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of the Committee that the jurisdiction of the
Consuls beyond
Civil Suits should be extended
- 500 Dollars, by Consular Ordinance
123 of 1847, which enacts that the Consuls,
of
to an
with certain accessories, shall have jurisdiction over all Civil Suits whatever,
subject to appeal to the Supreme Court of Hongkong, with the further appeal to the Privy Council in all cases above £500.-
I have likewise added to the efficacy of the Criminal Jurisdiction of the Consuls, by adopting in Consular Ordinance No.22 of 1847 the provisions of an Order by Her Majesty in Council for the Government of British Subjects
in the Levant.
in
I am not in the least surprised at the Committee having been misled as to the real state of things at Hongkong, when I examine the nature
of
the evidence,
of which they had no opportunity of correcting by evidence on the other side from Government
Officers lately arrived from Victoria. The
most remarkable cases
will now be noticed...
of mis-statement
Mr. R.M. Martin having in 1864, hazarded some crude opinions regarding the
settlement, thinks it necessary to maintain
them still. He states that the total
expenditure on account of Hongkong for Year
was £500,000. I have just shown that the Civil expenditure for 1867 was £50,959- and the Revenue £71,078, leaving only £14,881 chargeable to the Home Treasury. - I will let him make out the rest of the half million himself...
"
In drawing a distinction between the
use
of spirits and the
Mr. Martin states that
"Spirits
are not deleterious; spirits
"contain the element of life : Opium does not
"contain those elements." What that element,
- those elements, of life may be, forming a component part of spirits