THE CHINA MAIL.
would be found the cases of men, who having wick's) views with regard to many of the We understand that the sum of $187 bas been branded and deported, having served subjects in connection with punishment in been handed to Captain Pallander, of the one-third of their term, came back to us Hongkong were of a character different very speedily.
Captain
$
The following are the settlementi:— British barque Claro Babuyan, 358, London, private,
British 3 m. schooner Jessie MoDonald, 270, Whampoa to London, £2.51. Od. per、 ton of 50 c. ft.
British ship Fadymion, 759, to New York, £1 10. Od. per ton of 40 ft.
American ship City of Boston, 1063, io New York, privato.
detected other illegalities in the proceed-Lytton the kind of lecture you give in that." kong prison, and he also said that they was reasonable to be concluded from the consideration extended to the men under New York, $12 gold per ton of 20 owt.
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German barque Magellan, 425; to Ham burg, 1 14s. Od. por ton of 50 c. ft.
German barque Marie, 435, Iloilo to Italian barque Brennero, 766, Iloilo to New York, $124 gold per ton of 20 cwb
American barque Miriam, 628, Iloilo to New York, private.
British barque Burgermeister van Mid- dleburg, 002, Saigon to Sourabaya, 26 cents por picul, 80 lay days; and one or two Ports in Java to Sydney, £1 6s. Od. French barque Charite, 255, to Übefoo Porton, of 20 wt. 30 lay days.
French birque Paal & Maris 324, to. and back, 23 cents per picul, 28 lay days.
American 8-m, schooner Annie S. Hall, 465, to Haiphong, Quinhon and back,
No. 5097.-NOVEMBER 7, 1879.]· shly had supposed the case was dealt with did he proceed to consure which he might under Ord: No. 6 of 1869, and not the later have done-Mr Phillippo; but he sent for enactment. Mr Russell much regretted him, and said to him I will say nothing the mistake he had made in not dividing about your addressing an admonition to the punishment. He thought the blunder the Governor of the Colony, but here is might have been detested by the first your opinion about Lord Lytton; that la clerk or the the Superintendent of the written by a Portuguese clerk, it is the talk Gaol; and he referred to the fact that of the whole colony; you did not send it it appeared for a time to have escaped His in a confidential manner, but in an Ordin. Exosllenoy's attention. That it should, arg C. S. O., seen and read by every clerk in at first, have oscaped his attention was the Colonial Secretary's office. Barely you not surprising, he wrote, for, though he might have spared the Governor and Lord ings, he had hardly time (not being Mr Phillippo, after acme consideration, then four weeks in the Colony) to make remarked that he was sorry he had given himself acquainted with section 6 of the minute to his clerk to be copied out, Ordinance 9 of 1867. But that could not and he was also sorry he had sent the paper be said for the experienced officers to in an ordinary C.8.0. and not in a con- That astiafted him. No whom he referred the case. In his despatch fidential form, stated in this connection this much to the censure was pronouned upon any one, ex- credit of the magistrate who had committed cept that extraordinary censure upon Lord this error. In 1876, ho had, as Visiting Lytton. He might say that whatever the Justice, detected an illegality which had private opinion of Mr Phillippo and bis hon. gone on for years and pointed out in the friend (Me Keswick) they were entitled to Justices' book the nature of that legality, hold it, but as that was opinion recorded in adding that Mr Tomlin, to whom he, spoke an official manner he was bound to say Bertham brought before the Chief Justico he did so with no desire to cast aeneure;} Telegrams, The P. and O. Company and its Quinhon and back, $1,850 iu fall. about the flogging of prisoners who were Majesty's Government entertained a very not falons, had even at his request, refused different opinion of Lord Lytton's conduct added The Superintendent bar incur committed a blunder, the Government en- red a grave responsibility, and it is my duty tirely approved of the course he had taken to call attention to it." This illegality had and the minutes he had made in the case, The Governor's dos- and the despatch concluded by saying Her patch the whole of which was read, con- Majesty's Government desired to express tobias their hearty sympathy in the line of "No laws are better known in Hong. conduct he was pursuing as evidenced by And yet kong than the flogging laws, so that the his action in that very case. criminal himself and the other prisoners that was the kind of case to be brought knew also that it was illegal. I need not by Mr Phillippo against him in a minute. dwell on how far the knowledge of such a He did not know that he seed add much fact and of its painful consequences more to this, that not only had he to consult in the recent case of Mok Akwai must the Executive, be thought it only his duty prison. Unless I can reselve your Lord. regard to the views expressed by the Chief He had never met any Chief ship's support in putting a stop to these Justice. illegalities, I fear my labours in endeavour-Justice whose public expressions of opinion ing to reform the discipline of the gaolto say nothing now of advice received and to diminish crime will be seriously from him privately-be thought deserving of more attention than those of Sir John increased."
Smale. And therefore, in sandtog to the Secretary of State one of these very cases, he thought it his duty to call the attention of Lord Carnarvon to the observations of
gress" in Formosa, The New Rules for
Rivals.
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German barque Gestne Brons, 402, to Singapore, $700 in full; and Singapore to Hongkong (timber), $2,800 in full.
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necessarily affect the discipline of the In the administration of justice, to pay some night. And then he got a few months' im- On the contrary, he would have such Commercial Summary, Miscellaneous Ship- to Singapore (Passengers), $8 per head,
He was
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Bear
POLISMANS WANTED. (From the Glasgow "Bailie.") Bailie, I write you these two times
wance more,
Though she's not fery much for to say, But she'll thouht when you take her woo
letter efore,
You would also take this one to-day.
was noticed they said in the papera lost
week
That they wanted ten polismans strong For to leave this pig toun and their fortunes
to week In a far-awa' place called Hong-Kong.
..
And I says to mysel', says I, Tugal my man,
You'll not foremost po first för to go, For you're very smug here, and you'll do
what you can,
When the Captain says "Tugal"-say No,
She was used to her parridge each mornin'
ahe roso,
So I says, this will not do for ma For to leave this good place--this good laud
of goot brose-
An' pe prought up on nothing but tea.
And I was not much care for these China-
mans too,
Wi' lang fingers to steal a man's watob, An' maype, pesides too, perhaps they'll nafi
JOU
An' then run awa' at the scratch.
we've sent oot praw pollsmans twice
DOO at wance, And a letter frae Tonal M'Phail
It was not more than from those of the Governor. He was hap-Fega, being the amounted collected by weak since the present chief officer at Kow-py to say that in most of them, though Mestre Lane, Crawford & Co. to give the loon game to see him about the state of the His Excellency was of a different opinion, crew of that vessel a farewell dinner. The criminal class on the borders of this colony his views and support had been with him.
It was not often be made remarks on subjects balance of this sum not expended will be and Kowloon, and be then said that a num- ber of the men who were hanging about the like this. When he did make them, it was distributed amongst the men. village in Chinese Kowloon without any with the object of obtaining Information employment had marks upon them which and correcting misapprehensions. He was Pallander requests that his heartiest thanka he was told showed they had been in Bong- not aware he had said anything but what be given to the community for the kind were within a few minutes reach of the reading of the papers which were laid upon his command.
They could make a raid into the table. With regard to deportation," he colony. British Kowloon at any moment, and they had the strongest possible freling it should could reach Victoria in an hour. He took be used most carefully. He did not for means to ascertain whether any of these one moment wish to differ from the men were in the habit of getting across our remarke His Excellency had made, with
Editorial Artioles, Mr Pops Hennessy Bad his Critics. The Alleged "Snub" to frontier, from a village where there are a somewhat of a personal feeling towards number of stone-cutters close to our bound himself. There was no doubt that many ary, and a few days ago he instructed Capt. criminals were transported to the Kow-tho Justices of the Peace, Mr Hennessy's Doane to apprehend as many of them as loon shore and there plotted plans to possible, not for the purpose of deporting the injury of the colony. In making the them again, but for the purpose of having remarke he did to introducing this subject, who would have to deal with them. Only but with a view of showing that he thought the other day he sent a minute to the Chief there was a discrepancy between the acts In the case of a man recommended for Mugh that had been said had dispelled that deportation, the Attorney General aald opinion. (Hear, hear.) He thought the "Banishment is the only thing you can do, change of system in the Police was one but even that will do no good; the man is altogether to be approved of; and if His Er. sare to return." He called attention to the cellency thought he preferred deportation fact that this man had at one time been and the punishment of crimetoite prevention sentenced to some years' penal servitude it was a great error. There was no more for committing burglary in this Colony, loyal supporter of law and order in the and after serving a short time he was let colony than he was, though he said it out in one of these batches. He was brought himself, and he was sure no palloy advocate before the Police Magistrates again in May, by him would have the effect His Ex. 1878, and convicted of having house. collency suggested of depreciating property, breaking, implements in his possession at diminishing population, or increasing crime prisonment, Instead of being sent before sanitary improvements as were required the Chief Justion to be dealt with as severely carried out, and that splendid balance as possible. All he bad to say to the hon which His Excellency referred to, and gentleman was this. He might rely upon which it was very satisfactory to know it that he had paid some attention to the exlated, he should spend, for assuredly for question of prison discipline and suppres- more than $20,000 would be gained by A short despatch was sent home later
alon of crime; this is one of the functions of having that money judiciously spent in im- after Mir Phillipdo had recognised that the
his office; he had been sent here to govern proving the Colony, bringing water, and who came with him hither, returned by the Magistrate had made a mistake and had
this Colony; be had some experience in providing other sanitary necessitica, His said that no doubt greater care would be
the government of Chinese, and he bellev-policy, if he had one, was not that of in- Powan this evening; their engagements at taken in future, having also read this H. E. the Chlef Justice from the Bench in deal-ed nothing would be worse, more disastrous terfering with the legitimate action of men, your port not permitting their longer 80 jours. By her, also, left our greatly. said he had no doubt greater care will being with some illegality in a deportation or cause more insecurity to life and property be they Chinese of Europeans, but be taken by the Magistrates in future. Bear case. Then, his Honour pointed out, these than to take the advice of the hon. gentle should like to see pursued a policy of firm
man and his absent colleague, Mr Low-ness, of perfect disinterested paulabment esteemed neighbor the Rev. Dr John Chalm- ing in mind, however, the exceptional and deportation Ordinances were passed in a severe code of laws in this colony for the season of pante, and sold," The deporta- cook. They were man of business and high when punishment is due, that there shoulders, LL.D., with his family, with the pur-I flogging, branding, and deportation of the tion law, must be construed with great position, well qualified no doubt to conduct be no lentenoy shown to criminals when Chinese, he would certainly not relax his caution." Could be neglect that advice, their own business; but in these matters, carrying out sentences; and when be alluded. Pose to reside in your city for a consider- own efforts to prevent any legal addition given from the Beach a for weeks after be touching the administration of law, he had to to some of the cases in which criminals have able paried. We believe that your com- More than that, consult those whose lives had been devoted been cast adrift on the colony be thought, as munity is conscious of the value of what it to the severity of that code. Now, he was arrived in the Colony?
Was he wrong, he thought now, there might have been devis- told, forsooth, that though this man had he pointed out-which really was a matter to their consideration. been illegally flogged, that though in the be (the Governor) was bound to consider therefore, when in august, 1878, he tooked-or devised, perhaps, was not the correct thus gains; but whether your appreciative opinion of the Magistrates he was a juve for other reasons-the political consequen- the respon ibility, the very grave respon-word- but that laws might have been pat sense thereof is adequate or not, we desire to nile offender and the deportation sentence ces of deportation pursued, as the hon.sibility, of instructing the Captain-Super in motion by which the men could have assure you that the Canton Community is was illegal, he should have acted on that gentleman (Mr Keswick) no doubt would intendent of Police to make such a serious been deported under a proper ayato, sensible of a great loss, and fain to find sentence, or have devised some means, wish to have it pursued in all ordinary ohange as to institute two-thirds night-duties (ear, bear from several hon. members.)
for the police instead of balf I Was he
The Chief Justice congratulated the some mitigation of it in the hope that it is after the full term of imprisonment had cases, had to be very gravely considered, been served, of punishing that man. All Hits Honour said What about our trea-wrong when he appointed a Committee to Council on the way in which this matter not permanent. he would say was he had very little doubt ties with the Empire some talk of deport consider the question of crime and police had been dealt with. That such questions what would be the opinion of those who ing ordinary criminals to ? If we take to de- and report to him? The Committes sald should be raised was, he believed, the have already read these papers. They porting criminals are we acting in accord- great evils arose from the system of condi- healthiest thing that could happen in any were laid, by command of Her Majesty, ance with the treatles? Those national treational pardons, that it was better to make Colony or any State, when they were raised
THE BEST POLICY, before both Houses of Parliament; he was ties are reciprocal. The result may be that the men serve out their lawful sentences in the way in which the hou. member raised
Hongkong, 7th November, 1879, ready to abide by the verdict of those Houses, weshall give aground to the Chinese Govern and furthermore, the Secretary of State had this question. He did not catch a word
To the Editor of the "CHina Mail.” He came now to the case of Mok Akwai. ment to deport British subjects from China." said deportation should not be employed in which ought not to have been used in fair With regard to this despatch H. E. said: And His Honour made other remarks of ordinary cases but be regarded as an excep debate, and, on the other hand, Hia. Ex-
SIR, You will perhaps remember that, that he was not surprised to find that the great importance, all of which he ventured tional punishment. That Committee exa hon, gentleman had heard of it, for after to commend to Her Majesty's Government. mined the whole question, had the wit-cellency the Governor, though the subject in my letter to you of 30th May last, I this despatch was sent to Lord Caruarvon Was he justified, after that, in desling with messes and documents before them, and certainly in some respects touched him pretty warned your readers of the probable use to some months elapsed, and then his private deportation otherwise than as an excep- they arrived at the conclusion that the closely, had avoided any language stronger which His Excellency the Governor in The difference, after all, practice of deportation was not unduly than the cocasion should call for. (Hear.) tended to put Mr Marah's "little semi- secretary asked him if the answer had come tional mode?
questions that had been raised, except to nessy's speech at the Council yesterday in Chan Tin Lam's case, because, he said, s between the hon. gentleman and Mir Low relaxed during his administration. He did He would not hitaselt go into any of the official note to Mr. Lowcock. Mr Heu certain gentleman "has received a letter cock, and a few who agree with them, and not know that he could give the hon. gentle say that he believed that with regard to the fully confirms my anticipations, and for. But from a permanent official in the Colonial himself as Governor, was only this:-he said man any further explanation. Ofice, who was formerly in Hongkong, and that deportation should be regarded as an not to blame if the attention of the British question of the legality of deportation henishes a further illustration, if one were that gentleman says an answer is coming exceptional measure and should not be re- Parliament had been drawn by these was responsible; but it was his business, needed, of the absolute necessity that exists out in Chan Tin Lam's case in which Lord garded as an ordinary mode of punishment; papers to what had taken place in Hong-sitting as he did in court, to take care that, for the observance of the atm st caution Has said that the way he make these rascals
be punished according to law. And if he Executive.
Is to screw up their boad.py the tail Carnarvon differs with the Governor as to whereas he understand there were gentle kong. He was not a Visiting Justice, punish men how you will, they shall only in communicating with the Head of the It would have been just as easy for the whether the flogging was legal or not. men here who would wish to deport all He was not responsible for having passed could not punish them as he thought
despatch had come, nor Chinese prisoners. He would continue to by these irregularities. He had detected dlá it come until a subsequent mail." deal with it in the way in which he had some of them, and had endeavoured to they deserved, if he thought the law did not Governor to have submitted his Minute to Still I'm fery content for to stay where ska.
they must go unpunished. It was for the tructed Mr Marsh to write the "little semi- The hon. member thought the man had been dealing with it, which was in accordance check them. He had every confidence ho allow of it, he had only to regret it, and say Mr Lowcock for approval as to have ins been let out because he gave instructions on with the advice of the Chief Justice, his would receive the support of the Council, Council afterwards to say whether or not official note, upon which so much stress own opinion, and the instructions of Her and especially of the Chief Justice in his remedies should he devised for any insuffi- has boon laid; but there was this obvious a certain day that no prisoner arrested by the police for returning from deportation Majesty's Government. Bir Michael Hicks endeavour to have none but legal punish ciency of the law, though he did believe, on objection to the adoption of the former was to be prosecuted without his sanction. Beach, 9th July, wrote:-I concur with menta tuflicted and to suppress crime by the whol, the law pretty nearly provided and more straightforward course, that Mr. for every wrong a remedy. On this question Lowcock would at once have pulled down He explained why he gave these instruc- you in thinking this form of punishment preventing it by police, and to secure in
The Chief Justice would remember should be regarded as of an exceptional this colony that just admin latration of law he had certainly been annoyed to find that de- the house of cards, while the latter course
· flops. what took place in a prosecution in reference character and not to be employed in erdi- | which would do more than anything eles to
carry out what everyone here would like to portation in the way it had been carried out possessed the double advantage of conceal There was, further, some
was most illegal, and when it came before ing the existence of the Minute until the to which he represented the inconvenienos nary cases," of the Executive being placed, as it were, thing more n this question than the mere see the diminution of crime and the pro-him he did not hesitate to say so. He was time arrived for making it known, and In opposition to the Judicial Authorities, and fact that there have been illegal punish motion of that confidence which should
tion for his unwarrantable statement. he said:"Before a man is brought before ments, and an attempt, which has failed, exist between this community and the
affording His Excellency & plausible founda-
After all, Honesty is the best policy: me to be prosecuted for returning from to coeros a Governor into carrying ont Executivo.
Yours, deportation why not look into the matter illegal sentences, more than the advice of
The Acting Attorney General with regard
VINDEX. and see whether the sentence is legal 7" the Chief Justice or the resolutions of the Well, he noted on that advice. But he Executive Council, and this he had never to the Chan Tin Lam case said he was the took the advice of others besides the Chief disguised in this Connoil, that on the magistrate who had made the blander. Justice; he took the advice of his Executive manner of conducting deportation and deal. The sec. prescribed 20 lashes Council, who supported him by a resolu- ing with prisoners and the remission of sen- maximum punishment at one time be tion from which Mr Phillippo was the only tences would greatly depend the dinoipline ordered 24 lashes and omitted to add the ane dissenting. This man was prosecuted. of our geol and the suppression of crime. words dividing punishment into two parts. Mr Keswick had not seen that minute; he He had not been many days in the As a matter of fact prisoner only got 21 had not turned over the leaf. The history Colony when he learned from the Chief but on this he founded no excuse; he of this case was this. The last flogging the Justice that in the days of Sir Hercules only pointed out that fact as showing that man got was of this nature, Sir Arthur Robinson he knew, when he sentenced the mau had not been so very hardly dealt as to be the dura with beyond what the law sliowed. He (the Kennedy's warrant said "Let the ssid a prisoner, what Mok Akwal be discharged from custody and tion of that sentence, but that since then A. G, A.) did not think any injustice had prohibited from residing in the Colony for he had been no longer certain as to the been done to himself; but as this report Are years from the date hereof." That duration of the sentences he passed on had gone home to the Secretery of In spite, orminals. The Chief Justice might give State, he might say, with reference was on the 21st October. however, of that, the man was not dis- a desperate criminal nine years, and in the to the argument he had used, that of charged on the 21st October. He was kept days of Sir Haroules Robinson that mau course it was a defensive one. He was placed in custody until the 30th on which day he would have had to serve two-thirds of his on his defence, and he put this forward was flogged and deported. But more than time, After Sir Hercules Robinson left as a ground of extenuation. This point that, he was taken from the hospital to be another system was introduced, without the escaped the observation of the chief gaoler flogged, and his name is recorded in the knowledge or sanction of Her Majesty's and the clerk, who were really, he submit- alok list of that day. The hon. gentleman Government, whereby prisoners got a reted, the persons more likely to detect sa (Mr Keawick) was the Visiting Justice at mission of their senteness after serving only error or omission than anyone ehe. that time. Two other prisoners were ille-one-half. Nor did it stop there. During magistrate, having a large amount of bu gally flogged in April and July, 1876, and the absence of the Colonial Treasurer it was sinese to get through, made a hasty order the Visiting Justice, in August, 1876, who not even a question of half, but prisoners or informal note occasionally, and had to saw the records, if he did his duty pro- were being liberated who had served only trust very much to his chief clerk, who perly and looked at the books when he one-third; he held in his hand papers on the makes out the formal warrants. visited the prison, was the hon. gentleman subject, it was the first time the Chief was not go very odd it should have eg bimself. Twice only in that year, in April Justice had seen them. The first applica-caped him originally in making it, as It and August, did Mr Keswick act as Visit ton he got was in June, 1877, and on it was odd it escaped his Excellency, who ing Justice. Did he go through the books he found that the Chief Justice in his was going through the case very talent
If any illegal punishment minute, took up the very polot he and at first hand. He was much obliged to bad been inflicted; If he did he saw took up in his despatch to the Secre- His Excellency for having called attention the Russian Ambassador has been recalled has continued during the past fornight, but
Look no tary of State when he reported the 23 to the fact that he had discovered and did from London. the illegal punishment and notice of it But be presumed the prisonera liberated on one day. The Chief deserve some little credit for that-that Mr answer was that he did not. Now this Justice never being consulted about theas Tomlin had been flogging with the oat, but
LOCAL AND GENERAL. matter had been brought before Parliament cares, the men were let out after serving It was only right to mention that at the time and as in this little Parliament the ques one-third of their term of imprisonment, he produced an Executive order for that tion had been brought forward by the hon. This was immediately before his arrival. In being done, so that exonerated him to some THE P.M.S.S. City of Tokio same out of member in his communication, from Mr January, 1877, the recommendation was extent; this he (Mr Russell) thought he
the Cosmopolitan Dock to-day.. Lowcook, who had been communicating with made to let all these people be deported: did not mention at the time, some one in the Colonial Office, he thought in February the warrants were made out. it was due to Lord Lytton, the Viceroy of Here is one man, Ip Afook, for burglary the alightest censure, nor did he now. He India whose name was put in a minute by and larceny, had been sentenced to three believed his hon. friend did notice in his We are requested to state that the ad- Mr Philippo, that he should say this-that years; "character in gaol very bad. And minute. Tomlin's defence, He thought the dress, from the ftongkong community to Mr Phillippo was not justified, either by that man was liberated and deported, after credit for the exposure was due to his hon. Professor Nördensbid will lie for signs the etiquette of the profession to which he one year and three months. That man friend. s belonged, or the position he held here as his had been convicted of larceny in 1874, for diviser, or, what was of more importance, which he received four months, He was by the plain facts of the case, in making again convicted within a week of his release that official minute on the conduct of Lord from prison, and was again simply sentenced Lytton. He said, if the Governor ensured to six months' hard labour. Within two in any way the magistrates he would be months of his release be committed burglary much satisfaction. He explained that his THE Fohklen winter meeting is fixed for guilty of the blender committed by Lord and larceny and then he got three years objects in bringing forward these doon- the 15th, 16th and 17th of January, the tion, who had censured magistrate who And yet be got released amongst this lot of ments was to correct any misapprehensio three fast days of the week. There are had lightly punished & European mocused prisoners, released without the knowledge he might have had as to disrepancies be- of killing a naive. He did not censure the of the Chief Justice, and against the rules tween the way in which the cases had been some 20 events and a capital programme yanagistrates as the late Mr May knew, and Mr framed by Her Majesty's Government, dealt with and the statement of His Ex provided. Entries close on the 27th Do
His Excel Busall know full well they never received These were men who almost immediately callenoy at the last meeting. any approach to connure, Nor in that case returned to the colony and in ble despatches lency appeared to consider that his Me Kar saber at noon,
Be cald no
and see
Mr Keswick: Hear, hear.
B5 the
.It
The Governor said he had never passed
matter was dealt with now. He did not say perfectly satisfied with the way in which the there were not exceptional cases, but he must say there was no exceptional case that came before the Governor on which the Go- vernor did not do him the honour to ask the
opinion of the Court. But it was no part of the business of the Judge to give advice,
COMMERCIAL.
Nov. 7. though he might do so if asked. As one of
The early part of the closing fortnight the best Judges he knew, a Melbourne Judge, said, It was not the place of the Judi- has been characterised with an extremely eial Department to pass an opinion upon the quiet market for Bengal Opium; the low asked what reasons there were why mercy the native dealers to operate. Since the re- acts of the Executive. A judge might be stock of New Patoa giving no incentive to should not be shown, where there were rea- ceipt of the month's supply, however, sons presented why mercy should be shown. business has been done in the drug, He was sure His Excellency would always Benares also has been dealt in to a fair ex find him ready to give advice to the Execu- tent, and considering its large stock the tivo in such cases.
Council adjourned.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
[SUPPLIED TO THE “CHINA MAIL."] (Per E. E. A. & C. Telegraph Co's Line.)
dance,
WAS,
For her peat's in the Crescents you see, And Isays, Angus, yes too, and also becass,
They may go to Hong-Kong for me, But I'll tuko deoch an doruis wi' all Inda
that go,
And I'll see them awa' from our shore,
And Fll tell them to write when they land
safe-shost so, Oiche bha lat,* I'm yours,
TUGAL MHOR.
"Oiche bha lat"-pronounced Op-ke va lat
"Good night with you."
Quotations, Boxoxoxe, November 7. OPIUM-N»« Patna, cash,...$555
Old
cash,.... 530
Now Benares, cash, 505
Allowance Tools,
Allowance Tacle,
71
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cash,
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New Malwa, ozedit, 716
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fair
Old Malws, credit, 770
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rate for it has been pretty well maintained so far. The rates of the day are $555 to $656t for Patna, and $605 to $5063 for Benares. The receipts for the month, so far, aggregate 3,698 chests, against 3,634 chests to the corresponding date last year. During the interval some chests have passed into the hands of the local consumers, against 750 chests same time last year. This, with the exportations, leaves the available supply computed at 2,640 obests, against 6,100 chests same time last year. Of this last quantity 1,200 chests Benares, of which kind the present stock comprises a similar quantity.
LONDON, NOV. 5. Great excitement prevails in Stamboul in consequence of the action taken by the The Turkish Am. British Government. bassader has asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for explanations and 8th, says:
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Mr Keswick said it was a sonroe of great tare at the City Hall to-morrow, for a short satisfaction to him that he had brought time previous to is presentation, at thres forward this subject to-day; it had enabled His Excelleney to make certain statements which he was sure would be received with
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MESSES HEINEMANN & Co.'s Freight Oir- cular for the Mail of Saturday, November A brisk demand for tonnage homewards coantwise inquiry has been very limited and freights generally remain unaltereți,
Homewards, the latest favourable advices from the Philippines combined with the great scarcity of tonnage in port has asused freights to improve considerably, and a
falx demand éxists for vessels to load there either for the States or the United King- dom. Suitable vessels are still required. from Canton waters or this poit to Landon, Coastwise, very little in doing and vessels Hamburg New York, and rates are higher. and difficulty in getting profitable employ ment, walle for steamers there is also but a very limited demand.
The Charter of French barque Ernest, 590 tons, reported in last Circular, has been cancelled, the vessel will be sold,
The following vessels left "seeking": The German barque Louis Scheller, 408 tons, for Bangkok.
The German barque Peihe, 251 tons, for Bangkok.
The disengaged tonnage in port amounta to 10 vassals, registering: 7,042 tons, ateam orą not included.
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Hongkong Bank, 58 % prem. Union Ins. Society of C'ton, $1,550, sales. Chlos Tradoza' Ins. Co., $1,325, sales, North China Ins. Co., Tis. 1,125, buyers. Yangtaze Ins. Assoc., Tix. 725, buyers. Chinese Insurance Co., $300, sales, H.K. Fire Ins. Co., $800, sales, -China Fire Ins. Co., $205, buyers
H. K. & W, Dook Co., 14 % prem. H.K. C. M. S.-boat Co., $11 prem, asles. Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tls. 11 China Coast St. Nav. Co., Tla. 95 Hongkong Gas Co., $70 Hongkong Hotel Co., $66, sales. Obins Sugar Refining Co., $150. Chinese Imperial Loan of 1874, nominal.
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