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VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT. November 15th:
THE DAILY PRESS, FRIDA, NOVEMBER 17′′H 1871,
LIOBNSING MEETING, AN
A mboting of Justices for the purpose of rew" rewing Spirit Lionsen, was told yesterday, at the Magistracy, the following geadomes son- and Messrs W. E Mitchell, C. C. Smith, posing the Bench C. May Be chairmen
Lister. Tonnochy, T. Pyle, Belilies, and M. Deane, Captain Superintendent of John, Olson applied for a tiones for the National Tavern, which was granted. The applicants were as follows
Mr. Kirabner applied for a license for the homes Welcome Home Grinted.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. November 16th, 1877. The Council at piirované to matree :-- Fresat H.E, the LigʊA-GOVERNOR. The COLONIAL-SEQUETÁRY. The Cusz JUSTICE,
The ACHING. ATTORNEY-GENERAL. The Aorta Colonial-TaEASURAL Hon. P. REBIE.
Hop. W. KESWICK,
think that the bridge should be open if access. | ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL. Áry at high water, and in the other, might per:
The P. & O. steamer Hindostan, Captain hape nosessitate the giving on the prepus Roskell, from Bombay October 26th, allo to nydown Trafeways on the Pier. Still the. Lesncca of Marino Lts in the neighbourbood November 1st, Penang 6th, and Singapore of tile Company Hra entitled to have their 9th. arrived in harbour yesterday at noon, alairns for one access to their property bousi- bringing the London mail of the 6th Oct. dered, and it would, in our opinion, be wholly The following telegrams aro published in the anjaer and inexpedient to sinoting an and Ceylon Oberer obstruction to be free past go along the Eastern portion of the Harbor, hitherto enjoyed by a large floating populations
to
Try at the Dalig Presa trus the offic cou 406ording to bio mina it became a atim. It But the key-e found is Mr. Oliver's men's Home." Applicant troopt äertificate had been adopted by which the privilege of tion of the Coreil;
nensed on Thursday mornag at 10.02. and the
Dali. he los al 2008.
The Daily Press
HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 17TH, 1871.
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to show he bad been in the "Volunteer."
Lawrence Young's application for the Lon-
Inn was granted.
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With these obfervations, we have the honor submit an Amended Bill for the considera (Signed) J. GARDINER AUSTIN
"HERLY JOHN BALL.
CROLL O. SMIPEL P. AIRIE B. KowerT.
Council Chamber, 11th Nov., 1971.
LONDON, 24th October. The meat, of the Presidents elected for the General Councils of Francs belong to the Go. vernment party. ~
The Berlin Government is discussing a Bill for the formation of an imperial military tres- eary
LONDON, 25th October. A document artannicated to the London | Journals declaros that a political alliance never ted between the Conservative Members of the House of Lords and Commune, and the re- presentatives of the workmen.
Some members have been sounded, and pro- mised to consider enquiries (sic). Nogotiations aro sapendel.
Disastrous forent from bave raged in Wiscon.. sin and Michigan, enaing great losses of life.
Obituary, Mr. Babbage.
I was 150 yards of What he said then amount- ed to this I know the austom of crossing the hows of steningre; the junk did that which I Before the Hon. Judge SMALL, and Cepte, (expected her to do, and still I made no allow
ence for her doing so, and hence the nollision." Hooper and Oniras, AssombotS.
HMS. Ocean, at the auit of the Kumshunohen be ome to Mr. Oliver's evidence. He
slated that the junk was only a mile or a mile. The Queen's Advoonto yesterday addressed and a half distant when Erat sighted, whereus the Court and the Assessors on bak lf of the the other oficare thought she was three miles, served that the Rum-shune-tas left dianu of estimating distances at night, from whion Kumshuno-tat. Semming up the fants, be a discrepancy easily explained by the diffonlts
The minutes of the last meeting were read. Taou. Straits on the 18th Angout, with scireamatance in itaolf it was clear that the
The Protest by the Hon. Mr. Ryrie with refer eace to the brouch of privilege was duly noted tair wind, which coatinged to p.m., when stormar ought to have rupt out of the way be behered, of too whole
Mr. Lobo uppiled for the flcance for the Sex-on them. It started in substance that мелено was to be. was still calm according to the evidence fair
members of the Council was directly invaded, on behalf of the junk between 3 and 4 the next declaration, that a man-of-war does.ppt morning, when the junk was sighted by the change ber course for every junk that
and their freedom of speech curtailed. This the Hon. Mr. Ryrie had desired to bring to: Ocean, troth being apparently on the coarses comes in Iror way." Mr. Oliver thought that if atated in the preliminary acts. There was both vesele had kept their course, the junk
Mr. Otten applied for a renewal for." City of notics at the next meeting of the Connoil, but! certainly a discrepancy with regard to the wind would have passed at a distance of 90 yurde arabara," which was grintel.
it bad not been permitted to be discussed and the weather. The use of the Ocean was that and the question would then arlee, whether a
Mr. Medina, landlord of the Royal Oak," there. The matter arose as follows: The it was a clear and atarlightnight, while bie ones pradent man would approach so near to a junk late the Angel Inn,") applied to have the Hon. Mr. Ryrie had asked a question with re
I do not in all respects approve of the viewe was that the weather was cloudy and overcast. which was yawing about is the way this one licence of theGrawn and Anchor" removed foreuse to the datics of the Registrar-General's Perhaps his Lordship would consider the fact was wid to be. Mr. Oliver thought 30 yards to the Angel Inn" to be called in future the Depretecht, bia remarks being based on a to expressed in the Committed's Report.
A Pier, designed to afford all the facilities that persons in a vessel under sail alone could we ample opnee, but Mr. Annealey, un being Royal Oak. This application was granted.
part which ite believed to be well founded, and not see the weather so well as those on board a recalled, said that distunee moet have been
Mr. Walters applied for the licence of the wil be held to be a fitned proper subject for that have been stated will be derived from the equity in the Council, when the Estimates were construction in question, would, doubtless, be of Ist yesterday's paper we printed a somewhat vessel under atea alone but the question of wrongly judged, and said at first that she was Union. Grunted,
Joseph Maritiae. for the "Old House at brought forward, What Fotowed it was great utility aed importance to the Colony. claborate letter from Mr. J. B. ROBERTSON, the weather vas pot very important. The wind, 80 yerde off, and afterwards 60 or 70. Not that
however, was anterial question; and the junk be wished to imply that the inferior wituesece Home, Granted.
not necessary for him to detail, beyond sa- but it appears to me caly necessary to remark of Shanghai, in which ho undertakes to show said it was a calm, while the Occas said there had been tampered with, but it was a remark.
Marion Fernadez applied for's licorice toting that it and resulted in his reseiving a letter that the property of the Company is of 210 feet frontage und 207 fest depth.Co establish amerions stating be bad used words which implied a that the view which was adopted by the whole was a moderate breeze. Hers bis Lordship alle circumstates that some of them when they the horseCrows and Anchor." Granted.
John Barnes, applied for a licence for the charge against the Registrar General's Depart doubt of the capacity of mob an area, to a of the inercantile commuulty and the Press would take into consideration the difficulty of came back gave exactly that distance of 60 or
"Oriented "Hotel." Applicant at one time ment, and calling upon him to explain theca, commodate the traffic of Hongkong to such an in Ching, concerning the hearing of the interpretation, and also the fact that opinions 70 yards No doubt when persons were con stated in different words might not after all atautly talking together about a matter of this Transit Dues clause in the Treaty was vory greatly differ. Discrepancies ench an these kind they would incline to the same opinion. bired a house No. 4 Wyudham-street, and let it Against this, be protested, so art invasion of extent as to render of no consequence, the to a prestitate. Applicant stated that after be privilege. The standing orders permitted fios inconvenience, delay and danger which the mistaken, and that there was nothing what did occur in other case than this, and he would Sinae the jack did not carry bow-light found it out, he let the longs to a respoble dam speech and immunity from question by Pier on the plans given in by the Com the
citu a case to show thin, the Elizabeth v. the would like to ask the Assessors whether there ever to show that it was intended that Lotus. Thero was also another discrepany in might not have been server on the part of peren. Application mated. Applicant the the eveniment regarding anything said it Paby, would cause to the conveyance of foreign goods should be freed from all inland the question of Gure-up lights. The jual-ped- the Oceas, in the supposition that the jack applied to have bis Bowling Alley opened till the Council. He had bonght the mutter be goode in the harbour.
fore the Council on the 15th October, because corroot in viewing the capacity of ough
JUSTICE IN HONGKONG. Mr. Herges applied for a license for the "Libe considered that the Master of the Conseil pices of land, when covered with Go
London and China Express.) taxation after they had paid the tariff and ple testified that it was the custom to barn parted her belu, whether even if she had kept as 'This application was not granted. thon when there was danger, and even when a her coures the appearance of porting might not
In a recent article we had much plansare in an bad fallen from his window, but it being to have been sent to him; ther alone could facilities which are expected of the, Pier, and transit rates, irrespective of their being owned vessel was sighted, and all the witnesses for the have been presented. Farrier, the next witness, Terpool Arms. Mr. Lister romarket that a could ulone determine whether the letter ought downs, a wholly inadequate to afford those for which is is desired that the Colony should by foreigners or Chinese. He quotes a va promovents agreed that they were burned on said there when thrught of a collision job we that one not any fault of his, the liceussy whether it should be regarded as a simple arrender to right to a highway, for beats oxpressing the feelings, which we shared will
was granted.
letter or as a species of threat; and beeLLISA. riety of doranguts in order to establish this this occasion. On the other hand, the witheemse before it, and Bart and the mame thing.
for the Ocean denied that they had seen them, then came to Mr. Renṇia's evidarço, and he
Mr. Jones appliod for a licence for the they alone by their votas could put in eud to along the Wanchai alors; and I am of opinion every one with whom we had conversed who had fact, it makes only a casual allusion to the He could only way that they had thenfirmative thought he might ask the Court to auneider their Divers Arma, and been brought up tit suurt the system. The proties goes on to unge thus that the utmost care should be taken in grant. ter cord into my gustice Sunle in refu the freedom of speeck claimed is absulately concerns to the Company that nothing sing to condemn Kwok-a-Sing for a crime which Nankin Treaty, which is really that which evidence of the promorante against the oegatire off hand style in which that was given na sup twice, bas dismissed. Licence granted.
plementary to the expression about "yawing Mr. J. MoNalty licence for the British sectary, lccanee, without it, it would simply ball he rented list would impede general was certainly in morals, and, as we are genred, trade for more seriously than would be cow-in law also, no crime at all. The cding was all establishes the point. The words of the evidence of the Orcan..
The Chief Justice remarked that this only abent," and Mr. Oliver's "a matt-of-war does not
At the coanluais of the reading of the penested for by the fucilities which it is hoped on the other side. Kauka Sing was inveigled teuth article are: "Wher British, merchan-affected the questions of the wredibility of wit- get out of the way of every junk." He attributed tel que granted, nothing being kuown be impossible to discuss the Estimates,
against him,
the Whart woald afford. fr. White, of the Commercial Billiard micates, dise shall have once pail at any of the said nessee, a nu point turned on the fact of the this catastrophe to the fact that measures were-
not taken in fine to avert it. When it became Race,” was shout to,ba mlad, when, be was The QUIRY JUSTICE rose and mid that ports the regulated Customs and dues, agree. lights having been burned,
fald to remain below for time to enable before the Council proceeded with the usual inevitable, then steps were taken, but unfor able to the tariff to bakersaftor fixed, suoli
tunately for his aliouts, all these proceedings of the Board consider the advisability of business of the day, he wished to su leave merchandise may be convayed by the Chinese
board the unn.of-war took place too late. After
J hatieve I am
VIENNA, 28th October. It is certain that the Austrian ministerial crisis will be dcoided in favour of Baron Von Benst. The dismissal of Minister Hobsbwart is considered imminent.
LONDON, 6th October, The Senate of Emzil bare adopted a law for
amancipation of slaves. It is usecited that the Braperor Napoleon will the winter at Malis, for reasons of health.
the conduct of Mr. Maief-Justice
merchants to any province or city in the cd. Nothing would be clearer than that. Eng-eiling some cases on the Role of the Rondon Branting his lionuce East of the Drags-touds. routin atstament with reference jutouts and parposce; bo little better than rofiena profligacy which commanded and men-
the Treaty was that the payment of transiti dues should free this goods, as goods, and ir- respective of ownership, from further taxation, At the very least this was sufficient to justify the view generally held by mercantile mon, but as Mr. Rossaros states in his letter, was always opposed by him as contrary to the true meaning of the Treaty. Why he should
tako the trouble to come forward now to re-
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had been unable to do.
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Granted.
If the Fier were made in its whole length kidnapped on board a coolie ship at Macao, destined he knew not where, doomed he knew on a level with the Praya and with no eleration not to what. He, with bis partners in slavery, to the openings, the evidence obtained by the rose agdines that part of the on theum of Eu Commitee aboved that the passages would, to nceless. The alternative remedies proposed by his floating pool. He and his e-mates the Committee I do not think uiuien, or in optarel ite ebip, but only to set themselves skipper was killed-a risk which we should think thuir character altogether desirable, and for fros, though not without binnished, for the let. That I am of opinion that the traffic, persons wiwembark in his profession regard prosent and prospective, requires that there as indiretly increasing its profits, and which should be twa openinga eaob of 40 feet ip wish we regard as very directly.contributing to the and of 10. feet in height above high water level,raft of the world. Kwok-a-Sing was
these reas de :
-the schedule.
tan
great responsibilities of his office, with the supple compliance of the Indian Beach to the Indian Government, which was not only shameful in itself, but has led to the deplorable
(Signed,)
W. KESWICK. This velizance was then, proceded with in Committee.
The CHEF JUSTICE suggested that in ac curves should be specified
le considered that the powers now being self" smst be a very disadvantageous quality ferred would amount practically to a monopoly in a judge, if it means that he does not know be thinks he has made a mistake, why does not. being granted, and it was therefore podessary in own mind two months together. But, if The ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL Uncurred, Mr Smale spank more plainly P He does not that the charges should be fixed.
say he was right, and he dies not say he wÀN wong All be anys is that he has not been concerned.
bably not be able to give judgment finally till ex tere-ber we presume he expecte, like respect, Mr. Smale, whose highmindedness Richard, to ba "kimself again." But, with all and honour wo bare no desire to call in question, tais mort of reconsideration is neither calculated to increase the respect of prisoners for British
The Queen's Advocate agreed that this was so. He will now cite same cases with regard to the law by which this case was to be guvern
and in the way it was granted before as self. He boped he would be permitted to land or say her country could not make lasture, the learned goumeel concluded his vd.
billiard-rocureper. Mr. White being read it, booanne he had not had time within the interior of the Empire of Chios, on paying to bind other countries, but really this question dream.
Mr. Hayllar then opened his address on be called, was asked if soy person came ta him at few days to prepare himesif to speak ou and asked for bread and cheese or a mution.
the salyject, and he trusted an exception se the further amount of transit dues which sball was so difficult that if his Lordship wished for not exceed por cant on the tariff value of any exhonative argument upon it, be must ant ball of the Cocan. He end that if the case of chop, and a glass of beer, would he supply general rule would therefore be made on this such goods." The sau payable was after for time to look up the authorities, which be the junk wait to take the sons on the theme Mr. White said yes; but he would not occasion. This being assented to, he proce:des
if the junk did not cross bows of wards fired by the Tientsin Tresty at 21 per The Chief Justice said there was another then it was impossible to quatrad that the chrge for the head and clever, and it would to read the following paper At the last sit only be to a friend, in his onu priva's room, he sing of this Cuasail, I expressed at opinion that,
BO the ground that cant. Now it is very important to note the uas point which suggested itself to him regarding Ocean, was not entirely wrong His next out would give a chap, still without any charges Chiof-Justies, I was not bound to roce accord
who merely of the word "merchandise." It is peculiar this question, namely, that he must ašmuna the tention would he that if the clae of the Ocean The licence for the "Commercial Billiard ng as the Governor should require we to do, and that these openings should not be sabjentice released by Me Justice Sinale, on
Rooms" was then granted. Mr. Mitchell spoke On the 2nd November I received a letter to being closed. Iaw of other countries to be the one that was supported, then the element of whether the
Bud.That a Pier with a drawbridge would, nght to recover his liberty, when be about the other publicans being against the from the Colonial-Secretary, transmitting
bad been unjustly deprived of it, could be as opposed to the more naputol expression of Eaglund, which was the perfection of humm Ocean did what was entirely prudent or not in yards of the junk was that the Chinese merchants should be enti-reason. That was the old rule, but he dared onning within 60 or
of no inportance, because the burden licence being granted, ng the appleant's house to e; by direction of, the Lient Governor the page were to be of use to the public held auswerable for any casualty that might say Mr. Haylar die not prese that view.
had a monopoly.
for my information and guidance; an extrast be rendered liable to be frequently opened, thai tled to convey the goods; and may be reason-
Mr. Dayller said ho should contend only that proof lay catirely on the junk is that event, and
Mr. Henry Carr, bo has held a license for from the Secretary of State's Cironint Des subjsting the work of the Wharf, to interrapeur in his attempting to regain it. Why, the proposition. In this country we are justified ably taken to indicate that the intention of the cars caine under the general maritime law, no verdiot could be given against the Ocean 29 reurs, applied for one for the "British,” | Dutch of the 17th of Angust, 1868. Intender tions and delays that would prove very seriopa, very principle of justine Hes at the root of this The Queen's Advocate proceeded to state on a hypothetical case. Starting From those buto the "Happy Home. Au argument arose as lonbtless for the regulation of all Crown On detrimental to the despatch, upon which, in shooting down the burglar why enters wor case bearing on the point. Where a bilo propositions, he would first lay before the to the complications arising from persone minories. From that extract I read a short, ex- an undertaking of a public character, so much house for the inere sake of stealing our plate; of lading specified the value of certain Qourt some cases which were of grast in.
3rd-That though important that Boats with what show of justice, then, can any man be tive Council in viélug of their offices, and who licence was however granted,
punished in a British dependency for shooting goods slipped at Valparuito in "hard dol-portance as showing the jurisdiction of the taking his house for the British Hotel. The rast in reference to members of the Legislafito encress depende,
Me. Overbury applied for licence for the saunot be deprived of their seats, otherwise with immovable mosta should have passage. I own a tyrant who has condesated his life, his lacs," aoine current at the plase mentioned, Court over foreign vessels Thers was t it was held that it was not necesary the case decided in 1858 by Dr. Lashington, which Sailors Home," Granted.
than by depriving them of thoir offices, (of do not think any serious hardship or injustice valva should be stated in English currency had been approved ever since, and duly
Mr. Watson's Application ie the "Stag whom I presume the Bascative Gustment of would be done by ordluding thons, and I consiwospects, his all? Mr. Justice Smale twier pertinacious and Lord Abinger, in his judgment, delarsi partially disturbed in the Privy Chaquil on a Hot," was granted.
this Colony holds me to bo one). The rule is der they should be looked upon se subordinate, dietised this man for these incontrovertible that it would be absurd to compel a Spun- different point,the cass of the Zollverein. By
Mr. Stockbansen applied for a license for the expreas that they may, if necessary, be re-in the public interest, to the Pier, which could reasons in opposition to
Crown proscestors. Wo respected ard or other foreigner path at the back the General Maritime Jaw the foreign vessel Hongkong Hotel M. May naked what quired to support the Crown in the Legislature not give them pasmge without serious injury tapes dotion of treated him for the of the bill of lading the value in English cor- Against which the action was brought, was in
time be closed his hanta He owered 12 noconding to such directions as may be given to to its usefulness.
I advocate, therefore, that the Pior should te act, and at the time we noticed it we contrated rent coin. The next case was that of the Wild Chult, but by the provisions of the Merchant clock. The Magistrates were against that rule, then by the Governɔr or Lieut-Governor as raised suficiently at the openings to afford a Mr. Smale's independence and respect, for the assert his views and declare that the princi. Hanger, where the quests of collision. The old parbed, which she did not do. It was hell thutautuidere at Il clock, and on the condition provision for excusing such officers front baking as the Company should have the right con-
law compelled the hose to be closed to the Representative of the Croan." There is we that of limits. Shipping Aot, the British vanzel should bare
that the Company should have the right can ple recently recognised at Pekin is a great maritimne jaw was that there was no limitation this rule did not apply where foreign ves that he would comply with that law, the licence part, in case of conscientious souples que ceded to a permanent and fired way over the
The more concerned. It was laid down without concession, it is very difficult to understand. to the liability of a wrong-doer tea
tions of religion or of high moral import. was granted,
Mr. Peterson applied for a licence for the Although the regulation roatains a reason openings.
I understand no serione difficulties would be consequences which we believe, sooner or later, Sir RUTHERFORD Alcock, in tis celcbrated case mentioned was one in which a British abip restriction that the Maritime Law was to pre-
which appears to me not to reader the rale ap.
and in some way or other, always atlond despatch on this subject, states: "The treaty cisimed against a foreign ship, and the latter rail between two vessels, poe being a foreigner. German Tavern.
was found to blame. Dr. Lushington, in bis From this it would appear that in all caten
Mr. Francis applied for the license for the plicable to the Chief Justice, for be is not oncountered in making such an elevation, but the judge who amites contrary to the law
part and lot of the Execative, yet it is not for even if there were, I think the Directors of the Hos great, then, is our disappointment, to say right, therefore, is admittedly this, that all judgment, said that it was true by the Morchant of collision with janke, Chian not being in the Prays Hotel Granted.
Mr. Esteria, being sick, and sending a carme, but for the Governor, to decide as to that. I Company and its Engineer would overcome nothing of our surprise, to obserre by the lat imports and exporte being bona fide consti- Shipping Lot the owner was relieved from Comity of Nations, the owners of them could
mail that Mr. Bale bus begun to falter in bis tuents of foreign trade as distinguishat | lability beyond the relue of the ship and not come into a British Court and recover, Btificate, sent a representative for the Batel bave to thank His Excellency for directing the them,
Freight, hat that this could not apply to foreign less they could show that they had obeyed the de Europe. Granted.
extract t be sant, to me, and to express my
opinion, and to bint at a change in it, is the most extraordinary terms that we ever kues from a coasting or Chinese trade only in ships. There had been no decision on the gase General Law Maritime.
Ar, Brown applied for a licence for the surprise that although I have ever since The Queen's Advente said he would admite Army and Navy" He had bees convicted of 1865. as Chief Justice, when I thought it ueras- foreign hands may be certificated for transit, of a foreiga ship euing a British ship for a c
employed by an Englich judge? He said be baion on the tigh sea. There had be one in the atmos
the same day that the trial took place, and that and sent from one end of the Empire to the which a foreign ship sued a British soip form
-His-Lordship-said the doubt be had enter, allowing vambling in big horar, and fined $10.sary voted against the Government, I hold cordance with the plan at home the mtes e mua very sorry that he had given judgment on
Granted with a csation;---
not until the 2nd instant have had the slightest
be had herer tean himself since. "Hier- other exempt from all other charges, other collision within three miles of the British enost, tained on the point was now dispellet.
Mr. Nicholas applied for the licence of honse idea that there was aby written law. on the than the tariff of imports and exports and a and in that ease it was held that the Britjuk ship Mr. Hayllar said that diffinity then wat Chowa and Aucbor. Mr. May remarked that entjeck I spoke and reted against important commented inland or transit due of 24 per could claim the relief of the statute, but be disposed of. The law of neither aution was to his house we a very disorderly one, on donat measures proposed by Sir R. Duonnell, and
Caso she was within British jurisdiction when prevail, and no special rules of the road were to rent, and this whether the goods or produce the collision took place. But the British Par. binding, except those which might be called af a man and his wife Based Barna Appliwien addressing is Excellency on his leaving may be in Chinese or foreign bands." This burment euld not legislate for foreign ships, common sense rules of the road. The next entes flaed $35, on one occasion, and it was for England, I emphatically seserted my right nd therefore it was held in this case of the point was the burden of proof If the Ocean'samed Barns the proprietor of the house, to oppose his sessures, and my address passed he stated, writing on April 1st, 1869, was Wilt Hanger that the limitation of the Mer-case was true, that the junk altered her course, this applicant devied. Applicant got the without remark, and was by command inserted Do connection in any way, shape, or form with only merit of that address was that ba who then the admitted force of the Treaty stipu-chant Shipping Act did not apply. The next then sho must show that she did so ander i licence last year on the condition that he bad in the Government Coreits of the date. The lations, and this is clearly all that the Chinese was the case of the Halley, wisere a foreign mineat peril. Bat this was put the case they thie Burns, This condition he had not dou- uttered it was a free member of a deliberative this would in so way binder the farther erection "himself" since the triaf, sed that be will pro-
H. Ar. KESWICH said that if it was dis Government have recently recognised, on the ship sued an English ship for a colision in were called upon to meet, but that sinut plied with, by evidence of Inspector Grimes, assembly. I have ever since believed that, aub of wharfe
Beliau wwers: the English ship pleaded that aller her.course at all. If the junk's statement ice was not granted.
jeot only to the Additional bond of dutiful was that are was nearly stationary, and was question being referred to Pekin in conse-she was brand by Belian law to take a pilot,
Mr. Gardnor applied for a licence for the loyalty to Government, which every it tinctly understood that other wharree sould be Hoa. METRIE painted out that if the quence of the action of the Shanghai Taoutai, the Court of Admiralty it was beld that run down by a vessel under atanta, being unable taborg Tavern Mr. May remarked that minded official ought to understand, I was no erected the point was not of importance.
the Belgian abip might plead in answer to to get out of her way, timt oonid not be made. and it is really difficsit to seo that Mr. Iohie that by the same law this did not retasve to work in with the Ocean's case, but was peri / be ou one ocio sent for him to eaquire na free in this Council sw any non.official member. ENRTHON has done more in the elaborate let-the liability of the owners. The case however fectly ingoasistent with it. The Ocean said bob whether he bad guy connection with a bowed When I thought it right to ask for a legisla Company urcrotirged, goods would certainly
The CHIEF JUSTICE said that is using the Batice, nor is it fair towards banan patare "at, ter which he has published than showing the came before the Privy Courel, where the de- fore the jusk nltered her course there was no ing house, did he now have anything to do with tire engairy as to the Pulics Forec, I wrote to be lauded by look's busts or other weage.
any seamen, and keep a runner-? He answer- tention to move a pretponement of the rote for word monopoly be had not meant to do so in large. If a judgo is to change his mind one any invidious sense, but merely to point cat, he is certainly liable to, and jastifled in, maquor in which he became misled, and cision was reversed on the ground that the law risk, and therefore if the Oceas, proved ita base, em Applicant answered no. Did be ship the lonial-Secretary à statomost of my 2n-
dBelgium bed no extra territorial effect as the junk eculd not claim, to becofit by a part of
ed yes. Then Low can you any you have no- the Police until aftershol enquiry. In answer,
that very large powers were to be given to the changing it the other; aud, eapposing that Mr. Saulo'e arst impressions tud been unfavour. pointing out that at all ovente ho erred in against a foreigner. In the well known case it. If the junk laid barocas so that she could thing to do with a boarding house? Remanded the Colquial Secretary informed me that I wi good company, as "My Lords" of the Board of Philips y Eyre the question was that not recover on it, she could not renover on the to the 23rd, for applicant to consider whether required to vote for the supplies. I then Company
Dhimately the point was allowed to remain able to the abused crostars noder notice, Kwok. Sing would assuredly have been banged-and of the effem of retrospective Acts of Indemnity ease which the Ocean and unde, unless the
then we think Mr. Scale might indeed havS ulait that the requisition was anthorised. ne previously arranged. of Trade took the same view of the subject passed in a Colony, Hero the Colony was evidense in the Oosas's ense showed that there he would be either a public house keeper or a thought he wrote without authority: 1 How
The various Bye-Laws were then gone into. Thiago so happened that the vote for the Police as he did. The mistake was a very natural dealt with ne the for ign jurisdiction. It was was risk before the junk altered her course.
The Hon. Mr. SITE anggested that "Bye. avowed with trath that he had not been him- The subject of the lighting of the streets was passed with a divistun, bai 1 spoko and voted
sured by a high legal authority, that a man once one to fall into, but in the face of its having "bjected to the plea that whatever efeat the The evidence of the Osean was that there was
Act might have in the Obay it could not des no risk. It was for the junk to show that been admitted by the Chinese Govern- troy the right of action in England, but in was the Ocean's fault tout suo ported, and if disenised at come feugth, being brunght for ags:nat one itera of the appplies, that of $5,000 Lawe" should be spelt without an "e" After soll ice the trial. The fact in, as we are as- ment themselves that the provisions of the the julguent it was distinctly laid down the junk committed the great error of anting ward by Mr. Pyke, Soreral of the Instives for the Chancel. My right to co vote as un, considerable discussion a reference to Webster fudicially relonaed after a trial can nover be ought not to have been given by me, against fetched in that volume, it was announced that charge. Ase at present and for a long time questioned, but I now admit that that vote agreed to, and the Colunis] Scoretary haring constitutionally imprisoned again on the same past agitating the public mind at bană (iuto the pledge given by the Guvernor as to that the word was there apelt without the "e"
The CHIEF JURATION suggested that if it were
the merits of which we cannot enter bere will ay it I bad then kuns of the regulation.
worth while to continue the philological discus- forcibly illustrate this part of our argument. The regulation was, I believe, now in 1868. Chief- all taxes inland, it would certainly seem that to a question of his Lordship that the one was ed because she was in peril, he should have bad
Janice Adams conducted Limself for nearly sion, it might perhaps be modernary to discan But, as sar legal friend tells ne; all law ia supposed to be founded on morala”—and so, no the question wasatan end. Mr. WADE does to be governed by the law of the locus in quo. much to say on that, but there was no evidence He had referred to these cases rather in de- that she ported because she was in peril; on
Bix years in the Council as if he was bound by the anthority,
Sour dissuasion Look place upon the length tratht, it je. It is, in fact the very epitome of not go so far as this in his memorandum reference to his Lordship's suggestion hau be the contrary, she said she did not port at all.
to such regulation, but nothing is ever gained to which the loss abould be extended. The stbin Bat to be of the vast service that it is by denying explaining away a fixed rude anch cantly reprinted in this paper; but that means he thought it necessary to do so. Re She must recover secundam allegata et prolata,
to the world, it.aust be prompt as well as right. or she could not recover at all. (The tearoed
as that of 1888, and I shall not attempt to do Colonial Secretary suggested that it should not morandum was written before Sir Rurner- thought that the General Maritime Law, or
what bis learned friend had well called the low counsel ofted during the preceding remarke the PORD sutered upon the negotiations upon of summon sense, would eventually determine cases of the City of London, H.M.S. Swallow, The two abeinegolies, charged by Maudariu. I feel it is binding until actually repealed. be for an indefinite period
and remain resclate is not ht for & judicial which the statements in his despatch of April | this casó
He was not there to cantes: the Tact the Figo, and the City of Antwerp v. the Fried Fang, with committing farces on the main He concluded by saying that he had no ides of thirty years had been decided upon by the Origins: Eldon would not be tolerated in our that there were any such regolations on the Athura-General with an idea that should the Court in England. A man who cannot resolve 1869, were based; so that it is would seero Lhat these Saling Regulations were the Ge- rich.) Next, au to the Law Maritime, he would land, were again brought up.
Pa-s-kwe, stated he was servant to Mr. F. F.bject; and that in his address to Sir Rich-inert prove of a very paying nature, the Go-
apect bis honour. If he askee many mistakes he will confess bimself unit for, or unable to that the farther discussion of the matter i Martipe Law, which was anually put refer to the one of the Cladon, where it was
Hon. Mr. Keswick observed that this was bear, the responsibility of his office. In any into stataten by the various nations, because he held that s ressel closs hauled on the starboard Hibann, white he was in Hongkong; he knew his and ManDonnell, previous to his departars, he vernment might ask for a bous to continnench. If he be wrong. on principle we re- cleared up the errors before existing, and con- know that they had been accepted by every tick must keep her course, and that if she waster's air-coolies, one was called. Afa the had stated shat he had disagreed with some of the lease
case, it will be granted that want of presence of ported she would be held to blame for a collothor was called Abing, the defendants are not His Excellency' Moores, and the whole fores
Ultimately it was decided that the term in the mind of the Jetical Bazob in the can great European State, and by America.
draft Ordinance should be adhered to—that is,vil which no asiaty could endure. We do son which otherwise would probably not have Afu or Abing. r. Gibson sometimes on of that address was the idea that it came from often done upon the Continent. happened. The Mary Stuart was a case of non-played outside coaties freas the street, be bad an independent member of the Courell. Be Hist of evidence, in which it was laid down that not seen the first defeadset; the second de certainly bad always thought that he was aÍ the probabilities were to be taken into account fundant he did not know; he had seen the frat free to vote as he thought it as a non-cficial years. Mr. Huylar asid be alond contend it was in sub casca The a priori presumption was defendant both last year sad bis your, but not wegler. In regard to the Police, as bad voted that the master would follow the correct course in the first of last year; he did not know them againal one part of the estimates, Ad his right of navigation.
the Colonial Secretary bad pointed out the rule His Lordship.-Bat it was within the bay.
O curse thit pressmption bee he lived at Mosque Terrace with had not beer cated in questicu; but still after Mr. Haylar said that might affect the arose in favour of the junk as well as of the Gibson, and that was in last July.
Chuy-a-lee, stated be was servant to Mr.to him, be felt bound by the role until it wa joindictus as to the power to keep men of war Ocean, Bat if the junk crossed the bowe of the
navigation be thought it out of it, but ne
Ocean (the only case which be was considering Tarnor, bo used to be servant to Mr. Gibson repealed.
The COLONIAL SECRETADT said that it had was on the high seas notil within thres miles of the presumption was of no value to the former, be did not know the defendants, Defendant
which and been frequently sated upon, that the while to the Ocean it was of great value. It were committed to gaol pending order of HB been a rule for the list thirty years, and one officials in the Colony were required to support. wonid thes be proenned that the offer of the the Lieut-Governor. watch would do what was right under the nir.
the Government.
Treaty go to the aztent of freeing foreign goods which have paid the tariff rates from
boarding benso keeper.
that a right of action was the creature of she did not port, then ha did not come to meet noticed that at the present time it was very the law of the place in bish it amse, and this the case of her porting under iminent peril. If defective in many directions. was why he (the Queen's Advoonte) had replied he had come there to mest the case that she port
The learned judge.In fact I may say they are comnch zéusė. But another question is whether this collision took place 10 Chinese jurisdiction ar on the big sea
on the bigh sÛLE,
the share. He was reminded by Capt. Hewett that it was lawful to capture vessels ontside
three miles.
י
POLICE INTELLIGENCE."
16th November.
so far as the statement of the rule at bume wa The COLONIAL SECRETARY pointed out that
BETOKE BABELL, ESQ.
THS RENDITION CASE.
perhaps the term
BEFORE U. MAT, Esq. BENDITION CASE.
The.CHIEF-JUSTICE asid if sub was the cise, ha fed certainly all along been puder an catire wisapprehension as to his rights as member of the Conseil.
The AGTING ATTORNEY-GIFERAL suggested hope that Mr. Smale will extricate himself from placed bimself. But the fact remains that Kwok-a-Sing Las been imprisoned for na that the report shroud be considere I as that of the dilem in which we are sorry to see he has Mr. KAWICE said be had bad the permission alleged offence of which be has been acquitted, of the Chairman to note bis objection. the majority of the Committee.
And that he is now bald liable to be praised Under the cireumstances the Report was for an alleged erime by the mae judge who taken as coming from the Commitive, with pronounced it to be no crime at all. Get one- the objection as a rider,.
The Ordinance was thea passed.
THE HUMMARY JURISDICTION COURT ORDINANCE.
The ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL ronde an
observation to the effect that the Chief Justion bad drawn this Ordinance.
lodict custodos 7 The day will be an evil one for England and her dependencies when British Judges are sumpelled to bow to public opinion, or yield to political ancussily, it in a day which we believe will never oume; but if it should, English justice must be fair to con fess, in Mr. Swale's paraseology, that it in "pot himself indeed.
QPIUM CULTIVATION. (N. C. Daily News.)
Your servant, kneeling, memorializes re- questing that the practice of assessing the levy
be forbidden, in order to farther the executio
of apicin-daty on gruwere of the poppy) may
He humbly observes that what should be
firmed in the main the view which had from the first been adopted by the merchants. The existence of the Nankia Treaty cannot clearly he got over merely because Lord Eldre held that the transit question was satisfactorily settled by the Tientsin Treaty, if the Nunkin Treaty still continued in force; and that this is the case, is perfectly clear from the fact that Chinese Authorities themselves admitted the validity of that instrument. This is the real point in the whole case, and all that goes be- tween its afirmation or negation is of no The Queen's Advocate protested-as to cumstances, of which be was the best judge.
they #era At this point the argument was adjourned importance. It was urged on behalf of the She's ships, although
Ng-s-wong, & obair coole, charged with
From this the CHIEF-JUSTICE dissented. the mercbante that the provisions of the not bound in law tu obey the Sailing Regu. till today, un account of the Legislative Council
He had not draws the clauses, and ocrinaly instructions Admiral Kallett expressed the bope that he committing offendes on the main land of China,
THE FIRE AND GODOWN ORDINANCE. Advocate at Lone that the Nankin Treaty were still in force. The latrone, it had been stated by the Qavelecting is the afternoon.
Leoah-soey, stated he is a trader, a native of The Report from the Select Committee, did not wish to have the credit of them.
Од question of the age noder which was pressed upon the Chinese Government, sued to them were precisely the mosbonld not be kept tere much longer, as he was again brought forward,
Bie Lordship atao bad the arrangement be-wanted to get to ans,
parties auuld not be eaed, the Hon Me The Peking Gunella of October 15th containe and before April 1869, they admitted that thetween his learned friend and bimed? that the Hie Lordship said the Coart would give the Hoi-pang. Lu Anguet, 1869, he was in partner which is as followe, was laid on the tabla
Ordinance to authorise the Hongkong Pier forea of the Nabkin Treaty was to make the case was to be treated precisely as ane between fret of its time to the Ocean cure until it was ship with an anal Chuu-a-cho, and had Report of the Byerial Courite on the proper Kearick saggested that the age of 21 would not the following representation by one of the Gen and Godown Company, Limited" to con- apply to Chinese, who might be ignorant usor with refermine to the growth of the poppy: Memorial by Wu Chen, superintending Transit Due stipulations what they have of merchant ships. Now he would refer to the niebod He thought it of sufficient import-been so for twelve months previously. On tha
and his brother, than aged 21 years, namel struct a Pier in the Harbour of Victorio, the law, and would not kauw of soch a rule.
The Hon. Mr, SMITA concurred in this view Cleur of the Obektang Circuit. lata bean declared to be. It cannot, there- Rules of the Road, by which this case was to be suce to postpone the sessions for it if necessary. 12th August, 1869, baand his partner, Ashee.
The Court adjourned till 11 .. to-day.
and to confer upon the said Company certain thinking that the age of 18 would be more res- governed so far as they wore in scaordance with
Lee-ali-swers at the city of Wab.plug
other Porters and Privileges. fore, be sail that this is an extension of the the General Maritime Law. Article XV. pro-
At 10 sm. to-day the remaining business and he there purchased from the Wing-abing
In considering this Bill and the plans for the unable
The COLONIAL-JECRETARY thought it would Transit Pam System and "a new and valu-vided that when a steamer and a sailing vessel
were proceeding in such directions as to iu- the October Sessione will be disposed of The shop, sirtean "pisces. of callico, for 120 tacle able concession." Of course, in speaking of wolve risk of collision, the steamer must keep November Sessions would be opened in the silver. Five days after on the 17th August, he Pier which the Company propose to erect at
and his partner and his brother, and also a man Wasebi, we bare been assisted by the opinious be very desirable that the Chinese should not anything connected with such a very auti-cut of the way of the sailing vessel. The lonxaordinary course on Saturday,
named Wong--ping, who had been hired to of Merebants, professional men, and others, traat people under twenty-ons. It would put of the laws quated country us China, the words old and With regard to this, he did not say that the en-
The Hon. Mr. Satru ultimately proposed the aimed at in governmentis uniformity of practice. ed ocuimi qited several ones godor this rule.)
The Liberle bas a long article on the import-sesist them to carry the goods at 120 osebne of whom are interested and others entirely an end to undue credit belux giron, now may differ slightly from their ordinary gines of the Cres were not stopped and jeverance, in a military point of view, of the Mont day, started at 8 m from Wah-ping for uninterested in the proposed scheme. We have,
conded by the Hon. Mr. Koawiak. This amendin gained, and obedience may be looked for: without it, sanpfatons prevail, and obstructions meaning. Perhaps a concession made only sed. After the evidence given in that tax bocoold Cenis Tannel. When the war broke out in Roi-toong, about winety miles distast,, partly also, beard the views of the Directors of the age of 18 as an amendment. This was Be With uniformity, the confidence of bbe people
The erection of such & Fier as that prejcoted ment being put to the rete was carried.
On the clause referring to spiritoua ligneasly arise. Of late youre Imparia! edicta thirty years ago may be now; but at all aot contest the fact for a moment; all he said 1859, says the author, it required a month to travelling by best. They had walked about S-Company through their Counsel, Mr. Hayliar events, unless the admission of the Chinese was that it was not done in time. One of the unite in Italy a Froneb army of 120,000 men, teen miles on their jourees, only being in a hast
exe (the Numa v. Oscar) skewed that indepen wberess, with the amietunce of the railways during the crossing of a river, and had arrived would, in our opinion, be of undoubted and offeinds themselves is wrong, this concession dent of the rules, the common sense of the mat. from Lyons to Tarin and from Toulon to Ge. near to a village called Kaitow, when they were great advartage in the Colony, and would meet the Acting Attorney-General proposed that it bare repeatedly been issued, prohibiting the was made on the 29th August, 1842.
ser was that the atomer should keep out of the son, stok concentration would now be the met by seventon or eighteen men, all armed, want mach required. The cobrue, therefore, should apply to all kinds of liquora. The Ordin- coltivation of the poppy, and commanding that way, In the case of the Monson T. the work of thras duye, four at most. The Tauce, some with orde others with spears. He had appens to deserre at the bands of the Exeokane was altered to provide that it should not any officials who should show themselves re- Nepiuse, the burque was run down while wear of Mont Cenis is one of the great military previous knowledge of some of these mon by tire and of the Legislative Council that sup prevent keepers of inum or lodging houses charges la carrying out the ordera should porribly not to recognize the true wethod Eight fue scale were captured by the fisher-ins, and it was contended on behalf of the facts of the period, and is destined to complete sight, as belonging to Kaitow village. Thepri-port which the Bill is likely to give. But in re.ng for liquors in the regular course for lodgers be stringently inipenched upon statement of
steamer that she should trave kept her coarse.ly obange the strategical conditions of future soner was one of these seventeen men, he was sending that sho Bill, as amended, he pan. in them. The provision was only meant to the facts of their ease.
Some further points wore discutused, when for giving doe protection to syrisultare. mon at Hell Bay, near St. Ives fiw days ago. But it was beld that if miscu wlies first sighted wars. The Germans understand this a well, armed with a spear, he knew him by sight, bat ad, we trust that the Government, ander the present redit for liquors at the lar The men entered a "zawa," or carern, during the night, and having proensed a light, dis- the bargue at a distance of amik, more or that they are dorg uil in their power to acoe bad ever spoken to him, he frecuently trych powers therein conferred, will not sanction the overed the wals, and killed them with a stick less, there was risk of a collision, the steamer lerate the corresponding work through the ed that road, und had several time seen the creation of the Pier unless the Company are the Chief Justice suggested that the Ordiu and a freaching system of admibistrative prisoner; be bad beard persone call, to biuras prepared to alter the plan. Now before the ace was zot argent, it might be well to od policy. Never belean, is despite of the reiterat was to blum for unt keeping out of the way. Mont St Gothard.. ou the spot.
The Siècle commenting on the election of Mr. Ng-ah-you. He and his three empasiune Council, so as to gite faullien to Furiga and for upon it, as this would give time for coned issue of Imperial exhortations, the growth After citing further Baglish came ou thia
into the capes of this, it is found that the peo- The Hon. Mr. SMITH observing that he had ple bare an exouse to rely upon, in the fact of AFFECTING MESSIG by Telegram)-From point, the learned Counsel proceeded to quita Ianno Bait for Limerick, saysThis election seere stopped by the armed men; and the Chinese busts for passing to sed tro through sideration of numerous detuile which could not of the poppy goes on as before. On inquiring
For this purpose we consider that
the legalization of the duty on opius. The the Thames Jones, London, to the flout tenis american nuthorities, chießy from the work of is something more thas a simple obeck. It the whole of the tatic taken from them, ouch of the Pier at short distance from the Prayz have been thoroughly considered as yet.
Le ACTING ATTORNBY-GENERAL, adopted establishment of the duty on opious, however, Tunnel, Italian Terminus: "Wish you many Mr. Pamone. He next commented upon the English had up to the present any doubts as to the assailed had a carrying pole with two pieces wall, happy retures, commercially speaking. I envy evidence given in arpport of the Ocean's case, the real sentiments of the Irish people, such at each end, neither bad weapons. His there should be to openinge of 40 fest each in only just seen the Ordinance, year clinute Fr Mout Ceuis Tunnel to The Brat witness was Mr. Annesley, the officer doubts must be laid aside now that ther bass brother was seized, and he tried to prvoed breadth within 300 feet from the Prayn, and Tuaues dits Thanks. How are you?"
BE accordingly adjourned the Council sine and even although it may be said that it is to question affecting foreign relations and involvi■ From Thames T. to Mt. Cenis T.: "Shai anf the watch, who stated that for 25 minutes treely elected for thoir representire the bitterij on his way, making resistance by pressing farther, that the extermoil opening should be fitbe suggestion, and rated that the googideration was but a concession to lemporary exigencies,
after sighting the junk be tout ne steps what est cavey of England, and the most zealous himself from them holding him, ben be, the fatuished with a drawbridge or wing-bridge to of the Urdinanos be postponed.
a large amount of revenne, it would seem at laust that the levy should take phite nowhers. ever to swad collision. At the last five upholder of Irish liberties. It would be vain for complainant, saw the prisoner tErast bie spar be opened during boisteroon watter at the
ALARM OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH Xeept at the ports and odetoias barriers. The Radical Committes of Lyons are pre-minutes he eased the engines, not because he the English to deny the importance of the set into his brother's chert. It was a single pronged instance of the Harbor Muster, and at such die. pared to regnire that all candidates for the expected a cullision, but as a precautionary just accomplished by the electora of Limerick, spor, his brother fell down and died mother times us the Governor in Connoil may by Conncils General eill insist upon the inatia measure He said it was the habit or onstomer to compare it with the election at Cork of mediately. The prisoner, and the other armed order dircon. Or in Ben of this drawbridge, we tion of an income-tax upou a progressive neule; of Chinese juuks to run across the bowe of the conviat 'Donovan Rosas, which was only men, carried away, the antico, going to the think a permanen fired opening ebould be so BaPUBLIC-Lately H. Thiere has become very Granting, even, that no inconsiderable aumber against bis own person. He is afraid of being of the drug, still whatever impost levied should the soppression of the Budget of Palic Latamore. Well, this was a rather remarkable protest against the detention of Fenian pri-direction of the village of Kaitow, which was constructed as to allow of a bright of 10 faut uneney. He bas atrage funcies of conspiracy of Chinese subjects are engaged in the carriage It has not been overlooked that such are kidnapped and patrols of policemer and fall only upon merekanta and truderup-to struction, to be accompanied by the establisa babit, and it was not admitted in the pisscut one; whereas the election of Mr. Bult, ens about ous-mile-and a-bat from the place where feet from bigh water mark.
quirement as tive last would, in the one oase, soldiers are constantly, on the, qui vize around sauces farmers with the Jery of a duty which abvald be collected voiy from the trading plan ient.of compulsory sad gratuitons plitary case. But still he said be knew this to be their of the most ardent promotors of the Home he was attacked. He and Aping carried the drud
The case was farther remanded nutil today, somewhat impođe the traffic of the Pier, in wel the Prefecture et Versailles, instraction; the dissolution of the Assembly; custom, and consequently took the precaution Rule doctrine, in a merce and a real danger body of his brother to the City of Chu-yeong-
ary step of earing the engine, when the junk for Englund," and a general amnesty..
Punch.
+
In this it is im
ay