of England. Chinese-

over this Colony and it's

population;

but because it seems

to me, that it will form

a good-

even

for all similar cases,

regular Court of Criminal

Justice shall be created

by

the

appointment of a Judge, and other Law Officers; and will therefore probably become the basis of an Enactment to be hereafter made by the Legislative Council, when I shall be enabled to constitute that Body,

in conformity with the Royal Charter and Her Majesty's

Settler's

This case, likewise possesses a

considerable degree

of

interest as

developing, to a certain extent, the

extraordinary (and, according to our notions, repugnant) System of

Chinese

Jurisprudence.

It will be seen

that the Accuser in the case-

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was

obliged, on laying his complaint in

the first instance, before the Chinese

Magistrate of Sunon - to enter into bond consenting to undergo the punishment that would be by Law, awarded to the accused persons

if he failed in establishing

their

guilt being proved,

his accusation; and that he set out

by praying

in this petition

as a matter of course, that the alleged Murderer "and the woman "Neishe

may

be examined by torture,

" and, after confession, may be punished

" according to

"Law."

The utter inapplicability of any

form resembling Trial-by Jury to Her

Majesty's Chinese Subjects

seems to me to be too obvious to require any

Comment.

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