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The Chinese, falls into a passion with the hedge,

who, whether he decided right or wrong,

decided

on

which

within his competency. conflicting Affidavits, and on

ni a

mather clearly which there were

he wat

obliged to decide

sing

me way

or the other

Of the subsequent measures for repay.

ad

they

Are

the Chinaman, I say nothing, approved by the Foreign Office. The Law Advisers

of

other

The honn being consulted, sport, aming things, that the Chinese ought to have been

allowed to one as a

not mean

this

as

A

"

pauper." Of

Cours

They do

4

proposition of law, as it

the

that

is in a judge's discretions to grant, or refute, Application. I apprehend them to mean, the juge ought not to have allowed the defendant to interfere by showing canse against the Application. That is ce

certainly cowhary bo

English practice, which ordinarily is to grant Simply on the Plaintiffs Affidavit. But, then, in England, it is always open to this Stefendant

Free

to move to dispanserize the Plaintiff : so that the same point w. have been brought before the

Such an irregularity

Judge, only in another

way.

of practice, or rather variance from our practice, certainly does not deserve the name of an unjust "Decision"; and I find nothing whatever in the fach to warrant it. I therefore, cannot but think, that the Foreign Office may

have adocted

something of die John Paris's tone, without being

do well aware, as

be

are, of

between him and Judge Fulme.

I feel it the more

these remarks

how,

The stati

of things

necessary to make

because there is so much

of

Sie hatten.

wason to expect that the conduct Functionary in his Office will soon be canvassed

in various respects.

An

The Foreign Offer then saljoin Ordinance, of which the Law Officers approve,

which transfers the jurisdiction, in the first histance, in thise cases, from the judge at Hong Kong to the Consul, making the judge

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