No. 4442-SEPTEMBER 25, 1877.]
from the tax-gatherer among these by whom it is contributed.
Since the proclamation of the Embargo was promulgated the windows of Heaven seem to have been literally opened, and the downfall of rain has been excessive, falling with such violence, as to wash the young rice plants in many cases out of the ground and then complete the ruin begun by the drought, The Siamese do not think, how ever, that the embargo will continue more than six months at the farthest, many of the influential and well-informed natives Eay three.
It cannot, however, be less than the latter.
SUPREME COURT. IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before His Hon. Mr Justice SNOWDEN).
25th September, 1877.
C. C. Cohen . D. MasCulloch This case came, again before the Court in the shape of an application by Mr Brereton on behalf of the d-fendant to resist a*olaim for $18.56 for commission charged against the defendant by the plaintiff. It may be remembered that in this case judgment was given in favour of the plaintiff, damages.to be calculated on the difference between the contract price and the price of quicksilver on the day the breach of contract was com- mitted. The defendant made out the figures which were agreed to by the plain.
now claim brokerage.
tiff. But in addition to this amount and the coste, the plaintiff claimed $18.56 as commision on the sale of the quicksilver, on the ground that he was soting as broker for the defendant. Mr Brereton contended that Mr Cohen could not be the defendant's agent and yet sue as the principal. He must elest to be one or the other, and sa be had chosen to suo as principal, he could not Mr Johnson out the matter short by saying that the claim for brokerage should not have been the ground for refusing to pay the amount (#478.12) of the judgment in reference to the breach of contract. It me quite a distinct question, and if Mr Cobon had a claim for brokerage that should be made the subject of another action.
Mr Brereton said that if Mr Johnson had given him to understand tɔis before, there would not have been this application and the los of the time of the Court, but he was made to understand so by a note here beived from Mr Johnson, wherein $18.66 was claimed as brokerage..
THE CHINA MAIL.
did not dear to the deduction, but in the had two of his teeth knocked out by the evening, they said they would work no defendant. Fined $6 and to pay $3 amends. more and left the service.
With regard to the second case, the de fendant admitted that the amount sued was due, but that the plaintiffs had forfeited their wages for having left his nervios sa ho described above. He had dodusted 15 cents from the plaintiff Ho Bow, because he was absent on one occasion, so that the defend ant bad to engage an outside colte,
LARONY.
atesling sundry places of clothing from the Wong Ashek was again brought up for servant's quarters of Mr Hyndman's house No. 10 Wyndham Street. The defendent for six weeks for larceny, and wes com was identified as having been once in gol
mitted for trial.
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THE RACQUET COURT DURGLARY,
His Lordship told the four plaintiffs that they were not entitled to their wages as they had forfeited them by reason of their deserting the defendant's service. The fact Yeong Apat and Uhu Asblu, shopmen, that deductions were made from their wages who were charged with having in their pos was no excuse for their doing so, for if they session a quantity of racquet shoes bargla felt aggrieved, they could have brought an riously stolen from the Racquet Court, were action in this Court; that it was not right committed for trial for receiving. They for them laave without notice or justifi-ware admitted to bail able cause. If they had been beaten or ill- The man Loe Sat In, who sold the shoes treated by their master, that would have to one of the prisoners in the foregoing been an excuse for their leaving, but in the case, was also committed for trial present Instance they had no excuse, Judgment for the defendant in both cases.
Lee Chik Hin v. Les Ngoom, $268.54). --
Me Postponed till Friday next at 11a.m. Dehnys sppeared for the plaintiff and Mr Johnson for the defendant,
CORRESPONDENCE.
A SQUND PRECEDENT, To the Editor of the "CHINA MAL.”
Hongkong, September 26, 1877. Leong Cheong v. Lo Yu, $99.44; Lee Hing Sir,Whether you were guilty or not of and others, same, 95.84.-These caso the charge imputed by Mr Jno. J. Francis were also postponed. Me Holmes appeared-vie "of playing upon the double mean- for the plaintiffs in both cases, and Mr ing" attributable to a certain word-let it be fully borne in mind daring the controversy Dennys for the defendant.
that seems impending between the Governor Wong Chir. Thos. MacBean, 8100-This and the Roman Catholies on the one hand was an aution brought to recover damages and the Colonists generally on the other, for wrongful seizure on a writ of execution that a scornful protest is entered by that and for trespass on the plaintiff's premises gentleman against any such unfair practice. The plaintiff is a merchant carrying on It has hitherto seemed necessary to the business under the style of Wo Hing Hong, argumentative tactics of the former party and the defendant is the bailiff of the Bam that they should have unlimited freedom in mary Court. A case was heard last Court the choice of interpretation to be placed day, when judgment was given agafast two apon not only words but sentonces, mean- men who traded under the style of Namings and intentions. Let us see, therefore, Sing Ring on the floor above the plaintifs if, after the letter of Mr Francis, candour premises. A writ of execution was taken and manliness is to replace the silly jargon out against them, and the bailiff, entrusted hitherto put forward from (I cannot think the execution to the assistant bailiff who distrained the plaintiff's goods, which were provented from being sent to Canton in consequence of the defendant's watchman refusing to allow them to be removed.
Mr Brereton, who appeared for the plain tiff, said the action was broughton principle. The Chinese had a strong feeling about this matter. The plaintiff would, however, be satisfied with only nominal damages.
The defendant said the moment be knew that the plaintiff was really the master of
YOURS TRULY.
a
other and made fast a litle seteru of mid-
some little time, thanks to our climate; gecond-ladios and tenors. Such mediocri. and then came a succession of failures in ties among the latter have beer never heard in London, fruitful as the two or three last
seasons have been in tenors of very medio-
applied that the case might be tried with a he ought to have done was, to get the aze- the British Power.
M. Verasdski, known exclusively hitherto one of a commercial description, and of the him, and then he w...uld have been protect by his works on the subject of political i pelled to submit to a foreta joke Imposed that Goveramente, like individuals, have house was full, but what is the good of a
to English supremacy, which already ex-know the remedies which the author prorocess was announced they all sampered off in the wildest glee, taila and backs tip, tends from the Nile to the Niger, and from poses against so serious a danger Alexandris to the Cape. The New World The first measure that he recommends and unbounded mischief in their comical allows itself to be carried away in the same is the weakening of England's over in her eyes-Atlantic Monthly
yoke, and the only obstacle which it meets to resist long successfully. At the same torpedo, a model of which was submitted a torrent; one of its portions, the vast Aus colonies, and, preferentially, in Australia, tralia and Oceanla, bawn beneath the British where she does not possess sufficient strength A NEW TOEPEDO.-The telescopio spar its course is found in that great power, time, he observes further on, this weaken- few days ago by one of the Laboratory born of its wombs, and which to-day opposes tog of her power although eminently ad- artisans, named Grifiths, has been tried in longs almost exclusively to the same nation does not in itself possess any very consider apparatas, but on the full scale. The itself to its ambition. And the Sea it be vantageous to the true political equilibrium, the Thames with a roughly-constructed which enjoys thers legal, judicial and poable danger for Great Britain. By the spectators, who were taken out into the llos supremacy." This gigarile power, this aid of her internal organization and the stream in a steam isench, saw only a cou Instinct to rule everywhere and to meddle character of her people, this country can
ple of poles, each about thirty feet in in the internal stairs of all peoples, are fall easily do without one or other of her col-length, lying along the deck, one upon the of danger in the eyes of the author. "The onles, none of which form an integral part other, with a red disc at the extremity, to polley of the English Government," says of her existence and each of which possesses represent a charge of gun-cotton, and the he, is eminently aggressive and arbitrary, an individual existence apart from her. and one has only to glance at the long list The British possessions do not form an ships. The practice consisted of taking of its posmesides to be convlaced of it. In Indivisible whole, being rather an aggrega aim at the floating buoys in the river ag the present century, then annexations tion of political units, Detach one of them the launch steamed past at full speed, and, already amount to 45,000 square leagues and the mother country continues to exist, simple as the affair looked, the effect was (385 000 square miles), of which she has having lost nothing of her strength; she remarkable. Stearing within a calculated acquired 30,000 in the period between 1500 will not delay to anner new possessions, dis ance of about fifty feet, the torpedo sud 1815, and 20,000 since the latter date, and she will scarcely feel the loan of the was cast over-board, when the tide and the without counting these territories over old ones. which she claims to exercise political con To prostrate thla colossus it is necessary motion of the vessel carried it out to arm's trol Consequently the extension of her then to direct a decisive blow, not at its length, and at the same time caused the frontiers in one century excels those of all colonies, but at the mother country herself. apper spar to stretch out in folescopic fashion, carrying the torpedo head com- M. Vernadski believes, with Napoleonpletely undor the object attacked. It was other European powers."
The list of her annexations la traly of that this enterprise has in it nothing in the opinion of all who witnessed the experi- length which is the more imposing since one possible, and that the modern improvemente mente that the invention was both clever is too ready to forget them and to see in in destructive weapons as in military science and valuable, capable of rendering useful Great Britain a country of small size, only tends to diminish its difficulties. Even service even in the hands of an unpractised estimating her strength by her wealth and the wealth of England, which perhaps crew, and certainly to be preferred to the her civiliation. Let us bok at certata forma the most solid basis of its power ordinary spar torpedo, suspended over the is not protected from a well-organized facts cited by M. Vernadakl
Gibraltar was taken from Spain in 1704, attack, according to the opinie of thee of a vessel attacking ond un, and
risking its own destruction. Canada from France in. 1759. During the author. Realmost goca so far as to approve Poor "Colonel" Mapleson, as those reign of George the Third up to the year the continental system of Napoleon, so people who have some spits against him 1820, France had to cede Tobago, Do- much enthusiast does he infuso into bis delight in calling him, has had a very hard minique, St. Vincent, St. Luda, St. Maurice hatred. Although we are not at all an time of it this season. Of course the ill- and the Seychelles; Holland, the Island of advocate of this system," he states at page ness of Madame Titians was the first sever Trinidad, Essequibo, Demerara, Barbadoes, 177, it must be admitted that as a tem est blow; then Nilsson could not sing for the Cape of Good Hope, and Ceylon. The porary measure and as a war-like weapon Danes, Heligoland, the Ionian Islands, it has many merits. It has only to be Malta and Gozzo re acquired by a treaty; supplemented by other measures, such as New South Wales Van Dieman's land, the war and diplomatic machinery, and directed Norfolk Islands, Falkland and Sierra Leone exclusively against the country with which by bargain or exchange. Since 1820, the one is segaged in contest."
Such is the conclusion, but little consola- by the Catholic side. If the "Catholic has acquired the Swan river; Australia,
over, Mapleson is trying to retrieve some register" will join inue tu fair and square South and North New Zealand, Hong- tory, at which the author aims, and which are powere. Now, just as the season is style, I can promise it a circulation it will kong. Labuan and Sarawak, Besides she is summed up in the impossibility of being of his losses with Etelka Gerster, the new never otherwise attain.
possesses all the East Indies, with the at peace with the richest and perhaps the prima donna, a charming young lady, very My name would add neither weight nor exception of Bhootan and Nepal, contain-mocat oivilized power of the whole earth, elever, and with some wonderful high notes lurtre to what I have written, so I signing 150 millions of inhabitants-that is to except at the cost of consenting, at some (her Ein alt is something extraordinary); say, twice the population of the Russian pre-ordained moment, to fall into the webs but with a voice that lacks richness and myself merely
Empire, and four times that of France. of the spider and to increase the number of does not touch you a bit. I was listening last **The territorial possetons of Great its victims. If this were really so, it would night to her singing the "Vergin vezzoas" Britain embrace 116,000 square miles (mills be to despair of civilization and the future; in the Puritans: wonderfully clever vocali. carrée) and exceed the extent of territories and we prefer to believe that the patriotism ration; but I missed the richness of tone of THE RUSSIAN TU QUOQUE,
of Russia, With regard to the population of M. Vernadski has led him to suffuse his Albani, who, to my mind, would have given it the Wo lng hong, he directed the assistceived by this mail an article which is more inclines to the side of Great Britain if the British Government has not the but she did not excite enthusiasm. I remem
We translate from Russian journal re subject to English laws, the balance still palette with colour too gloomy; and that with greater effect. Gorster was applauded, Vogel and others s. Siemisen and others, ant bailiff not to laterfere with the removal entitled to consideration by mang writers, relatively to other powers. One counts in right to set itself up as the inflexible Judge bee Grisi singing it. Her notes were liquid $1,000—Mr Johnson appeared for the of goods from the ground for, but that be plaintifs and Mr Brereton for the defend was only to prevent goods from being re- both in India and in England. It is amus her possessions 283,000,000 of souls; and of the actions of others, or to constitute gold. What an opera was the old Puritani auta. This was a claim for alleged breach moved from the upper floor. If he was tong to note that the political crimes and whilst, in Russia, less thans fourth of her itself the guardian of the political equili-In those daysGris and Marie, with La- of contract, in a fallure to ship a quantity be sued for in this way, he could have a vices attributed so freely by Englishmen to subjects belong to conquered races, and brium which it has never respected when its blacks and Tamburini to sing " Suono la of sugar which the plaintifa averred that case brought against him almost every writers, with as much emphasis, attributed may be counted as belonging to the domi- from being the embodiment of the evil quali- Ing old memories? Foli and Rota dang the Russian Government are by Russian even in Austria two-ninths of the population own interest were concerned, it is still far Tromba" But what is the good of evok- the defendants had promised to ship in one day. of their ships for London. The defendants His Lordship said he had cautioned the to our own, while they profess in the same on the other hand contended that there defendant over and over again about this, way as English journalists a fear lest thenant rags, in the British possessions the ties which te author has attributed to it, the famous duet last night, and, I am proportion of this last to the subject people preaching against it univoral crusade, bound to add, sang it well. Foli cat was no absolute pr. mise, and Mr Brereton but he did not seem to heed it. What
whole world should in time be absorbed by is twice samtall, seeing that the 196,000,000 The truth is that polity has often exigenotes always be relied on, and Rota has mach of men of different nationalities are com- which little conform to rigid equity; and improved since he has been over here. The Special Jury, as the question involved was ention plaintiff to point out the place to
upon them by 19,000,000 of Englishmen ! their weak points, which ought to render full house at the end of July? Mapleson, custom of trade in such transactions. The ed by the presence of the plaintiff.
economy, publishes a pamphlet, for the what other Power can show a longer list of them more Indulgent to the faults of others. or rather poor Madame Titiens, must have defendants were said to have promised to Mr MoBean said this action would not advantage of the Southern Slave, whote
Colts, Germans, Greeks, Turks, Dutch, reproach her neighbours with an oxations accounts of her. Now and then appears a ship a specific quantity of sugar, but had have been brought at all, only that the man title is The European Equilibrium and races subject to its domination One sees Great Britain has certainly not the right to lost nearly quite £6,000. I hear very bad shipped only a portion of this quantity, and Ng Man Kran put the plaintiff up to it Europe, it is England which is onsidered shades of the human skin are found among nor to protest against the pretended ambi-hatter and hopes to be in town soon, and England. Of all the great powers of Negroes, Indians, Chinese, &c. All the insignificant tu comparison with her own; paragraph to the effect that she is much the action was in reference to the rematader he was always interfering with Court work which they failed to ship.
among the Chinese. He had said to the as the most devoted to peace, especially
But this is not a this is all fallacious. She is buoyed up by Mr Johnson said the defendants were defendant that if he had known that exs. called to watch over the political equi. the subjects of Queen Victoria; on her tion of Russia which cannot be compared resumo her profession; but I much fear
possessions the sun never sets; and the with her own sims. entitled to apply under the code for trial untion was to be taken out against the two brium. This opinion in so universal that entire world, in arms against her, cannot reason for denouncing her as the enemy of hope herself, poor woman and those about by a Spegial Jary, and it was at the disremen, he would have put them through the one is rather disposed to socase Great Inspire her with any fear. What then does civilization and for fomenting national her try to fan the flame; but I believe there hatreds, so disastrous to the common is no solid foundation for the wish that is tion of the Court to grant it or not. Bankruptcy Court, and then Mr Dennys Britain of pushing to excess its love of she desire more 13
His Lordship asked if the parties were to (the soliciter for the execution araditor in peace and of preserving neutrality in con-
Having drawn this general sketch of the weal.
father to the thought. The operation abo Thus, recognizing the interest of the underwent some time ago was not вncoess. be represented by counsel.
the original case) would not have got a tempt of the general interesta, since the power of England, the author reproduces, Mr Brereton sald be intended to instruct single coat He said in reference to this campaign in the Crimes she has held step by step, the history of these conquests facts collected by M Vernadski and the fal, I hear, though she herself was led to 889, izi zo excited manner, that he would carefully aloof from the wars which have since the beginning of the century, taking justice of certain of his opinions, it is im- believe it was, and her medical attendants sue for damages.
shaken the Continent, and it would seem care to always dwell upon her insatiable possible to agree with bis conclusions and anticipate the worst. When shall we hear His Lordship said he was glad the plain that her only desire is to maintain peace ambition, her harshness and cruelty to con- to approve the hostile tone which pervades her like again? The new house in the tiff did not sook to recover anbatantial between her turbulent neighbours. Is it quered peoples, and the little scrupulous- bis articles. Somewhat more moderation Haymarket plenses people, I think, gener damages. He had often told Mr MacBean really this; and doel England show herself mess which she shows in the choice of means would have better served bis cause than ally. It has turned out better for sound about these execution, writs, that he might always so peaceful and so averse to ambition of attaling the desired end. Filled with the gall and wormwood which are distilled than was anticipated, and it is handsome have a case brought against him almost and conquests as she wishes to appear by hatred for this nation, he seems to see in at each line, and which produces the more as to its furniture; but the yellow curtains any day. However his duties were of a hor attitude in the concert of the European her the emmon enemy of the human race painful an impression since we know that are relieved by red, which is a mistake.
and to deny entirely her civilizing mission, the pages we have reviewed are the work Pale-bine should have been the colour.- very difficult character owing to one house Powers! M. Vernadski does not content Chan Asam and Mah Amo v. Dr Adams, being accupied by so many Chinesa. Hishimself by answering this question in the
All his sympathies and all his compassion of a man of learning.-Pioneer. $10.36; and Ho Sow andjanother v. same, Lordship would be glad were the present negative basing his
are exclusively reserved for the vanquished; $8.36. The plaintiffs in these cases were the defendant's chair-coolies, and claimed system altered, and that all writs of
and not only the civilized races of India. execution should, as
and Canada, but even the Hottentots,
HONGKONG, September 25, 1877, for wages for 17 days of this month at $5.50 Jurisdiction cases, be placed in the hands
Caffres and the savage races of Oceanin
It is generally supposed that cats, and, per month. The plaintifs in the first cao, the Sheriff, that it was not no to this
seem to him preferable to the English and indeed, all animals, follow the pursuits for OPIUM-Now Patna, osch....1591) moreover, claimed $2.66 for wages which art was a defect of the Code. Judgment
worthy of being delivered from their yoke which they were intended by nature wholly they contended was wrongly deducted from for the plaintiff for $5 and costs.
He does not rest content with noting the by instinet, unaided by instraction; but them by the defendant.
political danger in the formidable extension the following circumstance would seem to of the English Power, but he places himself Indicate a certain degree of rudimentary at the point of view of the ladigenous races, education which each individual must and he regrets that the English should acquire before its parents turn it adrift to propagate itself at the expense of the prowl and prey through this vale of tears. aboriginal inhabitants of the countries I was sailing at the time in a Boston barque, which it seizes, even though these last and we were bound homeward in ballast. should be entirely incapable of higher This gave the rats more room, and our cat civilisation. The colonial palloy of England was able now and then to bag one of the BIGHWAY ROBBERY, &C.
inspires him with an aversion so deep that more daring or incautious rodents. At the Regina v, Chan Atsoi and Chun dsam-
in the whole coume of his pamphlet not the outset of the voyage she had a litter of The case in which these prisoners were
smallest word of approval comes to mitigate kittens, which in time became very play. they should pay for any breakage or damage indicted for highway robbery at British
the censure and the invectives with which ful, and afforded much entertainment to of any property. There had been things Kowloong, and for receiving stolen good, half-civilized peoples touches us so slightly. he loads it. If he condemne, without the ship's company. But their school- lost often, but the defendant never took was resumed to-day. After further evidence 15 not, however, without importance, appeal, the despotism of the Indian Ad-hours and the more serious things of life Bank, on demand, ... notice of it. In the month of August last, was called, the Jury found the let prisoner it may be too late to find a remedy; and M. the political liberty granted to Australia evening, after sundown, it being in the dog. and the future will perhaps prove this when ministration, he is no mire indulgent to were approaching for them. One calm
20 days' sight, however, there were lost ten table knives, guilty on the 1st and 2nd counts and not And as it was a case of such glaring neglect on the end (receivin); the 2nd prisoner Vernadski is right in calling attention to it and to the Antilles, and oren to the per- watches and all hands on desk, and the four Dredits, he wan determined to make the serv guilty on the 3rd count and not on the 1st st the present time even if he be wrong in mission granted to the lontan Islands to kittens sporting famously, sourrying around Documentary, months sight,.. 3/11 ante responsible for the things and pay for add counts. They held that the ama putting so much bitterness into his argu- incorporate themselves with Greece. He the hatches and among the coils nicely Bombay, demand Rupees,... 220 Them. The plaintiffs in this case and the teur informer, the witness Chun Aon, was ments. It seems to us that a savant, and is persuaded that a perfidious calculation hanging on the belaying-pize, the mother Calcutta, head-boy were responsible for the property witness of truth. Sentence deferred. above all a political economist, would have dominates all these mesures, and that in the bonae, as they had house duty to do.
30 day between her jaws, and, with a serious The Sessions were then adjourned till more creditably maintained hiqelf at his Great Britian can only desire to do evil, pussy appeared on the scene with a huge rat Shanghal, demand. The head-boy then, probably after consulta Monday zert at 10 a.m., but furora need solentific altitude by refusing to dwell on even when she seems to do good.
aspect and a low growl, which seemed to Bar Silver, 17, dwts. B.," tion with the plaintifs, came and teld the not attend, as the only basinsen remaining the British policy with more impartiality gave the desire of domination regulates time for business had arrived, marched Gold Leat
national enmities; and should havedizontred.
No principle, says he at page 161, say the hour for triding was over and the Mexicans, defendant that they were willing to pay for is to sentsuce several prisoners. The rs and good temper. This polley is certainly these sonquests. History does not furnish across the ship and deposited the rat in suglia Sovereigns the loss, the amount to be deducted from maining ease on the calendar, that of Leong their wages.
5.12 Un the 17th instant, the Aloi, for larceny and returning from de not without faults, and many of those us with a single example in which England dazed condition on the deck. The kittens Australian Sovereigns,... defendant paid the plaintifs their wages portation, was postponed till the next Ses which the author mentions justly deserve has sacrificed her own interests or Fielded immediately stopped their sport, and with Discount for August, less $2.66, the proportion of stone, as the prisoner is at present too ill blante; but those faults, nauseous as they anything to the idea of political equilibrium, a half-frightened, hali-curious air gatherad
Ekeras. the amount due by them for the knives, to attend in fact there is a possibility (the may be, do not certainly include the whole which the loves to glorily. Everything for around their mother, who had retreated and leas 20 cents deducted from Mak Ame, Attorney-General said) of the man not foreign policy of the country and to be herself in her invariable rule In all her for several yards from the rat. She then began Hongkong, bak, 46% prem for having been absent from one Saturday living.
just it is necessary to mark its bright sa cign relations and the same mazim guides to grow, and purr in a manner alternately Unlos Ins, Society of Canton, $900 night till Monday morning. They did not
weil as its dark polita. The narrowness of her in her relations with her colonies, threatening and encouraging, and the China Traders Ini. Co., $2,000 demor to these deductions when they re-
the views which the pamphlet displaye She is ready to make them doncessions, startled and very uncomfortable look of the Ohlucas Izurmass 00., 8245 ceived their wagen Bus the same evening
cannot, however, weaken the poltive facts but only when these are inevitable for the kittens showed that they perfectly well Yangiare Ins. Association, Tie, 780 all the four coolies struck work and left
na to the territorial extent of Great Britain, preservation of bar powe, and when the anderstood her meaning ; Indeed, one of North China Ins. Co., Tls. 860 his service without any notice whatever,
the number of the subjects of different can probably derive from them a direct them tried to back out altogether, but was .K. Fire Ins. Co., 1660 nor the alightest cause. 1heir absence
nationalities over which she exercises her benefit for the mother country. There it decisively arrested by a smart rap from the China Flas Ins. Co., $170 caused the defendant grual Inconvenience,
dominion, and the rapidity of her successive neither nobility nor generosity in her con- maternal paw. In the meantime the rat HK & W. Dock Co., 20% d and be contended that under the previous
congtosis. These are facts which it is cessions. And, nevertheless, it is by these began to come out of his stupor, and the E. C. & M. S. bost O., 19 % dis. ruling of bin Lordship in this Court, the
useful to recall today, when we see her means that England has aquired numerous old cat darted up to it and stunned it again. Shanghai Steam Navigation, TE/30 plaintiffs wors not entled to their wages. Lewis MacCoy, a seaman belonging to the insist with so much persistence on the ag territories, and an enormous influence over Then returning to the kittens, she pushed Hongkong Gas Co., 475,
Elis Lordship asked whether the plaintiffs British ship Banian, was summoned by grandinement of other states and declare the affairs of the entire world. One must one of them towards the rat. The kitten Hongkong Hotel 00., $60 understood when they joined the service Man Chal hing, a coal coolle, for assaulting herself the defondet en titre of the European consequently do justice to the intelligence started and ran away the mother caught Ohinese Imperial Loam, £103.10. that they would be responsible for loves as him. The complainant was one of the status quo. What state weighs more in and ability of her Government but this it, gave it a sound drubbing, and turned it well as bre kuges.
ecolies employed in the discharge of the the destinies of the world than ogland ?" anys nothing in favour of its equity." towards the rat again. This time, awod by
Temperature. The defendant said he did not remember ship. He sondentally knocked against the seks the author at page 9. It is scarcely Taking his departure from this pessimist parental authority, the poor kitten veatur (Taken di Messrs Falcanar di Usi's Premises, using the word loss," but the plaintiffs defendant with a piece of canvas, when the a century since that, poorer and wesker point of view Mi Vernadski usturally seeked to approach a little nearer to the ent had acquiesced in paying for the loss on defendant struck him violently several times, than to-day she struggled victoriously the means of stopping England in ker pro The mother, deaming this enough for the giving him a black eye and several bruises against all Europe Would she do it now? grens and of saving the world from the first time, then gave the same lenson to the Les Anbuen, the head-boy to the defend on the fire-The defendant said he was Are there, at any rate, in other parts of the domination which threatens to engulf it others in turn the last one, warned BAROMETER ant, said when the plaistis came into the attending to the weighing of the oval, and world, countries which since then have entirely. Fall of terror at this prospech from observing the experience of the service he bad told them that they would had a dispute with the complainant. Some successfully secaged from English influence he compares Great Britain to an indefatig rent, did not wait to be turned ever be responsible for losses as well as break-one then threw a piece of stal on his face Alas! they are difcult to discover, Asia, able spider spinning ceaselessly new webs and thrashed, but went up with some ages of property, and they agreed to it. but left no mark on it. The defendant formerly powerful, falls beneath the tread of in which large and mail files like entangle boldness quite user to the rot. This part Ten knives were lost, and as they three were then pasted the complainant who fell on the the British merchants Indin yields it last themselves, la victims and he foresees the of the lesson being over; the bid ont pro responsible, he had a consultation with them. coal, when some more plesu were thrown provinces to this insatiable ambition time when its greed and its infernal un-seeded next to enforce her maxims by It was arranged that they should each lose at him, so he had to defend himself, as Uhins trembles before the Intrigues of the ning will devon them all. Although this example, and unmerdifully knooked the rat 8.13, to be deducted from their wages, a another man had bold of him by the throat red barbarians; and Persia, west and sa- Image, Intended to Ulestate the ferocity about and played with it, wills the four doxen now table-knives having boan prețious. Fined $8 and to pay 32 amends.
piring, regards with a stupiffed stare the and peddy of the Bagilah race, had nothing ly replaced by the mistress. When the plain. The same defendant was summoned by events which threstes her with imminent dattering for the older sitions who a kittens gravely sat together in a sciems Broup and gave close attention When the side received their wage on the 1712 they | Mong His Bow, another sasi poalle, who destruction, Aleks in her tum, submits i compared to simple to it is Interesting to
counsel.
Mr Johnson said he did not know, bot if the other side engaged counsel he supposed his clients would also engage counsel.
Hi Lordship granted the application for trial by Special Jury, and fixed Monday next as the day of hearing.
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argument statistical statements, he attirms that the in the Original ambition and the thirst for conquest of Great Britain far surpass those of other Powers, and that if the political equilibrium is truly in danger, it is she alone who menaces it. The erroneous opinion which azists of her policy proceeds, according to this author, from considering her action in Europe alone, forgetting that which she exercises in other parts of the world, and, above all, her maritime supremacy. The Interest which we take in events which happen outalde Europe, even when they absolutely transform the conditios of dis- tant countries, in not sufficiently strong to counterbalance that with which affairs nester home inspire us, of which we daily feel the immediate consequences and this is why the conduct of the English towards
In reference to the first case, the defond- ant said the amount claimed was correct withlu a few conte. According to his cal- oulations, the amount should have been (Before His Lordship this Chief Justice, $10.22, instead of $10,96, but he did not defend the case on that ground. The plaintiff's he said left his service on the 17th instant without any notice whatever, and without any justitiable cause. When the defendant engaged his servants, the under standing he came to with them was that
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