FEBRUARY 4, 1885.] 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGPIC ULTURAL GAZETTE. 
108 
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lished itself. He gave a description of he 
nr уар specimens from the locality. 
e | et stoam fleet, | for the 
1: 
"yw 
, 
understood that the force should be under | the 
p n. the Continent. E 
E. те И nob uncommon ол she von A foreign "inspection This ыс did not каныгу 
tracts from Botanical Correspondence, роті Mr. e therefore replies:—* Any official 
by Professor Balfour. ong these was a lette: ee До dispatch from. you, even — иу would not 
Rev, J. Farquharson, oting ome of the rarer plant of the money until 
which oecur in the cpm a of Selkirk, among | I had t prop t adus Prince Kung's seal. 
which are Trientalis europea Nidus-avis, | This I wait for. il upon a separate 
athrea Squamaria, Plantago me smus com-|sheet what it wil cessary for Prince Kung to 
ressus, &c. Mr. Sadle exhibited" specimens of|send me forthwith, and please do not let ake a 
Cystopteris fragilis var. interrupta, which һе һа ord therefrom or add a hash. thereto, or the lawyers | 
picked їп Glen Farg, near Bridge of Earn, in 1863. | will be telling me that not safe for me > act, an 
Dr. J. Stirton, Glasgow, sent specimens of Mni I shall have £o refer to Peking again. We must refer 
cochlearifolium, found by the hills be 
поо Spe В 
dj our "pid sd to the pamphlet itself for the Mutuel in 
ques 
The Board will not agree to 
this Plier. n * Captain ызга must act under the 
the provincial autho- 
re апа} t v ing, to accept this 
position." Such арон on of ће Princeof Kung, 
As Captain be was ay's opinion, and 
ul cons to ve under the provincial 
authorities, the dissolution of the force was then 
decided In justice to the o apnd who 
had wd. out so far upon his representations, Mr. Lay 
ost n e in endeavouring to secure t nst 
Upon 
1 the о eantime various letters were received by | to 
A 2 
been transmitted from Old Machar, Aberdeenshire, by | Mr. Lay from Mr. In one he says, “ I have ere даму, 
Mr. J. Sim; also specimens of Simethis bicolor aae крае. from the Prince informing me that| Other means were empl 
(Kunth), from "Beseneroutb, an nd of Жым para- he has memorialised, and that theEmper e Al өсівй | ships on account of the Chinese Gove ment, and 
dong s Hussey, tter | the whole scheme, which had taken so long t 
| Esq., КУ du John M'Donald exhibited a just received from Wade says, * The chief [Me B ce] | suddenly came to an 3, pt termination. Nes 
| pes cad — oudition of a do uble Roman | writes to "n Mn M assis them in doing | afterwards Mr. ved a eurt letter of dismissal, 
| h to Pu war v So we will | and thus his nine bend TU with the Chinese 
| hose e iting monstrosit: ty in all tt upport. Another, a third | Gove eram. nt was brou; ght to a 
. floral envelopes being changed int poli or bracts. m th rince en ipud, mt haste valet r our notice there 
ror telling me much raona like ; so к "" в үу vhich are rather amusing 
"t hurry on—hu 
u may "stat the keels of|i 
are two or three anecdotes 
i en 
dysentery at Sierra Leone on 30th V November ps 
Several gentlemen were elected Membe 
OT——————M 
Жошго of Mess. 
u^ Letter to the Right Hon. 
enin N. Lay, С.В., late 
Customs, 
Our Interests in China. 
Earl Russell, K.G. 
Inspector-General of x se 
ee rdwic cke, Piccadilly, 1864. 
o Nelson Lay, the author of - letter to 
г. Нога 
Ean Tassel, is we ell 1 holar of a 
fleet m 
of | I shall 9 more рва Ан 
be four despatch- 
got бес: дез yesterday fon de Prince about 
these steamers and m ney. 
XV: 
НАТТИ 
t di arp ci во that the 
n-boats. I 
awful hurry, 
in thei Ar Wh Mr. ^d nivea сщ intelligence 
of his g app 1 deos ceasicn to tel 
the попит of the Е * Ob," they 
observed, “ we could have fira: Ts ltr and with 
are making orders just 
mock gravity ‘continued, “ We 
like that wh 
nds 
wit! 
promised, Mr. шу енне ME а o building a and 
purchase of ve 
at once three whi ch 
Robert д : 
sels, 
| to Mr. 
M 1 p Аар amo des ai our ганда, этеа ers, 
де rendered good sg ved the late Lord pn 
during the last Chin and for this he 
t this period ho had d 
already left n Que ann and 
p ay's lepal Ре ап opinion was 
under hend circumstances Mr. La ay 
fety. | 
and cou 
e 
is called soothing. the barbar 
n 
е | member," 
p one, “ours is а уе! ryn ice 
- order, a c: ipital 
Imitation i is it. not?” 
and the n, no longer able to restrain 
their merriment, lo b f laughter ; 
another, to add to Азы ndm “This is what 
п!” 
Tt appears it is rather РИМ for any Chinese 
овоа j^ py too friendly with a foreigner, “1 re- 
ys Mr. Lay, Ens before I left China to 
шп to England i in 1861, when 
given that 
might act upon 16 | me, 
ш ied 
I should v t 
hen you go to Peking, enm no account ga 
with В: in my "her ad rather disparäge me than M 
With d wise; you understand?” 
had been by Kun Okan € and 1 manned y Блант the : Ап anecdote i is related to show "that" Sr F. ‚ Bruce 
appointed one of the Ins spectors of Chin nese Customs 
Pn 
in Chinese, and his thor 
language, combined with 
orough knowledge - that | An 
PA 
the 
уу his (Mr. Tay 5) absence from 
I td Chi ina," he says, * 
*the 
ad 
is epu | 
hin: 
his (Mr. "yd 4 ба. China, which one аһ think 
will afford в dba LY Sir Frede og ck when he 
sees it in wit. e affected interes my future, 
and wishe d to kno ow dk Y Кера enplan myself, 
, Emperor’ 8 т 
‘There i is опе ES I wish | you would decere v 
ANE 
3 £ р. Тсел 
— "2 
M 
.. purpose, ed for him the confidence and pne 
the Ministers of the Emper or of China, and enabled 
. himto attain an influence with them which probably 
no other ever attained before. In 1859 he fu 
was raised to the rank of сыре ge шады of M 
Customs, and à direction of all the p 
foreign trade was placed in his чуй, "забей 
health, До Severe Кое wounds received in а 
o | fresh in their aithe hr hoi was in t| -— 
e to be guided, T for 
MM 
protect the Ii e ofa ы crei die him to return to 
At Rh 
t by the foreigner." 
was анар changed. 
"ret 
sel, grateful 
at help, Suns to p € | 
face of thi 
ai There was 
of moods, | S 
The 
the old inse- 
for | him it yp gd 
as Ta ot рыу wi (^ vill à choka him off; tell 
ere; we don't 
want an белт i nfi railroads, 
Mr. АЧ concludes his letter to Earl Russell with 
some Ф 2-70 "ias upon our policy in China, and 
leaving the 
tephenson, 
England on t leave i in April, 1 1861. 
only by the Chinese hear eredi i s by the 
moreentatives of fo Pow esident in the 
ital, and to have boten! 4 great deal of 
oth parties. 
. Lay arrived i in England, Mr. Hart, 
ears los 
Shortall the g 
been frittered : алтау, and we were thrust back i 
ockery of all treaties, the declared d 
mination » yid. nothing. tha t 
re dr ifting back to the old state 
could be e pe 
eaty of 1858 had 
into the 
f hel He 
mpotent menaee. I cannot tell - last of the 
ief and mortifieation when I beheld the labour 
ean naval (enim rm Imperia 
, Was not порезе" and that Prin un 
whom the matter had been 
ect was much 
ers will remember that € 
mn now urnals, 
e 
mmand of the expedition, and our | affuirs. 
subjec 
oe this state of things Mr. c" blames 
autho- ds of Sir F. Bruce; Н 
o | the 
| foreign ministers as he 
gaged with more еле matters than een | 
D" Osborn 
m fleet c 
will be т от that it had bee: 
khais жч Captain Osborn was to be en 
о | pendent of the provincial — € nd — = - 
the с н 
er Majesty's Minister 
hia | 
> d I| t at “А. close of the last war. For this state of 
gs he considers that ioa F. B 
representativos of foreign Po re greatly to blame, 
is far from Мам th ng that we have енд Ўл 
ебе. 
ч 
he Sword » e^ be 
€ the people, but in that 
corruption at е 
Mr. Lay tells his ЮН, es 
with much ability. 
Sir Bru 
ri aM 
d been. 
omes upon | 
cumstane 
tirely inde- 
sides to the question 
This is not a 
express an opinion on our polic cy in m Chi hina, but from 
| the perusal of the Letter before us, and from атри) cir- 
which have come under our 
it | that most 
him only. The Foreign Board now m mr Mr y 
been made 
with Sir F. Bruce, according. to which our military 
gi b 
serviee in Шр Chinese. Customs, 
office of Foreign Inspectors has ! 
have been three 
гу Q 
n 
меи вегуісе for that of the Chinese, namely, Mr. 
and Mr. Hart, and the _first-named 
npe. 
Wade, Mr. Lay, 
money for cepi reas he 
nche. He must send so 
uest me in so many words to use 
and | one 
may arrange with Captain obese апа | 
„Таке care, please, that its wording 
Rafet: mus 
mail a , dispen rad PRU ane 
r and 
TES gHFr3uB&B8 
Е. à 
few|h 
againstthis 
чоч Дый poti in g same атат 
ment, as it was not inaccordance peer | 
arrangem 
T 
addr 
| upon the subject, formally enclosing 3e agreemen 
Mr. Lay КЕ: 
since, is now acting as her Majesty’ s representativ. e ab 
the Court of Pe — The в System bas a tea to 
ce Kaug 
Prince add ressed 
р 
деп 
J. D Esq., TorrENHAM.—Among the many mag- 
nificent LE. i Bà Als in the way of 
Orc hids one a the m dy niai " En i is ae 
корбан Bn specimen of C 
4f Tak in fes and aui 2f fet in in eight, 
Har ornamented with 60 flower spikes, on each. of 
m 
te blossoms. Ai конго owering 
and exact.” 
? full and 
In i received a remittance and an official 
May "3 
b Hart, formally apprising him that 
| Kg à had authorised “the eonstruoion of a 
| him 
| remove all gr 
between 
Mr. Lay offered 
Captain 
ound о: те 
n 
tio ind 
regularly on other business, Finally, in n order to im: 
to ratify the agreement, | 
the entire agreement | mu 
himself, provided it was 
| sesquipedale is also now in flower, together with the _ 
