Hong Kong Telegraph 1882-04-20

Hong Kong Telegraph 1882-04-20

Year: 1882

WE have all heard of what SHAKESFERE terms a vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself, and comes an ignominious cropper on the other side. A Paris dispatch syas the recent vote in the Cham ber of Deputies in favor of the conclusion. The Nihilist prisoners have been allowed until the 27th of March to appeal. secretary Hunt has received the following cable message from Japmes Gordon Bennett at Paris. Maclean, the Queen's assailant, has been committed for trial on a charge of high treason. There was no new evidence adduced in Maclean's examination. The senate to-day, after discussing the Compulsory Primary Education bill, rejected it-167 to 123. Sir Henry Halford calls upon the foremost shots among the British Volunteers to practise. It is reported that eight hundred individuals unprovided with passports have been expelled from Moscow within a few days. The Press is almost unanimous in denouncing the importation of negro labor for railway work. Jackson, the Herald's correspondent, started north yesterday.