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The London and China telegraph07.12.1868
  • Datum
    Montag, 07. Dezember 1868
  • Erschienen
    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] promulgated by Sir Rutherford Alcock. In common with our readers, we have often reflected on the unfairness of allowing men, whom the mere accident of having been born in Hong Kong or Singapore has transformed into British subjects, to compromise our position in China by claiming British protection, after having [...]
[...] our position in China by claiming British protection, after having laid themselves open to punishment for violation of Chinese laws or regulations. They are really Chinese; it is by a mere quibble that they are British subjects. In thoughts, opinions, principles, customs, and habits, they are Chinese, while, by a lucky chance, [...]
[...] a reliable judgment, has assailed the American Envoy with extra ordinary energy of invective. But are not the critics a little pre mature ? Is Mr. Burlinghame convicted of being merely a member for the Borough of Verbosity ?. For our own part we are disposed to suggest two modifying considerations—first, he has lately been [...]
[...] instituted that the magnitude of the sums at the disposal of the gam blers would render a contest with them hopeless on the part of the Government for prevention of police corruption by the mere raising of salaries. It would probably only lead with men of that class to the acceptance of bribes in addition to increased salaries. Therefore, [...]
[...] farm had been created by the local authorities, put up by them to sale, and granted to the highest bidder.” 3. That assertion is not merely incorrect, but is even totally opposed to all the details fully given in a series of despatches which must have been at the time before the committee, because they allude to and [...]
[...] the committee that, since 1866, the licences “had been put up to sale and granted to the highest bidder;" and I am now further instructed to add that not merely had 360,000 dols been declined, but that by consecutive reductions the licence fees had been lowered till a few weeks back they reached only 156,000 dols. [...]
[...] that the shrewd natives of China respected this Government a whit more, either for its intelligence or its efficiency, when the laws of the colony merely rendered an irrepressible vice more dangerous and odious, whilst it brought to light the venality of the paid guardians of the law? Or do the committee recommend that [...]
[...] lative Councils. It has been for a series of years a measure favoured by the local experience of each governor and his advisers. It has now been removed from the region of mere speculation and experiment, and proves that it is possible by its agency to suppress the gross evils inseparable from illegal gambling dens of iniquity. Moreover, the [...]
[...] ment, with which the responsibility of the change would then rest, his Excellency is not prepared to abandon the important results already obtained for any mere sentimental objection, or because a revenue still irrepressibly arises from the policy, by which on the whole the greatest good can be effected. He would personally be delighted to get rid of [...]
[...] 12 barrels, 95's, indirect import, bought in at 1s. 8d. SUGAR.—At one time during the interval there was a slight improve ment in the demand, but it proved to be merely temporary, and the mar ket is again extremely dull, prices, however, remaining steady. At the public sales 800 bags brown Penang (duty 8s.) have been bought in at [...]
The London and China telegraph20.09.1875
  • Datum
    Montag, 20. September 1875
  • Erschienen
    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] little is generally known. In carrying out his design, M. Blon del has shown great industry in consulting and laying under contribution a wide range of authorities, the mere enumeration of whose names would occupy considerable space. In his pages will be found, we imagine, very nearly all the information which [...]
[...] sources of negotiations with the Chinese in one word—firmness. That word implies an admirable maxim when it is tempered by pa tience and politeness, but, unhappily, it is often merely another name for undisguised dictation. It means that we should not waste our time in standing upon ceremony with so false, ignorant, and vain a [...]
[...] home, and if they should be peculiarly successful, as they would be, they would of course be forgiven. Thus are built up the responsibilities of Empire. Nor is this a mere visionary peril. More than once it has seemed that the Chinese Empire was going to pieces, and that, in spite of ourselves, we might be forced to give a perilous extension to the [...]
[...] mah should not be opened by the free will of Peking, we must insist on the fulfilment of the pledge to clear the way for our merchants. If the Embassy to London should be a mere blind for Chinese opposition, we may have to send stringent instructions to Peking. But, mean while, let us avoid the error of asking too much. Unlike Japan, which [...]
[...] only approximate. His observation on this is an odd comment on the supposed hostile attitude of the Govern ment to Opium cultivation. “The mere enumeration,” he says, “ of the above places in which the poppy is now “undoubtedly cultivated, compared with the names of [...]
[...] the average rate among the Chinese is proved by our expe rience in the earlier days of the China trade. The mea sure of what could be done in China merely as a direct means of investing capital, were the country opened up and due protection to commerce afforded, is represented [...]
[...] down from the country for sale to foreign merchants. The benefits which it has always been held would accrue from the opening up of China will thus be seen to be of no mere imaginary or visionary nature. Facts familiar to all who bave watched the progress of events prove the results which [...]
[...] the Treaty, which will give further play to foreign enter prise in China, and tend to make the trade one with the whole country and not merely with the coast. In propor tion as this end is attained there will be a field opened to foreign capital and enterprise, the limits of which can [...]
[...] ject, as it is a most serious matter if the English law Courts in China are to be made the means of bringing false accusations in capital cases. The mere fact that this rumour has gained general currency ought to be a warm ing of the paramount necessity of rigidly adhering to the [...]
[...] on her voyage from Hong Kong to Saigon, on the 18th June, 1875. This rock (Pernambuco rock) appeared to be about 40 feet in extent, but as the ship merely struck and passed over, no soundings were taken on it. The rock was, however, subsequently searched for in a boat, but no bottom was found at 10 fathoms. The position assigned to the [...]
The London and China telegraph08.03.1865
  • Datum
    Mittwoch, 08. März 1865
  • Erschienen
    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 9
[...] pang. We abstain from commenting more fully on the scheme, until Mr. Clark's promised report has been made public ; merely expressing a hope, in the meantime, that the great difficulty of ways and means may be overcome. The following notices appear in reference to the firms [...]
[...] lord." . But even this was not the end of Mr. Logan's insatiable demands, for on the 16th June he wrote a letter stating that “a larger bonus than £10,000 would be required for the advance of the £10,000 than merely double that amount, but that the £16,000 could be settled as arranged.” Mr. Wickens appears to have been party and privy to these arrangements [...]
[...] judgment. No one, indeed, who knows the nature of the work which he has had to discharge during the last four years of his office will be surprised at his being compelled to retire. The mere physical labour which has been entailed upon him would alone be enough to account for the necessity of his resignation. Mr. Layard gave an account the other night [...]
[...] ºncertain task to his successor. It is, indeed, extraordinary to reflect upon the changes which his comparatively short term of office has witnesſed. A periºd is not always to be measured by the mere lapse of time, and a succession of events has been crowded into the six years of Lord Lyons's employment which would have been thought, not long ago, too many and [...]
[...] so intractable to foreigners and so absolute in many respects over their own subjects cannot or will not keep their own cities in a state of defence against mere brigands. So, however, it is, and there seems to be no help for it. We may congratulate ourselves, however, that there is no longer a costly China expedition engaged in this Far East, and as we [...]
[...] had been investigated the conduct of these men was found to have been so atrocious that it was thought better to let the whole matter slide into oblivion. This was but the natural end of any merely mercenary force. What happened on the sea ten years ago would happen in multiplied instances on the land now ; and whether the leaders were English, French, [...]
[...] nese taste. The elder, though the principal consort of the late Sovereigs, had proved childless, whilst her associate, the for tunate mother of the heir to the throne, had been a mere concubine among the many who graced the Imperial harem. Resentment at slights to which they were subjected by some [...]
[...] trade with the military and naval depot there, which they could not reciprocate as that was merely a harbour of refuge, since abandoned. There is every probability, therefore, of con siderable traffic arising between the colonists of North Aus [...]
[...] which a long residence in the Far East and a thorough acquaint ance with the native character and the language spoken over a wide area can alone confer. The reader for mere amusement will find such a treat as he has not met with for many a day in the story of “Sheik Abdulla the Younger,” who gained from [...]
The London and China telegraph07.03.1868
  • Datum
    Samstag, 07. März 1868
  • Erschienen
    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 9
[...] dadi should remain the entrepots of trade, provided that the customs collected there are collected for the Mikado, and applied to general and imperial purposes, not merely to swell the Yedo exchequer; and that they shall have equal rights with the Tokugawa family and the Fudais, its vassals—the rights of free [...]
[...] A correspondent expresses apprehension that game is about to become scarce in the neighbourhood of Shanghai. The supply of pheasants is ample, so long as excursionists merely look on sport as a means to the enjoyment of a few days' trip. But if wholesale slaughtering expeditions come in vogue, the [...]
[...] Mr. Gibb : I think that our memorial ought to be framed in accordance with that petition, only in a different shape. Mr. KiNgsMILL: We are not to be a mere echo of the Hong Kong Association. We are quite as much interested in the welfare of the colony. Many of us have only left it a short time, and many of us are [...]
[...] colony. Many of us have only left it a short time, and many of us are going back again. It would be unwise to place us here in the position of a mere echo of the association in Hong Kong. We shall be glad of information as to the state of the colony, and to act with it in everything for its benefit, but we still ought to have an opinion of our own as to the [...]
[...] protectors, and the police visiting them at all seasons, and prying into their most domestic affairs. If this is to go on, you must not be astonished if Hong Kong sinks into a mere fishing village, and Canton rises on its ashes. I am afraid, however, that we cannot approach the Colonial Office without some authority from the colony, for it is contrary to the regula [...]
[...] of its military establishment ; the Straits Settlements, contri bute nearly two-thirds of it; and Hong Kong only a trifle over one-twelfth. As a mere matter of proportion therefore, Hong Kong would seem to have the least reason of all three to complain; but it must always be remembered, firstly, that Ceylon and the Straits [...]
[...] would seem to have the least reason of all three to complain; but it must always be remembered, firstly, that Ceylon and the Straits are rich in natural productions, while Hong Kong is a mere barren rock; and, secondly, that the force set down to Hong Kong is really for service in all parts of China and Japan, [...]
[...] “Prussia, and Turkey, can deprive this proposal of its great “recommendations, because, even if they were successful, they “would merely end in throwing an immense amount of traffic “into the single cable now laid in the Persian Gulf. Three “land lines would be carrying messages to one submarine [...]
[...] sonal esteem which his brother the Governor evidently cultivates for Captain Ord, the good people of Malacca have not been, to some extent, victimised in having so important a public office filled by a mere soldier. If there is one means of maintaining a hold upon the Easterns subject to our rule, other than force of arms, it is by impressing them with our [...]
The London and China telegraph15.09.1866
  • Datum
    Samstag, 15. September 1866
  • Erschienen
    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] charges are repeatedly made on the Imperial Treasury by the various local mandarins for its repairs; but as they each stay at the place but a short time a mere show of work is made, and by one after another the sea wall is made a subject of charge, but it is left as bad as ever. [...]
[...] Council, said:— “I have not even ventured to strike out votes for ornamenting public grounds, planting of trees, and such things as are not merely necessary in the most meagre acceptation of the term, but are symptoms of a refined and civilised tone in the community. I do not believe I should truly in [...]
[...] men. Quite enough for purposes of pleasure, it is, however, only holiday work at the best. Mightier contests, involving weightier issues, are wanted nowadays. Those who merely play at sailors - our dandies of the bilow, and breeze — must submit to yield the palm is gallantry, skill, and endurance to the men whose business [...]
[...] be ceaseless vigilance and skill for months together, with a careful obser vation of the minutest passing events, and a preparation for every possible future. Not merely an acquaintance with the science of navigation, but that knowledge of homely details which constitute what is called the practical man, is wanted to give any chance of success. The trim of the [...]
[...] here given may be modified by subsequent comparison of the various logs; and we hope that such comparison will be speedily and carefully made, not merely for the gratification of a very pardonable curiosity as to the real facts of this extraordinary feat, but as being likely to throw light upon various interesting and important points of navigation. So far, however, [...]
[...] all treaties commence with some such magniloquent phrases, but it is pleasant to be able to think that in the present in stance these are not mere empty words. We have good reason to know that a very large and influential class among the Japanese really are desirous to promote and develop a friendly [...]
[...] company which may be formed in the colonies. The subject is certainly acquiring additional importance with each successive year. I be lieve that both Great Britain and the Australian colonies are merely com mencing to open up what must hereafter be a vast and constantly-growing trade with the excessively populous, rich, and fertile islands of the Indian [...]
[...] Archipelago. The rapidly-increasing settlement of Queensland and Northern Australia has already made Sydney a sort of metropolis in rela tion to these newer communities; and the man who remembers merely the Sydney of fifteen years ago would be now surprised, were he to revisit that city, at the noble fleet of steamers and other craft regularly employed [...]
[...] that city, at the noble fleet of steamers and other craft regularly employed in running backwards and forwards between Port Jackson and Brisbane and Rockhampton. Again, these northern towns—the latter mere bush some half-dozen years back – are pushing their trading enterprise through Torres Straits in among the numerous islands of that region, which is [...]
[...] For 2 Bottles, 2 Blocks of Ice, 2 Dessert Ices ... ... 6 10 0 For 4 Bottles, 4 Blocks of Ice, 4 Dessert Ices ... ... 11 5 0 If without fittings (merely as Wine Coolers.) For 1. Bottle ... ... +2 0 ! When Dessert Ices are never required, theseWines [...]
The London and China telegraph09.10.1867
  • Datum
    Mittwoch, 09. Oktober 1867
  • Erschienen
    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 8
[...] found necessary to amputate one arm, and it is feared he will have to lose one leg. Two others were injured, but one, it is hoped, will come off with a mere scratch; the other may lose an arm. Great praise is due to the captain of the gun at which the accident happened, who, himself wounded, immediately [...]
[...] some new ports should directly or indirectly emanate from themselves. They have learnt an exclusiveness far deeper than the clumsy physical steps of mere denial of residence; they have discovered that there are subtle means by which the foreigner may be in the land and not partake of its advantages; by which [...]
[...] other dynasty in China. “From a commercial point of view it may be doubtful whether any good will follow the mere opening of additional ports. The expense both to individuals and to the Governments would be great. The great houses would have to send out agents, [...]
[...] terests of humanity at large than of the merchants now in terested in the traffic. If he does he will earn the thanks of all who value reputation, honour, and morality above mere gain. Immediately after the passing of the sentence upon a crimi [...]
[...] ping interest from the thraldom of the French Bureau Veritas, which has long been felt to be intolerable. It is intended to make the society not merely local but international, all foreign countries being invited to join it by establishing sub-districts in conjunction with, and under the control of, the chief admi [...]
[...] as usual, read and re-read, and which very large numbers have profited by. It should be remembered that his satire was almost always directed against merely superficial weaknesses, that it was free from anything like bitter ness, and in this latter respect distinguished from much which has been written of us by such authors as Mrs. Trollope, Basil Hall, or even Sydney [...]
[...] not have described scenes in this country, any more than in his own, with out impregnating them with his own proper flavour, and who, had he done so, would merely have produced what would have necessarily been insipid and uninteresting. We do not hesitate to affirm that nothing better in its way could happen to us than for Mr. Dickens, in the maturity of his [...]
[...] The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company possess S1EBE's large Machines at their principal Indian stations. Copies of reports upon the working of these Machines, and testimonials, will be sent on Sikh E BBoth ERs desire to say that an undertaking of this nature is not to be regarded as a mere speculation, but as the purchase of tried, and valuable machinery, constituting a lucrative business, returning exceedingly large [...]
The London and China telegraph05.02.1868
  • Datum
    Mittwoch, 05. Februar 1868
  • Erschienen
    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 8
[...] of all nationalities and all faiths which filled the church and its enclosure to the very gates, on the occasion of his funeral, was more than a mere evidence of the general esteem in which he had been held—it was typical of public opinion regarding him during the whole period of his labour here. Amiable, highly [...]
[...] Mr. LAY's case, as he now puts it forward, is briefly this:— That Sir FREDERICK BRUCE at first approved and fostered his scheme; that (beyond posting to him a mere copy of the Order in Council) the Foreign Office never instructed Sir FREDERICK to support it; that he therefore withdrew his support, thereby [...]
[...] the Dutch from the scene of their 'aggresssions in Sumatra or to guarantee five per cent. to the Eastern Asia Telegraph Company ? or does he merely want money for the pleasure of squandering it for marble verandahs to his new palace, or a picture gallery to teach perspective to native [...]
[...] remarks have therefore a double interest for our readers. Some of the opinions expressed were, indeed, of the deepest import. Not to multiply examples, we will merely instance an ob servation made by Mr. HAMILTON, of the firm of BRowN, SHIPLEY, and Co., which is worthy of special attention. He said [...]
[...] still however existed. Firstly, as regarded the difficulty experienced in obtaining legislation relative to questions of mere local importance; and secondly, with respect to the apparent want of interest evinced regarding our political relations and the development of our trade in the Malayan [...]
[...] Commerce met with every consideration ; besides, it must be remembered that the control now exercised by the Legislative Council is, after all, merely nominal, the real power being vested in the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and that as regards legislation, an Indian Legislative Council would have possessed [...]
[...] with the Straits who commenced their career in subordinate posts, or of men who by their ability and diligence had raised themselves from being mere clerks to positions of trust in the Treasury Department. For some years past all employés of both classes were [...]
[...] Under the present system local knowledge and experience may prove of no avail; all the patronage connected with the various civil appointments above the rank of mere clerkships rests with the Secretary of State, who must often make use of his power to provide for the friends of Parliamentary supporters [...]
The London and China telegraph28.10.1865
  • Datum
    Samstag, 28. Oktober 1865
  • Erschienen
    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] Parkes replied, with significant urbanity, “I did not wish to trouble you for an expression of your opinion on this matter, I merely desired to intimate the fact.” The Gorogio have heard of the Canton war, and it probably does not tend to reassure them under the decisive tone adopted by the new [...]
[...] cessary to pursue under the existing circumstances. Much will depend upon a moderate but firm action in this meeting ; whilst we are willing to accord to Consuls all due respect, we cannot consent to be made mere in struments to carry out their peculiar views at the expense of self-respecand all independence. [...]
[...] that at Nagasaki as at all times most gratifying, whether the object of their endeavours be to obtain political advantages or merely to while away ennui. But the circumstances attending the celebration of this national fete are of especial importance, as they must lead the natives to consider that, so long as [...]
[...] of all foreign ships. This course will be of great advantage (to the nation), by enabling the tribute to be carried next year. Moreover, a mere life adherence to this order will avail no thing towards aiding the important measure of founding the tribute. Should any disregard this regulation the full penalties [...]
[...] ment to the Crown has become more that expedient merely [...]
[...] experienced is due rather to a deficiency of knowledge on the part of members entrusted with colonial grievances, rendering them liable to be silenced by a mere feint of defence, notwith standing the truth and strength of their position. If any action on the part of the late Ministry has been calculated in its ex [...]
[...] when the subject is brought before Parliament at its next session. The case of Ceylon will secure the more ready acceptance, that the unofficial members who resigned at no time offered a mere [...]
[...] ing questions between the colonists and the home Govern ment are determined, these gentlemen must consent to be the mere umbra of the representative element ; seeing that, accord ing to the last Order in Council, their assent is not necessary to any step in legislation. Sir Hercules, when in Hong Kong, [...]
[...] Frenchmen upon their great mercantile acumen.” We should have done so had we seen reason for it, but we did not ; we merely recorded the fact that the manufacturers of Rouen were making efforts towards the application of the fibre, that they had succeeded in producing excellent specimens of fabrics com [...]
[...] IVES instantaneously a delicious Cup of Coffee with boiling water or milk merely. To be had in bottles at 1s. and 2s. each, of all respectable Gro cers, Chemists, and Italian Warehousemen. [...]
The London and China telegraph01.05.1869
  • Datum
    Samstag, 01. Mai 1869
  • Erschienen
    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 8
[...] everything remains as when we last wrote. Our local newspapers have had, therefore, to fill their columns with reports and com ments on matters of merely local interest. Chief among these has been the sanitary state of the Settlement, which is now very un satisfactory. Typhoid fever has broken out among us, and some [...]
[...] dant Penfold's direction, but very little beyond the fact of the attack has yet been elicited. The case is fully reported in the daily papers, and I therefore need merely tell you that a Mr. Grant was severely wounded, and tied hand and foot, one of his arms being broken in the melée, a Mr. Gamwell was badly cut on the [...]
[...] sionary named Johnson, on the 14th October last, by the people of a village forty li from Joo-ning-fu, in the south east of Honan, No particulars have transpired, the mere fact having been learned by the Catholic Mission at Kiukiang. News of the death of Dr. Lethbridge, of that port, has arrived to-day. [...]
[...] that great artery of China, from their juxta-position to it, must neces sarily be much greater than that of the residents in the South of China, this Chamber merely ventures to give a general expression of its opinion as to the desirability of such a measure being adopted to the fullest extent possible, without entering into details. [...]
[...] religious observancies. No one imagines that a practical people like the Chinese can attach any real importance to the belief in such a system of mere trickery. The ancient childish customs are perhaps thought innocent, if not amusing ; they at all events afford opportunities for feasting [...]
[...] with certainty have predicated of the Chinese that they would receive foreign merchants with tokens of welcome, we are not left to a mere deduction, for the fact itself has been proved a thousand times. From every corner of the Empire concurrent testimony has been furnished that the people of [...]
[...] norantly assume that they may treat Foreigners as they please, and that no notice will be taken of it. Thus the doctrine preached by certain politicians is a mere crying of peace when there is no peace. A firm uncompromising attitude towards the Chinese is the only guarantee for peace [...]
[...] complications or incur any very great expense. The whole question of communication between India and Western China, of which the project for a communication through the Shan States is merely a frag ment, and not a very large fragment, is one of very great interest; but it will, I think, become of greater practical importance to the next [...]
The London and China telegraph04.01.1869
  • Datum
    Montag, 04. Januar 1869
  • Erschienen
    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 8
[...] Tsai, startled out of all their starched propriety, became furious, and raved with passion. But Mr. Medhurst remained impassive, and merely added to his previous remark that if she were not delivered up before sunset she would be seized. Orders were immediately sent to the anchorage, and the T'ung-chi was surrendered before 5 P.M. [...]
[...] to the temple where they are quartered by all the back streets, in order to hide them as much as possible from view. This was submitted to, as they were merely being guided to their destina tion at the time ; but an intention was expressed to march the men throughout the whole city next day. To provide against any [...]
[...] the treaty, “ or other places” could not be “general words,” they had been intended to include the port cities, the word “port" being used for the mere quay or strip of land on which the foreign houses stand. In his famous despatch of the 1st of June, 1862, Sir F. Bruce spoke of himself as “not being able to demand the establishment of a Protes [...]
[...] gression by Britain in China, however ready France might be to co operate with us in our acts, would not now be viewed by America merely with that horror which was shown there in 1859 and 1860. Such aggression, whether by England or England and France com bined, would be that cause of war for which a strong party [...]
[...] tension of the English right of residence in China to the whole of the country. They certainly had the power to compel such a concession, but they had not the will. Our correspondent asserts that not merely bas no British Treaty done this, but even that an article to that effect in favour of missionaries which does appear in the Chinese translation [...]
[...] satisfactory on the coast of Africa if British merchants had been plun dered by a negro chieftain; but to treat the Chinese Empire as though it were a mere geographical name, and as a region where each city is to be dealt with as a separate entity having no subordination to any poli tical whole, was not even formerly thought justifiable except on proof [...]
[...] it might be, from the Chinese Government. The British Government is, in fact, pledged against such a course. It is the duty, recognised not merely in theory but in practice, of its Minister at Peking to be the medium for the assertion of the rights of British subjects in China. A British commander would be bound to protect his countrymen [...]
[...] the Chinese Government to the world at large, has not hung out his yellow flag from the windows of the Grosvenor Hotel in vain. The mere presence in Europe of an American Ambassador from China has apparently had the effect of giving a new direction to that latent hos tility towards British subjects in contact with inferior races abroad [...]
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