have been proposed even for the Chinese,
had it not been a well known
punishment of their native Laws. In- fact the infliction of any punishment. short of death was a mitigation of the penalties awarded by the Chinese Government to those banditti who constitute the Grad Sriety.
With regard to the fourth objection mentioned by Your Lordships, repulsion from
the island
was a aneadure
α
suggested by necessity from the first occupation of Houghing. The distance of los than mile from the opposite continent made it absolutely indispensable to deport and
back numbers of vagabonds who
over to this place for purposes of
carry
flocked mischief, and who
Lovre
either not -
obnoxious to imprisonment or too.. numerous for that species of punishment.
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Our chief legislative difficulties arise, partly from our position relatively to the opposite coust, and partly from English laws being unsuitable and unintelligible to Chinese
The member of the House
Commons who made observations in his
by
place with reference to the Ordinance: merely repeated verbatim some very incorrect statements from a Colonial- Newspaper, called the Houghong Register, opposed to the Government, and maintained the house of Jardine Matheson M, correspondents of Magniae, Jardine, Smith He in London. No increase whatever has
by the Emperor's government beew anade and the severity of the Chinese law regarding the seditions society in - question, and as far as any Chinese " " "Trial"
· be peconciled to our notions of the torno that Criminals of
Can
Iam not at all
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the description in question are less favored
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