The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-11-08

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and quality 70 the band Of the Iron Duke, flying
the flag Of Admiral Shadwell, Of the royal navy
Of Eneland.) We are here under Consular au-
thority, and affairs are regulated by municipal
/ council, and well regulated too. Sedan chairs
are not numerous &c at Hongkong, but wheelbar-
rows are, and locomotion Of the humber sort is
accelerated by Punch's coach, in immense NUN
bcrs. The newspapers indicate TIE fec; that
Charles Dickens VIII pat in an appearance at the
/ Royal Asiatic Society's lecture room, and he ap-
pears accordingly and let me say, with NANTES;
/ approval he tries It again, with ike result.
Your correspondent leaves for Hankow, a treaty
port On the great river Yang-Tse-Kiang. $50
miles inland. And now being here, be ventures
this outpouring Of reciprocity. Te are the guest
of Mr.. Macpherson, the head Of the Chinese Gus
toms, and right royalty We are entertained
I royalty is the word, my friend. IL is the height
Of the tea season, and coolies are in multitudes
bearing their burdens Of tea chests with most as
tonishing vigor and continuity. The thorough
industry and general hand work Of the Chinese /
have never beheld equaled. Their general good
humor, their simplicity Of food, their abstinence
from intozication, the way in which hundreds
viii lie down and sleep on the hard street stones,
is to me unparalleled. / am not in love with
the women. No, / can't say l am. My heart Is
constant TO the shores Of the KiIauea Pele. But
my Chinaman is a wonder, and be ommands my
admiration, and ] will throw you the opium in.
The pyramids, the hanging gardens Of Babylon,
the wonders Of Nineveb, cease TO be a wonder
after witnessing the hand labor of the millions Of
Chinese. We have never seen horse power used
here ID this place Of SIX hundred thousand
Chinese, with us immense traffic.
RankOIC, our present 3" locus in quo, where
Is it? what is il? 1t must be a pigmy on the
earth's surface If not recognized in our geograph-
zeal orbit, sayest thou? On the banks Of the
mighty river Yalg-Tse Hang, behold it. 4
river one mile and q half broad at the present
stage OF water, opposite the walled city Of W.
Chang, the capital of the province, with Euro
pean ocean steamer anchored ready for loading,
with many river steamers at It's wharves, and
wharf boats; with innumerable sailing boats,
fotillas galore of every Chinese description,
bringing produce down, taking produce up, many
many hundreds Of miles above this, interdicted
TO the stranger. An immense tea mart, this
Hankow, with an excellent bund or boulcvarde
extending about a mile and q half fronting the
river, whereon are situated the best residences,
replete with eastern comforts and ornamented
with profusions Of magnificent flowers. It's here
the parties sit in state and if not IN doublet and
trunk hose or quafing old sack yet the best vim
tages Of the Rhine and the blue MoseIle are rel
ished with extraordinary gustO, and our chefs
de cuisine - and retinue are splendid and in good
taste, and when we sit to our luxurious dinner at
a quarter past s fOrsooth, our punkah waves DER
our table and keeps a comfortable temperature.
Though this is a great tea place and so are
many Of the China ports, yet mighty little of
that tap finds its way down below. The lubrica-
ton OF the foreign larynx is moistened by other
fluids, gentle sir. You, / know. VIII be delight
cd to find that the choicest Johannisberg, or the
Hook that sparkleth, or the vintage of Medoc or
LATTE cannot wean US from our darling Howqua-
Pekoe or the choice green, which imparts both
flavor and zcst. My kind and good friend Geo.
Williams of your port Will receive the news with
delight that we revel in the best, aye that cen
the Emperor and Bashaws with three tails
are wont 10 quaf. 1t intensifes sentiment, dear
Editor, and generates genial expression. Our
favorite tea is of Arcadia, and has an innocent
pastoral favor. 1t must have been popular in
Eden before the Fall. Alas we are as a preacher
iva SA NOAANCIAAGAlI -LN ~
way Of confession We own to a tenderness almost
amounting to the Illicit for the seductive extract.
For the alcoholic sisterhood, for the hot misceI-
lany produced by inVermarriage or admixture of
hot waters with the variety Of distilled others we
might partake under strong protest, of course.
But for that softer maiden, so fair, so equable in
temperament, so constant and habitual. yet never
cloying, who waits on US neat handed every
morning and every evening from the cradle to the
grave,-we have not words to glorify her decent
virtues. Bear with US a space longer. and then.
- Nunc demittus.''
We beg TO record the fact tha; Of the several
churches we have visited IN q China town we
have not heard anything like the captivating
power OF the Archdeacon Geo. Mason Of your
parts, or late OF the same. We offer 70 bin,
wherever he may be, our highest respect and
tribute. We had the pleasure TO take TIfn with
the Rev. Canon Butcher of Shanghae. who has
the most beautiful edifee 70 preside in, that has
greeted our vision for some time. 1t Is not only
the beauty OF the structure but the style Of its
elevation, and the excellent ordering OF the large
enclosure, b~oasting horticultural Landscape adj
vantages minus chuTcbyard appendages. " where
the forefathers OF the hamlet sleep The church
only lacked the episcopal military department Of
Henry May in It's aisle, 10 stamp it's thorough
orthodox character.
Before we drop the curtain and say farewell on
our imperfect Chinese phantasmagoria. let US
record the fact that as the population OF this
vast country is reckoped by its hundreds OF mil
Ions, so its trades, guilds, and handicrafts appear
II like proportion, and as their places of trade
are open to general observation, so the iuhnity of
workmen prosecuting their various callings,
Quantities of their manufactures and articles of
commerce being entirely novel to the f~oreigner)
cannot fail to excite IN the intelligent observer
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