6.
136
a week.
Consequently the valuable articles is a
exposure of great temptation to the laboring classes, the
whom
majority of
are
honest simply
are not restrained by any inmate principle of integrity, but because they fear the punishment for dishonesty- this renders it necessary to have a deterrent punishment, which
Simple imprisonment most assuredly
is not.
5.
Shorter period with the accompaniment
of flogging in fact Corporal punishment is the only efficacions methods of restraining Crime, especially
from
the
such
ences as robberies
offences
persons of Women, Children or
drunkin persons,
and with
regard
to this
great
class of offences I look with apprehension upon the proposed with drawal
i of
6.
from ↑
offenders
have
It has become known to me experience that Chinese
a
wholesome dread of flogging, and
that imprisonment is not regarded with apprehension.. I have often become aware that prisoners would rather have a long term of imprisonment than a much
the
Felony,
power of ello agistralis to inflict flogging
The
foregoing remarks apply to
and I beg respectfully to express
my firm conviction that it is advantageous and necessary for
the finblic weal that Magistrates showed have the power of inflicting Corporal punishment therein.
am assured that the withdrawal
of this
lower would tend to a great-
power
INDEX.