THE CHINA MAIL.
THE “DOUBLE ACROSTICS FOR THE | LORD CARNARVON'S VIEWS ON MR.planation which you furnished resposting 16. As regards the physical effects of a
SERVICES."
POPE HENNESSY'S POLICY.
the nature of the arrests in September and October 1876 and that supplied by Mr Deane's Annual Report, paragraph 4, these figures appear to me not to be abnormal if compared with the minor offences in any of the remaining six years of the decade. 1 also learn from Mr Deane's present Report that in the five years since 1871 the practice dianey and of strest ories in these returns, has obtained of including cases of men. and that these two items represent 566 of the 5,061 cases roturned for 1876.
10. I have gone with some minuteness whether crime has been in fact increasing, as yon apprehend, in a steady and dan- gerous ratio" (to quote your own words to the Chief Justice), and whether. If so, the increase is attributable, as I understand you to imply, to the alleged vicious nature of the penal system of the Colony. Taking SIR, I have the honor to acknowledge fieve that the facts, so far as they are be- everything into account I am glad to be the receipt of the despatokes of the numbers fore me, do not appear to warrant se grave and dates noted below, (a) which you have
a conclusion, nor do I see, from the cir- addressed to me upon a variety topics connected with the penal system of Hong-stances and figures stated, ground for thinking that serious crime, or indeed crime in general, was becoming unusually fre.
The "Doablo Acrostics for the Services" aro In the debate on Deportation and Flog- distinguished by the two principal words ging which took place in the Legislative being connected with the Naval and Military Council on the 6th ultimo, H. E. the Gov. professions; anch for example as "Sword," *Marling-pike," "Platoon," &o. No such ernor made reference to a despatch he had restriction applies to the lights. All solutions should be seat to EDITOR, China received from Lord Carnarvon. Mr Hen
Mail Office, by noon, on the Friday fol- nosay could not be expected to publish that Low top cost is on the surge document in the Government Gazette, lowing the
publication of any one Acrostic, Any arriving subsequently will not be we make room for it in our columus, on the entertained.
A premium of $10 will be given to the person/Principle that it is only fair to bear both into these figures in order to satisfy myself |
giving the greatest number of correct solu-aldos of an argument. No one can accuse tions by Now Year's day, Every Saturday a new Acrostic will be given, tegether with the solution of the one of the previous week. The successful names will also be published.
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Mr Hennessy of failing to put his own peculiar views in his own peculiar way. This is what Lord Carnarvon "thinks, with the whole case before him :-
kong.
Downing Street, Jad. 3, 1878.
quent in 1876.
E-I have no desire to underrate the the prosecution of any administrative re- energy with which you apply yourself to form in which you are engaged; but you will on reflection, I think, agree with me that in undertaking and initiating changes,
flogging with the cat, I felt from the first considerable difficulty in accepting as con- clusive the views of Dr Ayres as reported in your Despatch of the 22nd of Au.ust, (d) and its enclosures. I have read his report to you of the 23rd of June transmitted in your Despatch of the 6th of July, (e) in which he states that Ana Fuand Nua Mau Blogging when the condition of their backs, were convalescent for receiving their second as reported by you, indicates that they were then by no means in a fit stato to ro- selve further corporal punishment.
17. I have also read his letter dated the 6th of July inclosed in your Despatch, No. 98 (d), in which he refers to his last annual report and gives the reasons which he says induced him to recommend in that report that the flogging of prisoners should be carried out as in India. I have referred to that report, and and only the following Rogging Act is not in fores the same as in passage "It appears to me a pity that the India. I think less harm is done to the prisoner by a good caning than by starva- tion for 7, 14, or 21 days, as the case may be, ou rice and water, which in many cance I think a It is impossible to carry out. caning would be more effectual in preventing the return of prisoners to gaol; anyhow it their numbers if such an Act applied to would make a considerable reduction in petty thefts, &c."
6th of July, Dr Ayres has noticed in all 18. If, as he states In his letter of the
[No. 5122-DECEMBER 6, 1879,
servitude seam not to have comprised flogging, or anything out of the ordinary course. Tho punishments for the prison offeness appear to have been double trons or three days rice and water, this last on twelve occasions in twe ve years bet roen 4th January 1865 and 11th April 1877, the intervals varying considerably, and only onoo, in 1868, being less than three months, for a fresh offence; it also appears that on except that in 1865 a fourth day was added three occasions he was sentenced to three days solitary confinement. It is not suggested that his illness was caused by a certain caning he received with a ratten for a foul offence in 1876, and there le apparently nothing to connect his illness with the two foggings administered with the cat, 24 lashes on the 14th January 1867 and 50 lashes on the 29th July 1874.
28. I presume that the Gaol Regulations enclosed in your Despatch of the 6th of tion, were duly carried out by the proper July, (A) with reference to medical examina officers (Dr. Ayres himself 1 conclude on the second occasion), and that they did not report as fit for corporal punishment a man who was known to be suffering from Jung disease. If the prisoner was examined and found free from disease in July 1874, it should have bees explained at what date able. it first appeared and when it became inour-
COMMERCIAL. MESSES DEACON & Co.'s Canton Market Report, dated Canton, 4th Dec., says
During the past two weeks, a very quiet tone has prevailed in our Tea market, and only small settlements have resulted.
Congous.The demand for there teas both here and at Macso has slackened; Datives, having paid high prices in the buyers are holding off for lower rates, but country for the leaf, are disinclined to make any great concession.
Scented Tea-The transactions noted below were all made in the first week of the fortnights latterly, no inclination has been shown to be interested in the inferior stock now offering, and unless much lower raten are accepted, than are at present asked, further settlements during the season are. likely to be very Insignificant. Stooka of all kinds are now very much reduced, and quotations, former prices having been pald exhausted. There is no change to make in the supply of asenting flower is well-nigh
for the few settlements reported.
The following is a summary of the fort- night's business 2-**
Congou, 200 boxes at Tle. 25 a 32 per pleul; Scented Caper, 3,700 boxes at Tla 780 boxes at Tls. 10) # 28 per pioul. 18 a 26 per picul; Scented Orange Pekoe,
2. The receipt of a large number of separate despatches dealing, not always finally or in any distinctly explained con- nection, with different portions of a subject or with isolated cases, is, I am compelled to say, embarrassing, and leaves me in doubt how far, at any moment, I have your views completely before me, I need not however delay to intimate to you that while especially in a place and under circum- flogging of Chinese by the cat that they its earlier stages, and it such be the case, Pekoe 9,781 lbs., total 112,616 lbs. ; 22, S. I appreciate the activity with which you have addressed yourself to a subject which as you have long been aware I doom most important, I am not, as at presont advised, prepared to accept all your conclusions, or to believe that the action taken by you
sustained.
and Jill" are both incorreot in one light only, without reference to me cau in all cases be actual mistakes, as to the nature of the the lungs in Chinese, I should wish to be originated.
the 6th and 10th respectively. It is always safest to adhere closely to the literal meaning,
VIII.
Though that my bulk necessity decides (As she in trath compels all else besides), Yet my employment now is much the same Since Mars of old commenced war's horrid
game. With pliant move I round the hostile fos My sinuous arms with bristling terrors throw, Or when rebuffed, back on my fellow shrink,
With him to "do or die" on Ruin's briak. More glad I float 'neath azure blue sereno, Lying entranced at every passing scene, Haply the wondrous song my lullaby Of love-sick lark quick mounting to the sky. Not ever thus, for on the vessel's wake Oftimes mid flying surf my way I take; Nor from the mountain orag, the desert
plain,
Where'er my path may be, do I refrain.
Like as our first may be of varied size Bo must our form be true to human eyes, Exact and uniform in each detail If o'er thy for thou trustest to prevail. . No laxity in martial things can pay, The strictest warrior surest wins the day. Acquaintance have we made with all that
move,
Or breathe, or die, or feel the joys of love;
stances which are new and unfamiliar, a suffer, besides the external injury to the governor will do wisely to secure the co-skin, wore or less from congestion of the operation of those who, from long ex lungs, and if, as you report in the Despatch, periance, are competent to land valuable he has invariably observed by the breath- aesistance, and thus to avoid undesirable ing and tho pulse and frequently by the conflict with individuals, no less than stethoscope the prosence of congestion of reforms which are expedient or practicable, informed whether he has ever during bis should have addressed myself with more facts to the notice of the Government, and For this reason I wil frankly say that I previous years of service brought there confidence to the consideration of the if not you will desire him to explata why other points raised in the despatches under he has not done so. I should wish also acknowledgment if I had perceived that to be furnished with coples of some of the notices, if there are any, in the case book or other hospital book in which his observa tions are recorded. In the absence of such
boration,
Export of the various descriptions of Tess shipped from Canton Waters, (long-
71,777 lbs., S. Capor 31.058 lbs., S. 0. kong, Canton and Macao) to Great Britain: to date-Nov. 15, 8. 8. Benledi, Congou
S Stentor, Congou 287,747 lbs, 8. Caper 105,386 lbs., 5. O. Fekos 46,812 lbs, Sorts 70.445 lbs., total 510,390 lbs; 22, Kashgar, Congot 142,805 lbs., S. Caper 95,580 S. O. 25, S. S. Radnorshire, Congou 206,387 Iba., Pekoe lbs., 85,065 16r., total 323,450 lbs; S. Caper 170.327 lbs, S. O. Pekoe 113,119
S. O. Pekos 140,048 lbs., total 729,046 lbs. Ibs, total 487 833 Ibs.; 26, S. S. Gleneagles, Congon 280,178 lbs., S. Caper 308,820 lbs.,
20. It would appear, however, that detected by medical examination in any of Wong-a Kwai's phthiele had not been
he must, it would seem, either have been examined before his floggings, and have been passed as medically fit for the punish ment, or have not been examined, and in that case there is nothing to show when, bow, or from what causes the disease 30. The number of floggings for 1876-7, of July, (2) appear to be exceedingly high, reported in your Despatch of the 18th but you give me no information as to how many were inflicted with the cat, and of making, with previous shipments, a total those how many in public, nor as to the for the season of 18,733 645 lbs; against number of juvenile offenders included in 19,606,220 lbs., for season 1878-79.
SILE.In the early part of the fortnight I observe, the Magistrates' sentences, however, that, except in two cases of 20 only a small business was transsoted, but latterly, owing to the receipt (per telegram) Magistrates' sentences were ordinarily for not more than 10 or 12 strokes, frequently for less, so that the punishments seem not to have been sovare, and as your Despatch contains no report or explanation from the Mazistrates as to the necessity for the infliction of such frequent corporal punish ment, I am not in a position to express any bear the opinions I have asked for as to
3. The coualderation which I have as yet been able to give to the numerous de spatches, which you have addressed to me on this subject, viewed in connection with the opinions and acts of your predecessors as well as of my own in this office, does not your opinion were formed after consulta lead me to anticipate that I shall be justified tion with the Executive Council whose in Banctioning the reversal or material special province it is to bring to tho as alterasion of the penal system now in force Bistance. of the Governor the experience information his statement requires corro-strokes, two of 18, and two of 15, the of advices giving a more hopeful account of
in Hongkong, which, notwithstanding some defecta, as to the immediate removal of which there can be no question, has, as I have understood during a considerable period, been generally effective in securing the public peace and personal security.
4. The information previously received in this department bad not prepared me for
Colony. in which everything must at first acquired by their longer residence in a
be strange to him; but, so far as I can gather from the papers, the opinions which you express are entirely your own, except in so far as they are supported by the medical opinion of the Colonial Surgeon.
12. I entertain the most anxious desire
menta which may be proved to be injurious punishments, and especially any pusish-
19. I request you to have the prisoners Yeung Aman, who on the 27th of No- vember 1876, received a third flogging of 20 lashes within six months, and Leong Alot who underwent a similar punishment upon the 15th March 1877, to be examined by the two most competent medical men
their report without delay. I should be Service, and that you will forward to me
your observations as to the increase. of /to abolish, as far as possible, all brutalizing | obtainable unconnected with the Colonial opinion upon this subject, and I. wait to reduced to 1,500 to 1,800 bales, and further
rison.
the London market, there has been a briske demand for almost all grader of Testies reefs at advanced rates. Holders are now asking prices which are likely to preclude further encouraging news from the other business being done unless we have still affe. Settlements are estimated at about 950 bales. The stock in Canton has become the results that will have followed on the arrivals from the country are expected to discontinuance of all public flogging. I be on a small scale. : deportation, I see no reason at present for
31. With reference to the question of 60 plouls of the usual kinds.
Long-reels have been taken to extent of
Re-reels have been in fair request. Con- regards the expatriation of mendicants. and Lucklow; Enest thread is very scarce, tracts are put at 780 boxes of Cumobuck It is impossible that the Colony should be Kwang Tung Province, and the best method a $580 per pioul; other grades show an allowed to become a vast almshouse for the and best Lucklow is nominally worth $570 of disposing of the hundreds of mendicants advance of $15 per picul. who appear to come over every year is to Tastles, 60 bales Kowkong, 100 bales Stock is computed at 1,500 a 1,800 bales
your complaints of the method in which they come. 1 am, however, afraid that of norio the law has been administered are, in some Export of Silk-Export to date:-To Lon don, 4,651 bales; to Cortinent, 6,677 bales;
aerious crime in the Colony, and as your statements refer to the past three years to the health of the criminale, but I cannot glad if one of these gentlemen could be the only, 1 have thought it desirable to ex amine with cure the tabular comparison of fogging as a punishment for Chinese ori-ships or the head of the Naval Hospital or bat feel that the gon-ral discontinuance of Chief Surgeon of one of Her Majesty's the police returns of crime during the minals of certain classes is a question of the Principal Medical officer of the garany altoration of the law, especially as longer period of ten years upon which your extreme difioulty which should be very statements rest, and which is contained in calmly and patiently examined. The barba 20. Ifurther wish to be informed whether your despatch of the 22nd of August (6).
I have also desired Mr Deane, the Super- and no flogging inflicted in Hongkong is Colony who has at any time acted as Colo- rity of Chinese punishments is notorious, there is any other medical man in the intendent of Police, who is in England, to able to compare with them in severity. It is zial Surgeon, and if so, whether he con- furnish me with a report upon the subject, the knowledge of this fact, and theadmitted curs in Dr Ayres' opinion. It is I confess of which I transmit a copy.
5. In my despatch of the 22nd of danger of attracting criminals from the surprising to me that if the effect of the oat Lond. them back to the mainland from which Camobuck & Lucklow, and about 200 bales August (0) 1 intimated that with tho in comparative leniency, that has led to the have escaped the notice of previous Colo- Province of Kwangtung by a system of upon Chinese is such an is stated it should formation which you had laid before me it establishment in Hongkong of a peual sys-nial Surgeons, and I regret that you have seemed to me that in the absence of any
Our mannera painful and our ways a thrall, other apparent cause your predecessor had tem different from that adopted in other not obtained other medical testimony to instances, well founded, and 'I shall be glad to America, 5,596 boxes; to Bombay, 1,878 good reason for connecting the marked and parts of Her Majesty's dominions. The throw light upon so startling a disclosure. to learn that you have devised some means picule; total, 10,328 bales; and 5,596 box08; simultaneous rise of the number of pri. Volony under your government has been I feel satisfied that every medical man in of dealing with these cases which, without 1,878 picula. Uf Waste, 5,840 bales, and
Yet are we forced by mankind upon all.
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The briefest epitaph for you and me, A synonyms for half eternity.
If you're in for a horse-race
Or other such match, And with this thing have dealings, 'T would be wiser to scratch.
3.
More often unpleasant than not, My meaning most simple and plain, Yet with many it falls to my lot
To be doubted again and again.
4.
It and the like more misery bebold
Than eye hath seen or tongue of mankind
told.›
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One poot, years agone, did lift the veil, And from its squalid confines caine a wall That whilst we mortale draw our fleeting Will tell it's direful talo of living death.
breath
TOXICK.
Evar made by the Handjabove—
A woman's heart and a woman's life
And a woman's-wonderful love?
As a child might ask for a toy?
With the reckless dash of a boy. You have written my lesson of duty out, Mian-like you have questioned me-- Now stand at the bar of my woman'e son!
Until I shall question thee,
bot,
whole;
stars,
And pure as heaven your soul.
soners in gaol with the influx of Chinese by cheap steamers from Cantou.
I now lears, from your Despatch of the 11th October, (b) that Sir Arthur Kennedy probed the question more deeply, and col- lected statistics which you eaclose, and which hardly have the effect of supporting your view of the case. It asema that the increase in the number of prisoners has been due to increased activity by the police against offenders guilty of small police offences, such as mondicants, hawkers, &c., but it would appear scarcely consistent to speak of the result as indicating a serious increase of crime.
6. It is true that the crimes classed as serious were more numerous in 1876 than in any other year of the ten, but only by two as compared with 1871, and by twenty-seven as compared with 1867, the figures being
1876.
1,480
1867.
1,458
1871.
1,483-
regarded bitherto in this office es ace per se to be dealt with on principles which might not be sanctioned elsewhere. The the express object of providing for the existing laws were indeed introduced with Colony a security for person and property which was wanting previously, and what ever the actual cause, it is not denied that that security has, since those laws were passed, been obtained.
13. I am, however, reluctant to believe that this state of security depends upon the greater or less publicity with which cor- I am by no means opposed to the use of poral punishment le administered. Whilst
with the dus safeguards, and when applied corporal punishment within proper limite, to particular offences, I personally enter tain a strous opinion that the practice of fogging prisoners in public cannot be useful and may easily become demoraliz ing. I am satisfied that this is the case in civilised, and I believe that it is likely to be so in partially civilised communities, living, It may be under peculiar customs,
Her Majesty a service or practising in the Colony would have been ready at your request to assist in establishing the truth importance, whether regarded from the or otherwise of a theory which is of cxtreme point of view of ordinary humanity, of medical science, or of penal discipline.
21. In pursuance of this view and in order that the question may be thoroughly examined, I request you to obtain for me the report of a Board as to the prevalence or otherwise of pulmonary Complaints among the prisoners generally, and upon upon Chinese offenders in good health, and the physical effect of a fligging with a cat
aid of any mediosi officer of rank in it will be satisfactory if you can obtain the
Her Majesty's Naval or Military Servico in the prosecution of euch inquiry,
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weakening the force of these necessary enactments, will be free from all similar objections in future. under which, as you will remember, a 32. As a regarda Ordinance No. 4 of 1872, brand can be put apon such convicts ass may voluntarily petition the Governor to be released upon that condition, and on a promise to leave the Colony, undertaking if they return to submit to be punished as the law directs, I shall be prepared on hearing that you have consulied your Council upon the subject and have found a consider the advisability of its adoption. remedy which can be recommended, to
33. There remains the question of dealing with old offenders, and it seems to me, upon the materials before me, that the gaol has not been made aufficiently deterrent to them. for me to learn the effect of your directions But there has not yet been time
to the Magistrates to sond cases, of largзny to the Supreme Court if the offender had been previously convicted.
This practios will cause much additional
22, I was able to submit Dr Ayres' letter of the 6th of July and your Despatch closing it to the Indian Medical Board under the Presidency of Sir Joseph Fayrer, K.U.S.I., and I requested them to favour predisposition of Chinese to affections of the labour for the Supreme Court in cases of me with their opinion as to the probable
lungs if logged on the back with the cat,simple laresny, and, I fear, may greatly and in reply I was informed that the inconvenience the jurors, and I shall wait to Board are unanimously of opinion that learn how far it has produced the results there is nothing, so far as they know, iu
you anticipate before i express an approval the physique of the healthy Chinese of your action. I am disposed, indeed, to which shonid predispose them to affections doubt whether this course will be altogether of the lungs after flagging with the cat successful. It is, I am inclined to think, nationalities; and speaking from proba- should be sought. more than Europeans or men of other inside the gaol walls that an amendment Lility they consider such a state of things vory unlikely."
23 Having been thus advised, it is ne- cessary that I should reserve my opinion requested and the report of the Board, of until I have received the proofs I have which it will be as well that De Ayres should not be a member, as he will be one of the principal witnesses before it, wong a Kwai, which in the table of con
24. I have now to refer to the case of tents to the printed correspondence on
Pierced Cocoons, 2,064 balss for Europe,
Warts.No. 2 Gum is still wanted;
not obtainable. Settlements of No. 2, 300 and $90 per pioul is now asked. No. 1 is there have been purchases at $88 per picul,
to 400 baler.
Taatloo.....
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13
QUOTATIONS.
.....Cario,£$180 ..No. 1, $460 ****** 2440
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8. $480 ********** 4, $416 Cumchuck Lucklow, -$430 Re-resled Cumchuck":
Best $580 and Lucklow (
For
No. 1, $525,
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31
很
» 2, $605
3, $485
No. 1, Nove,
Waste Silk,
mm 2, $ 90 Cocoons. Pierced....... 1. $.90
SETTLEMENTS FOR THE FORTNIGHT.
1870-80.
1878-79.
Europe, 950 bls.
400 blo.
United States,
450 bx1.
&o, Re-reels... 780 bxe Bombay,... 60 pls. 50 b. 60 pl. 60 b. Leting is quoted at $10.45 in mate, and DRUOS AND SPICES.-Cassia Lignea: $10.70 in boxes; Tai Wo, $10.55 in male, and $10.80 in boxes. Sales; 500 greats, Stock; of Loting 1,000 picula; of Tat per ploul Camphor, $20.00 a $21.00 per Wo, 1,000 piculs, Alum, $1.65 a $1.75 pieni, packed.
34. I must now say in conclusion that it is with regret that I have felt obliged in this Dispatch to qualify the approval which SUNDRIES.Fire Crackers, 73 a 78 cents I should have been glad to convey to you par box for Gowqua's No. 1 gold chop. with which you have applied yourself to Fine contrast, White 4/4, 12 cents, 5/4, 14 unreservedly. I fully recognize the zest Vermilion, $32.50$83.60 per box. Matting, very important class of subjects, but I conts, 6/4, 163 cents per yard; Red Check, should find myself better able to support 4/4, 13) cents, 6/4, 15 cente, 6/4, 18 you in any ap oific measures of reform if I cents; Double Extra Imperial, white 4/4, upon which you desire me to take action Red Check, 4/4, 16h cerita, 5/4, 19 cents, could feel satisfied that the information 15 cents, 5/4, 17 cents, 6/4, 204 cents, had been fully weighed and tested by you 6/4, 22 cents, por yard. Cargo Ginger,
IMPORTS.
and I should have supposed it to be posve influence of peculiar feelings and sible that the figures might decrease again in 1877 from similar causes, doubtless no traditions, and as the question of its con cidental, to those which led to similar de. tinuance at Hongkong is now fairly raised, crease in the years between 1867 and 1871 I have no hesitation in expressing my A WOMAN'S QUESTION, -
and between 1871 and 1876. I observe in objection to the practice, and I shall be Do you know that you have asked for the deed from your speech transmitted in your slad if it can be eventually given up.
costliest thing
Despatch No. 122 of 22nd September, that 14. Tam at this moment engaged in con. on the 17th September the numbers in gaolsidering this question in connection with were 382 as against 430 at the correspond- all the Crown Colonies, and 1 do not ing date of 1876, and you report in your therefore, desire you at present to make later despatches that the diminution had any alteration in the law by amending say Do you know that you have asked for this continued throughout the month of Sep-ordinance under which public dogging is
pricoless thing
tember and the early part of October. inflicted. I feel satisfied that the fore-
The decrease is highly satisfactory as going expression of say views will be suffi Demanding what others have died to win, tending to negative any inference of serious cient to faduco the judges and the agis danger to the Colony which might have tratea to refrain from sentencing offenders boen drawn from the figures of 1870. to be publicly whipped pending my con. 7. I have enquired now far the state of sideration of the object, but in addition to the population in different years might the information which will be asked for bear upon this question, and I find that by shortly in a circular despatch, I shall wish admitting that important factor to the to be furnished at the end of June 1878 You require your mutton ishall always bo calculation the number for 1876 is hown with reponist of polion, the not to be relatively the largest of the ten and chief me Your socks and your shirts shall be years. For instanco, in 1872 the population whether the discontinuance of publio Rog. of the 22ad of September, you describe as a Legislative Councils, whose local knowledge | $4.25; Young Stem, $6.00 per case of 6
was 121,000 and the number of serious ging has been followed by any increase of case of incurable lung disease produced and experience are no less necessary to a jara Boy: $140 per pioul 1 require your heart to be true as God's crimes 1,394, or 1 to every 86 persons in the crimes for which it has hitherto been by flogging."
Secretary of State when he is called apon 25. I learn from the Despatch that on to consider the expediency of important 199,000 and the number of serious crimes fident that I esu rely upon the judicial one of your visits to the gaol Dr Ayres | changes, than that. zeal and ability for and the only esle reported is 800 pínuls Hongkong. In 1876 the population was inflicted. In the meanwhile, I am con-
LEAD. There has been little enquiry, 1,485, giving the proportion of 1 to every officers of the Colony for their ready co
reported verbally to you that the prisonor which I am now, as previously, very ready Richmond at $6.60 per piani. Quota 93 pemons.
operation with me in the manner which
was labouring under an incurable pulmon- to give you credit. 8. For the character of those crimes have now indicated.
ary disease; that he frequently suffered
I have, da
tions are nominally for mixed brands $6:50 from hoemorrhage of the lungs, and that which are classified as serious, I referred to My attention has been drawn to the ob.
(Signed) ΟΑΕΝΔΕΤΟΝ.
a 6.00, L. B. $6.65 a $6.70. W. B. and this was owing to the way in which he had the report of the Superintendent of Police, servations of the Chief Justice as reported been flogged. You naturally called for a A seamatross you're wanting for stocking and I find that the actual increase over in the China Mail of the 11th of October, written report on the case, and in this
Holé Uhop $6.75 4 $6.80 per picul, and skirts,
(4) No. 1
(1) No. 4.
QUICKSILVEE, has advanced to $59 per picul 1875 was due to 11 more cases of highway when passing sentence upop two crimina a robbery and 121 more larcenies than in the convicted separately of highway robbery,
INTELLIGENOS from Siberia (says the preceding year.
accompanied in each case withi gross personal this man had no phthisical history, and that Examiner) states that several prominout steamer, is £2:19 a £8 19 sud per siling But it appears that of the 24 highway. violence.
his personal physique does not at all correofficiala at Vladivostock are on the point of vessel, 47/6 a 63 per ton of forty and fifty robberies reported, two were not substan The very rare occasions (once in 1875, tiated and sight were comparatively twice in 1876, twice in 1877) upon which of pond with that of a man suffering from bringing out a daily paper, to be called the cabis fest, respectively, trifling; I have not the means of judging late years the Supreme Court has had oc generally admitted by officers of the gaol possible subscribers in Vladivostock ateamer, is £2.17/6 a £4.97, and por sailing
hereditary phthisia; besides that it is Vladivostock Vianik.
The rate of Freight to New York, per how far the larconies were important or of ession to exercise its powers make it only ho knew him when he first entered that being only 100, the Government has vessel, 35 to 38/6 per ton of 40 en bic tests a irivial nature, and I now learn from Mr probable that the powers have not been Deane that the piracies were 5 in each year, strained or abused, while the case of Lan he was then of very powerful build for his promised to assist the proprietors with a LOADING AND ON THE BERTH,At Wham- po-For London. Jessie McDonald, against 3 in 1875, but that there was a necessary. The audacity of the crime and state of health is entirely owing to the the English he has acquired, displays the that there were 4 murders in 1876 as a Teun indicates that stringent laws are still s129, and that bis present broken-down small subsidy.
A HINDOO baker in Caleatto, proud of Ebenezer, dimination on each of the five remaining the possibility of such a highway robbery punishments he received years ago
26. I do not perceive any statement of ign "European Loafer over his door. and wounding occurring in daylight in the prisoner's age or of his occupation natural anti-fat spring near that town. An 9. It is true as you state that in the five frequented thoroughfare of the city mag before he came into the gaol in 1862, but the nose man drinks the water for a few weeks, THE Anaheim Gazelle has a yarn about a years 1872 to 1876 the annual number of serve to show that occasionally, at least, prison record in your Despatch of the 18th offeness of all kinds had increased to 7,124 the law is required to deal with no ordinary July (g) shown him to have committed nu- and weighs fifty or sixty pounds less. It is as against 5,718 in the preceding period of oriminale five years, but this result would appear to The list of crimes also for which the merous crimes of violence, two escapes, and probably a lye. be referable to the fact that the minor maginitates may inflict a whipping under offences for 1872 amounted to 8,958, and Ordinance 18 of 1875 is so peculiar that I am in 1873 to 6,164, as compared with 4,086 invertaluly not prepared to go further and
You require a cook for your mutton and
beef;
I require a far better thing;
I look for a man and a king.
A king for a beautiful realm called home,
And a man that the maker, God,
Shall look upon as he did the first,
And say "It is very good."
Iata fair and young, but the rose will fade
From my soft, young cheek one day, Will you love me then, 'mid the falling
leaves,
As you did 'mid the bloom of May?
Is your heart an ocean so strong and deep
I may launch my all on its fide ?
A loving woman finde heaven or hell
“On the day she is made a bride.
I require all things that are good and trus,
All things that a man should be;
If you give this all, I would stake my life
*** To be all you demand of me,
If you cannot do this—a laundress and cook
You can hire, with little to pay i
But a woman's heart and a woman's life
Are not to be won that way. Ellasbeth Barrett Browning
heads classified as serious crimes.
(2) Nos, 1, 2, 8, 4, 6, 6, 7, and 8.
| 1875 and 6,081 in 1876. With the exauthorise the discontinuance of all corporal punishment, nor do I find myself iu a posi- tion to express definito approval of the, adoption of the rattan sa the only instea ment of punishment,
Not printed,
No. 7.
Ayres states that as far as he can sscertalu written report, dated the 6th of July," Dr
..
The number of
that be should have been an inmate of the sexton: This would be a lovely day furs a foul offence, so that it is not surprising REGRETFUL remark of a Massachusetts
his lat of panishments for prison offences gaul almost incessantly since 1862, or that berrien of there war anybody to be ber-
ried.
Joan Billings says: "Cider may be a good should be a long one summe
temperance drink, but I can manage to get so drank on it that I kant tall one dy the 10 commandments from a by-law of a base-ball
27. His criminal sentences of penal
(d) No.
No. 1
SHIPPING
The rate of Freight to London, per
For New York-Endymion, Oberon un
of Inia, Flensborg, Glenfalloch, att... At tiongkong. For London. Atalanta,
Fatrocius, str., Prince Frederick, Chinamas. str., Clara Babuyan, Achilles, str., Quezon
For New York.-Emerald Isle, City of Boston, Scindia, str., Blestra str., Iphigenia, Hieronymus, R. M. Hayward, Garimorni
DEPARTURES,From Whampoa-For- London None Poetry
For New York--None, From Hongkong-For London-200 woomba, Stentor, ait, Radnorshire, Tas Les, Giannagles, sir,
For New York, G'amor