before tiffin. It was agreed that the case No. 3 on the calendar, in which Uscop is charged with murder, should be taken to morrow, and that case No. 6-in which Taang Sz Tau, U A In, and Chu Acheung are charged with (1) unlawfully by force detaining a boy with intent to sell him; (9) unlawtally by fraudulent mearis detain- ing a boy with intent to sell him; (8) same as first charge; (4) same as second charge will be called on Tuesday next, leaving Monday a clear day being mail day. The other cases will be heard on Saturday, and it is expected that Tuesday will close the Bessions.
No. 5054-SEPTEMBER 18, 1879.]
arrived, and came up to where they were ataoding. The two prisoners then went forward with the child, and from Informa- Hon he received in answer to enqui ries, be took them all to the station, charged them with kiduspping, and left them there; he and the Chinese con stable and the child going down the Hollywood Road. They were met by a woman who spoke to the Chluase consta ble; she took them to a hotse where ano ther woman claimed the child. The first prisoner, who was related to the legal guardian of the child, was charged with In- ducing her to go to Canton; both were charged with detention, and as they were acting for a common purpose, were both guilty of a felony, if the Jury believed the witnesses who would be called before them.
The following evidence was then hoard.
(Before the Acting Puiane Judge, J. J. Francis, Esq.),
Thursday, Sept. 18.
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LARCENY.
Lo Asing, charged with stealing a pair of trousers, pleaded guilty.
Prisoner has just completed a term of eighteen months to gaol for larceny, and has been convicted four times at the Police Court.
He was sentenced to ten years'
penal servitude.
Wan Atak pleaded guilty to a charge of atealing six fron bolte, on the 26th of August, the property of Yen Akok.
Prisoner, who has been twice convloted for house breaking, was sentenced to seven
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Bangkok.Mr Bourke, in reply, said he hoped the Foreign Office would soon come to a decision in respect to the affair, but he did not think the decision could be laid on the table this Sossion.
Some time ago thero appeared in our columns an account of the demonstrations which the Chinese made in honour of his Excellency the Minister for Fraces at Peking. The recent visit of the Marqute Taong to Paris was, we believe, made with the same object; the Chinese Government having instructed their Minister to convey to M. Waddington, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the expression of their high ap prestation of Viscount Brenter's character, and their regret that he was leaving Peking with so little chance of coming back again. It is stated that when M. Brenier arrived at Peking he found a great number of unsettled cases, and that when he left there remained not a single one for his successor. If this be so, it would go far to prove that at Poking, as at other Courts, we have only to be courteous and just, in order to obtain all that we have a right to expect, or fairly demand.
Latest Mail Advices :-Yokohama (via San Fran.) June 29, Shanghai 18, Foochow 17, Hongkong 24. The French mail, with the advices dated as above, from China and the Straits Settlements, was delivered, via Naples, on the lat Inst., three days early. be Japan advices, vío San Francisco, were received on the 5th Inst. The next inward (P. and 0.) mail was despatched from Brindisi on the 6th lnst., and will reach Landos to-morrow, two days in advance of Case No 4, in which U Acheung wasis due date, The P. and O. Company's charged with snatching a pair of ear-rings steamer Zambesi, with the heavy portion of and a jade-stous brooch from the person the last inward P. and O. mall, arrived at of the complainant, Tak Akow, on the 6th Southampton on the 4th inst. September, was next heard. Prisoner was undefended. Mr Ng Ashoy for the At torney General prosecuted. The case was not only of an uninteresting nature, but, besides, the whole facts and evidence have been already reported.
P. C. 68, Thomas Campbell, s'ated that on the 21st August last he was on special duty at the Canton Wharf; he was noooke- panied by Chinese Constable No. 190. He went on board the steamer White Cloud and noticed a small girl sitting at the after part of the ship. The girl appeared to be verg uneasy and was looking about as if she did not know where she was. He called his assistant, the Iukong, and told him to ark the first prisoner if the child belonged to bim. He answered in good plåglu English: "That child b'iong my. I nomakeesqueeze." The P. C. then said "I did not way that you had squeezed the child," and again nakedIs that your child?" The first pri-years' penal servitude, soner answered, "I b'long proper father.” "I makes takee go Macao pay her mother." The second prisoner came up to where the child was sitting he had a bundle in one hand and some cakes in the other. He picked up a mat that was lying beside the girl and walked forward as far as the anglue- room. The first prisoner motioned to the girl to rise and follow him, which she did. The second prisoner spread the mat down on the deck, sat down on it, the little girl also aftting down on the mat. The two prisoners were talking together as they went along the dock. The constable began to get suspicious and again asked the first pri Boner if he were the proper father of the girl, He said, "No. I. b'long uncle." The constable then asked the first prisoner who the second prisoner was. He replied,
He blong her uncle too." He took the prisoners to the Central Police Station and charged them with kidnapping the girl, Afterwards he wont along the Hollywood Road being accompanied by the Inkong and the little girl. They met a women who spoke to P.C. 190, and in consequence of what she said the party went to a bouse Dear there, where a woman claimed the child. The child put her arms round the weman's neck, and both behaved as if a lost child had been restored, The two women and the child were then taken to the Central Station. la reply to first prisoner, who asked witness whether, when asked if the child was his, he had said,-" No. 1 want to look for a friend," witness denied
that this wasE BO.
LARCENT FROM THE PERSON.
The jury, consisting of Messrs V.A Favacho, D. Alemás, A. O. Guttierrez, A. F. Smith, J. F. Mandfeldt, E. Melbye, and M. Falconer,found the prisoner not guilty, and he was discharged. The point involved, on which the Jury appeared to have some doubt, was that of identity.
BURGLARY &c.
Kwan Awong was charged with (1) burg. lary; (2) robbery from the person. He was found guilty and sentenced to eaven years' penal nervitude.
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NEWS BY THE FRENCH MAIL
The M. M. Co.'s steamship Tigre, Capt. Champenois, from Marseillos, with the Londen Mail of the 8th August, arrived this afternoon. As, through the courtesy of the Captain of the Glenartney, we were The Chinese P. C. deposed, to the con-able, two days ago, to give pretty full news versation on board. He said to the little girl, You are now on board a steamer in advance of the mail and the Indian-papers going to Macao; do you know that?" She late, telegraphic summary as well, our cut said she did not. He generally corroborat tings from the files are much less full and
bulky than usual:-
The United Service Garette says:"A Practical Naval Architect and Sailor" writes to us, painting out as a proof of the obstruation shown to outsiders by the Constructive Department of the Admiralty, the vast superiority of the Chinese gunboats just tried at Spithead over any gunboats in Her Majesty's Navy, and asks what our wooden or composite gui vessels now in China could do in action against gunboats of the Epsilon type. While we can hardly admit the car of the Chinese gunboats as a proof of Admiralty constructive obstruction on the lines suggested by our correspond. ent, there can be no doubt as to the superiority of the Epsilon type, not only over vessels of the Tickler class, but also beer nur a fair lesion for consideration over our ordinary gan vessels. It therefore whether the addition of a few such gun- boats as those of the Epsilon class would not be desirable for our own Navy, carrying as they do the heaviest gun now
afloat.
CORRESPONDENCE.
“NOTES FROM KWEICHOW.
Kwei-yang Fuh, Kwei-chow, Aug. 8.
regards life and property created, owing that I had many months ago appointed downstairs with a view to cecapo by the to andué leniency on my part, especially as such a Commission. Since the Meeting, front door, and wore overpowered either by regarda the susponsion of public flogging, the Commission has reported, and when the smoke or famos. All the nice men the enbstitution of the rattan on the breech the Colonial Surgeon has made his obser- come from Tahzang, a place about thirty li in lieu of the Cat-o'-nine-tails on the back vations on the report I shall have the from Shanghai, and yesterday afternoon the of Chinose Criminals, and a somewhat more honour of laying it before you. It will bodies of the deconsed were removed from cautions use of deportation. Finally, that then be seen that no undue leniency has the scene of the fire, and it was said they all this calls for a Commission of Enquiry, been shown to Criminals sentenced to be were to be taken to their antive place for
burial. which might also investigate the relations flogged... between the Governor and the Officials in every department, The speeches in sup port of the resolutions are not inaccurately summarized in the following words of Mr A. P. MacEwen, who moved that the re solutions ho forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies:--
11. As to deportation, I have simply carried out the satual Law of the Colony, and have done so in strict accordance with the views expressed in Lord Carnarvon's Despatch No. 51, of May, 1877. On this subject I will do myself the honour of ad- dressing you in a separate Despatch.
12. Such being the facts with respect to my alleged andne leniency, the suspension of public floggings, the flogging of Chinese on the breech instead of the back, and the use of deportation only when anavoidable, I cannot see that the Meeting made out any case for & Commission of Enquiry into the administration of the Colony.
"Let the Magistrates, instead of infict ing paltry fines of 10 cents or short terms of imprisonment, havo the power to inflict summary chastisement on all rogues and vagabonds. Let thom be taken from the Magistracy and publicly flogged at the whipping-post. I see the increase of crime in the Colony is put down to the cheap rate of faree now existing between Canton and this port. In my opinion the famine in the Kwangtung Province has also had a good deal to do with it. You may rest To assured that if a Chinaman, bent on depredations in this Colony, know that if caught he would receive a lash for every cent he paid for his passage. money, he would confine his thieving propensities to his own country. By public flogging, crime would rapidly decrease, and the hordes of thieves at presont hiding here would quickly dis- pores."
crime is not to be accounted for by the cheap fares alone. Mr MacEwon seems to think that the severe distross which exists in the neighbouring province of China has a good deal to do with it.
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I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,
J. POPE HENNESSY.
The Right Honourable Sir MICHAEL
HICKS BEACH, Bart., M.P., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, éc.,
£t..
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tee."
Downing Street, 17th July, 1879, SIR,I have had under consideration your despatch No. 100 of the 16th October, 1878, transmitting a copy of the Resolutions passed at a public meeting held in Hongkong on the 7th October, 1878.
I feel assured that any cause for fear may and will be removed by the action of the Local Government.
I request you to transmit a copy of this Despatch to the Chairman of the Public Meeting have the bonour to bo, Sir,
M. E. HICKS-BEACH, your most obedient humble servant,
6. To those two causes it might be fair to add some others, such as the natural increase of the population, defects in the Hongkong prison system, by which the To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL" SIE,--As you see by this I have at last eyetem was noither sufficiently severe to set as a deterrent, nor based on any good arrived at this place, and find a few copies of dealing with old offenders, and To Governor Hennessy, C.M.G., &c.
The police, we hear, are investigating the matter in reference to the "Deluge".engine being told there was no water in the Polytechnic pond, and that it is not unlikely. there will be an enquiry before the Mixed Court Magistrate.
"Pilfering, as usual, was again rife. Some apprehensions were effected, and at the Mixed Court yesterday an old thief was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for stealing clothing from one of the burning houses, and another man was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for stealing a pair of large pewter candlesticke belonging to a servant of the Shanghai Magistrate, who was the ocoupant of one of the houses. destroyed.
All the houses burat balong, we are in- formed, to the head runner in the Taotai's yamen.
THE CHARTERED COLONIAL BANKS. Sir H. Selwib-Ibbetson has introduced a Bill relating to certain chartered colonial banks.
The preamble commences by a reference to the fact that the powers and privileges conferred by the charters of the banks wat forth in the zobedule are all, or some of them, subject to determination at certain 4 That there has been an increase of
times, but are capable of being renewed at crime for some time past caunot be denied,
Her Majesty pleasure. It ia then stated I have deferred replying to that despatch that the charters authorise, or require the but it can hardly be attributed to me, for it commenced before I arrived. To-day, until I was in possession of the report of the Treasury and Government departments to there-are-512-prisoners, in the Hongkong Committee which you appointed on the 30th oxerelse control over the management of the Gaol. On the 16th of October, 1876. there of September, to consider matters connected banks in respect of divers matters. Finally, were 546. That there has been in this with the police force, and the condition of the preamble sets forth that it is expedient to relieve the Treasury and the Government Colony an increase in crimes of violence crime in the Colony.
The return of cases of Serious Crime ap-departments from these powers and duties, since the beginning of the year 1876, is noticed by the Acting Chief Justice in his pended to that Report gives the following and to leave to the barks the encontrolled report on Public Flogging, dated 3rd of results:-1867, 1,458; 1865, 1,248; 1869, management of their own concerns; but Angust, 1878, which was enclosed in my 967; 1870, 1,357; 1871, 1,434; 1872, 1,394; that, at the same time, it is inexpedient Despatch No. 95 of the 28th September, 1873, 1,316; 1874, 1,165; 1875, 1,395; that this removal of control should involve 1878. Six months before my arrival, Go 1876, 1,485; 1877, 1,966; 1878 to August the determination of the privileges con- vernor Sir Arthur Kennedy warned Lord 31st, 1,823; 1878 to December 31st, 2,611. ferred by the charters. The Bill accordingly proposes that the charters now in force Carnarvon that the criminal returns of 1876-(Gazette, 15th February, 1879.)
The increase during the year 1877-78, shall continue in force just as if there were would "indicate a serious increase of crime." He attributed this "apparent out-coupled (as it appears from the evidence to no provision for their determination. The have been) with a simultaneous advance by Bill then authorises each of the banking break among the population of Hongkong' Canton, owing to cheap fares in the river tion, and the habit of carrying arms, may members by special resolution, to Increase to the influx of predatory classes from the criminal classes in audacity, combina companies, on receiving, the assent of its Its capital by the issue of new shares, or to steamers. Those cheap fares have con- not unnaturally have caused a feeling finued over since, but I am disposed to alarm to the residents in the Colony, consolidate and divide its capital into shares agree with the gentleman I have just especially after the occurrence of so daring of larger amount; or to acquire land for quoted, Mr MacEwen, that the increase of an outrage as the attack in Wing-Lok Street, the purpose of bank premises free from any I do not, however, consider it necessary to rostriations in reference to extent or value; send out a special Commission as requested or to do any act which now requires the in the 5th Resolution of that meeting.
sanction of the Treasury or some other Government department without obtaining euch sanction. However, nothing in the measure is to authorise any of the banks to exercise any power which it is not now exercising in relation to the issue of notes or the establishment of branch banks in any colouy, in casos where the sanction of the Treasury or some other Government department has hitherto been requiräd," of your valuable and most interesting paper
unless the assent be obtained of the Gover awaiting my arrival, My last letter to
nor in Council of the colony where it is you was dated Kwei-lin Fah, capital of
proposed to exercise the power. Lastly, Kwang-ai, and I therein related my ad-
the Bill relieves the Treasury and the other ventures so far. Since then I have accom-
(N. 0. D. News, Sept. 11.) Government departments from any powers plished a most successful and very interest-
We briefly reported yesterday that a fire or duties vested in them by any charter or The Chief Justice remarked that in Eng. Distan has ordered his troops to Badak tory, and obtained much information con-
the morning at the junction of the Canton and frees the companies from all obligations Simbe, Aug. 21.-The Amear of Afghang journey through the Mino ize Terri-
broke out between two and three o'clock indeed regulating the banking companies, fand they were accustomed to regard the shan to maintain order on the frontier.corning those little-known people. Tra witness as a Christian and to enquire into Cholera is again on the increase at Kabul. velling leisurely and conveniently for the Gaol Commission and approved by my pre-and Quangsi Roads, In itself the fire was to the Government departments, including
decessor.
a comparatively small one, nine Chinees that of submitting their by-laws, accounts, But the measure is not to their knowledgs of the nature of an oath
sake of obtaining all the information Instead of Criminals convicted of a third houses or shops being the extent of the and returns. in a particular way. Here, where we were
necessary for the development of Foreign or fourth felony receiving perhaps three property destroyed; but four lives wore affect Her Majesty's power of revoking any accustomed to receive most of our evidence
Trade and intercourse generally, with mouths imprisonment only, they now sacrificed, and there is another incident in of the charters or the power of the Govens from people who were not Christians, and
Western China-not a very easy matter, receive three years' penal servitude, in con connection with the disaster which demands meat departments to make representations where we accepted the statements of a
owing to the great diversity of language many persons of different classes and creeds
between the Chinese and the different sequence of a suggestion I made last year sxposure with a view to prevent obstacles with a view to a revocation. Moreover, in on their simple declaration, the question
Aboriginal Tribes--this last is the fourth to the Police Magistrates that incorrigible being placed in the way of the Fire Brigade, all cases the charter is to be void in the with regard to an infant witness was imply
different route I have explored to and from old offenders might be committed to the which, more than all the other of our local event of the bankingcompany being declared court of competent jurisdio- whether the child was qualified to give
Galle, Aug. 27--The steamer Sea Gull this mountainous region, and I must say Supreme Court, where a severe sentence institutions, deserves the thanks and support insolvent by intelligible answers to plain questions; 1,561 tons, of Leith, (belonging to the Bird it is by far the easiest. Advance, Hong-
of the community, and particularly that of tion,
The banks to which the Bill applies are The number of prisonere liberated before the Chinese, who, but for their assistance, whether it was able to tell what it know line) from Calcutts and Colombo, bound to kong lu an intelligible way. In England he London with a cargo of jute, linseed, I find things here pretty much as I left serving two-thirds of their sentences, under would be entirely helpless in such emer- the Bank of Australasis, the Bank of Bri- tlah North America, the Bank of South abould have had to ask this child a great myrabollams, rape seed, &c., taken in at them,-thie officiale complaining of the y administration, is less than half the gencies.
number liberated in the corresponding The fire was discovered by the native Australis, the Oriental Bank Corporation, Calcutts, and about 160 tons of cask coffee non-receipt of the usual subsidies of money period before my arrival; and of the policeman on the beat, who, about half-past the London Chartered Bank of Austraila, at Gafor island, Cardws Channel, Maldive working the valuable mines of Cinnabar smaller number so liberated by me, the two o'clock, observed smoke issning from the English, Scottish, and Australian Char- majority were in connexion with the the upper windows of a shop in the Quangai tered Bank, the Chartered Bank of India, felands. The captain and crew were all and Silver that abound in this neighbour entirely exceptional case of the Yesso Road and simultaneously flames burst Australia, and China, the Chartered More landed on the island. The second officer hood. H.E. Chen ya ying, ex Governor calamity, every other case being one in through the doors below. He alarmed the cantile Bank of India, Undon, and China landed at Gallo yesterday from the French of Yunnan, has been appointed Governor of which the liberation was owing to the neighbourhood and then ran to the Louza the Bank of British Columbia, the Ionian barque Bougainville, with emigrants bound this province, and may be here 10 days strong recommendation of the Judge, or Police Station. Telegraphic news was de- Bark, and the Bank of Egypt. from Mauritius to Pondicherry. The hence. steamer is expected to become a total
where the Medical Officer urged it, on the spatched to the other stations, and in the ground that the death of the prisoner was meantime the police from Louza with their wreck. The Seagull left Colombo on 19th
impending.
extinctoure repaired to the scene, where they Angust. Besides the cargo she took in
7. I may hero remark that, when I re- were soon afterwarde joined with others here, she had a general cargo from Calcutta
ported to Lord Carnarvon my intention of from the Central, and working together they for London. She was a steamer of 1018
having old offenders sent to the Supreme did excellent service in preventing the flames Court, so as to receive, if the Chief Justice spreading. The Fire Brigades were speedily thought fit, a really severo sentence, I on the spot, but it was sometime before they. anticipated that for some time the effect obtained water,
The firemen, we are informed, were about would be to increase the number of pri.
ed the evidence of the first witness.
The little girl, who is the subject of the alleged kidnapping, was then called. Being only eight years of age, a question arose as to whether she could be sworn or not.
number of questions which were not par-
ticularly wise, not to say more.
The little girl was then warned to speak the truth, and gave evidence to the effect, that the woman Aho was her mother, after wards generally corroborating the evidence of the European and Chinese Constables,
This was the case for the prosecution. F. C. Campbell recalled by His Lord shipWhen I first saw the second pri sonar, he was coming up the gangway from the whart. He had the bundle under his arm and the cakes in his hand. **His Lordship suggested that the jury might like to know, if the first prisoner were related to the woman On Aho, who claimed the child.
On Aho was called and stated that the
first prisoner was her son-in-law. She saw him on the morning of the day that the child was lost. He came up to the room
where she was engaged in washing. No conversation passed between them.
The Chief Justice, in summing up, said that there was no evidence, not a partials of evidence against the second prisoner on the first count. The worst feature of the case against the first prisoner was that when he was asked by the constable Whether the child belonged to him, he said he was the proper father, in that telling deliberate Us which he knew to be a lle Afterwards when he was asked whether what he had said was true he said he was the uncle of the girl. This plainly enough was not the story of an honest man. Ris Lordship pointed out that the fact of the -second defendant being the son-in law of the reported mother of the child was not to be taken as any reason why he should not commit this crime, but rather as an aggra vation of the heinousness of the crime,
(Indian Papers.)
The regimants which arrived recently from Herat have lost over 100 men. Some re ports say 865. It is probable that the con- tinuation of the telegraph line to Kabal will be immediately undertaken.
Rajahmundry, Aug. 28. Forty rioters have been arrested and sent as prisoners to Gopanipore.
and coir yarn from Colombo, ran on à reef from other Provinces, instead of manfully
tons met register, 150 H. P., built in 1870 at Glasgow by Barcley Carle and Co., was 100 A in Lloyds, and belonged to Mesars. Seater White and Co., Leith.
London, August 28.-Anticipations of the English harvest are most gloomy still. It is raining incessantly,
Commissioners yesterday, the Forte agreed At the sitting of the Greek Frontier
to the protocol of the Congress as the basis of the negotiations.
Bombay, ugust 28.-The Duke of Cam- bridge's remarks in a letter on the Lient, Carey court-martial have been condemned by the press generally,
W. M.
OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE,
possibly the fact that the police beats have not been changed since 1874, and have been ever since then inadequately filled, as the Captain Superintendent now admits.
6. The imputation of undue leniency is
dietary scale that had been framed by the not supported by the following facts:-
I have considerably reduced the Prison
could be inflicted.
ANOTHER FIRE IN SHANGHAI: FOUE
LIVES LOST.
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soners in Gaol. No doubt this has been to make a hole through the baraboo fence of one of the results, but nevertheless it is the Polytechnic Institution Compound-for satisfactory to see that the number in Gaol the hose, but the watchman, or the man in at present is not greater than at the same obarge, told them there was now no well date in 1876.
there or water to be had on the premises.
THE PUBLIC MEETING OF RESID-
·ENTS HELD ON 7îα, OCT. 1878.
His Excellency Governor Pope Hennorsy, O.M.Q., to The Right Honourable Sir Michael Bicks-Beach, Bart., M.P.
[100.]
Government House, Hongkong, 16th October, 1878.
B. As to the suspension of sentences of This was communicated to the foreman, who Sin-In compliance with the request of public flogging, my Despatch No. 95 of the ordered the engine to be removed to the Mr E. B. Gibb, who presided at the public 28th ultimo will have put you in possession Defence Creek, but while this was being meeting on the 7th instant, I have the of the steps I took on the receipt of Lord done it was ascertained that there was & honour to lay before you a copy of the Carnarvon's Despatch of the 3rd of January pond and a good supply of water in the Resolutions that were passed on that oslast, and of the views on the subject of the Polytechnic Compound, and by dint of Bangalore, angust 29,-Telegraphio or casion.
various Officials entrasted with the ad- persuasion admission was afterwards gained ders have reached the officers commanding 2. Those resolutions fairly represent the ministration of the Criminal Law. The and the pond availed of. But the falsehood the Mysore division to hold the 4th native views of an influential section of the Euro-Acting Chief Justice, the Senior Police by the watchman, or whoover he was, caused infantry, in readiness to proceed to Rumpa pean residents of Hongkong, including two Magistrate, and the other Officials con fully a quarter-of-an-hour's delay, and the vis Madras and the Buckingham Canal out of the four non-Official Members of derned, agree in saying that the cessation flames made greater progress up the Canton Colonel Hodding is the commandant. Council. They were proposed and seof public flogging in no degree increased Road than it is naturally presumed they Bombay, August 30-Information has conded by highly respectable gentlemen crime. The Members of my Executive would have done if this obstruction had not been received that General Lazaroff has But the larger proportion of the European Council take the same view, and ans eccurred. The fames soon succumbed to died at Chikishlar.
Community, including (with the exception, nimously recommend the entire abolition the application of water from the "Torrent" A Goa paper's Lieben correspondent I am told, of one individual) the whole of of public flogging.
and "Deluge," and by about half-past three states that the King of Portugal has created the Portuguesa, took no part in the most- 6. The Publice Meeting did not approve o'clock, they were well-nigh extinguished, Lord Lytton a Knight of the Grand Crossing, and I understand disapprove of the of the action I took when I had before me and the crowd which had collected began to of Conceicao for the valuable service be resolations. The Chinese inhabitants, who the professional opinion of the Medical disperse. rendered while British minister at Lisbon. had been invited by the promoters to attend, Officer of the Prison as to the injurious and while piling up the ruins to prevent ob- did so and far outnumbered the others effect on the health of Chinese Criminals Owing to the fact that the Chairman did of flogging them on the back. Olsuse XIII struction to street traffic, the body of a man (L. & 0. Express, August 8) not thlok proper to have the resolutions of Ordinance No. 4 of 1868, however, says: was found protruding from the debris of Captain A. Glen, 10th Regiment, brigado-translated to them, the Chiasse protested No corporal punishment shall be in the shop in which the fire had originated. major at Singapore, has been selected to against the proceedings and went away flicted without the written certificate of The removal of this led to the discovery of succeed Captain B. V. Graham, Fusiliers, quietly, leaving the minority in possession the Medical Officer that the prisoner can three other bodies, all within a few feet of a deputy-assistant adjutant and quarter of the meeting. They subsequently applied receive the punishment without injury to each other. They were carefully dug from master-general at Devonport.
to me for the usual authority to hold his health." The Medical Oficar from the ruins, laid on doors, and placed in a The Jury had retired when his Lordship The four gunboats built for the Chinese public meeting to consider and discuss time to time certified that foggings might safe position at the side of the street. In sent for them and told them that the At Government, which sailed from Plymouth those resolutions, but I asked them to re-take place with a rattan on the breech, but each instance the bodies were charred and torney General had just informed him that found on the 80th ult, arrived at Gibraltar consider the idea, on the ground that I not with a cat on the back, in the case of disfigured almost beyond recognition; but he agreed not to press the charge against on the 5th inst."all well. ?
deprecated agitation, and that, in a Colony Orientals. The Criminala so sentenced they were all subsequently identified.
from one who very narrowly escaped a the second prisoner; they in their verdict, (4th.) In answer to Mr Richard, Mr like this I was not at all certain that public have been flogged in accordance with his therefore, would only concern themselves Bourke said the report of Sir T. Wade of meetings were the most prudent and certificates. I am sorry to say that in the similar fate, the police have obtained the in- with the first prisoner.
his communications with the Chinese Gov-efficient means by which the inauitants last eighteen months I have sanctioned formation that nine countrymen, all dealers The Jury said they had agreed. They ernment respecting the ratification of the could bring their sentiments to the know over Bity floggings. But I have not in poultry, were sleeping in the room ever anazimenaly found the first prisoner guilty Cheloo Convention had not yet been re-ledge of the Government. I believe they violated the Law by allowing Chinese to be the one in which the flames were first seen, on both charges, the second not guilty ofceived.
will take my advice, and will be satisfied flogged in such a way as could not be which, strange to say, was unoccupied and On the 11th inst Mr Reed will inquire with giving to me in writing whatever they certified by the Medical Officer. The contained nothing of an inflammable nature. The Chief Justice said sentence would of the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs desire the Government to know.
enclosed return shows the number of Cri- The sleepers were awakened by the heat of 8. As to the specific allegations set forth minals flagged from the date of my arrival the flooring boards on which they were in the resolutions, they may be fairly sem till July last. It was published in the lying, and at once discovered that the house med up as follows: That for the past year Hongkong papers on the 2nd and 3rd of was on fire. Three escaped by dropping and a half (a period during which I am September.
dapun down into the street from the upper front responsible for the Government of the 10. The proposal that a Medical Com. windows, while two others effected egreas Colony), the criminal classes have been mission shonid enquire into the matter was by the back windows, and it is supposed the unusually active, and a feeling of insecurity made at the Meeting, but it was well known four whose bodies were scoovered rushed
If the Jury believed the witnesses who testified to his guilt. Then came the ques- tion as to the second prisoner. It was per- fectly clear, by the evidence of P.O. Camp bell, that he saw the child for the first time, when it was under protection, and when no one would have thought for a moment of 'detaining it.
be reserved. This was a case which if it be true that the Government of Russia
desired a good deal of consideration as this was an offence against the laws which had of late bean on the increase,
are about to establish a large naval and military station in Japanese waters.
(Aug. let) Me Rylands asked questions As the Attorney General had publies to the orcumstangas under which the business to attend to in another form the British Consul General in 8 am ordered up Court adjourned at a very early hour, the gunboat Ferhound from Singapore so
The polica and a few firemen remained,
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