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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
CANTON NOTES.
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[February 17,1
On Wednesday a solemn service was the Cathedral for the late Bishop, the Right Rev. Bishop Medeiros. HE the Governor, the Chief Justice, the Consuls, and the nav military, and civil officers were present. Every twenty minutes the Monte Fort fired minute guns, and at the end of the ceremony which lasted about three hours, the second company of the Regiment, which was stationed at the door, of the Cathedral, fired two volleys, after which the band played the funeral march and the Monte Fort fired a salute of nineteen guns.
by Hallowell Carew, the bright, at-planation to be very simple. We have inter-ing out the dredging o
ined lady whom so many in this viewed Mr. Schedel and he has confirmed." munity have known intimately, and theory which we held, that by careless dispensing, too, a new Governor doe have been happy to call their friend, that is to say by the use of common potash and out the plans of his preded sed from the pale of the society that she negligent filtering, it would be quite possible, when he belongs to an
stepped down, a condemned nay more it would be very probable, that minute Senhor Horta e Costa was never with the sentence of a shameful death particles of white arsenic might be present in considerations of that kind. ing in her ears. There were
some suspension in the arsenic dispensed by the there are some twenty applicants morbid curiosity so far overpowered Japanese chemist, and as three ounces were pur-pointment as Governor and no doubt a fayoi feelings of humanity that they chased all the specks found by Dr. Divers might of the new Ministry will be sent out.
to see her descend the steps easily have been derived from the Fowler's of the Court to the sombre vehicle which carried solution, although arsenic once in solution her back to gaol. We can only hope that a could not by any possibility orystallize into chance of meroy is suggested by the words of white arsenic. the Judge in prefacing the sentence of death. [This hope has been fulfilled-ED. D.P.] It it falls within the competence of Sir Ernest Satow to save this most unhappy woman from the gallows, he will be laying up a blessed memory for himself and earning the strong approval and gratitude of his nationals by exercising his power in the cause of clemency. Justice demands no such shocking sacrifice as her killing. Who shall venture to gauge the suffering that drove her to a dead so des- perate ? If she sinned, she was also deeply sinned against. The story of her life is before us. The giddiness, the moral in- stability, the love of admiration, that marked some of her acts-are they not sins to which an environment such as that of her daily existence is only too apt to betray human beings? For the sake of her family; for the sake of her children; for the sake of the friends that still have the courage and constancy to support her; for the sake of the repentance that she can work out by years of patient effort, we must all hope that mercy will be substituted for vengeance. Civilization is happily leading the world farther and farther from the stern law of equal retalia- tion, and teaching us the truth of the old principle that the virtue of justice consists in moderation.-Japan Mail.
WAS MRS, CAREW INSUE?
Referring to the Carew case the Japan Gazette says:-" Although the evidence given in the course of the trial and the summing up of the Judge point to a crime for which there are no extenuating circumstances, the behaviour of the prisoner, the fictions she invented and with which she deluded Mr. Dickinson and other of her friends, the Annie Luke letters, and her many conflicting statements seem to point to a disordered mind. This mental derangement, it is true, was not apparently sufficiently marked to justify her counsel in pleading insanity; but no one who has had an opportunity of noticing her demeanour from the opening of the inquest to the close of the trial could feel that she was absolutely sane."
THE GROUNDS OF THE REPRIEVE, It appears that the sentence passed by the judge upon Mrs. Carew was not commuted in consequence of any question arising upon the evidence, as the following paragraph from the Japan Mail will show :-Her Majesty' Consul has received a dispatch from Her Majesty's Minister at Tokyo to the effect that he has had under consideration the subject of the sentence of death passed in H.M. Court, Yoko- hama, on the 1st Jan., on Edith May Hallowell Carew, for the murder of her husband, and that, in view of the Imperial Proclamation of H.M. the Emperor, dated the 31st ult., granting to all Japanese subjects under sen- fence on that day a remission of punishment, appears proper that a similar measure of grace should be extended to the criminal in this case, whose trial in a Court sitting in His Majesty's dominions had been proceeding for some days before and was about to be brought to a conclusion at the time of His Majesty's proclamation: Her Majesty's Minister has accordingly decided not to direct that the sentence of death be carried into ex- ecution, ard in virtue of the powers conferred upon him by the Order in Council, 1865, and otherwise, has directed that, in lien of suffering Capital ishment Mrs. Carew shall be im- prisoned th hard labour, for life.
FROM THE "CHUNG NGOI SAN FO."] The letter-carriers' shops in Canton have distributed to the shops of the seventy-two guilds a long written statement concerning the new postal service, asking them to devise ways to deal with the new postal laws. The state- ment says that since the postal laws have been brought into force, there is great hindrance to business, for letters cannot be delivered so quickly as before and often many of them cannot be delivered until a day or two after their arrival. People also now have to pay at least three and a half cents per letter instead of the one or one and a half cents formerly charged by the letter- carriers, for they have to pay double postage, two cents to the Government and one and a half cents to the letter-carrier. Poor people employed in Hongkong and Macao suffer the most, for they used to send money home by the letter-carriers to support their parents, wives, and children, who depend solely upon them for their livelihood. They cannot so easily send money home now, and they have to pay heavy postage expenses. The Government simply wants to increase the revenue by squeezing the people while reducing the facilities offered for postage business.
The weather in Canton was piercingly cold after the China New Year. Heavy rain was experienced on the 7th inst. and on the 8th the roaring of thunder was heard. On the 9th, 10th, and 11th instant ice made its appear. ance and some beggars were frozen to death in
the streets.
A junk was seized a few days ago at Limehow law. The junk has been towed to Canton and for secretly carrying arms, contrary to the the junk master is being detained for trial.
The likin offices were reopened on the 11th instant after the China New Year holidays.
On the 29th ultimo a junk towed by a steam launch was robbed near Sanoi district. The robbers carried away booty to the value of over ten thousand dollars. When they finished their depredation the robbers boarded the steam launch and compelled the coxswain to steam to Kutsan, where they all landed.
A fight broke out several days ago between the two villages named Tantau and Laichung in Sichiu district. The fight originated by some people belonging to Laichung village going over to Tautau village to steal fish from a pond. One of the thieves who was arrested by the people of Tautan village was imprisoned in a temple. The people belonging to the village of Laichung were very angry that one of their clansmen was locked up in prison and they at once commenced a fight with the people of Tautan village. The magistrate of Namhoi went in person the other day to the district to stop the fight.
MACAO.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
12th February.
The Lisbon Ministry has fallen and a new one has been appointed, Senhor Luciano de Castro being the Premier and Senhor Barros Gomes the Minister for the Colonies. In con- sequence of this change in the Ministry Senhor Horta e Costa has sent in his resignation as Governor of this colony and is leaving by the next French mail. Thus we are going to lose THE WHITE ARSENIO ACCOUNTED FOR. His Excellency sooner than we expected, much vatery of the Carew case that was left to the regret of the whole colony. The new by the al was the discovery of white Governor, when he arrives, cannot be expected post mortem, no white arsenic to have the same knowledge of the requirements to the house. On this point of the colony as Senhor Horta e Costa nor to be Gazette Bays
We believe the ex-familiar with the plans of the latter for carry
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The Right Rev. Bishop of Mozambique has been appointed Bishop of Macao.
None of the prisoners who recently made their escape from gaòl have been recaptured: I hear that the Government has issued orders for the improvement of the safety of the gaol and that the work will shortly be com- menced.
HONGKONG.
Several interesting events have transpired during the past week. On the 10th inst. a Russian engineer was fined $300 for trespassing. in the field works of Hongham Fort. A most successful dance was given by the Hongkong Volunteer Corps on the evening of the same day, and on Wednesday and Thursday the West Yorkshire Regiment held an athletic meeting, which was much enjoyed. The Sanitary Board had an important meeting on. Thursday, when the quarantine regulations were gested to the Governor in Council. A fire broke discussed at some length and alterations sug out at the Government Offices on Monday, but fortunately the flames were extinguished before any serious damage was dome. The shareholders in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation met on Saturday and the shares holders in the China Fire Insurance Company, Limited, met on Monday.
Ice was found at the Peak on the 11th- February, for the second time this year, and a specimen sent from the Eyrie by the Hon. É. R. Belilios was on view at the Club...
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial
and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge. with thanks the following donation to the funds: of the Hospitals:
Fresh Fish Guild
$30.
The stamp revenue last month amounted to $21,319, being an increase of $2,316 on the amount collected in the corresponding month last year. The increase is more than accounted for under the head of probate.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethergole Hospitals begs to soknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals
Choi Tse Mei... A Friend
$25 10
Messrs. John D. Humphreys & Son inform us that they have received the following telegram from their mining manager in Australia — “Have struck Eureka Reef at a depth of 200 feet; prospects are encouraging; removing, Balmoral Company, battery alongside Olivers, The mill will work night and day
The French steamer Canton, which recently struok a rock and foundered near Tourane, we learn from Tonkin papers, probably bei raised, the divers having found the damage no very serious. It is said the Compagn Nationale, to which the vessel belongs, will treat with a Hongkong Company for her salvage.
On Monday afternoon Surgeon-Colonel Eyatt, delivered a lecture before the Odd Volumes Society on "The care of the British Arm War. Mr. J. J. Francis, QC occupie chair and there was a large lecture was attentively listened
turer, was freq applau close hearty of thanks Colonel Eyatt,