No. 5127.-DECEMBER 12, 1879.]
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. (SUPPLIED TO TAS. CHINA MAIL"]
SUPREME COURT. IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. *
(Per E. EA 0. Telegraph Co.'s Line) (Before His Lordship the Chief Justice,
LONDON, Dec. 10.
The Albanians have attacked the Monte- negrin troops and been repulsed after severe fighting,
Speaking at Glasgow, Mr Gladstone do- nounced the Afghan War sa iniquitous and dastardly.
John Smale.) Friday, Deo, 12.
THE $17,000 CASE FINALLY DISPOSED OF.
THE PRISONEKS SENTENCED.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Chinese merchant. He also pointed out to his Lordship that this prisoner was not convicted unanimously of this misdemean Sirour bat only by 5 to 2.
The Chief Justice: Do you mean to say that I am to doubt 1 Or that a doubt in one man's mlud or two men's minds is to affect the sentence 7
Mr Ashoy simply desired to remind his Lordship that although five men of the seven juxors had found his client quilty, two were of the contrary opinion.
The Chief Justice: No, certainly not, According to our law "not guilty" mesus The not proven," and nothing more. jurors simply declare that they have not man to guilty; they do not declare their "Not guilty" and belief in his innocence. * Innocent" are two very different things, I wish we had in our law an intermediate verdict.
Chun Shun Yee and Tam Yew Tong, who were sharged on two scunts with having on Nov. 2ad 1878 and again on the The Morning Post publishes a telegram 30th June this year, unlawfully conspired, from the German Government stating that confederated and agreed with another two been satisfied by the evidence that the the case more fully; all the details are to able work Leech's Crown Caser." He vainable book, and in Pool v. Bacheverell
it will immediately resume salon of Silver.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The next ENGLISH MAIL may be expected to arrive here on the 18th or 14th inst., por
P. & O, steamer Kalsar-t-Hind. The next AMERICAN Mars may be looked for
men not before the Court, Ho Chui Tia and Chu Fan, to cheat and defraud one Wong Ming Loong of cortain moneys, were both convicted the other day by a jury composed of the following gentlemen:-- Mesere T. G. Williamson, H. W. Davis, F. A. Grobien, J. Euston Squier, O. P. Chater, P. A. da Costa and D. Gillies,
The prosecution has been conducted for here on or about the 16th instant by the the Attorney General by Mr Hayllar, Q.C., P.M.S. City of Peking, which leaves Yoko-instructed by Mr Brereton, and the socused bare respectively been defended by Mr H. La Denaye, appearing as an Advocate by permission of the Court, and Mr Ng Achey
The prisoners were brought up for
hama on the 9th inst.
To-MOBBOW afternoon á rifle shooting prae- tloe will take place at Kowloon by the
Mr Ng Achoy next addressed himself to the very subordinate part his client had taken in the whole matter.
The Court zaferred him to the lawyer's latter; what explanation could be give of that? His cllent was up to the very moment of his committal, the boldest of the bold. That letter had impressed his mind more forcibly than any other feature of the case. Mr Ng Achoy admitted that if the young for the guns and found there were no guna against his olient. But, bis ellent bad the guns ready for him.
The Court: Thero is not a word of proof as to that
compel payment. Up to this point the he did not at the very moment he was which might have a tendency to prevent conspiracy was successful, but there it found not guilty discharge this man. Ho the fair and impartial consideration of the stopped. Thereupon Major Hong Ming exercised a discretion, a most useful disare case." The very learned Judge then an. Loong very properly came here, where the tion, which the Court had. In this case swered the objection that "there. would be. conspiracy bad been formed, and proseeded while the man had been found not no limit to the power" by saying, "the sgainst yon criminally, and after a very fall guilty he believed bis conduct had been prohibition here has only been till the whole tovestigation, after every possible defence sach an to lay him open to other trial was completed." Words cannot be
dia has been put forward, you have both been proceedings, and he
what had stronger to affirm the right of the Court to convicted of a very disgraceful crime. You been constantly done within his experi- probibit the publication of proceedings in Chun Shan Yee appear to have been the enice,it was not on the records but criminal cases until after their termination. worst of the four parties in using your real it had been done-he remanded him until That the power of the Court to prohibit or pretended status as a British subject to the end of the Sessions. In making this publication rending proceedings extenda deceive the British Consul and to induce order he did that for which there was also to civil cases is clear from the language him by false statements to enforce your abundant precedent although not in print; used being applied to the Court in what- unfounded claim against the Major. I but he held to his band in one book two ever jurladiction sitting and from the have not thought it necessary to enter into precedents; they were in that most valu Practical Registrar, a very old and be found in the reports of the trial. You had not gone to it to consult it on the point, 1, Poor Wm. 675. Again Lord Erakice, have disgraced the body of respectable men but had been working for quite a different who as an advocate had all but defied tha of Chinese origin who are justly proud of thing and stumbled upon them by accident. Judges, when he became Lord Chancellor, the protection which their being British It was there laid down that in such cases fully recognized the power of the Court in subjects gives them. Your insolvency might the prisoner might be remanded until theend civil cases to fine for contempt as in 13, have been your misfortune; your conduct of the Sansion to afford the prosecution an❘ Vea. 237. for which you now stand at that Bar was opportunity of preferring another and better most wicked. It must entail a heavy ludiotment against him. That was the law punishment on you as an example to deter an laid down by Mr Justice Buller, than others from hoping to gain by ausb dis- whom, he believed, no more able judge graceful contrivances and to learn that ever sat on the Bench. That vase was a honesty is the best polley. The sentence p. 662 The other was at 732; if within of the Court on you, Chan Shun Yeo, la these few pages he stumbled across those that you be imprisoned and kept to hard two cases without looking for them he had labour for the period of two years. As for no doubt he would have got many more had guilty, but your case seems not so bad as for them. But it was not particular cases sideration. The sentence of this Court on that the Court has the right in his disore. enable the defendant to add to his evid you Tam Yow Tong is that you be imprisonedition, and it in its duty under some circum-ence. What he then said was strong; and kept to hard labour for one year. stances to keep the prisoner in either case. solely intended to reach the stolid mind of He had done it in thin case and he should the ignorant defendant, he thought that do it in any other case when to his mind what he said was proper for that occasion, occasion arose.
but that not being his formal decision it would be doing a prejudice to the defend- ant to publish it. Most persons would agree with him. Whether he was right or wrongtubisorder the law made it imperative, and to the extent that the China Mail dis obeyed it, it subjected iis conductor to the penalty for Contempt of Court. The law en- trusted it to the Judge to fix the amount of that penalty in case he should think fit to call on the offender to answer for the con- tempt. Mr Justice Francia has abstained from imposing any penalty, but we are both of opinion that there has been a Contempt of Court in this publication.
Mr Justice Francis, in the case of Lal Chung v. Leong Ayon, when it came before him a we: k since, on the evidence before him thought it to be his duty to uss lan- guage towards the Ignorant defendant to rouse him to a sense of the seriousness of his position, and he said that as the evidence then stood the defendant appeared guilty of perjury. A sort of judicisi instinct led
onse in favour of the defendant than then Case to
Hongkong Volunteers, with the view of senter.ca. The Court was densely crowded, man had gone to the shop with the money yon, Tam Yew Tong, you are certainly he gone through the authorities to search him to suspect that there was more in the selecting a team of ten to fire against a like a large number of Europeana belag present there for him, then it would have gone that of Chun Shuu Yee. I take that into con- he wanted to get hold of, but the principle appeared, and be adjourned the
number of the Shanghai Volunteers. The range is at present in the hands of the In niskillings, but with their usual urbsalty they have given it up for the occasion. THE Bazaar at the French Convont, which opens to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, should be well patronised; the object to which what money may be raised by it is to be devoted to the education and benefit of the poor native girls in the Asyle de la Sainte Enfance. Our Catholic contempo- rary states :-
Mr Dennya, who appeared for the first defendant, desired to say a few words as to his case and to call several witnesses as to his character. With regard to the man himself he had simply to say that he had been a very large merchant in this Colony, and he had been here for a great many yesas. During the whole of that time he had behaved himself honourably in all his business transactions and had borne a thoroughly good character amongst those who have had dealings with him. He was a married man and had a family who would be greatly distressed by his being sent to gaol; they would he left entirely without the means of subsistance.
"There are at present la that institution 130 orphans, besides a similar number with the nuries outside. During the year end-It ing 31st October laat, 1,002 children, almost all of them in a moziband state, have been received, of this number about 900
died.
An inquest was held at the Government Civil Hospital this afternoon on the body of
The Chief Justice: That is always so. is stereotyped. Mr Dennys: That was the only matter which I could have put in an affidavit and so I did not think it advisable to put the watter in that form, because I think I have heard the same remark from your Lord- ship before.
Ells Lordship: Many times. Mr Dennys, contioning, said he hoped to into which his client had fallen, as, at all events, an unpremeditated one.
Mr Ng Achoy thought the letter calling on him to come and tako delivery proved it.
The Chief Justice: Certainly not. It proves that he said or pretended, or at all events instructed his lawyer to write a letter to the effect that they were there; not by any means does it prove that they were there.
leniency stated that the second prisoner Mr Ng Achoy as a last ground for was the sole master of this shop for guns; he had no one else in partnership with him who could manage it; if he was seat to prison the shop would have to be given up and he would be ruined,
The Chief Justice: That is not of the that. If you hang a man he ceases to live. slightest consequence. We all'understand
(Laughter). If you imprison & man he All these cannot carry on his business. before committing the crime.
The second prisoner begged for mercy, The Chief Justice: I have been more merciful with you, I think than I should have been. If you will cancel the two promissory notes and give them up can celled; If you ask the British Consul to withdraw his request to the Mandarin to press the Major in respect of the note for $17,000, and if you both make what repa- ration is in your power to him by releasing you will give satisfactory proof of Borzow. him absolutely from all pratenco of claim, This you ought to do without any expect- ation of any favour. If you do not give this evidence of contrition I think you will have not the remotest chance of any favourable consideration of your case at any time.
a shorter sentence might be pamed on The first prisoner begged for mercy, that
him.
Proclamation read, and the prisoner dis charged.
This finishes the Sessions..
THE POWERS OF THE COURT TO CONTROL THE PRESS.
THE RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF NEWS- PAPER PUBL SHERS
(Before the Full Court.)
On the full Court assembling, the Chief Justice said :---
Great misapprehension has existed, I feel sure has honestly existed, in the minds of The Chief Justice: If I could have done the conductors of the public press in this any case at which I ever presided. I meant
the woman found in the harbour early yes- bring his Lordsbip to consider the crime consequences he should have considered so properly in face of the regulations of Colony as to their right to choose what to ings during the trial, but as to that I was
terday morning. The deceased has been identified by her daughter as Kwok Tai Yow,- a beatwornan whose husband left her three She has been years ago and want to sea. living since then with a man named Wong Apak with whom she quarrelled about two
His Lordship expressed the greatest astonishment at this line of argument. How could It be an unpremeditated crime when the performance of what the man had been guilty of had taken something like a
evidence:
Mr Ng Achoy then called the following D. R. Crawford: I have known second prisoner ten or twelve years. During that time his character in business has been por fectly good. So farms I knew him he bore
bad dealings with him to large amounts 1 be the master of a large gun shop.
F. Sanders: I have known second pri.
considerable dealings with him. We liked him very much. He had the character of an honest man.
the law to which I must to some extent
sentence.
conform, I should have given you a heavier Mr Dennys reminded his Lordship, that the original pro. note was in Court.
His Lordship had forgot that. He was glad to hear it was in such safe bauda. It the Court. He was glad it was not liable had been originally drawn up. He could only say then that the prisoners did not which he had had in his mind when he wrote that reference. In a long case bike this one was sure to forget something.
Mr Dennys assured his Lordship that all proceedings would be withdrawn.
His Lordship desired no promises of the kind.
I now turn to a Contempt of Court of another kind in reference to a case before me the proceedings in which have caused a much anxiety, and dissatisfaction as to prohibit all publication of the proceed- of the pancerinta ut te publish as reporta misunderstood by the gentleman who spoke
proceedings in this Court. In the
to me on the subject. Without therefore from day to day of a cauze still pending, newspapers published what were necessarily China Mail the right to publish proceedings any probibition by the Court both the asserted for some time in largnago of scant evidence. The mind of a narrator may be contrary to the order of the Court, has been curtailed reports of the proceedings aud respect towards the Court, and it has ex-
fair and impartial, but his narrative not
if it (the China Mail) in its judgment as it was with the necessary suppresson of urder of the Court not to publish a report, occurred, and in this case the evidence, given should decide that it is proper, although the evidence of Dr Ayres, told much improper may have prohibited it. Thus Istronger aga ust the accused than it would have read the China Mail. It asserts, 1
months ago. He has been arrested, and year. The crime lasted from the 20 the character of an opright man. I have would be hard, he fancied, to get it out of pressed its detormination to assert its in-belog the ipsissima verba it la different another man is alsó in custody on suspicion, November 1878 until June of this year. have dealt with him understanding him to to be used against those to oheat whom it dependent right to do so in defiance of any from it it is not the vera effigies of what one Kwok Ayow. The inquest stands ad- He was certain Dr Dennya did not mean journed till Thursday next, the 18th, to what he had said. enable the police to further see into the case, Mr Dennys said the jury had found We shall give the evidence in. full to his ollent guilty of conspiracy and he soner for some eight years and have had have that power of showing their sorrow, the Judge deciding such publication to be morrow. At the Folies Court, to-day, before had nothing to say against the verdict. Bir Creagh, these two men were formally He only asked his Lordship to look charged by Inspector Cameron on suspicion at the matter in this light,-that his of having murdered ono Kwok Tai Yow, in client had on the first-mentioned date dons a sampan at Yow-mah-tee on the evening an ill-advised aot unpremeditatedly, which of the 10th inst. On the application of the was held to constitute a misdemeanour. Inspector, His Worship remanded the case That was the day the crime was committed till 10 o'clock to-morrow morning-
of which he was found guilty. What was done then was simply with a view to as these men bad done, and that a great auch s, tenor that it could in no way be the pleadings and knows the issue and has that they had looked at the report. The Tar following paras are from the L. & getting a heavy commission for giving the number of men of very good ebaracter had used as against any of the boy's family, his also in oriminal cases carefully weighed the China Mail will hardly contend that it Express of the 24th Oot. only to hand by
this mail:-
It
Mr Hayllar admitted that this man had borne the character of a respectable man.
The Chief Justice said it seemed to him
that it was only men with a good character who were able to impose upon a young man
fallen inte trouble like this. He referred to the criminal hist: ry of a long time past and named Sir John Dean Paul, and others, men who had been in the very highest position using their very name and respectability, their position which made them unsuspect ed to enable them to do that which without such a character it would have been im-
think, the superior power of discrimination of a newspaper editor who only knows what the thoughtful decision as to the propriety passes publicly in Court on the subject, to
Mr Dennys said the $18,600 note wat of judge educated to the task who has seen all
of publication pending the bearing by
father or any one else.
--
use of his name. What was done after wards was simply with the view of recover ing that commission; nothing more. Commander Charles Vernon Anson, who was never the object or intention of bis has been appointed to the command of the client to secure or appropriate the $17,000, in Society in England and fell into crime, attention, there was not the slightest like to prohibit the publication in criminal -Dasher, entered the Navy in 1859, and was appointed as lieutenant in 1867, to the Princess Royal, 13, Capt. W. G. Jones, flagship in China of Rear-Admiral George
have done with such evidence, but the worst part of the report was contained in these words, the boy on whom the offence was committed was the first witness." by the China Mail, at least by implication, That may well be read as an assertion
was pending. Two of the Jurors admitted of the guilt of the accused whilst the trial
His Lordship asid that as the men had to appear in the depositions. In its pub that may be, there was but one Juror who facts as they had been made provisionally does not influence public opinion; however not the means of doing that which might have shown their contrition and attracted out son of restore Daily Press, with declined to conuar in the verdict of saat out conceding that the Court has the power guilty." Who can say that this paragraph lihood of their case being specially considered at any time. They would have to suffer the cases, asserts that no such power exists as and the whole report, including the gossip at I must here state that this the house not on oath, which the China Mail detailed, did not influence that one Juror ! sentence inflicted on them,
Mr Ng Achoy desired to assure his Court in all its sittings is the Supreme Now, this kind of publication comes within Court, having within the narrow limits of the Contempt which Lord Hardwicke, the removed into the Princess Charlotte, at father, that he had been paid $17,000 by had not the slightest doubt that both these the agreement to purchase arms entered into which the Supreme Courts of Law and severely and justly reprobated. He held that St. V. King C.B., from which ship he been effected by him by the order of his possible for them to have committed. He Lordship that no action would be taken on this Colony all the authority and powers greatest Lord Chancellor of former days, so
The Chief Justice: What was his object then in taking the boy before the English Consul and getting him to swear to the falsehoods he then told! That the loan had
mon had up to this time had a very fair character. It did seem odd that in two
years his business should have put him into such an awful mess as was stated; bank- ruptcy and $50,000 liabilities; but such a should not be taken as anything against case was common enough, and it perhaps
him.
Yow Tong have be‹ a found guilty of having
between his olient and Lo Kwok Chun,
The Chief Justice said they might take any action they thought desirable, on that contract, and see what they could make of that hopeful youth.
to civil suits.
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of them be steel ships of similar dimensions, and upright in all bis dealings. Be always satisfied that you and your two co-conspi. had a wife and family. What was to belony is legally inferior only to the PCourt has directed that there shall be no
come of then?
Bis Lordship asked if he would like to go to them at once. Somebody else would have to look after his wife and family for some time. He should have thought of them before. If every man who could plead this was to get off, there would be no justies in Courts,
?
The prisoners were then removed,
DETAINING PRISONERS FOUND NOT GUILTY
DECLARED TO BE QUITE LEGAL.
Hong Kong, Comdre. O. J. Jones, and in this man in hard cash, and so on.
Equity at Westminister have had over all England, and that this is the it was incumbent on Courts to preserve 1888 to the Serpent, 4, gun-vessel, Com. Mr Dennys: He would have got nothing, C. J. Bullock, also in China, and returned of course, unless this money was obtained.
when the Court is sitting in Criminal their proceedings from being misrepresent in her to England. In 1876, he was ap- But he had only to receive the difference
Sessions or in Summing Juried ctioned and from prejudice being raised agaiust pointed to the Magpie, 3, gun-vessel, fitting between the two notes. The gun dealer
38 as fully Por China, where he remained until 1877. was to get the note he held paid, $13,600
hopeful youth, was called forward from the that this Court has the power of prohibit-committed the proprietor of the offending
The expectant Major, the father of the Court.
when sitting in full party in a civil suit. It is necessarily much Now,
more so in a criminal trial, before the cause as at present advised. is heard. In that case Lord Hardwicke Commander Anson received the bronze medal and give guns for the amount. The Chief
body of the Court and told that if he was ing the publication of its proceedings of the Royal Humane Society in 1885, and Justice said that the note on the face of it silver medal in 1868,
made the $17,000 payable to the first pri Bis Lordship then said, addressing the at all harassed by or about anything that pending the trial both of Criminal and newspaper, a lady, to the Fleet Prison for The steel corvette Comus has been com- sonor. The Court did not know what he prisoners, every sentence being translated had taken place in this Colony with refer- civil cases, is to our minds clear, and that the contempt, although the report had ence to these notes, he was to come back to any publication of the proceedings contrary it would be well if editors of newspapers prained the upright Magistrate's degree." missioned at Sheerness, and will proceed to was going to do with it, bow much he was for their benefit by Mr Ball:
this Court. After a trial of unusual length extending sea on "particular service." The particular to sppropriate himself and how much he service in question will, no doubt, be to was to give to his fellow conspirators. And for four days you, Chun Shun Yee and ship and asked that a despatch should be is a general rule that "all Courts have an
to such order is a contempt punishable by would study 2 Atkins 498 and 4 Barnewell The Major especially thanked his Lord fine and imprisonment or by either penalty and Alderson p. 318; and if they keep. ascertain how far the sanguine expectations what was more the Court did not care. of her constructors are fullled, and to prove The following evidence was then called: on the 2nd of November 1878, conspired sent to Canton to withdraw the request inherent power to punish all persons for within the limits presented in the two cases the capacity of ships of this build as ocean N. A. Slabs (of Mo-ars Biemusen & Co.'s) with Eo Chui Tin, an officer in the service from the Consul that he was to be pressed contempt of their rules and orders." Again, there reported they will be safe. aruisers. Considerable interest attaches to I have known prisoner since 1865; he was of the Emperor of Chiae, and Chi Fan, ano pay and withdrawing also the case from it belongs exclusively to the Court of appeared to me to be inexpedient to direct
the Consulate. the new vessel, not only because she is the employed in several Chinese hongs as ma inhabitant of Canton of no occupation,
His Lordship referred him to the Go amounts to them; moreover it has been
fended to judge of contempts and what Proceedings in respect of this contempt we feel that generally the reports of pro first wax-ship constructed of steel, but cheen. Bo was in the Yuen Fat Hong, but by subtle means to obtain front of and vernment; that matter was beyond his repeatedly held that a Court of Superior ceedings in this Court are given with great because she is one of a long series, all of not, so far as I know, as a partner. He Ming Leong, a Major in the army of the precisely the same type. The Canada, started in business three years ago. He Emperor of China, large sums of money and province; that was diplomatio.
Jurisdiction may review the decision of care and fairness, but our duty compels n Constance, Carysfort, Cleopatra, Caracos, has chartered several vessels from us. I to cheat him thereof. Of the guilt of each The first prisoner urged on bis Lord- one of inferior jurisdiction on a matter of to express what our notion of the law is Champion, Cordelia, and Conquest will all have always found him an honourable man of you I have no shadow of doubt. I am ship's attention the fact that he (prisoner) contempt. The Supreme Court of this for future guidance
First; That whenever any judge of the and may be considered identical with the paid bls bills. I believe he bore the generators met together in Hongkong and
Council, that high tribunal alone has power Comue. They are unarmoured vessels, ral character of an honourable man.
deluded Wong Kwok Chan, a boy as one of
to question and reverse, vary or affirm any report printed of any pending proceedings destined to fulfil duties similar to those Oross-examined: 1 know he became you called him, to trust to you Chun than
order of this Court. I have above quoted in Court pending the trial, it is a Contempt from Bouvier's Law Dictionary because I of Court punishable by fine or imprison which devolved upon the frigate class at the a bankrupt. I don't know for how much. You as a wealthy English merchant, al- beginning of this century, and will not only The Chief Justion: You know, Mr Hayi though in fact you were then insolvent,
there find these elementary, (they are ment or by both to disobey such direction, take care of distant colonies, but ensure the lar?
and to give you a promissory note for
merely elementary) propositions well col- and that it is the duty of the Court to safety of the seas. In case of war with a Mr Dannya: A comparatively small $17,7000, in exchange for one by you for
lected; the eases there referred to and to be enforce its orders.
But the. Court has na maritime Power our commerse would no amount, my Lord. Some 860,000, $13,6 0 which, you being then insolvent,
found in all books on the subject, demon- little power as it has inclination to doubt be harassed by war-vessels of the Els Lordablp: Ob, only $50,000; that's you represented to him to be as good an a
strate that this power is as old as that prevent by order any publication of Alabama type, and the safety of our ships nothing!
bank note in the presence of you Tam Yew
"the memory of man goath not to the con- proceedings after their termination, would be jeopardised in all probability by
Tong, although you knew him to be in-
trary," that is, it is the Common Law Second; If before or panding any trial privateers lightly armed and powerfully
anlvent, and you accepted that note of the
of England and has been introduced any statement be printed and published engined, which would only fight when
Insolvent, affecting to this boy to treat it
As the Common Law by Ordinance which tends in the judgment of the Court pretty sure of a prize. It is to check any
as a good note, and you induced that boy to One Mak Au was charged on the 18th of ever since 1845. But it has been said to the prejudice of any party bafore the Bach action on the part of an enemy that
part with the note for $13,600 to you with last month, with having attered counter-that to publish proceedfugs pending a trial Court, any such statement even where we are forming a fleet of steel corvettes, of
out valus, though you deluded him into the feit coin, it having been alleged that he contrary to an order prohibiting publica-there is no order prohibiting publication of which the Comus is the forerunner. Their
belief that you would supply arms to the tendered on the 8rd Nov, in a drug shop tion is not a contempt punishable by proceedings, is such an injury to the party speed, with guns and stores on board, will His Lordship said he had no doubt Mir amount. I think it most likely that your in Centre Street a quarter cent piece of the Court whose order is disobeyed. This who is "under the protection of the Court, be, it is hoped, that of a mail steamer Hayllar might admit all this, He asked co-conspirator, Ho Chul Tin, had some copper coated over with silver so as to re- in an error. In the King . Clement, (13 Ves. p. 238) as to call on the Court to namely, some fifteen or sixteen miles an the question: Did Mr Hayllar admit the scheme to use the infatuated boy for some semble a 10 cent piece. There was only Barnwall & Alderson, 218, the old law was punish such set as for a contempt, as was hour; while their armament is heavy enough first prisoner had borne a good character purpose of his own to offer arms to the the unsupported evidence of a boy, 17 years emphatically confirmed by the full Court done by Lord Hardwicke in the case I have to render a good account of any craft loss amongst a large number of respectable men Chinese Government la the name of Wong of age, against him, and although the of Queen's Bench in 1821.
In that case it referred to in 2 Atkins, and thus to save formidable than an iron-clad. Most of the with whom he had dealings?
Oa. His first object was possibly by that Judge summed up for a conviction, six of appeared that Lord Chief Justice Abbott, the party fojured from resorting to an cannon on board are 64-pounders; but each Mr Hayllar: I would rather not say. - means to provide an escapa for himself from the jurors refused to convict. The Chief at a trial at the Old Bailey, prohibited the action for libel (sec. 15 Ves notes). I bave corvette will carry besides a pair of heavy. The Chief Justics: Very well. It is not his discredit with the Government Ho Justice then ordered the man to stand ever publication of any proceedings of that now to state that such being the opinion of guns to be used as bow or stern chasers. at all generous on your part, Mr Hayllar, was I think the originator of the brilliant for release till end of the Sessions. Next or of any day until the whole trial should both of us it will be our duty to take care The Comus has most of her officers already but of course. If you would rather say no idea to induce this foolish boy to assume day, Mr Francis, sitting in Criminal Jabe brought to a conclusion,
The defend that in future the Low be carried out with appointed, and receives her oraw from the thing. He was quite satisfied by the that name which in some way implicated risdiction had a prisoner before him who was ant had published in the Observer nowapa- all necessary consequences,
At the samÉ: Salamis despatch vessel, which is at this mos evidence of these gentlemen that the pri- the Major. The scheme was readily taken also found not guilty by the Jury, and the per what was admitted to be "s fair true time we feel asured that the gentlemen ment undergoing repairs at Sheerness, so that soner had borne a good character as a up by you Chun Shou Yes and Tam Yow Attorney General stating for the informs and impartial account of the proceedings who have hitherto reported the proceedings she will have the benefit of a body of men merohant. If he did not, how could he be Tong. That part of the scheme fellation of the Court what the Chief Justice and evidence publloly bad and pro-in this Court with great fairness and die. already trained to work together. Of the a merchant, he might ask?
through and nothing remained for you both bad done in a similar case on the previous duced in open Court" and on servicecretion, with few exceptions only, will take nine steel corvettes, six are already built Mr Ng Achoy, on behalf of the second but to enforce the payment of money by day, he said he did not see that he had any of a summons on him to attend the Court care that no difficulty shall arise frato say and fitting for sea, while the others are in defendant, said his client was the master of the respectable Major in the Chinese army, right to detain the man a single moment served at his office but in his absence, the breach of either of these rules. After the course of construction at Chatham and one of the largest shops in the Colony. Hong Ming Leong, the father of this foolish after he had been found not guiltyPri. Court ordered Mr Clement to pay a fine of termination of any proceedings in Court à Fortsmouth, The Comur, like its consorts, His Lordship: No doubt, as you are in boy, a pretence for him liability having been soner accordingly discharged. The final $500 for » Contempt of Court in printing cowspaper, in the words of Lord Chlef Baron le a skip of 14 guns, 2,389 tonnage, and is structed, but there is not a word of proof secured by the use of the name of his sidest disposal of Mak au has therefore been and publishing the report of the frist; and Kelly, has a right to comment on all des fitted with engines of 2,300-horse power. of that before the Court,
Bon Wong On. You Chun Shun Yee then a point of Interest to the community and be paid it. Mr Clement sought to bring the scriptions of proceedings in Courts of Juse Mr Ng Achoy, continuing, remarked availed yourself of your being or pretending presumably to himself during the last 24 matter before the Court of King's Bench, tice. Such comments when made as the two that the man was well-known in the Colony, | to be (I don't know which is really the case)s | days.
but after most able arguments in support newspapers usually make them, well found. and he would bring forward a number of British subject to force this boy into an The Chlef Justice new asked Mr Sharp, of Mr Clement's contention the Judges seria-ed or erroneous, all Judges must he content European merchants with whom he bad acknowledgement of a series of falsehoods the Crown Solicitor, the Attorney General tim delivered their opinious, emphatically to submit to, although they sometimes are had dealings to speak to his character of your invention, including astatement that not being present, whether any new in affirming the right of even a single Judge deficient In that law learning which gives they had been good enough to come for he had actually borrowed the money from you formation had been preferred by the At at the Old Baily to inflict the fine. Mr authority to criticism. No one rejcicen
I against this man,
Justio Bailey said the Court had autho- more heartily in that liberty of unlicensed Counsel for the prosecution would not oog by bis father's order, This statement was Me Sharp said tradick that evidence, but as he was accepted as evidence of the father's in- The Chief Justice said he had done that purity of the administration of Justice in and which, perfected by Lord Campbell'a informed would noknowledge that the de tedne, and promure from the Mans in this case which had been referred to as the curse of the proceedin's then pending Act, is now the palladium of our liberame repond prisoner was a very respectable darin was therefore put on the father to being not quite the sorrect praction, In that before them and to prohibit any p
publication The Conti then rose,
Police Intelligence. (Before the Hon. 0. B. Plunket). Friday, Dec. 12th.
A LOAFER DEALT WITH.
*Mr Kay, ship broker, formerly of Mesari Russell & Co., had known the first prisoner for ten years, and had found him upright. His general character had been that of an honourable straight-dealing man.
Mr Dennys was about to bring more witnesses, when,
Otto Wennlaw, 39, a German seaman un "ward to say what they know of him. The ❘ for which the bill for $17,000 had been given torney Gene No; not to his knowledge,rity to make any order to preserve the printing for which Mitten so nobly pleaded
employed, was charged with begging at the
Docks at Aberdeen-yesterday. Fined $10, in default to suffer one month's imprison. in nt, as a rogue and vagabond,
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