesque and to seek only for
facts which may have practical bearings, may yet
describe these objects. My favourite eventide oc-
cupation was to ascend one of these hills and sit at
the foot of one of these half-burnt pagodas which
stand about like blasted cypress trees and look
down upon the Hangchow. The famous city
lies like a map beneath me. Net a curl
of smoke, not a building more lofty than the or-
thodox two-storied josshouse. I can follow the line
of outer walls and even track the course of the inner
enceinte. Marco Polo says they were 100 miles
round, and a Chinese chronicler records that in a
single conflagration, while Hangchow was yet the
capital of China, 530,000 houses were burned.
These are foolish fables. Hangchow from its posi-
tion never could have been much larger than it now
is. It stands upon a slip of laud about three miles
wide, intervening between the river (which is wider
than the Mersey, and has 30 feet of water at low
tide) and this lake. At one end the ground swells
into a hill, over the crest of which the city wall
passes. The shape of Hangchow, therefore, is very
much that of a couch, the hill part being repre-
sented by the pillows, and being the fashionable
part of the city. I can see not only public temples,
but also many of those private ancestral temples,
which are to a Chinese gentleman what the chancel
of his parish church is to au English squire. Little
gardens, perhaps not 40 feet square, full of weeds
and rockwork and little ponds • an oblong pa-
vilion with tablets upon the walls, descriptive of
the names and achievements of the ancestors---L
kneeling stool, an incense vase, candlesticks, a bra-
zier to burn paper made in imitation of Sycee silver,
and a sacrificial tub—such is a Chinaman's private
chapel. Here he comes ou solemn days, and, the
garden being weeded, and all things painted and
renewed for the occasion, he prays and sacrifices to
his ancestors, and feasts with his friends. If the
Chinaman has a superstition that is it. His Budd-
hism is a ceremonial to the many and a speculative
philosophy to the adept, no more. Mr. Edkins's
object in visiting the temples of the lake was to
hold controversy with the priests, so I had more
opportunity of hearing what they really believe
than usually falls to the lot of travellers who
cannot read the Pali books. They did not feel
k his arguments against idolatry. They treat their
grotesque gods with as much contempt as we do.
They divide the votaries into three classes. First
come the learned men who perform the ritual and
observe the abstinence from animal food merely as
a matter of discipline, but place their religion in
absolute mental abstraction, tending to that perfec-
tion which shall fit them to be absorbed into that
something which, as they say, faith can conceive,
but words cannot describe. Secondly come those
who, unable to mount to this intellectual yearning
after purification from all human sentiments, strive
by devotion to fit themselves for the heaven of the
western Buddha, where transmigrations shall cease,
and they shall for all eternity sit upon a lotus
igower and gaze upon Buddha, drawing happiness
from his presence. Thirdly follow the vulgar, whose
devotion can rise no higher than the sensual care-
monies, who strike their foreheads upon the steps
of the temples, who burn incense, offer candles
from the tallow tree, and save up their cash for
festival days. So far as my experience goes, this
class is confined almost entirely to old women, and
the priests say that their one unvarying aspiration
is that at their next transmigration they may be-
come men. _ _ .

The rascal pretended he was quite unaware of our
presence. I found out afterwards that he knew that
three Englishmen ware passing in just as well as we
did. I breathed more freely when the gate was
passed, and when we became entangled in the nar-
row streets. They bore us through the dirtiest parts
of the town, and passed the Yanaun or police-
office, known by the horrible Imperial lion
scrawled in paint, upon the opposite wall. The
people soon began to run together. The blinds
of the chairs were sufficiently transparent to
allow them to see there was something unusual ;
perhaps the fact of the chairs being closed was
enough in itself. Then we grew bolder and opened
the blinds, and, although the crowd pressed to see,
there was no hostile demonstration. At last we
got to a better part of the city, we boldly descended
and found ourselves in the streets of Hangchau.
We now bade one of the coolies guide us to the
upper part of the city, while the chairs followed.
We passed several curiosity shops, where there were
some few things I should have bought, but, alas !
our expenses had so far exceeded our expectation
that we were already afraid our funds would fall
short—a contingency which actually occurred, for
we had to borrow of % Chinese innkeeper. I noticed
that in one of the curiosity shops an English beer
bottle was placed among the vases in a post of
honour. As we ascended the hill we passed a tea-
house, which was the first I had seen in China hav-
ing any pretensions to ornament. This was evi-
dently the Verey of Hangchau. A Mandarin chair
was following us, and we drew up to allow the gen-
tleman to overtake us. In evident perturbation
he stopped his chair and went into oae of the tem-
ples, where he doubtless expended some cash in
incense to be delivered from the barbarians. We
were now among josshouses and private residences
which I had seen from the Pagoda-hill, and from
the terrace we could see down into the courts and
houses of the lower city. It was a holiday in Hang-
chau. There were shows going on. We had heard
much firing in the morning, and we now learnt that
there had been a review of 8,000 troops, and our
informrnts addel with much laughter that one of
the evolutions had been to make the soldiers charge
right into the river up to their armpits. In this
part of Hangchau wa were less thronged than I had
ever been before in China. There was no apparent
obstacle to our goit'e where we pleased or doing
what we pleased. We did not venture into the
theatre, for we knew by experience, at a sing-song
on the bank of the lake, that the Chinese ladies, with
their smart robes, their painted faces (white and red
upon their cheeks and vermillion on their lips, little
enamelled stars beside their eyes, and black upon
their eyebrows), would almost jump out of their
boxes with fright ; while the populace would
throng about us, and the actors woulds tend still and
stare like the rest. Being a little overcome by the
sun, I strolled away by myself back to the tea-
house, and took my place at a little table as com-
placently as I should on one of the boulevards ; the
tea was exquisite—that slightly-dried, small, green
leaf which yen never can taste in England ; for tea
will not keep er pack or stand the voyage unless
burnt up to the state of insipidity in whic we get
it. A poet Emperor of China, Khian-Loung, has
not disdained to sing the praises of tea, and, like a
practical Chinaman, he teaches us how to makeit
"Graceful are the leaves of mei-hoa, sweetly scented
and clear are the leaves of fo-cheon. Bat place upon a
gentle fire the tripod whose colour and form tell of a far
antiquity, and fill it with water of molten snow. Let it
sio)the till it would be hot enough to whiten fish or
to redden a crab. Then pour it into a cup made from the
earth of pie upon the tender leaves of a selected tea-tree.
Let it rest till the mists which freely rise have formed
themselves into thicker clouds, and until these have gra-
dually ceased to weigh upon the surface, and at last float
in their vapour. Then sip deliberately the delicious liquor.
It will drive away alll the fire causes of disquietude which
come to trouble us. You may taste, and you may feel ;
but never can you express in words or song that sweet
tranquillity we draw from the essence thus prepared."
I sipped and was refreshed ; but the sweet tran-
quillity was not mime. The curiousgtea-drinkers
pressed around me, and there was a waiter whose
nature it was to walk about with a kettle of boiling
water, and whose unconquerable instinct compelled
him to fill up my cup whenever it was getting three
degrees b=low boiling point and was becoming pos-
sible to drink. The people were very good-tempered,
but they came very close and the day was very hot.
I was so strict iu my Chinese costume that they
could find nothing to wonder at but my physique
and my pith hat. They made the most of these.
If I had been dressed in European costume I be-
lieve they would have undressed me in their ardent
curiosity.

Msantime our coolies and luggage had been
stopped at the gate we passed through. The offi-
cials told my man that we had acted wrong in not
presenting our cards and the Foo-tei's pass ; but it
was not their business, but that of another officer,
to atop foreigners. They do not wish to atop Eng-
lishtnen's luggage, but looked into the servants'
boxes. They asked where the Englishmen were
gone, and wore satisfied when told that we had gone
up the hill " to Jhinchin Joss." All this talk about
cards and passes was of course Chinese taradlddles,
but it shows that the Chinese authorities were per-
leotly aware that they had three Englishmen among
them.

I could find no silk weaving in the city, but there
must be quarters like the suburbs of Lyons, for this
is the very centre and depot of the silk district.
After several hours in Haugchou we got into our
chairs again, and psssed through the opposite gate
of the city along a ditty faubourg and over a flat to
the Tsien-tang river, which is here about two miles
wide. There is a little Custom-house, but no ships
and no commerce. Hangchou evidently depends
upon its inland trade, and seeks no communication
by sea. As we crossed the broad river I looked back
up this picturesque city, and felt that its environs
were as familiar as those of Liverpool, Cheltenbam,
or Richmond.

We had five days' journey yet before us, the
greater part through country even less visited than
Hangchou itself. I should grow intolerable, how-
ever, were I to describe the rest of the route with
the same minuteness. I must not even venture to
describe the sepulchre of Yu; the founder of the
Hia dynasty, although it is the grandest sepulchral
temple in China, and boasts an antiquity of 2,000
years, although a fierce thunderstorm burst so close
that there was a smell of fire and the gigantic
idol trembled. Perhaps I may be permitted, how-
ever, to say that nearly 100 lineal descendants of
the great Emperor who controlled the great inun-
dations and curbed the waters of the four great
rivers still live in poverty under the protection of
the Temple. Under the Ming dynasty they re-
ceived pensions ; the Tartars allow them none.
Here is a pedigree, ye followers of Rollo. Enough
to say of Peh Kwan that the people asked us
whether we were Siamese. They had seen the
Loochooians, and we were not like them, and they
knew we were not Japanese. Chao-ping is for
many miles round girt with sepulchral monuments.
It ie to the worship of ancestors what Hangchau and
its lake are to Buddha. All the wharves and
bridges were crowded by all the population
of the place_ as we went through. The half-naked
bodies seemed countless as we moved slowly through
canals exit tly—bridges, smells, and all, like some of
the black canals in Venice. We passed several nights
among the most uncultivated crowds of tnatinen
while awaiting our turn to be dragged by wind-
lasses over those dikes of slippery mud which in
Cuina do duty for locks. We passed other nights
in passing tbraugh lakes and listening to the songs
and cymbals which told of marriages in the villages
on its banks. We watched the paddy harvest,
examined the tallow trees, with their poplar-like
leaf, their green berries, and their alder shaped
form. We saw. the cotton come into flower. We
fired in vain at two eagles circling round the head
of a man who was accompanied by a little dog,
which they wanted to carry off. We stopped and
interrogated a sort of Chinese Gil Bias, who was
travelling oil foot (almost an unprecedented thing in
China), and who carried with him all his worldly
goods—a pair of blue breeches,
a pipe, and a small
teapot. We investigated at Yu-Yoa the country
si
fr •m the top of the Citadel-hill, and in the dyer's
shop we examined the dye wherewith those ever-
present blue breeches are dyed. After ten days of
to revolve like the events of the Platonic year.
everything seemed to repeat itself and
'We became convinced at last that if we were to
j,urney from Hangchau to Pekin, and from Pekin
to Szchuen, we should find just the same arts and
.manners and agriculture, varied only by the exi-
ig-ncies of nature.

Such is Buddhism as wa see it in China. But
this is not all. A Chinese poet who 800 years ago
built an ugly straight down in this beautiful lake
of See-hoo, about the same time invented the Ten
Gods of Hell, and grafted them upon the Buddhist
faith to territy men from crime. There is also a re-
formed sect of Buddhists who call themselves " Do-
Nothings," and who place the perfection of man
in absta►ning from all worship, all virtue and all
vice. When the Jesuit missionaries saw the mitres,
the tonsure, the incense, the choir, and the statues
of the Queen of Heaven they exclaimed that the
Devil had been allowed to burlesque their religion.
We Protestants may almost say the same. These
reformed Buddhists deduce their origin from a
teacher who was crucified in the province of
Shantung some 600 years ago, and they shock the
missionaries by blasphemous parallel. I have heard
that the present Bishop of Victoria investigated this
sect and sent home au account of them, but, for
some reason, the statement was suppressed.
Then we have the Taoist?, or cultivators of per-
fect reason, which is a philosophy having also its
temples and its ceremonies. We have the worship
of Heaven, which is the prerogative of the Empe-
ror, and we have the State religion, the philosop► y
of Confucius, which is but metaphysics and ethics.
All these may form good subjects of discussion to
laboriously idle men, but they are of very little
practical importance. 'They are apt culations—not
superstitions. They are thought over—they are
not felt. They inspire no fanaticism, they create no
zeal, they make no martyrs, they generate no into-
lerance. They are not faiths that men will fight
for, or die for, or even feel zealousfor. Your Chinese
doctor is a man of great subtlety, of great polite-
ness, but of the coldest indifference. He is a most
pachydermatous beast, so far as the zeal of the
Christian missionary is concerned, "Do you be-
lieve in Jesus Christ 1" asks the missionary after
long teaching patiently heard. " Certainly I do,"
coldly answers the hearer. "But why do you be-
lieve ; are you convinced ; do you feel that what I
have been saying is true ?" " I believe it because
you say so," is the polite and hopeless answer.
It is this which makes the earnest missionary de-
spond. A Chinaman has no superstition. He has
nothing that can be overthrown and leave a void.
He will chin his joss, burn crackers Mare he starts
on a v ,yage, or light a candle for a partner or a
useful clerk who may be in danger of death. But
it's only hope of " good luck" or fear of "bad luck."
The feeling is no deeper than that which in reli-
gious and enlightened England causes so many horse
shoes to be nailed to keep out witches, or which
makes decent housewives, who can read and write,
separate crossed knives, throw pinches of salt over
their shoulder, and avoid walking under a ladder.
Clusteredupon this hill, within the walls of Han g-
chou, are temples of all these varied farms of Pa-
ganism, and perhaps within the year the sane
idol iter has bowed in all of them. Two lofty green
mounds ara perhaps too large for mere private
tombs, aad mark the spot of some public hew
wo►ship ; but in other cases the architecture of ill-
s scree and public edifices is all alike, and you eau-
not distinguish temples from Custom-houses or
Mandarin °llium

On the 10th of August we arrived at Ningpoo,
after
some discomfort and some necessity for strong
doses of quinine, but after much exci- einflut and
great enj
400 miles of
country not often before traversed. We have en-
oYm,-mt. We have passed
tered four first-class Chinese cities (two of them un-
known to European travellers), many second-class
cities which in other countries might be cl tsed
as first, an't innumerable towns and villager.
Throughout the whole of our journey we have re-
ceived from 119 Chinese an uncivil word or in-
sulting gesture. No I ;
ut;.-ico.evous u- chiu has thrown
s• ones down upon us from any one of the
hundreds of bridges we passed through. No one
stoNed ur, and no Que waylaid us. It is true
tit. ,t the Mandarins at
... 1 Tr
wau soul us a message
to appear al their yaruun, but whew we sent answ,r
that we would endeavour to make preparation to
receive their visit Q board our boats, and when
Mr. Edkina had sent them a Test anent, they took
the evasive answer iu good part,. and suffered our
footmen to proond.

CHAO-RING, Aua. 15.
Having made a careful survey of 1119 environs of
Hangchou, we now determined to attack the city.
With a retinue of 12 chair-bearers and 10 coolies,
who followed with our baggage, we left our boats
during the midday heat, and skirting the border of
the lake reached the wall of the city. Here we shut
ourselves up, and Mr. Elkins, profiting by former
mishaps, instructed the party to avoid the Tartar
part of the city and the Manchoo gate. It was an
exciting moment when the first palanquin passed
under the city gate. From behind my exaggerated
fan I could see a fat Chinese official, who was evi-
dently on duty, but who had his back turned to 115.

From this journey I drew two practical conclu-
sions.

ex-
ceedingly anxious
The first is that the authorities in China are
•in no way to complicate their
present disputes with England, and, holding in
very wholesome terror the English name, are in-
.

dined to shut their eyes to the presence of peace-
ably conducted foreigners.

The second is that, unless excited by the authori-
ties, as they have been at Canton—and as they might
have been here, for had the Mandarins chosen
to say we were Portuguese we should certainly
have had our throats cut, —the Chinese people have
no objection whatever to the presence of foreigners
in their cities.

Whenever, therefore, the provisions of a new
treaty shall open all China to every European. pro-
vided with a passport from his own Consul there
will be no difficulty in the English merchant carry-
ing his own goods up the rivers and canals and into
the great cities of China. The people will be glad
enough to trade with him, and the authorities can,
if they will, protect him.
NINGPO, AUG- 24.
_ _

This great city, with its 350,000 inhabitants, its
beautiful river, and its excellent water connexion
with the interior, is the least valuable of all our
commercial stations. Neither tea nor silk is
brought down in any quantities, and the little tea
that is prepared here is sent to Shanghai to be
shipped. The importation of British and Straits
produce was last year but 136,3591. 93., and not
two-thirds of this was British manufactures. The
greater security of European shipping and its
comparative immunity from the pirates outside
(whom I saw the other day send a whole fleet of
junks back into the river) have given it some im-
portance as a shipping port for Amoy, Formosa,
Swatow, and the Straits. In 1856 198 British
ships, with an aggregate of 25,506 tons, loaded here.
This carrying trade is likely to increase, for the
Chinese are becoming quite alive to the advantage
of a stout ship and an English flag. "Can insure?"
is a question now very often in a Chinaman's mouth,
and Chinamen are.rich at Ningpo.
Ningpo is still in the after-throb of great excite-
ment. The European settlement is on the side of
the river, opposite to the walled city. The hongs
are not numerous nor very large, and they are
mixed up with Chinese residences and large timber
yards—timber is the staple of Ningpo,—and they
form a rectangle, the area behind which is occupied
by graves and paddyfields, but chiefly by graves.
On the 26th June a naval battle was fought in the
river, and a massabre took place among the tombs.
The story is somewhat out of date, but I must deal
with it here, where alone I coulddo so upon a proper
knowledge of the facts, because it isjillustrative of
the state of affairs we have to deal with in China.
To understand this transaction we must recollect,
what it is so difficult for people in England to believe,
that the whole coast of China is so infested with
pirates that even a fleet of fishing boats cannot ♦en-
ture out without armed vessels as a convoy.
The fishing boats which ply off the mouth of the
river Yong pay convoy duties to the extent of
$50,000 a-year ; and the wood junks that ply be-
tween Ningpo and Foochow and the other native
craft raise the annual payment for protection to
$200,000 (70,0001.) annually. These figures are
startling, but I have taken pains to ascertain their
correctness.

with our next treaty with China. They show how
important and how difficult is the question of po-
licing the coast and exterminating piracy ; they
show also how important it is that the great Euro-
pean Powers should exercise a strong control over
stuili lawless vagabonds as those who acted with the
Cantonese ; they also suggest very grave conside-
rations how far it might be right to extondto small
and not very conscientious Governments like that
of Portugal the treaty-privileges which England is
about to ask, not only for herself, but for all other
civilised nations.

The vessels employed in this convoy service were
Portuguese lorchas. These vessels were well armed
and equipped. There were no Mandarin junks and
no Portuguese ships of war to cope with them or
control them, and they became masters of this part
of the coast. It is in the nature of things that these
privateers should abuse their power. They are ac-
cused of the most frightful atrocities. It is alleged
that they made descents upon villages, carried off
the women, murdered the men, and Lurnt the habi-
tations. They became infinitely greater scourges
than the pirates they were paid to repel. It is
alleged, also, that complaints to the Portuguese
Consul were vain, that Portuguese sailors taken
red-handed and handed over to this consul were
suffered to escape froin the consular prison. Rightly
or wrongly, the Chinese thought that the Consul
was in complicity with the ruffians who were acting
both as convoy and as pirates. The convictions of
the English and Franch residents at Ningpo do not
differ from those of the Chinese ; and although,
having no means of guarding my inquiries with the
securities of a judicial investigation, I am unwilling
to make any stroncr. assertion, I think I may rea-
sonably say that the honour of the Government of
Portugal is so compromised that European nations,
for common character's sake, should require it to
institute a searching examination into the conduct
of this official.

The leader of the pirate fleet was—l am going
back now to a time three years ago—a Cantonese
named A'Pak. The authorities at Ningo, in their
weakness, determined to make terms with him
rather than submit to the tyranny of the Portu-
guese. _

A'Pak was made a mandarin of the third class ;
and his fleet—not altogether taken into Govern-
ment pay—the Chinese could not afford that—was
nominally made over to A'Pales brother, a gentle-
man with a long name, which I cannot remember.

This fleet, noi:v turned nominally honest, began
to compete with the Portuguese for the convoy
business, and, their business being now tolerably
respectable, they were joined by several English,
American, and French deserters from ships-of-war
and merchant vessels.

A circumstance has just occurred which still fur-
ther illustrates the great impolicy of allowing Eu-
ropean vagabonds to be uncontrolled in this coun-
try. " Squeezing" has become so int,,lerable in
this province that a large city not. 40 miles distant
is in rebellion. Every power in China " squeezes."
The Toutai sends forth to " squeeze," the Canton
fleet sends out to " squeeze,' and squeezing par-
ties ftre undertaken upon private account.

A few days since an Irishman, accompanied by
some Chinese, went into the interior to one of the
villages where I had passed the previous night,
upon, it is alleged, a squeezing expedition. While
there he accidentally shot one of his Chinese compa-
nions. Delighted with this opportunity of " getting
the law o❑ their side," the populace rose, seized the
Irishman, bound him as though be had been a wild
beast which no thongs could make harmless, and
sent him up—after severe debate among themselves
whether they should not behead him on the spot—
to the Toutai of Ningpo. He arrived her• in a ter-
ribly lacerated condition, and claimed the protec-
tion of the British consul. Doubtless it became the
consul's duty to grant this protection, and the man
is now in Dr. Parker's hospital. Small advantage,
however, will be derived by any British merchant
from any treaty which may " open up China,", if
China is to be opened up to European brigands.
There must he some arrangement among the Euro-
pean Powers upon this matter.

This has been the position of the two parties for
the last three years.

PRICES OF SHARES.

The fishermen and carrying junks, glad to be rid
of the Portuguese yoke, gradually transferred their
custom to the Cantonese fleet, and the Portuguese,
hungry and furious, became more active in their
piracies, and attacked the Cantonese ships when
they could get them at an advantage, and mur-
dered their crews with circumstances of great
atrocity.

The-Cantonese do not look upon the Portuguese
as Europeans. They have not the same fear of
them. They can fight them man to man. M tcao
would have been taken by the Chinese long since
had they not dreaded the interfence of the other
Western Powers. After a few of these very sangui-
nary provocations A'Pak—not, it is believed, with-
out the concurrence of the Taoutai of Ningpo, de-
termined to destroy this Portuguese convoy fleet.
For this purpose A'Pak's brother collected his
snake boats and convoy junks from along the whole
coast, and assembled about 20 of them and perhaps
500 men. The Portuguese were not long hearing of
these preparations, but they seem to have been struck
with panic. Some of their vesselswent south, some
were taken at the mouth of the river. Seven lorchas
took refuge up the river opposite the Portuguese
Consulate. The sailors on board these lorchas landed
some of their big guns and put the Consulate in a
state of defence, and perhaps hoped that the neigh-
bourhood of the European houses and ihe character
of the Consulate would prevent an attack. Not so.
On the day I have above mentioned the Canton
fleet came up the river. The Portuguese Consul im-
mediately fled. The lorchas fired one broadside at
them as they approached, and then deserted their
vessels and made for the shore. About 2OO Can-
tonese, accompanied by a few Europeans, fol-
lowed these 140 Portuguese and Manilla linen a4hore,
A fight took place in the streets. It was of very
sh ri duration, for the Portuguese behaved in the
most dastardly manner. The Manilla men showed
some spirit, but the Portuguese could not even per-
suade themselves to fight for their own lives behind
the walls of their consulate. The fortified house was
taken and sacked by these Chinamen, the Portu-
guese were pursued among the tombs where they
sought refuge, and 40 of them were shot down or
hunted and butchered with spears.
The Cap,Ltieuse French frigate now came up the
river, fired upon the Cantonese who were sacking
the Consul's house, and put an end to the conflic.
The French captain received on board the Portu-
guese Consul, not I am told with great
and also the fugitives who had wscaped the massa-
cre. The latter he conveyed as prisoners to Macao
to be tried as pirates.

Merciless- as this massacre was, and little as is the
choice between the two sets of combatants, it must
be owned tint the Cantonese acted with purpose
and discipline. Three trading Portu;uess lorchas
which lay in the river with their flags flying were
not molested, and no European, not a P, rtuguese,
was even insulted by the infuriate butchers. The
stories current of Souero and his Portuguese fol-
lowers rivalled the worst of the tales of the bucca-
niers, and public opinio:u in Ningpo and the foreign
settlement was strongly in favour of the Cantonese.
The Chinamen lost only two Chinese. One vaga-
bond Englishman fighting on their side was shot by
a Manilla man.

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BRIDGES.

After the departure of the Capricieuse the Portu-
guese brig of war, the Mondego, came up the river,
accompanied by abut 12 Portuguese lorcha, and
made formal demands of the Toutai that the cap-
tured lot clots should be restored and other restitu-
tion made. The Toutai replied that the two convoy
fleets must settle their own quarrels, for he had
nothing to do with them. The Portuguese and the
Cantonese then made ready for a fight, and the
general opinion was that the Cantonese would have
again been victorious. Meanwhile, however, Com-
inauder Dew in the Nimrod had steamed up the
river. He sent a message to the Portuguese Com-
mander to say that his instructions were to remain.
entirely neutral, and if the brig was about to attack
he would move his ship out of the line of fire, but
that if the Nimrod or houses of British residents
on the river were struck by shot it would be his
duty to interfere. The Mondego and her consort
lorchas immediately departed for Shanghai. The
Canto❑ fleet is still either engaged in convoying or
at anchor in the river ; and, to the great comfort
of the merchants and the missionaries, so also isthe
Nimrod.

I do not for a moment seek to implicate the Por-
tuguese nation iu the crimes of these Macao rid-
files, except so far as that it was the duty of Por-
tugal to prevent such deeds. But these circum-
stances suggest serious considerations in connection

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Oriental Bank Corpora.
Ottoman Bank
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto, New. • •
lonian.... . • • • • • • • • • • •
South Australia
Union of Australia

Price.

Paid.

Union of Hamburg....
Union of London....
Unity Mutual .... • • .•
Western Bank or Londn.

71. p. c. bs.
4t. per cent.
51. per cent.
101. per cent.
6f. per cent.
28 per cent.
18 per cent.
16 pc.&bs

51. per cent.
20,. per cent.
taper cent.

X s. d.
50 0 0
11 0 0
25 0 0

all
5 15 0
25 0 0
5 D 0
2 0 0
2 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
all
4 0 0

47 b 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
30 0 0
2 10 0
13 0 0
2 10 0
12 10 0
2 0 0
12 10 0
2 0 0
20 0 0
2 0 0
4 0 0
1 0 0
1 0 0

0 10 0
10 0 0
0 10 0

?rico.

.8834

41, p. ct.Sibs.
81. per cent.
M. per cent.
0/. per cant.
111. per cent.

151. per cent.

15 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

5 10 0
10 0 0
5 0 0

Paid.

£ I. d.

Price.

all
18 15 0
50 0 0

all_
6 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0

7'4
277

20 -6
0
so 0 0
10 0 0
20 0 0
35 0 0
10 0 0
5 0 0
22 10 0

15 .0
0
25 0 0

2 10 0
3 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0

Price.

LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
- - -
£ s. d. X s. d.
Bank of Scotland .... 71. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 18810 s
British Linen Coman 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 216/05
Caledonian Bank . • .....5i. per cent. 10 0 0 210 031 17s
City of Glasgow Bank Si. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11117 s
Clydesdale Bank •• - 55 1. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13 S 8
C mmercial Bank .. 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 2401 0
Eastern Bark- •• •• .. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 141 Os
Edinb. & Glasgow NI. p cent. 5 0 5 0 0 41 16'
National Bank •••• .. 6% per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1901 0
North of Scotland Bank 5/.percent 20 0 0 210 051 lOs
Royal Bank of Scott. .. 51, per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1311 s
Union Bank of Scot. •. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 1001 0
Western 8ank........ 7/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 53/ 0
Alliance Fire and Life...B 4/.pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17112 s
British Guarantee ... 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 11 Its
Caledonian Fire Incur . 10t.per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 241105.
City of Glasgow Lite.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 041 ...5
Colonial Life .........• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 3 0-:' 471 Os
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. Der cent. 100 0 0 15 ;kJ 281 7s
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51.iter cent. 50 0 0 3, 0
"09 4,1 Iti
6
.
Life Assoc. of 3cotland 6/.percent. 40 0 0 3 0",, 0 .
Nationa, Fire and Life 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 i 021 0 s
North British Insur... 71. per cent. 2002 0 0 20 :IV,: 0
.0
Northern Assurance Co. 17/ Os
/14s
00 0 1
Scottish Provincial .... - 50 0 0 2:0. 0 2/ 194
Standard Life ...... -5/ per cent 50 0 0 7
...." 2: 0 26/ 11
Scottish Union Insrnc. 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1' .0 0 II 15,
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-
.......-------.
X a. d. X s. d.
10 0 0 2 0 0 -
••
20 0 0 10 0 0 -
African Steam Ship . • • •
6f rev cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 -
Acadian Charcoal Iron
Assam tea • • .• -. • • . •
Auction Mart.. .• • • ••
25 0 0 19 0 0 23
-
Australian Aviculturl -
alilper cent. 50 0 0 -
Australian ItOpil Mall - 10 0 0 all --
.... Si. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
it. lOs. 10 0 q all -
BritishmanexTizstm
int..
ricau Land 5/. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0
.. 61. percent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 120
Cana . • • • •
Stock 100 0 ODo 5 per cent Bond. 51. pet cent
A'kunsgtrlos Am,
e 6 per cent. •• 61. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 -
-
Ditto, 5 per cent bds 51. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 -
Dpiitttto:
6p c. bds 1874 51. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 -
Ditto, 6p c. bds 1876 6/. per sent. Stock 100 0 0 -.
!4 Crystal Palace
Ditto Preference 7l pr. cent. 50 0 50 0 3'.
Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all -
City Ntisigation Bonds 354/. per cent - - ~•.
Electric Telegraph
Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt - 5 0 0 all _
Eng.&lris. Mag. T. Co
- 50 0 0 all
Equitable Reversionry 51per cent. 100 0 0 100 '0 0 -
_ .
Ditty New ...... -
Gen. Revers. & Invest. 51. p c and 11 100 0 0 tOO o 0 Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim ) - 25 0 0 all -
Gen.SteamNavigation 104 per Ct. & 15 0 0 14 0 0 23N
London Gen. Omnibus 121. per cent 40 0 all 3%
Hudson's Bay Si. per cent. Stock Stock -
11ungerford -
Lon. Ne. &Na. Mauso - 10 0 0 all -
Loy lon Reversionary 51, per cent. 15 0 0 all -
Mex. &S. American - 10 0 0 all
Nat. Discount Comp - 25 0 0 50 0 3%
N.S.W. Govlsp.c. Deb Si. per cent. - 100.. 0 0 -
Nor. Bri. Australasian
North of Europe, Stn,. 151. 6d. 10 0 all -
per tent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 -
Price'sPatentCand.,Co - 29 0 0 all -
Peel River.Land&Min.-12
-
Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent 50 0 0 all
Ditto New .. .. 50 0010 0 0 - 50 0 all
all -
Reversionary Int. Soc. 1% Lpr cent 100 0 0
0 0 -
-
Ditto New .... •• - 1,31. pr tett. 100 0 00
20
A fir 0 0 504
Royal Mail Steam it, p. share. 100 0 - - a I m
Scottish Aus. Invest l5l. per cent. 1 0 0 all -
SouthAnstrallan Land 71. per cent. 25 0 7, 5 0 0
Trust and Loan Comp. 7%.., pr cent. 20 0
Vts Diemen's Land •.10q. 100
Gov. 6 per cent. P - .. - nils. 6 per cent. 0028 10 0 -

"M. Horace GllarraClo-0," says the Malta Times,
" who, our reader; may remember, was severely wounded
in the streets of ConstantiftOple by a eunuch of the Sul.
tan's houcehold, ,14:ap receiyad 1,0001. from the Porte 40
compensation. from has completely recovered,
we understand, his wound."

THE WATERLOO MYSTERY-4 BARKER

MISSING.

The .Tourital du Loirst contains the following,
which it declares to be of some interest, in connec-
tion with the Waterloo-bridge tragedy :—" We
have received details on a mysterious event which
plunges into desolation one of the most respectable
families of Montargis, in this department. About
a month ago M. B—, junior, banker in that town,
left for Orleans, with 81,000 f. in bank-notes, des-
tined for his correspondent. On arriving at Or-
leans, ho was told, in answer to his inquiries,
that it would be possible to go up to Paris and
back again by railway before sight, provided
he started at once. As ho had some business to
transact at Paris, he went ; but found that his
affairs took more time than he had expected, and
he resolved to remain till the next day. He wrote
to his wife to tell her not to be alarmed at his
absence, and passed the night at the hotel at
which he was accustomed to put up. He left the
hotel the next morning, and since then nothing
whatever has been heard of him, and all the
researches made after him by the prefecture of
police, and by his family and friends, have led
to no result. As he was very prosperous in busi-
ness. was liked by all who knew him, and was de-
votedly attached to his young wife, by whom a few
months ago he had a child, it is impossible to con-
ceive that he has disappeared voluntarily. It is
therefore likely that lie has been the victim of a
crime; and the investigation made before th e coroner
of Westtniuster into the crime of Waterloo-bridge
tends to awaken painful suspicions. The details
given by the English journals as to the height,
colour of the hair and beard, and the dress of the
victim, apply to M. B—. The discovery of the
remains at London appears, it is true, at first glance,
to repel the supposition that be is the man ; but,
on the other hand, these remains had been placed
in a liquid which prevented decomposition, and it
is therefore not impossible that a crime may have
been committed in France, and that the authors •
of it may have endeavoured to remove
all traces of it, in order to escape detection.
In such a case, all suppositions are allow-
able. M. B--, father of the deceased, who is a
jute de pail and universally reepected, has been
advised to write to the coroner," The supposition
of a crime having been committed in France and
the remains of the body removed to London, seems
gait() out of range of possibility, as, were there no
other difficulty, the examination at the custom-
house would of itself preclude the clandestine in-
troduction of so large a package. That the gentle-
man alluded to in the above account may have gone
to London is possible, though not very probable.
Besides, the general quality of the clothes found in
the carpet bag in Loudon seems quite inferior to
the rank of life in which the missing banker of
Montargis must be supposed to have moved.